sigh.. quake was a two pass engine that provided realistic lighting and shadows.. build engine games were limited to using sectors to create 'shadows' like doom/doom2. Saying they're the same because they're 3D is incredibly disingenuous.
As far as the game goes, it's ok, but nothing great. Some of the levels looked nice but it has none of the speed of the original. It plods along like a modern shooter. Give me my fast movement and near instant weapon switch back!..and please, those cutscenes every 5 feet annoy me. After all this time, I expected a much more polished game, but it is playable, and considering all the other tripe that passes for AAA titles these days... especially on PC..
I've noticed that ars tends to have a left wing bent on its politics so it does not surprise me they got emo over duke's quips. The quips and interactive jokes don't bother me, and a few made me chuckle. It's duke nukem, people, so don't expect spongebob or dora the explorer. Today's culture needs to can the ultra-feminization and grow a tougher skin, but that's a subject for a different story.
the problem is that these things become part of the culture and thus become expectations.. ie "everyone" has a car, or "everyone" has a cellphone.. bosses expect to be able to reach employees no matter where they are.. before cellphones that wasn't true, granting employees some real downtime..
facebook is becoming one of these things too, and it's worse than cellphones because it's 'free'.. of course, it's still a time sink I'd rather not deal with. for now, that is working, but more and more people are asking me for 'my facebook.' They give me funny looks when I tell them I don't use it. before long I expect to be looked upon as an antisocial 'get of my lawn' type because of this.
I do have a choice, but it's not a pleasant one. it's right up there with eat or die. one can choose not to eat, but death is the outcome. in this case, it's having a social life that is increasingly surveilled by people I don't know who are in power and pass judgment, or not having one at all. so in reality a choice is being removed: having a social life that isn't quite so public.
uh it is to blame. the 'positive' choice is limited to two parties. these parties are full of politicians who say one thing and do another once in office. you talk like politicians have no desires or agendas of their own and we are the sole reason they're in power. the parties leaderships decide who ends up on the ballot before we get to vote. those choices are based on what the social and economic lobbies want.
the status quo is best served by appealing to fear, so that is what's done.
more often than not, the url bar is the only way I can get to where I want to be on a site.. more often, where I want to go, and how I want to go is different than the idiot 'web master' who coded the site intended. changing the url and hitting enter is a lot faster than wading through the stupifyingly obtuse web 2.1 interfaces common today...most of them won't even work with the 'back' button.
second paragraph
this is less so because the URL bar can be manipulated. it was never a secure means of figuring out what your browser is doing, especially once javascript came along. as far as revenue goes, I'm sorry, but I'm not obligated to step through someone else's bullshit so that they can make money. they have a right to try of course, but once that stream hits my machine, I decide. the internet is not television. I pay for my bandwidth so they can pay for theirs. they can also take their ball and go home. that's fine. the browser should not become a dumb terminal. removing the url bar removes whatever control the user does have over the experience.
third paragraph
no it's about defaults.. if it defaults 'off' then most people will gradually forget it was there, along with the benefits it provided. those that didn't touch a browser beforehand will never know what they missed. the internet is now one step closer to cable television. just because someone doesn't understand something doesn't mean you should remove it from their presence. this is a trend nowadays and it's dangerous.
duke hates 'men' like you who kowtow to womens' whims like that.. man up.. please for the sake of western society.. once and awhile i'ts ok for women to be told they're wrong. play your damn video game the way you want, jesus. there is no shame in it.
for all the false bravado, there is a lesson today's society needs to learn from characters like this...or possibly RE-learn..
yup, you're right.. no I did not intend to say that the US is much better.. perhaps I should've said that political correctness has taken more of a hold in western europe than here in the states..and yes the gap is narrowing and not in a good way. PC is just a dirty way to ignore the truth when it doesn't suit the politics.
yeah except the usage heuristics fall short almost all the time, leaving the machine bloated and clunky as each app assumes it is the center of your universe on that machine.. how about using what's needed, and dumping what's not? I don't mind a bit of caching, but this relatively new trend of caching almost everything whether it's really needed or not is fucking stupid.
what construes leftist, centrist, or conservative is completely subjective... they're ALL subjective. there are leftists who call anything right of lenin a fascist. the whole left wing/right wing dichotomy is a joke anyway, best left for the one dimensionals.
beliefs that shape one's whole life are a lot more significant than one's beliefs concerning his personal electronics. the former sets political policy for the whole society while the latter is a minor preference..thus atheists who complain about irrational policy are not the same as apple evangelizers.
