ID, you bastards! Finish one game before starting two others! WE WANT DOOM 3 ALREADY!!!:)
Seriously, have you seen the screenshots for doom 3? I'm not a gfx whore or anything, but what I've seen is almost TV quality animation. ...And am I the only one afraid that Quake 4 will be even more generic than Quake 3? The singleplay in Quake 1 and 2 may not have been the best, but it was still fun to blast through the levels in co-op! This one will be just Doom style deathmatch. No skins, just differnt colors that you aren't allowed to choose. 2.5d levels! Groovy!
I picked up UT for ten bucks anyway, but I don't think I'd get q3 when it's not too much different from either UT or Quake II......and Q2 has plenty of mods!
I have to disagree. I'd take freeciv or freecraft (hell, even Xbill!) over some of the skydive!s and Extreme Paintbrawls. I've seen some commercial games that made me want to cry because they were far worse than their free counterparts, and because I had to dish out the cash for the privilege to play these vomit inducing horrors!
Perhaps, you're just too used to the 'Quake III is shitty/UT is shitty' style arguments to recognise a truly bad game when you see it?
I liked freeciv, but I liked the civ 1 interface a lot. The amount of info they were able to cram into a few oversized pixels was cool.
Freecraft is my fave GPL'd game though. Even if the graphics aren't the best, it runs well under BEos!:)
It's insane -- absolutely undeniably, inconcievebly insane, to write laws, especially federal laws that make doing something in school against the law. Schools have been able to combat this by simply removing offenders from a classroom setting. Federal prosecution is utterly immoral. Ask yourself if you ever explored a computer that wasn't yours. I sure have, and I'm no convict, so why is it that they can throw a smart 10 year old in jail for the same?
Laws like these contribute to the 'urban legend' status of many laws, and detract from the law as a whole. In 50 years, people will be laughing at the stupid laws passed to take accountability away from schools. Just like laws passed in certain states that are incredibly stupid today, like laws against strawberries on ice cream (there really is one like that!!).
Of course, this could just be an extention of the plot to dummy kids down -- If a child is too smart, he gets thrown into the slammer. That way, only stupid people can graduate. This sounds strange, but I've found that stupidity is encouraged in some cases. It definetly helps the government lead the people by the nose using blind patriotism. Just an observation, but this is how nazi germany started -- people were taught to always believe the government knew best, and be blindly patriotic. When the people stop questioning the government, people get hurt. Just like the SS(secret service, not stormtroopers) taking your kid away for playing around on the local smb network at school.......
The media knows *NOTHING* about technology, and whenever they get more than one crackpot with a similar story, they run with it. *ESPECIALLY* when it has to do with the magic boxes that the internet runs on.
Was anybody else unnerved by how they used the same three experts for the y2k problem for the whole 3 or so years that the media was covering it? People honestly believed in some places that the world was coming to an end...
The horribly funny thing about it is; if Y2K wiped out your bank account, it would also wipe out your debt. Problem? I don't see one. The media made it sound like a few things would happen that would destroy humanity, without talking about A) the countereffects (bank account = loan too), or B) how easy some of them are to stop (ie. nukes going to blow in 2000? pull the plug in december 1999).
The mass-media no longer is a public service, but a machine meant to keep the population ignorant. There should be a rule that news providers are only allowed to give news, and not be a part of anything else. This way, ultra-biased reporting like is shown every day on the 11 o'clock news is avoided.
...And did anybody else notice how many times they tried to set a date for y2k to strike? I counted 9/9/99, Newyears 2000, febuary 2000, and I'm suprised they didn't try to do it again (with a y2k.1 bug type thing -- it doesn't have to be the truth, just as long as they can find the one person from paranoia university that says that the programmers screwed us again and the magic boxes that we go on the internet with are going to all die, and the world will be plunged into darkness, it's news!)
Sheep. Why does the world need to be herded around like they are mindless drones? Most really aren't, they're just treated like it...
Yeah, I've had to put up with people like those too. People don't realize that everything is just a skill. Unless you are 'trained' and a 'professional computer programmer', it's very hard to get people to believe what you're doing is real, and not just another kids fantasy. Of course, today, trying to explain to them the concept of programming from scratch is not even worth it sometimes... They're too used to RPGMAKER 2000 doing all the work, and l33t 45535 making Quake Levels and calling it a game, that the concept of telling the computer how to do something at every step of the way seems unbelieveably alien.
Small minded people only trust people that the government/buisiness tells them are important. Otherwise, everybody is equal, (satire) And equality's for commies! Everybody *CANNOT* do whatever they put their minds to! Only people ordained by GOD to have skills on these magic boxes can do anything, and that only takes effect when they're 25.(End satire)
and don't get me started on how The education system demands people to think the way their teacher tells them, and follow not the rules set in place, but the "don't piss off the teacher -- he/she is *ABOVE THE LAW*" rule...
I've gotta stop writing, or I'll be here all night ranting about how bad school is for intelligent people.......
speaking strictly from experience, of course...
