The New Comic Thread for Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Faricazy

Rolo wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

But I digress. In more important news, I hope they have exciting and wonderful MechWarrior news sometime soon at this here E3 thing.

I wonder if Kinect could work with Mechwarri- no I hated it before I finished typing.

I would like Kinect on Mechwarrior for one reason - combined with 3D to make amazing interactive 3D HUDs. Like, holobuttons that you hit to do stuff. That would be incredible.

Otherwise, no thank you.

I really want to see Kinect combined with traditional controls. I don't really want to steer via Kinect, but if I can use my pad or wheel in conjunction with Kinect letting me look into corners, that would be swell.

Similarly, in Mechwarrior it can also be used to look around, and maybe have some sort of overhead-mounted switches in the cockpit you could raise your hands to virtually flip.

Kinect combining with the controller would be rad as hell. But the thing is, MS' whole philosophy behind Kinect is "no controller." They might resist that sort of thing for a while.

You have to stomp around like a mech.

Make Mech noises.

Twist your torso independently of your walking direction.

This is just crazy enough to be totally awesome.

Henroid

vsove wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

Well hopefully they'll leave it up to the devs. I think the "no controller" focus was mainly on the interface itself, which I agree with. Kinect XBE looked fantastic. As far as less casual games go, I think there will be leeway.

I hope so. Kinect could have some really, really cool applications, as long as the guideline isn't 'MAKE THE GAME USE IT EXCLUSIVELY'.

But they have something to prove here. That thing being "Our motion control tech is off the hook." That's motivation enough for a company to want to restrict things.

I'm not holding my breath, for the moment. If some developer busts something out though, I'll be happy to see it.

Pony

OmegaDez wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

Well, people who make fun of you for playing games despite being an adult are assholes anyways. I'm an adult who plays games and it is as a direct result of my game-playing that I make a fairly comfortable living, particularly given my age.

Then in this case, 95% of my workplace are assholes then. And strangely, the remaining 5% happen to be :
-A hardcore PC gamer
-A yaoi fangirl
-A roleplayer/larper
-And one linux geek

Okay then. Yes, of course there's nuances, so I guess the whole "us VS them" model doesn't hold water at all here. So let me rephrase. I can divide the world into two categories. "People I like to hang aound" and "people I have absolutely no affinities with."

Where the fuck do you work or live that 95% of your workplace makes fun of you for being a gamer?

Give some examples of how they have made fun of you for being a gamer.

Faricazy

OmegaDez wrote: »

Then in this case, 95% of my workplace are assholes then.

Something tells me you may be just as quick to dismiss their interests (maybe not intentionally) as they are yours.

DarkPrimus

Faricazy wrote: »

Rolo wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

But I digress. In more important news, I hope they have exciting and wonderful MechWarrior news sometime soon at this here E3 thing.

I wonder if Kinect could work with Mechwarri- no I hated it before I finished typing.

I would like Kinect on Mechwarrior for one reason - combined with 3D to make amazing interactive 3D HUDs. Like, holobuttons that you hit to do stuff. That would be incredible.

Otherwise, no thank you.

I really want to see Kinect combined with traditional controls. I don't really want to steer via Kinect, but if I can use my pad or wheel in conjunction with Kinect letting me look into corners, that would be swell.

Similarly, in Mechwarrior it can also be used to look around, and maybe have some sort of overhead-mounted switches in the cockpit you could raise your hands to virtually flip.

Kinect combining with the controller would be rad as hell. But the thing is, MS' whole philosophy behind Kinect is "no controller." They might resist that sort of thing for a while.

You have to stomp around like a mech.

Make Mech noises.

Twist your torso independently of your walking direction.

This is just crazy enough to be totally awesome.

Except that you can't rotate 180 degrees while still walking forward, or while still being able to SEE the screen.

vsove

OmegaDez wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

Well, people who make fun of you for playing games despite being an adult are assholes anyways. I'm an adult who plays games and it is as a direct result of my game-playing that I make a fairly comfortable living, particularly given my age.

