People who make movies should threaten to sue anyone who doesn't see it or says its bad, for loss of earnings.
The only problem is that there are legal exceptions specific to reviews and that whole nagging freedom/right of free speech thing I keep hearing about.
Well, Cyclops was pretty popular until the cartoon hit. Character and voice actor were just awful. He kind of became the goody whiny Robocop 2 reprogrammed version of himself.
It's the internet. People will bitch about anything. Unfortunately, that's just how the world works.
See, if I were in charge, then everything would be available on the internet. No censorship, no restrictions, nothing like that. But you'd have to use your real name. You wanna slag someone off? Fine. But everyone will know that it's Dave Generic from Newport that's insulting someone else.
You watch. The amount of negative stuff on the internet will half overnight.
As for your other comments... well, yeah. Some people are in it for the money. But not everyone is - some are genuinely in it for the love of the game. They don't tend to be as well known, but they exist. You just have to dig deep to find them, because they're usually too busy actually making games to be noticed.
Have you never followed a video game page on Facebook? I know for Rock Band, the facebook announcement threads were where they got the most negativity. People shouting obscenities about how RB sucks and Harmonix sucks balls because (favorite band) isn't included, and people are doing this with their real name showing. The FEZ facebook page is pleasantly positive at the moment but there are still a number of random haters visible
I agree with Luigi here. Anonymity is an absolute necessity on the internet. I practically breathe it. What you do on the internet stays there, forever. Every teensy little conversation, every god dam picture for everyone to google and find immediately. The net doesn't get my real name. Ohhhhh no.
And facebook indeed is proof that the net isn't just assholes hiding behind fake names... fake names are completely optional for assholes.
I can not completely rule it out for the future, as it might be something of an actual future job requirement, but at the time, I plain don't see why I should torture myself with a gb account.
So... my Dad's now officially retired, since today was his last day.
Is it bad that I dread what he's going to do now that he's not at work all the time?
It's all well and good saying that he'll be able to sort out the garden and get back into golf, but I'm scared of what he'll make ME do now that he'll be around to realize that I don't actually do anything around the house.
So... my Dad's now officially retired, since today was his last day.
Is it bad that I dread what he's going to do now that he's not at work all the time?
It's all well and good saying that he'll be able to sort out the garden and get back into golf, but I'm scared of what he'll make ME do now that he'll be around to realize that I don't actually do anything around the house.
I can't stop thinking that, to an immortal being (ie. God, The Doctor, GLaDOS, etc...), a murder trial resulting in the death penalty would make even less sense than it does. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, every life is a blip of an existence. The death penalty murder trial is punishing one person for imperceptibly changing that blip by imperceptibly changing their blip. And all of this happening on a little blue spec surrounded by infinity.
No, I haven't been drinking, but I wish I was now. Terry Pratchett has a word for this hyper-sobriety: knurd. "The opposite of being drunk, its as sober as you can ever be. It strips away all the illusion, all the comforting pink fog in which people normally spend their lives, and lets them see and think clearly for the first time ever. Then, after they've screamed a bit, they make sure they never get knurd again"
I feel like half of a human being. It always feels like I'm missing stuff everyone understands so easily.
At least you feel like a WHOLE HALF. I don't think I am a human being. Maybe I'm a Venusian or Uranus or snicker or Martian or something, whatever, blah.
A short tech demo I made for my game. I got feedback that said the graphics, animation, story, and music were awesome, but the interface was confusing.
At least you feel like a WHOLE HALF. I don't think I am a human being. Maybe I'm a Venusian or Uranus or snicker or Martian or something, whatever, blah.
I'm pretty sure I haven't been human for about two years now.
The IRS is trying to fuck me. God dammit, I make less than 25k a year, why are you trying to squeeze 600 dollars that I don't owe out of me??? I jumped through all your goddamn hoops! Leave me the fuck alone!
I can't stop thinking that, to an immortal being (ie. God, The Doctor, GLaDOS, etc...), a murder trial resulting in the death penalty would make even less sense than it does. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, every life is a blip of an existence. The death penalty murder trial is punishing one person for imperceptibly changing that blip by imperceptibly changing their blip. And all of this happening on a little blue spec surrounded by infinity.
The IRS is trying to fuck me. God dammit, I make less than 25k a year, why are you trying to squeeze 600 dollars that I don't owe out of me??? I jumped through all your goddamn hoops! Leave me the fuck alone!
They like to go after poor people, because they figure you can't fight as much. If you can prove you don't owe the $600, stand your ground. If you know you don't but can't technically prove it, that's the worst place to be.
I can't stop thinking that, to an immortal being (ie. God, The Doctor, GLaDOS, etc...), a murder trial resulting in the death penalty would make even less sense than it does. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, every life is a blip of an existence. The death penalty murder trial is punishing one person for imperceptibly changing that blip by imperceptibly changing their blip. And all of this happening on a little blue spec surrounded by infinity.
And if The Master is anything to go by, death sentences don't work out too well for immortal beings anyway.
The IRS is trying to fuck me. God dammit, I make less than 25k a year, why are you trying to squeeze 600 dollars that I don't owe out of me??? I jumped through all your goddamn hoops! Leave me the fuck alone!
That happened to me as well! They take out money already from half of my paycheck (the other half is stipend) so I paid taxes on half of what I made, sent in the correct forms, went over it with my parents so they could double check what I did, and they still insisted that I pay another $300. And I barely made 10k last year. I just paid it because getting arrested for tax evasion would really ruin my experiments, but it's kinda ridiculous.
A short tech demo I made for my game. I got feedback that said the graphics, animation, story, and music were awesome, but the interface was confusing.
