I don't really get how you can say that the iPod is in the "same range" as a Sansa. I paid $70 for my 4 gig sansa. I could have gotten a gimped music player, the iPod Shuffle, for the same price, but it'd only be 1gig. To get an iPod similar to my Sansa, I would have had to spend $200+.
While you're busy appealing to people's emotions, I'll do the same.
People may be good hearted, but perhaps, just perhaps... they are drug addicts, desperate for a fix and do not see the value of getting a job and working for money like the rest of society.
In my experience, the good people who are victims are NOT the ones robbing and vandalizing for money. The ones who are responsible for crime are the ones who couldn't give two shits about mugging a homeless guy for his change cup.
If we fix the grandparent, though, he still has a point.
"This is probably the worst misuse of the word 'hand' that I've ever seen."
Really, when you call something a bionic hand, you're implying it is a prosthetic limb. He still has his hand, it just doesn't work so great. The article is intentionally "misleading" but they "justify" it by including "quotes."
In particular, if your tactic is to simply take an existing work and hack your moral onto it, the product is likely to be weak and, I would argue, even counterproductive. Take Guitar Praise [guitarpraise.com] as an example. Straight guitar hero clone, with "christian" hacked onto it. Whatever you think about christianity, that is weak. It essentially says: "My religion is too sensitive for me to play a game with music that doesn't pander to it; but it also presents no compelling alternative to secular culture, so I'm just going to play a shitty clone with the offensive stuff clipped out." C'mon, either play guitar hero or come up with something that is genuinely inspired by, and an organic product of, your faith. Slapping a decal on somebody else's cultural product just makes you look uncreative and horribly thin skinned.
The Slashdot crowd so often claims to be so enlightened on the religion issue, and claims to have such valuable insights on religion over and over, and then accuses spiritual people of holding ignorant and biased beliefs. Well guess what, my spirituality comes under fire all the time and I have to defend it at work, to my friends and to my family.
I really want you to examine your post. First of all, I went to the website you linked, and it IS NOT filled with Jack Chick propaganda, like you'd lead people to believe. It's almost *exactly* what I'd expect a non-christian video game website to be. Nowhere on the website did it give me any indication that they thought "My religion is too sensitive for me to play a game with music that doesn't pander to it." Secondly, it's all Christian music, so fucking what? Guitar Hero released an all Aerosmith game! Would you prefer that they put a bunch of Christian music into Guitar Hero? Third, you say they made some cheap knockoff clone, like this is somehow unique to the industry. Lets see, we're looking at Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Rock Band World Tour, and Wii Music. After DDR came out, a bunch of other dancing games came out. Sure, innovation is great, but it is rare and acting like it isn't, is just ignorant.
Yes, it might be getting dangerously close to copyright infringement, but that isn't part of your argument. Yes, there are OTHER religious games and people that spout awful propaganda, but you picked to smear one that I think is being respectful. Smearing Guitar Praise for being Christian is as bad as religious people smearing Spore for promoting evolutionary concepts.
I can play a game again, that I've already played and enjoyed, but now it is sparklier(TM). When will the computer game industry realize we like great games, and graphics are secondary? This isn't a riff on Valve, their games are great, but even they seem to be caught up in this graphics race.
I'm sure this game will sell well, and people will love it, and it'll be lauded as a great success... even if the core game mechanics change significantly and the environment changes significantly, altering the whole feel of the game. That's how I felt when Halo 2 came out, which used abstract physics instead of Halo CE's more realistic physics. I'm tired of seeing "hyper-realism" being touted with every game that comes out. The publishers focus on things like graphics and "head bob" (I'm looking at you, Mirror's Edge.) Yet, I still don't get how games with "realistic head bob" get out the door. Does your vision bob up in down when you walk? No, our brains correct for that. Every simpleton should *realize* that with a little self examination.
I want to see better AI, better physics and more expansive, intelligent worlds. But in the immediate future, I think I can speak for everyone when I say, I want to see a *new* game or installment from Valve.
