They preface it by stating "And for bearded, sunglasses-wearing celebrities, like certain members of the band ZZ Top:"... but that's not the first thing that comes to mind looking at it in the article.
Yeah, the "B-movie acting" in an otherwise great game really stuck with me. Lines like "you, the master of lock picking" were laughable even when I was a teenager.
Personally, I think that the Total War games are great fun and despite a few simplifications made for the sake of gameplay (such as Gold Florins being the standard of currency through the Middle Ages in Medieval II) that they teach the player a lot about history and heography. Heck, even The History Channel uses Rome: Total War to illustrate historical battles.
Actually, I assumed that you were a run-of-the mill Troll. Attributing your intellectual laziness to Fox brainwashing was an attempt at being generous.
So, please clarify for Slashdot: do you always react with base canards as refined as "Think of the Children"?
You sir, should consider turning off Faux News.
The ACLU has the courage to stand up to a government that is stripping us of our basic rights, and that is why I support them.
The last game to be refused classification was Carmageddon in 1997. That decision was overturned on appeal. ...and who can forget the "Curtains of Beef" level? Oh, the memories....
You're kidding, right? The US and UK government have been funneling money to "Arab Oil Interests" such as one Saudi Prince Bandar for years. Where do you think these governments get that money from? Here in the States, the feds take 18.4 cents per gallon.
The investigation found that up to £120m a year was sent by BAE Systems from the UK into two Saudi embassy accounts in Washington. The article from the BBC is here.
On topic, you can learn what your state charges on top of the feds' cut here, or you can read it at the pump.
Oh, the irony. This "model student" is acting out in an English class.... and his opening credits in the video say "What your about to see might scare you."
Maybe if he was paying attention in class, he'd learn how to properly use a contraction.;)
In case you didn't notice, the 2000 election was indeed declared non-binding, particularly in Florida. The moment the Supreme Court stepped in and declared that counting votes wasn't important, the election itself became meaningless.
From TFA:
It's common for a soldier to cut out a magazine picture of a woman, tape it to the antenna and name the bot something like "Cheryl," Am I the only one here who thinks that is totally fsck'ed up? What exactly are theser robots for again? Or is this another case of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ?;)
Look, let's say I had hired an accountant. Then, let's say that I found out that he was keeping two separate databases of my finances. Let's also say that they had different totals in them, and he was only showing me one of them.
Not only would I fire his ass, but I'd make sure to press criminal charges of fraud. Why are these creeps from Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, et. all not in prison yet?
Diebold makes ATMs; don't tell me that they can't get something as simple as a vote database right. Occam's Razor points to outright fraud, not to simple incompetence.
Why is it so fashionable to bash California on/.? Every time there's a news story here about the Golden State, a cadre of trolls emerge to post comments about "nut-job Californians" and they got modded "insightful". Like many common-sense regulations proposed by forward-thinking people, this bill is about keeping the public better informed so that they can make an intelligent choice. What is so wrong about that?
As for labelling GMO food, several counties in California have attempted to pass bans or labelling requirements already, but FUD from the agribusiness machine has defeated them all handily.
For the love of rational discussion, can we please just discuss the merits of proposed legislation like adults instead of insulting people based on the geographic location?
Well, yes, but since the main reason people use Xfire is to find their friends gaming on PCs and the overall hours per user per game is also on the rise, I would infer that PC gaming's popularity cannot be solely judged by retail sales.
A big factor is the rise of Free-To-Play Korean MMOs in the Western World. On the top 10 MMOs, you don't see very many of SOE's games (only SWG; no EQ's) -- the kids who can't afford the $15 a month for WoW are playing the free games. Such games support themselves through a "cash store" which allows the user to buy special costumes for their character, etc., without giving them a direct advantage in-game over their free-play peers.
For GDC, Xfire released a snapshot of stats from their gaming client from December 2006. Gaming on Windows PCs is on the upswing for the amount of time spent playing the games, even if retail sales seem to be in a slump.
The author has some good points, but he left out the most obvious and important one of all: Thou Shalt Make It A Good Online Multi-Player Game. The Single Player mode is only fun for 1 (maybe 2) plays through. What makes a FPS game continually enjoyable is a well-balanced deathmatch or objective-based team game. TFA lavishes praise on CoD2 (also excellent to play online, though he doesn't mention it) and half of the article's points are about HL2... but no mention of Counter-Strike?!? CS:Source is the most popular online FPS, and for good reason.
