Plan for Tim Newell
by Tim Newell · 08/27/2005 (9:06 am) · 2 comments
I am officially now a member of Max Gaming Technologies, makers of the Fantastic game "Dark Horizons: Lore Invasion". I've known Adrian, Ed, and the other guys for years now and finally decided a few months back to make a Casual game with them, kind of a joint effort of Max Gaming Technologies and Discord Studios. Well I really enjoy working with these very talented guys and now I am a full member of their staff helping to structure and bring about their Casual Games Department. All I can say at the moment is soon you will see some very exciting stuff from both myself and Keith (the other new Casual Games Employee) as far as casual games go so if those time wasters are your crack then we have the medicine for you :)
I'm still playing WoW but getting a little frustrated but I think its my own fault. I kinda picked at the zones Im in and really left with no good way to increase my character to go to a new zone. But I'll probably go back and revisit some of those zones and see if I can at least dig up a bit of XP. On the positive side I do enjoy playing a warlock, just wish I was a higher level so I could go do some PVP, but all in time I guess.
I've also noticed what a real dependency I have on windows. The "rebel" inside me wants to say its because its been driven down my throat for years but in reality it may just be thats its that good (I'm basing this on the fact that windows XP is the only windows OS that classifies for this). I really liked Mac OSX and I liked some of the stuff in it better than I did on windows but there were little things that just kinda drive you nuts because you can just do them in windows. I think Mac OSX is great for beginners though who have never used windows as its an easier experience than windows. My Mac is back to being my second developer machine as I am back in full swing on my PC and I just feel a lot more productive. Its hard to pinpoint exactly what in windows is pushing me towards it but I think its probably the applications (which have nothing to do with the OS, except they are on this OS and not on Mac at least in the same way) and just little things in the operating system. One of the big things that bugs me on the mac is the fact that you cant right click a finder window and get enough options. You have to go to the menu bar at the top for too much stuff. While this may be simplistic for a beginner, it is frustrating for an advanced user like myself who makes use of that second mouse button. The lack of a start menu of any kind also bugs me. At first when I saw that all the applications were just directories inside a heading (which is just a folder) under finder and you click on those directories to execute the application I thought it was very neat and simplistic. No need to worry about icons, a registry, etc. But it became frustrating to me because to execute an application you had to scroll through files, which I do not enjoy. A simple popup menu arranged like I want is a much better design to me. The applications differences I was talking about earlier are for crossplatform stuff like Xchat. XChat on mac works a lot different than Xchat on windows and it sucks compared to the windows version. I think they tried too hard to make it "Mac" and screwed it up. At least firefox works the same across both. And as for afinal point I think I was midly frustrated by the mac mini's performance even with 1 gig of ram. The system was still not very responsive and I hate waiting for things to load and when I click on something I want it to happen then.. not 1 to 2 seconds later. But thats more of my fault of buying a cheap machine but I only wanted an introduction to the Apple world before plunging too much money in and the Mac Mini is great for that.
Even After saying all of that I think Mac OSX is still an excellent Operating System and I do recommend it. Windows XP I think is more intuitive for the advanced user. I think Linux could learn a lot from both OSes. If it could manage to get the best of both worlds then it really would be the superior operating system. Bad thing is applications is one of the superior things of Windows XP so it will take them a while to get it all but if they close the gap enough then it could become a serious contender in the desktop market. I first thought when I used Mac OSX.. This is Linux done right. I was halfway true. It did fix the annoyances of Linux but it also added some annoyances linux did not have. Well I have talked about this enough.. Until next time.
-Tim
I'm still playing WoW but getting a little frustrated but I think its my own fault. I kinda picked at the zones Im in and really left with no good way to increase my character to go to a new zone. But I'll probably go back and revisit some of those zones and see if I can at least dig up a bit of XP. On the positive side I do enjoy playing a warlock, just wish I was a higher level so I could go do some PVP, but all in time I guess.
I've also noticed what a real dependency I have on windows. The "rebel" inside me wants to say its because its been driven down my throat for years but in reality it may just be thats its that good (I'm basing this on the fact that windows XP is the only windows OS that classifies for this). I really liked Mac OSX and I liked some of the stuff in it better than I did on windows but there were little things that just kinda drive you nuts because you can just do them in windows. I think Mac OSX is great for beginners though who have never used windows as its an easier experience than windows. My Mac is back to being my second developer machine as I am back in full swing on my PC and I just feel a lot more productive. Its hard to pinpoint exactly what in windows is pushing me towards it but I think its probably the applications (which have nothing to do with the OS, except they are on this OS and not on Mac at least in the same way) and just little things in the operating system. One of the big things that bugs me on the mac is the fact that you cant right click a finder window and get enough options. You have to go to the menu bar at the top for too much stuff. While this may be simplistic for a beginner, it is frustrating for an advanced user like myself who makes use of that second mouse button. The lack of a start menu of any kind also bugs me. At first when I saw that all the applications were just directories inside a heading (which is just a folder) under finder and you click on those directories to execute the application I thought it was very neat and simplistic. No need to worry about icons, a registry, etc. But it became frustrating to me because to execute an application you had to scroll through files, which I do not enjoy. A simple popup menu arranged like I want is a much better design to me. The applications differences I was talking about earlier are for crossplatform stuff like Xchat. XChat on mac works a lot different than Xchat on windows and it sucks compared to the windows version. I think they tried too hard to make it "Mac" and screwed it up. At least firefox works the same across both. And as for afinal point I think I was midly frustrated by the mac mini's performance even with 1 gig of ram. The system was still not very responsive and I hate waiting for things to load and when I click on something I want it to happen then.. not 1 to 2 seconds later. But thats more of my fault of buying a cheap machine but I only wanted an introduction to the Apple world before plunging too much money in and the Mac Mini is great for that.
Even After saying all of that I think Mac OSX is still an excellent Operating System and I do recommend it. Windows XP I think is more intuitive for the advanced user. I think Linux could learn a lot from both OSes. If it could manage to get the best of both worlds then it really would be the superior operating system. Bad thing is applications is one of the superior things of Windows XP so it will take them a while to get it all but if they close the gap enough then it could become a serious contender in the desktop market. I first thought when I used Mac OSX.. This is Linux done right. I was halfway true. It did fix the annoyances of Linux but it also added some annoyances linux did not have. Well I have talked about this enough.. Until next time.
-Tim
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08/27/2005 (5:40 pm)
I agree with what Randy said (regarding WoW). That and the end-game content isn't great. Warlocks can be fun to play as far as PvE goes, but if you are on a PvP server, when you start to get around level 40 (or even 30 if you decide to grind in STV) you'll really want to party up as you'll be ganking materia. Locks are great at lvl 60 but are tough until then. 
Torque Owner Vashner
combat action seemed boring and repetitive.