Surprisingly, it's legal in most (if not all, not sure about the games I don't play) leagues. I use it in Counter-Strike and red alert 2. It works fantastically for my friends.
Unfortunately, my sound card doesn't support that many channels, so I can't use it. It's 3 years old, so what do you expect?
I thought Dead or Alive was pushing the jiggle factor, but a volleyball game with fighting game characters? What's next, all our lovable Nintendo characters in a fighter?
Otherwise...they need to do something to make it more friendly than Fallout 1 & 2....
More friendly? How can you get more friendly than Atomic Johnny? Who else can have a gun explode in his hand, be a drug addict, vomit his guts out from rad overdose, AND still be so freakin' happy?
I loved the original Fallout, but I wished it was larger. It was downright one-tracked and linear. But, the second one was so huge and so complicated it was like jumping from a vacuum into a nebula, or something like that. You get my meaning. I'm bad with analogies. Plus, the Temple of Trials was soooo hard unless you picked up useless skills to get through it.
I hope the third one is like the first in its difficulty curve, but like the second in its divergence and multitude of weapons.
I certaintly hope this isn't only smoke and mirrors, or a graphic-upped version of F2 like the Tomb Raider games. I'll be waiting for this to hit the shelves and then put myself behind the controls of an intelligence 1 strength 10 brute again:)
The Selfish Gene is indeed good. Extended Phenotype gets a bit pedantic in parts, because Dawkins "invented" the idea, and likes to pride himself in it, much like Feynman deriving the trig functions in 4th grade.
I've read everything of Dawkins except River out of Eden, which I'm about halfway through.
If you like Dawkins, go for Quantum Evolution by Johnjoe McFadden. It's a combination of Dawkins and Hawking, or Dawkings, I guess.
The Cambridge Lectures by Hawking is a good one. It has a lot of chapters from Brief History of Time, but has new stuff that's good. I have it on tape, which is cool, because it's the robot voice himself speaking it.
That's really the extent of my popsci book reading, I've just started getting the cashflow to buy books about three weeks ago, and I've read about 20 books so far. Books and slashdot, oyah.
For a very basic intro to quantum mechanics and how it relates to evolution (and biology in general), check out Quantum Evolution by Johnjoe McFadden. It really helped me out.
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...growing up playing Madden '93. Now I'm a professional football player!
Surprisingly, it's legal in most (if not all, not sure about the games I don't play) leagues. I use it in Counter-Strike and red alert 2. It works fantastically for my friends. Unfortunately, my sound card doesn't support that many channels, so I can't use it. It's 3 years old, so what do you expect?
If they drop any farther, they'll become zero-state!
I thought Dead or Alive was pushing the jiggle factor, but a volleyball game with fighting game characters? What's next, all our lovable Nintendo characters in a fighter?
Just what I always wanted! A simulated flight to Alpha Centauri. Only 43092850943275209384709632 days left to go!
Otherwise...they need to do something to make it more friendly than Fallout 1 & 2.... More friendly? How can you get more friendly than Atomic Johnny? Who else can have a gun explode in his hand, be a drug addict, vomit his guts out from rad overdose, AND still be so freakin' happy?
I loved the original Fallout, but I wished it was larger. It was downright one-tracked and linear. But, the second one was so huge and so complicated it was like jumping from a vacuum into a nebula, or something like that. You get my meaning. I'm bad with analogies. Plus, the Temple of Trials was soooo hard unless you picked up useless skills to get through it. I hope the third one is like the first in its difficulty curve, but like the second in its divergence and multitude of weapons. I certaintly hope this isn't only smoke and mirrors, or a graphic-upped version of F2 like the Tomb Raider games. I'll be waiting for this to hit the shelves and then put myself behind the controls of an intelligence 1 strength 10 brute again :)
The Selfish Gene is indeed good. Extended Phenotype gets a bit pedantic in parts, because Dawkins "invented" the idea, and likes to pride himself in it, much like Feynman deriving the trig functions in 4th grade.
I've read everything of Dawkins except River out of Eden, which I'm about halfway through.
If you like Dawkins, go for Quantum Evolution by Johnjoe McFadden. It's a combination of Dawkins and Hawking, or Dawkings, I guess.
The Cambridge Lectures by Hawking is a good one. It has a lot of chapters from Brief History of Time, but has new stuff that's good. I have it on tape, which is cool, because it's the robot voice himself speaking it.
That's really the extent of my popsci book reading, I've just started getting the cashflow to buy books about three weeks ago, and I've read about 20 books so far. Books and slashdot, oyah.
-Vince
Nonono, not Dirty Pair. Lovely Angels, or those hyped-up Croft-clones will explodiate your head off.
For a very basic intro to quantum mechanics and how it relates to evolution (and biology in general), check out Quantum Evolution by Johnjoe McFadden. It really helped me out.