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BioShock Movie To Be Made By Universal
azuredrake writes "Gamasutra reports that Universal Pictures has just announced a completion of licensing negotiations to bring the game BioShock to the silver screen. For those unfamiliar with the property, it was the much-lauded Game of the Year contender, praised for its storyline which emerged through gameplay, not just cutscenes. The director for the project is to be Gore Verbinski, who proved himself on the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, and the current writer for the screenplay is John Logan, who is recently known for the also-creepy Sweeny Todd."
It gets even worse. He directed that last movie, but not the first two.
the lights are coming up all over now. the planet/population remains in high crisis mode. pay attention, that's cost effective, & could lead to your survival. the 'mainstream media' is almost total fiction/fluff now. the 'head in the sand' method will not be useful in this circumstance. see you on the other side. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. there are still some choices. if they do not suit you, consider the likely results of continuing to follow the corepirate nazi hypenosys story LIEn, whereas anything of relevance is replaced almost instantly with pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking propaganda or 'celebrity' trivia 'foam'. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on yOUR brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_sc/ye_climate_records;_ylt=A0WTcVgednZHP2gB9wms0NUE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080108/ts_alt_afp/ushealthfrancemortality;_ylt=A9G_RngbRIVHsYAAfCas0NUE
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/opinion/31mon1.html?em&ex=1199336400&en=c4b5414371631707&ei=5087%0A
is it time to get real yet? A LOT of energy is being squandered in attempts to keep US in the dark. in the end (give or take a few 1000 years), the creators will prevail (world without end, etc...), as it has always been. the process of gaining yOUR release from the current hostage situation may not be what you might think it is. butt of course, most of US don't know, or care what a precarious/fatal situation we're in. for example; the insidious attempts by the felonious corepirate nazi execrable to block the suns' light, interfering with a requirement (sunlight) for us to stay healthy/alive. it's likely not good for yOUR health/memories 'else they'd be bragging about it? we're intending for the whoreabully deceptive (they'll do ANYTHING for a bit more monIE/power) felons to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather', as well as a # of other things/events.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying
dictator style micro management has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & softwar gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster. meanwhile, you can help to stop the bleeding (loss of life & limb);
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/vermont.banning.bush.ap/index.html
the bleeding must be stopped before any healing can begin. jailing a couple of corepirate nazi hired goons would send a clear message to the rest of the world from US. any truthful look at the 'scorecard' would reveal that we are a society in decline/deep doo-doo, despite all of the scriptdead pr ?firm? generated drum beating & flag waving propaganda that we are constantly bombarded with. is it time to get real yet? please consider carefully ALL of yOUR other 'options'. the creators will prevail. as it has always been.
corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
(Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
by ourselves on everyday 24/7
as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption. fortunately there's an 'army' of light bringers, coming yOUR way. the little ones/innocents must/will be protected. after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit? for each of the creators' innocents harmed in any way, there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available. 'vote' with (what's left in) yOUR wallet, & by your behaviors. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable. some of US should consider ourselves somewhat fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate. it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....
I just refused to buy it (and Mass Effect and Trackmania).
I would really have liked to play Mass Effect on the PC, the 360 version has too many loading issues due to constantly streaming of the DVD (it was clearly not really a finished game, even though the content is all there and very high quality) I assume that presumably wouldn't be a problem on a powerful desktop PC so I was looking forward to it until I heard it had the crappy copy protection scheme.
A representative of the guys behind Trackmania (which I would really like to play...) has been really cocky about it too, he thinks its not impacting sales and only pirates. Of course he's wrong, and of course I'm sure you can still get downloads of it anyway (as is always the case...). Nice work there, chump. It's on Steam now, but I'm still not buying it because he was such an asshole I don't want to give them any business.
It's not simply that I have a principled objection, I installed X3 and it's Starforce copy protection totally hosed my system. It was crash all over the place after installing, even when playing games other, and some times while just at the desktop. I had to look in the event logs, the device manager and search Google then put all that together to see why (from what I gathered, it installs a device driver / virtual disc controller to the OS, and one that's very poorly written at that, which not only slows down you system, but also causes it to crash, often frequently.)
After running the Starforce uninstaller (found online) my system was immediately fine again. Of course I had to do that as uninstalling X3 - which had installed it - didn't take off the crap it had put on. I never did play the game for more than a few minutes, I sure as hell wasn't about to install it again.
As a result of this sort of crap, I pretty much only buy PC games on Steam these days. I know it works, and when it comes to reinstall Windows know the games will just re-download fine.
I know I won't have to hunt around looking for a serial number, which is on the manual, when it says it should be on the box, or is on some inlay card or sticker that's got lost. and then I have to hunt around for a crack, but then the crack only works with an unpatched release of 1.0 of the software, which is no use because version 1.0 is a pile of crap and without patching to a new version it can't be completed because of some bug in the gameplay on level 4 (etc, etc).
Ironically, it's primarily the PUBLISHERS who have forced all this crap on to go games (not developers). I've even emailed a few developers (politely) to let them know what I think of their copy protection and a more than one has responded sympathetically saying it's a request of the publisher, or the original licenser (in the case of ports). I say ironically as it's the existing publishers who will lose out with (legal) online downloads, because they will get cut out all together.
(Sorry that this is off topic, but Bio Shock was so well know for it's POS copy protection, seems hard to discuss it without mentioning it).