System Shock 2 is really scary. The random enemy spawns ensure that you are never at ease. There's never a moment when you can relax because you've "cleared" an area. There was a room that I never went to because the sounds coming from the other side scared me away. There were also occasions when I just ran into a corner, equipped my biggest weapon and waited (spiders are scary).
Yes, this is true. A sort of "fear" exists in many multiplayer games. When I used to play Teamfortress Classic, I started to sweat and my heartrate clearly rose when I was running home with the flag. Will I make it? Will a sniper put a bullet into my back just as I'm about to reach safety? Will someone catch up with me?
How about Counter-Strike? It can get pretty tense when you're all alone againts several other players.
From a statistical point of view, I'd say that's true. Afterall, you would be exposed to your own gun for many more hours than someone else's gun, so in all likelyhood if you were to be accidentally shot it would be from the gun you are most exposed to.
What? Are guns like radiation? They kill you if you're "exposed" for too long? I can only wonder why militaries and police forces around the world don't have thousands of deaths every year from excessive exposure to firearms.
I would imagine that most "firearm enthusiasts" know a thing or two about firearm safety, and don't need any biometric identification or encrypted bullets.
I don't blame the Internet either. I'm just not really into friends. In fact, I don't even have friends on the Internet except for one guy I talk to occasionally, as unbelieveable as that sounds. I also no longer go to forums (which are breeding grounds for psychotic idiots).
Looks like I've been subjected to Slashdot's version of a "debate" again, by getting modded flamebait/troll/whatever by some anonymous coward who doesn't have the balls to say anything to my face.
And again, I don't see any fucking concensus on global warming. It's not my goddamn fault that it's constantly debated. If you want to convince me that there's some big agreement about the matter, then make the debates stop. I don't have the fucking time and energy to monitor every contested issue in the world and make up my own mind.
I don't read scientific journals and my scientific knowledge is very limited. All I see is a continuous big fight about whether or not it's real, and I just can't bring myself to care anymore. Wake me up when it's over and we have a winner.
Seriously, if only half what the sceintific consensus predicts is left to happen, we're all going to be pretty damn sorry we didn't do more sooner. The not giving a shit attitude isn't going to cut it when all hell breaks loose.
I feel apathetic about the current situation.
Scientist 1: global warming is for real Scientist 2: is not Scientist 1: rly it is Scientist 2: rly it is not
And who am I supposed to believe? I don't know. Right now I don't care either way.
Yeah, but the touchie-feelie people go fucking berserk the moment they realize that they can't win a debate with profound statements like "Islam is a religion of peace."
I really am growing to hate racist arseholes such as yourself.
Yeah, I stopped reading right there. There's no point in arguing againts leftist multiculturalists, all they can really do is call you names and then make precisely the same old arguments as every single leftist multiculturalist in existence. They're like one giant botnet that just repeats the same garbage over and over again.
I tried out Shantytown. It was interesting to see traditional point/click adventure game made for an FPS game, but the camera was terrible and everything was a little underwhelming compared to real adventure games. Static camera angles would have been a much better solution in every way possible.
I do like the game's world though. It's interesting.
I used to have a crazy amount of people on my WoW ignore list. At one point a massive amount of people started talking Greek in general chat. I just ignored all of them. It got very quiet after that.
Grappling Hook: Bionic Commando, 1988. The article is referencing some sort of later version of the game, because the NES certainly didn't have graphics like that, and the main character was not called Radd Spencer. In fact, I don't remember what he was called, but it was not Radd Spencer.
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I think Spain is going to gradually ban the entire Internet.
What if they're the creepy sort of eyes that seem to follow you all the time?
I was thinking of that quote when I saw this story. I didn't know where it was from, though... I just saw it years ago somewhere.
System Shock 2 is really scary. The random enemy spawns ensure that you are never at ease. There's never a moment when you can relax because you've "cleared" an area. There was a room that I never went to because the sounds coming from the other side scared me away. There were also occasions when I just ran into a corner, equipped my biggest weapon and waited (spiders are scary).
Yes, this is true. A sort of "fear" exists in many multiplayer games. When I used to play Teamfortress Classic, I started to sweat and my heartrate clearly rose when I was running home with the flag. Will I make it? Will a sniper put a bullet into my back just as I'm about to reach safety? Will someone catch up with me?
How about Counter-Strike? It can get pretty tense when you're all alone againts several other players.
Super Mario Bros. - one ordinary man's nightmarish, drug-induced journey through the mushroom kingdom.
Millions of legal owners of firearms shoot at innocent people all the time? There's a civil war going in America and I didn't even hear about it. :(
What? Are guns like radiation? They kill you if you're "exposed" for too long? I can only wonder why militaries and police forces around the world don't have thousands of deaths every year from excessive exposure to firearms.
I would imagine that most "firearm enthusiasts" know a thing or two about firearm safety, and don't need any biometric identification or encrypted bullets.
I wouldn't want to go back to any period of my past.
I don't consider Slashdot to be a forum. I consider Slashdot to be a news site where you can post comments.
I don't blame the Internet either. I'm just not really into friends. In fact, I don't even have friends on the Internet except for one guy I talk to occasionally, as unbelieveable as that sounds. I also no longer go to forums (which are breeding grounds for psychotic idiots).
Looks like I've been subjected to Slashdot's version of a "debate" again, by getting modded flamebait/troll/whatever by some anonymous coward who doesn't have the balls to say anything to my face.
And again, I don't see any fucking concensus on global warming. It's not my goddamn fault that it's constantly debated. If you want to convince me that there's some big agreement about the matter, then make the debates stop. I don't have the fucking time and energy to monitor every contested issue in the world and make up my own mind.
I don't read scientific journals and my scientific knowledge is very limited. All I see is a continuous big fight about whether or not it's real, and I just can't bring myself to care anymore. Wake me up when it's over and we have a winner.
I feel apathetic about the current situation.
Scientist 1: global warming is for real
Scientist 2: is not
Scientist 1: rly it is
Scientist 2: rly it is not
And who am I supposed to believe? I don't know. Right now I don't care either way.
I think it's about time we subject political considerations to science.
Yeah, but the touchie-feelie people go fucking berserk the moment they realize that they can't win a debate with profound statements like "Islam is a religion of peace."
Yeah, I stopped reading right there. There's no point in arguing againts leftist multiculturalists, all they can really do is call you names and then make precisely the same old arguments as every single leftist multiculturalist in existence. They're like one giant botnet that just repeats the same garbage over and over again.
Unlikely. Muslim women are not known for dressing up like skanks and parading themselves in the streets.
I tried out Shantytown. It was interesting to see traditional point/click adventure game made for an FPS game, but the camera was terrible and everything was a little underwhelming compared to real adventure games. Static camera angles would have been a much better solution in every way possible.
I do like the game's world though. It's interesting.
I only played it on the Amiga. Speaking of Amiga, it had a lot of good looking 2D games, like Superfrog, Chaos Engine and Shadow of the Beast III.
I played Chrono Trigger for the first time in circa 2000, and I was still impressed with the graphics.
I used to have a crazy amount of people on my WoW ignore list. At one point a massive amount of people started talking Greek in general chat. I just ignored all of them. It got very quiet after that.
Ah, I see. I wasn't aware of an arcade version.
Grappling Hook: Bionic Commando, 1988. The article is referencing some sort of later version of the game, because the NES certainly didn't have graphics like that, and the main character was not called Radd Spencer. In fact, I don't remember what he was called, but it was not Radd Spencer.