Can the Amazon store let you convert your song into a wav file, open it up in the windows wav editor, jump to a position, delete everything before it (such as those stupid "trash talk moments" commonly found in early 90's songs), then convert the wav file to a 192 kbps mp3?
Other than that, nothing really different, which is why they did this.
I have this but haven't opened it yet. I still got other games to enjoy, but I might put this in for my girlfriend who enjoys laura croft but hates how laura loves to re-enact scenes from "the happening"
The video misses the whole point really that the fun from a game at its core comes from being presented with a challenge, not being able to beat/solve it, then overcoming that challenge. Sure there is story line and there is fun in knowing your so awesome that what is supposed to be challenging isn't for you, but at its core thats what games are about and that is how they are entertaining. Thats why games have had multiple difficulty levels for a long time. If its too easy, its boring. If its too hard, its frustrating.
The wasted time as he put it is the idea that you get punished for failing, and helps create tension and a moderate amount of stress. Some people don't like that, some do. In many cases, there is a game mechanic that the player should be learning that they may not need to if the game is too easy. Either way, the punishment serves as a means of heightening the reward, but only if the punishment / reward is balanced properly. Its simple learning.
In fact, his basketball example is terrible. If your shooting hoops and you miss, the ball could bounce far away from you. You have to go get it. If you make it, it will fall underneath the hoop. Thats a punishment/reward system that is a lot like most video games. If someone has a bunch of balls and there are a bunch of people getting the balls for you and throwing them to you while you stay in the same spot then that is simply practicing. You'll learn quicker (for that spot) but it isn't necessarily a game with dynamic challenges. It'll also get boring very quickly if all you do is the same thing for an extended period of time, and it teaches you absolutely nothing about the game mechanic of shooting when someone is trying to steal the ball or block the ball while you shoot it.
Another thing he doesn't consider is that many games teach you a concept in an area where you can learn it without punishment, then put you in an area where you apply what you learned with punishment. Going back to basketball, you practice shooting free throws, then in a real game you only have select, spaced out moments where you get to shoot them. If you make it under pressure, its rewarding. If everyone just stared at you until you inevitably made your free throws then there is no reward.
If their theory is correct, the fps shouldn't matter, rather it would be - do they react to an LCD tv versus a CRT tv? Not a lot of stuff is recorded at 60 fps so I can't imagine that being the difference. Whether or not the image stays on the screen is much more likely.
I think the reason they dont put linux in there is because a person representing linux would be a naked torso of which you have to find all of his arms and legs and clothes separately. That wouldn't get past the censors.
That assumes your talking about linux in a non-distribution sense.
If steam went under, someone would probably release a hacked steam client that lets you play without authentication (similar to offline mode in steam but without the week-long or whatever it is timelimit). They might also do a client update that would do the same.
I find that very unlikely though. Steam would be bought out and passed around before it would go away. Its like trying to imagine a once popular website going away. Think about the sites from the '90s you dont use anymore, like excite.com or ubid.com. They're STILL there.
For me it was those sniffy things that walked slowly and regenerated themselves (found later in the game), but then would massively jump at you if you blew one of their legs. The chainsaws certainly helped, but those sniffy things were truly scary.
GOW1 over xbox live was terrible. If you can't tell how then your pretty oblivious. I'd think you'd had realized that after the first game you played where the host gloated how much you suck and he doesn't, let alone the 90% of the games where that happened.
Why do people always favor studies and accept its conclusions unconditionally? Seriously, who's actually paid for a study to prove the opposite? A passenger could also grab the wheel from me when I doze off while sleeping, does that somehow make them safer? What about when they spill food, tell me to face them when I talk to them, talk too low that I can't hear them over the road noise, or point things out for me to look at?
If you can't drive safely while on a phone/eating food/talking to a passenger/picking your nose, then don't. But don't try to force people to adapt to your own inadequacies. People rarely drive in optimal conditions and a study doesn't truly reflect driving habits.
