That may be sampling bias, though. I imagine that Twitter's just reading off statistics, and wouldn't do this if they thought it would be a significant hit to their business!
RTFAing reveals that 90% of regular Twitterers actually use the official applications. So while they'd lose the geek vote (worse than they already have), you're unfortunately almost completely wrong.
Disaster! We won't get those until 2050! And microwave power plants aren't available until 2020, either!
On the plus side, the forest arcology unlocked eleven years ago.
If we want to talk about human OSes with evidence of aliens, consider that we needn't constrain ourselves to two big consumer vendors. Consider, for example, how alien IBM's MVS is. I could easily see something like that being the missing link.
As an experienced mapper I can say with some confidence that Doom failed to even meet its "arcade action game" goals: they took out the score system and treasure pickups shortly before release. You may want to turn your attention towards Wolfenstein 3-D or Duke Nukem 3D for that title; personally I always thought Blake Stone was a pretty memorable entry.
But we all know the true god is Rise of the Triad—which, incidentally, was designed by Tom Hall.
Well, typically the thing that causes cancer is proximity to carcinogenic chemicals or radiation sources. So, um, it's punishment for being a Modern Prometheus, or something, I guess.
They're actually pretty close (here's the original Doom Bible for comparison.) The point, though, is that FPSes without plot would have been way less established, and games of the mid-nineties would have gotten something of a better start in being story-bearing things. It would have been cheap science fiction, sure, but at least the story would have been action-movie-grade and not cereal-box-grade.
If you'd like to go into an off-topic semantic rant about it, I would actually even charge Tom Hall with being the creator of the game (he wrote the original plot) and then our good man Romero with turning it into the tedious piece of crap that actually shipped. (Fun fact: if it had been possible to make Doom like Tom Hall intended, storytelling in FPSes would be five years ahead from where it is today.)
But it's not exactly like we can say Bobby Prince wrote the engine, so someone has to take the credit, I guess.
Since you decided to throw a 'friend' status at me, I feel I should counter-pedantically point out that it was SEQUEL, not SEQL, and evolved into SQL as we have it today.
Hey! We've got them up here in Canada. I mean, left-wing parties. Maybe not "real" in the sense of having a snowball's chance in hell of leading the country, but they're popular with students. And they do OK in provincials.
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That may be sampling bias, though. I imagine that Twitter's just reading off statistics, and wouldn't do this if they thought it would be a significant hit to their business!
That's my point exactly. Doom as originally envisioned by Tom Hall would stand up to Half-Life 1 in terms of plot substance.
RTFAing reveals that 90% of regular Twitterers actually use the official applications. So while they'd lose the geek vote (worse than they already have), you're unfortunately almost completely wrong.
Not completely true! There are one or two corrupt military juntas that have been in power since before 1960. They're pretty vauable.
Disaster! We won't get those until 2050! And microwave power plants aren't available until 2020, either!
On the plus side, the forest arcology unlocked eleven years ago.
Bringing Raven Software into this is like bringing a broadsword to a knife fight.
Oh, he wrote plenty of stuff—like that timeless powerhouse of 20th Century composition, Eat Your Veggies.
If we want to talk about human OSes with evidence of aliens, consider that we needn't constrain ourselves to two big consumer vendors. Consider, for example, how alien IBM's MVS is. I could easily see something like that being the missing link.
Perhaps you haven't seen the breakdown of seats in the US Congress lately?
As an experienced mapper I can say with some confidence that Doom failed to even meet its "arcade action game" goals: they took out the score system and treasure pickups shortly before release. You may want to turn your attention towards Wolfenstein 3-D or Duke Nukem 3D for that title; personally I always thought Blake Stone was a pretty memorable entry.
But we all know the true god is Rise of the Triad—which, incidentally, was designed by Tom Hall.
Well, typically the thing that causes cancer is proximity to carcinogenic chemicals or radiation sources. So, um, it's punishment for being a Modern Prometheus, or something, I guess.
They're actually pretty close (here's the original Doom Bible for comparison.) The point, though, is that FPSes without plot would have been way less established, and games of the mid-nineties would have gotten something of a better start in being story-bearing things. It would have been cheap science fiction, sure, but at least the story would have been action-movie-grade and not cereal-box-grade.
You raise a pretty good point, although you'd think they'd give him a slightly shinier honourific like "lead developer of the Quake engine".
If you'd like to go into an off-topic semantic rant about it, I would actually even charge Tom Hall with being the creator of the game (he wrote the original plot) and then our good man Romero with turning it into the tedious piece of crap that actually shipped. (Fun fact: if it had been possible to make Doom like Tom Hall intended, storytelling in FPSes would be five years ahead from where it is today.)
But it's not exactly like we can say Bobby Prince wrote the engine, so someone has to take the credit, I guess.
Since you decided to throw a 'friend' status at me, I feel I should counter-pedantically point out that it was SEQUEL, not SEQL, and evolved into SQL as we have it today.
These are different kind of bids. Or is this a woosh waiting to happen?
Alack alas. It's the Panorama hotkey in a stock build of FF 4.
30797 fatal crashes occurred in the United States in 2009. Do you really want to add the risk of falling out of the sky to that?
I really hope so. It seems pretty forced thus far, but it would be such an awesome meme.
Yeah, but they play one on TV (i.e., when someone points a camera at them), so that should totally count.
Try pressing Ctrl+Shift+E.
Unless that addon is vimperator.
Damn you, vimperator.
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Hey! We've got them up here in Canada. I mean, left-wing parties. Maybe not "real" in the sense of having a snowball's chance in hell of leading the country, but they're popular with students. And they do OK in provincials.
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