They don't. Almost all console games run between 1024x600 and 1280x720 with 2x AA.
Not that it's a big deal. If they went with 1920x1080 they'd have to make big sacrifices in detail and framerate which would be dramatically more noticable. It's 2.25 times the number of pixels.
You forgot one other essential property: causes cringing to the point of physical pain.
The same could be said for watching the e3 presentations earlier today. I've never seen so much fake enthusiasm and transparent marketing bullshit. The whole thing had the most awful tone. It was so bad it became hard to concentrate on evaluating the actual product.
None of the demonstrations were particularly good either. I didn't get the impression that they took full advantage of the system at all; it's impressive to do that kind of movement tracking, and there are lots of innovative ways you could use it in a game. Instead they domonstrated shit minigames that emulate Wii Sports, Wii Fit and Mario Kart.
Illustrates? Don't make me laugh. This type of response is nothing more than a glib dismissal, apt for soundbites but just as stupid and useless as the original kill-em-all suggestion.
I mean honestly, is that the best argument you can come up with for why genocide is wrong? Hypocrisy? Yes sir, let's go with the ad hominem! It was good in the bronze age, it's good now!
Not that I agree with the dipshit. But come the fuck on.
It damages the credibility and prestige of the police. Important for a number of reasons.
Of course, ignoring genuine abuses will do far greater damage in the long run. A few bad eggs is one thing, but if you protect them it calls the whole system into question.
With great power comes great responsibility; for both the people who give the power and the those who receive it. It's our duty to keep a close eye on them.
Piracy may be common place, but not everybody does it. Luckily, a significant amount of people still have some morals left.
Your goal is to make piracy acceptable, both morally and legally. If you succeed, do you really think said people will still exist? If there's no moral or legal reason not to pirate?
No, if you make it acceptable, there WON'T BE those "record years". And hence no money for movies to be made.
That's true, I don't want to make piracy fully acceptable for exactly that reason. But I'm fine with the status quo and I don't think it will change drastically provided that media companies keep up with the times. Online music is doing well, for example.
On the other hand, maybe you don't really want piracy to be legal and/or moral, you just want those who do pirate to be left alone. On the one hand, you want one group of people to pay for content so it can still be made. On the other hand, you want to be part of this privileged group that gets to do what they want, enjoying the works that others have paid for.
I'm one of the people who pays. I'm the guy who says, "If you want it, you'll have to buy it" when asked for a copy of a game I'm showing off. Just last week I got a friend to buy Master of Orion 2 from GOG when I could've put the DRM-free installer on their thumbdrive in a minute flat.
I still don't care about piracy for a few reasons:
- The majority of pirates are probably penniless teenagers and college students. Most people are happy to pay for things they feel are worthwhile when they have the money to spend. I severely doubt media companies lose anything close to what they claim.
- It's not even as bad as littering to me. I don't think it's right, but I'm not going to want people's lives ruined over it unless they're doing it on a commercial scale. It's not important enough.
- There is no dichotomy between pirates and buyers. Discard this idiotic simplification, the world does not operate on boolean logic. It's a continuum: most people buy and pirate media in varying degrees. At least one study found that the biggest pirates tend to be the biggest buyers.
My anecdotal experience - as worthless as that is - backs this up. The guy I mentioned earlier who asked me for a copy of MOO2 pirates stuff, but he also buys a SHITLOAD of games. The man has crates of games because he doesn't have the shelf space to contain them. He buys more games in a month than I do in a year. Sueing him is not a smart thing to do.
A lot of people I know follow this pattern. Another friend of mine has shelves and shelves of music yet also pirates it. Not exactly the worst customer in the world is he? They get much more money out of him than the average person.
And this is why people say pirates are assholes. They're not contributing to society in any meaningful way so they should not get to enjoy the benefits of society
Oh give over. Entertainment isn't that important. It's pretty ridiculous to judge people's worth solely on that basis.
Besides, your false dichotomy is damaging your argument again. The 'exclusive pirate' is practically nonexistent. The point is moot if they also buy things.
