Brute Force Competition 2022

[Solitude]

Will get to this this evening. Work has been relentless.

[Solitude]

Last Week
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 3
@DarthMol - 1
@Wyvern - 1
@DieGrootHammer - 1
@Beo - 0

Standings
@GregRedd - 15
@czc - 14
@DarthMol - 10
@DieGrootHammer - 10
@Beo - 4
@Wyvern - 4

Not a good week people. May this week go better.

[DieGrootHammer]

Sorry @Solitude I didn’t post my thread for last week. Here it is.

ECOTAG - The Open World gaming personality test

Here’s a fun little metric I found while listening to the Triple Click Podcast (Link to the podcast if you are interested). In the discussion Kirk Hamilton (ex-Kotaku reviewer and writer) came up with an interesting way to profiling open-world games. Similar to the personality tests, there are sliding scale metrics by which open-world games can be categorised. His theory is this, any open-world game can be ranked on three different metrics: Emergent - Controlled (How dynamic/simulated is the o…

[Solitude]

Cool will update the scores a bit later today.

[czc]

@Solitude

Not a good week people.

Will try harder.

[Wyvern]

Personal Health Advice Thread

I figured to split this into a topic since we all use the threadkiller and sometimes the questions gets lost in the noise. So 2 things I am sharing today: 1st : Since the situation we are in as a family, I have been doing my research and reading to see what is ahead for us and maybe give me insight on what is going on in dad’s head (we want to book a meeting with the neuro surgeon to ask a lot of questions - why did they do the burr holes on top of the head and not closer to the brain bleed a…

I need help finding a dvd of on old VHS tape

I have to say I gave the guy a 5 star rating, it arrived in better condition than I expected literally the day after I paid. So impressed and it all works

Two topics, does it count? no idea

[DarthMol]

What game do you want to come to Game Pass next?

I know that a fair number of us are either active or past subscribers of Game Pass (Xbox, PC, Ultimate). I thought it could be fun to share what games we’d hope to see on the subscription service. I thought we could give a realistic option and a pure dream option. If you have another suggested category feel free to add it. Here’s mine: Realistic: Immortals Fenyx Rising (what with their being talk of Ubisoft games coming to the service) Dream: Elden Ring (would love to try it out to see if it …

[Solitude]

@GregRedd are you okay?

Also I must still fix @DieGrootHammer 's points.

[GregRedd]

Forgot to press the Reply button last night

Article:

F1 Manager 2022 - Unleash Your Inner Wolff

Topic:

Dream a little dream of... your teeth falling out?!

This map shows the most frequently searched for “meaning of dream about…” terms around the world. “Snake” related dreams are by far the most frequently searched for dreams - tops the list in 52 countries. Second most common is “teeth falling out” in 17 countries. For someone like me who has zero dream recall at all, “teeth falling out” is a bit of an odd one. Has anyone here ever had a dream where your teeth have been falling out? [image] There’s a fair few other dream searches that are also…

@Solitude

are you okay?

I’m okay. What did I do?

[Solitude]

That looks much better. I thought maybe you were sick or something when I didn’t see your post.

[czc]

Last Week

Article:

Ukrainian game developers

Topic:

Your thoughts on flash backs

thatsthejoke.jpg I was wondering what the heck was going on in the Witcher when people that died were alive again. Took me way to long to realize it was jumping around in time. There was a complete lack of captions. I was in the back seat of a car that was driving by a small lake. The geese gather there every where for a stop during their migration. There were a bunch of people standing around with them (dumb move on their part, those geese are evil), and one appeared to be a giant penguin. …

[Solitude]

Last Week
@GregRedd - 3
@czc - 3
@Wyvern - 2
@DarthMol - 1
@Beo - 1
@DieGrootHammer - 0

Standings
@GregRedd - 18
@czc - 17
@DarthMol - 11
@DieGrootHammer - 10
@Wyvern - 6
@Beo - 5

Sorry for being so late.
@Wyvern sorry but two topics only count for 1 point.
@DieGrootHammer I did update your points for last week

Good luck for the rest of the week!

[czc]

Come on guys. We can all do more.

[Solitude]

They probably have the same problem as me. Life is just so busy. Just not getting to everything I want to.

[DarthMol]

Yes, you and Greg must up your game

I’ve had all these ideas for articles but have struggled to find the time to sit down and write them. When I finally do the writer’s block hits so hard

[Wyvern]

Send me some of them and i can try now that my mind is behaving again

[GregRedd]

Topic:

Would you be fooled by a flirty AI voice artist?

Carrying on from my looking into character creators, I came across this video… Last month - to coincide with Valentine’s Day - Sonantic released the video below. It shows a human actor visualising the spoken thoughts of an AI generated, emotion inflecting, voice artist. For a moment, pretend you didn’t just read that, hit the play button, maybe close your eyes, and just listen. [What's Her Secret?] In all honesty, could you tell that the voice was AI generated? If you didn’t know…

Article:

Hogwarts Legacy Gameplay and Story Details Revealed

[DarthMol]

Here’s my article for last week’s count

Throwback: Command & Conquer Generals

[czc]

Sorry for the lateness.

Topic for last week:

South Africanise a game

How many game can we South Africanise? Adding some element of South African to a game. Pot holes in Need for Speed would be interesting.

Article for last week:

Prehistoric Kingdom

[Solitude]

Sorry I’m also late. Will do this tomorrow.