As cool and as styling as that would be, you're more likely to get the game drawn with vector graphics as opposed to hand drawn.
They're natively scalable to any resolution then, plus you can include extra, or drop surplus frames.
I agree that 3D pretending it's 2D isn't right. It's got it's own style, no one's fooled into thinking a cel shaded 3D model is an actual cartoon cel. Not saying that it doesn't look cool, but I think the old cel shading is being really overdone at the moment.
Every man and his game development studio is hoping on the cel shaded band wagon, it's the lens flare of the new millenium.
Yes, "people" (i.e, the mindless gaming public), buy for graphics. Simple as that. It seems games with great graphics are bought up enmass, while games with unique or somewhat overclocked retro stylings are shunned and branded "ugly".
If the average gamer went out and bought games based on pure gameplay, we'd get a 2D Sam and Max (which is the way it should be, the same applies to Metroid Prime, which looks nice, but just isn't Metroid).
I used to work at an ISP helpdesk and ever since I quit I've had a great phobia of talking on the phone. If I need to talk to someone, I like a face to face (as in being in the same room) conversation or e-mail in some form.
Why bother with a video stream? It's just a gimmick as far as I can tell. One of those things a crazy CEO would order for all of his staff because "it's so cool".
Actually, I have now discovered that WC3 only needs the WC3 CD in the drive at start up, allowing for LAN game with a single disc, or MP3 ripping while you play.
I'll just nice Oggenc to something insignificant and rip as I play.
The great thing about Galeon's tabs, is you can drag a tab out of the Galeon window and it becomes a new instance of Galeon with the tab's respective page loaded. It's fantastic when you're doing research online.
By the same respect, you can also rearrange the order of your Galeon tabs by dragging them along the tab bar. You can also drag a tab from one Galeon window to another. It's the way it should be.
I watched KotH way back when it first came out... when it was actually funny.
I'm not sure how American's perceive King now, but IMHO it's the most painful, unfunny cartoon to watch, ever. I'd rather be forced to watch 5 hours of that grindingly tedious Dr Katts than 30 minutes of KotH.
Mind you, I never found Beavis and Butthead funny either, so it could be Mike Judge failing at comedy through animation, yet again.
Futurama is fantastic, on-par with the Simpsons in many places. Family Guy is also extremely cool.
How about using a laptop style touchpad mouse? If the pointer is moved back and forth several times, it sets off an alarm.
Strap the pad to said woman's hand in such a way that the finger tip rests at the centre of the touchable area, and then plug the pad into a cheap/free PC (perhaps something that boots from a floppy running a single disk distro?).
No HDD sounds, just the power supply (you could leave the CPU fan off if it was a 386). Keep the PC just outside the bedroom.
I haven't read the other ideas yet, so I'm sure there's better ideas out there.
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Agreed, I used to make maps and level for Doom/2 and Quake/2 with every moment I wasn't deathmatching. But in regards to hardware; that's the main reason I've moved away from PC gaming and concentrated on consoles.
I loved the old skool mods that Doom and Quake brought about, but in order to enjoy the newer games these days I'd have to buy a new box every year, which is more than participation in the scene is worth to me.
There are exceptions though, and the releases of NWN and Warcraft 3 have resparked my interest in PC ghaming and given me reason to upgrade my aging desktop.
This is the exact reason why I would have called members of the team "Walking Adverts for Nintendo Games", as opposed to "Nintendo Human Interactive Units", for you see, my naming idea acronyms nicely ; )
Groan, you're in management too, aren't you? No self respecting web designer/webmaster would say anything along the lines of "Web development is a field that constantly strives towards providing applications level functionality that rivals and imitates desktop software" - it's marketing guff with approx. 80% buzz words.
Let's get a couple of things straight: Web pages are there to provide information. Plain and simple. If your webpage requires DirectX extentions through IE, it's not a web page, stop kidding yourself.
If you want to write a Windows application, write a fucking Windows application, DO NOT pretend it's a web page. It's web designers with your kind of attitude that make browsing the web suck.
I have no problem making any of my pages display the same way in IE 5,5, Mozilla 5,6 Opera, Konquerer or even Links. I write standards compliant CSS and XHTML. Anyone who tells you that their CSS/XHTML pages don't look the same across all the later browsers is not writing their pages properly. Stick to the standards and everything works. If you find an aspect of your design doesn't work, change the design. Simple.
