The crates you can jump on and then shoot, and of course the obliglitory level suspended above Lava or Space or some other thing that makes you instantly die if you fall into it.
"I'll straighten out your exaggerations, because it's clear that you've never really played Halo for any extended period of time."
I played it through 2x, once with a geforce4 (which got really crappy framerates on PC btw, and the xbox is a geforce2? weird) once with a geforce 6800 to see how much better it played (which was like night and day IMHO).
My main point was what you said exactly "There were literelly(sic) dozens of rooms in many of the maps that just looked the same, or at least very very similar."
That was it in a nutshell, I literally felt like i was stuck on one map for each of the 5-6 scenarios, very easy to get lost.
SO for him to say how he didn't understand this same point that others had made, seemed a little too rose colored glasses syndrome to me...
"A complaint frequently lodged against the first game (that I have never really understood) was that it suffered from too many duplicate textures and rehashed levels."
Umm ok can anyone say FANBOY!!! how could anyone not find the levels in H1 unrepetitive? 90% of all of the levels on the covenant ship, er same exact thing!!! ugh, battles against the flood? sheesh... what about master chief's ship?
same exact levels over and over again, it was like they made 5 levels total, each with their own sets of textures, and just flipped the layout back and forth to come up with 50 levels of game play.
Don't even get me started on the lame guns... (one or 2 cool ones but the rest, bleh).
What about DIYers, will there be any surcharge for individual components like cases or will we be saving an additional 10 bucks (besides the big savings of building yourself)?
For pretty much any popular multiplayer game out there (BF1942, HL2, Doom3, etc) there are dedicated multiplayer server files available so you can run a server on linux, but yet getting the game for linux to just "play" (client version) is near impossible?
Seeing as how the difference between the server and client installations are basically null, I don't see what the problem is in releasing for both platforms...
SO I went down there and asked them about this and they said "This guy is fucking nuts" so i dunno what that means but I have a strong suspicion it voids the contract on the basis of "unsound mind".
actually you provided the pee without a contract, you made an offer of pee for a set amount after giving said pee to me, there is no liability on my part for drinking your pee... wait, wait *shakes head* wtf am I talking about??? ewwww!!!
"If I steal a stereo, and legitimately sell it at a pawn shop, can the pawn shop owner or the next person who buys the stereo be charged with theft? I hope not."
In California this is called "receiving stolen property" and I think (IANAL) it doesn't matter if you didn't "know" it wasn't stolen.
"They sued him for "tampering" or some such none-sense."
Which was funny since this is built into windows, usually when you put in a cd into the drive it will "auto run" (automatically play a music CD or install a program, etc...) but if you hold down the shift key it bypasses the windows "feature" (you can also disable this in the Drive's properties)
I read the EULA that you have to agree to when you download, yes i read the whole thing, and it does specifically state that the software does not phone home or relay any information to it's parent.. although it also said that you are not allowed to reverse engineer the product so even if you could prove that it does phone home, they could sue you for violation it's EULA and the DMCA.
"You've covered the raw materials in that $0.25, but what about the manufacturing costs?"
Well he already paid for manufacturing costs and the cost to develop the code once, why should he have to pay the full price again just to get a copy of what he already legally purchased?
If anything the only charge should be for the techical supports time to replace the software/key code... (10 bucks or less).
Well if the key has gone to windows update previously, you wont be able to use it on a second machine in regards to security updates via windows update.
Cheaters are pretty common but the situation has gotten a little better.
The easiest cheaters to spot are aimbotters, when the cursor jumps immediately to a persons head and kills them in one shot (then jumps to the next head and kills them, repeat, repeat) that's an obvious cheater.
The other kind of aimbot continually scans for players and will jump to any enemy players on the screen and start firing.. the way to tell these are by the way the curosr "jerks" around the screen when there ae no enemies present, and then it will jump to a player as soon as an enemy is spotted... it looks like the player has parkinson's disease.
The hardest cheat to spot is wallhacking, only because you can use sound to tell where people are and this looks a lot like a person can "see" the player through a wall.
The best I have found to tell if someone is wallhacking is to look for a time the person knew where the enemy was but had no visual or audio clues... like no sound was made but the person changed direction and met him at a corner just at the right time... this method of course is the most time intensive.
I can usually spot a aimbot in about 3 minutes, wallhacks take about 10 to truely confirm.
"The Social Security System will fail Shortly after 2031. Could you imagine getting paid to not work for 935 years? You would have to have a population growth 935 times what it is today to sustain that growth! This is one reason that SS is fundamentally flawed."
No, this just means the retirement age will be changed to 900, problem solved.
"You, me, everybody reading this knows the "Kazaa is just like a knife" rationale is just bogus. Why not work toward fighting unfair laws in a way that doesn't make us look like stooges?"
So you mean Kaaza is more like a fully automatic m16 with side mounted rocket launcher sold for "hunting"?
"we only intend for it to be used for legal purposes" chants. It's sort of like watching tobacco executives claim that they don't believe their products cause cancer"
So you're saying that there are heathly benefits to smoking tobacco?
