I think as a big F U to the other two console giants (which, don't get me wrong, I enjoy the 360 and the PS3 as well...to put a play on teh_pwnerer's words, any device that plays games I enjoy) Nintendo should release a 100 gig add-on hard drive, and charge only 100 dollars for it. Or, include it in a bundle with the wii and only charge 75 dollars extra for it.
Anyway, I have been following the development of this game...it looks like it should be quite interesting, especially if the gameplay videos that were released on LIVE are indicative of the general direction of gameplay...yes, it was just a demo and is of footage that is not nearly complete, but still....I think Bioshock will be one of "the games to play" in 2007.
I also predict that it will become another Okami. Beautiful, fantastic, unknown.
Insofar as "pretty" things, I was referring to apple products as a whole, not the iPhone. I'm sorry, but Apples products as a whole have (in the past 10 years anyway) become the similar to the Razr....everyone has to have one, and yet they are completely ignorant of the fact that they are overpaying for what they are getting.
IN MY OPINION, remember, this is just my opinion, people that buy things like an iPod or an iPhone or an iWhatever, are doing so because of two reasons:
It's a name they recognize, and because they are attracted to shiny plastic. The very fact that in advertising they say "This can hold 30,000 songs!" is enough proof of that, as we all know that since song lengths are variable there is no way they could determine how MANY things I could fit on there. It feeds off the ignorance of the general consumer, much like Intel's "more MHz = better!" approach that they had for so long.
I'm not one to judge the iPhone before it is released...however, the mere fact that they are actually calling it an iPhone says to me it will be the same old apple shit that it normally is:
"It is made by apple, therefore you are cool and on the cutting edge for using it"
To me, it's more like "It's made by apple, therefore you are clueless and spend way too much money instead of buying something that costs less, is more functional, and isn't made of 99% shiny plastic."
But whatever, people think pretty=good...and in my experience, a large portion of the gene pool is pretty fucking stupid.
And what does that have to do with those words being right or wrong? Absolutely nothing.
I have a Bill Hicks quote as my sig, for fucks sake. It's not like I'm claiming the words as my own. They are pertinant to the conversation, and thus I put them out there. Sorry for using the words of someone who could express themself better than I can; next time I'll be sure to wrote something completely incoherint instead.
Tell me something, are you a man/woman of faith? Do you believe in "god"?
If you do, then tell me how things like marijuana are bad and shouldn't be legal. god said not to eat the apple, never said shit about smoking a plant.
To say marijuana is illegal is like saying nature is illegal. Or, if you are a "god-fearing" person, it's like saying god made a mistake.
We all know that 1st degree murder is a big nono....but do they put extra charges on top of the murder charges if you kill someone in front of a kid but then leave the kid unharmed?
It was really funny, he was pointing at different places...he was like "and this is where my boy got jacked....and over here is where this small-time coke deal went bad, guy ended up getting curb stomped" he just went on and on....it really is a fantastic system they have set up.
Still, I bet the guys that had to do the shots in the "not very nice" areas were shitting themselves. Those vans just scream "ROB ME!!!!"
I'm rather amazed at how well this actually works....a friend of mine is from Miami. He looked up one of the more destitute areas in the city and sure enough there it was.
We were dying laughing for nearly 10 minutes thinking about a big google van driving through the slums and taking panoramic photos.
My reasoning is that any nation that has enough money which can use cutting edge technology on a daily and consistent basis is corrupt at some level, be it politically, ethically, or because it is run by it's corporations. Big business is about money first. When things are about money first, they tend to require compromise. Your morals are the first things to go.
If you have ever bought coffee, a car, a pencil, anything...it really doesn't matter. At SOME POINT in the creation of that item, be it in the direct production of it or in the production of the machines that made it or in the workers that oversee it's production....even the in the collection of the materials used to make it....I can assure you that there was someone who was exploited, someone who was greedy, and/or someone who has lied.
Again, that still doesn't explain why you seem to hate the way things are, yet you still live in a country (I'm assuming USA or something similar based on the political comment) which is run by greedy bastards.
There are about a billion people on this planet that would murder God to have the opportunities and luck that you have to be living where you are. Why don't you go trade with them? I mean, who has time to worry about microsoft when you have to watch your children's stomach become distended due to a lack of food and water?
