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I think the "Day One" patch is becoming quite a common thing, but that's not anywhere near as bad as games that are just unfinished or broken and need unexpected patches to be released. The Day One patch being when the dev-team continues working on the game even after the CDs have been sent to print and so on, since worldwide distribution takes a month or more to organise. But that's time they can still use, fixing up the game.

I think there's a sort of sinusoidal thing going on, in terms of a trend. For instance back in the days of casette tapes, if you found a crucial bug it was no big deal to send a new master tape down to the duplicator. However, with the advent of cartridges, suddenly you only got one shot and had to make thousands at a time, so there's an increase in pressure to get it right. But now that it's so easy to patch even a console game (previously unthinkable) I think it's understandable that a tight budget will dump some testing time. I still think it's bad, but budgets are bitches.

That's not too bad, it's when they have an object/character/foreground that's drawn in a different resolution to everything else. Ends up looking really disorientating!

Yes, mixed resolutions pain me in a way I hadn't thought possible.

Blazers don't usually button at the neck. You should be able to see his shirt and tie down to his stomach or so. Otherwise, very nice. You might want to move his arms towards his body a bit and rotate the hands to avoid the effect of him having his forearms and the top of his hands facing the viewer (ie. his palms facing behind him).

As far as I know the mouse sensitivity in AGS is taken from that of Windows. You could simulate different speeds by manually relocating the cursor relative to the user's movements (which I'm guessing is what Khris's suggestion will be) but it's not a trivial piece of coding.

To lower sensitivity, you'd want to adjust the cursor so that it only "moves" when you tell it to, as opposed to relative to the actual speed of the mouse. Infact, you'd probably want to do this with an invisible cursor and a cursor sprite which follows it, appearing to be the cursor. It'd mess up if you clicked while moving so you'd probably want to disable that.

c.leksutin is out there, somewhere, moderating this forum from his dreams. Trust in that. His will will be done.

Actually, I really like the artwork. The usual crime is that people would use complete backgrounds from old games, with jarring MS Paint additions, but I actually think you've woven in the old stuff with new additions which keep the style nicely. The paintovers look really nice, and whilst I can recognise a new things here and there, I can see how the majority of this stuff is original artwork. I also really love the poster. The plot sounds good, too. I'm excited. Best of luck with this.

Nah, it just means you have large empty rooms with no detail in them.

I have nothing against hi-res games, though when I see beginners in the C&C forum drawing in a low res style for a high resolution game, I think that's something that ought to be cured.

This stopped being funny about 5 pages ago.

Looks like MI6's data gatherers are middle aged secretaries who don't know what the internet is. Probably think Twitter is an underground, subversive hacker network.

Discordance is wrong.

Icey is an artiste, not some "artist"... 

Regarding the social aspect, if I'm out with people and they want to go outside for a smoke, I'll go with them even though I don't smoke. You get left out if you don't. It's like that episode of Friends where Rachel gets a fashion job but is useless because her boss makes all the decisions when she goes out for a smoke. If you're not in there, you're missing out on the party. For the most part. I mean obviously if the smokers are stepping out of the club into the pouring rain, then the party is inside still, and nobody goes with them.

I am an infrequent smoker of fine cigars when they become available.

I couldn't put my finger on who icey reminds me of, but it's km10, they have the same mind-bending style of diction.

You could get really good at online poker.

Yeah, it's impossible.

I remember back when I had no idea what the hell, playing Night of the Hermit, which came in an .ace file. Due to the ignorance of my youth and partially WinAce's weird design, I ended up accidentally always playing the game from a temporary folder which got deleted as soon as I closed the game. And I wondered why my saves never worked...

The only thing I can think of is a puzzle I was coding which involved a lot of random events, running a loop until a certain number of random conditions were met. Obviously this caused a lot of crashes and was messy.

I thought about it for a while until I realised I should be shuffling a list of random states, rather than randomly setting each element in the list until I had a certain number. Spent about half an hour working out a pretty neat shuffling algorythm. Then I looked up "shuffling algorythm" on google to see if I was doing it right, and, well, I'd accidentally discovered the Knuth algorythm. I wish I'd been around 70 years ago to put my own name on it 

Did anyone notice how every single MP acceptance speech contained the phrase "Thank you for voting for the politics of hope, not the politics of fear." Who was actually representing fear? People from all three main parties said this in their speeches.

And Dualnames I think the reason you think it doesn't matter is probably because the UK is already a devolved, stable state with welfare. There's not really... much else to do. A lot of things don't work too well but the basic reason is that we can't afford to run them any better, so short of magicing money out of nowhere, there's not much a party can hope to do. It's a bit like when you're playing Sim City and you get to the point where the city doesn't really need you to interfere with it any more.

I'm not saying we should be ruled by unelected officials. I'm saying that having an advisory body like the Lords be unelected shouldn't bother people as much as it does, because the very little they are allowed to do, they do it well.

I'm not defending the Lords as much as defending them against people who think they're a bad idea for very vague reasons. Like I said in a previous post, there are a plethora of unelected positions who have a much more relevant impact on your life, and people don't seem to care about that. I don't like witch hunts and efigy burnings.