In a bizzare twist of events, Jimmy "w@r3zg0d" Stimmler won the Piano Competition after the other contestants decided to substitute "Chopsticks" instead of a Schubert Sonata of their choice. Still reeling from his victory, the only comment Mr. Stimmler could say is "I 0wn J00 allz"....
Yeah yeah I know lame ass joke, and no offense to any real mr. stimmlers out there...
I was just wondering how this would affect people with not so normal vision... One of the first things I realized after having LASIK done a few years back was the enjoyment of watching TV in bed without worrying about glasses/contacts, etc... (previous vision before LASIK was 20/800... corrected to 20/20). So if the image is being beamed directly to your retina, it should be able to make corrections for astigmitism/myopia, what have you.... Just something to think about..... from the people at Getty:)
I worked my way through school by cooking at various restaurants and ski resorts. After college I was offered a chance to open my own restaurant with my fiancee. We tried to no avail for a haute cuisine establishment to survive in the rural area that we lived in. I left that to find work in Boston, the money was ok, but the work hours (100+ hrs/week) wasn't commensurate to the quality of life I wanted for my new family. I returned back to the rural area I grew up in, and got a job at the upstart ISP's helldesk doing tech support taking a BIG pay cut. Over the past 5 years I've risen through the company to network/systems administration. (yeah the stress is about the same, but finally the hours allow me to actually have a semblance of a life) The important thing I learned is that very few people can have a career in their former "hobbies" and I truly believe that if you can make a living doing something that you really enjoy it can make up for a lot. Sure I could make more money in a larger environment, but you really have to look beyond the dollar signs to things that make it beneficial.
Remember folks as a former sous chef told me a long time ago "We work for our time off with ourselves and our families, not the other way around"... just something to keep in mind. Not everyone is fortunate to have work that they truly enjoy and when I start to doubt my job, I just remember the lack of life I had when I was a chef, and that really helps me out.
Now the standard run of the mill/.er takes a lot of stuff for granted. Yes, we can peek and tweak our systems so they run acceptably regardless of the OS. But I know for a fact that trying to do tech support for older machines running w95 can be a complete PITA. Especially with people giving their "hand me downs" to family members. Amazing on how these days when we do a broadband install, how many people have slower machines that really can't appreciate the bandwidth that they are getting. Not even to mention the fact that online shopping (which is a big seller in the rural area we cover) doesn't really work with the 3.0 browsers.
Now before this gets modded into oblivion, just think about how fast the web is changing everything. People (other than gamers) aren't just using their computers for word processing, it's all about email,browsing,home finance, online banking, shopping. As the websites get larger and more complex, they suck up more space and memory on the computers.
Luckily windows 3.1 dialup support died for us Dec 31 2000, so we didn't have to worry about Trumpet winsock et al. anymore.
Windows 95 can be a major problem when working with a newbie who still thinks that the mouse is a "foot pedal" like that on a sewing machine (yes it's true, I actually had a call like that). I mean the Internet Setup Wizard is a piece of cake, but the majority of the people who are hip enough to navigate the web have allready moved on to 98/ME/XP/2K whatever.
This can actually help out ISP's by not having to worry about support for computers that were "given" to people without the CD. (ever try changing DUN settings or reinstalling Client for MS without the CD on an "upgraded" system where the CABS weren't installed?)
I've experienced this first hand with "Why is the internet so slow?" check the settings, and the person has 8MB o RAM running w95 and someone gave them a CD with I.E. 5.x and somehow they got the thing to kinda run. By the time they have to go out and get SIMMS enough to run the browser du jour (Opera notwithstanding) they might as well go out and get a whole new system for $700 USD.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't think the way MS handles things is correct, but at some point the lower end of the bell curve of internet users has to catch up to really experience everything the web/net has to offer.
Look at dialup, without updated modem drivers/init strings, the cheap HSP modems
won't maintain a connection. If the computer starts losing memory, the winmodems die. It doesn't occur to these users who think that computers just magically "work" that it could be their own system, and not the network and support that the ISP offers.
