On home consoles, the joystick was gone from the time of the NES
Maybe as a pack in, but the NES Advantage was always (and still is) my controller of choice for that system. The Super NES also had a version, but it had such a brain-dead button layout that I didn't get a lot of use out of it.
The number of times I've had sellers screw me over (by doing things like charging twice as much postage as actually ends up on the package - funny that, where's the rest of the money going? Into your pocket? That's NOT SHIPPING, retard) have just put me off buying things on ebay anymore.
You're right, that's not shipping, that's handling. You're also paying for the box, the packing material, the gas to get to the post office, and a bit for the seller's time and effort. Except for maybe the time and effort, the rest of that stuff isn't free.
Especially when my grandma got a new computer that said "capable of running vista" it couldnt even run glass or what ever... Also, Final Fantasy 11 hardly worked!
Wait, your grandma plays Final Fantasy XI? Mine doesn't even know how to turn a computer on.
Even worse though, and you ALL know this; Loading instead of Saving.
I usually do just the opposite: save instead of load. I'll get to a particularly hairy spot in, say Half-Life, save just before, try a few times, fail horribly (but just barely managing to stay alive), reach for the quickload button and hit the quicksave button instead.
As an added bonus, I have also been known to accidentally save instead of load just after jumping/falling into some pit or other, rendering that particular save as worthless as possible.
Don't open the box dummy. Then it is easy to return.
Yeah, good luck with that. Every Gamestop I've ever been to has the boxes on the shelves and the games in the drawer behind the register. I'm not sure how I can return it to them unopened when I can't even buy it unopened.
/b/'s actually quite well known, to anyone who's been on the internet for awhile.
Erm, I've been 'on the Internet' for over 10 years at this point, and this is the first that I've heard of/b/. Judging by this thread, its ubiquity might be somewhat overstated.
Pick up an old game, and you'll realize two major facts:
#1 The game is hard. VERY hard. #2 The control sucks.
Often #1 is a direct result of #2. A game like Ghosts 'n' Goblins wouldn't be quite as hard it is if you had a finer degree of control of your character. I'm also not completely sure that the brutal difficulty of most of those old games wasn't put there to increase the longevity of the title. Most of those old games weren't very long, and if you could breeze through it in an hour or so, your dollars would have felt wasted.
Do they not have power failures where you come from? Being late for work because the power went off and came back on in the middle of the night, blowing away your alarm clock's settings is one reason you might want one of these clocks.
PEOPLE DON'T SIT AT THE COMPUTER TO WATCH HALF-HOUR SHOWS.
Buh? I put a TV Tuner in my computer specifically so I could watch shows (half-hour or more) while I'm sitting at my computer, generally while I'm doing other things. That way I don't have to divide my attention between my monitor and a television across the room.
Try reading my post again, I asked four questions:
1. What do you hope to accomplish by bringing this up every time? 2. Instead of simply deciding that the software wasn't for you, did you decide to bacome an anti-Ubuntu evangelist? 3. Do you want attention? 4. Revenge?
You answered (I'm paraphrasing): The people who use Ubuntu are blind to the obvious flaws of the installer.
Grub sucks.
Grub sucks.
Linux is not user-friendly.
Linux isn't being adopted because of fundamental design flaws.
Anyway, arguing in circles is a waste of everyone's time. Done.
I don't think you understand. I don't care what you think of Grub, Linux, the Linux community, or what you think is affecting Linux's adoption on the desktop. That's why I didn't ask you about those things.
In your herculean effort to avoid answering most of the questions I did ask, you've answered my questions: You crave attention -> you had a bad experience with Ubuntu -> you took the whole experience extremely personally -> you have a vendetta against Ubuntu and Linux as a whole by extension -> you post to Slashdot every so often to stir it all up again.
Don't bother replying, I'm moving on. Please do the same.
Okay, I understand that you had a bad experience with Ubuntu. You've made that abundantly clear. Whose fault it was or the quality of help you got is completely irrelevant at this point.
Seeing a giant flame-war every time a story that has something peripherally to do with Ubuntu is getting old. What do you hope to accomplish by bringing this up every time? Instead of simply deciding that the software wasn't for you, did you decide to bacome an anti-Ubuntu evangelist? Do you want attention? Revenge? If Ubuntu's that bad, people will stop using it. It really is that simple.
Close, Mr. Anonymous. I worked as an A.P. (one step above Game Tester). A game is not technically required to be 'good'. As long as a game does what it's supposed to do (all features that are in work), and it meets the technical requirements, that's it. I've read the TRCs. There are no requirements that say 'game must be fun'. If there were, no awful games would get released, but they get released by the shovelfull every year.
Of course console manufacturers want to create and maintain relationships with developers to ensure and facilitate the production of quality titles. The amount of quality titles will directly reflect on the console itself. I never said that they don't or shouldn't. They just need to make sure they build the relationships with the publishers that put out more good titles than bad.
Wow, you really have no clue about console game development.
I do.
