That's not true, there have been a lot of good Nintendo games since 1995. Metroid Prime is probably my favorite of those, though I'm sad they haven't been making more in the style of Super Metroid (and I'm really sad about the flop that was Other M).
A lot of the problem is that it's hard to determine the truth in a lot of rape cases, and our system is supposed to err on the side of the accused. The US criminal justice system sets "beyond reasonable doubt" as its standard. In a lot of alleged rape cases, it's the victim's word against the accused's, which is pretty much impossible to prosecute.
As for which is more common, rape or false rape accusations, I have absolutely no idea and don't want to touch that issue with a ten foot pole. I think they're both serious crimes, at the very least.
Wasn't one of the 9/11 planes hijacked by the pilot himself? If not, it's still something that's possible, and then you're facing a worse problem when you've secured the cockpit.
I honestly don't know why nobody has forked Firefox 3.6.whatever. It seems like there's a huge demand for the way things used to be. There's even a fork project of GNOME 2, but as far as I can tell, there's no FF3 fork anywhere.
I agree. I was really sad when I opened this thread. I was expecting it was something related to the sciences, research into how to give people immortality. That would have been really neat. Instead, this. I groaned out loud when I read the summary.
According to the article in TFA, which has been updated, the ads were put in place deliberately by the site admin to recoup some of his costs. Presumably, he didn't know they were full of malware.
Good. If the game went belly-up because people didn't buy it, maybe they won't make games the fans don't want in the future. Sounds like a win-win to me.
I think what angered me most about it was that it purported to continue the KotOR storyline. Instead, it tramples all over it. Revan is a low level boss that drops pants, everyone and their mother is a Jedi or a Sith, and it pretty much retcons everything from KotOR 2 (my favorite game of all time, speaking of which the community restoration mod "The Sith Lords Restored Content Mod" went into its final release version about a week ago, definitely check that out). Maybe I was naive to expect something more along the lines of SWG in this day and age. Still, I was pretty upset.
It would be really neat if whoever bought it was to upload the ROM data to the internet for everyone to see and experience. Unfortunately, it's more likely going to sit in someone's collection in a pretty little glass case.
That's a reason not to use the App Store in general, not to protest their implementation of sandboxing and adding it as a requirement for App Store apps.
I loathe Apple. They are probably one of the most detestable companies in the technology sector right now. I see them as a modern version of 90s Microsoft.
But this? I think this is a move in the right direction. The added security benefits sandboxing brings far outweigh any negative consequences a few developers too lazy to implement something Apple's been telling them they need to implement for the better part of a year might experience (at least according to the OS X review a few days ago from Ars Technica). And it's not like these developers have no recourse; as long as they register with Apple or whatever, the default OS setting will allow users to go download those products from the vendor's website.
There are plenty of reasons to hate Apple. Their push toward better security practices is not one of them.
I realize this is off-topic (mod me down if you must), but I think it's important. Bad indie developers continue to receive a free pass, and it's something that bothers me intensely because it marginalizes good indie developers.
I don't like Fez, and I don't want to see more games like it. To start with, Fez borrowed heavily from a much better game (Cave Story) by a game designer who isn't a complete jerk (Phil Fish makes me embarrassed to call myself a gamer). And while Cave Story felt like it had a point, moving the player forward toward some sort of ultimate conclusion, Fez meandered about doing not much of anything. Playing it feels like a chore. There's no challenge involved because death is meaningless (you respawn at the last patch of solid ground you were on with no negative consequence) and all there really is to do is collect stuff that feels meaningless while exploring its blocky, unoriginal, and uninspired world. Adding to the feeling of being a cheap knockoff game is the fact that Fez takes advantage of a gimmick that has been done much better in several other games (the perspective shift mechanic was most likely ripped off of Super Paper Mario, a game which came out in the same year as Fez began development).
Some of the indie crowd seems to think Fez shines most in the exploration aspect (like the author of the story here most likely does). But what fun is exploring when there's nothing interesting to see? See, Fez uses what a lot of indie developers are terming "retro style graphics" and what I think would be better termed as "lazy graphics." When I think back on the games from my childhood, I remember them having fantastic graphics that made really interesting worlds in the constraints of some highly limited technology. Look at what Sonic the Hedgehog did on the 16-bit Genesis. There's a game with some interesting art direction. Even in games constrained to 8-bit, you have some classics like Megaman and Final Fantasy that had some really interesting art direction and some varied and colorful settings that really felt alive. One of my favorite games as a kid was an NES game called Faxanadu, a game about a world decaying because the world tree had been corrupted (if I remember correctly). The art direction in that game was fantastic; the outside world really felt like it was drying up and dying, while the inside world felt like something evil had taken ahold.
