lofidan - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:How about just not having voice acting? (Score 1) 251

by lofidan on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @09:54AM (#31507776) Attached to: The Problems With Video Game Voice Acting

I got a kick out of the voice acting in XIII, Adam West's delivery especially! I found it matched the atmosphere perfectly.

Are you telling me you ever got sick of hearing the startled dudes say "What the....?"

What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? 331

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 31, 2009 @06:55PM
from the alas-'twas-not-to-be dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain about items that would enter the public domain starting on January 1, 2010, if not for copyright extenions: "'Casino Royale, Marilyn Monroe's Playboy cover, The Adventures of Augie March, the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Crick & Watson's Nature article decoding the double helix, Disney's Peter Pan, The Crucible'... 'How ironic that Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, with its book burning firemen, was published in 1953 and would once have been entering the public domain on January 1, 2010. To quote James Boyle, "Bradbury's firemen at least set fire to their own culture out of deep ideological commitment, vile though it may have been. We have set fire to our cultural record for no reason; even if we had wanted retrospectively to enrich the tiny number of beneficiaries whose work keeps commercial value beyond 56 years, we could have done so without these effects. The ironies are almost too painful to contemplate.""

Comment: Re:Cheating AI (Score 1) 378

by lofidan on Sunday March 22, 2009 @06:30PM (#27292029) Attached to: Believable Stupidity In Game AI

It was basically a ramp that automatically raised and lowered itself in a cycle, with a large tower in the middle.

That would be Stunt Car Racer.

Comment: Re:Not the platform's fault... (Score 1) 450

by lofidan on Sunday March 01, 2009 @06:35PM (#27033611) Attached to: Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good

Yes, but straight dumps take time, a lot of time. They need to be consistent to be useful.

Have you tried eating more fibre?

Comment: Re:Out of touch much? (Score 1) 776

by lofidan on Thursday August 21, 2008 @06:01PM (#24696461) Attached to: Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista

On the contrary, I think it fits perfectly with an OS that's always been a decade behind everybody else.

You forgot one of these...