One problem I've had with the Photon is that Chrome doesn't agree with its keyboard very well. Unlike my Epic, it seems to think that the Photon's is more like a PC keyboard--you must hold shift to capitalize instead of toggling it, and the "Symbol" button doesn't work. Everything else is fine, it's just that Chrome is hosed. It's still usable because you can close the keyboard and use the screen one, but still.
I upgraded from the Epic after I had two of them break in a three year period. The MicroUSB port is *really* badly attached to the mainboard. If you use the phone much while it's plugged in and put any strain on that port at all, you may find that the port starts working pretty inconsistently (needs to be plugged in at the correct angle), and even starts shorting a little bit (first noticeable by an erratic touchscreen).
Aside from that one single flaw, the Epic was a truly great machine. If I can't upgrade to another good phone from the Photon, I may well downgrade to an Epic again.
Oh god yes please. Sometimes I have to do some amount of scripting on my phone, and a hardware keyboard is a complete necessity. On the Android side, I've gone from a Samsung Epic to a Motorola Photon, but I can't find a good next upgrade path. At this point I don't care about Android or iPhone or anything as long as I can get a slide-out keyboard with brackets on the keys.
The terrible 'sense of humor' they brought to GalCiv2's tech descriptions made it impossible for me to take that game seriously. I think they underestimated the importance of tech descriptions in, say, Civ IV.
Then again, I doubt they had dedicated writers at that point, or focused on that aspect at all...but that was a mistake. They had damn well better get it right for a Star Control game.
Now I see why, as a political group, those people are so annoying. Bullshit headlines like this make me a lot less interested in whatever asshole cause they are championing.
Yes, well, some people do enjoy grinding for boring and generic quests. Think of it like zoning out in front of a TV, except more interactive and social. If I didn't have good ways to numb my brain once in a while, I'd probably drink a lot more.
Not every player is an addict, it can be nice to just relax without going over the deep end.
Sure, it's basically Diablo 2, but with more multiplayer integration and a more fun IMO economy. Free, no pay-to-win, you can solo fine if you really want, and it's HARD if you play as intended instead of hanging back and farming (without being totally unforgiving; no item loss on death, no exp loss until your second playthrough). Which as an ex-WoW player is a super huge god damn plus. I am so sick of constant easymode MMOs.
Burning karma in hopes that a 6 year old, moderately active account will dispel accusations of "shill":
I'm most certainly no friend of BP's, but the evidence presented in the story really is not that compelling. People on the internet are huge dicks even without being paid to do it, and some people have a lot of time on their hands. Maybe some of them are family of BP workers, or grunt paper shufflers in the company, or just assholes, but none of the evidence seems worthy of this headline.
Intriguing, worth looking into? Sure. But if your headline is "BP did this" instead of "BP accused of this", you need a hell of a lot better documentation.
Okay, let me rephrase. The whole concept of paying for modern-day cryogenics is ludicrous. I'm all for research into all fields; who knows, it might become usable someday, and that would be swell. But the lack of functionality of current cryogenics is so...total. You might as well pay someone to launch your corpse into space with a promise that magical aliens will recover it and cure you.
Huh, they ARE Slashdot-made. Things are worse than I thought. If the new owners' thought process was seriously "what geeky subject should we make some videos about, oh I know, cryogenics, everyone loves that"... well, things are a lot worse than I thought.
Personally I turned off ads in the last couple weeks because they started getting really intrusive. They'd been fine for years, but not anymore.
The first video was loudly derided by the entire comments section and you post another one? The whole premise of cryogenics is ludicrous anyway. If this is the stuff that makes it to the front page, Slashdot is nosediving fast.
God damn it. Stardock is going to ruin it with their awful, awful writing. GalCiv2 had the worst humor I've ever seen in a 4x game ever. I know that nobody plays 4x games for the writing, but it was so bad it hurt.
Foreign language submissions are all well and good, but shouldn't our esteemed editors be editing the submitted English into grammatical English (or paraphrasing it)?
Life is pretty darn short to worry about replayability. If you wait to buy games until they've gotten cheap, and they're fun the first time through, does it really matter if you want to play it fifty more times?
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The Dice site has a link where you can do that. ...god, on my mobile device, the compose box is only eight letters wide.
One problem I've had with the Photon is that Chrome doesn't agree with its keyboard very well. Unlike my Epic, it seems to think that the Photon's is more like a PC keyboard--you must hold shift to capitalize instead of toggling it, and the "Symbol" button doesn't work. Everything else is fine, it's just that Chrome is hosed. It's still usable because you can close the keyboard and use the screen one, but still.
