As much as I love modern adventure games (and I recommend Trace Memory - it was great!), I just can't get into text adventures. I've tried a whole bunch of them, but the only one I ever liked was Shade. It was short and playable through one work day, idly alt-tabbing to the game, typing, then working on stuff some more. It was impossible to lose, too.
Are there any other quickie, no-death text adventures out there for people like me?
Well, they're clearly wrong anyway. There was no "stone age." The Earth was created in a day, and people were created during that week. You can learn all about it in 3rd grade science!
You're absolutely right. I think this post is just FUD. If you want to teach the kid how to put a bike together, you don't buy a bunch of sheet metal and rubber, you give him tires, a seat, handlebars, pedals, all the other parts, and turn him loose.
By using Visual Studio, he's still getting valuable skills. You have to know how to program to turn something worthwhile out of Visual Studio. He'll learn programming and get to focus on the interesting processing guts without having to sweat the boring code of manually positioning buttons or doing trivial tasks like that.
He'll still learn design patterns, how to build objects and classes, execution flow, exception handling, and software design, just not the way the original article poster is used to doing it. Just because you prefer starting from scratch doesn't mean it's the best way. I applaud getting the kid on Visual Studio.
Ha ha, prison rape is funny! I hope Jack Thompson experiences the worst form of abuse there is and he'll probably even get AIDS as a superfunny bonus! That'd be just hilarious!
I hate how every time prison is brought up, some dipshit makes a predictable prison rape joke. Jack Thompson is probably the biggest fucking douche that I can think of right now, but saying you hope he gets raped is immature and stupid.
On the contrary, I saw some early previews of Rag Doll Kung Fu and immediately decided that I wanted to get it, then when I found out it was exclusively available on Steam, I decided I didn't want it anymore. HL2 was a fantastic game, but all of the hoops I had to jump through and all of the things I dislike about the software made me decide never to purchase a game off of Steam again.
Well I'm sure it works a whole lot better than age verification by asking you to enter your birthdate. What's easier - getting a credit card or just entering 1/1/1970?
I don't want to enter a credit card number if I'm not buying something, so I won't be using this site. But don't say this is a stupid measure - it's the best web-based age verification method that I can think of, besides requesting both a CC number AND a birthdate.
"Having your documents online is more conveniant and more secure. You wouldn't have to pass them around to all the different PC's you use. It is more secure because most at home users computers are riddled with virus's and spyware."
This reminds me, will the Google Office stuff do spelling and grammar checking?
"Dream Theater has released 4 albums (Falling into Infinity, Metropolis Part 2, 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Train of Thought), 2 Live albums, and 3 videos in that time frame"
Ahh, putting it in terms of progressive metal is what it takes to drive the point home for me. (seriously, where the fuck did that come from?!)
Nitpicking, but I didn't spot any run on sentences. A run on sentence is not a really long sentence, it's a lack of punctuation between two sentences. For example "This is a run on sentence it is annoying."
I do, however, agree that article was really pretentious. He definitely wrote this one with a thesaurus.
I'd happily purchase new copies of games if they were still available. I'd love to walk into a store and get Bioforge or Realms of the Haunting or Earthbound or Twinsen's Odyssey, but I'm not going to find them. Nor are they typically available new online.
The reason I buy used is because I tend to play older games and they're not available otherwise. This isn't my fault, and if it's not published anymore, it's the publisher's fault. If you've stopped producing a game, why should I have to give you any money?
"Theres another exploit here and thats the commercial exploit of the Homebrew scene by Content Holdings.com who brought the PSPhacker domain and when the japs released the hello world and early releases they repackaged the releases as their own and add to that the 3 dollars a month to remove ads that "premium" members pay and also the free psp (and we know thats a scam) site they have and not to mention the fact that if a release is on a site they consider a rival they either say they were emailed the release or another lie."
