"Have fun disenchanting your high-tier sets and BG loot by the time you hit 72, and doing it all over again after you reach 80."
The joke's on you my friend. My account has long been canceled, and I have no intention of getting Wrath of the Lich King. I'd rather play Rock Band on Xbox live than spend 10 hours doing dungeon runs in the hopes I may get a new belt.
Oh man. I don't know about you, but I can't stand the PVP in World of Warcraft. They have to do something to make it more interesting. I had to play 20 games of Eye of the Storm just to get a stupid sword. I got the sword but was so disgusted with the ordeal I had to go through to get it I stopped playing the game all together. Once you hit 70 the game basically boils down to getting new gear. Which is mind numbingly boring if you're only interested in having fun.
Game reviewing is pretty straight forward. A lot of people would assume it's based on things like fun factor, aesthetics, controls, etc. This is actually not the case. There are effectively two factors involved in game reviewing; bribes, and repercussions.
The video card and big gaming companies give a lot of bribes to the game reviewers, so things like graphics and big blockbuster titles are given good reviews regardless. Repercussions are taken into consideration based on on which company produced the game you're reviewing. Say for example if you're reviewing a game from some small time game company. There's no worry about money being pulled from the magazine/website if you ream the game. The complete opposite is true if you're reviewing anything from say Bungee, or Eidos. The bottom line is, graphics and big titles are the most important things, since that's where all the bribes come from.
Why would game developers bother with any sort of meaningful or halfway decent stories? Their core audience believes Naruto is masterful storytelling, and they've never read a book in their entire lives. With an audience like that you just need to give them the ability to call people noobs during gameplay, and they're happy as pigs in shit. Just look at the whole Halo series.
I am somewhat dubious that I'll actually see one red cent out of this whole ordeal. But I'm really hoping those bastards get crucified. Just reading the headline 'Bell Loses Class Action Suit' would almost be enough for me (I also want money). I didn't even know those bastards were doing deep packet inspection. That's something I find extremely infuriating.
And if they wind up losing the suit, and make some attempt to pass the cost onto their customers/victims it won't particularly matter to me, since I'll be using another ISP at that point. And I imagine they'll probably lose a lot of customers when they discover they've been shafting them on their internet service.
Yeah the 'user interface' puzzled me. What the hell does that even mean? Are they referring to touch screens or what? You'd think if they were, they'd have mentioned it specifically .
You can only imagine a discovery like this is the sort of thing every Anthropologist dreams of. Finding some primitive culture, previously untouched by the outside world. Making contact with the people for the first time. Then showing them the power of the machine gun and overthrowing their chief, then ruling the tribe with an iron fist.
It's the messy business we call the exchange of ideas and opinions. I figure anybody who feels to need to post how they're having their cornflakes on the internet is a self absorbed gobshite. This is the sort of inane crap you associate with celebrity gossip rags.
Like did you hear?! Some idiot who runs a blog I've never heard about till she filed a lawsuit because the internet wasn't going her way just bought a new box of tampons!! I can't wait for the next update!!
When you're dealing with the level of stupid that feels the need to post updates of whatever mundane crap they're doing at every moment of the day you're going to have to expect to attract a large number of other stupids. I'll say that MAYBE twitter really isn't an integral part of the internet, or blogosphere or whatever so much as it is an exercise in self absorbed gobshittery. I guess that's what 'web 2.0' is supposed to be though.
Considering the individual in this case is a 'popular blogger' she should expect some bloody hate mail. I'm sure she gets plenty of lovey dovey crap from her followers as well, and they're all doing their very best to send her emails with smiley faces so she'll feel all good about having a blog and a twitter account.
I for one welcome hatred! That's why I'm not posting this anonymously:)
You have no idea. I'm a professional animator, and I have to say voice actors can be an extreme pain in the ass. They do about an hours worth of work but make more money than everybody else in the production. The last show I worked on the lead voice actor put well over 300 people out of work for 2 months while he re-negotiated his contract. They're so self absorbed and disconnected from the reality that they think they're the only important aspect of the production. On top of all that when the bleeder finally did agree to come back to work, they had to fire several people just to make up for the extra money they were giving this guy.
Not too long ago Slashdot was posting articles about how Japan was replacing it's laborers with robots because of it's low birth rates. Now Japan's running out of people who actually build the frigging robots?
Look Japan if you need help with impregnating your women I'd be happy to help.
