Everyone installs your shutoff, and then the Big Brain detects that there's too much load so it shuts off everyone's chargers. Only now there's enough free load to charge so it turns them back on. Only now its overloaded so it turns them off. On. Off. On.
So you program in some hysteresis. This is Control Theory 101.
They called it a role playing shooter. It's basically an FPS with light RPG elements. You level up your character, your proficiency in various weapon types (just by using them), and there's a simple ability tree that grant various powers. Lots of loot in the form of weapons, shields, grenade mods and class mods which give you extras like boosted shields or ammo regeneration.
It was just a tightly coded bundle of fun with a breezy little story and a good sense of humor. Seemed generally inoffensive to me, but I guess some people thrive on being offended.
I loved the game, and I'm someone who also loves deep RPGs where the stats screens look like spreadsheets. I get bored of a genre if I play it too much, though, so I play all sorts of game types. I like RPG. I like FPS. I like platformers. Puzzle games. Whatever. Why limit yourself?
I don't care for games where there is abundant running around and shooting and screaming and killing
Well, some people do, especially in co-op with friends. Gosh, I hope that's OK, good sir.
I guess we should all be playing À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu: The Video Game.
Maybe the amygdala, except the amygdala figures out in about.5 seconds that none of it is real so it goes back to sleep.
Yeah, my brain figures out pretty much every game isn't real. It's good at that.
All that being said, Game Informer is still great bathroom reading. Hell, they seem to basically acknowledge their nature these days. The review section is tiny and way in the back.
I heard it was like a consignment shop. You just stick your kid on a shelf until he/she sells. The store takes a cut based on how much salesmanship they need to do, so if you have an ugly kid you might be better selling privately on ChensList or something. I think I read this in the Economist, or I made the whole thing up.
I know. Some friends and I were watching some CGI whatsis a few years ago, and came to the exact same conclusion for the cost of some pizza and Heinekens.
Oh for pity's sake, I was joking with the games comment. Stop igniting my quip comment into histrionics on your part.
OK, you want serious? I worked at a high level on two state level campaigns- one for each Party- high enough to meet the candidates, have lunch and dinner with them in a group. I've worked inside the system. Did my part. That's where I learned they, and their surrounding cloud of sycophants, are a pack of sociopaths. They don't care! Our system filters out anyone *but* sociopathic types long before even the primaries.
They *laugh* at people like you, who think there's still hope to solve problems and somehow work it out and make it all better. They laugh at all Party loyalists, the "useful idiots" (A phrase attributed to Lenin but unproven. Also a song by Tool.) You need to stop believing in some happy world where we have leaders who work for the common good. That world never has and never will exist unless some major evolutionary change occurs in how human brains are wired up.
The "common good" is impossible. Even those who think they can stay the straight and narrow will run into the Real World, with its impossible situations caused by legions of marching morons who are incapable of making even the most basic of life's decisions in a sensible manner. You can't fix it because to fix would require some sci-fi mind control device implanted in the skulls of 80 to 90 percent of the population.
Just stop it already. All you can do is organize your own local meatspace (or "monkeysphere" as some call it) as well as you can, and just try not to blow anything up in you own life too often. If I seem the ultimate cynic it's based on decades of experience and getting my hands dirty deep within the process.
What people? Realists who recognize humanity is, for the most part, a pack of borderline sapient, ignorant idiots, and if it is to have any hope of survival it needs to evolve beyond living in little echo chambers constructed of ideology, myth and its own excrement?
the problem solving process
Yes, the problem solving process that is Slashdot political threads. Right.
You make me feel like I'm watching chimps fighting over a banana.
My bored, snarky nonsense is what makes you a sad panda? Huh.
Does all the "Retardicans am teh Evil!" and "No the Dumbocraps ams teh evuls!" endless circle of crap give you the warm fuzzies, then? Is that the "problem solving process" I'm missing out on here?
I honestly want rational human beings to be better than that.
You'll grow out of that unreasonable expectation, eventually.
OK, done with you. Cheer up. We've got Skyrim and Mass Effect 3 and all sorts of goodness to look forward to.
I hate to break it to you but both sides are responsible for the current problem, and Obama has done his fair share of spending:
Oh, please. You people and your (pfft!) reality. This is Slashdot. You must choose a side and fight, fight, FIGHT! Damn your silly facts and figures. They threaten the local belief systems, and therefore must be banished! BANISHED, I say!
Yes, and we'll live to see it with our minds downloaded into computers, with our A.I. servants running on fusion power and our rocket jet packs and flying cars.
The two 3D movies I saw didn't cause me any stress, but I just don't see the big deal. The 3D seems muddled and artificial to me. Like trying to show someone a nice painting by either carefully illuminating it on a wall, or setting it on fire and bashing them in the face with it.
Slashdot Mirror
If you ask me, I think it's rays.
The same rays that has guys hating Transformers and loving Little Ponies.
Fire the orbital friendship cannon! Set weapons to "tolerate!"
How are you giving them money? Are you hooked up to a Nielsen box?
Yeah, all the jobs created by the construction and then the running of the building and all the tourist monies are of no use to anyone.
Everyone installs your shutoff, and then the Big Brain detects that there's too much load so it shuts off everyone's chargers. Only now there's enough free load to charge so it turns them back on. Only now its overloaded so it turns them off. On. Off. On.
So you program in some hysteresis. This is Control Theory 101.
The idea is just to get everything out of the peak and spread it around a bit.
However, the total, found by integrating over the day, stays the same. It isn't like the whole day will jump up to that peak level.
They called it a role playing shooter. It's basically an FPS with light RPG elements. You level up your character, your proficiency in various weapon types (just by using them), and there's a simple ability tree that grant various powers. Lots of loot in the form of weapons, shields, grenade mods and class mods which give you extras like boosted shields or ammo regeneration.
