Last week I found Sacred2 at 18 euros. I saw the DRM it has (only 2 activations) and though "should I buy the game to support low prices, or should I not to protest against DRM?". I finally bought it, cos it cheap and I'm only going to play it in one computer and it was just 18 euros.
Had it been the standard 45-50 euros, it would still be on the shelf.
Nor will any lack of documentation make excellent code poor; it merely makes it undocumented.
I disagree. The moment you need to maintain that code and make a couple little changes, undocumented code becomes a PITA and a drain of resources to upgrade and maintain.
Cos I assume you DON'T want to have that genius programmer doing maintenance tasks each time his code needs a minor adjustment, right? You want him doing new, interesting, profitable things.
My initial assumption was that you're unable to beat the big bully (or at least harm him enough to make him reconsider his actions). But if you can face him, please be my guest and make him a new face:D
If you're too weak to even harm the big bully, pick one of the weakest bullies (those that are always around the big bad guy) and beat him. Hard. Bloody. The rest will take the hint that even if they can beat you, it's going to cost them a broken lip at the very least. Then they'll leave you alone.
The best way to fight that kind of mob bulling IMO:
You pick the weakest of that mob. There's always that kind of guy that becomes a bully just to avoid being the victim instead, but that it's not physically strong. Find him when he's alone and beat the crap out of him. No mercy, no remorse. Beat him to a bloody pulp.
When the rest of the pack see that you're not a wimp and that if pushed too far you will stand your ground, they'll leave you alone. It's not a pretty advice, to pick on the weak. But the world is not a pretty place neither.
Yep, I really hope that in the future there's an insane amount of spam going on, as that will prevent all these motherfucking bastards from implementing their wet dreams of police state.
I wholeheartedly agree. I found specially interesting the amount of information that a particular individual with dedication and $10 bucks can uncover.
When the theory hits the practice... well, by now we all know what pure capitalism without some checks and balances leads to.
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I don't agree. In your example, you can make those groups of enemies flank the player but give them low accuracy, for example. So in low difficulty the AI tactics are smart but their competence is low. And those of us that like masochistic difficulty levels would enjoy havin to put some mines to cover our back from those flankers.
At the other side of the pond, not even the Catholic Church itself tries to push Creationism into science class.
This debate you have in the US is a non-issue in Europe. In that respect, even if I risk being modded down to oblivion, I'd say you have more in common with muslim countries rules by Theocratic governments than anything else.
When I was in school we used to play "Street Fighter 2" and punched each other in the stomach (not with full force, mind you) with both hands as if we were launching one of those balls of energy Ryu and Ken use (Haduken).
When we were a bit older, lets say 13-14 years old, one of our favorite games was something I can only translate as "killed!". Two teams of roughly the same number of boys place each other with a separation of about 20m. Each group has a wall behind. The game is played with a tennis ball and the objective is throw the tennis ball with your hand, baseball style, as hard as you can and hit someone. The enemy must trap the ball to answer and hit back, so if you don't hit anything and the other team is not quick enough, the ball bounces off the wall and comes back to your team. The team that takes less hits at the end of the match if the winner:D Bonus points if someone ends crying.
I still hear from some of those guys from time to time and it's not like they have become serial killers, you know?
In other !news, children will always play violent games, and as long it doesn't get out of hand, it's part of the process of growing up.
Umm. Let's change this a bit and see if it makes sense...
As a parent of three children, I can say that I notice a marked difference in my children's behavior when they spend their free time watching TV. Watching too much TV detach you from the rest of the world and for little kids, that is not healthy. On those days that we let our 7 year old watch to much TV, he responds more angrily to requests from both of his parents. On days where we make him (heaven forbid) PLAY, he is obedient and happy.
