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[Sarcasm]

Sarcasm....you can't ...your stuck with it forever 

[old game]

That's a old game and you say it's on X-box-Live....

[Azeban-City]

Here are some more videos I made on Friday...(The day before yesterday!)

The first is just me approaching Azeban-City city in my Sidewinder from the right. Using the right-hand thrusters. Those things have made docking a hell of a lot easier. Probably too easily.....

Unfortunitely, this video was cut short by the randomness of Shadowplay and we all miss out on me severly scraping the wings of mySide-Winder as I try to fly it inside vertical to the horizontal entrance. After watching the ship in front of me doing the same thing, but successfully. I think I was too low or too high and never compensated. I then noticed a spectacular display of some ship (Perhaps the same one!) being laser shot from all angles inside the station ...just as I flew inside. I didn't realise..I wasn't recording until after I had touch down on my designated landing-pad. I was so pissed, I decide to relaunch...exiting the station once again and flew right into incoming Cobra- Mark-Three. Which by some co-incidence, looked as though it was charging towards me as well. Fortunitely for me it must have been weakened or just very unlucky as I flew right through it  like hot knife through butter. Shredding it to twisted bits of scrap metal and cargo canisters. Yet, I was still pissed that Shadowplay wouldn't respond when trying to reactivate the recording. Anyway,. I was awarded a bounty of 300 Credits for taking out this Cobra-Mark-Three Well, I assume it was a C.M.3, because that's how it looked from the front right before I tore through it.  I think I was also awarded further demerits on my criminal record for doing this in No-Kill-Zone.

The Second-Video....which I'm very proud of and this shows something different for a change. At least I hope it is. Just watch it and see.....

All I will ask is if anybody has tried this yet and that hub-pit surrounding the entrance needs more work. I hope they do complete this as I would like to fly my Side-Winder or any ship that can be safely travel in that area...possibly landing there. It looks like a worthy nook to explore.

Also, the holograms appear to be upside down...providing that the Red-Light (Port) is supposed to be on the left and the Green-Light (Starboard) is on the right. Otherwise I don't think this would really matter with station that has landing-pads/control-towers and other buildings and fixtures completely covering the interior wall. There is no real up and down if you in the centre of it all.

Take note of my Wanted status when I head-look right to check it. Yes, and these are very easily earned. Anything from flying inside the station without requesting permission to flying inside as they change their mind about it. Trying to land anywhere inside, but where you are directed to land. This has happened to me a lot. There also the more obvious methods attaining criminal status.

[hybrid-wolf-man-form]

I just watched the video where he transforms into his hybrid-wolf-man-form

Not as impressive as I would have hoped for......and Bloody-Mary doesn't she remind anybody of lean and mean Emma Watson.

[Botanicula]

Botanicula

My-Game-Video

Good-Game and the reason I remember this one while purchasing games through [Steam.

I really wanted to make a video of myself completing the first quest and handing it in to the quest-giver. Yet, it either moved or disappeared or I just could recall it's original location.

This game is simple and charming and maybe I'm too mature for this.

[rendering]

This was the third video I made and it's unfortunately not as good as the first one. (Which was lost when I accidently deleted everything on my larger hard-drive. Not to be confused with the second time I lost the second lot of videos I made when my hard-drive mysteriously vanished taking them with it!)  While the second one was which I found too embarrassing to upload and share.

The first video looked more epic than this one and didn't have the astro-engineer wearing that annoying yellow colour. It's rendering is very impressive though!

Here it is.....

Space-Engineers

IN this one I do the same thing I did in the lost video.....explore the red and blue ships and a few asteroids that were hollowed out and were filled with very natural looking tunnels and caverns.

These were truly amazing.....right down to the advanced look of their 3D rendering. I dare say, I found the detail here a tad more impressive than the asteroids in Elite-Dangerous!

It seems bigger inside when spelunking their interior. (Once again, the one in the first video was more magnificent!)

Like Dr-Who's -TARDIS.

Just imagine a Time-Lord with his own TARDIS assuming the shape of a much smaller version of one of these asteroids and it's insides a asteroid as well. Instead of the console...it's just a asteroid.....

I didn't do much here except explore space after I sussed out how to use the jet-pack properly in the previous video. (Which I deleted.) The cold loneliness of space mirrors my own existence. (Yet, it's less protracted!)  I still have to figure out how to build stuff as the title of the game implies. Daring to compare this with what I have seen in Elite-Dangerous. Admittedly, it's a less colourfully grey, but there is this greater feeling of depth with this almost 3D parallax effect. It looks very dynamic.

The attack of the firey meteors never occured in the first video. I think that one of the definable parameters found in the game-options menu. But I don't think that's really possible in the cold vacuum of space. So, I guess it may not be educational physics based game I expected.

