Re:Well, videogames aren't about the story.
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I remember Grim Fandango for the story. And what a moving, original, and interesting story it was! This game was also Lucasarts' first foray into 3d adventure games and so the playing of the game itself wasn't nearly as fun as watching it be played by someone who had finished it already.
Yes, my wife and I did this. I played Grim Fandago (having played it once years before) while she watched it on tv (mirror screen).
Why not just play Zelda? What is to be gained by making a "Final Fantasy" Zelda? Final Fantasy doesn't involve a cohesive set of characters, a standard world, even a set storyline. It's a blanket term to collect otherwise disparate RPGs. So for all we know, Zelda *is* a Final Fantasy Zelda just without Final Fantasy in front of it and not made by Square.
Perhaps you should say, "I wouldn't mind seeing a Zelda style, action oriented Final Fantasy IV [or VI, or VII, etc.] game."
Point: terrorism isn't a real threat. At all. Terrorists will not conquer any countries, annex any cities, or change any society through any means except intimidation ("We must restrict freedoms to fight the terrorists!"). You won't see pitched battles against an army of terrorists. You won't see terrorist tanks or airplanes razing a city before heading back to their HQ.
Terrorists can only hope to inspire terror by symbolic acts of destruction that affect a very, very small percentage of a country's population directory; but a significant percentage indirectly.
Your Rambo sig amusingly counterpoints your post. Out of curiousity, how much real war (as opposed to fake war?) have you seen? When you're big example is a news report that doesn't lend a lot of weight to your comments.
Weapons are not toys (fact), but they are cool (subjective). Trebuchets are cool. Swords are cool. Battleships are cool. Tanks are cool.
Reducing the emotional cost of killing isn't really a priority or concern of any kind. Soldiers don't refuse to kill the enemy up close and personal because of the emotional cost. They pull the trigger when told to pull the trigger because they're soldiers. Advanced weapons do allow soldiers to kill more people, more effectively though.
Something "jumps the shark" when it reachs a peak that surpasses any other part of it. By definition: after Fonz jumped the shark nothing in the series would ever compare to that.
For that reason, you can't say something jumped the shark until it has run its course. You can point to a specific scene in Peter Jackson's LOTR movies and declare that it jumps the shark at that point (for me the jump the shark scene is "You shall not pass!"); but you can never say that any interpretation of LOTR has jumped the shark because we haven't seen all the interpretations yet.
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Odd. I work 40 hours a week, commute 1.25 hours (each way) to work, have a house and lawn to take care of, and I'm married and I *still* find time to get some gaming in on a regular basis. My wife isn't a gamer, although she has watched me play a few fun games (Resident Evil 4, Psychonauts, Indigo Prophecy), but she does understand that gaming is my hobby.
It's all in what you take time for. You can say that the job is what's taking your time, but that's only 40 (let's say 45 hours including a normal commute) out of 168. Giving you 8 hours of sleep per night is 56 hours per week. 168-45-56=67 hours left. So where's all that time going?
The point was: Are these screenshots actual shots from the game, or are they prerendered?
The response was: These screenshots are actual shots rendered by the ingame engine on the fly.
Your marketing recap has no bearing. Although I do wish that games nowadays included swag like 80s games. I still have that ankh, coin, moonstone, autoduel toolkit, and loads o' booty from infocom.
I have to say that I'm very much against these rulings. Making websites accessible to the blind is trivial if the website is designed properly in the first place. It's only difficult if you mash the damn thing up with bad flash and poorly coded javascript.
I always read the manuals. As a kid they were perfect for whetting the appetite for the game on the ride home from the store. If the game was a present, the manuals allowed my brothers and I to all play the game at once. One would start the game right up, the others would either read the manual and relate relevant bits to the player or soak up the game's periphery.
I also read the manuals for every computer part and system I've ever owned or used. Be it a wireless router, Gentoo, OS X, or even a mouse.
Ditto for anything else: cars, put together furniture, home theater equipment, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, washing machines, tools, etc.
I do miss the feature laden manuals of the 80s. Like the Ultima games with their completely superfluous spell books. Or Startropics and its secret message letter (you dip an actual letter you get with the game in water to reveal an important bit of information).
Oh no. You had to click on the noscript icon and click "Allow somesite"? That is a pain. Noscript is the best thing that's happened to web browsing in a long time. I am constantly astounded by the sheer number of unrelated to site content javascript is out there. Right now slashdot wants to run javascript from: slashdot.org, google-analytics.com, and falkag.net. All blocked, slashdot works fine.
If I use a site that depends on Javascript (flickr, etc.) all I have to do is whitelist it with two clicks o' yon mouse. That's a pain in the ass? The internet runs faster and works better. Most sites run fine without javascript, those that don't are either great exceptions or not worth my precious time.
Ha! You think we're killing the *planet*? Sorry, we're only killing our ability to live on the planet, if that. Earth's true species is the bacteria.
