I agree with you to an extent, as I'm not a fan of the "Hey, let's have a 5:1 video to gameplay ratio" genre.
Then I go back and think about the glut of Atari 2600 games that were out there. Those were some pretty awful games there! Don't get me wrong, Activision was gold back then, but for every good game you'd end up with some crap like "Tax Avoiders" (or of course ET) that was just horrible.
The NES had this as well, what with all of the horrible movie licensed games...
And early computer games sure had there share of crap as well. Even in the C64 era.
I think that there have been some truly incredible games in the past few years, although you still have a pretty high "crap to gold" ratio. They certainly aren't in the majority, at any rate. There were truly incredible games in our past as well... I just think it's easier to forget the BAD games of the past, though, mainly due to nostalgia.
The individual sprites were very, very small... A c64 game wouldn't keep each individual background as a single file, it was building these from indexed sprites, most likely 2-4 bits of color (not sure of the specifics)
Point being, you have a bunch of 256 byte sprites that are repeadedly being drawin on the screen... The instructions to "draw this sprite again" are quite a bit smaller...
oh, hell... you were being funny weren't you? (*smacks self on head*) Thanks, mods!
I don't know how it was where you live, but I remember getting CD's back in '98 for about $13 at Circuit City, so I'll have to disagree with you there.
Sure. Just like CD prices fell after the CD price fixing settlemet... oh, wait...
Then I guess this will be like my rates with progressive going lower after they had the class action law suit over adjusting rates based on credit... oh, wait... that didn't happen either.
The only peopel to benefit from this will be the lawyers and the major companies - the rest of us will be lucky to get a coupon for a dollar off.
Hrm... Wonder if shareware music is a true possibility... That's what your proposition ALMOST sounds like... "This music will expire in 30 days if not registered. After 30 days, you will retain a single track, and will not be able to listen to this disc in it's entireity until registered."
Bleem I _MIGHT_ be able to see... but certainly not ultra HLE. It would be feasable to install bleem onto the HD, and run a NON-COPIED PSX disk, therefore not really breaking copyright legistlation, but there's no good way to do that with a cart - UltraHLE only ran like 3 games well, anyways....
...I never knew that movies like "Airplane" would accurately depict the future.:)
In all seriousness, this method won't solve any problems, it will just create different ones. I doubt that this method will prove successful for budy cavity smuggling.
Aside from just being a monopoly here.... I was always reassured by the fact that Thawte Consulting was a SEPERATE ENTITY from Verisign. Going through them actually seemed to give some semblance of higher security. Then again, who knows what the future holds...
Well, yeah, the street value is a couple of hundred. But it does have VALUE. I meant someone could simply keep it to piss them off... I don't know. I certainly didn't interpret it as the one-chance to destroy microsoft packaged along with completely non-recoverable research documents that you seem to have implied as what I was saying.
I wouldn't expect it to go on ebay (but I'd love to see it) And from their point of view, it's simpler to keep someone from ever getting ahold of it than to go "Oops, that set-top box you are using is actually a prototype, even though it doesn't look special or any different than a working box. We want it back."
I disagree with the NYPD being involved, but I think there may have been a fear of a situation developing in which whoever recieved the package wanting to hang on to it, once the value was realized. A good majority of people who use WebTV units probably wouldn't know the difference, however.
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I agree with you to an extent, as I'm not a fan of the "Hey, let's have a 5:1 video to gameplay ratio" genre.
Then I go back and think about the glut of Atari 2600 games that were out there. Those were some pretty awful games there! Don't get me wrong, Activision was gold back then, but for every good game you'd end up with some crap like "Tax Avoiders" (or of course ET) that was just horrible.
The NES had this as well, what with all of the horrible movie licensed games...
And early computer games sure had there share of crap as well. Even in the C64 era.
I think that there have been some truly incredible games in the past few years, although you still have a pretty high "crap to gold" ratio. They certainly aren't in the majority, at any rate. There were truly incredible games in our past as well... I just think it's easier to forget the BAD games of the past, though, mainly due to nostalgia.
Insightful? That's not even a valid comparison.
The individual sprites were very, very small... A c64 game wouldn't keep each individual background as a single file, it was building these from indexed sprites, most likely 2-4 bits of color (not sure of the specifics)
Point being, you have a bunch of 256 byte sprites that are repeadedly being drawin on the screen... The instructions to "draw this sprite again" are quite a bit smaller...
oh, hell... you were being funny weren't you? (*smacks self on head*) Thanks, mods!
I don't know how it was where you live, but I remember getting CD's back in '98 for about $13 at Circuit City, so I'll have to disagree with you there.
Sure. Just like CD prices fell after the CD price fixing settlemet... oh, wait...
Then I guess this will be like my rates with progressive going lower after they had the class action law suit over adjusting rates based on credit... oh, wait... that didn't happen either.
The only peopel to benefit from this will be the lawyers and the major companies - the rest of us will be lucky to get a coupon for a dollar off.
Because, you know, there are no syudents that are aged 40 or older.
Will it have an "Oh shit!" expression when you wreck?
Will it vomit windshield fluid if the driver is drunk?
Hrm... Wonder if shareware music is a true possibility... That's what your proposition ALMOST sounds like... "This music will expire in 30 days if not registered. After 30 days, you will retain a single track, and will not be able to listen to this disc in it's entireity until registered."
Bleem I _MIGHT_ be able to see... but certainly not ultra HLE. It would be feasable to install bleem onto the HD, and run a NON-COPIED PSX disk, therefore not really breaking copyright legistlation, but there's no good way to do that with a cart - UltraHLE only ran like 3 games well, anyways....
I think the only prople "trolling the internet" are on this site.
In all seriousness, this method won't solve any problems, it will just create different ones. I doubt that this method will prove successful for budy cavity smuggling.
Case in point of the problem existing: Look at the number of year digits YOU used. :)
Aside from just being a monopoly here.... I was always reassured by the fact that Thawte Consulting was a SEPERATE ENTITY from Verisign. Going through them actually seemed to give some semblance of higher security. Then again, who knows what the future holds...
I wouldn't expect it to go on ebay (but I'd love to see it) And from their point of view, it's simpler to keep someone from ever getting ahold of it than to go "Oops, that set-top box you are using is actually a prototype, even though it doesn't look special or any different than a working box. We want it back."
-Mr Spatula
I disagree with the NYPD being involved, but I think there may have been a fear of a situation developing in which whoever recieved the package wanting to hang on to it, once the value was realized. A good majority of people who use WebTV units probably wouldn't know the difference, however.
A decent sized microwave burst would effectively remove ANYONE from society! :) -Mr Spatula