Far and away the major benefit to university work is the intellectual climate. Professors for all their faults will pull you up instead of drag you down. Make it a point to NEVER dumb down your explanations or presentations. Some professors may appear to be befuddled and clueless but they can spot BS a mile away.
As would anybody who deals with students for a living.
Regarding Dual X Chromosomes... if you must play where you work stick with graduate students.
The sequence seems to be: (1) publish a game, (2) publish a "cheats" book, (3) watch the game's staying power approach zero.
My only serious computer games were Zork (I,II,III) and most other Infocom text adventures, Lemmings (I,II,III, Tribes), Doom, and Quake (with mission packs 1 & 2, I think).
For one Infocom game (Starcross) I used a hint book... it was a total letdown. Why pay good money for a game then cop out by using cheats?
One cannot blame the publishers but their prefered sequence might be: sell a game, sell a cheatbook for that game, sell another game, sell a cheatbook for that game, and so forth to infinity.
Apparently, at some point the money stops flowing.
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As would anybody who deals with students for a living.
Regarding Dual X Chromosomes... if you must play where you work stick with graduate students.
Am I #1000?
One wonders why the /. "pre-post inspectors" did not catch this...
An observation from a casual gamer:
The sequence seems to be: (1) publish a game, (2) publish a "cheats" book, (3) watch the game's staying power approach zero.
My only serious computer games were Zork (I,II,III) and most other Infocom text adventures, Lemmings (I,II,III, Tribes), Doom, and Quake (with mission packs 1 & 2, I think). For one Infocom game (Starcross) I used a hint book... it was a total letdown. Why pay good money for a game then cop out by using cheats?
One cannot blame the publishers but their prefered sequence might be: sell a game, sell a cheatbook for that game, sell another game, sell a cheatbook for that game, and so forth to infinity.
Apparently, at some point the money stops flowing.
Please note, worthy AC, that /.'s input page does not include a spellchecker.
Actually, I thought being smart was soliciting input from seriously-clueful techies such as read /.
Mea culpa.
Yet, some posters have been quite helpful.