That being said, I like to watch TV, I think watching TV is great, and I want to be able to enjoy watching TV with my kids when they are older. But there is an appropriate way to do it and each parent needs to be observant about their kids behavior. If your kid has behavioral problems, try taking away TV and see if that's the cause. If your kid watches hours and hours TV and is still the sweetest kid in town, then why change a good thing. It's all about parents being... PARENTS.
So, to sum up, problem is not in video games or TV but parents that do not educate their children to live in society and let them become sociopaths addicted to [insert whatever you feel like here].
Nonsense. I was born in 1980. My parents never ever laid their hands on me, yet I was raised to be respectful to others and I always knew where the bounds were.
Of course, as any healthy child, I often misbehaved and got into fights with other boys at school (it's part of growing up after all), and I of course was punished BOTH by teachers and my parents. As some has said before Discipline!=Physical punishment.
IMO those who claim that physical violence towards children is a necessity to a good education are just wrong. The options are not "complete lack of discipline and respect" VS "get spanked from time to time".
The problem is that whole generations of parents chose not to educate their children to behave AT ALL. Neither with physical punishment nor any other kind of punishments.
The thing is that North Korea *really* has nukes (and no oil). So they, as the US or Russia, can ignore whatever treaty they see fit without fear of the consequences.
Irak, on the other hand, didn't really had WMD (but a lot of oil), so they got invaded.
Oh, sorry, I though you invaded Irak cos they had WMD, which turned out to be a blatant lie your government told you and the rest of the world (IIRC even the CIA was upset about their reports being ignored). Now you say you went to war to "master techniques and tactics".
I find it funny that Clinton went down for lying about where he likes to stick his cigars but it's OK if GWB starts a war with a false pretext.
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That's the best part :D
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Last week I found Sacred2 at 18 euros. I saw the DRM it has (only 2 activations) and though "should I buy the game to support low prices, or should I not to protest against DRM?". I finally bought it, cos it cheap and I'm only going to play it in one computer and it was just 18 euros.
Had it been the standard 45-50 euros, it would still be on the shelf.
Nor will any lack of documentation make excellent code poor; it merely makes it undocumented.
I disagree. The moment you need to maintain that code and make a couple little changes, undocumented code becomes a PITA and a drain of resources to upgrade and maintain.
Cos I assume you DON'T want to have that genius programmer doing maintenance tasks each time his code needs a minor adjustment, right? You want him doing new, interesting, profitable things.
Maybe we should send them some caravans to speed up the process :P
My initial assumption was that you're unable to beat the big bully (or at least harm him enough to make him reconsider his actions). But if you can face him, please be my guest and make him a new face :D
If you're too weak to even harm the big bully, pick one of the weakest bullies (those that are always around the big bad guy) and beat him. Hard. Bloody. The rest will take the hint that even if they can beat you, it's going to cost them a broken lip at the very least. Then they'll leave you alone.
The best way to fight that kind of mob bulling IMO:
You pick the weakest of that mob. There's always that kind of guy that becomes a bully just to avoid being the victim instead, but that it's not physically strong. Find him when he's alone and beat the crap out of him. No mercy, no remorse. Beat him to a bloody pulp.
When the rest of the pack see that you're not a wimp and that if pushed too far you will stand your ground, they'll leave you alone. It's not a pretty advice, to pick on the weak. But the world is not a pretty place neither.
Yeah, and gunpowder! Who wants a robot when you can build a frigging machinegun!!
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!
I saw the cthulhu tag and got carried away, sorry :P
LOL!! I'd mod you insightful if I had mod points. You really deserve some karma for that post :D
Technically speaking, the pirate bay does have contents: the .torrent files.
Yep, I really hope that in the future there's an insane amount of spam going on, as that will prevent all these motherfucking bastards from implementing their wet dreams of police state.
I wholeheartedly agree. I found specially interesting the amount of information that a particular individual with dedication and $10 bucks can uncover.
+5 Flamebait FTW!!
Just like capitalism is great, in theory.
When the theory hits the practice... well, by now we all know what pure capitalism without some checks and balances leads to.
