At first I thought it read "Bill Gates drops A number two". That story is old, from back in January. It was called Vista or something. He went on the Daily Show and talked about it and everything.
I sold my PS2 at one point because of the allure of XBox's graphics. That was a mistake. Some of the games that I would call real classics of the last generation were Sony developed. Sure there were some third party exclusives, like Katamari, but Sony's own studios had some truly amazing games like Frequency, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Mark of Kri, Okami, God of War (haven't played the sequel but I can only assume it's an asskicker). Microsoft was smart to buy up Bungie, but they've really failed to develop any other real inhouse talent. That's stupid. They even bought Rare, at one point a premium studio, but for whatever reason that didn't get them anywhere. Ignore Halo (something I'm more and more inclined to do after the dipshit culture that has sprung up around that title) and what does Microsoft have of it's own? If you're third party it's just smarter to be on as many platforms as you possibly can, if only to widen the market for your own brand recognition. But as far as I'm concerned first party software is pretty damn important, hell it's what has kept Nintendo afloat for so long (Nintendo is an OG btw). Sony itself has a pretty great library of software that made me regret ever getting rid of my PS2. Cry all you want about the loss of "exclusives" but those were merely contractual titles anyway. Third party software is best released on all platforms, leaving first party to really prove a system's mettle, prove a company's dedication to its platform. And for the record, I own neither a PS3 nor a 360. I'm still unconvinced of what to buy after my Wii. I totally agree Sony botched their PS3 launch, but it's rather silly to ignore all the quality software that Sony has come up with all by itself over the years in lieu of Microsoft's utter dearth of original titles. Mario and Sonic have hair on their balls buy now, and MS doesn't even have a mascot beyond Master Chief's paid-for, vapid helmet. Microsoft should really start coming up with some classics all its own and stop touting the "non-exclusivity" of third party software. It's not so much FUD as it's just childish mudraking, and I'm sorry but a A Catalog of Lost PS3 Exclusives is pretty fucking silly/gay/pointless/masterchiefabatory.
I often thought of this back when my weekly soap opera of sorts was HBO's Oz. Were I ever to goto prison I'd surely be someone's bitch, although I could think of no crime I would ever possibly commit that would warrant such punishment. That's why I take daily calcium supplements in the hope I may one day develope a set of fierce anus dentata just in case I ever had to do "hard time".
I'm glad they can bend like crazy and all, but does that mean they will bend more during flight or that they can just take extra abuse should it arise? Speaking as someone terrified of flying, often close to pissing his pants whenever the wings wiggle, I just want to know if I should just pull the flap down and not look out the window at all anymore.
But he noted that the FBI and CIA will have access to the biometric data, which over time may expand beyond fingerprints. Ok then! Almost done here. If I could just get a small stool sample. Yes sir I realize it was a long flight. Well I can't let you leave until I get the sample sir. We have plenty of complementary airline food, I'm sure you can come up with something. Look if this is going to be a problem you can just march right back onto that plane and go back to wherever it was that tolerated your complete hatred of freedom. Look I have a job to do, and right now it's getting your stool so we can be sure you don't have any nefarious plans against our great nation.
Yes sir I did, and again in '04. He's a great man isn't he?
Funny, I had zero interest in this game until you said:
It is just CS with magic, I don't know why but that sounds awesome to me. Do the bots still yell the action's hot here, then shoot flames out of their eyes? Here's my CC#!
there was an article on here of the opinion that we no longer complete projects before they ship. That new dvd player you just bought requires a firmware upgrade right out of the box type stuff. With that sort of mentality about today's electronics are we really anywhere near ready to start putting them into our bodies in the first place? Just look what mere hobbyist hackers are doing to any new DRM that comes along. From an engineering/security standpoint, unless you can find a real robust method of firmware upgrade or failing that make it real cheap to perform the upgrade medical operation, possibly quite regularly, would this even be a practical solution? I'm not sure I have that kind of confidence in our current engineering abilities. Flying cars seemed pretty inevitable at one time too.
