It would seem that clueless managers are everywhere. My mom is a nursing assistant at a hospital, and she was recently telling me about their new manager of nursing, who has never held a nursing position in her life, and has no idea how anything actually works.
And you've never been happy when you were asserting something was true, and then something came along to make your claim even stronger? Someone's happiness at this event has no bearing on their previous assertions.
That's their problem, not yours. It's a single-player game: there's absolutely no reason to not let them play the game their way, while you play the game yours. Again, the cheat simply being there doesn't affect you if you choose not to use it.
In a single-player game, that I paid for, the interaction is between me and something owned by me. Its purpose is my entertainment. Challenge is part of that, but if I want to use an easy way, what could anyone possibly have against it?
I agree, but there are some jackass gamers out there who feel that the very presence of such a cheat option is something offensive and terrible. It's not enough to challenge themselves, they must force everyone else to take on the same challenge.
Then again, that's why those idiots have no friends.
Why, exactly, shouldn't it? For that matter, Contra also had a cheat built-in. Or does that one "not count" too?
There's nothing wrong with having cheats available, really. For players who want to just breeze through the game, it saves them frustration, and for players who want a challenge, they don't have to use it. Everyone wins.
The big problem with SSDs isn't their price, but their piss-poor storage capacity. When it comes down to it, I want a drive to store my data. Right now, SSDs can't do that for me, and until they can, they're not viable. Performance isn't just read/write speeds, it depends on what you value.
They also talk all about the single player game, but then also talk about the same weekly raids WoW has, being designed by WoW raiders. This tells me that anything new is not really on the table. You will have tanks, healers, and dpsers. You will have big bosses, and need a guild and a weekly schedule, and if you don't do this, whatever pvp will wind up in the game will be horrible for you.
That doesn't follow. They're demonstrating that they understand some people want that kind of gameplay, and will try to provide it to them. They're not saying that's all there will be, not in the least. You're reading far too much into what they said.
That would be why he said "I hope this isn't just another MMO". He knows it's going to be another MMO, but he hopes it will be more than another cast from the same mold.
First of all, I don't recall many people bitching about Win7 coming out so soon after Vista
That's not true at all (well, it's not true that it hasn't occurred, although I don't doubt you when you say you don't recall it). I've heard plenty of bitching about this topic. I think that the GP has a valid point, except that he's fallaciously acting as if the users all have the same opinions.
Not so. The real power in FF8 comes from leveling properly. The trick is to minimize the number of levels you get until you have a good selection of GFs, then equip the "$stat Bonus" abilities on whichever character you're going to level. By doing this method, you can get 255 of damn near every core stat, without junctions.
God damn, I loved that system. My party was so overpowered.
My point is more that since A and B are completely unrelated, assuming A and ~B is not contradictory. ~B doesn't imply A, of course, but it doesn't contradict A.
I don't know if that's true or not, but even if it's not, it's not really as unreasonable a conclusion as the GP makes it out to be. For the sake of argument, assume that there is an omnipotent, omnipresent god that watches over us. It's not so much that Christians don't believe "in magic", but that they believe humans aren't capable of such a thing (and are quite right, of course). However, there's no reason that our inability to do something means that an omnipotent deity wouldn't be able to do it. Such a being wouldn't be human, and wouldn't be limited by the same things as us.
If anyone cares to notice, we're all recalling the original Ghostbusters which was great. That's because the Ghostbusters II (which also had the original cast) SUCKED big time!
I can't agree. I personally thought Ghostbusters II was better than the first. I will honestly never understand why people hate that movie so much, because it's exactly the same formula as the first, just with somewhat different plot details. How can you hate one but not the other? They're practically the same movie.
After all, I saw Ghostbusters II at the cinema and I still have the scars to prove it... yeah, it was THAT bad!
You're on crack. Ghostbusters II was fucking awesome! I'm serious, what the hell do people have against that movie? It's only ever come off as more of the same formula (ie, what a sequel should be) to me.
No, he's joking. Stop crying troll when there's not even a hint of troll, for God's sake.
...but actually CUDA applications work better on Linux than on Windows.
