Tantrum

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  1. The consequences of a programming quiz

    Just wanted to add to the excellent response by elmuerte. The thing is to pick your mess. By using UDP and coding some of the needed features of TCP in to your UDP protocol you can at least aim fubars in a direction you can handle, if not gracefully, at least without borking the whole thing. The way you choose to treat network errors is as much defined by the type of game as anything else, so 'multiplayer games networking' isn't so much an answer as it is a question. Ommmmmmmmm.
  2. Why I hate you, and the internet

    Ok, I've just had my own hate the internet moment so I'm going to vent spleen in what is almost nearly an appropriate thread. Check this shit out, http://www.destructoid.com/dr-phil-trying-to-steal-jack-s-thunder-oprah-is-not-amused-31042.phtml What the fuck is that about? Dr Phil is 100% percent correct in what he said, yet somehow the oversensitive gamers single shared mind thinks it's an attack on games and wildly attacks Dr Phil!? To me it doesn't read like an attack on games at all. He makes a very good point about the results of soaking the mentally suggestible in a violent environment. He says, Violent Games/Movies/Whatever + Nutcase = BADNESS He also says that society will have to deal with that equation. Take Jack Thompson, for example. He's trying to solve it by reducing the Violence part of the equation by getting rid of violent (and suggestive) games. Of course, if you take away the violent games then those of us who aren't Nutcases lose out because.... Non-Nutcase - Violent Games = SADNESS AT ONLY BEING ABLE TO PLAY PONY GAMES Sorry Jack, not going to happen. The other extreme might be to remove anyone suspected of being a Nutcase from the streets. I really don't think that'll happen either. The final option is for society to suck it up. Accept it happens, move on. I don't think that's going to happen either. If you're now thinking "OH NOES! WE'RE DOOOOOOOMED!" you've forgotten something. Something that's easy to forget when you're suckling from the dribbling and exotically decorated teat that is the internet. You've forgotten that a moderate path exists. What can be done? I ain't no brain sturgeon, but it occurs to me that awareness of the problem is a major factor. Give the condition a name, maybe Environmenal Suggestability Disorder (ESD) and start wacking people over the head with it until they understand that... Violence (not just games) + ESD = TEH BADNESS Put an ESD warning on games (and other violent materials) that warns that anyone suffering from ESD could be adversely affected by it. Maybe that nice Simon Bates could do a voice over. I don't know, some crap like that. No, it won't be any more directly effective than "Winners Don't Do Drugs", or "Epilepsy Warning", or my all time favorite "May Contain Nuts". But we don't need a direct effect. Educate the people and they'll police themselves, as I just said (I like to cite myself, especially mid-sentence, to support my own arguement). So, ah, I've run out of spleen now and I just don't care about this topic anymore. I'm sure I started this with a point, but hey, this is the internets - where existence is defined by word count (swear words score triple). I can feel the central-brain calling me back in to the fold. Dr Phil's a dick.
  3. My turn to have a blog now.

    I know a few here, but I only spend time semi-naked with two of them. And if I see any fingerprints on my jib, I'll know it was you...
  4. My turn to have a blog now.

    Either scuttle the ship, or find a new captain. Yarr!
  5. Post You Pic Thread

    Baby soldier wielding a pink bazooka emerging from a stargate. No doubt.
  6. BenchGuys.Net...

    Have you seen the source.... <META content="Stevan Zivadinovic is a cunt." name=description> I can't believe they wrote that! I just can't believe my eyes! Don't they know that kids read the source!? I realise that in some circles it's ok to write something like that, but in polite society we put quotes around our attribute values.
  7. New people: Read this, say hi.

    To prove I'm no bot I will do something no bot has ever done before. I shall attempt a correctly spelled sentence. I shall not, however, aim for high mark in grammar. The approximate weight of a fully laden Amazon swallow is how much wood a wood chuck would chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood. I tank you.