Various video game stuff not deserving its own thread

[DagothGeas5]

For anyone interested, I managed to fix DUNE not saving my game. I just forgot to install it first, thus it did not know where to save my progress to.

I am posting also to ask a question about DOSBox itself. Is there truly no way to copy-paste inside the program? I enjoy typing all the file paths etc, but I am sure it will get tedious if I crash or something happens as the things to type tend to get very long at times. I found this page about something called DOSBox-X https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x
but I'd rather type it all if it means having to learn how to use a new program at this time.

Right click on the DOSBox command prompt window to bring up a copy/paste option.

I think you can also create something like a batch file to run a series of commands for you before launching the program using the command line parameter "-c".

And another option is to add your sequence of commands to the configuration file in the [autoexec] section at the end.

A bit too late here for me to study too much into this right now, but I can work with the information provided in the first link, thank you for sharing
As for batch files and things that autostart with the program, I recall I made something akin to them and something like a .bat file in the past for some games, but I prefer to see the lines for myself Thank you once more!

[DagothGeas5]

@SpellSword as I can't seem to sleep these last few days, I figured I should get into it now and I realized the link you gave me is the one I also found in the past but couldn't donwload the file from it (a tab opens, but then immediately closes) and, though the main post mentions an attatchment, there is no such thing. Later pages do contain some files, but I am not sure what to do with them, and whatever non-attatchment link to download does the above issue.

What I found that interested me was this comment
https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topi ... t-wrapper/
which has some very interesting files and things, but the archive downloaded from the link is missing the mentioned clip.exe file. Will try another way, but wanted to link this to you as I thought it might interest you Maybe I am wrong, but, just in case, wanted to share, as the guy shares the code he did to create the file and I found that to be quite interesting.

[wndrbr]

Techland announced a Lunar New Year update for Dying Light 2. This update changes Lawan's (one of the main characters whos likeness is based on a hollywood actress Rosario Dawson) appearance by turning her into an Asian woman.

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[Oyster Sauce]

Techland announced a Lunar New Year update for Dying Light 2. This update changes Lawan's (one of the main characters whos likeness is based on a hollywood actress Rosario Dawson) appearance by turning her into an Asian woman.

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Optional, but very funny.

[Finarfin]

Time to play Dying Light 2 then. Got it on my Xbox
No Idea how to toggle it though.

[ArcaneLurker]

I think it's just because they recognise that ******* are actually orcs, in practice, and instinctively push against the idea by humanising the orcs just like they do with *******.

They will depict their enemies as the above picture.

[MC_Sea]

Techland announced a Lunar New Year update for Dying Light 2. This update changes Lawan's (one of the main characters whos likeness is based on a hollywood actress Rosario Dawson) appearance by turning her into an Asian woman.

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Unironically an improvement ngl.
No more man-jaw, smaller nose, smoother neck + no wrinkles, not brown. I looked up her real-life counterpart and she was your typical modern activist Hollywood actress. She's apparently Bi too so even less of a reason to care for her.

[ArcaneLurker]

Techland announced a Lunar New Year update for Dying Light 2. This update changes Lawan's (one of the main characters whos likeness is based on a hollywood actress Rosario Dawson) appearance by turning her into an Asian woman.

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I hope many adopt this Yellow-washing trend :weeb:

[UltraFan123]

It seems that some ****** called Chris Hayes who is apparently an influential US democrat is rebranding DEI as "Patriotic Pluralism", which I think is both laughable and sad at the same time.

Learning all the wrong lessons from their defeat. Never give another inch.

[Valter]

It seems that some ****** called Chris Hayes who is apparently an influential US democrat is rebranding DEI as "Patriotic Pluralism", which I think is both laughable and sad at the same time.

Learning all the wrong lessons from their defeat. Never give another inch.

Fake. No one in the history of existence has ever wanted to say "patriotic pluralism". (Fact checked by real patriots!)

[rusty_shackleford]

Most games look better with a sharpening filter. This was true before games were purposely giga-blurred, and even more true now.

[DagothGeas5]

Most games look better with a sharpening filter. This was true before games were purposely giga-blurred, and even more true now.

