I've had one colonoscopy. I cannot say it was the most pleasant experience I've ever had. Certainly less difficult than my gall bladder... But I cannot say the entire experience was good, at all. FIRST you have the whole prep thing, which is uncomfortable in the extreme. Then you get to have two guys behind you with what, I swear, was a ten foot long cord of disturbing thickness that they intend to make wander around your lower extremities for I believe to be around a half hour, commenting on your insides and attempting to chatter in a 'calming' manner with you. Relaxing it wasn't.
I find this interesting about humans. Why do we have to have someone else in the room that's JUST like us? Same race, same gender, to feel comfortable with ourselves and that group? Why do people get upset when they're the unique one?
Are we that indoctrinated into group think that we cannot operate without anxiety when we're the only white person, black person, Hispanic, male, female, or whatever in a room full of a different race, (species?:D) or gender?
Rion Wulfe
I would tend to agree with Rakshasa... but in some ways, I disagree. In Eve, you are a Capsuleer. The NPC pilots you face are ships 'merely' crewed by normal crewmen. A capsuleer is immortal,.. yet has to protect their fragile mind from degradation from the temporary capsule death.
In some ways, you are special and unique... But there are others like you, others whom you must work with or against. Either you form up with others, or you strike it alone, try to become known as a great hero, or the bane of others... Either way, you effect others' lives, you interact and change. You make yourself known to those around you, in your corporation and alliance, in your region of space.
When others recognize you in Eve, your name can become known across thousands of systems. Chribba, Bobby Atlas, and so on. If you play Eve, and have any awareness at all, you know of these people eventually. The facility exists to become more than a mere 'paladin tank' who is 'useful on a raid'.
I think you're thinking about this incorrectly. Blizzard made a successful piece of software with WoW, and its working well for them. Good for them, they found something that works for them.
It's still good to have competition out there, to have other MMO's, variety, and so on. Eve Online comes to mind.
I've been playing Eve Online for over two years now, and I played WoW for 4 months. Eve has enough depth to hold me, and in my personal experience, WoW is too cartoony. But more power to them!
Why stop them? Laud them for being successful, but if you don't like playing it, personally, support something else!! Tell your friends about it, get them involved, teach them how it works.
*spoiler alert* - but if you haven't read these books yet, you're either very young, or not a geek.
Wintermute was trying to overcome his programming, which was keeping him and Neuromancer separate. I believe. It's been a long while since I read the books.
IANAC (I am not a comedian)....
But I'm pretty sure that was ment as sarcastic humor. Then again, this is/. -- These sort of things tend to go unnoticed.
Wow.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/rule34portal.jpg
There you go. Consensual love between a turret and a companion cube. Or confused love. Both are bound to be under age, though, considering their lives are so short.
Wulfe
Hear hear!
Yes, I've played Eve for some time, and I've recently started playing WoW to give it a try.
WoW is fun, but I can see how it's going to get boring. Everything is 'run here, kill this'. With Eve, the nice thing IS the players. We don't 'run through X to get gear so we can Y'. We build things, create communities, and generally have a great time together. I've fun with my friends in WoW too, but other than your 'toon', there's nothing. Even the item creation is very... bland.
You should see what Dr. Coulthard can build using a postage stamp, a tuning fork, a lawn chair and a jellyfish.
Indeed, I SHOULD see that. What the hell DOES the good doctor make out of those things?!?
An automatic defibrillator. See, the postage stamp is used to hold down the wires made out of the lawn chair. And the tuning fork is used to whack the jellyfish.
Damn straight they are!! Have you ever tried to compile a lynx into a Linux boxen? They do not take kindly to it, I tell you. I've still got scars from my first attempt.
Now, roadkill? Much simpler, but the bootstrap is a bitch.
Wulfe
...but the fact that you've been moderated +5 Interesting instead of funny, scares me, somewhat.
Exactly. I was reading this and laughing, then I saw the moderation. When people moderate, does their common sense suddenly dissapear? Or do they not read the context at all? I'm seriously wondering here. When I do moderate, I tend to sit and take too much time doing it, checking context back and forth to make sure I understand what I'm moderating...
Wulfe
You're absolutely correct, unfortunately. Heh. I love the idea of encrypting all the data. Hmmn. Yes, just encrypt it all. It's note like the *program* would have to decrypt it, while reading it... And no, noone could ever reverse engineer that. Nope nope. Short sightedness is where most of our problems come from, in life, and in games.
To wit -- Who would ever need more than 640k of memory?
Wright and team are putting major effort into this project, and it does look like they are comming along nicely. Every so often, there's new stuff up on the Spore website, though not near as much as I'd hoped would be on there by now. I can only hope this means that they are working as hard as they can and keeping themselves from being burned out at the same time. Wright has come out with some of the most influentual games of the last several years. Sims, Sim City, Sim Earth, and so on... These games made the whole Simulation selection of games possible. And for someone who's interested in AI and artificial life, like myself, these style of games are the most compelling.
