In addition, very nearly no bill would ever successfully pass into law; you'll never have a bill that is universally agreed with by the majority of congress.
That's why there are so few Mac games: because there are so few Mac Pros. I've known quite a few Mac users. None of them seem to even care that there aren't games on their Macs. That's simply not why they bought their Mac.
As far as I know, it's not uncommon for the TV to light up like a Christmas tree in the event of an emergency anywhere in the US. However, I'm sure there are many people who have cell phones but don't pay very much attention to broadcast media. Presumably, those sorts of alerts are just as useful to those people.
The idea behind the amber alert is to inform as many people as possible about an abducted child and their abudctee so that there are many more eyes looking for the child.
The alerts aren't issued everytime a child goes missing. They are sent out when a case of an abducted child meets certain criteria.
Also from TFA:
Carriersâ(TM) participation in the system, which has strong support from the industry, is voluntary. And:
There would be three types of messages, according to the rules.
The first would be a national alert from the president, probably involving a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
The second would involve âoeimminent threatsâ that could include natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes or university shootings.
The third would be reserved for child abductions, so-called Amber alerts. Theoretically, at least, all of these involve things that have to actually happen before an alert is sent.
Gambling addicts are, by definition, people you'll regularly see buying lottery tickets. A casual player can almost be defined as someone you wouldn't regularly see playing the lotto.
Remove spawn camping from the game. Use only instanced environment for PvE combat.
You could remove spawn camping by instancing, but I would assume that there are still rare things (and not rare things that can be sold to a vendor) that appear in an instance. You would remove spawn camping and replace it with people repeating instances. Even if that is not the case, many MMOGers enjoy running into other players in the outside world. Some people even despise instances.
Require NPC interaction to get a 'quest' to open an instance or spawn das uber beast.
This already happens in games. But again, part of the fun is accidently running into the Uber Beast unexpectedly.
Use collision detection. Farm scripter will have a much harder time automating the process if someone blocks their route.
Assuming sophistication enough to automate the farming, I think it's safe to assume sophistication enough to move around monsters. Assuming you are talking about players blocking the scripters, what's to stop farmers from creating a wall of characters to block off access to an area?
To your last point(s), the economy in FFXI is largely player driven. The craft system is very elaborate. A very large portion of the items you get *are* created by players who practice various crafts. There aren't very many money sinks in FFXI, and most of the ones that are there are a very small drain. Money largely stays in the system circulating between players. You could put a hard limit on the amount of money that enters the game, but that would only make it more scarce and more profitable to farmers...*burp*
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Touche! ha ha. I should've specified that "like fire" referred to projectiles with their own sprites.
There were actually several instances in doom2 where the easiest way to clear those things was to run circles around them causing them to get into a fire fight.
Ahh. Who needs sophisticated AI when you have such genius level design? (Felt I had to make it at least marginally on-topic;)
Actually, for the sake of nitpickiness, Hell Barons wouldn't fight each other. All enemies of like type were immune to their own projectiles and thus would not change focus upon getting hit by their brethren.
The parent didn't say that people under 18 didn't play games. The parent states that survey's have shown that the vast majority of gamers are adults.
The parent also didn't say that games should be banned for people under 18. The idea is that if a company wants people under 18 to be able to play the game, they have to submit it for review.
Review boards wouldn't be necessary for most games, as they are obviously targetted to adults and could go straight to the stores with a rating of 18+. If a game is meant for a younger audience (or for all ages), it can be submitted and reviewed and then deemed appropriate. This also has the effet of stopping violent games from "slipping thru the cracks."
Back when I was in school, researching a subject typically meant going through encyclopedia after encyclopedia, which wasn't a bad thing. I learned quite a bit by being FORCED to over-research topics. Today, I can generally straight-shoot to whatever I need to find, giving my brain a good set of blinders to everything else along the way.
The same thing is still possible thru the Wikipedia. Don't forget that the whole thing is hyperlinked! I often find myself looking up stuff on Wikipedia only to get lost in it following the thread of links to some obscure topic.
As much as I like neat sound effects and what not, I don't think it's really necessary for video games to use more sophisticated processing for audio.
I would rather the developers spend more time choosing and mixing sounds more carefully. I've played at least a few wonderful games with sounds and music that don't go well together, drown each other out, or are just plain annoying. And let us not forget games that are any combination of those.
There's nothing like a great game that sounds and looks great, and a good ear and eye can make reasonably low tech game achieve that.
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In addition, very nearly no bill would ever successfully pass into law; you'll never have a bill that is universally agreed with by the majority of congress.
I wonder if that's such a bad thing.
And just imagine all the wonderful ways that could be abused.
Don't forget that the 's' on 'parents' is, at best, optional.
As far as I know, it's not uncommon for the TV to light up like a Christmas tree in the event of an emergency anywhere in the US. However, I'm sure there are many people who have cell phones but don't pay very much attention to broadcast media. Presumably, those sorts of alerts are just as useful to those people.