But I still love all the phone calls I get because the default error message states "call your network administrator" everytime something happens... NOT!
So I guess in closing this is going to be a way to keep people happy in the long run.
I mean hey I still have netscape 2.0 running on a 1MB RAM Macintosh, but other than email, what good is it?
When I read this post, subconciously I saw Snow, Colorado, and read it as
Any vehicle is unsafe if you're a mormon
Before I get modded down for flame bait, ask someone who lives around the Zion Curtain to explain what a "Utah Roadblock" is. Two BMW's (Big Mormon Wagon's were around long before soccer moms and SUV's hit the mainstream... aka Suburbans, et al) Driving up the Canyons with cruise locked at a steady 64 mph side by side....
17 hours 53 minutes.... That was my first all night graphic RPG. My friend and I waited weeks to pick up our copies.. We then "signed-out" a couple schools Apple II+'s for a weekend of gaming. Halfway through the session we had to crack the covers and have cooling fans blowing across the mobos to cool em off.
It's been YEARS since I've played them, but it's kinda neat to remember lahalito, dilto, Montino, Mahalito, and the all mighty Tiltowait.
Also just a bit of trivia....
Wernda and Trebor are the names of the programmers who wrote it backwards..
yeah yeah everyone should know it, but I thought I'd repeat that for people new to the old school game thing:)
sounds similar to a situation I found.
I always had a difficult time doing my 1/2 hour of Nordic Track for my physical Therapy after some knee surgery.. I tried putting in front of the TV for news/music videos/cartoons anything to take away the boredom and drudgery I felt with churning away in my own personal gerbil wheel.
Finally I picked up the controller of the Super Nintendo and put in Spiderman vs. Venom... voila... I found myself not even noticing the workout. After a while I found myself "skiing" faster during the battles and slower during the other parts of the game which was a better way for the heartrate.. I was attempting to wire the controls down to the "handles" of the NordicTrack when a bottle of water spilled over the SN system shorting it out for good. oh well
I'm not certain about the customization on Civ 2/III, but on my freeciv server I setup the bofh nation ruleset....
some of the cities are
AhremAreff (if you don't get it, just say it a couple times)
Port Eighty
SourceForge, etc....
And of course the ruler should be Dave Null:)
Ok, not to tout my pumpkin carving ability... which is severely lacking, I just thought you guys might get a kick out of some of my "hacking" attempts.
pumpkin 1
Yeah yeah,I know #3 is missing, but it's a bad picture. also only 4 people out of 750 got the jokes on my street, but there is hope for the future, my 4-year old and all her friends loved the 1st one most of all:)
Well Actually the Line of Site Solution, depending on the distances involved would be very expensive to them, however not much of a problem if a few people could donate the equipment as a possible Tax Writeoff.... My company usually deploys high-speed LOS wireless to companies who don't want to have to fuss and bother with the trials tribulations and tariffs of the big honking megalomanical Telco they have. We can usually deploy a P-T-P solution for around 2K/US for an 11MB haul. I know that the larger 45MB hauls which would have to work for a distance like theres would be more expensive, and as I'm typing this I would also wonder....
What would their "government" think about using that part of the spectrum for backhauls????.. But as in my area of the world (rural upstate NY) Wireless installs for long hauls usually have to be jumped between different LOS locations. but then if you could put a Point-Multi-Point on the last hop, then you might be able to light up more villages....
Could be a bigger project, but as more people get involved, it could prove to be more feasible.
The science of matter over mind... It seems that Mr. Nesmith's predictions of the early 80's may be true...
"You ever feel like your mind is going to explode???... You ever been to Utah?" - J. Frank Parnell
"Find one in every car, You'll see" - miller
Attention Moderators: before going ape on my karma, please check out http://us.imdb.com/Details?0087995 for a better understanding of my comments as well as the parent threads... Great movie with an even better soundtrack!!
