To each their own. Granted, as long as you're using weapons that do not need accurate aiming, and as long as you focus on exploring things where you literally walk over the enemies, controller will do just fine.
But if you ramp up the difficulty until you actually need to land those magic shots from a distance, controller playing will become exceptionally stressful because you'll keep dying to missing all the time.
As far as "imperfect control schemes" work, we already know that if you sell it to the masses in the right way, they'll bite. Shooters are a great example. They are horrendously bad on controllers, to the point where a few test runs of games like halo where PC users using mouse+keyboard playing on same servers as controller using console users resulted in bad PC gamers utterly annihilating great console players.
But it got marketed well, users got separated into servers for consoles and servers for PC and controller users got a very generous auto-aim. So now many play shooters on consoles, even though controller is absolutely terrible control scheme for a FPS game.
I fully expect same terribleness to carry over (as it already has) to touch screens, which are worse then both controllers and mice+keyboard control schemes for most things. That said, touchscreens are indeed bad enough to the point where games have to actually be gutted on gameplay, and not just "adjust to remove inaccuracy" because as pointed above, complex control schemes with multiple inputs just do not worth without proper haptic feedback on what you're pressing.
By that logic, linux has long eclipsed windows as its everywhere.
But on desktop/TV where the high budget games that are interesting to play for more then 10-15 min at a time are? Nope, no android. It's just windows, xbox and PS3 with some Nintendo stuff.
It does compete quite strongly with 3DS and Vita (which it likely gutted). But android has absolutely nothing in terms of games that are pretty, complex and engaging in long term. And it's unlikely to get any any time soon, as it has found its audience, which isn't interested in such games on the devices that run android anyway. They have a PC/console for those games.
True, but so did windows. Linux today gaming wise is probably where windows was back in the days of 98SE. You can install most drivers without having to fuck with the OS, and it's 3D API is starting to emerge as notable enough to use (again)... sort of.
But it's still crashy both on video drivers and API being badly implemented in it, and you still need fairly deep knowledge of the OS to get stuff properly installed, configured and running.
So it's not a business of your neighbours that in the next time one of you get drunk they have a significantly increased risk of getting hit by a stray bullet if they come to your porch to ask you to tone it down?
Heck, let's get closer to home. Is it not of business of those in your workplace or nearby school that you both own firearms and you happen to have a young adult son who's known to be violently anti-social?
It does because bees do not have one. Let me emphasize this point: they do not have any kind of centralized nervous system.
They also do not have blood circulation either. All of the organs essentially float in blood-like solution.
As a result, they do have very complex and fine motor control systems that enable them to react to stimuli. But they do not feel pain, as pain is a specific reaction to a stimulus carried and processed by central nervous system. You need centralization of your nerve systems to be able to sense pain as we do.
I believe this part was beyond hypothesis and well into theory. The bee stinger is a largely self reliant organ that can continue to function for a while producing venom after being ripped out of the bee, as a result being far more threatening then a simple sting when it remains stuck in the victim.
I can. They do not feel a thing. Insects lack a central nervous system, which is needed to have ability to feel what is happening to remote parts of your body.
I wouldn't. This is the "flavor of the year" kind of a thing, and next year people will move on. It's far too expensive for mass consumption, not easy to mass produce, and to get this to bring in big money you'd have to be able to synthesize it somehow with process that can be used to mass production.
Which in turn would bring the price down.
Else people will just stick to what works and is reasonably cheap, with a few ultra rich maybe using this until they find the next fad.
1. XP is still one of the most popular if not the most popular OS in the world. 64-bit XP on the other hand is non-existent. 2. 32-bit vista and seven were used quite a lot in older computers that had less then 4GB of RAM. I have a netbook bought a couple of years ago that caps at 2GB that uses 32-bit seven for example. It works fine.
It's actually the exact opposite. They are the ones on the offensive and they are the ones that will likely eventually win. Younger generation fully embraced massive levels of DRM and draconian content consumption limitations in modern smartphones for example.
