Don Kellogg is cheating. Over the last hour he's pumped round after round into camouflage-clad terrorists, and only a few of them have been able to return the favor.
Later on he will masturbate violently to pictures and movies of gorgeous Playboy models, while he imagines having sex with them. No woman in the world is even remotely interested in returning the favour.
"I don't always cheat. I'm pretty good playing straight," he insists.
I try to explain that whacking off to more than one nude model in the same night really isnt regarded as cheating on them, but the point appears lost on him. I dare not ask him to expand upon the 'straight' comment.
"Cheating makes me a god."
I'm pretty sure most gods shower more often. It's not as if he spends time that could have been spend on personal hygeine actually becoming good at the game.
I subtly suggest that he might not need to cheat if he considers using the mouse to turn instead of using the arrow keys, but as his on screen persona turns around slighty faster than the short arm of the mickey mouse clock on his wall, he claims that he can make just as easily make a headshot on someone standing behind him across a large distance, armed with nothing but his knife.
"And besides, the mouse sticks a bit too much when I try and turn around sharply."
"Sticks?", I inquire.
"To my hands," he explains, "Damn these hairy palms."
As he says this, he pumps three rounds from his Heckler and Koch MP5 into an unsuspecting opponent, bringing his kill count up to 47; his nearest competitor has 21. Kellogg plays under the pseudonym "Nharlothep," and when he cheats, he is indeed a god.
And when he plays without cheating, he gets crucified. But its not the hands-and-feet-nailed-to-a-cross style of crucifixtion, its the pole-up-the-arse, u-would-probably-get-beaten-in-a-game-of-solitare type of destruction. Heck, the guy installs VNC on peoples computers and then challenges them to a game of Microsoft Hearts.
He begins to type a message into the keyboard. A search-and-destroy effort this slow hasnt been seen since the first world war. "w00t! w00t! ph34r m3!!!" he types.
yeah, and then when the new monkey tries to climb the ladder to grab the banana, he gets attacked by all the other monkeys... why? cause thats the way its always been done... what were we talking about again ???
this is cool... now i can actually live out all the thief2, blood2 and deus ex fantasies i have had about bionic eyes...
oh yeah, and can i also attach one to the top of my shoe and then walk around holding my foot underneath girls dresses??? dropping coins is so nineties...
i would agree with this completely, i used to work as phone support for a company that sells accounting software (i now program for the same company, thank god im off the phones, it literally drives you insane), and i swear the boss would just hire anyone who walked thru the door
...i had someone come up to me with a problem that they had with a caller, where the solution was to re-name some backup files to their original names, and they didnt know how to re-name files... and im thinking "how the heck did you get hired in the first place???", and we have had people who have speech impediments or strong accents (who should never be doing phone support), and who just dont have a general understanding of the way computers work.
which of course just leads to people being given either wrong answers just to get them off the phones, because they dont know what to do, or them being palmed off to someone else who knows what they are doing, ie me:( the support team "supervisor" is the worst, she is the best example of the kind of person that some of the us dev team guys have labelled 'repeater stations'; that is, they get the question, and because they have no idea, they just come into us and repeat the question parrot fashion, and expect an answer.
oh yeah, and the next time i give someone an answer to a question and then get the response "and what if that doesnt work?" there is gonna be a whole world of pain going on for that person...
wow, thats quite a highly sophistimicated doowhackey...
... and as to the 'buying the original' im sure it would work out like it does now, you get 10 people, all who want a copy, they all bring their own blank cd, chip in $10... and while the game is on you run thru 10 copies... done and done...
... i also cant help but think that the logic in the analog story was majorly flawed (completely seperate from the fact that the phrase 'unique originals' is some how redundant)... unless i am misinterpreting the meaning of what you are saying... when it comes down to it, do people really care for the original??? with regards to the copying of digital media, what difference between the original and a copy is there other than the packaging? and if a matter translator existed that could copy anything as it were digital (ie make an exact, perfect copy), but also in identical packaging, then who really would want the original anyway?
oh great, here we go again, another 'holier-than-thou' loser who is here to tell us all how we are all geeks and should 'get a life' because whatever we happen to enjoy and take an interest in doesnt agree with what he might like.
im SOOOO thankful that my saviour has arrived to tell me how misguided and inadequate my life is... tell me, oh "BreakWindows" (wow man, youve already got me thinking you are a l33t h4x0r, you must have linux installed, GEEK), how shall i improve my own pitiful existence so that i may attempt to at least been seen fit for pity in your eyes?...
