The only people in the cinema WILL BE the pirates.
The rest of us will forego the spanish inquisition, the extortionate prices and the hassle in general of getting parked and bothering to go to the cinema, we will instead sit at home watching our bootlegged copy, pausing it to go to the loo and still have the poeple walking infront of the screen, laughing and coughing.
Actually I feel like doing piracy vs cinema:
Cinema:
Pros
That surround sound and huge picture
The popcorn
The fact we are out in the real world with real strangers near us
Cons:
No pausing for toilet / food
People talking
People walking in front of the screen
The High prices
being treated like a criminal
getting ID checked (if they happen to think you look under 21)
Getting parked on a busy night
getting a child minder
Piracy:
Pros:
cheaper than a cinema ticket
You dont have to leave the house
no id required
you can pause it to go to the loo.
No child minder required.
feels like the cinema, laughing and walking infront of the screen included.
Cons:
bad quality (assuming you have a cam and not a screener).
I am fully aware of the side missions etc. I was just pointing out the flaws.
My point about Oblivion wasn't that it was hard it was that imo the enemy leveling with your char is stupid and not much fun. Bandits kitted out with adamantium gear, come on if they have that sort of gear why do they need to be bandits. Imo Bandits should have shit gear and have patchy equipment, conversly Noble's body guards should have good solid gear, while the top end gear is reserved for champions and nobles that can afford it.
With regards to FO3, I was pointing out that as a (for the sake of argument) lvl 5 char you could go and complete the game as well as kill pretty much everything including supermutants. Compare this to FO1/2 if you were lvl 5 and came across a supermutant you had to run or you would die. Imo this made more sense and was more fun
Being "better" at a game can be pretty subjective. Bringing various definitions into alignment would mean that the person who is enjoying the game the most is also getting the highest in-game score or other measure of accomplishment.
Can't say I completly agree to the second sentence, as for me there was a game for the amiga 500, Dogs of War. I think i only ever managed to complete 1 mission as the game was too difficult for me, however I never stopped enjoying the game or trying.
If it's going to kill you, it usually kills you on the first shot. Which never happens in real life.
... Did you think about this before typing.. Most head or heart shots with a gun do kill people in real life in one hit. If you want to test that on yourself and get back to me feel free to do so..
1 hit kill in games can be frustrating but sometimes it actually suits the game and just means you have to be careful. (e.g. 1st sniper mission of commandoes III; Battlefield 2, play as a sniper and score a headshot. )
You are correct about Oblivion and as I said earlier (or perhaps later depending where it is relative to this post) it was just annoying.
Basically WoW has it right. Oblivion was annoying as as soon as i level those "bandits" suddenly had very very good gear. I don't like that it's no fun, sometimes it is nice to walk to an area you have been before with your gear and butcher the low level stuff for fun.
Bestheda also fucked up Fallout 3 with this, you can pretty much complete the game in under 3hours (iirc) with hardly any leveling as the monsters are pretty much all scaled to the player.
I do like rubber-banding as long as it is managed (eg a lvl 4 monster, depending on my skill, can have the stats of say a lvl 5 monster but never any higher) this allows for a small degree of rubber-banding so good players will have a harder time but can still return to low level places.
This is both brilliant and terrifying all at the same time..
On one hand excellent we catch toe rags quicker with a lower overhead for manning the CCTV.
On the other I am terrified about the power this gives the government and I expect we will soon be living in 1930/40s Germany with the SS around every corner.
If ever there was a time for a Guy Fawkes type plot now is it, before the madness gets worse..
I don't think I will like this on FF. BUT in office it works. I actually like it.. I can find features that I used to use and always had to google for at my finger tips..
IMHO the office ribbon bar is the menu system for office finally done right.
will it work in FF? I don't know.
More annoying than this is as of FF 3.5 you can now longer kill the instance if you close the last tab.. Instead it is noop or blank, that's fucking annoying!!!
I went to the game's site to take a look.. and being honest it is VERY rare for me to pay attention to adverts of any kind.. Well played EA (that's likely the only compliment you'll get from me)
I think the difference was they were happy to turn a blind eye until he admited it. At which point they had to act, as he had admitted breaking the law.
I realise that my view will be unpopular but, I don't think he should recieve a pardon or an appoligy, according to the law at the time he committed a crime and was punished as such. He broke the law knowing and there for has no excuse.
Ok now for my rationale, If we excuse him then perhaps we should apologise to the Spanish for sinking their armada or to all the countries that we conquered when Britain ruled the majority of the know world. Should we also apologise to the descendants of those who were forced into marriage aged 13 in the 1800s when it was legal and accepted to be married to and having sex with 13 year olds?
Yes society has moved on and realised that those laws were perhaps not in the best taste but still those that broke those laws should not be excused. No matter how "wrong" the laws were. Otherwise as I mention above where do we stop excusing people and how far back do we go?
Perhaps 5year copyright should only apply to software code.
Just thinking that say for example an open source project has 3 main coders and each maintains copyright over their code (as is proper). Now say one of those coders has written 2/3s of the code and to redo that code would take the other 2 at best a year to rewrite. Now lets say that coder for some reason becomes unreachable (dies, moves to Mars, etc..). The other 2 cannot relicence the code base to say GPL v4 until his copyright is over or he gives permission. In the UK currently they would have to wait 50years. Suddenly for this example 5years sounds a lot fairer.
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The rest of us will forego the spanish inquisition, the extortionate prices and the hassle in general of getting parked and bothering to go to the cinema, we will instead sit at home watching our bootlegged copy, pausing it to go to the loo and still have the poeple walking infront of the screen, laughing and coughing.
