Totally agree with your point here, but raised one question for me..
Would these types of games be easier to prduce were gamers less demanding of sophisticated graphics and dialogue?.
Something that produces text based storylines and conversation with a modern grpahical front end for enrything else would surely be easier to customize. People can "say" things from a large base of phrases, and the elimination of a character actor for each NPC would make this much less work.
im sure this could be worded better, but you get what i mean
Wrong. You aren't suppose to search for something your whole life, you're supposed to gather experiences. Do different things. Just experience them. Not go looking for something in particular, indifferent to the experiences as you go until you've found "it." There is no "it." If you think of it as "searching" you still don't get it. You, I think, never will.
Buggrit, I think i got a pre-release life.... i didnt get the manual explaining all these rules of how to play the game.
Even if i can find one for download (found a "book of the dead..." must be the manual for the sequel), I prefer treating My Life(tm) as a sandbox game and playing it the way I want to. Sure, its fun to see how anyone else plays it, but all i see here is bitching about base campers....
4 day weekend coming up and she has plans for 2 of them.. so i still get 48 hours locked in my office with "X2: The Threat" and i also get the joy of both seeing nature (we are going for some long walks) and being with the missus.
Admittedly without her I would be 50lbs heavier and only get up at night.
Most vending machines take paper money now.. and in europe we use these things called "debit cards" and "credit cards" - Christ, i buy airline tickets from a vending machine... and i aint found one of them for $5 or under
im a 29 year old gamer with 2 degrees and a crappy helpdesk job.. though it doesnt qualify me anymore than you to speak on behalf of 16-30's (thats one fuck of a range by the way... most 16 year old i consider "kids") I love to play the pig stacking game on the web.. just stacking pigs to nice music.
so whilst you are representatvie of you, i am representative of me..
and as my nan likes to say... "It takes all kinds to make a world"
at risk of replying to a troll.. Mary Magdalene was a hooker. the fact they had sex seems to be pretty well accepted. I got no probs bashing religion, but if you will do it, at least try to do it without sounding like a bigger idiot that those who believe the shit
@ first i thought that, but over the years it gets more and more bitter. really some of the comments arent just humour, they are downright nasty.
I have no problem with self derecation (goddamn im english, we have nothing left but to laugh at ourselves!) but putting ones-self down by slaggin goff others just isnt fair.
Why would geeks be trying to improve theri image.. Shit, I dont download the latest fifga so i'll be a hit with the girls. I do it coz i want to play it!
Like wise back in the day when 10 friends or so would get together for a lan party, it wasnt with the aim of being cool, it was cause we enjoyed it.
you have some serious self-image problem dude. Go see a fucking shrink or something.
"oooh, i know, lets go take the piss out of people for doing what i would like to do. but if i did it all the people who hate me would think im square!!"
Like as not probably no one likes you anyhow, so why give a fuck what they think??
alternatively if you really want friends, instead of putting down those of a simnilar mindset, try being nice to them, they probably enjoy the same shit you do, they just dont hide it.
This age of tech would be a lot different if half the geeks in the world decided to do something else coz it wasnt cool.
Wow, so we are all some level of geek here (or else why would we be using this site) yet constantly their are comments about geeks and body odour, lack of women, moroseness. Strikes me that the few making these comments gotta be the ones suffering these afflictions.
you know you can actually try to change things by bathing or something and not trying to transfer your issues to others. Im a geek and i work with many others. All of use have good home lives, most have long term girlfriends, and NO body odour problems. In fact well adjusted people.
Im sure the problem with you guys is some kinda elitism harking back to your school days when you were teased for geeky tendencies.. GROW THE FUCK UP!!! aint ya heard its cool to be a geek now?? for fcuks sake guys!!
Throughout society i witness the "jocks" from highschool who never grew up and live life into middle age playing on the fact they were once great at some sport or another and love their jobs in the toyota plant (which they have been in for 20 years) but shit, i had a rough time at school for liking computers and taking things apart just coz i could. I sure as hell dont wanna remind myself of this by taunting others the way that I was.
I now go to my old hometown occasionally and feel great knowing al lthe jovks got crappy jobs earning shit money and me and the couple of geek friends i kept in touch with drive sports cars and go to nice restaurants.. and..... we actually have other things to discuss than girls we shagged or people we beatup. (okay so i got little loving action til i was at uni and my fighting abilities amount to the 100 yard sprint).
mine pretty much is already.. I keep buying pda's then using them for a month or two before they find their way into a drawer.
I havent been without a cellphone since '94 so having a phone means my diary, addy book, rmeinders, notes are all in one place.
added to that the (somewhat crummy) camera and i have as much as i would ever use a pda for + it fits in the back pocket of my jeans. - oh yeah, i think it makes phone calls too:P
btw - the phone is a sonyericsson t610 and i love it..
