yeah no crap. With me they are always from Malaysia and Hong Kong though. At least if they were from Latin America I could try some high school spanish on them.
True, but you'd have to think that Disney makes an equal or greater amount of money off those same sports via ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPN News, and Various ABC broadcast sports contracts. It is a bit mindboggling that EA could get anywhere close.
It's true that the gaming industry gets plenty of stories written, but I think the movie industry is leaps and bounds ahead when it comes to airtime. Other than that crappily produced G4 channel, you never see games on TV or radio, whereas you get movie industry news daily on the big broadcast channels like NBC, ABC, etc..
I guess I just watched too much Comedy Central for those couple of months when it was released, because I think thats where they dumped all the excess advertising money, judging by the amount of Conker commercials.
However, extraordinary steps were taken to make sure no one under 18 could purchase the game, and because of this, little advertising money was spent.
Little advertising money was spent???! I think I've sat through more Conkers Bad Fur Day commercials in the last few years than any other video game!
Re:I wonder how much of this is quality . . .
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I tried to read some Heinlein. Ugh... I don't know if it was just that book (Moon is a Harsh Mistress) but something about the sentence structure was unbearable!
I've found that most women have some inate ability to completely rock at fighting games. I've been at parties where a guy with 100 hours of street fighter under his belt loses to someone's girlfriend who has never played.
Lets see now, do you really think that girl is just going to pick up a controller and beat a bunch of dorks that have been practicing combos for 100+ hours?
Or would it be much more plausible that said dorks probably want to score with this girl and let her win as some sort of social icebreaker.
Consoles (while i love them) have always been aimed at a more mass audience, and for that reason, I think that console game are better than ever today. While I loved my SNES, there are a lot of great games on the new systems.
PC gaming is the one that worries me though. I think the reason the late 80's early 90's was such a great time for deep, involved computer games was that the only computer users at the time were geeks. We demanded a certain level of complexity in our games. If you don't believe me, pick up a 1988 issue of Computer Gaming World and check out the in depth dicussions of physics and the like.
As the mass audience moves towards the PC as well, I think geeks will have to look a lot harder to find a challenging game.
Sounds like you need to buy a level 50 barbarian on ebay;-)
Re:its gonna suck to be stupid 10 years from now
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Nah, "stupid" will just move up a notch and the stupid people will be that much more advanced. I mean stupid people today are driving cars, operating computers to some degree, and have a somewhat decent scientific understanding of things like germs cause disease, and evolution, and other things.
In contrast, Stupid People in the middle ages were illiterate and relied on a lot of superstition.
So future stupid people will probably be just fine with new technology. The problems will come when todays stupid people can't handle new tech, much like many seniors today and computers.
Future geeks will probably be just as aggrivated with these new advanced stupid people.
Think there is any chance of a "big one" extending the gulf of mexico another couple hundred miles? That would take care of the real nasty parts of this country much better than the loss of California?
Thats quality humor... I'd mod it up if I hadn't turned off the ability to mod casue it crashed my laptop what with the 500 Pull-down Menu Widgets and all.
This makes sense. While I've never clicked on an X-10 Camera ad, I certainly know from the "billboard" effect what product they are selling. And if i was ever in the need for such a product, I'd probably at least look at them as an option.
gba's got lot of juice and gamebase to suck from(snes) to go for couple of years imho
it needs a slight update though. In order to truly bring us SNES-goodness as well as have more freedom with new titles, they need to have A, B, X, Y, L, R like the SNES controller (best controller ever made, in my opinion). 4 buttons with 2 of them being shoulder buttons just doesn't cut it for certain types of games.
the good news is that, in a few years, technology will have made it so that its not so expensive for cable companies to let customers download to their hearts content every month
Oh come on now, you know when companies get hooked on charging these overlimit fees and caps they won't let the public know that the infrastructure is in place to go back to unlimited. Do you really think a five minute call from NY to DC costs your phone company 25 cents? They could go flat-rate, but they are addicted to nickel-and-diming you.
The only counterexample i can think of is when AOL went from per-minute to flat rate in the mid 90s. And they gained like 7 million customers because of it. Unless ATTBI sees 7 million new customers getting excited, they probably won't want to give up the caps even when they can afford to.
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If guns don't kill people, but people kill people, then wouldn't it follow that New Jersey should enact a "Smart People" law???
yeah no crap. With me they are always from Malaysia and Hong Kong though. At least if they were from Latin America I could try some high school spanish on them.
Bullshit. More people are more literate today than at any time in the past.
I posted "Bill Gates is frightful",
and I got a "+1 Insightful",
So if you've no place to go,
log on and troll, log on and troll, log on and trooooll!
