That's the main problem with angband, I find. If you don't have your resistances covered, boom, insta-death. It's sorta lame. Don't get me wrong, I like the game and play it semi-often, but that's my main complaint.
Plus, I'm fairly sure that Angband wasn't around since 1984. Maybe you're thinking of Moria?
I don't think that turn-based games are dead. They might be for multi-player, but that's because you have to wait for someone else. Roguelikes are single-player turn-based games, usually set in a fantasy world. Examples include nethack and ADOM. These are terribly addictive games, and I'd recommend everyone give one a try sometime.
Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the better games I've ever played. I bought a copy when it came out, and haven't regretted it. I've put a lot of time into that game - it's probably the only really re-playable Final Fantasy title. Great graphics, beautiful music, wonderful storyline (it's basically medieval Europe).
When I was in high school, the junior course was QBasic, and the senior course was Pascal. The guy I had was really competant; of course, this meant that he was eventually hired away as a school board consultant, and the students after me were stuck with a really shitty teacher.
In any case, yeah, Pascal's a good language to learn. However, as far as sheer power goes, not a whole lot can beat C. I'm not a huge fan of C, but I'll often use it, just because you can do some incredibly cool shit with it.
As for C++, if I'm going to write OO code (which I prefer to do), then I'll use Eiffel or Java. Eiffel has an incredibly clean syntax, and is much nicer than, say, C++. Java's fun because Sun's compiler is really nice and helpful (as opposed to the ISE Eiffel compiler, which is the only one I've used).
If you're going to teach OO programming in high school, I think that Eiffel is the way to go.
tele-arena was amazing. I played it a *lot* during grade nine (1995 or thereabouts)...I never had any particularly amazing character, like some people did (goblin acolytes were particularly favoured, though the best character was a necromancer of some sort).
I think my best character was a hunter (?) who had a couple of runes.
FE and Usurper were easily the best door games. I loved the fantasy theme of FE; it was basically a BBS version of Master of Magic (the old Microprose game).
Well, and then there are those of us, like me, that have learned how to handle guns safely and are still scared of them. I hate guns, I absolutely hate them. Still, I find the odd game of Doom or Quake to be fun. It's all about realizing what's reality and what's not.
If you go back to Edmund Burke, who wrote the definitive text on conservatism, you'd see that conservatism is more "people are dangerous, and thus should have constraints placed on them."
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I was four years old. I changed the channel, and went from Scooby Doo to the Challenger explosion. I think it says a lot that I can remember the show that was on before I saw the explosion.
I can still remember all of this, vividly, at nineteen.
Wow, that passage contains several logical fallacies, any one of which make it an unsound argument. Looks like whoever wrote that had the reasoning skills of a small chimp.
A friend and I were discussing the best old DOS game a while ago...he thought that the honour should go to Darklands, and I thought it should go to Star Control 2.
I still play StarCon2. It's an amazingly addictive space exploration game put out by Accolade...it's got amazing music, great humour, and great graphics for a game made in 1992.
Like I said, I still play it. The only other old DOS game I still play is Master of Magic, so yeah.
If that's how you feel about Linux, why not go over to FreeBSD and revel in its non-mainstream glory?
Seriously, man, Linux needs newbies. It's the only way the number of Linux users will grow. I first learned Linux back in 1997 with a
UMSDOS-based distro (because Slackware was an evil bitch and wouldn't install properly). While I had many years of experience with DOS and Windows and the like, I'd never really touched Unix before. And now? Now I'm coding in C and Perl, creating web sites from scratch with the gimp and vim, that sort of thing.
In every newbie there's the potential for development. Please don't forget that.
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I'm sorry, was I supposed to be impressed?
Right.
wow, a well-done fp. good job. :)
I haven't had a fp in around a year. I've had three in total, I think. but I've been here for a while, anyhow.
so what?
Wilfred Laurier once said that "the 20th century will belong to Canada."
oops.
We're a country of 30 million people. We're not quite the right size for a superpower.
That's the main problem with angband, I find. If you don't have your resistances covered, boom, insta-death. It's sorta lame. Don't get me wrong, I like the game and play it semi-often, but that's my main complaint.
