You misunderstood me. Or you understood me partially wrong.
I meant, if your metro area (including the suburbs and ex-urbs) continue to grow at it's current rate, won't your comfortable suburban home suddenly be inside the city, and therefore undesirable? Who wants to live in the city, right? Everyone wants to live in the suburbs. And the suburbs are now even further out.
That's why I challenged your logic, you are contradicting yourself. If you really wanted your children to benefit from the hypothetical endless growth of the metro area, you'd need to buy undeveloped land outside of the suburbs, or even in the rural areas. But even then you are just putting off the inevitable time when it too is within the city itself.
I guess he wants the world around him to be a better place. What part of that is irrational? I can even respect the Christian rightwingers blabbing about moral decline. Even though I don't want their twisted morals imposed on me, I recognize that at least they care about what's going on around them.
First of all, if you concentrate people, but keep the same number of law enforcement officers, logic suggests that they will have an easier time keeping the peace.
Second of all, you are saying that the proposed changes are not practical currently. Before the changes. Hmm?
Does your lawn keep the land cooler than the piece of nature it replaced?
The reason why console development kits are so expensive (20K and up) is that they don't want an indie development scene of any kind.
1) It would produce a lot of bad games and apps, which would diminish the brand of the console. Related to that is that they wouldn't be able to control the content. This was especially true earlier when some manufacturers wanted only kid friendly stuff.
2) They make their money off of the games that are sold, so an indie scene is seen as a parasite on the profits.
There are good arguments against both of these, but I'll leave those for someone else to make.
Although I heartily agree with your call for innovation, I wouldn't exactly point to Blizzard as a good example. They're the masters of taking a concept that's already out there and putting a new coat of paint on it.
Hey Psychochild, I remember your participation in the online gaming threads at the old Gamasutra forums (which they should never have gotten rid of btw, the IGDA forums doesn't have nearly as much participation). I remember that you got a job offer there at the end, glad to see that it worked out for you. Good luck!:)
Well, if you're going all philosophical on us, why not continue your argument? Indeed every institution and organization, including the good ol' government of the US of A, is a mental construct in the minds of the people. If everyone ceased to believe in it, it would no longer exist. So you better start stocking that log cabin in the woods, brother!
Just curious, have you compared the income you could make if you clear-cut the whole farm, sold the land, and invested it in annuities to what you're making now? I'm not advocating it, just want to show that you're not necessarily seeing it the same way a corporation with profits foremost in mind would.
I'm *sure* the judge is going to look favorably on your stalking of those executives if you say it was for a good purpose, to keep the Slashdotters updated.;)
The new way of thinking is; if anyone is going to steal sales from our product, it should be us! I wouldn't be surprised to see Sony adopt that attitude, if they haven't already.
Those three games are bad examples, FPS and RTS don't play very well on consoles. Halo was somewhat acceptable because of the slower pacing, but even that was hard to master for me. Star Wars Galaxies is a MMORPG if I'm not mistaken, which needs a keyboard, ie you can't play it on a regular console.
Consoles are good for the developer because the ratio of piracy is considerably lower. The owner of a console is likely to buy at least one game a month, which the average PC owner isn't very likely to do.
"Software development companies that "port" their games to the Xbox from the PC because it is "easy" find out that 95+% of their sales comes from the PC market."
First, I'd like to know where you got that stat from. I've never heard that from anyone else, and I hang out on game development board quite a lot.
Second, check out the release date for Halo 2. I'm pretty sure that is also the planned release date for Xbox 2. Halo is the flagship product.
Kudos for knowing what the heck you are talking about, compared to most of the other comments.
I was a little disappointed that the trailer was all action, and didn't give any feeling about the theme. It would've been cool to at least start the trailer with the cobblestone streets and horse-drawn coaches to show that it is the 19th Century, and not the 1930s like it seems based on the car shots. They didn't move it in time, did they??
You're forgetting that all these guys are basing their calculations on pirating all the software that they need. Now you've ruined a perfectly good griping session for them.:)
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You misunderstood me. Or you understood me partially wrong.
I meant, if your metro area (including the suburbs and ex-urbs) continue to grow at it's current rate, won't your comfortable suburban home suddenly be inside the city, and therefore undesirable? Who wants to live in the city, right? Everyone wants to live in the suburbs. And the suburbs are now even further out.
