... proof that big worlds and FPS don't get along very well.
My main beef with borderlands 2 is it takes so long to get anywhere and the dead-space between enemies really sucks the actiony parts out of the game. Borderlands is basically a super casual FPS, the action is quite lite, the AI is braindead and when you die it's more to do with enemy layout and inability to see where enemies are on the map then anything else.
... when it comes to games. If linux made a performance distro FOR games that was significantly faster then windows in terms of framerates/etc only then would people think of changing.
"Seriously here, when will the world wise up to the fact that "cheap cinese labor" has costs that don't tabulate out cleanly on expense sheets and quarterly reports?"
This has always been the nature of capitalism, free marketeers like to conveniently forget it. The idea that capitalism naturally produced high wages without violence, unrest or war is a fucking lie and you americans need to open your history books. The fact that socialism and communism even came into existence was because capitalism back then SUCKED SO FUCKING BAD. It's just returning to its natural state because their is no real opposition anymore.
That's not the way the world works, while people like ourselves are resistant to corporate bs. Other people rationalize and defend the behavior. Just look around the net at people DEFENDING drm and calling piracy 'theft' (when it is infringement). The great masses of humanity don't think.
They've done the analytics, us bitchers and sticking to our guns are a minority of the gaming population, esp when it comes to big releases that people are emotionally invested in.
"Diablo 3 was a pyrrhic victory. It burned an INSANE amount of Blizz cred."
6 million + in sales says what gamers say and what they do are two different things. Most gamers are addicts. They will bitch and buy anyway. If you have an audience like that then the publisher/devs are just going to milk that. That's what has traditionally happened when companies get that kind of power over their audience.
People complained about the lack of LAN in SC2 but 5 mill+ bought it anyway. Complaining isn't enough for some types of games that just do huge sales regardless.
"If you can get modded up to +5 insightful for this comment then I greatly fear for the sake of Slashdot. It's full of idiots now."
Because we all know that gaming never used to be better, not like it was in the 90's of those evil gamers modding games and having access to SDK's and map editors, getting source from the developers to add/update enhance games after their sales period because god knows the gaming business has not undergone toxic changes.
"Unlike the original game, Supreme Commander 2 is infamous for not allowing players to mod the maps easily. In fact, the modding community for this game is virtually non-existent."
This kind of stuff is increasingly rare and/or gimped beyond belief although steam is taking 'token steps' in the right direction they're still douches about it though.
Please spare the audience your illiteracy of gaming history.
LOL The reality is he wants to use the internet to normalize DRM one small step at a time. Everyone has seen diablo 3's success and the are CHOMPING AT THE BIT to do the same to every other game. See through the PR matrix.
I understand but these problems are intractable, you can't actually control how other people read your message on the internet. I was a bit snide in my OP but being instantly downvoted to zero and then all the hyena's show up (moronic gamers) who start digging in just I'm not immune from being human as well. No doubt I should have probably worded my OP better, and by "d-pad" I had a custom tailored mouse design in mind, because you actually have to play around with and refine the design through testing and manipulating things like mouse shape, button size, button layouts, etc.
But mostly people rejected my OP because it didn't hit the right tone and MOST people on slashdot are not nerds or hardcore gamers.
Science says people with unusual thinking styles are usually rejected, that also means I've also had a hard life because I have a truth based nature but I am also habitually not tactful and much of our behavior is not in our direct control. i.e. I can think I am being 'not really rude, perhaps a little edgy' and someone else will perceive 'omg total assholes' and downvote. Most people are emotionally driven and hence often times no matter how you frame a message if it goes against 'common wisdom' even the most well written post will get dowmodded if everyone thinks the 'idea is dumb' because of group think 'we know better'.
Often times you have to do a lot of work refinement and be anal rententive and obsessive to finish your work and then actually demonstrate that it works but given the nature of the internet and the fact that my post was casual. It wouldn't have mattered even if I had framed it super nicely because most of the responses thus far are 'yuck yuck, ur idear is stupid'.
That isn't a dpad it has buttons in similar orientation of a dpad, not only that the orientation of the buttons are off and the side of the mouse is too sharp (straight). More importantly the buttons are not aligned properly, and my 'dpad' meant variations on d-pad like design. Not just cutting and pasting parts I had something specific and custom designed in mind.
I don't need to prove anything to people who don't value efficiency, just because you don't see value in my ideas does not mean they don't objectively from a mathematical standpoint have value.
You could be given all the facts and reject them. Thanks for not even paying attention to my OP, if you had any brain at all you would have paused after viewing that video and re-assessed your minds ability to perceive the world and other peoples thoughts.
The difference is in how thus buttons are arranged and how they are aligned for when you need them you haven't put enough thought or energy into it and I don't expect anyone on slash-tard to understand since most slashdotters are nerd wannbe's anyway.
