Firstly, I would argue that even the 1:05(or whatever they got it down to) Zerg rush takes more mental strain than playing the average FPS. Secondly, not every strategy game is so flawed. You brought up Civilization, which is the perfect example of what happens when you try to make combat a gradual numerical increase in power and defense and then fit real world equivilents over it. A better example all around would be Alpha Centauri where the combat actually makes sense. Wnat to go even further, explain to me how the complexity of Counterstrike rivals Hearts of Iron, a game even I refuse to play because I don't want to think that hard.
It's a large generalization, about as large as the gap between the quality of the gameplay between tournament level clans and your average 14 year old on a public server. Knowing a few tricks to keep yourself alive longer and having a predefined cordinated action between multiple players in night and day.
I would never say that there's no thought invovled, but I would certainly say there's less though, and that's coming from some who played just about every major FPS from the day they were released.
"um...no.
those tubes are defintely not six feet long if they're a metre in diameter.
Six feet is 1.8m - they're definitely not longer than they are wide."
Correct, they are not six feet long, as I posted they are three feet long he used two of them according to the article to acheive a total of six feet. From TFA: "As I mentioned, my father works in a cement shop, creating things like cement piping. They also make cement sections that look like pieces of a cement tube, 1 meter in diameter and maybe 3 feet long."
What exactly did I miss in my reading comprehension?
BTW, English Imperial units, or english standard as I was always raised to call them, are all those things like feet and miles that are not metric. So although in many places metric might be a standard, that's not the context the word was used in.
Yeah, but kids also seem to know surpsingly little about strategy and tactics. Their nimble little fingers may rule FPSs and fighting games but RTS and TBS will always be the domain of a well sculpted mind.
I would say more in the vein of Linux/BSD at least so far as the NSA having their own security oriented distro which is availible for download on their site.
It can. Where I live the airport is built right across the street from a large capped landfil and the methane coming off of it is burned and used to power most of the airport. There's also a pretty cool blowoff valve for the extra that you see running ever once in a great while in the form of a big blue-flamed tourch in the middle of an empty feild.
That's why he used two tubes, furthermore he's Canadian, or better be if he's paying people in Candian money, so your impression that metric users understand standard measurements is a bit off.
I think that as someone who mostly frequrents small independent arts theaters you gravely misjudge the moviegoing populace. When I sit down to see the latest blockbuster I generally see atleast ten people talking on phones until the house lights dim. These of course aren't the only people with phones, simply the ones who are on the phone at that time. At least half the people in there make an almost synchronized motion to turn off or silence their phones when the screen tells them to. I have, in a display I find utterly baffling, watched a group of teenagers sit down in a movie that they've all paid $8.25 to see, get a phone call and leave before it even starts. Do I think that if movie theaters suddenly blacked out cellphone calls that they'd all go out of business? No, a majority probably wouldn't care, but if you asked me whether I think the theaters are willing to spend money to loose business in hopes that this new cellphone free experience would boost their profits I'd say you're out of your mind. People don't stop going to movies because of a cell phone going off, or becasue they're charged $4 for soda or $8.25 for a ticket to a terrible rehashed remake, sit com, or sequil.
To you not caring, all I can ask is what exactly is the point of making advances in technology if not to use them to someway better our lives. You might want to give up that computer, it's not a neccessity. The reply to that would be, "My computer isn't bothering anybody" which brings me to:
I object to the use of "you" as I have no to date answered my phone during countless movie attendences as well as I number of plays. It's not an issue of worrying that the worst will happen an sitting home afraid all your life. I'm not worried at all, and that's why I rarely carry my phone an always have it on silent. However, as the technology exists to keep me well informed I'm going to use it. You, rather than being upset with people who talk during movies, people who are loud and obnouxious, people who as you feel endanger others safety, you're having an eShouthing-Match with a person who bring a phone, on silent, never answered, into a movie theater that you by your own admission are unlikely to be in, becasue the mere possiblity of an emergency, which I use in the gravest sense of the word, might upset your viewing pleasure.
Nice.