The problem is the same as with shift to 1080p. Many methods used when filming were originally designed for low res, low frame rate films. As a result, stuff like caked makeup and skin problems on actors became visible forcing significant method changes for 1080p, and same is likely going to be needed to make 48fps to look "as reasonable" as 24fps looked. That is things like special effects and such which are known to fall flat in very annoying ways because the methods behind them rely on frame rates being low enough to obfuscate the problems, just low low res obfuscated caked makeup and skin problems.
Have they changed the policy? Do you still have to agree to it?
Then whatever they say about intentions is absolutely meaningless. They are still free to do whatever it is they allowed themselves to od in their policy, as long as it complies with all relevant local laws. In majority of the West, one can indeed sign away their copyright with a simple agreement.
"As stock glock wielder, I manage to take entire teams down no problem. Yes, desert eagle makes you better against them, but you can still hold your own just fine with glock".
Good luck trying that excuse in competitive scenario:D
You must be grandfather-aged. Nowadays people going to institutions of higher learning are expected to spend their free time working for free or pennies if they are to have any reasonable expectations of getting a job that corresponds to their education after graduation.
Easy days of having a job lined up after graduation for most people are long gone.
Japan also has no alternative source of energy that isn't extremely dependent on imports from unstable regions. They basically either invest massively into coal, including coal imports, or they restart nuclear. They simply have no alternatives, as they are indeed a small island for the population they have.
They still have serious problems with power to this day because of nuclear shut downs.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't be shocked... but skyrim belongs in the former category.
That's a rather hard comparison to make, as windows improved in different ways than linux.
There are probably mods that cover that...
These are the models that already come with a CPU. It's the laptop market stuff.
To each their own. Granted, as long as you're using weapons that do not need accurate aiming, and as long as you focus on exploring things where you literally walk over the enemies, controller will do just fine.
But if you ramp up the difficulty until you actually need to land those magic shots from a distance, controller playing will become exceptionally stressful because you'll keep dying to missing all the time.
As far as "imperfect control schemes" work, we already know that if you sell it to the masses in the right way, they'll bite. Shooters are a great example. They are horrendously bad on controllers, to the point where a few test runs of games like halo where PC users using mouse+keyboard playing on same servers as controller using console users resulted in bad PC gamers utterly annihilating great console players.
But it got marketed well, users got separated into servers for consoles and servers for PC and controller users got a very generous auto-aim. So now many play shooters on consoles, even though controller is absolutely terrible control scheme for a FPS game.
I fully expect same terribleness to carry over (as it already has) to touch screens, which are worse then both controllers and mice+keyboard control schemes for most things. That said, touchscreens are indeed bad enough to the point where games have to actually be gutted on gameplay, and not just "adjust to remove inaccuracy" because as pointed above, complex control schemes with multiple inputs just do not worth without proper haptic feedback on what you're pressing.
By that logic, linux has long eclipsed windows as its everywhere.
But on desktop/TV where the high budget games that are interesting to play for more then 10-15 min at a time are? Nope, no android. It's just windows, xbox and PS3 with some Nintendo stuff.
It does compete quite strongly with 3DS and Vita (which it likely gutted). But android has absolutely nothing in terms of games that are pretty, complex and engaging in long term. And it's unlikely to get any any time soon, as it has found its audience, which isn't interested in such games on the devices that run android anyway. They have a PC/console for those games.
True, but so did windows. Linux today gaming wise is probably where windows was back in the days of 98SE. You can install most drivers without having to fuck with the OS, and it's 3D API is starting to emerge as notable enough to use (again)... sort of.
But it's still crashy both on video drivers and API being badly implemented in it, and you still need fairly deep knowledge of the OS to get stuff properly installed, configured and running.
Money. Only the rich are allowed to "suck on the teats of the state" remember?
Honestly though, your answer pretty much shows the cultural chasm across Atlantic when it comes to guns.
