Gorth

I see, 29... that's bad. Life is almost over and you've got one foot in the grave already For anecdotal comparison, I started my current career path when I was around 31 (not pursuing a clear "path" before that). Still managed to squeeze a bit of mileage out of life.

Not so much a "discovery" as baby steps to put a discovery into action... Iter (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) A few pictures and notes from the construction site of a Fusion Power plant in Cadarache, Provence.

Have a little faith in the search function

Most of my "memorable" game music was from before half the board members were born (probably exaggerated). A lot of the stuff for the C64 in the early 80's were just bloody awesome, catchy tunes. The Commodore Amiga had some "classics" too, especially the Cinemaware games. Black Isle published games sort of make up the PC games I know and remember the music from. Notable exception is Kotor2 which had some of the best music I remember in any video game the last 30 years.

Why would anyone complain about that? It was a very nice butt

Hmm, I hadn't checked the Samsung (and my usual "pusher" doesn't have all the models to compare oranges with oranges). I checked the Corsair, Sandisk and a couple of brands that have now completely disappeared from the store. Smaller drives clocked in at 85k iops, larger ones at around 50k. May have been replaced by new NAND dies now.

There are also code tags on the boards void main(int argc char **argv) { printf('Hello world\n'); while !finished { // Do more stuff } }

You have to search long and hard to find anything slower than the WD 'Green' series One thing worth noting is the iops difference between drives larger than 240gb and 240gb or less. It seems like some kind of "magical" barrier for iops speed where the larger SSD's without exception so far (I haven't checked all brands, but at least the popular ones) have half the speed of the smaller drives.

You're welcome Osvir. It brings back a few memories from 30 years ago when I had to teach myself programming

"Go To Statement Considered Harmful" - Edsger Dijkstra (1968) No callback. It's blasphemy. What you can do is "nest" more loops within each other. A main menu function loop that you return to after executing the menu selection function I.e. put the entire switch/case thing in a separate function and call it from the main menu/title loop (so your start menu text gets inside the outer do while loop)

I might just try it and see if it beats Gimp. Thanks for the heads up

I had to reshuffle some drives recently, not moving to SSD, just consolidating partitions, but what I did was simply doing a file copy to a new HDD and then change the drive letter of the new HDD to be the drive letter of the old HDD (after having renamed that one to something else of course). Worked like a charm for my Steam games (all 40+ of them), no reinstalling, no nothing

Why is it insulting? It's an abstraction of your intent. For "old school" crpgs without the budget to voice act each and every line, it makes sense to spell out everything in painstaking detail. However, if your character is just going read out loud the text in front of you, it really is redundant. The only real problem I see is if the hint you get is grossly misleading (and there were a few of those throughout some of the games). Otherwise I don't find it anymore "insulting" than using hitpoints as an abstraction of my health. Seriously, what exactly is a HP? Where is my detailed pathological and medical status sheet??? Kidneys: Still in place (check) Liver: At 50% capacity (requires attention, cut down on ale), Bloodlevels: At 65% and rapidly decreasing at 1 l/s (urgent attention required), Left arm: Missing, Left leg missing ('tis but a flesh wound) etc. Easier to tell me I got 5 hp left out of 50 and rapidly dying. I see the dialogue wheel in a similar way. It gives me a brief overview of my choices. I would like my choices to actually matter and is does irritate me when the game pulls a "Gotcha!" on me with the dialogue, but I don't see anything "insulting" other than it hurts the feelings of those who would prefer more text and less voice acting in games.

First that Crhis Avellsomething person hasn't played Arcanum. Now you haven't played Planescape Torment. I am waiting for the person on this forum who will say "I am playing Hide & Seek for the first time. I am excited to try the playground classic for the first time" Bethesda are the only ones into sandbox games these days. I can't imagine hide and seek in one of those hand holding, completely linear games with quest compass and everything. The critics and fans alike are going to slam it.

I think the recycling was out of necessity (circumstances beyond the designers control). The bad encounter design however was... a bad idea that got implemented.

I am Gorth... *The* Gorth! I laugh at your paltry self depreciation.

I actually found most of the story of DA2 "Ok" (and I liked a number of the characters, with a few exceptions). My only real problem with the story part was that the game should have ended after you taking sides and defeating one of the two antagonists and then left it at that. My main beef with the game had more to do with tossing out the old game mechanics rather than building on them. Lack of variety in encounters and the dreadful paratrooper waves didn't help

Interesting article... "In essence, it appears that millions of voters on both sides exist in their own echo chambers where the information loop is closed and outside influences — new ideas, a different way of looking at the world — are not only suspect but actively discouraged." Sort of sums it up nicely (and applies to most people, not just in the US).

You could substitute the case statement with an array of text strings... (assign values to text strings) while stuff != done { ... printf(response[nChoice]); ... } You could read the text strings from a localised text file, depending on Windows language settings) and make your menu program truly international

Help people with inferiority complexes to feel empowered and be "the chosen one"?

Just to play the devils advocate, I think I miss the 80'es when computers were a rarity and you didn't get pestered 24/7 by mobile devices, people actually talked to each other and Tron was was some LSD dream about what the future would look like. Honestly, the only thing I think the world would miss would be some of the advances done in medico science thanks to the increase in computing powers and simulations.

Not to worry, I've heard they are working on DA3 to streamline it and make it less confusing

Europa Universalis 4 Also, two of the Kickstarter games I backed are on the list (Wasteland 2 and Conquistadors).

Sorry to ask but what do you mean by light therapy and how is that related to your sleeping times? Could be an anti-depressant exercise? How is South Africa and Johannesburg these days? I've got colleagues past and present from Pretoria and Cape Town, but none from Johannesburg. Not that SA is an obvious tourist destination if my colleagues are anything to go by. I think they left so fast you can still see the motion blur in the air, too much violent crime at the time for their liking (which may or may not have changed the last decade)

See you in March again GD. Safe travels