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by SimHacker 13y ago
As long as Texas has a troglodyte in the governors mansion, it deserves the terrible reputation it has earned for itself.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Maxis has a separate studio in Emeryville (by Berkeley), where Spore and SimCity were developed. Maxis isn't exactly small, since The Sims franchise has been responsible for a large share of their profits: A few years ago EA reorganize
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by SimHacker 13y ago
The lead designers and artists who developed the latest version of SimCity were old time Maxis people, but they've left since it launched. They weren't very happy with what Origin forced them to do with their game.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I think the easiest way to lay road and track is to drive a road laying vehicle around: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkVBg_-OviI Definitely a terrain editor, plus more tweakable procedural terrain generation. There are ma
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Definitely it needs user editable tile sets, for 2D mode. And nice info visualizations of the simulator state and data layers. And I think it would be great to create buildings with digital bricks (Legos), and render them in 3D -- that woul
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I think Origin deserves the blame for making bad decisions and forcing them on Maxis, and I feel sorry that it was Maxis's job to repeat the lies they were told to say, because they didn't agree with the bad decisions (i.e. offlin
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I think that despite its well publicized problems, there are some really great things about the latest version of SimCity. The user interface and graphics and music are just fantastic. The concept and execution of using roads instead of til
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I think SimCity is essentially a game that you can approach and play many different ways. Some of those ways work just fine offline, and some of them don't.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
No the excuses were not true. It was Origin's fault, and Maxis had to take the blame. The people working at Maxis opposed it, and it didn't actually need to be online to play, but the people at Origin insisted it only run online.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Absolutely. I believe that's the reason behind the success of The Sims (and the lack of user generated content was the reason behind the failure of The Sims Online). A browser based version of SimCity Classic could use WebGL to render
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by SimHacker 13y ago
The original SimCity Classic source code is open source, and instructors like Chaim Gingold and Mark Sample are actually having their students study (and deconstruct) the source code: Chaim Gingold, Simulation for Games: http://c
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Because I rewrote it in JavaScript! ;)
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by SimHacker 13y ago
The source code for the original SimCity Classic is open source, called "Micropolis": https://code.google.com/p/micropolis While it's nowhere near as fancy as the latest version, there are other directio
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Serious question: Would anyone be interested in a version of SimCity Classic that ran in the browser? (Playable offline, of course!) In what ways do you think it could be brought up to date with modern technology, without spoiling the fun o
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Maybe the War On Christmas, Religious Bigotry, Racism, Homophobia and Misogyny, Gun Fanatics, Big Oil Companies, Global Warming Denial and Government Deregulation got started a little late.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Having a naked emperor on the server is a diplomatic concession to the fact that there is also a naked emperor on the client. There's nothing anybody can do to put clothes on the Emperor of the Client, while you can dress your Emperor
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by SimHacker 13y ago
And what's wrong with reinventing basic programming-language design a million different ways? Are you complaining that it's too much like Lisp?
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by SimHacker 13y ago
The emperor may have no clothes, but what's so great about clothes? (If God meant people to be naked, they'd be born that way! Same goes for programming languages.) The naked Emperor JavaScript runs everywhere, and runs fast, and
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Play the "walk" photosynth of the motorcycle in the alley, then press C and move around to see how the 3d model of the reflection in the puddle is a surface far underground where the reflected building appears to be! So cool! htt
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Jeff Bezos also needs a psychiatrist and a lobotomy.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
And usually those people call themselves "idea guys" (yes they're usually male), and they're looking for a "tech guy" to implement it for them for free, in exchange the promise of a small cut of the profits. I
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by SimHacker 13y ago
RMS has RSI, so he doesn't type, he dictates. Oh, shit -- that didn't come out the way I meant it to. ;(
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by SimHacker 13y ago
That is an incredibly beautiful painting, and I don't think it needs a story to pump up its value, beyond the facts that are true.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
The real reason they're collecting everything is not to fight terrorism, it's to provoke terrorism. More terrorism means more power to them.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
There should be one light that turns on and off to show when the wearer is recording, and another light that is always on to show when the NSA is recording.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_labor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_labor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superficial_charm https://en.wikipedia.or
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I called Scoble a narcissistic douchebag eight months ago (Get it? Shower == Douche! ;). But I've known that ever since he live video blogged from in line to buy the first iPhone with a webcam attached to his trucker's cap. He rep
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by SimHacker 13y ago
As if the NSA won't be able to turn on the camera and microphone any time they want, without turning on the warning light. Riiiiiight.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
If Southpark does an episode on Google Glass that's anywhere near as hilarious and insightful as their Segway episode "The Entity" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entity_(South_Park) -- then it&#x27
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Better yet, now is the time to create your own reusable Illustrator and Photoshop components, and write games that build them in to enable users to customize and create their own content. Oh, and 3D Studio Max, too. Not 100% of the features

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