Timewaster's Guide Archive

What a complete idiot.  I often wish that stories like this one would come with a picture.  I have a deep need to know what people who do things like this look like.

You all seem upset with the football program, but I don't see how it's hurting any of you.  Would you care to elaborate?

Sure.  It's an old burning frustration of mine.  So maybe I should just let it go, after all I'm well clear of the place now.  
I worked as a security guard for BYU at the MTC for several years as I was going to school there. As such I was in-the-know on a lot of the shenanigans that got people tossed out of the school.  There were three factors that got you a get-out-of-jail-free card in just about every case. (and by this I mean you would not be expelled or disciplined for actions that had gotten other students who weren't in the proper category so punished)  1: You were related to a general authority.  2: You were a football player.  3:Your behavior never hit the press.

So my tithing today goes to support that institution and it bugs me that it conducts itself in that way.  Of course, when a football player gets out of line and the press hears about it, it's considered news so that's where my attention is focused.

I'm glad to hear that they are going to restructure to put values ahead of winning, why in the world weren't they there to begin with?

As for the idea that the football program is OK because it supports the other sports and that most of the money for the school comes from private donors anyway so why get you panties in a bunch over the tithing portion?  I ask why I got browbeaten with the idea that tithing was a huge part of the funding for the school and therefore I shouldn't complain about all the little extra ways they found to goudge me while I was there.

But now I sound like a BYU hater.  There were some things that really bugged me.  Overall, going to school there was a great experience, which I'd repeat.

wastrel

Now he can walk.

No.  Now he can fly.

LTUE and TLE are considered embarrassments by the faculty of BYU.  They bring people to campus who are not football fans and who think on their own about things.  Neither class of person is really welcome.

It's sad really.  

-BYU is the western mecca for gay men (they're not all just really nice return missionaries folks)

-Teaching the students is a far second or third to getting grant money from the feds and being prestigious

-And they pump our tithing funds into scholarships for lying, theiving, raping, football thugs.

-And they called to ask me for more of my money last week.  How sad is that?

Well, that was a good answer.  I say curses.

But seriously, what is standing in the way of this kind of game?

Throwing out a post that seemed appropriate for this thread.

I am looking forward to an RTS that allows me to customize the AI that controls my troops.  I want one that gives me huge flexibility in how my men react to each other, to the enemy, and to the terrain.  I won't go into detail on the kinds of things I want to be able to control because it would take too long.  

Is there already a game out there that allows one to do this that I don't know about?  The closest I've ever seen is "Myth: The Fallen Lords" and all it let me do was pick from a set of about 6 formations my guys could form themselves into and remember hot keys for specific groups of guys.

The game I'm envisioning would have many unit types, all of which could be programmed by the player to react how he wanted to lots of different stimulus.  The challenge in playing would be to find a set of SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) that worked well in a variety of environments and against different opponents.  

The challenge in coding such a game would probably be figuring out how to keep it simple enough to be humanly possible to code but complex enough that there would not be a set of SOPs that turned out to be the best and won in every case.

Anyone know of such a game?  Any game developers out there who want to make one?