I gave away my Wii and was gonna buy another one when more games came out for it. This was one I was really looking forward to on the Wii. I love the original, and it would have been great with the Wiimote. One less reason to get another Wii. One less reason to get a PS3. One more reason to stick to upgrading my PC. One less reason to give a fuck about this generation of consoles. More expensive, less reliable, and now more censored. Consoles are losing their relevance much like arcades before them. Most are just trying to be PCs anyway, why even mess with them at all. Have fun playing Madden '20 and The Sims Paris Goes to Jail Edition. I think the platform has lost its appeal.
Some people like Madden, other people play the Sims. Some people like stalking around a highly-fortified mansion avoiding heavily-armed personal security on a white-knuckled bloodlusting virtual vendetta to kill an evil sadistic, life-shattering, family-murdering, Brian-Cox-voiced madman in sweet cold-blooded revenge. Some people like Animal Crossing...
Totally. Or Road Rash for that matter. Forget all the shitty 3D titles and harken back to the golden days of genesis, get Criterion, makers of Burnout, to do an update, profit!.
Haven't you ever seen Robocop 2? It takes a good man with a sound mind and a strong family background to survive the psychological trauma of discovering you're a brain in a jar. I look around and I don't see us producing that type of person in any significant quantities any time soon.
Yea yea, the rootkits. Big deal though really. It was shitty and they got caught red handed. There's no way you can use a rootkit and not get found out anyway. That's DRM, that's obvious. Nerds find it and report it within hours. See Sony's misdeeds are those of an outsider, someone who has little control over the big picture really. They make electronics. They sell gadgets. They've tried to gain control of formats (Betamax, now Blu-ray) but have so far failed to really matter in a way that a juggernaut like MS does. Microsoft basically owns the entire OS market as well as a large portion of all the mainstream business software that everyone uses. Embrace, extend, extinguish. Maybe you have a Sony laptop, but almost definitely you're running Windows. Microsoft has an effect on the lives of everyone in this country, whether they're into gadgets or not. Warships run on their software. Governments count beans with it. There's alot of reach that those other Japanese companies just can't touch. Sony, Nintendo, they've done some things that I don't like, most big companies do. I'm sure there are lots of people on these forums that can go on and on in both directions about the notorious hatred of Microsoft on this site, but myself I simply don't want to deal with them anymore. I think they've proven to be predatory and anti-consumer, but what's worse really, is that they have a track record of pushing mediocrity and riding on market dominance. No thank you. I especially don't want them reaching into the one area of my life I use to escape the shitty realities of the power-hungry and the greedy who make the rest of the world such a bummer. Games. I still see Sony and Nintendo as the lesser evils by wide margins. I mean really, it just depresses me to think I might have to go to Microsoft for all my games. The Windows logo is spirit crushing enough anymore.
I'll tell you right now, the price is stopping me. And that is all that is stopping me. I had a Wii for a few months. I bought it on an impulse (right place right time), partly because I was intrigued by the new control scheme, but mostly because it's waaay cheaper than the other "next-gen" systems. I have since given it away to a friend of mine because I promised to buy her one at some point, but also because there are no games out for it that I really want (yet). While I did get bored of it already, the lack of games wasn't something that stopped me from buying it in the first place. And the Wii is so cheap that I'll easily pick one up again when they become more available. Not so with that wallet monster PS3. I can build most of a new PC off newegg for the price of that little bastard. Games or no games, it gives me pause dropping $600+ on a fucking console, they're supposed to be the cheap alternative to PC gaming. As it stands now I really don't know what to do, there are games coming out that I am looking forward to but luckily they aren't here yet. I'm on the fence here, I'll definitely get another Wii, but I will also want either a 360 or a PS3 for those truly next-gen games. Despite Sony's incompetance of late, I really dislike Microsoft's history of foul play and would prefer to stop buying into their products, especially after this power-grab Vista/DX10 business. I'm not especially excited about giving Microsoft so much control over the gaming world. But that PS3 is so damn expensive that I'm worried if I buy it I'll be stuck with a failed system. An expensive failed system. This whole gen is off to a bad start if you ask me. Too much risk. I'm waiting, and the industry isn't getting my gaming dollar.
