The point is not simply whether it's an appropriate topic. The point is whether it's appropriate for a game. A movie about 9/11 could be quite tasteful in a way a game(and no, MS Flight Sim doesn't count) could never be.
People often watch things to be informed or to experience a wide range of motions. It's absurd to pretend that a game where you play the sniper killing Kennedy is about anything more than entertainment
Works of investigation/art about horrible events: OK
Video games trying to scintillate the player by allowing him to recreate heinous crimes? Not OK
The previous author asked whether you'd be OK with a game focused on recreating a rape/murder, and you completely dodged the question. This game isn't about whether he could do it - it's been studied in-depth by thousands of professions and a fucking $10 game is not going to add anything to that. The game is purely about appealing to a sickening part of people that gets pleasure from recreating a historical crime.
I just played the demo. It's about 30 seconds of Kennedys car driving by, and you with a sniper rifle able to fire at it. The game screenshots show Jackie reaching over in distress for her murdered husband...maybe showing the pieces of his brain that splattered onto her would make this artistic recreation more genuine?
Face it, this is a perverse travesty. If someone released a game letting people fly planes into the WTC, they would do that too. It doesn't mean it's right or moral.
I don't really have a problem with this - I think they have a right to do it and I think it's a natural progression from the already fucked-up games we already enjoy(e.g. GTA), but for you to sit here on/. defending it as some sort of heartfelt attempt at gathering data is just absurd. The game is a disgusting murder-porno. You may like playing it - I may like playing it - but don't defend it.
And I've said this before, but the best way to show MS they mean business would be to release a Google-branded version of Firefox. Link to it from the Google homepage. That would knock MS off its feet
I think its reasonable for the more wonky places like Slate(did I just say that?) to post exit numbers. The people reading it there or here have probably either voted already or will do so regardless of the polls.
I still think it would be very ethically questionable to, say, broadcast the numbers on a popular radio show or in the 6PM news blurb.
I would slashdot to make use of that HTML thing where you can hover on a word and see more text. Wordpress uses it quite well to display the meaning of acronyms.
Just run all text through a filter to insert these HTML definitions for people who want them
Microsoft is already targetting Google for death. If I could run Google for a day, the first thing I'd do is put a little link at the top of every page saying "Google recommends Firefox" and sending people to Mozilla.org
Have there been any comparisons? Do we really need two fully scalable open-source video codecs?
Also - the BBC is funded by the British government. When did they get a mandate to spend money developing video codecs. I don't have a problem with government-funded "arts" but this seems a bit beyond the normal scope of things
If the resistence in Iraq had been quelled by Summer '03 and we were seeing GWB statues and parades in the street at this point, no one would give a damn about WMD. We'd have gone in, lost a small number of men, and liberated a nation from a brutal dictator
Instead we've gone in, lost a rather large and growing number of men, and started a nation on a course of bloody civil war
It gets even worse. Sometimes the single cell human beings split and wind up being two human beings. Fit that into your full-human-at-conception picture of life!
Because abistinence teaching inevitably winds up as "the only safe sex is no sex" and other such crap, basically giving the student the impression that birth control is worthless. So for the students who actually do have sex, they may very well not bother.
The fact that you (apparently) like Bush and dislike McCain shows you to be someone of either the most asinine possible political views, or someone who listens to and believes everything he hears on Rush.
I know there are other important speed-wise factors as well, the most important one being not the clock frequency itself but whether the chip has 64 bits or not.
I took my G5 and soldered on a few extra bits I found in a computer repair shop. It now has 73 bits, which makes it even more of a supercomputer than before
I was just up in Maine at the Gorham public library, and the PCs there offered two browser options - Mozilla & Opera. Not sure what the story behind that was, but I was quite pleased
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The point is not simply whether it's an appropriate topic. The point is whether it's appropriate for a game. A movie about 9/11 could be quite tasteful in a way a game(and no, MS Flight Sim doesn't count) could never be.
People often watch things to be informed or to experience a wide range of motions. It's absurd to pretend that a game where you play the sniper killing Kennedy is about anything more than entertainment
People have drawn a fairly clear line.
/. defending it as some sort of heartfelt attempt at gathering data is just absurd. The game is a disgusting murder-porno. You may like playing it - I may like playing it - but don't defend it.