In the late 1970s, marine biologists discovered the bacterial basis of food chains for deep-sea vent faunas and the unique dependence of this community upon energy from the earth's interior, rather than from a solar source. Two kinds of vents had been described: cracks and small fissures with warm water emerging at temperatures of 40 degrees to 70 degrees F and large conical sulfide mounds, up to 30 feet in height, and spouting superheated waters at temperatures that can exceed 600 degrees F.
Bacteria had long been identified in waters from small fissures of the first category, but it was only in the early 1980s that John Baross and his colleagues discovered a bacterial biota, including both oxidative and anaerobic species, in superheated waters emanating from the sulfide mounds (also known as "smokers").
They cultured bacteria from waters collected at 650 degrees F and then grew vigorous communities in a laboratory chamber with waters heated to 480 degrees F at a pressure of 265 atmospheres. Thus, bacteria can (and do) live in high temperatures (and pressures) of waters flowing beneath Earth's surface.
Yeah. We got nothing on these guys when it comes to survival of the fittest. We've even given Earth's bacteria a ride out of the solar system on our space probes, decades or centuries before we'll make the trip.
Splinter Cell 3 is pretty replayable. It does a great job of making its missions solvable with a wide variety of techniques.
Frex: I made it through the game without killing anyone that the mission didn't require, and I never used the sniper rifle. Often this required a great deal of trickery and luck to pull off.
Google gets a list of search terms to block. Google blocks those terms and only those terms. Users use Google to get around the censorship (intentional mispellings).
Prior to this appeasement Google was completely blocked by the Chinese government.
Which do you think is better for open information in China? Beijing is Far Away and the Mountains are Very Tall and all that.
Now then. You say that China would be better with more democratic reforms. Explain. Seriously. Do you really, honestly think that democratic==good? What's your take on the Palestinian elections? What's your take on the U.S. treatment of Central America (United Fruit) and the Middle East (for starters)?
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I remember Grim Fandango for the story. And what a moving, original, and interesting story it was! This game was also Lucasarts' first foray into 3d adventure games and so the playing of the game itself wasn't nearly as fun as watching it be played by someone who had finished it already.
Yes, my wife and I did this. I played Grim Fandago (having played it once years before) while she watched it on tv (mirror screen).
Why not just play Zelda? What is to be gained by making a "Final Fantasy" Zelda? Final Fantasy doesn't involve a cohesive set of characters, a standard world, even a set storyline. It's a blanket term to collect otherwise disparate RPGs. So for all we know, Zelda *is* a Final Fantasy Zelda just without Final Fantasy in front of it and not made by Square.
Perhaps you should say, "I wouldn't mind seeing a Zelda style, action oriented Final Fantasy IV [or VI, or VII, etc.] game."
Point: terrorism isn't a real threat. At all. Terrorists will not conquer any countries, annex any cities, or change any society through any means except intimidation ("We must restrict freedoms to fight the terrorists!"). You won't see pitched battles against an army of terrorists. You won't see terrorist tanks or airplanes razing a city before heading back to their HQ.
Terrorists can only hope to inspire terror by symbolic acts of destruction that affect a very, very small percentage of a country's population directory; but a significant percentage indirectly.
The sooner everyone realizes this, the better.
Your Rambo sig amusingly counterpoints your post. Out of curiousity, how much real war (as opposed to fake war?) have you seen? When you're big example is a news report that doesn't lend a lot of weight to your comments.
Weapons are not toys (fact), but they are cool (subjective). Trebuchets are cool. Swords are cool. Battleships are cool. Tanks are cool.
Reducing the emotional cost of killing isn't really a priority or concern of any kind. Soldiers don't refuse to kill the enemy up close and personal because of the emotional cost. They pull the trigger when told to pull the trigger because they're soldiers. Advanced weapons do allow soldiers to kill more people, more effectively though.
Something "jumps the shark" when it reachs a peak that surpasses any other part of it. By definition: after Fonz jumped the shark nothing in the series would ever compare to that.
For that reason, you can't say something jumped the shark until it has run its course. You can point to a specific scene in Peter Jackson's LOTR movies and declare that it jumps the shark at that point (for me the jump the shark scene is "You shall not pass!"); but you can never say that any interpretation of LOTR has jumped the shark because we haven't seen all the interpretations yet.
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ChinesePod
JapanesePod101
Nature Podcast (as in the scientific journal)
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Battlestar Galactica Commentary
NPR's Science Friday
Scientific American Podcast
Slacker Astronomy
The Beat Oracle
The Onion Radio News
Because all they can measure from the ground without depending on a wireless connection is the aircraft's position, speed, and orientation. Big whoop.
Odd. I work 40 hours a week, commute 1.25 hours (each way) to work, have a house and lawn to take care of, and I'm married and I *still* find time to get some gaming in on a regular basis. My wife isn't a gamer, although she has watched me play a few fun games (Resident Evil 4, Psychonauts, Indigo Prophecy), but she does understand that gaming is my hobby.
It's all in what you take time for. You can say that the job is what's taking your time, but that's only 40 (let's say 45 hours including a normal commute) out of 168. Giving you 8 hours of sleep per night is 56 hours per week. 168-45-56=67 hours left. So where's all that time going?
