i can just imagine the robosapien alongside my cat, jumping up the wall trying to capture the laser dot. tee hee.
i wonder how long it will be before these things start to replace pets?
This corresponds to a theory of mine. It goes thus: The amount of emotional attachment you have to a game/movie/whatever is largely determined by the extent to which you internalise it.
Games like Baldur's Gate & Deus Ex provide such a rich & detailed world through all the ingame text and dialogue that it creates a believable mental vista. You internalise the game to a far greater extent than, say, a FPS where everything is presented to you on the screen.
Text only games (and books for that matter) can be so rewarding & memorable because they play out inside your head. The characters exist in your imagination and you can believe that they're real.
Compared to this, characters in games like Half Life 2 seem shallow and unimportant. Sure the game was fun to play, but afterwards I had no emotional attachment to the game whatsoever. I felt kind of deflated after completing it because it didn't provide any reward save for beating the game, and hearing the end of the (sparse) story. I didn't really care if characters lived or died because they were just pretty polygons on the screen. Since the game had realistically presented me with these characters visually & aurally, my imagination had nothing left to do, and so they weren't internalised - they only existed on the screen.
So yeah, I'm not saying that movies or FPS games can't be memorable. But the ones that are memorable are usually the ones that engage your mind and make you believe in the world they create.
This sounds like a spammer's tactic to me, despite the fact that you know these people.
Personally i'd be as annoyed to recieve this linux propaganda as i would to find a scientology leaflet or whatever along with my Christmas card.
Christmas is commercialised enough as it is, without the age old Christmas card tradition being tainted by it. Please don't try to sell linux to your friends (metaphorically), at least not in this way.
I ask because I am one myself, although i have relaxed my standards somewhat regarding capitalisation. I feel it's mostly unnecessary, except for readability. And when you're helping your uncle jack off a horse.
The all-too-common "your" instead of "you're" still makes me want to strangle people though.
(After downloading the 4.2 gig of cache files on a friend's cable...) Steam: Preloading complete. After the game is released you will be able to play it immediately! Me: Oooh, immediately. That sounds good. (Midnight PST) Steam: HL2 is released. Play now! Me: Ok... *clicks link* Steam: Unlocking Counterstrike Source Game Files... Me: This is highly irregular, but OK. *waits* (10 minutes later) Steam: Unlocking 3 HL2 game files... Me: This is more like it! HL2 here i come. (20 minutes later) Steam: C++ error (abort/retry/ignore) Me: WTF!? *restarts steam* Steam: Unlocking 3 HL2 game files... Me: *goes to eat dinner* (30 mins later) Steam:... Me: WTF?! *clicks on HL2...again* Steam: Unlocking 3 HL2 game files...80% complete (10 mins later) Steam: HL2 is ready to play! Me: I know you're probably lying, but OK. *clicks play* Steam: *updates some shit* Me: WTF, the game came out like 1hr ago Steam: Preparing to play... (5 mins later) Me: Oh how you taunt me... *whimpers* (Familiar Valve intro sound...logo appears) Me: Plays HL2 for 4 hrs straight (at least they did something right)
Well, I suppose I shouldn't have expected anything other than empty promises from Steam, given that Mr Gabe Newell was the lead developer of it. Gabe should buy an Xbox and see how games are done online in the 21st century. That or hang himself in a toilet cubicle.
(After downloading the 4.2 gig of cache files on a friend's cable...)
Steam: Preloading complete. After the game is released you will be able to play it immediately!
Me: Oooh, immediately. That sounds good.
(Midnight PST)
Steam: HL2 is released. Play now!
Me: Ok... *clicks link*
Steam: Unlocking Counterstrike Source Game Files...
Me: This is highly irregular, but OK. *waits*
(10 minutes later)
Steam: Unlocking 3 HL2 game files...
Me: This is more like it! HL2 here i come.
(20 minutes later)
Steam: C++ error (abort/retry/ignore)
Me: WTF!? *restarts steam*
Steam: Unlocking 3 HL2 game files...
Me: *goes to eat dinner*
(30 mins later)
Steam:...
Me: WTF?! *clicks on HL2...again*
Steam: Unlocking 3 HL2 game files...80% complete
(10 mins later)
Steam: HL2 is ready to play!
Me: I know you're probably lying, but OK. *clicks play*
Steam: *updates some shit*
Me: WTF, the game came out like 1hr ago
Steam: Preparing to play...
(5 mins later)
Me: Oh how you taunt me... *whimpers*
(Familiar Valve intro sound...logo appears)
Me: Plays HL2 for 4 hrs straight (at least they did something right)
Well, I suppose I shouldn't have expected anything other than empty promises from Steam, given that Mr Gabe Newell was the lead developer of it. Gabe should buy an Xbox and see how games are done online in the 21st century. That or hang himself in a toilet cubicle.
As Wil Anderson (of Australian TV) succinctly put it, "Unlike the recent Australian federal election, the upcoming US election will decide who actually governs Australia for the next 4 years".
I know I'll be following it closely from down here!
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Clearly this is a direct port of Doom 3 multiplayer to the boardgame platform.
-Supports 2-4 players
-Playable for 1-2 hours
I wonder if they also ported the "absolute shit gameplay" feature aswell?
Ok, let's assume you're right about people not wanting to have any more children than they do now (even though this is a questionable assumption).