A more fitting analogy would be to say knife manufactuers say their products are intended for cooking and eating, not stabbing people in the chest.... which in the cases of kaaza and knife makers are both valid points.
Libel and slander are only actionable if the information is false but presented as truth.
So if you say "man i bet that guy Richard Gere likes gerbil anal sex", that's not slander, if you say "Richard Gere likes gerbil anal sex", that's slander.
It believe it also depends on the context, as I believe you could say "Who likes gerbils? Richard Gere, but only in his anus" and this would not be slander if say you said it on stage at a comedy club...
"Want to see property damage? Have customs/DEA decide to take a car apart at the border looking for drugs or other contraband. I can tell you they are responsible for taking it apart, but the responsibility and expense of putting it back together again isn't."
Are you sure about that? I know (from experience) that a search without a warrant that produces nothing is actionable in a court of law for damages (you can sue the police).
"Yup. As noted elsewhere in the thread, the cops can also speed, handcuff people, force people to submit to pat-downs and even carry a gun around. Just ain't fair, is it?"
They can also be sued for false arrest or have the evidence they gather throw out of court for not following "due process", sucks eh?
"With enough research, you could develop a "gut" that will process everything from vegatable oil to high-proof whiskey. The concept behind "Bender" the robot from Futurama really isn't that far off. "
But wouldn't this be quite wasteful as it takes a lot fo resources to produce alchohol or oil when compared to the raw materials...
"Is there soul sucking "give us the right to send you junk mail, spam and have telemarketers destroy everything you hold sacred" registration required?"
Doesn't matter if there is, there are cool places like www.mailexpire.com which allow you to make an email alias for up to 2 weeks, once the time period has expired (determined by you) then the email is no longer valid... voila no spam and you have registered enought to get your freebies.
"BTW - Microwaving water is *not* a good idea. Pockets of the liquid can become superheated, and leap into and scald your face without any prior warning."
All you have to do to avoid this is place something porous in the water like a wooden coffee stirer.
The reason this happens is because the heated water needs an edge to form the bubble on, something about surface tension...
The "official explanation": "A portion of the water in the cup is becoming superheated -- the liquid temperature is actually slightly above the boiling point, where it would normally form a gas. In this case, the boiling is hindered by a lack of nucleation sites needed to form the bubbles."
from this website... http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/ weekly/aa011 900b. htm
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The crates you can jump on and then shoot, and of course the obliglitory level suspended above Lava or Space or some other thing that makes you instantly die if you fall into it.
no actually that was a good movie (imho) but the second one sucked...heh no charlie sheen = bad (or 25% less hookers... meh)
"I'll straighten out your exaggerations, because it's clear that you've never really played Halo for any extended period of time."
I played it through 2x, once with a geforce4 (which got really crappy framerates on PC btw, and the xbox is a geforce2? weird) once with a geforce 6800 to see how much better it played (which was like night and day IMHO).
My main point was what you said exactly "There were literelly(sic) dozens of rooms in many of the maps that just looked the same, or at least very very similar."
That was it in a nutshell, I literally felt like i was stuck on one map for each of the 5-6 scenarios, very easy to get lost.
SO for him to say how he didn't understand this same point that others had made, seemed a little too rose colored glasses syndrome to me...
graphics= bitmaps, sounds = mp3/wav, userinput is prolly the only thing left needed... the core work is done though (engine).
"A complaint frequently lodged against the first game (that I have never really understood) was that it suffered from too many duplicate textures and rehashed levels."
Umm ok can anyone say FANBOY!!! how could anyone not find the levels in H1 unrepetitive? 90% of all of the levels on the covenant ship, er same exact thing!!! ugh, battles against the flood? sheesh... what about master chief's ship?
same exact levels over and over again, it was like they made 5 levels total, each with their own sets of textures, and just flipped the layout back and forth to come up with 50 levels of game play.
Don't even get me started on the lame guns... (one or 2 cool ones but the rest, bleh).
What about DIYers, will there be any surcharge for individual components like cases or will we be saving an additional 10 bucks (besides the big savings of building yourself)?
For pretty much any popular multiplayer game out there (BF1942, HL2, Doom3, etc) there are dedicated multiplayer server files available so you can run a server on linux, but yet getting the game for linux to just "play" (client version) is near impossible?
Seeing as how the difference between the server and client installations are basically null, I don't see what the problem is in releasing for both platforms...
SO I went down there and asked them about this and they said "This guy is fucking nuts" so i dunno what that means but I have a strong suspicion it voids the contract on the basis of "unsound mind".
you cannot have a contract for your pee by yourself, by definition, a contract is an agreement between 2 parties.
I have never spoken to you before this so we obviously do not have a "contract".
actually you provided the pee without a contract, you made an offer of pee for a set amount after giving said pee to me, there is no liability on my part for drinking your pee... wait, wait *shakes head* wtf am I talking about??? ewwww!!!
"If I steal a stereo, and legitimately sell it at a pawn shop, can the pawn shop owner or the next person who buys the stereo be charged with theft? I hope not."
