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Re Word Soup: I smell a disagreement between developer and operator. PITA when that happens.

Weyland

Virtually any videogame you play today will have some element of chance. If you attack an NPC in COD, GOW, Resistance or whatever, then there's a percentage chance that they'll run, or stand their ground and fire back. Games are full of random like this, if they weren't they'd be predictable and no ...

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Whatever he gets, he'd better still be playing this season, I've got him in my fantasy league team.

But I reckon CS too.

Weyland

Do they not frequently test these things? Surely there could be some sort of display test that displays dead areas on the screen? I'm not 100% sure of the technology involved... The touch part is another screen on top of it, it's not associated with the display. I'd guess that your average cab uses...

Weyland

8: One of the Street Fighters, I'll guess 2.

9: Tell the truth.

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Obviously I wont send it on but about 200 people did judging from the forwarded addresses, are they all thick? Yes. You would be amazed how thick some people are with the internet, they believe any email they receive is the voice of authority. I used to get a steady stream of equally pointless emai...

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Matt Vinyl wrote:ItBoxes are simple to do because of the jerky movement of the reticule

Heh, yeah I've seen that too, and not just on Bully either. I think ItBoxes just run a huge amount of background stuff that sucks processor time away from the games! Probably the next update downloading, or something.

Weyland

Yeah, sounds like one of the fans. There could be a bearing gone, or it could just need a bit of a clean.

I usually open mine up and give them a squirt with an air duster (tin of compressed air, basically) if that happens.

Weyland

Matt Vinyl wrote:[Plus, might help with the arguments that start "How can it be random and payout 92%?"

I just write down:

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chance_of_win == rand(100) < 92]

But then again, I have a very specific set of friends.  :)

Weyland

aaamusements.co.uk wrote:
Matt Vinyl wrote:I always thought the 'M' stood for 'Manufacturing'.
Actually yes, well pointed out.

I was guessing.

Weyland

BFM == Bell Fruit Machines
BFG == Big Friendly Giant

Weyland

There's a robin living in my back garden at the moment. I'll follow it around tomorrow and count.

Weyland

Damn, five minutes too late. Well, when Steve gets back, can someone tell him he was right?

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7845561.stm)

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Istenem's in the right sort of area, it does involve sex.

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Nope, although the correct answer would probably lead to more electricity being used, yes.

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