Wow this is actually good news. The people at Bell Canada are scumbags. At my previous job we had the unfortunate misfortune to have Bell Canada as our ISP. They started slowing down our connection speed which in turn slowed everything in the entire studio down (since we were saving files to a server across town). It used to only take a few seconds to save the files, then it turned into 10 minutes. Bell insisted there was absolutely nothing wrong with the connection. Just doing my job was turned into an ordeal because bell feels the need to tamper with their connections. I hope Bell gets crucified. That would be absolutely wonderful
If any athlete decides to chop their legs off to be able to use faster prosthetic legs I would invite them to do a bit of reading on phantom limb beforehand. From my understanding it's one of the more unpleasant things a human being can go through.
I'm of the same mind as you. Basically Activision has absolutely no idea what to do with the game. What did they do when they got Guitar Hero? Add the bosses? Have some sluttier characters? Not really anything innovative there by any stretch of the imagination. The boss battles are no fun in any way shape or form. In Rock Band I can play one song after another and only stop when I got tired, not when I got frustrated like with Guitar Hero 3.
I can only hope Activision is lamenting alienating the geniuses at Harmonix.
Don't you ever watch tv? That won't happen, he'll have to give his former buddies a hard time to show he's not playing any favorites. Then they'll be all like 'Why're you giving us such a hard time?' then he'll be like 'Because I don't want people to think I'm playing favorites. I mean we were practically married before', then they'll be like 'Oh so that's how it is, is it? You know, you left your ipod at our apartment last time you were over. It would be a shame if people found out about your ILLEGAL ABBA MP3's!' then he'll be like 'Yeah you don't scare me, I'll just make file sharing legal!' then they'll be like 'Oh ho ho will you now? What makes you think we'll be filing any cases in your district?' then he'll be like 'What happened to us?' then they'll be like 'You forgot your friends! And you became a complete jerk since you became a judge! We feel like we don't even know you any more!' then he'll be like 'It's true! I've worked so hard to impress the other judges I forgot who my real friends were!'. Then they'll hug and make up.
So yeah, they'll be filing all their cases in his district.
That's pretty much the issue. From what I understand Microsoft bled out the ears just getting to where it is in the market. One assumes Apple is going to have to expect to do nothing but lose money on their first gen console. Which I assume would probably have to go up against the next gen consoles from Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony. So Apple can release a console that does what? Provide good graphics, streaming music and video, and online capabilities? That's pretty much what everyone's doing already, plus they all have big libraries of games to back all that up with. Apple would have to be pretty arrogant to think that they could slam anybody in that market.
iConsole: I'm an iConsole Xbox 360: And I'm an Xbox 360 iConsole: Hey Xbox 360, what's wrong? Xbox 360: Oh the red ring of death, looks like I have to be replaced iConsole: That's too bad Xbox 360, you know the iConsole doesn't have that problem Xbox 360: Yeah, you also don't have any games, plus you cost more than the PS3 iConsole: That may be so, but people appreciate a console that just works, plus no red ring of death Xbox 360: Yes well despite that we still managed to beat the PS3. I'd like to know what your plan is? iConsole: Well, while you're off getting replaced people can do fun things like make photobooks and watch movies from itunes Xbox 360: Fair enough I suppose. I think I'll go play Wii on my week off.
It's good to see MADD has no problem with stealing cars from little old ladies, then running them over with them, then running them over again to make sure they're dead, then shooting their corpse to make really really sure they're dead, then stealing their money and using it to buy illegal firearms. I could see how they'd have a problem with the drunk driving portion of the game though...
I think it's a bit of a false dichotomy to compare what it's like being a diabetic to being completely blind.
I don't think it's unreasonable to account for some access for people who can't actually see websites. I mean we have diet coke.
"inspectors told Beijing organisers that the Internet must be open for the duration of the 2008 Olympics and that blocking it "would reflect very poorly" on the host country"
Good to know the Olympic committee is all for standing up for human rights provided they're in town, and they're being paid lots of money, and those human rights only apply to people who are used to such freedoms in the first place. But seriously, if the Olympic committee gave a flying fuck about human rights they wouldn't have chosen China to host the Olympics.
I guess none of the slashdot admins have the sense to go through and delete all the stories submitted on April 1st. They just keep on getting pushed through. So for about the next two weeks we'll still be getting April fools stories. It's nice to have a sense of humor on the day but continuing to get fake stories after that is a little more than annoying.
I thought PC gaming was in the throes of death. Fortunately now PC game developers will be able to use Ray Tracing instead of implementing the much ballyhooed 'fun' that graphically inferior console games seem to be touting.
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"Have fun disenchanting your high-tier sets and BG loot by the time you hit 72, and doing it all over again after you reach 80."
