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Wow. I'm a little disappointed they're moving away from an activity-based progression, but it's easy to appreciate why it's being done. Macroing is a fucking scourge... huge bummer when those considerations dictate design. I guess I'll just check back when the new patch drops. How do safe...

Is beta worth playing right now or is it still just terrible? I wouldn't mind paying 15 bucks to fuck around and won't get hung up on comparing mechanics. Thinking about Darkfall's potential always makes me a little misty.

Comp crash boned my response. In its place I offer a high-level overview of theSWG trade system and AHs written by Koster. There are a couple interesting things in the comments too.

Karajan, "Air" (Bach) Stokowski, "Danse Macabre" (Saint-Saens)

Richard... Bartle? I agree about reducing reliance on the GUI, although short cooldowns isn't really a necessity as long as there's a more visceral way of exposing the availability of an ability (for example, Link's boomerang).

Lots of good years. '72 also had some notable movies. Solaris The Godfather Aguirre Cries and Whispers Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Play It Again Sam Superfly A Fistful of Dynamite Deliverance Bad Company Cabaret Sleuth The Cowboys The Poseidon Adventure Pink Flamingos...

I agree with Kedwyn. WAR had a lot of flaws but I think it had a good core and introduced some cool ideas. I've had a hard-on for public questing ever since. The details is where it fell apart - in addition to the above, "net code" and interface were huge issues, and the PVE was pretty crap...

Figured I'd post Brad's post-mortem blog series on Vanguard since his blog is gone. I know a lot of people hate the guy, but it's still an interesting read. Vanguard: Post-Mortem 1 [Get everything in writing] Vanguard: Post-Mortem Part 2 [Managing the dream team] Vanguard: Post-Mortem...

The hardest parts for people I've introduced to the game are interacting with the game and putting up with the clunky graphics system. UO isn't really that complex gameplay-wise (pk can get somewhat technical) once you feel comfortable actually playing the game (using razor is a hurdle for...

This is going live in less than 3 hours. I'm gonna PK people like crazy for about 2 weeks then quit. Launches are so much fun. Edit: Damn, young status shattering my plan.

I hate F-Zero. Mode 7 graphics impressed me at the time, but other than that, yuck. I probably enjoyed the jet bike racing game in CT more.

This is retarded. Being an unprofessional jackass is likely to have professional consequences.

Not officially. However, I'm not aware of EA ever doing anything about emulated shards... even if the developer is selling in-game goods for real money.

I wish I could get people to play UO. Too bad the client/ui is stuck in the fucking stone age.

When I was 4-5 years old I used to have a really strange recurring dream. I was like 3 inches tall running away from giant Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. What did they plan to do to me when they caught me? Put me inside these white and brown salt and pepper shakers. They usually caught...

This. The whole "I" statement thing is in nearly every book on effective communication. It reduces feelings of antagonism and encourages people to work with you if they are at all inclined to help. Still though, unless it's necessary, you don't really want to be the douche that's sticking his...

Hmm, I thought they had a FF style aesthetic for most of its incarnations. I guess it could just be a custom script whose use is so widespread that I was fooled.

Mystic isn't hard to play. It's boring as fuck though and for whatever reason a lot of people really suck at it. Priest is a lot more fun to play. You just don't have many tools as a Mystic so the play is sort of one-dimensional.

I'm glad someone else appreciates this. The way Waltz disapprovingly told Django to take his hat off the table gave me a real kick too.

You can also buy art and sound. There's some free stuff out there too. The systems could be ripped from existing games without any forethought. You don'thaveto spend anything on marketing. You can make a really shitty game really easily actually. If it's just a private thing then you can just...

Yeah. He has a PhD in psychology. Dude was always dropping nuggets of insight.

To make successful user generated content, you have to get away from implementations where it's designed simply as a creative outlet. For example... Make player-created dungeons a place for your players to stash extra loot. A place where the piles of loot you stick in there will get slowly...

