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Data Center explosion and aftermath
Posted by Data in Cortex Command - June 3rd, 2008

As many of you have noticed, the data center in which our server lives has had some severe problems the last few days. First a transformer exploded and knocked down three walls around it, plus all nearby electrical equipment and cabling! Luckily no one was hurt. Or killed.

The techs brought in a generator, but a breaker on it failed last night so they had to bring in another generator today which just went online. More details here.

Hopefully things will keep on humming from now on, but if not, at least you know what’s going on. This doesn’t affect our webstore or licensing server, so don’t worry if you just placed an order.

However, if you did send anything to contact@datarealms.com or support@datarealms.com since Friday, and didn’t get a response yet, you might want to re-send as it likely didn’t make it though!

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275 Responses to “Data Center explosion and aftermath”

  1. Tomaster - # June 3rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    Alright, that explains alot, thanks for informing us.

    Also, first post!!!

  2. Kokits - # June 3rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    Let’s just keep the game development rolling Data!

    -Coded One

  3. trolleydude - # June 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    Hey, have you done anything with AI?
    Just curious.

  4. roy-g-biv - # June 3rd, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    Hopefully nobody was hurt, or killed, I assume.

  5. Sixteen - # June 3rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    That’s not he real explosion, is it? I hope it isn’t.

  6. Creed - # June 3rd, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    Wow…hope everyone is ok.

  7. Grif - # June 3rd, 2008 at 6:07 pm

    Roy-G-Biv: Hostgator’s said that no one was, the servers were shut down on orders by the fire department.

    Sixteen: No.

  8. Azukki - # June 3rd, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    It is an awesome picture of an explosion, though.

    So it’s all worked out now, and DR should be consistently online now?

  9. Hiro - # June 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    To -E-S- from previous devlog:

    Don’t worry, CC runs ok on my 1.66 ghz intel mac, and that was under emulation using pirated Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (Student Edition!) *wheeze*

    And lol at thinking that was the real explosion XD

  10. Alejandro - # June 3rd, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    Lies!

    If we learned something about your AK-tooting agenda is that your never-ending research for the perfect physics engine requires a lot of “Testing & comprassion”.

    Thus, you wanted to know how would a bunker react to a motherbrain’s explosion.

    [On a more serious note, I'm glad to know CC-related defunctions are still in zero... as far as I'm aware :)]

  11. The Adviser - # June 3rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    Wow, now all that can make this more extreme is if evil space monkeys hold DATA for ransom! Also no wonder I couldn’t connect again.

  12. zacness - # June 3rd, 2008 at 11:39 pm

    Oh, so thats why there was all that error 404.
    An update as to how B21 is going would be nice too?

  13. XDevil - # June 4th, 2008 at 2:20 am

    Dear Data!
    r u sure…?
    …I hope u will not leave us with our money now.
    …
    *brb

  14. Xa - # June 4th, 2008 at 3:03 am

    So that’s where my rocket landed.. :(

    Thanks for the info Data, keep up the good work!

  15. Tobeh - # June 4th, 2008 at 5:26 am

    Splode 0_o
    Whats up with cortex command tbh o_0

  16. Tea - # June 4th, 2008 at 8:41 am

    Nice choice of picture.

  17. spider96 - # June 4th, 2008 at 9:01 am

    jesus christ what did u do to make the transformer explode?

  18. Lazyfaith - # June 4th, 2008 at 9:59 am

    Glad it’s fixed :)

  19. Vash - # June 4th, 2008 at 11:54 am

    offtopic:Isnt that the explosion from the ned of tremors two?

    On topic: im glad to see your back up and running Data!

  20. Turunen45 - # June 4th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    did the transformer really explode?

  21. Azukki - # June 4th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    Yes, it exploded, and knocked down three walls.

    There should be a mission in the campaign where you sabotage an enemy’s tranformer, making it explode, shutting down their turrets, and blasting open bunker walls through which you can infiltrate their base in reference of this event. y/n

  22. Kallemort - # June 4th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    y

    In other news, guys stop using the synirc server.
    cortex.datarealms.com is up again.

  23. Cevius - # June 4th, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    God damnit!

    I am totally suprised at how much this once incident on the other side of the planet has caused so much madness.

  24. The Adviser - # June 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    Well thats the web for you. just imagine if what ever powered the internet itself broke? There would be such widespread panic it would devastate the world!

  25. carpet_ninja - # June 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    will there still be an update on a new feature tommorow, also the shockwave corp servers went down aswell :(

  26. Azukki - # June 4th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    There’s no one thing powering it, there’s just a ridiculous amount of servers and computers tangled together through digital connections.

    The whole internet could never break, accidentally.

    And purposefully, it would be a LOT of work.

  27. Neko - # June 4th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    An explosion? Taking out 3 walls? Golly-gosh.

  28. Octyl - # June 4th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    Carpetninja: Why did the server go down?

  29. joe - # June 4th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    hmmm use this in the game ….its a sighn we want explosions especialy from computers hooooooooooooooooooo

  30. -E-S- - # June 4th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    Thanks for reassuring me that CC will work good on my comp. about what frame-rate do you run at anyways?

  31. carpet_ninja - # June 5th, 2008 at 12:37 am

    octyl: im actually not quite sure but i recieved an email telling me it was back up, it may have been affected by this

  32. Omni (Omnimmotus) - # June 5th, 2008 at 3:57 am

    Well the transformer didn’t actually explode, it just transformed into robot mode, broke through a few walls, and then ran off to find Optimus Prime so it could rejoin the fight against the evil Decepticons.

    Sorry, couldn’t help it. Glad to see the server is back up, and can’t wait for the next build. No really. That noise you just heard outside? That’s me typing. That build is mine. MINE.

  33. Octyl - # June 5th, 2008 at 8:01 am

    WHAT!?!? NO THURSDAY UPDATE… Data better not count the esplosion as today’s.

  34. Darklink - # June 5th, 2008 at 8:54 am

    Octyl… Just shut up.

  35. Octyl - # June 5th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    Darklink: I liked the thursday updates, so you just shut up.

  36. MstrNetHead - # June 5th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    @Cevius: Well the data center is less that 20 miles from me. I almost thought about driving by there to see what could be seen after the fire.

  37. Trolleydude - # June 5th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    Alright, alright; let’s not start an internet drama here.

    Now act like gentlemen and discuss the next build.

  38. Afroded - # June 5th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    You were testing a new game engine, weren’t you?
    Remember, Data, take little steps…

    I hope it didn’t also blow up something useful (to this game)…

  39. Darklink - # June 5th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

    Octyl: Yeah, So did I.
    HOWEVER, some of us might realise that Data never said anything about the Thursday updates to make them official. He just updated on thursdays.
    Also, shut up.

  40. Octyl - # June 5th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    You shut up. Lol, i guess i did sound like i was mad at Data… I’m not.

  41. Darklink - # June 5th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    aww… I wasn’t done fighting
    :(

  42. neoseeker - # June 5th, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    I’d rather have an update about the game

  43. Omni (Omnimmotus) - # June 5th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    I’d rather have an update on everyone shutting up. We’ve got another week until next Thursday, might as well get a head start on the arguing of the week.

  44. Shook - # June 6th, 2008 at 4:33 am

    Let me put it like this: Who wouldn’t want an update instead of this? No one, quite simply.
    But as a matter of fact, some of us are happy to know that everything’s alright, instead
    of having to wait in anxiety for the maybe-coming next update.
    So yeah, just relax, read a book, go outside, play a game or whatever. Everyone wants an
    update on the game, so you don’t need to tell people that you do as well.
    Remember, patience is a virtue!

