ITT: Call It Now, Be Right Later

[AFK]

emo puns are unfunny, just sayin. 

[Lies]

Fine, allow me to get all Zen on you then:
I may pick up a stone, and let it go, and it will hit the floor, and I can keep doing this to prove to myself that every time I let the stone go, that it's guaranteed to hit the floor.
But what happens if there comes a day where the rock falls into the air?

Emo version still as unfunny? :P

[Triple Zero]

it depends on what colour air we're talking about here

[AFK]

Fine, allow me to get all Zen on you then:
I may pick up a stone, and let it go, and it will hit the floor, and I can keep doing this to prove to myself that every time I let the stone go, that it's guaranteed to hit the floor.
But what happens if there comes a day where the rock falls into the air?

Emo version still as unfunny? :P

yes.  It's the law of puns.  Once unfunny, always unfunny.  There is no saving it. 

[Triple Zero]

yes.  It's the law of puns.  Once unfunny, always unfunny.  There is no saving it. 

this is not true, you know it.

if you repeat an unfunny pun in the correct way it shall become a running gag.

but this is an advanced strategy which must be exercised with care.

[AFK]

That's true.  But I think this one is dead. 

[Triple Zero]

so did you hear the one about the emo space cowboy explorer that tried to settle on a black hole?

[AFK]

No. 

[sam]

1567 jelly beans

[AFK]

No.

[Cramulus]

BABABABUMP

I called it. It's happening right now.
MAN it bugs me when this happens. I could have been profiting off these ideas somehow.

I think one day we'll see a web 2.0 style video game - where the game is populated with user generated content. Think myspace, but instead of making a page with info about you, you build and customize levels for your friends to explore. If this can get you laid somehow, it'll be an overnight hit.

I found three of these last night.



The first is called Mockingbird.

http://playmockingbird.com/

It's not very interesting right now, and you need to pay ten bucks to buy the actual level designer tool. I suspect no one will do that, because a competitor will release a similar free version any day now. Basically you can make you own little mini games. They can be puzzle, action, shooter, etc, and you can paste in images of your friends (etc) as the sprites in the game. The WOMP Cabal is intrigued, but isn't gonna pay.


then there's http://www.metaplace.com/
which is in its alpha testing phase. Signups are closed, but it looks a bit more customizable than mockingbird, and a bit more integrated with the actual web. It also has a higher emphasis on social interaction - you can have multiple people in your game at the same time, chatting and cooperating (or competing!)

We speak Web fluently. Every world is a web server, and every object has a URL. You can script an object so that it feeds RSS, XML, or HTML to a browser. This lets you do things like high score tables, objects that email you, player profile pages right on the player -- whatever you want. Every object can also browse the Web: a chat bot can chatter headlines from an RSS feed, a newspaper with real headlines can sit on your virtual desk, game data could come from real world data... you get the idea. No more walled garden.

finally there's Storytron at http://www.storytron.com/faq.html

very little information is available right now, but it looks like you'll be able to build worlds for "interactive storytelling". A lack of screenshots is a bit dissapointing, but this merits a bit more investigation.

[Suu]

Also, you called it on Mass Effect.

[Iason Ouabache]

I'm going to predict Obama as the next president and Hillary as his VP since no one else has.  And someone will try to assassinate him in 2010.

[Jenne]

Cram, always ALWAYS seek to find a way to sell an idea if it's good enough and you think it has a niche.  About 15 years ago, my husband wanted to start researching how to make a single medical database for all hospitals to use, and lo and behold, here they are, cropping up.  That could've been his watershed moment all those years ago, instead, it was a brainfart.

*has nothing to predict*

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm going to predict Obama as the next president and Hillary as his VP since no one else has. 

Never.  He'll pick Chuck Hagel.