AC is right. You could talk your way through that one.
So many of the situation had multiple solutions that it was amazing.
My 1 complaint was that some of the solutions had unintended consequences. At one point, I was exploring a vault and ended up destroying something that was key to the storyline I was trying to follow. I ended up having to complete the game in another way. It was rather annoying, but I fully intend to play through again anyhow, so I just lived with it.
I've tried to get into a few tabletop games because I think I'd really like them, but so far, I haven't. The couple I got into at the start never got past creating characters, and the one I jumped into the middle was really bad.
I really think some awesome adventures could come of it, if I could only find the right group. (Tycho and Gabe from Penny Arcade seem to have amazing games, for instance.)
Seriously? You were that involved in the game that the only thing you could consider was a reset to make sure it didn't happen?
I have been pretty heavily invested in games but never had an emotional reaction like this one.
As for choices in games... Very few offer any real choices at all. All too many appear to offer a choice, but the outcome is the same either way. A few offer choice that has a different immediate outcome, but you can put in some work to make it come out the same in the end. That last of them give choices that actually make a difference.
Mass Effect 2 is actually a good example of that. Towards the end, there's a time when you can choose to head to the end-game. Do so too early and you risk losing members of your crew along the way. Too late and you lose other crew members. And then they make you choose crew members to do perilous tasks. Again, if you choose the wrong ones, or fail to do your job well enough, others die. And the ending itself has choices that will affect the next game, since the ME games import from the previous game's save.
The choices in ME 2 were strong enough to make me think about actually playing again.
Fallout New Vegas also has serious choices. The choices you make will shape the city's present and future. They matter immediately and in the long-run both.
DragonRealms (a MUD) has a long history that has been shaped by players' actions. They once failed to protect the Warmage's guild and it now lies in a smoking ruin, and a new guildhall had to be constructed. They once failed to prevent an invasion and their towns were held hostage... They were forced to obey the laws of their captors or be arrested and sentenced to death.
Playing those games, even though I haven't -really- done anything that matters, I feel like I have. And that makes the game more fun.
My biggest problem with this is that removal of the word from the English language will not stop people from thinking the exact same thoughts. The word is a -symptom-, not a cause. As such, this is a pointless exercise that only costs money and provides no benefit for anyone.
Why do so many people think that every new entrant into the market has to take down the top dog?
The SWTOR MMO only needs to make money. It doesn't need to beat anyone. This obsession with beating the 'best' is unhealthy and does not drive development well.
I seriously doubt that WoW devs had the thought 'We need to beat Everquest' running through their heads. Instead, they were thinking 'We need to make a great game'. Beating Everquest came as a by-product of the real goal.
Then fragmentation really does become a problem because the processor is not guaranteed to be any particular model. You'd have to manually compile for each one.
That's why the JVM (or.NET CLR) is so nice. You can compile once and have it run on all devices.
Like I said, I got my money's worth and quite a lot more. But just like life, if you don't have goals, what are you working for?
I hit all my personal goals for the game. If I had some external goals, I would play again. Something the game recognizes, not something just made up on the spot.
But, I'll also say, if there were more interaction, I'd also play again. NPCs, a living pre-existing town... Even a town that you had to create, but people would move into.
These aren't complaints, just statements. I'm looking forward to watching it evolve into an even better game.
I bought it thinking I would probably get my money's worth eventually. Instead, what I found was that I had 10 euros of fun in the first day, and the rest of the next couple weeks was pure bonus. I don't play it now, but I intend to play it again once there are actual goals... And I'll continue to reap value from that purchase.
I was a little sad to see that future purchases won't have the major updates included, but I did already tell all my friends about it, so it's their fault for missing it.
The String class was monkey patched with that function, and called what anyone could call it: 'camelize' and 'camelcase'. If Rails wasn't such a large project, it's likely many other projects would have monkey patched in exactly the same way. As it is, some probably do anyhow.
And it still would have been fine, if it did exactly what you think it would, instead of adding the bit about converting slashes.
Even as an amateur, this is something I worry about. I realized pretty quickly how dangerous monkey patching is, but others seem to think it's the answer to everything. Need a special string manipulation function? Name it something generic and slap it on String. UGH.
I even saw where Rails had added a function to String that rewrote the request string. Then others started using it, because it was so useful. And then Rails changed the function. All those people using it for unintended functionality were now broken because the change they made wasn't something you'd expect a function named that to do.
That function was 'camelize' and is aliased to 'camelcase'. Here's the issue: It also converts '/' to '::'. This is completely unexpected from the name.
Now, I get that upgraded to a different version of a library will have some unexpected effects, but you shouldn't have to worry about something so basic as this.
I read it backwards at first. I thought they were making ChromeOS work on machines that already had Ubuntu on them.
Ah well.