A co-worker of mine accidently left his 5K on the roof of his car after a house-call. Consequently the laptop slid off the roof and bounced down the road. Some nice soul picked it up and returned it. The only thing that seemed to be wrong with it was the ribbon between the vidcard and lcd was torn. Next day Dell sent a tech. (And we live right next door to East BumFsck rural area) They fixed up the box and thing is still cranking along.. Now hows that for reliability and responsibility for Dell... Now Their Financial institution is a completely different story...
granted and point well taken. I guess I'm attacking the issue from a different angle. more along the line of the other dependancies that are installed during certain apt-gets.
and generally depending on where you get the source from, there seems to be more documentation (README's, INSTALL, what have you) to help you out with.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with you that the debian developers who forget more on a daily basis than I will ever learn about their own products have a much better understanding of the tweaks/peeks of the OS and therefore will be able to "fix" any problems long before the majority would even figure out that there WAS a problem.
It's been my humble opinion that packaging managers are good for "users" of OS's I just started using debian on my workstations after a co-worker showed me the ease of applying new dependancies. However without getting into a distro jihad here, I still say that for the tried-and-true, the only REAL way to understand and comprehend services on a production box, you really need to compile the source yourself.
How else are you going to be able to troubleshoot or modify any tweaks/perks/or problems that may occur.
Or take for example the debian debacle of a couple weeks ago. I did an upgrade then an install of a couple things only to find out that X was going to crap the bed on me... If I had been less lazy (yes I know that goes against EVERY netadmin's fibre) and had compiled the programs myself I could have saved a couple hours of time in the long run.
But as far as getting *nix out to the masses I applaud RH and Debian for attempting to ease the installation of software for new users.
lol... thanks for the pat on the back... BTW if you want those pics... I caught certain "bishops" with legislation in the Skyline right off Foothill drive:)
If you want the pics I'll send them...
knock knock...
are you the FBI....
No, I'd just like to talk to you about moroni:)
As a former resident, alumnus of the UofU, and "Pie" cook (a lowly life form around there)
I remember how we used to delimit the population...
Utahn- a resident who agrees to see that there is life beyond the "Zion Curtain", and can hold even the merest discussion without slamming people for religion.
Utard- Those that think that there is nothing more to life than their own "piece" of the state Be that it be Delta,Moab,Happy Valley,Cottonwood Canyon, Park City (even though that is Colorado:) ), or the exiled Utah city of Pocatello
BTW this hold true for anyone in anystate... Just Utah was one of the easiest examples of this. But I now see it very prevelant in Upstate NY as well As Other places I've lived
Well as a still active gamer I must say with a lot of this discussion about Diablo II, Everquest and games of this ilk, I find that I have to compare my gaming habits of the last few years pale in comparison to my old days of gaming.
I remember when I got my TRS-80 Mod III staying up for days on end playing Zork and Scott adams Adventures. Then again I was 10 years old, lived in a very rural area where my nearest friend was like 10 miles away. (Yeah it sounds like that old granpa school story) But my "addiction" to those games started my love of programming/debugging/etc.. as far as FPS' go. anyone remember Labyrith or bedlam??? They were out LOOOONG before Duke Nukem or Castle Wolfenstein.
I also remember inviting friends over to play Wizardy. We used put 3 or four computers together on the table and simulate multiplayer. Of course we weren't a true LAN party, but it was definately a premonition of things to come. Starting after school on a friday, and surviving on coffee, pizza and doritos till Sunday when we finally slept.
Hell, I met the manager for my company when I was 14 through a love of BTIII. We used to take turns with one person "driving" while the other one mapped, allowing the mapper the occasional nap whilst the "driver" went aroung grabbing experience before embarking down the next dungeon. I still have the maps that I drew on hex/graph paper. The 3 dimensional mazes for those bad boys were quite complex for their time.
So while I have spent some time doing the on-line multiplayer games from cards to "The Realm" to "Everquest",QIII,UT, whatever, for some reason they all seem to pale in comparison to the days I spent with the older games.