Was there ever a point in Slashdot history that Microsoft has been represented fairly? Microsoft is still represented by the Borg icon. I know that a lot of us hate MS, but that's just childish and unprofessional.
Almost every game that's an incredible success is something new, though. Look at The Sims, GTA3, Katamari Damacy, etc. Sure the market's full of clones, but sometimes taking a risk can yield great rewards, and I'd certainly love to see more of it.
My Windows box is online all the time, and I've not ONCE had an attack on it. I'm sure there have been attempts, and I'm sure that there's some security hole somewhere that's still waiting to be discovered in the OS, but I firmly believe that the user is the biggest problem.
Let's say you get your average user off Windows and onto Linux. Do you really think that they won't run as root all the time? And do you think they'd stop installing every horrible thing they encountered on the internet? If you know what you're doing on Windows (since XP SP 2), you tend to be fine. Most exploits are a result of uneducated users installing shit they shouldn't, not because of flaws in the OS- but don't take that to mean that I think Windows is bulletproof.
Every OS has some level where security can be compromised, but the greatest factor in causing problems is the user.
"I have never, ever seen a student running in a non-administrator account on their Windows PC, even though XP supports this feature."
Windows isn't there yet. Well, not Windows, but software developed by other people in general doesn't work well in a multi-user environment. I have to run as an admin to play most of the games I have on my system. There's no reason for this, but that's reality. I'd love to run as a limited user, but all I've used that works well for several users on a system is Linux (and no offense to everyone on slashdot, I prefer Windows to Linux, and I don't intend to switch).
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As much as I love modern adventure games (and I recommend Trace Memory - it was great!), I just can't get into text adventures. I've tried a whole bunch of them, but the only one I ever liked was Shade. It was short and playable through one work day, idly alt-tabbing to the game, typing, then working on stuff some more. It was impossible to lose, too.
Are there any other quickie, no-death text adventures out there for people like me?
"I see half a dozen people literally hovering over the counter talking to the clerks about games."
Really? Are you sure you mean "literally?" If so, that's incredible and I want to go to your GameStop!
Well, they're clearly wrong anyway. There was no "stone age." The Earth was created in a day, and people were created during that week. You can learn all about it in 3rd grade science!
Yeah, and THIS YEAR is the year of Linux.
You're absolutely right. I think this post is just FUD. If you want to teach the kid how to put a bike together, you don't buy a bunch of sheet metal and rubber, you give him tires, a seat, handlebars, pedals, all the other parts, and turn him loose.
By using Visual Studio, he's still getting valuable skills. You have to know how to program to turn something worthwhile out of Visual Studio. He'll learn programming and get to focus on the interesting processing guts without having to sweat the boring code of manually positioning buttons or doing trivial tasks like that.
He'll still learn design patterns, how to build objects and classes, execution flow, exception handling, and software design, just not the way the original article poster is used to doing it. Just because you prefer starting from scratch doesn't mean it's the best way. I applaud getting the kid on Visual Studio.
Ha ha, prison rape is funny! I hope Jack Thompson experiences the worst form of abuse there is and he'll probably even get AIDS as a superfunny bonus! That'd be just hilarious!
I hate how every time prison is brought up, some dipshit makes a predictable prison rape joke. Jack Thompson is probably the biggest fucking douche that I can think of right now, but saying you hope he gets raped is immature and stupid.
On the contrary, I saw some early previews of Rag Doll Kung Fu and immediately decided that I wanted to get it, then when I found out it was exclusively available on Steam, I decided I didn't want it anymore. HL2 was a fantastic game, but all of the hoops I had to jump through and all of the things I dislike about the software made me decide never to purchase a game off of Steam again.
"A lesson was learned."
Was it not to fuck with the Predator? Because seriously, if you didn't learn that from the movie, what the hell?
It doesn't work in Opera either.
Well I'm sure it works a whole lot better than age verification by asking you to enter your birthdate. What's easier - getting a credit card or just entering 1/1/1970?
