Unlike every other major game revolution (arcade, console, PC, casual, MMO, etc.), social game developers have proved consistently unable to understand that fun is dynamic in this way.
Apparently whoever wrote this hasn't paid attention to arcade, console, PC, casual, or the MMO market lately. Add "Social games" (e.g. Farmville) to the list of games that found an intriguing gameplay that was a hit, then everything thereafter has been clone, clone, clone!
Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO is scandalously literally a re-skin of World of Warcraft mechanics, right down to tripartite skill trees (e.g. "Hey, I have a 31/8/2 build!") and hideously expensive "high-speed" mounts that only double your run speed (ludicrously fraudulently labeled "speeders").
You are under no obligation to fund your detractors. This has been upheld many times:
* Malls, AKA private property, do not have to let protesters walk around inside protesting businesses. * The First Amendment covers the right to say things...and not to say things. * Parades are, in fact, expressive events w.r.t. the First Amendment, so religious Irish don't have to let gays march in their parade.
Even things like cigarette labeling fall under truth in advertising. When it gets too obnoxious or large, it gets slapped down again.
Quake Quake II Quake III Doom IV Mecwarrior 2 Mercs EverQuest Warcraft III Diablo II World of Warcraft Horizons Dark Age of Camelot...wait, wut? Only recent ones?
Ok: Dragon Age II Star Trek Online Star Wars: The Old Republic City of Heroes (pleasedon'tnotice pleasedon'tnotice) Champions Online Eve Online
And, to paraphrase Henny Youngman, "Take my Skyrim...please!"
When I write coding rules, and I have, I demand good meaningful variable naming and logical expressions done the way your brain thinks them in context of the given issue.
MISRA and other rules tromp all over that, to the harm of the project. One of my favorites bundles "variable always on the right" with "compare vs. explicit constants."
This teams up with Booleans to form absolutely unobvious logical expressions. The first rule I throw out is comparing Booleans to true or false.
if (false != somethingNotPresent)
printf("Fucketh you, dumbasses!");
There was a study showing the top programmers were a whopping 4x as productive as the average ones.
Moreover, there were problems the top programmers could solve the average ones couldn't no matter how much time they were given.
I once cloned Minesweeper for the hell of it in 4 hours, including graphics, though I left out a few bells and whistles like dynamic runtime user-selectable size.
No cheating by looking up algorithms! You are permitted to play it to figure ot what it's doing, but no run-in-drbugger.
1. Do current Mindstorm devices (servos, sensors) work with it? Or am I going to have to buy all new ones?
2. On-brick programming is cute for toys and whatnot, but I had to build an entire communicative framework to do live remote programming control with my PC being the brains, sending and receiving signals over Bluetooth, basically running a processing stub on the brick, but the AI was live running on the PC.
"Hi. I'm from the government and am here to help you. Your hundreds or thousands of dollars of tools are now worthless. On the positive side, anal retentives without tools feel better about themselves."
This is less of an issue as most men have both sets nowadays than in the '70s.
Emperor: Good. Good! Your turn from the Dork Side is almost complete. Let the bloated government flow through you, cannibalizing all resources not directly going into the hands of people who scare easily, and thus more likely to vote against me.
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Exactly. Witness:
Apparently whoever wrote this hasn't paid attention to arcade, console, PC, casual, or the MMO market lately. Add "Social games" (e.g. Farmville) to the list of games that found an intriguing gameplay that was a hit, then everything thereafter has been clone, clone, clone!
Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO is scandalously literally a re-skin of World of Warcraft mechanics, right down to tripartite skill trees (e.g. "Hey, I have a 31/8/2 build!") and hideously expensive "high-speed" mounts that only double your run speed (ludicrously fraudulently labeled "speeders").
Ya! Like releasing UFO info or kicking Piers Morgan out!
"Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww"
> "and bragged about his exploits"
Stupid, stupid supervillains.
Well, you should have gotten your Cartmanesque ass off WoW and helped, maybe?
Fastest on earth, "yet filled with energy-efficient multi-core architecture." :rolleyes
These are at cross-purposes. Do they want fastest on Earth, or pretty fast, but efficient, which is already driven by market mechanisms?
"Hey! Multi-core and multi-cultural both have 'multi' in it! Can we have multi-cultural architecture, too? How much extra is that?"