Plus, I'm fairly sure that Angband wasn't around since 1984. Maybe you're thinking of Moria?
I don't think that turn-based games are dead. They might be for multi-player, but that's because you have to wait for someone else. Roguelikes are single-player turn-based games, usually set in a fantasy world. Examples include nethack and ADOM. These are terribly addictive games, and I'd recommend everyone give one a try sometime.
Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the better games I've ever played. I bought a copy when it came out, and haven't regretted it. I've put a lot of time into that game - it's probably the only really re-playable Final Fantasy title. Great graphics, beautiful music, wonderful storyline (it's basically medieval Europe).
If it weren't for metamod, I'd abuse "informative" and "insightful" moderations for just this purpose.
When I was in high school, the junior course was QBasic, and the senior course was Pascal. The guy I had was really competant; of course, this meant that he was eventually hired away as a school board consultant, and the students after me were stuck with a really shitty teacher.
In any case, yeah, Pascal's a good language to learn. However, as far as sheer power goes, not a whole lot can beat C. I'm not a huge fan of C, but I'll often use it, just because you can do some incredibly cool shit with it.
As for C++, if I'm going to write OO code (which I prefer to do), then I'll use Eiffel or Java. Eiffel has an incredibly clean syntax, and is much nicer than, say, C++. Java's fun because Sun's compiler is really nice and helpful (as opposed to the ISE Eiffel compiler, which is the only one I've used).
If you're going to teach OO programming in high school, I think that Eiffel is the way to go.
That's not a technical issue, though. That's an issue that pretty much anyone can understand, and make a decision on.
tele-arena was amazing. I played it a *lot* during grade nine (1995 or thereabouts)...I never had any particularly amazing character, like some people did (goblin acolytes were particularly favoured, though the best character was a necromancer of some sort).
I think my best character was a hunter (?) who had a couple of runes.
those dragons were bitches.
c motu
a bear^Ma bear^Ma bear
etc. wow, memories.
FE and Usurper were easily the best door games. I loved the fantasy theme of FE; it was basically a BBS version of Master of Magic (the old Microprose game).
And what about Iniquity, which came around in the dying days? That was a sweet BBS package (if a little 133t).
Well, and then there are those of us, like me, that have learned how to handle guns safely and are still scared of them. I hate guns, I absolutely hate them. Still, I find the odd game of Doom or Quake to be fun. It's all about realizing what's reality and what's not.
Maybe you got fingerprinted for your license, but I never had anything like that done here (SK, Canada).
I hated "It's thinking." I mean, that's what my computer does when it's working on crashing itself.
If you go back to Edmund Burke, who wrote the definitive text on conservatism, you'd see that conservatism is more "people are dangerous, and thus should have constraints placed on them."
I was four years old. I changed the channel, and went from Scooby Doo to the Challenger explosion. I think it says a lot that I can remember the show that was on before I saw the explosion.
I can still remember all of this, vividly, at nineteen.
Wow, that passage contains several logical fallacies, any one of which make it an unsound argument. Looks like whoever wrote that had the reasoning skills of a small chimp.
A friend and I were discussing the best old DOS game a while ago...he thought that the honour should go to Darklands, and I thought it should go to Star Control 2.
I still play StarCon2. It's an amazingly addictive space exploration game put out by Accolade...it's got amazing music, great humour, and great graphics for a game made in 1992.
Like I said, I still play it. The only other old DOS game I still play is Master of Magic, so yeah.
Could you please form a coherent sentence?
What's your favourite programming language, and why?
Seriously, man, Linux needs newbies. It's the only way the number of Linux users will grow. I first learned Linux back in 1997 with a UMSDOS-based distro (because Slackware was an evil bitch and wouldn't install properly). While I had many years of experience with DOS and Windows and the like, I'd never really touched Unix before. And now? Now I'm coding in C and Perl, creating web sites from scratch with the gimp and vim, that sort of thing.
In every newbie there's the potential for development. Please don't forget that.
I also think that BBspot is pretty lame. That comparison read like something I would have written in the eighth grade.