I don't have the bandwidth to install, decrypt and update the game before I can play it. I realize this is part of Steam, but when I bought the game Steam was new and I didn't know this. Back then I also had uncapped access. Things change so fast in 3rd world countries.
Owning the original discs, but not being able to use them as expected, makes me feel sad and cheated.
I think I'll get a cracked copy, do you hear that, Steam?!
I bought Half Life 2 in a store back then, I can't even play it anymore because of the DRM. For me Steam failed, and then I bailed. No thanks! I support Indie developers now!
The "7 scientific reasons a zombie outbreak would fail" is a pretty fun read.
I however believe, given the right circumstances, that a zombie outbreak would succeed. In that spirit of the same fun, here is my rebuttal to those points.
#7. They Have Too Many Natural Predators Humans are too smart and well armed to be at risk. Maggots will infest zombies, eating out their eyes making them useless.
Reply: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, as Einstein said. Fear is a primal emotion that we have forgotten how to control with out placid controlled lives. A horrific event like an outbreak would shock many into stupidity, and given guns, would even kill other humans by mistake. So much for being well-armed. Zombies do rot, they are short-term animals, but don't underestimate their other senses heightening to compensate.
#6/5. They Can't Take the Heat / Cold Heat promotes bacterial growth in the dead's gut, causing them to bloat and explode
Reply: No problem here, it's pretty much a given as zombies digestive systems become dead, their gut fills with any meat they can tear from anything that moves, until they burst open. That won't stop them from eating more though. This comes from their brains being shut down, except for the primal need to feed. I see them freezing, this is a good advantage for the living.
#4. Biting is a Terrible Way to Spread a Disease Nobody is going to be having sex with a zombie.
Reply: I wouldn't say nobody... OK back on topic. In medicine, viruses and bacteria can all spread via any of the following means:
* droplet contact (coughing or sneezing) * direct (bodily fluids) * indirect (touching soil contamination or a contaminated surface) * airborne, fecal-oral transmission (contaminated food or water) * vector borne (via insects or animals)
Biting is not the only means, and we should not discount any of the others just because Hollywood says so, or they didn't focus on those aspects. In reality, any of those transmission vectors are possible.
#3. They Can't Heal from Day to Day Damage Claims zombies are clumsy, and accumulated damage will be their end.
Reply: Zombies are not long-term creatures by any means. They rot, they don't heal, they just want to feed. That's why they are horrific and, well... zombies. But since they don't feel pain (from their broken CNS) they just keep on coming, or die trying. They can't be scared off.
#2. The Landscape is Full of Zombie-Proof Barriers
Reply: Naturally outbreaks will be focused in populated cities, I don't see how a picture of a mountain applies here. Zombies will undoubtedly walk off ledges and fall down stairs, but they are also mindless beasts who will behave unpredictably. Remember that we can't just assume the outbreak will be contained to the streets either, if the undead were shambling in a corporate head office (like they do sometimes), then the living are at risk in a enclosed space. Boundaries work both ways.
#1. Weapons and the People Who Use Them Claims the total gun owners, private and governmental, is enough to blow an outbreak to hell and back.
Reply: This is one thing we have going for us, but we have to get the outbreak under control before things get too fucked, ie people panic and start killing the 'wrong ones'. Considering "if Homo sapiens are good at one thing, it's killing other things", remember how we learned that fact in the first place. I recommend a melee skill, in case your gun jams, you run out of ammo, or you just feel like taking a steel pipe to that mushy skull and paint the wall with brains. Gaaaaargh!
That is ironic, wow. Quake was revolutionary, in that it moved away from pixel/raster rendering to polygons, but it's lineage came directly from real, fun games too. That's why Quake pioneered such new gaming techniques such as rocket jumping, fragging and infatuation with zombies:)
Full disclosure: I spent a few hours last night paying Death Rally, and wish I was at home now so I can play more!
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I hear you buddy, it feels overkill. I feel the same about mono, while I'm a (full disclosure).Net dev at that. Unless the paradigm in the future shifts so that RDBMS' become the new file system. shudder.
Never a war for me too. I used both, each has a different what-ya-ma-call-it... fuck, blank... philosophy! Each has their own philosophy towards the user experience. You gel with the one, or the other, and some folks can switch between the two and not care about the differences.
Kinda like being bisexual, a double adapter, open-minded to exploration and pene... [cut explicit rambling here]
Does this mean I should stop eating chocolate while using my touchscreen toy?:/
No seriously, it might work 92% of the time, but that's assuming the user just unlocked and did not use the device. Using it would introduce noise and break the unlock-smudges, dropping the percentage closer to zero the more they use it.
Everyone should keep in mind that this is an evolutionary process. Changing the collective mindset takes generations upon generations, and then some. But it can be done, if that idea carries forward, and it grows with each generation.
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I don't have the bandwidth to install, decrypt and update the game before I can play it. I realize this is part of Steam, but when I bought the game Steam was new and I didn't know this. Back then I also had uncapped access. Things change so fast in 3rd world countries.
Owning the original discs, but not being able to use them as expected, makes me feel sad and cheated.
I think I'll get a cracked copy, do you hear that, Steam?!
I bought Half Life 2 in a store back then, I can't even play it anymore because of the DRM. For me Steam failed, and then I bailed. No thanks! I support Indie developers now!
There are some people on the tubes that still actually _read_ posts! For topics that we find interesting at least.