So it's not a business of your neighbours that in the next time one of you get drunk they have a significantly increased risk of getting hit by a stray bullet if they come to your porch to ask you to tone it down?
Heck, let's get closer to home. Is it not of business of those in your workplace or nearby school that you both own firearms and you happen to have a young adult son who's known to be violently anti-social?
Look up star wreck. It looks better then original star treck and was done on shoestring budget.
There are many decentralized ways of understanding damage sustained by the whole. Many of these ways are, for example, used in internet routing.
Insects utilize many of these. But they do not have any ability to have their brain receive pain impulses from damaged leg for example.
It does because bees do not have one. Let me emphasize this point: they do not have any kind of centralized nervous system.
They also do not have blood circulation either. All of the organs essentially float in blood-like solution.
As a result, they do have very complex and fine motor control systems that enable them to react to stimuli. But they do not feel pain, as pain is a specific reaction to a stimulus carried and processed by central nervous system. You need centralization of your nerve systems to be able to sense pain as we do.
Insects simply do not have this.
I believe this part was beyond hypothesis and well into theory. The bee stinger is a largely self reliant organ that can continue to function for a while producing venom after being ripped out of the bee, as a result being far more threatening then a simple sting when it remains stuck in the victim.
I can. They do not feel a thing. Insects lack a central nervous system, which is needed to have ability to feel what is happening to remote parts of your body.
I wouldn't. This is the "flavor of the year" kind of a thing, and next year people will move on. It's far too expensive for mass consumption, not easy to mass produce, and to get this to bring in big money you'd have to be able to synthesize it somehow with process that can be used to mass production.
Which in turn would bring the price down.
Else people will just stick to what works and is reasonably cheap, with a few ultra rich maybe using this until they find the next fad.
1. XP is still one of the most popular if not the most popular OS in the world. 64-bit XP on the other hand is non-existent.
2. 32-bit vista and seven were used quite a lot in older computers that had less then 4GB of RAM. I have a netbook bought a couple of years ago that caps at 2GB that uses 32-bit seven for example. It works fine.
It's actually the exact opposite. They are the ones on the offensive and they are the ones that will likely eventually win. Younger generation fully embraced massive levels of DRM and draconian content consumption limitations in modern smartphones for example.
The problem is the same as with shift to 1080p. Many methods used when filming were originally designed for low res, low frame rate films. As a result, stuff like caked makeup and skin problems on actors became visible forcing significant method changes for 1080p, and same is likely going to be needed to make 48fps to look "as reasonable" as 24fps looked. That is things like special effects and such which are known to fall flat in very annoying ways because the methods behind them rely on frame rates being low enough to obfuscate the problems, just low low res obfuscated caked makeup and skin problems.
Have they changed the policy? Do you still have to agree to it?
Then whatever they say about intentions is absolutely meaningless. They are still free to do whatever it is they allowed themselves to od in their policy, as long as it complies with all relevant local laws. In majority of the West, one can indeed sign away their copyright with a simple agreement.
As if that's the only instance where people keep repeating the same action expecting it to yield a different result.
I highly recommend far cry 3 by the way. It had a truly epic quote about that particular subject.
"As stock glock wielder, I manage to take entire teams down no problem. Yes, desert eagle makes you better against them, but you can still hold your own just fine with glock".
Good luck trying that excuse in competitive scenario :D
You must be grandfather-aged. Nowadays people going to institutions of higher learning are expected to spend their free time working for free or pennies if they are to have any reasonable expectations of getting a job that corresponds to their education after graduation.
Easy days of having a job lined up after graduation for most people are long gone.
As pointed out above, the point is most likely to help deflect spam servers using gmail.
Japan also has no alternative source of energy that isn't extremely dependent on imports from unstable regions. They basically either invest massively into coal, including coal imports, or they restart nuclear. They simply have no alternatives, as they are indeed a small island for the population they have.
They still have serious problems with power to this day because of nuclear shut downs.