I wonder how much our biochemistry is warped or screwed up by the current industrial food processes (meaning everything from what food we eat to the way it's grown to chemical additives for color, taste, texture, preservation, etc.).
At the risk of further troll moderation, what's there to imagine? Can't get into the tower? Lure a creeper to the door or kill them elsewhere and make TNT blocks or punch the door to death or build a column of dirt next to it or punch holes in the wall until you can fit through. It's great that you can dig through everything but bedrock and it's cool that you can build stuff, but both of those aspects ruin adventuring unless they are intentionally hampered by someone creating a level (thus ruining the strength of randomly generated terrain).
I'm going to have to disagree. It'll still be dependent on randomly generated terrain and any structures will designed ahead of time like set pieces. NPCs will have very limited interactions with the player simply due to the fact that there's no overarching design or direction. It just doesn't work with randomly generated terrain.
If Notch designs dungeons end to end and let's that structure overwrite the terrain, I could see that working. That or he goes full on Terraria with dungeons and summoned bosses. I'm not saying that's bad but it does again show that Minecraft is a lego set and the most fun and creativity isn't coming from Notch.
It barely works in Minecraft. Yeah, it can make for a pretty cliff, waterfall, cave basin, forest, etc. but it's still an empty world that relies entirely on the player to populate and to differentiate from every other area that was randomly generated as well.
Minecraft, as it is, no more a game than a set of legos is a game. It's neat. It's fun. It allows impressive works of creativity, but is it a game like Mario? No. World of Warcraft? Halo? Need for Speed? Madden? Amnesia? You could make it a platformer but what's the point when you can just build/dig to where you need to go? Where can Minecraft go as far as game opportunities go? Considering how deep it is now, it would be better off as a platforming game set inside a computer so you can dick around with redstone because that's the only deep thing about Minecraft right now.
Some mods do better but in the end, it's still lego pieces. Here's short list of ones that I feel really expand upon the game: Better Than Wolves Industrialcraft
And there's tons more that increase variety of mobs, items, terrain and foliage.
It is a classic, and will be appreciated by generations of movie goers. No... No, it isn't.
It's a convoluted, excessively long trilogy with backstabs and double crosses galore, and with each successive film, there is yet another story thread added. There's no suspense because only two non-nameless, non-faceless people actually die and everyone else is immortal, uninjured, and/or just plain too fucking slapsticky to die. It's tiresome to watch due to the length, yet another comeback or double cross, and the sheer amount of crap flying across the screen.
It's like if George Lucas did the Star Wars prequels with pirates. Okay, I take that back since there are some well defined, likable characters. However, I can't even watch it for free on TV it's that bad.
It's not like you can do anything with it. You can't trade with players, either directly or through auctions. Repairs won't ever reach those heights and vendor gear at that level is worthless (unless you pay with honor points). Basically, all gold on trial accounts is there for mounts and vendor bags.
If it's "Informative", it's because someone has a sense of humor. If it's "Funny", it's 'cause someone takes pity on people like you and decided to make it obvious. If I get modded down and you up, it's because I failed to see the meta-joke even though I mentioned it in this sentence.
What? Are you kidding? Corporations own all branches of the government. They write the laws, pay off their rubber stamps in Congress, and promise sweet, sweet cash for reelection of the President. The people won't get justice through the court nor through the law. Yes, they broke the law but I'll side with them until people with money and power are beholden to the same laws and penalties.
I suppose I can't justify the exposure of personal data but at the same time how do we know all this data wasn't abused in secret? I ask that only because of the speed and magnitude and quantity of these hacks. Now we have LulzSec come by and show just how vulnerable these accounts are. They're forcing the issue and I like that.
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I'm guessing he had rented a laptop and was recorded while fucking various farm animals.
I wonder how much our biochemistry is warped or screwed up by the current industrial food processes (meaning everything from what food we eat to the way it's grown to chemical additives for color, taste, texture, preservation, etc.).
http://www.iwu.edu/~wellness/environment_folder/behavior_frazzled.htm
Thermal noise works. There's other types of hardware random number generators as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator
At the risk of further troll moderation, what's there to imagine? Can't get into the tower? Lure a creeper to the door or kill them elsewhere and make TNT blocks or punch the door to death or build a column of dirt next to it or punch holes in the wall until you can fit through. It's great that you can dig through everything but bedrock and it's cool that you can build stuff, but both of those aspects ruin adventuring unless they are intentionally hampered by someone creating a level (thus ruining the strength of randomly generated terrain).
