The teams I've been on have always handled stress by Quake/Unreal Tournament/etc. deathmatching. What's the appeal of brawling? Same thrill of victory, longer-lasting agony of defeat.
Once you define the word "addiction" broadly enough that you can become "addicted" to gambling... a process with no chemical interactions we weren't all born with... you can become "addicted" to anything that you happen to find pleasurable. Playing EverQuest. Bird-watching. Playing Puzzle Pirates. Exercising. Playing Civilization IV. Watching soap operas.
Does this mean that the creators of soap operas need to "understand that a problem exists", as this article exhorts game creators to do?
Unless Google steered me to the wrong site, i-Métro doesn't know about Portland buses... just our light-rail and the streetcar (which is just a particularly cute form of light-rail, as far as I'm concerned).
I happen to live in Portland, Oregon, so I asked it to do a public-transit route where I knew the correct answer was: take the 20 bus to Sunset Transit Center and ride light-rail to the Quatama station.
It told me to walk three times as far as necessary to get on the 20 bus, but whatever. It then rode the 20 bus to the Sunset Transit Center, and rode the 62 bus to the Milliken light-rail stop, and then got on light-rail to Quatama. Um, what? You were AT a light-rail station, but you took a bus away from it to get to ANOTHER light-rail station?
Let's hope this is an EARLY beta of Google Transit. That's the kind of mistake that you just shouldn't be making in a beta product.
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The teams I've been on have always handled stress by Quake/Unreal Tournament/etc. deathmatching. What's the appeal of brawling? Same thrill of victory, longer-lasting agony of defeat.
Once you define the word "addiction" broadly enough that you can become "addicted" to gambling... a process with no chemical interactions we weren't all born with... you can become "addicted" to anything that you happen to find pleasurable. Playing EverQuest. Bird-watching. Playing Puzzle Pirates. Exercising. Playing Civilization IV. Watching soap operas. Does this mean that the creators of soap operas need to "understand that a problem exists", as this article exhorts game creators to do?
Unless Google steered me to the wrong site, i-Métro doesn't know about Portland buses... just our light-rail and the streetcar (which is just a particularly cute form of light-rail, as far as I'm concerned).
I happen to live in Portland, Oregon, so I asked it to do a public-transit route where I knew the correct answer was: take the 20 bus to Sunset Transit Center and ride light-rail to the Quatama station.
It told me to walk three times as far as necessary to get on the 20 bus, but whatever. It then rode the 20 bus to the Sunset Transit Center, and rode the 62 bus to the Milliken light-rail stop, and then got on light-rail to Quatama. Um, what? You were AT a light-rail station, but you took a bus away from it to get to ANOTHER light-rail station?
Let's hope this is an EARLY beta of Google Transit. That's the kind of mistake that you just shouldn't be making in a beta product.