Seriously, you all actually played this game? How novel. I myself also spent hours with Oregon Trail, but I'm not sure I ever actually played it. My friends and I got tombstone generation down to a science. Die as fast as possible and etch your brilliantly dirty "Here lies..." rhyme in stone. It was like the nerdiest graffiti you could ever produce.
Actually I was thinking more of a tentative plot outline for Half-Life 3. Did Doom 3 even have a plot? I got tired of reading PDAs about 5 minutes in so the story kinda fell apart for me.
...the RIAA insisted on taking a face to face deposition of a 10 year old girl. Prior to the case, neither the mother nor the child chad ever even heard of file sharing." Isn't the girl suffering enough from having a boy's name?
Don't tell me these games aren't compressed. Even old school NES games compress like a mother. Are these roms stored without compression? That's quite a few less games I can be buying from VC if I'm filling up my Wii with uncompressed data. Especially N64 and NeoGeo.
Google Gears is an open source technology for creating offline web applications This just in, Google to conquer next the lucrative world of oxymoronic technology. Does their innovation know no bounds?
was extremely complex, how do you interact with it. Your input into a game is severely limited. The game knows nothing of you but your keypresses. You'd have to hook yourself up to your computer to get any kind of real interaction. Let it measure your heartrate, body temperature, where your gaze is and your whole face in general. Voice recognition with a good way to measure all the nuances of emotion would go a long way in itself. As it is, the most complex input you can give a game is text, and that conveys almost no emotion, while introducing several ambiguities. Until we can really jack into a computer and feed it more body language, it's still going to have a helluva hard time convincing us of interaction because those poor NPCs won't have but the slightest ideas about us.
Incidentally, Airport security seems to be approaching this level of biometric-response measurement, so if no one destroys the planet, maybe we'll see something.
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I'm sorry you must be in the wrong place. This is the Microsoft fanboy discussion. Your rational comments have no power here.
I sold my PS2 at one point because of the allure of XBox's graphics. That was a mistake. Some of the games that I would call real classics of the last generation were Sony developed. Sure there were some third party exclusives, like Katamari, but Sony's own studios had some truly amazing games like Frequency, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Mark of Kri, Okami, God of War (haven't played the sequel but I can only assume it's an asskicker). Microsoft was smart to buy up Bungie, but they've really failed to develop any other real inhouse talent. That's stupid. They even bought Rare, at one point a premium studio, but for whatever reason that didn't get them anywhere. Ignore Halo (something I'm more and more inclined to do after the dipshit culture that has sprung up around that title) and what does Microsoft have of it's own? If you're third party it's just smarter to be on as many platforms as you possibly can, if only to widen the market for your own brand recognition. But as far as I'm concerned first party software is pretty damn important, hell it's what has kept Nintendo afloat for so long (Nintendo is an OG btw). Sony itself has a pretty great library of software that made me regret ever getting rid of my PS2. Cry all you want about the loss of "exclusives" but those were merely contractual titles anyway. Third party software is best released on all platforms, leaving first party to really prove a system's mettle, prove a company's dedication to its platform. And for the record, I own neither a PS3 nor a 360. I'm still unconvinced of what to buy after my Wii. I totally agree Sony botched their PS3 launch, but it's rather silly to ignore all the quality software that Sony has come up with all by itself over the years in lieu of Microsoft's utter dearth of original titles. Mario and Sonic have hair on their balls buy now, and MS doesn't even have a mascot beyond Master Chief's paid-for, vapid helmet. Microsoft should really start coming up with some classics all its own and stop touting the "non-exclusivity" of third party software. It's not so much FUD as it's just childish mudraking, and I'm sorry but a A Catalog of Lost PS3 Exclusives is pretty fucking silly/gay/pointless/masterchiefabatory.
