"Well, can you imagine a real life football (soccer, whatever) player spin 2 or 3 times ? I can't..."
Yeah, and while we're at it, I don't recall ever seeing the forwards connected together with a metal rod, restricting them to left-right movement. Same for the defensemen, too. Therefore, I vote against the foosball players being tethered together like that, because it's not like real life.
Not every table game has to be like real life. You play by the mechanics and rules given to you. What matters is that everyone has fun and nobody else's expense.
"a mysql DB with all phone numbers in the country"
Holy cow! From your wording, I'm getting that you have a personal MySQL DB that stores "all phone numbers in the country"? Even if I'm assuming wrong, what publicly accesible MySQL DB has all names and numbers of people all over the world?
Morpheus explains that the Matrix took decades to figure out that this very idea wouldn't work; that in an Edenic Matrix, the "batteries" kept wigging out because there was no conflict in their lives.
So have half of them in the Justice League and the others in the Legion of Doom!
Exactly the problem I had with the first movie. What the hell do the battery-people have to look forward to? If the Matrix was as smart as it should be, why not make the lives of all of the people in the Matrix even more glamorous than they already are? Let them all fly, leap buildings, etc. Then when Neo and the gang decide throw red pills down their throats, and they wake up nearly drowning in their own goopy food and feces, they'll beg to be strapped back in.
God in the Matrix, yes, but not in the "real world" where he can't really fly, leap tall buildings, etc.
We need to see all those millions(?) of people being used as batteries become self aware and kick the shite out of the machines in the real world.
...but then there's that pesky problem of the "real world" being a barren wasteland, covered in clouded darkness. Makes that blue pill sound not so bad afterall. That's one thing that bothered me from the 1st movie -- that the "solution" humans had to defeat the machines was to blacken the skies and basically wipe out all natural vegetation on Earth? Nice move.
I am still in touch with Robin here and there, but honestly that "demo" I have is barely anything worth looking at for anything but nostalgia's sake. From what I know of the real TF2, it's absolutely nothing like what you'll see. One thing I recall from the Q2 version was that the spy had a teeny, tiny robotic spider that he could throw on the ground and control to infiltrate the enemy base and detonate. You could also look through the spider's eyes while controlling it and use it as a camera. Keep in mind that this work was done, if I recall, a few months after Quake 2 was released. A lot has changed since then.
I actually did some sound effects work for this back when it was originally slated to be a Quake 2 mod by the TF team (before they all joined on with Valve). You can actually still download the MP3 of the sounds all put together, made to sound like one huge battle.
Once they got bought out by Valve, I got paid for the work I did and that was the last I saw/heard about the game really. Looking back at it now though, I hope they really don't use my old sounds, as they're quite dated and admitedly amateur.
At one point, while I was working on the last version of TF released for QuakeWorld (remember that?), Robin of TF had me take a look at a first run of TF2 for Quake2. I actually think I have that still laying around here on an old CD somewhere.
I've been waiting around for Horizons for quite some time. At least the beta is seeing some light of day recently. But it sure doesn't beat the long awaited Sovereign that I believe was announced sometime after Everquest was launched...Everquest!
How long has it been sice AOL bought out ICQ, yet we still have both ICQ #'s and AOL login names, and still a seperate messenger for each? How long will it be before these two finally become one, never mind having a single, unified messaging format that we can all use without having to either install one special client to handle all the different servers (i.e., Everybuddy, Trillian, etc.), or run seperate clients for each? ANd I'm not talking about something like Jabber.
I was cleaning up my folks' basement earlier this year and found my Atari 2600, complete with joysticks and tons of carts. I have to wonder if this thing's worth anything out there.
The first Castle Wolfenstein game was made by id Software and was called "Wolfenstein-3D."
Egads, I remember long nights in front of my Apple//e playing the original Castle Wolfenstein on my green monitor.
*sigh*...the memories. I recall having to take out Nazi soldiers with your pistol (only weapon, IIRC) and steal their pass ("ANCE PASS!") to get around. If you weren't careful, they'd sound the alarm and all hell would break lose. I remember one night finally reaching Hitler and his crew sitting at a banquet table where I had to place a load of dynamite. I remember how triumphant I felt finally getting there.