It's pure ego. Atheists think they are better than religious folk for knowing something that the others don't.
atheists do get excited when a majority attempts to enforce restrictions on their lives based on baseless assumption. that is reasonable. the basic conflict is over whether society should be governed solely by the whim of emotion. the fact the religious are so interested in flaming science classes in schools is telling. Just because someone is egotistical does not mean they are correct or incorrect. ego can blind one from the truth and the religious have a lot to learn here too.
your definitions for 'hardcore apple user' and 'fanboy' split a VERY fine hair..
They didn't do it because they secretly believe. they did it to differentiate themselves from their enemy: the USA. the USA is mostly christian while the soviet communists wanted their population to serve the state first and atheism helped serve that goal. propaganda is typically served with a large dose of obsessiveness. it must also draw a sharp line to delineate 'us' vs' them.
Why is it that atheists on the internet spend so much more time talking about god on the internet than people of faith and why do they spend so much time complaining about christians while they are trolling against christians themselves?
per capita, I hear a lot more christian whine than atheist whine.. atheists do it online, but christians (and the rest) do it in the mainstream media. there are also a lot more of them. maybe you find more atheists online because technology attracts more rational types? (ziinng!)
The answer is simple, both of these anti-groups have members who have some gnawing feeling inside them that they are missing something and they try to cover it up by attacking what they fear is what they secretly want.
or your post is an example of your secret realization that your 'faith' is bs so you feel the need to 'defend' it . I am atheist. Been that way since childhood..never really bought into santa or his other seasonal magical minions. I assure you I have no ethereal 'needs' that can only be slaked by supernatural belief. sounds like to me you're the one who's got the insecurity complex.
No, because mac users come from all walks of life and most of them are grown up people living on their own instead of little trolls living in their mother's basements obsessed with anal rape and apple users.
most apple users I've met are typically the most gullible within their social groups..and not just with technology. all of them (the ones I know anyway) function well enough in life, but the apple clowns are the most likely to make foolish irrational choices about things.. they are also the most likely to buy into shibboleths.
but we should treat all people with respect regardless of how we feel about their way of life or political views.
uh respect is earned, not handed over to someone just for existing. people with lots of beliefs about things are usually just intellectually lazy. they don't bother to move beyond the hypothesis stage of reasoning. they buy into what 'feels right' to them. it is hard to respect people like this.
I would say that one who isn't susceptible to religion tends not to have it, and one who is, does. Whether it's allah or apple, the results are the same: unthinking zealotry defended by emotional shitstorms that target any potential fact that dares challenge the ideology....or maybe it's the emotions that drive the zealotry which suppresses rational thought.
we're not interested in the 'global scale'.. we see what hard left socialism has wrought:
1. 'multicultural' pacifists who won't even stand up to defend their native culture against the influx of middle eastern barbarians who demand their own sharia courts.
2. populations who are bearing the brunt of an overtaxed system that still can't meet its budget shortfalls. it's happening here in the us to, for the same reasons. people don't spend others' money as prudently as they would their own which leads to all sorts of waste. the us system, especially the feds need to trim down like they're asking the rest of us to do in this economy... they should practice what they preach. obama's got some gall telling someone not to drive his big truck around when the president is flying around in a personal jet or ferried by huge limos. of course, that's just a lead-by example situation, but there are huge cuts that need to be made. we can't afford to do what europe's doing at this point. raising taxes more would just put those at the bottom out onto the street...even if the rich-loopholes were perfectly sealed (good luck).
3. a culture that values feelings, consensus , and respect-by-title rather than facts/truth, individual out-of-box expression, and earned respect. if I can be put in jail for calling someone a name, there's a serious problem of legislation gone too far.