The financial aspects of creating a parrallel set of movie theaters so people can have cell phone and non-cell phone theaters seems like it would prohibitive. I don't thing it would be effective to the profit margines of theaters owners.
And I bet people never went out of town because their children might start vomiting blood. The point is not whether in the past things would have been possible, but whether now that they are possible you'd like to take advantage of them.
Nice 100% wrong snap judgement. I have a cell phone that I rarely take with me, and is never taken off silent mode. I think people whose cell phones are constantly ringing are the most inconciderate people the world. Most people know never to call me unless armageddon has come, so when someone does call me I take it with some degree of severity. What I do object to is placing an iron curtain around a theater to stop everyone including those who are responsible about their cell phone usage.
And when your mother dies in the hospital because you sat through the last two hours of lord of the rings and never got to say goodbyew to her, or more realisticly when your girlfriend is stranded for another two hours in the middle of nowhere when her car wont start or runs into a ditch you tell me that the 3 people you disturbed leaving that theater who are already disturbed by the people that feel the need to go to the bathroom four times during a movie or get a refil on their popcorn are more important.
I don't know, but I think it's great when for whatever reason you oen up 2-3 profiles at a time and hear the ungodly cacaphony of two different Nelly songs overlayed by some Screamo. I tell you nothing brightens up my day like annoyance.
PC Gamer ran an article about playing with mice and keyboard vs controllers.
Long story short?
The one of the editors of PC Gamer took on the two staff members of a Halo website, in Halo, and stomped them mercilessly. The second autoaim was turned off the X-box controller didn't have a chance against mouse and keyboard even given the experience discrepency between the two parties.
It's far from scientific, but most people who have used both can tell you right off hand that it's not even a competition.
And rechosen six months later! Zing!
On a more serious note, simplicity is always best, bring back the WW2 erra big mechanical voting machines that made democracy fun.
Irregularities? You mean like the Democratic party slashing the tires of republican vehicles to keep poor voters from making it to the polls? I think the guy who did that just got sentenced to some pretty hefty time.
I don't know, every time I tune into Air America (Progressive Radio - "The left just got louder") I hear a lot of agitated liberals and the only ones I can stand to listen to for more than five minutes are the level headed / calm ones that genuinly try to talk about issues and inform the listener rather than reffering to all republicans as "cowards", "vampires who eat their own excerment when they can't find any human flesh to devour", or "less than human." Our emotions can make us very extreme, and you win more friends with hunny than with a tirade of petty insults.
I couldn't disagree more. Where I work technology is a godsend. But the point that has to be looked that most people have noted in their points is that we already have a core process down that encourages productivity and nothing else. I manage half a ware house and half the daily inventory being done there, but usually I get an email a day if that. Every advance in technology we see is just a refinement of what we've already decided upon, better database, better equipment, better facilities, better partners who becasue of new technology can be more flexible with what they need from us, and you can see in our production figures that these new additions really do increase our productivity and efficiency. The problem with everyone complaining about being overwhelmed with IMs and emails and special offers of all kinds isn't that technology exists, but that it's not being used in the work place for any meaningful purpose.
Except (and forgive me for not actually attempting to test this) I'm pretty sure if you took your level 60 character into PvP with someone's level 1 they could be God incarnate with strategy and tactics, know all the tricks and have memorized the mechanics, and none of it would do them an ounce of good. I'm a fairly fit guy, I understand basic concepts of hand to hand combat, but if you put me in a 9x9 cell with a lion I don't think anyone would argue that we have an equal chance.
Item drops are another story. People who spend more time hunting for items should find better ones, that makes perfect sense. Of course his complaint was that individual hunters can never get the quality of items that group hunters can, not because it's too hard to get them by yourself, but because the option simply doesn't exist, and I don't think that's right either.
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Firstly, I would argue that even the 1:05(or whatever they got it down to) Zerg rush takes more mental strain than playing the average FPS. Secondly, not every strategy game is so flawed. You brought up Civilization, which is the perfect example of what happens when you try to make combat a gradual numerical increase in power and defense and then fit real world equivilents over it. A better example all around would be Alpha Centauri where the combat actually makes sense. Wnat to go even further, explain to me how the complexity of Counterstrike rivals Hearts of Iron, a game even I refuse to play because I don't want to think that hard.
