I'm a homeschooler currently, in high school, and I basically agree. for the first 14 years of my life I had little or no social interaction because of wacky psycho-conservative Christian parents trying to shelter me, and it's a problem I never recognized until recently. I've been socially crippled in a lot of ways that are going to affect me for my whole life.
the bright side of homeschooling is, however, that I've come to appreciate the time that I have by myself, alone, for deep thoughts and such. that's an advantage I have that some homeschoolers really don't.
generally homeschoolers end up either TREMENDOUSLY insecure, or so sheltered and deluded that they think they're ok. it's really sad how some turn out.. but if given the chance, I wouldn't change how I was raised at all, because it's helped me build character I may not have otherwise. OTOH, perhaps nullifying everything I just said, I'm definitely sending my kids to public school.:)
not much more to say than is in the subject. Deus Ex didn't ship with multiplayer and there were no plans for it to have it, though they did release development tools for single-player modifications of the game, which was pretty cool. I enjoyed Deus Ex a lot myself.... still working on beating it, actually, but the horrible spectre known as Diablo II has hooked me with its vile claws.
Damn you, I was going to mention the BOFH first.:) Normally that wouldn't warrant a reply, BUT...
Here's a useful snippet. This is the address to the *complete* BOFH archives.. I don't think this can be disputed as it's the author's own page, and has material as recent as 1999!
I've been reading this for about three weeks now off and on... damn good reading.
Anyone read 'A Spell for Chameleon' by Piers Anthony? The main character, Bink, had a magic talent, which was luck... he always managed to get out of predicaments and he could not be killed, essentially. Could it be that Jar Jar is unconsciously wielding the force in this way? Because you see him get in stupid situations but never *quite* gets killed... but that's kind of dumb. --- You know what? I didn't think about the name correlation until I wrote this. Interesting.
'Jar Jar could Boba Fett' ? Christ, man, who came up with that load of BS?
As for Jar Jar being an integral part of the storyline, I hope to hell he's Anakin's first victim as Vader.
okay. let's clear things up. model = 3d object player model = 3d object with animations skin = painted texture applied to model. as for Jar Jar, I actually made a Quake 2 model of it which was, unfortunately, never finished. I've thought about doing it for Quake 3, and even had some requests for that, but that's not really feasible due to the three-part model system Quake 3 has... the head model can't have any animations, and that can't be changed, so Jar-Jar's ears would be poking through his body pretty much all the time, and that'd be uuuugly.
this whole thing more than likely wouldn't be any sort of issue if the media hadn't twisted it into something it's not.
let's speak from the teenage demographic everyone seems so concerned about. I'm 15, home-schooled, and have had a computer of my own since I was 8. Once a month I go out to shoot guns and set up targets with my big brother, and, yes, I play violent video games, and even plan to make a career in game development.
I also daily listen to heavy metal.
in addition to this, my parents are ultraconservative Christians and can be, at times, overbearing or excessively hard on me. some of their beliefs and perceptions are utterly absurd and have ended up hurting me mentally or physically, though completely unintentionally.
all of my friends honestly expect me to go crazy and kill a bunch of people in a murderous rage, just because of that combination of factors. bullsh*t.
despite the fact that my parents have not offered me the best childhood I could have had, they raised me with a strong sense of reality (no Santa, no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy, no monsters, no ghosts ("except the Holy Spirit!"), nothing like that of any kind) and my personality and life are built on a strong moral foundation. I can tell the difference between what's real and what's not and frankly that seems like the biggest problem to me in these school shootings, if we're looking to blame something. honestly, these kids may have been perfectly sane and WANTED to kill people and terrorize their school. who knows?