Users manage all kinds of wonderful things. We support over 10,000 government (hence highly restricted policies) users and they manage to fuck up so much.. dont ask me how... they create mailbox folders, then lose them.. they delete the mailboxes they asked us for permissions to create. a whole catalgue of shit really. At the end of the day they will fuck it up because of ignorance, or quite commonly because they try to circumvent the policies applied.
We have the system pretty much locked down yet still take over 1000 calls a day and i would say 40-50% are user error and another 40-50% are instruction.. the rest of course is server fuckups.. then our mixed estate (both linux (red hat) and windows) is to blame (or at least us admins are).
Your comment is fair enough, but from my experince a fully locked down windows environment is no less secure than a fully locked linux one.
As the saying goes: Idiot proofing is limited as everyday nature provides a bigger idiot
I most of the above systems (Unix no longer and MAC i have littel contact with), though i come back to windows mostly. the reason i wouldn't write a linux virus? i see no point in it.
I support multiple OSes and various software systems, and to me the best use of my time isnt to write virii, its to actually get computers working.
(my linux servers take as much upkeep as the windows btw... biggest probs i have with windows is users screwing up their own systems as im sure they would do if we gave em linux desktops too.)
Please try to read some stuff about douglas. (even the "salmon of doubt" should give you enough back ground..
He considered himself a script writer and was happier writing mostly for radio and televison (doctor who anyone?)
Saying he was meant to be read is just silly. The guiy loved technology and media in all its forms (the web, games, books, radio, tv), i think douglas just _was_
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Totally agree with your point here, but raised one question for me..
Would these types of games be easier to prduce were gamers less demanding of sophisticated graphics and dialogue?.
Something that produces text based storylines and conversation with a modern grpahical front end for enrything else would surely be easier to customize. People can "say" things from a large base of phrases, and the elimination of a character actor for each NPC would make this much less work.
im sure this could be worded better, but you get what i mean
Buggrit, I think i got a pre-release life.... i didnt get the manual explaining all these rules of how to play the game.
Even if i can find one for download (found a "book of the dead..." must be the manual for the sequel), I prefer treating My Life(tm) as a sandbox game and playing it the way I want to. Sure, its fun to see how anyone else plays it, but all i see here is bitching about base campers....
wives are great for that arent they??
4 day weekend coming up and she has plans for 2 of them.. so i still get 48 hours locked in my office with "X2: The Threat" and i also get the joy of both seeing nature (we are going for some long walks) and being with the missus.
Admittedly without her I would be 50lbs heavier and only get up at night.
never left the USA huh?
Most vending machines take paper money now.. and in europe we use these things called "debit cards" and "credit cards" - Christ, i buy airline tickets from a vending machine... and i aint found one of them for $5 or under
by jove!! i do believe you're right!
i never did latin, so i bow to google... and it does seem to have more refs with Quod, than with Quad...
im a 29 year old gamer with 2 degrees and a crappy helpdesk job.. though it doesnt qualify me anymore than you to speak on behalf of 16-30's (thats one fuck of a range by the way... most 16 year old i consider "kids") I love to play the pig stacking game on the web.. just stacking pigs to nice music.
so whilst you are representatvie of you, i am representative of me..
and as my nan likes to say... "It takes all kinds to make a world"
El Al have been so successful by screening EVERYONE!.
I visited israel for 6 months back in '99 and spent 2 hours being quizzed by various security officials.
My profile??? I was 23, i am white C of E background, UK passport and had an Israeli "sponsor" for my trip
So though i dont fit the islamic attacker profile, they sure as hell werent gonna let me through without questions.
As a sidnote though.. I do find it odd that i got INTO the country with no screening and was only grilled on exiting.....
buggrit!!!
mis-spelt my own nitpicking....
Quad Erat Demonstrandum
or so it is proved i am a dumbass
Quad Erat Demonstrandumum maybe?
So you are the fella leaving me al these blades? thought it was some psycho stalkler.
Thanks Chap!
And no matter how much you shout at them they will prattle on irregardless
Shame you all act like fucking retards when some scrawny tart shows her tit on TV though isnt it.
at risk of replying to a troll.. Mary Magdalene was a hooker. the fact they had sex seems to be pretty well accepted. I got no probs bashing religion, but if you will do it, at least try to do it without sounding like a bigger idiot that those who believe the shit
/me cries coz his is the only reply to this that got modded down :o( /me thinks fuck it and rolls a joint
America is a continent.. USA is one country in it. I know Americans is the accepted term, but I prefer USians too.
trust me Canadians dont really wanna be linked with the US, then theres the whole south/central america thing.
