gamingeek said:

Archangel3371 said:

Yeah that I Am Alive game could be very cool, too bad Jade Raymond isn't involved in it. Aside from the lametastic ending to Assassin's Creed I absolutely loved that game. I definately can't wait for the sequel and I'd also be very interested in any other game she might be involved with. A few years ago before this generation of consoles began I really never paid much attention to Ubisoft but they've been banging out some pretty great stuff.

What was the ending like? This game is like Disaster DOC only serious.

bugsonglass said:

"If only they'd had Game Boys in the trenches."

in the nintendo shop in NYC they have (at least they did in july 06 when i was there) on display an old gameboy (the original grey one) which is all melted and deformed but still working which has survived a blast in the first gulf war ... and they have it running tetris!!!

 It is still there Bugsy. I saw it in June 08. I think I made a picture of it too!

U.S. scientists learn how to levitate tiny objects

Porn industry seeks federal bailout - To not do it would be pretty hypocritical, at least I think

Pelicans fall out of sky from Mexico to Ore.

bugsonglass said:

Yodariquo I need some help if you have a minute.  I was looking to send you a pm but i didn't find the option on your profile page.  I have a java question which is giving me a bit of trouble.  It says I need to modify a class so that it keeps track of the numbers of objects (of said class) which are created by other classes.  My predicament is this: if i am to include an integer variable as a counter to be incremented when a new instance is created, how do i avoid it being triggered when a new instance is created from within the class itself?  it may be an inheritance related question, maybe it is the class hierarchy that needs to be a certain way, i don't know.

I may have not explained this too well so i will copy the question as it is stated.  "Describe in words how you would modify the Player class so that you could keep track of the number of Player objects which had been created by other classes.  You should not actually change the Player class - just explain how you would change it"

Thank you very much in advance for any help over this, and apologies to everyone for the totally off-topic post.

This is about variable scope.  Normally, a variable declared in a class has a scope pertained within that class.  Declaring the variable as static should allow it to be read and updated by all  instances.

Simple example

Class Player
{
  public static int count = 0;
  public Player()
  {
    ++count;
  }

  public int getCount()
  {
    return count;
  }
}


Class CountingProgram
{
  public static void main(String [] args)
  {
    Player player = new Player();
    Player player2 = new Player();

    //Should return 2
    System.out.println(player.getCount());
  }
}

import java.io.*;
Class Player
{
  public String filename = "count.txt";
  public Player()
  {
    int count = getCount();
    PrintWriter output = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(filename));
    output.writeLine(""+count);
  }

  public int getCount()
  {
    BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
    int count = (int)input.readLine();
    input.close();
    return count;
  }
}

Holy shit! This is so awesome! 100% win!

Almost every panel has a MMA related joke in it! If you do not see it, just ask!

For whomever posted the speculative Jet Set Radio Wii article, it was pitched to SEGA by Headstrong the Bwii/HOTD OVerkill guys. It supposedly was rejected a long time ago.

So wrong.

You guys like Lupin 3rd? It doesn't really feel like a Ghibli film at all to me. It's fun but not really Ghibli to me, it feels like its down in my bottom 3 along with Ocean Waves and Only Yesterday.

Now I saw Isao Takahatas Little Norse Prince over Christmas, apart from the music it's very Ghibli like, you can even see that Isao was doing Miyazaki before Miyazaki.

bugsonglass said:

Yoda, thanks so much for your help.  that makes a lot of sense ... yes it takes 1% of the assignment mark!!! woot!

Yodariquo said:

Just watched Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro.  Does Studio Ghibli have a top-secret form of digital crack?  Because that's the only explanation I have on why their movies are so damned good.

i totally loved castle of cagliostro ... it is one of my favourites out of the really old studio ghibli.  i only wish i had got to watch these movies as a child.

gamingeek said:

You guys like Lupin 3rd? It doesn't really feel like a Ghibli film at all to me. It's fun but not really Ghibli to me, it feels like its down in my bottom 3 along with Ocean Waves and Only Yesterday.

Now I saw Isao Takahatas Little Norse Prince over Christmas, apart from the music it's very Ghibli like, you can even see that Isao was doing Miyazaki before Miyazaki.

i think Little Norse Prince is the oldest ghibli film i ever got to watch.  it's amazing.  don't have Ocean Waves, has it been released on DVD?  to me the Yamadas, i suppose doesn't feel very ghibliish but i still love it. talking about studio ghibli reminds me i still haven't seen Ponyo ...doesn't seem to have been released on DVD yet.  also haven't  seen Earthsea but i heard (think it was Iga who told me, or gg) it doesn't make much sense if one hasn't read the books before

Little Norse Prince wasn't amazing like Ghibli's best, but considering that it's pre-Ghibli and made in 1968 or something, well, the style and direction hold up remarkably well. If only it didn't have this 60s Western music. The battle with the giant pike has so much dynamism. Ocean Waves is terrible, I think it was made as a two or three part TV thing and merged into one movie.

Ponyo is the ultimate shit, so much fun. It has no depth of story but its like animated candy from start to finish. Disney hold the rights to wesern distribution and I think they delayed the asian DVD release till it has the chance to come out on US cinema screens: Spring or summer this year I remember the painful wait for Howl on dvd, they even go to the extent of omitting english subs on the japanese dvd release. Earthsea is different to the books so you can enjoy it without inside knowledge except for the end when a character transforms and there is no explanation, unless you have read the books. Actually there is a lot more you can get out of it by reading the books, they are excellent fantasy books and I'm no fantasy book fan. I initially hated the movie because it was different than the book, upon a second viewing it grew on me, it's pretty good for Goro Miyazaki's first try.

Have you seen the Ponyo trailer?

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/07/19/hayao-miyazakis-ponyo-on-the-cliff-japanese-trailer/

gamingeek said:

Have you seen the Ponyo trailer?

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/07/19/hayao-miyazakis-ponyo-on-the-cliff-japanese-trailer/