Here, I'll debunk the study already, if some goofball told me to drive from point A to point B which I was unfamiliar with, then yes, if I had a passenger with a second set of eyes to spot road signs for me while I drive will miss less exits than me by myself. Hell, I bet the passenger was probably one of the researchers, there to point out the signs for you. If I was forcibly told to come up with a conversation against my will and felt obligated to say things when I would normally sit in silence or hang up or say "hey let me call you back", then yes, I'm going to be very distracted.
On the phone, in silence, why am I still on the phone if I'm not talking? With a passenger, in silence, there is nothing awkward unless I'm on a date (also very distracting, and having someone grade your driving skills is also distracting). But if a researcher made me and obligated me to stay on the phone the whole time I'm driving (when I normally wouldn't), then yes, very distracted.
Wouldn't that be like knowingly bringing someone into the world knowing that they are going to be horrendously ugly and live their life lonely? Wouldn't having sex with them be borderline doing it with a gorilla? What would the ethical ramification of this be?
I said "box inside another box for the bundle", I meant "box inside another box for the band kit, then for the bundle they just slip a cheapo graphic that slides off over it".
two I wasn't misrepresenting it by returning it and saying it was defective. Its not fraud at all. It literally costs the store nothing to return defective merchandise, which this was. They do RMAs all the time, they just stick it on the truck that does their loads when it heads back to the warehouse. The supplier reimburses the store (as they should) or gives it a replacement.
In fact, literally the box that the guitar comes in for the band kit is identical to the box that comes in the guitar bundle. All they do is stick one box inside another box for the bundle, then put a cheapo graphic that slides off on top of it. The packaging around the guitar itself isn't even sealed, you could literally open the package in store, inspect the guitar, then put it back and it wouldn't be any different than one straight from the factory.
Based on your logic, if I bought guitar bundles of GH:WT, tried both guitars out and found one defective, then got confused as to which one went to which packaging, returned one the defective one, then I was committing fraud. Or if I bought a vase and a plate together at a store, then bought another vase that was the same, then had one of them go defective and returned it, I was committing fraud.
I think you need to step back and realize your just trying hard to prove your better than someone else or that someone else is wrong and you are right. At least that is how it comes off.
Yes, but that doesn't fix all issues, like the fact I to hit the cymbols near the hard plastic in order to get them to register as a crash, or the guitar that no longer downstrums and stores dont want to accept a return for. If I used their RMA, I would have to pay to ship their defective item back to them, then wait 3 weeks.
So I bought a copy of guitar hero WT with just the guitar, swapped out mine for the new one, then returned it.
The new guitar has a strummer that is squeakier than the guitar I own for Guitar Hero, the original PS2 game. The touch sensor is also so sensitive that just holding my hand an inch from it sets it off. I'll probably have to return it again, or live with the issues and oil the strummer myself.
But is it worth suing them? I do think they need to pay for their customers RMAs, at the cost of loss profits.
"Here I'll put a blind fold on you and.. there you go, ok now drink this delicious fluid." "Hmmm its water, but it doesnt taste like tap water, it tastes filtered. Aquafina?" "No, pee" *PHHHttt*
Typically software wholesalers will see about $20 - $30 per copy. I think its usually $20. However, for the online games, its a lot closer to the actual price the consumer pays.
So in reality, its more like 400,000 * $20 + 100,000 * $50 = $13,000,000
Another thing, is that actual sales or shipped units? I'm not sure if they can keep track of actual sales. Retailers will often return unsold software for a refund.
Thats a pretty impressive number though, I was under the impression the game wasn't doing too hot since no stores in my area picked it up until a few weeks after it came out, and when they did it was about 2 copies.
Its a great game, the automatch time and bugged shotgun need fixing though. Its missing some features you thought would be for sure- like the ability to see pings, the ability to quickly mute people, the ability to quit out of the game without turning off your xbox 360. Etc.
My biggest complaint is the automatch time and the fact they took out the grind-up/grind down noise when you die/retry.
exact same song - "Feel the Pain". I dont understand how anyone could like it, there's no energy, its depressing, long, slow and repetitive. Freak on a Leash is fun because its high energy, different sounding than anything else, good to listen to (tastes vary of course), and all the instruments click together in their own unique ways (including the vocals). Its also to the point and yet has variety, as the drummer I'm not hitting the same combo over and over and over again for 5 minutes...