when I play a game it's usually to relieve pent-up aggression. soldier of fortune is a good, recent example. the damage system in the game registers head shots, neck shots, chest shots, stomach shots, groin shots, arm shots and leg shots, and all the parts change dynamically (shoot in head, head is gone and gushes blood, shoot in neck, grasps neck and tries to hold in throat, shoot stomach, intestines spill out, shoot arm\leg, arm\leg falls off and sprays blood). that's a great game for me because instead of actually physically killing someone (or myself) I release my anger on these tiny little computer-generated things, and I feel better. it's my choice whether or not I should take that into the real world or not, and I'm fully aware of that.
hoo yeah! that's what I'm talkin about.:) I'd DEFINITELY buy this thing. at the moment I have a burner, and I burn my favorite mp3s onto audio CDs so I can listen to them. this would be a tremendously useful tool to me, so I can concentrate on saving my blank CDRs for important documents and system backups.
but, man, $750?:( time to start collecting loose change...
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...Metacreation's stuff is already very stable and useable...
Stable? Sure. Usable? Sure. Efficient? No. Imagine the memory requirements for their programs with their 100% eyecandy interfaces... probably (wild guess) 10mb at the least just for the interface and the little buttons. Just give me Lightwave's interface and I'm happy...
It'd be kind of funny seeing what their programs would look like in Linux though, I'm not a Linux user myself but I've used it before, and MetaCreations software is the EXACT opposite of Linux: Eyecandy over functionality.
Dialpad isn't really *that* great. It has its problems... including being unusable on anything less than cable, and sometimes not even then. But you have a point.
this is a good idea and all, but just think of how power like this could be abused... it's obvious that it's infringing on your freedom, not that I'm condoning the nazi viewpoint, but what if they crack down on another group next, the KKK, let's say; can they really even do that? what after that? eventually even innocent groups and minorities and such could end up getting smacked down. I dunno, just a thought. it's too late to really think about this much past what I've said already. forgive the rambling.
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second paragraph, '....advantage I have that some homeschoolers really don't...' change 'homeschoolers' to 'public schoolers' :\
I'm a homeschooler currently, in high school, and I basically agree. for the first 14 years of my life I had little or no social interaction because of wacky psycho-conservative Christian parents trying to shelter me, and it's a problem I never recognized until recently. I've been socially crippled in a lot of ways that are going to affect me for my whole life.
the bright side of homeschooling is, however, that I've come to appreciate the time that I have by myself, alone, for deep thoughts and such. that's an advantage I have that some homeschoolers really don't.
generally homeschoolers end up either TREMENDOUSLY insecure, or so sheltered and deluded that they think they're ok. it's really sad how some turn out.. but if given the chance, I wouldn't change how I was raised at all, because it's helped me build character I may not have otherwise. OTOH, perhaps nullifying everything I just said, I'm definitely sending my kids to public school. :)
not much more to say than is in the subject. Deus Ex didn't ship with multiplayer and there were no plans for it to have it, though they did release development tools for single-player modifications of the game, which was pretty cool. I enjoyed Deus Ex a lot myself.... still working on beating it, actually, but the horrible spectre known as Diablo II has hooked me with its vile claws.
Damn you, I was going to mention the BOFH first. :) Normally that wouldn't warrant a reply, BUT...
Here's a useful snippet. This is the address to the *complete* BOFH archives.. I don't think this can be disputed as it's the author's own page, and has material as recent as 1999!
I've been reading this for about three weeks now off and on... damn good reading.
is this expo representative of linux's public acception?
Anyone read 'A Spell for Chameleon' by Piers Anthony? The main character, Bink, had a magic talent, which was luck... he always managed to get out of predicaments and he could not be killed, essentially. Could it be that Jar Jar is unconsciously wielding the force in this way? Because you see him get in stupid situations but never *quite* gets killed... but that's kind of dumb. --- You know what? I didn't think about the name correlation until I wrote this. Interesting.
'Jar Jar could Boba Fett' ? Christ, man, who came up with that load of BS?
As for Jar Jar being an integral part of the storyline, I hope to hell he's Anakin's first victim as Vader.
what is maplethorpe?
did anyone else find this post vaguely ironic?
you misread; this is Quake *three*. It's full 32-bit color, no palette.
