I found the slow time shout to be too useful when I was focusing on Destruction spells. Fun to kill a dragon mid-flight

Unrelenting Force (Fus-Ro-Dah) seems pointless once you get a few better shouts. It is still fun to punch a few guys off a ledge. I'm glad the fall-damage gets deadly quickly. Something about being thrown 30ft + 10ft fall and landing on your skull seems like it should be deadly.

TPIR has always been the most entertaining product placement *commercials I have ever rotted my brain to. Still fun after all these years.

>> ^conan:

same enemies. same weapons. pffff.


But it's still fun?

What! No Motorhead? Still fun though.

would like to see less "connect the dots" and more science here.
still fun to watch, where's the TED talk on fluoride?

>> ^dag:

Have you tried it within the last year? Has to be the download version.>> ^rychan:
>> ^dag:
I wouldn't say that Minecraft is dead from a gameplay perspective, just stripped down. The game can be truly scary, even for adults. The monsters are great and the game really shines in multiplayer. In the end though, it is a sandbox game that eschews structure for freedom and creativity. IMHO it's the best thing to happen in gaming for many, many years.>> ^westy:
Not actually "that" creative.
the best part of this i think is the execution of the editing and recording ultimetly this is like sumoen building a large thing in Lego. not that thats a "bad" thing but its a very procedural process and so i would argue its not that "creative" still fun and still as valid as anything else.
Its s ahsame that mine craft is largely dead and soleless when it comes to annything other than building stuff , im sure a company will taske the best building parts of mine craft and then marry it with some deeper game play , proper servival horror game play or RPG oor just something that is more sophisticated.
im sure a AAA dev some place is doing this right now. ( granted will probably be shit lol)


I actually agree with Westy. I freaking love sim games and building games. I love to start with a clean slate and build up an intricate, active universe. But isn't it true what Westy said, that there's not really anything going on under the hood in Minecraft? I mean this city is just a bunch of inactive geometry? There's no dynamic processes, no citizens, no interactions? I fail to see how this is so different from modelling in 3d studio, although I acknowledge it is somehow much more compelling.
I see that the beta has a little more gameplay with roaming monsters, but I don't find that very compelling, and that's not what's being demonstrated in this video.
I really _want_ to like Minecraft, because I feel like I'm the perfect audience, but it's just not compelling to me (yet). I guess I want a sandbox world that feels as alive as Sim City 4, but that is as mutable as MineCraft.



I have, i still feel like it's missing a soul. I'd build all that, but what would i do with it? It just feels too empty

It's close to being "the" game i want to play, but there's just not enough to do in it. I feel similar about terraria atm - terraria went down the adventure/rpg route, getting gear, killing bosses, going to dungeons - but again, there's no 'end game' to make me want to do more. (I hate saying end game, it makes me look like someone who wants hardcore raiding, but i don't - i hope you understand what i mean when i used that phrase)

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Have you tried it within the last year? Has to be the download version.>> ^rychan:

>> ^dag:
I wouldn't say that Minecraft is dead from a gameplay perspective, just stripped down. The game can be truly scary, even for adults. The monsters are great and the game really shines in multiplayer. In the end though, it is a sandbox game that eschews structure for freedom and creativity. IMHO it's the best thing to happen in gaming for many, many years.>> ^westy:
Not actually "that" creative.
the best part of this i think is the execution of the editing and recording ultimetly this is like sumoen building a large thing in Lego. not that thats a "bad" thing but its a very procedural process and so i would argue its not that "creative" still fun and still as valid as anything else.
Its s ahsame that mine craft is largely dead and soleless when it comes to annything other than building stuff , im sure a company will taske the best building parts of mine craft and then marry it with some deeper game play , proper servival horror game play or RPG oor just something that is more sophisticated.
im sure a AAA dev some place is doing this right now. ( granted will probably be shit lol)


I actually agree with Westy. I freaking love sim games and building games. I love to start with a clean slate and build up an intricate, active universe. But isn't it true what Westy said, that there's not really anything going on under the hood in Minecraft? I mean this city is just a bunch of inactive geometry? There's no dynamic processes, no citizens, no interactions? I fail to see how this is so different from modelling in 3d studio, although I acknowledge it is somehow much more compelling.
I see that the beta has a little more gameplay with roaming monsters, but I don't find that very compelling, and that's not what's being demonstrated in this video.
I really _want_ to like Minecraft, because I feel like I'm the perfect audience, but it's just not compelling to me (yet). I guess I want a sandbox world that feels as alive as Sim City 4, but that is as mutable as MineCraft.

