I have almost all Pratchett's Discworld novels, I read a lot of Asimov and Vance and Heinlein (never finished any of his books though, that guy is nuts), and I also have all the books written by J.V. Jones (amongst others). Now I'm tired of both SF and fantasy. About a year ago I got "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens, from a girl friend of mine. After 300 pages the coin fell. That guy is fantastic! The 19th century is simpler than our age, and that leaves a lot of room for character development, something Dickens was really very good at. And to think that he wrote so many thick books without a typewriter! They were invented two years after his death, the poor man. Now I am working on a collection of 19th century literature. Let's see when I get bored with that! For now, I am happy.
Not to start a flame war here, but I think you're absolutely right. Religion is invented by people to make more sense of their world. Isn't it comfortable to contribute everything that happens to you and everything that you see and don't understand to some all-knowing, omnipresent being?
I think that is the main reason why people now love fantasy so much. In the decades before us people dreamed of a world made better by technology. Now we have all the technology we can imagine (well almost) so we have to dream about something else.
"Regrettably, with 2001 having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying: 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well, we all waited till that year and we didn't get anything at all like that . ..," said Sawyer. "So part of it is that the readership has bailed."
And a while later he does it himself:
Sawyer hopes science fiction will continue as a form of sociological commentary, but worries that by 2030, the genre may be a thing of the past, even if its trademarks are gradually being co-opted into the mainstream: Witness Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-nominated Oryx and Crake, for instance, which dealt with a future world suffering from genetic engineering gone virulently wrong.
Not so smart, that. Never predict anything concerning science or science fiction. You will always be wrong.
I have an iMac G3 and what I really liked about the mouse that came with it is the 'instant RSI' factor. It's designed to have you run to the store immediately to buy a proper mouse, while wringing jour wrist in a futile effort to get some life back into it.
Imagine the thrill and excitement of playing Syberia or Myst (I, II, III, Uru, IV (insert your favorite)) on a big screen like that! Especially for the spectators!;-)
In total it's 40 MB. I have until approx. 15:00 CET, after that I am gone for about two weeks. So if you have an FTP server I can put it there. I have a website but that can only hold 20 MB.
I never said the adventure genre died, I said it laid dormant. And it's not so simple as "If you want adventure games, BUY adventure games." If a lot of people don't want adventure games, they are not going to buy them and new games are not going to be developed. It's not for nothing that LucasArts cancelled Full Throttle II as well as Sam 'n' Max II.
But I guess you're right about The Longest Journey. I have only played the demo so I had to use Syberia as an example. Besides, I think many more people know about Syberia than about TLJ.
They made a teaser in the form of the Tex Murphy Radio Theater. Six episodes of audio about what happened after the ending of Overseer. Very well made too. I have them on my harddisk but I can't find them anywhere on the Internet anymore though.
After approximately 5 years of lying dormant the adventure genre is finally getting back on steam. I guess you can say that Syberia is the game that put the adventure genre back on the map. Now there are a lot of interesting games that are youst released or in the making. Check Adventuregamers.com and Just adventure + for details! I am not in any way connected to these sites, just very interested in new adventure games. The future is looking good! If only they would start making a new Tex Murphy game!
Does her offspring walk on their hind legs? And then still it's not evolution, just 'scientific development' from the ape's point of view. If you understand what I mean.
To me an important factor in gameplay is replayability. When you have finished a game it should be worth playing again, like a good book is worth reading multiple times.
The fact that there are 1 billion Windows users on this planet means that there are 5 billion inhabitants of Earth that can easily learn to use Linux, Mac OS or some other civilised OS!
I had something similar. I was logged in as root and in/etc when I issued the command: rm -rf * The resulting error messages were quite funny but I had to reinstall the whole system. Luckily I did this on a system that was just installed and running for about 5 minutes so I didn't lose valuable data.
My oldfashioned car also does nanotechnology. It makes carbon dioxide and water (and some other chemicals too) atom by atom from the petrol in its fuel tank. And it can do that whilst moving too! Sounds unbelievable isn't it?
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I have almost all Pratchett's Discworld novels, I read a lot of Asimov and Vance and Heinlein (never finished any of his books though, that guy is nuts), and I also have all the books written by J.V. Jones (amongst others). Now I'm tired of both SF and fantasy. About a year ago I got "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens, from a girl friend of mine. After 300 pages the coin fell. That guy is fantastic! The 19th century is simpler than our age, and that leaves a lot of room for character development, something Dickens was really very good at. And to think that he wrote so many thick books without a typewriter! They were invented two years after his death, the poor man. Now I am working on a collection of 19th century literature. Let's see when I get bored with that! For now, I am happy.
