Recent content by Shabubu

I'm glad we can agree on perfume...most of that stuff is foul and I'm a smoker. Oddly enough, we can't kill ourselves outright - we have to pay an arm and a leg to do so. You are correct about the byproducts of smoking: poor ventilation makes smoke carry, it sticks to clothing, irritates...

Smoking is part of their meal and they're at a location that allows smoking. To me, it's silly to be mad at them ruining your meal, when you decided to go to a place that allows smoking. That should have been a factor in your decision if you knew that it would have been an issue. They're not...

With that logic, can we tax women wearing perfume? That triggers allergic reactions to quite a few people, and arguably stinks just as bad. Or, also tax babies, they smell more like smoldering diapers than smokers do. I say, send all the smokers in-doors to establishments that are...

5.5 British pounds = 8.1136 U.S. dollars - so says magical google. About right for my area, West Coast of the States. We ***** about $2 dollar gallons of gasoline here, as well. So, £1.34 for 3.79 liters? What do you guys pay for that?

Yes, smokers cost money. On a side-note, the extra money they're putting into the system far outweighs the amount an individual smoker will remove from the system in the ~20 years of being taxed at %500+. Alcohol, now that's an expensive drug. That costs the average non-drinker more money...

Why'd you go to a restaurant that has a lot of smoking if you knew it'd bug you? I'm assuming there are places where you're from that smoking isn't allowed...why not go to another place if your birthday meal would be ruined by people doing something that is/was legal? If it bugs you, go...

Game design by committee has rarely gone well, at least in the retail game sense. Perhaps one could make a thread and run all the decisions by forum polls - three days to respond. That way a central figure who holds the game in their head can fine-tune the poll options to give a somewhat...

6/24/08 http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=3155894

There are still 'random' battles that you can participate in, they show up as wolves on the main map screens. They're common enough that you can do some leveling up if wanted. The majority of the missions also are on a cycle, that you can hop-forward in time to, making leveling up a lot...

Coming up from a childhood of cheating on every video game possible, it's to bring more fun. Some people like the challenge, some people just want to have fun. Those that buy strategy guides, now that's cheating. As far as I know, most publishers make developers remove these, easter eggs...

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I think the mentality that interpreted languages can't be used for games is something borne out of the limited cpu cycles of yesteryear. CPU's are getting faster and faster with more and more cores, I think we can have several interpreters running in the future and no one will notice. The...

You don't sound stupid and that feeling doesn't go away. I think there was only one colossus that I didn't feel too bad about killing. Very sad game, it did its job well. I still have resentment several years later aimed at the dead girl on that table because of that game.

Python is an odd cookie. It has a learning curve, but it's considered one of the easier languages to pick up (which, is not a good thing, imo). However, it's in several games and I think once you see CPU power increase it'll be inside more games. Games are rarely written in it, but they can...

The amount of words in the game also made it a novel. They just kept on talking...