Movies are art because movies can inspire the full range of human emotions.
It depends on your involvement. If I chose not to get involved with a movie I can watch it without missing one bit and not to feel what was intended, doing witty remarks instead. Same for games.
A game allow a higher level of immersion because of its interactive nature. Some young gamers often are agitated when they play, moving towards the direction they want the character go. Often gamers not only relate to the main character, as it is expected but feel as is it was some sort of impersonation of themselves.
Maybe game plots don't appeal you and you doesn't feel very involved. If you did, you would see that games can at the very least cause the same effects as movies... unless they are crappy.
Personally lack of plot adds to the crappiness level, YMMV. It would be interesting to know what kind of games you do like.
...and actually people volunteered for it. There was a lot of hype.
In case you are wondering:
Yes, you are inside it, more precisely the third iteration of recursive simulations.
The reality is actually very different from the world we experience, because the physics were simplified and altered many times. At this rate they only resemble slightly the real physical laws.
There is nothing wrong with achievements. They are not unethical at all.
They are part of gaming experience that many players find enjoyable. Gamers are not required to complete achievements, so as long as the player can choose whether he will pursue or not the achievements and still gets an enjoyable experience for doing or while not doing so, it is fine.
If there is still a sizable amount of game content and/or other games to satisfy the unsatisfied player, there is no need to complain.
I think in general though, it would be easier to control mammals (like us humans) and amphibians rather than insects which tend to bread much more vociferously.
I don't know. Human population is pretty hard to control.
For a long time, original games were very rare on Brazil. People got used to buying pirated games because there was no option, since the stores that selled original games were so few and had such limited (and expensive) selection.
This is more of a cultural problem, like TFA said.
I'd be surprised to hear that a PS2 actually costs $250 in Brazil.
Just checked. A new PS2 costs 569 R$ in a popular online store (www.submarino.com.br), the equivalent to 259 US$. A original PS2 game costs usually around 100 US$ (the same store above) and goes only as low as 50 US$ in a few stores (and when I say few, I mean it).
Also, brazilian average income is way lower than US citizen income. While US people usual annual income is between 25k - 50k US$ our is usually between 5k - 20k US$.
If you ask why the tariff continues, it continues because it hasn't angered enough Brazilians to make them vote in a legislature that would repeal the tariff. Or are you asking why it was instituted in the first place?
In Brazil, corruption runs wild. It would be necessary a massive commotion to move our politicians.
Our taxes raise steadily through history, taking a greater and greater percentual of our income. Every good brazilian wants it to change, but do they care? No. They like our money better.
I don't know... I always thought "what happened before the Big Bang" is a good question. I am still expecting a convincing answer.
I have heard that there was no time "before the Big Bang" because timespace is a single thing, but that only makes me wonder what triggered time or how matter could exist outside space, since there was no time.
Then, I get an explanation about how particles appear and disapear, coming and going from "somewhere else" (sorry, I don't remember the right term) without an apparent reason and how this happens all the time, but was particulary important when the matter was concentrated in one point.
This doesn't seem very rudimentary for me, I feel that I'm lacking information. Like: where exactly does the particles come from and if the particle appearing/disappearing happens in such small scale, how did the massively dense universe get formed.
Maybe, the school systems are going about it all wrong. Instead of having "blockers," poke "holes." I would assume that the access to the internet is not intended to be for the entertainment of the student. It likely has a purpose, namely assisting with research, email, or whatever else. The simple solution is to tell the student users, "This is for [purpose] only." And allow sites that assist with that purpose. If a student really wants to read about some other subject, they can research it at home, or at a local library, or a freaking coffee shop if they really want to. I'm sure that even Tennessee has a Starbucks or something to provide that in the towns.
I used to work in a place where the "hole poking blocking system" was used. They called it "whitelist" (as opposed to blacklist).
It was very burocratic and slow. Teachers often weren't able to teach the scheduled topics because of delay on unblocking, and kids would often just play educational games.
It could work, but involved more effort than the people wanted to spend there.
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I played FFVII when it was first released. I even cried when Aeris died. But I was a child back then, so I had much lower standards.
Sometimes low standards are a good thing, I surely would enjoy life more if I didn't have to worry about "standards".
Movies are art because movies can inspire the full range of human emotions.
It depends on your involvement. If I chose not to get involved with a movie I can watch it without missing one bit and not to feel what was intended, doing witty remarks instead. Same for games.
A game allow a higher level of immersion because of its interactive nature. Some young gamers often are agitated when they play, moving towards the direction they want the character go. Often gamers not only relate to the main character, as it is expected but feel as is it was some sort of impersonation of themselves.
