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On 4/12/2025 at 5:06 PM, biostem said:
Wasn't this what the canceled "1313" game, (or whatever it was going to be called), supposed to be about, only for one of the Fetts?
This is the first I've heard of that would-be game.
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On 4/12/2025 at 7:03 PM, Voltor said:
There are rumors that had Season 2 of Uprising happened(Disney you really screwed up by cancelling this show!), it would have been revealed that TRON being from the original Grid was going to play a factor in the plot.
If Ares proves a hit, there's always the possibility of Disney revisiting the idea of season 2. They already released the long-delayed season 7 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and X-men '97, both to critical and popular acclaim.
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On 4/9/2025 at 11:06 AM, Inoshita said:
The Complete List Of Rogue Servers For Dead MMOs
The Complete List Of Rogue Servers For Dead MMOs – MMO Folklorist
Interesting. They're showing work being done to resurrect Tabula Rasa (under the name Infinite Rasa) and WildSTAR, two games I enjoyed. While it sounds like I'll be dead before Tabula Rasa is reborn, I do hope I'll get to play it again some day.
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36 minutes ago, wednesdaywoe said:
Oh goodness, Firefall. I adored that game for the short time it was around. Loved my Dragonfly and Rhino. It was fun with wonderful visual and audio design, and deserved so much better. I still carry a grudge against -that guy- who seemingly ran it into the ground. I wish it could be brought back like CoH was.Unfortunately, it was sold to Chinese company The9, which began rolling out patches and "updates" that broke the system further with each patch. It almost seemed a deliberate act of sabotage. Then they fired every last employee that was associated with the game, hiring what appeared to be a lone foreign language community manager who kept telling any who came to the forums that it was all okay, they were going to build back better than ever. They didn't, and the game became a glitchy ghost town. At the time, I began to wonder if The9 was a front for Chinese spycraft. There had been rumors and discussion about 15 years back of empty, but still active, virtual world games being used for private communications outside the normal monitored grid. Stray visitors might observe two player characters facing each other for hours, apparently in conversation. Whatever reason, or lack thereof, that The9 wrecked the game, it finally closed in 2017.
As to "that guy", that would be Mark Kern. Kern tried to buy back Firefall when it became quite obvious The9 was ruining it (far more than he did), but was rejected. So he started indie game Em8er, pronounced "Ember", which supposedly will be a spiritual descendant of Firefall. It's been most of a decade, and while there's progress, there's not much to show in a polished game.
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I'd very much like to see this. My state is so far south that there has only been one sighting of the lights in my lifetime (to my knowledge). That occurred last year, and those who saw it (I didn't) took shots of an ethereal red glow in the sky.
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21 hours ago, Elfis said:
Anything you have found useful.
Well, I feel this weekend like I'm giving away all my hard-earned secrets before I submit my contest base (LOL), but I've found that Floor Lamp and Large Floor Lamp make nice looking sconce lights and highlight letters pretty well if you're into soft lighting of the kind fancy restaurants like to use at night.
The trick is to hide the rest of the light, especially the base, in the wall, which is sometimes easier said than done. I've learned to subtly angle the light foreword in conditions where the base gets annoying otherwise. Angling also needs to be done at times because apparently, whomever constructed these two put the trigger to display light towards the back near the stem of the light. Items a bit thicker than a normal wall might cover this spot. A slight angle does not disfigure the "sconce" and should bring the "trigger" out where it is useful. The Large Floor Lamp puts out more lumens than the standard version, though it's not going to be a beacon in the night.
The letter color might make a difference as well. Here I've found a yellow that in the soft light of a standard floor lamp simulates brushed gold or brass.
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2 minutes ago, jkwak said:
It's not as bad as the screenshot makes it look like tbh but I had this screenshot a compared it to all the other Screenshots.
Nah, It's not bad at all. Looks fine. I just saw opportunity for a little humor. I'm weird like that. Too much time spent tweaking the ol' gears will make one go barmy.
4 minutes ago, jkwak said:So the cars confuse you but not the partial street it's on and the buildings?
Oh, uh, well...yeah...see, um...
