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1  RPG / Dead State Bugs and Feedback / Game crashes after bribing an ally + Coleman (spoilers) on: December 13, 2014, 03:37:52 am
After bribing Regina to get her support at meetings (and using the negotiation skill to bring down the number of items she can take), when I speak to her again her dialogue only consists of a dash and the whole game crashes.

Also Vic is approaching me to investigate Coleman, but once we got there we were rejected and Vic said we should leave. The next day Vic comes to be again in the morning telling me to go to Coleman.
2  RPG / The Shelter - Official Dead State Forum / Re: new patch broke it on: December 08, 2014, 12:37:58 pm
I ended up restarting for an earlier save even though I had lost some hours of progress... too enticing.
3  RPG / The Shelter - Official Dead State Forum / Re: new patch broke it on: December 07, 2014, 09:01:59 am
I will keep Steam offline until these problems are solved in order for this not to happen again.

You can tell steam on a game to not make updates. (rightklick with mouse on the game in the list- and then you have to find out by yourself, because i have another language as english there- properties? then on updates: donĀ“t do updates on this game)

thanks for the report, brian

i recommend you guys take your time and don't rush the next patch to avoid further issues. my experience outside of this bug has been almost completely bug-free and most of the people i've talked to has been enjoying the game as much as i have. i hope you guys sort this out soon and people forget about this and can go back to enjoying the awesome game you've made

Yep, i agree: thanks for the report. Its not the first game i played and on some of them they make big updates AFTER the game was released. Even really good games like "Divinity" put a bigger patch out to solve smaller issues. Especially on rolegames there are so many relations in between data, that it is hard to controll, even when you think you are finished with programming.
(One task- 5 solutions. Every solution has 5 solutions again, and again, and again... unlimited source of mistakes)

But when this happens after i bought a new released game like this, i have the strange feeling that im a guinnie pig, because with more testing and mistakes-solving time in the pre-release time many mistakes would have not be shown in the released version.
Stupid me KNOWS this. I have read enough articles and discussions about the topic "releasing games now or later?" that i damn should wait a little bit (a month or so) after a game was released until i buy it. Stupid me is just to greedy, because this damn game is just the game i like so much...

I don't have an option to stop updating the game, I only have an option not to update the game until its launch.

About feeling like a guinea pig, I understand, but with the extreme complexity of these games no one is able to make a western RPG bug-free. So I'll cut a ragtag indie team some slack.
4  RPG / The Shelter - Official Dead State Forum / Re: new patch broke it on: December 07, 2014, 04:12:29 am
I will keep Steam offline until these problems are solved in order for this not to happen again.
5  RPG / The Shelter - Official Dead State Forum / Re: new patch broke it on: December 07, 2014, 04:00:42 am
Same here: my party is very slow on the world map, and when they arrive, only my main character is present both on the field and the menu. If I load an ooooooold save, the problem does not occur.

Please tell me my latest save is not permanently broken...

Bad news, mine was ...

Exactly, now that another patch has just been released I loaded it up only to find that my saves from the last few days are all marked as "incompatible saves".

Really hope that all these hours have not gone to waste. I sympathize with everyone's anxieties and desire to make things right, but breaking saves is the worst possible outcome.
6  RPG / The Shelter - Official Dead State Forum / Re: new patch broke it on: December 07, 2014, 01:39:06 am
I have this problem as well, in some areas I have already visited it's impossible to select party members and now I just entered an area where they don't even appear and it's only my main character.

Also I have problems with enemies becoming sporadically invisible or attacking by melee from afar.
7  Other / General Discussion / Re: Paleo/Atkins dieting on: April 17, 2012, 02:34:54 pm
Correlation does not necessarily imply causation. India also has horrendously poor health care in comparison to France and Switzerland, which are among the best to be found worldwide.

Listen, as it's been said before, I'm glad you found a diet that works for you, but you really shouldn't feel the need to evangelize it as if it's the be-all end-all best diet ever that everybody should hop on right away. The most success I've ever had with a diet was simply eating more vegetables and less fat and processed foods, taking care to have smaller portions and of course more exercise. Dropped thirty pounds that way. Need to get on that again because I'm way out of shape, but when I do I'll revert to the same tactics, reading labels, subsisting on veggies and healthy grains and avoiding fat and sugar as much as possible.

And for the record, the FDA revised the food pyramid a few years back. Now consumption of fruits and vegetables equal to or exceeding grain intake (half of which is recommended to be whole grain) is advised.

Well, if this doesn't interest you, I'm not forcing you to take part in this topic. Wink All I'm trying to say is that it's a great starting point, and it's at least worth trying, or exploring as an option. If anyone is intrigued, I of course want them to do their own research. Surely everyone here has a mind of his own, and would be able to see if dangerous little me is dead wrong, so long as they make an honest effort in verifying the legitimacy of my claims.

