Do you have MySpace or Facebook profile? Does it list what kind of lightbulbs you use, how much you recycle, what you do with used oil, what kind of efficiency furnace you have? Probably not...why? Not because you're hiding anything, but because it's a summary that describes you, not a detailed expose on every facet of your life.
Greenpeace took one look at Nintendo's site, didn't do any research or call anyone, and rated them a zero. That's just plain irresponsible, and saying "my experience has been that if a company doesn't mention something, it's for a reason" doesn't mean that they're not environmentally friendly. It just means you're being paranoid without any facts......like Greenpeace, because that's the exact same assumption that they made.
And you know what they say about assuming, don't you?
No kidding. I play Halo with a group of friends that are all older than I am, and I'm 27! I also played Bioshock, Mass Effect and I'm looking forward to Assassin's Creed and Resident Evil for the Wii (I never played the original games much, and I like the idea that they're making a game that basically runs you through it all...).
The idea that only teens are interested in M rated games is flawed. I mean, what are all the 30 year old gamers playing then? Phoenix Wright?
Yeah, I've seen people told that their department has to cut headcount and they're the cut. Then they're given the choice of either filling an open position somewhere else (usually you don't get a great selection or anything), or they can reject it by resigning. Don't you just love at-will states?
Wow...that was a scathing retort. Overshadowed only by your complete lack of balls in posting as an anonymous coward.
Note: Making a deal for product placement is not the same as "calling the shots". I inserted no words into the parent's mouth. Does Apple control Hollywood? According to his logic, you would think so since they're one of the most consistent users of product placement in movies. Blade Trinity's completely jarring use of Jessica Biel loading MP3's onto her iPod to have music to kill by being an excellent example. Somehow, I doubt Steve Jobs was involved in the casting of the film though...
I would come up with some witty and spite filled rant about you...but I really just don't have the time. Instead, I'll simply use the one you already so generously provided, as it applies just as equally (if not more so) to you.
You just put words into someone's mouth in order to make yourself feel/appear superior to your peers (who are Slashdot posters...sad life you've got, isn't it). The fact that it's so obvious just makes the attempt more pathetic, really, but I think you're used to feeling pathetic, aren't you? You're used to feeling weak, it's why you waste your time on Slashdot trying to appear like you're some sort of intellectual or debating genius. You're a nothing, and you'll always be a nothing.
Because this is Slashdot of course! M$ is the spawn of Satan and anything they create must be mercilessly ridiculed from our Windows PC's at work while we whittle away the time until we can get home to play more 360. Didn't you know that???
In all seriousness though, I'm glad to see all of the improvements. I personally don't like iPod much because I don't like paying $250 for a device (actually, I won mine, so technically it was free...but the principle still holds true =) ) with a battery that conks out on me in 6 months and costs $100 to replace.
Now, MS still has a long way to go with the Zune, but it's making some progress. Will it be an iPod killer? Probably not. Will it be a good alternative for those not interested in iPods for whatever reason? Possibly.
Oh my God, you're right!!! Google is the start page, that must mean that if in the next version of Firefox they want to add something that gives more functionality to the bookmarks, Google gets a say. It must also mean that when they hire a new dev team to work on the browser, Google does the interviews!!!
It could also just be that Google made a deal with them to have the most popular search engine in the world be the default. You can change it, it's not the end of the world, and it doesn't mean that Google has their hands in the day to day running of everything.
I mean, do we really think that Nissan is approving scripts for Heroes and other NBC shows that have the new Rogue in them? No! It's advertising, and I'm sure Nissan pays a hefty to price to ensure that the script for "Claire's dad gives her a new [insert car]" says "[Nissan Rogue]" instead.
The chemical that they used is part of the body's standard metabolic pathway for producing natural GHB. Had they bothered to look it up and do the proper research, they would've known that. Quite simply, they were just asleep at the wheel when it came to Quality Control.
Based on the past lead paint incidents, this appears to be a pattern of behavior that's not likely to correct itself anytime soon without severe actions being undertaken by the Chinese government and their worldwide buyers.
The chemical in the top left of the graphic is 1,4-butanediol, the toxic glue compound they switched to. That chemical is part of the bodies normal metabolic pathway for producing GHB, which your body does use in very small amounts. Once the children ingest it though, their body would take that and being using it for the production of additional GHB.
They should have known about this reaction, but didn't do their research.
I never said I had a problem with the ED research we already did, I said I had a problem with us throwing billions more dollars to protect brand names and patents. Guess what, if you've got ED right now, you can go out and get multiple different pills. Most of them have very few side effects, and hell, they're used recreationally.
