These seems like as good a time as any to ask...is the iPod Touch worth buying just for games available on the platform? It seems like there are a ton of cool games out there for it, but I don't really want to plunk down the cash if it isn't worth it from a gaming point of view...
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It's a great buy if you win one in a contest like me.
I would love to actually write games for it but don't want to go buy a Mac. Still working on getting my VM OS X image up and running.
The 2D version is "too provocative in its anti-authoritarian message" and draws "attention to the sensitive issue of forced evictions" but the 3D and IMAX versions are ok? And censors realized it one week after they approved the movie and a lot of people already watched it? I'm puzzled.
Instead could that be a not-too-harsh message to the USA and the world after last week Google affair?
They only took the 2D version out of the Theatres because its already been uploaded to the Google Servers via the ie6 vulnerability.
You forgot the aimbot hackers that are in 1 in 4 games. That, by far, is the most irritating part of the multi-player experience. While it's easy to tell (thank you kill-cam) it's just irritating after getting connection to host errors 3 games in a row.
Not everyone who pulls of insane shots is using an aimbot. I have never played COD online, but I have played AA2 and AA3 a shitload. I have been banned from plenty of servers for dropping the admin at long range with a crap gun. If you always try for the insane shots, you quite often find you start pulling them off.
I remember playing Halo multiplayer maps and screaming bloody murder at the pricks cheating in the game. Then one saturday morning I turned on the TV and saw the Major League Gaming championships (www.mlgpro.com) and watched as these teams pulled off the most psychotic crap you've seen on non-modded hardware and at that point I realized that I just sucked at FPS's.
Actually, both posts were submitted at the same time, resulting in a quantum entanglement. They were both "first post" until measured. Yours was the anti-correlated part of the singlet.
"Wait a tick. Basil, if I travel back to 1969, and I was frozen in 1967, presumably, I could go visit my frozen self. But, if I'm still frozen in 1967, how could I have been unthawed in the 90's and traveled back to... (cross-eyed) Oh, no. I've gone cross-eyed."
Yep, and it's almost wrong to be asking Microsoft to patch something as old as IE6 or XP at this point. Maybe OS licenses should say "You may use this program for 5 years." instead of perpetually because you're a danger to other people's systems when you don't update to modern software.
Maybe not, but when you work at a hospital in the IT department and your patient critical applications are still relying on IE6 because the vendor who wrote it sucks and can't figure out how to make it work with an updated browser, you appreciate that Microsoft, however insistant they are on dropping that old clunker of an app, is at least trying to resolve it.
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These seems like as good a time as any to ask...is the iPod Touch worth buying just for games available on the platform? It seems like there are a ton of cool games out there for it, but I don't really want to plunk down the cash if it isn't worth it from a gaming point of view...
Opinions?
It's a great buy if you win one in a contest like me.
I would love to actually write games for it but don't want to go buy a Mac. Still working on getting my VM OS X image up and running.
The 2D version is "too provocative in its anti-authoritarian message" and draws "attention to the sensitive issue of forced evictions" but the 3D and IMAX versions are ok? And censors realized it one week after they approved the movie and a lot of people already watched it? I'm puzzled. Instead could that be a not-too-harsh message to the USA and the world after last week Google affair?
They only took the 2D version out of the Theatres because its already been uploaded to the Google Servers via the ie6 vulnerability.
You forgot the aimbot hackers that are in 1 in 4 games. That, by far, is the most irritating part of the multi-player experience. While it's easy to tell (thank you kill-cam) it's just irritating after getting connection to host errors 3 games in a row.
Not everyone who pulls of insane shots is using an aimbot. I have never played COD online, but I have played AA2 and AA3 a shitload. I have been banned from plenty of servers for dropping the admin at long range with a crap gun. If you always try for the insane shots, you quite often find you start pulling them off.
I remember playing Halo multiplayer maps and screaming bloody murder at the pricks cheating in the game. Then one saturday morning I turned on the TV and saw the Major League Gaming championships (www.mlgpro.com) and watched as these teams pulled off the most psychotic crap you've seen on non-modded hardware and at that point I realized that I just sucked at FPS's.
Actually, both posts were submitted at the same time, resulting in a quantum entanglement. They were both "first post" until measured. Yours was the anti-correlated part of the singlet.
"Wait a tick. Basil, if I travel back to 1969, and I was frozen in 1967, presumably, I could go visit my frozen self. But, if I'm still frozen in 1967, how could I have been unthawed in the 90's and traveled back to... (cross-eyed) Oh, no. I've gone cross-eyed."
Yep, and it's almost wrong to be asking Microsoft to patch something as old as IE6 or XP at this point. Maybe OS licenses should say "You may use this program for 5 years." instead of perpetually because you're a danger to other people's systems when you don't update to modern software.
Maybe not, but when you work at a hospital in the IT department and your patient critical applications are still relying on IE6 because the vendor who wrote it sucks and can't figure out how to make it work with an updated browser, you appreciate that Microsoft, however insistant they are on dropping that old clunker of an app, is at least trying to resolve it.