get outside some more??? take up some sport??? become keen on jesus???
or better still, maybe ill just go back to doing whatever i like to do, with other people that share the same interests... GOSH!... is that allowed???...
whatever i do, i just need to be careful to not like anything too much, cause i would hate to be able to be typecast under some sort of heading, whereby people might be able to know me and what i find interesting... because then all the people who dont neccessarily like that sort of thing might have something to say against me; they might call me a loser because i dont fit in with what they think or do... oh BOO HOO HOO!!!
get a clue you dumb fuck... if you are gonna spend your time telling people that whatever they find interesting is wrong or makes them a loser, or is boring, then you are just showing yourself up to big an even bigger loser, who obviously has so much time on their hands to be able to waste it like this (my excuse is that im bored at work atm)... and besides, unless you find the subject matter interesting, your opinion simply doesnt count anyway, and no one could give a shit what you and your *whooshes* have to say about anything...
oh yeah, and one more thing moron... ALL of the muppets were furry... the phrase 'furry muppets' doesnt make any sense... STUPID
i suppose that the only thing left to do is to form clubs where we all beat the living bejeesus out of each other with our bare fists, then use this as the starting point for underground liberation movements where our primary goal is to blow up all the buildings that contain all the spam/ads that made our online lives intolerable in the first place...
i dont think that when people refer to kids as the 'masters of technology', they were ever refering to the '6 to 12' years olds that were studied in the article... it takes them at least another 4-6 years to be able to attain a l33t h4x0r status, and to be able to work out how to hide all the details that IE stores of their searches for 'boobies' on the internet...
... and sure, they may not be masters of technology, but at least when an error occurs while they are browsing or it takes a long time they dont run around panicing and saying that they somehow 'deleted the internet'... insert name of nearest computer illiterate person here... in my case its the tech support supervisor of the company i program for... *sigh*
does this mean that now instead of just clicking on her picture really fast to get her going, im gonna have to stick my willy in the disk drive???
man, if its gonna get that realistic, thats not gonna be any fun, and if its not gonna be any fun anymore, i might as well just get a real girlfriend!!!
agreed... the bottom line is that this ends up becoming a another "vs" argument, instead that this time instead of graphics vs playability its realism vs playability, and as before, playability comes out on top.
it can look as good as you like, and it can simulate the precision driving of a car or the passage of a bullet thru the human body down to the last millimetre, but if its not fun to play, it will maybe have a small following in the simulation fans, and the rest of us that wanna play games cause they are "unreal", and fun, are gonna ignore it.
a bit of basic realism (ie, things fall in an arc when thrown, cars roll when you... screw up the driving) is always gonna be required, but if it becomes too much real life, its just gonna plain suck.
just because some morons will actually KILL each other over their stupid differences, doesnt mean im not going to laugh at jokes made about it...
the fact that they kill each other doesnt lend any more meaning to the bullshit they are fighting over, and sure as hell doesnt mean im gonna say its wrong to laugh at them...
yeah, and who wants to play FPSs on a console anyway??? all the controllers are fucking useless for them... i would say that i would never buy a console for a FPS game, but i DID buy a N64 just to play Goldeneye... if it doesnt come out for PC, just ill just wait for DNF, or Thief2, or Deus Ex2, or Quake4, or Doom3 (and GTA3)... M$ can think that they are gonna force PC gamers to buy their PC-in-a-box just to play a certain game or two... but they picked the wrong year to try it in... assuming at least a couple of those games make their release dates... and dont forget about Prey (i know it sounds like a joke, but apparently they are continuing work on it AHAHAHAHAHA...)
this is excellent, its great news... i have been trying to find a low cost way to play all the endless stream of crappy sports games, boring puzzlers, no-brainer platform games, and samey beat-em ups on all the consoles for years... and whats better, is that because its all written in java, each and every game will become turn based... itll give me all the time i need to be able to click on the opponents fighter, select "heavy kick" from the drop down menu, and then click "submit"...
... just someone get finished on an x-box emulator and be done with it... i wanna play halo!!!
i would have thought that all that age that you have over the average slashdot reader you would have meant that you would have been able to have come up with an analogy that actually fit the argument... 1) i dont already pay you to drive my car and 2) surfing the internet on work computers doesnt downgrade the quality of the work computers, or mean i have to change the computers oil or something...
im not arguing with the fact that its my employers stuff, or that he makes the rules, just over all the people who... *sigh*, im not gonna waste any more virtual breath here... besides, i have work to do:)
unless i accidently said otherwise, i would never even consider doing any of my 'hobby' programming at work... at work its VB (i know, the shame of it):) at home its C++... i dont even have VB installed at home and vice versa... and i dont take work code home... any coding i do at work is work and any at home is not...
is that not a typo? did you say every potentially valuable idea in 'your personal time'... wow, that is insane... im glad you didnt take the job:)... i would hate to work for that sort of company...
see??? can everybody see this??? this is exactly the type of rationale that im talking about...
