Huh, this makes me want to see a game not designed by the military that plays with this idea. Say, three traditionally "evil" factions (possibly Russians, Arabs, and PMCs?) and a fictional conflict. Give each side a good reason for fighting, and make sure that it stays as ambiguous as possible who's really doing the right thing.
A lot of people put a lot of emotional stock into Facebook. That sounds crazy, but let me explain.
I'm going into my junior year of college. About a month and a half ago, a well-liked girl from my high school class and her entire family died in a car crash in California. My news feed was suddenly flooded with posts to her wall of people trying to find some sort of closure. Personally, I didn't know her too well, but we had a lot of mutual friends. Many of my friends still post on her wall, because it's their way of dealing with the tragedy.
If Facebook just closed the account, many of my friends would just be bottling up their emotions. I'm sure it's a weird thing to think about if you're not used to thinking about Facebook, but it does provide some sort of healing in a situation like that. If nothing else, I want Facebook to keep the pages of the dead open to help in a case like this.
You were expecting too much out of the games. Penumbra was a very small team who built their own 3D graphics engine and physics engine and built an incredibly terrifying adventure. Lugaru is a great, if simplistic, brawler written by a single guy (also with its own custom 3D engine). Aquaria's play controls are very good, although mouse controls in general can be a bit frustrating. Gish is... alright I don't like Gish. Still, that's 4/5 games from the pack. Just keep in mind how small these teams were and what they accomplished.
Fast food certainly supports the lazy and impatient, but have you really never been in a situation where you have all of 10 minutes to go and find food somewhere when you spot the golden arches?
The key phrase in the above post was "very unlikely". Violence perpetrated by Christians in this day and age does happen, but is significantly rarer than violence by Muslims.
I'm not a member of the forum, but I do occasionally lurk there after watching some of the video content they have. People are constantly getting banned for what appear to me to be non-offenses (just read a large thread, you'll see at least three people who have been banned recently). Why anyone would want to post in an environment like that is beyond me.
(For what it's worth, I never found their banner ads to be terribly intrusive, so I never AdBlocked them. That's changing today.)
A quick glimpse at Wikipedia shows that Britney's first album was released in 1999. She was born in 1981. This means that at most one album was released when she was in the legal pedophilia age limit. Overly sexualized and creepy I'll agree with, but Britney Spears does not embody pedophilia.
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Why? A major tech company released a major product which is interesting for all sorts of reasons. Even if you're not the biggest fan of the iPad (I know I'm not) it's still something newsworthy on a site largely about technology.
I definitely agree with you that Guantanamo is wrong. The difference, however, is that Guantanamo is filled with people captured overseas who are believed to somehow be connected with terrorism for reasons other than "they're Arabs." The Japanese internment camps were filled with Americans whose only connection to the enemy at the time was "they're Japanese". That doesn't make Guantanamo more ok than the internment camps, but it does make them different. Stop claiming they're the same.
I really doubt it. High school started at 7:25 in the morning. I take long showers (longer when I'm trying to wake up) and made it a habit to eat breakfast so I didn't starve before lunch at noon. The bus arrived at around 6:40 every day. This all meant that I had to get up at 5:45 for school. My grades definitely suffered for it, and I'm certain that if I had to get up any earlier I would have just stopped going altogether.
Same with Torchlight. The only way it's a demo is that they're using the same engine and some of the same assets to build an MMO. The game itself is a complete (and incredibly fun) Diablo clone.
Depends on the gamer. I'm a mouse-and-keyboard guy myself, but I know a lot of people who I'd qualify as hardcore who prefer gamepads. And when it comes to a less competitive game (say, a good adventure or role-playing game) I do prefer gamepads.
I can't see either Sony or Microsoft succeeding, regardless of the quality of their actual products. The problem is that the "hardcore" gamers, the ones who flock to the Playstation and Xbox, don't want a motion controller. They're content to play games with a gamepad. Meanwhile, the more "casual" gamers have already gone with the Wii. Anybody looking into buying a new system with motion controls will see that the Wii is $200 while the PS3/360 are ~$300 plus the cost of the motion controllers.
This has nothing to do with the quality of the products (I suspect Natal's going to suck hard, though the feedback from Move seems to be pretty good) and everything to do with what people want. If Sony or Microsoft released a new, cheaper console with a motion controller packed in, I could see that being successful. As it stands, I can't see too many people dropping $100 to play LittleBigPlanet with a motion controller.
I don't think he was advocating a system more like ours. Rather, a truly communist society has no government, since then the government officials wouldn't be equal (or what government there would be would simply be police force/courts/army, nothing else).
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Huh, this makes me want to see a game not designed by the military that plays with this idea. Say, three traditionally "evil" factions (possibly Russians, Arabs, and PMCs?) and a fictional conflict. Give each side a good reason for fighting, and make sure that it stays as ambiguous as possible who's really doing the right thing.
