Don't get the immersion part though...surely having a far better looking and certiantly far more fitting texture (in respect to the theme of the level, as Jetset has said) will INCREASE immersion? It probably only lessens immersion for people like me. When I look at it I'm impressed, and I'll certa...

I see what the problem here is, it is the English language. Since the English language was created by no one person I guess it can be said that it is nobody's fault. Anyway, apparently it is time for English teacher mode. Please note that English is a very convoluted language so the following might ...

good looking visuals were more important than all else, which would logically include things such as realism and immersion. Not. At. All. I'm going for visuals over realism - I think this texture looks far nicer than blocky brickwork, so I'm keeping it. The advantage of not being part of HDTP is th...

If you're going to Italy you have to hit Florence, it's a moral imperative. It has been called the most beautiful city on earth, whether or not that is true I don't know but I do know it is better looking than Venice, Rome and Paris. If you're going to Rome stop by Pompeii while you're there, it's o...

Much of the following can be ignored as I read and saw that the brick size was being criticized and responded to that, but totally missed that the type of brickwork was also being criticized. The type of brickwork is staggeringly, startlingly and disgustingly wrong for an actual building, but we are...

Why not run in and shoot him with an MP5, then a SPAS 12, and then a LAW - while shouting "SAME AMMO LOL"? Because then you'd get arrested and you fascinating new universal ammunition system would be taken away for experimentation and replication by the local government. Better to simply patent the...

We're not idiots, we know the industry and we can build computers as well as make games. So why should we get treated like we don't matter. I can't speak for EB but there's a reason places like Wal-Mart think you don't matter: to them you don't. As of the year 2000 Wal-Mart was the 25th largest eco...

You'll only ever find legitimate stuff if you either 1. Know how to hack REALLY REALLY well - Don't hack though cause you'll get caught. 2. Bribe someone in MJ12 or CIA or FBI or NASA or whatever. Ok so imagine that you try 2. How do you know the individual you bribed isn't: 1 Making it up. 2 Sprea...

fox wrote:This would mean, technological and biological evolution must have stopped somewhere on their way.

Which is not without precedent.

(Technological evolution has stopped several times, the theory of biological evolution, by its very nature, implies that biological evolution can stop.)

The problem is that most science fictions are set during the future Most perhaps, but far from all. That may be the confusion between us. When you say that it is set apart from Sci-Fi I read that it sets it apart from science fiction (consider me unnuanced) and I guess you're saying that it sets it...

Its the underlying post-modernist tones that separate Cyberpunk form Sci-fi. ... A better name for Cyberpunk would be Post-Modernist era Science Fiction Do you not see the contradiction here? "Post-Modernist era Science Fiction" is still Science Fiction and thus not separate from Sci-fi. Since it i...

EER wrote:So Cyberpunk is a subset of Science Fiction, and yet a completely seperate entity?

Based on what Mr_Cyberpunk said it logically follows that Cyberpunk is a completely seperate entity.

Based on my experiance Cyberpunk is not.

To be honest, I didn't even know the cyberpunk genre was alive. Yeah, Cyberpunk is dead. Now, its all about STEAMPUNK! :D A name which Gibson disapproved of. - The big revelation for me here was, "Cyberpunk is merely a set of conditions - this is why it differs from science fiction. And thats why w...

Well that's what the models page was doing.

Someone call OiNutter and point him at the skins page.

If memory serves analysis showed that the signature is lifted directly from another document, meaning that, at the absolute least, the page with the signature is a forgery. Now even if my memory is correct this doesn't snuff out the conspiracy theory, Deus Ex ran with the idea the conspiracy group w...