  45. Creed - # June 6th, 2008 at 5:13 am

    Just be patient people b21 shall come soon enough.

  46. Octyl - # June 6th, 2008 at 11:31 am

    I’m being patient. So, what’s the first thing everyone is going to do with the Lua console? I’m going to make everything explode.

  47. trolleydude - # June 6th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    I’m gonna cannon two MPAMs together with a map wipe bomb between them and melt my computer.

  48. -E-S- - # June 6th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

    is there any approximate release date on the mac port?

  49. Omni (Omnimmotus) - # June 6th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    @44
    Going outside would be a bad idea right now. It was practically raining sideways a minute ago and I’ve never seen trees blow like that.

  50. The Adviser - # June 6th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    @48
    There goes one tree… and another… there goes that group… cool just like in crysis.

    Anyway I just received an email from the evil space monkeys!

    We demand B21,22,23,24, and 25 NOW!!

  51. robolee - # June 6th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    In all fairness data has been avoiding these “series of posts going, each talking about a new feature or fix already completed for the upcoming version.” so far three weeks have passed without ANYTHING relevant to that, interview about the game had nothing to do with a feature or fix, Mac port is not a feature or fix, explosion is not a feature or fix… And I don’t call 2 posts a series.

    Is there even going to be any more feature post before the next build is released?

    Are we going to find out about the fabled “pile up” removal fix next thursday?

    I don’t mind at all if you don’t want to tell us about a feature or something, I’m fine with it, it just disappoints me… I’ll go back to sulk in my pit.

  52. robolee - # June 6th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    It’s like you hype us up and then torment us! blarrrrrrgggggggghhhh! … :( *cries*

  53. Omni (Omnimmotus) - # June 6th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    I think regular news is quite a gift, even if it isn’t always directly related to the game.

  54. Foa - # June 6th, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    Can’t wait til the next, feature/hotfix/New Build!!! DevPost.
    >:(

  55. PlasmaNova - # June 6th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    ROFLMAO @ explosion

    I’m sorry data, I just enjoy laughing, thats all. I wasnt laughing at YOU or anything…

    (@44
    I actually likes this post, it made me laugh)

  56. TheDeadlyShoe - # June 7th, 2008 at 2:13 am

    Ah. Well, this is certainly better than the alternative. It is kind of worrisome when a site you haven’t been to in a while just doesn’t seem to be there anymore when you try to look at it. :)

  57. Sana - # June 7th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    To Data :
    As customers we deserve a little bit more attention !
    Why not “Twittering” us with small updates status so everybody know what’s going on !?
    http://twitter.com/
    If you take time to write a single line of code, this would take the same time to inform us of that with Twitter…
    Then it would reduce all that disappointing noise around the dev log.
    Please take a look at this idea !

  58. Tomaster - # June 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am

    Well, had Data updated the front page yet? It just bothers me for some reason.

  59. Hiro - # June 7th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    Robolee:

    Data announced that the mac port is being worked on. Now I don’t care if you find that interesting or not, but that’s just your opinion. The FACT is, is that it’s an update.

    At Robolee and Sana:
    If you’re so desperate to gobble up tiny little updates like single lines of code, hang around the IRC chat and quit demanding weekly updates here.

  60. trolleydude - # June 7th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Okay, I’ll admit I’m impatient, but you people are just being ridiculous. If you want content, create your own. It’s the miracle of discussion. That’s what comments are for - NOT complaining.

  61. Grif - # June 7th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    Hiro he’s virtually never on IRC either.

    Contary to popular belief we don’t really get shit before you guys.

    B19 was a one-time thing, and not a huge deal. We were the ones who got it to YOU earlier by talking about it.

  62. Ghost Bear - # June 7th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    The word “explosion” and that image made me think this is new explosion graphics in CC for first few seconds.

  63. digitalstick - # June 8th, 2008 at 9:23 am

    ha! sucks to be u
    ur house got blown up

    cheap labor

  64. guigui - # June 8th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    @ 62 : I exactly tought the same!

  65. robolee - # June 8th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    @59 you should read my post more thoroughly and you’ll find that I am in no way saying data is being unfair, unreasonable or otherwise, I am saying that it disappoints me that his series of post about new features has sadly been far from that.

    data has no obligation to uphold any of his statements, as I said I was merely DISAPPOINTED.

    Also I don’t know where the hell you pulled out my feelings about the mac port, I merely said it was neither a feature or fix… Now if anyone else accuses me of “demanding” an update I will slap them.

  66. TROLLEYDUDE - # June 8th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    OH COME ON
    THIS IS FOR CORTEX COMMAND DISCUSSION
    NOT INTERNET ARGUMENTS

    Okay, so I wanted to know whether the move to Lua will affect .ini modification much. Will we all have to learn Lua or will .inis still be around?

  67. cliftut - # June 8th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

    Firstly, glad to hear noone was hurt.

    Secondly:
    “The whole internet could never break, accidentally.”
    -Azukki, post 26

    Actually, in 2012 or sometime thereabouts, a solar spot is apparently supposed to align with our beautiful blue-green planet, giving us a bit of radiation. If a flare should happen during this time the EMP will essentially scramble most if not all running electrical devices.

    This is about the only potential way i can see the internet “breaking” at all, if only temporarily. However, I think that if the government finds an excuse, they could manipulate it to their own ends. I don’t think I’m just parnoid when I get worried about everything going over to credit cards and digital exchanges. If we go completely in that direction, all the govornment will have to do to get rid of one of us the don’t like would be to disable us from digital exchanges. The more we go digital, the easier this will be to do.

    My goodness, I’ve done it again… I’ve dumped a bunch of text on a bunch of innocent people… Sorry folks….

  68. roy-g-biv - # June 8th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    @67 - My god, another conspiracy of the end of the Internet?
    This one sounds more realistic though.

  69. TFSR - # June 9th, 2008 at 5:16 am

    @67- please, stop with your beautifully worded, fully proved doomsday theories– you’ll scare the impressionable children (see #68).
    @66- I think this question has been asked and answered fourty billion times.
    You do not have to learn lua to mod; there will still be .ini based modification. As far as I know, lua will be used for scripts which can be attached to .ini based modifications. At first, it will be used for scene- related stuff, if I remember correctly.

  70. robolee - # June 9th, 2008 at 5:26 am

    It’s not really a doomsday theory, just a supposed EMP discharge that will scramble electrical devices. It may cause chaos for a while but I don’t think it will be life threatening.

  71. Sixteen - # June 9th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    It might be life threatening. Some people having surgery?

    It seems that many people hate impressionable children.

    I wonder what’s coming next update.

  72. zacness - # June 9th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    Something non-B21 related.

  73. Hiro - # June 9th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    @ Robolee
    Make sense plz? You’re getting defensive over…nothing really. All I was saying was that telling us a mac port was on the way is a sufficient update.

    Also, I never said you were calling him unfair, but I took your wise advice and re-read your post:

    “It’s like you hype us up and then torment us! blarrrrrrgggggggghhhh! … *cries*”

    To me, sounds like you think you’re being treated unfairly. You know, the whole “you’re tormenting us” bit…

  74. zacness - # June 10th, 2008 at 3:42 am

    Quit whining.
    Life sucks then you die.

  75. robolee - # June 10th, 2008 at 4:23 am

    I wasn’t getting defensive at all, I just like arguing. BUT you did say that I was desperate for updates, which I am not and you said something about whether I find the updates interesting, which is why I told you to re-read my post as it contains nothing relating to my feelings about the recent updates.

