Recent content by Rems

I laughed out loud, i'm still laughing. Well done.

Music is certainly one of the most important factors, as is the build up. One of my favorite 'boss fights' is from Ace Combat Distant Thunder. They're not really 'boss fights' but it is the final mission and you have to destroy a super weapon so it's close enough. First there was the build...

Freespace 2 X3 Terran Conflict Two fantastic space sims that makae full use of a joystick. Freespace is a fighter pilot type game whereas X3 has that but is more of a sandbox game. It has a living universe with a running economy for you to inhabit. You can trade, dogfight, pilot a giant...

The Witcher series and Planescape are the best examples of morailty systems i can think of. In Planescape your alignment changes based on what you say are you're given free reign to say what you like and act in character. There's no obvious good or bad paths with their attendant rewards...

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts has an German campaign. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad has an German campaign. Note i would call both of those Wermacht campaigns not 'Nazi' campaigns. Not every German solider, or anything even close to every German soldier was a Nazi. Most were...

Neither I, nor anyone else in my family has every been leashed. Frankly it's demeaning to both the parent and child. You kid is not a dog, he should have the discipline to not run off any chance he gets and you should have the awareness to watch him. To me it's a sign of bad parenting and...

^ This gentlemen. The Stalker series did a good job of creating an open, living world that did not feel scripted. You would randomly encounter mutants or other stalkers. You would come across stalkers fighting each other, or the aftermath of a fight. Bands of stalkers would unite to face...

Alright yes it is a convention that we use. This is the method adopted. So what? We need that convention for consistency. It is sufficient enough for purposes of consistency and teaching basic math. Yes it becomes unnecessary at higher level (or properly done) math but this discussion (or i...

I agree with your comment on the order of operations, multiplication and division and then addition and subtraction are equally ranked. It is still correct however to progress from left to right. The Japanese do set things down vertically from right to left. But guess what, they also set...

It makes no difference what order multiplication and division come in your acronym. They have the same operational rank.

No because you always go left to right. Whilst parenthesis and exponents come first, for operations of equal rank (multiplication and division, addition and subtraction) you go left to right. The answer is always 288.

The op says that PEMDAS is simply an acronym of Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. As to why we use orders of operations, it's established convention. If everyone did maths however they felt like they'd get different answers. That wouldn't bode well for anything involving maths with multiple...

I would say there's a difference between caring about one's appearance and wearing eye-liner. To most a man who cares about his appearance would groom himself, keep himself clean, wear clothing in good nick and the like. Straightening your hair, shaving most of your body hair and wearing...

The STALKER series certainly. They have fantastic atmosphere and really brought the post apocalyptic Russian shit hole to life. Same with Metro 2033. Vampire the Masquerade, Bloodlines also had some great atmosphere. While not especially immerseive it was really tight atmospherically and...

This. It sort of happened back when we were growing up, exploring as kids and that kind of stuff then one time when we were a little older something more happened, (though not actual sex, or at least i kind remember actually having sex. Have never since talked about it though, nor has...