"But probably not or Logitech would have already released it if there was demand"
Except thats not how the world works son, you can tell people facts over and over again and they will reject them. The world does not work on enlightenment reason, thanks for revealing how much of a non-nerd you are.
If you knew anything about science at all creative people are in fact rejected if you look at studies, people are not open minded or creative, most of them, including many nerds. Just because you don't find value in those ideas, or the masses don't care about efficiency means little.
Most human beings are low effort thinkers, things they don't need or care about they don't value but they think they are in a position to judge them (even though they haven't really thought about it seriously or put in the effort) so their opinions are little more then superstitions.
There are plenty of examples of highly intelligent people being mocked by other highly intelligent people.
Cantor's theory of transfinite numbers was originally regarded as so counter-intuitive—even shocking—that it encountered resistance from mathematical contemporaries such as Leopold Kronecker and Henri Poincaré[3] and later from Hermann Weyl and L. E. J. Brouwer, while Ludwig Wittgenstein raised philosophical objections. Some Christian theologians (particularly neo-Scholastics) saw Cantor's work as a challenge to the uniqueness of the absolute infinity in the nature of God [4] — on one occasion equating the theory of transfinite numbers with pantheism[5] — a proposition which Cantor vigorously rejected. The objections to his work were occasionally fierce: Poincaré referred to Cantor's ideas as a "grave disease" infecting the discipline of mathematics,[6]
Well you people fucking deserve it for not even seeing the science behind how your brain operates, just because you don't find it useful (because you're too unskilled at videogames and math to understand) doesn't mean there is not a solid basis for why other people find it useful. i.e. different strokes for different folks.
You're under the dangerous illusion you live in reality, you just because you can't see value in it doesn't mean it doesn't have value. i.e. it has no utility to you because you don't care about efficiency.
As for it being an 'internet tough guy act' try actually thinking about mathematical efficiency in terms of response times instead of being a cosmic douchebag. You're not being very nerdy on a site for nerds, you sound like some dumbass casual gamer.
The scroll wheel has flaws in that you can over scroll, and miss the weapon you actually want to get, a d-pad lets you just assign weapons to each direction your thumb say rests in the middle and each weapon is equidistant (short) from the center. With a mousewheel you have to cycle through weapons list and you can often miss during harried fights or you have to slow down. Not my idea of accurate controls in tense highspeed action games where reaction time matters.
Now this is not to say there aren't keyboard based solutions to these problems or just designing the interface better. But a d-pad simply cuts out being able to accidentally miss (because of having to 'cycle through') you go directly to the weapon you want via direction.
More importantly I've thought these ideas through an made mockups (home made versions) to test for flaws so please spare me your bs.
The scroll wheel has flaws in that you can over scroll, and miss the weapon you actually want to get, a d-pad lets you just assign weapons to each direction your thumb say rests in the middle and each weapon is equidistant (short) from the center. With a mousewheel you have to cycle through weapons list and you can often miss during harried fights or you have to slow down. Not my idea of accurate controls in tense highspeed action games where reaction time matters.
Now this is not to say there aren't keyboard based solutions to these problems or just designing the interface better. But a d-pad simply cuts out being able to accidentally miss (because of having to 'cycle through') you go directly to the weapon you want via direction.
How unenlightened, I've always wanted to put a d-pad on the thumb side of the mouse for easy weapon switching instead of reaching keys in odd spaces. Even with keyboard customization distributing the load to a hand that is more idle (the aiming hand) that merely only moves the mouse increases efficiency.
I've had tonnes of insights into how hardware and user interfaces as well could be better designed. Perhaps you need to learn about the fact that you don't live in reality but only your awareness? i.e. what you see is highly dependent on how much you've exposed yourself to learning how to observe which takes a lifetime of experience and often from the school from hard knocks about how much your mind ISN'T capable of recognizing the truth, you won't "know it when you see it" because that is not how your mind works.
... it tabulates the size of a given directory and gives you graphical representations of where big files are that you can click on immediately. Then use something like beyond compare to compare directories.
Slashdot Mirror
... proof that big worlds and FPS don't get along very well.
My main beef with borderlands 2 is it takes so long to get anywhere and the dead-space between enemies really sucks the actiony parts out of the game. Borderlands is basically a super casual FPS, the action is quite lite, the AI is braindead and when you die it's more to do with enemy layout and inability to see where enemies are on the map then anything else.
... when it comes to games. If linux made a performance distro FOR games that was significantly faster then windows in terms of framerates/etc only then would people think of changing.
... is the only way I'd switch. Right now I use windows primarily for games, if games would run faster on linux I would switch in a heartbeat.
"you've successfully killed the Enlightenment and any principle of self-government through reason and debate."
