Recent content by Venjenz_foh

Reading these two threads (and curse my human nature for wanting to view these train wrecks), I have to admit being wrong about one thing for a long time now - I always thought the people on Springer and the idiots on the American Idol try outs were fakes, just using train wreck tactics to...

I haven"t played serious since 2004, so those are new things I didn"t know, but it sounds like FC kept fucking up the game for PVP. Nice.

The only game with any sort of decently fun zone control was the Notum Wars expansion of AO, but their technical problems made tower wars play like Myst, the MMO. But the idea was a good one. The tower field belonged to you until someone took it. To take it, folks of an appropriate level...

AO captured this with the Opifex breed, and the social clothing drops. Lot of actual girl players in AO, and every last one I talked to had like 8 backpacks filled with different outfits for the social gatherings that were held all the time in various spots. I agree that you have to put...

Eomer, don"t apologize, don"t rationalize. Just say " this isn"t working, have a great life." Easy, simple, and takes a few seconds.

(emphasis mine) That makes three people saying the same thing - truth. I would still like to add that by "bang", we all mean "merciless post-wedding reception, drunken, hate-how-rotten-and-sinful-you-are-in-the-morning, make-Quineloe-proud" type of banging. If she relents and then lays...

If you don"t come out of tomorrow having shagged her rotten, the "relationship" is officially dead, kaput, buried. Weddings really do make women hot, either with passion or jealousy, but either should be an easy play for you to throw down and wreck that shit. Add in free alcohol at the...

Her actions and behavior already have, dude. Dabamf has the camping trip thing nailed. Every answer out this chick"s mouth is some version of "we"ll see" which is dating-speak for "if nothing better comes up, and I am bored that day, sure." The conversation anecdotes speak for themselves...

Translation - you"ll suffice for male companionship until someone better comes along, but pipe down, I need to gripe about my day. Translation - I know she basically told me to shut my yap, but I have to rationalize to the fellas why I am in puppy love. Translation - I am telling myself...

This part right here means you are doomed. Not sorta, not kinda, but USDA Choice, 100% doomed. She doesn"t dig you. Nobody acts like that to people they genuinely like/love/lust after. Never. No there isn"t. Not in my mind. The only question is how much longer you"re willing to be her...

All lengthy posts by Zehn deliver. Every single time.

This really is the bottom line for all the "the game should do this" discussions. There"s no getting around it. There is no sentient, HAL-9000, neural net self-aware computer consciousness that will be hammering out this code as players conjure new ways to employ paint buckets, pick leaves...

All the programming is the same, minus artwork, which to me seems like 80% of the people involved in making a game, since the last decade has pushed the "form before function" model to the limit.

In one of those "secrets of the game programmers" type books, the head guy at Bethesda said that anyone actually looking to make a living should stay the heck away from game programming. If I was in my early 20s and had someone paying the bills, sure, why not. Then again, when I was that age...

+1 on the "programmers who wont work for a game company" theme. I have been doing DB development and admin for over a decade, and there"s almost no way I"d work at a game company. Corporate IT work pays better, has better hours, the companies are more stable, and the work is way less...