The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Are you fucking serious?

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

Sometimes I think Cyan is about as organized as the Hindenburg.

An emergency situation has arisen quite rapidly over the last 24 hours. In short, one file in the CWE sources is in violation of licensed code by RAD Game Tools: Plasma20/Sources/Plasma/FeatureLib/pfSurface/plLayerBink.cpp You absolutely have to delete this file from any cloned repository you might have – completely. This means that you must perform a complete rebase removing this file from the initial source release, so that it never appears ever again. As a first measure, make a commit removing that file from your fork. It contains code belonging to RAD Game Tools, and was accidentally released by Cyan as they were unaware of its origin at the time..

Complete discussion: http://forums.openuru.org/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=848#p7522

This affects all known forks and branches, including H’uru.

Failure to so could result in prosecution of Cyan Worlds by RAD Game Tools for releasing copyrighted code, which would be A Bad Thing(TM).

If you need help removing this file, please contact one of the developers (including me) for instructions on how to proceed. Speed is essential in removing this file.

Note: your client will probably no longer compile if you remove this file. A fix will be distributed once it has been found.

Note 2: end-users need take no action. Cool

Insert large facepalm here

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming

Sunday Morning Open Thread + a petition

Yesterday I woke up, saw it was still raining and storming outside in pitch black, then I looked over at my clothes and decided “Fuck it, I’m staying in PJ’s.” So I didn’t go anywhere or do anything in particular. I just completely slacked off waiting for the storm to pass.

On another note, did you guys hear that Rockstar cockstar is making the next GTA for consoles only? Not surprising to me seeing as everyone wants to jump onto the console bandwagon… In any case if you’re interested there is a petition you can sign. Not sure if it will do any good but you at least have to try. Kinda like when Americans made a petition for Grover Norquist to get punched in the dick. Granted that got pulled but you have to at least try. 😛

Are you fucking serious? / Gaming

ZOMG!!! AC3 is NOT historicaly accurate! Oh teh noez!!!!

Because you know, games have always been 100% accurate about EVERYTHING ever! Wow, what a fucking shocker! 😛

Canada’s The Globe and Mail newspaper last week launched an editorial attack on Assassin’s Creed 3, which we happened to enjoy very much, seemingly based on the rather (in our opinion) incorrect assumption that the game presents a one-sided, Amerocentric view of the Revolutionary War.

Anyone who’s played the game—and seen what its fictional version of George Washington was capable of—is aware that that isn’t the case. But the writer of this editorial appears to have gleaned all he or she knows about the game from its promotional materials.

“Whose side is Ubisoft Montreal on, anyway?” the piece asks, as if this is a war that’s still raging. The whole thing reeks of manufactured outrage; take this passage:

Even assuming someone at Ubisoft has an awareness of Canadian history – and that requires a leap of faith – it’s unlikely they would have done anything differently. The size of the U.S. video-gaming market pretty much dictates who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.

As fans know, the “bad guys” in Assassin’s Creed 3 aren’t the British, as the author seems to believe; they’re the Templars, with members on both the loyalist and separatist sides of the conflict. But you’d have to have played the game to know that, wouldn’t you? Here’s another excerpt:

Assassin’s Creed III is just a video game. But given the dearth of history instruction in our schools, it might be the only place that Canadian young people are learning about the Revolutionary War. At very least, they need to be equipped to separate the Ameriphilia from the facts.

Ameriphilia? What a shame that those criticizing games can’t be bothered to find out more about them. Do you think the Globe and Mail’s complaints with Assassin’s Creed 3 are valid, or are they nothing more than hot air born of ignorance?

All I have to say is what do Canadians know about AMERICAN history. 🙄 (probably a lot more than we do).

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Saturday Morning Open Thread

Well folks it’s Dec 1st! You know what that means? It means I’m already sick of listening to Christmas music at work! I grow tired quickly hearing the same song sung 27 different ways. Which is why from now until Christmas I will be sharing with you all my favorite choices of Christmas songs or other oddities.