Any discussion of what makes a good FPS game is pointless unless you at least touch on the topic of multi-player.
From TFA:
God, don't ever make us see cute human girls making out with Sonic. Ever again.
Seriously, we'll hurt you. I'll second that, as well as most of the article's points. What the hell is up with Shadow? I mean, Sonic was *already* the edgy, sneering, anti-hero-type. Was Shadow supposed to be 'keeping it more real' because he had black fur?!?
Please stop referring to a Googlebomb as "mob rule."
PageRank Explained
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." The Googlebomb is just an example of the weighted "democracy" that Page Rank is supposed to be all about. It is sad to see Google caving in to the whiners who email them without bothering to read their FAQ or their "About Us" pages.
And, as another poster said, these sorts of guerilla campaigns are wicked fun.
You can already play an overmatched pitched FPS battle in America's Army. One of the Special Forces maps -- "Assault". Side A has 24 players armed with only a smoke grenade and an M4 with no scope, while side B is just 6 players, but they are given AR-249 "saw" machineguns and 6 boxes of ammo. Side A has to parachute into the battlefield, and side B gets a bunker to hide out in.
Of course, AA is a more "realistic" FPS game where one shot to the noggin or two/three bullets anywhere kills you (or you can bleed to death from a single gut wound) so it still boils down to tactics and reflexes. This new game sounds like it's more suited to the HALO kids with the "heavily armored" quotes and the like.
Off-topic, I've often wondered why the Army didn't make the soldiers more durable in their game. It's way too easy to die to be an effective recruiting tool.;)
"Why quote McAffee? What business do they have here?" McAffee and Symantec love all the free press when news outlets turn to them as "experts" for comments on computer security stories. The more inflated the "damage in dollars" numbers they come up with, the more free advertising they get.
Illegal Danish was first featured on Xfire's WoW Machinima Contest. The second WoW Machinima contest is just now wrapping up. Winners will be announced friday, but you can see all the finalists here.
We'll be hosting a free event at Stanford University on Thursday evening with a panel of Machinima movie makers including Ezra from Rufus Cubed (who did the Machinima in South Park's WoW episode) and the guys from Myndflame (who did Illegal Danish) will be there as well!
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The NYT article contains this gem:
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They preface it by stating "And for bearded, sunglasses-wearing celebrities, like certain members of the band ZZ Top:"... but that's not the first thing that comes to mind looking at it in the article.
Knowing how poorly the servers in SL scale, the most likely effect of such a protest will be to crash the zone and everyone's client app.
Yeah, the "B-movie acting" in an otherwise great game really stuck with me. Lines like "you, the master of lock picking" were laughable even when I was a teenager.
Personally, I think that the Total War games are great fun and despite a few simplifications made for the sake of gameplay (such as Gold Florins being the standard of currency through the Middle Ages in Medieval II) that they teach the player a lot about history and heography. Heck, even The History Channel uses Rome: Total War to illustrate historical battles.
Actually, I assumed that you were a run-of-the mill Troll. Attributing your intellectual laziness to Fox brainwashing was an attempt at being generous.
So, please clarify for Slashdot: do you always react with base canards as refined as "Think of the Children"?
You sir, should consider turning off Faux News. The ACLU has the courage to stand up to a government that is stripping us of our basic rights, and that is why I support them.
The investigation found that up to £120m a year was sent by BAE Systems from the UK into two Saudi embassy accounts in Washington. The article from the BBC is here.
On topic, you can learn what your state charges on top of the feds' cut here, or you can read it at the pump.
Oh, the irony. This "model student" is acting out in an English class.... and his opening credits in the video say "What your about to see might scare you."
;)
Maybe if he was paying attention in class, he'd learn how to properly use a contraction.
In case you didn't notice, the 2000 election was indeed declared non-binding, particularly in Florida. The moment the Supreme Court stepped in and declared that counting votes wasn't important, the election itself became meaningless.
Look, let's say I had hired an accountant. Then, let's say that I found out that he was keeping two separate databases of my finances. Let's also say that they had different totals in them, and he was only showing me one of them.
Not only would I fire his ass, but I'd make sure to press criminal charges of fraud. Why are these creeps from Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, et. all not in prison yet?
