Recent content by ntw3001

Yeah, the AAA side of the industry doesn't seem to be on an upward trajectory at the moment. Games machines are all going online, and the companies are increasingly assuming that their players will be online, yet they don't appear to believe that their customer base could be in any way a...

What I don't understand is why joined-up writing is apparently a whole separate subject which consumes teaching resources. In the UK, we were just taught to write, and the writing we were taught was joined-up (I usually write in block capitals now, but anything I write in lower case is...

My connection lags too much to play TF2 these days :( I actually did okay as Spy though. Most Spies seem to go solely for backstabs, but... you can see enemy health! You have a gun which is actually pretty accurate and powerful even though you like to think it's not (seriously, the number of...

Everybody thinks everybody is stupid except themselves. They're wrong, but that's because they're all stupid. Except me.

Meh, mainstream journalists still haven't managed to recognise that games aren't one big market. This makes as much sense as 'Cinema dying: Things-you-can-look-at industry now dominated by funny cat clips'.

In the UK, people usually take their shoes off. It was never a rule in my parents' house, but that was unusual. In TV shows, it's not interesting to watch characters messing around with their shoes while they're charging in and out of their flat engaged in madcap antics. That means that in UK...

I don't usually complete games. I generally get to a point where I just lose interest. Like, I'll play a particular game for a week or so, then one day I don't feel like playing, so I don't, and then I never play again. I don't fret too much over story-based games any more; my method of play...

1: This is not related to prohibition. Prohibition was the absolute ban on the production and sale of alcohol. What this is is a limit on the maximum volume of a single beverage. You'll notice, of course, that such laws already exist, and have done for a very long time with no issues...

No problem then! Inn practice, though, most people won't bother. They'll finish their food, finish their drink and go. Of course, some people will stoically suck down more than before just to (somehow) show those fat cats in city hall that they're grown-ups, but they won't last long. Oh...

Noo the hooves were the best part of the gaaaame

A 64oz Coke is, apparently, around 800 calories. Cutting 400 calories here and 400 there is scarcely a trivial change, especially to regular consumers. 32oz is not 'a few extra sips'; it's three full cans. You're talking about drinking three cans of coke less. Government-sponsored exercise...

Whoops, clicked the report button by mistake. Sorry! Anyway. Who cares? Anyoneaffected by this ban will be dead in a week or so anyway. I don't see the problem. If people literally refuse to stop dipping their dicks in a piranha tank why shouldn't the authorities cordon off said tank? In...

The Model T analogy is about right. Games like HL2 should be appreciated as classics rather than compared to newer games. It's a product of its time, it was years ahead of that time and the reason it now looks a shade generic is because it became the textbook on how shooters should be made. It's...

So... what, did you scurry over to the door just to hold it open? She probably didn't like that because it's weird.

I think the OP is about right; it's the way maths is taught. It's terribly interesting in-depth, but all schools tend to do is have students stick numbers into a series of functions. The way most people learn maths is akin to memorising a bunch of flowcharts, and the only way a student could...