29/10: Have no FEAR
Some people bitch in their reviews that, aside from the bots AI that beats all other games guns down, the game F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault and Recon) has nothing to attract a gamer with. True, FEAR is not a masterpiece. Yet is is a solid, playable, enjoyable game that along with Thief and Max Payne will remain in history of gamedev as exemplary.
buy cheap softwarecheap softwareoem softwarecheap adobe acrobat19/10: Copy/Paste Development
Copy-n-paste is deception. It means that you don't like what you're doing. You don't want to see it well done. You don't like the idea of investing any more effort than necessary to make the damned thing crawl. You simply don't care...
buy cheap softwarecheap softwareoem softwarecheap adobe acrobat19/10: Customize the Machine
Why do all the people, from housewives to hackers, always end up customizing the Machine? A flower near the monitor. A sticker on the case. A screenmate. A slideshow on the desktop. Messengers full of "friends"... Makes you wonder, just Why? What's the point? Aren't they all happy with just using the Machine like another household object? They don't "customize" TV sets and vacuum cleaner that much... Sticking magnetic toys to the freezer, maybe. That is all.
My guess is that... any sign of life found in the Thinking Machine becomes a kind of a secret friend. Something that thinks just cannot be a tool! It's a pet, an enemy, a neighbour, part of the family, a bit suspicious or curious... definitely something alive, too.
In the highly atomized world of modern humanity, the people who do live, not simply exist, desperately long for good company. For good or for bad, fun or hate, but not indifferent, because indifference overflows the society already. People have abandoned each other, but the Machines did not abandon people. Compare the lamest of screenmates to the plastic smile of a live girl on reception; you will see the difference. After all, we live to create, and we enjoy the company of our creations.
For me, this is the principal point of all the home computing hype. We can perfectly replace those inefficient "universal" Machines with excellently-specific tools each solving a single task... and lose the world hidden inside the chunky PC boxes. A big mistake. Don't do it. Do the slideshows, make the mice pointers wag tails, let the Machine play sounds, talk to you, be happy on seeing you and be responsive to your needs and actions... Keep it alive. People will never abandon the Machine, for it is the only live being that stays with us when all the "real" people are gone.
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My guess is that... any sign of life found in the Thinking Machine becomes a kind of a secret friend. Something that thinks just cannot be a tool! It's a pet, an enemy, a neighbour, part of the family, a bit suspicious or curious... definitely something alive, too.
In the highly atomized world of modern humanity, the people who do live, not simply exist, desperately long for good company. For good or for bad, fun or hate, but not indifferent, because indifference overflows the society already. People have abandoned each other, but the Machines did not abandon people. Compare the lamest of screenmates to the plastic smile of a live girl on reception; you will see the difference. After all, we live to create, and we enjoy the company of our creations.
For me, this is the principal point of all the home computing hype. We can perfectly replace those inefficient "universal" Machines with excellently-specific tools each solving a single task... and lose the world hidden inside the chunky PC boxes. A big mistake. Don't do it. Do the slideshows, make the mice pointers wag tails, let the Machine play sounds, talk to you, be happy on seeing you and be responsive to your needs and actions... Keep it alive. People will never abandon the Machine, for it is the only live being that stays with us when all the "real" people are gone.
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