You, sir, are an elitist prick, just like every other pirate out there.
Except I'm not a pirate. Elitist though, probably.
If you have insuffucient data to make a conclusion, you don't make one. Why would you presume to know what you already determined to be unknowable for you?
There's no utility in arbitrarily deciding based on intuition. Intuition is nothing but guessing when outside your domain of experience.
You're not some military commander who has to make a call. It's not a dichotomy where "none" isn't an option. If you can't decide on reason then admit it and leave it for another day. Science goes on and patience is a virtue. Good things come to those who wait, including answers.
Most people aren't intelligent enough to assess the quality of their own thinking. In fact most people aren't even able to think straight most of the time.
Anybody has the raw intelligence, the raw resources. But they haven't got the tools to use them effectively. It's the methodology they need.
Did you ever learn to think critically in school? About informal logic? Spotting fallacies? Ever learn about falsifiability or reproducability? Did you ever learn to apply criticism to your own thoughts?
For most people the answer is no. Anybody can grasp those concepts but the vast majority are are never exposed to them at all.
The fact that I believe science is largely accurate and a better way to describe our surroundings than religion is as much faith as someone who believes in their religion.
Is that so? And here I was thinking that science is an investigative methodology and religion isn't.
You might want to run a search on the phrase "Association fallacy," Mr Science.
There's plenty of Grade-A bullshit surrounding the subject, that's for sure. But what has this article got to do with it? Nothing at all as far as I can see.
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In comparison consoles are hugely stable, low maintenance and pretty much fool-proof in terms of operation
The irony of posting this in a 360-related thread is somewhat overwhelming.
They don't. Almost all console games run between 1024x600 and 1280x720 with 2x AA.
Not that it's a big deal. If they went with 1920x1080 they'd have to make big sacrifices in detail and framerate which would be dramatically more noticable. It's 2.25 times the number of pixels.
You forgot one other essential property: causes cringing to the point of physical pain.
The same could be said for watching the e3 presentations earlier today. I've never seen so much fake enthusiasm and transparent marketing bullshit. The whole thing had the most awful tone. It was so bad it became hard to concentrate on evaluating the actual product.
None of the demonstrations were particularly good either. I didn't get the impression that they took full advantage of the system at all; it's impressive to do that kind of movement tracking, and there are lots of innovative ways you could use it in a game. Instead they domonstrated shit minigames that emulate Wii Sports, Wii Fit and Mario Kart.
Disingenuous. I just watched the video; that part is at the very end and is pretty obviously a cutscene.
That said, the system does appear to have a significant amount of latency. In the excercise video it looked like about one second.
Illustrates? Don't make me laugh. This type of response is nothing more than a glib dismissal, apt for soundbites but just as stupid and useless as the original kill-em-all suggestion.
I mean honestly, is that the best argument you can come up with for why genocide is wrong? Hypocrisy? Yes sir, let's go with the ad hominem! It was good in the bronze age, it's good now!
Not that I agree with the dipshit. But come the fuck on.
You don't even have to get used to them. You can just turn them back on again. In fact, I made it look exactly like Windows 2000.
Where's Bad Analogy Guy when you need him?
DIdn't watch the movie, didn't read the legislation. Haha.
It damages the credibility and prestige of the police. Important for a number of reasons.
Of course, ignoring genuine abuses will do far greater damage in the long run. A few bad eggs is one thing, but if you protect them it calls the whole system into question.
With great power comes great responsibility; for both the people who give the power and the those who receive it. It's our duty to keep a close eye on them.
I know that. What I said concerned the nature of distance itself, not any measurement. Distance, not the distance or a distance.
In short, I was being obtuse.
Fear is not thinking.
Too bad distances are absolute, then.
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That is some seriously dumb shit.
This is BS.
Piracy may be common place, but not everybody does it. Luckily, a significant amount of people still have some morals left. Your goal is to make piracy acceptable, both morally and legally. If you succeed, do you really think said people will still exist? If there's no moral or legal reason not to pirate? No, if you make it acceptable, there WON'T BE those "record years". And hence no money for movies to be made.