Did you read my post? I'm not saying that the pollutants we're putting into the air are not causing damage, what I'm saying is the ozone hole is naturally occuring. The pollutants are causing damage to the ozone layer, but they are not causing the ozone hole on their own.
Ah ha. You do realise that the ozone layer around the poles depletes naturally, don't you? CFCs, Methane, Bromide and other nasty pollutants do increase ozone depletion, but they do not cause it.
Ozone is created when ultra violet light hits oxygen, causing 3 O2 molecules to form 2 03 (ozone). O3 is not stable, and degrades to 02 rather quickly. During the Antartic and Artic winters, ultra violet light is scarce, as there are months of complete darkness. This is why the holes are largest in early spring (after the month long nights).
Yes, there are polluting factors that increase the ozone depletion, but the Tree-Huggers have pulled you in with their scare mongering. Look at the science as well as the claims and you'll see it's NEVER as bad as those Greenpeace and WWF nutters will have you believe.
Remember that tales of blood, death and destruction get you air time and government funding.
Posting bug reports and features requests is one of the fantastic things about open source. If you don't like the way something works, or something doesn't work at all, tell the developers. If they're reasonable people, they'll listen and decide whether you have a valid suggestion or not.
People need to stop whining and complaining and damn well do something about it. You're not dealing with Microsoft here, your opinion matters to developers.
I've got a little "secret" (ie, everyone knows about it unofficially), mp3 server sitting under my desk next to my workstation. It's a terribly low spec pentium that was going to be slide into storage.
The reason? We're a pretty easy going company and having a dedicated server saves HDD space on everyone's machines. It also makes it ten times easier to wipe a machine and set it up again, without people complaining that you lost their gigs of MP3s.
I'd say that listening to music allows for greater efficientcy in the workplace too. I know I work better with some funky beats being pumped into my ears.
Why is everyone convinced that Mike Lawrie could go stark raving mad at any moment? If he starts fucking around with the.za domain, ICANN will take measures to ensure network integrity. But I doubt he's going to turn evil all of a sudden and destroy the (I assume) respect he's bulit up with the South Afrian internet community.
It's time everyone gives up the "what if he goes crazy or dies" argument - The.za domain is controlled by a skilled, intelligent, level headed individual. Get over it. If governments can't even get tax returns correct, then there's no fucking way they'll be competent controlling a TLD.
Time to start getting my skills up so I can enter the F-Zero or Wipeout leagues. This innovation will bring about nothing but high speed, heavily armed hover craft racing.
Just make sure you know how to say "Where can I buy new batteries?", in every language you hope your PDA to translate.
I would personally prefer a speak in, write out translator - I'd be more likely to pick up the basics of which every language I was emerged in, rather than completely relying on the PDA .
I don't imagine it would take much to add that feature, if it's not already there.
Notice the first word in my post: "True". I am in agreement, I'm just trying to say that in the current OSS distribution environment, it would be foolish for RH to try and "pull a Microsoft".
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Other diabetics tell people to fuck off when they're hypoglycemic too? Sweet. I thought it was just me ; )
They're natively scalable to any resolution then, plus you can include extra, or drop surplus frames.
I agree that 3D pretending it's 2D isn't right. It's got it's own style, no one's fooled into thinking a cel shaded 3D model is an actual cartoon cel. Not saying that it doesn't look cool, but I think the old cel shading is being really overdone at the moment.
Every man and his game development studio is hoping on the cel shaded band wagon, it's the lens flare of the new millenium.
If the average gamer went out and bought games based on pure gameplay, we'd get a 2D Sam and Max (which is the way it should be, the same applies to Metroid Prime, which looks nice, but just isn't Metroid).
Why bother with a video stream? It's just a gimmick as far as I can tell. One of those things a crazy CEO would order for all of his staff because "it's so cool".
I'll just nice Oggenc to something insignificant and rip as I play.
Yes, WineX is good with WC3.
That's 3 or 4 weekends I can't play Warcraft III in.
That'll learn me for not doing it right the first time.
By the same respect, you can also rearrange the order of your Galeon tabs by dragging them along the tab bar. You can also drag a tab from one Galeon window to another. It's the way it should be.
Worked for Quake 3, let's just hope old John hasn't forgotten about us Linux gamers.
Who cares!?