I often thought of this back when my weekly soap opera of sorts was HBO's Oz. Were I ever to goto prison I'd surely be someone's bitch, although I could think of no crime I would ever possibly commit that would warrant such punishment. That's why I take daily calcium supplements in the hope I may one day develope a set of fierce anus dentata just in case I ever had to do "hard time".
Ha ha very funny. But don't forget Canada. It's all fun and games until we run out of lumber!
I'm glad they can bend like crazy and all, but does that mean they will bend more during flight or that they can just take extra abuse should it arise? Speaking as someone terrified of flying, often close to pissing his pants whenever the wings wiggle, I just want to know if I should just pull the flap down and not look out the window at all anymore.
Yes sir I did, and again in '04. He's a great man isn't he?
there was an article on here of the opinion that we no longer complete projects before they ship. That new dvd player you just bought requires a firmware upgrade right out of the box type stuff. With that sort of mentality about today's electronics are we really anywhere near ready to start putting them into our bodies in the first place? Just look what mere hobbyist hackers are doing to any new DRM that comes along. From an engineering/security standpoint, unless you can find a real robust method of firmware upgrade or failing that make it real cheap to perform the upgrade medical operation, possibly quite regularly, would this even be a practical solution? I'm not sure I have that kind of confidence in our current engineering abilities. Flying cars seemed pretty inevitable at one time too.
I gave away my Wii and was gonna buy another one when more games came out for it. This was one I was really looking forward to on the Wii. I love the original, and it would have been great with the Wiimote. One less reason to get another Wii. One less reason to get a PS3. One more reason to stick to upgrading my PC. One less reason to give a fuck about this generation of consoles. More expensive, less reliable, and now more censored. Consoles are losing their relevance much like arcades before them. Most are just trying to be PCs anyway, why even mess with them at all. Have fun playing Madden '20 and The Sims Paris Goes to Jail Edition. I think the platform has lost its appeal.
Some people like Madden, other people play the Sims. Some people like stalking around a highly-fortified mansion avoiding heavily-armed personal security on a white-knuckled bloodlusting virtual vendetta to kill an evil sadistic, life-shattering, family-murdering, Brian-Cox-voiced madman in sweet cold-blooded revenge. Some people like Animal Crossing...
Totally. Or Road Rash for that matter. Forget all the shitty 3D titles and harken back to the golden days of genesis, get Criterion, makers of Burnout, to do an update, profit!.
Haven't you ever seen Robocop 2? It takes a good man with a sound mind and a strong family background to survive the psychological trauma of discovering you're a brain in a jar. I look around and I don't see us producing that type of person in any significant quantities any time soon.
Yea yea, the rootkits. Big deal though really. It was shitty and they got caught red handed. There's no way you can use a rootkit and not get found out anyway. That's DRM, that's obvious. Nerds find it and report it within hours. See Sony's misdeeds are those of an outsider, someone who has little control over the big picture really. They make electronics. They sell gadgets. They've tried to gain control of formats (Betamax, now Blu-ray) but have so far failed to really matter in a way that a juggernaut like MS does. Microsoft basically owns the entire OS market as well as a large portion of all the mainstream business software that everyone uses. Embrace, extend, extinguish. Maybe you have a Sony laptop, but almost definitely you're running Windows. Microsoft has an effect on the lives of everyone in this country, whether they're into gadgets or not. Warships run on their software. Governments count beans with it. There's alot of reach that those other Japanese companies just can't touch. Sony, Nintendo, they've done some things that I don't like, most big companies do. I'm sure there are lots of people on these forums that can go on and on in both directions about the notorious hatred of Microsoft on this site, but myself I simply don't want to deal with them anymore. I think they've proven to be predatory and anti-consumer, but what's worse really, is that they have a track record of pushing mediocrity and riding on market dominance. No thank you. I especially don't want them reaching into the one area of my life I use to escape the shitty realities of the power-hungry and the greedy who make the rest of the world such a bummer. Games. I still see Sony and Nintendo as the lesser evils by wide margins. I mean really, it just depresses me to think I might have to go to Microsoft for all my games. The Windows logo is spirit crushing enough anymore.
