Recent content by Frits

Wow, Mike Abrash. Yes, you definitely should be familiar with this guy. I remember his articles in Dr. Dobbs well - on the finesses of programming a 3D engine. He makes for an interesting author. I'll be looking forward to his blog posts!

Overcoming shame is the most important thing when writing! So thumbs up for what you've done. Especially since your writing is indeed quite good. That said, I'd like to be a bit critical, since 1) your writing is good enough to criticize and 2) in a way, you ask for it... ;) No, I'm not...

No, it's great to have a game that doesn't force some kind of character on me, the player. I'm quite happy to write for my character myself, by performing the actions I do. What would be even more horrible would be to have the character answer, and then allow the player to do something that...

I actually found that rather artificial in L4D2. They can be like "is that thing riding him?" even when they've seen jockeys do so for umpteen times. Now it's as though the old survivors have seen all special infected already for quite some times (which would be logical; why would jockeys etc...

Anyone notice the flying coffee cup? This is gonna be so cool.

Tried to play it yesterday, but I couldn't find many games... L4D reported only about 3500 people were playing it. If that was a world wide figure, it'd be only natural most of these people weren't in my vicinity to play with, I guess...

Heh, doesn't seem like anyone still is into L4D here...

Two questions: 1. Why hasn't this been posted on the front page? 2. Anyone reckon Valve could be pursuaded to, say, add something like Realism Versus to L4D1? Would make the first game much more fun for veteran players. (If anyone still plays it, that is. I haven't played either game for some...

It definitely was, I still remember all game magazines being very enthusiastic about it. I recently played it and now I find it's graphics to be horribly outdated, though... A shame, 'cause the story's fine.

Translation: I didn't read it but react to your post anyway. Dude, it's a relationship they're having. So, yes, you get to 'touch' stuff of your partner. Now, I didn't say what she did was pretty - had she been my girlfriend, I'd sent her away just like that. But that's not what the guy did...

Send a mail to the WoW helpdesk and see if the stuff really is deleted permanently. If so, then MAYBE, just maybe, such anger is slightly justified. Wait, no, let me rephrase myself: if a guy gets angry like that over something trivial as what happened here, then he's far from prepared for...

Indeed, that's endlessly annoying. But then, they mostly shoot many times sharper than any human team mate...

I might have missed these, a.o.: - Fixed bug where a SurvivorBot would leave human players to die when being strangled by a smoker/pounced by a hunter/rode by a jockey/pummeled by a charger - Fixed bug where a SurvivorBot would leave cover/walk in human player's line of fire/stupidly trigger...

You will also be invited to a dinner at the uppermost floor of the world's highest building, where you'll meet a high profile member of a Japanese... organization, the name of which I cannot tell you here. I cannot tell you what to do next, as I'm simply not informed about this, but I can tell...

In fact, it's the sign of the Illuminati, part of which was founded by a number of Freemasons, but not entirely (OK, so the Freemasons use this sign nowadays as well; it's all a cover-up for the Illuminati anyways). As for the OP: prepare for a career in one of this worlds most secret and...