    I do not feel like I am being treated unfairly at all, all game developers are the same (little amount of updates, irrelevance and don’t usually keeps their promises) if they have a blog, but take the dwarf fortress dev log and I much prefer that, only because it DISAPPOINTS me (you can be disappointed by your best friend, but they will probably still be your best friend) when something like this happens (”from now on there will be regular updates on features”- two weeks later “nah, sorry”) but I am not complaining, updates are updates.

  76. zacness - # June 10th, 2008 at 4:39 am

    take it to pms you sods

  77. trolley - # June 10th, 2008 at 6:22 am

    what he said

  78. robolee - # June 10th, 2008 at 8:33 am

    nay

  79. robolee - # June 10th, 2008 at 8:34 am

    Data I think you should update the CC TIGDB page if you can. I know you go on TIGSource a lot so you should understand.

  80. Hiro - # June 10th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    Yeah, I like arguing too.

    Sadly, I don’t like bickering.
    Especially bickering over what someone meant with a post.
    They usually end up like this.
    “THIS IS WHAT I MEANT”
    “WELL IT SOUNDED LIEK YOU MEANT DIS”
    “NOT SO, DUDE”
    “VERILY, I SAY!”

    So in general, people should stop complaining about the updates and focus more on what the updates are about. Or just CC in general.

  81. Tomaster - # June 10th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    The DevLog has become less of a cesspit?
    Y/N?

    Y

  82. brinlarden - # June 10th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    i think america has turned a hard working european, into a lazy gta iv player :P

    but really, hope we get another update on thursday, ill be able to celebrate finnishing my last ever school exam.
    whoopie!

  83. Azukki - # June 10th, 2008 at 5:37 pm

    @67
    Hmm…
    Did not think about globally effective EMPs…
    Well, whatever.

    B21, impatience, etc.

  84. -E-S- - # June 10th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    does anyone know when the approximate ETA of the mac port will be finished?

  85. Azukki - # June 11th, 2008 at 1:43 am

    @83
    the guy working on it
    probably data
    maybe prom

  86. zacness - # June 11th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    ohey thursday

  87. What - # June 12th, 2008 at 12:26 am

    update plz

  88. zacness - # June 12th, 2008 at 4:05 am

    oh my god this is getting tedious
    UPDATE
    PLEASE
    PLEASE
    PLEASE
    EVEN IF B21 ISNT COMPLETELY DONE WHATEVER ETC
    PLEASE UPLOAD IT

  89. Octyl - # June 12th, 2008 at 6:32 am

    Q.Q

  90. brinlarden - # June 12th, 2008 at 9:17 am

    update time naow?

  91. Tomaster - # June 12th, 2008 at 9:29 am

    The sad thing is that I knew people would start asking for updates today. We’re too predictable

  92. Tomaster - # June 12th, 2008 at 9:30 am

    Also, 6 months without a new build. Just throwing that out there.

  93. Foa - # June 12th, 2008 at 9:47 am

    [|Please Insert New DevPost]

  94. Durza - # June 12th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    And if he doesn’t want to update today?

  95. Anonymous - # June 12th, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Zac and Tomaster are right, this is getting ridiculous, he’s already finished sticky particles, lua and many other features, what more does he want to put in B21!?

  96. Anonymous - # June 12th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    It’s only human nature for people’s patience to give way, I could understand this as begging a month or two ago but now the people are becoming restless…

  97. Foa - # June 12th, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Let’s what for tomorrow!

  98. Foa - # June 12th, 2008 at 11:39 am

    ‘wait’ is what I meant …

  99. What - # June 12th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    Like we always do?

  100. Foa - # June 12th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    Yes, indeed …

  101. carpet_ninja - # June 13th, 2008 at 12:44 am

    is build 21 actually done and there just hypin us up

  102. zacness - # June 13th, 2008 at 12:50 am

    ohey FRIDAY
    ^
    ^
    ^

  103. TrolleyGET - # June 13th, 2008 at 12:53 am

    100GET

    Also, UPDATE IT’S FRIDAY

  104. robolee - # June 13th, 2008 at 6:38 am

    carpet ninja you sick sick man…

  105. Shook - # June 13th, 2008 at 6:54 am

    Patience, people. The more you rush it, the worse it’ll be.

  106. Lord Tim - # June 13th, 2008 at 7:55 am

    @91: Ohey, 6 months worth of work at once? It’ll be an amazing build.

  107. carpet_ninja - # June 13th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    @ robolee, i decided to change it from lolfish.org :)if ur on about my selected website

  108. casey - # June 13th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    is my laser there, can’t see it

  109. zacness - # June 13th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

    at least a devlog update

    at least

  110. Tomaster - # June 13th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

    Jesus, what if some 11 year old kid comes on here and clicks on Carpet Ninja’s thing??? Aww, crap, now they’ll wonder what it is…

  111. Hiro - # June 13th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    Well Data, time to show us that supervision you were talking about!

    Requesting IP ban on Carpet Ninja for linking to sexually explicit material.

    Preferably permanent.

  112. Hiro - # June 13th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    It’s funny…
    every time I’ve gotten a shocker website, my mouse hand goes on autopilot at about 300 mph towards the X, and I barely see one or two frames of whatever the fucked up loser posted.

    In fact, why aren’t more people up in arms about this? Tons of young kids play this game, and he’s posting shit like that which is guaranteed to scar them for life.
    Make some noise people, let whoever moderates know that carpet ninja should be banned. Let’s not let him get away with this :D

  113. Tomaster - # June 13th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    I agree with Hiro, or Data could just find every shock site in existence, and filter them. But that might scar Data. If not, then ban whoever thinks this is funny, young people do play this game, as Hiro said.

  114. Hiro - # June 13th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    I just realized that he’s not just posting a shocker site, he’s cycling through all the shocker sites he has stored in his messed up head with every post.

    Pretty twisted, in my opinion. Methodically scandalizing little children? Seek help, fast, because what you’re doing is a crime. ;D

  115. brinlarden - # June 14th, 2008 at 4:13 am

    wow, is that one of those things…you know, that women have?
    youve scarred me for life.
    lucky i had my eyes closed when i was born.

  116. Skiv - # June 14th, 2008 at 6:02 am

    ewww, this is sick dude… you should be banned from here…

  117. robolee - # June 14th, 2008 at 7:34 am

    This had better be released before or on the 24th of june… my birthday :)

  118. Azukki - # June 14th, 2008 at 8:22 am

    @112 robolee
    I certainly wouldn’t bet on it.

  119. Neko - # June 14th, 2008 at 8:55 am

    People still posting here?
    Reading through I find half the posts are people telling other people to stop beeing impatient and demanding updates.
    And the other half is rambeling about something else.
    And a tiny ammount is asking valid questions.

    And now I’m that jerk who summarises posts. Yay.

  120. carpet_ninja - # June 14th, 2008 at 10:06 am

    lol

  121. carpet_ninja - # June 14th, 2008 at 10:06 am

    sry, didnt think you guys would be so annoyed

  122. The Adviser - # June 14th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    Good job carpet ninja. That is a much more appropriate website.

  123. Hiro - # June 14th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

    What a weak excuse. You didn’t think we would we be annoyed by websites that are made for the sole purpose of disturbing and nauseating people?

    You still deserve to be banned. You’re only sorry because you’re going to miss out on devlog updates. You don’t even belong on the internet, let alone a devlog frequented by younger children.