I don't want to enter a credit card number if I'm not buying something, so I won't be using this site. But don't say this is a stupid measure - it's the best web-based age verification method that I can think of, besides requesting both a CC number AND a birthdate.
"Having your documents online is more conveniant and more secure. You wouldn't have to pass them around to all the different PC's you use. It is more secure because most at home users computers are riddled with virus's and spyware."
This reminds me, will the Google Office stuff do spelling and grammar checking?
Symphony X releases albums like nobody's business. They're the Zappa of our time (and killer live, just saw them) :]
"Dream Theater has released 4 albums (Falling into Infinity, Metropolis Part 2, 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Train of Thought), 2 Live albums, and 3 videos in that time frame"
Ahh, putting it in terms of progressive metal is what it takes to drive the point home for me. (seriously, where the fuck did that come from?!)
Haha, Jesus and I had a good laugh at that! +1, funny!
Nitpicking, but I didn't spot any run on sentences. A run on sentence is not a really long sentence, it's a lack of punctuation between two sentences. For example "This is a run on sentence it is annoying."
I do, however, agree that article was really pretentious. He definitely wrote this one with a thesaurus.
I'd happily purchase new copies of games if they were still available. I'd love to walk into a store and get Bioforge or Realms of the Haunting or Earthbound or Twinsen's Odyssey, but I'm not going to find them. Nor are they typically available new online.
The reason I buy used is because I tend to play older games and they're not available otherwise. This isn't my fault, and if it's not published anymore, it's the publisher's fault. If you've stopped producing a game, why should I have to give you any money?
You're just saying that because you're a DS fanboy.
"Theres another exploit here and thats the commercial exploit of the Homebrew scene by Content Holdings.com who brought the PSPhacker domain and when the japs released the hello world and early releases they repackaged the releases as their own and add to that the 3 dollars a month to remove ads that "premium" members pay and also the free psp (and we know thats a scam) site they have and not to mention the fact that if a release is on a site they consider a rival they either say they were emailed the release or another lie."
What?
If it's anecdotal, it must be true!
Was there ever a point in Slashdot history that Microsoft has been represented fairly? Microsoft is still represented by the Borg icon. I know that a lot of us hate MS, but that's just childish and unprofessional.
Almost every game that's an incredible success is something new, though. Look at The Sims, GTA3, Katamari Damacy, etc. Sure the market's full of clones, but sometimes taking a risk can yield great rewards, and I'd certainly love to see more of it.
Hey, that's awesome. September 13 is also my birthday, programmer's day (and I'm a programmer), and my half anniversary with my girlfriend.
My Windows box is online all the time, and I've not ONCE had an attack on it. I'm sure there have been attempts, and I'm sure that there's some security hole somewhere that's still waiting to be discovered in the OS, but I firmly believe that the user is the biggest problem.
Let's say you get your average user off Windows and onto Linux. Do you really think that they won't run as root all the time? And do you think they'd stop installing every horrible thing they encountered on the internet? If you know what you're doing on Windows (since XP SP 2), you tend to be fine. Most exploits are a result of uneducated users installing shit they shouldn't, not because of flaws in the OS- but don't take that to mean that I think Windows is bulletproof.
Every OS has some level where security can be compromised, but the greatest factor in causing problems is the user.
"I have never, ever seen a student running in a non-administrator account on their Windows PC, even though XP supports this feature."
Windows isn't there yet. Well, not Windows, but software developed by other people in general doesn't work well in a multi-user environment. I have to run as an admin to play most of the games I have on my system. There's no reason for this, but that's reality. I'd love to run as a limited user, but all I've used that works well for several users on a system is Linux (and no offense to everyone on slashdot, I prefer Windows to Linux, and I don't intend to switch).
"WHen I read the original post I felt like my dog must feel when he tilts his head sideways."
Me too.
"How am I going to lick all that peanut butter off of Bozdune's junk?"