You're free to sell your games for however much you want them. Hint: There's more than just Gamestop.
Steam is actually pretty crappy, but its better than some DRM schemes that publishers have come up with since you can't just swap disks like you've always been able to with console games.
Yeah, I'm not sure why Nintendo released the Wii U (and the 3DS) so soon with really no good games. I'm going to buy a Wii U (just like I bought a 3DS) but I see no point in shelling out $300 for a system that I'd just play one or two games on (New Mario Bros 2 and maybe Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate) until the rest of the games that I want to play come out.
The 3DS had exactly the same problem, it launched with no games of note and for the first 6 months or so of its existence its flagship title was a remake of a game from 1998. Now it has a large selection of excellent titles, Super Mario 3D Land, Fire Emblem: Awakening, Mario Kart 7, Tales of the Abyss, Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion, Kid Icarus, etc. but for the first year, there were really no reasons to buy it.
I'd expect that a sequel to Doki Doki Panic would be stuck in legal hell for quite some time since its based off of Fuji Television characters (and I'd imagine they'd have to change this graphic for an international release http://strategywiki.org/wiki/File:Doki_Doki_Panic_head.png ).
We've had enough sequels with Nintendo, what we really need is more original games. Yeah, its fun playing Mario/Zelda/Metroid every generation, but there's only so much you can do with them before you totally destroy continuity and cohesion as a series. Either that or do what they've done with Fire Emblem and make it be more like Final Fantasy where each game has some tie-ins (similar weapons, the Fire Emblem, a couple of references) but each game is mostly stand alone and so they're free to add and remove features at will and it doesn't really make the game feel any less of a Fire Emblem game.
I mean, there's some good concepts out there, but they feel shoehorned in a universe where they don't belong for example, Zelda: Spirit Tracks.
While Nintendo certainly shouldn't forget its classics, there is a need for fresh blood.
Mario RPG was excellent, the Paper Mario and Mario and Luigi games are fun in their own ways, but they're nothing like Super Mario RPG. A sequel similar to Kingdom Hearts would be pretty fun... Assuming SE puts in likable characters and not the emotional, over-dramatic teens that they seem so fond of designing of late...
This is a cool proof of concept, but it seems a bit unneeded, after all, doesn't everyone block ads? I mean, aside from on my phone (although adblocking is enabled on my browser) I never see an ad.
When there is high-quality content, supporters will keep it alive. Look at xkcd, not an ad on the site but yet it still remains updated and high-quality and free.
Yeah, we might lose some mediocrity, but high quality will remain.
So? Do I have a right to high pay? Of course not. If people are willing to do the same job for less than me, why would my boss pay more for me? Instead, you've got to make sure that you produce better (or at least different) than them.
Its simple logic: why pay more for the same thing? Instead, you've got to be different. If you can't, well, you either need to adjust your level of living or find a field you're better at.
Because I forgot how my boss holds me at gunpoint? How there's only one company in existence that I can work at?
My boss gives me an offer of what he's willing to give me in exchange for work (pay, working environment, benefits, etc.) I can either accept that, reject that or give him a counteroffer which he is free to accept or reject.
We are both on equal ground. If I don't like what he offers, I'm perfectly free not to work. If he doesn't like what I am willing to work for (or the quality of my work) he doesn't have to hire me. I have no right to demand anything more than what has been mutually agreed upon and neither does my boss.
The problem with unions is they view a worker as a clone of every other worker.
For example, a young worker is unlikely to really need lots of health insurance when compared to an aging worker. Similarly an unmarried man most likely couldn't care less about maternity leave. But yet with collective bargaining, that young worker could get useless (for him) insurance in exchange for something that would be useful for him (vacation days, higher pay, etc.) and that unmarried man might get great maternity leave but at the expense of something that could be useful for him.
Instead, contracts should be dealt with at the individual level, allowing for the best for both the employer and the individual employee.
