Because this is anime. Evil, evil, evil anime. Really nasty, cartoon pr0n, psycho, tentacle rape, ugly, drugged up, violent, insanity-inducing, mentally deficient, unstrustworthy anime. My parents like the Conan movies (watch them sometime; rather violent, sexually explicit, but good shows) but can't watch Slayers because of its violence. You explain the logic.
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Come on. You know Slayers could be shown right between dragon ball and sailor moon and no one would notice (not that it would be a good thing...). The D&D/RPG jokes are clearly not something Joe Average Public would get, and i don't think most people would understand the... less appropriate content either. Believe me on this, i've shown it to average people. I know a girl who still doesn't know what 'that time of the month' really means for sorceresses.
I downloaded one of your songs just now (rain dragon or something like that) and think its pretty cool. I got it off MP3.com and will probably buy your oh-so-inexpensive CDs because its a much better use of my money than say... wasting the bandwidth to download a bad song written by some idiots illegally. Just thought you might want to know, in case you mention yourself to Napster&Co.
Remember how the FBI is dropping little black boxes in front of the servers at all ISPs? Crank the paranoia up a notch. What about AOL, crappier service and more hidden fees every day! Crank the paranoia up a notch. M$ drops unkown sums of cash into all political parties that will accept money from a large, unscrupulous corporation. Crank the... you get the picture.
This is (IMHO) one of the reasons the quake series doesn't suffer from cheating as much as, say, Diablo. I think that the solution for cheaters, as with crackers, is to hire them:)
Why do people care about cheating in RPGs? I, for one, could care less about your hacked character with 2^80 HPs... as long as you don't try to PK me. I had an experience a while back in a MUD where a character was exploiting a trick that basically made him the invincible PK god. The admins said that this was cheating and they were working on a way to fix it, but they would need some time. Of course, the guy who figured it out was going along killing characters 'for fun' and decided to slaughter me a bunch of times. Wrong move, the owner of the box the MUD was on both was my personal friend and online at that time. After a few times being summoned and killed, the admin and i got together and he gave me a modified weapon that did lotsa damage and warned the cheating guy (not me, the other one) that more abuse of that exploit would not be tolerated. Well the admin was laughed at and i was summoned again. When i chopped him into bits he complained about how it was 'unfair' and how getting the help of admins was cheating. Hmm...
Now i'm not real sure what lesson should be learned from that, but i do have a point to make:) The whole 'stimulus-response' deal is incorrect for PK situations in RPGs. You mentioned FPS games where cheating is not as rampant, but what were the Diablo cheats all about? PK. In D2 a lot has been done to stop this, and i think it will be rather successful. Blizzard doesn't really care if you cheat and add skills/stats/items to your character, but the problem is when you use those abilities against another player. Draw your own conclusions.
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First off, its long overdue. Both so people can block it and as an excuse to post more stories about it:) Secondly, not to offend who did the picture but its not very good looking. Maybe you guys should ask the slash crowd to send a better one? Or maybe not... Hmm... There has to be something that looks better than that...
As for the actual story (OT dodge) i think Disney is doing something right this time. Releasing one of the most popular movies in Japan without a Japanese language option is basically suicide. Blah.
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*snip snip* Voice acting ranks right up there with janitor in terms of how the job is perceived in the US *snip snip*
Actually, i thought the voice actors were janitors? Are you telling me they aren't? I know some janitors that are better than many american voice actors.
-Elendale (however, the people who did Kagato and Ryoko rock!)
Actually i think quake3 has better in game graphics than square makes FMVs, but that's just me. Personally, i think Blizzard has the best FMVs out there. Oh well, enough of my spam.
OTOH, Apple is looking at open source, i think very seriously too. Now I realise it is dangerous to predict the future, but in five years I could (read as: possible, not a for sure thing) see Apple having a very strong position as they were one of the first non-linux/GNU open source companies. Open source is the way of the future, and it looks like Apple is testing the waters a bit...
-Elendale (However, first the programmers out there need to be interested...)
The answer is: Because it is. Believe me, its not for everyone. One of my pals hates Diablo 1 with a passion (tho he's hooked on 2) and can't understand why people play it. Actually, no one can. I've debated countless times about why it is fun, but there is no answer. Blizzard struck something fun, and they are sticking with it.
-Elendale (Actually, building a character that can rape hundreds and hundreds of demons DOES sound kinda appealing...)
Nope;) Actually I'm making a single-player (not online in any respect) game. I'm staying out of those MMORPGs mainly because I don't want to deal with large, monopolistic corporations. Also because I don't have the hardware to make them... or the coding skill... or desire... Hrmmm....