Then in this case, 95% of my workplace are assholes then. And strangely, the remaining 5% happen to be :
-A hardcore PC gamer
-A yaoi fangirl
-A roleplayer/larper
-And one linux geek

Okay then. Yes, of course there's nuances, so I guess the whole "us VS them" model doesn't hold water at all here. So let me rephrase. I can divide the world into two categories. "People I like to hang aound" and "people I have absolutely no affinities with."

Okay. I don't mean this as an insult in any way, but are you sure the problem is them? I have very, very few 'gamer' friends and since high school (which is its own little subculture) I have never encountered any issues as a result of enjoying games. Obviously I'm not going to run into it in my workplace now, but even when I worked elsewhere, no one ever gave me shit for playing games.

It could be that the way you're coming across is affecting the way they treat you. Again, it's entirely possible you just ended up in an office staffed by assholes, but most people have no issue with people who enjoy games.

Faricazy

oh my god

KINECTIMECHS


i want a fucking pet mech

Henroid

OmegaDez wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

Well, people who make fun of you for playing games despite being an adult are assholes anyways. I'm an adult who plays games and it is as a direct result of my game-playing that I make a fairly comfortable living, particularly given my age.

Then in this case, 95% of my workplace are assholes then. And strangely, the remaining 5% happen to be :
-A hardcore PC gamer
-A yaoi fangirl
-A roleplayer/larper
-And one linux geek

Okay then. Yes, of course there's nuances, so I guess the whole "us VS them" model doesn't hold water at all here. So let me rephrase. I can divide the world into two categories. "People I like to hang aound" and "people I have absolutely no affinities with."

This is absolute madness.

If people are making fun of you, it has more to do with how you yourself are carrying yourself and interacting with people.

AMP'd

I'd be willing to bet that they make fun of him less for playing games and more for being a "gamer"

Just like I'd make fun of someone who identified as a "jock" and cared about nothing other than sporting sport sports

Yukira

Faricazy wrote: »

oh my god

KINECTIMECHS


i want a fucking pet mech

You'll end up getting this:

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

Pony

"They hate me because I play Magic instead of going to stupid parties or whatever."

"No, Phil, they hate you because you smell and are socially awkward."

Faricazy

DarkPrimus wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

Rolo wrote: »

You have to stomp around like a mech.

Make Mech noises.

Twist your torso independently of your walking direction.

This is just crazy enough to be totally awesome.

Except that you can't rotate 180 degrees while still walking forward, or while still being able to SEE the screen.

Yes I can. I am Eugene Tooms.

vsove

Faricazy wrote: »

DarkPrimus wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

Rolo wrote: »

You have to stomp around like a mech.

Make Mech noises.

Twist your torso independently of your walking direction.

This is just crazy enough to be totally awesome.

Except that you can't rotate 180 degrees while still walking forward, or while still being able to SEE the screen.

Yes I can. I am Eugene Tooms.

I knew that escalator was too convenient.

OmegaDez

Pony wrote: »

second, you use the term "more mainstream people". you are still thinking in an "us vs. them" mentality. people outside your approved paradigm are this nebulous "other" that you define as the "mainstream" that you clearly consider yourself not a part of.

Dude. There's no denying I'm quite outside of the broad definition of "mainstream". It's not something I strive for, it's just something that is.

I'm just using the "more mainstream people" moniker to describe just that. People less enclined to understand, or respect, what are usually percieved as "geeky" interests.

Henroid

Faricazy wrote: »

oh my god

KINECTIMECHS


i want a fucking pet mech

Motion control on your screen to build and design a mech.

Sign me up. That would be great.

Pony

Faricazy wrote: »

DarkPrimus wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

Rolo wrote: »

You have to stomp around like a mech.

Make Mech noises.

Twist your torso independently of your walking direction.

This is just crazy enough to be totally awesome.

