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Leonardo Giovanni Scur profile picture
Looking for an obscure game:

Worms-like (turn based deathmatch);
3D;
Deformable heightmap terrain;
Played somewhere in late 2000s/early 2010s;
Very low production value;
Likely official modding support, probably involving OBJ model files.

Visibility boost appreciated, I'd rather not use the centralized forum platform where #TipOfMyTongue exists.

Also accepting hashtag suggestions if I'm missing any useful ones.

I remember it having different characters/buildings, one of them looked like one of those Both turrets from star wars, the truncated cone with a flatish disc on top where the gun is. Unclear if it was a mod or I'm just dreaming that though.

Have a nice week!

#game #videogame #gaming #HelpMeFind
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Leonardo Giovanni Scur profile picture
@nprofile1q... I see. I have a different way of looking at it:

You can really feel how angry at Unity they were, to the point they just remade it """properly""", as in actual decent coding standards and well thought out APIs. Except the way they've gone about it was to go bullet-point by bullet-point down their complaints list and shoehorn Unity features into Source 2, without regard to why Source 2 did things its way.
Tom Forsyth · 20w
What's your favourite static web page builder? Something that takes some form of markup language and splits out some HTML. Nothing fancy, I just really really need to get my (read-only) web page/blog ...
Leonardo Giovanni Scur profile picture
@nprofile1q... I'm not going to stand here and say it's a good solution, because clearly we have abandoned this workflow before modern web devtools.

But I use XML as the source of my webpage, and it uses an attached XSLT stylesheet to generate the HTML representation.

It runs directly in the browser, so no build step needed. And it's a web standard, so no JS required to do this either.

And while XML might set off alarms on some people's brains, XSLT as a template library on top of it is surprisingly good. The query language is sufficiently powerful, rather than being a strict "drill down a tree-of-objects" you can pull info form anywhere in the source document. So you can genuinely organize your source document to be semantically interesting or easy to edit, without worrying about how to feed it to the template engine.
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Leonardo Giovanni Scur profile picture
@nprofile1q... First of all, commiserations. I know very well the situation. Being poor sucks in how everything becomes a fucking quest.

That said, if you feel like embracing the quest, try taking a peek inside!

If it's the scrolling that troubles you: Mouse wheels usually use optical sensors, which means they rarely break down really, but also are very susceptible to dirt. Even a single hair in the wrong place can cause an incorrect reading.

If it's the clickability: Douse the buttons in contact cleaner. Wait for it to evaporate before plugging it back on. If it still gives you grief, then you may want to replace them.

Fortunately mouse wheels usually use the readily available classic 4 leg push button which you can harvest from some unused clicky appliance you don't need, or bought for a few cents. (as opposed to proper mouse buttons, which use a more specialized and expensive part)

I appreciate you may not have a soldering iron, and it may be hard to justify even a cheap one for a one-off fix.