Posts by Sentura

Quote from Furyo

Rationale for programmers getting better wages is they studied longer and could easily make a lot more money working in finance or other fields so you need to give them some incentive. Incidentally artists and designers don't have that luxury.

i'm thinking this will change in time as computer design schools will be able to give out degrees. that being said, does anyone know how good an art director's salary is for instance? it would be interesting to see whether it affects the higher managing/directing positions as well, since those usually come at a certain degree of either industry experience or specialization at university. EDIT: i just checked the career guide, and it looks as though those roles are paid higher. the question is the how much they factor in degrees in those positions.

Quote from Erratic

I've played games similar to this before, and can never for the fuck of me figure out what the point of them is.

oh i dunno... having fun?

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this one is so much better. who would've guessed we all come from a colorful sphere?

it looks great, but it's just such a shame you can see it's unreal. i guess my gripe is with the engine though, not with you.

people are exaggerating the threat this thing can do. it's less dangerous than a regular influenza. the concern should still be on the bird flu as that one has the potential to go pandemic. so sayeth the WHO.

without doubt the second of my two most anticipated games.

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lol, that's better than nothng!

mmmmmmmmmmm, foood

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Quote from st0lve

I love the paranoid people.They told us in the Army that one guy was in the hospital for Meningitis, told us the symptoms etc. and suddenly everyone felt ill for a while. The guy was cleared for everything and voila, not a single person felt ill.

Not knowing the symptoms really helps, cause if you think you are sick, your body acts sick.

ever heard of the placebo effect? it works well in reverse too.

Quote from citric

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red sign on blue building do not mix... otherwise what everyone else said.

Quote from Bic-B@ll

a new hiv cure is found every week and then never heard of again. ill believe it when i see it.

yeah, i'm beginning to wonder when my tax dollars can be see at work for them government funded medical research projects. those suckers need to step up their game.

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no appeal whatsoever... but then i was never a zombie survival simulator fan.

interesting. i heard they removed hiv from a man a few months ago by injecting him with stemcells from a supposed hiv immune man. this all happened in germany, i reckon.

Quote from Thrik

There is no vaccination to bird flu. It was because of extremely proactive prevention measures that a pandemic was prevented, similarly to what's happening here. The incredibly mutational nature of flu makes any kind of vaccine temporary at best, which is why even regular flu shots need to be taken regularly — and still aren't guaranteed to work.I do agree that the media tends to go OTT with these things, but it doesn't hurt to spread awareness and to spur governments/etc into action. I'd rather than they put too much spotlight on it rather than something like bird flu hit the major epicentres of countries and tally up immeasurable body counts.

while it's true that there a no vaccines per se, there are vaccines that improve the antibodies in the blood against the virus. they aren't temporary for as long as virus doesn't mutate, which means as long as it doesn't gain a new strain.

Quote from kleinluka

its just the media trying to scare people....OMG IT CANT BE CONTAINED !!!!!!! i'm sure in 2 months nobody will talk about it anymore

it's gonna be like the bird flu i reckon... whenever they get the vaccine out and about, everything's gonna be a-ok.

i got sick last week as well, though i don't reckon it's the swine flu.

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":2j8dfy2h]Nooo... Not regenerating health... God damn Halo1 that started it all.

even if i halo didn't do it, another game would do it.. it's one of those inevitable things.

that was pretty fucking funny.

i played through it. the general feeling i got from it was that it could have used more testing. when paying any amount of money for a product, you expect at least some sort of professional entertainment; so there are things i would nag about that wouldn't bother me if it was free. like spelling mistakes in the subtitles for instance, or how speech only works when you face the person you're talking to.

another frustration was the lock on system that seemed completely gimmicky. the most annoying part was the auto-lock which could not be levied in any way, and if you tried to do it manually, you started targeting another opponent. it feels like this should have been used for bosses battles only and not for regular opponents. general targeting of animals (squirrels included) was pretty horrible, as was the lack of a quick save button.

the game had its moments though, and the story; visuals and universe were enough to at least inspire me. i also condone it for trying out something new, although i think it's worth pointing out that first person brawlers might not be the way, especially due to the lack of peripheral vision that 3rd person games give you. the game is certainly not bad, but it could use more testing and polish.

i agree with the potential wasted for arena. it would be one hell of a cp map.

and bigger eyes coupled with a "D" smile. i mean how could they go wrong?