It's probably not that hard... There are instructions on how to compile it for USB booting and virtual machines. (I got VM to work, but not USB for some reason.) But the VM is horribly slow on my Linux machine.
Maybe he's one of those people that thinks people should be laid off individually for being dead weight, instead of cutting 4% across the board and hoping to get the dead weight. With such a sloppy cut, you're bound to lose quite a few really good people, too.
Oddly enough, I didn't have Braid (I tried a demo, but didn't really like it) but I did have Osmos and Revenge of the Titans. I made a pretty low offer because of that. But I didn't feel bad about it because that was what I felt it was worth. My friend who didn't have any of them made an offer quite a bit higher.
The problem I see with 'what it is worth' is that I can't tell that until after I play, and I have to pay before that.
Especially since the first bundle got a Steam key eventually, and that makes the bundle worth more to me. (And at least one other guy I saw, who said it was worth $20 extra to him.)
Are you claiming that you aren't an American citizen, or that you don't pay taxes? Because otherwise, those statements are correct. He isn't saying you support his view, he was stating where those things came from. And they did, whether you think the government did right or wrong here.
Yeah. If There were just a few more games like Fallout each year, I would have absolutely no free time whatsoever. I literally took a week off work just to play Fallout New Vegas. That was my vacation. It was awesome. Best vacation I've ever had.
On the other hand, if all the games were multiplayer, I'd have a ton of free time, seeing as I don't find them fun.
Exactly. Any time I see someone saying they can't find a programmer, my first thought is always "Then you're not paying enough."
It's not just a matter of getting a programmer to take the job. It's a matter of getting a good-enough programmer to take the job, and that probably means getting him away from the comfy job he's already got. It can be done with enough money. Vague promises are not going to cut it.
It's probably a combination of that and the fact that it's easier to find holes once you've already got one. People can now look at a hacked PS3 (with the lower firmware) and examine it for other holes. Then they can try those new holes on the latest firmware.
Right, because no matter how much good he does for a movement, if he ever fails to support it in even the smallest thing, we should burn him at the stake./sarcasm
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AC is right. You could talk your way through that one.
So many of the situation had multiple solutions that it was amazing.
My 1 complaint was that some of the solutions had unintended consequences. At one point, I was exploring a vault and ended up destroying something that was key to the storyline I was trying to follow. I ended up having to complete the game in another way. It was rather annoying, but I fully intend to play through again anyhow, so I just lived with it.
I've tried to get into a few tabletop games because I think I'd really like them, but so far, I haven't. The couple I got into at the start never got past creating characters, and the one I jumped into the middle was really bad.
I really think some awesome adventures could come of it, if I could only find the right group. (Tycho and Gabe from Penny Arcade seem to have amazing games, for instance.)
Seriously? You were that involved in the game that the only thing you could consider was a reset to make sure it didn't happen?
I have been pretty heavily invested in games but never had an emotional reaction like this one.
As for choices in games... Very few offer any real choices at all. All too many appear to offer a choice, but the outcome is the same either way. A few offer choice that has a different immediate outcome, but you can put in some work to make it come out the same in the end. That last of them give choices that actually make a difference.
Mass Effect 2 is actually a good example of that. Towards the end, there's a time when you can choose to head to the end-game. Do so too early and you risk losing members of your crew along the way. Too late and you lose other crew members. And then they make you choose crew members to do perilous tasks. Again, if you choose the wrong ones, or fail to do your job well enough, others die. And the ending itself has choices that will affect the next game, since the ME games import from the previous game's save.
The choices in ME 2 were strong enough to make me think about actually playing again.
Fallout New Vegas also has serious choices. The choices you make will shape the city's present and future. They matter immediately and in the long-run both.
DragonRealms (a MUD) has a long history that has been shaped by players' actions. They once failed to protect the Warmage's guild and it now lies in a smoking ruin, and a new guildhall had to be constructed. They once failed to prevent an invasion and their towns were held hostage... They were forced to obey the laws of their captors or be arrested and sentenced to death.
Playing those games, even though I haven't -really- done anything that matters, I feel like I have. And that makes the game more fun.
That's assuming that it's really giving good answers, and that's why it works.
My understanding is that it uses previous answers to check future answers. Answer incorrectly enough and it thinks that is a correct answer.
Now, lately, I've been finding reCAPTCHAs that claim I got them wrong. I assumed I just mistyped, but it used to be a MUCH rarer occurance.
Maybe I'm getting them right, but the spambots are flooding it with wrong answers?
I agree. I was having the same issues on a much smaller connection until I set up QOS. Now, I never have issues with any of my stuff.
My biggest problem with this is that removal of the word from the English language will not stop people from thinking the exact same thoughts. The word is a -symptom-, not a cause. As such, this is a pointless exercise that only costs money and provides no benefit for anyone.
Why do so many people think that every new entrant into the market has to take down the top dog?