Read carefully. He said "does it run Linux?", not "does it run on Linux?". Overused slashdot meme it might be, but the joke still went miles above your head.
The main problem, IMHO, is not reduced income for intellectual property owners, the problem is reduced creativity.
Perhaps so, but you haven't shown such a thing.
They not only seem unable to create a character to replace 007...
Why would they? They have a good character that people like. Not replacing him isn't "reduced creativity", it's simply giving your fans what they want to see. Only a fool replaces something for the sake of replacing it.
...they also need to spend sixteen times as much to create the same level of special effects.
Blatantly false. They need to spend sixteen times as much to create a lot more special effects. Now, maybe you believe that the movies don't need that level of special effects, which is a whole different topic. It is untrue, however, that the level of special effects is the same as it was back then. The budget has grown because the amount of special effects has grown.
Furthermore, your logic as to the success of the movies is flawed. The industry isn't necessarily interested in maximizing their profit per dollar spent (although that's always nice), they're interested in making more absolute profit. Using the inflation-adjusted figures you provided, we can see that while the industry made $59 million in profits from Dr. No, they made $500 million in profits from Casino Royale. Even though their profit-per-dollar may have been less, they still made more money overall, which is what is desired.
through instead of thru is special-case pronunciation and spelling
Even in America, "thru" is thoroughly non-standard spelling. I've never understood what the hell possesses people to spell the word that way, to be honest.
I believe that we proved once before that it took a Revolution to attempt to make things right, and that is what it is going to take to make it right again.
Times have changed. We don't need the 2nd amendment any more.
A revolution without weapons... let me know how that goes for you.
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It would seem that clueless managers are everywhere. My mom is a nursing assistant at a hospital, and she was recently telling me about their new manager of nursing, who has never held a nursing position in her life, and has no idea how anything actually works.
And you've never been happy when you were asserting something was true, and then something came along to make your claim even stronger? Someone's happiness at this event has no bearing on their previous assertions.
That's their problem, not yours. It's a single-player game: there's absolutely no reason to not let them play the game their way, while you play the game yours. Again, the cheat simply being there doesn't affect you if you choose not to use it.
If it ruins the game to use it, then don't use it. Problem solved. A cheat simply being there doesn't affect you in any way at all.
In a single-player game, that I paid for, the interaction is between me and something owned by me. Its purpose is my entertainment. Challenge is part of that, but if I want to use an easy way, what could anyone possibly have against it?
I agree, but there are some jackass gamers out there who feel that the very presence of such a cheat option is something offensive and terrible. It's not enough to challenge themselves, they must force everyone else to take on the same challenge.
Then again, that's why those idiots have no friends.
Justin Bailey doesn't count and you know it.
Why, exactly, shouldn't it? For that matter, Contra also had a cheat built-in. Or does that one "not count" too?
There's nothing wrong with having cheats available, really. For players who want to just breeze through the game, it saves them frustration, and for players who want a challenge, they don't have to use it. Everyone wins.
The big problem with SSDs isn't their price, but their piss-poor storage capacity. When it comes down to it, I want a drive to store my data. Right now, SSDs can't do that for me, and until they can, they're not viable. Performance isn't just read/write speeds, it depends on what you value.
Will you? Even when your primary objective is one of the following?
I won't speak for the GP, but personally, my primary objective is always storage. So yes, I really will choose storage capacity every time.
They also talk all about the single player game, but then also talk about the same weekly raids WoW has, being designed by WoW raiders. This tells me that anything new is not really on the table. You will have tanks, healers, and dpsers. You will have big bosses, and need a guild and a weekly schedule, and if you don't do this, whatever pvp will wind up in the game will be horrible for you.
That doesn't follow. They're demonstrating that they understand some people want that kind of gameplay, and will try to provide it to them. They're not saying that's all there will be, not in the least. You're reading far too much into what they said.
That would be why he said "I hope this isn't just another MMO". He knows it's going to be another MMO, but he hopes it will be more than another cast from the same mold.