(Not that I have any problem with ED, but I've got a little empathy for people that do.)
Yeah, okay...TMI. I couldn't care less if you have a problem with it or not though. If you do, great! There's a cure for you. If you don't, great! There will be a cure for your since there's like a 50/50 chance you will have it. In the meantime though, better hope you don't develop something like Crohn's though...otherwise you'll have to find out just how bad "rather have intestinal surgery every few years" is. Cuz trust me...it's not fun, and the alternative isn't very pleasant either.
I said we understood the causes of it, not that we had the miracle cure that erases it. I mean, it's caused by Bunyan's on feet, is it? No, it's causes by chemical imbalances in the brain that usually repsond to both chemical/pschiatric treatments as well as thereapuetic/phsychological treatments. When used in conjuction, they seem to work better together.
If we treated Crohns the way we treat depression, it would have been pronounced cured years ago. Just take these morphine pills, regular transfusions and this IV feeding solution. See? cured!
As I said above though, that is how we treat Chrohn's currently. You take steroids until they stop working, then you take Imurin until your liver toxicity gets too high, then you take a break from that and switch to Remicaid, once that gets too toxic they just slice you open and remove a few feet of your intention. All without even being able to agree if it's an auto-immune disorder or a persistant bacteriological infection. That's a far cry from the level of understand we have about depression and ED. And I'm not talking cures and drugs here, just basic research.
I'm talking out of my ass? So, since you're in medical research, you couldn't use an extra few million on your research project? Or do you already work for Pfizer???
Also, don't assume about my specialty. I originally studied in Biology and actually have no clue WTF a BLAS library is. However, even though I'm not a Doctor and not involved in med research, I can tell the differece between researching a drug you made billions off of, versus researching something that might take 20 years before it yields the same sort of results. It's about the money...not progress.
If you took every scientist working on ED drugs, and all the billions invested in it, and you distributed them around to all the different disease research groups going on...you're telling me that wouldn't have any effect whatsoever? Pfft...somehow I doubt that. It wouldn't create miracle cures overnight, but it would help. Look at what we've already done against diseases like cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, heart disease, parkinson's, alzheimer's, etc... We need to do more though, and we can by focusing into basic research instead of "how do we make a better Viagra that we can patent for another 10 years" research.
I use it, along with another called Xyrem for a sleeping disorder. Xyrem, which is essentially GHB, was originally developed to treat narcolepsy, but it has shown a lot of potential when applied to my disorder as well...so I understand better than most about the benefits of cross-research and the possibilities of finding the cure for one disease while researching another. (as some other posters have mentioned)
And all of this talk of complexity of the problem is all good and well, but I'm sure that at one time what we do with computers today seemed impossible. Through dedicated research though and developing a fundamental understand of how systems work we learn a lot more. As you said though, large portions of Academia are concerned with grant dollars as opposed to research results.
Oh, no doubt... Trust me, I would rather have the cure for cancer or AIDS than the cure for Crohn's. As you said though, it's as if the Hippocratic oath doesn't apply anymore. ALL diseases should be getting similar attention, no one should be excluded at the cause of another.
Yeah, I understand that. But if we're going to compare the medical industry and other sciences, it would be like half the Astronomers in the world getting involved in "Name a Star" registries because it's proven and makes money. I understand some problems are very complex, but we're closer to unifying those theories than we were 75 years ago, and we've come up with a lot of other stuff all across the board in physics in the meantime.
Science needs to stay spread out and constantly looking at different things, not rehashing the same stuff over and over because it's easy. I mean, you never know, the cure something like Crohn's might lead by accident to the cure for cancer! That's why you need to blaze new trails and constantly strive for incrimental improvements across all disciplines of medicine.
You're missing the point... There are multiple drugs for those things, and few cancer drugs. So, instead of working on more drugs in areas that are well researched, why not push the boundaries and research in areas that AREN'T well known? I'm not saying it will be easy, but this is the thing holding us back.
Also, as with my Crohn's example above, we have diseases where we dont' even understand the cause. We understand the cause(s) of depression and impotence a lot better though, which is why we have so many drugs for them. But think of the billions of dollars poured into research on those two fronts, and the hundreds of scientists engaged by the likes of Pfizer looking for the next big drug.
Imagine if, instead, we spent that money and used those scientists to research the root causes of diseases we don't know about? We might finally nail down the correct cause and therefore the proper treatment plan...then the hard work of developing drugs can begin. That won't happen as long as we're rehashing the same cures for the same diseases because it's easier and makes a lot of money...