People like to compare themselves against small groups of people that they know with meaningful standards close by. You'd want more than a top twenty. You could have a bottom twenty, number of parries, bosses electrocuted to death, your rank in relation to your friends, etc.. The milestones...

Bartle seems to agree. He's always complaining about how the genre hasn't advanced much. WoW didn't dumb down anything. The raids today are far more sophisticated than anything EQ had. Players are more advanced and have more advanced tools these days. UI add-ons did make it much more...

I prefer to go into movies/shows/etc. knowing absolutely nothing about it, so my descriptions are purposely vague. Mushishi - A wandering healer. Metaphysical connection to earth. Great Teacher Onizuka - Highschool teacher with a dark past. It's not exactly mature but it does have its...

American "schnapps" is fucking disgusting. They fill it with so much glycerine that if you gotta ralph it's like throwing up a bellyful of Starbursts.

I liked the idea of the skill gain system with the scrolls. It was a little annoying how you could game the system, but macroing is fucking retarded and only had any sort of following because of the history of the game and emulation. I was disappointed that development stalled and some of the...

Cinema Paradiso While not really 'off the beaten path' (it won the oscar in 1989 for foreign film), I'm willing to bet many here have never seen Cinema Paradiso. It's about a filmmaker remembering his childhood and how he grew to love movies. The score is done by Ennio Morricone. Hard to...

I had higher expectations because I listened to Adam Corolla suck Judd Apatow's dick for an hour about this movie on his podcast, saying shit like "oscar potential." What a douche. I don't really value Adam Corolla's opinion on anything, but I expected way more than what I got. It wasn't...

I've used a visualization technique since I was a kid to wake myself at a specific time. It's always worked as long as I haven't been awake for a really long time or used drugs. Not sure if I'm weird this way or anybody can do it. I imagine myself drawing the time I want to wake up on...

Hmm. You guys are making me doubt my interpretation of the message. I need to see the last scene again, but I thought they definitively answered that the whole story was made up and the dude made a sort of confession to the journalist. I had taken a little something when I watched this, so I may...

I loved this movie. First half could have been a bit slower in some parts and the second half could have been a bit faster. Crowe could have been a bit better and Seyfried's vibrato drove me insane. I gained a fuckton of respect for Hugh Jackman watching this. Planning to see it a few more times...

It's not really a movie snob thing. I'm a movie snob. Cannes juries are movie snobs. It's a more general art snob thing. You can find this argument in every art school across the US. I always roll my eyes when directors like Tarantino or authors like Stephen King are denounced as producers of...

As far as I know, sketching invis enemies is the only way to get General Leo without hacks. Not to say that there's some sort of easter egg, but there may be other bugs you can exploit to similar effect.

Allow me to introduce you to the nectarine: it's a slightly sweeter peach with smooth skin that's easier to pierce with your teeth. It is the god fruit.

Little Ninja Brothers was actually a pretty big franchise (called Super Chinese in Japan) spanning multiple systems, only a handful of which made it to other territories. Kung-Fu Heroes was developed by Culture Brain, the makers of Magic of Scheherazade. Supposedly a second Scheherazade game was...

A new Udacity course starting 2013.I figure some of you might be interested given a few of the discussions in this subforum the past few days. "Class Summary This course will walk you through the major components of building GRITS, an HTML5 game. We'll talk about how to take standard game...

Yeah, I think everyone who makes a game (especially by themselves) comes to the hard realization very quickly that "holy fuck this is going to take a really long time". If a complete game is your only goal, I think learning the toolset will keep you occupied for a while, but you will eventually...

Just know that when you reintroduce carbs to your diet, you're going to gain like 5 pounds in one day. Glycogen is being depleted. Glycogen is heavily hydrated. Not trying to rain on your parade, but I reckon 70-90% of that is not from fat. Don't forget to ask someone to smell your breath. If...

Have you tried the elliptical machine or swimming? Also consider doing some weight training. It will help your muscles absorb shock better. I tried a McGriddle this morning because of your post. Yuck.