I'll tell you right now, the price is stopping me. And that is all that is stopping me. I had a Wii for a few months. I bought it on an impulse (right place right time), partly because I was intrigued by the new control scheme, but mostly because it's waaay cheaper than the other "next-gen" systems. I have since given it away to a friend of mine because I promised to buy her one at some point, but also because there are no games out for it that I really want (yet). While I did get bored of it already, the lack of games wasn't something that stopped me from buying it in the first place. And the Wii is so cheap that I'll easily pick one up again when they become more available. Not so with that wallet monster PS3. I can build most of a new PC off newegg for the price of that little bastard. Games or no games, it gives me pause dropping $600+ on a fucking console, they're supposed to be the cheap alternative to PC gaming. As it stands now I really don't know what to do, there are games coming out that I am looking forward to but luckily they aren't here yet. I'm on the fence here, I'll definitely get another Wii, but I will also want either a 360 or a PS3 for those truly next-gen games. Despite Sony's incompetance of late, I really dislike Microsoft's history of foul play and would prefer to stop buying into their products, especially after this power-grab Vista/DX10 business. I'm not especially excited about giving Microsoft so much control over the gaming world. But that PS3 is so damn expensive that I'm worried if I buy it I'll be stuck with a failed system. An expensive failed system. This whole gen is off to a bad start if you ask me. Too much risk. I'm waiting, and the industry isn't getting my gaming dollar.
Seriously, you all actually played this game? How novel. I myself also spent hours with Oregon Trail, but I'm not sure I ever actually played it. My friends and I got tombstone generation down to a science. Die as fast as possible and etch your brilliantly dirty "Here lies..." rhyme in stone. It was like the nerdiest graffiti you could ever produce.
We can do that live action version of The Polar Express
How on earth is this Offtopic? I pointed out poor copyeditting in the summary and wrapped it in a bad joke. That should get +5 Insightful on /.
Actually I was thinking more of a tentative plot outline for Half-Life 3. Did Doom 3 even have a plot? I got tired of reading PDAs about 5 minutes in so the story kinda fell apart for me.
...the RIAA insisted on taking a face to face deposition of a 10 year old girl. Prior to the case, neither the mother nor the child chad ever even heard of file sharing." Isn't the girl suffering enough from having a boy's name?You're telling me. Any topic that generates 380+ comments worth of discussion is obviously a wasted endeavor.
Don't tell me these games aren't compressed. Even old school NES games compress like a mother. Are these roms stored without compression? That's quite a few less games I can be buying from VC if I'm filling up my Wii with uncompressed data. Especially N64 and NeoGeo.
John Carmack That got a +5 Interesting. You know you're somebody in the nerd world when you can do that on
was extremely complex, how do you interact with it. Your input into a game is severely limited. The game knows nothing of you but your keypresses. You'd have to hook yourself up to your computer to get any kind of real interaction. Let it measure your heartrate, body temperature, where your gaze is and your whole face in general. Voice recognition with a good way to measure all the nuances of emotion would go a long way in itself. As it is, the most complex input you can give a game is text, and that conveys almost no emotion, while introducing several ambiguities. Until we can really jack into a computer and feed it more body language, it's still going to have a helluva hard time convincing us of interaction because those poor NPCs won't have but the slightest ideas about us.
Incidentally, Airport security seems to be approaching this level of biometric-response measurement, so if no one destroys the planet, maybe we'll see something.