And I'm not saying Freak on a Leash is the best song in the game, I'm just saying when I got my girlfriend's family together to play this, it stood out as one everyone liked and wanted to come back to, while "Feel the Pain" was one we had her little brother sing... err mumble and it flat out put us all in a bad mood when we failed it in the 90% range. The song was a chore.
What? MSNBC has an obvious bias but its obvious to tell which direction. I've seen it historically go both directions. CNN has a subtle bias but its always liberal (lately they've been using iReporters as their liberal mask). Fox News of course is conservatively biased but that doesn't mean they lie to favor a conservative candidate, often it means they're the only one that actually critically thought about something that involves a conservative. For example, when that douchebag wrote up that report where he suspected that Palin had violated ethics code, then proceeded to provide no evidence of it in his report, both CNN and MSNBC reported that "Panel finds Palin violated ethics code" as a headline. Fox News reported "Palin needed to keep leash on her husband, says report". Which one was more accurate? Fox News, because the report was the conclusion of one person, not the panel, and most of the report was evidence against her husband, who isn't bound to ethics laws. Just days before the election, the panel concluded the exact opposite of that report, that Palin did not violate ethics laws.
CNN is the worst IMO because so many people mistake it for being non-leaning. I'd like to know which direction my news is leaning thank you so I can consider the facts accurately.
... best explains this. Play Civ 4. Play it by researching and trading and and expanding with friendly means. Play through the game on settler and never get attacked, and there is never any conflict or risk of losing. Then be so bored you dont want to come back.
After her second game which I forced her to play, on a higher difficulty, she made the comment "war is the part that is more fun".
ok, does anyone know how to get the legs and the feet of the drum set detached once they lock in place? Maybe I'll just see if they can swap out the defective guitar with one of the individual ones. The drums just need the sensitivity fixed after all...
I bought the full band kit, and just got off the phone with walmart about returning it. Here's what I've had:
The drums are a bit better to use in theory, but the sensitivity (out of the box) is too low. I really have to hit things above where I'm comfortable and it isn't forgiving if you had poor aim. I got a blood blister after some extended playing.
Using star power is random. Sometimes it gives it to you, often times it doesnt.
I ordered the USB-MIDI adapter to fix my drum kit. It came in 4 business days. My computer detects it but doesn't do anything with it. Its not an option on the drum controller drop-down and none of the MIDI options are substitutes. Restarting didn't help nor did disabling the other audio devices. It shows up under the device manager though and has a green light when connected. So... I can't fix it.
My guitar's strum broke today and has about a 5% chance of registering a downward strum now. The tap bar was always iffy with it, and the star power button used for muting was flat out inconsistent.
I broke part of the things used for holding the drum sticks by playing with them up. Don't do that.
Freak on a Leash is fun to play, a lot of the songs aren't though. They're long and repetitive. Whoever put Dinosaur Jr. in there should be shot.
Red Octane makes you pay to ship your defective device to them, with a copy of the receipt (mind you this game hasn't been out for 90 days). Its hard to find their warranty returns on their website. Here's a link:
That is why I'm returning the kit to wal-mart, I dont feel like I should pay 12 dollars and take extra time out of my work day to drop off a package, then wait 3 weeks to get another potentially defective device.
To be honest your point isn't very clear at all. I assumed you were referring to the fact that convicted felons are more likely to be minorities, and minorities are more likely to vote democrat. But there's a few flaws in the logic that you can decide an election by allowing / disallowing felons to vote. It's not exactly the same thing as the literacy tests that certain states used to have to prevent blacks from voting.
So I dont see what is the obvious flaw in the system that your pointing out.
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Can the Amazon store let you convert your song into a wav file, open it up in the windows wav editor, jump to a position, delete everything before it (such as those stupid "trash talk moments" commonly found in early 90's songs), then convert the wav file to a 192 kbps mp3?