Again, either accept that a blind eye is a neccessary part of living in a society such as ours, or get the hell out. It really is that simple.
Repeating the same ignorant shit doesn't make it true. You are presenting a false dichotomy between allowing corporations to do evil and living naked amongst the rocks and bushes. There is no such decision to make. There is only the decision to make about what we will do every day.
One thing we do is suffer our politicians to collect big fat sacks of money for doing the bidding of their corporate masters...
Well, you have three choices then:
1. Start a revolution and kick out those that are in power. 2. Resign yourself to it because you don't think you could make a big enough difference to even matter; deal with the shittyness of the situation and live your life as you have been. 3. Move out of the country and live somewhere where you have NOTHING to do with any form of modern technology or society.
Number 1 is what you are TALKING like what you want to do.
Number 2 is what the majority of people do.
Number 3 is what you should do if you don't want to deal with greed or corruption in any way.
It's your choice. You choose to live domesticated by the bottom line. No one forces you to remain in a society run by money.
But yet you still remain here, despite your anger. Do what I have done, accept it for the crap that it is, and enjoy the opportunities you are lucky enough to have been granted to you.
I love how you assume to know what companies I do and do not purchase from.
Not once did I ever say what Microsoft has done/is doing was right. Not once. I simply said they have a deeper market penetration than any other software company. Is that statement wrong? Am I lying? Is that innaccurate?
Don't forget, Microsoft didn't just magically get into this position. People continued to buy their bullshit (and still do) and as a result they have flourished. But you know what?
The average consumer doesn't know and doesn't care. Beyond that, even if you explained it to them the average consumer most likely wouldn't understand. Why do you think people by the billions still use Microsoft products?
I got news for you chum. Microsoft is hardly the only company out there that is "evil". You deal with big corporations in ANY way (which, if you want to live in an even semi-modern society you have to do at some point) you will be dealing with "evil" people, some very much moreso than Microsoft.
It's a choice. You could go live in a cave somewhere hunting elk and living off the land. Or you could live in a "free" nation where technology resides at your fingertips...the only downside is you have to sell your moral soul to do so.
Again, like I said before. Go back under your rock, or grow a spine and get over it. It's a tradeoff, and it is your choice to be led by the almighty dollar as opposed to a spear and woodland creatures.
You know, many left Windows for OSX. So you really do not know what the hell you are talking about.
And windows is still prevelant to nearly 90% of the computing world.
Think of it this way. Microsoft could lose literally HALF of their installed user base, and they would still be installed on 45% of the computers in the world.
45% of an entire market is nothing to sneeze at. It's not as insane as 90%, but it's still very fucking high. See, you may not realize this, but outside of geeky fanboy circles and what I like to call "fad techies", most people don't have a problem with Microsoft. Whether it's because they just don't know, don't understand, or whatever the reason is doesn't matter. All I know is that Microsoft has more software on more computers BY FAR than any other software manufacturer.
Does that make them the best? No. Does that mean that that they have a far deeper market penetration than anyone else? Yes it does. Regardless of whether you love or loathe Microsoft, whether you care or don't care about how they got to be where they are, you cannot deny how well-entrenched they are in the marketplace. NOTHING that ANYONE says can prove that to be wrong. You can cry and bitch and moan about how shady their practices are (which they are) or complain about how what they do "isn't fair", but guess what: it's fucking buisness. Go back under your rock, or grow a spine and deal with it.
...I remember when Oblivion came out, many people referred to it as a "single-player mmo". Ignoring the inherint oxymoron in such a statement, perhaps that is something game developers should attempt to do?
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Let the bashing begin!!!!
No where on the net will you find a larger group of hypocrits than on teh slash.
I think as a big F U to the other two console giants (which, don't get me wrong, I enjoy the 360 and the PS3 as well...to put a play on teh_pwnerer's words, any device that plays games I enjoy) Nintendo should release a 100 gig add-on hard drive, and charge only 100 dollars for it. Or, include it in a bundle with the wii and only charge 75 dollars extra for it.
That likely won't happen, but eh I can dream
...welcome our new underwater overlords.
Anyway, I have been following the development of this game...it looks like it should be quite interesting, especially if the gameplay videos that were released on LIVE are indicative of the general direction of gameplay...yes, it was just a demo and is of footage that is not nearly complete, but still....I think Bioshock will be one of "the games to play" in 2007.