The point was: Are these screenshots actual shots from the game, or are they prerendered?
The response was: These screenshots are actual shots rendered by the ingame engine on the fly.
Your marketing recap has no bearing. Although I do wish that games nowadays included swag like 80s games. I still have that ankh, coin, moonstone, autoduel toolkit, and loads o' booty from infocom.
I wonder how this case is going to deal with existing ruling by U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz in the 2002 case Access Now and Robert Gumson v. Southwest Airlines Co. (pdf) stating that Southwest did not have to redesign its website to be more accessible to the blind.
The 11 Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling in 2004.
I have to say that I'm very much against these rulings. Making websites accessible to the blind is trivial if the website is designed properly in the first place. It's only difficult if you mash the damn thing up with bad flash and poorly coded javascript.
I always read the manuals. As a kid they were perfect for whetting the appetite for the game on the ride home from the store. If the game was a present, the manuals allowed my brothers and I to all play the game at once. One would start the game right up, the others would either read the manual and relate relevant bits to the player or soak up the game's periphery.
I also read the manuals for every computer part and system I've ever owned or used. Be it a wireless router, Gentoo, OS X, or even a mouse.
Ditto for anything else: cars, put together furniture, home theater equipment, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, washing machines, tools, etc.
I do miss the feature laden manuals of the 80s. Like the Ultima games with their completely superfluous spell books. Or Startropics and its secret message letter (you dip an actual letter you get with the game in water to reveal an important bit of information).
Oh no. You had to click on the noscript icon and click "Allow somesite"? That is a pain. Noscript is the best thing that's happened to web browsing in a long time. I am constantly astounded by the sheer number of unrelated to site content javascript is out there. Right now slashdot wants to run javascript from: slashdot.org, google-analytics.com, and falkag.net. All blocked, slashdot works fine.
If I use a site that depends on Javascript (flickr, etc.) all I have to do is whitelist it with two clicks o' yon mouse. That's a pain in the ass? The internet runs faster and works better. Most sites run fine without javascript, those that don't are either great exceptions or not worth my precious time.
So ... they came up with the iTunes music store for games then? Or Amazon's one click shopping?
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This is the wave of the future from five years ago
Comedy has to make sense to be funny. That joke was more Carrot-top than Jon Stewart.
Nah, Apple just loves to drop legacy hardware and code whenever possible. A good trait.
Eh? I don't think I have gorilla arms and don't have serious trouble with a touch screen interface.
I interface with the real world (which requires much more arm movement) and don't really get fatigued from just doing stuff.
Ha! You think we're killing the *planet*? Sorry, we're only killing our ability to live on the planet, if that. Earth's true species is the bacteria.
In the late 1970s, marine biologists discovered the bacterial basis of food chains for deep-sea vent faunas and the unique dependence of this community upon energy from the earth's interior, rather than from a solar source. Two kinds of vents had been described: cracks and small fissures with warm water emerging at temperatures of 40 degrees to 70 degrees F and large conical sulfide mounds, up to 30 feet in height, and spouting superheated waters at temperatures that can exceed 600 degrees F.
Bacteria had long been identified in waters from small fissures of the first category, but it was only in the early 1980s that John Baross and his colleagues discovered a bacterial biota, including both oxidative and anaerobic species, in superheated waters emanating from the sulfide mounds (also known as "smokers").
They cultured bacteria from waters collected at 650 degrees F and then grew vigorous communities in a laboratory chamber with waters heated to 480 degrees F at a pressure of 265 atmospheres. Thus, bacteria can (and do) live in high temperatures (and pressures) of waters flowing beneath Earth's surface.
Yeah. We got nothing on these guys when it comes to survival of the fittest. We've even given Earth's bacteria a ride out of the solar system on our space probes, decades or centuries before we'll make the trip.
pure methaphysics
Indeed.
Splinter Cell 3 is pretty replayable. It does a great job of making its missions solvable with a wide variety of techniques.
Frex: I made it through the game without killing anyone that the mission didn't require, and I never used the sniper rifle. Often this required a great deal of trickery and luck to pull off.
I don't know what story you're referring to, but it sounds like "Infection", a Babylon 5 episode from the 1st season.
So when I say:
Not even on the cosmic scale. Not in a thousand, million, or billion years.
I'm assuming a much smaller time scale than you are? Wow. Well guess what, not even in a trillion years will we live life without needing bacteria.
Hell, even in Asimov's books all the stories were about the three laws' inherent shortcomings.
Google gets a list of search terms to block. Google blocks those terms and only those terms. Users use Google to get around the censorship (intentional mispellings).
Prior to this appeasement Google was completely blocked by the Chinese government.
Which do you think is better for open information in China? Beijing is Far Away and the Mountains are Very Tall and all that.
Now then. You say that China would be better with more democratic reforms. Explain. Seriously. Do you really, honestly think that democratic==good? What's your take on the Palestinian elections? What's your take on the U.S. treatment of Central America (United Fruit) and the Middle East (for starters)?
The bonus would be for getting a 10% speed increase without buying new hardware!