Incidently, a few years ago one of the more popular gaming web pages had a sound-byte trivia contest, and the sound byte of "HAIL!" from this very game was amoungst them.
Slashdot Mirror
A/S/L
'nuff said
With all those bricks invovled, maybe they should call it the SGI Tetrix.
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Yeah, and while we're at it, I don't recall ever seeing the forwards connected together with a metal rod, restricting them to left-right movement. Same for the defensemen, too. Therefore, I vote against the foosball players being tethered together like that, because it's not like real life.
Not every table game has to be like real life. You play by the mechanics and rules given to you. What matters is that everyone has fun and nobody else's expense.
Holy cow! From your wording, I'm getting that you have a personal MySQL DB that stores "all phone numbers in the country"? Even if I'm assuming wrong, what publicly accesible MySQL DB has all names and numbers of people all over the world?
$123 direct from their site. Not worth it, IMO.
LAN Party?
That all EQ players are really male afterall?
"Pay no attention to the man behind the tree wearing the Goofy constume!"
"We're sorry sir, the dinosaur thought it was a toupe..."
The food source was liquified humans, IIRC.
So have half of them in the Justice League and the others in the Legion of Doom!
Remember that at least a good portion of those people were genetically created by the machines.
Exactly the problem I had with the first movie. What the hell do the battery-people have to look forward to? If the Matrix was as smart as it should be, why not make the lives of all of the people in the Matrix even more glamorous than they already are? Let them all fly, leap buildings, etc. Then when Neo and the gang decide throw red pills down their throats, and they wake up nearly drowning in their own goopy food and feces, they'll beg to be strapped back in.
We need to see all those millions(?) of people being used as batteries become self aware and kick the shite out of the machines in the real world.
I am still in touch with Robin here and there, but honestly that "demo" I have is barely anything worth looking at for anything but nostalgia's sake. From what I know of the real TF2, it's absolutely nothing like what you'll see. One thing I recall from the Q2 version was that the spy had a teeny, tiny robotic spider that he could throw on the ground and control to infiltrate the enemy base and detonate. You could also look through the spider's eyes while controlling it and use it as a camera. Keep in mind that this work was done, if I recall, a few months after Quake 2 was released. A lot has changed since then.
When we moved into our new digs, a sign on the server room already read "The Bat Cave". I just had to keep it there. Now we just need a red phone.
Once they got bought out by Valve, I got paid for the work I did and that was the last I saw/heard about the game really. Looking back at it now though, I hope they really don't use my old sounds, as they're quite dated and admitedly amateur.
At one point, while I was working on the last version of TF released for QuakeWorld (remember that?), Robin of TF had me take a look at a first run of TF2 for Quake2. I actually think I have that still laying around here on an old CD somewhere.
I've been waiting around for Horizons for quite some time. At least the beta is seeing some light of day recently. But it sure doesn't beat the long awaited Sovereign that I believe was announced sometime after Everquest was launched...Everquest!
How long has it been sice AOL bought out ICQ, yet we still have both ICQ #'s and AOL login names, and still a seperate messenger for each? How long will it be before these two finally become one, never mind having a single, unified messaging format that we can all use without having to either install one special client to handle all the different servers (i.e., Everybuddy, Trillian, etc.), or run seperate clients for each? ANd I'm not talking about something like Jabber.
-- Ralph Wiggum
Oh what fun it is to cluster twenty PDA!
(OK, I got nothing)
I was cleaning up my folks' basement earlier this year and found my Atari 2600, complete with joysticks and tons of carts. I have to wonder if this thing's worth anything out there.
Egads, I remember long nights in front of my Apple //e playing the original Castle Wolfenstein on my green monitor.
*sigh*...the memories. I recall having to take out Nazi soldiers with your pistol (only weapon, IIRC) and steal their pass ("ANCE PASS!") to get around. If you weren't careful, they'd sound the alarm and all hell would break lose. I remember one night finally reaching Hitler and his crew sitting at a banquet table where I had to place a load of dynamite. I remember how triumphant I felt finally getting there.
Incidently, a few years ago one of the more popular gaming web pages had a sound-byte trivia contest, and the sound byte of "HAIL!" from this very game was amoungst them.