If you can code with C, try Cube - otherwise you might want to look into the (now long-in-the-tooth) Adobe Director - the language (you can use Lingo or a Javascript-esque version of Lingo) is a bit odd sometimes, and your games will most likely come out looking like something from 1999 rather than 2009, but it's good for people who really don't want to code much. With the added bonus that you can run Director apps in Browsers using the Shockwave plugin.
And to be honest it does reek of unfinished. The graphics are sub-par, the animations are buggy and jerky at times. There are places you can get stuck and unable to move on certain prolifically-placed doodads - and the/stuck command requires you to wait 30 seconds while it logs you out (which btw is another annoyance, you can't even select 'exit now' when you want to quit game and HAVE to wait 30s before it closes) There is no antroscopic filtering (As far as I can find, the advanced graphics settings are laughably minimal) and thus all the repeated paths and textures look gritty and pixellated even on a half-decent rig (4Gb Ram, 2.4Ghz Quad core, Nvidia 8800 GT - pretty average now). There are animation issues on Characters about 10m away, where it begins to look like a stop-motion effect. When in a dungeon full of skeletons it's like being in Jason and the Argonauts. The interface is a bit crap too, my Chat window is obscured by something called a 'tactics bar' which I can't seem to move or hide, and while I can read the chat, I can't actually see what i'm typing until I hit enter and say it. The game itself does quite well in blurring the lines between Player vs Player and Player vs Environment with experience gained through questing and PvP, and the idea of two targets (one enemy, one friendly) is interesting - it does lead to situations where I leave a town having got my quests, go into combat and attempt to heal myself, but instead try and heal the NPC I just got the quest from (despite being no-where near the town anymore)
The gameplay is really just bog-standard MMO, with a focus on PvP and an over-all goal for players at high level (with low-level goals contributing to the top level ones) - however, world RvR goals (atleast on the server I was on) tend to be on a round-robin rotation. Destruction's army takes site 1, Order takes 2, 3 is left open, Destruction moves to 2, Order to 3, etc, then Destruction to 3, Order to 1 and so on. Each massive army seeing no actual Combat, except against the meagre force of enemy NPCs guarding the checkpoints, and all they're really doing is farming renown, XP and Influence. it's just another MMO - one with alot of teething troubles that has come out at the same time as a plethora of other MMO's, including the WoW Expansion. I hope the coming content patch makes up for it's lack of polish, otherwise it's heading for the same fate as Tabula Rasa
I remember having to manually drag.dlls and.ini files to the windows directory just to get PHP 4 to run on apache 1.3
the random DLLs are a 3rd party issue, not MS. apart from that there's nothing really wrong with dlls in program files or configs in D&S (as, amazingly, it's called documents and SETTINGS) you make no qualification as to the place in the reg... ah shit i've just been trolled haven't it?
I predict that tomorrow, every market will crash and we'll be plunged into an economic Dark Age that will last 500 years...
By your logic, I have a 50 - 50 chance that it'll happen... so If I keep making that prediction day on day, it SHOULD happen by the end of the week atleast!
only if you use XP 64, which is a wobbly turd. XP 32 won't recognise all your RAM... alot of people are waiting for the first proper - stable out of the box - 64-bit Windows (of which XP was naff, and Vista 64 had alot of driver issues out of the box but are mostly fixed with patches) and Windows 7 is shaping up to be that.
actually, last night i was walking round in just jeans and a t-shirt... considering the forcast was a snowstorm heading in from Siberia it was rather mild
the funny thing is, Winter in Glasgow, atleast, is generally drier than summer (in which the rain is usually torrential) - no idea why that is, but it's rained about 3 times in the last month here.
The higlands need energy for three things:
Lighting, Milking and if they're lucky, Cooking that is, if they're near the national grid. If not then they'll be using Diesel generators and will only get their milking and cooking done in darkness. Unless they have a Gas stove.
Because Red Dwarf got absolutly no closure from the final episode, and there has ALWAYS been talk of doing more (either another series, or a film) - They were in talks with the same company that made Farscape in order to film a possible movie in Australia. That was a few years back now and nothing came of it.
Whereas Blade Runner was a one off piece of genius based on a book which was also a stand-alone one off piece of genius. (which have spawned 'cannonical fan sequels' here here and here'
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If you can code with C, try Cube - otherwise you might want to look into the (now long-in-the-tooth) Adobe Director - the language (you can use Lingo or a Javascript-esque version of Lingo) is a bit odd sometimes, and your games will most likely come out looking like something from 1999 rather than 2009, but it's good for people who really don't want to code much. With the added bonus that you can run Director apps in Browsers using the Shockwave plugin.
