I believe the difficulty needs to be tweaked when a console FPS gets ported over to the PC because mouse users have a much easier time hitting targets. So using a mouse in single player would be another balance issue.
Also programming in mouse support is just more time and money that the developer has to spend and with a console why bother if you don't have to.
Like you said eariler though, I play Batman Arkham Asylum and City on the PC and when I play it I just plug in a 360 controller and I'm good to go, lets hear it for versatility.

That's awesome. I'd like to think in 100 million years, this will be a recorded story along the lines of:
"And the creatures of the above-world came down through the great light. There they freed 'sweedleeeezingoooo' from his unworldly bonds which he had born for so many currents. And Lo' they rejoiced in their work, shaking their appendages light-ward in celebration of their good deed"

That aside: Per the comments, why does it have to be a "GoPro" camera? Can't it just be "A CAMERA"? Fuck "GoPro". Is there seriously anything signifanctly different between this stupid little brand name and a regular, versatile camera? Other than the fact that someone manages to squeeze in their stupid little trademarked brand into so many good videos? The volume of it's invasion into the world of youtube videos has made me resolute to never buy one, and hate them outright.

>> ^dag:

@spoco2 - tablets are awesome mainly because of the form factor. The fact that you can be standing up in a bus and hold one like you would a book - makes them very versatile - and something you can't do with a laptop. Form factor use cases are hard to explain to people though until they experience it, and work them into their own lives.


Yeah, I get that people do use them. I have three different tablets sitting in my drawer beside me (for app development)... I could take them home and use them whenever I want... but I've never felt the need.

I think it's due to my hatred of typing on screens for anything more than a quick SMS. That's why I love the idea of the Surface, with the keyboard/mouse just built into the cover, and that it's running full windows so I can do real work on it, at real typing speeds if I want. But still use a tablet touch interface for all those things that it makes sense for.

For me, it's the first tablet I've seen the point in, but the market size and share of the iPad shows I'm in the minority!

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@spoco2 - tablets are awesome mainly because of the form factor. The fact that you can be standing up in a bus and hold one like you would a book - makes them very versatile - and something you can't do with a laptop. Form factor use cases are hard to explain to people though until they experience it, and work them into their own lives.

I used to build legos and listen to this on my 80s tape. Celebrate was another, and the cocktail(S?) sound track. Good times. I was smart and glued a square onto the back of my G I joes and made them more versatile and added on parts. Oh to be young again.

This will conclude the flash back.

Did Slash write 50 Shades of Grey? Damn, he's prolific. And versatile.

Hey, thanks for the Fry Lurve.

I always thought he was amazing -- to have it all laid out like that was overwhelming.

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*promote the nauseatingly versatile international treasure!

(I <3 Stephen Fry soooooo much)

*promote the nauseatingly versatile international treasure!

(I <3 Stephen Fry soooooo much)

Yes indeedy.......Immortalised by Guy Gibson.

Thanks for the ^Upvote^

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One of my favourite planes, second only to the Lancaster Bomber (Avro Lancaster). Nice find with this video, surprised how versatile the Hercules is in the air :

One of my favourite planes, second only to the Lancaster Bomber (Avro Lancaster). Nice find with this video, surprised how versatile the Hercules is in the air

I read about this the other day:

http://news.yahoo.com/gumby-flexible-robot-crawls-tight-spaces-200129817.html

excerpt:

Harvard scientists have built a new type of flexible robot that is limber enough to wiggle and worm through tight spaces.

It's the latest prototype in the growing field of soft-bodied robots. Researchers are increasingly drawing inspiration from nature to create machines that are more bendable and versatile than those made of metal.

The Harvard team, led by chemist George M. Whitesides, borrowed from squids, starfish and other animals without hard skeletons to fashion a small, four-legged rubber robot that calls to mind the clay animation character Gumby.

Well, I'm honored to be in the running.

And it's not for nothing that a long and versatile tongue is not simply a function of wit and sarcasm, but its very shape and form has, indeed, been associated with enlightenment, with Buddhahood, as is cultivated through yoga, tantra, and other forms of kundalini meditation.. and evidenced by glossalalia, "speaking in tongues," quali, "Song of Solomon kisses like wine," etc. etc...

Even the fetal development of the oral cavity is due, in part, to the secretion of sweet-tasting muco-polysaccharides from the “heavenly” cranial vault in the newly forming roof of the fetal mouth.. known for millenia within Hindu traditions, and only recently suggested by scientific research.

A colleague of mine states that the physiological basis of spiritual experience -- the body's "natural LSD-Ecstasy" with no side effects, only natural maturities -- constitutes a long tongue and versatile tongue.

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^smooman:
>> ^raverman:
Both Knights of the Old Republic games were such awesome awesome games...
But the last Star Wars Galaxies MMO was horrendously craptastic and buggy.
I'm conflicted.... can this be as good as it looks?

the last star wars mmo (SWG) was awesome for its first two years or so. then sony online entertainment (the developers) decided to remake the game entirely in the middle of it and made it the shitty game it is now. SWTOR is being produced and developed by bioware, their reputation speaks for itself

Actually, If I remember right, SOE bought the rights from the original developers, and after that made the changes. That's why it went in such a decline. They decided things like everybody can be a Jedi, and dumbed them down a bit. On paper it wass a good idea, but in reality one of the coolest things that game had to offer was getting to a certain point and becoming "Force Sensative" allowing your character to become a Jedi. Sure they were a tad OP but that's because they only had one life, and once the jedi was dead, it was dead, so you got really attached to your character.
As for the original question, as long as a game company like SOE doesn't take over, and Bioware stays in charge, I trust them.


nah, soe were the only developers. the differences between the game pre new game enhancement (NGE patch) and post nge were night and day. When swg launched and until the CU patch in 2005 it was the fastest growing mmo on the market. the cu saw a bit a decline but the final nail in the coffin was the nge and the shitstorm surrounding it. you had a unique and versatile profession based system where you could mix and match skills from 32 professions to make your "class". This was changed literally overnight with the nge, wiping the old profession system for a traditional class based system. many professions of the old game were not even represented in the new class system until about a year after the nge, namely the creature handler profession, one of the most fun and rewarding.

further adding to the controversy you had the trials of obi wan expansion that was released just two days prior to the nge, which, after the nge hit, a large portion of the player base demanded a refund on the expansion (which sony gave them eventually).

to sum it up, smedley, the president of soe, basically told the players what they want, despite massive protests that we didnt want any of that shit. today you have the ghost town of a game that swg sadly is.

i started playing shortly after launch and played through about 6 months or so after the nge. it was an amazing and unique game starting out but is garbage now. soe's lesson learned: dont fix what isnt broken


ps: permadeath was three deaths not one and that didnt last very long. after that it was xp loss. and jedi were op (pre nge anyway) primarily because of lore continuity and for the more practical reason: it took almost a year to grind one out in both the hologrind and the village grind (took me about 10 months playing everyday to unlock mine via the village grind)

in retrospect, any mmo that installs an alpha class (jedi for swg) its bound to break the game eventually but really, if you think about it, it only really breaks pvp

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Yeah more baskets and saddle bags would be good - and optional kid seats too. >> ^MarineGunrock:

I love it. To make it truly versatile, they should have at minimum a rack or basket, if not a couple of saddlebags.

I love it. To make it truly versatile, they should have at minimum a rack or basket, if not a couple of saddlebags.