I also predict that it will become another Okami. Beautiful, fantastic, unknown.
Insofar as "pretty" things, I was referring to apple products as a whole, not the iPhone. I'm sorry, but Apples products as a whole have (in the past 10 years anyway) become the similar to the Razr....everyone has to have one, and yet they are completely ignorant of the fact that they are overpaying for what they are getting.
IN MY OPINION, remember, this is just my opinion, people that buy things like an iPod or an iPhone or an iWhatever, are doing so because of two reasons:
It's a name they recognize, and because they are attracted to shiny plastic. The very fact that in advertising they say "This can hold 30,000 songs!" is enough proof of that, as we all know that since song lengths are variable there is no way they could determine how MANY things I could fit on there. It feeds off the ignorance of the general consumer, much like Intel's "more MHz = better!" approach that they had for so long.
I'm not one to judge the iPhone before it is released...however, the mere fact that they are actually calling it an iPhone says to me it will be the same old apple shit that it normally is:
"It is made by apple, therefore you are cool and on the cutting edge for using it"
To me, it's more like "It's made by apple, therefore you are clueless and spend way too much money instead of buying something that costs less, is more functional, and isn't made of 99% shiny plastic."
But whatever, people think pretty=good...and in my experience, a large portion of the gene pool is pretty fucking stupid.
You're right, the iPod is just an MP3 player! Last time I checked it couldn't wipe my ass or do taxes...
And what does that have to do with those words being right or wrong? Absolutely nothing.
I have a Bill Hicks quote as my sig, for fucks sake. It's not like I'm claiming the words as my own. They are pertinant to the conversation, and thus I put them out there. Sorry for using the words of someone who could express themself better than I can; next time I'll be sure to wrote something completely incoherint instead.
Mod parent the fuck up.
If I had points, I definately would. Very well put, good sir.
People didn't buy one movie over the other because it was on a certain format. They bought one movie over another because they enjoy it more.
Box office receipts should have been enough to show you that. Sheesh.
Tell me something, are you a man/woman of faith? Do you believe in "god"?
If you do, then tell me how things like marijuana are bad and shouldn't be legal. god said not to eat the apple, never said shit about smoking a plant.
To say marijuana is illegal is like saying nature is illegal. Or, if you are a "god-fearing" person, it's like saying god made a mistake.
Sounds just a little more silly now, doesn't it.
....I just pwned us.
:(
My bad
This is even more hopeless than the War on Untaxed Drugs
fixed.
We all know that 1st degree murder is a big nono....but do they put extra charges on top of the murder charges if you kill someone in front of a kid but then leave the kid unharmed?
No?
I thought not.
It was really funny, he was pointing at different places...he was like "and this is where my boy got jacked....and over here is where this small-time coke deal went bad, guy ended up getting curb stomped" he just went on and on....it really is a fantastic system they have set up.
Still, I bet the guys that had to do the shots in the "not very nice" areas were shitting themselves. Those vans just scream "ROB ME!!!!"
I'm rather amazed at how well this actually works....a friend of mine is from Miami. He looked up one of the more destitute areas in the city and sure enough there it was.
We were dying laughing for nearly 10 minutes thinking about a big google van driving through the slums and taking panoramic photos.
Christ we are geeks.
My reasoning is that any nation that has enough money which can use cutting edge technology on a daily and consistent basis is corrupt at some level, be it politically, ethically, or because it is run by it's corporations. Big business is about money first. When things are about money first, they tend to require compromise. Your morals are the first things to go. If you have ever bought coffee, a car, a pencil, anything...it really doesn't matter. At SOME POINT in the creation of that item, be it in the direct production of it or in the production of the machines that made it or in the workers that oversee it's production....even the in the collection of the materials used to make it....I can assure you that there was someone who was exploited, someone who was greedy, and/or someone who has lied.
Again, that still doesn't explain why you seem to hate the way things are, yet you still live in a country (I'm assuming USA or something similar based on the political comment) which is run by greedy bastards.
There are about a billion people on this planet that would murder God to have the opportunities and luck that you have to be living where you are. Why don't you go trade with them? I mean, who has time to worry about microsoft when you have to watch your children's stomach become distended due to a lack of food and water?
