Sure you still played them, but tell me that by the end of the C-64 era you weren't kind of sick of sprite games?
At this point I feel the same about 3d shooters and sneakers. Sure new eye candy is always nice to see, but other than that, it's same old same old.
At least computer power has gotten us past 'hall games'. But open environs are also old at this point. It's just down to storytelling, the mechanics are old and tired. Most stuff, already been done better than 90% of new content.
We need a new 'Redneck Rampage'. That was a good one. All sorts of topical things from the news a fearless dev could incorporate in 'Redneck Rampage 2017'.
To be fair to horse riders, they aren't used for transportation but recreation (obvious Amish exception), like a _dirt_ bike. They are dangerous like a dirt bike rather than a car.
You also miss the point. The semi autonomous nature of horses makes them _more_ dangerous to inexperienced riders. A dirt bike won't just jump 3 feet sideways and throw you onto a yellow jacket nest. Trust me, that sucked.
This is normal process. We will see exactly how much of the initial objections were bullshit. We _know_ the site didn't have near enough traffic to have 1.3 million unique visitors. I bet the lawyers were just lawyering 1.3 page views with logged IPs into 1.3 million uses.
In any case, the rioters and at least some of their handlers are going to prison. Yeah!
It means a lot less than it used to. Large demo of middle class suburban kids that waste their four years, parents money and takeout loans to fund an extended party.
Which was always true, but they used to get kicked after a year of 0.2 GPAs. (We used to call it the 'square root' club, where the square root of your GPA is higher than your GPA, 'they' didn't get it. Which was good, prevented fights.)
Every group will have a few potential code monkeys and a smaller number of analytical minds.
Humanities grads, as a group, already had a choice, no tech for them. (What % made that choice based on party schedule as undergrads, calc really cuts into 'drinking time'?) The analytic ones already view the world through (Jungian, Marxist, Literary Symbolism, Postmodern, * Studies etc etc) lenses. The average ones have just learned derp from the same list. Some of those lenses are more toxic than others...switching to a (data/process/math/tradeoffs/boolean logic) mindset isn't going to be painless in the best of cases. Nothing is free, least of all is time spent training your personal neural net.
One of the most useful things I ever learned, I got from a god damn commercial. IIRC it was for TIVO.
PEVR method.
Pause. (Obvious, but important. Don't multitask. Yes it's just bullshitting, but theirs pussy down this road!)
Empathise (Say: 'I'm sorry you feel that way', let her vent)
Validate (Say: 'You are right to feel that way', let her vent)
Resume (obvious)
It's not a problem for you to fix.
Warning: using PEVR method after 'she's on to it' is dangerous. Change phrasing. Don't overuse. Don't use when she's pissed at YOU.
How many semester long, multi person software projects would the boot camp grad have worked through?
Tip to high schoolers: If a CS or Engineering program doesn't have a scheduled, required 'senior project' (names will vary) course, find another.
That said: There is truth to your statement about how useless the average CS grad is. I like to ask how many programming languages they knew when they started college. Zero is the wrong answer.
That might have been funny, pre Snowden. Now it just sounds stupid.
There are two specific points in my post. They can be researched.
Nobody has formally asked the 'when did metadata collection begin' question. The database geek world was quietly talking about the associates database in the 80s. Nobody could prove anything, but that kind of data collection had to leave tracks through every local phone company, I bet they were shipping tapes in MANY cases. The buzz was much later confirmed, but no start date was ever publicly discussed.
The other part ('Three eyes' 'Echelon' etc) are as well documented as that kind of thing can be.
Garden. Whole foods produce is crap same as _all_ market produce.
If you want tomatoes with flavor, there is only one way. Put in a garden, it's work, use chemical fertilizer for best results. Hippy shit is hippy.
You'll be amazed the number of times you come back from gardening with a new approach to a problem, from nowhere.
Vegetable stands/farmers markets are an alternative, letting someone else garden. But the operators aren't stupid or (as a group) particularly honest. If they sell out of season, you know what they've been doing all along. If you're in a high land value area, pretty much guaranteed same stuff as groceries, no farmers at the farmer's market...not many tasty tomatoes either.