Science killed the enlightenment.
http://bit.ly/dYaWUc
"Seriously here, when will the world wise up to the fact that "cheap cinese labor" has costs that don't tabulate out cleanly on expense sheets and quarterly reports?"
This has always been the nature of capitalism, free marketeers like to conveniently forget it. The idea that capitalism naturally produced high wages without violence, unrest or war is a fucking lie and you americans need to open your history books. The fact that socialism and communism even came into existence was because capitalism back then SUCKED SO FUCKING BAD. It's just returning to its natural state because their is no real opposition anymore.
That's not the way the world works, while people like ourselves are resistant to corporate bs. Other people rationalize and defend the behavior. Just look around the net at people DEFENDING drm and calling piracy 'theft' (when it is infringement). The great masses of humanity don't think.
On the brain:
http://bit.ly/dYaWUc
See this when you have the time:
http://www.slideshare.net/bcousins/paying-to-win
They've done the analytics, us bitchers and sticking to our guns are a minority of the gaming population, esp when it comes to big releases that people are emotionally invested in.
"Diablo 3 was a pyrrhic victory. It burned an INSANE amount of Blizz cred."
6 million + in sales says what gamers say and what they do are two different things. Most gamers are addicts. They will bitch and buy anyway. If you have an audience like that then the publisher/devs are just going to milk that. That's what has traditionally happened when companies get that kind of power over their audience.
People complained about the lack of LAN in SC2 but 5 mill+ bought it anyway. Complaining isn't enough for some types of games that just do huge sales regardless.
"If you can get modded up to +5 insightful for this comment then I greatly fear for the sake of Slashdot. It's full of idiots now."
Because we all know that gaming never used to be better, not like it was in the 90's of those evil gamers modding games and having access to SDK's and map editors, getting source from the developers to add/update enhance games after their sales period because god knows the gaming business has not undergone toxic changes.
"Unlike the original game, Supreme Commander 2 is infamous for not allowing players to mod the maps easily. In fact, the modding community for this game is virtually non-existent."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_source_ports
http://scp.indiegames.us/
This kind of stuff is increasingly rare and/or gimped beyond belief although steam is taking 'token steps' in the right direction they're still douches about it though.
Please spare the audience your illiteracy of gaming history.
LOL The reality is he wants to use the internet to normalize DRM one small step at a time. Everyone has seen diablo 3's success and the are CHOMPING AT THE BIT to do the same to every other game. See through the PR matrix.
I understand but these problems are intractable, you can't actually control how other people read your message on the internet. I was a bit snide in my OP but being instantly downvoted to zero and then all the hyena's show up (moronic gamers) who start digging in just I'm not immune from being human as well. No doubt I should have probably worded my OP better, and by "d-pad" I had a custom tailored mouse design in mind, because you actually have to play around with and refine the design through testing and manipulating things like mouse shape, button size, button layouts, etc.
But mostly people rejected my OP because it didn't hit the right tone and MOST people on slashdot are not nerds or hardcore gamers.
Science says people with unusual thinking styles are usually rejected, that also means I've also had a hard life because I have a truth based nature but I am also habitually not tactful and much of our behavior is not in our direct control. i.e. I can think I am being 'not really rude, perhaps a little edgy' and someone else will perceive 'omg total assholes' and downvote. Most people are emotionally driven and hence often times no matter how you frame a message if it goes against 'common wisdom' even the most well written post will get dowmodded if everyone thinks the 'idea is dumb' because of group think 'we know better'.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110903142411.htm
Often times you have to do a lot of work refinement and be anal rententive and obsessive to finish your work and then actually demonstrate that it works but given the nature of the internet and the fact that my post was casual. It wouldn't have mattered even if I had framed it super nicely because most of the responses thus far are 'yuck yuck, ur idear is stupid'.
I know it's not a good design, I was being sarcastic. It's a mouse made for MMO's.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110903142411.htm
Nope sorry, I've put in the hours, the commenters here have not.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110903142411.htm
That isn't a dpad it has buttons in similar orientation of a dpad, not only that the orientation of the buttons are off and the side of the mouse is too sharp (straight). More importantly the buttons are not aligned properly, and my 'dpad' meant variations on d-pad like design. Not just cutting and pasting parts I had something specific and custom designed in mind.
Nonsense if you can't be bothered to think I have provided you with the science that YOUR BRIAN DOESN'T WORK ON REALITY OR FACTS.
http://bit.ly/dYaWUc
I don't need to prove anything to people who don't value efficiency, just because you don't see value in my ideas does not mean they don't objectively from a mathematical standpoint have value.
You could be given all the facts and reject them. Thanks for not even paying attention to my OP, if you had any brain at all you would have paused after viewing that video and re-assessed your minds ability to perceive the world and other peoples thoughts.