Even if cell phones were eliminated (which in my experience have been more or less a non-issue in theaters) you've still got the fact that its $8 for a ticket and then $5 for a popcorn, $5 for a soda, $5 for a box of Junior Mints... Its simply too expensive for the 2 hours of (possible) enjoyment, especially when a couple of months later you can watch the movie on Netflix or pay $1 for it at Redbox. It used to be you could offset this by the fact that you were getting a higher quality picture and sound, but anymore a HDTV and surround sound are pretty common. 3D is simply a gimmick, its fun for a movie or two but doesn't really add much to the experience. I mean, other than for a midnight premiere, does anyone actually go to the movies anymore?
What? Facebook which enjoys changing its interfaces every 6 months for no reason? (and no warning)
Myspace? Friendster?
Google is easily the best when it comes to discontinuing services since they usually let you know ahead of time and give you the option to migrate your data. Even though some of the things they've discontinued have been really random (Reader didn't need much maintenance, neither did iGoogle) they've given people ample notice.
How strange it is that Russia has become the bastion of human rights and the right to expose corruption. 30 years ago you'd be laughed out of a room if you'd suggest that 30 years later people would be fleeing the US for Russia and China for political freedoms and economic freedoms.
Colonial life under George III wasn't the "killing fields" but yet Americans look at that as tyranny but in 2013 it is much worse than 1776 and yet the west hasn't done anything about it.
Just another way the West has fallen into tyranny. But yet, there is comparatively little outrage. The violations of liberty that King George III imposed on the American colonists were minor compared to the crimes that modern presidents have committed. But yet although there will be a posting on websites like/. and will be discussed by liberty-minded bloggers there will be no revolution, there will be no outrage. Isn't it odd how times have changed, when a minor (by today's standard) tax increase sparked a revolution but today's routine violation of individual sovereignty, violation of basic civil liberties and violation of basic economic liberties have created.... a couple of blog posts.
Hell, it doesn't matter anymore. The Obama administration has declared anyone who doesn't agree with them to be enemies. If you're not standing in the welfare line and praising Obama or blindly "supporting the troops" you're the enemy. The past few administrations have made that abundantly clear that your freedoms only exist to praise the state and dissent will be punished.
There is no rule of law anymore, no matter what they can violate your privacy, your liberty or even send in a drone to kill you. No jury, no trial, no oversight.
Things like this is where 3D printing will be truly revolutionary. Many niche products are expensive because making them the traditional way requires a large amount of money to be put into making the initial molds and such, and although the price per unit when you're dealing with hundreds or thousands of units would be very cheap, they're cost-prohibitive in smaller runs.
Customization will be the killer feature of the future.
If we just stopped most of the welfare programs and started using the military only for defense rather than "nation building" and killing Pakistani civilians we could very easily reduce taxes and balance the budget.
Indeed if we rolled back government spending to early 1990s levels we could eliminate the income tax entirely.
You can't have the welfare, warfare and nanny state though.
Drugs will fuck up your life kid, so if we ever catch you using, buying and selling them we'll kidnap you and throw you in a cage and fuck up you and your family's lives.
The problem with the stock markets as they exist today is that there are two groups, those who have extra information (such as real time quotes) are able to better execute trades to take advantage of smaller possible profit margins but there are those who do not have access to all this information and so they can't engage in HFTs (well, profitably anyways) which skews the market.
The first step in the right direction is not more theft, but rather to eliminate delayed stock quotes and make everything be real-time.
Exactly. Why are many Europeans bi and tri-lingual while being bi-lingual in the US is a rarity? Because there's a need to be able to speak multiple languages in Europe because within a small geographic area there can be many languages widely spoken, I mean, within Switzerland, German, French and Italian are all widely spoken whereas in the US, English reigns supreme in the vast majority of areas (Mexican restaurants and Chinese buffets aside)
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You're free to sell your games for however much you want them. Hint: There's more than just Gamestop.
Steam is actually pretty crappy, but its better than some DRM schemes that publishers have come up with since you can't just swap disks like you've always been able to with console games.
Why are there even ads on the Xbox? After all you've:
A) Bought the console
B) Bought some games (presumably)
C) Quite possibly bought a gold membership
Now, I can understand something like when you go to the store to have maybe a little promo of "what's new" but beyond that, ads are unacceptable.