Actually I feel like doing piracy vs cinema:
Cinema:
Pros
Cons:
Piracy:
Pros:
Cons:
That makes a lot sense... Mod parent up...
I love the way the whole 1st linked article implies that "www" is required before every address.
I never said WoW was "the best game ever". I was just saying that for an RPG type game the difficulty system was pretty much perfect, imho.
I am fully aware of the side missions etc. I was just pointing out the flaws.
My point about Oblivion wasn't that it was hard it was that imo the enemy leveling with your char is stupid and not much fun. Bandits kitted out with adamantium gear, come on if they have that sort of gear why do they need to be bandits. Imo Bandits should have shit gear and have patchy equipment, conversly Noble's body guards should have good solid gear, while the top end gear is reserved for champions and nobles that can afford it.
With regards to FO3, I was pointing out that as a (for the sake of argument) lvl 5 char you could go and complete the game as well as kill pretty much everything including supermutants. Compare this to FO1/2 if you were lvl 5 and came across a supermutant you had to run or you would die. Imo this made more sense and was more fun
Being "better" at a game can be pretty subjective. Bringing various definitions into alignment would mean that the person who is enjoying the game the most is also getting the highest in-game score or other measure of accomplishment.
Can't say I completly agree to the second sentence, as for me there was a game for the amiga 500, Dogs of War. I think i only ever managed to complete 1 mission as the game was too difficult for me, however I never stopped enjoying the game or trying.
If it's going to kill you, it usually kills you on the first shot. Which never happens in real life.
1 hit kill in games can be frustrating but sometimes it actually suits the game and just means you have to be careful. (e.g. 1st sniper mission of commandoes III; Battlefield 2, play as a sniper and score a headshot. )
You are correct about Oblivion and as I said earlier (or perhaps later depending where it is relative to this post) it was just annoying.
Basically WoW has it right. Oblivion was annoying as as soon as i level those "bandits" suddenly had very very good gear. I don't like that it's no fun, sometimes it is nice to walk to an area you have been before with your gear and butcher the low level stuff for fun.
Bestheda also fucked up Fallout 3 with this, you can pretty much complete the game in under 3hours (iirc) with hardly any leveling as the monsters are pretty much all scaled to the player.
I do like rubber-banding as long as it is managed (eg a lvl 4 monster, depending on my skill, can have the stats of say a lvl 5 monster but never any higher) this allows for a small degree of rubber-banding so good players will have a harder time but can still return to low level places.
This is both brilliant and terrifying all at the same time..
On one hand excellent we catch toe rags quicker with a lower overhead for manning the CCTV.
On the other I am terrified about the power this gives the government and I expect we will soon be living in 1930/40s Germany with the SS around every corner.
If ever there was a time for a Guy Fawkes type plot now is it, before the madness gets worse..
The FBI director actually fell for a previous phishing scam and this was REVENGE!!!
just type the url or your bank into the address bar?
www.mybank.com <- wow typing that nearly gave me rsi..
Can they map out the banks? if they could include alarm systems as well as the floor plan I would be grateful..
except when it was hanging, which lets face it, is about 90% of the time..
I don't think I will like this on FF. BUT in office it works. I actually like it.. I can find features that I used to use and always had to google for at my finger tips..
IMHO the office ribbon bar is the menu system for office finally done right.
will it work in FF? I don't know.
More annoying than this is as of FF 3.5 you can now longer kill the instance if you close the last tab.. Instead it is noop or blank, that's fucking annoying!!!
I went to the game's site to take a look.. and being honest it is VERY rare for me to pay attention to adverts of any kind.. Well played EA (that's likely the only compliment you'll get from me)
I think the difference was they were happy to turn a blind eye until he admited it. At which point they had to act, as he had admitted breaking the law.
I realise that my view will be unpopular but, I don't think he should recieve a pardon or an appoligy, according to the law at the time he committed a crime and was punished as such. He broke the law knowing and there for has no excuse.
Ok now for my rationale, If we excuse him then perhaps we should apologise to the Spanish for sinking their armada or to all the countries that we conquered when Britain ruled the majority of the know world. Should we also apologise to the descendants of those who were forced into marriage aged 13 in the 1800s when it was legal and accepted to be married to and having sex with 13 year olds?
Yes society has moved on and realised that those laws were perhaps not in the best taste but still those that broke those laws should not be excused. No matter how "wrong" the laws were. Otherwise as I mention above where do we stop excusing people and how far back do we go?
Car and Gun manufacturers being held responsible when their products are used in a crime..
Yea like how if I pay more in taxes some how that makes the fact I refuse to recycle ok..
Or the big question, How do I get out of debt? Spend more!
or perhaps, Now that I have been found to be skimming from the public cash box how do I pay to get my moat cleaned?
Perhaps 5year copyright should only apply to software code.
Just thinking that say for example an open source project has 3 main coders and each maintains copyright over their code (as is proper). Now say one of those coders has written 2/3s of the code and to redo that code would take the other 2 at best a year to rewrite. Now lets say that coder for some reason becomes unreachable (dies, moves to Mars, etc..). The other 2 cannot relicence the code base to say GPL v4 until his copyright is over or he gives permission. In the UK currently they would have to wait 50years. Suddenly for this example 5years sounds a lot fairer.
What's next? Do we remove the right to remain silent?
Already done for motoring convictions.
er wtf how the hell is this flamebait?
This will only encourage those idiots that say games are simulators for killing people.
On a brighter note it was still a pretty cool idea.
I didn't say time. I said thirds of them... I.E. They only know where 2/3 registered sex offenders are. The others are "off teh grid" so to speak.
I am currently writing an app for sex offenders to find victims....