doktr thunder - Slashdot User

Comment Re:missing the point (Score 1) 507

by doktr thunder on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @11:15AM (#26267963) Attached to: Avoiding Wasted Time With <em>Prince of Persia</em>

I know I'm a bitter old-man....

But beating games in the past used to actually be difficult. On fucking NES YOU NEEDED THAT METROID CODE or you literally wanted to die. Also you had to mitigate other factors such as:

1. dogs and sibling bumping into gaming system, tripping over controller
2. someone was gonna kick you off eventually
3. the game could just randomly fuck up

Yea so often you needed enough time to just beat the game in one sitting. You got mad good at beginning levels and they were still fun.

"more autosave", "lets not even talk about saving anymore....", "games should save more"
FUCK YOU. it just means game devs give you more throw away content.

Comment Re:Sources (Belgium) (Score 1) 731

by doktr thunder on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @08:42AM (#25624555) Attached to: Favorite Made-up Swear Word?

what about "miserable fat belgian bastards!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUyD5RXEeY8

The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' 452

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @04:11PM from the because-he-said-so dept.

An anonymous reader writes "API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne, writes today that the Internet was 'built wrong,' and continues to be accepted as an inferior system, due to a software engineering philosophy called Worse Is Better. 'We now know, for example, that IPv4 won't scale to the projected size of the future Internet. We know too that near-universal deployment of technologies with inadequate security and trust models, like SMTP, can mean millions if not billions lost to electronic crime, defensive measures, and reduced productivity,' says Payne, who calls for a 'content-centric approach to networking.' Payne doesn't mention, however, that his own system, Twitter, was built wrong and is consistently down."

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