I became a U.S. Citizen this morning. I was sworn in and I have my certificate and everything. Ready to go get my passport next! And my NASCAR goodie bag... 

Congrats btw! :D 

Canada. It's been about 5 years from start to end to get this to happen. Woot! 

would be pretty cool if it had more games that were actually fun, and if they were built out into more involved levels / campaigns with all of the standard video game incentives that make you want to re-play content (high score, achievements, completeness, etc.)

For example, the skiing mode is the one that is most like a real game, but it would be nice if there was a set of real skiing levels which are long, varied, and interesting. This is probably the one game mode where i actually play it just to improve my score.

The marble-rolling games are cool, but again, needs more depth, more variety, etc. There are so many ball rolling games that are different styles, like Labyrinth, Marble Madness, etc, that you could mine for gameplay ideas.

You could add in a Bushido-Blade style samurai game where how you stand on the board determines your stance, and you use the wiimote to control your sword.

I realize that wii fit was designed and marketed with a very specific image and purpose, so making it more game-like would actually turn away the core audience. For them, the fact that it is not a game, but a self-improvement tool, is what appeals to them (see Brain Age marketing vs. Wario Ware marketing, basically the same genre of game.)

So really, someone make real games for the balance board! Just the fact that you have to stand up and shift your weight while playing makes it a workout, and people will keep playing if it's fun. 

Wouldn't allow it. 

wanted for christmas. I got her the board+game and another wii-mote +nunchuck w/ motion plus and a charger for the board.
Cost �170 >< 250-300 dollars I guess. Fuuuuuuk.

But I must admit I do enjoy wii bowling 1 and 2. Thats about it for me, but atleast with the extra wii-mote I can play her at tennis.

She expressed interest in the Mario re-release, but that nreally is lame - using 15 y/o tech for a 2009 game. lol. 

came up as a link for me, but that wasnt my doing. Dodgy internet security from Windows 7, I keep gettin poppups in ie8 and firefox. 64 bit.

Not good, I hope they fix it. 

its not a link now since I posted the last message. Very wierd. Dont like it :| 

:S 

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewstory&threadid=105519

Maybe this is the solution :D 

Lawl sock. <3 'bump and grindy'

And gz Willem.


On the actually games related topic, I'd swear I saw a tony hawk's branded skateboard thing for the Wii when I was xmas shopping the other day, I'm assuming this means there's a 'real' game using the balance board nao (although it could just be an attempt to make kids 'exercise' (but what kids actually think skateboarding is cool now, all the ones I see have those ridiculous scooter things)) 

Yeh, this. http://www.thride.com/

Although apparently it's not compatible with the WiiFit board and costs a fortune, making it more like a glorified guitar hero. Yay board(room) necessitated proprietry board 

what's the best way to delete all copies of an entity of one type in a map? I tried doing it in Wordpad in the .map file but that fucked it up - though I cut some brush entities too when I did that. 

heh, make a parser to do it >_<
honestly, if i had vs on this machine, i'd do it.

i've been meaning to make a program that will load up all the entities in a map file as just a list and allow you to search through and order by classname or target/targetnames or something but i can never seem to get started on it. :S quark has a list based way to go through entities in your map, maybe take a look at that. 

GtkRadiant?

Select one of them and press SHIFT+A and then delete them.

That will select all objects of that type in the map. Works for textures too, if you select one and do SHIFT+A. 

awesome, that command is in qe3 too. it's those highly useful yet rarely used commands that are the real treasure. ^_^; 

Go to: Map/Entity Report/Select By Class

you can just enter "light" and all lights will be selected (lights, torches, flame).

You can also search for a specific key walue among all entities 

Thanks but unfortunately no, Hammer - wow thanks Ankh that'll save me some tedious work.

Next question: anyone know a decent bsp->map program for Quake2 bsps? I'm looking at taking an unreleased Heretic II map and making it for Quake with Heretic II textures, and I only have some of it in map/rmf, but I have more of it in bsp files. 

Who else is Secretly Canadian? Vondur? 

Also, Congratulations on the visa! 

Not a visa ... citizenship. I'm now a real live American. :) 

Isn't Canada a million times nicer to live? Health care is currently spoken about rather loud, Canada seems great about that. 

Spirit: Yeah my understanding is Canada has a nicer overall atmosphere, but Pope informs me there is rampant racism. At least in his part of Canada. French Canada might not have any racism at all (they're all white, yeah?) so who knows? 

I gotta say one problem we have here with out medical system though is DEATH PANELS. As soon as you get sick, within 2 weeks every damned time, the KGB shows up in the middle of the night and kidnaps you, and you're in the Gulag for 20 years easy, if you ever make it out. Damned socialism, if only we had some honest, principled creationists to fight it off... 

Uh, I don't know.

I think the racism level is pretty variant, like in most places. EG the states - it's a much different culture in NYC than in Lubbock TX.

I live in Montreal and even though it's super multi-cultural there's a pretty decent amount of racism, even between white people (anglo vs franco, irish vs italian etc).

But yeah, definitely less noticable racism than what I've seen in say, Alice Springs.

Don't think I want to get into health care. at all.

I totally took that post too seriously, huh?
Either way I'd love to have dual citizenship, jobs, travel etc - changes so much. Seriously Willem, good job, I'm sure its worth the wait!