Oh, I love Minecraft because it's not trying to pretend to be something it's not. Perhaps I could have felt the same way about Fallout 3 if it wasn't a Fallout game. To be fair, I suppose perhaps my attitude might be colored by fanboyism of the original Fallouts. It just didn't have the same feel. The ending annoyed me. I still spent plenty of time playing it, but I feel like they built this giant world for you to explore, and then when developing character construction and advancement, didn't take into account the fact that you'd actually explore it.
Yeah, really, it would be a win for both companies. I'd bet money against Bethesda actually doing it though. It will prove whether the suits or the devs run the company though.
That's just typical Mojang: Try to sidestep a perfectly valid and not-at-all overreaching trademark suit by bringing VIDEO GAMES of all things into the equation. Nothing about this industry has anything to do with gaming.
Of course, it's Bethesda. Thankfully, they're not in it for the GAMING, like some kind of video game developers. They're in it for the money, like a company ought to be. They'll do the right thing and make asses of themselves because the arrogantly assume they can own a word.
Why does Notch expect them to sell-out their morals and instincts for a few fleeting moments of fun and chance to be the bigger person over something they're making a bigger deal about than necessary?
Eh? It's out? I'll have to keep an eye for it in the Steam $5.00 section in a few months hopefully. Bethesda hasn't made a game that impressed me (in a non graphics related fashion) since Morrowind. I actually was looking forward to Fallout 3, thinking to myself, "Well, all of Bethesda's other games are beautiful sprawling wastelands with little actual content in them, so maybe they'll get this right." Instead I got "OMG Daddy NO!".
As far as the Quake 3 challenge, it's genius. Awesome rebuttal to a overreaction from a zealous legal department, and turning it down will just make Bethesda look bad.
I'm an idiot who ignores the iPod Touch? This is because I'm an idiot? My arguments include how phone gaming doesn't have effective controls, and that the games released lack complexity and length, and that's why they're sub-par. Who wants to play Doom when your controls consist of a featureless panel that you have to touch in the correct positions with little to no feedback indicating that you're even in the right location?
On the other hand, YOU accuse me of ignoring the Ipod Touch, and then proceed to talk about how people only have limited amounts of funds. People are going to have a phone. This is a fact. Why in the name of holy fanboi fuck would they then have an iPod Touch AND an iPhone (or other smartphone)? Furthermore, how does the existence of a iPhone that lacks the ability to make a phone call (iPod Touch) mitigate any of my concerns? It's the same 'system', with the same games, unless I'm missing some integral special feature to the Touch, because I've never actually held one. THIS is the reason why I didn't mention the Touch. It's because it doesn't matter. For the purposes of this conversation it's a feature-stripped iPhone. It's irrelevant. It sucks as much as any other smartphone does to play on, be it your iPhone or my DInc. You might as well have suggested that I'm an idiot for not mentioning board games, because they have fuck-all relevance to the conversation at hand.
I mean, did you INTEND to respond to me? Your response seems confused and not quite well thought out. I'm a little concerned that perhaps you meant it elsewhere, or at any rate, were trying to troll through an obvious and painstaking rape of logic, but forgot to check the AC option. Either way, it does a disservice to the general rep that those with UIDs 5 digits or less typically carry with them. You should be ashamed.
Fair enough, I'll concede that my rant was maybe more aimed at the "phone games are the new console games" crowd, though I will point out that the DS does have games with the length and plot complexity of Chrono Trigger. Of course, then again, as you pointed out, they're all remakes of the old games. The Nintendo set of games IS kind of dwindling down to just franchise games on one side and games made by Rare/Nintendo on the other, I guess.
Console/computer games are to app store games as the Sistine Chapel is to a Thomas Kincade painting, regardless of what even Nintendo may say. To suggest that an iPhone is a gaming system would also mean we also have to consider my old Nokia 3210 a gaming system because it had games on it too.
Honestly, what I think is going on is there's just more people coming to the 'gaming market', which dillutes the overall numbers of those who purchase dedicated video game systems. Also, the new 3DS has shit battery life, costs more than I'm willing to pay, and comes out only a few years after the DSi did, and I haven't gotten through my DS games yet anyway.
I gotta agree with Lysander7 here. The first thing I thought when I read the title was, "Holy shit, Apple put out a gaming system?" But no, they haven't. Wake me up whenever the Android/iPhone can play Doom with controls that don't make me want to stab myself or a developer puts out games with the length and plot complexity of Chrono Trigger. Until then, well, iPhone's a great system for casual gamers. Then again, so is Facebook.