  124. more trolley - # June 14th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    Guys, calm down. This isn’t a place for you to live out your soap opera fantasies, this is a place for waiting quietly.

  125. What - # June 14th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    i demand an update

    noaw

  126. Anonymous - # June 14th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    This phails…

  127. Foa - # June 14th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    I’ll join the Bandwagon! :D

    WANTS UPDATES!

  128. whitty - # June 14th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

    ok this is insane…

    UPDATE NAOW PLOX

  129. Durza - # June 14th, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    If he doesn’t want to update, he wont. Just wait and stop being impatient.

  130. The Adviser - # June 14th, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    Why the hell I wanted to see what lolfish was I will never know, but all I can say is that it is amazing no one brought up your choice of websites before.

  131. PAWS - # June 15th, 2008 at 9:44 am

    Look, everyone calm down.
    Yes, it has been a very long time since anything dramatic happened on this DevLog. Unfortuanately, whining will not bring an update about any faster, have you not noticed that Data will only respond to appropriate questions related to the development of Cortex Command.
    I agree, its been a while though =/
    Also, Carpet Ninja’s learnt his lesson. He changed the website as soon as a complaint was made, and in future people, please do not post links to explicit content. Though, if people are to young, they’re only going to find out about it in the next year or so. Its not going to scar them, or they’re not going to get to far in life… XD (There are probably very few young children who are going to know and understand allt eh development details anyhoo…)
    Data, take your time, just.. not to much of it eh! =]
    So yeah,I’ve rambled on and if you’ve got problems with what i’ve said. Tough. Because its all true!!!! YAY.

    PAWS.

  132. TFSR - # June 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    As in the age when it’s acceptable to rant about Power Rangers and below. Somewhere between 2 years older than Roy-G-Biv and a fetus.

  133. carpet_ninja - # June 16th, 2008 at 12:56 am

    i doubt anyone would come on the devlog if they still liked power rangers

  134. whitty - # June 16th, 2008 at 8:08 am

    im leaving for 3 weeks. if i come back and there isnt a new dev log post, im going to sit in a corner and cry

  135. Tomaster - # June 16th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    Can you post a video?

  136. carpet_ninja - # June 16th, 2008 at 10:25 am

    good idea, post vid pleash

  137. Hiro - # June 16th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Age isn’t a factor.

    Shit like that’ll scar anyone. That’s what shocker sites are made to do.

    So in the end the pseudo-sexual predator gets off scott-free! Hooray!

    @ Seraph: Did we need decade old copypasta from bash?

    @ Paws: So in a year or so young children are going to be exposed to toy balls popping out of private orifices?
    Get real, please.

    Sincerely, just in case you couldn’t see the Size 14 Bold Print above my name,

    Hiro

  138. brinlarden - # June 16th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    young children shouldnt be on the internet in the first place, parents would be stupid to let them.
    unless under supervision, and anyway i doubt i young child would be on datarealms or even bother to have clicked on his name.

  139. ChippoTheHippo - # June 16th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    I Want a Update………..Even if its not about the game and goes really off topic. But even if you dont update just say a little somethin here and there on the dev log to keep us from going insane. But other than that keep Up the good work.

  140. Hiro - # June 16th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    @ Brinlarden of the Broken Logic

    Again, age is not a factor. Obviously you have never been inflicted with goatse. Consider yourself lucky.

    And you know the reason that young children shouldn’t be on the internet?
    Because of sick fucks like carpet ninja.

    Btw, 13 and unders are children. And there are more than a few of those here. You seem to forget that you’re on a website for a cartoony 2D sidescrolling shooter.

  141. Anonymous - # June 16th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    Any speculation on what Data’s doing with debris?

  142. Skiv - # June 16th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    “By HIRO: You seem to forget that you’re on a website for a cartoony 2D sidescrolling shooter.”

    Where you can see on the main page, in of the gifs, a clone that walks into a rocket, and being splatteded in a pool of blood, brain, spine, and god know what else. (btw; that gif if mine :P)
    Then we see a larger gif somewhere else there a rocket mowes down a clone, and is splatted into a pool of “see above” :D

  143. brinlarden - # June 16th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    actualy hiro, i have seen goatse, infact i have seen most shock sites. i dont find them offensive at all. how can they offend you? do you do that sort of thing? its just funny. if a kid go’s on one and cries, sucks to be them, they shouldnt go on the internet.

  144. Anonymous - # June 16th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    Drop it you stupid shits..

  145. PAWS - # June 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    I agree, Hiro, whats wrong with you!?!
    Its not going to scar people! Maybe disgust them, or maybe make them laugh. Yes, in a few years kids will see things “popping out of an orifice” haha. The old ping pong ball trick is quite well known =]
    Links to them are innapropriate but little kids are probably very scarce round here.
    Unless your one of them. XD
    Ah i’ve said enough, no doubt your going to try and make a huge arguement now like usual…

    PAWS

  146. Tomaster - # June 16th, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    I smell some nice, crispy flaming coming up!!! Although honestly, I’m on Hiro’s side for this one. It’s not only the scar factor, although if I was 11 and saw that, it would’ve scared the ever loving shit out of me. There’s also the fact that if a kid was being supervised, and clicked on one of Carpet Ninja’s links, that would make an impression on the parent’s mind, that this isn’t a well supervised or moderated place(no offense Data :D). She might spread the word to other parents, and they wouldn’t let their kids on this site, thus not allowing them to buy the game, and ending up with less profit for Data, and further development time for us. So really, this hurts everyone.

  147. Durza - # June 16th, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    I’m with Hiro, Brinlarden, how the fuck do you think disguting things like that are funny? Or do you go around linking them at every chance you get and laughing at the people who are affected by them?

  148. Lord Tim - # June 16th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    It’s a comment section. Possibly the single most inefficient way to transfer information on the internet. Please, if you want to insult each other, it’d be a whole lot more fun for everyone invovled if you all got each other’s IM information.

  149. Carp - # June 17th, 2008 at 12:44 am

    Tomaster makes a good point about the perception of the Devlog: while I can understand disagreement as to how offensive/damaging the sites Carpet Ninja(and others?) are linking to are, it’s not debatable that they damage the image of Data Realms/Cortex Command(not to mention the internet as a whole).
    Just thought I’d get a point in while we’re on the right tangent. ;)

  150. PAWS - # June 17th, 2008 at 4:43 am

    I in no way have said that these sites are right. Infact, i have said that they are wrong. Although, i just believe Hiro to be over-reacting. There are a whole bunch of these sites on the internet. I’m almost positive that any child is going to find some sort of sick site amongst the internet. I agree with Tomaster with the adult impression arguement too, that wouldn’t be to great at all. Hell, Data could start to recieve complaints about Cortex Command from angry parents.
    I just think everyone should calm down. As previously said Carpet Ninja changed his link straight away to a much more appropriate site and said he was sorry, theres not alot more that can be done is three!!? And lastly, i’ll repeat, that in the future, PLEASE DON’T POST LINKS TO SEXUAL MATERIAL!!
    Everyone Happy now?

    PAWS

  151. Lord Tim - # June 17th, 2008 at 8:13 am

    Or you could just listen to what I said, leave a comment about the latest Datarealms news, and go on to other places. Like how a comment board is meant to work.

  152. PAWS - # June 17th, 2008 at 8:58 am

    Yeah, I’m bored of all this bickering too. Its gone on for far too long. This DevLog is full of it. Theres alot more of arguements than information about the game thats for sure.

