Everything posted by Serious Callers Only
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Another Code.
Cool, its nice to see the influence of the stylus in inovative user interface design. I'm hoping that some killer apps can spread some more basic inovations. Like a mouse for consoles
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C# : The Future?
I prefer to use java. I know that c# is suppostly an "open" standard, yet, i really don't trust microsoft. So no C#. And really they are almost equivalent. For the detractors of java/C# : the main speed bump in realation with c and friends, is the startup of the virtual machine (which is a memory hog). So obviously this languages are not really appropriate now for software that starts/ends relatively frequently (ex: a desktop OS), but really nice for software that runs for a long time (ex: a server), since there are no memory leaks (as the definition of memory leak). If some games were coded in such a languages many problems would dissapear. Vampire stuttering ? Gone. AoW2 crash ? Gone. etc. As memory speed increases, improments to the VM, and other things, the difference bettwen c and a VM will be insignificant in all but the most real-time critical application (that i don't consider games to be). It's nicer for programming.
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The Ur-Quan Masters v0.4.0 release
They didn't. In my game they just DESTROYED eachother. Less two obnoxious races. If only i could exterminate the drugges too. Genocide for fun and profit in SC2
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Which nerds are the most tragic?
Obviously it the LOTR nerds. The harry potter nerds are mere children who are reading their first fantasy book. The LOTR nerds are nerd SNOBS, that have read other things and consider that mildly lame book a classic. SW nerds are just insane.
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Any Fallout news?
Its true. The great part of fallout were the quests and how they interconnected with the gameworld history. Things happened .
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Console exclusives
There aren't any good ones. The ones that exist target the MS x-box devolpment API. This look like a mistake, since there are many versions of it and since the only one that can run a games runs only 1 or 2. Most emulation authors are not attracted to a so recent platform platform (and there is specialiazed not-reverse enginnered hardware i think).
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Question About Baldurs Gate
That happened to be once. Also the saverok gal didn't appear, good. I didn't really want to kill her...then. Don't know a solution, but i think you can move the story. It just won't make sense.
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Just got Gothic II
Yeah. That was great.
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Infinity Engine Games
There are various projects kick around tring to reverse -enginner the infinity engine, trying to make a multi-platform clone and eventually an platform for new games. Just search source-forge with Infinity. As for the old 2d versus 3d debate thats a pretty moot point since a versatile 3d engine can still to "2d" scenes. The main question is of making content. 2d scenarios require less specialized knowledge than 3d, but 3d allows less work-intensive animation (in average). Just has there are more "rediscovered" tech like dynamic content generation using algorithms that are still more specialized, and so don't normally get used despite obvious advantages (and disadvantages).
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These cooky foreigners and their regionalisation
Thats funny.
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Just got Gothic II
Its a very good game. Of the type of the ultima games. Plus, when i bought it it was going for 10
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Why is my name always first...
in the list of online users ? Seriously, is this an accidental (albeit happy) accident of me choosing a long username, or is this the same way for all the users, thereby validating my theory that web designers are too sneaky for their own good?
- Firefox 1.0
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The MSN Search
If you use the advanced options in google, the superiority is quite evident.
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A Strategy Gamer in Need
Some that weren't mentioned but are fun, Ultima Underworld I & II, BAK also is fun. For something different try Thief series. I will defend that thief is more than a Rpg that Diablo.
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Baldur's Gate vs. Fallout
Fallout.
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The road to 64bit computing has started..
The only thing that looks important in 64 bits right now is the enhanced register set. Programs compiled specificaly for use with 64 bit processors are quite likely to be faster because of that. That is also why its kind of useless for a non-opensource programs, since most produts are going to be sold to the 32 bit crowd.
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Women's Gymnastics
Money.
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Most suprising movie ever?
Midsummer night dream ... what?