That's true, I don't want to make piracy fully acceptable for exactly that reason. But I'm fine with the status quo and I don't think it will change drastically provided that media companies keep up with the times. Online music is doing well, for example.
On the other hand, maybe you don't really want piracy to be legal and/or moral, you just want those who do pirate to be left alone. On the one hand, you want one group of people to pay for content so it can still be made. On the other hand, you want to be part of this privileged group that gets to do what they want, enjoying the works that others have paid for.
I'm one of the people who pays. I'm the guy who says, "If you want it, you'll have to buy it" when asked for a copy of a game I'm showing off. Just last week I got a friend to buy Master of Orion 2 from GOG when I could've put the DRM-free installer on their thumbdrive in a minute flat.
I still don't care about piracy for a few reasons:
- The majority of pirates are probably penniless teenagers and college students. Most people are happy to pay for things they feel are worthwhile when they have the money to spend. I severely doubt media companies lose anything close to what they claim.
- It's not even as bad as littering to me. I don't think it's right, but I'm not going to want people's lives ruined over it unless they're doing it on a commercial scale. It's not important enough.
- There is no dichotomy between pirates and buyers. Discard this idiotic simplification, the world does not operate on boolean logic. It's a continuum: most people buy and pirate media in varying degrees. At least one study found that the biggest pirates tend to be the biggest buyers.
My anecdotal experience - as worthless as that is - backs this up. The guy I mentioned earlier who asked me for a copy of MOO2 pirates stuff, but he also buys a SHITLOAD of games. The man has crates of games because he doesn't have the shelf space to contain them. He buys more games in a month than I do in a year. Sueing him is not a smart thing to do.
A lot of people I know follow this pattern. Another friend of mine has shelves and shelves of music yet also pirates it. Not exactly the worst customer in the world is he? They get much more money out of him than the average person.
And this is why people say pirates are assholes. They're not contributing to society in any meaningful way so they should not get to enjoy the benefits of society
Oh give over. Entertainment isn't that important. It's pretty ridiculous to judge people's worth solely on that basis.
Besides, your false dichotomy is damaging your argument again. The 'exclusive pirate' is practically nonexistent. The point is moot if they also buy things.
You, sir, are an elitist prick, just like every other pirate out there.
Except I'm not a pirate. Elitist though, probably.
Sure, but only if you promise to distribute my creative works without my permission.
It would be much easier to download them rather than visiting my house though - I already give them away for free on the Internet at my own expense.
Wheezing in the right direction, at least.
That's the point. Piracy is commonplace yet they're rolling in money despite their complaints.
If you have insuffucient data to make a conclusion, you don't make one. Why would you presume to know what you already determined to be unknowable for you?
There's no utility in arbitrarily deciding based on intuition. Intuition is nothing but guessing when outside your domain of experience.
You're not some military commander who has to make a call. It's not a dichotomy where "none" isn't an option. If you can't decide on reason then admit it and leave it for another day. Science goes on and patience is a virtue. Good things come to those who wait, including answers.
Most people aren't intelligent enough to assess the quality of their own thinking. In fact most people aren't even able to think straight most of the time.
Anybody has the raw intelligence, the raw resources. But they haven't got the tools to use them effectively. It's the methodology they need.
Did you ever learn to think critically in school? About informal logic? Spotting fallacies? Ever learn about falsifiability or reproducability? Did you ever learn to apply criticism to your own thoughts?
For most people the answer is no. Anybody can grasp those concepts but the vast majority are are never exposed to them at all.
The fact that I believe science is largely accurate and a better way to describe our surroundings than religion is as much faith as someone who believes in their religion.
Is that so? And here I was thinking that science is an investigative methodology and religion isn't.
You might want to run a search on the phrase "Association fallacy," Mr Science.
There's plenty of Grade-A bullshit surrounding the subject, that's for sure. But what has this article got to do with it? Nothing at all as far as I can see.
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