Moore's law is based on changes in the size and cost of transistors on the chip. We're a bit beyond that now... As such, his "law" isn't nearly as applicable and technology cycles aren't nearly as predictable.
Plus, that's part of the point. Do we really need a console that's twice as fast for the same cost but doesn't bring anything new to the table? Wouldn't it be better to say, wait 6 years and get a console that's marginally faster than the one that would've come out at the 4 year mark but adds a *ton* of new functionality to the way we play games?
Well, as a counter-example, I still have my original XBox and I still lug it to Halo:CE parties once a month and it works great. I also have a 360 that, while not launch, was still one of the early builds. Both work perfectly.
My PS2 on the other hand was a launch version and it won't play a LOT of DVD's that came out past, say, 2004 or 2005. It also has this tendancy to get disc read errors for no reason and so when I actually want to play a game I have to boot, and reboot, and reboot, and reboot, etc... Sometimes I go through like 10 cycles of this and just give and go play my 360. Then the next day, without touching anything or even removing the game disc, it works fine.
Anecdotal evidence isn't worth a lot because everyone's experience is different.
I think you're missing the point here. He's not saying they should be cranking at the same speed that the tech industry is going at, just that there's a lot of fluff research and a lot of complacency in the medical industry.
It's a pretty nasty disease of the small intenstine which affects something like half a million people in North America. The treatments start off typically with steroids (an old drug with lots of well-known nasty side effects), moving onto Imurin (a kidney anti-rejection drug that's been out for awhile, also with lost of nasty side effects) and Remicaid (the only really "new" treatment for it...still with nasty side effects though). Once those has been exhausted, they perform surgery to remove the infected parts, and then start all over again.
Here's the problem, it was discovered in 1932! In 75 years the best they can do is pump you full of nasty drugs that are toxic to the liver and kidneys until your body won't take it anymore, and then cut the infected sections out. They haven't figured out a proper cause for it yet! Some think it's an auto-immune disease, some think it's actually a persistant infection of the intestinal lining, some think it's genetic, some think there's a genetic predisposition and that diet or taking too many anti-biotics as a child will essentially "activate" it.
When you think about it, that's rather sad... We can't figure out what causes a disease we've knows about for 75 years and that affects half of million people. Of course, we have how many different drugs to help old men get it up? (And yet, strangely, they still haven't come up with one to help women want sex more. =) )
Yes, I realize that's a legit medical concern, but maybe we could work on other things besides another depression pill, or another drug for impotence, or another of whatever cash crop drug is currently popular with the medical industry. In the tech industry they don't leave things behind like that... We don't have 25GHz PC's with 32MB of RAM and 512KB graphics cards.
You know, I almost said something about, but didn't want to be too verbose. Yes, I am aware of the back compat of the Game Boys, but that doesn't change the fact that new hardware was constantly coming out with all new peripherals and some of the same limitations (seeing the screen in the dark being one that took them awhile to nail down).
That's part of my point though. Why spend $700 on a new PS3 when they're still releasing games on PS2 that look fairly decent? Alternatively, if the next-gen is just going to be a bigger, faster more expensive version of the current gen without a whole lot of new functionality, why upgrade? You can just wait for the next-next-gen where they'll make a console that's even bigger and represents an even bigger leap. Go from something like the GameCube to the Wii though that actually changes how you play the games and now you've got yourself some customers.
Parent has it right... Iwata isn't talking about shortening the life cycle, he's talking about how we can't stick to a rigid "x years on market, then replace" business model. That's one of the things that turned me away from Game Boy. Everytime one of them got cheap enough or had enough games that I thought about buying it, a new one came out. I didn't want to be constantly updating a handheld gaming system that would be used just for trips and things, so I didn't get one.
The same applies with the current gen. The 360 has been out for 2 years, the PS3 and Wii for 1. Imagine if we had a whole new console generation in 3 years. Would you want to shell out potentially a thousand dollars when that rolls around? Probably not...especially if there isn't a big leap in the tech.
Why do you think that PS2 is still selling? It's bigger brother is just more powerful, but other than Blu-Ray, hasn't added a whole lot of functionality. Granted, Home should help, but it should have launched with that like the 360 with the new and improved Live. The consoles needs to switch to a dev cycle where they launch when they're ready. Otherwise we're going to get a point where someone starts designing the "next-next-gen" title while the current "next-gen" console is just launching.