Not to start a flame war here, but I think you're absolutely right. Religion is invented by people to make more sense of their world. Isn't it comfortable to contribute everything that happens to you and everything that you see and don't understand to some all-knowing, omnipresent being?
I am confused now... ;-)
I mean decades past... sorry.
I think that is the main reason why people now love fantasy so much. In the decades before us people dreamed of a world made better by technology. Now we have all the technology we can imagine (well almost) so we have to dream about something else.
First Sawyer says:
.," said Sawyer. "So part of it is that the readership has bailed."
"Regrettably, with 2001 having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying: 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well, we all waited till that year and we didn't get anything at all like that . .
And a while later he does it himself:
Sawyer hopes science fiction will continue as a form of sociological commentary, but worries that by 2030, the genre may be a thing of the past, even if its trademarks are gradually being co-opted into the mainstream: Witness Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-nominated Oryx and Crake, for instance, which dealt with a future world suffering from genetic engineering gone virulently wrong.
Not so smart, that. Never predict anything concerning science or science fiction. You will always be wrong.
We should rename /. to -.
Oil companies would be richer than ever if this pans out. The oil won't stop being needed, it'll just stop being burned.
So plastic will be much cheaper than it is now in the future. And that us a good thing, since plastic is fantastic!
Do you use the ActiveX plugin with Mozilla? How do you switch it off? Is moving the plugin file to another directory the only possibility?
If you pay three times as much it'll last at least 10 times as long. So what's the cheap option?
I have an iMac G3 and what I really liked about the mouse that came with it is the 'instant RSI' factor. It's designed to have you run to the store immediately to buy a proper mouse, while wringing jour wrist in a futile effort to get some life back into it.
Imagine the thrill and excitement of playing Syberia or Myst (I, II, III, Uru, IV (insert your favorite)) on a big screen like that! Especially for the spectators! ;-)
I worked for a professor once who was such a bad speller that it looked like he just banged the keyboard for a while and pressed the Send button...
Mail me @ VB21@planet.nl
In total it's 40 MB. I have until approx. 15:00 CET, after that I am gone for about two weeks. So if you have an FTP server I can put it there. I have a website but that can only hold 20 MB.
I never said the adventure genre died, I said it laid dormant. And it's not so simple as "If you want adventure games, BUY adventure games." If a lot of people don't want adventure games, they are not going to buy them and new games are not going to be developed. It's not for nothing that LucasArts cancelled Full Throttle II as well as Sam 'n' Max II.
But I guess you're right about The Longest Journey. I have only played the demo so I had to use Syberia as an example. Besides, I think many more people know about Syberia than about TLJ.
You sound a lot like Randy Sluganski (he's the editor of Just Adventure +).
They made a teaser in the form of the Tex Murphy Radio Theater. Six episodes of audio about what happened after the ending of Overseer. Very well made too. I have them on my harddisk but I can't find them anywhere on the Internet anymore though.
After approximately 5 years of lying dormant the adventure genre is finally getting back on steam. I guess you can say that Syberia is the game that put the adventure genre back on the map. Now there are a lot of interesting games that are youst released or in the making. Check Adventuregamers.com and Just adventure + for details! I am not in any way connected to these sites, just very interested in new adventure games. The future is looking good! If only they would start making a new Tex Murphy game!
Does her offspring walk on their hind legs? And then still it's not evolution, just 'scientific development' from the ape's point of view. If you understand what I mean.
To me an important factor in gameplay is replayability. When you have finished a game it should be worth playing again, like a good book is worth reading multiple times.
The fact that there are 1 billion Windows users on this planet means that there are 5 billion inhabitants of Earth that can easily learn to use Linux, Mac OS or some other civilised OS!
Well, in a time span of 130 years once a decade is frequently.
I had something similar. I was logged in as root and in /etc when I issued the command: rm -rf * The resulting error messages were quite funny but I had to reinstall the whole system. Luckily I did this on a system that was just installed and running for about 5 minutes so I didn't lose valuable data.
My oldfashioned car also does nanotechnology. It makes carbon dioxide and water (and some other chemicals too) atom by atom from the petrol in its fuel tank. And it can do that whilst moving too! Sounds unbelievable isn't it?