It's a large generalization, about as large as the gap between the quality of the gameplay between tournament level clans and your average 14 year old on a public server. Knowing a few tricks to keep yourself alive longer and having a predefined cordinated action between multiple players in night and day.
I would never say that there's no thought invovled, but I would certainly say there's less though, and that's coming from some who played just about every major FPS from the day they were released.
"um...no. those tubes are defintely not six feet long if they're a metre in diameter. Six feet is 1.8m - they're definitely not longer than they are wide."
Correct, they are not six feet long, as I posted they are three feet long he used two of them according to the article to acheive a total of six feet. From TFA: "As I mentioned, my father works in a cement shop, creating things like cement piping. They also make cement sections that look like pieces of a cement tube, 1 meter in diameter and maybe 3 feet long."
What exactly did I miss in my reading comprehension?
BTW, English Imperial units, or english standard as I was always raised to call them, are all those things like feet and miles that are not metric. So although in many places metric might be a standard, that's not the context the word was used in.
Yeah, but kids also seem to know surpsingly little about strategy and tactics. Their nimble little fingers may rule FPSs and fighting games but RTS and TBS will always be the domain of a well sculpted mind.
Security-Enhnaced Linux
I don't beleive they use it internally as it's still part of a research project, but it wouldn't be a bad place to start.
I would say more in the vein of Linux/BSD at least so far as the NSA having their own security oriented distro which is availible for download on their site.
It can. Where I live the airport is built right across the street from a large capped landfil and the methane coming off of it is burned and used to power most of the airport. There's also a pretty cool blowoff valve for the extra that you see running ever once in a great while in the form of a big blue-flamed tourch in the middle of an empty feild.
That's why he used two tubes, furthermore he's Canadian, or better be if he's paying people in Candian money, so your impression that metric users understand standard measurements is a bit off.
I think that as someone who mostly frequrents small independent arts theaters you gravely misjudge the moviegoing populace. When I sit down to see the latest blockbuster I generally see atleast ten people talking on phones until the house lights dim. These of course aren't the only people with phones, simply the ones who are on the phone at that time. At least half the people in there make an almost synchronized motion to turn off or silence their phones when the screen tells them to. I have, in a display I find utterly baffling, watched a group of teenagers sit down in a movie that they've all paid $8.25 to see, get a phone call and leave before it even starts. Do I think that if movie theaters suddenly blacked out cellphone calls that they'd all go out of business? No, a majority probably wouldn't care, but if you asked me whether I think the theaters are willing to spend money to loose business in hopes that this new cellphone free experience would boost their profits I'd say you're out of your mind. People don't stop going to movies because of a cell phone going off, or becasue they're charged $4 for soda or $8.25 for a ticket to a terrible rehashed remake, sit com, or sequil.
To you not caring, all I can ask is what exactly is the point of making advances in technology if not to use them to someway better our lives. You might want to give up that computer, it's not a neccessity. The reply to that would be, "My computer isn't bothering anybody" which brings me to:
I object to the use of "you" as I have no to date answered my phone during countless movie attendences as well as I number of plays. It's not an issue of worrying that the worst will happen an sitting home afraid all your life. I'm not worried at all, and that's why I rarely carry my phone an always have it on silent. However, as the technology exists to keep me well informed I'm going to use it. You, rather than being upset with people who talk during movies, people who are loud and obnouxious, people who as you feel endanger others safety, you're having an eShouthing-Match with a person who bring a phone, on silent, never answered, into a movie theater that you by your own admission are unlikely to be in, becasue the mere possiblity of an emergency, which I use in the gravest sense of the word, might upset your viewing pleasure.
Nice.
The financial aspects of creating a parrallel set of movie theaters so people can have cell phone and non-cell phone theaters seems like it would prohibitive. I don't thing it would be effective to the profit margines of theaters owners.
And I bet people never went out of town because their children might start vomiting blood. The point is not whether in the past things would have been possible, but whether now that they are possible you'd like to take advantage of them.