I don't agree. In your example, you can make those groups of enemies flank the player but give them low accuracy, for example. So in low difficulty the AI tactics are smart but their competence is low. And those of us that like masochistic difficulty levels would enjoy havin to put some mines to cover our back from those flankers.
At the other side of the pond, not even the Catholic Church itself tries to push Creationism into science class.
This debate you have in the US is a non-issue in Europe. In that respect, even if I risk being modded down to oblivion, I'd say you have more in common with muslim countries rules by Theocratic governments than anything else.
When I was in school we used to play "Street Fighter 2" and punched each other in the stomach (not with full force, mind you) with both hands as if we were launching one of those balls of energy Ryu and Ken use (Haduken).
When we were a bit older, lets say 13-14 years old, one of our favorite games was something I can only translate as "killed!". Two teams of roughly the same number of boys place each other with a separation of about 20m. Each group has a wall behind. The game is played with a tennis ball and the objective is throw the tennis ball with your hand, baseball style, as hard as you can and hit someone. The enemy must trap the ball to answer and hit back, so if you don't hit anything and the other team is not quick enough, the ball bounces off the wall and comes back to your team. The team that takes less hits at the end of the match if the winner :D Bonus points if someone ends crying.
I still hear from some of those guys from time to time and it's not like they have become serial killers, you know?
In other !news, children will always play violent games, and as long it doesn't get out of hand, it's part of the process of growing up.
Umm. Let's change this a bit and see if it makes sense...
As a parent of three children, I can say that I notice a marked difference in my children's behavior when they spend their free time watching TV. Watching too much TV detach you from the rest of the world and for little kids, that is not healthy. On those days that we let our 7 year old watch to much TV, he responds more angrily to requests from both of his parents. On days where we make him (heaven forbid) PLAY, he is obedient and happy.
That being said, I like to watch TV, I think watching TV is great, and I want to be able to enjoy watching TV with my kids when they are older. But there is an appropriate way to do it and each parent needs to be observant about their kids behavior. If your kid has behavioral problems, try taking away TV and see if that's the cause. If your kid watches hours and hours TV and is still the sweetest kid in town, then why change a good thing. It's all about parents being... PARENTS.
So, to sum up, problem is not in video games or TV but parents that do not educate their children to live in society and let them become sociopaths addicted to [insert whatever you feel like here].
Nonsense. I was born in 1980. My parents never ever laid their hands on me, yet I was raised to be respectful to others and I always knew where the bounds were.
Of course, as any healthy child, I often misbehaved and got into fights with other boys at school (it's part of growing up after all), and I of course was punished BOTH by teachers and my parents. As some has said before Discipline!=Physical punishment.
IMO those who claim that physical violence towards children is a necessity to a good education are just wrong. The options are not "complete lack of discipline and respect" VS "get spanked from time to time".
The problem is that whole generations of parents chose not to educate their children to behave AT ALL. Neither with physical punishment nor any other kind of punishments.
Amen, brother. I was in fact considering buying Red Alert 3, but now this gives me the lame excuse I was trying to come up with to pirate it :P
The thing is that North Korea *really* has nukes (and no oil). So they, as the US or Russia, can ignore whatever treaty they see fit without fear of the consequences.
Irak, on the other hand, didn't really had WMD (but a lot of oil), so they got invaded.
Oh, sorry, I though you invaded Irak cos they had WMD, which turned out to be a blatant lie your government told you and the rest of the world (IIRC even the CIA was upset about their reports being ignored). Now you say you went to war to "master techniques and tactics".
I find it funny that Clinton went down for lying about where he likes to stick his cigars but it's OK if GWB starts a war with a false pretext.
The President of the United States of America is the single person recognized as the "leader" of the world.
Note to USA: Stop believing your own propaganda
And don't forget memmaker!! Though it basically changed autoexec.bat and config.sys, I learned a couple of tricks viewing what those changes were.