lol! Knew the internet is the place to ask these sorts of questions

Now I know exactly what you mean with that one Creative Assembly still haven't patched the A.I cheating despite it being pointed out to them several times and the bugs in Fallout are ridiculous too.

So I'm studying some brilliant books on C++ programming and really enjoying it because now I can look at code and make proper sense of half the stuff I was thinking that when I put my code into action and make a real game that isn't just interactive graphics what are the things that people most hate that I should keep out? There are some really obvious ones but I wouldn't be surprised if I missed some that other people truly despise having in their games. My most hated feature so far in a game hasn't been unskippable cutscenes or not being able to while combat happens ( even though those are pretty fucking awful those can be easily fixed by a competent programmer and good game design) but infinitely looping RPG statistics or A.I cheating and I'll explain what I mean for those who wouldn't understand what I mean by this.

So for RPG statistics, I'm talking about things like experience points, health points, all that good stuff, now when these kind of things go up quickly and they don't have a limit of 100000 then it can actually make games fairly entertaining, but lately I've seen games developers abusing the shit out of these statistics even in singleplayer games because it's much more easier to add several 0's onto a statistics than it is to make a nicely crafted game scenario for a player to go through. Yes, I understand why they've done something like this, no I don't see the fucking point in it, it's abysmal and it drives me insane, I'm sure you've seen it yourselves but MMORPGs in particular abuse the shit out of statistics and all game developers are doing is dragging it out as long as possible in a desperate effort to keep the player in the game. They've gone from trying to make games entertaining and interesting to interact with to just being absolutely tedious, the worst part is, this kind of thinking is infesting other genres as well! You've got all these shooters now instead of making at least half-decent scripted scenarios to just adding thousands of perks or slightly different game models RPG statistics vomited all over them.

Then comes the A.I cheating, we all know humanity's A.I isn't that advanced yet, it can't even recognise speech very well never mind command an army properly, but lately I've gotten pissed off with another form of lazy coding known as letting A.I spawn free troops that all have better statistics than yours. Yes, I'm talking about an RTS, more specifically Shogun 2, I'm aware that this tends to happen badly on hard difficulty but this is happening even on 'easy' mode! I remember playing the original Halo and all they did was give the enemy twice as much health and you half that. What the geniuses at creative assembly have done though is because they don't want certain clans winning they give other clans entire stacks of very powerful units so they'll give the Takeda a bunch of later game units and the Uesegi as well or they'll compensate for the A.I stupidity by giving them huge armies to play with leaving you the player with a tiny amount of troops and the only option of getting steamrolled by them because of course they've taken away the skill element of the gameplay since Rome Total War and replaced it with statistics instead. I just had a situation where I was playing with a smaller force against a much bigger force that my enemy had amassed unfairly despite having only one province ( which would mean he would have to cheat to get as many troops as he did ) and despite this I managed to ambush him from a forest by luring him. By all accounts, I should have at least been able to decimate is forces slightly but instead what happened despite taking the enemy completely by surprise with my entire force engaging a couple of unsupported units my troops just went up and ran away! The fuck? If that were a real battle they would have at least had a good portion of those units hacked away before they could do anything.

Game Dev: Hey boss! We realised something, our players keep chewing through our content like no tomorrow
Boss: What? At this rate we'll actually have to start being creative again in order to keep our jobs!
Game Dev: What should we do? They got through our last game in just a couple of hours
Boss: Add more zeros
Game Dev: Zeroes?
Boss: Yes, if we add more zeroes that should slow them down enough and stop them getting through everything so fast until we make our next game
Game Dev: Great idea! Maybe we could add even more zeroes on the next game too so it lasts even longer!
Boss: Excellent! Get it done!


Anyway, bit of a long rant I know, but let me know what other hates you have in computer games so I don't repeat the same mistakes other game developers have

It's not as bad as their television at least, because with text you can at least ignore it easier and look at the actual information if there's any, in television and on the BBC in particular they've used horrible puns so much I've wanted to bash the screen in, it's really awful, much prefer getting my news in text form now

This is what happened when the financial crisis happened at around 2008, Gold dropped to about 800 and then rose to about 2000, I wouldn't be surprised if we're about to head to another financial collapse.

Just write on his profile that he also gave you a negative feedback rating in response to yours, if people are smart they won't go nuts over one or two negative ratings, that's probably going to be normal the longer this system goes on like in Amazon.

Have you watched Firefly yet? Not a movie, but should keep you occupied for several hours if you haven't seen it yet

Depends on how suicidal the U.S government and Federal Reserve is feeling, there's every possibility.

 At least you're being honest lol

Sorry I haven't posted updates in awhile, I'm going to be posting more often now, I keep discovering extra tools etc. that I need for more specialised tasks but I'm almost entirely set up now and I'll only need materials from now on to make my pieces, here are some WIP photos of a Rose Quartz cabochon necklace I will be putting up for sale soon. It will be 0.7 BTC like the other I have for sale but this one has a proper gemstone for the setting I've made with a flat bottom so you won't get any problems with a pointy end going out the back.









I'm also carrying on my learning and I've made a flush setting and currently I'm working on setting an oval gemstone















For those of you who are curious, here's a photo of my workbench too

Hiya I recommend trading physical goods for Bitcoin ( even selling off junk you don't want ) or mining it, especially if you're in the UK, converting fiat to Bitcoin directly is going to be more and more of a pain in the arse now the government is starting to clamp down on Bitcoin exchanges who don't play by their rules.

I bet you it's a tactic to try and get people to stay on the website for more than five seconds so they look at the ads, ad people pull all kinds of annoying shit like this.

I'm trying to remember what it was she exactly said because it really was absolute nonsense but I've had worse than that Also liking someone else isn't necessarily an excuse, she could be just being honest too, depends on the girl.

I guarantee people who say this sort of thing and the people who come onto these forums regularly to attack Bitcoin are just hoping the price goes down from what they say so they can trade it more themselves in secret


The reason you feel this way is Bitcoin is worth more, it can do more and you can do more with it and you're free to do with it whatever you want, I know I've really upped my productivity lately because I know now that anything I earn isn't going to devalue itself 100 times over in the next year. No one can take your Bitcoins away from you unless they steal it or hack your computer, not even the government or central banks.

There was a whole thing on the Top Gear news about Lamborghini Gallardo's catching fire, yes, they're notorious for being unreliable and not just Lamborghini's. Jeremy went through a whole season nearly having tons of problems with the electrics on his Ford GT. If you're going to drive one of these things be prepared to accept that it will burst into flames for absolutely no reason, oh and good luck taking them into a city with how low the bumpers are and how wide they are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFbG-4VWqpA

thisisnottheproxyouarelookingfor

As far as I know when it comes to the sort of thing they're talking about the only way they would be able to do any of what they say is through blatantly illegal means like hacking or by taking control of the Bitcoin source code, since this is pretty much impossible to do I'm confident they have their heads in the sky and they're talking bullshit. What the Bitcoin foundation is are a bunch of self-appointed leaders who think they can become a Bitcoin central bank and I think I can safely say the majority of the people here don't give a flying fuck about them.

That's the trick really isn't it? That's my only real problem with the leaders we have now, they think too much like the Borg.

Plagiarism is theft, copyright is merely a bunch of rules set by the creator about distribution, the problem is you've got a ton of propaganda out there trying to convince people differently, I hate and despise plagiarism, but I couldn't give a flying fuck about copyright, even as an artist.

Apple? All I know is in 8 days Top Gear starts again