Because now free access to music has created a marketing channel that allows the consumer to discover music that fits their tast instead of simply being inundated by whatever current pop song has the largest marketing budget.
The good music was always out there, now it's easier to find.
That closer alignment between supply and demand (beyond taping and bootlegs) creates an economy that allows more of these second and third tier artists to produce high quality recordings. I'd also factor in the drastic drop in costs for high end mixing equipment.
Women will play more games as the technology improves, allowing them to have complex, emotional relationships with the characters they are interacting with.
The Sims is only the tip of the iceberg, but icebergs move at a glacial pace...
Could this be the title to finally turn the public on to the NOLF games?
With all the changes mentioned I'm not sure that this still qualifies as a NOLF game.
To me the character and the setting were what made it more interesting then your standard FPS. With those gone why shouldn't I just play Half-Life again?
anime is ALREADY mainstream. You just may not like the kind of anime that's broken through.
Did you notice that an Anime film just won an Oscar?
Anime airs regularly on multiple television networks, and a movie called "Cowboy Bebop" not only opened nationwide, it got reviewed (albeit unfavorably) in the New York Times.
Dragonball Z was, at one time, one of the top rated shows on cable. It was also the top rated show on Cartoon Network over the Powerpuff Girls and Scooby Doo.
Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh have permanently melted the brains of an entire generation of kids. In one year Pokemon cards alone raked in close to 1 Billion dollars! Oh yeah, and remember Pokemon the movie, the one that was the #1 movie in America for a while?
Anime themed magazines are on newstands across the country. Shonen Jump is a bestselling pure manga title.
Posting on Slashdot can be fun, but it's hardly personal, and I'd rather entertain a few hundred loyal readers every week than fight it out for a couple of lousy Karma points.
For those of us a little more patient and a little less technical Blogger is a perfect way for to create content as we surf the web.
Sure it's not perfect, but when it works it works well. I can post quickly when I discover something worth mentioning, and I have a complete archive on the site.
Whatever the net was, and whatever it will be, Blogger lies somewhere in between...
The problem with this view is that it assumes the objects themselves contain some kind of higher moral impact when they come into existance, which simply isn't true. The questions you're asking are naive, because what you posit is simply nonsensical. How do you assess the impact of a new technology? Perhaps we should let Science Fiction authors write these "technological impact reports".
While it's true that there are implications to our new technologies we've already turned the corner on this years ago. We've reached the point where in order to get these new technologies (read concepts) under control we must embrace our own ability to dream up new ideas to deal with the dangers.
We're entering a time where the cycle between envisioning a new idea and turning that dream into reality happens faster and faster. With the advent of the Internet our universe now changes at a rate of hundreds of times a day. And as Napster and other technologies have shown, often it outstrips our conceptual frameworks in the most surprising ways.
Cyberpunk was all fun and games until Gibson's vision of a universe where technology as an organism in the hands of the people became real. As this election is showing us we've entered a time of deep division between those on the street and those in the ivory towers and how the use and respond to technology.
The revolution won't just be televised, it will be television itself...
Conservative results on non-scientific (whatever the hell that means) Internet polls is hardly surprising.
Even Time, considered a liberal rag by most conservatives has wildly conservative results on their polling every time I've bothered to play in their sad little game.
During the Clinton impeachment they consistantly held the president deserved to be drawn and quatered and hung by the neck until dead, by a very wide margin.
Here's some more info:
http://www.people-press.org/onlinerpt.htm
--Drvital--
***********Remix Reality!
Between this and the eventual extinction of our sun we better get to work on those faster then light engines sooner rather than later if we plan to save whatever it is humanity is going to evolve into over the next few billion years!
While Looking Glass has done many amazing things over the last few years, a number of former LG team members are currently working for Irrational Games. This is the same company that produced Shock II, and are now doing "The Lost" for Crave. They are keeping the tradition of quality story and gameplay alive. http://www.irrational-games.com/
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Because now free access to music has created a marketing channel that allows the consumer to discover music that fits their tast instead of simply being inundated by whatever current pop song has the largest marketing budget.
The good music was always out there, now it's easier to find.
That closer alignment between supply and demand (beyond taping and bootlegs) creates an economy that allows more of these second and third tier artists to produce high quality recordings. I'd also factor in the drastic drop in costs for high end mixing equipment.
