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  Notice to all users of the Holodeck: There are safety protocols in place that cannot be deactivated without the approval of two commanding officers or the captain to protect users of the Holodeck from potential harm. However, every time the Holodeck is ever used in a nontrivial manner, no matter what the safety protocols say, the Holodeck turns into a deathtrap. Unless you believe yourself to be adept at constructing a forcefield from your communicator and 19th century Earth tools, or you're at the very least not wearing a red shirt, you are strongly advised not to attempt to use the Holodeck until a designer comes up with a safety protocol that doesn't kill you whenever somebody looks at it funny. Even when you're not on the holodeck. Or in the same quadrant. Or time period. In fact, if you are wearing a red shirt, Starfleet may not be the job for you  |
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ... 42 >> 1D FTWI've been working on a game called "Sid Meier's Civ IV: War of Two Cities" at work for about a month and a half now. Essentially it's a 1-dimensional version of rock-paper-scissors (by itself a 0-Dimensional game, seeing as how you're not moving). Essentially, you create either Infantry, Ranged, or Mobile units which then meet the enemy's similar units and "battle" in the middle. It's more interesting than that, but in its essence, it is rock-paper-scissor.  In this screenshot, you can see it looks very 2D, but don't let the hills fool you, it's very one-dimensional. You can't jump or anything. Your units can only travel in one direction: Towards the enemy. Here you see a blue Mobile unit (elephant) attacking coming to attack the player's city. Uh-oh, there aren't any defending units (except the wall, of course)! Actually, looking at that screenshot, I see that it's inaccurate. Player units are blue, and enemy units are red. Strange that the elephant is blue and walking towards the player's city. It's an uprising! The peasants are revolting! Or, the elephants, or something. Anyway, since I've been working on it for so long, it got me thinking about what other games could do with a dimensional change.  Just make sure you don't accidentally castle.  At least you can keep going. But here's the kicker. I was thinking, "What about something like Hopscotch?" But oh, that already exists.  Now, doesn't that just seem kinda lame? Google's WordRankJust looking through Google's statistics for my website, and I found this list of how Google ranks my site's content starting from the most important word: 1. new Naughty ExceptionsI was looking for help on some intricacies of how exceptions work in C++ today for work. For those who are unaware, exceptions are "thrown" whenever something unexpected or illegal happens in a program. For example, if you try to divide by zero, an illegal exception would be thrown, and you, as the programmer, would have to catch it. If you didn't your program would crash. So anyway, I was looking up how to catch a specific type of exception, and I found a good forum that usually has good answers. But it wasn't the answers that prompted me to write this post. It was the Google ads on the bottom:
So if your spouse tries to do anything illegal, you can just throw pillow and catch them in the act, I guess. The penis mightierI know everybody agrees that the pen is mightier than the sword. Well, let us proceed on that assumption anyway. Would you then also agree that the printing press is mightier than the matchlock gun? Or the typewriter mightier than the Gatling gun? Is the Xerox copier mightier than the AK-47? Would you indeed say that the laser printer mightier than the nuke or the computer mightier than... the bigger nuke? Well, no. Probably not. The problem is that even with a thousand swords, you couldn't really destroy everything the pen ever made (or break the bonds of love even). On the other hand, if you had a thousand nukes, you'd destroy everything... well, pretty much everything ever. On the up side, the computer was instrumental in the creation of the nuke, so it sorta cancels itself out. Once everything is destroyed, you'd have to go through the process of making computers again before you could rebuild the nuke. Actually, you'd probably have to go through the process of making the pen again first. Well, first, for that matter, you'd probably have to go through the process of growing some lungs and leaving the ocean again. Not deadI am just writing to ensure everybody that I am not dead. More to come later. Not that I should be dead or anything. Just silent. |
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