Yeah, I'm not sure why Nintendo released the Wii U (and the 3DS) so soon with really no good games. I'm going to buy a Wii U (just like I bought a 3DS) but I see no point in shelling out $300 for a system that I'd just play one or two games on (New Mario Bros 2 and maybe Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate) until the rest of the games that I want to play come out.
The 3DS had exactly the same problem, it launched with no games of note and for the first 6 months or so of its existence its flagship title was a remake of a game from 1998. Now it has a large selection of excellent titles, Super Mario 3D Land, Fire Emblem: Awakening, Mario Kart 7, Tales of the Abyss, Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion, Kid Icarus, etc. but for the first year, there were really no reasons to buy it.
I'd expect that a sequel to Doki Doki Panic would be stuck in legal hell for quite some time since its based off of Fuji Television characters (and I'd imagine they'd have to change this graphic for an international release http://strategywiki.org/wiki/File:Doki_Doki_Panic_head.png ).
We've had enough sequels with Nintendo, what we really need is more original games. Yeah, its fun playing Mario/Zelda/Metroid every generation, but there's only so much you can do with them before you totally destroy continuity and cohesion as a series. Either that or do what they've done with Fire Emblem and make it be more like Final Fantasy where each game has some tie-ins (similar weapons, the Fire Emblem, a couple of references) but each game is mostly stand alone and so they're free to add and remove features at will and it doesn't really make the game feel any less of a Fire Emblem game.
I mean, there's some good concepts out there, but they feel shoehorned in a universe where they don't belong for example, Zelda: Spirit Tracks.
While Nintendo certainly shouldn't forget its classics, there is a need for fresh blood.
Mario RPG was excellent, the Paper Mario and Mario and Luigi games are fun in their own ways, but they're nothing like Super Mario RPG. A sequel similar to Kingdom Hearts would be pretty fun... Assuming SE puts in likable characters and not the emotional, over-dramatic teens that they seem so fond of designing of late...
This is a cool proof of concept, but it seems a bit unneeded, after all, doesn't everyone block ads? I mean, aside from on my phone (although adblocking is enabled on my browser) I never see an ad.
When there is high-quality content, supporters will keep it alive. Look at xkcd, not an ad on the site but yet it still remains updated and high-quality and free.
Yeah, we might lose some mediocrity, but high quality will remain.
So? Do I have a right to high pay? Of course not. If people are willing to do the same job for less than me, why would my boss pay more for me? Instead, you've got to make sure that you produce better (or at least different) than them.
Its simple logic: why pay more for the same thing? Instead, you've got to be different. If you can't, well, you either need to adjust your level of living or find a field you're better at.
Because I forgot how my boss holds me at gunpoint? How there's only one company in existence that I can work at?
My boss gives me an offer of what he's willing to give me in exchange for work (pay, working environment, benefits, etc.) I can either accept that, reject that or give him a counteroffer which he is free to accept or reject.
We are both on equal ground. If I don't like what he offers, I'm perfectly free not to work. If he doesn't like what I am willing to work for (or the quality of my work) he doesn't have to hire me. I have no right to demand anything more than what has been mutually agreed upon and neither does my boss.
The problem with unions is they view a worker as a clone of every other worker.
For example, a young worker is unlikely to really need lots of health insurance when compared to an aging worker. Similarly an unmarried man most likely couldn't care less about maternity leave. But yet with collective bargaining, that young worker could get useless (for him) insurance in exchange for something that would be useful for him (vacation days, higher pay, etc.) and that unmarried man might get great maternity leave but at the expense of something that could be useful for him.
Instead, contracts should be dealt with at the individual level, allowing for the best for both the employer and the individual employee.
I don't think this is cause for celebration... Yet.
After all, what is the first thing that the army does after ousting the president? They take down the TV and media that opposes them http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-egypt-protests-tv-idUSBRE9621A320130703
Like most "revolutions" Egypt is simply trading one tyrant for another, just like what happened back in 2011.
The entire movie theater industry is dead.