With any luck the economy will have an upturn and you will never loose your job to paycuts or your company totally flopping.
But if bad things continue in the economy and your department gets some "ppl" cut don't ou think the Managers are going to cut the people that spend a lot of time surfing the web? Posting on/.?
... the cynical, negative, dragged down attitude that i hope like hell doesnt just come default with age... the old "what if <insert bad event here>, better be a good boy now, just in case things get bad later on"... bloody hell, ill bet your religous too, your comments have that same sunday-christian 'better do it, just in case' tone to them... just another doomsayer to whom the glass is always half empty (or is that half full? i can never remember how that lame analogy is supposed to work)
if my job is lost, then i find another one, if i lose it because i spent too much time on the net, i learn from the experience and make a note to myself to be careful in the future, if i was only occasionally looking up stuff and got fired because they implement a no internet policy, then for the sake of my sanity it was probably a good thing i dont work at that place anymore anyway... regardless, its all an experience, and an experience which i prefer to go for the entire of my waking day, not just the small non-sleeping, non-working bit at the end of it...
Also from a Management standpoint it takes a few minutes to block something. It can take years to "Train" people not to open.exe, or.com files.
well, you must be in management then, cause you would obviously prefer to do the two-second patchwork effort to get the job done than to put any effort in actually educating people and having valuable employees... and then you have the nerve to speak of work ethic??? instead of providing an entertaining environment to work in, you would much prefer have people live most of their days as a robot with a single cause then an interested, creative human being...
... oh yeah, and as a side note, if it takes you "years" to "train" "ppl" to "learn" to not "delete".exe or.com files or something then you really should start making the ownership of a brain part of your mandatory hiring criteria... do you just have a hole in the wall at your work so that these ppl dont have to learn how to use a door???
Get some work done. Having a work ethic is coming back into vogue...
oh, but i DO get some work done, thanks all the same for assuming otherwise, its just that i dont see work as a prision with required attendance for 5 days out of my 7... i like to be able to enjoy my work so i dont feel the need to stay up till 2am each morning drinking to get around the fact that i hate my job/life (same thing to a lot of you ppl), and becoming more and more depressed come late sunday afternoon... and i would imagine you might (but for your sake i hope not)...
... and not that "Let's stay in the office and play Quake all night" crap either.
OMFG!!! what i wouldnt give to be able to find a workplace surrounded by people who think like that... unfortunately im surrounded by people who THINK LIKE YOU... and thats a shame for both me and them...
wow, the average age of the/. user must be much greater than i expected... so many people who have resigned themselves to working the standard 8 hours a day tedium with no outlet for any sort of relief... "work is for WORKING", "its not your time its the COMPANIES TIMES" etc etc etc...
... what it is like to have your spririt broken like that??? to have resigned that 8 hours of your life a day - AN ENTIRE THIRD - of it is surrendered so completely to someone else just because they give you some money for it. has your life become so shallow and money obsessed that you are prepared to resign the greater part of your waking day to someone else just for money?
i am working in a job i like (computer programmer), and its something that i will even do at home after hours on a different level (i write commercial apps at work, and i fiddle with games/graphics programming at home)... but even having said that i would go crazy without the ability to access the internet or play small games at work... to be anything else is to surely be some sort of mindless machine... and my boss realises that that is not what i am... we have a ADSL line that can access the net, and unless ppl were to spend all day on it or have dodgy stuff obviously displayed on their computers, they are free to do as they please, so long as in the end the work gets done, its that easy...
... sure, when one of the plebs in support double clicks on a.exe attachment not once BUT TWICE i am one of the ppl that has to clean up the mess, but there is no way known that i would want to restrict them to sitting in their cubes staring at the walls when there are no support calls coming in... it would get to the point that i would worry each day that they are going to come in with an automatic weapon and wipe half of us out screaming "I JUST WANTED TO CHECK MY HOTMAIL!!!"... we solve these types of problems by TEACHING our people that.exe and.com files shouldnt be touched unless they are obviously from something they are expecting, and as a result anyone that notices one of these will now run it by me to make sure that its a virus or something obviously bad...
