One flaw with our system of government is that politicians are not punished for intentionally passing legislation they know to be unconstitutional. Politicians who sponsor, vote for, or enact unconstitutional laws should be held criminally liable for their malfeasance.
Virtually every elected official in the country has sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. By willfully violating this oath they should by rights forfeit their office.
It's my opinon that promoting and lobbying for blatantly unconstituional laws constitutes seditious conspiricy under US law. IMHO The governer of Utah should be arrested, stripped of power, and sent to Federal PMITA prison for 20 years.
Wow! I must say your last 3 paragraphs make complete sense to me. Maybe not as harsh as a prison sentance but I think they should be held accountable and depending the severity of it, stripped of power and be told that you can't ever run again. In business executives are held accountable for everything they do, but it does seem that there is this gaping hole in our government. Excellent idea!
I'm not a professional game developer but I'm a techie who has spent some time working with game engines and such. I like to play around. Anyway where I see a huge benefit of this is the amount of dynamic objects a game could have at this point. Right now there are lots of tricks in game development to achieve realism without sacrificing peformance. Just look at any FPS and most of the world is a static mesh, there are very little movable and/or dynamic objects in the world. This is because it requires CPU power to keep track of everything all at once and you still have to reserve processing power to handle the players and the AI players. So where I see this coming into play is having thousands of dynamic objects within a game. Imagine being able to blast a whole in any wall in the map. Having anything visable have properties that are changable depending on what is happening. Say your playing a monster truck game and you crash into the stands, well then every spectator would have its own ragdoll property that would apply there. These are just a few examples, theoretcially you could do this today but your framerate would crawl at that point.
Anyway these are the types of applications I see being used with it.
I agree with your philosophy on raising kids, but what happens after you've had the kid and some accident/disease puts you in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. At that point you were a fully capable parent but now you are not. Having an extra pair of hands and eyes around this house would be a good thing.
I've seen many rants about this idea, but there are practical uses. Also think about all of those daycares which are understaffed (this seems to be a fairly large issue in Florida), I'm not saying you replace staff members with robots, but if you just had some simple robots to make sure the kids werent fighting, or to make sure they dont get into trouble it would help those daycare workers a lot and probably prevent lawsuits.
Sorry if it came out the wrong way. I'm not trying to sound like a troll or anything, and I've had some great times playing D&D. But for the most part people tend to bash what they do not understand or have yet to expierience. Like D&D for example, religious people tend to say its the 'work of the devil', others stereotype 'geeks' as the only people who play it, others just dont like it and try to bash it anyway possible. I am just trying to say now that it is re-created under a new format and it has been brought to life under the anonymousy of the internet people will be more will to try it and understand what it means to yourself and I. Once people expierence it as a computer game they may want to play the pen & paper game. If they dont I think that they will gain a new respect for the game and maybe some of these stereotypes will disappear, thats all I ment. Sorry if it offended you.
This game is going to be great. You know from playing everquest and watching it for the past 3 years i have noticed something. The anonymousy of the internet has spawned a whole new group of people interested in RPGs.
RPGs have always been considered something 'geeks' do, but I've recenlty spent some time actually meeting some players of everquest in real life. There are more playing in my area than I ever thought there was. Most of these people I met were not 'geeks' but people enjoying life and expierences more than a lot of 'non-geek' people. I've seen active athletes play everquest, a lot of people we wouldnt think would do it.
NWN could be a great thing for D&D, it could change the way people look at D&D and more people might start to appreciate it. I think it could open peoples minds to different possibilities. I'm not saying that it will, but I've been amazed at what I found just playing EQ which has been active on the market for 3 years.
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One flaw with our system of government is that politicians are not punished for intentionally passing legislation they know to be unconstitutional. Politicians who sponsor, vote for, or enact unconstitutional laws should be held criminally liable for their malfeasance.
Virtually every elected official in the country has sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. By willfully violating this oath they should by rights forfeit their office.
It's my opinon that promoting and lobbying for blatantly unconstituional laws constitutes seditious conspiricy under US law. IMHO The governer of Utah should be arrested, stripped of power, and sent to Federal PMITA prison for 20 years.
Wow! I must say your last 3 paragraphs make complete sense to me. Maybe not as harsh as a prison sentance but I think they should be held accountable and depending the severity of it, stripped of power and be told that you can't ever run again. In business executives are held accountable for everything they do, but it does seem that there is this gaping hole in our government. Excellent idea!
I'm not a professional game developer but I'm a techie who has spent some time working with game engines and such. I like to play around. Anyway where I see a huge benefit of this is the amount of dynamic objects a game could have at this point. Right now there are lots of tricks in game development to achieve realism without sacrificing peformance. Just look at any FPS and most of the world is a static mesh, there are very little movable and/or dynamic objects in the world. This is because it requires CPU power to keep track of everything all at once and you still have to reserve processing power to handle the players and the AI players. So where I see this coming into play is having thousands of dynamic objects within a game. Imagine being able to blast a whole in any wall in the map. Having anything visable have properties that are changable depending on what is happening. Say your playing a monster truck game and you crash into the stands, well then every spectator would have its own ragdoll property that would apply there. These are just a few examples, theoretcially you could do this today but your framerate would crawl at that point. Anyway these are the types of applications I see being used with it.
I agree with your philosophy on raising kids, but what happens after you've had the kid and some accident/disease puts you in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. At that point you were a fully capable parent but now you are not. Having an extra pair of hands and eyes around this house would be a good thing. I've seen many rants about this idea, but there are practical uses. Also think about all of those daycares which are understaffed (this seems to be a fairly large issue in Florida), I'm not saying you replace staff members with robots, but if you just had some simple robots to make sure the kids werent fighting, or to make sure they dont get into trouble it would help those daycare workers a lot and probably prevent lawsuits.
Sorry if it came out the wrong way. I'm not trying to sound like a troll or anything, and I've had some great times playing D&D. But for the most part people tend to bash what they do not understand or have yet to expierience. Like D&D for example, religious people tend to say its the 'work of the devil', others stereotype 'geeks' as the only people who play it, others just dont like it and try to bash it anyway possible. I am just trying to say now that it is re-created under a new format and it has been brought to life under the anonymousy of the internet people will be more will to try it and understand what it means to yourself and I. Once people expierence it as a computer game they may want to play the pen & paper game. If they dont I think that they will gain a new respect for the game and maybe some of these stereotypes will disappear, thats all I ment. Sorry if it offended you.
This game is going to be great. You know from playing everquest and watching it for the past 3 years i have noticed something. The anonymousy of the internet has spawned a whole new group of people interested in RPGs.
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RPGs have always been considered something 'geeks' do, but I've recenlty spent some time actually meeting some players of everquest in real life. There are more playing in my area than I ever thought there was. Most of these people I met were not 'geeks' but people enjoying life and expierences more than a lot of 'non-geek' people. I've seen active athletes play everquest, a lot of people we wouldnt think would do it.
NWN could be a great thing for D&D, it could change the way people look at D&D and more people might start to appreciate it. I think it could open peoples minds to different possibilities. I'm not saying that it will, but I've been amazed at what I found just playing EQ which has been active on the market for 3 years.
I cant wait for this game to be released