If a free software developer doesn't want to do something, like fix old bugs, they won't. If this is made to be the only way they can contribute, they probably won't contribute. It's better to get some shiny, unasked for features than nothing at all in my opinion, even if it is not as good as added stability.
Wake me up when a game world isn't a static 3D environment. Wake me up when I can walk up to any tree, pick off a branch, chop the tree down, squish some ants living on the tree, and can rip a moist leaf on the tree like a sheet of paper. Wake me up when I can knock down a building, wall, and can permanently remove bricks from a house. I want to be able to drive a car through a wall, have grass that actually grows, and can cause wildfires (just like in real life). I want to be able to take some sand from the beach with a bucket and pour it all over the nearest NPC and see all the little grains of sand stick to his shirt. Wake me up when it's time because I can't wait to play. Imagine MMORPGs where you can actually DIG A SECRET TUNNEL underground to invade your enemie's territory. Imagine being able to dig holes to hide in and cover them up with leaves. Well, you get the idea. Possibilities are endless. Seriously, how long do you guys think it'll take for some crude implementation of what I listed above comes to fruition?
Wake me up when the world has no hunger or desase, there is no war or anger, we all live in wealth and comfort with all the nicest posessions. Wake me up when you can drink, smoke and do drugs without ruining your body, where you eat your favourite foods all day without getting obease and you can sleep around without picking up a nasty itch. Wake me up when everyone can have their own harem, but the numbers still work out right. Wake me up when we can hunt humans for fun and sport, but nobody really gets hurt from it, where we can take what we like from this world, but no one looses anything through it. Wake me up when the doctrines of everyone suddenly become compatible, and we can tollerate one another's lifestyle without it invalidating everything we believe in. Wake me up when everybody sees the world in the same way I do and what I say is agreed with and acted apon with no decent or skeptisism.
I really want all of that stuff, it will never happen because it is completely impossible, but I still pointed out what would be best. Do I get modded insightful too?
I think UT2004 corrected a lot of UT2003's mistakes and didn't deviate all that much from the original UT's gameplay.
2k4 brought back the less harcore agressive feel of UT with the change in models, it made the sniper's rifle powerful in close combat, like in UT, it brought back the modes that were sorely missing from 2k3 like assault and also nerfed the adreniline combos somewhat and made them less influential in the gameplay.
I'll agree that 2k3 was inferior gameplay wise to UT, but 2k4 had everything that UT had, but more of it (even if you ignore onslaught completely).
Then again, RFID implants have been put into pets for years with almost no recorded problems, which is not the case with breast implants which do not have many applications for animals that I can think of.
In the past, whenever I have dissagreed with wikipedia I have added my opinion regardless of whether I am right or not. I am not naieve enough to believe that other people are any different. Thus if enough people think that Godwin gave a corrolary inferring who "won" then it will be in wikipedia.
Firefox was a web browser last time I checked. I suppose one could call seamonkey an internet browser because of its email/irc/etc. support, but Firefox's great appeal is that it only supports the web (and FTP too I suppose).
In RCT3 you can set the billboards to display anything you want. Thus you can get in-game revinue for looking at one's own pr0n collection, pretty nifty!
"Idiot" was originally a technical term to discribe someone with an I.Q. less than 50, thus it relates wholy to INT. I would use the word "fool" to describe someone with a very low WIS stat on their charactor sheet.
Wow, you are reading way too far into the fact that Lara is a woman. Have you ever considered that possibly male gamers just like having a well animated avitar to kill monsters as? Or at the very most like having something nice to look at while they are distroying stuff?
Oh, you mean that senator guy? Sorry, every time I bring up McCarthy to anyone in my general area, if they think of anything, it's that puppet.
His name is easy to remember. It is a well known fact that at least half of all known evil historical figures have been called Joseph. For example, there is McCarthy and Stalin who terrorized both superpowers with witch-hunts, Dr Josef Mengele who vivisected Jews and Dr Joseph Goebbels who took care of Nazi Germany's propaganda campaign. I have heard it speculated that Gengis Kahn had his friends call him "Joseph" when he sacked Beijing and that Caligula was born "Gaius Josephius Caesar Germanicus" before changing his name to take people by surprise. Ok, maybe I just made those last two up.