I'm going to have to disagree. It'll still be dependent on randomly generated terrain and any structures will designed ahead of time like set pieces. NPCs will have very limited interactions with the player simply due to the fact that there's no overarching design or direction. It just doesn't work with randomly generated terrain.
If Notch designs dungeons end to end and let's that structure overwrite the terrain, I could see that working. That or he goes full on Terraria with dungeons and summoned bosses. I'm not saying that's bad but it does again show that Minecraft is a lego set and the most fun and creativity isn't coming from Notch.
Should have been a third link there for Buildcraft.
Here's a vid of Industrialcraft and Buildcraft working together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NlONSyvz6k
It barely works in Minecraft. Yeah, it can make for a pretty cliff, waterfall, cave basin, forest, etc. but it's still an empty world that relies entirely on the player to populate and to differentiate from every other area that was randomly generated as well.
Minecraft, as it is, no more a game than a set of legos is a game. It's neat. It's fun. It allows impressive works of creativity, but is it a game like Mario? No. World of Warcraft? Halo? Need for Speed? Madden? Amnesia? You could make it a platformer but what's the point when you can just build/dig to where you need to go? Where can Minecraft go as far as game opportunities go? Considering how deep it is now, it would be better off as a platforming game set inside a computer so you can dick around with redstone because that's the only deep thing about Minecraft right now.
Some mods do better but in the end, it's still lego pieces. Here's short list of ones that I feel really expand upon the game:
Better Than Wolves
Industrialcraft
And there's tons more that increase variety of mobs, items, terrain and foliage.
You're looking at it the wrong way. It's a microtransaction in that you get very little for that $5, $10, or $20.
Ah, so it's like the stock market expect people can make money with it?
It is a classic, and will be appreciated by generations of movie goers.
No... No, it isn't.
It's a convoluted, excessively long trilogy with backstabs and double crosses galore, and with each successive film, there is yet another story thread added. There's no suspense because only two non-nameless, non-faceless people actually die and everyone else is immortal, uninjured, and/or just plain too fucking slapsticky to die. It's tiresome to watch due to the length, yet another comeback or double cross, and the sheer amount of crap flying across the screen.
It's like if George Lucas did the Star Wars prequels with pirates. Okay, I take that back since there are some well defined, likable characters. However, I can't even watch it for free on TV it's that bad.
I want a Mario movie based off this trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdczoetXk4
See?! It's global warming!
That's not related to climates!
The TSA would have never prevented a comet from killing Americans!
We wouldn't have known about it without waterboarding or wiretaps!
News of the World is just trying to fabricate "news" again.
Don't worry. Google+ will take care of everything.
(I jest but it would be unwise to ignore the lessons of current predicaments.)
Specific requirements for paper and pencil manufacturers. Erasers for vote tampering.
Still profitable but obviously with much more overhead.
Marketing folk are malicious.
It's not like you can do anything with it. You can't trade with players, either directly or through auctions. Repairs won't ever reach those heights and vendor gear at that level is worthless (unless you pay with honor points). Basically, all gold on trial accounts is there for mounts and vendor bags.
If it's "Informative", it's because someone has a sense of humor. If it's "Funny", it's 'cause someone takes pity on people like you and decided to make it obvious. If I get modded down and you up, it's because I failed to see the meta-joke even though I mentioned it in this sentence.
Call me when there's news of the billions in cash that mysteriously was lost in Iraq.
It just makes me think they're up to something nefarious with HTML5. You know, embrace, extend, etc.?
Gotta have an enemy and there's one that isn't dangerous but can be portrayed as one. Keep the rabble arguing against themselves.
x/4=number of FBI hackers
Duh.
What? Are you kidding? Corporations own all branches of the government. They write the laws, pay off their rubber stamps in Congress, and promise sweet, sweet cash for reelection of the President. The people won't get justice through the court nor through the law. Yes, they broke the law but I'll side with them until people with money and power are beholden to the same laws and penalties.
I suppose I can't justify the exposure of personal data but at the same time how do we know all this data wasn't abused in secret? I ask that only because of the speed and magnitude and quantity of these hacks. Now we have LulzSec come by and show just how vulnerable these accounts are. They're forcing the issue and I like that.
C'mon.. they got seeing-eye dogs don't they? What's the problem again?
Don't worry! A tornado will ensure any data center will become geographically dispersed!
Well... heh, a hat tip to them for doing a remarkably good job shitting it up then.