Gorth

"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

Nice to see Nepenthe getting a comrade in (dis)arms This fight is like reading epic poems. The Edda got nothing on this

Like so many sentences, there is room for improving on it (said the guy, who is about as romantic as a block of concrete)

Good man

Isn't it when you go off Oriental Bay and take the coastal road, not the tunnel, into Kilbirnie? (I remember the name of that bay.) I think so. Definitely no tunnels involved, it wasn't cave-penguins It was 7-8 years ago and memory gets a bit fuzzy, but looking at a map, must have been somewhere between Oriental Bay and Evans Bay.

Tomb Raider: Anniversary was so bad, I found it outright offensive. Probably not unlike the sentiments displayed by old Fallout fans when it went from crpg to 3rd person shooter. CD took a game about exploration and discovery and tried to "re-image" it as a B-grade shooter and action game. I'll never forgive them for that Tombraider Legends and Underworld were mediocre, but almost playable (too much effin "boss fights" and QTE's and other crap to make them "good" games). As for the first ones, my fanboyism may have been greater than yours, I gave up halfway through Tomb Raider IV. Still got the box and the disc lying around somewhere, but never bothered. TR II suffered from some horrible, timed quests, but was otherwise splendid. TR III really went downhill fast, but the scenery and locations were good. Don't remember much from TR IV other than this dull pain and a voice that said "stop... stop it now!"

I probably could... but as alanschu suggested, it's mostly "just" an instant messenger, allowing for the odd chat once in a blue moon. Sort of replacing the now defunct MSN Messenger... and I'm not very good at replying to messages in a timely manner (sometimes half a day late)

If I remember correctly, on the coastal road from the CBD to the airport. Sorry, I don't remember the exact location. I took a picture of it once, but I don't remember if I posted it here or on Winterwind (was many years ago, as I was still living in NZ at the time). There was, or used to be a penguin colony somewhere close by.

Mate, it's grocery shopping. It's not like the guest are supposed to tag along for the heavy lifting while the missus goes shopping for new shoes in the meantime, we are talking about picking a bottle of wine

Depends on the family, doesn't it? Sounds like horrible stiff and inflexible attitudes if it's considered a 'chore' to do something together. Why even bother? Screw ups happens. If you can't take it with a smile and enjoy solving a small task as a joint exercise, then you are probably better off not to have such arrangements in the first place. If he really didn't feel like getting his butt off his seat, why not just say so (in a polite way)? Sounds like somebody is just accumulating grievances and aggravations the way some nutcases gather ammo for the apocalypse. Families are different, I know and I rarely get to see mine (like once every second year on average), but when we do, we do just about everything together as the most natural thing in the world. Nobody expects to get special treatment or having a few blood-related servants jumping every time somebody raises an eyebrow. It's the entire 19th century mentality that rubs me the wrong way I suppose.