Graphics gurudom comes from knowing both maths and programming. For maths you need to understand vectors, matricies, linear maps, geometry and triganometry, mostly highschool stuff but some stuff there that's a little more advanced. For programming you need to know C and/or C++ fairly deeply, you need to understand data structures (especially trees) and you have to be able to create clever algorithms and solutions on your own. After you have those skills you can start using OpenGL or DirectX to make graphical applications like games.
I don't think it is really worth doing 3d programming in terms of a learning experience until you know the fundimentals. If there were a tool that one could use to write graphics stuff without understanding matrix maths one would probably come out of the experience still not understanding matrix maths since one would not need it with that tool. Go to a university book shop, you should be able to find a decent mathamatics text book that covers vector spaces and linear maps, read that. Then check out the NeHe OpenGL tutorials and learn OpenGL. Now you will know the fundimentals of 3d graphics and you can just practice until you are good.
I've used Panda3d a little as part of my undergraduate degree. Although it does do some cool stuff very easily, its biggest problem is how damn hard it is to install. It only works on x86 which sucks because many people use amd64 or something else now and even on the x86 I keept having problems with using the right libraries and getting paths right. To me the idea of a game dependancy being impossible to install makes it completly useless since no one could play your game which is written with it.
Gentoo is a distro where there are always dozens of people willing to help you. However the reason for that is that Gentoo generally requires a good deal of computer knowledge, common sense, persistence and tenacity to make it do anything. The people who can use gentoo are the users that people are willing to answer questions from. Gentoo users like a challenge and like to figure out things themselves, thus if they ask a question, chances are that it isn't solvable through a quick google and actually needs to be answered. That is the reason why I have never seen someone told to RTFM on the Gentoo site. However I imagine that would change if they were repeatedly asked questions that have answers that can be found on the web.
I'm currently visiting my father who is a Presbyterian Minister. The name of his dwelling is a "Manse" which is similar to a Catholic Presbytery or a Church of England (aka Anglican or Episcopalian) Rectory or Vicarage.
IIRC, crucifixion only sheds small amounts of blood, mainly from the tears in the skin from stretching under the body's weight and under the ropes which were rough and applied very tightly. Occasionally a victim was nailed (most famously Jesus) but this was rare since the eventual anemia and shock would cause faster death, which was never the Romans' intention, in these cases victims would be tied with ropes as well since the nail wounds would simply tear under the victim's weight. Later derivations of this form of execution were notably more bloody (such as "breaking on the wheel") but that is because no later civilization had the stomach to leave someone dangling for a whole week before death took them and nobody but the Romans were sick enough to give people food and water while they were being executed.
Just a quick correction: having the victim's legs broken would hasten their death since the victim's legs could no longer support them and they would dangle from their arms and asphyxiate comparatively quickly. I guess shock would affect the death duration too, but it was not the main reasoning behind it.
If your sisters have any reproductive queries, outsource them to my "callcentre", I'd be happy to take them, it's cheaper than a phonesex hotline and I get the satisfaction of doing something for the community.
Interestingly enough, when I was 17 I was asked by an attractive 22 year old woman what the difference between sperm and semen was. I cowardly responded by explaining the differences using technical language, rather than the slightly contrived situation involving a "practical lesson" that I ususally tell my friends.
Companies are relying more and more on awesome graphics to make up for a lack of innovative and fun gameplay. Most games 20yrs ago were more fun than new games today.
That is such an old bunch of trotted out cliched tripe. Twenty years ago games were not as fun as they are today. Twenty years ago you didn't have MMORPG junkies that derive their entire existance from games. Twenty years ago you couldn't make your own fun in computer games like you can in HL2 by painting zombies and walls with the grav gun, or in BF1942 where you can forgo the game for acrobatics like detpack jeep boosting and wing to wing transfers. Twenty years ago you couldn't be in a situation where you have a whole city or world to explore with no rules like you do in many of todays games like the GTA franchise. Generally speaking games 20 years ago were twiddle tests where only ones reflexes are ever challenged. Games today embody strategy, tactics and sometimes even empathy, things that could never by fortold 20 years ago.
I buy a game today and generally I am far more satisfied than I ever was in the past, I like nice graphics and I like added realism but I also like gameplay and I don't see any reason I'm getting less of that now than I ever was. We all see the past as a rosy time but really, games wern't that great back then either. The franchise has always been a part of games, we all remember the crap that was River Raid 2; plajorism has always been there, how many space shooters did you play in the old days; bad movie tieins have always existed, remeber ET?
