I've had to sacrifice some of my gaming time since meeting my wife, but I'd counsel against giving it up entirely.
It was one of the things I made clear early on in our relationship, and reiterated before I proposed to her - gaming is not a phase I'm going through, it's part of who I am.
Of course any relationship involves compromises on both sides, as you said. I don't spend as much time gaming as I used to, but I get to do a whole bunch of other things that weren't possible when I was single;)
As for my wifes attitude toward games, she doesn't really play them much. She loves Mario party, had a brief obsession with Rollercoaster Tycoon, and played the Sims for a weekend straight before giving it up as "too addictive" (thank heavens).
For a while I struggled to find a way to get her involved until I eventually realised that she actually enjoys watching me play games, as long as it's something with a story. I tried the cutesy games to no avail, but knew I had discovered something special when she asked me to get back to Splinter Cell so she could find out what happened next.
So now I lean toward console games (so we can sit together on the couch in front of a nice big screen) and games with a story (the amazing revelation - subject matter and level of gore not as important as the plot!). It's a win-win situation.
The World Wide Web is not the Internet.. I too get annoyed seeing bad URLs in print, but I'm much more annoyed by people dropping the http:// than the www. The www is redundant, sure, but the http:// isn't.
PAL and NTSC are quite different formats. They are different resolutions (PAL has more vertical lines), different framerates (NTSC is slightly faster) and use different colour encodings.
The video signal type is on the disc - some players are capable of converting between the two, but almost any relatively recent TV (in Australia, at least) can display both formats. My DVD player is set to output whatever is on the disc, and my TV copes fine.
I know this was meant tongue-in-cheek, but the novel "Fight Club" is a damn good read. The movie is one of the best book-to-movie conversions I've seen, too.
Those of you who think it's just a blokes story about people beating each other up, take a chance and watch/read it. You couldn't be more wrong.
Many of the console games in development at the moment are planned for release on all three consoles. The launch titles for the X-Box are pretty uninspiring, but it's early days yet.
Microsoft are in a much better position than they'd have been in if Sony had used their extra year of time with the PS2 on the market effectively.
Personally I'm leaning toward buying a Gamecube. This change in price brings the X-Box down to the same price, but I just prefer Nintendo's style (and franchise characters).
Having 3 consoles on the market is doing great things as far as I'm concerned, as a gamer. When you can develop a game for one of two systems, often you'll only do one. But if sticking to one system cuts you out of a large portion of the market, you're more likely to develop for them all.
I reckon you bet on black after a streak of reds in roulette too, don't you..
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Noone still running Win95 is playing new games.
To play the latest games you need a decently specced PC, and at *least* Win98. Gamers update windows because more recent versions of windows are better for games.
I'm a unix sysadmin by profession, dual-boot linux/WinXP on my laptop and have a FreeBSD box at home.
But my primary desktop operating system is Windows because a) it's just nicer (and easier) to use (although KDE is getting there), and b) it's the best PC OS around for games.
Just because it's written in Perl doesn't mean it will run in a web browser..
Firstly, it uses the Perls interface to Tk to manipulate GUI elements on the local system. This means that Perl (and TK, etc) have to be running locally.
Secondly, it's not a window manager, only a desktop manager (whatever they mean by that). It integrates with a window manager called Blackbox.
Finally, a remote desktop over HTTP would be quite a bit nastier than X, I reckon..
Here in lies the irony of our existance. We are some of the most respectful, capable and socialy trained individuals in our society, yet we are the outcasts. The only way we begin to expand our social lives is to literaly force our way into friendships. Myself, the only reason I have as many friends as I do (and consequently am never at a loss for a date) is because I have literaly butted into conversations and made my presence known. It took me 3 years of highschool to figure out how to do this without being rude, obnoxious or being rejected from the conversation.
Congratulations. You've learnt the art of conversation.
The truth is that opportunities to flirt or converse with other people are not always presented neatly wrapped on a platter. The more a person isolates themself from others, the less these opportuinites will appear.
Geeks constantly complain about the standard of education at highschool, about teachers who aren't as smart as we are but dictate terms, about the lack of respect for intellectual, as opposed to physical, pursuits.
I was exactly the same in high school until about year 10. I seem to be a generally likeable guy, I've never had a problem conversing with people but starting conversations with my peers seemed difficult. I had a small group of geek friends, and that was it.
Eventually I figured out that if I wanted more friends, I'd have to go out and make them myself.
It's really not hard once you put your mind to it. Identify the people you like, that you might have something in common with. The people who have some sort of brain but are not necessarily geeks. Go outside during your breaks, instead of sitting in the lab coding. Take your library books home to read, instead of reading in the library at lunchtime. Just remember that you can't be social unless you're in social environments.
