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In-Depth Sims Online Development Story
Nicholas Palmer writes "GameSpot has a really
in-depth feature story on the development process behind The Sims Online.
It gets into things like how the team had to refactor the game's 3 million lines
of code last year. Will Wright mentions his desire to see TSO to grow into
a community similar to
Slashdot's." Great game - although the latest wipe of the game means all Blockstackers' hard work on our house will be gone. Still, the social dynamics, IMHO, are much more interesting in TSO, because it enforces cooperation.
I think it would be of great value to provide the Open Source developer community access to the social models used in The Sims. By analyzing the algorithms and exhausting every interactivity combination can they further their skills that are vital in the collaboration needed within their community. This is would have great rewards for the general population and anthropology in general as they could provide substantial improvements in the mating rituals.
Only by encouraging the Open Source developer community to network with the public can we educate the masses in the goals of Red Hat.
Wearing pants should always be optional.
Since sometime around Sep. 11, kuro5hin has devolved into a cesspool of terrorist sympathizers, conspiracy theorist nuts(you thought /. was bad?, heh...), etc.
It's a good site to participate in if you're intentionally trying to get an FBI file, and honestly with good reason IMO. And this, coming from me, a serious privacy nut/Libertarian/keep the f*ckin' govt' out of my life/etc.
Just recently there was a piece about how it's the fault of the Miss Universe Pageant people that Muslims are slaughtering people in whatever backasswards country the pageant was supposed to be held in. Sure, they were pretty stupid to cause such a culture clash, but that justifies Muslims slaughtering people? It got pretty torn up in the comments, but still, it made it to the front page...
Bleh... Sorry for the rant.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Text muds are for fags!! LIKE YOUR MOTHER!
Don't worry about that. I have blocked goatse.cx using my /etc/hosts file, and I haven't had to look at him ever since. Here's a brief description how to do it.
Exactly. As soon as you dare to criticize the moderation system, you get modded down as a troll. Just read this article on ZDnet for some insightful statistics about the speed at which comments get modded down or up, depending on whether they criticize the moderation system or not.
Well, I guess that this comment here will get modded down really fast. Not only does it talk about the taboo subject of moderation, but moreover it links to an article on a site decried as being pro-MS. Hopefully, metamoderation will do its thing ;-) hehe ;-)