someday, show me what you know on Gmod10 please :3 i only know a few things

Best way to improve at Gmod is screwing around.

After a day of playing around, I already knew how to construct a clock, including seconds. Then I have a bit experience with digital electronics and programming, which helps allot in wiremod. xD

oh i've been doing that for months but all i do is inflate the rag dolls and just fling them around X3

Playing with ragdolls is always fun.

Always a fun way to take a break from your technical construction, and just messing with stupid poses. Sometimes I try to attempt combining a ragdoll with my creations, though it's not always too... successful.

Sure! I'm not a very good teacher though, heheh. I once tried showing Malaka how my teleporter worked, but I ended up getting Y and Z coordinates mixed up while his brain slowly fried. But like Purplecat said, the best way to learn is just to fool around. I started out by sticking a button on the hoverdrive controller and hooking it to the "jump" input. A blinding flash of light later and the hoverdrive is floating in the courtyard outside because it didn't have any coordinates, and just jumped to the center of the map. Half the fun of wiremod is making leaps of logic and figuring out how to make something work ... but to get started, you can check out Tricky's Tutorials! http://www.trickystutorials.com/forums/ Click the Tutorials link up top, then go to GarrysMod > Wire. There's a bunch of video tutorials there that can help get you started with the basics.

Have you tried Dwarf Fortress 2 yet? :3

There's a such thing? There was a new version of Dwarf fortress just recently, but not Dwarf Fortress II.

...though technically dwarf fortress is just a sequel to a quite less known game. So I assume you confused the terms, unless Dwarf Fortress II is some unoffical sequel.

Damn, I been playing Dwarf Fortress obsessive myself. Since I somewhat mastered it, I have attempted to do weird challenges... such as playing on a Aquifer map and trying to get past the Aquifer layer... which is quite tricky. xD

I yet have to try the adventure mode of Dwarf Fortress, even if it's supposdly improved. The simulation part is just too addicting.

Yeah! In fact, I was ECSTATIC when I first heard about it. I love base/dungeon-building games, at least in theory. In practice that love tends to evaporate rather quickly. But I loved the concept of the game creating this huge, randomly-generated world and filling it with history and lore. It was kind of buggy and unfinished when I played it; the RPG side of the game was pretty much just tacked-on at that point, but it's been awhile since I've played it. I might have to give it another go ... I just checked its webpage, and I'm still stunned at how huge and comprehensive the game is.

Didn't you try it recently, and said that the Z-levels was rather confusing? xD Heh.

...still, in the ten months of time there was a quite few improvements. But there was also a quite few bugs added, some rather bad slowdown issues as well (which is for the most part fixed anyway).

I find it more enjoyable when you limit the amount of dwarfs to a managable amount myself. Having 100 dwarfs too soon isn't too nice. Then I figure I usually assign too few military dwarfs in my fortresses. Not like there's much of a reason to, sieges are bugged now. xD They come... but only stands in a corner.

No, but I probably said something similar after you showed me a bunch of screenshots of it! Even so, I absolutely love the idea of multiple levels and fluid dynamics in a roguelike.

Ah yeah, like that really tall screenshot where I took a picture of my dungeon... which even included the tower being built on top of it. I hope I didn't scare you away with it haha.

Eh, it's not really that hard to understand. You can sorta play through a good part of the game while only caring about one or two Z-level before you master it.

And the fluid dynamics rocks. I have a fortress that pumps up water from the aquifer. I had to make a small dam to make sure it wouldn't flood my fortress. And yet, my dwarfs wind up swimming alot as they have a tendency to either hunt or pick up stuff that is in the water haha.

I'm quite an active fucker, but I'm a lazy everything else.

You're not lazy, just easily distracted.

Even worse: having a lot of ideas, then forgetting them. This happens to me all the time; the only thing left behind is the memory of the idea being really good, which helps not at all. So try not to let that happen.

Mmm, it's kinda worse when you have lots of good ideas... but you can't concentrate on any of them. You should just see the amount of unfinished programming projects I have scattered over my computer. xD

Haha, I kinda got burned out on Gmod too... but only because I played Source-games so much I started getting guilty about it. But I figure it would come back in a few days, especially if I get stuff done now. XD

Heh. Part of me wants to finish off Nethack before playing more rogue-likes. Then... I never seem to get past the dwarf mines. xD Which is ironic as Dwarf Fortress is probably the rogue-like I play the most currently, although my addiction isn't as bad as it used to be.

I'm all about vanilla Angband myself. The Windows port has tiles too so you don't have to squint to see that the floor is covered with deadly mushrooms.

But wouldn't using a graphical tileset kinda ruin the charm with a rogue-like? :P

I played it without the tileset on a CE version for a while, but I just got tired of (l)ooking ahead of me every few steps. Grip and Fang look just like a jackal but only one of the three I can kill with magic missile at a low level.

