My mother sat me down one day when I was very young and spent along time telling me about the movie she saw the night before of kids playing this 'evil game' that leads some of them to kill themselves, and that I must never, EVER play that game. Naturally, I simply HAD to find out what this incredible "Dungeons and Dragons" she warned was all about.
So in short, if my mom hadn't forbidden me to play it, it would have taken me at least another 10-15 years to find out about it. I credit my mother for giving me such an early head start in my roleplaying career!
What I'm really looking forward to, though, is the day when Best Buy can offer us products that isn't armored in those polyethylene forcefields that I can barely cut through with my biggest, most badass scissors. Those sharp plastic edges, however, have never had any trouble cutting through my soft tender skin...
Here' smy challenge to anyone who claims that videogames train you to hurt or kill other peole (I'm lookin gat you, Jack Thompson!!!)
Take any sports game you like, preferably a single person sports (which you've never practiced before of course) as team sports would be harder to test individual performance. Boxing or skateboard are goo das they are very technical sports with an easy to establish baseline of success.
After playing a hundred hours or so, you should be a master at that game. Now dress up in your best sports gear and hop in aboxing arena or hop on a skateboard and start shooting ramps and sliding rails. If your theory holds water, you won't end up on "Attack of the Show" as the daily Epic Fail.
It seems that Atari has taken a leaf from the book of the RIAA (Righteous Inquisiton Army of America) and decided that it's much easier to make money by suing people rather than, you know, making good games.
Those of you following the war in Iraq would find it interestin gto look up the new Killzone 2 trailer. The naration hits VERY close to home.
"They told us it would only last a month... they told us they would be overwhelmed by our technology and weapons... they said it would be a decisive victory... someone forgot to tell that to the Helghast."
The Lucasarts point and click adventure games have a special place in my heart. Maniac Mansion, Zack McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders, Indiana Johnes and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max Hit the Road... all classics near and dear to my early gamer career!
Not a bad idea, though I don't see how you couldn't just apply the same idea to their main website in order to encourage people to go log in often and give them more unique page clicks. In order for Twitter to be succesful as an ad platform, it woul dhave to offer something truly UNIQUE that couldn't be replicated in already existing media where they have an overwhelming presence and heavy investments in place.
Does anyone have any idea HOW a twitter account could be worth anything to a massive corporation like Nike or Pepsi, when they can just as easily carpet bomb other media such as television and website banner ads. I just don't see twitter as an omnipresent advertising presence, unless someone can suggest a method that can be implementing that I'm just not seeing.
Free to squat, but with no potential returns. How valuable is your time, is my question.
Eh, that'll teach me to let myself be distracted by the outside world before I make it to the end of an article! Still, that one rates far higher than #9 in my book.
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What about Oddjob's razor-brimmed bowler hat? That's the one I always wanted! Mythbusters tried to make one, and managed to knock off the head of a concrete statue (with Kari throwing no less) even though it was a hollow core molded statue. Still, that hat put a new spin on the old "dressed to kill" standard!
You have to hand it over to the NASA engineer crew - they can built their landers tough. Considering the distance and sheer hostility of the mars surface, going above the estimated 90 days of operation is a jaw-dropping exploit. Think about it for a moment - if they can double the operating time of the mars lander, this means that they will have managed to squeeze TWO complete mars missions using the budget of a SINGLE ONE. This will also have saved them several YEARS of labor and time investment that would have gone into sending a second lander to get another three months' worth of surface data.
MTV started out as a music video channel, which eventually took them to create MTV2, a channel of deranged muppets, guys getting kicked in the nuts and all sorts of contents created by and intended for brain-damaged idiots. They would have eventually created this as well, except that Youtube already fills this niche.
A lot of comments in this thread are about what is criminal on a legal standpoint, and the amount of liability in ripping, downloading and sharing music, but I don't feel this is the point of this specific slashdot post. This is about the RIAA using its massive juggernaut legal weight to steamroll people in no position to defend itself. Think about it for a second - how would you feel if you had to go to court where your entire life was going to be bankrupted and shattered unless you won a one-on-one poker game against a Las Vegas champion.
Who has a million dollars in chips against your ten dollars... and he calls in for a thousand in EVERY hand.
This is what regular people are up against when they go to court. They face an invincible army of lawyers who know the law forward and backward, know hundreds of precendents, landmarks and loopholes and can make the law sing and dance to their fiddle. And if it looks like YOU might win anyway? They have so much money that they can just stretch the proceedings until they bleed your measley bankroll into the red and can't make your rent anymore. They win, NO MATTER WHAT.