Don't kid yourself, the game industry would have to be REALLY bad if things were going downhill.
By the way, does it occur to anyone else that when people ask for "innovation" they tend to really be asking for abstract games? Does anyone else just plain enjoy games better if they can immerse themselves in a model of the real world and get down to some good old fasioned violence? The best times I ever had was commanding my huge army in Rome: Total War and thinking about how cool I am, that wouldn't be possible with brightly coloured squiggles and dots.
Yes, Capsicain is indeed spicy when isolated from peppers. It's what pepper spray is made from. Unfortunantly it doesn't have the flavour of chilis, only the heat.
The console RPGs coming out of Japan at the moment tend to be incredibly linear and overloaded with cutscenes and really don't come close to the depth, freedom or gameplay style offered by domestic PC RPGs.
At the moment? The gaming world was playing squaresoft final fantasy series and chrono trigger 13 years ago on the snes and you just described them pefectly. In hindsight I don't know what the hell I was thinking back in those days.
If you are not from the US why do you use a wholly US specific word like "goubernamental" (it's spelled "gubernatorial" for what it's worth) when discussing an Australian state?
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If a free software developer doesn't want to do something, like fix old bugs, they won't. If this is made to be the only way they can contribute, they probably won't contribute. It's better to get some shiny, unasked for features than nothing at all in my opinion, even if it is not as good as added stability.
Wake me up when the world has no hunger or desase, there is no war or anger, we all live in wealth and comfort with all the nicest posessions. Wake me up when you can drink, smoke and do drugs without ruining your body, where you eat your favourite foods all day without getting obease and you can sleep around without picking up a nasty itch. Wake me up when everyone can have their own harem, but the numbers still work out right. Wake me up when we can hunt humans for fun and sport, but nobody really gets hurt from it, where we can take what we like from this world, but no one looses anything through it. Wake me up when the doctrines of everyone suddenly become compatible, and we can tollerate one another's lifestyle without it invalidating everything we believe in. Wake me up when everybody sees the world in the same way I do and what I say is agreed with and acted apon with no decent or skeptisism.
I really want all of that stuff, it will never happen because it is completely impossible, but I still pointed out what would be best. Do I get modded insightful too?
2k4 brought back the less harcore agressive feel of UT with the change in models, it made the sniper's rifle powerful in close combat, like in UT, it brought back the modes that were sorely missing from 2k3 like assault and also nerfed the adreniline combos somewhat and made them less influential in the gameplay.
I'll agree that 2k3 was inferior gameplay wise to UT, but 2k4 had everything that UT had, but more of it (even if you ignore onslaught completely).
Then again, RFID implants have been put into pets for years with almost no recorded problems, which is not the case with breast implants which do not have many applications for animals that I can think of.
In the past, whenever I have dissagreed with wikipedia I have added my opinion regardless of whether I am right or not. I am not naieve enough to believe that other people are any different. Thus if enough people think that Godwin gave a corrolary inferring who "won" then it will be in wikipedia.
Godwin's law does not infer a winner, it merly means that the conversation has outlived its usefulness.
Firefox was a web browser last time I checked. I suppose one could call seamonkey an internet browser because of its email/irc/etc. support, but Firefox's great appeal is that it only supports the web (and FTP too I suppose).
In RCT3 you can set the billboards to display anything you want. Thus you can get in-game revinue for looking at one's own pr0n collection, pretty nifty!
"Idiot" was originally a technical term to discribe someone with an I.Q. less than 50, thus it relates wholy to INT. I would use the word "fool" to describe someone with a very low WIS stat on their charactor sheet.
Wow, you are reading way too far into the fact that Lara is a woman. Have you ever considered that possibly male gamers just like having a well animated avitar to kill monsters as? Or at the very most like having something nice to look at while they are distroying stuff?
I don't think it is really worth doing 3d programming in terms of a learning experience until you know the fundimentals. If there were a tool that one could use to write graphics stuff without understanding matrix maths one would probably come out of the experience still not understanding matrix maths since one would not need it with that tool. Go to a university book shop, you should be able to find a decent mathamatics text book that covers vector spaces and linear maps, read that. Then check out the NeHe OpenGL tutorials and learn OpenGL. Now you will know the fundimentals of 3d graphics and you can just practice until you are good.