Actually, if you keep up with the engineering tonics it can get pretty easy. Having Slow and Slow+ (Don't remember the actual names) gives you a lot of time, and then there's one that takes off two alarms and two short circuits. Combine that with the other one that takes off 2 alarms and you have 6 more free panels. You can also freeze a lot of thing, bot and turrets are big ones, to give you more time.
I have no idea why I have to play pipemania to get 10% off prices, and it's _incredibly_ tiresome after the 60th time.
Well, there's your problem right there! You don't have to play it all. Want the cheaper prices at the vending machines? Use the buyout or the autohack. Want to stop those pesky turrets, bots and cameras? Shoot them! Better yet, freeze/electrocute them, then shoot them!
That's part of the point of the minigames. You need to part with something to gain an advantage. Be it money, autohack tools or time, you need to give something in order to get the benefit. If you don't like the hacking minigame just blow everything up, buy your items at full price and craft all your autohack tools for the times when you *do* want to hack something.
Me personally, I sort of enjoyed right up until about the last level. Luckily by that point I could auto-hack the turrets and bots, and the cameras and the few vending machines I encountered were a breeze thanks to my engineering tonics. So, for me at least, right around the time they started to get boring was when I could just breeze through in 10 seconds (which might be why they got boring...no risk). It's all about how you want to play...
You know, actually checking your facts first might help. First off, you can't compare Halo, a 3 game franchise, to the likes of Mario (11 games in the SMB series proper, not counting the innumerable spinoffs and special appearances). Secondly, you're a bit off base in terms of your numbers.
For example, Halo 2 has sold 8 million copies. That is the most of any shooter game, save Goldeney for N64...which also sold 8 million copies. It's also the #22 franchise (inluding PC) of all time, which impressive considering it's up against the likes of Final Fantasy and Street Fighter. It also beat out the likes of Metal Gear, Mortal Combat, Warcraft, Diablo, etc.. In fact, taking out some of the PC games like Lineage, the Sims and Command and Conquer would put it in the top 20 console franchises of all time.
So considering that it's technically in the top 20 console franchises of all time, and Halo 2 is tied with N64's Goldeneye as the most popular shooter ever, is it really so crazy to look for a Halo killer? Not if you're planning on making an FPS it's not...
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Greenpeace took one look at Nintendo's site, didn't do any research or call anyone, and rated them a zero. That's just plain irresponsible, and saying "my experience has been that if a company doesn't mention something, it's for a reason" doesn't mean that they're not environmentally friendly. It just means you're being paranoid without any facts......like Greenpeace, because that's the exact same assumption that they made.
And you know what they say about assuming, don't you?
The idea that only teens are interested in M rated games is flawed. I mean, what are all the 30 year old gamers playing then? Phoenix Wright?
Yeah, I've seen people told that their department has to cut headcount and they're the cut. Then they're given the choice of either filling an open position somewhere else (usually you don't get a great selection or anything), or they can reject it by resigning. Don't you just love at-will states?
Note: Making a deal for product placement is not the same as "calling the shots". I inserted no words into the parent's mouth. Does Apple control Hollywood? According to his logic, you would think so since they're one of the most consistent users of product placement in movies. Blade Trinity's completely jarring use of Jessica Biel loading MP3's onto her iPod to have music to kill by being an excellent example. Somehow, I doubt Steve Jobs was involved in the casting of the film though...
I would come up with some witty and spite filled rant about you...but I really just don't have the time. Instead, I'll simply use the one you already so generously provided, as it applies just as equally (if not more so) to you.
In all seriousness though, I'm glad to see all of the improvements. I personally don't like iPod much because I don't like paying $250 for a device (actually, I won mine, so technically it was free...but the principle still holds true =) ) with a battery that conks out on me in 6 months and costs $100 to replace.
Now, MS still has a long way to go with the Zune, but it's making some progress. Will it be an iPod killer? Probably not. Will it be a good alternative for those not interested in iPods for whatever reason? Possibly.
It could also just be that Google made a deal with them to have the most popular search engine in the world be the default. You can change it, it's not the end of the world, and it doesn't mean that Google has their hands in the day to day running of everything.
I mean, do we really think that Nissan is approving scripts for Heroes and other NBC shows that have the new Rogue in them? No! It's advertising, and I'm sure Nissan pays a hefty to price to ensure that the script for "Claire's dad gives her a new [insert car]" says "[Nissan Rogue]" instead.