First of all, I don't recall many people bitching about Win7 coming out so soon after Vista
That's not true at all (well, it's not true that it hasn't occurred, although I don't doubt you when you say you don't recall it). I've heard plenty of bitching about this topic. I think that the GP has a valid point, except that he's fallaciously acting as if the users all have the same opinions.
Not so. The real power in FF8 comes from leveling properly. The trick is to minimize the number of levels you get until you have a good selection of GFs, then equip the "$stat Bonus" abilities on whichever character you're going to level. By doing this method, you can get 255 of damn near every core stat, without junctions.
God damn, I loved that system. My party was so overpowered.
Am I the only one who could care less about cinematics in video games?
No, but you are in the minority. Many people are very fond of video game cinematics.
My point is more that since A and B are completely unrelated, assuming A and ~B is not contradictory. ~B doesn't imply A, of course, but it doesn't contradict A.
I don't know if that's true or not, but even if it's not, it's not really as unreasonable a conclusion as the GP makes it out to be. For the sake of argument, assume that there is an omnipotent, omnipresent god that watches over us. It's not so much that Christians don't believe "in magic", but that they believe humans aren't capable of such a thing (and are quite right, of course). However, there's no reason that our inability to do something means that an omnipotent deity wouldn't be able to do it. Such a being wouldn't be human, and wouldn't be limited by the same things as us.
If anyone cares to notice, we're all recalling the original Ghostbusters which was great. That's because the Ghostbusters II (which also had the original cast) SUCKED big time!
I can't agree. I personally thought Ghostbusters II was better than the first. I will honestly never understand why people hate that movie so much, because it's exactly the same formula as the first, just with somewhat different plot details. How can you hate one but not the other? They're practically the same movie.
After all, I saw Ghostbusters II at the cinema and I still have the scars to prove it... yeah, it was THAT bad!
You're on crack. Ghostbusters II was fucking awesome! I'm serious, what the hell do people have against that movie? It's only ever come off as more of the same formula (ie, what a sequel should be) to me.
Personally, I stopped watching it halfway through the pilot because I thought it was cheesy and stupid. That show sucked balls.
I know you are trolling...
No, he's joking. Stop crying troll when there's not even a hint of troll, for God's sake.
...but actually CUDA applications work better on Linux than on Windows.
Read carefully. He said "does it run Linux?", not "does it run on Linux?". Overused slashdot meme it might be, but the joke still went miles above your head.
I don't think I am the only one who sees this, hence all the downloads.
No, people are cheap bastards and want free stuff, hence all the downloads.
The main problem, IMHO, is not reduced income for intellectual property owners, the problem is reduced creativity.
Perhaps so, but you haven't shown such a thing.
They not only seem unable to create a character to replace 007...
Why would they? They have a good character that people like. Not replacing him isn't "reduced creativity", it's simply giving your fans what they want to see. Only a fool replaces something for the sake of replacing it.
...they also need to spend sixteen times as much to create the same level of special effects.
Blatantly false. They need to spend sixteen times as much to create a lot more special effects. Now, maybe you believe that the movies don't need that level of special effects, which is a whole different topic. It is untrue, however, that the level of special effects is the same as it was back then. The budget has grown because the amount of special effects has grown.
Furthermore, your logic as to the success of the movies is flawed. The industry isn't necessarily interested in maximizing their profit per dollar spent (although that's always nice), they're interested in making more absolute profit. Using the inflation-adjusted figures you provided, we can see that while the industry made $59 million in profits from Dr. No, they made $500 million in profits from Casino Royale. Even though their profit-per-dollar may have been less, they still made more money overall, which is what is desired.
If that's true, then he already has backups. He has the original DVDs. Those are his backups if the PC HDD dies.
He knows that. He specifically said he wants to avoid ripping all his media again.
through instead of thru is special-case pronunciation and spelling
Even in America, "thru" is thoroughly non-standard spelling. I've never understood what the hell possesses people to spell the word that way, to be honest.
Hey, that's not fair... the second coming of Jesus is at least theoretically possible.
I believe that we proved once before that it took a Revolution to attempt to make things right, and that is what it is going to take to make it right again.
Times have changed. We don't need the 2nd amendment any more.
A revolution without weapons... let me know how that goes for you.