That is how I started out myself as well. I would encourage you at least to take some fat on a semi-regular basis.

As far as the food pyramid goes, the food pyramid is a product of the USDA, for which the primary goal is to sell grains. It is the exact same thing in Canada. Fat Head has a great history of how these guidelines came to be in the late seventies. It was an arbitrary decision of the McGovern committee, that Mr. McGovern took himself because he was on a low-fat diet, despite being heavily criticized by most of the experts that surrounded him, who claimed that the recommendations were based on no evidence at all. So the guidelines that all dietary advice rests on these days is based on absolutely nothing.

If you're a vegetarian, do know that it is dangerous not to consume animal fat. Your brain especially is fat, and it needs fat in order to function well. For example, a lack of vitamin D3 (something only found in animal fat) has been shown to seriously aggravate or even cause Alzheimer's, along with a host of other ailments.
Vitamin D3 is produced by your skin when exposed to sunlight..
But yes, vegans should probably take vitamin supplements.

Yet people use soap, and it is washed off. There are also others that vegetarians tend to have a deficit of.
8  Other / General Discussion / Re: Paleo/Atkins dieting on: April 17, 2012, 12:33:48 am
It's true that people who follow a relatively strict diet have overall better health habits and are more self-cautious. This is why clinical studies are very precious, because it is the only way to make in vivo tests, and to control all possible variables.

I've never said that correlation equals to causation. However, correlations, especially strong correlations, are where we must begin to look. It's especially the fact that it universally has an overwhelmingly positive effect that is stunning.

If you're a vegetarian, do know that it is dangerous not to consume animal fat. Your brain especially is fat, and it needs fat in order to function well. For example, a lack of vitamin D3 (something only found in animal fat) has been shown to seriously aggravate or even cause Alzheimer's, along with a host of other ailments.

Do consider that India, which comprises about 50% of vegetarians, has a very high heart disease rate, while countries like France and Switzerland, which consume much more animal fat than Americans, have a much lower heart disease rate.
9  Other / General Discussion / Re: Paleo/Atkins dieting on: April 16, 2012, 07:30:57 pm
Some of the particularities of wheat and its effect on the human body have been documented in laboratory research, even if it has never been tested per se with a traditional, wide scale clinical study. Dr. Davis's book has more than 20 pages of references. These effects are things that really do exist, but which are just ignored or swept under the carpet.
10  Other / General Discussion / Re: Paleo/Atkins dieting on: April 16, 2012, 01:23:34 pm
@Executor
You sound like you know what you are talking about and I am glad to see that everything I though I knew about eating healthy might not be completely unfounded. Grin

It might sound scary at first, but it definitely has changed the life of many.

Dr. Davis has had thousands of his patients on the diet, and it is not a joke, every single person who completely does away with wheat along with other cereals and sugar experiences dramatic results, including the disappearance of conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, morbid obesity, hypertension, cataracts, various cancers, and more.
11  Other / General Discussion / Re: Paleo/Atkins dieting on: April 16, 2012, 01:15:26 pm
A few points on this thread.

1) I'm pretty sure there's no study showing most vegetable oils are bad, generally the polyunsaturated fats in them lower cholesterol, though it's true that links between are cholesterol and heart disease are tenuous. Mediterranean diets that have higher intakes of polyunsaturated fat seem to lower heart disease risk, so saying they contribute to causing heart disease appears untrue.

2) Yes most of the highly refined sugar and bread people buy is total shit and should be avoided, when posible.

3) You don't burn ketones when on an Atkins diet, the body turns to using protein and fat to generate energy in the absence of carbohydrates, it's a more inefficient process (body needs more chemical processes to break these down into energy vs carbs) hence more rapid weight loss, ketones are a natural by product of the body burning fat. Ketones raise the acidity of your blood, and your kidneys will work to get rid of them (which is why your piss stinks, the more ketones the more stink). If you're exercising it will accelerate the weight loss, but again more ketones, so drink shitloads of water to help your kidneys, also if your getting headaches and headspins have some carbs the acidity levels in your blood are too high.

4) You should still get plenty of fibre, no reason to avoid rye bread, legumes, fruit (except for bananas as they have crazy amounts of sugar), etc, high protein low fibre diets are bad news for your bowels (evidence for this is far less tenous). A good variation on the Atkins diets is low carb (serving of carbs earlier in the day), once the desired weight loss balance out the protein and carbohydrate levels.

5) Genetically modified food, good or bad? Well it can be bad but probably not because eating it will give give you cancer or make you grow an extra limb (personally i really doubt it could be worse than all the growth hormones and hormones that go into meat these days anyway). It's bad because Monsanto are a bunch of cocks, i won't elaborate, do your own damn research. Apparently some people can have allergies to particular proteins in some GM food, that's probably the extent of the danger (outside of too many pesticides and Monsantos unethical business practices).

6) For all their shittiness, pizza and bread are undeniably delicious... mmm pizza bread.