I agree with the above posters that to lose school/work/whatever for a game can be detrimental. The same goes for ANYTHING that takes ones time away from your "real-world" responsibilities. I remember getting in school trouble because I was out playing in bars with my band during finals week. Is that any different than playing games??. I don't believe so. The addiction has always been there for some of us, it's just are you responsible enough to know when it's time to quit. Well that and the carpal tunnel that starts kicking in after 8-10 hours of playing Quake or even programming would cause me to stop
Are one of them going to insist on "zero-G" training in the nude on their birthdays????
Re:Oddly enough, *less* interesting than first tak
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Ash: A Secret History
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hmmm... When I read the headline I thought it would be an account of Bruce Campbell and the history of the Evil Dead Trilogy... Hey, AoD was set in medieval times....
"This is my boom stick":)
There is one of the R2 Units from Ep VI in the Boston Museum of Science....
(Right Above a sign "Donated by Geo. Lucas.. Please no photography).... What a drag
Granted the use of CGI's in motion pictures has truly benefited the industry, however there is definately something to be said about "old-school" special effects.
Maybe it's just me, but some of the CGI I've seen recently are just too clean and shiny as compared to the model SFX of yore..
I mean I don't personally have experience with vision in space, but I would think that as light is travelling through the dust and debris of space, you probably wouldn't have a clear, distinct resolution...
(But then again to be picky, I doubt that TIE fighters had that much O2 in them to blow up so spectacularly either:) )
Granted I'm not saying that CGI's don't help embellish movies, and I do like what they have done to help Lucas come closer to his "dream", I'm just going to miss some of the blood,sweat,and hallucinations from the model glue that the SFX team did on EP 4-5-6
And some of us also have too many mountains in the way for Line-Of-Sight..... not to mention not Everyone has the weather patterns of Tuscon, which make it a near perfect location for LOS broadband:)
Congrats, I knew the guys who were developing this about 3 years ago, and wondered how they fared with it.
Slashdot Mirror
So they opted away from the "super Sleazy" so they can continue making the "Super Slinky?" /obscure guitarist info
In a bizzare twist of events, Jimmy "w@r3zg0d" Stimmler won the Piano Competition after the other contestants decided to substitute "Chopsticks" instead of a Schubert Sonata of their choice.
Still reeling from his victory, the only comment Mr. Stimmler could say is "I 0wn J00 allz"....
Yeah yeah I know lame ass joke, and no offense to any real mr. stimmlers out there...
I was just wondering how this would affect people with not so normal vision... :)
One of the first things I realized after having LASIK done a few years back was the enjoyment of watching TV in bed without worrying about glasses/contacts, etc... (previous vision before LASIK was 20/800... corrected to 20/20).
So if the image is being beamed directly to your retina, it should be able to make corrections for astigmitism/myopia, what have you....
Just something to think about..... from the people at Getty
I worked my way through school by cooking at various restaurants and ski resorts. After college I was offered a chance to open my own restaurant with my fiancee. We tried to no avail for a haute cuisine establishment to survive in the rural area that we lived in. I left that to find work in Boston, the money was ok, but the work hours (100+ hrs/week) wasn't commensurate to the quality of life I wanted for my new family. I returned back to the rural area I grew up in, and got a job at the upstart ISP's helldesk doing tech support taking a BIG pay cut.
Over the past 5 years I've risen through the company to network/systems administration.
(yeah the stress is about the same, but finally the hours allow me to actually have a semblance of a life)
The important thing I learned is that very few people can have a career in their former "hobbies" and I truly believe that if you can make a living doing something that you really enjoy it can make up for a lot. Sure I could make more money in a larger environment, but you really have to look beyond the dollar signs to things that make it beneficial.
Remember folks as a former sous chef told me a long time ago "We work for our time off with ourselves and our families, not the other way around"... just something to keep in mind.
Not everyone is fortunate to have work that they truly enjoy and when I start to doubt my job, I just remember the lack of life I had when I was a chef, and that really helps me out.
