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Mass Relays:

You lot don't have party bags? You guys don't send slices of birthday/wedding/christening cake home with the party guests? Nor do the birthday children open the presents at the party. What madness is this? What joyless childhood did you people lead? (Apparently it's odd that our shopping trolleys have 4 independent wheels)

Very few if any. Most of the time folk use stuff like Tunngle or Hamachi(or private servers for MMOs). Which uses the LAN feature in games too, hence removing LAN been seen as an anti-piracy/consumer tactic.

I've a feeling with Mojang being who they are now that they didn't really need the advertising. Especially at such high a cost.

Okay so here's one: What's the difference between C#, C n C++? As far as proper tuition on this, not something I'm exactly in the position to do. As far as support goes I do have the other guys, though I've a feeling the support there will only be if I do C#. (Mainly cos Ben is pretty butt headed)

In my ending

generic rant: The issue I have with it all is when looking for resources on where to start, there's plenty of tools and resources for learning once you have a start point, is like asking which political party you should go for. And there does seem to be a lot of politics in programming. Think gamers are bad? Imagine there was 30 consoles instead and "it has a powerPC CPU" is the simplest of "what it does" info you'll get. A lot of the discussion on what they all do seems to imply you're gonna need some base degree in computer science just to understand the differences. @Spork: App Inventor was graphical and that looked sweet but then it all got taken down and is in partial limbo at MIT. I guess it'd be fun to have a play with when it get's off it's toes. Python seems to have nice simple coding, i.e print("Hello World") versus Java's public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello world!"); } } But I'm struggling to find uses for it. It seems that it's kind of an add-on language(I guess in gaming terms, it seems to be a mod, not the main game), something you work with alongside other languages, but not that useful on it's own. There are however simple game tutorials, as real world examples, but I'm not keen on learning games. I think, from my limited knowledge, it's a bit like Lua. Which I do know is what's used to make mods n shit for WoW (and others, but WoW is the only game I definitely know uses Lua). If this is not the case then awesome. I think what I'm aiming for is a ...compiled language? I do like the whole Metro thing. Unsure if I'd want to make an app I can't put to use myself.

So I'd like to learn a language. But I've one major handicap. I don't like programming. I just kinda stare at code and my brain just nips out for a pint. The tweaks and stuff I've being doing with PXOD would probably have gone down much smoother if most of it wasn't guess work. About only time I've been fine with "coding" is that Inform7 and the syntax is basically like a book(it's for making interactive fiction). Oh and basic ActionScript. But I ain't touched Flash since it was owned by Macromedia, and that was so long ago I don't think most folks remember it wasn't always Adobe Flash. Basically this page just makes my brain take a week long cruise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world_program_examples But now I have a job at what's essentially a software development company. I'm not doing the coding stuff, it's kind of the point of my existence, I do officey stuff so they can all get on with coding and no distractions. But I have been told if I learn to code then it gets me more work and more bonuses my way (so before where it was "for fun" it's now got a financial incentive, which goes a long way). They use C#. Which I've been told (Cos I've mentioned my interest in learning to code) that if I do C# it'll make things much easier for them. If I learn something else then it means I potentially broaden the scope of what they can do. e.g Java means Android apps, Javascript (or whatever) means better website stuff. However the main aim is to learn programming for myself. I have a few ideas now n then and I'd like to make them a reality. I guess if I could make an Android App n sell it for like 20p that'd be swell. Being able to do coding at work is just a financial bonus, but not the aim of this. Thing is I vaguely understand that there's languages for web, languages for desktop, and then some for scripting (which I guess I'll leave alone). But then you have "high level" n "low level" n "Object Orientated" n "whatever is not object orientated" n all that shit. So trying to track down a good starting language that's worth learning and not horribly harsh to learn is a pain cos ...well it's computer geeks and they don't realise that many folks aren't born with innate abilities to understand this shit, so they rarely explain it.(It's part of what keeps Linux so small). So folks with experience/opinion on this where should I start? I don't want to do web stuff, but if there's languages that can do both desktop and web, that'll be neato. I basically want something that's; - somewhat simple, or at least heavily documented. - doesn't require tons of repetitive code (I hear some are a bit drag n drop for repeated tasks) - I don't care for games programming at all. - Web is a bonus but not required - Somewhat flexible, as in I can learn this and learning another language requires less exp points than from scratch. - Free (I like Adobe Air programs/apps but Flex ain't a free program) I'm probably asking for a lot here I'm thinking Java, cos that seems to be in a lot of things. But I also hear it has some horrible issues with how you code it out. I'm unsure if it's good for making working applications in though. i.e if I wanted to make a twitter client, a to-do list app, image editor, or a NDA-ized thingy. Java doesn't seem to be the trick. In fact apart from Minecraft and Android I can't think of any uses of Java I've come across. Anything on this list would be awesome: http://thenewboston.org/tutorials.php (via Rabbit, who I don't think uses the forum.) Oh any other learning resources would be cool too