4. go back a few years, and we saw what socialism becomes when it's allowed to collapse on itself..the soviet union.
the issue doesn't stop at religion.. the lobbies for:
1. non-white races 2. female gender 3. non-straight sexual orientation 4. environment 5. oil 6. heavy manufacturing 7. farming/food production 8. pharmacology 9. telecom 10. power 11. military 12. and of course whatever agenda the individual politicians themselves have for the country (I can guarantee you it's not for your benefit, but theirs). (I'm sure there are others I haven't thought of) are ALL interested in getting something from the taxpayer for nothing. they all want to dictate to us their cherry picked facts as truth..if they even have any at all.. most of them are just blowing horseshit out their asses at this point..even the ones that once had arguable points have mostly outlived their usefulness. now they're part of the problem, often creating more of the situations they were formed to prevent in the first place. They spew out this emotional rhetoric that gets everyone fired up and polarized during election years and most of the population falls for it every time...a stupid sideshow.. meanwhile the top 1% is busy ensuring that both parties are played so that they come out ahead.
hardline ideology?? you mean the neo-liberalism/neo-conservatism of both parties? both are anti freedom, and anti rights. unless you have enough money to buy them off.. this is how the world is.. you're the one living the fantasy. the right wing thinks it can better the world by becoming unilateral dictators..and the left thinks it can build a better world by micromanaging everyone to the nth degree...oh wait, they really are the same after all...in all the ways that matter.
sorry, i don't believe for a second that if the democrats had a huge majority that they would suddenly give us what we want.. they'd just give themselves more of what they want and raise taxes to support it. same with the gop.
I'm ok with population control. if we don't do something, we WILL have to implement involuntary sterilization in order to survive. I'd start with tax incentives... first two kids get an education on the state..after that, you pay.. how about reforming the welfare system so that it doesn't reward people with no money from getting married and pumping out the kids. just for starters..
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sigh.. quake was a two pass engine that provided realistic lighting and shadows.. build engine games were limited to using sectors to create 'shadows' like doom/doom2. Saying they're the same because they're 3D is incredibly disingenuous.
As far as the game goes, it's ok, but nothing great. Some of the levels looked nice but it has none of the speed of the original. It plods along like a modern shooter. Give me my fast movement and near instant weapon switch back!..and please, those cutscenes every 5 feet annoy me. After all this time, I expected a much more polished game, but it is playable, and considering all the other tripe that passes for AAA titles these days... especially on PC..
I've noticed that ars tends to have a left wing bent on its politics so it does not surprise me they got emo over duke's quips. The quips and interactive jokes don't bother me, and a few made me chuckle. It's duke nukem, people, so don't expect spongebob or dora the explorer. Today's culture needs to can the ultra-feminization and grow a tougher skin, but that's a subject for a different story.
the problem is that these things become part of the culture and thus become expectations.. ie "everyone" has a car, or "everyone" has a cellphone.. bosses expect to be able to reach employees no matter where they are.. before cellphones that wasn't true, granting employees some real downtime..
facebook is becoming one of these things too, and it's worse than cellphones because it's 'free'.. of course, it's still a time sink I'd rather not deal with. for now, that is working, but more and more people are asking me for 'my facebook.' They give me funny looks when I tell them I don't use it. before long I expect to be looked upon as an antisocial 'get of my lawn' type because of this.
I do have a choice, but it's not a pleasant one. it's right up there with eat or die. one can choose not to eat, but death is the outcome. in this case, it's having a social life that is increasingly surveilled by people I don't know who are in power and pass judgment, or not having one at all. so in reality a choice is being removed: having a social life that isn't quite so public.
