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[SalmonGod]

Neil Stephenson? That name sounds incredibly familiar but I cannot place it. Pretty sure I have a book written by him.

Snow Crash

I named my firstborn son after that book

*finger snap of recognition*
That's the book! I knew the name sounded familiar!

So what's the kid's name? Snow? Crash? Hiro? Um...YT?

Hiro

We were talking about names with my dad and he jokingly remarked "You could just name him Hiro Protagonist."  My eyes lit up...

Coincidentally, I was also studying nihongo at the time.

And no... it's just Hiro... I didn't make his middle name Protagonist or anything    Two years after he was born, Heroes came out with the popular character Hiro Nakamura.  Now everyone we meet thinks that was the inspiration for his name until we correct them, even though he pre-dates the show.

[Nadaka]

Die by the sword was a non-click base sword fighting simulator. Though it was far from perfect. You positioned the sword by moving your mouse. a horizontal strike was achieved by moving the mouse left and right, a vertical strike was achieved by moving the mouse up and then down.

Though it sounds like he wants a lot more precision than that.

I will also point out that Hiro Protagonist (yes, that was the name of the Hero Protagonist) wrote just such a program in Niel Stephenson book snow crash.

[SalmonGod]

I've been awaiting a successor to Die by the Sword for sooooo long.  I got to play the demo of that game a few times and was enamoured with it.  Not just the sword movement, but the locational damage/dismemberment system was really amazing for its time also.  Too bad I didn't have the hardware to handle it until the game was already 4 or 5 years old.

[Nadaka]

I've been awaiting a successor to Die by the Sword for sooooo long.  I got to play the demo of that game a few times and was enamoured with it.  Not just the sword movement, but the locational damage/dismemberment system was really amazing for its time also.  Too bad I didn't have the hardware to handle it until the game was already 4 or 5 years old.

Very few people had the hardware for that game at the time, it was one of the first games with a 3d physics engine. The only other game build on the same engine was the ill fated and horribly buggy Jurassic Park game.

[Euld]

Neil Stephenson has co-founded a game studio, and put up a Kickstarter for an advanced swordfighting simulation called CLANG

Holy, they need $460,000 by about the end of June in order to make this project work T.T  I uh, don't exactly want to tell everyone to donate since this would technically compete with donations to DF...  But uh.  This project sounds like it's on more levels of innovation than most games these days.

[UltraValican]

Slowpoke, but Scribblenauts is getting a 3rd installment.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You can make your own objects

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[Flying Dice]

Slowpoke, but Scribblenauts is getting a 3rd installment.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You can make your own objects

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Cue the dongstorm.

[jc6036]

I got a mod position on some forums recently. I guess that's pretty nice. Also I got some time to come around Bay12 once again and see what's going on.

[Furtuka]

Hi JC!   Er... Keeping Up With kinda fell asleep because of people not telling me their room number, I suppowse I should have just moved onto the next episode without waiting for them

[jc6036]

Eh. Happens I guess. In any case sorry I had to go and drop the game like that.

[penguinofhonor]

Holy crap I love Jujubes.

[King DZA]

Counting my golden dollar coins.

Feel like a pirate.

Fuck yeah.

[SirAaronIII]

I ran a mile in 7 minutes, took an ice cold shower, and drank water.

And I thought of a cool name.

[Bauglir]

Dwarf Fortress truncates item names. How can I NOT buy it?

Oh god there's a bronze boning knife, too. Entendres!

[bukitodinos]

Fhoamy's rant on video games for E3

its a nice rant check it out