Could you give an example of the filter in action? The games I do have that have it I don't see any difference in the image, at least that I could tell, when I fiddle with the thing. Even example images on Google when I searched for this a few years back just left me perplexed.

[wndrbr]

Techland announced a Lunar New Year update for Dying Light 2. This update changes Lawan's (one of the main characters whos likeness is based on a hollywood actress Rosario Dawson) appearance by turning her into an Asian woman.

Before:


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Unironically an improvement ngl.

She used to look like this in the early work-in-progress version

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[UltraFan123]

Techland announced a Lunar New Year update for Dying Light 2. This update changes Lawan's (one of the main characters whos likeness is based on a hollywood actress Rosario Dawson) appearance by turning her into an Asian woman.

Before:


After:

Unironically an improvement ngl.

She used to look like this in the early work-in-progress version

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It's amazing how something as relatively minor as a smaller nose and smaller lips manage to make such a glow up.

[Rand]

I guess Rosario Dawson's contract ran out and they don't want to pay the mulatto hag any more to re-up?

[DagothGeas5]

Unironically an improvement ngl.

She used to look like this in the early work-in-progress version

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It's amazing how something as relatively minor as a smaller nose and smaller lips manage to make such a glow up.

I think it's more than that, she looks far younger here (possibly also because of that shadow around the eyes), but she looks incredibly pasty and fat in how they turned her compared to this image. Yellow-er too.
I think they, like I saw done in other games, decided to trash the character and replace her with a self-insert of this other woman, especially if she is woke and all the rest like I read above.
I think they did indeed

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They also have an obsession with making every face as "authentic" as possible, which means no makeup, enhanced oilyness, adding blisters, enlarged pores, wrinkles, etc and exagerating it to the max for "realism". I think the images match my observation of this behavior.

[Oyster Sauce]

[Manny V]

chat is this real??

[MrTwinkls]

Not if I made a save beforehand and will reload to kill you again.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Need more games where granny cat cooks for you.

[Irenaeus]

Oyster, please make this Aunt Jemima your next avatar!

[WhiteShark]

Need more games where granny cat cooks for you.

I feel bad for the people whose job it is to animate this kind of stuff because 99.9% of players are going to skip it every time (or be mad that they can't if it doesn't let you).

[rusty_shackleford]

Most games look better with a sharpening filter. This was true before games were purposely giga-blurred, and even more true now.

Could you give an example of the filter in action? The games I do have that have it I don't see any difference in the image, at least that I could tell, when I fiddle with the thing. Even example images on Google when I searched for this a few years back just left me perplexed.

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J2 1.33 stc_016.webp

IMO most 3D games look better with it

[DagothGeas5]

Most games look better with a sharpening filter. This was true before games were purposely giga-blurred, and even more true now.

Could you give an example of the filter in action? The games I do have that have it I don't see any difference in the image, at least that I could tell, when I fiddle with the thing. Even example images on Google when I searched for this a few years back just left me perplexed.

IMO most 3D games look better with it

I can see what you mean now, thank you for sharing! Is there a reason why things are purposefully made blurried? Can't recall what game it was, but I think it was Resident Evil that I played, and no amount of tweaking the settings would make the game not be blurry (or, as I use to say, "smeared").

[rusty_shackleford]

I can see what you mean now, thank you for sharing! Is there a reason why things are purposefully made blurried? Can't recall what game it was, but I think it was Resident Evil that I played, and no amount of tweaking the settings would make the game not be blurry (or, as I use to say, "smeared").

If it's a UE4/5 game, then it's the antialiasing they use. Other games(and UE4/5 ones), it's probably resolution scaling.

[Manny V]

Need more games where granny cat cooks for you.

I feel bad for the people whose job it is to animate this kind of stuff because 99.9% of players are going to skip it every time (or be mad that they can't if it doesn't let you).

i wouldn't skip it if it wasn't so god **** cringe

[Roderick]

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[ArcaneLurker]

https://digitalbox.co.uk/PS/gamerom.php

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[rusty_shackleford]

The oppression my people endure has no counterpart in history.

[Roderick]