Nice 100% wrong snap judgement. I have a cell phone that I rarely take with me, and is never taken off silent mode. I think people whose cell phones are constantly ringing are the most inconciderate people the world. Most people know never to call me unless armageddon has come, so when someone does call me I take it with some degree of severity. What I do object to is placing an iron curtain around a theater to stop everyone including those who are responsible about their cell phone usage.
And when your mother dies in the hospital because you sat through the last two hours of lord of the rings and never got to say goodbyew to her, or more realisticly when your girlfriend is stranded for another two hours in the middle of nowhere when her car wont start or runs into a ditch you tell me that the 3 people you disturbed leaving that theater who are already disturbed by the people that feel the need to go to the bathroom four times during a movie or get a refil on their popcorn are more important.
I don't know, but I think it's great when for whatever reason you oen up 2-3 profiles at a time and hear the ungodly cacaphony of two different Nelly songs overlayed by some Screamo. I tell you nothing brightens up my day like annoyance.
If Slashdot doesn't stop providing trivial usefull information I swear one of these days I'm going to stop reading the comments.
I thought a kidney was 10K easily. TV has lied to me and those student loans are only getting bigger.
PC Gamer ran an article about playing with mice and keyboard vs controllers.
Long story short?
The one of the editors of PC Gamer took on the two staff members of a Halo website, in Halo, and stomped them mercilessly. The second autoaim was turned off the X-box controller didn't have a chance against mouse and keyboard even given the experience discrepency between the two parties.
It's far from scientific, but most people who have used both can tell you right off hand that it's not even a competition.
Maybe now I can finally use Gary's Mod to recreate the climactic Jar Jar vs. Darth Maul battle that was cut out for the U.S. theatrical release.
Well there goes my faith in the criminal justice system. Milwaukee is a world of problems anyway.
And rechosen six months later! Zing!
On a more serious note, simplicity is always best, bring back the WW2 erra big mechanical voting machines that made democracy fun.
Irregularities? You mean like the Democratic party slashing the tires of republican vehicles to keep poor voters from making it to the polls? I think the guy who did that just got sentenced to some pretty hefty time.
I don't know, every time I tune into Air America (Progressive Radio - "The left just got louder") I hear a lot of agitated liberals and the only ones I can stand to listen to for more than five minutes are the level headed / calm ones that genuinly try to talk about issues and inform the listener rather than reffering to all republicans as "cowards", "vampires who eat their own excerment when they can't find any human flesh to devour", or "less than human." Our emotions can make us very extreme, and you win more friends with hunny than with a tirade of petty insults.
I couldn't disagree more. Where I work technology is a godsend. But the point that has to be looked that most people have noted in their points is that we already have a core process down that encourages productivity and nothing else. I manage half a ware house and half the daily inventory being done there, but usually I get an email a day if that. Every advance in technology we see is just a refinement of what we've already decided upon, better database, better equipment, better facilities, better partners who becasue of new technology can be more flexible with what they need from us, and you can see in our production figures that these new additions really do increase our productivity and efficiency. The problem with everyone complaining about being overwhelmed with IMs and emails and special offers of all kinds isn't that technology exists, but that it's not being used in the work place for any meaningful purpose.
Actually any noise would set it off, so if you could make a small but sharp ticking noise like I could rapid fire was within your grasp.
Not that it ever helped with clay pigeons...
Except (and forgive me for not actually attempting to test this) I'm pretty sure if you took your level 60 character into PvP with someone's level 1 they could be God incarnate with strategy and tactics, know all the tricks and have memorized the mechanics, and none of it would do them an ounce of good. I'm a fairly fit guy, I understand basic concepts of hand to hand combat, but if you put me in a 9x9 cell with a lion I don't think anyone would argue that we have an equal chance. Item drops are another story. People who spend more time hunting for items should find better ones, that makes perfect sense. Of course his complaint was that individual hunters can never get the quality of items that group hunters can, not because it's too hard to get them by yourself, but because the option simply doesn't exist, and I don't think that's right either.