The joke's on you my friend. My account has long been canceled, and I have no intention of getting Wrath of the Lich King. I'd rather play Rock Band on Xbox live than spend 10 hours doing dungeon runs in the hopes I may get a new belt.
Oh man. I don't know about you, but I can't stand the PVP in World of Warcraft. They have to do something to make it more interesting. I had to play 20 games of Eye of the Storm just to get a stupid sword. I got the sword but was so disgusted with the ordeal I had to go through to get it I stopped playing the game all together. Once you hit 70 the game basically boils down to getting new gear. Which is mind numbingly boring if you're only interested in having fun.
Game reviewing is pretty straight forward. A lot of people would assume it's based on things like fun factor, aesthetics, controls, etc. This is actually not the case.
There are effectively two factors involved in game reviewing; bribes, and repercussions.
The video card and big gaming companies give a lot of bribes to the game reviewers, so things like graphics and big blockbuster titles are given good reviews regardless. Repercussions are taken into consideration based on on which company produced the game you're reviewing. Say for example if you're reviewing a game from some small time game company. There's no worry about money being pulled from the magazine/website if you ream the game. The complete opposite is true if you're reviewing anything from say Bungee, or Eidos.
The bottom line is, graphics and big titles are the most important things, since that's where all the bribes come from.
Why would game developers bother with any sort of meaningful or halfway decent stories? Their core audience believes Naruto is masterful storytelling, and they've never read a book in their entire lives. With an audience like that you just need to give them the ability to call people noobs during gameplay, and they're happy as pigs in shit. Just look at the whole Halo series.
I am somewhat dubious that I'll actually see one red cent out of this whole ordeal. But I'm really hoping those bastards get crucified. Just reading the headline 'Bell Loses Class Action Suit' would almost be enough for me (I also want money). I didn't even know those bastards were doing deep packet inspection. That's something I find extremely infuriating. And if they wind up losing the suit, and make some attempt to pass the cost onto their customers/victims it won't particularly matter to me, since I'll be using another ISP at that point. And I imagine they'll probably lose a lot of customers when they discover they've been shafting them on their internet service.
Hahaha! This is great! I use Bell for my internet! And I'm pretty sure they've been messing with my connection! I'm rich! I'm rich! Woo hoo!
Yeah the 'user interface' puzzled me. What the hell does that even mean? Are they referring to touch screens or what? You'd think if they were, they'd have mentioned it specifically .
You can only imagine a discovery like this is the sort of thing every Anthropologist dreams of. Finding some primitive culture, previously untouched by the outside world. Making contact with the people for the first time. Then showing them the power of the machine gun and overthrowing their chief, then ruling the tribe with an iron fist.
It's the messy business we call the exchange of ideas and opinions. I figure anybody who feels to need to post how they're having their cornflakes on the internet is a self absorbed gobshite. This is the sort of inane crap you associate with celebrity gossip rags.
Like did you hear?! Some idiot who runs a blog I've never heard about till she filed a lawsuit because the internet wasn't going her way just bought a new box of tampons!! I can't wait for the next update!!
When you're dealing with the level of stupid that feels the need to post updates of whatever mundane crap they're doing at every moment of the day you're going to have to expect to attract a large number of other stupids. I'll say that MAYBE twitter really isn't an integral part of the internet, or blogosphere or whatever so much as it is an exercise in self absorbed gobshittery. I guess that's what 'web 2.0' is supposed to be though.
:)
Considering the individual in this case is a 'popular blogger' she should expect some bloody hate mail. I'm sure she gets plenty of lovey dovey crap from her followers as well, and they're all doing their very best to send her emails with smiley faces so she'll feel all good about having a blog and a twitter account.
I for one welcome hatred! That's why I'm not posting this anonymously
You have no idea.
I'm a professional animator, and I have to say voice actors can be an extreme pain in the ass. They do about an hours worth of work but make more money than everybody else in the production. The last show I worked on the lead voice actor put well over 300 people out of work for 2 months while he re-negotiated his contract. They're so self absorbed and disconnected from the reality that they think they're the only important aspect of the production. On top of all that when the bleeder finally did agree to come back to work, they had to fire several people just to make up for the extra money they were giving this guy.
So really, I have zero sympathy for voice actors.
I suppose if he leaves they'll have nobody to write those god awful monologues.
Not too long ago Slashdot was posting articles about how Japan was replacing it's laborers with robots because of it's low birth rates. Now Japan's running out of people who actually build the frigging robots?
Look Japan if you need help with impregnating your women I'd be happy to help.
