Lucus arts has some nifty tech/ILM good artists etc...
Bioware makes solid games in every aspect! Hopefully they can reign in their lucas arts partners and get them with the program.
Personaly... I never liked KOTOR or the other lucas arts games near as much as the original baulders gate etc...
I look back on Doom the Movie (TM) with fond memories...
It was just 2 of us in the theatre... me and my old army bud...
What fun that movie was!
Seriously though doom was at least as good as movies like pitch black or the first 2 resident evils.. (Me wants to beat the writer for the 3rd RE movie)
wouldn't being on myspace be trusting technology to do stupid human things like be social, you sir are a genius to have found out my secret hypocrisy
on a lighter note, i don't have a myspace account... and i bet you love programming lousy web apps in dot net.... psycho
why.....
WHY....
Its what Mr Smith said in the matrix...
its why i don't play online poker its why i hope no serious amount of resources has gone to helping the victims of their own stupidity of allowing themselves to be cheated through the intertubes..
I mean come on trust, tcp/ip, a web browser, anonymous users, http, and a web server with your information??? money???? time???? WHY!.... i wonder if there was any encryption at all of the card/hand data... maybe it was all written in javascript... i mean COME ON WHY!!!!!!!!!
WHY NEO WHY!
Ya but you didn't "need" to buy the "GOTY" version to get the MP support for deus ex AND the MP patch came out many months or even a year in advance of the GOTY edition.... so your example is flawed, inaccurate and irrelevant, actually the devs really wanted the multi player to be in the game, and it wasn't some management thing.... and if you actually READ the patch notes to the original MP patch you will see that. Simply put the deus ex multiplayer patch had nothing to do with selling 1 million more copies.
WWII is the most recent, and now allot of games simulate "Iraq" and in the late 90's, early 2000's before Iraq there were a few "Vietnam titles" over here in the west.
I think the western attitude is: "We will ban it put it on the books, wear our crosses, go to Sunday school, and fuck like catholic school girls on Sunday anyway." My deepest apologies if I offended anyones sensibilities with my choice of colorful metaphors, but I feel that its the only way I can express the reality of the situation.
Anyway, it supposedly goes in cycles, were liberty is upheld and broadened and people fight for stuff like equality, until we get oppressed again, then everyone gets antsy and, comes out of the closet so to speak.... then gets repressed again...
In my opinion each cycle seams a little more extreme one way or the other.
If he violated laws or the computer fraud and abuse act or whatever, why not just BAN HIM from using electronic devices all-together. They do this allot... to skript1 k1dd13z and all... whoever gets dragged before court for violating some techno-taboo.
Why cant just the "stronger then average" women join the military? Its not like the less stronger then average males are catered too, so why cater to the less stronger then average females?
People at or above the "average" in "peak" physical shape are capable and do not need "separate" standards. By using the average you just cater to both weak parts of the sexes and get more "weaker" women and men. PC or not... a women who needs to carry all that shit should be able to, that does not mean "women cant server and be killing machines for the USA" it just means the STRONG will be and the WEEK will not...
Yup, I used both forms, the correct and incorrect one (they are, there, etc). Thanks for the correction. I agree with both of ya, my comments just my sense of humor stating the obvious =) I still love slashdot.
They are using slashdot to test marketing. Now how they score articles on wether it gets more or less vitriol from us slashdotters is up for debate.
Remember, Marketing, or advertising targets only the week-minded, sane strong willed people will do it themselves.
I agree wholeheartedly with your comment. But the person I was responded to literally "flamed" or "attacked" the slashdot editors. There have been MANY other posts expounding on the dangers of lasers, and laser safety already in these comments that sufficiently argue the point. Perhaps I was in err and should have been less sarcastic and said:
"I do not think the editors are intentionally trying to blind people, perhaps simply suggesting that they provide a warning with the article that sufficiently portrays the danger involved in using these lasers would have been more appropriate."
But sarcasm and cynicism is the mode of speech that I favor =P
I think any rational sane human being would have looked at my comment and realized I was being facetious. I do not pander to the ignorant. All hail the Laser Shark Overlords (******kids please do not attach these to the sharks at the local aquarium, you could blind yourself, others, and oppress the human race, as well as get bitten by a shark, or possibly maimed and killed********).