FYI, 32-bit is merely 24-bit color with an 8-bit alpha channel added for transparency effects.
okay. let's clear things up. model = 3d object player model = 3d object with animations skin = painted texture applied to model. as for Jar Jar, I actually made a Quake 2 model of it which was, unfortunately, never finished. I've thought about doing it for Quake 3, and even had some requests for that, but that's not really feasible due to the three-part model system Quake 3 has... the head model can't have any animations, and that can't be changed, so Jar-Jar's ears would be poking through his body pretty much all the time, and that'd be uuuugly.
wonders never cesium.
how handy! I didn't know that... thanks.
...how much more enjoyable this'll make Cinemax after midnight?
The secrets could be anything from warhead design to the number of gallons of water in a reactor's coolant reservoir.
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this whole thing more than likely wouldn't be any sort of issue if the media hadn't twisted it into something it's not.
let's speak from the teenage demographic everyone seems so concerned about. I'm 15, home-schooled, and have had a computer of my own since I was 8. Once a month I go out to shoot guns and set up targets with my big brother, and, yes, I play violent video games, and even plan to make a career in game development.
I also daily listen to heavy metal.
in addition to this, my parents are ultraconservative Christians and can be, at times, overbearing or excessively hard on me. some of their beliefs and perceptions are utterly absurd and have ended up hurting me mentally or physically, though completely unintentionally.
all of my friends honestly expect me to go crazy and kill a bunch of people in a murderous rage, just because of that combination of factors. bullsh*t.
despite the fact that my parents have not offered me the best childhood I could have had, they raised me with a strong sense of reality (no Santa, no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy, no monsters, no ghosts ("except the Holy Spirit!"), nothing like that of any kind) and my personality and life are built on a strong moral foundation. I can tell the difference between what's real and what's not and frankly that seems like the biggest problem to me in these school shootings, if we're looking to blame something. honestly, these kids may have been perfectly sane and WANTED to kill people and terrorize their school. who knows?
when I play a game it's usually to relieve pent-up aggression. soldier of fortune is a good, recent example. the damage system in the game registers head shots, neck shots, chest shots, stomach shots, groin shots, arm shots and leg shots, and all the parts change dynamically (shoot in head, head is gone and gushes blood, shoot in neck, grasps neck and tries to hold in throat, shoot stomach, intestines spill out, shoot arm\leg, arm\leg falls off and sprays blood). that's a great game for me because instead of actually physically killing someone (or myself) I release my anger on these tiny little computer-generated things, and I feel better. it's my choice whether or not I should take that into the real world or not, and I'm fully aware of that.
it's all about personal responsibility.
hoo yeah! that's what I'm talkin about. :) I'd DEFINITELY buy this thing. at the moment I have a burner, and I burn my favorite mp3s onto audio CDs so I can listen to them. this would be a tremendously useful tool to me, so I can concentrate on saving my blank CDRs for important documents and system backups.
but, man, $750? :( time to start collecting loose change...
Stable? Sure. Usable? Sure. Efficient? No. Imagine the memory requirements for their programs with their 100% eyecandy interfaces... probably (wild guess) 10mb at the least just for the interface and the little buttons. Just give me Lightwave's interface and I'm happy...
It'd be kind of funny seeing what their programs would look like in Linux though, I'm not a Linux user myself but I've used it before, and MetaCreations software is the EXACT opposite of Linux: Eyecandy over functionality.
Dialpad isn't really *that* great. It has its problems... including being unusable on anything less than cable, and sometimes not even then. But you have a point.
this is a good idea and all, but just think of how power like this could be abused... it's obvious that it's infringing on your freedom, not that I'm condoning the nazi viewpoint, but what if they crack down on another group next, the KKK, let's say; can they really even do that? what after that? eventually even innocent groups and minorities and such could end up getting smacked down. I dunno, just a thought. it's too late to really think about this much past what I've said already. forgive the rambling.