"What most C++ programmers (beginner and intermediate) don't seem to realize is that the "std::" prefixes actually make the code easier to read, not harder."
Yes, it also makes it a lot uglier, and I'm the one that has to read the code. Thank you.
This game is awesome and the run reflects that. A pity that you cannot show all the possible endings in one sitting.
The only thing I miss is that you don't marry the sea monster, or is it that only mermaids can do that?
"The goal choice is not arbitrary, it limits him to the set of tricks that was used in SprintGod's widely lauded S3K TAS (with three exceptions, two of which are each only applicable to a single level). "
Obviously, "using only tricks used in this obsoleted movie" was a clear and pretty standard goal that I totally missed. Sorry for the hindrance, then.
There are still things that require incredible precision to make it work in real time, though. It took me like fifteen tries to escalate a wall by using a lasso and three angels. A boomerang can reach starites and make unkillable enemies fly out of reach, but it also took me many tries to perform it correctly.
I think this is the game that would benefit the most from other people feedback. Specially if you try a glitchfest run.
Well, I once summoned a drum kit while there was a hippie in the place and he used it. Also, rabbits use other rabbits to make more rabbits. When they are about to use something, they show a blue balloon with little gears in it.
Some objects also show curiosity about some objects, like the archaeologist being attracted to fossils and figurines, or they want to protect someone, like the fairy godmother that protects girls. The fairy godmother will turn pumpkins into money, heh. Santa Claus also gives presents with random toys.
There's a puzzle with a lumberjack and a tree, and asks for help in sawing the tree off.
I summoned a hippie and chained it to the tree. Then gave the lumberjack an axe. Fun times. ^_^
The new linux kernel 2.6.31 is a bless because X Windows works a whole lot better and it was about damn time they did those changes.
However, the only compiled packages I've found so far have disabled dhcp for some reason, so I have to manually set my IP as static if I want to use that kernel, I don't have this problem if I start my computer with any other kernel. Very annoying. :/
I'm playing the one my friend has lent me while I'm waiting for mine to arrive, and so far is the most awesome game ever.
I wanted to get to the other side of a wall, so I summoned dwarves, but they didn't want to excavate. I thought they needed a little incentive so I summoned a treasure. So they started guarding it. I thought I would have more luck with something they hated, so I summoned an elf. But dwarves mostly ignored her...
until she got attracted to the treasure and tried to steal it from the dwarves. What a beating with pickaxes, lol.
I finally managed to cross the ground wall by summoning a land mine, and then having a cosmologist step on it by summoning Saturn on the other side.
The only thing I miss is summoning beer. Damn ESRB rate. :(
I love Gimmick! ^__^
This improvement was really cool, the only thing I really miss is the 1ups you should get from jumping consecutively on so many cannonballs. :P
What I don't understand, is why is there a built-in cheat that does this in the first place. Shouldn't that have been an option in the game? After few replays (and movie views) most people want cursor and story parts to move faster.
So, why was it hidden? It proves that the slowness of the cursor is done on purpose rather than due to technical limitations.
What? Both stripes are green. If any, he would be blind for that specific type of opthic effect, because he is not deluded into thinking that one of the stripes is blue.
The test says I'm ENTJ (the fieldmarshall), that I'm a natural leader trying to get the best solution for everyone, always try to be objective and impartial, and that I should be running for presidency or management.
Extraverted 33%
Intuitive 25%
Thinking 25%
Judging 22%
It also says that people like me are pretty rare, under 2% of total population. Heh.
All your points are wrong, because all your assumptions are false.
Also, religions other than Islam (and some interpretations of calvinism) are against war and forceful conversion, and Islam only if they follow their sacred texts. People going to war using religion as an excuse are like people commiting crimes using videogames as an excuse, it makes no sense unless you have prepared yourself to believe that, but it's used a lot by interested parties to gain influence.
It's far complicated than that. There are people to which showing a baseball doesn't work because it's too complicate to understand, but saying that something is so because that person says so works for the reason appeal to authority works. Personifying the concept of goodness as the most authoritative person, and remaining consistent with the message (which also provides good results) is the reason of the success of christianity.
Also, it's known that the only reason at least 25% of population don't commit crimes is solely for fear of punishment. That is, if they think they won't be hurt, they will do whatever they please, like kill you or destroying a forest, or whatever hurts the rest of the world as a whole. It's known that cultures that have some form of after-death judgement are more succesful than others due to the effect it has on these kind of people.
Additionally, most forms of "god's punishment" for doing so and so, which is the basis of religion's morals, are simple rules of thumb of survival when there's no technology to give a reasonably scientific explanations. For example, eating pork was banned from many religions due to trichinosis and infidelity was also chastised because it spread a lot of diseases. In fact, most of Africa current problems with diseases are due to absolute lack of morals: at least 25% of men have raped a child, people infect others thinking the other will carry with his 'bad spirit' and he will be free, and infidelity is the norm, not the exception.
So even if you were an atheist science-zealot kind of person full of hatred against religion, trying to disprove it is equivalent to shooting in your foot, because there are scientific studies that find evolutionary advantages on religious populations, and you are proactively working against them.
But just to make my point more sound, let's say that you see kermit the frog telling kids to brush their teeth every night before sleep, then you are so outrageous because Jim Henson is using a puppet to tell kids to brush their teeth that you have to tell them that kermit the frog doesn't really exist, and that they shouldn't worry about brushing their teeth at all! That's totally stupid and detrimental to everyone. Jim Henson wasn't "controlling the kids", he was delivering a message simple to understand for everyone, that he knew was good even if he didn't give any proof of it, nor talked about the quirks and exceptions that would blurr the simplicity of the lesson.
In conclusion, science and religion aren't mutually exclusive, and people being unable to give an explanation for something doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist, just that the person hasn't the training to give it, or that it is more complex than what you need to know at that moment.
Isn't it worse for Arabs that fill ambulances with terrorists? Saying that about Israel is a joke when the other side is a worse offender and also because it's the one that always breaks the peace treaties.
This is an easy one, because the land belonged to the british and they gave the land to the jews as a gift, and they have the right to give it away to anyone they want. :P
Unfortunately, war is a game that only requires one side to play, and that side already said that they want you dead. :P
Also, civilized countries will not help you, but they will only protest moderately if you build an army to repel the attack.
Arabs also have a history of faking casualty numbers, because victimism benefits them, and lying is not a sin if you do it to a non-muslim (and if you lie to a muslim, it's only a sin if you are caught).