Got that beat. Writing a letter to Paul Green in the 1940s the director of the UNC Libraries (whose name escapes me) signed it, I kid you not, "Live long and prosper"
No racing game that *everyone* plays, but all the recent XBox 360 racing games have included live play. My favorite is still Test Drive Unlimited where you get to race around Hawaii's big island with other players on XBL.
I'd have a lower id, but when registration started it was "Another site with pointless registration?? Why?" Then they added (or I discovered?) the perks (mod points, customization, etc.).
It's not just "lighting" that Bungie is talking about. But high dynamic range rendering. Notice how in Halo 3 when you are coming out of a dark tunnel the sunlit areas are blindingly bright? That's just a bit of the HDRR magic at work. Bioshock and Gears of War, both great, beautiful games, don't have this. It's a tradeoff to be sure, but as a amateur photographer I have to give Bungie the edge here. I don't notice the loss of pixels (I didn't even know about it until this article) but I sure as hell notice the lighting's range.
But seriously, what are you on? I *love* movies, games, and songs that evoke genuine emotion. Do you want to spend your life eating cotton candy entertainment? (All fun, no substance.)
Generally people have a vague notion that art is something that everyone agrees is art. That art is cultured, refined, high-brow, sophisticated. That art must be appreciated to be art. Art is that which is hung in museum galleries and fawned over by elite scholars who write detailed analyses describing their value and meaning. People believe these scholars and nod their knowing agreement, sure that they too see the same value that the experts have ascribed.
At the other extreme there are those who say that all that I've just described is emphatically not art. That art is the living, breathing, messy, chaotic act of creation. That art in museums is dead works and that true art is that which is happening all around us.
Some say that if something is fun then it isn't art. That movies and comics and videogames and television and books can never be art because they are made not to express a feeling but to entertain and delight.
Some say art must be beautiful. Some say art must be meaningful. Some say art must be passionate.
I have a serious problem with all of these claims and, in fact, the very debate itself. Every single one of these claims are all predicated on the fact that art must be something. It doesn't. Art is what it is and what it is is entirely, completely, and utterly subjective. There is no debate here because it all comes down to personal perception. No one can make a genuinely compelling argument about the true definition of art because it is not possible to rationally argue an aesthetic point of view.
Some children may be more selfish than some adults. But all individuals get more selfish as they age. So, hope that you don't meet said four year old in forty years.
Ha ha, wrong. The best summary (well written, links to the original source of the news, etc) gets the front page. The summary that you link to in firehose is extremely poorly written, links to some random blog (yours I assume), and is otherwise lacking in rhetorical merit.
Double ouch, you forward thinking heartless bastard. How dare you provide your employees with your best efforts to protect the company and their employment?
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Got that beat. Writing a letter to Paul Green in the 1940s the director of the UNC Libraries (whose name escapes me) signed it, I kid you not, "Live long and prosper"
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." --Churchhill (apocryphal)
No racing game that *everyone* plays, but all the recent XBox 360 racing games have included live play. My favorite is still Test Drive Unlimited where you get to race around Hawaii's big island with other players on XBL.
Yes! Seven Cities of Gold would be an awesome remake.
*covers himself in gunpowder*
Wing Commander
Ultima IV-VII
Autoduel
Grim Fandango (Residual should take care of this)
Bionic Commando
Combat (on XBox Live!)
Mail Order Monsters (what's the last fighting game you remember that included tactical nuclear weapons?)
Archon
If you think that moral outrage over comics started in the eighties, research EC Comics.
I'd have a lower id, but when registration started it was "Another site with pointless registration?? Why?" Then they added (or I discovered?) the perks (mod points, customization, etc.).
Red light. Long wavelength at low levels doesn't trigger your pupils to close. So you can read a map, or a star chart, and not lose your night vision.
It's not just "lighting" that Bungie is talking about. But high dynamic range rendering. Notice how in Halo 3 when you are coming out of a dark tunnel the sunlit areas are blindingly bright? That's just a bit of the HDRR magic at work. Bioshock and Gears of War, both great, beautiful games, don't have this. It's a tradeoff to be sure, but as a amateur photographer I have to give Bungie the edge here. I don't notice the loss of pixels (I didn't even know about it until this article) but I sure as hell notice the lighting's range.
Mephisto.
p1k3 has its excellent and fast code available for download, but it's really not aimed at the Wordpress crowd yet.
Cops in Raleigh, NC go through a round of mace to the face so they know what it feels like. I saw the video of my friends going through it. :-)
One said that it feels like you dunked your face into a deep fat fryer.
Huh, last time I checked depression is an emotion. :-)
Sadness and other filth should not be portrayed!
Happiness is All!
But seriously, what are you on? I *love* movies, games, and songs that evoke genuine emotion. Do you want to spend your life eating cotton candy entertainment? (All fun, no substance.)
Does a game being old somehow preclude it from being a great game or one of the best of all time?
No, but it does preclude it from having an 'M' rating since many were made before the ESRB even existed.
Check out Fatal Frame 2 if you really want a game that you can't play with the lights off.
You have to take it on an individual basis.
Some children may be more selfish than some adults. But all individuals get more selfish as they age. So, hope that you don't meet said four year old in forty years.
These creatures were meant to fly free in their native rain forests
Interesting concept. Were we humans 'meant' to develop modern civilization or do you think something interfered?
Ants aren't hives with little individuality!
Unless they hate dogs.
Ha ha, wrong. The best summary (well written, links to the original source of the news, etc) gets the front page. The summary that you link to in firehose is extremely poorly written, links to some random blog (yours I assume), and is otherwise lacking in rhetorical merit.
Might people also be interested in the touch because it's an awesome web browser in your pocket?
When you're swimming in a creek
and an eel bites your cheek
That's a moray
Sad deluded fool. Endor wasn't destroyed immediately, but it was indeed destroyed. Its destruction was even mentioned in the Star Wars books.
Read on, if you dare: Endor Holocaust
Double ouch, you forward thinking heartless bastard. How dare you provide your employees with your best efforts to protect the company and their employment?