Er... to clarify my post, I meant "the American people have unfortunately decided to abandon all reason and live in fear", not "abandon all reasons to be afraid". Bit of ambiguous wording on my part.
There's precious little reason to believe that the next president won't be just as abusive. Politicians are corrupt, and the American people have unfortunately decided to abandon all reason for fear. Even if we assume that all the loss of civil liberties in America since 9/11 is Bush's fault (which I find hard to believe, it's the fault of many people, not just Bush), I think he'd only prove to be the first in a long line of tyrants.
Well, that depends. If you mean that in a bad way, hell no. I feel proud of my geekdom. If you mean it in a good way, then yes. Like I said, I'm proud to know this one, it's a reminder that I'm an awesome person.:)
That's a pretty broad assumption. I'm 23 as well. I've used a rotary phone plenty, definitely used a record player, I know what leaded gas and carburetors are (even if they haven't exactly been every day fixtures for me, that doesn't mean I'm unaware of them), and I've definitely seen a TV without a remote.
Being young doesn't mean you lack knowledge of recent history.
Hey, if you want to ignore cool toys because of some misguided belief that open source is the one true path, and closed source is 100% teh evilz666, that's your loss. Course, I suspect the rest of us, who are rational, won't miss your attempts to turn geekery into some sort of twisted religion, where anything that doesn't happen to agree with you is worthless.
I judge a game based on how long my initial play-through of the single-player game takes (if it's a single-player game, at any rate). I consider that to be a fair, relatively impartial standard. While I may play a game through more than once (and I have played Portal 3 times, I think), I still make my judgement of its value based on the initial play-through, and nothing more. Anything after that is a bonus, not something which factors into my judgement.
More power to you, I guess. I felt like Valve has thoroughly raped the wallet of anyone who chose to purchase the game stand-alone (which I did, for better or worse): it's a really, really short game, which provides nowhere near $20 worth of entertainment, in my book. Excellent game, horribly overpriced.
Except I'm not talking about the Orange Box here. The Orange Box is a great value (unless you only want one of the games), but that's not Portal. Portal's pricing has nothing to do with the pricing of the Orange Box, they're separate prices to be considered separately.
I'm not talking about Portal as part of the Orange Box. I'm talking about the price of Portal, downloaded separately on Steam, which is a completely different issue.
Oh, also they're the only game publisher that actually charges a reasonable price for games... Uh, not really. Valve charges about the same price any other publisher would charge. Half-Life 2 was $50 when it was released, and the price has come down since then due to age... just like would happen at any publisher. Not to mention that Valve has some shining examples of unreasonably high pricing, like charging $20 for Portal, which is all of a 2- or 3-hour game.
I agree, it's stupid, but unfortunately, I can't force other people to see reason. If I could, we wouldn't have such bullshit things going on in this country in the first place.;)
I know one person who really does think that. He's a fairly smart person, for the most part, but this one has always baffled me. Oh, true, he thinks that some of the measures are bullshit, but he fails to see that they're pretty much all bullshit... so he's in the same camp as the true morons, just a matter of degrees.
The Dual Shock isn't even close to the worst controller ever designed. It's a pretty damn solid controller, imo, but that's just me. Even going by your criteria, "worst main-stream controller design", the nod would have to go to the original Xbox controller (the dinosaur-sized one), by several orders of magnitude. Way too fucking big.
Hell, I'd go so far as to call the original Xbox controller the worst-designed controller, period.
At any rate, I don't get what your complaint is about the Dual Shock. Now, maybe it's something specific to the Dual Shock 1, but I've used the Dual Shock 2 and the Sixaxis, and they're perfectly comfortable to use, even after extended play sessions. There's no hand-cramping, no d-pad issues, nothing. Of course, I think you might be holding it wrong, cause you say that the L2 and R2 buttons rest on the middle fingers, when they clearly don't. The index fingers are supposed to be used for all the shoulder buttons, the middle fingers don't enter the equation at any point (at least, the way I hold the controller).