A /. story that holds my attention for more than a day, amazing! This calls for an ASCII emoticon for zombies
f(O_o)f
Resting?! Look, matey, I know a dead zombie when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
And there are two #6's and no #4 in TFA to boot!
Graaaagh!
The "7 scientific reasons a zombie outbreak would fail" is a pretty fun read.
I however believe, given the right circumstances, that a zombie outbreak would succeed. In that spirit of the same fun, here is my rebuttal to those points.
#7. They Have Too Many Natural Predators
Humans are too smart and well armed to be at risk. Maggots will infest zombies, eating out their eyes making them useless.
Reply:
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, as Einstein said. Fear is a primal emotion that we have forgotten how to control with out placid controlled lives. A horrific event like an outbreak would shock many into stupidity, and given guns, would even kill other humans by mistake. So much for being well-armed.
Zombies do rot, they are short-term animals, but don't underestimate their other senses heightening to compensate.
#6/5. They Can't Take the Heat / Cold
Heat promotes bacterial growth in the dead's gut, causing them to bloat and explode
Reply:
No problem here, it's pretty much a given as zombies digestive systems become dead, their gut fills with any meat they can tear from anything that moves, until they burst open. That won't stop them from eating more though. This comes from their brains being shut down, except for the primal need to feed.
I see them freezing, this is a good advantage for the living.
#4. Biting is a Terrible Way to Spread a Disease
Nobody is going to be having sex with a zombie.
Reply:
I wouldn't say nobody... OK back on topic. In medicine, viruses and bacteria can all spread via any of the following means:
* droplet contact (coughing or sneezing)
* direct (bodily fluids)
* indirect (touching soil contamination or a contaminated surface)
* airborne, fecal-oral transmission (contaminated food or water)
* vector borne (via insects or animals)
Biting is not the only means, and we should not discount any of the others just because Hollywood says so, or they didn't focus on those aspects. In reality, any of those transmission vectors are possible.
#3. They Can't Heal from Day to Day Damage
Claims zombies are clumsy, and accumulated damage will be their end.
Reply:
Zombies are not long-term creatures by any means. They rot, they don't heal, they just want to feed. That's why they are horrific and, well... zombies. But since they don't feel pain (from their broken CNS) they just keep on coming, or die trying. They can't be scared off.
#2. The Landscape is Full of Zombie-Proof Barriers
Reply:
Naturally outbreaks will be focused in populated cities, I don't see how a picture of a mountain applies here. Zombies will undoubtedly walk off ledges and fall down stairs, but they are also mindless beasts who will behave unpredictably. Remember that we can't just assume the outbreak will be contained to the streets either, if the undead were shambling in a corporate head office (like they do sometimes), then the living are at risk in a enclosed space. Boundaries work both ways.
#1. Weapons and the People Who Use Them
Claims the total gun owners, private and governmental, is enough to blow an outbreak to hell and back.
Reply:
This is one thing we have going for us, but we have to get the outbreak under control before things get too fucked, ie people panic and start killing the 'wrong ones'. Considering "if Homo sapiens are good at one thing, it's killing other things", remember how we learned that fact in the first place. I recommend a melee skill, in case your gun jams, you run out of ammo, or you just feel like taking a steel pipe to that mushy skull and paint the wall with brains. Gaaaaargh!
Links:
original article: http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-r
It all went down hill with Muffy the Vampire Layer IMHO
So Hollywood caters to those who it appeals to, and now we have Zombie Strippers!
mod Interesting!
Internet doesn't make people stupid, correct, but they all manage to congregate in a very special place all the same
Seconded!
It's more exciting if you don't know where it's cumming from! C'mon boys!
And don't forget all the fun we had with ActiveX controls in web pages!
That would have been around 2003:
In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc.[10] In July 2003, Overture itself was taken over by Yahoo!.[11]
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However it's interesting to go back in time and look at altavista.com and yahoo.com :)
Can /. be /.'ed? Stay tuned to find out...
Wow, uber thanks for this link!
That is ironic, wow. Quake was revolutionary, in that it moved away from pixel/raster rendering to polygons, but it's lineage came directly from real, fun games too. That's why Quake pioneered such new gaming techniques such as rocket jumping, fragging and infatuation with zombies :)
Full disclosure: I spent a few hours last night paying Death Rally, and wish I was at home now so I can play more!
I hear you buddy, it feels overkill. I feel the same about mono, while I'm a (full disclosure) .Net dev at that.
Unless the paradigm in the future shifts so that RDBMS' become the new file system. shudder.
Never a war for me too. I used both, each has a different what-ya-ma-call-it... fuck, blank... philosophy! Each has their own philosophy towards the user experience. You gel with the one, or the other, and some folks can switch between the two and not care about the differences.
Kinda like being bisexual, a double adapter, open-minded to exploration and pene... [cut explicit rambling here]
Grammar does goes wonky around pretty girls
Does this mean I should stop eating chocolate while using my touchscreen toy? :/
No seriously, it might work 92% of the time, but that's assuming the user just unlocked and did not use the device. Using it would introduce noise and break the unlock-smudges, dropping the percentage closer to zero the more they use it.
I started reading Snow Crash two days ago.There is a car called the "Deliverator" in Death Rally. Awesome! (game shot)
Everyone should keep in mind that this is an evolutionary process. Changing the collective mindset takes generations upon generations, and then some. But it can be done, if that idea carries forward, and it grows with each generation.
"I began to stress that I would not find the famous weapon. Eventually I found the cheats, of course, and unlocked all the weapons"
FAIL, Stephen Totilo!