Joe

What if HE's completely ugly???????

That and the fact you don't actually need to pounce on every single woman you meet like some kind of rabid dog. I mean, what if she's completely ugly?

I imagine most of them would be in your clothes, bed or too small to easily see.

I have a twitter account. I like to stalk artists and writers and reading the pages they link to. This sentence is amazing. Could perhaps have benefited from a superfluous physical length constraint to make it a more concise communication.

They did with the palette swap :P The idea of doom being perfect (or at least perfectly doom) is a valid one simply because it IS doom. Doom is objectively the perfect Doom by virtue of being the thing itself. People may subjectively say it's not perfect because they see flaws in it or because it hasn't got such-and-such a feature, but they are merely saying it's not how they want it to be. A billion tiny flaws in a cube may conspire to make it a sphere. Doom is not without issues but without those issues it would not be Doom. This is just me being entirely pedantic though.

Darn those pesky nazis, what mischief are they up to this time?

It probably doesn't have any major advantages, but having a standard way (top to bottom makes most sense as that's the way we read) is better than not having a standard way, at least when you're teaching people to write. The only (unlikely) problem is if someone tries to make other people change even if they're making perfectly acceptable letters just because it's nonstandard.

I didn't say that, mainly because i'm not an idiot, but thanks for assuming it anyway. My point was that the fact 2 people are working on it, as opposed to a couple hundred, will mean they are more emotionally invested in it as a whole. I'm aware it's possible to put a lot of love into things. I've written, programmed, drawn and composed. I'm just don't think that someone who is only writing the renderer or the sound code or the ai will love the game as much as someone who wrote the entire thing. Who's to say that everyone working on the game wants to love it tenderly? They may love making games and gaming itself but what if they don't like what they're working on currently? What if the game itself is being churned out for the publisher or the design is shit and so on. All speculation, but it'll happen. I'm fully aware people can love the stuff they're working on, but at the end of the day you're working on the designers' baby with 200 other people. You are not going to love it as your own.

I think the thing about today's games is they are made by 300 people for companies who want to make money and take years to make. With doom you had less than 10 people working on it, probably similar amounts of people even on big titles like Sonic. I think with more and more people involved the initial vision gets warped in over the years the game is being made in with hundreds of people projecting their own slightly different vision of what they're doing. Adding on deadlines and pressure as they try to get a massive game done quick, or the fact they're just churning a game out (licensed titles and the like) doesn't help much. I'd say overall the ratio of crap to good has changed over the years, there was a lot of crap in the past, but with the increase of popularity in gaming there's a lot more people looking to make money with shit. Games like doom were made by people who really loved games and wanted to make them. Making money was a part of it but they started as hobbyists and gamers. You get games on the spectrum/c64/amiga, for example, made by a total of 2 people, a programmer and an artist. They're a bit shitty by today's standards but there was probably a lot more love put into them. Nostalgia is a factor, but most people can tell quality when they see it, even as a kid.

There was a song in the David Byrne/Brian Eno album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts that got cut cause it had sampled people chanting the qu'ran, "Way back when the record first came out, in 1981, it might have been '82, we got a request from an Islamic organization in London, and they said, 'We consider this blasphemy that you put grooves to the chanting of the Holy Book.' And we thought, 'Okay, in deference to somebody's religion, we'll take it off.'" Looking around, there seems to be a thing for muslims to dislike music as it's idle talk which misleads from the path of allah. Both singing and instruments. If that lot's true (it seems to be from a proper site run by actual muslims) then sticking the quran over some drums/guitar/synth as eno and byrne are liable to is pretty much blasphemy. I may be wrong though, and would like to think so as i dunno how you'd willingly go without music. I imagine using it in a game and with music is like doubly leading astray, and if that's what you believe you're not gonna be happy.

I dreamed I was following John Coltrane and his band around a shopping centre, repeatedly asking if I could jam with his band. He said "Are you SURE you want to?", so I replied "YES" and he just looked at me and walked off again with his mates. He then played Naima and opened a gateway to the eldritch netherworlds.

;)

The End will be a 12 minute psychedelic rock opus.

I would never do that.