This isn't justice. It's the kangaroo court of the Righteous Inquisition Army of America.
People still use Kazaa? I gave up on that lame duck the moment I realized that 99% of all songs listed where just 15 minutes longs recordings of static, screeching noise and one highly interesting instance of a 7 seconds long recording of Madonna saying "You stupid F***!!!"
NASA has a known hardline anti-sex policy... perhaps it's time they start rethinking that approach. Are they expecting to send a group of people on a six month mars mission (with the worst case scenario that they may never return) and think that sex won't happen? It is, after all, one of the greatest joys in life.
I love how people tend to forget we're a nation born of revolt and war, tempered in the fires of combat, using pretty much PRIVATE WEAPONS against a MUCH LARGER ARMY.
Pay closer attention to history. If it can happen ONCE and create a new country, it can happen again.
You seem to be forgetting that in 1776, the citizens were revolting against the british empire which was across the ocean, weeks of sailing away and with little to no way of getting quick reliable information of what was going on or sending rapid reinforcements. If you were to go against the US gorvernment, they could have most of their army in your home town within a matter of hours.
And don't forget that unlike the british, who could retreat back to england, the american government would have nowhere to go. Never underestimate the fierce determination of a tiger trapped in a corner.
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Did you read the BBC article linked in the slashdot article? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7685049.stm Because it uses the word "car" 15 times. The fact that the word car was used 15 times kind of fooled me into thinking that this was some sort of CAR.
If there's anything we have learned from the homebrews on the PSP, it's that people involved in firmware cracking are a resourceful bunch, always a step ahead of the big companies running around with a trowel and mortar to plug the leaks in the dam. Expect your favorite Wii homebrew to be restored to business as usual within a day or two.
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A land vehicule designed for the transportation of people, with a motor specced for activating the circular motion through a drive shaft of two (or more) wheels. Preferably with speed limitations that allow for surviving a turn higher than 10 degrees or hitting a pebble smaller than a cheerios.
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I can't help it but giggle when these speed-record setting land vehicules are referred to as "cars" when they're basically rockets with wheels and a seat.
Why do so many people keep arguing that gaming is not a real social activity unless non-gamers are involved? Are sports also disqualified as a social activity because non-sport fans dislike taking part or talking about sports? Talk about a double standard here.
It's true that Spore isn't going to change any minds about the hand of (a) god directing evolution of a specie. After all, if a computer game could do that, then Populous has already done all the damage it's going to do a decade and a half ago.
I can't wait for Bioshock 2. This is one of the rare games where I simply couldn't play as evil, because it was just too gut-wrenching awful to hurt those little sisters, twisted as they may be by the Rapture genetic re-engineering. This game is basically the "Good" end of my gaming spectrum, opposing every Star Wars game I've ever played where I inevitably end up as a dark force warped being of Snidely Whiplash villainy. http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/7/23/
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So in short, if my mom hadn't forbidden me to play it, it would have taken me at least another 10-15 years to find out about it. I credit my mother for giving me such an early head start in my roleplaying career!
What I'm really looking forward to, though, is the day when Best Buy can offer us products that isn't armored in those polyethylene forcefields that I can barely cut through with my biggest, most badass scissors. Those sharp plastic edges, however, have never had any trouble cutting through my soft tender skin...
This is a wordier version of Penny Arcade's Greater Internet F***wad Theory: Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total F***wad http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/green-blackboards-and-other-anomalies/
Take any sports game you like, preferably a single person sports (which you've never practiced before of course) as team sports would be harder to test individual performance. Boxing or skateboard are goo das they are very technical sports with an easy to establish baseline of success.
After playing a hundred hours or so, you should be a master at that game. Now dress up in your best sports gear and hop in aboxing arena or hop on a skateboard and start shooting ramps and sliding rails. If your theory holds water, you won't end up on "Attack of the Show" as the daily Epic Fail.
It seems that Atari has taken a leaf from the book of the RIAA (Righteous Inquisiton Army of America) and decided that it's much easier to make money by suing people rather than, you know, making good games.
Those of you following the war in Iraq would find it interestin gto look up the new Killzone 2 trailer. The naration hits VERY close to home. "They told us it would only last a month... they told us they would be overwhelmed by our technology and weapons... they said it would be a decisive victory... someone forgot to tell that to the Helghast."
The Lucasarts point and click adventure games have a special place in my heart. Maniac Mansion, Zack McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders, Indiana Johnes and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max Hit the Road... all classics near and dear to my early gamer career!
