Recent content by RoboGeek

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    Poll: Journalistic Ethics (AKA Death photo on New York Post cover)

    It reminds me of this article about photographers who took pictures instead of helping and there thoughts about what they did afterwards http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2012/jul/28/bystanders-photographers-who-didnt-help?fb=native
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    C++ Issue

    Im not 100% sure as i haven't used mat lab yet but your not sending your variables to your math functions although X and Y are global so it might not matter, try doing this for your functions i might be wrong but thats how i would usually code a function like that
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    A Peculiar PC problem - only for the brave.

    oh sorry i kinda skimmed the previous post and didn't see that you had already thought of that, if what you believe is true then i guess it could be a virus of some sort, although I've never seen a virus do this its possible
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    A Peculiar PC problem - only for the brave.

    although it doesn't exactly solve the problem but most of the time the buzzer is an external component on the motherboard, you can just unplug it it looks like http://cdn.overclock.net/b/ba/ba4225be_speaker.jpeg
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    Need advice on prebuilt PC

    i live in the UK so im not sure what the prices are like in the us compared to us but im under the impression that its cheaper in the US. the computer itself does seem a bit expensive for what it is, the graphics card is very dated and the RAM speed is a bit slow for what your paying. In...
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    Gamifying Diabetes.

    you may be in luck, i recently received an about a competition that encourages software/game designers to work closely with people with diabetes and create a piece of software to help with it, heres the link if you are interested http://www.diabetesappchallenge.org.uk/ EDIT:
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    Need Help for Unity project

    ok i will try and help with what your asking, im pretty experienced with unity but only usually code in java but can try be a bit of help. unity is really easy to work with and allows you to create stuff really quickly once you understand what your doing. a lot of the functions unity...
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    UUUUummmm right .

    have you not seen wall those bots that post, they always make tonnes of money staying home all day you should do that.
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    There could be something wrong with my rear fan

    it does sound like it was just dirty, fans generally don't break unless you stick your finger in them or something. does your computer even need a fan? most of the time the CPU fan, GFX card fan and PSU fan do a fine job of cooling a PC unless you have a GFX card without a fan like i used...
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    Downloading from Amazon

    my understanding is, if you can find any us address and enter it in you can download it and play the game in any country
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    Finding a group for a hobby game design project.

    i guess you could use gamedev.net its a big development site im sure theres a lot of people wanting to help on projects and just work on stuff. you could go to ploycount to try find artists there a lot of very talented people on there. and at a stretch try to see if you can find game...
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    I need some really serious college advice from any and everyone in the game industry

    in regards to your comic question having a successful would be something useful when applying to be a designer, it shows you have an understanding in script writing and story telling, something you may have to do as a designer. the drawing is also useful as you may also need to do quick sketches...
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    The decline of Japanese games and culture: Need help with a term paper!

    im not sure if you will see this or if it will help but at my university a Japanese company is hiring 2 students for a year placement, 1 programmer, 1 designer. they want to take a designer for a year because this company wants to make their games appeal to western gamers as well as Japanese ones
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    The Bafta Award Winners are.....

    this being a UK award show Catherine didn't get released over here until 2012 so it did not qualify. i found these awards pretty good overall better than they usually. and a special shout to the one to watch award, i went to the dare to be digital bafta party on Thursday and played all the...
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    Why is RTS so heartless?

    a game that i think kind of does what your describing is the blood bowl game - although a turn based strategy rather than real time, each character has there own name stats and bonus's and perks and such, when one of your team gets killed you do get annoyed or upset. i think this is because...