The difference is in how thus buttons are arranged and how they are aligned for when you need them you haven't put enough thought or energy into it and I don't expect anyone on slash-tard to understand since most slashdotters are nerd wannbe's anyway.
"But probably not or Logitech would have already released it if there was demand"
Except thats not how the world works son, you can tell people facts over and over again and they will reject them. The world does not work on enlightenment reason, thanks for revealing how much of a non-nerd you are.
http://bit.ly/dYaWUc
If you knew anything about science at all creative people are in fact rejected if you look at studies, people are not open minded or creative, most of them, including many nerds. Just because you don't find value in those ideas, or the masses don't care about efficiency means little.
Most human beings are low effort thinkers, things they don't need or care about they don't value but they think they are in a position to judge them (even though they haven't really thought about it seriously or put in the effort) so their opinions are little more then superstitions.
There are plenty of examples of highly intelligent people being mocked by other highly intelligent people.
Cantor's theory of transfinite numbers was originally regarded as so counter-intuitive—even shocking—that it encountered resistance from mathematical contemporaries such as Leopold Kronecker and Henri Poincaré[3] and later from Hermann Weyl and L. E. J. Brouwer, while Ludwig Wittgenstein raised philosophical objections. Some Christian theologians (particularly neo-Scholastics) saw Cantor's work as a challenge to the uniqueness of the absolute infinity in the nature of God [4] — on one occasion equating the theory of transfinite numbers with pantheism[5] — a proposition which Cantor vigorously rejected. The objections to his work were occasionally fierce: Poincaré referred to Cantor's ideas as a "grave disease" infecting the discipline of mathematics,[6]
Well you people fucking deserve it for not even seeing the science behind how your brain operates, just because you don't find it useful (because you're too unskilled at videogames and math to understand) doesn't mean there is not a solid basis for why other people find it useful. i.e. different strokes for different folks.
You're under the dangerous illusion you live in reality, you just because you can't see value in it doesn't mean it doesn't have value. i.e. it has no utility to you because you don't care about efficiency.
As for it being an 'internet tough guy act' try actually thinking about mathematical efficiency in terms of response times instead of being a cosmic douchebag. You're not being very nerdy on a site for nerds, you sound like some dumbass casual gamer.
I know because no company would EVER make a mouse with direct input on the side... OH WAIT...
http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=74357&vpn=910-002864
You realize they've already started making mouse with direct inputs for MMO's right? I wouldn't be surprised of a dpad variety shows up.
http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=74357&vpn=910-002864
So please spare me your bs.
"There's a reason for why a lot of insights that people have aren't done."
I've thought these ideas through an made mockups (home made versions) to test for flaws so please spare me your bs.
The scroll wheel has flaws in that you can over scroll, and miss the weapon you actually want to get, a d-pad lets you just assign weapons to each direction your thumb say rests in the middle and each weapon is equidistant (short) from the center. With a mousewheel you have to cycle through weapons list and you can often miss during harried fights or you have to slow down. Not my idea of accurate controls in tense highspeed action games where reaction time matters.
Now this is not to say there aren't keyboard based solutions to these problems or just designing the interface better. But a d-pad simply cuts out being able to accidentally miss (because of having to 'cycle through') you go directly to the weapon you want via direction.
More importantly I've thought these ideas through an made mockups (home made versions) to test for flaws so please spare me your bs.
my bad responsed to the wrong poster.
The scroll wheel has flaws in that you can over scroll, and miss the weapon you actually want to get, a d-pad lets you just assign weapons to each direction your thumb say rests in the middle and each weapon is equidistant (short) from the center. With a mousewheel you have to cycle through weapons list and you can often miss during harried fights or you have to slow down. Not my idea of accurate controls in tense highspeed action games where reaction time matters.
Now this is not to say there aren't keyboard based solutions to these problems or just designing the interface better. But a d-pad simply cuts out being able to accidentally miss (because of having to 'cycle through') you go directly to the weapon you want via direction.
How unenlightened, I've always wanted to put a d-pad on the thumb side of the mouse for easy weapon switching instead of reaching keys in odd spaces. Even with keyboard customization distributing the load to a hand that is more idle (the aiming hand) that merely only moves the mouse increases efficiency.
I've had tonnes of insights into how hardware and user interfaces as well could be better designed. Perhaps you need to learn about the fact that you don't live in reality but only your awareness? i.e. what you see is highly dependent on how much you've exposed yourself to learning how to observe which takes a lifetime of experience and often from the school from hard knocks about how much your mind ISN'T capable of recognizing the truth, you won't "know it when you see it" because that is not how your mind works.
http://bit.ly/dYaWUc
... it tabulates the size of a given directory and gives you graphical representations of where big files are that you can click on immediately. Then use something like beyond compare to compare directories.