Other than that, nothing really different, which is why they did this.
I have this but haven't opened it yet. I still got other games to enjoy, but I might put this in for my girlfriend who enjoys laura croft but hates how laura loves to re-enact scenes from "the happening"
The video misses the whole point really that the fun from a game at its core comes from being presented with a challenge, not being able to beat/solve it, then overcoming that challenge. Sure there is story line and there is fun in knowing your so awesome that what is supposed to be challenging isn't for you, but at its core thats what games are about and that is how they are entertaining. Thats why games have had multiple difficulty levels for a long time. If its too easy, its boring. If its too hard, its frustrating.
The wasted time as he put it is the idea that you get punished for failing, and helps create tension and a moderate amount of stress. Some people don't like that, some do. In many cases, there is a game mechanic that the player should be learning that they may not need to if the game is too easy. Either way, the punishment serves as a means of heightening the reward, but only if the punishment / reward is balanced properly. Its simple learning.
In fact, his basketball example is terrible. If your shooting hoops and you miss, the ball could bounce far away from you. You have to go get it. If you make it, it will fall underneath the hoop. Thats a punishment/reward system that is a lot like most video games. If someone has a bunch of balls and there are a bunch of people getting the balls for you and throwing them to you while you stay in the same spot then that is simply practicing. You'll learn quicker (for that spot) but it isn't necessarily a game with dynamic challenges. It'll also get boring very quickly if all you do is the same thing for an extended period of time, and it teaches you absolutely nothing about the game mechanic of shooting when someone is trying to steal the ball or block the ball while you shoot it.
Another thing he doesn't consider is that many games teach you a concept in an area where you can learn it without punishment, then put you in an area where you apply what you learned with punishment. Going back to basketball, you practice shooting free throws, then in a real game you only have select, spaced out moments where you get to shoot them. If you make it under pressure, its rewarding. If everyone just stared at you until you inevitably made your free throws then there is no reward.
If their theory is correct, the fps shouldn't matter, rather it would be - do they react to an LCD tv versus a CRT tv? Not a lot of stuff is recorded at 60 fps so I can't imagine that being the difference. Whether or not the image stays on the screen is much more likely.
I think the reason they dont put linux in there is because a person representing linux would be a naked torso of which you have to find all of his arms and legs and clothes separately. That wouldn't get past the censors.
That assumes your talking about linux in a non-distribution sense.
The "oops!" disaster always was so annoying, but damned if microwave wasn't cost efficient
If steam went under, someone would probably release a hacked steam client that lets you play without authentication (similar to offline mode in steam but without the week-long or whatever it is timelimit). They might also do a client update that would do the same.
I find that very unlikely though. Steam would be bought out and passed around before it would go away. Its like trying to imagine a once popular website going away. Think about the sites from the '90s you dont use anymore, like excite.com or ubid.com. They're STILL there.
For me it was those sniffy things that walked slowly and regenerated themselves (found later in the game), but then would massively jump at you if you blew one of their legs. The chainsaws certainly helped, but those sniffy things were truly scary.
GOW1 over xbox live was terrible. If you can't tell how then your pretty oblivious. I'd think you'd had realized that after the first game you played where the host gloated how much you suck and he doesn't, let alone the 90% of the games where that happened.
Why do people always favor studies and accept its conclusions unconditionally? Seriously, who's actually paid for a study to prove the opposite? A passenger could also grab the wheel from me when I doze off while sleeping, does that somehow make them safer? What about when they spill food, tell me to face them when I talk to them, talk too low that I can't hear them over the road noise, or point things out for me to look at?
If you can't drive safely while on a phone/eating food/talking to a passenger/picking your nose, then don't. But don't try to force people to adapt to your own inadequacies. People rarely drive in optimal conditions and a study doesn't truly reflect driving habits.
