Sequential - very nice. Any idea how big the program is?
The Amiga used 880 kb disks that could apparently be formatted to store 984 kb, so those were the upper limits. But Sequential is interesting from an aesthetic perspective (lots of great artwork and music, and different kinds of effects), whereas Elevated is just very dull. ARTE is a great Amiga demo too. I don't like modern PC demos all that much.
The only thing that makes this impressive is that it fits into 4 kilobytes. As a 3D engine it's otherwise nothing special, and it's quite boring to watch. Not nearly as interesting as, say, Sequential.
Yeah, no kidding. I mean, Arab Americans don't do anything to stop Muslim extremism in the Middle East, therefore they get what they deserve, right?
They don't even do anything to stop Islamic extremism in their own neighborhoods. Some of them actually travel to conflict areas like Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to join the Jihad, or at least try to support it in some way. Muslims do little if anything to improve their reputation, but will cry an ocean of tears whenever someone is suspicious of them. Then they start issuing threats. Their problems are completely self-inflicted.
Work on your reading comprehension. Never once did the word "Islam" even appear in my post.
The guy was obviously referring to Muslims.
So are you playing ignorant, or are you really so uneducated that you've never heard of the IRA, one of the most infamous terrorist organizations operating in the western world?
So I should be afraid of Irish people based on one terrorist group that doesn't even really exist anymore?
Uhuh. Sure it is.
It is.
No, I'm trying to make him feel guilty for being an ignorant idiot.
Then why bring up the suburbs?
Seriously, get over the persecution complex. If you're rich and white, good for you. If you're rich, white, and ignorant of the real world, you deserve to be derided.
What if someone is rich, black and ignorant of the real world? Why are you turning this into a racial issue anyway?
Given you ascribed a "thug/terrorist stereotype" to two racial groups, I'm sorry, how is that *not* being racist? You literally described those things as stereotypes, and then applied them to racial groups. That is practically the definition of racism, you racist.
The original poster did not say that blacks and Muslims behave in a certain manner because of biological reasons, or because of some other inherent factor that they can't change. I still don't see the supposed racism. You're actually being more racist than he is by making this a racial issue and then essentially claiming that blacks and Muslims are inherently incapable of doing any wrong, or that they deserve special treatment.
To assume the former == the latter is every bit as bigoted as racism.
This is a completely arbitrary and nonsensical statement.
b) Ascribing such violent beliefs to someone based on their race *is racism*, you fucking idiot.
Did I say race has anything to do with it? No, but you just did.
Who said anything about feeling guilty about their lives? The Slashdotters I'm referring to shouldn't feel guilty about their social status. They should feel guilty about their *spectacular ignorance*.
And naturally, only white middle-to-upper class people can be ignorant, unlike those noble savages in the ghetto who are keeping it real.
Or do you look suspiciously at anyone who might be Irish? Yeah... didn't think so.
Is there some reason why one should be suspicious of Irish people?
Hint: You average Muslim extremist most likely isn't living in your cloistered little suburb. They're busy blowing themselves up in Afghanistan or Iraq.
The West is crawling with Muslim fundamentalists.
Notice how you are trying to make the original poster feel guilty about him supposedly living in a "cloistered little suburb." Why, exactly, is it wrong for someone to live in the suburbs, and not in the ghetto? Is it more "authentic" to live in the ghetto or something?
Ahh... now I get it. You're a racist son of a bitch. Fair 'nuff. But the least you could do is just admit it, rather than trying to couch it in conservative values.
I didn't see anything racist about his statement. Care to elaborate?
Said as someone who's never actually experienced racism.
You go tell that to your average Arabic man who's avoided on the street by people who are afraid of them because he "looks scary".
What does that have to do with racism? Just because he is "brown" (as liberals would say) doesn't mean someone is afraid of him for that reason. Maybe they are more afraid of his presumed religion, Islam, than his ethnicity.
Sorry, racism is alive and well.
If that's the case, why do liberals spend 99% of their time complaining about things that do not actually constitute racism? Kind of like how feminists spend all their time complaining about, or making up, non-issues.
Seriously, the comments on this article point out one thing very clearly: Your average slashdotter is a middle-to-high income white person who has no idea what the real world is actually like.
Middle-to-upper class white people are always made to feel guilty about their lives, as if it was somehow wrong to have a successful and stable life. Apparently we should all strive to emulate black people in the ghetto, because they are authentic and keeping it real.
