The problem isn't having to practice that tricky jump hundreds of times to get it right. The problem is that the tricky jump is 30 minutes past the last checkpoint, and the player has already mastered that portion of the game. So rather than simply having to keep practicing one tricky part over and over again, they have to play the same boring 30 minutes over and over again.
Sure, you can say that can be solved with good game design, but what if that jump is only tricky for some people and very easy for everyone else? Everyone has a difficult time with different parts of a challenging game, who gets to decide what is worthy of a checkpoint? Saving anywhere lets the user choose their own level of difficulty. You want a hard game? Never save.
That will truly help the industry, when contracts calling for levels of compliance become impossible and designers can never get paid because their work is never compliant.
If Wikipedia bases it's content on the importance of a particulr topic to humanity, then all of those articles that focus on individual Pokemon characters mean humanity is doomed.
Ah yes, the prima donna developer. I knew you'd be along eventually. You're so much more enlightened than those plebes doing the IT grunt work. You're a beautiful snowflake and everybody else is just getting in your way of creating... wait a sec... which idiot developer that said they NEEDED access to the production environment just dropped the customer table?
The company I last worked for did layoff after layoff, increased duties of remaining employees to compensate, and cut salary by 10% across the board. As a decently paid manager who actually respected his employees, I ate some of my departments cuts, with the lowest paid guy not getting a pay cut at all. Amazingly, the owner showed up one day in a brand new Mercedes. I've had enough of working for asshole. If I'm going to work for an asshole anyway, it may as well be me.
I recall a recent/. story about the city of New York spending $800M dollars to create a time and attendance system for city workers, a substantial portion of which was billed fraudulently. Do you really believe those same types can create the system discussed here?
You do realize, of course, that the US economy over the last 10 years alone has generated over $100T dollars, don't you? Do you honestly believe that there hasn't been $50B spent on marketing? This is simple math here.
Moving from tyranny to freedom always requires innocent blood. Wouldn't you rather have a freedom that lasts rather than one which slides right back into tyranny?
This is why the bizarre US notion of "spreading democracy" has not and will not ever work.
What's the body count from those "brutal" gange? A few dozen deaths per year? How many innocent people has the US government killed in the last several years? What's the ratio?
Since you're obviously 7 years old, I'll give you some extra time to do the math, child.
If the citizens of Zimbabwe can't understand how the sanctions against their country are necessary to bring down a tyrant, then any democracy they might have had would have been fleeting anyway.
Most politicians seem do the same things your neighbors, co-workers, and gang members have, but you seem to think they're fit for the job. Why the double standard?
Hell, politicians takes bribes from lobbyists, you think that's better than stealing from the snack fund at work?
Politicians kill in numbers that would make gangs blush, but somehow that's OK because they're not pulling the trigger themselves?
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Nevermind, some sites are just not updated yet. Even Thomas still shows it in committee still, but apparently there was a vote a few hours ago.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll026.xml
Yeah, those goddamn Republicans...
"The White House, meanwhile, said it wanted the expiring measures extended through 2013."
What vote? Everything I'm seeing about HR 514 says it never got past committee.
There was no vote. It hasn't even made it out of committee.
The problem isn't having to practice that tricky jump hundreds of times to get it right. The problem is that the tricky jump is 30 minutes past the last checkpoint, and the player has already mastered that portion of the game. So rather than simply having to keep practicing one tricky part over and over again, they have to play the same boring 30 minutes over and over again.
Sure, you can say that can be solved with good game design, but what if that jump is only tricky for some people and very easy for everyone else? Everyone has a difficult time with different parts of a challenging game, who gets to decide what is worthy of a checkpoint? Saving anywhere lets the user choose their own level of difficulty. You want a hard game? Never save.
That will truly help the industry, when contracts calling for levels of compliance become impossible and designers can never get paid because their work is never compliant.
If Wikipedia bases it's content on the importance of a particulr topic to humanity, then all of those articles that focus on individual Pokemon characters mean humanity is doomed.
Based on that video, you could claim it's a bad clone of Streets of Rage. They even swiped some of the sound effects.
Ah yes, the prima donna developer. I knew you'd be along eventually. You're so much more enlightened than those plebes doing the IT grunt work. You're a beautiful snowflake and everybody else is just getting in your way of creating... wait a sec... which idiot developer that said they NEEDED access to the production environment just dropped the customer table?
The company I last worked for did layoff after layoff, increased duties of remaining employees to compensate, and cut salary by 10% across the board. As a decently paid manager who actually respected his employees, I ate some of my departments cuts, with the lowest paid guy not getting a pay cut at all. Amazingly, the owner showed up one day in a brand new Mercedes. I've had enough of working for asshole. If I'm going to work for an asshole anyway, it may as well be me.
I recall a recent /. story about the city of New York spending $800M dollars to create a time and attendance system for city workers, a substantial portion of which was billed fraudulently. Do you really believe those same types can create the system discussed here?
Do you really believe the separation of banks and governments is that great?
Yes, we should have a secure system in place that's unhackable. Maybe Sony can develop it.
You do realize, of course, that the US economy over the last 10 years alone has generated over $100T dollars, don't you? Do you honestly believe that there hasn't been $50B spent on marketing? This is simple math here.
"Please blow into this... Oh, hello senator. Don't worry about it, I'm sure you haven't been drinking. Enjoy the rest of your evening Mr. Kennedy."
Doesn't it seem to you that they're working on taking care of all those things?
Yes, I'm certain Mugabe would step down peacefully after losing in a "fair" election.
Moving from tyranny to freedom always requires innocent blood. Wouldn't you rather have a freedom that lasts rather than one which slides right back into tyranny?
This is why the bizarre US notion of "spreading democracy" has not and will not ever work.
What's the body count from those "brutal" gange? A few dozen deaths per year? How many innocent people has the US government killed in the last several years? What's the ratio?
Since you're obviously 7 years old, I'll give you some extra time to do the math, child.
If the citizens of Zimbabwe can't understand how the sanctions against their country are necessary to bring down a tyrant, then any democracy they might have had would have been fleeting anyway.
Too bad lots of really important things we need to know fall into the 5% we aren't allowed to see.
Most politicians seem do the same things your neighbors, co-workers, and gang members have, but you seem to think they're fit for the job. Why the double standard?
Hell, politicians takes bribes from lobbyists, you think that's better than stealing from the snack fund at work?
Politicians kill in numbers that would make gangs blush, but somehow that's OK because they're not pulling the trigger themselves?
"We don't work for the government. They work for us."
I think I see the problem. Those working in high levels of the government disagree.
And Republicans think the same about you. There is no difference between you and some Bible thumping retard from Kansas. You're both idiots.
Well said.