I'd call it the first Mario game, at least where "Mario game" means the Mario platformers. I've played Mario Bros, and it's so different from Super Mario Bros that you can't seriously call them the same series. Completely different.
gamecube kind of gave up on anyone over the age of 14 with that tiny controller Say what you will about that controller, I consider it to be the best-designed controller in the history of video game controllers. NOTHING has ever fit my hands so perfectly, nothing whatsoever. Far from being tiny, the controller is a good fit. In fact, it's bigger than a PS2 controller, so I'm not sure how you can call the PS2 good, and then pick on the GameCube for having a "tiny controller".
Yes, the Wii brings a very different gameplay method to the table... and I have yet to see the game, other than Wii Sports, in which it's something other than a gimmick. Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess (although I forgive Twilight Princess some, since it wasn't developed for the Wii), Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Strikers... probably some other Wii games I've played which I left off. None of those games use the Wii's control scheme in an intuitive, amazing manner. In every single game I listed, it's just a gimmick. I mean, Nintendo's control scheme is great, but it means absolutely nothing if people don't utilize it well... which no one has, not even Nintendo (Wii Sports excepted).
...it tends to simply eliminate your credibility. Your helpful suggestions are well-intentioned, albeit misplaced, so I commend you for that. Twitter, however, has no credibility left here. Even the normal Windows-haters who speak up in discussions wouldn't consider him worth their time, I'd imagine.
I'll give you a hint as to how Blizzard has retained its fanbase: we like their games. No, we are not just blinding ourselves, as you insinuate. Hell, I don't even like every Blizzard game (I practically hated Starcraft), but the majority of them are really damn good. If you disagree, well, there are more games out there, so you're sure to find the ones you do like... but it's ridiculous to say Blizzard has their fans for no reason, just because you don't like their games.
True, although you should be grateful to the early adopters to some extent. If no one at all bought the units, the format war would either never end, or both formats would die. If you want the format war to end with one side victorious, it's good to cheer on the early adopters, who are accomplishing that goal for you.
No one should be fixing old pages, that's the point. If your site looked wrong in IE before, it still will now. If you really want to make it work, that's your prerogative, but the point is not to improve what exists, it's to improve the future.
The thing is, Mass Effect is rated M, so it's already the equivalent of an R-rated movie. Personally, having played the game, I think the whole sex scene thing is much ado about nothing. You don't even see boobs, all you see is some bare skin. That's a PG-13 rated sex scene, tops, but because it's in a video game, people are getting worked up.
Really, we need to stop having this double standard, and then I'll be happy. Either be harder on movies, or easier on video games, I don't care which.
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Er... to clarify my post, I meant "the American people have unfortunately decided to abandon all reason and live in fear", not "abandon all reasons to be afraid". Bit of ambiguous wording on my part.
There's precious little reason to believe that the next president won't be just as abusive. Politicians are corrupt, and the American people have unfortunately decided to abandon all reason for fear. Even if we assume that all the loss of civil liberties in America since 9/11 is Bush's fault (which I find hard to believe, it's the fault of many people, not just Bush), I think he'd only prove to be the first in a long line of tyrants.
Wonderful. Completely irrelevant, however, to the topic at hand.
The Federation would not dare go that far!
Well, that depends. If you mean that in a bad way, hell no. I feel proud of my geekdom. If you mean it in a good way, then yes. Like I said, I'm proud to know this one, it's a reminder that I'm an awesome person. :)
Kyle: No, "fuck". You can't say "fuck" in school, you fuckin' fat-ass!
Being young doesn't mean you lack knowledge of recent history.
Hey, if you want to ignore cool toys because of some misguided belief that open source is the one true path, and closed source is 100% teh evilz666, that's your loss. Course, I suspect the rest of us, who are rational, won't miss your attempts to turn geekery into some sort of twisted religion, where anything that doesn't happen to agree with you is worthless.