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/report-game-puts-itself-up-for-sale/092593

My cousin took hers from her mum. (Her dad wasn't around at the time afaik) edit: So Javik is already in the game and accessible. It actually works (given ti a test myself) tut-tut. (the mission itself is not, but if your'e wanting a new squad member)

@WAS:

So yeah I didn't realise this game a - had an ending b - 2 hours in. le bum

Justice League: Doom We wanted something to watch the other night, so this was recently out n seemed a worthwhile watch. It was really crappy. The animation was better than the TV series, but the plotline, not so much. It's not actually related to the TV show, which does mean some differences in how characters relate. The voice cast was all the old guys though (Conroy, Dale, Rosenbuam, Fillon). We ended up watching the old JL episodes and DCUO adverts in order to act as a sort of eye bleach. I suggested to Ben he check out the TV series Vandall Savage episodes as a comparison. It doubly sucks cos "Batmans files on the JLA are stolen" could have been a really good plotline. Justice League: Crisis on Two Earth's is much better. But it doesn't matter.

Yeah I figured it'd change your FOv, just wanted to see if it automatically enables controller and maybe changes up the HUD somewhat. I only got the game last night, so whatever mode is in it at the moment. Why would you think I'm holding tab down? pressing tab disables the HUD anyway.

CS:GO. Much faster rounds than CS:S, we'd been playing for a bit over an hour and the bomb only went off twice. It's rare to get planted at all. I don't know if it's just a tweak to the formula (it's 5vs5), or cos folks are used to COD or what. The map we were on was pretty small too. They're in beta mode atm which means one map at a time, and your weapons are pre-picked for you (though you can earn a bonus grenade). So can't really say much on weapons n stuff. I used to like sniping. Oh tab doesn't open the scoreboard either which is a bummer (I wanted to know how bad my ping was) Oh in the settings it has Desktop Mode n Couch Mode, I may have a looksy into what those mean. Maybe see if it supports a 360 pad n give a spin with that..ya know cos.. Oh I also got Enslaved in the post from Love Film yesterday so gonna give that a spin.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203458604577265321595882542.html#project%3DSLIDESHOW08%26s%3DSB10001424052970204603004577271842684404260%26articleTabs%3Darticle I could see these becoming more popular as internet get's more widespread and people move about much more/tech savvy folks get older. Then we end up one day with creepy young Bruce Willis.

Because many people use a rent as a test run before buying the game?

Yeah I'm discussing it with Thursday on Twitter atm. Though not cos of what you said, just cos earlier today I figured it's going to fuck people over good in a few months down the line: This isn't COD, the MP won't be active for long. Here's hoping for some patch/fix/workaround down the line. Does anyone have any hard maths on how much war assets can be gathered? I had like 6,500 by the end of the game. More than enough with MP, but only 3,250 without. I'd need another 3,500 (roughly 4 more alien races) to get to the required 10,000 war assets. btw if you don't/can't play MP you can get this iOS app for only $7 which also works with the "Galaxy at War"/Readiness: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mass-effect-infiltrator/id486601093?mt=8 What I came to this thread for: http://www.forbes.co...dlc-from-ashes/

It's for Gamestops, which as far as I'm aware after leaving Ireland earlier this year, and until their takeover of GAME later this year, are pretty much US-based.

So they came to a settlement. Bethesda gets the trademark of Scrolls, and Mojang get's to use that trademark so long as they don't make an RPG game like The Elder Scrolls. Which means Mojang are making the exact same game there were already making, with the exact same name they were already using, but Bethesda now have a new trademark in their roster and made everyone a little bit poorer than when they started (except the lawyers). What a fucking farce. Even more so when in a few years down the line Bethesda take Mojang to court over the trademark use...

Oh yeah here be a photo of my ending. Which I guess I did kinda like. (It's the green/W/mix ending)

Niave as in wanting something a bit better, or niave for something else? As for the phone booths, they do need a way to say "London" to coincide with Andersons repeated "They're building up in London" "London was where I was born" "Hey, you're in London". Even though by 200 years in the future they will be totally useless and maybe have a couple in the tourist-ey areas n that'd be it. That's if you don't go for her. It was building up on ME2 mind. Whereas for mine we were bros, and Was definitely worth it, slightly marred by the blurry resolution. Shame the ending then dragged on so much since that point. Yeah I figured into my head it was a bit like Contact. But it's never explained as such, and given