Except that you can't rotate 180 degrees while still walking forward, or while still being able to SEE the screen.

Yes I can. I am Eugene Tooms.

whoa

a seventeen year old x-files reference

god damn

Faricazy

OmegaDez wrote: »

Pony wrote: »

second, you use the term "more mainstream people". you are still thinking in an "us vs. them" mentality. people outside your approved paradigm are this nebulous "other" that you define as the "mainstream" that you clearly consider yourself not a part of.

Dude. There's no denying I'm quite outside of the broad definition of "mainstream". It's not something I strive for, it's just something that is.

I'm just using the "more mainstream people" moniker to describe just that. People less enclined to understand, or respect, what are usually percieved as "geeky" interests.

I am curious as to how old you are.

Faricazy

Pony wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

DarkPrimus wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

Rolo wrote: »

You have to stomp around like a mech.

Make Mech noises.

Twist your torso independently of your walking direction.

This is just crazy enough to be totally awesome.

Except that you can't rotate 180 degrees while still walking forward, or while still being able to SEE the screen.

Yes I can. I am Eugene Tooms.

whoa

a seventeen year old x-files reference

god damn

KrunkMcGrunk

Rolo wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

But I digress. In more important news, I hope they have exciting and wonderful MechWarrior news sometime soon at this here E3 thing.

I wonder if Kinect could work with Mechwarri- no I hated it before I finished typing.

I would like Kinect on Mechwarrior for one reason - combined with 3D to make amazing interactive 3D HUDs. Like, holobuttons that you hit to do stuff. That would be incredible.

Otherwise, no thank you.

I really want to see Kinect combined with traditional controls. I don't really want to steer via Kinect, but if I can use my pad or wheel in conjunction with Kinect letting me look into corners, that would be swell.

Similarly, in Mechwarrior it can also be used to look around, and maybe have some sort of overhead-mounted switches in the cockpit you could raise your hands to virtually flip.

Kinect combining with the controller would be rad as hell. But the thing is, MS' whole philosophy behind Kinect is "no controller." They might resist that sort of thing for a while.

You have to stomp around like a mech.

Make Mech noises.

Twist your torso independently of your walking direction.

hahaha yessss

OmegaDez

Henroid wrote: »

This is absolute madness.

If people are making fun of you, it has more to do with how you yourself are carrying yourself and interacting with people.

Nobody is really making fun of me, dude, we're in high school anymore. But they're still gonna express their negative opinions regarding my "geeky hobbies" when given the chance, without any malicious intent, of course.

You know?
Coworker : "Where were you, these last four days?"
Me : "In Boston."
Coworker : "What for?"
Me : "Oh, simply went to a con with friends."
Coworker : "what's a con?"
Me : *explains*
Coworker : "LOL! That's weird!"

That kind of stuff.

Faricazy

Kinect Trogdor!

vsove

I want someone to build a ditch digging game for Kinect.

You have to play for 8 hours a day to make any progress.

Pony

OmegaDez wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

This is absolute madness.

If people are making fun of you, it has more to do with how you yourself are carrying yourself and interacting with people.

Nobody is really making fun of me, dude, we're in high school anymore. But they're still gonna express their negative opinions regarding my "geeky hobbies" when given the chance, without any malicious intent, of course.

You know?
Coworker : "Where were you, these last four days?"
Me : "In Boston."
Coworker : "What for?"
Me : "Oh, simply went to a con with friends."
Coworker : "what's a con?"
Me : *explains*
Coworker : "LOL! That's weird!"

That kind of stuff.

you consider that a negative opinion

really

are you made of cheesecloth

Faricazy

OmegaDez wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

This is absolute madness.

If people are making fun of you, it has more to do with how you yourself are carrying yourself and interacting with people.

Nobody is really making fun of me, dude, we're in high school anymore. But they're still gonna express their negative opinions regarding my "geeky hobbies" when given the chance, without any malicious intent, of course.