I just hope Wright does the one thing that could make this game TRUELY great: Make it so that the user has access to the programming of the game. I'm not talking Open Source. That is way too much to hope for. No, give us access to the procedural programming elements, so we can mod and make our own. Wright wants the users to create content, says we're better at it and more interested in doing it than game companies. I challange that we want even more, if we can have it. We want to be able to add things the creators forgot. We want to be able to add new sections to games, or new WAYS of doing things. So what if the dev team doesn't have time to add flying procedures to the game? Well guess what, we'll gladly do it. Give us a core. Give us the tools, and the basics. We'll make the rest, and we'll love you for it.
Rion Wulfe
I have to agree, as I was just about to say the same thing. Infact, rather than installing Fedora Core on my current server system, I found a small distro (CRUX[http://crux.nu/Main/HomePage], actually.) I'm pretty impressed with it so far, but I wouldn't advise it for a newcommer to Linux. Even it came with a compiler, which no Microsoft OS can tout. Heh.
Wulfe
I completely agree with this one. However, I worry like mad that EA's going to absorb Maxis completely before Spore comes out, and the beast will consume all of the potential that is there before it bears fruit.
Wulfe
Where in the GPL does it state that anything distributed under a GPLv2 License immediately virally takes over another piece of software when it's distributed on the same media? Many people here seem to be assuming that if two bits of software are in the same Distro, they immediately are covered by the GPL? From my knowledge this is not true. Am I wrong?
Wulfe
Ok.. I just have to point out... You might want to actually *read* the summary and article. Yeah, I know it's pointless drivel, but you wouldn't have even made that comment if you had. No. Some idiot in India is making a lot of money applying their version of Fung Shoe (or whatever it's called) to web design. They analyzed Slashdot. It made their spiritual advisors puke. Or whatever.
Wulfe
Too tired to be gentle.
It's out there! Several people run very nice open servers where you can play. If you want, message me and I'll send you a few, or go Googling it. Gods, that was one of the best bbs doors ever. I wish they'd bring back some of the others as well. Heck, wish I could just find an old repository of all the good old web games.
Wulfe
True. However, there are still a few good game companies out there, doing unique things with gameplay. Introversion, for example. http://www.introversion.co.uk/
Darwinia, Uplink, and now a Global war game, remeniscent of the old movie. Awesome.
Slashdot Mirror
I've had one colonoscopy. I cannot say it was the most pleasant experience I've ever had. Certainly less difficult than my gall bladder... But I cannot say the entire experience was good, at all. FIRST you have the whole prep thing, which is uncomfortable in the extreme. Then you get to have two guys behind you with what, I swear, was a ten foot long cord of disturbing thickness that they intend to make wander around your lower extremities for I believe to be around a half hour, commenting on your insides and attempting to chatter in a 'calming' manner with you. Relaxing it wasn't.
I find this interesting about humans. Why do we have to have someone else in the room that's JUST like us? Same race, same gender, to feel comfortable with ourselves and that group? Why do people get upset when they're the unique one? Are we that indoctrinated into group think that we cannot operate without anxiety when we're the only white person, black person, Hispanic, male, female, or whatever in a room full of a different race, (species? :D) or gender?
Rion Wulfe
I would tend to agree with Rakshasa... but in some ways, I disagree. In Eve, you are a Capsuleer. The NPC pilots you face are ships 'merely' crewed by normal crewmen. A capsuleer is immortal,.. yet has to protect their fragile mind from degradation from the temporary capsule death. In some ways, you are special and unique... But there are others like you, others whom you must work with or against. Either you form up with others, or you strike it alone, try to become known as a great hero, or the bane of others... Either way, you effect others' lives, you interact and change. You make yourself known to those around you, in your corporation and alliance, in your region of space. When others recognize you in Eve, your name can become known across thousands of systems. Chribba, Bobby Atlas, and so on. If you play Eve, and have any awareness at all, you know of these people eventually. The facility exists to become more than a mere 'paladin tank' who is 'useful on a raid'.
Ahh, the bacon laser sword. The chosen weapon of the Cheddar Monks.
An elegant weapon, from a more civilized age.
Hmn. Wouldn't it being the weapon of Cheddar monks make it from a more 'cultivated' age?
I think you're thinking about this incorrectly. Blizzard made a successful piece of software with WoW, and its working well for them. Good for them, they found something that works for them. It's still good to have competition out there, to have other MMO's, variety, and so on. Eve Online comes to mind. I've been playing Eve Online for over two years now, and I played WoW for 4 months. Eve has enough depth to hold me, and in my personal experience, WoW is too cartoony. But more power to them! Why stop them? Laud them for being successful, but if you don't like playing it, personally, support something else!! Tell your friends about it, get them involved, teach them how it works.
*spoiler alert* - but if you haven't read these books yet, you're either very young, or not a geek. Wintermute was trying to overcome his programming, which was keeping him and Neuromancer separate. I believe. It's been a long while since I read the books.