... and on the flipside, if i think of something outside of work - when im not *GASP* actually getting paid for it - that is useful or may relate to my work, i may still actually spend a bit or a lot of time (whatever may be required) working it over or writing it down or something AND I DONT ASK FOR MONEY THE NEXT MORNING... all you ppl who let work rule your lives scare the hell out of me, your life isnt meant to be spent working, and i think that some of you need to take a load off for a while... go jerk off somewhere or something...
... i just hope to that i never EVER become as depressing and inert as half the ppl who have replied to this posting... anyway, id better get back to work:)
hehehe, someone who doesnt take a slightly pointless argument too seriously... i like, i like... although the rest of your answers dont exactly fill me with great hope that this is the case:)
Before trying to be a smart arse I'd strongly advise getting your technical terms correct...
who was trying to be a smart arse? prat was my goal all along... besides, even if i knew all the technical terms, i would still be struggling with how water can evaporate before it boils... *please* dont take the bait on that one, just let it slide...:)
It is possible, of course, that you are ignorant of the Fahrenheit scale of temperature (which is widely used in the US). You have my best wishes for a speedy rehabilitation from such a blinkered and bleak existance.
tee hee hee... actually, now that i think about it, youre right, not being able to live in a world were measuring units are made unnessasarily (sp) complicated instead of seperated into straight forward powers of ten HAS kept me up a night lately hehehe... its not my fault that the US has decided not to keep up with the rest of the world... BEFORE you run over to your encyclopaedia and count all the imperial measuring countries purely for the sake of proving me wrong, i dont KNOW and dont CARE if this is case, its just fun to make up facts on the spot to prove my points... you should try it sometimes...
However, the answer is about 30 minutes.
... oops, i spoke too soon... hehehe
Erm - you want to blow on it before opening the lid? Why?
you tell me... youre the moron who suggests that its okay to, after being given something that you requested that just happened to be hot (as 'coffee' tends to be), knowing (surely) that it was hot, and then pouring/spilling/who cares on your private parts, blame the person that gave it to you, on your request, in the first place. i am merely attempting to offer solutions that your obviously impaired brain never even contemplated before admitting that you cant be at fault if you decide that the best thing to do with that cup of liquid hot that you are intending to drink is to rinse your genitals in it. youre the only prat i can see here, and no one has to make up any 'facts' to prove that.
and given that RFC959 and dossen have pretty much told you score as it is already, if you dont already get it (and lets face it, you wanna sue someone else because you spilt coffee on yourself (hypothetically), so im guessing you arent gonna be glancing up at the scoreboard anytime soon), then there is no point in me saying anymore...
oh yeah, and remind me when i turn 81 that all responsibility for my actions now falls on others, ill be running out in front of traffic in no time... KA-CHING!!! *sigh*
your knowledge of pointless statistics is impressive... okay, so i did comp sci and not chemistry and uni, but doesnt water evaporate after hitting the magical 100 degree mark? or does inclusion of coffee do something im not aware of...
... and if your this good with numbers, what about stats on how long it would take a 180 degree cup of coffee to cool down to 135 degrees?
i suppose there is a third option, the 'too-hot-coffee-in-the-hands-of-a-non-retard' option... let the coffee cool, stir it, blow on it... open up the lid, put it in your la- no, wait, only a moron would put even a 135 degree substance in their lap... scratch that last one
i would like to rebutt my own posting... if i may...
linear, 'shoot 5 million identical creatures from their pre-determined postions' with their scripted, unchanging responses, vacant AI, and no more than one way of doing anything
that describes DOOM perfectly, and i wasted years of my life playing that game... hehehe whoops:)
could this be a by product of the fact that a lot of games have the same gameplay whether you are 5 mins or 5 hours into playing it?
if you are playing one of those boring, linear, 'shoot 5 million identical creatures from their pre-determined postions' with their scripted, unchanging responses, vacant AI, and no more than one way of doing anything, max payne style games, which this game seems to be, then who cares if the review is early?
if the game is a dead duck before its even released, just spare a 1/4 page review of the demo, give it 60%, and forget about it. save the time, effort and review space for developers that take the time to make a decent game...
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Don Kellogg is cheating. Over the last hour he's pumped round after round into camouflage-clad terrorists, and only a few of them have been able to return the favor.
Later on he will masturbate violently to pictures and movies of gorgeous Playboy models, while he imagines having sex with them. No woman in the world is even remotely interested in returning the favour.
"I don't always cheat. I'm pretty good playing straight," he insists.
