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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: The game
Date: 5 Apr 2012 15:06:42
Message: <4f7ded42$1@news.povray.org>
On 05/04/2012 7:45 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

>
> OK, I lied. The /real/ problem is that I talk like a mentally retarded
> person... >_<

No you don't. You may feel that but you sound normal.
Make a script and practice so you don't stumble.

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     Stephen


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: The game
Date: 5 Apr 2012 15:42:50
Message: <4f7df5ba@news.povray.org>
Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >    (Of course you need a good camera, a good microphone, a video editing
> > software and experience on how to use it in order to make the video more
> > interesting, eg. by splicing footage from the game or whatever subject
> > you are talking about, and so on.)

> Trouble is, videos are limited to a maximum of 5 minutes. How much 
> interesting stuff can you possibly say in that length of time?

  What videos?

  Even with a limited account the maximum length of a YouTube video
is 15 minutes. Most accounts are unlimited though, and there's virtually
no length limit. (There literally are videos of over 10 hours on YouTube.
The only limit is file size, at something like 2GB, not video length.)

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                                                          - Warp


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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: The game
Date: 5 Apr 2012 16:07:23
Message: <4f7dfb7b$1@news.povray.org>
>> Trouble is, videos are limited to a maximum of 5 minutes. How much
>> interesting stuff can you possibly say in that length of time?
>
>    What videos?
>
>    Even with a limited account the maximum length of a YouTube video
> is 15 minutes. Most accounts are unlimited though, and there's virtually
> no length limit. (There literally are videos of over 10 hours on YouTube.
> The only limit is file size, at something like 2GB, not video length.)

Interesting. I was told [I don't recall by who] that it's limited to 5 
minutes, to stop people posting entire movies. (Not that this stops 
anybody; they just chop it into 5-minute chunks and number them!)


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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: The game
Date: 5 Apr 2012 16:08:59
Message: <4f7dfbdb$1@news.povray.org>
>> OK, I lied. The /real/ problem is that I talk like a mentally retarded
>> person... >_<
>
> No you don't. You may feel that but you sound normal.
> Make a script and practice so you don't stumble.

I watched a video of a gathering I attended once. Everybody else is 
"talk talk talk talk". And then I'm starting there, "taaaalking 
reeeeaaaally slooooowlyyyyy". It was infuriating to listen to. Everybody 
else managed to utter a dozen sentences in the time it took me to say 
one. Jesus, no wonder everybody I meet thinks I'm a moron!


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From: andrel
Subject: Re: The game
Date: 5 Apr 2012 16:12:04
Message: <4F7DFC98.5010606@gmail.com>
On 5-4-2012 19:50, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 05/04/2012 04:22 PM, Warp wrote:
>> (Seriously, though, I hope you published this book also in a more
>> permanent location than just here, where it will disappear in a couple
>> of weeks...)
>
> I do enjoy writing.

pity you did decide not to go into research.

BTW settlers is the reason I stopped playing games on the computer.
Two reasons: it took too much time and at some point when trying to get 
some sleep I was still seeing these guys walking around on the inside of 
my eyelids.

Positive point: I used to play it also with my brother.



-- 
tip: do not run in an unknown place when it is too dark to see the 
floor, unless you prefer to not use uppercase.


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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: The game
Date: 5 Apr 2012 16:14:34
Message: <4f7dfd2a@news.povray.org>
> You never know. You might become famous.

Ha! Yeah. :-P

But I'm /already/ the POV-Ray mascot. Isn't that famous? :-P And of 
course, /now/ I'm fat-32. :-S

>> It's hardly the /first/ - that would be The Great Big Enormous Turnip, a
>> preschool educational title that mum bought for our Sinclaire ZX
>> Spectrum. ;-)
>
> When you were two years old?

Well, slightly older than that, but yeah.

>>> Bugger me if it did not remind me of how
>>> useless I am at games and didn't even get out of Arthur Dent's bedroom
>>> before I got bored.
>>
>> Haha! You know it's true. ;-)
>>
> Don't I just.
> It is a big disappointment to me. Minesweeper is my limit.

Minesweeper is actually surprisingly hard. I suck at that...

>> (I presume you meant "interested"...)
>
> I did but an interesting party would be better. ;-)

I agree.

> (.) (.) #-)

Apart from the final close-bracket, this is a valid Haskell expression. 
Isn't that wonderful? (Of course, it doesn't actually type-check, since 
the type of (.)(.) is (a1 -> b -> c) -> a1 -> (a -> b) -> a -> c, 
whereas the type of #- is Int# -> Int# -> Int#.)


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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: The game
Date: 5 Apr 2012 16:19:17
Message: <4f7dfe45$1@news.povray.org>
>> I do enjoy writing.
>
> pity you did decide not to go into research.

Are you kidding me? I *suck* at research! :-S

> BTW settlers is the reason I stopped playing games on the computer.
> Two reasons: it took too much time

Well, it /does/ take a hell of a long time, yes.

> and at some point when trying to get
> some sleep I was still seeing these guys walking around on the inside of
> my eyelids.

Haha! Try spending a week skiing. After a while, you say in bed trying 
to sleep, and you swear you can feel skis on the ends of your legs, 
pulling them this way and that as they run over the crisp snow... mmm...

Alternatively, try playing HalfLife 2. Ravenholm gave me nightmares. 
(Gotta love the way it's the level you're going to spend the longest 
time playing, because it's so ridiculously hard that you'll never get 
past it...)

> Positive point: I used to play it also with my brother.

Yeah, me and my dad are both addicts. It's one of the very few computer 
games he actually plays. The other one is freecell. You know, the shitty 
one that comes with Windows? Yeah, that. He's got an Access database 
tracking which game IDs he's solved and everything.


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From: andrel
Subject: Re: The game
Date: 5 Apr 2012 16:25:31
Message: <4F7DFFBF.9090907@gmail.com>
On 5-4-2012 22:19, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>> I do enjoy writing.
>>
>> pity you did decide not to go into research.
>
> Are you kidding me? I *suck* at research! :-S

That is not a problem. Let somebody else do the work and you write it 
down, that is a win win combination.
I wish it wouldn't but nowadays writing papers is much more important 
that doing good research.


-- 
tip: do not run in an unknown place when it is too dark to see the 
floor, unless you prefer to not use uppercase.


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: The game
Date: 5 Apr 2012 16:39:45
Message: <4f7e0311@news.povray.org>
On 05/04/2012 9:14 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> It is a big disappointment to me. Minesweeper is my limit.
>
> Minesweeper is actually surprisingly hard. I suck at that...
>

Different strokes for different folks.

>>> (I presume you meant "interested"...)
>>
>> I did but an interesting party would be better. ;-)
>
> I agree.
>
>> (.) (.) #-)
>
> Apart from the final close-bracket, this is a valid Haskell expression.
> Isn't that wonderful? (Of course, it doesn't actually type-check, since
> the type of (.)(.) is (a1 -> b -> c) -> a1 -> (a -> b) -> a -> c,
> whereas the type of #- is Int# -> Int# -> Int#.)

I knew that, of course. </lie>

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Regards
     Stephen


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: The game
Date: 5 Apr 2012 16:43:45
Message: <4f7e0401$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:41:50 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> I might do. Of course, there it has even /less/ chance of ever being
> read...

It's not just about it being read, it's about having writing samples 
available should you decide to look for work in writing.  Well-written 
writing samples are always good to have for a portfolio.

Jim


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