That's why I challenged your logic, you are contradicting yourself. If you really wanted your children to benefit from the hypothetical endless growth of the metro area, you'd need to buy undeveloped land outside of the suburbs, or even in the rural areas. But even then you are just putting off the inevitable time when it too is within the city itself.
I guess he wants the world around him to be a better place. What part of that is irrational? I can even respect the Christian rightwingers blabbing about moral decline. Even though I don't want their twisted morals imposed on me, I recognize that at least they care about what's going on around them.
First of all, if you concentrate people, but keep the same number of law enforcement officers, logic suggests that they will have an easier time keeping the peace.
Second of all, you are saying that the proposed changes are not practical currently. Before the changes. Hmm?
Does your lawn keep the land cooler than the piece of nature it replaced?
Never mind.
So in short, you think it's sustainable to have the city you live in grow indefinately?
I find it amusing that only two posts down is a guy who lives and works inside Houston.
The reason why console development kits are so expensive (20K and up) is that they don't want an indie development scene of any kind.
1) It would produce a lot of bad games and apps, which would diminish the brand of the console. Related to that is that they wouldn't be able to control the content. This was especially true earlier when some manufacturers wanted only kid friendly stuff.
2) They make their money off of the games that are sold, so an indie scene is seen as a parasite on the profits.
There are good arguments against both of these, but I'll leave those for someone else to make.
Although I heartily agree with your call for innovation, I wouldn't exactly point to Blizzard as a good example. They're the masters of taking a concept that's already out there and putting a new coat of paint on it.
Hey Psychochild, I remember your participation in the online gaming threads at the old Gamasutra forums (which they should never have gotten rid of btw, the IGDA forums doesn't have nearly as much participation). I remember that you got a job offer there at the end, glad to see that it worked out for you. Good luck! :)
Well, if you're going all philosophical on us, why not continue your argument? Indeed every institution and organization, including the good ol' government of the US of A, is a mental construct in the minds of the people. If everyone ceased to believe in it, it would no longer exist. So you better start stocking that log cabin in the woods, brother!
Just curious, have you compared the income you could make if you clear-cut the whole farm, sold the land, and invested it in annuities to what you're making now? I'm not advocating it, just want to show that you're not necessarily seeing it the same way a corporation with profits foremost in mind would.
I'm *sure* the judge is going to look favorably on your stalking of those executives if you say it was for a good purpose, to keep the Slashdotters updated. ;)
Meanwhile, the NRA is complaining that gun laws are getting progressively tougher. You don't seem to be in step with your compatriots there?
No, no, Hubbard got rich starting Scientology, not the other way around.
It's called driving up the price for your competitor.
That's the old business way of thinking.
The new way of thinking is; if anyone is going to steal sales from our product, it should be us! I wouldn't be surprised to see Sony adopt that attitude, if they haven't already.
Those three games are bad examples, FPS and RTS don't play very well on consoles. Halo was somewhat acceptable because of the slower pacing, but even that was hard to master for me. Star Wars Galaxies is a MMORPG if I'm not mistaken, which needs a keyboard, ie you can't play it on a regular console.
Consoles are good for the developer because the ratio of piracy is considerably lower. The owner of a console is likely to buy at least one game a month, which the average PC owner isn't very likely to do.
"Software development companies that "port" their games to the Xbox from the PC because it is "easy" find out that 95+% of their sales comes from the PC market."
First, I'd like to know where you got that stat from. I've never heard that from anyone else, and I hang out on game development board quite a lot.
Second, check out the release date for Halo 2. I'm pretty sure that is also the planned release date for Xbox 2. Halo is the flagship product.
Save the money and get some cosmetic surgery instead, and maybe you can get a job reading the teleprompter for ACME Newschannel.
Publishing? Oh yea, linking to news sources, adding a short un-edited blurb, and providing a forum is *really* the future of publishing. :P
Doh, here's the link again: Film Force
I found this review of the script from last year:
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http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/358/358223p1.
Kudos for knowing what the heck you are talking about, compared to most of the other comments.
I was a little disappointed that the trailer was all action, and didn't give any feeling about the theme. It would've been cool to at least start the trailer with the cobblestone streets and horse-drawn coaches to show that it is the 19th Century, and not the 1930s like it seems based on the car shots. They didn't move it in time, did they??
Well, it IS named after a comic book series, so I think it would be messing up to name it something else. But maybe that's just me. :P
You're forgetting that all these guys are basing their calculations on pirating all the software that they need. Now you've ruined a perfectly good griping session for them. :)