Because, Slashdot is FREE SPEECH, free speech necessarily is harmful to kids, little geek sisters, and old people crossing the road at a slow pace by default. Otherwise it wouldn't be free. Plus its O.K. if laser shark armies blind us! I for one welcome our new Laser Shark Overlords! LSO's FTW!!!
Aye I remember nvidia usto have their own "MesaGL" libs, that had to replace the standard mesa libs on Redhat and others.
There is a clear distinction between FOSS or FLOSS and Open Source.
Its open to a select few. Im sure if you were friends of those few with access to the source, you would be able to modify it.
Its more open then DirectX.
Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the design and production of goods and knowledge. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source It fits the bill for wiki's open source definition, and my own personal open source definition. Its "relaxed" intellectual property restrictions are what make it fit the bill for me.
I think he is flaming wow and EQ equally, I don't think he meant that Luclin and PoP were supposed to compare to any of WoW's expansions or additions.
I agree for the most part with everything he says about EQ. For someone who played extensively pre-velious and then post PoP, GoD, OOW, he's got it right.
BTW I played on test server and leveled 75, almost got into end game OOW, but burned out and quit...
MMO's are all about how long you can go without food, water, or a job, until you burn out and have to resupply your real life amenities and pay that internet bill.
I would like to see a new MMO without the grind, a low level cap that allows "unique and quick character progression", preferably skill based, the ability to earn your own "class titles" based on fantasy genre classes from DnD, and others. For example the skills you would build your character around would make you eligible for fitting class titles. Also all the skills in game should be learned through an action the player does or buy able in an in character fashion. Something like level 1-30 in a month, or 2 or 3 days played time, 2 or 3 hrs per session.
Another thing that drives me nuts is the HUDs, and overinformation of characters, and items, and quests, and waypoints... Characters in town should run up to appropriate characters and offer them dialog which allows the player to refuse or get the quest. Some characters should be hard to find and hidden and only offer quests to those they deam worthy. No rogue quest npc's running over to a paladin that sits down in a tavern to offer the "Grand Heist" quest, the computer would determine the NPC's reaction and players quest worthyness by simply checking the kinds of skills, and actions the player has made... if the player constantly solves quests in an aggressive non-pacifist manner, and has death touch, and wears black armor with skulls (all easily variablized) a good alighned NPC quest giver may even "cower in the corner". They already do this with faction systems, and agro in the original EQ, which has an amazingly interesting faction system, the #1 reason to still play that game (although its been made virtually pointless). Anyway non-combat NPC AI has a long way to go, but not a horrendous amount "groundbreaking" programming to get it there...
Classic things from EQ that were unique at the time. Underneath Qeynos there was an entire sewer system with easter egss. Tox forest usto be really murkey and had a very scary atmosphere to a newbie in clothe armor, rusty sword, newbie wizard nuke. Most dungeons only required a group for 99% of the content pre-kunark. Only naggy, vox, and a few really powerful mobs required more. raid content is ok, but it should never be required to "raid" to progress or get the best stuff, only unique, really good things quickly. They need to keep the group and solo content on par with raid gear, and need to have a higher ratio of group, solo:raid content, like 5(group/solo):1(raid).
As far as requiring groups, they should be a must at after the newbie tutorial/levels. Its just what these games were meant to be. Only the ridiculously twinked could ever take Crusbhone Orc hill right outside the wood elf starting city and the Crushbone orc dungeon. You got a sense of the story, as you progressed through the old world zones. And running out to east Karana to fight the gnolls on reaver hill with a group was part of the experience, it was an adventure in and of itself to see the sites on the way and get there alive in one peace. The best players were the ones with the social skills and political know how to get people to cooperate and work together in order to crush their openents or block out other players from content. It added a real attractive social dynamic which is destroyed by making all the content "fair" or "obsolete" except for the very end game content.
Tradeskills... WoW went in the right direction of tradeskills.
As far as the TCG thing, it would have been a good thing back when instead of having to look at the book in EQ1 for 30 mins you could have played the TCG between killing guards, its a grind centric mechanic and doomed for all but the most must hardcore players will "have to get all the cards, and unlock all the armors etc".
