Gorth

I'd rather that you did not ... your post could be interpreted as intentionally trying to 'stir the pot' so to speak ... and I am sure that's not what you meant to do Me ? Oh noooo.... I would never do that. I swear as true as my name is Gorth Just to stay on topic, I went and signed the petition again ;)"

Nah, it was in another time and another place, the age before handhelds and PDA's. Today I prefer Carmageddon or when travelling, to read a book

My little brother and I came up a PnP racing game once we were bored, sitting on the back seat on a long trip. It was basically a drawn, slightly random race track on an A4 paper (with squares) Players would start with a "dot" (their racing car) at the start line and a "vector" of 1 in the track direction (it represented direction and speed of the "car"). For every player "turn" we could then modify that vector with +/- one in each direction when continued from the dot where it currently was e.g. turn 1 would be 1,0 (speed 1) next turn 3,0 (speed 2), next turn 6,1 (speed 3 in one direction, -1 in the other direction) when heading towards the first curve. Trick is to guess, what will the optimum speed to race through a curve be. Mind you, if you are going to hit the barrier with speed 10 or so, you'll crash and burn. so you have to slow down and manage a decent speed through curves before you can speed up and move a lot of squares again on the straight parts. Fun way to pass the time instead of constantly bugging our parents with "Are we there yet?" Only downside was, they didn't really appriciate the sound fx we provided the game with

I mean, poor Gorth. I'm truly comforted by your sincere display of compassion

I'm still moaning and whining that the frame buffer effect setting is off by default in Kotor... I wasted 25 hours of my life playing through it the first time with the effects off, never knowing that they were there, hidden under advanced settings

INTP Not really sure if it tells me anything I didn't suspect... Famous INTP's Socrates Rene Descartes Blaise Pascal Sir Isaac Newton William Harvey (pioneer in human physiology) C. G. Jung, (Freudian defector, author of Psychological Types, etc.) William James Albert Einstein Tom Foley (Speaker of the House--U.S. House of Representatives) Henri Mancini Bob Newhart Jeff Bingaman, U.S. Senator (D.--NM) Rick Moranis (Honey, I Shrunk The Kids) Midori Ito (ice skater, Olympic silver medalist) Tiger Woods Funny, I hate golf...

Been there, done that (signed the petition). Can we derail the thread now ?

Early to late 80'es (1983-1989) or Commodore 64/Amiga 500/Amiga 4000. Which gives 8/16/32 bit Although things started to change with the Amiga, before that, gameplay was usually the selling point of a game. Sound and gfx was there to support the gameplay, not the other way around.

Yes, one of the very oldest WOT threads (started by Mr. Teatime iirc) and gender confusion was still perfectly possible

Then you should throw molotov ****tails at people who play playstation games... I fail to see the relevance for the subject of theft (which is admittedly also off-topic for this thread). No, we are talking about theft. In my book, if you steal something, that other people has put man-hours into making, whether it be a loaf of bread, a building, a composition, a digital image or even something as abstract as a scientific theory, you are stealing. Not really a complicated concept. Depends on whether that person is sitting outside the show for the purpose of not paying the person who put time and effort into making the music. While the mere thought of prosecuting a casual listener outside a concert (who might be there for a completely legit and unrelated reason, like taking a walk in a park), it doesn't change the fact that ethically, it's theft, because you persue some kind of entertainment created by others and you take steps to ensure, that the person doesn't get compensated for time, material and work going into that performance. Btw. I don't claim moral high ground, I was no better when I was a young man, I just don't agree to the claims that it isn't theft.

Talk about bull **** Stealing and using other peoples work, no matter the medium is still theft. By your same logic, it's perfectly fine to do shoplifting ? The circumstances are the same, the store has a lot of stuff on their shelves, why not help yourself to a few handfuls of it... I mean, as long as you don't get caught it's perfectly morally justifiable, right ?

Muahaha! That'll teach those bloody spammers not to drop all that unsolicited stuff off at your doorstep :D

On a completely unrelated and off-topic note, I clicked on Darque's user profile to see if there was an interesting sig line (I click on peoples profiles every now and then to do that, as I have the signature feature switched off)... And saw this: User most active in forum: Obsidian Moderation ( 1646 posts / 40% of this member's active posts ) Damn is that an active moderator!

PC version of Kotor1 had "game stopping" bugs after 3 patches. Things should improve.

What happened to Resident Evil 1&2 ??? Edit: Damn Ramza, you are fast...

I'm pretty sure there is a proper medical term for that...

No. It's a nice game and I completed it several times, but compared to other games and games that once were, it might sneak into the lower part of the top 50 list. But don't feel bad about that, I've been playing computer games for 20 years. The game was very "medium" everything, medium story, medium gfx, medium music, medium charater interaction etc. It offered nothing new, but filled a gap at a time where no games of interest had been or were to be released for a long time. And as I said, even if not brilliant a quite OK game and good fun.

... ... Now thats comedy :-"

The one I did at work. I went to the Mensa site and did it there (they have nicer colours on their test). Unfortunately, I didn't think of making a screenshot of spread 15 (which is lower than the value at spread 24). Should give approximately 138 at 15, which I think it missing one of the questions... (133 if you bungle two) Edit: Lets be honest, spread 24 is better for ego-stroking

For those who doesn't hang around on fan sites all day to gather all the tidbits about old unreleased BIS games, life at various developers, Monthy Python, Life as a designer in the VG industry. And a lot more. The guy really talks a lot... Second part of interview (first part was posted early January) http://www.winterwind-productions.com/modu...showpage&pid=47

Vestjyde (gammel Esbjergenser), nu bosiddende paa den anden side af Jorden. If you understand logic, you are going to use logic as one of the standards by which you evaluate other peoples performance. An empath might use peoples judgment of character skills as an evaluation tool. Few people would dispute that Mozart was a genius, yet in many ways not related to composition and interpretation he would be found lacking. Meh, people have been thinking about (and disagreeing about) this for centuries and probably will for a few centuries still

True. Some forms are pretty abstract. Try to "measure" social or musical intelligence in units The online (which I like to think of as the "pattern recognition" one) is just an easy way to quantify things. How fast do you recognise the system behind what you see. Others are less easy (or impossible) to measure and people don't really agree anyway which aspects truly belong to intelligence. Not that people really agree on what intelligence either. Oh, and nice to see fellow Danes around here.

If you really wanted to be serious about these tests, you should get the pen and paper versions, in a quiet room with nothing to distract you (for optimal performance). If taken online, for some of us during our lunch break at work with a sandwich in one hand and keyboard on the other hand, it's not "optimal" conditions when you try to focus on puzzles. But then, that particular test is no way representative for your IQ anyway as it focuses on a select subset of things you would measure in a "real" test. It measures one aspect of your intelligence, by no means your intelligence. It's no more a serious IQ test than a game of say tetris or scrabble

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Roland Emerich, Uwe Boll, Wolfgang Petersen, they must be doing something wrong in Germany