Not a bad idea, though I don't see how you couldn't just apply the same idea to their main website in order to encourage people to go log in often and give them more unique page clicks. In order for Twitter to be succesful as an ad platform, it woul dhave to offer something truly UNIQUE that couldn't be replicated in already existing media where they have an overwhelming presence and heavy investments in place.
Free to squat, but with no potential returns. How valuable is your time, is my question.
Eh, that'll teach me to let myself be distracted by the outside world before I make it to the end of an article! Still, that one rates far higher than #9 in my book.
What about Oddjob's razor-brimmed bowler hat? That's the one I always wanted! Mythbusters tried to make one, and managed to knock off the head of a concrete statue (with Kari throwing no less) even though it was a hollow core molded statue. Still, that hat put a new spin on the old "dressed to kill" standard!
All in all, a phenomenal success!
MTV started out as a music video channel, which eventually took them to create MTV2, a channel of deranged muppets, guys getting kicked in the nuts and all sorts of contents created by and intended for brain-damaged idiots. They would have eventually created this as well, except that Youtube already fills this niche.
Who has a million dollars in chips against your ten dollars... and he calls in for a thousand in EVERY hand.
This is what regular people are up against when they go to court. They face an invincible army of lawyers who know the law forward and backward, know hundreds of precendents, landmarks and loopholes and can make the law sing and dance to their fiddle. And if it looks like YOU might win anyway? They have so much money that they can just stretch the proceedings until they bleed your measley bankroll into the red and can't make your rent anymore. They win, NO MATTER WHAT.
This isn't justice. It's the kangaroo court of the Righteous Inquisition Army of America.
People still use Kazaa? I gave up on that lame duck the moment I realized that 99% of all songs listed where just 15 minutes longs recordings of static, screeching noise and one highly interesting instance of a 7 seconds long recording of Madonna saying "You stupid F***!!!"
So when can I put in an order for my very own Ironman suit?
NASA has a known hardline anti-sex policy... perhaps it's time they start rethinking that approach. Are they expecting to send a group of people on a six month mars mission (with the worst case scenario that they may never return) and think that sex won't happen? It is, after all, one of the greatest joys in life.
I love how people tend to forget we're a nation born of revolt and war, tempered in the fires of combat, using pretty much PRIVATE WEAPONS against a MUCH LARGER ARMY.
Pay closer attention to history. If it can happen ONCE and create a new country, it can happen again.
You seem to be forgetting that in 1776, the citizens were revolting against the british empire which was across the ocean, weeks of sailing away and with little to no way of getting quick reliable information of what was going on or sending rapid reinforcements. If you were to go against the US gorvernment, they could have most of their army in your home town within a matter of hours.
And don't forget that unlike the british, who could retreat back to england, the american government would have nowhere to go. Never underestimate the fierce determination of a tiger trapped in a corner.
Did you read the BBC article linked in the slashdot article? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7685049.stm Because it uses the word "car" 15 times. The fact that the word car was used 15 times kind of fooled me into thinking that this was some sort of CAR.
If there's anything we have learned from the homebrews on the PSP, it's that people involved in firmware cracking are a resourceful bunch, always a step ahead of the big companies running around with a trowel and mortar to plug the leaks in the dam. Expect your favorite Wii homebrew to be restored to business as usual within a day or two.
A land vehicule designed for the transportation of people, with a motor specced for activating the circular motion through a drive shaft of two (or more) wheels. Preferably with speed limitations that allow for surviving a turn higher than 10 degrees or hitting a pebble smaller than a cheerios.
I can't help it but giggle when these speed-record setting land vehicules are referred to as "cars" when they're basically rockets with wheels and a seat.
Why do so many people keep arguing that gaming is not a real social activity unless non-gamers are involved? Are sports also disqualified as a social activity because non-sport fans dislike taking part or talking about sports? Talk about a double standard here.
It's true that Spore isn't going to change any minds about the hand of (a) god directing evolution of a specie. After all, if a computer game could do that, then Populous has already done all the damage it's going to do a decade and a half ago.
I can't wait for Bioshock 2. This is one of the rare games where I simply couldn't play as evil, because it was just too gut-wrenching awful to hurt those little sisters, twisted as they may be by the Rapture genetic re-engineering. This game is basically the "Good" end of my gaming spectrum, opposing every Star Wars game I've ever played where I inevitably end up as a dark force warped being of Snidely Whiplash villainy. http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/7/23/