Did you manage to find a way around that?
I upgraded from the Epic after I had two of them break in a three year period. The MicroUSB port is *really* badly attached to the mainboard. If you use the phone much while it's plugged in and put any strain on that port at all, you may find that the port starts working pretty inconsistently (needs to be plugged in at the correct angle), and even starts shorting a little bit (first noticeable by an erratic touchscreen).
Aside from that one single flaw, the Epic was a truly great machine. If I can't upgrade to another good phone from the Photon, I may well downgrade to an Epic again.
Oh god yes please. Sometimes I have to do some amount of scripting on my phone, and a hardware keyboard is a complete necessity. On the Android side, I've gone from a Samsung Epic to a Motorola Photon, but I can't find a good next upgrade path. At this point I don't care about Android or iPhone or anything as long as I can get a slide-out keyboard with brackets on the keys.
(Specifically, Alpha Centauri's tech descriptions absolutely sold its setting.)
Yes! Those were my favorite games growing up (aside from Zork). I'd love that.
Just...just as long as they make flux nexuses less of an exercise in confused terror.
The terrible 'sense of humor' they brought to GalCiv2's tech descriptions made it impossible for me to take that game seriously. I think they underestimated the importance of tech descriptions in, say, Civ IV.
Then again, I doubt they had dedicated writers at that point, or focused on that aspect at all...but that was a mistake. They had damn well better get it right for a Star Control game.
Holding out hope.
Now I see why, as a political group, those people are so annoying. Bullshit headlines like this make me a lot less interested in whatever asshole cause they are championing.
Yes, well, some people do enjoy grinding for boring and generic quests. Think of it like zoning out in front of a TV, except more interactive and social. If I didn't have good ways to numb my brain once in a while, I'd probably drink a lot more.
Not every player is an addict, it can be nice to just relax without going over the deep end.
Sure, it's basically Diablo 2, but with more multiplayer integration and a more fun IMO economy. Free, no pay-to-win, you can solo fine if you really want, and it's HARD if you play as intended instead of hanging back and farming (without being totally unforgiving; no item loss on death, no exp loss until your second playthrough). Which as an ex-WoW player is a super huge god damn plus. I am so sick of constant easymode MMOs.
Burning karma in hopes that a 6 year old, moderately active account will dispel accusations of "shill":
I'm most certainly no friend of BP's, but the evidence presented in the story really is not that compelling. People on the internet are huge dicks even without being paid to do it, and some people have a lot of time on their hands. Maybe some of them are family of BP workers, or grunt paper shufflers in the company, or just assholes, but none of the evidence seems worthy of this headline.
Intriguing, worth looking into? Sure. But if your headline is "BP did this" instead of "BP accused of this", you need a hell of a lot better documentation.
Alarmism helps no one.
In his defense, with that ID number, he registered that name when The Simpsons was in its prime.
Okay, let me rephrase. The whole concept of paying for modern-day cryogenics is ludicrous. I'm all for research into all fields; who knows, it might become usable someday, and that would be swell. But the lack of functionality of current cryogenics is so...total. You might as well pay someone to launch your corpse into space with a promise that magical aliens will recover it and cure you.
Institure.
Huh, they ARE Slashdot-made. Things are worse than I thought. If the new owners' thought process was seriously "what geeky subject should we make some videos about, oh I know, cryogenics, everyone loves that"... well, things are a lot worse than I thought.
Personally I turned off ads in the last couple weeks because they started getting really intrusive. They'd been fine for years, but not anymore.
The first video was loudly derided by the entire comments section and you post another one? The whole premise of cryogenics is ludicrous anyway. If this is the stuff that makes it to the front page, Slashdot is nosediving fast.
God damn it. Stardock is going to ruin it with their awful, awful writing. GalCiv2 had the worst humor I've ever seen in a 4x game ever. I know that nobody plays 4x games for the writing, but it was so bad it hurt.
First thing I thought of, really.
It's westorange.info, not westorage.info. The editing is ridiculous.
Foreign language submissions are all well and good, but shouldn't our esteemed editors be editing the submitted English into grammatical English (or paraphrasing it)?
Life is pretty darn short to worry about replayability. If you wait to buy games until they've gotten cheap, and they're fun the first time through, does it really matter if you want to play it fifty more times?
I was honestly surprised reading this headline. Had to go look the game up, I thought it was still never released.
So F-Zero, basically.
Summary, for those of us who can't watch Youtube wherever we happen to be?
A few days ago I had the ability to vote stories up and down. Now it's gone. I wish I could vote this one down, it's utterly pointless.