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I wonder if these things are the death knell of content that is banned in NZ being available on steam here, like Postal 2, and a forerunner of Steam honouring NZOFLC ratings (i.e. requiring proof of age for R16 games like TF2). Possibly interesting times ahead.
Portal Stories: Mel is a community made, free modification for Portal 2 based in the Portal universe. It tells an entirely new story about a new protagonist called Mel who travels with a new personality core and faces a new, still unknown threat.
Main Features: – 20+ Puzzle and exploration filled maps – Custom Story and Dialogue – Custom Textures, Models and Animations – 70s Prototype Portal Gun – Free to Play (you must own Portal 2)
Open road head on collision, caused by a french tourist (silver car) driving on the wrong side of the road. Luckily at around 80km rather than 100km because of twisty bits. Everyone walked away amazingly, my dad (driving the Surf) got away with scratches and some minor bruising, mum got heavier bruising, and being in the back with no airbag I copped it the worst. Pretty amazing bruising and possibly a broken rib (xray didnt show anything obvious but apparently that's not uncommon.. hurts like a cunt either way) Frenchie broke his arm, and his wife banged up her knee. Dad had time to swear, move his foot towards the brake (we know this only because the accelerator is pushed up and pinned under the dash and if his foot was on it he'd have been trapped/broken), and we think both parties started to swerve as the collision wasn't quite full head on in the end as you can see. Cars started to spin but our back end hit the wall and stopped it. Truly scary shit.
I vaguely look like someone kicked the shit out of me, seat belts do save lives but they don't fucking tell you how much it hurts you when you go from 80km to a complete stop like that. Deep breaths hurt, laughing hurts, coughing hurts, sneezing hurts, moving the wrong way hurts.. you get the idea :-) Still I'm remarkably glad to be alive and posting this, sadly luck didn't carry over to Saturday nights lotto draw.
Attached pics show the gouges in the road from their car's front suspension bottoming out at point of impact (bout 8-10 inches long and 5-6cm deep), being the heavier vehicle we shunted them back 1-2 meters from the impact point.
Also a pic showing a couple of the service vehicles (we ended up with 1 cop car, 1 rural fire van, 2 fire engines and 2 ambulances)
And a couple from the tow yard showing the crumpling around the drivers seat and the accelerator pedal mushed up into the dash.
Console players are already responsible for the drop in the quality of PC games, because the studios release cross platform and everything has to be dumbed down for the people too stupid to use a computer. Now it's gone beyond just gameplay and is spreading to graphics quality too. Hot on the heels of Watch Dogs PC graphics being nerfed, yet another game will be dropping it's quality, because console manufacturers are whining it looks "too good" on a PC.