You are under no obligation to fund your detractors. This has been upheld many times:
* Malls, AKA private property, do not have to let protesters walk around inside protesting businesses.
* The First Amendment covers the right to say things...and not to say things.
* Parades are, in fact, expressive events w.r.t. the First Amendment, so religious Irish don't have to let gays march in their parade.
Even things like cigarette labeling fall under truth in advertising. When it gets too obnoxious or large, it gets slapped down again.
Here. I'll takr $25 for each of these discs:
Quake ...wait, wut? Only recent ones?
Quake II
Quake III
Doom IV
Mecwarrior 2 Mercs
EverQuest
Warcraft III
Diablo II
World of Warcraft
Horizons
Dark Age of Camelot
Ok:
Dragon Age II
Star Trek Online
Star Wars: The Old Republic
City of Heroes (pleasedon'tnotice pleasedon'tnotice)
Champions Online
Eve Online
And, to paraphrase Henny Youngman, "Take my Skyrim...please!"
When I write coding rules, and I have, I demand good meaningful variable naming and logical expressions done the way your brain thinks them in context of the given issue.
MISRA and other rules tromp all over that, to the harm of the project. One of my favorites bundles "variable always on the right" with "compare vs. explicit constants."
This teams up with Booleans to form absolutely unobvious logical expressions. The first rule I throw out is comparing Booleans to true or false.
if (false != somethingNotPresent)
printf("Fucketh you, dumbasses!");
"sloppy-assed" should be hyphenated.
Academics, practical. Bring it bitches.
Would it need that? If it runs without it, it is unnecessary. Also, sort is very simple -- isn't it available as used here under all common shells?
I never got the fetish for specifying shell type, though I suppose it would be useful for distribution to unknown systems.
There was a study showing the top programmers were a whopping 4x as productive as the average ones.
Moreover, there were problems the top programmers could solve the average ones couldn't no matter how much time they were given.
I once cloned Minesweeper for the hell of it in 4 hours, including graphics, though I left out a few bells and whistles like dynamic runtime user-selectable size.
No cheating by looking up algorithms! You are permitted to play it to figure ot what it's doing, but no run-in-drbugger.
I'm sure some government agents are swearing this morning, "Nokia, you're letting out all our best secrets!"
"Remember when you asked me to tell you when you were being rude and insensitive?"
"I'm just gonna have a piece of that cake you just made. You have to! -- The licenses on derivative works, and all that..."
Bullying vs. exposing police, I bote for exposing police. How they deal with mental breakdowns is also of public interest.
In any case, "Congress shall pass no law" doesn't allow for exceptions for really intense feels.
"Mr. Minister, you do, of course, have the telephone numbers of all the sysops of the major IT hubs and backbones?"
"What's that?"
"It's the people in charge of actual large-scale networking computer hardw..."
"No, I mean tele-fone wut?"
"Ok send out a message to all 100 million with the Skype migration link."
"Ok, but that will take awhile. Since Messenger is disappearing, how about just to people who logged in in the past year?"
"How many is that?"
"3."
Bottom line: We don't trust your god to keep our patients safe.
1. Do current Mindstorm devices (servos, sensors) work with it? Or am I going to have to buy all new ones?
2. On-brick programming is cute for toys and whatnot, but I had to build an entire communicative framework to do live remote programming control with my PC being the brains, sending and receiving signals over Bluetooth, basically running a processing stub on the brick, but the AI was live running on the PC.
I need to do that for real AI work, kthxbie.
Lemme know when you can stream a 4k render (as in 4096i) to my house with a 50ms latency and reaction time.
Toolboxes.
"Hi. I'm from the government and am here to help you. Your hundreds or thousands of dollars of tools are now worthless. On the positive side, anal retentives without tools feel better about themselves."
This is less of an issue as most men have both sets nowadays than in the '70s.
Emperor: Good. Good! Your turn from the Dork Side is almost complete. Let the bloated government flow through you, cannibalizing all resources not directly going into the hands of people who scare easily, and thus more likely to vote against me.
Ya really. This is completely obvious now that somebody's pointed it out.
> "How many were launched at CES 2012? None."
Even Belladonna introduced her latest VigorTech(r) WiFi remote-controlled dildory elsewhere. Even the basement at CES is empty now.