The SWTOR MMO only needs to make money. It doesn't need to beat anyone. This obsession with beating the 'best' is unhealthy and does not drive development well.
I seriously doubt that WoW devs had the thought 'We need to beat Everquest' running through their heads. Instead, they were thinking 'We need to make a great game'. Beating Everquest came as a by-product of the real goal.
Then fragmentation really does become a problem because the processor is not guaranteed to be any particular model. You'd have to manually compile for each one.
That's why the JVM (or .NET CLR) is so nice. You can compile once and have it run on all devices.
Are you asking what the penalties are for breaking the law?
Like I said, I got my money's worth and quite a lot more. But just like life, if you don't have goals, what are you working for?
I hit all my personal goals for the game. If I had some external goals, I would play again. Something the game recognizes, not something just made up on the spot.
But, I'll also say, if there were more interaction, I'd also play again. NPCs, a living pre-existing town... Even a town that you had to create, but people would move into.
These aren't complaints, just statements. I'm looking forward to watching it evolve into an even better game.
I bought it thinking I would probably get my money's worth eventually. Instead, what I found was that I had 10 euros of fun in the first day, and the rest of the next couple weeks was pure bonus. I don't play it now, but I intend to play it again once there are actual goals... And I'll continue to reap value from that purchase.
I was a little sad to see that future purchases won't have the major updates included, but I did already tell all my friends about it, so it's their fault for missing it.
The String class was monkey patched with that function, and called what anyone could call it: 'camelize' and 'camelcase'. If Rails wasn't such a large project, it's likely many other projects would have monkey patched in exactly the same way. As it is, some probably do anyhow.
And it still would have been fine, if it did exactly what you think it would, instead of adding the bit about converting slashes.
Even as an amateur, this is something I worry about. I realized pretty quickly how dangerous monkey patching is, but others seem to think it's the answer to everything. Need a special string manipulation function? Name it something generic and slap it on String. UGH.
I even saw where Rails had added a function to String that rewrote the request string. Then others started using it, because it was so useful. And then Rails changed the function. All those people using it for unintended functionality were now broken because the change they made wasn't something you'd expect a function named that to do.
That function was 'camelize' and is aliased to 'camelcase'. Here's the issue: It also converts '/' to '::'. This is completely unexpected from the name.
Now, I get that upgraded to a different version of a library will have some unexpected effects, but you shouldn't have to worry about something so basic as this.
I read it backwards at first. I thought they were making ChromeOS work on machines that already had Ubuntu on them.
Ah well.
It's probably not that hard... There are instructions on how to compile it for USB booting and virtual machines. (I got VM to work, but not USB for some reason.) But the VM is horribly slow on my Linux machine.
They have the right to ask for anything they want. It doesn't mean they'll get it.
Maybe he's one of those people that thinks people should be laid off individually for being dead weight, instead of cutting 4% across the board and hoping to get the dead weight. With such a sloppy cut, you're bound to lose quite a few really good people, too.
Oddly enough, I didn't have Braid (I tried a demo, but didn't really like it) but I did have Osmos and Revenge of the Titans. I made a pretty low offer because of that. But I didn't feel bad about it because that was what I felt it was worth. My friend who didn't have any of them made an offer quite a bit higher.
The problem I see with 'what it is worth' is that I can't tell that until after I play, and I have to pay before that.
Especially since the first bundle got a Steam key eventually, and that makes the bundle worth more to me. (And at least one other guy I saw, who said it was worth $20 extra to him.)
Are you claiming that you aren't an American citizen, or that you don't pay taxes? Because otherwise, those statements are correct. He isn't saying you support his view, he was stating where those things came from. And they did, whether you think the government did right or wrong here.
Yeah. If There were just a few more games like Fallout each year, I would have absolutely no free time whatsoever. I literally took a week off work just to play Fallout New Vegas. That was my vacation. It was awesome. Best vacation I've ever had.
On the other hand, if all the games were multiplayer, I'd have a ton of free time, seeing as I don't find them fun.
Exactly. Any time I see someone saying they can't find a programmer, my first thought is always "Then you're not paying enough."
It's not just a matter of getting a programmer to take the job. It's a matter of getting a good-enough programmer to take the job, and that probably means getting him away from the comfy job he's already got. It can be done with enough money. Vague promises are not going to cut it.
It's probably a combination of that and the fact that it's easier to find holes once you've already got one. People can now look at a hacked PS3 (with the lower firmware) and examine it for other holes. Then they can try those new holes on the latest firmware.
And yet you decided not to be an expert and spend time doing other things yourself.
You don't get to dictate how other people spend their time.
Yeah, I had a feeling it was something like that.
Having peace of mind about what will happen to your loved ones after you die is part of living -now-.
Right, because no matter how much good he does for a movement, if he ever fails to support it in even the smallest thing, we should burn him at the stake. /sarcasm