Reality: IT sucks, because of the customers, and because of the non IT, non-geek upper management with no relevant experience that don't have a clue. Geeks, are socialy inept because they are ostracized by society in school, and early life until they learn to deal with people more then computers. This goes for female and male geeks. Females through conditioning by their families and peers are much more dependent on not being a social outcast during school, and early career so are less likely to be those "geek females". Non-geek females and geek males are just as bad at bridging the "geek, non-geek" gap as male geeks and male jocks. Geek females, which are perfectly fine and normal females... have no problem. Therefore the majority of females are not going to be attracted to be the geek slaves of pencil pushing bafoons and be forced to deal with the social ramifications of "associating with those spock-eared, geek kids". Hence way lower turnout for female geeks in the workplace. Because IT is synonymous with geek, you cant be a pencil pushing tard and be good at computers, because you are just another jock...
Fantasy: Computers are hard to learn, blah blah blah... women don't like hard math blah blah blah... its bull, it has no actual effect on whether a women joins the field or not.
Summary: With the advent of social networking and geek and internet popularity on the rise, you will see more females inclined to make the choice of being a career geek, or "IT professional". It may even become the norm, because being a non-geek or computer illiterate may carry much more stigma, in the near future, then being computer literate.
Also define IT? every other dell support tech is female. Ever tour dells campus's? Tons of females, there doing everything from running training programs, to building the machines themselves, to going out on calls to fix computers, to helping companies plan their IT infrastructure.
Perhaps in programmer sweat shops women are smart enough to realize that the evil retarded CEO's that don't know how to program but call the shots are stupid, and leave. Perhaps men are more inclined to masochistic behavior in order to "prove they can program, prove that they have the endurance, and prove that they are those retarded IT superhero's they are stereotyped to be".
And what if, instead of crying and feeling victimized, she said "F**** the police and your totalitarian regime" and, felt oppressed and rebelled! A clear instance of were our society is messed up. We are a bunch of crybabies and pushovers, and we let our police, government, National Theater Association, and some punk ass theater manager own our lives.
Quote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Lucus arts has some nifty tech/ILM good artists etc... Bioware makes solid games in every aspect! Hopefully they can reign in their lucas arts partners and get them with the program. Personaly... I never liked KOTOR or the other lucas arts games near as much as the original baulders gate etc...
There are no true criminals in the US anymore.... just those on gods side and those on satans side!
Sorry, I have to say this somewere....
I REALLY liked doom...
I look back on Doom the Movie (TM) with fond memories...
It was just 2 of us in the theatre... me and my old army bud...
What fun that movie was!
Seriously though doom was at least as good as movies like pitch black or the first 2 resident evils.. (Me wants to beat the writer for the 3rd RE movie)
You rock... I agree 100%, better to be an honest troll then a stupid prole!
wouldn't being on myspace be trusting technology to do stupid human things like be social, you sir are a genius to have found out my secret hypocrisy on a lighter note, i don't have a myspace account... and i bet you love programming lousy web apps in dot net.... psycho
omg.... im a troll for pointing out that its not smart to trust technology made by humans, for humans, to do stupid human things... dood...
why..... WHY.... Its what Mr Smith said in the matrix... its why i don't play online poker its why i hope no serious amount of resources has gone to helping the victims of their own stupidity of allowing themselves to be cheated through the intertubes.. I mean come on trust, tcp/ip, a web browser, anonymous users, http, and a web server with your information??? money???? time???? WHY! .... i wonder if there was any encryption at all of the card/hand data... maybe it was all written in javascript... i mean COME ON WHY!!!!!!!!!
WHY NEO WHY!
Ya but you didn't "need" to buy the "GOTY" version to get the MP support for deus ex AND the MP patch came out many months or even a year in advance of the GOTY edition.... so your example is flawed, inaccurate and irrelevant, actually the devs really wanted the multi player to be in the game, and it wasn't some management thing.... and if you actually READ the patch notes to the original MP patch you will see that. Simply put the deus ex multiplayer patch had nothing to do with selling 1 million more copies.
Funniest comment ever
But, I for one welcome our mushroom-shaped nano-pillar overlords!
WWII is the most recent, and now allot of games simulate "Iraq" and in the late 90's, early 2000's before Iraq there were a few "Vietnam titles" over here in the west. I think the western attitude is: "We will ban it put it on the books, wear our crosses, go to Sunday school, and fuck like catholic school girls on Sunday anyway." My deepest apologies if I offended anyones sensibilities with my choice of colorful metaphors, but I feel that its the only way I can express the reality of the situation. Anyway, it supposedly goes in cycles, were liberty is upheld and broadened and people fight for stuff like equality, until we get oppressed again, then everyone gets antsy and, comes out of the closet so to speak.... then gets repressed again... In my opinion each cycle seams a little more extreme one way or the other.