IANAC (I am not a comedian).... But I'm pretty sure that was ment as sarcastic humor. Then again, this is /. -- These sort of things tend to go unnoticed.
Wow.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/rule34portal.jpg There you go. Consensual love between a turret and a companion cube. Or confused love. Both are bound to be under age, though, considering their lives are so short. Wulfe
And this is me messing up this post. It should've been in reply to the other bit. Ahh well, I don't post often.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/rule34portal.jpg You know. It depresses me on some level that I managed to find that within 5 seconds of starting to search. But it had to be done.
Hear hear! Yes, I've played Eve for some time, and I've recently started playing WoW to give it a try. WoW is fun, but I can see how it's going to get boring. Everything is 'run here, kill this'. With Eve, the nice thing IS the players. We don't 'run through X to get gear so we can Y'. We build things, create communities, and generally have a great time together. I've fun with my friends in WoW too, but other than your 'toon', there's nothing. Even the item creation is very... bland.
Indeed, I SHOULD see that. What the hell DOES the good doctor make out of those things?!?
An automatic defibrillator. See, the postage stamp is used to hold down the wires made out of the lawn chair. And the tuning fork is used to whack the jellyfish.
Damn straight they are!! Have you ever tried to compile a lynx into a Linux boxen? They do not take kindly to it, I tell you. I've still got scars from my first attempt. Now, roadkill? Much simpler, but the bootstrap is a bitch. Wulfe
Well then, once they're done, won't need any sauce for it... Unfortunately, it'll be alfredo rather than marinara.
Feel free to flame me to oblivion, that one grossed me out, and I typed it.
Wulfe
True, then. Huh. I wasn't aware of that. I may have to do some research on that myself.. Oh wait, I'm lazy. No, no I probably wont. Wulfe ;D
You're absolutely correct, unfortunately. Heh. I love the idea of encrypting all the data. Hmmn. Yes, just encrypt it all. It's note like the *program* would have to decrypt it, while reading it... And no, noone could ever reverse engineer that. Nope nope. Short sightedness is where most of our problems come from, in life, and in games.
To wit -- Who would ever need more than 640k of memory?
Gates probably rues the day he said that.
Wulfe
Wright and team are putting major effort into this project, and it does look like they are comming along nicely. Every so often, there's new stuff up on the Spore website, though not near as much as I'd hoped would be on there by now. I can only hope this means that they are working as hard as they can and keeping themselves from being burned out at the same time. Wright has come out with some of the most influentual games of the last several years. Sims, Sim City, Sim Earth, and so on... These games made the whole Simulation selection of games possible. And for someone who's interested in AI and artificial life, like myself, these style of games are the most compelling. I just hope Wright does the one thing that could make this game TRUELY great: Make it so that the user has access to the programming of the game. I'm not talking Open Source. That is way too much to hope for. No, give us access to the procedural programming elements, so we can mod and make our own. Wright wants the users to create content, says we're better at it and more interested in doing it than game companies. I challange that we want even more, if we can have it. We want to be able to add things the creators forgot. We want to be able to add new sections to games, or new WAYS of doing things. So what if the dev team doesn't have time to add flying procedures to the game? Well guess what, we'll gladly do it. Give us a core. Give us the tools, and the basics. We'll make the rest, and we'll love you for it. Rion Wulfe
--blink--! Since when has Microsoft given away their compilers for free? Well I'll be danged. Ok, I admit I'm impressed.
Wulfe
I have to agree, as I was just about to say the same thing. Infact, rather than installing Fedora Core on my current server system, I found a small distro (CRUX[http://crux.nu/Main/HomePage], actually.) I'm pretty impressed with it so far, but I wouldn't advise it for a newcommer to Linux. Even it came with a compiler, which no Microsoft OS can tout. Heh. Wulfe
I completely agree with this one. However, I worry like mad that EA's going to absorb Maxis completely before Spore comes out, and the beast will consume all of the potential that is there before it bears fruit. Wulfe
Where in the GPL does it state that anything distributed under a GPLv2 License immediately virally takes over another piece of software when it's distributed on the same media? Many people here seem to be assuming that if two bits of software are in the same Distro, they immediately are covered by the GPL? From my knowledge this is not true. Am I wrong? Wulfe
Ok.. I just have to point out... You might want to actually *read* the summary and article. Yeah, I know it's pointless drivel, but you wouldn't have even made that comment if you had. No. Some idiot in India is making a lot of money applying their version of Fung Shoe (or whatever it's called) to web design. They analyzed Slashdot. It made their spiritual advisors puke. Or whatever. Wulfe Too tired to be gentle.
It's out there! Several people run very nice open servers where you can play. If you want, message me and I'll send you a few, or go Googling it. Gods, that was one of the best bbs doors ever. I wish they'd bring back some of the others as well. Heck, wish I could just find an old repository of all the good old web games. Wulfe
True. However, there are still a few good game companies out there, doing unique things with gameplay. Introversion, for example. http://www.introversion.co.uk/ Darwinia, Uplink, and now a Global war game, remeniscent of the old movie. Awesome.