I try to explain that whacking off to more than one nude model in the same night really isnt regarded as cheating on them, but the point appears lost on him. I dare not ask him to expand upon the 'straight' comment.
"Cheating makes me a god."
I'm pretty sure most gods shower more often. It's not as if he spends time that could have been spend on personal hygeine actually becoming good at the game.
I subtly suggest that he might not need to cheat if he considers using the mouse to turn instead of using the arrow keys, but as his on screen persona turns around slighty faster than the short arm of the mickey mouse clock on his wall, he claims that he can make just as easily make a headshot on someone standing behind him across a large distance, armed with nothing but his knife.
"And besides, the mouse sticks a bit too much when I try and turn around sharply."
"Sticks?", I inquire.
"To my hands," he explains, "Damn these hairy palms."
As he says this, he pumps three rounds from his Heckler and Koch MP5 into an unsuspecting opponent, bringing his kill count up to 47; his nearest competitor has 21. Kellogg plays under the pseudonym "Nharlothep," and when he cheats, he is indeed a god.
And when he plays without cheating, he gets crucified. But its not the hands-and-feet-nailed-to-a-cross style of crucifixtion, its the pole-up-the-arse, u-would-probably-get-beaten-in-a-game-of-solitare type of destruction. Heck, the guy installs VNC on peoples computers and then challenges them to a game of Microsoft Hearts.
He begins to type a message into the keyboard. A search-and-destroy effort this slow hasnt been seen since the first world war. "w00t! w00t! ph34r m3!!!" he types.
yeah, and then when the new monkey tries to climb the ladder to grab the banana, he gets attacked by all the other monkeys ... why? cause thats the way its always been done ... what were we talking about again ???
this is cool ... now i can actually live out all the thief2, blood2 and deus ex fantasies i have had about bionic eyes ...
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oh yeah, and can i also attach one to the top of my shoe and then walk around holding my foot underneath girls dresses???
dropping coins is so nineties
i would agree with this completely, i used to work as phone support for a company that sells accounting software (i now program for the same company, thank god im off the phones, it literally drives you insane), and i swear the boss would just hire anyone who walked thru the door
... and im thinking "how the heck did you get hired in the first place???", and we have had people who have speech impediments or strong accents (who should never be doing phone support), and who just dont have a general understanding of the way computers work.
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...i had someone come up to me with a problem that they had with a caller, where the solution was to re-name some backup files to their original names, and they didnt know how to re-name files
which of course just leads to people being given either wrong answers just to get them off the phones, because they dont know what to do, or them being palmed off to someone else who knows what they are doing, ie me
the support team "supervisor" is the worst, she is the best example of the kind of person that some of the us dev team guys have labelled 'repeater stations'; that is, they get the question, and because they have no idea, they just come into us and repeat the question parrot fashion, and expect an answer.
oh yeah, and the next time i give someone an answer to a question and then get the response "and what if that doesnt work?" there is gonna be a whole world of pain going on for that person
wow, thats quite a highly sophistimicated doowhackey ...
... and as to the 'buying the original' im sure it would work out like it does now, you get 10 people, all who want a copy, they all bring their own blank cd, chip in $10 ... and while the game is on you run thru 10 copies ... done and done ...
... i also cant help but think that the logic in the analog story was majorly flawed (completely seperate from the fact that the phrase 'unique originals' is some how redundant) ... unless i am misinterpreting the meaning of what you are saying ... when it comes down to it, do people really care for the original??? with regards to the copying of digital media, what difference between the original and a copy is there other than the packaging? and if a matter translator existed that could copy anything as it were digital (ie make an exact, perfect copy), but also in identical packaging, then who really would want the original anyway?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
... where do i begin???
*wipes tear from eyes*
oh man
damnit, i forgot about those critic guys ...
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... its not quite a mop, and its not quite a puppet ..."
i thought kermit and miss piggy had fur all over their bodies, its just that it was just short
miss piggy probably waxes any problem fur anyway
"dad, whats a mup-pet? well
oh great, here we go again, another 'holier-than-thou' loser who is here to tell us all how we are all geeks and should 'get a life' because whatever we happen to enjoy and take an interest in doesnt agree with what he might like.
... tell me, oh "BreakWindows" (wow man, youve already got me thinking you are a l33t h4x0r, you must have linux installed, GEEK), how shall i improve my own pitiful existence so that i may attempt to at least been seen fit for pity in your eyes? ...
... GOSH! ... is that allowed??? ...
... because then all the people who dont neccessarily like that sort of thing might have something to say against me; they might call me a loser because i dont fit in with what they think or do ... oh BOO HOO HOO!!!