If he violated laws or the computer fraud and abuse act or whatever, why not just BAN HIM from using electronic devices all-together. They do this allot... to skript1 k1dd13z and all... whoever gets dragged before court for violating some techno-taboo.
I concur with the above post by Orphiuichus.
HOWEVER....
Why cant just the "stronger then average" women join the military? Its not like the less stronger then average males are catered too, so why cater to the less stronger then average females?
People at or above the "average" in "peak" physical shape are capable and do not need "separate" standards. By using the average you just cater to both weak parts of the sexes and get more "weaker" women and men. PC or not... a women who needs to carry all that shit should be able to, that does not mean "women cant server and be killing machines for the USA" it just means the STRONG will be and the WEEK will not...
Yup, I used both forms, the correct and incorrect one (they are, there, etc). Thanks for the correction. I agree with both of ya, my comments just my sense of humor stating the obvious =) I still love slashdot.
They are using slashdot to test marketing. Now how they score articles on wether it gets more or less vitriol from us slashdotters is up for debate.
Remember, Marketing, or advertising targets only the week-minded, sane strong willed people will do it themselves.
Yes it does, if Microsoft OWNS you, aka "Microsoft SQL Enterprise", you are just a pimp and a whore. Two entities with a mutual customer indeed!
Anyone worth their beans in IT has run into their own Microsoft subsidiaries (lemures) that promise "interoperability" yet fail horribly to deliver.
Besides I do not want Microsoft's code its unmaintainable and all of the variables are named after Teletubbies.
I agree wholeheartedly with your comment. But the person I was responded to literally "flamed" or "attacked" the slashdot editors. There have been MANY other posts expounding on the dangers of lasers, and laser safety already in these comments that sufficiently argue the point. Perhaps I was in err and should have been less sarcastic and said: "I do not think the editors are intentionally trying to blind people, perhaps simply suggesting that they provide a warning with the article that sufficiently portrays the danger involved in using these lasers would have been more appropriate." But sarcasm and cynicism is the mode of speech that I favor =P I think any rational sane human being would have looked at my comment and realized I was being facetious. I do not pander to the ignorant. All hail the Laser Shark Overlords (******kids please do not attach these to the sharks at the local aquarium, you could blind yourself, others, and oppress the human race, as well as get bitten by a shark, or possibly maimed and killed********).
Because, Slashdot is FREE SPEECH, free speech necessarily is harmful to kids, little geek sisters, and old people crossing the road at a slow pace by default. Otherwise it wouldn't be free. Plus its O.K. if laser shark armies blind us! I for one welcome our new Laser Shark Overlords! LSO's FTW!!!
I'm in favor of dolphins with lasers myself.
Aye I remember nvidia usto have their own "MesaGL" libs, that had to replace the standard mesa libs on Redhat and others. There is a clear distinction between FOSS or FLOSS and Open Source.
Its more open then DirectX. Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the design and production of goods and knowledge. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source It fits the bill for wiki's open source definition, and my own personal open source definition. Its "relaxed" intellectual property restrictions are what make it fit the bill for me.
I think he is flaming wow and EQ equally, I don't think he meant that Luclin and PoP were supposed to compare to any of WoW's expansions or additions.
I agree for the most part with everything he says about EQ. For someone who played extensively pre-velious and then post PoP, GoD, OOW, he's got it right.
BTW I played on test server and leveled 75, almost got into end game OOW, but burned out and quit...
MMO's are all about how long you can go without food, water, or a job, until you burn out and have to resupply your real life amenities and pay that internet bill.
I would like to see a new MMO without the grind, a low level cap that allows "unique and quick character progression", preferably skill based, the ability to earn your own "class titles" based on fantasy genre classes from DnD, and others. For example the skills you would build your character around would make you eligible for fitting class titles. Also all the skills in game should be learned through an action the player does or buy able in an in character fashion. Something like level 1-30 in a month, or 2 or 3 days played time, 2 or 3 hrs per session.