1-No one would fund a study about it, because again, it is cheap and is literally everywhere. I go to great pains to avoid it. I absolutely do not trust it, it probably has some of the same effects as soybean oil. I turn to oils rich in saturated fat for their consistency and stability (such as butter, lard or coconut oil).

2-The thing is, replacing something bad with something less bad but still bad doesn't constitute good nutrition. Hence, healthy whole grains is an oxymoron.

3-I'm not against having carbohydrates, I just want to strictly control from which source I get these carbohydrates from. Anything that comes from sugar or a cereal is a no go. I leave cereals to the birds. Also note that the body can convert protein to carbohydrates at will if it needs to. However, it cannot convert other food sources to protein.

4-I avoid legumes because of their Omega-6 richness. It is recommended to augment your Omega-3 to Omega-6 ratio. I also take some triglyceride-based Omega-3 fish oil to help reach that goal, but I try not to consume Omega-6 rich foods as well. Also, it is a myth that one needs to take soluble fibers in order to have a good digestion, there are other solutions.

5-I already know all about Monsanto. As Dr. Davis explains, wheat (which I repeat, is not genetically modified) reacts particularly badly to abrupt human-induced changes, and the end product ends up being very noxious and inflammatory.

6-No argument here. But, if you go without bread for a while and taste it again, you don't taste it the same way.
12  RPG / RPG Discussion / Re: Avernum: Escape from the Pit on: April 15, 2012, 06:26:11 pm
It's a shame that Vogel's games all start feeling like the same thing over and over again at some point.
13  Other / General Discussion / Re: Outcast on: April 15, 2012, 06:24:34 pm
Arena/Daggerfall had these kinds of features well before, and other games as well I'm sure.

Anyway yeah, Outcast is pretty cool. It's just a shame that I think its vector 3D graphics have aged really badly and are more a torn in the game's side today than anything else. I'll get around to playing it... after I have cleared the other 300 games in my Steam/GOG list first. Sad
14  Other / General Discussion / Re: Paleo/Atkins dieting on: April 15, 2012, 01:33:05 pm
It's great that you have found a diet that works for you and congratulations on the weight loss. But please make sure to visit a doctor and get your levels checked since you a following a quite "extreme" diet.
I would be worried about cardiovascular diseases for anyone whose main calorie intake is animal fat. Also vegetable oils such as canola have many positive effects such as reducing risk of heart attack..
Finally, two fruits a day only seems a bit light compared to most recommendations in terms of getting vitamins?

Is whisky and wine in or out of this diet btw? (That and my vegetarianism would make it a no go for me..)

I have to go through blood tests fairly regularly for another unrelated condition. My blood tests always come out as perfect.

I'm sorry, but animal fat inducing heart disease is another such myth, as internal cholesterol has nothing to do with dietary cholesterol. Internal cholesterol is a side effect of too much inflammation, induced by an excessive consumption of carbs, for example. No reliable clinical study ever demonstrated that animal fat contributed to elevated cholesterol levels, and believe me the US government tried long and hard to demonstrate it.

Animal fat actually protects against heart disease.



And no, canola oil isn't good either. The supposedly good benefits of canola oil come from fudged observational studies where the variables weren't controlled well. It was brought it as a replacement for soybean oil (also known as trans fat), because the group who pressured the industry to adopt it in the late seventies is a vegetarian lobby and was desperate for another vegetarian cooking oil substitute. Keep in mind that when trans fat were proven harmful, they maintained that they knew all along it was harmful, when it is they who pushed it onto everyone.

Fat Head has a really great segment about this.

About fruits, Dr. Davis prefers to limit quantities of food consumed in order to limit the intake of fructose. But no, if you eat well enough as far as the rest of your diet goes, you won't lack in anything. Alcohol isn't out of the question, but keep in mind that it is carb-rich, so drink occasionally.
15  Other / General Discussion / Re: Paleo/Atkins dieting on: April 15, 2012, 01:22:40 pm

While I find the idea of a vast global conspiracy to keep us all eating wheat when it's been a staple food for our species ever since we figured out agriculture to be hilarious, I'd be more inclined to believe your claims that gluten is evil if it came from a website that was not so openly biased. Independent studies would work for me.

Actually, fuck that, I'll still ignore them because nobody's going to take my fucking bread away.

No one has funded such a study, because no one has an interest in people eating less of it. Wheat is the cornerstone of the food industry. Likewise though, the new modern Frankenwheat varieties have never been tested for human consumption before being released straight on the market.

People hate bread for a very long time, but back then the wheat was very different. For example, the wheat of biblical times, Emmer wheat, was very different, and had much fewer chromosomes. It's the modern altered varieties that have too much of the parts that are an irritant for humans. For example, the gliadin protein described by Dr. Davis, would be present at a rate roughly 50 times higher than it was in the wheat of the beginning of the 20th century.
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