In the end, I learnt much more about people in highschool than I did about anything the teachers tried to teach me.
The most important thing I learnt was that geeks tend to put people in boxes just as often as other people do to us. Once you can learn to avoid that, you may be suprised.
If anyone at highschool had told me that my best man at my wedding in ten years time would be a good-looking, athletic, sports-mad ladies man, I'd have laughed at them. But if I hadn't learned to stop treating others the way they'd treated me, I'd have missed out on making a great friend.
I'm having some difficulty convincing my wife to let me be mulched and used as fertiliser. If I can convince her, I'll worry about the legal aspects.
Cremation just seems such a waste of good nutrients, and I can't think of anything more ridiculous than paying money to stick my dead body in the ground in what could otherwise have been useful real estate.
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:set autoindent
This has worked as long as I've been using vi (which is the version supplied with FreeBSD).
I use spaces for indenting as well, so I could
never live without it.
If this site is so disliked, couldn't it be registered with the Australian Government (or whomoever) as an offensive site? Wouldn't it then have to be shut down by the Australian Censorship Laws?
No, someone could complain about it, but unless the content was deemed to be of the sort that would be in some way 'restricted' in other media, then they wouldn't take it down.
I'm trying to remember the url for the site which allows you to register a complaint, and gives more information, but it escapes me atm..
I never found much appeal in Diablo. How bout we get some more real role playing games back? It's been a long time since a decent one came out. We need a return to the days of D&D.
I suggest you try Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, and watch out for Icewind Dale and BG2 (all from Interplay, who now have the AD&D license).
Having been a fan of the old SSI D&D computer games I think it can be safely said that there are at last some more good RPG's being released.
For less traditional RPG fun, I hear that the Fallout and System Shock series are good, though I haven't played them myself.
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An obscure recipe like soup, for example? :)
I've had to sacrifice some of my gaming time since meeting my wife, but I'd counsel against giving it up entirely.
;)
It was one of the things I made clear early on in our relationship, and reiterated before I proposed to her - gaming is not a phase I'm going through, it's part of who I am.
Of course any relationship involves compromises on both sides, as you said. I don't spend as much time gaming as I used to, but I get to do a whole bunch of other things that weren't possible when I was single
As for my wifes attitude toward games, she doesn't really play them much. She loves Mario party, had a brief obsession with Rollercoaster Tycoon, and played the Sims for a weekend straight before giving it up as "too addictive" (thank heavens).
For a while I struggled to find a way to get her involved until I eventually realised that she actually enjoys watching me play games, as long as it's something with a story. I tried the cutesy games to no avail, but knew I had discovered something special when she asked me to get back to Splinter Cell so she could find out what happened next.
So now I lean toward console games (so we can sit together on the couch in front of a nice big screen) and games with a story (the amazing revelation - subject matter and level of gore not as important as the plot!). It's a win-win situation.
I was also at that conference :)
I live in Hobart, and have toured the bridge of one of these Cats, although not the one mentioned in the article.
These are impressive ships even from a distance, despite their relatively small size.
The World Wide Web is not the Internet.. I too get annoyed seeing bad URLs in print, but I'm much more annoyed by people dropping the http:// than the www. The www is redundant, sure, but the http:// isn't.
PAL and NTSC are quite different formats. They are different resolutions (PAL has more vertical lines), different framerates (NTSC is slightly faster) and use different colour encodings.
The video signal type is on the disc - some players are capable of converting between the two, but almost any relatively recent TV (in Australia, at least) can display both formats. My DVD player is set to output whatever is on the disc, and my TV copes fine.
Read a book called "Syrup" by Maxx Barry(sp?)
Basic plot is that Coke decide to make a feature-film length commercial, which becomes a box-office hit. It's a witty satire..
133t is port 143, not 110.
POP3 is 1@m3, d00d.
I can't believe I just wrote that.
Yes, very and pleasantly. She floored me.
Her short duet with with Giles (at the end of his solo) was great too.
This morning.
I always laugh at this example when I hear it.. Here in Australia we blow our noses on tissues, and we photocopy things rather than xeroxing them.
Mind you, I have to admit that we sometimes ask for a biro when we mean a pen..
I guess our brand biases are just different to yours.
That can't be it, this happened in England.
A lot of people have been talking about this in terms of matter transportation a-la Star Trek.
An article I read recently on Wired mentioned a theory that "conciousness" may be the electromagnetic field of our brain interacting with neurons.
A device like this wouldn't copy the field, would it? Or can these things be expressed in terms of quantum "particles" as well?
I know this was meant tongue-in-cheek, but the novel "Fight Club" is a damn good read. The movie is one of the best book-to-movie conversions I've seen, too.
