Re: A85: IR link idea
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Re: A85: IR link idea
you know it might be useful if someone acually built a IR link and played
the game.
You scheptics have know idea as to weather or not you will like the game
untill you actually play it. You might think that it is the greatist idea
in the world, then after you play to see how it is you may realize that it
is not nearly a much fun as you orignaly thought it would be. Or you might
play, and find it to be alot of fun. All of your comments about weather or
not you like the Idea are a complete waste of time because you have not
acualy played the game to know weather you truely like or dislike the Idea.
Besides most of the vaulable technology in the world comes form people,
like us, chasing ideas that may not be the most popular, and then finding
other ideas that are truely uniq and popular. If you quit worrying about
weather or not the idea is good and start presuing the spinoff
technologies, calculator technology will proceed in the forward direction,
rather than sitting idle waiting for people to get past there thoughts and
in to reality,
-matt <matt.johnson@wmich.edu>
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> From: Robert Caldwell <rc_ware@hotmail.com>
> To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: Re: A85: IR link idea
> Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998 9:27 PM
>
>
> i'd just like to say, i hate my image people see me as. i don't like to
> be a programmer and have people ask me "why did you buy a $200
> calculator, do you have any games on it?" and i say "no, not yet" and
> they say what a dumba** i am. i hate that, but i would never stoop as
> low as laser tag. i mean it's a great game to play at night in the
> fields with the actual head/body sets fighting several people, but in
> the classroom with maybe 1 or 2 people with the IR link isn't very fun.
> now if you want to do something real fun then make a program to be able
> to scan the air waves for tv scanning, so that when the teacher isn't
> looking turn on their tv and flip through the channels, freak them out a
> bit--now that's funny (listening to them say "who's got a remote, who's
> got it?"). i'm not against laser tag, but i am against a program that
> involves many people, but only a few showup for, it's like haveing a 2
> player hide and seek game.
>
> i've spoken my mind, and maybe others feel the same way, i don't know.
> if you want to make a laser tag program then fine by me, i know how much
> people enjoy MAKING programs and not actually playing them, so if you
> made pong over again then that would be perfectly ok.
>
> -Rob
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>
> {{Mike Young wrote:
> > I think that using an INFERED LINK for laser tag is a dumb a**
> >
> > idea. Not all, but some people who program calculators already have
> > loose public images that would be shattered by a bunch of , "Beuum!
> > Kaboom! I got you! No, I got you first!"
>
> I hate materialism and this "oh I have to do this to be cool" crap! I
> know that I am not the most popular guy around my school and I know that
> most of the other calc programmers aren't either (don't correct me if I
> am wrong... you know the point I am trying to make). But what I do know
> is that if you are going to go around your whole life worrying around
> your image and what other people think about you then your's is a life
> not worth living. I would rather have a fun, enjoyable life and have
> everyone think of me as a total geek than trying to keep a 'cool' self
> image. I know that many others on this list would say the same thing,
> too (in fact there was a discussion on this about a year back (not sure
> if it was this list though, could have been the asm 92 list)).
>
> My point: live life the way you want; not the way others want. If you
> want to [try to] play laser tag on your calculator then more power to
> ya!
>
> > Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, as well as contructive
> > critizism, but for God's sake, use you d*mn heads! Practacality is
> > the key to usefullness. So why doesn't everyone get back to making
> > games? How about that?
>
> Last time I checked laser tag was a game. And besides, without new
> ideas (however practical or impractical they may sound) where would we
> be right now? And besides, swearing your head off and saying how dumb
> you think something is isn't exactly what I call constructive critisism.
>
> - Jim
>
>
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