Re: [Speed-dreams-users] A suggestion for SD: A safety message

[Kaya S. <kay...@gm...>]

My personal opinion though I maybe off the ball entirely is that I 
believe people that play SD will have enough common sense for that!

To start with SD is available on Linux which isn't a platform dedicated 
to Windowz Gamer guys that are lost in their virtual worlds - comes 
after living with one at uni for 3+ years!! :-)

Additionally SD 2 currently one needs to get from SVN as a developer or 
compile from source and I personally don't see the need for a person 
with those capabilities needing to be reminded about the obvious. Or 
even the developers for that matter as there's a lot of science 
(computer and physics) that goes into virtualizing the characteristics 
and behavioral aspects of **any** powered object.

Perhaps it might work for small kids who's parents have set the game up 
for them or teenies with a little higher then average computing 
abilities (well even though not old but 10+ years back was very 
difficult to find a 14 year old that could compile software etc... as 
Linux/UNIX was still highly academically based).


Just thinking about it cross-overs; people that use both Windowz and 
UNIX/Linux most likely will be playing these style of games on Windz 
already, therefor meaning that they will have the information at hand 
regardless of SD or not.


I think OpenSource should have a new definition around it: "not only is 
it free and for the public by the public but additionally 
allows/develops the ability for people to think for themselves and not 
get told what to think, do, or believe."

Perhaps it could be put within the INSTALL.txt file in the source code 
or on the site directly where the Download location is???


Dunno...... seems obsolete to me.



Well anyway just my take....... :-)


Regards


Kaya



On 02/19/2012 11:08 AM, Mahela Munasinghe wrote:
> Hello everybody.
> I would like to make a small suggestion for SD.
> Wouldn't it be good to display a very brief safety message about not
> trying to race on public roads and maitaining good driving habits? I
> used to play NFS underground a few years ago and I remember that it had
> a safety message. Underground had a video but even a simple text based
> message could do.
>
> What do you guys think?
> (PS: Should I have posted this in the devs mailing list?)
>
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