Now the standard run of the mill /.er takes a lot of stuff for granted. Yes, we can peek and tweak our systems so they run acceptably regardless of the OS. But I know for a fact that trying to do tech support for older machines running w95 can be a complete PITA. Especially with people giving their "hand me downs" to family members. Amazing on how these days when we do a broadband install, how many people have slower machines that really can't appreciate the bandwidth that they are getting. Not even to mention the fact that online shopping (which is a big seller in the rural area we cover) doesn't really work with the 3.0 browsers.
Now before this gets modded into oblivion, just think about how fast the web is changing everything. People (other than gamers) aren't just using their computers for word processing, it's all about email,browsing,home finance, online banking, shopping. As the websites get larger and more complex, they suck up more space and memory on the computers.
Luckily windows 3.1 dialup support died for us Dec 31 2000, so we didn't have to worry about Trumpet winsock et al. anymore.
Windows 95 can be a major problem when working with a newbie who still thinks that the mouse is a "foot pedal" like that on a sewing machine (yes it's true, I actually had a call like that). I mean the Internet Setup Wizard is a piece of cake, but the majority of the people who are hip enough to navigate the web have allready moved on to 98/ME/XP/2K whatever.
This can actually help out ISP's by not having to worry about support for computers that were "given" to people without the CD. (ever try changing DUN settings or reinstalling Client for MS without the CD on an "upgraded" system where the CABS weren't installed?)
I've experienced this first hand with "Why is the internet so slow?" check the settings, and the person has 8MB o RAM running w95 and someone gave them a CD with I.E. 5.x and somehow they got the thing to kinda run. By the time they have to go out and get SIMMS enough to run the browser du jour (Opera notwithstanding) they might as well go out and get a whole new system for $700 USD.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't think the way MS handles things is correct, but at some point the lower end of the bell curve of internet users has to catch up to really experience everything the web/net has to offer.
Look at dialup, without updated modem drivers/init strings, the cheap HSP modems
won't maintain a connection. If the computer starts losing memory, the winmodems die. It doesn't occur to these users who think that computers just magically "work" that it could be their own system, and not the network and support that the ISP offers.
But I still love all the phone calls I get because the default error message states "call your network administrator" everytime something happens... NOT!
So I guess in closing this is going to be a way to keep people happy in the long run.
I mean hey I still have netscape 2.0 running on a 1MB RAM Macintosh, but other than email, what good is it?
When I read this post, subconciously I saw Snow, Colorado, and read it as
Any vehicle is unsafe if you're a mormon
Before I get modded down for flame bait, ask someone who lives around the Zion Curtain to explain what a "Utah Roadblock" is. Two BMW's (Big Mormon Wagon's were around long before soccer moms and SUV's hit the mainstream... aka Suburbans, et al) Driving up the Canyons with cruise locked at a steady 64 mph side by side....
17 hours 53 minutes.... That was my first all night graphic RPG. My friend and I waited weeks to pick up our copies.. We then "signed-out" a couple schools Apple II+'s for a weekend of gaming. Halfway through the session we had to crack the covers and have cooling fans blowing across the mobos to cool em off.
:)
It's been YEARS since I've played them, but it's kinda neat to remember lahalito, dilto, Montino, Mahalito, and the all mighty Tiltowait.
Also just a bit of trivia....
Wernda and Trebor are the names of the programmers who wrote it backwards..
yeah yeah everyone should know it, but I thought I'd repeat that for people new to the old school game thing
sounds similar to a situation I found.
I always had a difficult time doing my 1/2 hour of Nordic Track for my physical Therapy after some knee surgery.. I tried putting in front of the TV for news/music videos/cartoons anything to take away the boredom and drudgery I felt with churning away in my own personal gerbil wheel.
Finally I picked up the controller of the Super Nintendo and put in Spiderman vs. Venom... voila... I found myself not even noticing the workout. After a while I found myself "skiing" faster during the battles and slower during the other parts of the game which was a better way for the heartrate.. I was attempting to wire the controls down to the "handles" of the NordicTrack when a bottle of water spilled over the SN system shorting it out for good. oh well
I'm not certain about the customization on Civ 2/III, but on my freeciv server I setup the bofh nation ruleset.... :)
some of the cities are
AhremAreff (if you don't get it, just say it a couple times)
Port Eighty
SourceForge, etc....