A lot of people put a lot of emotional stock into Facebook. That sounds crazy, but let me explain.
I'm going into my junior year of college. About a month and a half ago, a well-liked girl from my high school class and her entire family died in a car crash in California. My news feed was suddenly flooded with posts to her wall of people trying to find some sort of closure. Personally, I didn't know her too well, but we had a lot of mutual friends. Many of my friends still post on her wall, because it's their way of dealing with the tragedy.
If Facebook just closed the account, many of my friends would just be bottling up their emotions. I'm sure it's a weird thing to think about if you're not used to thinking about Facebook, but it does provide some sort of healing in a situation like that. If nothing else, I want Facebook to keep the pages of the dead open to help in a case like this.
You were expecting too much out of the games. Penumbra was a very small team who built their own 3D graphics engine and physics engine and built an incredibly terrifying adventure. Lugaru is a great, if simplistic, brawler written by a single guy (also with its own custom 3D engine). Aquaria's play controls are very good, although mouse controls in general can be a bit frustrating. Gish is... alright I don't like Gish. Still, that's 4/5 games from the pack. Just keep in mind how small these teams were and what they accomplished.
Fast food certainly supports the lazy and impatient, but have you really never been in a situation where you have all of 10 minutes to go and find food somewhere when you spot the golden arches?
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Except if I make a website devoted to Apple for fanboys and the like I'm not going to get a C&D from them.
No it's not, that's a spoon!
The reason is simple: the people who today call themselves Republicans aren't.
The key phrase in the above post was "very unlikely". Violence perpetrated by Christians in this day and age does happen, but is significantly rarer than violence by Muslims.
I'm not a member of the forum, but I do occasionally lurk there after watching some of the video content they have. People are constantly getting banned for what appear to me to be non-offenses (just read a large thread, you'll see at least three people who have been banned recently). Why anyone would want to post in an environment like that is beyond me.
(For what it's worth, I never found their banner ads to be terribly intrusive, so I never AdBlocked them. That's changing today.)
A quick glimpse at Wikipedia shows that Britney's first album was released in 1999. She was born in 1981. This means that at most one album was released when she was in the legal pedophilia age limit. Overly sexualized and creepy I'll agree with, but Britney Spears does not embody pedophilia.
Why? A major tech company released a major product which is interesting for all sorts of reasons. Even if you're not the biggest fan of the iPad (I know I'm not) it's still something newsworthy on a site largely about technology.
You clearly have never been to 4chan.
I dunno, they had this neat technology called "rumble" that they introduced partway through the life cycle, and it seemed to catch on pretty well ;D
I definitely agree with you that Guantanamo is wrong. The difference, however, is that Guantanamo is filled with people captured overseas who are believed to somehow be connected with terrorism for reasons other than "they're Arabs." The Japanese internment camps were filled with Americans whose only connection to the enemy at the time was "they're Japanese". That doesn't make Guantanamo more ok than the internment camps, but it does make them different. Stop claiming they're the same.
I really doubt it. High school started at 7:25 in the morning. I take long showers (longer when I'm trying to wake up) and made it a habit to eat breakfast so I didn't starve before lunch at noon. The bus arrived at around 6:40 every day. This all meant that I had to get up at 5:45 for school. My grades definitely suffered for it, and I'm certain that if I had to get up any earlier I would have just stopped going altogether.
Same with Torchlight. The only way it's a demo is that they're using the same engine and some of the same assets to build an MMO. The game itself is a complete (and incredibly fun) Diablo clone.
Well at least Hyrule's safe.
People playing roguelikes :)
Depends on the gamer. I'm a mouse-and-keyboard guy myself, but I know a lot of people who I'd qualify as hardcore who prefer gamepads. And when it comes to a less competitive game (say, a good adventure or role-playing game) I do prefer gamepads.
I can't see either Sony or Microsoft succeeding, regardless of the quality of their actual products. The problem is that the "hardcore" gamers, the ones who flock to the Playstation and Xbox, don't want a motion controller. They're content to play games with a gamepad. Meanwhile, the more "casual" gamers have already gone with the Wii. Anybody looking into buying a new system with motion controls will see that the Wii is $200 while the PS3/360 are ~$300 plus the cost of the motion controllers.
This has nothing to do with the quality of the products (I suspect Natal's going to suck hard, though the feedback from Move seems to be pretty good) and everything to do with what people want. If Sony or Microsoft released a new, cheaper console with a motion controller packed in, I could see that being successful. As it stands, I can't see too many people dropping $100 to play LittleBigPlanet with a motion controller.
I don't think he was advocating a system more like ours. Rather, a truly communist society has no government, since then the government officials wouldn't be equal (or what government there would be would simply be police force/courts/army, nothing else).
How are you not modded troll? Do you really believe that everyone who's a member of a HOA is racist?
Try telling your wife sometime that you've slept with less than seven other women since you got married. That'll go over real well.
Sorry to hear about your boyhood farmyard accident.