I understand independent game developers are usually teams of only several people, but that doesn't excuse the downright laziness present in much of the indie community. For example, take VVVVVV. I felt like the designer released an unfinished game. The graphics looked like one man designing an Atari 2600 game. While the core gameplay was solid (if somewhat unoriginal) and the music was good, the game overall felt sloppy because of the poor artistry and I was left disappointed. Contrast that with Braid, which had some of the best art direction I've seen in an independent game. The core gameplay was solid there, too; it really felt like a finished game, a vision of a world by someone who had something of worth to say. I want to see more games like that. Not games like Fez, where the only reason it sold was because the developer had a big head and rode the hype train to cash town.
Because Google, while often treading the line on the "privacy" factor, does a lot of good things for the tech community and even the open source community.
You said it yourself. Good debate point. It is. You're making a bullshit appeal to emotion and not a proper argument; if you want to grandstand, go somewhere else.
Opera's been a decent browser for me to use on bad quality connections. If they start integrating all sorts of Facebook bullshit, that'll go away fast.
I use Bing Rewards, actually. I don't care much what search engine I use as long as I get decent results and having Microsoft pay for my gaming habit doesn't bother me one bit.
I'm entitled to something I paid for, yes. If it isn't unlimited, it shouldn't be labeled "unlimited." It should be "unlimited (except not unlimited)." This attitude that the customer isn't entitled to the advertised product is extremely worrisome, I see it a lot in the games industry as well. I really hope it doesn't continue.
Uhh...? I think he meant people that would attack business owners and householders under the ruse of "protesting." If you take that to mean blacks and Muslims, I don't think that makes him a racist.
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That's not true, there have been a lot of good Nintendo games since 1995. Metroid Prime is probably my favorite of those, though I'm sad they haven't been making more in the style of Super Metroid (and I'm really sad about the flop that was Other M).
That's really cool and I'd mod you up but you're already at +5. Fantastic!
A lot of the problem is that it's hard to determine the truth in a lot of rape cases, and our system is supposed to err on the side of the accused. The US criminal justice system sets "beyond reasonable doubt" as its standard. In a lot of alleged rape cases, it's the victim's word against the accused's, which is pretty much impossible to prosecute.
As for which is more common, rape or false rape accusations, I have absolutely no idea and don't want to touch that issue with a ten foot pole. I think they're both serious crimes, at the very least.
Do you have a source for that? Genuinely interested, not doubting you.
Wasn't one of the 9/11 planes hijacked by the pilot himself? If not, it's still something that's possible, and then you're facing a worse problem when you've secured the cockpit.
As does my laptop.
I honestly don't know why nobody has forked Firefox 3.6.whatever. It seems like there's a huge demand for the way things used to be. There's even a fork project of GNOME 2, but as far as I can tell, there's no FF3 fork anywhere.
I agree. I was really sad when I opened this thread. I was expecting it was something related to the sciences, research into how to give people immortality. That would have been really neat. Instead, this. I groaned out loud when I read the summary.
According to the article in TFA, which has been updated, the ads were put in place deliberately by the site admin to recoup some of his costs. Presumably, he didn't know they were full of malware.
Oh derp, you were referring to the options. And the blog was linked in TFA. Guess I'm the idiot.
The test setup is provided on their blog: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/
Good. If the game went belly-up because people didn't buy it, maybe they won't make games the fans don't want in the future. Sounds like a win-win to me.
I think what angered me most about it was that it purported to continue the KotOR storyline. Instead, it tramples all over it. Revan is a low level boss that drops pants, everyone and their mother is a Jedi or a Sith, and it pretty much retcons everything from KotOR 2 (my favorite game of all time, speaking of which the community restoration mod "The Sith Lords Restored Content Mod" went into its final release version about a week ago, definitely check that out). Maybe I was naive to expect something more along the lines of SWG in this day and age. Still, I was pretty upset.
It would be really neat if whoever bought it was to upload the ROM data to the internet for everyone to see and experience. Unfortunately, it's more likely going to sit in someone's collection in a pretty little glass case.