... if you are gonna spend your time telling people that whatever they find interesting is wrong or makes them a loser, or is boring, then you are just showing yourself up to big an even bigger loser, who obviously has so much time on their hands to be able to waste it like this (my excuse is that im bored at work atm) ... and besides, unless you find the subject matter interesting, your opinion simply doesnt count anyway, and no one could give a shit what you and your *whooshes* have to say about anything ...
... ALL of the muppets were furry ... the phrase 'furry muppets' doesnt make any sense ... STUPID
im SOOOO thankful that my saviour has arrived to tell me how misguided and inadequate my life is
get outside some more???
take up some sport???
become keen on jesus???
or better still, maybe ill just go back to doing whatever i like to do, with other people that share the same interests
whatever i do, i just need to be careful to not like anything too much, cause i would hate to be able to be typecast under some sort of heading, whereby people might be able to know me and what i find interesting
get a clue you dumb fuck
oh yeah, and one more thing moron
i suppose that the only thing left to do is to form clubs where we all beat the living bejeesus out of each other with our bare fists, then use this as the starting point for underground liberation movements where our primary goal is to blow up all the buildings that contain all the spam/ads that made our online lives intolerable in the first place ...
WHO IS WITH ME?!?!?!?!?!
i wouldnt waste your time planning for eventualities that are never gonna happen ...
i dont think that when people refer to kids as the 'masters of technology', they were ever refering to the '6 to 12' years olds that were studied in the article ... it takes them at least another 4-6 years to be able to attain a l33t h4x0r status, and to be able to work out how to hide all the details that IE stores of their searches for 'boobies' on the internet ...
... insert name of nearest computer illiterate person here ... in my case its the tech support supervisor of the company i program for ... *sigh*
... and sure, they may not be masters of technology, but at least when an error occurs while they are browsing or it takes a long time they dont run around panicing and saying that they somehow 'deleted the internet'
does this mean that now instead of just clicking on her picture really fast to get her going, im gonna have to stick my willy in the disk drive???
man, if its gonna get that realistic, thats not gonna be any fun, and if its not gonna be any fun anymore, i might as well just get a real girlfriend!!!
agreed ... the bottom line is that this ends up becoming a another "vs" argument, instead that this time instead of graphics vs playability its realism vs playability, and as before, playability comes out on top.
... screw up the driving) is always gonna be required, but if it becomes too much real life, its just gonna plain suck.
it can look as good as you like, and it can simulate the precision driving of a car or the passage of a bullet thru the human body down to the last millimetre, but if its not fun to play, it will maybe have a small following in the simulation fans, and the rest of us that wanna play games cause they are "unreal", and fun, are gonna ignore it.
a bit of basic realism (ie, things fall in an arc when thrown, cars roll when you
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... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
just because some morons will actually KILL each other over their stupid differences, doesnt mean im not going to laugh at jokes made about it
the fact that they kill each other doesnt lend any more meaning to the bullshit they are fighting over, and sure as hell doesnt mean im gonna say its wrong to laugh at them
yahoo-engine
yeah, and who wants to play FPSs on a console anyway??? all the controllers are fucking useless for them ... i would say that i would never buy a console for a FPS game, but i DID buy a N64 just to play Goldeneye ... if it doesnt come out for PC, just ill just wait for DNF, or Thief2, or Deus Ex2, or Quake4, or Doom3 (and GTA3)... M$ can think that they are gonna force PC gamers to buy their PC-in-a-box just to play a certain game or two ... but they picked the wrong year to try it in ... assuming at least a couple of those games make their release dates ... and dont forget about Prey (i know it sounds like a joke, but apparently they are continuing work on it AHAHAHAHAHA ...)
this is excellent, its great news ... i have been trying to find a low cost way to play all the endless stream of crappy sports games, boring puzzlers, no-brainer platform games, and samey beat-em ups on all the consoles for years ... and whats better, is that because its all written in java, each and every game will become turn based ... itll give me all the time i need to be able to click on the opponents fighter, select "heavy kick" from the drop down menu, and then click "submit" ...
... i wanna play halo!!!
... just someone get finished on an x-box emulator and be done with it
i would love to reply to this, but im at home, and i only access /. from work hehehe
i would have thought that all that age that you have over the average slashdot reader you would have meant that you would have been able to have come up with an analogy that actually fit the argument ... 1) i dont already pay you to drive my car and 2) surfing the internet on work computers doesnt downgrade the quality of the work computers, or mean i have to change the computers oil or something ...