And of course the ruler should be Dave Null
Ok, not to tout my pumpkin carving ability... which is severely lacking, I just thought you guys might get a kick out of some of my "hacking" attempts.
:)
pumpkin 1
pumpkin 2
pumpkin4
Yeah yeah,I know #3 is missing, but it's a bad picture. also only 4 people out of 750 got the jokes on my street, but there is hope for the future, my 4-year old and all her friends loved the 1st one most of all
Well Actually the Line of Site Solution, depending on the distances involved would be very expensive to them, however not much of a problem if a few people could donate the equipment as a possible Tax Writeoff.... My company usually deploys high-speed LOS wireless to companies who don't want to have to fuss and bother with the trials tribulations and tariffs of the big honking megalomanical Telco they have. We can usually deploy a P-T-P solution for around 2K/US for an 11MB haul. I know that the larger 45MB hauls which would have to work for a distance like theres would be more expensive, and as I'm typing this I would also wonder....
What would their "government" think about using that part of the spectrum for backhauls????.. But as in my area of the world (rural upstate NY) Wireless installs for long hauls usually have to be jumped between different LOS locations. but then if you could put a Point-Multi-Point on the last hop, then you might be able to light up more villages....
Could be a bigger project, but as more people get involved, it could prove to be more feasible.
Naah I think He's talking about the Ring of Intelligence that you can find in the old Sierra Game "The Realm" .
ok I know that was uncalled for... but hey I'm still on my first cup o coffee
The science of matter over mind... It seems that Mr. Nesmith's predictions of the early 80's may be true...
"You ever feel like your mind is going to explode???... You ever been to Utah?" - J. Frank Parnell
"Find one in every car, You'll see" - miller
Attention Moderators: before going ape on my karma, please check out http://us.imdb.com/Details?0087995 for a better understanding of my comments as well as the parent threads... Great movie with an even better soundtrack!!
A co-worker of mine accidently left his 5K on the roof of his car after a house-call. Consequently the laptop slid off the roof and bounced down the road. Some nice soul picked it up and returned it. The only thing that seemed to be wrong with it was the ribbon between the vidcard and lcd was torn. Next day Dell sent a tech. (And we live right next door to East BumFsck rural area) They fixed up the box and thing is still cranking along.. Now hows that for reliability and responsibility for Dell... Now Their Financial institution is a completely different story...
granted and point well taken. I guess I'm attacking the issue from a different angle. more along the line of the other dependancies that are installed during certain apt-gets.
and generally depending on where you get the source from, there seems to be more documentation (README's, INSTALL, what have you) to help you out with.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with you that the debian developers who forget more on a daily basis than I will ever learn about their own products have a much better understanding of the tweaks/peeks of the OS and therefore will be able to "fix" any problems long before the majority would even figure out that there WAS a problem.
It's been my humble opinion that packaging managers are good for "users" of OS's I just started using debian on my workstations after a co-worker showed me the ease of applying new dependancies. However without getting into a distro jihad here, I still say that for the tried-and-true, the only REAL way to understand and comprehend services on a production box, you really need to compile the source yourself.
How else are you going to be able to troubleshoot or modify any tweaks/perks/or problems that may occur.
Or take for example the debian debacle of a couple weeks ago. I did an upgrade then an install of a couple things only to find out that X was going to crap the bed on me... If I had been less lazy (yes I know that goes against EVERY netadmin's fibre) and had compiled the programs myself I could have saved a couple hours of time in the long run.
But as far as getting *nix out to the masses I applaud RH and Debian for attempting to ease the installation of software for new users.
I think we need to add a few new options for the mods...
Score +1 Cautious
Score -1 Paranoid
Score -5 Written from a Y2K Bunker
lol... thanks for the pat on the back... BTW if you want those pics... I caught certain "bishops" with legislation in the Skyline right off Foothill drive :)
:)
If you want the pics I'll send them...
knock knock...
are you the FBI....