Here, I'll debunk the study already, if some goofball told me to drive from point A to point B which I was unfamiliar with, then yes, if I had a passenger with a second set of eyes to spot road signs for me while I drive will miss less exits than me by myself. Hell, I bet the passenger was probably one of the researchers, there to point out the signs for you. If I was forcibly told to come up with a conversation against my will and felt obligated to say things when I would normally sit in silence or hang up or say "hey let me call you back", then yes, I'm going to be very distracted.
On the phone, in silence, why am I still on the phone if I'm not talking? With a passenger, in silence, there is nothing awkward unless I'm on a date (also very distracting, and having someone grade your driving skills is also distracting). But if a researcher made me and obligated me to stay on the phone the whole time I'm driving (when I normally wouldn't), then yes, very distracted.
Wouldn't that be like knowingly bringing someone into the world knowing that they are going to be horrendously ugly and live their life lonely? Wouldn't having sex with them be borderline doing it with a gorilla? What would the ethical ramification of this be?
I said "box inside another box for the bundle", I meant "box inside another box for the band kit, then for the bundle they just slip a cheapo graphic that slides off over it".
no dude it for one doesnt work that way at all.
two I wasn't misrepresenting it by returning it and saying it was defective. Its not fraud at all. It literally costs the store nothing to return defective merchandise, which this was. They do RMAs all the time, they just stick it on the truck that does their loads when it heads back to the warehouse. The supplier reimburses the store (as they should) or gives it a replacement.
In fact, literally the box that the guitar comes in for the band kit is identical to the box that comes in the guitar bundle. All they do is stick one box inside another box for the bundle, then put a cheapo graphic that slides off on top of it. The packaging around the guitar itself isn't even sealed, you could literally open the package in store, inspect the guitar, then put it back and it wouldn't be any different than one straight from the factory.
Based on your logic, if I bought guitar bundles of GH:WT, tried both guitars out and found one defective, then got confused as to which one went to which packaging, returned one the defective one, then I was committing fraud. Or if I bought a vase and a plate together at a store, then bought another vase that was the same, then had one of them go defective and returned it, I was committing fraud.
I think you need to step back and realize your just trying hard to prove your better than someone else or that someone else is wrong and you are right. At least that is how it comes off.
How is this fraud? What country do you live in where returning an identical item that is defective is fraud?
Yes, but that doesn't fix all issues, like the fact I to hit the cymbols near the hard plastic in order to get them to register as a crash, or the guitar that no longer downstrums and stores dont want to accept a return for. If I used their RMA, I would have to pay to ship their defective item back to them, then wait 3 weeks.
So I bought a copy of guitar hero WT with just the guitar, swapped out mine for the new one, then returned it.
The new guitar has a strummer that is squeakier than the guitar I own for Guitar Hero, the original PS2 game. The touch sensor is also so sensitive that just holding my hand an inch from it sets it off. I'll probably have to return it again, or live with the issues and oil the strummer myself.
But is it worth suing them? I do think they need to pay for their customers RMAs, at the cost of loss profits.
"Here I'll put a blind fold on you and.. there you go, ok now drink this delicious fluid." "Hmmm its water, but it doesnt taste like tap water, it tastes filtered. Aquafina?" "No, pee" *PHHHttt*
Typically software wholesalers will see about $20 - $30 per copy. I think its usually $20. However, for the online games, its a lot closer to the actual price the consumer pays.
So in reality, its more like 400,000 * $20 + 100,000 * $50 = $13,000,000
Another thing, is that actual sales or shipped units? I'm not sure if they can keep track of actual sales. Retailers will often return unsold software for a refund.
Thats a pretty impressive number though, I was under the impression the game wasn't doing too hot since no stores in my area picked it up until a few weeks after it came out, and when they did it was about 2 copies.
Its a great game, the automatch time and bugged shotgun need fixing though. Its missing some features you thought would be for sure- like the ability to see pings, the ability to quickly mute people, the ability to quit out of the game without turning off your xbox 360. Etc.
My biggest complaint is the automatch time and the fact they took out the grind-up/grind down noise when you die/retry.
