I remember that scene, and it was the worst scripted part of the game; not only do all the main characters *suddenly* hop onto a shuttle for NO REASON (other than to avoid their capture / death) when you start whatever mission you were planning to do, but once they've gone (including Shephard) and the attack begins, control of the game inexplicably shifts to another (albeit cool) character. It makes no sense what so ever, seriously disrupts game flow, and was the only thing I disliked in that game. I think OP should play more games so he/she can tell when something fishy and out of your control is about to happen (e.g. end of HL2 EP2), to me the biggest hint that bad things were about to happen was the departure of every single well known character from the Normandy on a shuttle to do the next mission, when there was no reason to do so.
I agree that this extends to pretty much all walks of life: the artsy fartsy folk put together some crazy idea and the engineers have to deal with the consequences.
You say this, and although it is mostly true, there are aspects to 4chan other than horse porn and pedobear. For example, yesterday I went to get bindings for the snowboard my wife bought me for christmas, and before I left I asked anon on/sp/ (sport) for some advice on bindings and snowboarding. I got a decent number of replies and even a badly drawn but helpful MSPaint diagram on how to learn turns. So it's not quite *all* rubbish. The advantage of asking 4chan over other boards being that you are guaranteed a reply in about 1 minute or none at all.
The government did not decide that people in my country shouldn't carry fire arms, the people decided that, on account of them being dangerous, and people generally being stupid, especially when in possession of an object that can push people on an ego trip over the edge.
One does not need to live in a city to be safe from wildlife that wish to eat you.
Of course I'm being defensive, you're the one with the gun buddy, but may I point out that some people may decide that "deem necessary" has a broader meaning than carrying your piece through the woods full of things that like to eat you.
Continuing from the previous point, perhaps my insulting of you and your people was jumping the gun a little, and I apologize for being a little trigger happy.
I was referring more to carrying a gun in every day life when you don't need it - i.e. protecting yourself because other people might be packing a firearm, which you probably knew of course, but decided to make your argument anyway.
As for having a clue, I would wager I have more of a clue than you, as my choice of place to live does not involve a walk through 1.2 km of forest full of things that want to eat me, but to each their own.
Finally, killing off all dangerous wildlife in the world would certainly be a herculean task, but perhaps we can start with the gun wielding hicks such as yourself, and move on from there.
I've found most of the Ph.D.s I've met to be fascinating and quirky people, especially the lecturers I had at University, I always felt bad for my Math teacher actually, he only ever smiled once in class - when someone actually asked him to prove something (I forget what it was now, something to do with moments of inertia). Most of the people in my class didn't think that Math was *that* important for game design... On the flip side, I've also met one of those profs with tenure whose class I had difficulty understanding because he didn't seem in the slightest bit interested in teaching it.
I was about to make my own post about this, it's fucking irritating (i'd rank it right up there with Microsoft's 'to the cloud!' ads), and I'm glad I didn't (potentially) have to eat the loss in karma. mod AC up informative.
Actually what you're describing is more an alpha build, a beta build should be a virtually stable and complete build requiring only 'minor' tweaks, and should be ready for large scale testing.
The worst thing is, the "Creatives" (as Wired magazine et al calls them) actually believe that they're doing something worth while. The fact that they think that "creative" is going onto istockphoto.com (the i is there to draw the soulless tight jean wearing hipsters in) and pasting a load of stock photos into a comp in a psd, dropping a few shadows and making the font large and thin is soul destroying. And the worst part? I have to animate it all. The latest fad in flash is 3D, so naturally they want every fucking piece of information presented in 3D some how, nevermind that Flash is disgustingly awful at rendering any kind of 3D. Argh. Sorry, I had to vent, I'm better now, maybe one day I'll find a job as a 3D graphics programmer like I always wanted (but not on iOS, please Christ, not on an Apple product, I want a real device).
Unfortunately, no matter what the origin of the symbol is, it is associated with Nazi Germany and the Third Reich in Europe and America. As the article states near the end, there isn't enough context in your game profile to explain what you mean by using the symbol, so most people will be offended.
The world did not exist before 1900, there is almost no one left alive who remembers the world before 1900. However, there are still many, many people who were affected by WW2 in some way, and they don't give a monkey's about what the swastika *used* to be used for before Adolf came by and started killing millions of people who didn't fit his ideological image of the perfect human being.
If the FCC figures out a way to make it work, you can bet that it'll be announced all over the place, entire companies will be formed just to market it, you'll see all kinds of dumb slogans on posters telling you how to text to 911, and rightfully so. The student's assumption that texting 911 would work with no proof that that was the case was a stupid one.
There are many, many things in the world that *should* work in some way, but don't. For example, Flash *should* allow me to prevent a MovieClip from resizing its children, but it doesn't. In this case, my assertion cost me several hours of productivity, in the case of the Virginia Tech students, it cost lives.
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I remember that scene, and it was the worst scripted part of the game; not only do all the main characters *suddenly* hop onto a shuttle for NO REASON (other than to avoid their capture / death) when you start whatever mission you were planning to do, but once they've gone (including Shephard) and the attack begins, control of the game inexplicably shifts to another (albeit cool) character. It makes no sense what so ever, seriously disrupts game flow, and was the only thing I disliked in that game. I think OP should play more games so he/she can tell when something fishy and out of your control is about to happen (e.g. end of HL2 EP2), to me the biggest hint that bad things were about to happen was the departure of every single well known character from the Normandy on a shuttle to do the next mission, when there was no reason to do so.
