Recent content by notme

I use an inverted Y axis - but I want to unlearn that! Starting my gaming with Magic Carpet was a mistake it seems. I tried hard but always failed. Is there a more gentle way to go to the standard Y axis? I want to prepare myself for the day when games become even more dumbed down and you...

Nice, a totally open game engine sure helps. I'll have a look at that, thanks! YES! Pro sports is full of steroids and whatnot (bad thing, that). This is the same without harming anybody, humans going to extremes and all. Yes, and the ones who run their own armies AND use scripts would rule...

So, RTS games are just too much click-click-click-click-click (and the occasional keyboard shortcut for the pros). That is getting boring, and to make matters worse, tiresome. Woman vs. Woman is getting old. Machine vs. Machine is just silly. But! Machine enhanced Woman against her fellow...

Fantasy is provides much easier escapism because it is not bound by rules, Science Fiction (SF) plays by the same hard science rules that we live by nowadays. Need some evil enemy which you can direct all your hatred against? Well, the author says it is some "ancient evil" and that is that...

It can make sense as hard science(tm), think of all the plants actually having something like nerves, and talking to each other when their roots touch (that part was being researched on their first expedition). Thus the entire Planet could have something like a sentient plantlife which...

The only thing that keeps me going, because in the absence of gods the harsh truths of our existence would be unbearable.

Okay, motion passed. Now I just have to find a simple "Contact the Escapist" form anywhere on the site...

I have to urge that all the people bursting with wit, such as I-forgot-the-names who produce Zero Punctuation and Escape to the Movies need to turn in their scripts and have these publish alongside their videos. Yes, it does help turning English into the Eternal Language by luring non native...

A small indy game company called S2Games made Savage years back. It combines RTS with FPS, i.e. there is one commander who can build stuff, tech and order troops around, and many others who play these troops, and of course do not have to follow these orders. It is freeware now and a community...

Seriously! Stop making cursing cool again, gods fucking damit! Or show us where to direct our rage if some higher power made you do it.

Q(heh)FT :)

You see this through the eyes of an enlightened person, but back in the time it was quite a step forward. It meant that if you got wronged by an eye, you only got to take an eye or the equivalent of one, i.e. compensation - not more! Millennia ago, and in some regions of the world still, such...

No, killing another sentient being is never justified. Human rights for everyone were declared for a reason. First of all, human justice is never perfect, who knows how many people, even in the US, have been killed but were innocent over the decades. Better ten guilty men go free than one...

There is the Chinese[1] curse "May you live in interesting times". I sure am glad no war is around the corner (hurray nuclear MADness) and my food supply chain looks stable. But even if you lived the most exciting life you can imagine, there is that thing called Habituation. If you do...

No! A very lonely no at the moment but still. Ok... I admit I just misclicked. But at least it looks less rigged now. As for topics - wars are boring! The less obvious cultural developments which require some analysis to uncover (enlightenment vs. religion!) are much more interesting and...