... thats a reason why they'll never scale and do what they need to do to become a long term success....Tesla will be a niche, like Porsche, Lambo, Ferrari, Aston Martin are.
So let me get this straight, because they make quality luxury cars, they are doomed to fail horribly, just like Porsche, Lambo, Ferrari, Aston Martin and BMW?
Really, take a good look at what you're saying. You're saying they should follow Ford's model of success (be first to market... how's that work for Tesla entering an established market?) and then they should "work their way up to building 'quality' luxury cars, just like Ford." Seriously, just look at how well that is working for Ford!
Yeah, when I got here, I couldn't believe that this article was in Idle. This is way more relevant than "WoW has another million players and another raid dungeon."
It took me 3 hours of tedious mini-games in order to do exactly what you describe (buy a large property) and the payoff ended up being so little! It was approximately 300 gold rent for a 60,000 gp propety. That means 200 ticks (1,000 minutes or 17 hours) has to pass to make up for your initial purchase!
Also, if you're evil, killing the owners actually substantially reduces the price. If you ruin the economy, you can cheaply afford the entire town, and then restore the economy or just extort people for a lot of cash. I played the game through twice, once playing as "good" and once as "evil." Yes, playing evil was a ton more fun and a lot more effective than playing good, compared to other games, like Mass Effect, Kotor, or even Fable I, where playing good or evil were both good choices.
What I really don't like is how the interpretation of 'Good' is that "Good equals Sacrifice." I like to play Good, especially my first time through a game, but Fable II made me miserable the entire game. It requires you to do tedious mini-games for cash, when you could just easily extort and kill people for their money.
Wouldn't it have been a truer interpretation if good players received better rewards from quests, since people would like them more? Wouldn't more townsfolk beseech the player with quests, knowing that he'd help them out?
Regardless of what real life is like, I don't want to grind away at a job to earn money the "Right Way."
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I don't really get how you can say that the iPod is in the "same range" as a Sansa. I paid $70 for my 4 gig sansa. I could have gotten a gimped music player, the iPod Shuffle, for the same price, but it'd only be 1gig. To get an iPod similar to my Sansa, I would have had to spend $200+.
There's been health concerns about PVC, though. Also, with the $30,000 condensers another poster mentioned, copper is used for its thermal properties.
While you're busy appealing to people's emotions, I'll do the same.
People may be good hearted, but perhaps, just perhaps... they are drug addicts, desperate for a fix and do not see the value of getting a job and working for money like the rest of society.
In my experience, the good people who are victims are NOT the ones robbing and vandalizing for money. The ones who are responsible for crime are the ones who couldn't give two shits about mugging a homeless guy for his change cup.
If we fix the grandparent, though, he still has a point.
"This is probably the worst misuse of the word 'hand' that I've ever seen."
Really, when you call something a bionic hand, you're implying it is a prosthetic limb. He still has his hand, it just doesn't work so great. The article is intentionally "misleading" but they "justify" it by including "quotes."
In particular, if your tactic is to simply take an existing work and hack your moral onto it, the product is likely to be weak and, I would argue, even counterproductive. Take Guitar Praise [guitarpraise.com] as an example. Straight guitar hero clone, with "christian" hacked onto it. Whatever you think about christianity, that is weak. It essentially says: "My religion is too sensitive for me to play a game with music that doesn't pander to it; but it also presents no compelling alternative to secular culture, so I'm just going to play a shitty clone with the offensive stuff clipped out." C'mon, either play guitar hero or come up with something that is genuinely inspired by, and an organic product of, your faith. Slapping a decal on somebody else's cultural product just makes you look uncreative and horribly thin skinned.
The Slashdot crowd so often claims to be so enlightened on the religion issue, and claims to have such valuable insights on religion over and over, and then accuses spiritual people of holding ignorant and biased beliefs. Well guess what, my spirituality comes under fire all the time and I have to defend it at work, to my friends and to my family.