That's a pretty bitter way of looking at it. I'd much rather see this kind of 'appropriating resources to have fun while others suffer' than the kind we usually have to look at.
But on the other hand, this is the age of hate, so please, cut loose.
but she sounds like a major thundercunt. You guys remember the age of sanity, when people did go running and crying to the courts when their FUCKING FEELINGS were hurt? Jesus Tapdancing Christ!
that both your and my comments haven't been modded down just tells how stupid this article is. chrome is the new "works only in this xx browser" and "experiment" is a code word for "advertisement"
And that's certainly a valid complaint. I can understand being annoyed/frustrated at that, and I'm inclined to agree with you. It's like you said however, "this post is like a youtube lame comment." I was just hoping for better.:/
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Does the constant hate ever get exhausting? I mean, I know it's trendy nowadays, but it wears me the fuck out.
widespread monetary systems, such as banks and credit card companies, also spend energy, arguably more than Bitcoin would.
I'm hardly a "environmentally minded individual", but this rationale kind of just bugs me. It's like saying "SUVs are great because they use less fuel than Semis do!"
That's a very good point I hadn't fully considered. I suppose you could tether some sort of "legal ownership" to the particular computation you ran to generate your FooCoin, but that's a door I would very much so like to leave closed.
What if you could somehow combine them both? Somehow make the bitcoin be a unique hash of some manner of @home CPU time, be it SETI, Folding, whatever. As a result the coin has some intrinsic value behind it, because it's representative of research being done. Granted, that still doesn't change the fact that no one will necessarily back it, giving it any value, but it might be a starting point.
Honestly, I think the government should back something like this with real money (given, at very small, manageable, rates) in some even just token effort to help push science.
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Oh, I love Minecraft because it's not trying to pretend to be something it's not. Perhaps I could have felt the same way about Fallout 3 if it wasn't a Fallout game. To be fair, I suppose perhaps my attitude might be colored by fanboyism of the original Fallouts. It just didn't have the same feel. The ending annoyed me. I still spent plenty of time playing it, but I feel like they built this giant world for you to explore, and then when developing character construction and advancement, didn't take into account the fact that you'd actually explore it.
Yeah, really, it would be a win for both companies. I'd bet money against Bethesda actually doing it though. It will prove whether the suits or the devs run the company though.
Congrats, you're the reason why his lawyers made him stop guaranteeing free updates. Ass.
That's just typical Mojang: Try to sidestep a perfectly valid and not-at-all overreaching trademark suit by bringing VIDEO GAMES of all things into the equation. Nothing about this industry has anything to do with gaming.
Of course, it's Bethesda. Thankfully, they're not in it for the GAMING, like some kind of video game developers. They're in it for the money, like a company ought to be. They'll do the right thing and make asses of themselves because the arrogantly assume they can own a word.
Why does Notch expect them to sell-out their morals and instincts for a few fleeting moments of fun and chance to be the bigger person over something they're making a bigger deal about than necessary?
Eh? It's out? I'll have to keep an eye for it in the Steam $5.00 section in a few months hopefully. Bethesda hasn't made a game that impressed me (in a non graphics related fashion) since Morrowind. I actually was looking forward to Fallout 3, thinking to myself, "Well, all of Bethesda's other games are beautiful sprawling wastelands with little actual content in them, so maybe they'll get this right." Instead I got "OMG Daddy NO!".
As far as the Quake 3 challenge, it's genius. Awesome rebuttal to a overreaction from a zealous legal department, and turning it down will just make Bethesda look bad.
To be fair, 'macfag' is kind of offensive, and contains a pejorative. The correct term is iFag.
With that same rationale, you should have never left MySpace.
How is Google's data-mining any different than Facebook's?
I'll have to check them out. Thanks for the recommendations.
I'm an idiot who ignores the iPod Touch? This is because I'm an idiot? My arguments include how phone gaming doesn't have effective controls, and that the games released lack complexity and length, and that's why they're sub-par. Who wants to play Doom when your controls consist of a featureless panel that you have to touch in the correct positions with little to no feedback indicating that you're even in the right location?