That's an excellent point well stated, and one that I haven't seen mentioned before. Thanks.
Women will play more games as the technology improves, allowing them to have complex, emotional relationships with the characters they are interacting with.
The Sims is only the tip of the iceberg, but icebergs move at a glacial pace...
Your (gender bending) Power Pill
Could this be the title to finally turn the public on to the NOLF games?
With all the changes mentioned I'm not sure that this still qualifies as a NOLF game.
To me the character and the setting were what made it more interesting then your standard FPS. With those gone why shouldn't I just play Half-Life again?
The PC Version of the engine is out, and optimization work has already been done for that...
Coming out a few years after the game's initial release means that they're going to have to do something to pretty them up.
Your Power Pill
So your solution is to live in a constant state of fear, obsessing over the dead, and the horrible state of the planet?
I'll take the middle ground.
Cowboy Bebop is worthwhile.
Cowboy Bebop has taught me far more about how to deal with this life then you have.
anime is ALREADY mainstream. You just may not like the kind of anime that's broken through.
Did you notice that an Anime film just won an Oscar?
Anime airs regularly on multiple television networks, and a movie called "Cowboy Bebop" not only opened nationwide, it got reviewed (albeit unfavorably) in the New York Times.
Dragonball Z was, at one time, one of the top rated shows on cable. It was also the top rated show on Cartoon Network over the Powerpuff Girls and Scooby Doo.
Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh have permanently melted the brains of an entire generation of kids. In one year Pokemon cards alone raked in close to 1 Billion dollars! Oh yeah, and remember Pokemon the movie, the one that was the #1 movie in America for a while?
Anime themed magazines are on newstands across the country. Shonen Jump is a bestselling pure manga title.
etc. etc. etc.
its better to read them in order of they were made.
I'd suggest starting with Reaper Man. If you love it you can go back. That's where Pratchett really started hitting his stride.
I've tried giving people earlier works, but in the end it puts them off.
Posting on Slashdot can be fun, but it's hardly personal, and I'd rather entertain a few hundred loyal readers every week than fight it out for a couple of lousy Karma points.
For those of us a little more patient and a little less technical Blogger is a perfect way for to create content as we surf the web.
Sure it's not perfect, but when it works it works well. I can post quickly when I discover something worth mentioning, and I have a complete archive on the site.
Whatever the net was, and whatever it will be, Blogger lies somewhere in between...
www.bodymix.net
remixing reality
The problem with this view is that it assumes the objects themselves contain some kind of higher moral impact when they come into existance, which simply isn't true. The questions you're asking are naive, because what you posit is simply nonsensical. How do you assess the impact of a new technology? Perhaps we should let Science Fiction authors write these "technological impact reports". While it's true that there are implications to our new technologies we've already turned the corner on this years ago. We've reached the point where in order to get these new technologies (read concepts) under control we must embrace our own ability to dream up new ideas to deal with the dangers. We're entering a time where the cycle between envisioning a new idea and turning that dream into reality happens faster and faster. With the advent of the Internet our universe now changes at a rate of hundreds of times a day. And as Napster and other technologies have shown, often it outstrips our conceptual frameworks in the most surprising ways. Cyberpunk was all fun and games until Gibson's vision of a universe where technology as an organism in the hands of the people became real. As this election is showing us we've entered a time of deep division between those on the street and those in the ivory towers and how the use and respond to technology. The revolution won't just be televised, it will be television itself...
Conservative results on non-scientific (whatever the hell that means) Internet polls is hardly surprising. Even Time, considered a liberal rag by most conservatives has wildly conservative results on their polling every time I've bothered to play in their sad little game. During the Clinton impeachment they consistantly held the president deserved to be drawn and quatered and hung by the neck until dead, by a very wide margin. Here's some more info: http://www.people-press.org/onlinerpt.htm --Drvital-- ***********Remix Reality!
Between this and the eventual extinction of our sun we better get to work on those faster then light engines sooner rather than later if we plan to save whatever it is humanity is going to evolve into over the next few billion years!
While Looking Glass has done many amazing things over the last few years, a number of former LG team members are currently working for Irrational Games. This is the same company that produced Shock II, and are now doing "The Lost" for Crave. They are keeping the tradition of quality story and gameplay alive. http://www.irrational-games.com/