Based on the past lead paint incidents, this appears to be a pattern of behavior that's not likely to correct itself anytime soon without severe actions being undertaken by the Chinese government and their worldwide buyers.
The chemical in the top left of the graphic is 1,4-butanediol, the toxic glue compound they switched to. That chemical is part of the bodies normal metabolic pathway for producing GHB, which your body does use in very small amounts. Once the children ingest it though, their body would take that and being using it for the production of additional GHB.
They should have known about this reaction, but didn't do their research.
Yeah, okay...TMI. I couldn't care less if you have a problem with it or not though. If you do, great! There's a cure for you. If you don't, great! There will be a cure for your since there's like a 50/50 chance you will have it. In the meantime though, better hope you don't develop something like Crohn's though...otherwise you'll have to find out just how bad "rather have intestinal surgery every few years" is. Cuz trust me...it's not fun, and the alternative isn't very pleasant either.
As I said above though, that is how we treat Chrohn's currently. You take steroids until they stop working, then you take Imurin until your liver toxicity gets too high, then you take a break from that and switch to Remicaid, once that gets too toxic they just slice you open and remove a few feet of your intention. All without even being able to agree if it's an auto-immune disorder or a persistant bacteriological infection. That's a far cry from the level of understand we have about depression and ED. And I'm not talking cures and drugs here, just basic research.
Also, don't assume about my specialty. I originally studied in Biology and actually have no clue WTF a BLAS library is. However, even though I'm not a Doctor and not involved in med research, I can tell the differece between researching a drug you made billions off of, versus researching something that might take 20 years before it yields the same sort of results. It's about the money...not progress.
If you took every scientist working on ED drugs, and all the billions invested in it, and you distributed them around to all the different disease research groups going on...you're telling me that wouldn't have any effect whatsoever? Pfft...somehow I doubt that. It wouldn't create miracle cures overnight, but it would help. Look at what we've already done against diseases like cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, heart disease, parkinson's, alzheimer's, etc... We need to do more though, and we can by focusing into basic research instead of "how do we make a better Viagra that we can patent for another 10 years" research.
And all of this talk of complexity of the problem is all good and well, but I'm sure that at one time what we do with computers today seemed impossible. Through dedicated research though and developing a fundamental understand of how systems work we learn a lot more. As you said though, large portions of Academia are concerned with grant dollars as opposed to research results.
Oh, no doubt... Trust me, I would rather have the cure for cancer or AIDS than the cure for Crohn's. As you said though, it's as if the Hippocratic oath doesn't apply anymore. ALL diseases should be getting similar attention, no one should be excluded at the cause of another.
Science needs to stay spread out and constantly looking at different things, not rehashing the same stuff over and over because it's easy. I mean, you never know, the cure something like Crohn's might lead by accident to the cure for cancer! That's why you need to blaze new trails and constantly strive for incrimental improvements across all disciplines of medicine.
Also, as with my Crohn's example above, we have diseases where we dont' even understand the cause. We understand the cause(s) of depression and impotence a lot better though, which is why we have so many drugs for them. But think of the billions of dollars poured into research on those two fronts, and the hundreds of scientists engaged by the likes of Pfizer looking for the next big drug.
Imagine if, instead, we spent that money and used those scientists to research the root causes of diseases we don't know about? We might finally nail down the correct cause and therefore the proper treatment plan...then the hard work of developing drugs can begin. That won't happen as long as we're rehashing the same cures for the same diseases because it's easier and makes a lot of money...
Plus, that's part of the point. Do we really need a console that's twice as fast for the same cost but doesn't bring anything new to the table? Wouldn't it be better to say, wait 6 years and get a console that's marginally faster than the one that would've come out at the 4 year mark but adds a *ton* of new functionality to the way we play games?
My PS2 on the other hand was a launch version and it won't play a LOT of DVD's that came out past, say, 2004 or 2005. It also has this tendancy to get disc read errors for no reason and so when I actually want to play a game I have to boot, and reboot, and reboot, and reboot, etc... Sometimes I go through like 10 cycles of this and just give and go play my 360. Then the next day, without touching anything or even removing the game disc, it works fine.
Anecdotal evidence isn't worth a lot because everyone's experience is different.
For example, my wife has Crohn's disease. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohns/
It's a pretty nasty disease of the small intenstine which affects something like half a million people in North America. The treatments start off typically with steroids (an old drug with lots of well-known nasty side effects), moving onto Imurin (a kidney anti-rejection drug that's been out for awhile, also with lost of nasty side effects) and Remicaid (the only really "new" treatment for it...still with nasty side effects though). Once those has been exhausted, they perform surgery to remove the infected parts, and then start all over again.