    PAWS

  153. carpet_ninja - # June 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    at 142 i fall into that age range, lol

  154. brinlarden - # June 17th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    its not even bickering, jut having a conversation.
    also need an update!!!
    cant wait for this next build, im really praying it will be as epic as b20 was hyped to be.
    also 2, anyone know anything about vehicles yet?

  155. trolleyduuude - # June 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    We have space rockets. What do we need jeeps for?

  156. Hiro - # June 17th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    THANK YOU PEOPLE

    I was actually starting to believe that you didn’t have to be mentally disturbed to find those sites funny.

    thx 4 renewin ma faith in hoomanz

  157. The Adviser - # June 17th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

    I can’t think of anything else to say so…

    DEFINE THE WORD!
    Ladies,Gentlemen, and Trolls. Todays word is….”drum roll”
    ICOSIOKTILLION!

  158. The Adviser - # June 17th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

    P.S. Good luck…

  159. brinlarden - # June 18th, 2008 at 4:01 am

    coz everytime the spacerockets drop your enemys off they kill them, and then gib killing everything else.

  160. Tomaster - # June 18th, 2008 at 9:19 am

    @The Advisor
    A Greek based name for 10^84, or 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
    Do I win a prize?

  161. carpet_ninja - # June 18th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    BTW i think you can look at the link for post 124 by more trolley or what ever hes called

  162. Hiro - # June 18th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    So why did you tell us to look at that link?
    I mean, at least I closed it before the video even loaded, but are you back to leading us to shocker sites again?

    Better watch yourself, shit.

  163. carpet_ninja - # June 18th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    hero said: Better watch yourself, shit.

    usually, at the the end of a message or letter, many put there name , like: meet me at the bar. john.
    although most would put there name below there message, or letter, and some may put: “yours sincerly”, or the like before their name. in this case you put shit after your message so im going to assume that you are a self proclamed shit, and if you need support to get this point through, i will back you up (ofcourse the point being that your a self proclaimed shit).

    yours sincerely, carpet_ninja.

    ^see there^

  164. brinlarden - # June 18th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    carpet ninja, that site your latest link to is shocking.
    it has a man being smushed by a rocket.
    remove at once!

  165. trolleydude - # June 18th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Gentlemen, can you help me? I’m looking for my game; I appear to have lost it.

  166. The Adviser - # June 18th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    You won a community prize. The prize is a link to a Japanese(or something like that) blog site that has some interesting flash games just click my name to go there(for this post only).

    P.S. I will swear to god this isn’t a shocker site. You have my word of honor.

    P.P.S. brinlarden I can’t tell, but I hope as all hell thats sarcasm. If not let me make a few phone calls, and I’ll hook you up with someone who will let you live in a new house for free, don’t worry about cutting yourself on anything, there is a nice comfy white room with no sharp edges.

  167. RiD - # June 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    ебануться…
    i’m glad all is fixed

  168. roy-g-biv - # June 18th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    Cat on a Dolphin?!?!?!
    That’s enough to make it more “SHOCK” Than the Shock sites ninja provides [/sarcasm]

  169. MayheM - # June 18th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    Jesus… I’m really, really glad I have a life outside of a devlog for a game that’s worth waiting patiently for.

    Write your congressman, hiro, you seem to be spending a lot of time trying to change the opinions of other people who, clearly, don’t really care what you think. Making a counter argument every time someone says your wrong is just asinine, and has, for example, made me have to scroll through a lot of pointless gibberish to see if there was anything insightful or worth reading.

    And to demonstrate how easy it is NOT to take the internet so seriously, go ahead and tell me everything you think is wrong with this post. I will probably not read it, and if I do, I will laugh to myself and go about my life without feeling the need to defend myself digitally.

    Sincerely, WTF ever.

  170. Hiro - # June 18th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

    @ Carpet ninja

    You don’t seem to understand the use of spacing to make things look less cluttered, or proper phrases used at the closing of a letter. “You better watch yourself” is not one of them, I can tell you that. You also might want to look up something in your English book called “Direct Address”. That is, unless you’re still struggling through phonics.

    You also don’t seem to realize that signing a post on a forum is pretentious as well as pointless, considering your name is already written much more prominently all of, oh, I’d say three inches above.

    Yours truly,

    Hiro.

    ^ Correct way to do it. (Note the space between the name and the phrase, dumbshit)

  171. Hiro - # June 18th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    @ Mayhem

    Lol, I’m glad I do too man. I’m glad I do too.

  172. Aspect - # June 18th, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    Every time I see this devlog post I laugh. That explosion picture is so ludicrous.
    Nevertheless, Data needs to update again, it’s been 2 weeks now and I’m getting cranky.

    There should be moderation on this comments page- deletion, editing, etc.. when people like carpet ninja start arguing like this they should just get deleted off of the page.

    Suggestion- Give warning to people in the forum based of performance in the devlog.

  173. Hiro - # June 18th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    But some people have different names on the devlog.

    And the explosion pic isn’t supposed to be the real explosion btw..

  174. Foa - # June 18th, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    Tommorow’s DevPost Day! or the second week of Busting the Nuts!

  175. Aspect - # June 18th, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    I understand the picture is a joke.

    @178 About different names- Sure some people have them, and you can post anonymously, but that shouldn’t stop people like cactus or you from being warned for flaming.

  176. Foa - # June 18th, 2008 at 10:54 pm

    The earliest he’ll release is 12:00′30″AM Wednesday.

  177. Aspect - # June 19th, 2008 at 12:17 am

    That was 23 hours ago. But seriously, update now data. Or release build 21. either works, but preferably #2.

  178. ChippoTheHippo - # June 19th, 2008 at 3:03 am

    Hey if you decide not to make a update this thursday at least tell us something cool in the devlog.

    Cant wait to see the new build! :-(D)

  179. PAWS - # June 19th, 2008 at 3:08 am

    THANKYOU MAYHEM, THANKYOU!
    I’ve been wanting to say all that for a long time, but never did! And then you go along and say it all for me. =]
    Hiro, get a life. You may say “i have a life, and its better than your so there” but i couldn’t care less. You on the other hand, obviously care way too much about whats said on this DevLog and take it all way too seriously.
    I suppose if people talked about the game then none of the arguements would be here anyway, but still.
    BACK OFF!
    no-one cares about your silly little arguements. You talk like some weirdo who reads a dictionary every night too, yet, you use it like a little child would.
    Wow, bet i’m going to get a huge response now from you, but, oh well.
    In other news, if we all sit patiantly and quietly DATA will be more inclined to release some information =D

    PAWS

  180. brinlarden - # June 19th, 2008 at 4:19 am

    thursday update time : D ?

  181. Octyl - # June 19th, 2008 at 7:53 am

    … I was hoping the updates would actually be regular.

  182. Anon - # June 19th, 2008 at 8:39 am

    It is thursday update time.. for valve. : D

  183. Durza - # June 19th, 2008 at 9:33 am

    They were for a few weeks. :P

  184. Fooby - # June 19th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Z_Z.. *Pop* O.o.. *yawn* ‘zit tiem for B21 naow?

    Rawr I can’t stand this update much longer. At least the TF2 Pyro updates coming up so that will probably hold me over. And douse the flames guys, cuz I’m not getting any less patient looking at flame posts.

    We can wait for a bit longer,

    Foobar

  185. TFSR - # June 19th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Data- out of curiosity, what are the specs of the machines you use to test the game?
    I’ve often wondered about that… are they stock machines, or awesome RAM monsters with laser-etched neon DRL logos?
    Is the delay cause by you shooting one of them with your AK?:D

  186. robolee - # June 19th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    I asked him that via PM… he never answered. (A long while ago.)