I remember that, it was excruciating.
I agree that this extends to pretty much all walks of life: the artsy fartsy folk put together some crazy idea and the engineers have to deal with the consequences.
You say this, and although it is mostly true, there are aspects to 4chan other than horse porn and pedobear. For example, yesterday I went to get bindings for the snowboard my wife bought me for christmas, and before I left I asked anon on /sp/ (sport) for some advice on bindings and snowboarding. I got a decent number of replies and even a badly drawn but helpful MSPaint diagram on how to learn turns. So it's not quite *all* rubbish. The advantage of asking 4chan over other boards being that you are guaranteed a reply in about 1 minute or none at all.
Depends upon how hot their fuel burns
A few quick points:
The government did not decide that people in my country shouldn't carry fire arms, the people decided that, on account of them being dangerous, and people generally being stupid, especially when in possession of an object that can push people on an ego trip over the edge.
One does not need to live in a city to be safe from wildlife that wish to eat you.
Of course I'm being defensive, you're the one with the gun buddy, but may I point out that some people may decide that "deem necessary" has a broader meaning than carrying your piece through the woods full of things that like to eat you.
Continuing from the previous point, perhaps my insulting of you and your people was jumping the gun a little, and I apologize for being a little trigger happy.
I was referring more to carrying a gun in every day life when you don't need it - i.e. protecting yourself because other people might be packing a firearm, which you probably knew of course, but decided to make your argument anyway.
As for having a clue, I would wager I have more of a clue than you, as my choice of place to live does not involve a walk through 1.2 km of forest full of things that want to eat me, but to each their own. Finally, killing off all dangerous wildlife in the world would certainly be a herculean task, but perhaps we can start with the gun wielding hicks such as yourself, and move on from there.
Being able to carry a gun is one of the truly dumbest "freedoms" you Americans have. You can keep it.
I've found most of the Ph.D.s I've met to be fascinating and quirky people, especially the lecturers I had at University, I always felt bad for my Math teacher actually, he only ever smiled once in class - when someone actually asked him to prove something (I forget what it was now, something to do with moments of inertia). Most of the people in my class didn't think that Math was *that* important for game design... On the flip side, I've also met one of those profs with tenure whose class I had difficulty understanding because he didn't seem in the slightest bit interested in teaching it.
I was about to make my own post about this, it's fucking irritating (i'd rank it right up there with Microsoft's 'to the cloud!' ads), and I'm glad I didn't (potentially) have to eat the loss in karma. mod AC up informative.
Actually what you're describing is more an alpha build, a beta build should be a virtually stable and complete build requiring only 'minor' tweaks, and should be ready for large scale testing.
Yeah I read somewhere that it got quite far up the Nintendo chain of command before they decided that Mario was not for the PC.
If I recall, it was the smooth side scrolling animation which made Keen legendary, before then side scrollers hadn't been done all that well on the PC
Shouldn't you be saving that for yourself when you need the heart bypass your country will refuse to pay for?
What we know for sure is that we did this to the sky, it was believed at the time that the hornets used solar power as their main energy source...
The worst thing is, the "Creatives" (as Wired magazine et al calls them) actually believe that they're doing something worth while. The fact that they think that "creative" is going onto istockphoto.com (the i is there to draw the soulless tight jean wearing hipsters in) and pasting a load of stock photos into a comp in a psd, dropping a few shadows and making the font large and thin is soul destroying. And the worst part? I have to animate it all. The latest fad in flash is 3D, so naturally they want every fucking piece of information presented in 3D some how, nevermind that Flash is disgustingly awful at rendering any kind of 3D. Argh. Sorry, I had to vent, I'm better now, maybe one day I'll find a job as a 3D graphics programmer like I always wanted (but not on iOS, please Christ, not on an Apple product, I want a real device).
With their largely useless contributions to programming blogs and forums everywhere.
"Hi I have made flash slideshow and it not working now, please fix and email to rajesh@popadom.com"
*wall of badly tabulated copy-pasted code follows*
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you go - Rick Astley, "Never Gonna Give You Up"
Unfortunately, no matter what the origin of the symbol is, it is associated with Nazi Germany and the Third Reich in Europe and America. As the article states near the end, there isn't enough context in your game profile to explain what you mean by using the symbol, so most people will be offended.
The world did not exist before 1900, there is almost no one left alive who remembers the world before 1900. However, there are still many, many people who were affected by WW2 in some way, and they don't give a monkey's about what the swastika *used* to be used for before Adolf came by and started killing millions of people who didn't fit his ideological image of the perfect human being.
If the FCC figures out a way to make it work, you can bet that it'll be announced all over the place, entire companies will be formed just to market it, you'll see all kinds of dumb slogans on posters telling you how to text to 911, and rightfully so. The student's assumption that texting 911 would work with no proof that that was the case was a stupid one.
Well then it may potentially suck to be one of your friends
Your reply is equally worthless
There are many, many things in the world that *should* work in some way, but don't. For example, Flash *should* allow me to prevent a MovieClip from resizing its children, but it doesn't. In this case, my assertion cost me several hours of productivity, in the case of the Virginia Tech students, it cost lives.