I wouldn't say it was confusing per se, but there's a few things that would make it more intuitive. I think the main one for me would be to have the default for clicking on anywhere be "walk to" and have the ability to exit out of the inventory (with an inventory item) be clicking on one of the action buttons at the bottom of the inventory. Which it looks like you were going to do that anyways, so I don't know why I brought it up.
And I totally agree that the graphics, animation, story, and music were fantastic. If I were a gaming company and you came in and said "look what I did" I'd be like "you're hired".
I'm completely reworking the interface based on AGS forumites suggestions. Some things I need to do are--
Fix/create keyboard shortcuts for cursors.
Get rid of the slide when the main character walks.
Move the inventory down to the verb bar like the SCUMM games, instead of a Gabriel Knight style inventory.
Add settings.
Streamline the verbs and make them more intuitive and easier to understand. Fo this I'm considering axing the verbbar and making an iconbar, that's a mix of Hit the Road and a SCUMM bar.
Already made Walk to a default click action- want to make right-click a means to switch movement modes or make movement modes contextual to events. Clock Tower did this pretty well.
Cut down on the swearing, maybe? Only one person complained about it.
Change the status bar font. Move the status bar to the bottom.
Make walking a bit faster.
Make cutscenes skippable.
Make it to where inventory descriptions happen over the inventory, not behind it. That'll be fixed by moving the inventory to the bottom of the screen.
Made the player character non-clickable and non-interactable.
Fix the scroll wheel and what it does with verbs.
Anyway, Zack Snydurrrr said he's going to talk to Frank Miller about basing his Batman on Miller's racist Batman. :l
What is on my mind right now, that fact I have 3,227 posts in the course of three months, well really two months since I missed out on most of June due to E3 spoilers about Walking Dead 400 Days. Does anyone know who has posted the largest amount of posts?
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The only problem is that there are legal exceptions specific to reviews and that whole nagging freedom/right of free speech thing I keep hearing about.
Well, Cyclops was pretty popular until the cartoon hit. Character and voice actor were just awful. He kind of became the goody whiny Robocop 2 reprogrammed version of himself.
Have you never followed a video game page on Facebook? I know for Rock Band, the facebook announcement threads were where they got the most negativity. People shouting obscenities about how RB sucks and Harmonix sucks balls because (favorite band) isn't included, and people are doing this with their real name showing. The FEZ facebook page is pleasantly positive at the moment but there are still a number of random haters visible
And facebook indeed is proof that the net isn't just assholes hiding behind fake names... fake names are completely optional for assholes.
A monkey's uncle?
Hey! As an asshole on the internet I feel offended. Of course I use a fake profile on Gesichtsbuch.
Is it bad that I dread what he's going to do now that he's not at work all the time?
It's all well and good saying that he'll be able to sort out the garden and get back into golf, but I'm scared of what he'll make ME do now that he'll be around to realize that I don't actually do anything around the house.
Am I the only German here who has to think of Loriot now?
No. Not at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jVSZQTjUJY
Obviously, this is the time to move out.
I would have missed the entire Loriot reference were it not for that video.
Be sure to get the Sharknado DLC when you try it!
No, I haven't been drinking, but I wish I was now. Terry Pratchett has a word for this hyper-sobriety: knurd. "The opposite of being drunk, its as sober as you can ever be. It strips away all the illusion, all the comforting pink fog in which people normally spend their lives, and lets them see and think clearly for the first time ever. Then, after they've screamed a bit, they make sure they never get knurd again"
Me after releasing my demo and seeing what all people want changed.
At least you feel like a WHOLE HALF. I don't think I am a human being. Maybe I'm a Venusian or Uranus or snicker or Martian or something, whatever, blah.
What demo?
A short tech demo I made for my game. I got feedback that said the graphics, animation, story, and music were awesome, but the interface was confusing.
I'm pretty sure I haven't been human for about two years now.
Did you learn nothing from Watchmen?
They like to go after poor people, because they figure you can't fight as much. If you can prove you don't owe the $600, stand your ground. If you know you don't but can't technically prove it, that's the worst place to be.
That happened to me as well! They take out money already from half of my paycheck (the other half is stipend) so I paid taxes on half of what I made, sent in the correct forms, went over it with my parents so they could double check what I did, and they still insisted that I pay another $300. And I barely made 10k last year. I just paid it because getting arrested for tax evasion would really ruin my experiments, but it's kinda ridiculous.
I wouldn't say it was confusing per se, but there's a few things that would make it more intuitive. I think the main one for me would be to have the default for clicking on anywhere be "walk to" and have the ability to exit out of the inventory (with an inventory item) be clicking on one of the action buttons at the bottom of the inventory. Which it looks like you were going to do that anyways, so I don't know why I brought it up.
And I totally agree that the graphics, animation, story, and music were fantastic. If I were a gaming company and you came in and said "look what I did" I'd be like "you're hired".
Fix/create keyboard shortcuts for cursors.
Get rid of the slide when the main character walks.
Move the inventory down to the verb bar like the SCUMM games, instead of a Gabriel Knight style inventory.
Add settings.
Streamline the verbs and make them more intuitive and easier to understand. Fo this I'm considering axing the verbbar and making an iconbar, that's a mix of Hit the Road and a SCUMM bar.
Already made Walk to a default click action- want to make right-click a means to switch movement modes or make movement modes contextual to events. Clock Tower did this pretty well.
Cut down on the swearing, maybe? Only one person complained about it.
Change the status bar font. Move the status bar to the bottom.
Make walking a bit faster.
Make cutscenes skippable.
Make it to where inventory descriptions happen over the inventory, not behind it. That'll be fixed by moving the inventory to the bottom of the screen.
Made the player character non-clickable and non-interactable.
Fix the scroll wheel and what it does with verbs.
Anyway, Zack Snydurrrr said he's going to talk to Frank Miller about basing his Batman on Miller's racist Batman. :l