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It pains me greatly to think there are people in the world who need to be told what a picture is.

You know you're talking about people from MIT, right? And you know what pains me? That there are people who don't know how to use google and start a topic asking people to look for them. You really shouldn't be lecturing me about what a useful topic is, ok? Let's try and keep further posts ontopic.

Shush shush, calm down. I'm disagreeing with how useful your post is, it's not the end of the world. You won't die. Nothing will explode.

It doesn't matter where those people are from. They could be from Trinity College Dublin or from Cambridge Uni or Bristol or UCSC, it wouldn't make me automatically agree with them just because they have a swanky looking uni. In fact, that'd make me automatically more apprehensive that they're the type of person who'll spend more time waffling and less time doing.

Saying "You realise they're from the MIT RIGHT?!??" sounds kind of silly.

I see plenty of people in the industry like you, and they're very good at getting into good positions and talking at conferences and being quoted... but when it comes to actually making a game, it's pretty obvious they're all talk and don't really have an idea of what makes a game good, because they spend all their time talking theoretical bollocks and not enough time playing games and learning from the victories and mistakes of other designers. Usually those people are the ones that every else in the studio hates.

Anyway I can see I'm winding people up so I'll just go over here now and you can continue your highly useful debate... and when it's over I'll read back through it and see what you've all learned from it.

Right scotch, but an illustrator demonstrating image construction would not ask the question "what is a picture?".

http://people.csail.mit.edu/fredo/ArtAndScienceOfDepiction/3_WhatIsAPicture/Image.pdf

It pains me greatly to think there are people in the world who need to be told what a picture is.

Right scotch, but an illustrator demonstrating image construction would not ask the question "what is a picture?".

And then illustrate what a picture is using a series of interconnected circles.

I read a lot about what people write about games, I still disagree with the object of this thread. There are some clever things being said, but also some wanky things. And discussing the definition of what a video game is, isn't going to help people make good ones. It's just going to stop them from accidentally making a board game, or a non-game, or maybe accidentally baking a fun cake.

It's really obvious what a game is, I can't believe this even needs to be discussed. Can't you put your energy into discussing more important things?

No one is forcing you to read or respond to this thread. If you don't like it, ignore it.

similarly, nobody is being forced to respond to my post, and many people clearly don't like it and have chosen to ignore it. I just find that this thread is not only pretentious and pointless, but also doesn't even phrase the question very well.

when you post things on the internet for discussion and debate, some people aren't going to like what you say. then they'll probably respond. I read this, and it annoyed me, and I responded to it as such. since it was posted on the internet, I'm sure the thread starter won't be terribly surprised that someone, somewhere, didn't like it.

Some puzzles are shit and pointless.

It's really obvious what a game is, I can't believe this even needs to be discussed. Can't you put your energy into discussing more important things?

I mean really, even if you came up with some definitive formula for what EXACT combination of circles on a graph define WHAT A GAME IS, is that going to be useful to anybody? Has anybody ever been stressed out because they don't know if what they're making falls into the video game genre, board game genre or plastic toy genre???

Also this thread started off badly when you forgot to even define whether or not you meant VIDEO games, or just games in general. Like Hopskotch.


This is academic wankery at it's worst.

not kidding, Brighton is way better than London.

My long-lost sister could still be some kind of massive cunt for all I know, so if anything goes wrong I will be holding you personally responsible of course...

I have this fear, this... horrible fear... that she'll be a massive chav. I hate Chavs. What if she's a chav? omg I've never seen her or anything...

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, I totally did not believe that Genes Reunited would be that effective. I thought it would be just a scam to get money out of you without giving you any real info or way of contacting people.

But I paid the £10 and contacted the person who I suspected was my half sisters Mum, and I am not kidding when I say that I got a reply back within 20 minutes. And it was the correct person!!!!!!!

She's passing on my details to my sister

I'm pretty much chuffed right now

Genes Reunited is amazing.... I sound like an advert but, seriously... whoa. YIPPPEEEEE!!! Best £10 I've ever spent

me

How can you start smoking because you have no choice, increator?

Or did you write that sentence wrong?


Everybody has a choice, to start smoking, and also to quit smoking. My boyfriend chose to start smoking because it gave him an excuse to slip out for cigarette breaks at work. He chose to stop smoking because his uncle died of cancer.

I'm pretty indifferent to the smoking ban but, I'd just like to say that a lot of people in Ireland thought it'd be the end of the world when the smoking ban came in. But it wasn't. And now most pubs over there have nice outdoor seating areas with heating and stuff, which is way nicer than sitting in a dark pub anyway.

In Brighton, one of the pubs close to where I work has been forced to make an outdoor seating area with heaters. It's really nice, it means you can sit outside all night, still be warm, and be able to hear each other speak and be in nice clean(ish) night air. It's cool. So yeah, the side-effects of the smoking ban are actually kinda good.

Heated outdoor seating areas FTW...!!!!

Anybody got a paid account on Genes Reunited...? ¬¬

Only I may have found my half sister on there, but unfortunately the site requires you to register and pay before you can actually get confirmation that that IS the right person.

So I was thinking maybe I could hijack someone elses account...

You know, I never particularly minded the smoke in pubs... I just hated the way it made my clothes and hair smell afterwards.

But I actually LOVE the smell of... and this'll make me sound weird... erm... you know when you're christmas shopping and it's raining, so you've got an umbrella, and it's getting dark so all the christmas lights are refecting and shining off the wet on the road, and everyone has bags of presents, and someone walks past with a cigarette and for some reason it smells different because I guess the air is wet, and cold, I dunno... but I love that smell.

And I don't smoke....

.... erm anyway.

I'm looking for a free program where I can make simple little animated gifs like this:

http://www.ffspirit.net/finalfantasy8/animatedgifs

Any suggestions? Most tha tI've looked at seem to be shareware...

Every attack and kill has a purpose, so the thought that they want to kill as many people as they can is just plain stupidity affected by mass media. Despite that Bin Laden as a terrorist may not even exist, have you ever thought about what led people to destroy 2 big buildings crowded with people? Ofcourse you don't, you just sit in your office and consume the health of 3. world in every 5 minutes.

Not every attack and kill has a purpose.

I have thought about what led people to destroy 2 buildings packed with people.

It doesn't excuse what they did.

Don't be so presumptious. be quiet. stop getting on your high horse.

All we're doing is laughing at a group of silly silly people who tried and failed miserably, to hurt a bunch of innocent women, men and children.

Shh.

Don't worry guys, these suicide bombers are a dying breed.

BAD-DUM-TSHH!!!

Hopefully they'll have suicided themselves out of existence by about 2009.

They had bombs, petrol, nails... they drove a car at high speeds into a busy airport terminal full of people.

And they didn't even injure a single person. In fact, it all happened opposite-style... an onlooker managed to swing a punch at one of them before the police grabbed him.

If I was one of those terrorists, I'd be pretty embarrassed right about now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6257194.stm

Well done 'terrorists'! That was truly rubbish.