In California this is called "receiving stolen property" and I think (IANAL) it doesn't matter if you didn't "know" it wasn't stolen.
"They sued him for "tampering" or some such none-sense."
Which was funny since this is built into windows, usually when you put in a cd into the drive it will "auto run" (automatically play a music CD or install a program, etc...) but if you hold down the shift key it bypasses the windows "feature" (you can also disable this in the Drive's properties)
I read the EULA that you have to agree to when you download, yes i read the whole thing, and it does specifically state that the software does not phone home or relay any information to it's parent.. although it also said that you are not allowed to reverse engineer the product so even if you could prove that it does phone home, they could sue you for violation it's EULA and the DMCA.
"You've covered the raw materials in that $0.25, but what about the manufacturing costs?"
Well he already paid for manufacturing costs and the cost to develop the code once, why should he have to pay the full price again just to get a copy of what he already legally purchased?
If anything the only charge should be for the techical supports time to replace the software/key code... (10 bucks or less).
Well if the key has gone to windows update previously, you wont be able to use it on a second machine in regards to security updates via windows update.
Cheaters are pretty common but the situation has gotten a little better.
The easiest cheaters to spot are aimbotters, when the cursor jumps immediately to a persons head and kills them in one shot (then jumps to the next head and kills them, repeat, repeat) that's an obvious cheater.
The other kind of aimbot continually scans for players and will jump to any enemy players on the screen and start firing.. the way to tell these are by the way the curosr "jerks" around the screen when there ae no enemies present, and then it will jump to a player as soon as an enemy is spotted... it looks like the player has parkinson's disease.
The hardest cheat to spot is wallhacking, only because you can use sound to tell where people are and this looks a lot like a person can "see" the player through a wall.
The best I have found to tell if someone is wallhacking is to look for a time the person knew where the enemy was but had no visual or audio clues... like no sound was made but the person changed direction and met him at a corner just at the right time... this method of course is the most time intensive.
I can usually spot a aimbot in about 3 minutes, wallhacks take about 10 to truely confirm.
"The Social Security System will fail Shortly after 2031. Could you imagine getting paid to not work for 935 years? You would have to have a population growth 935 times what it is today to sustain that growth! This is one reason that SS is fundamentally flawed."
No, this just means the retirement age will be changed to 900, problem solved.
"You, me, everybody reading this knows the "Kazaa is just like a knife" rationale is just bogus. Why not work toward fighting unfair laws in a way that doesn't make us look like stooges?"
So you mean Kaaza is more like a fully automatic m16 with side mounted rocket launcher sold for "hunting"?
"we only intend for it to be used for legal purposes" chants. It's sort of like watching tobacco executives claim that they don't believe their products cause cancer"
So you're saying that there are heathly benefits to smoking tobacco?
A more fitting analogy would be to say knife manufactuers say their products are intended for cooking and eating, not stabbing people in the chest.... which in the cases of kaaza and knife makers are both valid points.
Libel and slander are only actionable if the information is false but presented as truth.
So if you say "man i bet that guy Richard Gere likes gerbil anal sex", that's not slander, if you say "Richard Gere likes gerbil anal sex", that's slander.
It believe it also depends on the context, as I believe you could say "Who likes gerbils? Richard Gere, but only in his anus" and this would not be slander if say you said it on stage at a comedy club...
"Want to see property damage? Have customs/DEA decide to take a car apart at the border looking for drugs or other contraband. I can tell you they are responsible for taking it apart, but the responsibility and expense of putting it back together again isn't."
Are you sure about that? I know (from experience) that a search without a warrant that produces nothing is actionable in a court of law for damages (you can sue the police).
"Yup. As noted elsewhere in the thread, the cops can also speed, handcuff people, force people to submit to pat-downs and even carry a gun around. Just ain't fair, is it?"
They can also be sued for false arrest or have the evidence they gather throw out of court for not following "due process", sucks eh?
"With enough research, you could develop a "gut" that will process everything from vegatable oil to high-proof whiskey. The concept behind "Bender" the robot from Futurama really isn't that far off. "
...
But wouldn't this be quite wasteful as it takes a lot fo resources to produce alchohol or oil when compared to the raw materials
"Is there soul sucking "give us the right to send you junk mail, spam and have telemarketers destroy everything you hold sacred" registration required?"
.com which allow you to make an email alias for up to 2 weeks, once the time period has expired (determined by you) then the email is no longer valid... voila no spam and you have registered enought to get your freebies.
Doesn't matter if there is, there are cool places like www.mailexpire
"BTW - Microwaving water is *not* a good idea. Pockets of the liquid can become superheated, and leap into and scald your face without any prior warning."
/ weekly/aa011 900b. htm
All you have to do to avoid this is place something porous in the water like a wooden coffee stirer.
The reason this happens is because the heated water needs an edge to form the bubble on, something about surface tension...
The "official explanation":
"A portion of the water in the cup is becoming superheated -- the liquid temperature is actually slightly above the boiling point, where it would normally form a gas. In this case, the boiling is hindered by a lack of nucleation sites needed to form the bubbles."
from this website...
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library