Bonus: In many states you grow your own 'medicine' too, worry free. Living our teenage dreams. Truth, only diff: Worry free.
The ACA was passed by the Ds _broken_. On the assumption they would be in charge when the shit hit the fan.
Now it sucks to be them, it's going to fail when they have no power, but they still own the mess. Twisting in the wind. 18% got a shitty insurance plan, but 82% had their insurance made _much_ worse.
The Ds own it, forever. The Rs will stretch the pain, they can't lose on this.
My hope remains that Trump triggers both sides to dump the MAD dirt they have on the other. Then we get two new parties.
Good news, nobody is 'just handing over data'. Cops and prosecutors got a subpoena based on the contents of rioters phones. Two judges have reviewed it, the second narrowed the scope. This is a normal felony prosecution.
Keep holding the morons 'feet to the fire' is all any of us can do. Part of that is not accepting bullshit at face value from any of the Republicrats.
ACA was passed entirely by the Ds, they own it. Trump can just let it fail, as constructed and intended. That's what will move replacement forward in something like a bipartisan way, eventually, once the situation becomes truly fucked. I hope they just punt it down to the states, but doubt they have the wisdom.
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Once you saw GLquake, you _ran_ to the store to get a VooDoo card. That was the single biggest jump in 'eye candy' in game history.
I was so sick of sprite games, by the end of the C-64 era it had 'all been done, 30 times.'
Shooters and sneakers are there for me now. Sure I still play, a little.
Of course there is...mindless sneaking...
Sure you still played them, but tell me that by the end of the C-64 era you weren't kind of sick of sprite games?
At this point I feel the same about 3d shooters and sneakers. Sure new eye candy is always nice to see, but other than that, it's same old same old.
At least computer power has gotten us past 'hall games'. But open environs are also old at this point. It's just down to storytelling, the mechanics are old and tired. Most stuff, already been done better than 90% of new content.
We need a new 'Redneck Rampage'. That was a good one. All sorts of topical things from the news a fearless dev could incorporate in 'Redneck Rampage 2017'.
To be fair to horse riders, they aren't used for transportation but recreation (obvious Amish exception), like a _dirt_ bike. They are dangerous like a dirt bike rather than a car.
You also miss the point. The semi autonomous nature of horses makes them _more_ dangerous to inexperienced riders. A dirt bike won't just jump 3 feet sideways and throw you onto a yellow jacket nest. Trust me, that sucked.
Also phrasing...A subpoena is not a 'request'.
This is normal process. We will see exactly how much of the initial objections were bullshit. We _know_ the site didn't have near enough traffic to have 1.3 million unique visitors. I bet the lawyers were just lawyering 1.3 page views with logged IPs into 1.3 million uses.
In any case, the rioters and at least some of their handlers are going to prison. Yeah!
He cited a Cambodian holocaust denier (Chomsky). That ends his credibility.
Be fair, the other choice was ever worse.
Claiming anybody who voted against Hillary is a white supremacist pretty much ends your argument. You're just a moron...
Marx wrote a book titled 'On the Jewish Problem'...it theme wasn't 'make nice'.
In the 1930s 'Capitalist' was code for 'Jewish banker'.
He's bucking for a job as /. editor.
4 years at Chico State? Quitter. The pros take 6.
It means a lot less than it used to. Large demo of middle class suburban kids that waste their four years, parents money and takeout loans to fund an extended party.
Which was always true, but they used to get kicked after a year of 0.2 GPAs. (We used to call it the 'square root' club, where the square root of your GPA is higher than your GPA, 'they' didn't get it. Which was good, prevented fights.)
I noticed it, as the most preposterous lie.
Every group will have a few potential code monkeys and a smaller number of analytical minds.
Humanities grads, as a group, already had a choice, no tech for them. (What % made that choice based on party schedule as undergrads, calc really cuts into 'drinking time'?) The analytic ones already view the world through (Jungian, Marxist, Literary Symbolism, Postmodern, * Studies etc etc) lenses. The average ones have just learned derp from the same list. Some of those lenses are more toxic than others...switching to a (data/process/math/tradeoffs/boolean logic) mindset isn't going to be painless in the best of cases. Nothing is free, least of all is time spent training your personal neural net.