Why aren't you doing the same?
uh it is to blame. the 'positive' choice is limited to two parties. these parties are full of politicians who say one thing and do another once in office. you talk like politicians have no desires or agendas of their own and we are the sole reason they're in power. the parties leaderships decide who ends up on the ballot before we get to vote. those choices are based on what the social and economic lobbies want.
the status quo is best served by appealing to fear, so that is what's done.
my deep space radar telemetry studies?
first paragraph
more often than not, the url bar is the only way I can get to where I want to be on a site.. more often, where I want to go, and how I want to go is different than the idiot 'web master' who coded the site intended. changing the url and hitting enter is a lot faster than wading through the stupifyingly obtuse web 2.1 interfaces common today...most of them won't even work with the 'back' button.
second paragraph
this is less so because the URL bar can be manipulated. it was never a secure means of figuring out what your browser is doing, especially once javascript came along. as far as revenue goes, I'm sorry, but I'm not obligated to step through someone else's bullshit so that they can make money. they have a right to try of course, but once that stream hits my machine, I decide. the internet is not television. I pay for my bandwidth so they can pay for theirs. they can also take their ball and go home. that's fine. the browser should not become a dumb terminal. removing the url bar removes whatever control the user does have over the experience.
third paragraph
no it's about defaults.. if it defaults 'off' then most people will gradually forget it was there, along with the benefits it provided. those that didn't touch a browser beforehand will never know what they missed. the internet is now one step closer to cable television. just because someone doesn't understand something doesn't mean you should remove it from their presence. this is a trend nowadays and it's dangerous.
love the cold..hate the heat with all the humidity and stuff in the air..everything smells like fried hydrocarbons..
duke hates 'men' like you who kowtow to womens' whims like that.. man up.. please for the sake of western society.. once and awhile i'ts ok for women to be told they're wrong. play your damn video game the way you want, jesus. there is no shame in it.
for all the false bravado, there is a lesson today's society needs to learn from characters like this...or possibly RE-learn..
no I'm saying they shouldn't be given control over the scarcity.. the gov't is supposed to do that, but since it sells itself to the highest bidder...
yup, you're right.. no I did not intend to say that the US is much better.. perhaps I should've said that political correctness has taken more of a hold in western europe than here in the states..and yes the gap is narrowing and not in a good way. PC is just a dirty way to ignore the truth when it doesn't suit the politics.
yeah except the usage heuristics fall short almost all the time, leaving the machine bloated and clunky as each app assumes it is the center of your universe on that machine.. how about using what's needed, and dumping what's not? I don't mind a bit of caching, but this relatively new trend of caching almost everything whether it's really needed or not is fucking stupid.
what construes leftist, centrist, or conservative is completely subjective... they're ALL subjective. there are leftists who call anything right of lenin a fascist. the whole left wing/right wing dichotomy is a joke anyway, best left for the one dimensionals.
It's not that dissimilar to what atheists do
beliefs that shape one's whole life are a lot more significant than one's beliefs concerning his personal electronics. the former sets political policy for the whole society while the latter is a minor preference..thus atheists who complain about irrational policy are not the same as apple evangelizers.
It's pure ego. Atheists think they are better than religious folk for knowing something that the others don't.
atheists do get excited when a majority attempts to enforce restrictions on their lives based on baseless assumption. that is reasonable. the basic conflict is over whether society should be governed solely by the whim of emotion. the fact the religious are so interested in flaming science classes in schools is telling. Just because someone is egotistical does not mean they are correct or incorrect. ego can blind one from the truth and the religious have a lot to learn here too.
your definitions for 'hardcore apple user' and 'fanboy' split a VERY fine hair..
They didn't do it because they secretly believe. they did it to differentiate themselves from their enemy: the USA. the USA is mostly christian while the soviet communists wanted their population to serve the state first and atheism helped serve that goal. propaganda is typically served with a large dose of obsessiveness. it must also draw a sharp line to delineate 'us' vs' them.
Why is it that atheists on the internet spend so much more time talking about god on the internet than people of faith and why do they spend so much time complaining about christians while they are trolling against christians themselves?
per capita, I hear a lot more christian whine than atheist whine.. atheists do it online, but christians (and the rest) do it in the mainstream media. there are also a lot more of them. maybe you find more atheists online because technology attracts more rational types? (ziinng!)
The answer is simple, both of these anti-groups have members who have some gnawing feeling inside them that they are missing something and they try to cover it up by attacking what they fear is what they secretly want.
or your post is an example of your secret realization that your 'faith' is bs so you feel the need to 'defend' it . I am atheist. Been that way since childhood..never really bought into santa or his other seasonal magical minions. I assure you I have no ethereal 'needs' that can only be slaked by supernatural belief. sounds like to me you're the one who's got the insecurity complex.