First time I have heard USians, but im gonna keep using it. full marks to the man who thought of it!!
In europe we are considered european, but each country considers themselves English or French or whatever.
simon and garfinkel....
@ first i thought that, but over the years it gets more and more bitter. really some of the comments arent just humour, they are downright nasty.
I have no problem with self derecation (goddamn im english, we have nothing left but to laugh at ourselves!) but putting ones-self down by slaggin goff others just isnt fair.
Why would geeks be trying to improve theri image.. Shit, I dont download the latest fifga so i'll be a hit with the girls. I do it coz i want to play it!
Like wise back in the day when 10 friends or so would get together for a lan party, it wasnt with the aim of being cool, it was cause we enjoyed it.
you have some serious self-image problem dude. Go see a fucking shrink or something.
"oooh, i know, lets go take the piss out of people for doing what i would like to do. but if i did it all the people who hate me would think im square!!"
Like as not probably no one likes you anyhow, so why give a fuck what they think??
alternatively if you really want friends, instead of putting down those of a simnilar mindset, try being nice to them, they probably enjoy the same shit you do, they just dont hide it.
This age of tech would be a lot different if half the geeks in the world decided to do something else coz it wasnt cool.
Wow, so we are all some level of geek here (or else why would we be using this site) yet constantly their are comments about geeks and body odour, lack of women, moroseness. Strikes me that the few making these comments gotta be the ones suffering these afflictions.
you know you can actually try to change things by bathing or something and not trying to transfer your issues to others. Im a geek and i work with many others. All of use have good home lives, most have long term girlfriends, and NO body odour problems. In fact well adjusted people.
Im sure the problem with you guys is some kinda elitism harking back to your school days when you were teased for geeky tendencies.. GROW THE FUCK UP!!! aint ya heard its cool to be a geek now?? for fcuks sake guys!!
Throughout society i witness the "jocks" from highschool who never grew up and live life into middle age playing on the fact they were once great at some sport or another and love their jobs in the toyota plant (which they have been in for 20 years) but shit, i had a rough time at school for liking computers and taking things apart just coz i could. I sure as hell dont wanna remind myself of this by taunting others the way that I was.
I now go to my old hometown occasionally and feel great knowing al lthe jovks got crappy jobs earning shit money and me and the couple of geek friends i kept in touch with drive sports cars and go to nice restaurants.. and..... we actually have other things to discuss than girls we shagged or people we beatup. (okay so i got little loving action til i was at uni and my fighting abilities amount to the 100 yard sprint).
Just a thought..
flame away!
mine pretty much is already.. I keep buying pda's then using them for a month or two before they find their way into a drawer.
:P
I havent been without a cellphone since '94 so having a phone means my diary, addy book, rmeinders, notes are all in one place.
added to that the (somewhat crummy) camera and i have as much as i would ever use a pda for + it fits in the back pocket of my jeans. - oh yeah, i think it makes phone calls too
btw - the phone is a sonyericsson t610 and i love it..
BLUETOOTH!!!
sorry. just got a pc bluetooth adaptor thinie. now my address book and diary on my phone are in synch with the pc.
well they were til ilost the damn adapter... soo tiny
Users manage all kinds of wonderful things. We support over 10,000 government (hence highly restricted policies) users and they manage to fuck up so much.. dont ask me how... they create mailbox folders, then lose them.. they delete the mailboxes they asked us for permissions to create. a whole catalgue of shit really. At the end of the day they will fuck it up because of ignorance, or quite commonly because they try to circumvent the policies applied.
We have the system pretty much locked down yet still take over 1000 calls a day and i would say 40-50% are user error and another 40-50% are instruction.. the rest of course is server fuckups.. then our mixed estate (both linux (red hat) and windows) is to blame (or at least us admins are).
Your comment is fair enough, but from my experince a fully locked down windows environment is no less secure than a fully locked linux one.
As the saying goes: Idiot proofing is limited as everyday nature provides a bigger idiot
I most of the above systems (Unix no longer and MAC i have littel contact with), though i come back to windows mostly. the reason i wouldn't write a linux virus? i see no point in it.
I support multiple OSes and various software systems, and to me the best use of my time isnt to write virii, its to actually get computers working.
(my linux servers take as much upkeep as the windows btw... biggest probs i have with windows is users screwing up their own systems as im sure they would do if we gave em linux desktops too.)
Please try to read some stuff about douglas. (even the "salmon of doubt" should give you enough back ground..
He considered himself a script writer and was happier writing mostly for radio and televison (doctor who anyone?)
Saying he was meant to be read is just silly. The guiy loved technology and media in all its forms (the web, games, books, radio, tv), i think douglas just _was_