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While I generally agree with you, I do have some things to point out. As I mentioned in another post, I am currently creating a tactical/RPG. Now I have went back and forth about open sourcing my work and reaping the benefits (mainly, people to debug my bad code) but I can't help but shy away from that option. The main reason for me is this: the story and "immersivity" (not a real word, I know) of the game is much more important than the gaming engine. Yes, if the game is painful to play it doesn't matter that you are the next Shakespeare because people will hate your game. I have also gone over opening the engine but keeping creative control over the actual direction of the game, but that would be too difficult to work as the plot/characters/engine are too interwoven. In any case, perhaps a 'open game' liscense needs to be developed...
This is very interesting to me. Both because I am writing a tactical/RPG game in my spare time and also because I have only one partner in it (an artist cuz I can't draw). I would very much like to have the benefits of open source- mainly people to check my badly coded game engine- but have a difficult time doing so due to the fact that others would be able to basically make a copy of it. To me its kind of like open sourcing a book: while having thousands of volunteers to help with production, there is a danger of also losing your story. I suppose I could open-source the engine and then add the story after, but that would be difficult as the fully dynamic storyline requires more coding than anything else... After giving it much thought, I decided that its way to early to talk about opening it yet becuase I have very little work done on the actual code itself.
As one who was introduced to programming on C++ (well, ok, it was the first 'real' language if you know what I mean) I agree. This is rather redundant, but C++ is completely evil when you just start. Mainly becuase everyone assumes you already know five different languages (and you can't learn those without knowing others...) they don't bother explaining little things like what a class is, or why exactly you would want inheritance. Yeah...
You are correct, but hopefully as long as there is still a central 'core' (such as Linux and the kernel) we can stay as one system. I'm all for 150 distros, as long as they are all compatible.
Apple has been dying for about the last decade. Every computer expert in the field has predicted their death at least once. Its like the Houdini of computers. Admittedly, its a bad position to be in but Apple is stronger now than it has been for about the last 5 years or so. The real point is that its to soon to predict what this will do to Apple. Just to many things involved for us. -Elendale (blah)
That's because their software comes on all of their hardware *and* that it comes nowhere else. I know when I was a die-hard mac user (before the price became painful) I could upgrade all the way from OS 6.1 to OS 8.1 just by downloading stuff of Apple's website. While buying the software would have saved me a lot of time downloading/installing I just wanted to see if I could. If they start selling MacOSX for a system that doesn't come with it already, people will buy it. I know I would. Of course, by that time I might have a G4 so who knows...
I made some of the louder noises when Lunar's release dates kept getting pushed back (beat out by one of my friends). For more release date fun watch for Lunar2 which (i believe) is scheduled for sometime this year. Hopefully its out within the decade.
Next presidential election, vote the man who will listen to as many people as he can and not those who stuff his pockets. Vote the man who will (try) to make informed descisions about the world as a whole, not just the island nation we mistakenly call 'America'. I'm only 18, but electing an 18 year old is less illegal (or it should be) than what will happen if another 'carreer politician' is elected. Yeah.
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I downloaded one of your songs just now (rain dragon or something like that) and think its pretty cool. I got it off MP3.com and will probably buy your oh-so-inexpensive CDs because its a much better use of my money than say... wasting the bandwidth to download a bad song written by some idiots illegally. Just thought you might want to know, in case you mention yourself to Napster&Co.
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Now i'm not real sure what lesson should be learned from that, but i do have a point to make :) The whole 'stimulus-response' deal is incorrect for PK situations in RPGs. You mentioned FPS games where cheating is not as rampant, but what were the Diablo cheats all about? PK. In D2 a lot has been done to stop this, and i think it will be rather successful. Blizzard doesn't really care if you cheat and add skills/stats/items to your character, but the problem is when you use those abilities against another player. Draw your own conclusions.
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Secondly, not to offend who did the picture but its not very good looking. Maybe you guys should ask the slash crowd to send a better one? Or maybe not... Hmm... There has to be something that looks better than that...
As for the actual story (OT dodge) i think Disney is doing something right this time. Releasing one of the most popular movies in Japan without a Japanese language option is basically suicide. Blah.
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Actually, i thought the voice actors were janitors? Are you telling me they aren't? I know some janitors that are better than many american voice actors.
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-Elendale (However, first the programmers out there need to be interested...)
-Elendale (Actually, building a character that can rape hundreds and hundreds of demons DOES sound kinda appealing...)
Actually I'm making a single-player (not online in any respect) game. I'm staying out of those MMORPGs mainly because I don't want to deal with large, monopolistic corporations. Also because I don't have the hardware to make them... or the coding skill... or desire... Hrmmm....
-Elendale (If I troll a troll... does that make me a meta-troll?)
Its name is not 'Frankenstein', Frankenstein is the guy who made the monster. Katz got it right a few times, then got it wrong a few times.
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Apple has been dying for about the last decade. Every computer expert in the field has predicted their death at least once. Its like the Houdini of computers. Admittedly, its a bad position to be in but Apple is stronger now than it has been for about the last 5 years or so. The real point is that its to soon to predict what this will do to Apple. Just to many things involved for us. -Elendale (blah)
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