Wow this is actually good news. The people at Bell Canada are scumbags. At my previous job we had the unfortunate misfortune to have Bell Canada as our ISP. They started slowing down our connection speed which in turn slowed everything in the entire studio down (since we were saving files to a server across town). It used to only take a few seconds to save the files, then it turned into 10 minutes. Bell insisted there was absolutely nothing wrong with the connection. Just doing my job was turned into an ordeal because bell feels the need to tamper with their connections. I hope Bell gets crucified. That would be absolutely wonderful
If any athlete decides to chop their legs off to be able to use faster prosthetic legs I would invite them to do a bit of reading on phantom limb beforehand. From my understanding it's one of the more unpleasant things a human being can go through.
I'm of the same mind as you. Basically Activision has absolutely no idea what to do with the game. What did they do when they got Guitar Hero? Add the bosses? Have some sluttier characters? Not really anything innovative there by any stretch of the imagination.
The boss battles are no fun in any way shape or form. In Rock Band I can play one song after another and only stop when I got tired, not when I got frustrated like with Guitar Hero 3.
I can only hope Activision is lamenting alienating the geniuses at Harmonix.
Don't you ever watch tv? That won't happen, he'll have to give his former buddies a hard time to show he's not playing any favorites. Then they'll be all like 'Why're you giving us such a hard time?' then he'll be like 'Because I don't want people to think I'm playing favorites. I mean we were practically married before', then they'll be like 'Oh so that's how it is, is it? You know, you left your ipod at our apartment last time you were over. It would be a shame if people found out about your ILLEGAL ABBA MP3's!' then he'll be like 'Yeah you don't scare me, I'll just make file sharing legal!' then they'll be like 'Oh ho ho will you now? What makes you think we'll be filing any cases in your district?' then he'll be like 'What happened to us?' then they'll be like 'You forgot your friends! And you became a complete jerk since you became a judge! We feel like we don't even know you any more!' then he'll be like 'It's true! I've worked so hard to impress the other judges I forgot who my real friends were!'. Then they'll hug and make up.
So yeah, they'll be filing all their cases in his district.
That's pretty much the issue. From what I understand Microsoft bled out the ears just getting to where it is in the market. One assumes Apple is going to have to expect to do nothing but lose money on their first gen console. Which I assume would probably have to go up against the next gen consoles from Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony. So Apple can release a console that does what? Provide good graphics, streaming music and video, and online capabilities? That's pretty much what everyone's doing already, plus they all have big libraries of games to back all that up with. Apple would have to be pretty arrogant to think that they could slam anybody in that market.
iConsole: I'm an iConsole
Xbox 360: And I'm an Xbox 360
iConsole: Hey Xbox 360, what's wrong?
Xbox 360: Oh the red ring of death, looks like I have to be replaced
iConsole: That's too bad Xbox 360, you know the iConsole doesn't have that problem
Xbox 360: Yeah, you also don't have any games, plus you cost more than the PS3
iConsole: That may be so, but people appreciate a console that just works, plus no red ring of death
Xbox 360: Yes well despite that we still managed to beat the PS3. I'd like to know what your plan is?
iConsole: Well, while you're off getting replaced people can do fun things like make photobooks and watch movies from itunes
Xbox 360: Fair enough I suppose. I think I'll go play Wii on my week off.
It's good to see MADD has no problem with stealing cars from little old ladies, then running them over with them, then running them over again to make sure they're dead, then shooting their corpse to make really really sure they're dead, then stealing their money and using it to buy illegal firearms. I could see how they'd have a problem with the drunk driving portion of the game though...
That was implied from the subject of my post.
I think it's a bit of a false dichotomy to compare what it's like being a diabetic to being completely blind. I don't think it's unreasonable to account for some access for people who can't actually see websites. I mean we have diet coke.
"inspectors told Beijing organisers that the Internet must be open for the duration of the 2008 Olympics and that blocking it "would reflect very poorly" on the host country"
Good to know the Olympic committee is all for standing up for human rights provided they're in town, and they're being paid lots of money, and those human rights only apply to people who are used to such freedoms in the first place. But seriously, if the Olympic committee gave a flying fuck about human rights they wouldn't have chosen China to host the Olympics.
I guess none of the slashdot admins have the sense to go through and delete all the stories submitted on April 1st. They just keep on getting pushed through. So for about the next two weeks we'll still be getting April fools stories. It's nice to have a sense of humor on the day but continuing to get fake stories after that is a little more than annoying.
I thought PC gaming was in the throes of death. Fortunately now PC game developers will be able to use Ray Tracing instead of implementing the much ballyhooed 'fun' that graphically inferior console games seem to be touting.