One of the most useful things I ever learned, I got from a god damn commercial. IIRC it was for TIVO.
PEVR method.
Pause. (Obvious, but important. Don't multitask. Yes it's just bullshitting, but theirs pussy down this road!)
Empathise (Say: 'I'm sorry you feel that way', let her vent)
Validate (Say: 'You are right to feel that way', let her vent)
Resume (obvious)
It's not a problem for you to fix.
Warning: using PEVR method after 'she's on to it' is dangerous. Change phrasing. Don't overuse. Don't use when she's pissed at YOU.
Also: never take girl advice you got on /.
How many semester long, multi person software projects would the boot camp grad have worked through?
Tip to high schoolers: If a CS or Engineering program doesn't have a scheduled, required 'senior project' (names will vary) course, find another.
That said: There is truth to your statement about how useless the average CS grad is. I like to ask how many programming languages they knew when they started college. Zero is the wrong answer.
That might have been funny, pre Snowden. Now it just sounds stupid.
There are two specific points in my post. They can be researched.
Nobody has formally asked the 'when did metadata collection begin' question. The database geek world was quietly talking about the associates database in the 80s. Nobody could prove anything, but that kind of data collection had to leave tracks through every local phone company, I bet they were shipping tapes in MANY cases. The buzz was much later confirmed, but no start date was ever publicly discussed.
The other part ('Three eyes' 'Echelon' etc) are as well documented as that kind of thing can be.
Garden. Whole foods produce is crap same as _all_ market produce.
If you want tomatoes with flavor, there is only one way. Put in a garden, it's work, use chemical fertilizer for best results. Hippy shit is hippy.
You'll be amazed the number of times you come back from gardening with a new approach to a problem, from nowhere.
Vegetable stands/farmers markets are an alternative, letting someone else garden. But the operators aren't stupid or (as a group) particularly honest. If they sell out of season, you know what they've been doing all along. If you're in a high land value area, pretty much guaranteed same stuff as groceries, no farmers at the farmer's market...not many tasty tomatoes either.
Bonus: In many states you grow your own 'medicine' too, worry free. Living our teenage dreams. Truth, only diff: Worry free.
Soros is a lot smarter than his muppets. My cat is smarter than the average Antifa LARPer.
The ACA was passed by the Ds _broken_. On the assumption they would be in charge when the shit hit the fan.
Now it sucks to be them, it's going to fail when they have no power, but they still own the mess. Twisting in the wind. 18% got a shitty insurance plan, but 82% had their insurance made _much_ worse.
The Ds own it, forever. The Rs will stretch the pain, they can't lose on this.
My hope remains that Trump triggers both sides to dump the MAD dirt they have on the other. Then we get two new parties.
Good news, nobody is 'just handing over data'. Cops and prosecutors got a subpoena based on the contents of rioters phones. Two judges have reviewed it, the second narrowed the scope. This is a normal felony prosecution.
Those twits didn't even have the sense to not take their phones to a planned riot. 20 years, just for stupidity.
Who started the widespread surveillance? You're off by decades. It goes back _at_least_ to WWII.
'Engineer' is not just a job title.
Keep holding the morons 'feet to the fire' is all any of us can do. Part of that is not accepting bullshit at face value from any of the Republicrats.
ACA was passed entirely by the Ds, they own it. Trump can just let it fail, as constructed and intended. That's what will move replacement forward in something like a bipartisan way, eventually, once the situation becomes truly fucked. I hope they just punt it down to the states, but doubt they have the wisdom.
Devil is in the details. Dumb 'new money' is sure to spend like a drunken sailor, hence it lasts about a second. Dumb 'new credit' is even worse.
It takes generations to build the disconnect between value and cost to the point where a $300 pair of pre distressed blue jeans 'makes sense'.
Also 'betters'? I bet the GP has never known any richers. _Nothing_ rots a brain like inherited wealth.