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1 hour ago, jkwak said:
me: makes a black void "look its space i m proud of it"
everyone else: "here is this mega project worked on tirelessly its a functional city with everything a city would have, i thought about every small detail, i have fought with the quirks and problems with the base editor until the base editor gave up, begged for mercy and let me do what ever i want, it was a hard and long battle, many keyboards and mice lost there life in it but it was all worth it"
me: "i added rocks to my black void, they kinda float in there"
Saturn Bar: for all those who lack a ship capable of reaching Milliways, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe. 😄
Okay that looks good. I'm about a week out from tackling my novice base's environment, so you and your space rocks are notably ahead of me.
I shall spend the week pondering why there are cars in space. Besides a certain red Tesla, of course.
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2 hours ago, Elfis said:
I find shoji wall lamp to be the best non-ugly item for lighting text on walls, and floor torch is the best item I have found for creating light in general.
I tried all the items in the lighting section, but is there any I should give another try? Any really good lighting items?
By "really good", do you mean "the brighter, the better", or something else?
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Another Inquisitor, and one I don't recognize. I don't even recognize the species, though the helmet is a partial disguise. SW has been coy for years about how many there are, and I suspect this is why: so that they can add one anytime it fits a plot.
Also, if this is Ventress within a few years of her appearance in...
SpoilerThe Bad Batch...
then the timing is close enough that the youth with her might be...
SpoilerGalen Marek, aka Starkiller.
While I doubt it is the case, I find it not beyond the realm of possibility. People have been clamoring for a canon version of that character for years, and Dave Filoni has occasionally delivered on similar requests. Thrawn being a notable example.
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19 hours ago, Faliscan said:
Today, I say a post in Chat in which Baddie Laucianna was offering 'a beautiful teleport hub' to the public. I just recently started work on two bases and was pretty happy with the way they looked, even though I was aware there was a lot I didn't know about base construction. Using the passcode Divine-29035, I checked it out.
And I was immediately blown away!
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Has anyone seen this base? I am certain it would easily win any contest for beauty or creativity. I only wish I had pictures to share.
I have, yes. And you're right, it's fantastic! The mosaic at the entrance was alone worth the price of admission! (Okay, it's free, but had there been a cost...) I took several notes and a lot of pictures. I'd post some, but I personally kind of feel that's the creator's right, unless Laucianna is fine with others posting shots.
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Google A.I. is unveiling a re-imagining of the classic The Wizard of Oz. Not "re-imagining" as in changing stories or characters, but in chaining a film made with the 4:3 aspect ratio to something that will play on a screen it was never previously designed to handle: the entire Los Vegas Sphere. The A.I. creates the world around the 4:3 image. This includes imagining and creating what characters do when the original camera shifts them out of view for a time. The samples shown are also the clearest video of the movie I've ever seen.
This is seen as an opening move for a larger industry, not to replace the originals, but to offer something new to work parallel to them.
This video offers some explanation as well as clips:
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1 hour ago, Gr33n said:
Ultra Owl
Sonic/Sonic Blaster
Love the look. Good use of color, too.
I'm curious: The Celestial Armor 1 boots, in motion, do they radiate off the secondary color you've chosen? I've never seen these boots without some type of glow, usually neon in color.
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On 4/5/2025 at 4:10 PM, ShardWarrior said:
These are just super group floor plates carefully placed. The bottom image is from The Watchtower. It is a super group floor plate lowered slightly beneath the balcony piece used for the flooring. The logos on the floor plates sit slightly above the floor plate texture itself allowing for them to be used as decals this way. The top two images look to be layered floor plates using different SG logos.
Ah, great! The SG logo being raised higher than the floor plate is what I didn't know. Thanks for clarifying!!
On 4/5/2025 at 6:13 PM, lemming said:Oh, and for creating the decals, you have to change your SG Emblem in the SG settings. (Works for Banners)
Change SG Emblem, get your item that needs placement, repeat.
That I did know, but it's always valuable for those just starting out. The tactic works for anything else with the SG logos, notably holograms. I was able to drop a lot of banners I'd used for function identification (such as a medical cross to highlight the nurse) for a more tech look using this tactic.
