There are current attempts to improve the sarcophagus, it was never intended to be a permenant fix anyways. There are also ongoing efforts to repair it.
HL2 takes place in a much larger area. HL1 takes place in black mesa. I don't think you ever had a traveling part where it faded to black and you cam back "a few hours later" You walked and rode across the entirety of black Mesa yourself.
In half life 2 you did have a few of those moments.
Thats funny, I never really thought of it that way.
Darwina had levels, because it made sense within the games framework and actual story.
As for portals, I'm not sure the HL2 engine can stream a level or load one in the back ground.
I think its more a limitation of the technology/power than actual design. As stuff has gotten more powerful, the games have used more power to make them look pretty as opposed to making them look smoother and load seamlessly.
In some cases, you just can't realistically link 2 separate places.
CS? I was referring to them as people who should have some understanding of how to keep their fucking computer running. I was more talking about the IT majors who want to fix the damn things for a living.
Even better, I go to school with plenty of gen Y kids in CS, IS, and IT who need me to fix their computer. They never seem to pick up even the most basic things when I show them how to fix the problems they created. Some of these people are in the 2nd and 3rd year of their degree program.
Hell at my internship last summer we had several computers in one of the labs got fried, both the power supply and the motherboard. As I'm sitting there moving the old cpu and ram to the new mobo, the 2 new hires are looking over my shoulder asking me questions because they had never seen someone replace the motherboard or a cpu on a computer. They asked me to identify things like the IDE and SATA ports, one of them had no idea what AGP or PCI express was. Both of them were IT majors with 4 year degrees, who went out and searched for Tech support jobs. They were only 5 years older than I am.
The people who paid to learn this shit and are paid to know this shit don't know it.
Who gets to decide what is a pet and what is a child?
Who gets to decide what is human and what is not?
Who gets to decide if its okay to use hybrids for testing purposes since they resemble humans so closely?
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I don't think humanity is currently ready to answer those questions. Maybe i'm just so cynical that I expect people to fear anything that is near human but not quite.
A child borne of a rape/one night stand is still a human.
Its odd but for about 2 days after 9/11 I actually felt like maybe we might see some security. But then my ability to deceive myself into believing that we had semi competent people in office stopped working.
Then we have cheney to deal with, and really looking down the line of people, I'm not sure I like any of the assholes behind them. I think I'll wait till those two get tossed out on their asses during election time. With any luck we won't get a complete ass during the 08 elections.
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Its rather amazing what a government can do to you without actually putting you in prison.
God damnit, you just missed an opportunity for comedy gold.
Man I just couldn't pick between.
1:But the Teutonic order wasn't formed till the end of the 12th century!
2: Man i really am glad science moved away from that medieval idea of plate tectonics.
Why the hell has no one made even the most rudimentary moon base yet? Damnit I want to see people living on another celestial body before I die.
There are current attempts to improve the sarcophagus, it was never intended to be a permenant fix anyways. There are also ongoing efforts to repair it.
You had a good point up until the Chernobyl part.
Since the actual incident wildlife has become very active in the area because of the lack of humans.
However once again, they didn't say safe, they said safer.
Hmmm I forgot about that... time to go replay hl.
Not quite, in hl1 you literally walked across black mesa, you experience ever bloody foot.
In HL2 you did have a few, fade to black then a few hours later, moments.
HL2 takes place in a much larger area. HL1 takes place in black mesa. I don't think you ever had a traveling part where it faded to black and you cam back "a few hours later" You walked and rode across the entirety of black Mesa yourself.
In half life 2 you did have a few of those moments.
Thats funny, I never really thought of it that way.
Darwina had levels, because it made sense within the games framework and actual story.
As for portals, I'm not sure the HL2 engine can stream a level or load one in the back ground.
I think its more a limitation of the technology/power than actual design. As stuff has gotten more powerful, the games have used more power to make them look pretty as opposed to making them look smoother and load seamlessly.
In some cases, you just can't realistically link 2 separate places.
Yes, and I can see why the hospital has older folks who can handle the project.
You have my bow!
CS? I was referring to them as people who should have some understanding of how to keep their fucking computer running. I was more talking about the IT majors who want to fix the damn things for a living.
Even better, I go to school with plenty of gen Y kids in CS, IS, and IT who need me to fix their computer. They never seem to pick up even the most basic things when I show them how to fix the problems they created. Some of these people are in the 2nd and 3rd year of their degree program.
Hell at my internship last summer we had several computers in one of the labs got fried, both the power supply and the motherboard. As I'm sitting there moving the old cpu and ram to the new mobo, the 2 new hires are looking over my shoulder asking me questions because they had never seen someone replace the motherboard or a cpu on a computer. They asked me to identify things like the IDE and SATA ports, one of them had no idea what AGP or PCI express was. Both of them were IT majors with 4 year degrees, who went out and searched for Tech support jobs. They were only 5 years older than I am.
The people who paid to learn this shit and are paid to know this shit don't know it.
Who gets to decide what is a pet and what is a child?
Who gets to decide what is human and what is not?
Who gets to decide if its okay to use hybrids for testing purposes since they resemble humans so closely?
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I don't think humanity is currently ready to answer those questions. Maybe i'm just so cynical that I expect people to fear anything that is near human but not quite.
A child borne of a rape/one night stand is still a human.
What if you buy tickets for a friend... or you give them to a friend because something comes up and you can't go?
Wouldn't that be a -fwoosh-?
Wouldn't that be a more distinctive, flushing sound?
Offtopic, mod me so quickly.
So what your signature is telling me is that I'm going to have a job when I graduate? Fuck yes.
Its odd but for about 2 days after 9/11 I actually felt like maybe we might see some security. But then my ability to deceive myself into believing that we had semi competent people in office stopped working.
Then we have cheney to deal with, and really looking down the line of people, I'm not sure I like any of the assholes behind them. I think I'll wait till those two get tossed out on their asses during election time. With any luck we won't get a complete ass during the 08 elections.
Though thats looking rather unlikely too.
Shoot back?
ah but Rome didn't have slashdot!
I mean that does give us an advantage right?...
right...
Eve is one large cluster of servers, certain places like Jita(Major trade center) tend to have more of the cluster dedicated to them than other parts.
I had a sig like yours, but no one seemed to get the reference.