On the other hand, YOU accuse me of ignoring the Ipod Touch, and then proceed to talk about how people only have limited amounts of funds. People are going to have a phone. This is a fact. Why in the name of holy fanboi fuck would they then have an iPod Touch AND an iPhone (or other smartphone)? Furthermore, how does the existence of a iPhone that lacks the ability to make a phone call (iPod Touch) mitigate any of my concerns? It's the same 'system', with the same games, unless I'm missing some integral special feature to the Touch, because I've never actually held one. THIS is the reason why I didn't mention the Touch. It's because it doesn't matter. For the purposes of this conversation it's a feature-stripped iPhone. It's irrelevant. It sucks as much as any other smartphone does to play on, be it your iPhone or my DInc. You might as well have suggested that I'm an idiot for not mentioning board games, because they have fuck-all relevance to the conversation at hand.
I mean, did you INTEND to respond to me? Your response seems confused and not quite well thought out. I'm a little concerned that perhaps you meant it elsewhere, or at any rate, were trying to troll through an obvious and painstaking rape of logic, but forgot to check the AC option. Either way, it does a disservice to the general rep that those with UIDs 5 digits or less typically carry with them. You should be ashamed.
Fair enough, I'll concede that my rant was maybe more aimed at the "phone games are the new console games" crowd, though I will point out that the DS does have games with the length and plot complexity of Chrono Trigger. Of course, then again, as you pointed out, they're all remakes of the old games. The Nintendo set of games IS kind of dwindling down to just franchise games on one side and games made by Rare/Nintendo on the other, I guess.
Console/computer games are to app store games as the Sistine Chapel is to a Thomas Kincade painting, regardless of what even Nintendo may say. To suggest that an iPhone is a gaming system would also mean we also have to consider my old Nokia 3210 a gaming system because it had games on it too.
Honestly, what I think is going on is there's just more people coming to the 'gaming market', which dillutes the overall numbers of those who purchase dedicated video game systems. Also, the new 3DS has shit battery life, costs more than I'm willing to pay, and comes out only a few years after the DSi did, and I haven't gotten through my DS games yet anyway.
I gotta agree with Lysander7 here. The first thing I thought when I read the title was, "Holy shit, Apple put out a gaming system?" But no, they haven't. Wake me up whenever the Android/iPhone can play Doom with controls that don't make me want to stab myself or a developer puts out games with the length and plot complexity of Chrono Trigger. Until then, well, iPhone's a great system for casual gamers. Then again, so is Facebook.
I love you APK.
So, what I think you're trying to say here is "We can trust the police, because they say that we can trust them", right?
If so, no further questions. That sums it up.
I could use a good fecking.
That's a pretty bitter way of looking at it. I'd much rather see this kind of 'appropriating resources to have fun while others suffer' than the kind we usually have to look at.
But on the other hand, this is the age of hate, so please, cut loose.
Might you have found it more believable if he said, "Wut up 'da hizzle?"
Yeah, that's what happens when you're too angry to preview. Been a long day. Oh well.
but she sounds like a major thundercunt. You guys remember the age of sanity, when people did go running and crying to the courts when their FUCKING FEELINGS were hurt? Jesus Tapdancing Christ!
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I thought that shit went out with the dinosaurs.
that both your and my comments haven't been modded down just tells how stupid this article is. chrome is the new "works only in this xx browser" and "experiment" is a code word for "advertisement"
And that's certainly a valid complaint. I can understand being annoyed/frustrated at that, and I'm inclined to agree with you. It's like you said however, "this post is like a youtube lame comment." I was just hoping for better. :/
Does the constant hate ever get exhausting? I mean, I know it's trendy nowadays, but it wears me the fuck out.
widespread monetary systems, such as banks and credit card companies, also spend energy, arguably more than Bitcoin would.
I'm hardly a "environmentally minded individual", but this rationale kind of just bugs me. It's like saying "SUVs are great because they use less fuel than Semis do!"
That's a very good point I hadn't fully considered. I suppose you could tether some sort of "legal ownership" to the particular computation you ran to generate your FooCoin, but that's a door I would very much so like to leave closed.
What if you could somehow combine them both? Somehow make the bitcoin be a unique hash of some manner of @home CPU time, be it SETI, Folding, whatever. As a result the coin has some intrinsic value behind it, because it's representative of research being done. Granted, that still doesn't change the fact that no one will necessarily back it, giving it any value, but it might be a starting point.
Honestly, I think the government should back something like this with real money (given, at very small, manageable, rates) in some even just token effort to help push science.