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3 hours ago, jkwak said:
everyone putting up with Basebuilding in CoH is a winner
You got that right! 🤣
Knowing the, um, challenges of this particular base builder toolkit, I'd never have shifted from the standard, basic base build to something far more complex, except that I discovered that we have a wonderful base building community that provides good instruction, at times hand-holding, and absolutely jaw-dropping inspiration for what can be accomplished with a boat load of patience. I'm a novice with this game's builder, certainly, but once I bit the bullet, in one month, I've gone from a 1-room base with just the essentials, to something I feel worth sharing. Sharing will be the real reward. And I've already been rewarded in visiting so many fine bases as I learn.
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4 hours ago, Voltor said:
I've read conflicting reports for some time whether this is a reboot or a sequel to Legacy. Legacy left some unanswered questions which I doubt this movie will deal with.
5. there is a bonus scene on the blu ray of Sam taking control of Encom and of Dillinger Jr talking to the MCP.....
MCP? I'm curious how they justified that? MCP's destruction was pretty clear in the original movie. And as it pointed out to Sark, no one user made it. It's final scene reveals that it actually began as an old, simple program that was layered upon by other users over time, with Dillinger Sr greatly expanding its powers. It is code, so I guess a backup might have been made of the Dillinger version, (CLU was remade after all, but apparently from scratch) but considering how MCP was trapping and abusing Dillinger Sr., I'd have thought he'd have made sure a backup was not possible, or at least well out of others' reach.
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On 4/4/2025 at 7:17 PM, biostem said:
I just want Superman fighting an actually menacing and formidable Lex Luthor - not some goofy comedic version, (as much as I liked the Reeves Superman movies), and not the weird creepy manic version from BvS. Bonus points if they can pull off Luthor's power armor, (again, without it looking too silly)...
It's animated, but I always thought the Clancy Brown-voiced Luthor of Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League, and Justice League: Unlimited was pretty close to what Luthor should be like.
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21 hours ago, Lunar Ronin said:
Hmm...That would make some sense given the ending of Tron: Legacy.
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On 4/1/2025 at 3:22 PM, PeregrineFalcon said:
So here's something that I found interesting:
Oh, now that's just cruel to the die-hard fans. 😄 The only thing worse than not getting this would be to hear that Disney has sold Star Wars to Amazon.
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With this trailer, I'm puzzling over the lore. Humans go to the digital world, they have the potential for remarkable powers from within, and can influence the world with their designs, but everything great about the humans in a digital world is internalized. We've not seen humans bringing tanks and bazookas to a fight in the digital world.
Programs come to the flesh and blood world and their power is that they bring their lethal toys? That's not exactly a parallel. I'd always assumed that Quorra's character, had they continued that storyline, would have demonstrated powers from within in the "real" world. Perhaps a natural connection to computers and the internet. That balance and contrast would have made a 3rd movie interesting to me. I'm not really sure I'm jazzed to see the game bikes tear up police cars. That makes a 3rd movie in which the guys in red are far dominant over the humans around them, and on both worlds. That's not balance. I'll probably see it just because I was a huge TRON fan back in the 1980s, and even enjoyed the second film, though it had a couple of weak spots.
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On 4/1/2025 at 7:54 PM, Andreah said:
The Wiki only briefly mentions the Mapserver event https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/April_Fools'_Day
It would ne nice to have more extensive documentation of it, how it works, the enemies in it, the rewards structure, etc.
Beat me to it, so I second this. Before reading this, I did a wiki search on "Mapserver" and only got a brief technical description unrelated to the event.
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18 hours ago, Starhawk32 said:
Thinkless. My next alt. Too late, I already got itMind control?
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Having reviewed a couple dozen bases now, I've occasionally bumped into something that is mystifying me: the use of Supergroup graphics as "decals". I assume they are not, since I've (so far) not found any such decal in the parts lists. So that leaves visual effects, but those items that I know to have the supergroup graphics either rotate the graphics or curve the graphics (holograms) or have the image embedded into something 3D in a way that seemingly should not display as a flat, solo graphic.
So how are these created? And taking it a step further, is it the same method like the pictured, layered, double graphics, which Dacy apparently compiled? I assume the white background is the shower floor tile.
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Why do I feel like I'm going to be seeing a lethal Vulcan wedding fight with lirpas and ahn-woons?