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[Cheedows]

Epic cut scenes where your Elite Liberals say their last words?  Yes please.

[tahujdt]

I would be cool if the video could always contain your slogan.

[Funk]

Fox just what movies do you have running?

[Cheedows]

Since this is LCS, dramatic deaths would be so fitting.  Off-topic, but why do liberals get sick when killing someone through interrogation and lose heart but don't when they kill a conservative.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Cold-blooded murder vs. hot-blooded murder.

[Cheedows]

Dramatic videos would make me reconsider my slogan choice to be serious rather than the joking ones I usually put

[seth--]

I get crashes on starting too. I haven't looked much at the new code but it looks to me like the member variable city for locations isn't being initialised. For the homeless shelter, city has the suspect value 1851850798. It gets that from its parent Industrial district and it gets it from its parent Seattle and it looks like Seattle would only have initialised the value if it was less than 0 (in the constructor for locations).

Found, fixed, and committed. Thank you!

fix works here too

[Soadreqm]

Good news, everyone! The game is supposed to have movies!

Haha! You know, years ago, when I first found this game, I kind of wondered why those event messages were displayed at the bottom of an empty black screen. Then I got used to it and eventually stopped paying any attention to it whatsoever. Just how long did this manage to go unnoticed?

[Jonathan S. Fox]

Good news, everyone! The game is supposed to have movies!

Haha! You know, years ago, when I first found this game, I kind of wondered why those event messages were displayed at the bottom of an empty black screen. Then I got used to it and eventually stopped paying any attention to it whatsoever. Just how long did this manage to go unnoticed?

It's probably been looking for the movie files in /art/art/ instead of just /art/ for the last five to six years.

And yes, that was the only reason the game didn't have movies! There are five movies in the game, all tied to news stories. The shortest is depicts a split-screen news talk show interview, and the Liberal guest catches the interviewer off guard with an insightful comment. The longest depicts white LA police caught on tape beating and mocking a black man. They should all make a return in the next version of the game.

[Cheedows]

How do you make ASCII movies anyways?

[Jonathan S. Fox]

How do you make ASCII movies anyways?

I believe you'd have to either ask Toady One about them in hopes that he has an editor somewhere, or write an editor from scratch. I don't think there's a publicly available program that can edit the game's movie format.

[quinnr]

On my linux laptop, with Crunchbang Linux (Debian variant). So everything compiled with no error (ran bootstrap and configure scripts), but I just see a blank terminal when I attempt to run the crimesquad file, both when it is in the lcsgame directory and when left in the src directory. Not sure what information to provide that would help, but I can pull anything needed up if anyone has an idea how to make this run.

EDIT: Ah, had an old save file in my ~/.lcs  directory, I deleted it and everything ran alright.

[Karlito]

You know, I think I have a vague memory of the movies from way back when, but I never noticed their absence.

[tahujdt]

Fox, can you settle a minor dispute between those of us debating over sniping?

Are you, if you ever add it, going to make it so we need to give a liberal the specific job of holding a sniping position, instead of any other job? Or will they defend automatically?

EDIT: Just my two cents, body armor should have a chance to prevent severed limbs from guns. Especially Ceramic Body Armor. Does the future-name feature apply to armor? Then we should have power armor replacing ceramic.

[Jboy2000000]

Yeah, with the future name it would be cool if it was "T-51b Power Armour."