... *sigh*, im not gonna waste any more virtual breath here ... besides, i have work to do :)
im not arguing with the fact that its my employers stuff, or that he makes the rules, just over all the people who
unless i accidently said otherwise, i would never even consider doing any of my 'hobby' programming at work ... at work its VB (i know, the shame of it) :) at home its C++ ... i dont even have VB installed at home and vice versa ... and i dont take work code home ... any coding i do at work is work and any at home is not ...
... wow, that is insane ... im glad you didnt take the job :) ... i would hate to work for that sort of company ...
is that not a typo? did you say every potentially valuable idea in 'your personal time'
see??? can everybody see this??? this is exactly the type of rationale that im talking about ...
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... the cynical, negative, dragged down attitude that i hope like hell doesnt just come default with age ... the old "what if <insert bad event here>, better be a good boy now, just in case things get bad later on" ... bloody hell, ill bet your religous too, your comments have that same sunday-christian 'better do it, just in case' tone to them ... just another doomsayer to whom the glass is always half empty (or is that half full? i can never remember how that lame analogy is supposed to work)
... regardless, its all an experience, and an experience which i prefer to go for the entire of my waking day, not just the small non-sleeping, non-working bit at the end of it ...
.exe, or .com files.
... and then you have the nerve to speak of work ethic??? instead of providing an entertaining environment to work in, you would much prefer have people live most of their days as a robot with a single cause then an interested, creative human being ...
.exe or .com files or something then you really should start making the ownership of a brain part of your mandatory hiring criteria ... do you just have a hole in the wall at your work so that these ppl dont have to learn how to use a door???
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... i like to be able to enjoy my work so i dont feel the need to stay up till 2am each morning drinking to get around the fact that i hate my job/life (same thing to a lot of you ppl), and becoming more and more depressed come late sunday afternoon ... and i would imagine you might (but for your sake i hope not) ...
... and not that "Let's stay in the office and play Quake all night" crap either.
... unfortunately im surrounded by people who THINK LIKE YOU ... and thats a shame for both me and them ...
With any luck the economy will have an upturn and you will never loose your job to paycuts or your company totally flopping.
But if bad things continue in the economy and your department gets some "ppl" cut don't ou think the Managers are going to cut the people that spend a lot of time surfing the web? Posting on
if my job is lost, then i find another one, if i lose it because i spent too much time on the net, i learn from the experience and make a note to myself to be careful in the future, if i was only occasionally looking up stuff and got fired because they implement a no internet policy, then for the sake of my sanity it was probably a good thing i dont work at that place anymore anyway
Also from a Management standpoint it takes a few minutes to block something. It can take years to "Train" people not to open
well, you must be in management then, cause you would obviously prefer to do the two-second patchwork effort to get the job done than to put any effort in actually educating people and having valuable employees
... oh yeah, and as a side note, if it takes you "years" to "train" "ppl" to "learn" to not "delete"
Get some work done. Having a work ethic is coming back into vogue
oh, but i DO get some work done, thanks all the same for assuming otherwise, its just that i dont see work as a prision with required attendance for 5 days out of my 7
OMFG!!! what i wouldnt give to be able to find a workplace surrounded by people who think like that
wow, the average age of the /. user must be much greater than i expected ... so many people who have resigned themselves to working the standard 8 hours a day tedium with no outlet for any sort of relief ... "work is for WORKING", "its not your time its the COMPANIES TIMES" etc etc etc ...
... but even having said that i would go crazy without the ability to access the internet or play small games at work ... to be anything else is to surely be some sort of mindless machine ... and my boss realises that that is not what i am ... we have a ADSL line that can access the net, and unless ppl were to spend all day on it or have dodgy stuff obviously displayed on their computers, they are free to do as they please, so long as in the end the work gets done, its that easy ...
.exe attachment not once BUT TWICE i am one of the ppl that has to clean up the mess, but there is no way known that i would want to restrict them to sitting in their cubes staring at the walls when there are no support calls coming in ... it would get to the point that i would worry each day that they are going to come in with an automatic weapon and wipe half of us out screaming "I JUST WANTED TO CHECK MY HOTMAIL!!!" ... we solve these types of problems by TEACHING our people that .exe and .com files shouldnt be touched unless they are obviously from something they are expecting, and as a result anyone that notices one of these will now run it by me to make sure that its a virus or something obviously bad ...
... all you ppl who let work rule your lives scare the hell out of me, your life isnt meant to be spent working, and i think that some of you need to take a load off for a while ... go jerk off somewhere or something ...