Another thing that drives me nuts is the HUDs, and overinformation of characters, and items, and quests, and waypoints... Characters in town should run up to appropriate characters and offer them dialog which allows the player to refuse or get the quest. Some characters should be hard to find and hidden and only offer quests to those they deam worthy. No rogue quest npc's running over to a paladin that sits down in a tavern to offer the "Grand Heist" quest, the computer would determine the NPC's reaction and players quest worthyness by simply checking the kinds of skills, and actions the player has made... if the player constantly solves quests in an aggressive non-pacifist manner, and has death touch, and wears black armor with skulls (all easily variablized) a good alighned NPC quest giver may even "cower in the corner". They already do this with faction systems, and agro in the original EQ, which has an amazingly interesting faction system, the #1 reason to still play that game (although its been made virtually pointless). Anyway non-combat NPC AI has a long way to go, but not a horrendous amount "groundbreaking" programming to get it there...
Classic things from EQ that were unique at the time. Underneath Qeynos there was an entire sewer system with easter egss. Tox forest usto be really murkey and had a very scary atmosphere to a newbie in clothe armor, rusty sword, newbie wizard nuke. Most dungeons only required a group for 99% of the content pre-kunark. Only naggy, vox, and a few really powerful mobs required more. raid content is ok, but it should never be required to "raid" to progress or get the best stuff, only unique, really good things quickly. They need to keep the group and solo content on par with raid gear, and need to have a higher ratio of group, solo:raid content, like 5(group/solo):1(raid).
As far as requiring groups, they should be a must at after the newbie tutorial/levels. Its just what these games were meant to be. Only the ridiculously twinked could ever take Crusbhone Orc hill right outside the wood elf starting city and the Crushbone orc dungeon. You got a sense of the story, as you progressed through the old world zones. And running out to east Karana to fight the gnolls on reaver hill with a group was part of the experience, it was an adventure in and of itself to see the sites on the way and get there alive in one peace. The best players were the ones with the social skills and political know how to get people to cooperate and work together in order to crush their openents or block out other players from content. It added a real attractive social dynamic which is destroyed by making all the content "fair" or "obsolete" except for the very end game content.
Tradeskills... WoW went in the right direction of tradeskills.
As far as the TCG thing, it would have been a good thing back when instead of having to look at the book in EQ1 for 30 mins you could have played the TCG between killing guards, its a grind centric mechanic and doomed for all but the most must hardcore players will "have to get all the cards, and unlock all the armors etc".
Reality:
IT sucks, because of the customers, and because of the non IT, non-geek upper management with no relevant experience that don't have a clue. Geeks, are socialy inept because they are ostracized by society in school, and early life until they learn to deal with people more then computers. This goes for female and male geeks. Females through conditioning by their families and peers are much more dependent on not being a social outcast during school, and early career so are less likely to be those "geek females". Non-geek females and geek males are just as bad at bridging the "geek, non-geek" gap as male geeks and male jocks. Geek females, which are perfectly fine and normal females... have no problem. Therefore the majority of females are not going to be attracted to be the geek slaves of pencil pushing bafoons and be forced to deal with the social ramifications of "associating with those spock-eared, geek kids". Hence way lower turnout for female geeks in the workplace. Because IT is synonymous with geek, you cant be a pencil pushing tard and be good at computers, because you are just another jock...
Fantasy:
Computers are hard to learn, blah blah blah... women don't like hard math blah blah blah... its bull, it has no actual effect on whether a women joins the field or not.
Summary:
With the advent of social networking and geek and internet popularity on the rise, you will see more females inclined to make the choice of being a career geek, or "IT professional". It may even become the norm, because being a non-geek or computer illiterate may carry much more stigma, in the near future, then being computer literate.
Also define IT? every other dell support tech is female. Ever tour dells campus's? Tons of females, there doing everything from running training programs, to building the machines themselves, to going out on calls to fix computers, to helping companies plan their IT infrastructure.
Perhaps in programmer sweat shops women are smart enough to realize that the evil retarded CEO's that don't know how to program but call the shots are stupid, and leave. Perhaps men are more inclined to masochistic behavior in order to "prove they can program, prove that they have the endurance, and prove that they are those retarded IT superhero's they are stereotyped to be".
And what if, instead of crying and feeling victimized, she said "F**** the police and your totalitarian regime" and, felt oppressed and rebelled! A clear instance of were our society is messed up. We are a bunch of crybabies and pushovers, and we let our police, government, National Theater Association, and some punk ass theater manager own our lives.
Quote:
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
Right on! And give me Major Kusanagi !! she is hAwt!