You know?
Coworker : "Where were you, these last four days?"
Me : "In Boston."
Coworker : "What for?"
Me : "Oh, simply went to a con with friends."
Coworker : "what's a con?"
Me : *explains*
Coworker : "LOL! That's weird!"

That kind of stuff.

That's not a negative opinion, that's simply them not being involved in your interests. I absolutely bet that you do the same thing to them (just like you've been doing in this thread).

AMP'd

fuck I can't do it I'm bailing out of this thread

Faricazy

vsove wrote: »

I want someone to build a ditch digging game for Kinect.

You have to play for 8 hours a day to make any progress.

Mexican Crossing Kinect.

KrunkMcGrunk

OmegaDez wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

This is absolute madness.

If people are making fun of you, it has more to do with how you yourself are carrying yourself and interacting with people.

Nobody is really making fun of me, dude, we're in high school anymore. But they're still gonna express their negative opinions regarding my "geeky hobbies" when given the chance, without any malicious intent, of course.

You know?
Coworker : "Where were you, these last four days?"
Me : "In Boston."
Coworker : "What for?"
Me : "Oh, simply went to a con with friends."
Coworker : "what's a con?"
Me : *explains*
Coworker : "LOL! That's weird!"

That kind of stuff.

Quit being so sensitive.

vsove

AMP'd wrote: »

fuck I can't do it I'm bailing out of this thread

No, no, talk about Kinect and all the awesome things that MS could do but maybe won't!

Or Move! Or or the 3DS.

Brolo

vsove wrote: »

OmegaDez wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

Well, people who make fun of you for playing games despite being an adult are assholes anyways. I'm an adult who plays games and it is as a direct result of my game-playing that I make a fairly comfortable living, particularly given my age.

Then in this case, 95% of my workplace are assholes then. And strangely, the remaining 5% happen to be :
-A hardcore PC gamer
-A yaoi fangirl
-A roleplayer/larper
-And one linux geek

Okay then. Yes, of course there's nuances, so I guess the whole "us VS them" model doesn't hold water at all here. So let me rephrase. I can divide the world into two categories. "People I like to hang aound" and "people I have absolutely no affinities with."

Okay. I don't mean this as an insult in any way, but are you sure the problem is them? I have very, very few 'gamer' friends and since high school (which is its own little subculture) I have never encountered any issues as a result of enjoying games. Obviously I'm not going to run into it in my workplace now, but even when I worked elsewhere, no one ever gave me shit for playing games.

It could be that the way you're coming across is affecting the way they treat you. Again, it's entirely possible you just ended up in an office staffed by assholes, but most people have no issue with people who enjoy games.

It would be pretty hilarious if the people at Bioware gave each other shit about being into videogames.

Surprisingly on topic : vsove I have not seen much of Bioware at E3, what do you guys got for us?

OmegaDez

Pony wrote: »

OmegaDez wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

This is absolute madness.

If people are making fun of you, it has more to do with how you yourself are carrying yourself and interacting with people.

Nobody is really making fun of me, dude, we're in high school anymore. But they're still gonna express their negative opinions regarding my "geeky hobbies" when given the chance, without any malicious intent, of course.

You know?
Coworker : "Where were you, these last four days?"
Me : "In Boston."
Coworker : "What for?"
Me : "Oh, simply went to a con with friends."
Coworker : "what's a con?"
Me : *explains*
Coworker : "LOL! That's weird!"

That kind of stuff.

you consider that a negative opinion

really

are you made of cheesecloth

Not really no, that's what I'm saying. Some people embrace that, other find it weird. Period. What I've been trying to say all along.

Dr.Funkenstein

Koshian wrote: »

basically what I'm getting out of this is y'all need to get over high school

one more year ok!

Henroid

OmegaDez wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

This is absolute madness.

If people are making fun of you, it has more to do with how you yourself are carrying yourself and interacting with people.

Nobody is really making fun of me, dude, we're in high school anymore. But they're still gonna express their negative opinions regarding my "geeky hobbies" when given the chance, without any malicious intent, of course.

