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I remain hopeful, after all I was a BIG fan of the texxt adventures (not the VERB NOUN ones, although I could play them for a while, but the full English language parsers from Infocom, like the Zorks and Witness and Planetfall. I would play them now, graphics are not my first priority.

I might be able to sustain a co-op mode of play, but I'm not interested in either beating or being beaten by a bunch of online FPS/MMORPG zealots. <_<

I don't see how bombarding the brain -- which, although it is mildly charged, the electro-chemical reactions are by-products of the actual neuronal activity that makes up the endocrinal soup of thought-generation -- with charged particles will do anything except create huge problems. After all, shock therapy was abandoned in the sixties (apart from incurable special cases). (Then again, drug therapy isn't much better. ) I guess the technique would be to excite the hypothalamus in just the right way (or is it just for occipital lobes visual cortex vision replacement?) to generate sensations. I doubt it'd work, because everyone's brains are different, even if the general areas are generally the same. I'd be interested to read the article, though.

Well (while we're making sweeping generalisations that are unlikely to be defended by anyone reading) it sounds like Lineage is very similar to South Korean post "police-action" culture in general, then. "

I could tell you but it would break Non Disclosure ...

Jaguar, check.

I have never liked one sports sim yet (aside from 10 yard fight in the arcade, oh, and Super Punch-Out, with Mr Macho Man and Bear-Hugger, oh, and that car one, but again, all of these were in the arcae with specifically designed equipment to play them on -- apart from Tten-Yard Fight). Okay, amongst the Sports Sims there are Three I do like ... Surprise and Fear ... Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! True. Before id popped up, there were other games making the sales. The Next Big Thing will appear from left field, and then be cloned and improved on by the big corporates (which is what they do best, and that, in turn, is best for the industry).

Yes (including Mr Homes, unless he sews a bit of cadaver on to lengthen and thicken as appropriate ...)

I know who I am, but in the ultimate show of contrariness, I shall not write in second person. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That was my (obviously unsuccessful) attempt at irony.

They don't know how big they grow, actually, because the big ones they've found washed up on beaches in New Zealand. Snuggle up, and I'll tell you a fish story. The biggest one (as you recorded) also had suckers with a diameter of

Yes,that is one element of my psychological make-up that wsa inherited by that particular character ... pyromania ... I love buring things ... burnt my little shed down when I was smaller ... stupid candles in the stupid plastic holders ...

I resemble that comment!

Asimov used the QT prefix a lot in his Robots collected short stories.

What I like about lexicography is that every word has been created for a different and peculiar object in a scenario ... whether it is the slight difference in contextual definition between the colours orange, tangerine, apricot or titian, or the completely original concept of a merkin -- obviously there was a need for these objects, and they were given a name. ...

I could have predicted John liked Wild Turkey before seeing his tatoo ...

Nah, sterilizing the masses should suffice. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... After all, the society needs to be an underclass to do all the menial tasks in the society. Even Brave New World had As, Bs, Cs, Ds, Es, and Fs, too, I think. Just allow selective procreation. And, as per Aldous Huxley, introduce some sort of retardation in brain growth inter-(artificial)-uterine, like carbon monoxide, or lead poisoning. Of course, genetic engineered workers who are happy and fulfilled being slaves (didn't Freud write something about that?) would be the ultimate goal, so that they could keep the civilzation moving without any desire to move higher in the heirarchy.

merkin

Why, the ones that hide themselves for best effect, of course. elementary, my dear crazy ... er ... joe. So any Chaotic Evil people out there * points determinedly away from self * are hardly going to metaphorically stick their hand up to be gawped at by all the goody-two-shoes who have posted so far, or indeed laughed at by all the other CE people who have kept a low profile ...

Are you referring to a merkin, or ...

And, look at the inspiration for the industry: Hollywood. The current trend -- because budgets are now in the hundreds of millions -- is to try to reduce the probability of failure at the box office, to regain the invested capital and keep the system paying for itself and onto the next cycle. And this leads to Police Academy 5 and Termination 3 (not a bad fim, per se, but when you compare it to the Terminator, there is no comparison). Innovation, by its very nature, is risky. Therefore the more expensive the development cycle, the less risk will be implemented. This is also to do with big companies swallowing little companies, trying to exercise economies of scale -- which, I feel, the jury is still out on for creative endeavours. Beethoven worked alone. Doom was a freeware labour of love from id Software. Waterworld cost US$200M.

Actually it's a JV with Sega and Neo Geo, and its called the Neo Sega Geo ][

Um, I'm not sure if that was sarcasm or not, but here: (<{POST_SNAPBACK}>)

... Yeah, I hadn't thought of that as "spoken", but it is, isn't it? So even that is technically wrong, too. Good point Flatus!

... Or, his head (and the camera) is out of phase with his body and this universe. He's just annouced the first aphasic interdimensional rip to ever be caught on camera, and everyone else is foolishly been distrcted into talking about fashion!