The idea behind the amber alert is to inform as many people as possible about an abducted child and their abudctee so that there are many more eyes looking for the child.
The alerts aren't issued everytime a child goes missing. They are sent out when a case of an abducted child meets certain criteria.
The first would be a national alert from the president, probably involving a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
The second would involve âoeimminent threatsâ that could include natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes or university shootings.
The third would be reserved for child abductions, so-called Amber alerts. Theoretically, at least, all of these involve things that have to actually happen before an alert is sent.
I'm more astounded that GP cites that as the ONE time the show had a moral message...
Gambling addicts are, by definition, people you'll regularly see buying lottery tickets. A casual player can almost be defined as someone you wouldn't regularly see playing the lotto.
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
A few thoughts about your thoughts...
Remove spawn camping from the game. Use only instanced environment for PvE combat.
You could remove spawn camping by instancing, but I would assume that there are still rare things (and not rare things that can be sold to a vendor) that appear in an instance. You would remove spawn camping and replace it with people repeating instances. Even if that is not the case, many MMOGers enjoy running into other players in the outside world. Some people even despise instances.
Require NPC interaction to get a 'quest' to open an instance or spawn das uber beast.
This already happens in games. But again, part of the fun is accidently running into the Uber Beast unexpectedly.
Use collision detection. Farm scripter will have a much harder time automating the process if someone blocks their route.
Assuming sophistication enough to automate the farming, I think it's safe to assume sophistication enough to move around monsters. Assuming you are talking about players blocking the scripters, what's to stop farmers from creating a wall of characters to block off access to an area?
To your last point(s), the economy in FFXI is largely player driven. The craft system is very elaborate. A very large portion of the items you get *are* created by players who practice various crafts. There aren't very many money sinks in FFXI, and most of the ones that are there are a very small drain. Money largely stays in the system circulating between players. You could put a hard limit on the amount of money that enters the game, but that would only make it more scarce and more profitable to farmers...*burp*
And that's precisely what has been done with Quest cigarettes.
Touche! ha ha. I should've specified that "like fire" referred to projectiles with their own sprites.
;)
There were actually several instances in doom2 where the easiest way to clear those things was to run circles around them causing them to get into a fire fight.
Ahh. Who needs sophisticated AI when you have such genius level design? (Felt I had to make it at least marginally on-topic
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Actually, for the sake of nitpickiness, Hell Barons wouldn't fight each other. All enemies of like type were immune to their own projectiles and thus would not change focus upon getting hit by their brethren.
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That was Nick Arcade, and if you look hard enough, you'll find that they still air the reruns.
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I understand your point, but I'm not saying that minors should be banned from playing video games. Neither was the grandparent post.
The idea is that the game won't be sold to a minor. If their parents don't mind them playing it, then they can buy it.
That neatly puts the control of what children are playing where it belongs: the parents.
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The parent didn't say that people under 18 didn't play games. The parent states that survey's have shown that the vast majority of gamers are adults.
The parent also didn't say that games should be banned for people under 18. The idea is that if a company wants people under 18 to be able to play the game, they have to submit it for review.
Review boards wouldn't be necessary for most games, as they are obviously targetted to adults and could go straight to the stores with a rating of 18+. If a game is meant for a younger audience (or for all ages), it can be submitted and reviewed and then deemed appropriate. This also has the effet of stopping violent games from "slipping thru the cracks."
Seems pretty reasonable to me
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The same thing is still possible thru the Wikipedia. Don't forget that the whole thing is hyperlinked! I often find myself looking up stuff on Wikipedia only to get lost in it following the thread of links to some obscure topic.
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As much as I like neat sound effects and what not, I don't think it's really necessary for video games to use more sophisticated processing for audio.
I would rather the developers spend more time choosing and mixing sounds more carefully. I've played at least a few wonderful games with sounds and music that don't go well together, drown each other out, or are just plain annoying. And let us not forget games that are any combination of those.
There's nothing like a great game that sounds and looks great, and a good ear and eye can make reasonably low tech game achieve that.
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Apparently it can only kill people in groups of only 28.
I have to stand up and say that I love the auto-save feature. It's very useful and definitely aids to the portability of the game. :)
If you don't like the outcome, just choose to restart the chapter. You can press start to skip thru all the cutscenes.
Anyways.
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Upgrading, leveling up and gaining new skills doesn't make something Massively Multiplayer.
If that were the case, I've been playing MMORPG's since 1987 or '88.
That's not true. At least as far back as 6 there has been some item or ability that turns them off.
Read the FAQs if you wish to verify.
From what I understand, and that could indeed be very limited, it's not so much story-rich as trying to create a really creepy experience.
After playing that beta that got released a while back...I can say that it's probably going to be really good at that.
*thinks about a bathroom mirror*