Even if cell phones were eliminated (which in my experience have been more or less a non-issue in theaters) you've still got the fact that its $8 for a ticket and then $5 for a popcorn, $5 for a soda, $5 for a box of Junior Mints... Its simply too expensive for the 2 hours of (possible) enjoyment, especially when a couple of months later you can watch the movie on Netflix or pay $1 for it at Redbox. It used to be you could offset this by the fact that you were getting a higher quality picture and sound, but anymore a HDTV and surround sound are pretty common. 3D is simply a gimmick, its fun for a movie or two but doesn't really add much to the experience. I mean, other than for a midnight premiere, does anyone actually go to the movies anymore?
Compared to...?
What? Facebook which enjoys changing its interfaces every 6 months for no reason? (and no warning)
Myspace? Friendster?
Google is easily the best when it comes to discontinuing services since they usually let you know ahead of time and give you the option to migrate your data. Even though some of the things they've discontinued have been really random (Reader didn't need much maintenance, neither did iGoogle) they've given people ample notice.
How strange it is that Russia has become the bastion of human rights and the right to expose corruption. 30 years ago you'd be laughed out of a room if you'd suggest that 30 years later people would be fleeing the US for Russia and China for political freedoms and economic freedoms.
Times have sure changed.
It hasn't gotten to that (yet) and it didn't get to that point in the colonies, although there were sure some "isolated incidents" just like here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Johnston_shooting , http://jonathanturley.org/2011/01/20/utah-police-execute-no-knock-warrant-on-home-and-shot-and-kill-man-holding-golf-club/ )
Colonial life under George III wasn't the "killing fields" but yet Americans look at that as tyranny but in 2013 it is much worse than 1776 and yet the west hasn't done anything about it.
Just another way the West has fallen into tyranny. But yet, there is comparatively little outrage. The violations of liberty that King George III imposed on the American colonists were minor compared to the crimes that modern presidents have committed. But yet although there will be a posting on websites like /. and will be discussed by liberty-minded bloggers there will be no revolution, there will be no outrage. Isn't it odd how times have changed, when a minor (by today's standard) tax increase sparked a revolution but today's routine violation of individual sovereignty, violation of basic civil liberties and violation of basic economic liberties have created.... a couple of blog posts.
Hell, it doesn't matter anymore. The Obama administration has declared anyone who doesn't agree with them to be enemies. If you're not standing in the welfare line and praising Obama or blindly "supporting the troops" you're the enemy. The past few administrations have made that abundantly clear that your freedoms only exist to praise the state and dissent will be punished.
There is no rule of law anymore, no matter what they can violate your privacy, your liberty or even send in a drone to kill you. No jury, no trial, no oversight.
The only way this is treason is if the American public are enemies.
The real traitors are those who are giving aid to enemies of the US (Mexican drug cartels, arming Syrian rebels, etc.)
In the empire of lies, truth is treason.
-Ron Paul
Things like this is where 3D printing will be truly revolutionary. Many niche products are expensive because making them the traditional way requires a large amount of money to be put into making the initial molds and such, and although the price per unit when you're dealing with hundreds or thousands of units would be very cheap, they're cost-prohibitive in smaller runs.
Customization will be the killer feature of the future.
If we just stopped most of the welfare programs and started using the military only for defense rather than "nation building" and killing Pakistani civilians we could very easily reduce taxes and balance the budget.
Indeed if we rolled back government spending to early 1990s levels we could eliminate the income tax entirely.
You can't have the welfare, warfare and nanny state though.
Drugs will fuck up your life kid, so if we ever catch you using, buying and selling them we'll kidnap you and throw you in a cage and fuck up you and your family's lives.
Typical politics.
The problem with the stock markets as they exist today is that there are two groups, those who have extra information (such as real time quotes) are able to better execute trades to take advantage of smaller possible profit margins but there are those who do not have access to all this information and so they can't engage in HFTs (well, profitably anyways) which skews the market.
The first step in the right direction is not more theft, but rather to eliminate delayed stock quotes and make everything be real-time.
Exactly. Why are many Europeans bi and tri-lingual while being bi-lingual in the US is a rarity? Because there's a need to be able to speak multiple languages in Europe because within a small geographic area there can be many languages widely spoken, I mean, within Switzerland, German, French and Italian are all widely spoken whereas in the US, English reigns supreme in the vast majority of areas (Mexican restaurants and Chinese buffets aside)