  187. Hiro - # June 19th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    Once again Paws, you amaze me with your incredible intelligence. You have accurately predicted that I would respond to your attacks. You are impressive.

    I response to saying I sound like I read a dictionary, it’s called going to school. Try it some time.
    You say I speak like a child? You really, really should read the way you talk. You sound either like a euphoric 12 year old who is still getting the hang of speech, or a foreigner. You ARE a foreigner, right? I can only hope so, seeing as how you can’t spell sophisticated English words like “patient” and “argument”.

    Secondly, you make a total fool out of yourself by saying “YOU HAVE NO LIFE, BUT I DONT CARE THAT YOU DONT!”
    You’re one of the few people who manage to contradict themselves in two consecutive sentences. You contradict yourself again by saying that flamers should be punished, while at the same time you’re flaming me.

    As to having a life, the only reason I post on the devlog is because I’m typing up bibliographies, and wtfpwning retards (such as yourself) is way more entertaining then that, so I slack off on here often. And since you don’t want me to give examples of why I do have a life, I won’t bore you with lists of all the parties/bbqs/etc. I will be going to.

    In conclusion, you won’t have to worry about me hurting you’re delicate feelings after the 25th. Since I have absolutely no life, I’m going to Italy to see Venice and Lake Garda.

    P.S.
    If you really didn’t care about my “silly little arguements” then why do you take the time to type up equally long counter-arguments? It’s time you shut your face, I think.

  188. Hiro - # June 19th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    oops I got carried away :P

  189. brinlarden - # June 19th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    hiro sounds like a cool guy, eh flames people and doesnt afraid of anything.

  190. Hiro - # June 19th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Um..yeah..there’s not really anything to be afraid of.
    I mean, there’s the possibility of banning, but if carpet_ninja hasn’t been banned for posting shocker sites, then I doubt anyone will ever be banned.

  191. Hiro - # June 19th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    HAY GUYS DO YOU DARE ME TO FLAME DATA THE NEXT TIME HE POSTS HERE?!

    :) :) :D :D :) :)

    I MET HER ON THE INTERWEBZ
    MAGGOTS PREY UPON THE
    LIVING DEAD

  192. Foa - # June 19th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    PHWOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

    WHAANCHESS NEW POST!

  193. roy-g-biv - # June 19th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    @Hiro : I don’t remember anyone getting IP banned from the Devlog.

    And I dare you not to flame Data.

    @Foa: FALCAWN PAWWWNCCCCHHHHH your face. [/JK]

    @Carpet_ninjitstu: No, Just No, no more shock sites. I hate those, unless it’s just a face poping out of the screen, not men/women genitals.

  194. Hiro - # June 19th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    roy?!!? where is your sense of HUMAOUR?!??! DONT YOU KNOW SICK AND DISGUSTING THINGS ARE FUNNY?!?!

    U DUMASS GET USED 2 LIFE WEMENS GENITALS ARE EBERYWEHRE YOU LOOK THEY ARE ON EVERY WEBSITE AND MAGAZINE AND TV SHOW

    FUQ U :P … :D … ;)

    8D

  195. Hiro - # June 19th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    200TH POST I AM FAMOUS HA?AHAHA MY LIFE IS COMPLETE
    OMG I CAN DIE HAPPY

    -CRIES-

  196. roy-g-biv - # June 19th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    @Hiro: Your life is still incomplete without the final version of CC mac port.

  197. Hiro - # June 19th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    ur rite
    i can play cc wenever i want
    but
    i want to b able to play it rite on my dextop not some gay emulater
    time 2 flame data

    data u r pees of shyt u r a slacker lazy! you have not relased build for six months!!!! AND U HAS A TECHNO MAN WORKING ON MAC PORT AND IT STILL OT COMPLITE!!
    u have not even posted on ur devlog, lett aloan a real update!?! you have abanded us forver..god burn ur soul

  198. Hiro - # June 19th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    ever1 rise up against the arteest formly nown as d8a
    down w/ d8a!!!! he has absquelchulated with all of our monies like were just imbosils!
    i put faith in2 datae and he repais us w/ cheats and lie!
    1nst more: buuuurn ur sooooooool

    sincerely in rest, ur former frendly fan, now ur vilent hostyle emeny,

    GIOVANNI D’HIROTANI PUZO FERRERO

    I AM GOIN 2 ROME 2 DROWN MY SARROW AT UR BETRAITORIZATION IN SODA POP THAT IS REQUIRED BY LAW TO USE REAL SUGAR!!

  199. Carp - # June 19th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    …Between the comments and the lack of posts, I don’t know why I /check/ the Devlog anymore….

  200. Creed - # June 19th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    Having fun Hiro?

  201. ChippoTheHippo - # June 19th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    i dont know why people are so mad give him time. cause if you push him to upload the build on the site it wont be done and then people will flame even more. so just go play other games….(Or go outside in the 100 degree weather)

  202. Aspect - # June 19th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    I am just gonna take a wild stab and guess that hiro didn’t say that… I dunno maybe he did. the website link is the same for both.

    As for chippo, I will say this- we don’t care if the build is not out for a month or two, we’ve waited months so far, but we do want to know that it will be that long.

    And Data wont work slower out of spite because we asked for a new build.

  203. TFSR - # June 19th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    Wow, I can’t even read like half of the posts here. God, I wish there was a spellchecker…
    anyone want to count to one hundred? I’ll start.
    One.

  204. zacness - # June 20th, 2008 at 12:03 am

    Two.

  205. The Adviser - # June 20th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    Lets say something that kind of rhymes too.
    two, donkey poo

  206. carpet_ninja - # June 20th, 2008 at 12:30 am

    3

  207. carpet_ninja - # June 20th, 2008 at 12:30 am

    sry about my above post, i made that on the computer i was posting on earlier so dont click the link

  208. kiwi - # June 20th, 2008 at 1:49 am

    what is up with u and those things???

  209. PAWS - # June 20th, 2008 at 3:57 am

    Honestly Hiro, you are one sad little guy.
    No kid at school writes like that. Take some time going out, get some fresh air play with friends just do something other than write on this DevLog.
    I in no way contradicted myself if you read it carefully. As for school i finished that a while ago, and have just finished 6th Form. =]
    And does an English person count as a foriegner here?
    It wouldn’t matter anyway, all types of people are allowed on here, thats why its for the internet.
    Can’t wait untill the 25th, we’ll all get a bit of a break.
    As for posting back, i actually got insulted, so i had to defend myself…. (I’m one of those people…)
    If i was DATA i would have just wiped this DevLog a while ago, this is the reason he maybe doesn’t spend any time on here.

    PAWS…(I need to get out more =D )

  210. brinlarden - # June 20th, 2008 at 3:59 am

    i think maybe data will release soon, and thats why theres been a lack of updates. i bet he planned to release, then realised there was more work to do, so he pushed it back, and didnt release an update in its place.

  211. roy-g-biv - # June 20th, 2008 at 5:24 am

    4.

    Also,
    @Carpet_ninjitstu: You learned your lesson about shock sites. Good.

    @Hiro: Even if you have no B21 Mac edition, with Lua, still, Lua will be worth it.

  212. Kallemort - # June 20th, 2008 at 6:06 am

    Five, now I’m going for a dive.

  213. carpet_ninja - # June 20th, 2008 at 7:09 am

    6, do we have to rhym?