Maybe game plots don't appeal you and you doesn't feel very involved. If you did, you would see that games can at the very least cause the same effects as movies... unless they are crappy.
Personally lack of plot adds to the crappiness level, YMMV. It would be interesting to know what kind of games you do like.
...and actually people volunteered for it. There was a lot of hype.
In case you are wondering:
This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick
Also this: http://xkcd.com/243/
Have fun.
There is nothing wrong with achievements. They are not unethical at all.
They are part of gaming experience that many players find enjoyable. Gamers are not required to complete achievements, so as long as the player can choose whether he will pursue or not the achievements and still gets an enjoyable experience for doing or while not doing so, it is fine.
If there is still a sizable amount of game content and/or other games to satisfy the unsatisfied player, there is no need to complain.
I didn't know you could grow them. Have some spare seeds?
I don't know if zombie ants can be overlords. They lack brains.
I think in general though, it would be easier to control mammals (like us humans) and amphibians rather than insects which tend to bread much more vociferously.
I don't know. Human population is pretty hard to control.
It would never work. It's full of bugs.
Yeah. Some of them are called Bob.
Last time I checked, insects weren't plants.
Agreed. The developers should be sued if their software gives food poisoning.
For a long time, original games were very rare on Brazil. People got used to buying pirated games because there was no option, since the stores that selled original games were so few and had such limited (and expensive) selection.
This is more of a cultural problem, like TFA said.
I'd be surprised to hear that a PS2 actually costs $250 in Brazil.
Just checked. A new PS2 costs 569 R$ in a popular online store (www.submarino.com.br), the equivalent to 259 US$. A original PS2 game costs usually around 100 US$ (the same store above) and goes only as low as 50 US$ in a few stores (and when I say few, I mean it).
Also, brazilian average income is way lower than US citizen income. While US people usual annual income is between 25k - 50k US$ our is usually between 5k - 20k US$.
If you ask why the tariff continues, it continues because it hasn't angered enough Brazilians to make them vote in a legislature that would repeal the tariff. Or are you asking why it was instituted in the first place?
In Brazil, corruption runs wild. It would be necessary a massive commotion to move our politicians.
Our taxes raise steadily through history, taking a greater and greater percentual of our income. Every good brazilian wants it to change, but do they care? No. They like our money better.
And if environmental changes don't kill them till there, we will send our superior penguin robot army.
I think you have a point here. I mean, it's LEGO. LEGO!
I don't see how they are going to need PS3 capabilities. Maybe some filtering, but probably nothing PS2 can't handle (or come close to).
Or do we need high definition LEGO?
I don't know... I always thought "what happened before the Big Bang" is a good question. I am still expecting a convincing answer.
I have heard that there was no time "before the Big Bang" because timespace is a single thing, but that only makes me wonder what triggered time or how matter could exist outside space, since there was no time.
Then, I get an explanation about how particles appear and disapear, coming and going from "somewhere else" (sorry, I don't remember the right term) without an apparent reason and how this happens all the time, but was particulary important when the matter was concentrated in one point.
This doesn't seem very rudimentary for me, I feel that I'm lacking information. Like: where exactly does the particles come from and if the particle appearing/disappearing happens in such small scale, how did the massively dense universe get formed.
...even google failed me.
Unless you have a club.
I've been shielded most of my childhood. As a result, my head is much less messed up than a lot of people I know, which were raised more loose.
I am grateful.
The kids will get in contact with the real world sooner or later, but I believe certain subjects need a greater degree of maturity.
If the parents actually care for the children, and not just about their lifestyle, there is nothing wrong in shielding them.
Maybe, the school systems are going about it all wrong. Instead of having "blockers," poke "holes." I would assume that the access to the internet is not intended to be for the entertainment of the student. It likely has a purpose, namely assisting with research, email, or whatever else. The simple solution is to tell the student users, "This is for [purpose] only." And allow sites that assist with that purpose. If a student really wants to read about some other subject, they can research it at home, or at a local library, or a freaking coffee shop if they really want to. I'm sure that even Tennessee has a Starbucks or something to provide that in the towns.
I used to work in a place where the "hole poking blocking system" was used. They called it "whitelist" (as opposed to blacklist).
It was very burocratic and slow. Teachers often weren't able to teach the scheduled topics because of delay on unblocking, and kids would often just play educational games.
It could work, but involved more effort than the people wanted to spend there.
Can you please explain what part of playing a violet game is a sin?
It is not a "sin", it's a sim.
Maybe if people stopped trying so hard to measure these "economic times" they wouldn't be so "uncertain"
What if it concludes that humans are genetically inefficient and decides to replace them with a specie designed by itself?
What about Wally or something like that?