No, because mac users come from all walks of life and most of them are grown up people living on their own instead of little trolls living in their mother's basements obsessed with anal rape and apple users.
most apple users I've met are typically the most gullible within their social groups..and not just with technology. all of them (the ones I know anyway) function well enough in life, but the apple clowns are the most likely to make foolish irrational choices about things.. they are also the most likely to buy into shibboleths.
but we should treat all people with respect regardless of how we feel about their way of life or political views.
uh respect is earned, not handed over to someone just for existing. people with lots of beliefs about things are usually just intellectually lazy. they don't bother to move beyond the hypothesis stage of reasoning. they buy into what 'feels right' to them. it is hard to respect people like this.
I would say that one who isn't susceptible to religion tends not to have it, and one who is, does. Whether it's allah or apple, the results are the same: unthinking zealotry defended by emotional shitstorms that target any potential fact that dares challenge the ideology....or maybe it's the emotions that drive the zealotry which suppresses rational thought.
we're not interested in the 'global scale'.. we see what hard left socialism has wrought:
1. 'multicultural' pacifists who won't even stand up to defend their native culture against the influx of middle eastern barbarians who demand their own sharia courts.
2. populations who are bearing the brunt of an overtaxed system that still can't meet its budget shortfalls. it's happening here in the us to, for the same reasons. people don't spend others' money as prudently as they would their own which leads to all sorts of waste. the us system, especially the feds need to trim down like they're asking the rest of us to do in this economy... they should practice what they preach. obama's got some gall telling someone not to drive his big truck around when the president is flying around in a personal jet or ferried by huge limos. of course, that's just a lead-by example situation, but there are huge cuts that need to be made. we can't afford to do what europe's doing at this point. raising taxes more would just put those at the bottom out onto the street...even if the rich-loopholes were perfectly sealed (good luck).
3. a culture that values feelings, consensus , and respect-by-title rather than facts/truth, individual out-of-box expression, and earned respect. if I can be put in jail for calling someone a name, there's a serious problem of legislation gone too far.
4. go back a few years, and we saw what socialism becomes when it's allowed to collapse on itself..the soviet union.
the issue doesn't stop at religion..
the lobbies for:
1. non-white races
2. female gender
3. non-straight sexual orientation
4. environment
5. oil
6. heavy manufacturing
7. farming/food production
8. pharmacology
9. telecom
10. power
11. military
12. and of course whatever agenda the individual politicians themselves have for the country (I can guarantee you it's not for your benefit, but theirs).
(I'm sure there are others I haven't thought of)
are ALL interested in getting something from the taxpayer for nothing. they all want to dictate to us their cherry picked facts as truth..if they even have any at all.. most of them are just blowing horseshit out their asses at this point..even the ones that once had arguable points have mostly outlived their usefulness. now they're part of the problem, often creating more of the situations they were formed to prevent in the first place. They spew out this emotional rhetoric that gets everyone fired up and polarized during election years and most of the population falls for it every time...a stupid sideshow.. meanwhile the top 1% is busy ensuring that both parties are played so that they come out ahead.
hardline ideology?? you mean the neo-liberalism/neo-conservatism of both parties? both are anti freedom, and anti rights. unless you have enough money to buy them off.. this is how the world is.. you're the one living the fantasy. the right wing thinks it can better the world by becoming unilateral dictators..and the left thinks it can build a better world by micromanaging everyone to the nth degree...oh wait, they really are the same after all...in all the ways that matter.
sorry, i don't believe for a second that if the democrats had a huge majority that they would suddenly give us what we want.. they'd just give themselves more of what they want and raise taxes to support it. same with the gop.
backing false scarcity indefinitely is not the way to promote a healthy economy.
I think it's pretty obvious that working within the disagree-zone sandbox defined by the status quo isn't working to solve current issues.
I'm ok with population control. if we don't do something, we WILL have to implement involuntary sterilization in order to survive. I'd start with tax incentives... first two kids get an education on the state..after that, you pay.. how about reforming the welfare system so that it doesn't reward people with no money from getting married and pumping out the kids. just for starters..