Heh, you said "massive meat".

The series of news headlines for upcoming games reads:

Dawn of War
Men of War
Universe at War
World in Conflict
Europe at War

Who says creative ideas in today's video games are dead?

thunderbutt

Nice, Blue. Ya big goof.

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Brilliantly put, Blue. Just bloody brilliant! Any more, simply asking for responsible, accountable, reasonably-transparent government is as likely to result in accusations of treason not just from the government but from my own fellow citizens. Weird, scary times we live in.
dave

As a coder, a good keyboard is everything to me. And for my money, a good old fashioned keyboard with the six Insert...Page Down keys clustered together and some space between them and the arrow keys - as well as a non-L shaped ENTER key - is the ultimate design. I hate all the extra crap keys and reconfigurated keypads that are out there in the stores today. They make life difficult and for no good reason. They interfere with my typing more than they help it.

Also, it's getting to where plain vanilla keyboards are rare. The other day I came across a deal on some plain Dell keyboards so I bought like a half-dozen of them. Screw the namby pamby boards, I'll take these any day.

Great band! End Credits has kicked my ass from way back. Looking forward to the new album!

Whew, finally got through, downloaded it and watched it.

My reaction: Wow! What a cool touching little story. I don't know about y'all, but if I'm exposed to one more terrorist/alien invasion/WWII scenario in the various gaming mediums, I'm going to freak out. This was a really welcome, refreshing change of pace.

Also, I was staggered by the technical proficiency. Great camera angles, great models/animation, great art direction, great graphics presentation. Damn, that looked like a LOT of work. Great job, Fountainhead!

What exactly are you suggesting?

It was Al Gore, wasn't it?.....

A Psychometrics Primer

It's actually not too surprising that the results are accurate. Though a lot of people attribute this kind of stuff to psychobabble and crackpot theories, the science behind it is often pretty good.

The way personality exams are generally created (the scientifically worthwhile ones anyway) is by first norming the test against a population. I.e. administer all the test questions (or color cubes in this case) to as wide of a population as you can get your hands on and then record the results. Then ask all these people a bunch of qualitative questions - "What do you want to be when you grow up?", "What makes you happy?", "Do you like to eat bagels?" or whatever.

If you gather enough data, and properly and stringently analyze it, patterns will start to emerge. You'll find that, for hypothetical example, people who choose yellow first tend to like bagels, people who pick red last want adventurous careers, and so on.

There's a misconception that psychologists dream up some theory about personality based on factor X (in this case, color cube preference) and then try to substantiate it. But in actual fact, studies are FIRST done that reveal consistent patterns of behavior and preference. The psychologist THEN induces a theory that might account for these observed patterns.

Of course, there's plenty of flaky pop psychologists who do it in reverse order, write a book about it and become millionaires. But real psychology-type people generally don't approve of that sort of thing.

The ColorGenics test is really just telling you that, given your color preferences, you probably have ideas similar to people with similar color preferences. The scientifically interesting thing about ColorGenics is, why on earth is color preference so strongly correlated with particular patterns of higher order reasoning?

OK, enough psychology for now. You can all wake up now and resume your daily lives.