I really want you to examine your post. First of all, I went to the website you linked, and it IS NOT filled with Jack Chick propaganda, like you'd lead people to believe. It's almost *exactly* what I'd expect a non-christian video game website to be. Nowhere on the website did it give me any indication that they thought "My religion is too sensitive for me to play a game with music that doesn't pander to it." Secondly, it's all Christian music, so fucking what? Guitar Hero released an all Aerosmith game! Would you prefer that they put a bunch of Christian music into Guitar Hero? Third, you say they made some cheap knockoff clone, like this is somehow unique to the industry. Lets see, we're looking at Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Rock Band World Tour, and Wii Music. After DDR came out, a bunch of other dancing games came out. Sure, innovation is great, but it is rare and acting like it isn't, is just ignorant.
Yes, it might be getting dangerously close to copyright infringement, but that isn't part of your argument. Yes, there are OTHER religious games and people that spout awful propaganda, but you picked to smear one that I think is being respectful. Smearing Guitar Praise for being Christian is as bad as religious people smearing Spore for promoting evolutionary concepts.
I can play a game again, that I've already played and enjoyed, but now it is sparklier(TM). When will the computer game industry realize we like great games, and graphics are secondary? This isn't a riff on Valve, their games are great, but even they seem to be caught up in this graphics race.
I'm sure this game will sell well, and people will love it, and it'll be lauded as a great success... even if the core game mechanics change significantly and the environment changes significantly, altering the whole feel of the game. That's how I felt when Halo 2 came out, which used abstract physics instead of Halo CE's more realistic physics. I'm tired of seeing "hyper-realism" being touted with every game that comes out. The publishers focus on things like graphics and "head bob" (I'm looking at you, Mirror's Edge.) Yet, I still don't get how games with "realistic head bob" get out the door. Does your vision bob up in down when you walk? No, our brains correct for that. Every simpleton should *realize* that with a little self examination.
I want to see better AI, better physics and more expansive, intelligent worlds. But in the immediate future, I think I can speak for everyone when I say, I want to see a *new* game or installment from Valve.
... thats a reason why they'll never scale and do what they need to do to become a long term success....Tesla will be a niche, like Porsche, Lambo, Ferrari, Aston Martin are.
So let me get this straight, because they make quality luxury cars, they are doomed to fail horribly, just like Porsche, Lambo, Ferrari, Aston Martin and BMW?
Really, take a good look at what you're saying. You're saying they should follow Ford's model of success (be first to market... how's that work for Tesla entering an established market?) and then they should "work their way up to building 'quality' luxury cars, just like Ford." Seriously, just look at how well that is working for Ford!
Yeah, when I got here, I couldn't believe that this article was in Idle. This is way more relevant than "WoW has another million players and another raid dungeon."
What, is this some sort of Schrodinger's player?
It took me 3 hours of tedious mini-games in order to do exactly what you describe (buy a large property) and the payoff ended up being so little! It was approximately 300 gold rent for a 60,000 gp propety. That means 200 ticks (1,000 minutes or 17 hours) has to pass to make up for your initial purchase!
Also, if you're evil, killing the owners actually substantially reduces the price. If you ruin the economy, you can cheaply afford the entire town, and then restore the economy or just extort people for a lot of cash. I played the game through twice, once playing as "good" and once as "evil." Yes, playing evil was a ton more fun and a lot more effective than playing good, compared to other games, like Mass Effect, Kotor, or even Fable I, where playing good or evil were both good choices.
What I really don't like is how the interpretation of 'Good' is that "Good equals Sacrifice." I like to play Good, especially my first time through a game, but Fable II made me miserable the entire game. It requires you to do tedious mini-games for cash, when you could just easily extort and kill people for their money. Wouldn't it have been a truer interpretation if good players received better rewards from quests, since people would like them more? Wouldn't more townsfolk beseech the player with quests, knowing that he'd help them out? Regardless of what real life is like, I don't want to grind away at a job to earn money the "Right Way."