It was just a tightly coded bundle of fun with a breezy little story and a good sense of humor. Seemed generally inoffensive to me, but I guess some people thrive on being offended.
I loved the game, and I'm someone who also loves deep RPGs where the stats screens look like spreadsheets. I get bored of a genre if I play it too much, though, so I play all sorts of game types. I like RPG. I like FPS. I like platformers. Puzzle games. Whatever. Why limit yourself?
I don't care for games where there is abundant running around and shooting and screaming and killing
Well, some people do, especially in co-op with friends. Gosh, I hope that's OK, good sir.
I guess we should all be playing À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu: The Video Game.
Maybe the amygdala, except the amygdala figures out in about .5 seconds that none of it is real so it goes back to sleep.
Yeah, my brain figures out pretty much every game isn't real. It's good at that.
All that being said, Game Informer is still great bathroom reading. Hell, they seem to basically acknowledge their nature these days. The review section is tiny and way in the back.
I heard it was like a consignment shop. You just stick your kid on a shelf until he/she sells. The store takes a cut based on how much salesmanship they need to do, so if you have an ugly kid you might be better selling privately on ChensList or something. I think I read this in the Economist, or I made the whole thing up.
Bloop!
Achievement Unlocked
Sold A Child - 50G
Congratulations.
Thanks! (hoofbump)
But what you didn't figure out was how to fix the problem.
Do we need to? I'm used to the idea that androids are a curiosity, and that real robots doing real work will always take more practical shapes.
you can tell he's not being real and trying to blow smoke up your butt. And that makes you edgy.
Mind you, even a non-politician trying to blow smoke up my butt would produce the same edgy response.
I know. Some friends and I were watching some CGI whatsis a few years ago, and came to the exact same conclusion for the cost of some pizza and Heinekens.
Yes!
No!
Maybe?
Oh for pity's sake, I was joking with the games comment. Stop igniting my quip comment into histrionics on your part.
OK, you want serious? I worked at a high level on two state level campaigns- one for each Party- high enough to meet the candidates, have lunch and dinner with them in a group. I've worked inside the system. Did my part. That's where I learned they, and their surrounding cloud of sycophants, are a pack of sociopaths. They don't care! Our system filters out anyone *but* sociopathic types long before even the primaries.
They *laugh* at people like you, who think there's still hope to solve problems and somehow work it out and make it all better. They laugh at all Party loyalists, the "useful idiots" (A phrase attributed to Lenin but unproven. Also a song by Tool.) You need to stop believing in some happy world where we have leaders who work for the common good. That world never has and never will exist unless some major evolutionary change occurs in how human brains are wired up.
The "common good" is impossible. Even those who think they can stay the straight and narrow will run into the Real World, with its impossible situations caused by legions of marching morons who are incapable of making even the most basic of life's decisions in a sensible manner. You can't fix it because to fix would require some sci-fi mind control device implanted in the skulls of 80 to 90 percent of the population.
Just stop it already. All you can do is organize your own local meatspace (or "monkeysphere" as some call it) as well as you can, and just try not to blow anything up in you own life too often. If I seem the ultimate cynic it's based on decades of experience and getting my hands dirty deep within the process.
No, I'm sad that people like you exist.
What people? Realists who recognize humanity is, for the most part, a pack of borderline sapient, ignorant idiots, and if it is to have any hope of survival it needs to evolve beyond living in little echo chambers constructed of ideology, myth and its own excrement?
the problem solving process
Yes, the problem solving process that is Slashdot political threads. Right.
You make me feel like I'm watching chimps fighting over a banana.
My bored, snarky nonsense is what makes you a sad panda? Huh.
Does all the "Retardicans am teh Evil!" and "No the Dumbocraps ams teh evuls!" endless circle of crap give you the warm fuzzies, then? Is that the "problem solving process" I'm missing out on here?
I honestly want rational human beings to be better than that.
You'll grow out of that unreasonable expectation, eventually.
OK, done with you. Cheer up. We've got Skyrim and Mass Effect 3 and all sorts of goodness to look forward to.
Not trying to be negative here
Nice job, though.
Did that Nigerian prince ever resolve his problems?
Aw, you poor thing. Did someone not giving a gnat's fart about you or your vastly important and world changing political posts leave you all sad?
you're not helping
I know. Don't care. The real comedy here is you think you are.
nor are you being funny.
Wasn't trying to be.
Honestly, I wish the ideologues on both sides would all catch ebola.
(rimshot)
Hey yo!
This shallow analysis was brought to you by the letter I.
Ideology, it's the mind killer. Ask for it by name. Ideology. It's easier than thinking.
I hate to break it to you but both sides are responsible for the current problem, and Obama has done his fair share of spending:
Oh, please. You people and your (pfft!) reality. This is Slashdot. You must choose a side and fight, fight, FIGHT! Damn your silly facts and figures. They threaten the local belief systems, and therefore must be banished! BANISHED, I say!
Oh and JFK was a democrat as well. Guess from which side of the political spectrum he got a lot of opposition for state funded space exploration?
The Whigs?
Gosh, you guessed right!
Well flip my lid!
Yes, and we'll live to see it with our minds downloaded into computers, with our A.I. servants running on fusion power and our rocket jet packs and flying cars.
What? Throwing money at a problem does not automagically fix things? The deuce you say!
Citing lessons from a work of fiction?
(clicks away)
The two 3D movies I saw didn't cause me any stress, but I just don't see the big deal. The 3D seems muddled and artificial to me. Like trying to show someone a nice painting by either carefully illuminating it on a wall, or setting it on fire and bashing them in the face with it.