Though, I wonder if successful mastery of this game bestows upon me the official tile of Engineer that some of my former flat-mates used to boost and go on and on and on about

[film with Fonzie and the second most original Batman in it!]

Don't think this is the film with Fonzie and the second most original Batman in it!, but a retro-game and not to be confused with another retro-game about cranking out Star-Wars action-figures in a factory.

One

Two

How can they combine such retro-charm (The reason, I brought this one!) with mindless tedium?

Yet, it's still a unfinished early-access game that needs more work.

I couldn't fathom anything more than driving without what I thought might have been a more interesting soundtrack.

I never figured out the radio or anything else on the dashboard.

Kind reminds me of  the darker moments of my life...which are experience more often these days.

[Maia-Early-Access-Game]

Maia-Early-Access-Game

Maia: This one is Early-Access. Which means it's still unfinished and it's basically a small group of science people and one robot. who are establishing a base on another world. (or so it seems....)
The robot can excavate solid rock to carve out rooms (A idea that pays homage to other earlier games like "Dungeon-Keeper and "Evil-Genius") and the people can build/place doors and build/furnish each room using the excavated detritus to build them from. (Have to admit despite the outlandish premise for this game. Even this sounds a bit hard to swallow! Perhaps work something out by the time it's complete.) You have to build a 4 by 4 or 3 by 3 workshop with a work-bench or table and a standing light. Before anything else can be started. I haven't got far with this game yet. (The robot needs watching in case I have left it between the walls of the room and the wall of rock it's just dug out. It will just stand there and sometimes it just stops for no reason or will pick a object up and walk around with it in small circles indefinitely.) Yet, I guess this is expected. The humans are very prone to asphixiation, radiation-poisoning and cardiac-arrest. There's also I large bear/cat like creature prowling around outside. In featured in one of these Maia videos. The world Maia, which I believe is some Greek deity might also be the name of the planet. I look forward to the finish product.......

What I had written there says all I wanted to say about this game so far......

There are other and better videos, but I lost them all when I lost my hard-drive.

You may notice the audio in this video is totally wrong....it's from another video I made earlier and was too careless to stop playing when I started on this game.

My apologies if this ruins it for you....

The other game in question is called Dark-Matter.... and I thought it was another name for poo  .

Unfortunately, I was never able to probably upload a video of this game before I lost access to it.

[video]

Here's a game video

Yeah, I didn't get far into this play of the game, because I forgot a few things I learnt when I first played it. Since then, I had tried something different that allowed my crew of people to last much longer.

While, I won't say what it was that I tried...I will say it has a lot to do with the fact that you can build new rooms any where in the place provided and not necessarily ones that needed to be attached to where I had originally started putting rooms.

I guess I gave it away with saying that, but only if you understand implications of what I meant.

A game that looks more simple than it really is.

[The Forest]

Here's a some video of me playing The Forest.....

Mutant-Female-Cannibal-Native falls just before I do at 6:55.....

Quick...to the beach and what's that at 25:00

Murdering other people's luggage and this was the video I mentioned above......It's in two-parts and is......

Continued here!

You know what I thought after watching the introduction movie to this game few more times...when I saw that almost naked cannibal dude take the young boy sitting next to me on the plane. Well...aside from the fact we were the only apparent passengers...can it be otherwise proven that he is really my boy? Maybe our seating arrangements were just coincidental and his disappearance is of no further consequence to me.

It's a shame the rest of the videos I made had now gone missing when I had lost my larger hard-drive. There would have been another one of me further exploring the island while avoiding the weird almost naked natives and building a raft that capsizes on me upon completion.

The very last video I made ...just before I lost the hard-drive I had wandered to the far right (Where I hit a invisable wall..) of where I had exited their cave system when I awoke there after dropping down to beach from a height I had miscalculated to be a safe distance to land from. After building a fire pit on the promentary hidden behind a larger tree and cooking several rabbits/conies. IT's really important to catch them before night fall/ before it rains/ before you build a descent shelter. Because afterwards......they are very hard to find.
   
Anyway, as I retreated back to the forest from this impassable zone. I found another beach and some small sandy islands. I swam out to one with a full load of stick/stone supplies built a another fire pit to keep warm and started on Hunting-Shelter, but this small island only had a few rocks and I had swim back to mainland (Main-Island?) to get more stick and logs. Now...as you know...logs can only be obtained from felling trees.....which produce three to four of these at a time and carry only carry one of these. So, I had to make few trips.....and ran into more natives when I was going for my second log. I didn't last long then....and it didn't help that I found no hopping or crawling food when I had travelled this far.

Did you think it was trifle unnecessary to see the crack in the cannibal's bottom....

[JBC]

You're missing a big one here...

Yeah, JBC, thanks for that and I was pretty bloody sure I included a picture of Glenn Fabry's version with this picture....