Haha, nice. Personally i find it insulting you classed me as a troll, you're implying that your opinion on matters is right and just because i disagree i'm trolling you. Pretty much confirms the pseudo-intellectual tag. Same thing with calling it bullshit. It seems pretty correct to me. My posts were potentially flamey but not strictly intended as such, i merely disagreed with things you had said or implied, i only swore like 4 times (i toned it down), i don't see anything wrong with my arguments and i rewrote each of the posts a good couple of times as i reread and saw different angles and built in ripostes or decided to leave things alone because they had worth. Each joe post is lovingly crafted by master chocolatiers. The thread is not to my liking because it is boring and essentially masturbation. As a member of the forum i feel i have a right to express my opinion about threads, whether you like the opinion or not. BTW i wouldn't have made a second post if you hadn't called me a dolt for saying there was no paradox when there actually was not a paradox. Calling me an idiot because i was right is pretty idiotic. I thought i was on the offensive personally. If you really want to see a rage filled post have a look at the one where i called you a lying moron for taking back your phone like a moron and then lying about it.

Coming from the guy who apparently doesn't know if what he's saying is a paradox, then calling it a paradox anyway just because (and it's still not a paradox, it's just the fact that demand has risen to more than some companies can cope with OMG THAT IS DEFINITELY A LOGICAL CONTRADICTIONRIGHTTHEREoh no it isn't, sorry). This thread is still a complete load of geek masturbation because They don't know things and They just assume things and what a load of fucking morons They are jesus christ thank god i am better than Them! Give me a creaphis 3 page essay over this shite any day, at least it's interesting.

the ten million people of greece are never going to be simultaneously maxing out their internet connections and why does saying in theory giving everyone 56k lines would be more than some estonian company can handle have to do with being able to get the most out of your connection? also only about 3 people live in estonia and that company (that is probably powered by eels on a bizarre treadmill) is not the only isp there and blah blah what is the point in this thread? you had a mundane thought so you decided to make a fucking thread about it? great. people do not realize something because they are idiots how amazing that you are not an idiot, congratulations. fuck capital letters also. also where's the fucking paradox i was promised you pseudo intellectual assfart

Q: Why did skeletor post the crap jokes? A: Because he sucks. -- Break for applause and raucous laughter --

Perhaps the homeless should migrate south for the winter.

The old icon is obviously superior.

This thread is fucking retarded.

There is next to no chance of god existing. All forms of god have been made up by people. Science has been reasoned out, there is evidence to support it. Religious types say "god made the universe i dunno how he just did lol". Just because you find a meaning in god doesn't mean everyone else should. Just because you think that creaphis is wrong about god doesn't mean he hasn't thought about it as much as (or more than) you. It is amusing how you refer to occam's razor in one post (while blending a frog and expecting it to turn into another frog for no reason), then say that the explanation for the universe you prefer is that there's an infinitely complex being that made it all. OCCAM'S RAZOR AT ITS FINEST RIGHT THERE. God just makes things even more complex. Also: irreducable complexity is a cop-out. Just because you can't see how something could have evolved doesn't even *suggest* god created it. It suggests we don't know how it works yet. Eventually we will. If everyone was to say "oh i don't understand this biology lark let's just say god made it and piss off down the pub" then we'd all be stellar fuckheads. And more drunk.

fp! props to all logged in review haters!

Obama should do palin in the cabinet position if you know what i mean. (it involves opening her drawers if you also know what i mean by that also)

The only thing taking it in the butt in this situation is justice. Taking the phone back was the wrong thing to do. There is no way around this. My teacher would not accused me of taking the phone from the desk because i would not have taken back the phone. Because i am not hell of a moron. Your second moral lapse was lying about it and trying to construe that is in fact the teacher who is a liar. What the fuck. It's hilarious you think you were prejudiced against when you were the fucking cause of the problem. Your principal hired this person because they thought they would be able to do a good job and wouldn't be the kind of person to go lying about what they did and didn't do in a class. The principal knows your teacher, sees them every day and has probably even gone out drinking with them once or twice at christmas parties and such. They know eachother. They would also know there would be seriously no point in her setting you up like that, it just doesn't make logical sense, especially considering you "doubted she had a personal vendetta" against you and also that it would be a giant waste of fucking time. What, the teacher just sits around all day thinking up ways to get kids in trouble? SOUNDS GOOD TO ME! I also find it hilarious the principal gave you 3 days to find evidence that she didn't take your phone, definitely knows you are lying. You're also seeing it wrong here. It would be a serious miscarriage of justice if the principal believed you. Because you are lying piece of shit who has made up a story in an attempt to evade punishment. I can also "what if". What if you had not taken the phone back and then gone and picked it up at the end of the day? You would not be suspended. HOW ABOUT THAT YOU MORON!??!?! The only thing you've made apparent is that you are an asshole who deserves that suspension.