That's a reason not to use the App Store in general, not to protest their implementation of sandboxing and adding it as a requirement for App Store apps.
I loathe Apple. They are probably one of the most detestable companies in the technology sector right now. I see them as a modern version of 90s Microsoft.
But this? I think this is a move in the right direction. The added security benefits sandboxing brings far outweigh any negative consequences a few developers too lazy to implement something Apple's been telling them they need to implement for the better part of a year might experience (at least according to the OS X review a few days ago from Ars Technica). And it's not like these developers have no recourse; as long as they register with Apple or whatever, the default OS setting will allow users to go download those products from the vendor's website.
There are plenty of reasons to hate Apple. Their push toward better security practices is not one of them.
I realize this is off-topic (mod me down if you must), but I think it's important. Bad indie developers continue to receive a free pass, and it's something that bothers me intensely because it marginalizes good indie developers.
I don't like Fez, and I don't want to see more games like it. To start with, Fez borrowed heavily from a much better game (Cave Story) by a game designer who isn't a complete jerk (Phil Fish makes me embarrassed to call myself a gamer). And while Cave Story felt like it had a point, moving the player forward toward some sort of ultimate conclusion, Fez meandered about doing not much of anything. Playing it feels like a chore. There's no challenge involved because death is meaningless (you respawn at the last patch of solid ground you were on with no negative consequence) and all there really is to do is collect stuff that feels meaningless while exploring its blocky, unoriginal, and uninspired world. Adding to the feeling of being a cheap knockoff game is the fact that Fez takes advantage of a gimmick that has been done much better in several other games (the perspective shift mechanic was most likely ripped off of Super Paper Mario, a game which came out in the same year as Fez began development).
Some of the indie crowd seems to think Fez shines most in the exploration aspect (like the author of the story here most likely does). But what fun is exploring when there's nothing interesting to see? See, Fez uses what a lot of indie developers are terming "retro style graphics" and what I think would be better termed as "lazy graphics." When I think back on the games from my childhood, I remember them having fantastic graphics that made really interesting worlds in the constraints of some highly limited technology. Look at what Sonic the Hedgehog did on the 16-bit Genesis. There's a game with some interesting art direction. Even in games constrained to 8-bit, you have some classics like Megaman and Final Fantasy that had some really interesting art direction and some varied and colorful settings that really felt alive. One of my favorite games as a kid was an NES game called Faxanadu, a game about a world decaying because the world tree had been corrupted (if I remember correctly). The art direction in that game was fantastic; the outside world really felt like it was drying up and dying, while the inside world felt like something evil had taken ahold.
I understand independent game developers are usually teams of only several people, but that doesn't excuse the downright laziness present in much of the indie community. For example, take VVVVVV. I felt like the designer released an unfinished game. The graphics looked like one man designing an Atari 2600 game. While the core gameplay was solid (if somewhat unoriginal) and the music was good, the game overall felt sloppy because of the poor artistry and I was left disappointed. Contrast that with Braid, which had some of the best art direction I've seen in an independent game. The core gameplay was solid there, too; it really felt like a finished game, a vision of a world by someone who had something of worth to say. I want to see more games like that. Not games like Fez, where the only reason it sold was because the developer had a big head and rode the hype train to cash town.
That's illegal, and you can take action. If she's not going to respect your wishes, she's not your friend.
Because Google, while often treading the line on the "privacy" factor, does a lot of good things for the tech community and even the open source community.
You said it yourself. Good debate point. It is. You're making a bullshit appeal to emotion and not a proper argument; if you want to grandstand, go somewhere else.
Opera's been a decent browser for me to use on bad quality connections. If they start integrating all sorts of Facebook bullshit, that'll go away fast.
I use Bing Rewards, actually. I don't care much what search engine I use as long as I get decent results and having Microsoft pay for my gaming habit doesn't bother me one bit.
Funny doesn't get you karma.
I'm entitled to something I paid for, yes. If it isn't unlimited, it shouldn't be labeled "unlimited." It should be "unlimited (except not unlimited)." This attitude that the customer isn't entitled to the advertised product is extremely worrisome, I see it a lot in the games industry as well. I really hope it doesn't continue.
Uhh...? I think he meant people that would attack business owners and householders under the ruse of "protesting." If you take that to mean blacks and Muslims, I don't think that makes him a racist.