Sorry, if that picture doesn't leave much to imagination,

(Strangely, this pictures and a few other didn't show up when I tried to preveiw them and this didn't show at all...)

but it shows the G.F.s version of the axe in colour and I now I've noticed it hasn't quite got the circular full-moon shape shown in a lot of his original work.

I guess, I would love that version the best, but I also like the latest....



I think it was some time late last year that I tried locating a person or group of people that would make one for me, but o no avail I didn't get any replies from the two people I found on my home continent.

So, which would you think is the most feasible for construction,....I might have said forge, but it's not how they made the original flint headed ones.

[Jackstarr]

Stream...also dumps all of it's folders and some of it's contents up on my desktop.

When I try t restore or delete these, they are hard to get rid off.

Have you been running Steam from a desktop shortcut?  If so, when you created the shortcut did you actually create a shortcut, or did you just make a copy of the Steam exe file on the desktop?  If the latter, then Steam would get confused and start dumping files onto your desktop.  Make sure the steam exe is in the steam installation folder, and delete any steam-related files from your desktop.

I'm off to work now, but see if that rings a bell, and if not I'll suggest some more fixes later.

Thanx Jackstarr, that might be helpful when I try it.....

As of a few hours earlier...I have just lost my entire two terra-byte hard drive......I don't know where's gone...It just isn't showing up anywhere.

I will check and see if it still shows up on the BIOS when I work out into get into that.

I was grinding away contentedly on my second or third attempt at completing enough descent trading runs in Elite Dangerous to upgrade my Sidewinder or get a new ship.

When I heard my computer make a beeping noise that kept repeating as control over my mouse seized up.

I managed to save and quit back to the desktop where it was still doing the same thing.

It wasn't letting me do much, so I had to switch my computer off hot (I've been doing this a lot lately.) and on again. I'm not sure if I did switch it on again straight away.....

But it as I checked the drives to do something else, I noticed.......

Drive D is missing

Does that mean it's gone or is it simple failing to be detected.

I hope I haven't lost it and need to have it replaced......mainly because that's where I was storing all the videos I've been making of my game-plays.

Some of those videos will be literally hard to re-record.....

Damn the stupid hard luck I am having with this computer and I still haven't paid it off yet.

[Bungie]

Another Bungie (You know the Halo series...) that has a budget of half a billion 

Good-Game reviewed this over a fortnight ago.

[Aquila]

Aquila means eagle in Latin, and the eagle is the symbol of the Roman Empire.

Aquila meets Black-Hawk... now that would be something 

BTW the cover with him holding the sword (Is that a Gladius?) infront of his barely covered groin.

Very sus 

[Slaine]

"Can this be made into a Poll?"

Yes by removing the axe head.

Thryllseeker, you're a man after my own heart. The real expert on all things Celtic/Gaelic will be along soon I'd say; however I'll get my two bits in.
The Celts 2000 years ago up until the 9-10th centuries probably didn't use battle axes. They were more along the lines of light skirmishers and would have used spears, swords and knives. They would in the main like Slaine have been unarmoured (the wealthier may have had a helment and mail coat). Their main protection would have been a shield.
The battle axe was introduced by the Vikings and would have been a single bladed, two handed affair similar to the late great Belladanelli or McMahon's depictions. These were adopted simply due to the heavier armour worn by the Vikings, Normans and English which required a weapon like the battle axe or the great sword to crush if not cut through.
So go for one of the first two, but with out the spike. Z

Agreed and true.....I understand, but according to Slaine...he chose to use a Axe. Maybe this was sign of some Mid-Guard lineage in his past family tree. Did you know that according to what Pat Mills wrote in  Slaine: Book of Scars. He almost was going to be a viking, but Pat wanted to give the Celts more love. Like, how many mediums are already dominated by Vikings. Take films for example... Films about Celts (Aside from Braveheart...) and how many films have there been about Vikings. Damn, it's like they own everything that is in the north.

So, I know and understand that Axes are mainly of Viking origin, but Slaine as a Hiberian-Celt has definitely made it his or their own.

Just to be a pedant, that first image is by 2000ad art editor Robin Smith. McMahon gets my vote.

Really????

I though that paper cut-out doll of him was drawn by Massimo B.. It is his design/style at least.

I'm pretty sure I have one of those in the loft!

I want my own, but in the style Slaine's was designed/drawn from.

What about Angie Mills/Kincaid's axe?

Yeah I was going to remind you Angie Kincaid/Mills only gave art direction to Slaine: The Killing Fields, but then I remembered her once and only art duties on Slaine: The Time-Monster....



Most admittedly, it's practically the same as Massimo and MacMahon's.

Bless your cotton socks. I really hope Pat writes you a cameo in the strip one day, TS

Wow, that would be most awesome.


As for....

The Axe I found.....

I may order that as early as next week, but I think getting through customs is going to be another pain in the ass. I remember waiting for Gandalf's Sword.....