And to be honest it does reek of unfinished. The graphics are sub-par, the animations are buggy and jerky at times. There are places you can get stuck and unable to move on certain prolifically-placed doodads - and the /stuck command requires you to wait 30 seconds while it logs you out (which btw is another annoyance, you can't even select 'exit now' when you want to quit game and HAVE to wait 30s before it closes)
There is no antroscopic filtering (As far as I can find, the advanced graphics settings are laughably minimal) and thus all the repeated paths and textures look gritty and pixellated even on a half-decent rig (4Gb Ram, 2.4Ghz Quad core, Nvidia 8800 GT - pretty average now). There are animation issues on Characters about 10m away, where it begins to look like a stop-motion effect. When in a dungeon full of skeletons it's like being in Jason and the Argonauts.
The interface is a bit crap too, my Chat window is obscured by something called a 'tactics bar' which I can't seem to move or hide, and while I can read the chat, I can't actually see what i'm typing until I hit enter and say it.
The game itself does quite well in blurring the lines between Player vs Player and Player vs Environment with experience gained through questing and PvP, and the idea of two targets (one enemy, one friendly) is interesting - it does lead to situations where I leave a town having got my quests, go into combat and attempt to heal myself, but instead try and heal the NPC I just got the quest from (despite being no-where near the town anymore)
The gameplay is really just bog-standard MMO, with a focus on PvP and an over-all goal for players at high level (with low-level goals contributing to the top level ones) - however, world RvR goals (atleast on the server I was on) tend to be on a round-robin rotation. Destruction's army takes site 1, Order takes 2, 3 is left open, Destruction moves to 2, Order to 3, etc, then Destruction to 3, Order to 1 and so on. Each massive army seeing no actual Combat, except against the meagre force of enemy NPCs guarding the checkpoints, and all they're really doing is farming renown, XP and Influence.
it's just another MMO - one with alot of teething troubles that has come out at the same time as a plethora of other MMO's, including the WoW Expansion.
I hope the coming content patch makes up for it's lack of polish, otherwise it's heading for the same fate as Tabula Rasa
I think most /.ers can relate to a man who denys women his essence. although not by choice i'm sure.
I remember having to manually drag .dlls and .ini files to the windows directory just to get PHP 4 to run on apache 1.3
the random DLLs are a 3rd party issue, not MS.
apart from that there's nothing really wrong with dlls in program files or configs in D&S (as, amazingly, it's called documents and SETTINGS)
you make no qualification as to the place in the reg... ah shit i've just been trolled haven't it?
And then there's the Sgian dubh
if it's RFID then the speed of the sources shouldn't really matter all that much. You're not going to get much doppler shift on a source moving 70mph.
or you could just watch this
20 Delorian Time Machines - with enough left over for a few thousand decent cups of tea
Gig's are the biggest source of Summer-time Wind Power in the world, didn't you know that? that's why they're always held in the countryside
I predict that tomorrow, every market will crash and we'll be plunged into an economic Dark Age that will last 500 years...
By your logic, I have a 50 - 50 chance that it'll happen... so If I keep making that prediction day on day, it SHOULD happen by the end of the week atleast!
only if you use XP 64, which is a wobbly turd. XP 32 won't recognise all your RAM...
alot of people are waiting for the first proper - stable out of the box - 64-bit Windows (of which XP was naff, and Vista 64 had alot of driver issues out of the box but are mostly fixed with patches) and Windows 7 is shaping up to be that.
no no no... the astronauts were perfectly sober...
it was the ground control team that were sozzled.
actually, last night i was walking round in just jeans and a t-shirt... considering the forcast was a snowstorm heading in from Siberia it was rather mild
I resent that, we in the West end are perfectly civilised. We recycle and everything. Our energy comes from turbines built into catflaps.
the funny thing is, Winter in Glasgow, atleast, is generally drier than summer (in which the rain is usually torrential) - no idea why that is, but it's rained about 3 times in the last month here.
The higlands need energy for three things:
Lighting, Milking and if they're lucky, Cooking
that is, if they're near the national grid. If not then they'll be using Diesel generators and will only get their milking and cooking done in darkness. Unless they have a Gas stove.
What about Spanish Whisk(e)y? is that an E or not?
To be fair it probably was just coloured fermented olive oil...
I can see the Moray firth becoming more popular for the traditional New Year skinny dip, mainly to drink the run-off from the Power plant.
unless by Zones he means:
Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, Outlands, Sunwell Isle and Northrend
but in that case he's a moron
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Weegie
that's correct.
you MAY have been reading the omnibus edition, which had IWCD and BTL in the one book, and then went out and bought BTL again.
it's Ouija, what you described is a board with a nail in it, wielded by a Glaswegien (AKA a Weegie)
Because Red Dwarf got absolutly no closure from the final episode, and there has ALWAYS been talk of doing more (either another series, or a film) - They were in talks with the same company that made Farscape in order to film a possible movie in Australia. That was a few years back now and nothing came of it.
Whereas Blade Runner was a one off piece of genius based on a book which was also a stand-alone one off piece of genius. (which have spawned 'cannonical fan sequels'
here
here
and here'
If bugging people on the phone at dinner time is a crime then my gran owes me ALOT of money then :)
Looks like the 3rd world will be running intels Classmate then :|