No, I'd just like to talk to you about moroni
As a former resident, alumnus of the UofU, and "Pie" cook (a lowly life form around there)
I remember how we used to delimit the population...
Utahn- a resident who agrees to see that there is life beyond the "Zion Curtain", and can hold even the merest discussion without slamming people for religion.
Utard- Those that think that there is nothing more to life than their own "piece" of the state Be that it be Delta,Moab,Happy Valley,Cottonwood Canyon, Park City (even though that is Colorado:) ), or the exiled Utah city of Pocatello
BTW this hold true for anyone in anystate... Just Utah was one of the easiest examples of this. But I now see it very prevelant in Upstate NY as well As Other places I've lived
*waiting for the flames*
Well as a still active gamer I must say with a lot of this discussion about Diablo II, Everquest and games of this ilk, I find that I have to compare my gaming habits of the last few years pale in comparison to my old days of gaming.
I remember when I got my TRS-80 Mod III staying up for days on end playing Zork and Scott adams Adventures. Then again I was 10 years old, lived in a very rural area where my nearest friend was like 10 miles away. (Yeah it sounds like that old granpa school story) But my "addiction" to those games started my love of programming/debugging/etc.. as far as FPS' go. anyone remember Labyrith or bedlam??? They were out LOOOONG before Duke Nukem or Castle Wolfenstein.
I also remember inviting friends over to play Wizardy. We used put 3 or four computers together on the table and simulate multiplayer. Of course we weren't a true LAN party, but it was definately a premonition of things to come. Starting after school on a friday, and surviving on coffee, pizza and doritos till Sunday when we finally slept.
Hell, I met the manager for my company when I was 14 through a love of BTIII. We used to take turns with one person "driving" while the other one mapped, allowing the mapper the occasional nap whilst the "driver" went aroung grabbing experience before embarking down the next dungeon. I still have the maps that I drew on hex/graph paper. The 3 dimensional mazes for those bad boys were quite complex for their time.
So while I have spent some time doing the on-line multiplayer games from cards to "The Realm" to "Everquest",QIII,UT, whatever, for some reason they all seem to pale in comparison to the days I spent with the older games.
I agree with the above posters that to lose school/work/whatever for a game can be detrimental. The same goes for ANYTHING that takes ones time away from your "real-world" responsibilities. I remember getting in school trouble because I was out playing in bars with my band during finals week. Is that any different than playing games??. I don't believe so. The addiction has always been there for some of us, it's just are you responsible enough to know when it's time to quit. Well that and the carpal tunnel that starts kicking in after 8-10 hours of playing Quake or even programming would cause me to stop
Are one of them going to insist on "zero-G" training in the nude on their birthdays????
hmmm... When I read the headline I thought it would be an account of Bruce Campbell and the history of the Evil Dead Trilogy... Hey, AoD was set in medieval times.... :)
"This is my boom stick"
There is one of the R2 Units from Ep VI in the Boston Museum of Science....
(Right Above a sign "Donated by Geo. Lucas.. Please no photography).... What a drag
Granted the use of CGI's in motion pictures has truly benefited the industry, however there is definately something to be said about "old-school" special effects. :) )
Maybe it's just me, but some of the CGI I've seen recently are just too clean and shiny as compared to the model SFX of yore..
I mean I don't personally have experience with vision in space, but I would think that as light is travelling through the dust and debris of space, you probably wouldn't have a clear, distinct resolution...
(But then again to be picky, I doubt that TIE fighters had that much O2 in them to blow up so spectacularly either
Granted I'm not saying that CGI's don't help embellish movies, and I do like what they have done to help Lucas come closer to his "dream", I'm just going to miss some of the blood,sweat,and hallucinations from the model glue that the SFX team did on EP 4-5-6
And some of us also have too many mountains in the way for Line-Of-Sight..... not to mention not Everyone has the weather patterns of Tuscon, which make it a near perfect location for LOS broadband :)
Congrats, I knew the guys who were developing this about 3 years ago, and wondered how they fared with it.
(I miss the West for the high-and-dry weather)