You know?
Coworker : "Where were you, these last four days?"
Me : "In Boston."
Coworker : "What for?"
Me : "Oh, simply went to a con with friends."
Coworker : "what's a con?"
Me : *explains*
Coworker : "LOL! That's weird!"

That kind of stuff.

And you care if people think what you do is weird?

vsove

Rolo wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

OmegaDez wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

Well, people who make fun of you for playing games despite being an adult are assholes anyways. I'm an adult who plays games and it is as a direct result of my game-playing that I make a fairly comfortable living, particularly given my age.

Then in this case, 95% of my workplace are assholes then. And strangely, the remaining 5% happen to be :
-A hardcore PC gamer
-A yaoi fangirl
-A roleplayer/larper
-And one linux geek

Okay then. Yes, of course there's nuances, so I guess the whole "us VS them" model doesn't hold water at all here. So let me rephrase. I can divide the world into two categories. "People I like to hang aound" and "people I have absolutely no affinities with."

Okay. I don't mean this as an insult in any way, but are you sure the problem is them? I have very, very few 'gamer' friends and since high school (which is its own little subculture) I have never encountered any issues as a result of enjoying games. Obviously I'm not going to run into it in my workplace now, but even when I worked elsewhere, no one ever gave me shit for playing games.

It could be that the way you're coming across is affecting the way they treat you. Again, it's entirely possible you just ended up in an office staffed by assholes, but most people have no issue with people who enjoy games.

It would be pretty hilarious if the people at Bioware gave each other shit about being into videogames.

Surprisingly on topic : vsove I have not seen much of Bioware at E3, what do you guys got for us?

TOR, as far as I'm aware. I'm not really sure what E3 holds for us, but that's the big one.

And I get more shit for being into hockey (completely joking, of course) than anyone who's into videogames. For, again, obvious reasons.

There are about eight of us on this floor who enjoy that most beautiful of sports.

Brolo

vsove wrote: »

I want someone to build a ditch digging game for Kinect.

You have to play for 8 hours a day to make any progress.

WW1 Online

if you complete your trench on time, you get to choke to death on mustard gas (mime the choking actions using Kinect)

Faricazy

Dez you are a clearly a Sith.

Pony

OmegaDez wrote: »

Pony wrote: »

OmegaDez wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

This is absolute madness.

If people are making fun of you, it has more to do with how you yourself are carrying yourself and interacting with people.

Nobody is really making fun of me, dude, we're in high school anymore. But they're still gonna express their negative opinions regarding my "geeky hobbies" when given the chance, without any malicious intent, of course.

You know?
Coworker : "Where were you, these last four days?"
Me : "In Boston."
Coworker : "What for?"
Me : "Oh, simply went to a con with friends."
Coworker : "what's a con?"
Me : *explains*
Coworker : "LOL! That's weird!"

That kind of stuff.

you consider that a negative opinion

really

are you made of cheesecloth

Not really no, that's what I'm saying. Some people embrace that, other find it weird. Period. What I've been trying to say all along.

except it isn't

kiddo, backpedaling isn't where the brakes are on a mountain bike.

vsove

Rolo wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

I want someone to build a ditch digging game for Kinect.

You have to play for 8 hours a day to make any progress.

WW1 Online

if you complete your trench on time, you get to choke to death on mustard gas (mime the choking actions using Kinect)

Take off your boots using Kinect and reveal TRENCH FOOT.

OmegaDez

Henroid wrote: »

And you care if people think what you do is weird?

Not at all.

AMP'd

Dr.Funkenstein wrote: »

Koshian wrote: »

basically what I'm getting out of this is y'all need to get over high school

one more year ok!

ryan I've seen your facebook you care about baseball and rap this forum is not for you

Henroid

OmegaDez wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

And you care if people think what you do is weird?

Not at all.

... So what the heck have you been talking about this whole time?