>> ^dag:

I wouldn't say that Minecraft is dead from a gameplay perspective, just stripped down. The game can be truly scary, even for adults. The monsters are great and the game really shines in multiplayer. In the end though, it is a sandbox game that eschews structure for freedom and creativity. IMHO it's the best thing to happen in gaming for many, many years.>> ^westy:
Not actually "that" creative.
the best part of this i think is the execution of the editing and recording ultimetly this is like sumoen building a large thing in Lego. not that thats a "bad" thing but its a very procedural process and so i would argue its not that "creative" still fun and still as valid as anything else.
Its s ahsame that mine craft is largely dead and soleless when it comes to annything other than building stuff , im sure a company will taske the best building parts of mine craft and then marry it with some deeper game play , proper servival horror game play or RPG oor just something that is more sophisticated.
im sure a AAA dev some place is doing this right now. ( granted will probably be shit lol)



I actually agree with Westy. I freaking love sim games and building games. I love to start with a clean slate and build up an intricate, active universe. But isn't it true what Westy said, that there's not really anything going on under the hood in Minecraft? I mean this city is just a bunch of inactive geometry? There's no dynamic processes, no citizens, no interactions? I fail to see how this is so different from modelling in 3d studio, although I acknowledge it is somehow much more compelling.

I see that the beta has a little more gameplay with roaming monsters, but I don't find that very compelling, and that's not what's being demonstrated in this video.

I really _want_ to like Minecraft, because I feel like I'm the perfect audience, but it's just not compelling to me (yet). I guess I want a sandbox world that feels as alive as Sim City 4, but that is as mutable as MineCraft.

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I wouldn't say that Minecraft is dead from a gameplay perspective, just stripped down. The game can be truly scary, even for adults. The monsters are great and the game really shines in multiplayer. In the end though, it is a sandbox game that eschews structure for freedom and creativity. IMHO it's the best thing to happen in gaming for many, many years.>> ^westy:

Not actually "that" creative.
the best part of this i think is the execution of the editing and recording ultimetly this is like sumoen building a large thing in Lego. not that thats a "bad" thing but its a very procedural process and so i would argue its not that "creative" still fun and still as valid as anything else.
Its s ahsame that mine craft is largely dead and soleless when it comes to annything other than building stuff , im sure a company will taske the best building parts of mine craft and then marry it with some deeper game play , proper servival horror game play or RPG oor just something that is more sophisticated.
im sure a AAA dev some place is doing this right now. ( granted will probably be shit lol)

Not actually "that" creative.

the best part of this i think is the execution of the editing and recording ultimetly this is like sumoen building a large thing in Lego. not that thats a "bad" thing but its a very procedural process and so i would argue its not that "creative" still fun and still as valid as anything else.

Its s ahsame that mine craft is largely dead and soleless when it comes to annything other than building stuff , im sure a company will taske the best building parts of mine craft and then marry it with some deeper game play , proper servival horror game play or RPG oor just something that is more sophisticated.

im sure a AAA dev some place is doing this right now. ( granted will probably be shit lol)

its a complex trick but some music fits this pattern inevitably.. still fun. 4 4 time maybe has something to do with it



again, description for this sift from YT:

I got the audio of Kesha (or Ke$ha if you're a purist) from College Humor dot com. Then, I took the instrumental track of Your Love Is My Drug, pitched it down one half-step from the studio version to match her vocals, and layered her vocal track on top of it. - Tim burt

i have too much time on my hands but its because im so good at doing nothing. also shouldnt this be in different channel like parody or comedy? and shouldnt i be doing something more productive??

Is this email address still working?

Hi. You know that dead notice you got recently? Well, there is big drama over here at the Sift. I apparently have posted a dupe of that vid that climbed to #3 with a buttload of points.

http://videosift.com/video/Bill-Maher-Says-It-Again-somehow-it-is-the-clearest-yet

It even got a sift talk!

Folks are arguing as to whether it is a dupe or not.

You can come settle it. And get a whole bunch of votes in a heartbeat!

It is entirely possible that this comment is going out to nowhere. It is still fun to write.

Ah, I remember this video. Thanks for the internet nostalgia IIRC this was fake, but still fun to watch.

What other buildings have been "pre-rigged" to collapse upon their footprint at the result of a fire, or an adjacent collapse.

if you or anyone can name one other example in which this is the case, I'll buy it.

anyone?


anyone?

<crickets>

>> ^westy:
as for the buildings falling down I think supper large buldings are pre rigged to be able to be demolished in a way that makes them fall right down. if u think about it would u rather have world trade center fall side ways killing 5-20k people or right down killing 2-6k people ? (lol maby not but still fun idea to entertain)

9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB !!!

lol , I belive , 911 was a total goverment fuck up ( with some people maby evan knowing what was going to happen and choosing to say nothing) .

as for the buildings falling down I think supper large buldings are pre rigged to be able to be demolished in a way that makes them fall right down. if u think about it would u rather have world trade center fall side ways killing 5-20k people or right down killing 2-6k people ? (lol maby not but still fun idea to entertain)

no way to realy know for sure what happend on 911 , what important is to look at what is taking place right now and what needs to be stoped / priortized .

Its max lol how 911 had totaly negligable inpact on actual safty or loss of life to people in USA and western world but as a result the actions the goverments have taken have resulted in over 400k Dead