Far Cry was followed by the (also excellent) Far Cry 2, which had a remarkable story, milieu and character development, but sure didn't feel like the same engine. Plus, of course, it required an upgraded computer.
Far Cry 2 was a piece of shit. I didn't play it for more than 4 or 6 hours before uninstalling it and trading the game away. Crysis was the real sequel to Far Cry.
I'd actually buy Left 4 Dead, for example, if it just had some single-player fun.
Today, with bandwitdths that break the mbit borders easily and often hover about 10mbit, carrying your computer somewhere is, at best, something you'd do for special occasions.
Few people have that kind of bandwidth. I was stuck with 50 kbps until my ISP mysteriously bumped me to 100 kbps. But even with 50 kbps you can play games like Counter-Strike: Source with a latency of ~20ms on servers that are close by.
The technology that OUR government puts into use TODAY will be in use by OTHER governments TOMORROW.
This applies to virtually any technology. Unless you want to halt all technological process, I don't see what can be done about this.
In fact, American corporations have been directly linked to the technology used in Iran to suppress the opposition's ability to "get the word out". Can you not put two and two together, or follow a sequence of events?
American companies selling equipment to countries like Iran with the full knowledge that they will be used to oppress people is a different and unrelated matter.
As for the police in this country, the lazy bastards already have to much power. If they got off their asses and INVESTIGATED crimes, like their predecessors did 50 years ago, they wouldn't need a freaking airplane. Instead, you find the police forces out drumming up (extorting) revenues on the highway. I say, get the cops out of their cars, and onto the streets. They don't need an airplane, or a camera. They need to get into the 'hood, and get to know people.
Of course they should do actual policework as much as possible, but I don't see how that's mutually exclusive with having an eye in the sky. Police UAVs (not that they're deploying UAVs in this case) would be very, very useful.
Nefarious governments oppressing their citizens using technology, news at 11. What does that have to do with police using aerial surveillance in the US?
I don't see why this is supposed to be a problem anyway. The police already has patrols on the ground, so why can't they have them in the air?
You claimed without any reasoning or evidence that people who get immersed in games are immature. That itself is immature (and doesn't make any fucking sense). You might as well have posted "if you get immersed in games, go fuck yourself!"
Also, protip: swearing has nothing to do with maturity or the lack of it.
Jesus fucking Christ on a fucking pogo stick, I'm a troll for explaining that World of Warcraft is a video game and not a substitute for real life? What the fuck.
I'd imagine the guy who spends 6 hours a day playing WoW is better off then the guy who goes to the gym for 6 hours a day.
I also hear that drinking Coca-Cola is a lot better than drinking water.
As for social progress, its a lot more social to fire up a game of WoW and chat than it is to go to the gym.
You might end up talking to someone at the gym, and at the very least you're among people. When you're playing WoW you're all by yourself. Contrary to what some nerds tell themselves, chatting online does nothing to improve your social skills.
And intellectual? With WoW you are constantly reading and writing and doing math.
I can't remember ever doing any math in WoW, and the reading was mostly limited to finding out what I need to kill next.
You did not explain how WoW keeps you in shape and improves your physical health (oh, wait, it doesn't!).
World of Warcraft is not productive or useful, and not a substitute for social interaction, intellectual stimulation and excercise.
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The Amiga used 880 kb disks that could apparently be formatted to store 984 kb, so those were the upper limits. But Sequential is interesting from an aesthetic perspective (lots of great artwork and music, and different kinds of effects), whereas Elevated is just very dull. ARTE is a great Amiga demo too. I don't like modern PC demos all that much.
The only thing that makes this impressive is that it fits into 4 kilobytes. As a 3D engine it's otherwise nothing special, and it's quite boring to watch. Not nearly as interesting as, say, Sequential.
They don't even do anything to stop Islamic extremism in their own neighborhoods. Some of them actually travel to conflict areas like Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to join the Jihad, or at least try to support it in some way. Muslims do little if anything to improve their reputation, but will cry an ocean of tears whenever someone is suspicious of them. Then they start issuing threats. Their problems are completely self-inflicted.
The guy was obviously referring to Muslims.
So I should be afraid of Irish people based on one terrorist group that doesn't even really exist anymore?
It is.
Then why bring up the suburbs?
