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[Kadzar]

Game design. Every thing I add changes the very nature of the game, so I need to make adjustments to all of the rest of the game. And yet I keep trying to model things in a way that includes all the component properties of the thing when I just have a very basic system to work with. Which wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't decided to make the game based on player input, so there's stuff I have to revise while I have players waiting on me (I doubt/hope they aren't expecting a turn to be out really soon. I probably won't be ready for the first turn until Thursday, or late Wednesday at the earliest.)

[GalenEvil]

Games based on player input are dubious at best, from a programmer's standpoint (IMO). The players often don't realize just what is necessary to take their input and turn it into viable code and because of that ask for wild things that will either take much longer then sanity allows or are just impossible for the programmer to actually implement due to target systems' graphical capabilities or just the shear might of creating something innovative that the programmer is unable to do in a reasonable amount of time.

Right now, even without player input, I am dealing with issues that I never thought would come up in my current project. I am part of a small team of programmers and my part is rather specific in that I am dealing with the path-finding AI. I have to weigh good with just as good amongst many different path-finding algorithms to pick the "best" for this application, and also create more specific and refined versions of them to gauge if they would be the "best" in a specific portion of the application. One being a rather SimCity sort of thing where I have to path-find through a set of connected traffic pieces and pick the best route among them, but as a slight problem I have to make sure that the start-stop scheduling on each traffic piece does not lead to collisions among the travelers. It is like a 1-lane street trying to have cars running through it, but the cars have no way of slowing down or leaving the path in order to prevent a collision.

As long as you have a realistic goal that the players can expect, and attempt to incorporate new features, then the players shouldn't really expect anything more

[darklord92]

noobs already putting crap into the new level editor for portal 2, I didn't learn hammer for nothing -.-  and now half to bloody nooblings think that the level editor is the new sdk :/  It's a level tester, not a level maker. Test your maps there build them in hammer :/

[kaenneth]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/dvds-and-blu-rays-will-now-carry-two-unskippable-government-warnings/

Well, more incentive to just download movies to skip this crap.

[Aklyon]

You cannot annoy people into not doing things when the alternative is less spammy/annoying. People do not work that way.

[PyroDesu]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/dvds-and-blu-rays-will-now-carry-two-unskippable-government-warnings/

Well, more incentive to just download movies to skip this crap.

Congratulations, more people have been alienated and your "Problem" just got worse because of your "Solution"!

[Aklyon]

"No we don't."

[Shakerag]

EDIT: what is it about me that flies find irresistible? this one constantly flies at me, annoying the piss out of me.

Stop fapping on your keyboard so much?

(I am a bad person.)

[Leafsnail]

The IPR's logo actually makes them look evil.  For one thing the eagle looks like it wants to burst out of the screen and devour whoever dares to watch their legally purchased DVD.

[Flying Dice]

EDIT: what is it about me that flies find irresistible? this one constantly flies at me, annoying the piss out of me.

Stop fapping on your keyboard so much?

(I am a bad person.)

There are no bad people, only bad habits.

Hey-o!

[nenjin]

The IPR's logo actually makes them look evil.  For one thing the eagle looks like it wants to burst out of the screen and devour whoever dares to watch their legally purchased DVD.

Yes, it's nice how the fed acts with alacrity to protect copyright holder's money and yet we can barely get a settlement out of the banks that robo-signed and foreclosed on homes they didn't even own.

'Merica, fuck yeah.

[nenjin]

The new Dark Shadows movie.

I really enjoyed the series as a kid and teen on Sci-fi, and tried to catch it whenever I could. Sure, it was a soap opera for all intents and purposes but it was otherworldy and creepy, just like Twin Peaks. A show with a certain brand of weirdness that set it apart from most other things in its genre. And it was epic, spanning multiple generations, all with Barnabus there lurking in the background.

So I can't help but flip off my TV when I see previews for the movie coming out. A fucking awkward comedy? I like Johnny Depp, but I've had quite enough of his "zany characters." Coincidence that the original actor of Barnabus died just a week or two ago? I don't think so. I'd read a CNN article before seeing the previews where it said Depp and Johnathon Fridd met and he metaphorically passed the torch to Depp, saying he really captured all of Barnabus' qualities.

And then I saw the trailers. What a crock of shit. Dark Shadows was deadly serious, and the movie at first blush ranks right up there with Ben Stiller movies.

I just don't understand how someone could have looked at Dark Shadows and thought "Oh man, turning this into a comedy make so much sense." FUCK YOU HOLLYWOOD.

[kaijyuu]

Maybe they're just advertising it as a comedy?


A dark sci fi show doesn't sound very marketable, so they might be playing up minor parts to appeal to a larger audience.

[Scelly9]

Maybe they're just advertising it as a comedy?

The preview was 3 minutes of non-stop jokes and puns. I don't think its just the advertising.

[Scelly9]

Also, from wikipedia:

The trailer for the film premiered exclusively on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on March 15, 2012. That same day, the trailer made its online debut on Apple.com. According to MTV, Tim Burton has opted "for gonzo comedy that should please many, but may rile fans of the original soap opera."