Haven’t played Minecraft in over a year and I still love seeing these.
I was definitely experimenting with all of the above shaders on my last play.
Was never a fan of the high-res textures though, I actually intentionally went the other way with almost cartoony simplified /flat paneled texture packs. Mixed with depth…

Glue the glass on last after painting it, or even better, dont use glue for the glass. Use a tiny dobs of tacky so as to be able to easily remove the glass any time to show off!

Clippers to remove the pieces from the sprue, a nail file (the little cheap cardboard ones do fine) to soften the edges down. For long edges…

Despite this, I actually found it very interesting that they added portions of WWI that they dont really teach much in Western Education.
They knew a France expansion would probably sell better than ‘The Italian Front’, and the base game would have more diversity in maps when including the Ottoman Empire.
I think they…

This weekend I tried out War Thunder on the CV1 at a friends place.
Gotta say it was bloody fantastic. That price tag though..
I cannot rationalize spending that kind of money despite how much I already have invested into my little sim-pit.

Seated flight sims like DCS and Elite : Dangerous are all I was excited for with these headsets. I never saw the whole standing experience coming, nor did I understand how VR was gauged by these games.
I guess there is a large group looking for that ‘holodeck’ experience, where I was just a TrackIR user that wanted…

This is some damn good Star-Destroyer porn.

These stills are mostly rendered in Vray so not exactly real-time friendly models or shaders, but you are still right. 10 years things are going to be nuts, just like they are now compared to 10 years ago.

I like breaking down that phrase..
He tells it like it is.
He tells it -as if- it is.
He -says- it -as if- it is.
He says it as if it where true.

I only see this

Fully agree on all points here.
I also have a big fear of them going Full F2P. The game has been very good about not oozing with money sinks or having some convoluted currency tiered system (think warthunder/tanks/of warships, with a copper, silver, premium-gold money system)
I am also very glad they are opening the…

Yes you can still do this.
Many active mid-late game players can actually maintain their sub’s for free quite comfortably.
I am able to currently buy about 3 months of free subs with in-game money. Just got back into it last month. For now im just paying the sub because a 3-month sub is $12 per month. The discounts are…

The proportions on these suit’s are perfect. Clearly smaller but more realistic. The armour looks mobile and functional. I find space marine iterations in the games and tabletop models to be ridiculous at times, the sculpts generally only work for the pose, animated characters tend to lose their badass feel when you…

Cyber-Violet. I feel a synth-wave album name coming...

So is OwnedCore a pontificate mass of kids with Dunning-Keller syndrome?
Or is it a cult run by game-hackers that make money off of the aforementioned mass and whenever they are threatened they toss inspirational battle quotes from Alexander to rally their crazed masses?

kinja has totally destroyed whatever I wrote after that.
Went to fix it and its just garbage html bundled together..
In short, nice write-up and something something dwarf fortress whatever I was talking about in that blank comment above.

Oh he meant Early Access. This took me too many hours of research to realize he was not talking about Electronic Arts.

another mid-game finishing touch is concrete paths in high traffic areas.
These look hidious to your colonists, save it for ugly rooms like stockpile access and that speed route from the front door to the defenses. Concrete gives maximun walk speed.

You are correct about making sure to exclude placing food in the original stockpile; the colonists are generally going to throw it to the closest one . As you get later into the game you will find yourself refining the stockpiles down to more specific groups. But early on the ideal stockpiles would be:
-Refrigerated…

You are underestimating the importance of a good cook.
When doing the 3-man start:
-At least 2 people need to be able to shoot
-1 decent cook capable of learning more (the fire logo next to their stat means they are willing to learn more. If they dont have that the stat is locked, essentially.) If the cook is the one…