What if someone is rich, black and ignorant of the real world? Why are you turning this into a racial issue anyway?
The original poster did not say that blacks and Muslims behave in a certain manner because of biological reasons, or because of some other inherent factor that they can't change. I still don't see the supposed racism. You're actually being more racist than he is by making this a racial issue and then essentially claiming that blacks and Muslims are inherently incapable of doing any wrong, or that they deserve special treatment.
That's exactly what Islam is.
This is a completely arbitrary and nonsensical statement.
Did I say race has anything to do with it? No, but you just did.
And naturally, only white middle-to-upper class people can be ignorant, unlike those noble savages in the ghetto who are keeping it real.
And naturally some assclown liberal modded me troll instead of posting counter-arguments. Welcome to Slashdot.
Communism doesn't work. Sorry.
Please illuminate us. Why is it alright for women to talk like that to men, but not okay when it's the other way around?
Islam is not a race.
Is there some reason why one should be suspicious of Irish people?
The West is crawling with Muslim fundamentalists.
Notice how you are trying to make the original poster feel guilty about him supposedly living in a "cloistered little suburb." Why, exactly, is it wrong for someone to live in the suburbs, and not in the ghetto? Is it more "authentic" to live in the ghetto or something?
I didn't see anything racist about his statement. Care to elaborate?
What does that have to do with racism? Just because he is "brown" (as liberals would say) doesn't mean someone is afraid of him for that reason. Maybe they are more afraid of his presumed religion, Islam, than his ethnicity.
If that's the case, why do liberals spend 99% of their time complaining about things that do not actually constitute racism? Kind of like how feminists spend all their time complaining about, or making up, non-issues.
Middle-to-upper class white people are always made to feel guilty about their lives, as if it was somehow wrong to have a successful and stable life. Apparently we should all strive to emulate black people in the ghetto, because they are authentic and keeping it real.
Far Cry 2 was a piece of shit. I didn't play it for more than 4 or 6 hours before uninstalling it and trading the game away. Crysis was the real sequel to Far Cry.
It can be played in singleplayer.
Why would it be "almost impossible?" Many, many excellent maps have been created for Source.
Now you're just lying.
There are many countries in Europe, and Portugal is only one of them.
I wonder how the loss of LAN functionality will affect professional gaming.
Few people have that kind of bandwidth. I was stuck with 50 kbps until my ISP mysteriously bumped me to 100 kbps. But even with 50 kbps you can play games like Counter-Strike: Source with a latency of ~20ms on servers that are close by.
Nothing. Hate crime laws are just a method of suppressing people who go against the religion of multiculturalism. That's all.
This applies to virtually any technology. Unless you want to halt all technological process, I don't see what can be done about this.
American companies selling equipment to countries like Iran with the full knowledge that they will be used to oppress people is a different and unrelated matter.
Of course they should do actual policework as much as possible, but I don't see how that's mutually exclusive with having an eye in the sky. Police UAVs (not that they're deploying UAVs in this case) would be very, very useful.
Nefarious governments oppressing their citizens using technology, news at 11. What does that have to do with police using aerial surveillance in the US?
I don't see why this is supposed to be a problem anyway. The police already has patrols on the ground, so why can't they have them in the air?
You claimed without any reasoning or evidence that people who get immersed in games are immature. That itself is immature (and doesn't make any fucking sense). You might as well have posted "if you get immersed in games, go fuck yourself!"
Also, protip: swearing has nothing to do with maturity or the lack of it.
Jesus fucking Christ on a fucking pogo stick, I'm a troll for explaining that World of Warcraft is a video game and not a substitute for real life? What the fuck.
I also hear that drinking Coca-Cola is a lot better than drinking water.
You might end up talking to someone at the gym, and at the very least you're among people. When you're playing WoW you're all by yourself. Contrary to what some nerds tell themselves, chatting online does nothing to improve your social skills.
I can't remember ever doing any math in WoW, and the reading was mostly limited to finding out what I need to kill next.
You did not explain how WoW keeps you in shape and improves your physical health (oh, wait, it doesn't!).
World of Warcraft is not productive or useful, and not a substitute for social interaction, intellectual stimulation and excercise.
The alien gun was the most powerful weapon in Fallout 2, I think.
That doesn't even make any fucking sense.
Except this is not actually true.
I mean, Rockstar could have included Hot Coffee as a normal part of the game.