Here's the problem, it was discovered in 1932! In 75 years the best they can do is pump you full of nasty drugs that are toxic to the liver and kidneys until your body won't take it anymore, and then cut the infected sections out. They haven't figured out a proper cause for it yet! Some think it's an auto-immune disease, some think it's actually a persistant infection of the intestinal lining, some think it's genetic, some think there's a genetic predisposition and that diet or taking too many anti-biotics as a child will essentially "activate" it.
When you think about it, that's rather sad... We can't figure out what causes a disease we've knows about for 75 years and that affects half of million people. Of course, we have how many different drugs to help old men get it up? (And yet, strangely, they still haven't come up with one to help women want sex more. =) )
Yes, I realize that's a legit medical concern, but maybe we could work on other things besides another depression pill, or another drug for impotence, or another of whatever cash crop drug is currently popular with the medical industry. In the tech industry they don't leave things behind like that... We don't have 25GHz PC's with 32MB of RAM and 512KB graphics cards.
That's part of my point though. Why spend $700 on a new PS3 when they're still releasing games on PS2 that look fairly decent? Alternatively, if the next-gen is just going to be a bigger, faster more expensive version of the current gen without a whole lot of new functionality, why upgrade? You can just wait for the next-next-gen where they'll make a console that's even bigger and represents an even bigger leap. Go from something like the GameCube to the Wii though that actually changes how you play the games and now you've got yourself some customers.
The same applies with the current gen. The 360 has been out for 2 years, the PS3 and Wii for 1. Imagine if we had a whole new console generation in 3 years. Would you want to shell out potentially a thousand dollars when that rolls around? Probably not...especially if there isn't a big leap in the tech.
Why do you think that PS2 is still selling? It's bigger brother is just more powerful, but other than Blu-Ray, hasn't added a whole lot of functionality. Granted, Home should help, but it should have launched with that like the 360 with the new and improved Live. The consoles needs to switch to a dev cycle where they launch when they're ready. Otherwise we're going to get a point where someone starts designing the "next-next-gen" title while the current "next-gen" console is just launching.
Actually, if you keep up with the engineering tonics it can get pretty easy. Having Slow and Slow+ (Don't remember the actual names) gives you a lot of time, and then there's one that takes off two alarms and two short circuits. Combine that with the other one that takes off 2 alarms and you have 6 more free panels. You can also freeze a lot of thing, bot and turrets are big ones, to give you more time.
Well, there's your problem right there! You don't have to play it all. Want the cheaper prices at the vending machines? Use the buyout or the autohack. Want to stop those pesky turrets, bots and cameras? Shoot them! Better yet, freeze/electrocute them, then shoot them!
That's part of the point of the minigames. You need to part with something to gain an advantage. Be it money, autohack tools or time, you need to give something in order to get the benefit. If you don't like the hacking minigame just blow everything up, buy your items at full price and craft all your autohack tools for the times when you *do* want to hack something.
Me personally, I sort of enjoyed right up until about the last level. Luckily by that point I could auto-hack the turrets and bots, and the cameras and the few vending machines I encountered were a breeze thanks to my engineering tonics. So, for me at least, right around the time they started to get boring was when I could just breeze through in 10 seconds (which might be why they got boring...no risk). It's all about how you want to play...
Even if it is just testosterone, the point is that it's a permanent genetic modification leading to this effect, rather than a temporary injection.
Well, you know what they say... You can lead a Troll to a link, but you can't make him click.
You know, actually checking your facts first might help. First off, you can't compare Halo, a 3 game franchise, to the likes of Mario (11 games in the SMB series proper, not counting the innumerable spinoffs and special appearances). Secondly, you're a bit off base in terms of your numbers.
For example, Halo 2 has sold 8 million copies. That is the most of any shooter game, save Goldeney for N64...which also sold 8 million copies. It's also the #22 franchise (inluding PC) of all time, which impressive considering it's up against the likes of Final Fantasy and Street Fighter. It also beat out the likes of Metal Gear, Mortal Combat, Warcraft, Diablo, etc.. In fact, taking out some of the PC games like Lineage, the Sims and Command and Conquer would put it in the top 20 console franchises of all time.
So considering that it's technically in the top 20 console franchises of all time, and Halo 2 is tied with N64's Goldeneye as the most popular shooter ever, is it really so crazy to look for a Halo killer? Not if you're planning on making an FPS it's not...