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I do love this idea.

I ended up getting a student subscription for CS6 -- at about $35 with tax, it seemed like the most reasonable option, rather than buying outright a version of the software for a similar price. (Several of my college courses were Adobe specific.) Take a look at Paint .Net, too. Adequate little program for simple things.

Plywood and 2x4s. Build a frame to pour the concrete into. Pour no more than 2-3 feet a time. There's your wall. Much easier would just be cement bricks and mortar. (See The Talking Pillow above for more.)

Disagree re: first image. At a smaller size, everything blends in to create a nifty texture.

Piracy discussion stops here. For future, pragmatic, purposes, pirating an Adobe product or anyone else's product is equivalent to pirating Project Zomboid, when it's expressed clearly on the forums ("Go to piratebay and . . . "). For a general discussion of piracy, we now have this thread: http://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php/topic/1082-piracy-discussion/

And, interestingly enough, in the case of Game Developer Tycoon (baring "clever" pirates that have removed a certain event -- you know who you are!), the "pirated" copy is limited, compared to the full-featured game. Play it sometime -- those pirates take a nice chunk out of your budget. But it's the only "hook" the game has. It's the only way, it seems, that anyone knows of the game. Off Topic: But only play it if you like watching little bubbles fill up abstract things like "3D-graphics" and "level saving." How much more worthwhile it would have been if it just included little Jeaprody-esque notes on the history of games and software development. And again, we get to the whole "How do you know until you play it . . . " dilemma and misrepresentation of a product's content through marketing (such as "video demos" rather than "playable demos"). But, again, we're not dealing with something physical. There is no "land." There is no "infrastructure." There's just a copy of game content being passed around, one that's ideally free from costing the developers anything, unless they've made the mistake of auto-updating it (a feature that was removed from PZ for this very reason). It's abusive to make use of someones finite resources in such a manner. But, if you want to argue the initial cost and the expected return for a product for a reason not to pirate, I can get behind that.

Is this where we get into a discussion of what's worth paying for? After trying Game Developer Tycoon (the intentionally bugged "pirate release" -- I wanted to see what they did; it sounded nifty), I came to the conclusion that it wasn't worth my time or money. Surely there's a better example out there.

Just extract the zip to a convenient location. Play by double-clicking the exe.

The only reason I've pirated is because I couldn't afford something at the time. If I enjoyed it, it'd go in the "buy one day" pile. Sufficed to say, I own many companies money. It's a simple choice:: Enjoy/use/learn from it now or delay. Though, I won't pretend this is some great justification that removes moral component.

Or worse! All that staring into the monitors . . . Can't be good for you.

No gurantees that it'll help, though it doesn't hurt to try. I've got a nice system myself and I still get some stuttering / pauses now and then. You can try setting all video card options to performance, disabling anti-alliasing and OpenGL triple buffering. You can also try using more video memory (in-game Options menu).

It's in the options menu. Be sure to restart the game before trying to do anything after changing the resolution, though. If you run into any trouble, just go to %username%\zomboid\ and delete its contents (backup any saves you'd like before this). Everything will be reset to default.

Planned, as far as I know.

I'm still at the "ensure your graphics card driver is up to date," frankly.

And having your game run off a 1 TB drive is . . . insanity. Though, not as insane as it use to be, since they can cache pretty well for large file transfers, but I'll be a proponent of 200 MB/s + access times of solid state drives. God, I love these little electronic wafers.

Banned for tactical use of flattery.

But don't you feel all warm and safe within the cold, mechanical claws of a mega-corporation? I know I do, but then I'm only so human.

Banned for being only 2.5D.

Consult your nearest blood-shaman on an appropriate sacrifice?

Pixel format not accelerated indicates that you need to ensure you have a proper display driver installed. Windows 7 (and Steam) often install a generic driver from Microsoft that just doesn't cut it for this game. Go to the website of your specific video card manufacturer (AMD) and download the latest driver for your card directly from them. If you receive any prompts that you need to use a manufacturer-specific driver, well . . . we'll try to work through it by forcing a generic, up to date, driver. Just be sure to turn your computer off and back on again after installing the new driver, otherwise you'll get the same error.

The world . . . it ponders perpetual motion most perplexingly, impossibly. So help me, I hate these bi-card notebooks.

That's how fog of war currently works in the game, at least for a brief moment in the beginning. It's a Feature.

Play in Windowed, drag it across to fit. There you go.

Card name: Intel® HD Graphics Family Manufacturer: Intel Corporation Chip type: Intel® HD Graphics Family ?

Splitscreen isn't the priority for the current update. Something will be done in an indefinite time in the future. Just . . . don't wait on it, specifically.