... anyway, id better get back to work :)
... what it is like to have your spririt broken like that??? to have resigned that 8 hours of your life a day - AN ENTIRE THIRD - of it is surrendered so completely to someone else just because they give you some money for it. has your life become so shallow and money obsessed that you are prepared to resign the greater part of your waking day to someone else just for money?
i am working in a job i like (computer programmer), and its something that i will even do at home after hours on a different level (i write commercial apps at work, and i fiddle with games/graphics programming at home)
... sure, when one of the plebs in support double clicks on a
... and on the flipside, if i think of something outside of work - when im not *GASP* actually getting paid for it - that is useful or may relate to my work, i may still actually spend a bit or a lot of time (whatever may be required) working it over or writing it down or something AND I DONT ASK FOR MONEY THE NEXT MORNING
... i just hope to that i never EVER become as depressing and inert as half the ppl who have replied to this posting
You ain't seen nothing yet.
... i like, i like ... although the rest of your answers dont exactly fill me with great hope that this is the case :)
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... besides, even if i knew all the technical terms, i would still be struggling with how water can evaporate before it boils ... *please* dont take the bait on that one, just let it slide ... :)
... actually, now that i think about it, youre right, not being able to live in a world were measuring units are made unnessasarily (sp) complicated instead of seperated into straight forward powers of ten HAS kept me up a night lately hehehe ... its not my fault that the US has decided not to keep up with the rest of the world ... BEFORE you run over to your encyclopaedia and count all the imperial measuring countries purely for the sake of proving me wrong, i dont KNOW and dont CARE if this is case, its just fun to make up facts on the spot to prove my points ... you should try it sometimes ...
... oops, i spoke too soon ... hehehe
... youre the moron who suggests that its okay to, after being given something that you requested that just happened to be hot (as 'coffee' tends to be), knowing (surely) that it was hot, and then pouring/spilling/who cares on your private parts, blame the person that gave it to you, on your request, in the first place. i am merely attempting to offer solutions that your obviously impaired brain never even contemplated before admitting that you cant be at fault if you decide that the best thing to do with that cup of liquid hot that you are intending to drink is to rinse your genitals in it. youre the only prat i can see here, and no one has to make up any 'facts' to prove that.
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... KA-CHING!!! *sigh*
hehehe, someone who doesnt take a slightly pointless argument too seriously
Before trying to be a smart arse I'd strongly advise getting your technical terms correct
who was trying to be a smart arse? prat was my goal all along
It is possible, of course, that you are ignorant of the Fahrenheit scale of temperature (which is widely used in the US). You have my best wishes for a speedy rehabilitation from such a blinkered and bleak existance.
tee hee hee
However, the answer is about 30 minutes.
Erm - you want to blow on it before opening the lid? Why?
you tell me
and given that RFC959 and dossen have pretty much told you score as it is already, if you dont already get it (and lets face it, you wanna sue someone else because you spilt coffee on yourself (hypothetically), so im guessing you arent gonna be glancing up at the scoreboard anytime soon), then there is no point in me saying anymore
oh yeah, and remind me when i turn 81 that all responsibility for my actions now falls on others, ill be running out in front of traffic in no time
your knowledge of pointless statistics is impressive ... okay, so i did comp sci and not chemistry and uni, but doesnt water evaporate after hitting the magical 100 degree mark? or does inclusion of coffee do something im not aware of ...
... let the coffee cool, stir it, blow on it ... open up the lid, put it in your la- no, wait, only a moron would put even a 135 degree substance in their lap ... scratch that last one
... and if your this good with numbers, what about stats on how long it would take a 180 degree cup of coffee to cool down to 135 degrees?
i suppose there is a third option, the 'too-hot-coffee-in-the-hands-of-a-non-retard' option
i would like to rebutt my own posting ... if i may ...
... hehehe whoops :)
linear, 'shoot 5 million identical creatures from their pre-determined postions' with their scripted, unchanging responses, vacant AI, and no more than one way of doing anything
that describes DOOM perfectly, and i wasted years of my life playing that game
could this be a by product of the fact that a lot of games have the same gameplay whether you are 5 mins or 5 hours into playing it?
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if you are playing one of those boring, linear, 'shoot 5 million identical creatures from their pre-determined postions' with their scripted, unchanging responses, vacant AI, and no more than one way of doing anything, max payne style games, which this game seems to be, then who cares if the review is early?
if the game is a dead duck before its even released, just spare a 1/4 page review of the demo, give it 60%, and forget about it. save the time, effort and review space for developers that take the time to make a decent game