Those of you who think it's just a blokes story about people beating each other up, take a chance and watch/read it. You couldn't be more wrong.
Many of the console games in development at the moment are planned for release on all three consoles. The launch titles for the X-Box are pretty uninspiring, but it's early days yet.
Microsoft are in a much better position than they'd have been in if Sony had used their extra year of time with the PS2 on the market effectively.
Personally I'm leaning toward buying a Gamecube. This change in price brings the X-Box down to the same price, but I just prefer Nintendo's style (and franchise characters).
Having 3 consoles on the market is doing great things as far as I'm concerned, as a gamer. When you can develop a game for one of two systems, often you'll only do one. But if sticking to one system cuts you out of a large portion of the market, you're more likely to develop for them all.
Read the article..
They're giving people who've already bought an x-box two games and a controller.
For people in Aus, the deal is online here:
http://www.xbox.com/au/support/OnlineFreebie.htm
I reckon you bet on black after a streak of reds in roulette too, don't you..
Noone still running Win95 is playing new games.
To play the latest games you need a decently specced PC, and at *least* Win98. Gamers update windows because more recent versions of windows are better for games.
I'm a unix sysadmin by profession, dual-boot linux/WinXP on my laptop and have a FreeBSD box at home.
But my primary desktop operating system is Windows because a) it's just nicer (and easier) to use (although KDE is getting there), and b) it's the best PC OS around for games.
Just because it's written in Perl doesn't mean it will run in a web browser..
Firstly, it uses the Perls interface to Tk to manipulate GUI elements on the local system. This means that Perl (and TK, etc) have to be running locally.
Secondly, it's not a window manager, only a desktop manager (whatever they mean by that). It integrates with a window manager called Blackbox.
Finally, a remote desktop over HTTP would be quite a bit nastier than X, I reckon..
Congratulations. You've learnt the art of conversation.
The truth is that opportunities to flirt or converse with other people are not always presented neatly wrapped on a platter. The more a person isolates themself from others, the less these opportuinites will appear.
Geeks constantly complain about the standard of education at highschool, about teachers who aren't as smart as we are but dictate terms, about the lack of respect for intellectual, as opposed to physical, pursuits.
I was exactly the same in high school until about year 10. I seem to be a generally likeable guy, I've never had a problem conversing with people but starting conversations with my peers seemed difficult. I had a small group of geek friends, and that was it.
Eventually I figured out that if I wanted more friends, I'd have to go out and make them myself.
It's really not hard once you put your mind to it. Identify the people you like, that you might have something in common with. The people who have some sort of brain but are not necessarily geeks. Go outside during your breaks, instead of sitting in the lab coding. Take your library books home to read, instead of reading in the library at lunchtime. Just remember that you can't be social unless you're in social environments.
In the end, I learnt much more about people in highschool than I did about anything the teachers tried to teach me.
The most important thing I learnt was that geeks tend to put people in boxes just as often as other people do to us. Once you can learn to avoid that, you may be suprised.
If anyone at highschool had told me that my best man at my wedding in ten years time would be a good-looking, athletic, sports-mad ladies man, I'd have laughed at them. But if I hadn't learned to stop treating others the way they'd treated me, I'd have missed out on making a great friend.
I think it's a great idea.
I'm having some difficulty convincing my wife to let me be mulched and used as fertiliser. If I can convince her, I'll worry about the legal aspects.
Cremation just seems such a waste of good nutrients, and I can't think of anything more ridiculous than paying money to stick my dead body in the ground in what could otherwise have been useful real estate.
This has worked as long as I've been using vi (which is the version supplied with FreeBSD).
I use spaces for indenting as well, so I could never live without it.
#include sig.h
No, someone could complain about it, but unless the content was deemed to be of the sort that would be in some way 'restricted' in other media, then they wouldn't take it down.
I'm trying to remember the url for the site which allows you to register a complaint, and gives more information, but it escapes me atm..
#include sig.h
Hehheh.. :) I've been trying to figure out how I can get a couple of the dolls shipped with our next subscription set and get work to pay for them. ;)
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#include sig.h
Damn, I wish I had points to moderate this up - I was about to rant about the same thing.
Come on, Blizzard! What's the excuse?
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I suggest you try Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, and watch out for Icewind Dale and BG2 (all from Interplay, who now have the AD&D license).
Having been a fan of the old SSI D&D computer games I think it can be safely said that there are at last some more good RPG's being released.
For less traditional RPG fun, I hear that the Fallout and System Shock series are good, though I haven't played them myself.
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True, but it fills up netscape's memory and causes Navigator to crash.
And you're blaming *Slashdot* for this??
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