If this kind of of technology is introduced en masse there will be a huge population surge as people continue to live past the average lifespan.
i can just imagine the robosapien alongside my cat, jumping up the wall trying to capture the laser dot. tee hee. i wonder how long it will be before these things start to replace pets?
They why can be explained by simple office politics: Someone high up thought it would be "a good idea".
This corresponds to a theory of mine. It goes thus: The amount of emotional attachment you have to a game/movie/whatever is largely determined by the extent to which you internalise it.
Games like Baldur's Gate & Deus Ex provide such a rich & detailed world through all the ingame text and dialogue that it creates a believable mental vista. You internalise the game to a far greater extent than, say, a FPS where everything is presented to you on the screen.
Text only games (and books for that matter) can be so rewarding & memorable because they play out inside your head. The characters exist in your imagination and you can believe that they're real.
Compared to this, characters in games like Half Life 2 seem shallow and unimportant. Sure the game was fun to play, but afterwards I had no emotional attachment to the game whatsoever. I felt kind of deflated after completing it because it didn't provide any reward save for beating the game, and hearing the end of the (sparse) story. I didn't really care if characters lived or died because they were just pretty polygons on the screen. Since the game had realistically presented me with these characters visually & aurally, my imagination had nothing left to do, and so they weren't internalised - they only existed on the screen.
So yeah, I'm not saying that movies or FPS games can't be memorable. But the ones that are memorable are usually the ones that engage your mind and make you believe in the world they create.
They obviously didn't check the back door.
1. Install WiFi into Head 2. Enter 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' 3. Profit!
This sounds like a spammer's tactic to me, despite the fact that you know these people.
Personally i'd be as annoyed to recieve this linux propaganda as i would to find a scientology leaflet or whatever along with my Christmas card.
Christmas is commercialised enough as it is, without the age old Christmas card tradition being tainted by it. Please don't try to sell linux to your friends (metaphorically), at least not in this way.
So which of you is the punctuation nazi?
I ask because I am one myself, although i have relaxed my standards somewhat regarding capitalisation. I feel it's mostly unnecessary, except for readability. And when you're helping your uncle jack off a horse.
The all-too-common "your" instead of "you're" still makes me want to strangle people though.
(After downloading the 4.2 gig of cache files on a friend's cable...) ...
Steam: Preloading complete. After the game is released you will be able to play it immediately!
Me: Oooh, immediately. That sounds good.
(Midnight PST)
Steam: HL2 is released. Play now!
Me: Ok... *clicks link*
Steam: Unlocking Counterstrike Source Game Files...
Me: This is highly irregular, but OK. *waits*
(10 minutes later)
Steam: Unlocking 3 HL2 game files...
Me: This is more like it! HL2 here i come.
(20 minutes later)
Steam: C++ error (abort/retry/ignore)
Me: WTF!? *restarts steam*
Steam: Unlocking 3 HL2 game files...
Me: *goes to eat dinner*
(30 mins later)
Steam:
Me: WTF?! *clicks on HL2...again*
Steam: Unlocking 3 HL2 game files...80% complete
(10 mins later)
Steam: HL2 is ready to play!
Me: I know you're probably lying, but OK. *clicks play*
Steam: *updates some shit*
Me: WTF, the game came out like 1hr ago
Steam: Preparing to play...
(5 mins later)
Me: Oh how you taunt me... *whimpers*
(Familiar Valve intro sound...logo appears)
Me: Plays HL2 for 4 hrs straight (at least they did something right)
Well, I suppose I shouldn't have expected anything other than empty promises from Steam, given that Mr Gabe Newell was the lead developer of it. Gabe should buy an Xbox and see how games are done online in the 21st century. That or hang himself in a toilet cubicle.
(After downloading the 4.2 gig of cache files on a friend's cable...) Steam: Preloading complete. After the game is released you will be able to play it immediately! Me: Oooh, immediately. That sounds good. (Midnight PST) Steam: HL2 is released. Play now! Me: Ok... *clicks link* Steam: Unlocking Counterstrike Source Game Files... Me: This is highly irregular, but OK. *waits* (10 minutes later) Steam: Unlocking 3 HL2 game files... Me: This is more like it! HL2 here i come. (20 minutes later) Steam: C++ error (abort/retry/ignore) Me: WTF!? *restarts steam* Steam: Unlocking 3 HL2 game files... Me: *goes to eat dinner* (30 mins later) Steam: ...
Me: WTF?! *clicks on HL2...again*
Steam: Unlocking 3 HL2 game files...80% complete
(10 mins later)
Steam: HL2 is ready to play!
Me: I know you're probably lying, but OK. *clicks play*
Steam: *updates some shit*
Me: WTF, the game came out like 1hr ago
Steam: Preparing to play...
(5 mins later)
Me: Oh how you taunt me... *whimpers*
(Familiar Valve intro sound...logo appears)
Me: Plays HL2 for 4 hrs straight (at least they did something right)
Well, I suppose I shouldn't have expected anything other than empty promises from Steam, given that Mr Gabe Newell was the lead developer of it. Gabe should buy an Xbox and see how games are done online in the 21st century. That or hang himself in a toilet cubicle.
but icann.org is MY domain! I'd better go reclaim it...
Can someone tell me again what the point of this is?
As Wil Anderson (of Australian TV) succinctly put it, "Unlike the recent Australian federal election, the upcoming US election will decide who actually governs Australia for the next 4 years".
I know I'll be following it closely from down here!