The stick is ideal for games where you need the ability to move both quickly and precisely (say, to whip to the left and shoot the damn torpedo coming at you) with both hands, but not so much on platformers, for instance, where you want to move precisely before jumping to the next spinning, fiery climbable wall while some demonic dream-dad is throwing knives at you.
I played it on PC, with WSAD for movement, and it was still a pain.
-:sigma.SB
P.S. You forgot to mention that the knives were on fire, too.
"Reality isn't fun. If it was we wouldn't play games."
I'll second this and say that those people who want realistic games are a stupid minority who don't understand game design.
I'm a game designer/programmer who still spends a lot of time playing the original Ghost Recon with his friends. Often with respawn time set as long as 60 seconds, or respawns disabled entirely (and ALWAYS limited in quantity). This is a game where at least 70% of all bullet wounds are instantly fatal (and the rest are no joke), and where aiming usually requires you to hold still and aim carefully.
I also play games like Worms 3D, Spaceward Ho!, Harvest Moon, Starcraft, Tetris Attack... pretty wildly varying levels of realism there.
I'll have to say that people who relegate entire other groups of people to "stupid minorities" are stupid minorities who are sure not understanding something, not least of which that other people might have different tastes than them.
Complaining about WGA is as stupid as people complaining about having to put the cd / dvd in to play a game. It's a very minor form of copy protection that causes no inconvenience to users - well, users that don't like to bitch about the massive effort of having to put a disc in to play a game.
The only reason I have a working optical drive between the three computers that I A) use regularly and B) have a monitor for is that a replacement for my most recently deceased one arrived today.
All the effort in the world won't cram my Brood War CD into the empty space that used to hold my G5's DVD drive and make it work.
I'm pretty much the biggest anti-DRM person that there is.
I think the fallacy in this statement is so blatantly obvious that I don't even need to point it out. (Which I did anyway. Go figure.)
There have been widespread worms that did this sort of thing before (phpBB comes to mind). Does this one do anything novel that makes it deserve the adjective "clever?"
When's the last time you laid out a site without a table element on every page?
I haven't made a website with a table-based layout in seven years. The only thing I use tables for nowadays is presenting tabular data.
In fact, just thinking about table-based layouts made me feel a little sick.
Of course, I've also been incredibly lucky in that I don't have to support IE, so the stuff I do in CSS actually works. (Just thinking about supporting IE made me feel a little sicker...)
Really? I honestly don't recall ever having to preserve ammo in Half-Life. Maybe it's just been too long since I've played it but...
During the parts where you're still in the Black Mesa facility, there's never a shortage of ammo. Even the nuclear weapons are well-stocked. In fact, I remember thinking, "This game has WAY too much ammo."
Then I got to Xen, and the ammo supply all but dried up.
Through excessive use of the crowbar, I managed to still have a reasonable quantity of ammo left when I reached the Nihilanth. I ended up finally killing him by zapping him with the (infinite ammo) bee gun continuously for a minute or two after pouring all my ammo into him. (I imagine it's easier if, unlike me, you manage to survive his "teleport" attack; the rooms you get teleported to are full of ammo, the problem is just surviving the floaty death that comes with it long enough to teleport back.)
It's called "karma bonus." People who posted high-quality posts in the past get it by default. The +1 disappears once any "real" moderation takes place.
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I have had to restore from a Time Machine backup and I will never use it again. It was so much work because it does not backed up most of the system and ---
Whoah, whoah, whoah. Hold it right there. By default, Time Machine backs up every single file on the hard disk. If you were cheap enough to deliberately exclude system directories, you should expect that a full restore is going to be less than painless.
Not only that, but doesn't it pop up a scary warning dialog if you exclude system dirs?
The Article (yes, they are not just a myth) explicitly tells of Ubuntu running on (err, op top of the hypervisor on) the PS3. Now, I for one do NOT want to go through and compile EACH AND EVERY SINGLE Ubuntu app I desire after being spoiled with apt-get (and dpkg before that) and repeating the process with EVERY SINGLE UPDATE/FIX. Further more, tracking down EACH AND EVERY library/dependency for said apps without the help of a packaging system would be a living breathing hell (and yes, some of said apps either use assembly or target the x86 architecture so closely that there is a speed loss on others due to instruction/stack/register differences brought up by gcc switches in the makefile, or intentionally by the coder).