  214. Creed - # June 20th, 2008 at 7:48 am

    7

  215. Tea - # June 20th, 2008 at 8:25 am

    Eight

  216. Gran PC - # June 20th, 2008 at 9:51 am

    Check this out: http://gruporomego.com/
    Damn, I’d swear I’ve seen that logo next to “grupo romego” somewhere else… I don’t know if it’s actually from here, but it’s damn similar from one I saw long ago.

  217. Durza - # June 20th, 2008 at 10:12 am

    37. Wait.

  218. Hiro - # June 20th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    @ 37

    I can guarantee you as well, no kid talks like you.
    It’s like every time I read your words I always imagine them in this half-retarded baby voice.

    And once again, because you need things repeated: I am not outside because I’m typing up bibliographies for two bookshelves of books, and it gets boring. I’m also getting PAID for this, so forgive for not standing outside doing nothing just so I can tell you that I “go outside” all the time.

    Also, you did contradict yourself. You can’t even understand your own writing, can you? And I call BS on you completing school. Anyone who is supposed to have any measure of intelligence does not make fun of people for having a larger vocabulary than they.

    PS: It’s 100 fucking degrees outside. Not worth the internet cred of having gone outside, dumbass.

    P.P.S.: You’ve completed school, yet you still get your i’s and e’s mixed up in words like foreigner? I only said it mattered if you’re a foreigner because you’re attacking my vocab, and yet you speak like English is a second language.

    WOW I SPENT A WHOLE FIVE MINUTES ON THAT IM SUCH A LOSER

  219. MayheM - # June 20th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    It’s about 115 outside right now (I live in Las Vegas) and I’m about to go walk around in it, due to boredom. Not to say that makes me any better than anyone, just saying, cause, y’know, saw the 100 degree comment, and reminded me of my own situation.

    To ALL: Can’t we all just get along? I mean, at this point it’s getting pretty ridiculous, I’d say a good 3/4 of the comments on this topic are argumentative. NOONE is going to change ANYONE’S opinion on ANYTHING by arguing/counter-arguing/counter-counter-arguing etc… Seems a little pointless to me. I realize that as human beings we all have very strong opinions on things, but we also need to learn to pick our battles. At this point it’s almost like watching the retarded kids across the street fight (my money’s on the one with the helmet), only somehow slightly less mature. This isn’t directed at any specific person, just a general observation. I mean, nothing that you read here is going to have a major effect on your actual life, so why even bother? I’m not going to take the “You’re a loser for posting so many arguments blah blah f’in’ blah” approach here. I’m just saying, why does there have to be SO MUCH argument, and SO LITTLE constructive conversation?

    Meh, I’m just putting off going out in the heat again. But yeah, PEACE people, it’s not hard, just keep your negative thoughts to yourself and post something POSITIVE for once!

  220. MayheM - # June 20th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    Oh, and just to stay inside a bit longer:

    It seems to me that there’s a lot of impatience here… I mean, you spent $18.00 on this game, right? Ok, maybe it’s just me, but even in this unfinished form I’ve gotten more fun out of the $18.00 spent on this than on some games that I’ve spent far more on, hell, MOST games I’ve spent far more on! That would mean you’ve gotten your money’s worth, right? And if you think about it, the longer until the new build, the more SOLID and FEATURE PACKED it will be! So isn’t that worth the time? You don’t necessarily know what’s going on on the programming front, there could be major bugs and issues related to the LUA implementation or other features that are being worked out before release, so there isn’t a bunch of complaining about it being rushed and buggy from the same people who say “HURRY UP, I’M DYIN’ HERE!”

    Ok, Ok, I’ll stop now, and go out in the godawful desert blast furnace…

  221. carpet_ninja - # June 20th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    nine, i think we should start to rhyme with every number counted

  222. Hiro - # June 20th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Does it have a major effect on my actual life?
    No

    But then again, neither does playing cortex command. Or any game ever made for that matter. But they’re both FUN.

  223. Tomaster - # June 20th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    5, I’m alive.

  224. MayheM - # June 20th, 2008 at 4:31 pm

    @225

    I suppose I can understand that. Except: Your “fun” is clogging up a comment board meant for discussion about the other “fun thing” that it’s MEANT for. Just putting that out there.

    Here’s something that’s actually game related:

    So, what with the awesomeness of LUA and all, I think that someone (not me, of course) should maybe take a look under the hood and iron out some of the AI issues in case B21 doesn’t work that out. I think we can all agree that this is a MAJOR fault of the current game, and if I understand correctly, it would be possible to work with the AI subroutines through LUA, right?

    So, my first thought would be this: Everyone always talks about enemy ships crashing and destroying everything. I think that would be the first thing to work on. See, I typically have my troops jump out of the ships while they’re quite a distance from the hard rocky surface, and use jetpacks to glide safely to the ground. The enemy, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to release it’s troops until it’s, say, LESS than the height of the TROOP ITSELF from the ground. If that were changed (I can’t imagine that being TOO hard), and maybe rework the code so dropships don’t spawn directly on top of each other, it would make things MUCH better, even IF the troops still aren’t too bright.

    Thoughts?

  225. Neko - # June 20th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

    Mayhem there is right. I put myself on death mode and bunkered myself up waiting for a raid.
    Only a few survived the dropships before the entrance to my base was blocked and noone ever got to me

  226. GodlessXVIII - # June 20th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    Death mode basically loops back to super easy, as long as your base-building skills aren’t totally abysmal.

  227. Hiro - # June 20th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    I also think that enemy dropships should carry way more people.
    It’s lame how a whole dropship comes down and drops 1 clone with an AK, and half the time ends up mauling the clone and spewing debris all over.

    And I swear…those dropship doors have to have some kind of homing system built in..one flew into my frickin bunker, down a tunnel, bounced, and crushed the sniper rifle outta my clone’s hand.

  228. carpet_ninja - # June 21st, 2008 at 1:52 am

    i loled at heros post about the dropship, that happens to me quite alot, when your playing a mega walker like the aal one or the kmf one i thinks its more anying because it doesn’t kill you, it sends you flying backwards towards the cold hard ground and then you roll about 20 or more meters usually ending mith my awsome robot of doom’s legs buried under HALF A FOOT of dirt and und able to stand itself out. bit annoying dont you think?

  229. PAWS - # June 21st, 2008 at 4:45 am

    Isn’t there any way to change that in the .ini? It sounds simple enough.

    PAWS

  230. robolee - # June 21st, 2008 at 5:40 am

    I don’t get any problems with dropships and rockets, they work perfectly fine for me.

  231. LtClBob - # June 21st, 2008 at 11:01 am

    Anyone else remember the good old days when CC was totally free? :(

  232. Sixteen - # June 21st, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Anyone else remember the good old days when CC couldn’t crawl, had no dummies, no four-legged actors, craft couldn’t gib, there were no attachables, there was one less map, there were no editors, there was no campaign, and the intro was alot worse? :(

  233. Tomaster - # June 21st, 2008 at 11:38 am

    I do, but why the frowny face?

  234. Hiro - # June 21st, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    @ Sixteen: Nice one XD

    Another time…I walk to the edge of my tower, let out a little spurt of jet to send me off the edge, and right as I start to descend, I get vaporized by a dropship door. It was like watching someone step into the street very slowly and then get hit by a bus.

    But I gotta admit, its fun having a dropship about to gib right in front of you, and then throwing yourself onto the ground as debris fly all around you.

  235. Numgun - # June 21st, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    Data, please fix this crash bug: EVIL BUG

    When playing skirmish, there is a 60% chance that when you attemp to change a body, the game will crash and give the default windows “Program has performed an illegal operation/Program ended in an unexpected way” without any reason or such.

