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Everything posted by Jake
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Its twitchtastic.
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1) look at Kingzjester's signature file for an answer to your question. 2) new avatar for me ¬
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I bought two Hickees and a Grickle and may buy more if Chris tells me I should.
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I wouldn't mind a zillion logos as much if they were better integrated into the opening cutscene, at least in sound form. Its always enjoyable in movies to me when the director/editor/sound designers have taken the time and forethought to make the music or opening audio extend back over the logos, it brings you in more and feels a lot less like movie running time being wasted...
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Considering ScummVM and DOXBox both work in MacOS X for your classic adventuring needs, I don't know why you wouldn't get a Mac
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http://forums.idlethumbs.net/showpost.php?p=666 doesn't exist sadly
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NO Try harder, man. Don't be an idiot. "They're the same person basically" is the same shit that was floating around in the 2000 election. Gore and Bush clearly were not the same, much as Kerry and Bush aren't the same.
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well they were wrong ¬ ¬
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What bullshit. Did nobody criticize Speed 2 Cruise Control? Shanghai Knights? The Two Jakes? ... and what is a music sequel? The only one single music "sequel" I can think of is Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell 2: Back Into Hell, which fortunately is a hilarious example. This guy seems like he's really stretching to come up with an argument. Sequels in all mediums (even nonexistent ones like music, I guess) are going to be crap unless you're really sly about it, and everybody knows that. I don't know why he wants an exception made for the games industry? .... And, lately it seems the public attitude towards game sequels has been a positive one anyway. If your first game is unique and popular, but rough around the edges, I for one always hope that your publisher will give you the funding to make a sequel, to give you a chance to weed out the crap and beef up and polish the good. Armed & Dangerous could have an amazing sequel with that attitude. Prince of Persia looks to be getting one. Marek or whoever posted that QOTM, where's the original source so I can see that quote in context?
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Um how about "yourMom" Burn!
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The gamer / "hardcore" PC community will never understand the point of the iMac/iBook product lines, so it's pointless to ask. You will get responses like Bobo Donkeys, talking about how it's all marketing hype and a shiny package with an underpowered computer that no self respecting PC owner would ever want. That is retarded. iMacs are in fact computers with a very specific target audience, and its not you. Would you buy your Mom a top of the line Alienware PC? No! Just like you wouldn't buy yourself an iMac. You should, however, buy your Mom an iMac, as, assuming she's anything like my Mom (not a hardcore computer user, just someone who wants one for email/web/word processing/sharing digital camera pictures/managing a music library) she is almost guaranteed to love it more than all the old "family PC's" your household has shuffled through over the years. Yes Apples in general are overpriced, but iMacs aren't that overpriced considering that, for their target audience (the most absolute casual computer users), they offer a very slick seamless package both from the standpoint of the shiney package Bobo was talking about, and also in regards to the non-intimidating operating system (unlike Windows XP, MacOS X is in fact designed to be genuinely friendly to use, and doesn't claim to be "friendly" by covering its more unsightly bits in giant blue/green bubblewrap), and large pile of Apple-developed Mac-only "consumer grade" software (iPhoto, iMovie etc etc) which come pre-installed on them, and are geared towards being a productive low-intensity user. Also on top of that, in my experience, Macs generally last a year and a half or so longer than PC's before they feel so bogged down and slow that you need to replace them. This is especially the case when you're comparing a Mac to the oft-touted-rarely-seen "super cheap PC's I could build for five dollars, this paper sack, and the lint in my pocket, that has all the features of your overpriced Mac." The super casual-using "Mom" is an audience the Windows/PC market has been trying (and failing) to cater to for years. In my (heavily biased) and my mom's (pretty unbiased) opinions, Apple pulled it off. G5's etc are another story, but based on this audience I don't really know if its worth the time to type
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Trep you should probably just get AGS... Though I suck and haven't used it to make a game yet, I've generally heard that once you get over the rather steep initial learning curve you can do at least the simpler adventure game type stuff without having to program things.
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Hi fellow Idle Thumbs staffers*! Does anyone else read the forums? *and possibly young hooligans.
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Hi fellow Idle Thumbs staffers! Does anyone else read the forums?
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That argument sort of shoots the entire concept in the foot and/or head though... In my opinion at least, one of the points of producing a first episode is to test the waters. If it dies right there, you and your development company are only that far in cost wise. You'll frustrate a few fans who did enjoy your first episode, but odds are you'll gain them back with the next project that you're now able to afford because instead of developing a complete game that flopped. Plus you have all the tech from your first game waiting to be put to good use in attempt two... That said, I see what you're saying. There's few things more frustrating in the entertainment world than seeing something with a good setup for a sequel end up getting shot down.
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kingz: "hot and sour soup" perhaps? at least in american chinese restaurants.... as for me... new england clam chowder (thats the white i hope, as the white is what im talking about), or tomato and/or tomato with rice
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"jake rodkin is selling his 450 mhz yosemite desktop and 17" studio display on" [ebay] it never sold i still have it, and its broken now. in other news, googlisms reveals: "spaff is in fact finally back again and he might actually post news sometime soon"
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I don't remember the "Tiberium Dawn" title anywhere on the US edition of C&C1... maybe I missed it. I was a lot less observant at that point.
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I was talking about the original C&C, not any of the followups. I suspect those are all similar, but C&C 1 was the first game I'd seen with an install program that more resembled some weird amalgomation of the game's UI and some escapee from the early 90s demo scene than an installer and it totally blew me away. I guess the later C&C games followed suit but that ruled at the time. I'm sure if I saw it now it would actually be nothing more than some 3d spinning "metal" things and colorful progress bars, but I was surprised by it more than anything before or since when I first popped that CD in.
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Um you guys are checking your credit cared statements to make sure you're not still being billed, right? Often these features only appear to "magically" stay on, while in fact you're just being silently billed for it due to not fully cancelling your account...
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Dare I ask... are there any games besides the C&C games that even qualify for "best install sequence?" I don't remember any. I loved the original C&C installer...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 would have been awesomer if only—
Jake replied to MrHoatzin's topic in Movies & Television
I don't know if all documentaries are propaganda, but all documentaries of course have opinion in them. If a filmmaker is interested one way or the other in something so much that he/she decides to make a film about it, you bet they have an opinion on it. A lot of people seem to be confused about that, and equate "showing both sides" with "being objective" or "telling the truth." Though at this point what I'm saying has little to do with Moore... (erm I forget where I'm going with this). All documentary films and, to a point, all news reports in print and on television (which in their own way are mini/micro documentaries) are biased, so in that regard it's no surprise that Moore's movies are that way (a ha, I've remembered!). It just seems that for a while he was walking a number of very fine lines, and now he's crossed a few of them. What those lines are, I am too lazy to attempt to forumlate into words and list, but it seems like most in this thread know what I mean. -
Fahrenheit 9/11 would have been awesomer if only—
Jake replied to MrHoatzin's topic in Movies & Television
I think its a bit funny Michael Moore seems to be the only one left in his company who refers to his films as pure documentaries. His immediate underlings and overlings have been referring to them as op/ed (opinion/editorial), or essays in film form in most of the recent Farenheit 9/11 interviews that I read last week and the week before while bored at work... But yes it's frustrating that as Moore drifts more and more in the propaganda direction he becomes less and less trustworthy as a filmmaker. If he just came out and said that this was his take on it, or the way he "read the signs" or whatever instead of saying "this is truth," I suspect he would become immediately more palatable to those who are wary of him. -
I'd be happy to blab about Macs for a while if you drop me an IM. Don't really know what I'll say but...