I'm not sure how American's perceive King now, but IMHO it's the most painful, unfunny cartoon to watch, ever. I'd rather be forced to watch 5 hours of that grindingly tedious Dr Katts than 30 minutes of KotH.
Mind you, I never found Beavis and Butthead funny either, so it could be Mike Judge failing at comedy through animation, yet again.
Futurama is fantastic, on-par with the Simpsons in many places. Family Guy is also extremely cool.
Strap the pad to said woman's hand in such a way that the finger tip rests at the centre of the touchable area, and then plug the pad into a cheap/free PC (perhaps something that boots from a floppy running a single disk distro?).
No HDD sounds, just the power supply (you could leave the CPU fan off if it was a 386). Keep the PC just outside the bedroom.
I haven't read the other ideas yet, so I'm sure there's better ideas out there.
I loved the old skool mods that Doom and Quake brought about, but in order to enjoy the newer games these days I'd have to buy a new box every year, which is more than participation in the scene is worth to me.
There are exceptions though, and the releases of NWN and Warcraft 3 have resparked my interest in PC ghaming and given me reason to upgrade my aging desktop.
several minutes later.....
"I swear officer, it's video games fault. Video games made me do it!"
This is the exact reason why I would have called members of the team "Walking Adverts for Nintendo Games", as opposed to "Nintendo Human Interactive Units", for you see, my naming idea acronyms nicely ; )
Let's get a couple of things straight: Web pages are there to provide information. Plain and simple. If your webpage requires DirectX extentions through IE, it's not a web page, stop kidding yourself.
If you want to write a Windows application, write a fucking Windows application, DO NOT pretend it's a web page. It's web designers with your kind of attitude that make browsing the web suck.
I have no problem making any of my pages display the same way in IE 5,5, Mozilla 5,6 Opera, Konquerer or even Links. I write standards compliant CSS and XHTML. Anyone who tells you that their CSS/XHTML pages don't look the same across all the later browsers is not writing their pages properly. Stick to the standards and everything works. If you find an aspect of your design doesn't work, change the design. Simple.
Exactly, it's an equalibrium, whereby UV light is a component, no UV, no reaction, it's basic chemistry.
Did you read my post? I'm not saying that the pollutants we're putting into the air are not causing damage, what I'm saying is the ozone hole is naturally occuring. The pollutants are causing damage to the ozone layer, but they are not causing the ozone hole on their own.
Ozone is created when ultra violet light hits oxygen, causing 3 O2 molecules to form 2 03 (ozone). O3 is not stable, and degrades to 02 rather quickly. During the Antartic and Artic winters, ultra violet light is scarce, as there are months of complete darkness. This is why the holes are largest in early spring (after the month long nights).
Yes, there are polluting factors that increase the ozone depletion, but the Tree-Huggers have pulled you in with their scare mongering. Look at the science as well as the claims and you'll see it's NEVER as bad as those Greenpeace and WWF nutters will have you believe.
Remember that tales of blood, death and destruction get you air time and government funding.
Posting bug reports and features requests is one of the fantastic things about open source. If you don't like the way something works, or something doesn't work at all, tell the developers. If they're reasonable people, they'll listen and decide whether you have a valid suggestion or not.
People need to stop whining and complaining and damn well do something about it. You're not dealing with Microsoft here, your opinion matters to developers.
The reason? We're a pretty easy going company and having a dedicated server saves HDD space on everyone's machines. It also makes it ten times easier to wipe a machine and set it up again, without people complaining that you lost their gigs of MP3s.
I'd say that listening to music allows for greater efficientcy in the workplace too. I know I work better with some funky beats being pumped into my ears.
It's time everyone gives up the "what if he goes crazy or dies" argument - The .za domain is controlled by a skilled, intelligent, level headed individual. Get over it. If governments can't even get tax returns correct, then there's no fucking way they'll be competent controlling a TLD.
Time to start getting my skills up so I can enter the F-Zero or Wipeout leagues. This innovation will bring about nothing but high speed, heavily armed hover craft racing.
I would personally prefer a speak in, write out translator - I'd be more likely to pick up the basics of which every language I was emerged in, rather than completely relying on the PDA .
I don't imagine it would take much to add that feature, if it's not already there.
Notice the first word in my post: "True". I am in agreement, I'm just trying to say that in the current OSS distribution environment, it would be foolish for RH to try and "pull a Microsoft".