Win98 was Win95 on crack, it was so much more stable
I'm not sure if stability is what cocaine is known for inducing. If you had said that Win98 was Win95 on crack, because it has higher performance until it crashes, the metaphor would have made a lot more sense.
I much preferred VATS, but to each their own. What was wrong with just ignoring it and playing the game like an FPS? All the guides I read talk about what builds are good for VATS and what are good for FPS-style playing.
I don't disagree, but I was responding to the comment that you'd be "hard pressed to come up with a more accurate definition of institutional EVIL", which is just nonsense.
Is he a cultural anthropologist (probably not, given that anthropologists are trained to work within the social framework of existing cultures as much as possible)
No, he's a man who simply hates culture. He doesn't want to study it. As he's quoted saying at the end of the article: "I look at social groups with dismay."
And, by the way, the cultural anthropologists' principal of non-interference isn't absolute. In a case like this, employing the scientific method is perfectly valid.
Myers was stunned by the reaction, since he obeyed the game's rules.
So he technically follows the rules, yet ignores all the social customs the human beings who play the game created about not being an asshole. People hate him for it, and his conclusion is that "even in a 21st century digital fantasyland, an ugly side of real-world human nature pervades". What?
The professor was disturbed that game rules encouraging competition and varied tactics hardly mattered to gaming community members who wanted to preserve a deeply-rooted culture.
He said his experience demonstrated that modern-day social groups making use of modern-day technology can revert to "medieval and crude" methods in trying to manipulate and control others.
"If you aren't a member of the tribe, you get whacked with a stick," he said. "I look at social groups with dismay."
In other words, his idea of freedom, or whatever, is a world of antisocial personalities engaging in pure competition. He is, in other words, an Ayn Rand fan.
Southwest [Airlines] people are trained to smile and be cheerful.
Exactly. This isn't about Japanese work culture being (more) fucked up, it's just another example of Japanese culture being (more) obsessed with technology.
There is no consideration of fairness, only service to the greater good, as defined by the politics of the day. I would be hard pressed to come up with a more accurate definition of institutional EVIL, quite frankly.
There are far worse things to make the population work for than "the greater good".
After ingesting the algae, this mouth disappears. Instead, it is replaced by an eyespot from the algae. The eyespot is a light sensing organelle, a very primitive eye that guides algae to light sources. In this case, it also guides the host, Hatena, to light. Hatena has obvioulsy stopped feeding, and least through its mouth. It is now swimming to the light, letting the alga photosynthesize its food for both of them.
Can we *please* stop with this calling-anybody-who-makes-a-bad-choice "stupid" bit? I'm really getting sick Slashdotters' lack of sympathy and contempt for humanity at large.
Apparently. If I recall correctly, Zelda 64 (er, Ocarina of Time) was about the definition of a game targeted to "everyone" (not to say that it wasn't a really good game (though not half as good as A Link to the Past)).
Until we come up with sentient, human-like AIs, computer "role playing games" and pen-and-paper "role playing games" will be completely different genres.
To me, the defining characteristic of pen-and-paper RPGs has always been the "anything's possibly because it's a game of human imagination", given structure by agreed-upon rules where necessary, part. And since that's precisely what computer "RPGs" don't have... I don't know. To me, equating the two has always seemed like one of the most ludicrous commonly-accepted ideas (outside of politics, of course) out there.
This seems like a good an opportunity as any to ask this question (prepares a curse on those who would mod me 'Offtopic')...
So, I've never played Nethack (I know, I know, negative a million geek points). So let's say I want to give it a try, to at least experience it. And let's say I don't care about nostalgia and am entirely open to pretty graphics and ease-of-use. What manifestation of Nethack would you recommend (for a computer running GNU/Linux)?
Man, shit must have really changed since I left the console world (after the PSX/N64 era) if Zelda games are now considered to be for "hard core gamers".
I could be wrong, but IIRC, with the original Starcraft, Battle.Net is merely a matchmaking service, whereas all connections are between the playing hosting the game and the other players (or something like that).
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Win98 was Win95 on crack, it was so much more stable
I'm not sure if stability is what cocaine is known for inducing. If you had said that Win98 was Win95 on crack, because it has higher performance until it crashes, the metaphor would have made a lot more sense.
one thing has remained a constant: the Gamebryo engine. Love it or hate it
I hate it.
it has been the foundation of what fans of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3
Like me!
have come to love.
What?!
Anyway, hopefully the guys at id can take a break from id Tech to do some bugfixing on Bethesda's version of Gamebryo.
I much preferred VATS, but to each their own. What was wrong with just ignoring it and playing the game like an FPS? All the guides I read talk about what builds are good for VATS and what are good for FPS-style playing.