I've used Panda3d a little as part of my undergraduate degree. Although it does do some cool stuff very easily, its biggest problem is how damn hard it is to install. It only works on x86 which sucks because many people use amd64 or something else now and even on the x86 I keept having problems with using the right libraries and getting paths right. To me the idea of a game dependancy being impossible to install makes it completly useless since no one could play your game which is written with it.
Gentoo is a distro where there are always dozens of people willing to help you. However the reason for that is that Gentoo generally requires a good deal of computer knowledge, common sense, persistence and tenacity to make it do anything. The people who can use gentoo are the users that people are willing to answer questions from. Gentoo users like a challenge and like to figure out things themselves, thus if they ask a question, chances are that it isn't solvable through a quick google and actually needs to be answered. That is the reason why I have never seen someone told to RTFM on the Gentoo site. However I imagine that would change if they were repeatedly asked questions that have answers that can be found on the web.
I'm currently visiting my father who is a Presbyterian Minister. The name of his dwelling is a "Manse" which is similar to a Catholic Presbytery or a Church of England (aka Anglican or Episcopalian) Rectory or Vicarage.
IIRC, crucifixion only sheds small amounts of blood, mainly from the tears in the skin from stretching under the body's weight and under the ropes which were rough and applied very tightly. Occasionally a victim was nailed (most famously Jesus) but this was rare since the eventual anemia and shock would cause faster death, which was never the Romans' intention, in these cases victims would be tied with ropes as well since the nail wounds would simply tear under the victim's weight. Later derivations of this form of execution were notably more bloody (such as "breaking on the wheel") but that is because no later civilization had the stomach to leave someone dangling for a whole week before death took them and nobody but the Romans were sick enough to give people food and water while they were being executed.
Just a quick correction: having the victim's legs broken would hasten their death since the victim's legs could no longer support them and they would dangle from their arms and asphyxiate comparatively quickly. I guess shock would affect the death duration too, but it was not the main reasoning behind it.
Interestingly enough, when I was 17 I was asked by an attractive 22 year old woman what the difference between sperm and semen was. I cowardly responded by explaining the differences using technical language, rather than the slightly contrived situation involving a "practical lesson" that I ususally tell my friends.
I did a lot of growing 20 years ago, 2 year olds grow fairly fast.
That is such an old bunch of trotted out cliched tripe. Twenty years ago games were not as fun as they are today. Twenty years ago you didn't have MMORPG junkies that derive their entire existance from games. Twenty years ago you couldn't make your own fun in computer games like you can in HL2 by painting zombies and walls with the grav gun, or in BF1942 where you can forgo the game for acrobatics like detpack jeep boosting and wing to wing transfers. Twenty years ago you couldn't be in a situation where you have a whole city or world to explore with no rules like you do in many of todays games like the GTA franchise. Generally speaking games 20 years ago were twiddle tests where only ones reflexes are ever challenged. Games today embody strategy, tactics and sometimes even empathy, things that could never by fortold 20 years ago.
I buy a game today and generally I am far more satisfied than I ever was in the past, I like nice graphics and I like added realism but I also like gameplay and I don't see any reason I'm getting less of that now than I ever was. We all see the past as a rosy time but really, games wern't that great back then either. The franchise has always been a part of games, we all remember the crap that was River Raid 2; plajorism has always been there, how many space shooters did you play in the old days; bad movie tieins have always existed, remeber ET?
Don't kid yourself, the game industry would have to be REALLY bad if things were going downhill.
By the way, does it occur to anyone else that when people ask for "innovation" they tend to really be asking for abstract games? Does anyone else just plain enjoy games better if they can immerse themselves in a model of the real world and get down to some good old fasioned violence? The best times I ever had was commanding my huge army in Rome: Total War and thinking about how cool I am, that wouldn't be possible with brightly coloured squiggles and dots.
Yes, Capsicain is indeed spicy when isolated from peppers. It's what pepper spray is made from. Unfortunantly it doesn't have the flavour of chilis, only the heat.
Sorry, I can't be offended, I'm too busy.
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At the moment? The gaming world was playing squaresoft final fantasy series and chrono trigger 13 years ago on the snes and you just described them pefectly. In hindsight I don't know what the hell I was thinking back in those days.
If you are not from the US why do you use a wholly US specific word like "goubernamental" (it's spelled "gubernatorial" for what it's worth) when discussing an Australian state?