Eric

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    Yeah there is the obvious analogue between first person and VR but honestly I think there is a lot of potential for neato 3rd person and birds eye view stuff. The idea of turn based 4x games where the presentation is like a polished 3D game board or even something like the skyrim map which is crappy and hard to use in 2D suddenly is like a functional landscape jewel box. I think there will be hoardes of VR games that play the same dumb tricks as 3D movies with crap flying in your face all the time but in my mind the best uses of it will be more subtle leveraging of depth to provide different depictions of scale that are pretty hard to represent in 2D. 

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    In other words you and a friend could explore an abandoned island for the same price that you could get a tool enabling the exploration of the urban jungle through sick grinds, slides, and vert pipe stunts. Does that seem fair?

    Personally I'm only willing to exchange 30 cigarettes and 11.25 gallons of water for an indie video game

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    To aid in everyone's decision making I've compiled a list of things that you can buy with 40 dollars:

     

    1 Mix Bucket Variety Feast from KFC

    10 Big macs

    4 movie tickets

    Half of a skateboard at Canadian Costco

    45 rolls of strawberry Mentos on Amazon.com

    More than 6 reams of printer paper

    120 cigarettes

    1/7th of a small square of supreme/premium alfalfa cattle hay

    Two 9.4 inch plastic human skeleton models

    45 gallons of water at Walmart

    (almost) 3 .net domain names from Hover (for one year)

    0.73 ounces of black truffle

    54 pounds of lead

     

    Hope this helps

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    Programming languages, for practical reasons, almost always (can't think of a counter example off the top of my head) have restrictions on how you can define a name for your variables or whatever. In many languages it is possible to use a limited set of unicode characters (http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names) but that may not necessarily include foreign language characters. Regardless the most common languages use english reserved words and standard libraries are usually programmed with english (based) names for functions and modules. Almost all libraries, apis, sdks, etc... across all languages are designed like that and as a result if you wrote a compiler that allowed you to write code for c++ or whatever in different characters you would still mostly be working with english words with whatever libraries you are working in.

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    Seriously Jake? Keygen tunes are amazing! I leave them up during the whole crack and install.

    I mean, just look at this fucking kid:

     

     

    Even the Karateka guy is dancing at the end there.

     

    yeah cracktro music was always real impressive to me as a kid. I remember being super in awe of the shady figures who did cracking in the first place and the neato digital music and art that went along with it only made it more enigmatic and cool to me. In retrospect it's very time and a place shit and makes me very nostalgic for a time when the net seemed like more of an elusive and cool place to inhabit 

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    I would be willing to wager something significant that the next Elder Scrolls game will not have full voice acting. The difference between full voice acting for a wife and a husband vs all the permutations possible along the spectrum of every Elder Scrolls race is pretty big. The only way I could see it happening is if you managed to shoehorn all the voices into the 5 or 6 total like Saints Row 3rd had.

    I wonder if there ever will be another Elder Scrolls game what with Elder Scrolls Online. I also eagerly await another Warcraft RTS but doubt that will be coming anytime soon either