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Topic: IRC chat with Toys for Bob on 2007-06-13 (Read 47210 times)
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waywardoctagon
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Hi! 
I have one--do you guys have pretty clear mental pictures of the various alien races, outside of what you can see in the in-game animations?
(Because if the answer's yes, then I would have *cough* a few followup questions and hopefully at least some of them would be interesting to other people here.  )
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Tiberian
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Here's one:
What is your favorite piece of music in SC2?
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Megagun
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Well, we all know that there's only ONE suitable question:
WHAT ARE THOSE GLOWY BITS INSIDE YOU!?!?!
also:
If a Fwiffo plush doll were ever made, would Toys for Bob support world domination using said plush doll or not?
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guesst
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Well, being one of the oldest StarContollers out there I think I'll arrange my schedule so that I can participate. My question is for the community:
What IRC client do you recomend I use?
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Anthony
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If you're using Linux, you can use XChat. I don't know of any free clients for Windows, but if you're using Mozilla, you can install the IRCzilla plugin, and use that; it's a full featured IRC program. There's XChat for windows, and mIRC, but those are both shareware, so you'd have a limited trial; but you could install it just before the chat starts, so you'd still have a usable IRC client.
I'm just going to use IRCzilla.
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Megagun
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Xchat for Windows isn't shareware.. Well, only the 'official' windows build is, because of its toughness to compile for Windows, or something, so the original author sharewaredified the Windows build... or something..
Luckily, 'Xchat 2' is freeware, and is most likely the best IRC client for Windows out there. I used to use mIRC for years, but when I started to be a part of idle on more channels and servers, I hated the few minutes it took to connect to all the servers... and started using Xchat 2.
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Mormont
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There's probably a more tactful way to say this, but I'd really like to know how you went from making brilliant original games like Archon and Star Control to licensed kid's games like 102 dalmatians. What happened?
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Fred
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We'd all love to hear your explanation of the polar bear theory.
Paul's reality is often indistinguishable (to him) from his dream states and one day he actually tried to convince me that polar bears are close relatives of weasels. And of course everybody but me has heard of the dreaded polar weasel.
How did the threading work on the 3DO and on the PC.
The 3DO had a threading library. I wrote my own for the PC, because none such existed.
What is your favorite piece of music in SC2?
Probably the Yehat.
I have one--do you guys have pretty clear mental pictures of the various alien races, outside of what you can see in the in-game animations?
Clear enough. Why do you ask?
There's probably a more tactful way to say this, but I'd really like to know how you went from making brilliant original games like Archon and Star Control to licensed kid's games like 102 dalmatians. What happened?
0xDECODE is pretty much right on. We have chosen this as our career and we prefer to have food on the table. Games cost so much to make these days that originality was one of the first casualties. Paul and I are still biding our time.
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