Diebold makes ATMs; don't tell me that they can't get something as simple as a vote database right. Occam's Razor points to outright fraud, not to simple incompetence.
Why is it so fashionable to bash California on /.? Every time there's a news story here about the Golden State, a cadre of trolls emerge to post comments about "nut-job Californians" and they got modded "insightful". Like many common-sense regulations proposed by forward-thinking people, this bill is about keeping the public better informed so that they can make an intelligent choice. What is so wrong about that?
As for labelling GMO food, several counties in California have attempted to pass bans or labelling requirements already, but FUD from the agribusiness machine has defeated them all handily.
For the love of rational discussion, can we please just discuss the merits of proposed legislation like adults instead of insulting people based on the geographic location?
Well, yes, but since the main reason people use Xfire is to find their friends gaming on PCs and the overall hours per user per game is also on the rise, I would infer that PC gaming's popularity cannot be solely judged by retail sales.
A big factor is the rise of Free-To-Play Korean MMOs in the Western World. On the top 10 MMOs, you don't see very many of SOE's games (only SWG; no EQ's) -- the kids who can't afford the $15 a month for WoW are playing the free games. Such games support themselves through a "cash store" which allows the user to buy special costumes for their character, etc., without giving them a direct advantage in-game over their free-play peers.
For GDC, Xfire released a snapshot of stats from their gaming client from December 2006. Gaming on Windows PCs is on the upswing for the amount of time spent playing the games, even if retail sales seem to be in a slump.
Xfire Stats December 2006
One game, World of Warcraft, just counting Xfire users, accounts for 15,000 *days* of play time every day.
In unrelated news, there is still no cure for cancer.
The author has some good points, but he left out the most obvious and important one of all: Thou Shalt Make It A Good Online Multi-Player Game. The Single Player mode is only fun for 1 (maybe 2) plays through. What makes a FPS game continually enjoyable is a well-balanced deathmatch or objective-based team game. TFA lavishes praise on CoD2 (also excellent to play online, though he doesn't mention it) and half of the article's points are about HL2... but no mention of Counter-Strike?!? CS:Source is the most popular online FPS, and for good reason.
Any discussion of what makes a good FPS game is pointless unless you at least touch on the topic of multi-player.
Another sunny, breezy day here on the SF Penninsula and in the South Bay.... it never gets too cold or too hot here, it seems.
;)
It's no wonder housing here is so expensive. Too bad the rising sea level will swamp us soon.
God, don't ever make us see cute human girls making out with Sonic. Ever again.
Seriously, we'll hurt you. I'll second that, as well as most of the article's points. What the hell is up with Shadow? I mean, Sonic was *already* the edgy, sneering, anti-hero-type. Was Shadow supposed to be 'keeping it more real' because he had black fur?!?
PageRank Explained
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." The Googlebomb is just an example of the weighted "democracy" that Page Rank is supposed to be all about. It is sad to see Google caving in to the whiners who email them without bothering to read their FAQ or their "About Us" pages.
And, as another poster said, these sorts of guerilla campaigns are wicked fun.
You can already play an overmatched pitched FPS battle in America's Army. One of the Special Forces maps -- "Assault". Side A has 24 players armed with only a smoke grenade and an M4 with no scope, while side B is just 6 players, but they are given AR-249 "saw" machineguns and 6 boxes of ammo. Side A has to parachute into the battlefield, and side B gets a bunker to hide out in. Of course, AA is a more "realistic" FPS game where one shot to the noggin or two/three bullets anywhere kills you (or you can bleed to death from a single gut wound) so it still boils down to tactics and reflexes. This new game sounds like it's more suited to the HALO kids with the "heavily armored" quotes and the like. Off-topic, I've often wondered why the Army didn't make the soldiers more durable in their game. It's way too easy to die to be an effective recruiting tool. ;)
Illegal Danish was first featured on Xfire's WoW Machinima Contest. The second WoW Machinima contest is just now wrapping up. Winners will be announced friday, but you can see all the finalists here. We'll be hosting a free event at Stanford University on Thursday evening with a panel of Machinima movie makers including Ezra from Rufus Cubed (who did the Machinima in South Park's WoW episode) and the guys from Myndflame (who did Illegal Danish) will be there as well!
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