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ID, you bastards! Finish one game before starting two others! WE WANT DOOM 3 ALREADY!!! :)
...And am I the only one afraid that Quake 4 will be even more generic than Quake 3? The singleplay in Quake 1 and 2 may not have been the best, but it was still fun to blast through the levels in co-op! This one will be just Doom style deathmatch. No skins, just differnt colors that you aren't allowed to choose. 2.5d levels! Groovy!
Seriously, have you seen the screenshots for doom 3? I'm not a gfx whore or anything, but what I've seen is almost TV quality animation.
I picked up UT for ten bucks anyway, but I don't think I'd get q3 when it's not too much different from either UT or Quake II......and Q2 has plenty of mods!
I have to disagree. I'd take freeciv or freecraft (hell, even Xbill!) over some of the skydive!s and Extreme Paintbrawls. I've seen some commercial games that made me want to cry because they were far worse than their free counterparts, and because I had to dish out the cash for the privilege to play these vomit inducing horrors!
Perhaps, you're just too used to the 'Quake III is shitty/UT is shitty' style arguments to recognise a truly bad game when you see it?
I liked freeciv, but I liked the civ 1 interface a lot. The amount of info they were able to cram into a few oversized pixels was cool. :)
Freecraft is my fave GPL'd game though. Even if the graphics aren't the best, it runs well under BEos!
It's insane -- absolutely undeniably, inconcievebly insane, to write laws, especially federal laws that make doing something in school against the law. Schools have been able to combat this by simply removing offenders from a classroom setting. Federal prosecution is utterly immoral. Ask yourself if you ever explored a computer that wasn't yours. I sure have, and I'm no convict, so why is it that they can throw a smart 10 year old in jail for the same?
Laws like these contribute to the 'urban legend' status of many laws, and detract from the law as a whole. In 50 years, people will be laughing at the stupid laws passed to take accountability away from schools. Just like laws passed in certain states that are incredibly stupid today, like laws against strawberries on ice cream (there really is one like that!!).
Of course, this could just be an extention of the plot to dummy kids down -- If a child is too smart, he gets thrown into the slammer. That way, only stupid people can graduate. This sounds strange, but I've found that stupidity is encouraged in some cases. It definetly helps the government lead the people by the nose using blind patriotism. Just an observation, but this is how nazi germany started -- people were taught to always believe the government knew best, and be blindly patriotic. When the people stop questioning the government, people get hurt. Just like the SS(secret service, not stormtroopers) taking your kid away for playing around on the local smb network at school.......
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The media knows *NOTHING* about technology, and whenever they get more than one crackpot with a similar story, they run with it. *ESPECIALLY* when it has to do with the magic boxes that the internet runs on.
...And did anybody else notice how many times they tried to set a date for y2k to strike? I counted 9/9/99, Newyears 2000, febuary 2000, and I'm suprised they didn't try to do it again (with a y2k.1 bug type thing -- it doesn't have to be the truth, just as long as they can find the one person from paranoia university that says that the programmers screwed us again and the magic boxes that we go on the internet with are going to all die, and the world will be plunged into darkness, it's news!)
Was anybody else unnerved by how they used the same three experts for the y2k problem for the whole 3 or so years that the media was covering it? People honestly believed in some places that the world was coming to an end...
The horribly funny thing about it is; if Y2K wiped out your bank account, it would also wipe out your debt. Problem? I don't see one. The media made it sound like a few things would happen that would destroy humanity, without talking about A) the countereffects (bank account = loan too), or B) how easy some of them are to stop (ie. nukes going to blow in 2000? pull the plug in december 1999).
The mass-media no longer is a public service, but a machine meant to keep the population ignorant. There should be a rule that news providers are only allowed to give news, and not be a part of anything else. This way, ultra-biased reporting like is shown every day on the 11 o'clock news is avoided.
Sheep. Why does the world need to be herded around like they are mindless drones? Most really aren't, they're just treated like it...
Yeah, I've had to put up with people like those too. People don't realize that everything is just a skill. Unless you are 'trained' and a 'professional computer programmer', it's very hard to get people to believe what you're doing is real, and not just another kids fantasy. Of course, today, trying to explain to them the concept of programming from scratch is not even worth it sometimes... They're too used to RPGMAKER 2000 doing all the work, and l33t 45535 making Quake Levels and calling it a game, that the concept of telling the computer how to do something at every step of the way seems unbelieveably alien.
Small minded people only trust people that the government/buisiness tells them are important. Otherwise, everybody is equal, (satire) And equality's for commies! Everybody *CANNOT* do whatever they put their minds to! Only people ordained by GOD to have skills on these magic boxes can do anything, and that only takes effect when they're 25.(End satire)
and don't get me started on how The education system demands people to think the way their teacher tells them, and follow not the rules set in place, but the "don't piss off the teacher -- he/she is *ABOVE THE LAW*" rule...
I've gotta stop writing, or I'll be here all night ranting about how bad school is for intelligent people.......
speaking strictly from experience, of course...