I judge a game based on how long my initial play-through of the single-player game takes (if it's a single-player game, at any rate). I consider that to be a fair, relatively impartial standard. While I may play a game through more than once (and I have played Portal 3 times, I think), I still make my judgement of its value based on the initial play-through, and nothing more. Anything after that is a bonus, not something which factors into my judgement.
More power to you, I guess. I felt like Valve has thoroughly raped the wallet of anyone who chose to purchase the game stand-alone (which I did, for better or worse): it's a really, really short game, which provides nowhere near $20 worth of entertainment, in my book. Excellent game, horribly overpriced.
Except I'm not talking about the Orange Box here. The Orange Box is a great value (unless you only want one of the games), but that's not Portal. Portal's pricing has nothing to do with the pricing of the Orange Box, they're separate prices to be considered separately.
I'm not talking about Portal as part of the Orange Box. I'm talking about the price of Portal, downloaded separately on Steam, which is a completely different issue.
I agree, it's stupid, but unfortunately, I can't force other people to see reason. If I could, we wouldn't have such bullshit things going on in this country in the first place. ;)
I know one person who really does think that. He's a fairly smart person, for the most part, but this one has always baffled me. Oh, true, he thinks that some of the measures are bullshit, but he fails to see that they're pretty much all bullshit... so he's in the same camp as the true morons, just a matter of degrees.
Hell, I'd go so far as to call the original Xbox controller the worst-designed controller, period.
At any rate, I don't get what your complaint is about the Dual Shock. Now, maybe it's something specific to the Dual Shock 1, but I've used the Dual Shock 2 and the Sixaxis, and they're perfectly comfortable to use, even after extended play sessions. There's no hand-cramping, no d-pad issues, nothing. Of course, I think you might be holding it wrong, cause you say that the L2 and R2 buttons rest on the middle fingers, when they clearly don't. The index fingers are supposed to be used for all the shoulder buttons, the middle fingers don't enter the equation at any point (at least, the way I hold the controller).
Offtopic, but congratulations, you officially win the "best username ever possible" award from me. Tyrian rules.
I'd call it the first Mario game, at least where "Mario game" means the Mario platformers. I've played Mario Bros, and it's so different from Super Mario Bros that you can't seriously call them the same series. Completely different.
Yes, the Wii brings a very different gameplay method to the table... and I have yet to see the game, other than Wii Sports, in which it's something other than a gimmick. Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess (although I forgive Twilight Princess some, since it wasn't developed for the Wii), Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Strikers... probably some other Wii games I've played which I left off. None of those games use the Wii's control scheme in an intuitive, amazing manner. In every single game I listed, it's just a gimmick. I mean, Nintendo's control scheme is great, but it means absolutely nothing if people don't utilize it well... which no one has, not even Nintendo (Wii Sports excepted).
...it tends to simply eliminate your credibility. Your helpful suggestions are well-intentioned, albeit misplaced, so I commend you for that. Twitter, however, has no credibility left here. Even the normal Windows-haters who speak up in discussions wouldn't consider him worth their time, I'd imagine.I'll give you a hint as to how Blizzard has retained its fanbase: we like their games. No, we are not just blinding ourselves, as you insinuate. Hell, I don't even like every Blizzard game (I practically hated Starcraft), but the majority of them are really damn good. If you disagree, well, there are more games out there, so you're sure to find the ones you do like... but it's ridiculous to say Blizzard has their fans for no reason, just because you don't like their games.
True, although you should be grateful to the early adopters to some extent. If no one at all bought the units, the format war would either never end, or both formats would die. If you want the format war to end with one side victorious, it's good to cheer on the early adopters, who are accomplishing that goal for you.
No one should be fixing old pages, that's the point. If your site looked wrong in IE before, it still will now. If you really want to make it work, that's your prerogative, but the point is not to improve what exists, it's to improve the future.
Really, we need to stop having this double standard, and then I'll be happy. Either be harder on movies, or easier on video games, I don't care which.