    This mostly happens when I change an actor just before the body Im about to use is doing something via its own AI or a large particle event like dropship death or when changing from another type of a body to another one. (Actor -> Crab/Actor -> Craft and vise versa)

  236. roy-g-biv - # June 21st, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    Hey, remember the old days when CC when it was called DIRT, had those really old graphics?

    Ah……

  237. Sheezy - # June 22nd, 2008 at 2:42 am

    I know what you mean hiro, I once had one go straight into one of my shooting holes
    Luckily I ducked in time, but it blocked the hole. :(

  238. 46Solid - # June 22nd, 2008 at 11:18 am

    I prefer gibs. Adds a slight “JESUSCHRISTWTFJUSTHAPPENED” to the game.

    And when I say slight I mean EVERY TWO SECONDS.

    It’s fun sometimes, but now I still play the CRobo Activites, they don’t go KABLAM HI DOOR SMASH IN YOUR FACE.

  239. Kegel - # June 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    This activate/unactivate thing is lame. I reformatted and forgot AGAIN to unregister the game.

  240. Shook - # June 23rd, 2008 at 3:17 am

    Yeah, dropship doors are like, homing :|
    One time, i was flying through the air (No shit), and suddenly,
    two dropship doors came flying from both sides of the screen and
    sandwiched me. Which was awesome.

  241. Hiro - # June 23rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    Maybe it’s just that they go so fast that they fly around the map several times getting lower and lower every time..that might explain why they always hit someone.

  242. Smart - # June 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    poop loop?

  243. Durza - # June 23rd, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    That doesn’t explain why the engines do the same thing. =P

  244. alfie - # June 24th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    I found out how to never get brain destroyed: place at bottom of screen and dig a hole infront of entrance, when enemy dig down they fall off bottom of screen.

  245. XDevil - # June 24th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    huh.. -_- it is sooo boooooooring :’( there are no new News (xD)… PLS DATA POST NEW STUF!^^
    thx

  246. Hiro - # June 24th, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    I’ve got it…

    Data sits in his enormous data-verse virtual room, and watches every game…and when a dropship blows up, he steers the debris into you, giggling maniacally at the thought of your shock and anger.

    DAAAAAMN YEWWW

  247. Foa - # June 24th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    No, he’s like the Collect, causing strange things to happen, and collecting more souls from the causulties.

    Like when I fight the Zombies, my troops ( Heavily Armored, and Covered, and Impossible to be Killed ) my troops randomly explode.

  248. Foa - # June 24th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    … And Invisible Walls appear ( Like the weird guy with the In joor bas 8en ur bhranhs ) .

  249. Tomaster - # June 25th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    BLARGHHHHH

  250. spider96 - # June 25th, 2008 at 10:20 am

    boohoo so wat that transformer went boom lets not make a big deal out of this seriously

  251. Foa - # June 25th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    Meh.
    Oh wow the bastards think another explosion will happen because the transformer of the OTHER-SIDE will make it kablew, more like tiddly wanks are too careful, which should be done in more fatal jobs, like Alaskan King Crab Fishing, or Walking on live Power Lines, not like neighborhood ones, the Large Menacing Ones, and fixing them.

    Well atleast URealms Episode 4 coming out tommorow …

  252. casey - # June 25th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    i’d bet the next post includes a download for the new build

  253. casey - # June 25th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    just read all the posts

    so, im walking and a rocket leg flies along and perfectly decapitates my character

  254. Tomaster - # June 25th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    @Spider69
    We’ve gotten over that three weeks ago. Where were you?

  255. TFSR - # June 26th, 2008 at 12:49 am

    Nine.
    Also, let’s start up “I shot a man in Reno”. I’ll start.
    I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. The next ones have to end in a rhyme with die; ex. ‘I shot a man in Reno, and I didn’t even cry’.
    Brutally stolen from XKCD.

  256. Somebody - # June 26th, 2008 at 5:36 am

    I shot a man in Reno with a dangerous pie.

  257. brinlarden - # June 26th, 2008 at 6:05 am

    THURSDAY!

  258. Tomaster - # June 26th, 2008 at 9:02 am

    I shot a man in Reno, and then I had to lie.

  259. Thorpey - # June 26th, 2008 at 9:22 am

    I shot a man in Reno, then stuffed my face with pie.
    I shot a man in Reno, the bullet missed his tie.
    I shot a man in Reno, but then I wondered why?
    I shot a man in Reno, I didn’t like the guy.
    I shot a man in Reno, who bragged that he could fly.
    I shot a man in Reno, I did it on the sly.
    I shot a man in Reno, then spat and said “goodbye”.
    I shot a man in Reno, the effort made me sigh.
    I shot a man in Reno, then hung him up to dry.
    I shot a……ah f*ckit

  260. trolleydude - # June 26th, 2008 at 9:45 am

    I’m stuck in Folsom prison, watching time go by.

    Ahem Johnny Cash.

  261. roy-g-biv - # June 26th, 2008 at 10:22 am

    W0000t Post 150!!!!!!!!
    Also, let’s see.

    B20 release : 1/4/2008.

    Estimated B21 Release : 7/9/2008

    Estimated B22 Release : 10/18/2008.

    Estimated Full product release : 12/25/2008

  262. Hellfire999 - # June 26th, 2008 at 10:44 am

    Full product release will probably be early 2009

  263. Octyl - # June 26th, 2008 at 11:36 am

    Post 250, you mean.

    Do you really think that Build 22 will be the last before the full product? I don’t. I just hope releases will be more often. I think it was build 15… it was really buggy, and there was a fix within a few days. I just want a bit more Devlog action.

  264. TeDiZ the GrEaT - # June 26th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    252 im next.i hope so i wanna learn to mod this game,

    btw i just blew up a acid bomb in the woods.every were i look had a errie fog over it for 5 mins.it was like,…i dont know forget it

  265. Lord Tim - # June 26th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    Estimated Full product release : 90/02/5221

  266. aspect - # June 26th, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    ha

    Roy, We can only hope the full product will be released by Christmas.

  267. Thorpey - # June 27th, 2008 at 5:58 am

    @Lord Time
    That would have been more amusing if “90″ was possible as a day or month (I use dd/mm/yyyy)

  268. brinlarden - # June 27th, 2008 at 6:19 am

    dont ever release the full project, just keep making to better.
    thats the fun part!

  269. Thorpey - # June 27th, 2008 at 9:16 am

    I meant Lord Tim, just to clarify :-p

  270. XDevil - # June 27th, 2008 at 11:16 am

    GIVE ME A “B”
    GIVE ME A “O”
    GIVE ME A “R”
    GIVE ME A “I”
    GIVE ME A “N”
    GIVE ME A “G”
    what does it mean?
    -_-’ i don´t know^^…
    :)
    DATA!!! :X

  271. Tomaster - # June 27th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    YAWN!!!!!!!

    That’s me yawning…

  272. Tea - # June 27th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    Roy-G-Biv, I doubt the FULL thing would come as soon as that.
    And even then I’ve heard talk of different add-on things you can buy separately.

  273. Hellfire999 - # June 27th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    I said what what…

  274. The Advisor - # June 27th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    Well I have finally found a computer during my camping trip to some french town. Oh and Lord T. you do know there are only 12 months, not 90+. Besides my estimate on the full product release is 3­/21/1337 A.S.(After Spore).

    P.S. I hate french keyboards.

  275. Azukki - # July 14th, 2008 at 3:29 am

    This would have been much less believable if it had knocked down the forth wall too.

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