Once again, it’s been a very long time since I played Quake 3. Today, had a duel with a colleague. Plain old Quake 3 with no mods, no configs, no tweaking, no warm-up. My eyes were tearing, hands shaking, heart racing, but I won none-the-less – 20:2! Even managed to squeeze a humiliation in there. Old school FTW!
Category: Games
I enjoy playing video games. I used to play PC games since early 1990’s. I played anything from real-time strategies like WarCraft, StarCraft, Age of Empires, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, etc; to first-person shooters like Half Life and Quake III.
In the recent years though I have completely moved to consoles. My favorite gaming device is Sony PlayStation 3. Now I play mostly first-person shooters (Kill Zone, Call of Duty series, and the like), driving simulations (Colin McRae’s Dirt), adventure quests (Assassin’s Creed and Uncharted), and sports (NHL09 ice hockey).
I don’t write much about games, but when I do, I publish my posts in this category.
What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?
What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?
This is hilariously funny and extremely sad at the same time … make sure to read the whole thing.
The cracked version is nearly identical to the real thing except for one detail… Initially we thought about telling them their copy is an illegal copy, but instead we didn’t want to pass up the unique opportunity of holding a mirror in front of them and showing them what piracy can do to game developers. So, as players spend a few hours playing and growing their own game dev company, they will start to see the following message, styled like any other in-game message:
Boss, it seems that while many players play our new game, they steal it by downloading a cracked version rather than buying it legally.
If players don’t buy the games they like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt.Slowly their in-game funds dwindle, and new games they create have a high chance to be pirated until their virtual game development company goes bankrupt.
Mamihlapinatapai
The word Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It refers to “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will offer something that they both desire but are unwilling to suggest or offer themselves.” It is also cited in books and articles on game theory associated with the volunteer’s dilemma.
Best female t-shirt. Ever.
Kick Ass – Destroy the web
Cool game, and awesome web design. If more people invested in good web design, maybe I wouldn’t be consuming most of the web content via a boring ass RSS reader.
