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This correlates with the following article... Article @ Ars Technica

Every "the most exciting technology ever that is not quite ready yet" so far has been vapourware. Especially such far-fetched and ambitious like this one.

I think all of Half-Life, Half-Life 2 and HL2:Episode 1 had equally ambiguous endings.

Yeah! Like gay marriage, for example... "

I didn't play BG1, but from what I read, I think Bioware killed off less liked and annoying characters in BG2.

NWN's encounters are more like preplaced spawns. Also, they can be one-off or recurring.

IIRC, in NWN's toolset you can control the degree of randomness of encounters, so encounter creatures' power is not always equal to your own.

Compare. And now to something completely different: Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now!

Update: Except games, I can't get pixel shader and all those 3D goodies supported in VMWare.

No. Modders learn, and they don't suddenly "forget" all their experience when a new editor comes out. Heck, Photoshop and 3DSMax are getting more and more complex with every version and noone "dies off", because artists learn and require more powerful tools to get the job done quicker. However for a newcomer it will be harder to learn those tools than, say, 5 years ago.

Couldn't describe any better. This is exactly my problem right now. NWN2 coming out doubled my caffeine intake for a couple of weeks.

I guess here is the deal. The guy was "wiping out goblin caves" for 23 years (or so he says). I'd kill myself long before that.

Long novels tend to contain a lot more than movies. But then if I start a book, I prefer to finish it without a break, if possible. I guess that is just my take on entertainment media.

Not necessarily in a weekend, but it usually requires having to allocate reasonable contiguous periods of time.

Probably because the author of the article talks about... fantasy RPGs? No reason. It bends to whoever dominates the market. A fact of life. Invalid argument. "I dont' have time to play games" != "I don't want to play games". Well, RPGs (at least that I play) are usually story-driven, and if you progress in a story in little chunks, it starts to lose its appeal. The same way, you wouldn't want to watch a movie in 15 minutes periods for a week.

They aren't. A lot of games are made for short attention span players. ...or for those who have less and less time to play games?

Article at RPGVault. I know that the fellow is just sick of playing RPGs and most people will say that he misses the entire point of playing RPGs and point out that he mixes MMORPGs with sacred Fallout, but he makes some good points which my experience confirms. With non-RPG games you can play casually, an hour or two, and carry on with your life. RPGs usually require you to invest massive amounts of free time in contiguous chunk in order to enjoy the game.

Broadcom uses network stack offloading for a long time now and offers cheaper solutions. Or which part of technology are you excited about?

Whatever happened to cost vs benefit analysis...

I thought it was hilarious.

Did you know that donkeys kill more people per around the world annually than plane crashes? I therefore assert that donkeys are the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

I don't know if that was mentioned, but not only "new post" markers are not updated properly; sometimes after posting, some threads go back to "unread" state.

You'd still need a copy of Windows with the appropriate license though.

Maybe, but the fact still is...

*disappointed* Oh, is that it? Couldn't find the indicated author's name on it, hence the question.