You've... never used a non-x86 Linux distro, have you? It's pretty much exactly the same as the equivalent x86 distro, except with a PowerPC/SPARC/MIPS/Alpha/ARM/etc. CPU instead. (And usually more sloppy QA, but that's another story.)
Very, very few programs require x86 assembly nowadays.
And as mentioned above (in a less derogatory manner, you insensitive clod) the PS3 hypervisor would only offer a framebuffer to the PPC kernel hypervisor to pass to the guest x86 kernel to use (wasn't over-engineered brought up above, as well?) for video - so yes, you won't get HD performance on the box as I'm aware of now, but I'm sure the framebuffer at least offers something, you think? Oh thats right, nobody has taken the time to satisfy all the dependencies in the universe to compile a worthy app by hand to test it with. Yes, I've gotten a little spoiled since the green-screen days, but software has also gotten more complex (we still use C and its libraries to write ideal modern software/VMs, right?) so what do you expect?
You've... never used a "fast" computer with a plain framebuffer, have you?
You know what, replying to you is a waste of time.
If we harvest the fuel faster than nature makes it, it's a finite resource.
Guess that means solar power is unsustainable too, since our poor sun only has a few billion years of fuel left. Wind power too, since that ultimately comes from the sun. And geothermal power, because without any energy input from the outside the core of our planet would get too cold for us to usefully exploit a heat gradient...
I type between 100 and 180 words per minute. Not only am I faster than some programmers might think is "humanly possible," but it's trivial to bypass protection like that.
msleep(200 * number_of_characters_typed);// Now, we are a moderately fast (60 WPM) typist instead of a bot
Honestly, I don't know anyone that takes into consideration how 'green' something is before they purchase it...especially gadgets.
Me.
I won't even consider buying a computer that will use more than about 300W of power at any time, because it's too much. My current Linux desktop uses about 20W, and my server about 10W.
I've used JFS extensively for several years now, including power outages when the discs were under load - and I've never had anything fail to correctly fsck when the power came back up.
I've had JFS fail me three times. Twice it was due to an application issue (not fsyncing properly), and once it was due to a total fluke. The filesystem had been corrupted in a way that a manual fsck easily fixed... but the node that was corrupted was the directory that Gentoo's/sbin/rc keeps its state in, so it didn't get far enough in the boot process to fsck it automatically. (Not being able to read this directory when the filesystem isn't even mounted read-write shouldn't be a problem, people!)
Other than that, it performs well and is pretty nice.
How the hell does McDonald's bear responsibility for what a private citizen chooses to purchase and consume willingly knowing full well that greasy fatty foods are bad for your arteries/heart? That's just as ridiculous as all the people who cried that McDonald's made them fat.
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I played it on PC, with WSAD for movement, and it was still a pain.
-:sigma.SB
P.S. You forgot to mention that the knives were on fire, too.
I'm a game designer/programmer who still spends a lot of time playing the original Ghost Recon with his friends. Often with respawn time set as long as 60 seconds, or respawns disabled entirely (and ALWAYS limited in quantity). This is a game where at least 70% of all bullet wounds are instantly fatal (and the rest are no joke), and where aiming usually requires you to hold still and aim carefully.
I also play games like Worms 3D, Spaceward Ho!, Harvest Moon, Starcraft, Tetris Attack... pretty wildly varying levels of realism there.
I'll have to say that people who relegate entire other groups of people to "stupid minorities" are stupid minorities who are sure not understanding something, not least of which that other people might have different tastes than them.
-:sigma.SB
The only reason I have a working optical drive between the three computers that I A) use regularly and B) have a monitor for is that a replacement for my most recently deceased one arrived today.
All the effort in the world won't cram my Brood War CD into the empty space that used to hold my G5's DVD drive and make it work.
I think the fallacy in this statement is so blatantly obvious that I don't even need to point it out. (Which I did anyway. Go figure.)