Nintendo sets some standards on what games it will or will not approve for production, as does Microsoft and Sony. Those standards only go as far as making sure the game is more or less technically sound, i.e. it will run for so many hours without crashing, it won't spontaneously erase your memory card, all legal screens are displayed for x amount of seconds, etc. A game being fun or worthwhile doesn't even enter into it.
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I don't know what they're complaining about, mine went down over a million positions!
Maybe as a pack in, but the NES Advantage was always (and still is) my controller of choice for that system. The Super NES also had a version, but it had such a brain-dead button layout that I didn't get a lot of use out of it.
You're right, that's not shipping, that's handling. You're also paying for the box, the packing material, the gas to get to the post office, and a bit for the seller's time and effort. Except for maybe the time and effort, the rest of that stuff isn't free.
You might give the Interactive Storybook DS series a look.
Wait, your grandma plays Final Fantasy XI? Mine doesn't even know how to turn a computer on.
Halo 2 requires Vista to run, and was released this past May.
222 by my count
I usually do just the opposite: save instead of load. I'll get to a particularly hairy spot in, say Half-Life, save just before, try a few times, fail horribly (but just barely managing to stay alive), reach for the quickload button and hit the quicksave button instead.
As an added bonus, I have also been known to accidentally save instead of load just after jumping/falling into some pit or other, rendering that particular save as worthless as possible.
Yeah, good luck with that. Every Gamestop I've ever been to has the boxes on the shelves and the games in the drawer behind the register. I'm not sure how I can return it to them unopened when I can't even buy it unopened.
Erm, I've been 'on the Internet' for over 10 years at this point, and this is the first that I've heard of
Do I know what my reading?
Syntax error.
Often #1 is a direct result of #2. A game like Ghosts 'n' Goblins wouldn't be quite as hard it is if you had a finer degree of control of your character. I'm also not completely sure that the brutal difficulty of most of those old games wasn't put there to increase the longevity of the title. Most of those old games weren't very long, and if you could breeze through it in an hour or so, your dollars would have felt wasted.
Do they not have power failures where you come from? Being late for work because the power went off and came back on in the middle of the night, blowing away your alarm clock's settings is one reason you might want one of these clocks.
Buh? I put a TV Tuner in my computer specifically so I could watch shows (half-hour or more) while I'm sitting at my computer, generally while I'm doing other things. That way I don't have to divide my attention between my monitor and a television across the room.
Absolutely. Then they'll call me to install it for them, since I apparently "know computers".
You can also get a bit of a boot time performance boost in XP by periodically clearing out the C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch directory.
Try reading my post again, I asked four questions:
1. What do you hope to accomplish by bringing this up every time?
2. Instead of simply deciding that the software wasn't for you, did you decide to bacome an anti-Ubuntu evangelist?
3. Do you want attention?
4. Revenge?
You answered (I'm paraphrasing): The people who use Ubuntu are blind to the obvious flaws of the installer.
Grub sucks.
Grub sucks.
Linux is not user-friendly.
Linux isn't being adopted because of fundamental design flaws.
Anyway, arguing in circles is a waste of everyone's time. Done.
I don't think you understand. I don't care what you think of Grub, Linux, the Linux community, or what you think is affecting Linux's adoption on the desktop. That's why I didn't ask you about those things.
In your herculean effort to avoid answering most of the questions I did ask, you've answered my questions: You crave attention -> you had a bad experience with Ubuntu -> you took the whole experience extremely personally -> you have a vendetta against Ubuntu and Linux as a whole by extension -> you post to Slashdot every so often to stir it all up again.
Don't bother replying, I'm moving on. Please do the same.
Okay, I understand that you had a bad experience with Ubuntu. You've made that abundantly clear. Whose fault it was or the quality of help you got is completely irrelevant at this point.
Seeing a giant flame-war every time a story that has something peripherally to do with Ubuntu is getting old. What do you hope to accomplish by bringing this up every time? Instead of simply deciding that the software wasn't for you, did you decide to bacome an anti-Ubuntu evangelist? Do you want attention? Revenge? If Ubuntu's that bad, people will stop using it. It really is that simple.
Close, Mr. Anonymous. I worked as an A.P. (one step above Game Tester). A game is not technically required to be 'good'. As long as a game does what it's supposed to do (all features that are in work), and it meets the technical requirements, that's it. I've read the TRCs. There are no requirements that say 'game must be fun'. If there were, no awful games would get released, but they get released by the shovelfull every year.
Of course console manufacturers want to create and maintain relationships with developers to ensure and facilitate the production of quality titles. The amount of quality titles will directly reflect on the console itself. I never said that they don't or shouldn't. They just need to make sure they build the relationships with the publishers that put out more good titles than bad.
I do.
Nintendo sets some standards on what games it will or will not approve for production, as does Microsoft and Sony. Those standards only go as far as making sure the game is more or less technically sound, i.e. it will run for so many hours without crashing, it won't spontaneously erase your memory card, all legal screens are displayed for x amount of seconds, etc. A game being fun or worthwhile doesn't even enter into it.
You put your wife's cell phone number on a public website, and then told Slashdot about it?
You're braver than I.
Then you win.