Thank you very much.
Perhaps the guy who just asked slashdot has his answer.
True, but you'd have to think that Disney makes an equal or greater amount of money off those same sports via ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPN News, and Various ABC broadcast sports contracts. It is a bit mindboggling that EA could get anywhere close.
Perhaps he meant to say "air" rather than "ink".
It's true that the gaming industry gets plenty of stories written, but I think the movie industry is leaps and bounds ahead when it comes to airtime. Other than that crappily produced G4 channel, you never see games on TV or radio, whereas you get movie industry news daily on the big broadcast channels like NBC, ABC, etc..
fair enough.
I guess I just watched too much Comedy Central for those couple of months when it was released, because I think thats where they dumped all the excess advertising money, judging by the amount of Conker commercials.
However, extraordinary steps were taken to make sure no one under 18 could purchase the game, and because of this, little advertising money was spent.
Little advertising money was spent???! I think I've sat through more Conkers Bad Fur Day commercials in the last few years than any other video game!
I tried to read some Heinlein. Ugh... I don't know if it was just that book (Moon is a Harsh Mistress) but something about the sentence structure was unbearable!
It was marked a troll because before you made your good point, you trolled for AOL users.
I've found that most women have some inate ability to completely rock at fighting games. I've been at parties where a guy with 100 hours of street fighter under his belt loses to someone's girlfriend who has never played.
Lets see now, do you really think that girl is just going to pick up a controller and beat a bunch of dorks that have been practicing combos for 100+ hours?
Or would it be much more plausible that said dorks probably want to score with this girl and let her win as some sort of social icebreaker.
Hmm.. tough one
perhaps the submitter thought this was everything2.
Very good post, wish I had mod points.
Consoles (while i love them) have always been aimed at a more mass audience, and for that reason, I think that console game are better than ever today. While I loved my SNES, there are a lot of great games on the new systems.
PC gaming is the one that worries me though. I think the reason the late 80's early 90's was such a great time for deep, involved computer games was that the only computer users at the time were geeks. We demanded a certain level of complexity in our games. If you don't believe me, pick up a 1988 issue of Computer Gaming World and check out the in depth dicussions of physics and the like.
As the mass audience moves towards the PC as well, I think geeks will have to look a lot harder to find a challenging game.
Sounds like you need to buy a level 50 barbarian on ebay ;-)
Nah, "stupid" will just move up a notch and the stupid people will be that much more advanced. I mean stupid people today are driving cars, operating computers to some degree, and have a somewhat decent scientific understanding of things like germs cause disease, and evolution, and other things.
In contrast, Stupid People in the middle ages were illiterate and relied on a lot of superstition.
So future stupid people will probably be just fine with new technology. The problems will come when todays stupid people can't handle new tech, much like many seniors today and computers.
Future geeks will probably be just as aggrivated with these new advanced stupid people.
Think there is any chance of a "big one" extending the gulf of mexico another couple hundred miles? That would take care of the real nasty parts of this country much better than the loss of California?
How many miles of shelf space equal one Library of Congress? Lets use standard units here people!
Is anyone a little depressed that this was modded down as "flamebait"?
Thats quality humor... I'd mod it up if I hadn't turned off the ability to mod casue it crashed my laptop what with the 500 Pull-down Menu Widgets and all.
This makes sense. While I've never clicked on an X-10 Camera ad, I certainly know from the "billboard" effect what product they are selling. And if i was ever in the need for such a product, I'd probably at least look at them as an option.
gba's got lot of juice and gamebase to suck from(snes) to go for couple of years imho
it needs a slight update though. In order to truly bring us SNES-goodness as well as have more freedom with new titles, they need to have A, B, X, Y, L, R like the SNES controller (best controller ever made, in my opinion). 4 buttons with 2 of them being shoulder buttons just doesn't cut it for certain types of games.
Now, I'm not big fan of the MPAA, but it doesn't make you a bad person if your idea of high quality entertainment orginated AFTER the 19th century.
the good news is that, in a few years, technology will have made it so that its not so expensive for cable companies to let customers download to their hearts content every month
Oh come on now, you know when companies get hooked on charging these overlimit fees and caps they won't let the public know that the infrastructure is in place to go back to unlimited. Do you really think a five minute call from NY to DC costs your phone company 25 cents? They could go flat-rate, but they are addicted to nickel-and-diming you.
The only counterexample i can think of is when AOL went from per-minute to flat rate in the mid 90s. And they gained like 7 million customers because of it. Unless ATTBI sees 7 million new customers getting excited, they probably won't want to give up the caps even when they can afford to.
could anyone point me to a windows based utility that allows me to see how many FLOPs my home computer is doing?