Maybe if I didn't play mages and wasn't in it for the long haul?

Really? I could never get into vanilla Angband. I started out with an old version of ZAngband that had a GUI and actual graphics, but I eventually came to prefer ASCII. The graphics tiles were so small that they just obfuscated everything. The only way to see anything was to use bigtile mode, but then your field of vision was severely limited. I tried Angband a few times, but it just seemed very boring compared to everything else.

I think it's probably because I haven't played a lot of different roguelikes. I started with one I can't remember the name of (partially graphical, multiple terminals, you could make multiple characters and share items) then got into Angband.

Is ZAngband any good, or do you have any recommendations?

Multiple terminals? Whoah, you mean like ... one of the original mainframe roguelikes? COOL! Sounds like maybe ... Nethack? Not sure.

Honestly, I wouldn't recommend ZAngband. Its plot is a horrible mishmash of Tolkien and Zelazny, the randomly generated overworld is usually and unfairly unbalanced mess, it hasn't seen an update in four years and it's generally one of the most difficult and unforgiving *bands out there. I played a single character on wizard mode for the better part of a year, cheating death constantly, and I STILL never got anywhere. I have no idea why I stuck with it for so long.

T.o.M.E. ( http://t-o-m-e.net/main.php?tome_current=0 ) is one of the better variants I've played in awhile. It's deep and complex, while still staying coherent for the most part. My only real complaint is that, since the overworld isn't randomly generated, the starting dungeon and quests can get monotonous if you die a lot. Barrow-downs has this distinctive look that I'm getting sick of.

Also, you might consider checking out Steamband ( http://angband.oook.cz/steamband/steamband.html ). It's a steampunk Angband variant taking source material from classical literature. It's short, fairly simple and relatively easy as far as roguelikes go, but it's seriously the most fun I've had out of any of these. Its ambiance, if you can call it that, is absolutely wonderful.

Multiple terminals in the sense that Angband supports multiple terminals - the game's in more than one window. Great only if you've got multiple monitors though (because Angband calculates the range of magic mapping, detect doors/stairs, etc. based on the current window size you want the main Angband window to be as huge as possible!)

I'll take a crack at ToME, an overworld sounds exciting.

Ah, thought you meant like ... multiple users on terminals hooked to a mainframe or something.

I assume the overworld is exciting! I've never actually been anywhere else yet. Finally got to the bottom of Barrow-downs, figured I was strong enough to try someplace else, so I go a couple overworld tiles over to the old forest ... it starts at level 13, and barrow-downs went as far level 10, so I figured I was ok. Within two dozen turns a homonculus had paralyzed me and eaten my vital organs. *sob*

*nods* I know the feeling x..x

You're a cat.

I just realized this.

How can dog be friend with cat? :C

Some of my best friends are dogs! Don't succumb to the stereotype!

But stereotyping makes life so easy and I'm soooo lazy ;.;

PS: Why are you up this late? Why am I up this late? oh god ;_;

Dogs and cats usually get along well.

From my experience, it's usually the cats being a little bit more stubborn than dogs. But if you get the cat used to dogs at a young age, it's usually not a problem.

Then, we did chat about stereotypes other week on tapestries haha.

Actually I've warmed up to cats well in the past year or so IRL.. Having to babysit my aunt's cats so much has pretty much forced my body's allergies to give up.. So now I can actually touch them without dying. :D

It makes it alot easier to like cats when they don't make you wanna cry and sneeze constantly. :x

Heh, as long you don't overdo it... being together with your allergen is a way to "cure" the allergy, or at least make it less worse.

Fun thing, people I know who is allergic to cats either loves them alot... or hates them. xD

I used to hate them alot, and I think I will never be able to enjoy them like I do dogs, but I think we could peacefully run a democracy together. It's about the level of tolerance I would hope and expect from a converted racist. :x

I would rather call it specist!

...eh that sounds rather lame actually.

Spizziyest

...that sounds more like a soft drink.

With a high high dose of CO2

and a burst of nitrous when you open the can, for the cool kids.

Because I was playing TOME. And then I checked to see if FA was up before i went to bed. And it WAS.

I like teh lazy... makes work seem easy... especially when everyone's on the same trip... then a hard worker as to come in and screw it up for the rest of us... THough on the artwise end... nothing wrong with a slump or 500... I anyone can be drawling shit lods of stuff and not post it... and still seem just as lazy. :P... and Idea's are like running water... They come and flow and run down the drain all the time... and eventually they all come right back to ya and do it again and again.

T.O.M.E. ?! Cool...course I still prefer playing nethack when in the mood to stare
at ascii for hours on end...