Again, either accept that a blind eye is a neccessary part of living in a society such as ours, or get the hell out. It really is that simple.
Repeating the same ignorant shit doesn't make it true. You are presenting a false dichotomy between allowing corporations to do evil and living naked amongst the rocks and bushes. There is no such decision to make. There is only the decision to make about what we will do every day.
One thing we do is suffer our politicians to collect big fat sacks of money for doing the bidding of their corporate masters...
Well, you have three choices then:
1. Start a revolution and kick out those that are in power.
2. Resign yourself to it because you don't think you could make a big enough difference to even matter; deal with the shittyness of the situation and live your life as you have been.
3. Move out of the country and live somewhere where you have NOTHING to do with any form of modern technology or society.
Number 1 is what you are TALKING like what you want to do.
Number 2 is what the majority of people do.
Number 3 is what you should do if you don't want to deal with greed or corruption in any way.
It's your choice. You choose to live domesticated by the bottom line. No one forces you to remain in a society run by money.
But yet you still remain here, despite your anger. Do what I have done, accept it for the crap that it is, and enjoy the opportunities you are lucky enough to have been granted to you.
I love how you assume to know what companies I do and do not purchase from.
Not once did I ever say what Microsoft has done/is doing was right. Not once. I simply said they have a deeper market penetration than any other software company. Is that statement wrong? Am I lying? Is that innaccurate?
Don't forget, Microsoft didn't just magically get into this position. People continued to buy their bullshit (and still do) and as a result they have flourished. But you know what?
The average consumer doesn't know and doesn't care. Beyond that, even if you explained it to them the average consumer most likely wouldn't understand. Why do you think people by the billions still use Microsoft products?
I got news for you chum. Microsoft is hardly the only company out there that is "evil". You deal with big corporations in ANY way (which, if you want to live in an even semi-modern society you have to do at some point) you will be dealing with "evil" people, some very much moreso than Microsoft.
It's a choice. You could go live in a cave somewhere hunting elk and living off the land. Or you could live in a "free" nation where technology resides at your fingertips...the only downside is you have to sell your moral soul to do so.
Again, like I said before. Go back under your rock, or grow a spine and get over it. It's a tradeoff, and it is your choice to be led by the almighty dollar as opposed to a spear and woodland creatures.
You know, many left Windows for OSX. So you really do not know what the hell you are talking about.
And windows is still prevelant to nearly 90% of the computing world.
Think of it this way. Microsoft could lose literally HALF of their installed user base, and they would still be installed on 45% of the computers in the world.
45% of an entire market is nothing to sneeze at. It's not as insane as 90%, but it's still very fucking high. See, you may not realize this, but outside of geeky fanboy circles and what I like to call "fad techies", most people don't have a problem with Microsoft. Whether it's because they just don't know, don't understand, or whatever the reason is doesn't matter. All I know is that Microsoft has more software on more computers BY FAR than any other software manufacturer.
Does that make them the best? No. Does that mean that that they have a far deeper market penetration than anyone else? Yes it does. Regardless of whether you love or loathe Microsoft, whether you care or don't care about how they got to be where they are, you cannot deny how well-entrenched they are in the marketplace. NOTHING that ANYONE says can prove that to be wrong. You can cry and bitch and moan about how shady their practices are (which they are) or complain about how what they do "isn't fair", but guess what: it's fucking buisness. Go back under your rock, or grow a spine and deal with it.
riiiight, and a gates fanboi is going to suddenly love jobs and ipods.
please. there is a difference between speculation and stupidity.
There is absolutely NO reason why Gates and Jobs should hate each other. They should LOVE each other. Two reasons why:
1. Both of them are masters at milking people out of their money. Outside of religion and politics, they are the kings of bullshit.
2. The people that love Gates hate Jobs, and vice versa. Hence, their PRODUCTS may be similar but their CUSTOMERS are definately not the same people.
I always advocate drug use.
I always boycott drug abuse.
Two little letters make a massive difference.
There is always a little line written in 4 point at the bottom.
...I remember when Oblivion came out, many people referred to it as a "single-player mmo". Ignoring the inherint oxymoron in such a statement, perhaps that is something game developers should attempt to do?