I don't disagree, but I was responding to the comment that you'd be "hard pressed to come up with a more accurate definition of institutional EVIL", which is just nonsense.
How is pegr's comment racist in any way?
I assume that's sarcasm.
No doubt very "evil", yes. But what irritates me is this idea that working for the "greater good" = bad, whereas working for yourself = good.
Is he a cultural anthropologist (probably not, given that anthropologists are trained to work within the social framework of existing cultures as much as possible)
No, he's a man who simply hates culture. He doesn't want to study it. As he's quoted saying at the end of the article: "I look at social groups with dismay."
And, by the way, the cultural anthropologists' principal of non-interference isn't absolute. In a case like this, employing the scientific method is perfectly valid.
So, you're saying they're glorified MUDs?
Wow, color me surprised. Those nasty natives! How dare they try to keep you down!
This is a guy who makes it very clear what he believes, and also why his insights aren't so insightful:
"I look at social groups with dismay."
Myers was stunned by the reaction, since he obeyed the game's rules.
So he technically follows the rules, yet ignores all the social customs the human beings who play the game created about not being an asshole. People hate him for it, and his conclusion is that "even in a 21st century digital fantasyland, an ugly side of real-world human nature pervades". What?
The professor was disturbed that game rules encouraging competition and varied tactics hardly mattered to gaming community members who wanted to preserve a deeply-rooted culture.
He said his experience demonstrated that modern-day social groups making use of modern-day technology can revert to "medieval and crude" methods in trying to manipulate and control others.
"If you aren't a member of the tribe, you get whacked with a stick," he said. "I look at social groups with dismay."
In other words, his idea of freedom, or whatever, is a world of antisocial personalities engaging in pure competition. He is, in other words, an Ayn Rand fan.
Southwest [Airlines] people are trained to smile and be cheerful.
Exactly. This isn't about Japanese work culture being (more) fucked up, it's just another example of Japanese culture being (more) obsessed with technology.
Most japanese will lie to you if they think that's what you want to hear.
Japan, one of the most racist... societies
And, apparently, wherever pegr is from.
There is no consideration of fairness, only service to the greater good, as defined by the politics of the day. I would be hard pressed to come up with a more accurate definition of institutional EVIL, quite frankly.
There are far worse things to make the population work for than "the greater good".
All hail The Computer? Wow, maybe Paranoia was about Japan all along...
After ingesting the algae, this mouth disappears. Instead, it is replaced by an eyespot from the algae. The eyespot is a light sensing organelle, a very primitive eye that guides algae to light sources. In this case, it also guides the host, Hatena, to light. Hatena has obvioulsy stopped feeding, and least through its mouth. It is now swimming to the light, letting the alga photosynthesize its food for both of them.
Doesn't that quality the hatena as a parasite?
Allow me to be the first to say... Compuserve still existed?
Can we *please* stop with this calling-anybody-who-makes-a-bad-choice "stupid" bit? I'm really getting sick Slashdotters' lack of sympathy and contempt for humanity at large.
Great! Now we can start fucking again (so long as birth control is used) without any concern about anything bad happening ever again, right?
RIGHT??
Apparently. If I recall correctly, Zelda 64 (er, Ocarina of Time) was about the definition of a game targeted to "everyone" (not to say that it wasn't a really good game (though not half as good as A Link to the Past)).
Until we come up with sentient, human-like AIs, computer "role playing games" and pen-and-paper "role playing games" will be completely different genres.
To me, the defining characteristic of pen-and-paper RPGs has always been the "anything's possibly because it's a game of human imagination", given structure by agreed-upon rules where necessary, part. And since that's precisely what computer "RPGs" don't have... I don't know. To me, equating the two has always seemed like one of the most ludicrous commonly-accepted ideas (outside of politics, of course) out there.
This seems like a good an opportunity as any to ask this question (prepares a curse on those who would mod me 'Offtopic')...
So, I've never played Nethack (I know, I know, negative a million geek points). So let's say I want to give it a try, to at least experience it. And let's say I don't care about nostalgia and am entirely open to pretty graphics and ease-of-use. What manifestation of Nethack would you recommend (for a computer running GNU/Linux)?
Man, shit must have really changed since I left the console world (after the PSX/N64 era) if Zelda games are now considered to be for "hard core gamers".
Yes, being #1 in speed is all that matters. That's why everyone who isn't an ignorant fool runs lynx.
The only reason not to upgrade from Firefox 3 immediately is if you myriad extensions aren't compatible
For the record, unmasking the still hard-masked mozilla-firefox-3.5 ebuild broke apart my Gentoo installation. Just saying.
I could be wrong, but IIRC, with the original Starcraft, Battle.Net is merely a matchmaking service, whereas all connections are between the playing hosting the game and the other players (or something like that).