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exact same song - "Feel the Pain". I dont understand how anyone could like it, there's no energy, its depressing, long, slow and repetitive. Freak on a Leash is fun because its high energy, different sounding than anything else, good to listen to (tastes vary of course), and all the instruments click together in their own unique ways (including the vocals). Its also to the point and yet has variety, as the drummer I'm not hitting the same combo over and over and over again for 5 minutes...
And I'm not saying Freak on a Leash is the best song in the game, I'm just saying when I got my girlfriend's family together to play this, it stood out as one everyone liked and wanted to come back to, while "Feel the Pain" was one we had her little brother sing... err mumble and it flat out put us all in a bad mood when we failed it in the 90% range. The song was a chore.
What? MSNBC has an obvious bias but its obvious to tell which direction. I've seen it historically go both directions. CNN has a subtle bias but its always liberal (lately they've been using iReporters as their liberal mask). Fox News of course is conservatively biased but that doesn't mean they lie to favor a conservative candidate, often it means they're the only one that actually critically thought about something that involves a conservative. For example, when that douchebag wrote up that report where he suspected that Palin had violated ethics code, then proceeded to provide no evidence of it in his report, both CNN and MSNBC reported that "Panel finds Palin violated ethics code" as a headline. Fox News reported "Palin needed to keep leash on her husband, says report". Which one was more accurate? Fox News, because the report was the conclusion of one person, not the panel, and most of the report was evidence against her husband, who isn't bound to ethics laws. Just days before the election, the panel concluded the exact opposite of that report, that Palin did not violate ethics laws.
CNN is the worst IMO because so many people mistake it for being non-leaning. I'd like to know which direction my news is leaning thank you so I can consider the facts accurately.
... best explains this. Play Civ 4. Play it by researching and trading and and expanding with friendly means. Play through the game on settler and never get attacked, and there is never any conflict or risk of losing. Then be so bored you dont want to come back.
After her second game which I forced her to play, on a higher difficulty, she made the comment "war is the part that is more fun".
And that is why games center more on violence.
ok, does anyone know how to get the legs and the feet of the drum set detached once they lock in place? Maybe I'll just see if they can swap out the defective guitar with one of the individual ones. The drums just need the sensitivity fixed after all...
What? Its just a stupid .NET application that was whipped up in 2 hours. There's no code required.
I bought the full band kit, and just got off the phone with walmart about returning it. Here's what I've had:
The drums are a bit better to use in theory, but the sensitivity (out of the box) is too low. I really have to hit things above where I'm comfortable and it isn't forgiving if you had poor aim. I got a blood blister after some extended playing.
Using star power is random. Sometimes it gives it to you, often times it doesnt.
I ordered the USB-MIDI adapter to fix my drum kit. It came in 4 business days. My computer detects it but doesn't do anything with it. Its not an option on the drum controller drop-down and none of the MIDI options are substitutes. Restarting didn't help nor did disabling the other audio devices. It shows up under the device manager though and has a green light when connected. So... I can't fix it.
My guitar's strum broke today and has about a 5% chance of registering a downward strum now. The tap bar was always iffy with it, and the star power button used for muting was flat out inconsistent.
I broke part of the things used for holding the drum sticks by playing with them up. Don't do that.
Freak on a Leash is fun to play, a lot of the songs aren't though. They're long and repetitive. Whoever put Dinosaur Jr. in there should be shot.
Red Octane makes you pay to ship your defective device to them, with a copy of the receipt (mind you this game hasn't been out for 90 days). Its hard to find their warranty returns on their website. Here's a link:
http://www.redoctanegames.com/Warranty/USA/
That is why I'm returning the kit to wal-mart, I dont feel like I should pay 12 dollars and take extra time out of my work day to drop off a package, then wait 3 weeks to get another potentially defective device.
To be honest your point isn't very clear at all. I assumed you were referring to the fact that convicted felons are more likely to be minorities, and minorities are more likely to vote democrat. But there's a few flaws in the logic that you can decide an election by allowing / disallowing felons to vote. It's not exactly the same thing as the literacy tests that certain states used to have to prevent blacks from voting.
So I dont see what is the obvious flaw in the system that your pointing out.