Works of investigation/art about horrible events: OK
Video games trying to scintillate the player by allowing him to recreate heinous crimes? Not OK
The previous author asked whether you'd be OK with a game focused on recreating a rape/murder, and you completely dodged the question. This game isn't about whether he could do it - it's been studied in-depth by thousands of professions and a fucking $10 game is not going to add anything to that. The game is purely about appealing to a sickening part of people that gets pleasure from recreating a historical crime.
I just played the demo. It's about 30 seconds of Kennedys car driving by, and you with a sniper rifle able to fire at it. The game screenshots show Jackie reaching over in distress for her murdered husband...maybe showing the pieces of his brain that splattered onto her would make this artistic recreation more genuine?
Face it, this is a perverse travesty. If someone released a game letting people fly planes into the WTC, they would do that too. It doesn't mean it's right or moral.
I don't really have a problem with this - I think they have a right to do it and I think it's a natural progression from the already fucked-up games we already enjoy(e.g. GTA), but for you to sit here on
Edward's? You know Teddy on a first-name basis? Sounds like you got him confused with the VP-not-to-be
This is the second story in a row containing the term "seven-fold" in the blurb. Can we get a trifecta?
And I've said this before, but the best way to show MS they mean business would be to release a Google-branded version of Firefox. Link to it from the Google homepage. That would knock MS off its feet
The IQ extrapolation is great, but even if it's accurate for back when he took it, I doubt it is now, after years of boozing and snorting coke
I think its reasonable for the more wonky places like Slate(did I just say that?) to post exit numbers. The people reading it there or here have probably either voted already or will do so regardless of the polls.
I still think it would be very ethically questionable to, say, broadcast the numbers on a popular radio show or in the 6PM news blurb.
I would slashdot to make use of that HTML thing where you can hover on a word and see more text. Wordpress uses it quite well to display the meaning of acronyms.
Just run all text through a filter to insert these HTML definitions for people who want them
Microsoft is already targetting Google for death. If I could run Google for a day, the first thing I'd do is put a little link at the top of every page saying "Google recommends Firefox" and sending people to Mozilla.org
Have there been any comparisons? Do we really need two fully scalable open-source video codecs?
Also - the BBC is funded by the British government. When did they get a mandate to spend money developing video codecs. I don't have a problem with government-funded "arts" but this seems a bit beyond the normal scope of things
I'd like to get football fields of destruction if possible. It would be nice to have a conversion utility
...but I think history will remember this day as far more important than most at this moment believe it to be
If the resistence in Iraq had been quelled by Summer '03 and we were seeing GWB statues and parades in the street at this point, no one would give a damn about WMD. We'd have gone in, lost a small number of men, and liberated a nation from a brutal dictator
Instead we've gone in, lost a rather large and growing number of men, and started a nation on a course of bloody civil war
It gets even worse. Sometimes the single cell human beings split and wind up being two human beings. Fit that into your full-human-at-conception picture of life!
And the people in the suburbs never go into the city to buy...? Really a class issue in the end, I'd say
Because abistinence teaching inevitably winds up as "the only safe sex is no sex" and other such crap, basically giving the student the impression that birth control is worthless. So for the students who actually do have sex, they may very well not bother.
The fact that you (apparently) like Bush and dislike McCain shows you to be someone of either the most asinine possible political views, or someone who listens to and believes everything he hears on Rush.
Actually, I think I just repeated myself
I know there are other important speed-wise factors as well, the most important one being not the clock frequency itself but whether the chip has 64 bits or not.
I took my G5 and soldered on a few extra bits I found in a computer repair shop. It now has 73 bits, which makes it even more of a supercomputer than before
Have you heard of MP3s? I have 9GB of music on my iPod, and not a one with DRM
I was just up in Maine at the Gorham public library, and the PCs there offered two browser options - Mozilla & Opera. Not sure what the story behind that was, but I was quite pleased
I thought we already had the source?
XP is snappier in some ways, but it's also easier to totally grind it to a halt. OS X almost never gets to the point of a frozen UI
In all seriousness - this is an excellent feature. I hope Mozilla soon includes it as well.
A scientist who thinks nanotube tech will be good enough to make a space elevator two years from now? I had no idea we were anywhere near that close
You think by the time Quake 4 comes out, current comps won't be able to handle it at better than 25FPS?