-:sigma.SB
There have been widespread worms that did this sort of thing before (phpBB comes to mind). Does this one do anything novel that makes it deserve the adjective "clever?"
-:sigma.SB
I have a Rage 128. I'm still hoping, but somehow doubting, that KMS will get ported to my card...
-:sigma.SB
Yes.
-:sigma.SB
I haven't made a website with a table-based layout in seven years. The only thing I use tables for nowadays is presenting tabular data.
In fact, just thinking about table-based layouts made me feel a little sick.
Of course, I've also been incredibly lucky in that I don't have to support IE, so the stuff I do in CSS actually works. (Just thinking about supporting IE made me feel a little sicker...)
-:sigma.SB
For me, it actually WAS north. (Fine, a couple degrees west of north, but who's counting?)
-:sigma.SB
A perfect case in point of gamers not having any social skills, I think.
-:sigma.SB
During the parts where you're still in the Black Mesa facility, there's never a shortage of ammo. Even the nuclear weapons are well-stocked. In fact, I remember thinking, "This game has WAY too much ammo."
Then I got to Xen, and the ammo supply all but dried up.
Through excessive use of the crowbar, I managed to still have a reasonable quantity of ammo left when I reached the Nihilanth. I ended up finally killing him by zapping him with the (infinite ammo) bee gun continuously for a minute or two after pouring all my ammo into him. (I imagine it's easier if, unlike me, you manage to survive his "teleport" attack; the rooms you get teleported to are full of ammo, the problem is just surviving the floaty death that comes with it long enough to teleport back.)
-:sigma.SB
Look up "infrasound."
-:sigma.SB
It's called "karma bonus." People who posted high-quality posts in the past get it by default. The +1 disappears once any "real" moderation takes place.
-:sigma.SB
Or, you know, just use Offline Mode.
-:sigma.SB
Whoah, whoah, whoah. Hold it right there. By default, Time Machine backs up every single file on the hard disk. If you were cheap enough to deliberately exclude system directories, you should expect that a full restore is going to be less than painless.
Not only that, but doesn't it pop up a scary warning dialog if you exclude system dirs?
-:sigma.SB
Very, very few programs are emulators.
-:sigma.SB
You've... never used a non-x86 Linux distro, have you? It's pretty much exactly the same as the equivalent x86 distro, except with a PowerPC/SPARC/MIPS/Alpha/ARM/etc. CPU instead. (And usually more sloppy QA, but that's another story.)
Very, very few programs require x86 assembly nowadays.
You've... never used a "fast" computer with a plain framebuffer, have you?
You know what, replying to you is a waste of time.
-:sigma.SB
No, we restored from backup.
-:sigma.SB
Guess that means solar power is unsustainable too, since our poor sun only has a few billion years of fuel left. Wind power too, since that ultimately comes from the sun. And geothermal power, because without any energy input from the outside the core of our planet would get too cold for us to usefully exploit a heat gradient...
-:sigma.SB
I type between 100 and 180 words per minute. Not only am I faster than some programmers might think is "humanly possible," but it's trivial to bypass protection like that.
-:sigma.SB
Me.
I won't even consider buying a computer that will use more than about 300W of power at any time, because it's too much. My current Linux desktop uses about 20W, and my server about 10W.
-:sigma.SB
Hey, be nice. Maybe they just have dementia.
-:sigma.SB
Just to let you know, tmpfs ignores the device path, you can put whatever you want in it (and you aren't actually using /dev/ram* with that).
-:sigma.SB
I've had JFS fail me three times. Twice it was due to an application issue (not fsyncing properly), and once it was due to a total fluke. The filesystem had been corrupted in a way that a manual fsck easily fixed... but the node that was corrupted was the directory that Gentoo's /sbin/rc keeps its state in, so it didn't get far enough in the boot process to fsck it automatically. (Not being able to read this directory when the filesystem isn't even mounted read-write shouldn't be a problem, people!)
Other than that, it performs well and is pretty nice.
-:sigma.SB
That was his point.
-:sigma.SB
I have the same problem.
in my .bashrc fixes it on that machine.
-:sigma.SB