Yes, but you said it hurt them. I watched, sadly, as the Gameboy crushed handheld after handheld. Two of which I owned (Atari Lynx and Neo Geo Pocket Color). The Gameboy destroyed its competition, despite its obvious inferiority, for years.
I couldn't stand the Gameboy, and never would buy one (note, Gameboy Advance SP was worthwhile), but it won. Year after year, it won.
People who say that the N64 was graphically inferior were just wrong. Nintendo's decision to go with cartridges again may have hurt it, but the N64 was graphically superior to both its competitors (if you liked polygons.... otherwise...). The Gamecube was graphically superior to the Playstation 2 which was arguably inferior to all three of its competitors and definitely to the two that mattered: XBox and Gamecube.
That didn't matter, if you wanted games you owned a PS2. Even if they were in a Sony America prohibited category, you were still more likely to get them on PS2 than on Gamecube or Xbox.
The Playstation 3 is too expensive for a video game system, period. A mistake on Sony's part, they'll have to reduce the price to compete (and that means reducing their own costs). If they can do it fast they might still have a shot. They will still win a partial victory if the PS3 pushes Blueray over the top, but they sacrifice dominance this generation for that. Business wise it may be worth it.
Actually, I don't have a problem with I, Robot as a piece of entertainment. I also don't have a problem with them buying the rights to Asimov's book and only using the parts they wanted. I liked it ok, and my girlfriend's little daughter loved it.
My problem is that there are limits on the kinds of movies that can be made. A lot of Asimov's robot stories were more like a detective story, but they'd never be made into a detective movie.
I'm curious to see what they are going to do to Watchmen actually...
Actually, the article is about how people are making science fiction movies that don't fall into the Space Opera subcategory. But these people don't want their movies labelled as science fiction even though that is what they actually are.
So, really, it's about a possible movement shift in the public perception of the term Science Fiction into being something that exclusively refers to a certain comfortable old shoe called Space Opera. The irony here being that Star Wars isn't science fiction really (it has magic in it after all, and is therefore fantasy with space ships) although it is Space Opera whereas Children of Men is Science Fiction but not Space Opera.
Science Fiction is actually every bit as powerful a fiction category as it ever was, it's just the category name that is tarnished. And it's not tarnished based on not being mainstream or not selling. The term "science fiction" tarnished as a category name that can include serious movies... in other words movies that don't make Star Wars kind of money, or get put in kids Happy Meals.
So, the problem is you go to a movie producer with an idea for a science fiction movie, and he gets stuck on the words science fiction and tries to shoehorn your movie into a comfortable action adventure type movie rather than the more cereberal movie you had in mind. See I, Robot for this principal in action.
My response? "Welcome to Hollywood." Most producers would toss away a hundred Children of Men for one Star Wars, even if privately they felt that Children of Men was the more worthy film.
Most of the responses here are stirring defenses of Space Opera, but the thing is Space Opera is healthy, happy and eating many of other kind of science fictions' lunches (and beating them up and stealing their milk money as well).
Though it doesn't mess with it's younger brother, Superhero, lately, cause he's really bulked up. He must've been doing strength training or something.
There's a reason why the word mandatory is there many people would like to work until they die. I know I would.
However, for me work isn't an end exactly, my philosophy is just "habit and routine make my life possible." I don't like to break from my routine one iota, and I don't like vacation for this reason.
As to "enjoying the wealth I've aquired," my SO has taken care of that for me for the forseeable future. My time when I'm not at work is spent on figuring out ways to get out of debt. It's not enjoyable.
Sally: Let me ask you something sir: Do you know what MySpace is?
Captain America: I'm not sure I understand the relevance of that question, Sally.
Sally: No, you just don't understand the question, Sir. I'm trying to illustrate a point here, so bear with me. Do you know who won the last World Series, or who was the last American Idol? When was the last time you attended a Nascar race Watched teh Simpsons or logged onto YouTube to watch a stupid video? Answer?
Captain America: [befuddled silence]
Sally: Exactly. Never. You hold America up as some shining beacon of perfection but you know next to nothing about it.
"But this limitation, unlike Microsoft's attempts, is not opressive."
Yes, but there's an important difference between Microsoft and Linux, and this is something that is fundementally different in philosophy. To Microsoft, you are a "devil user," who is not to be allowed full control over your hardware anymore than a virus, trojan, or worm is. Linux, of course, is based on the idea of free users who can control their own hardware.
Because of this Microsoft has to be oppressive, because they want to opress you. It's part of their belief system.
The scary thing is, the clergyman I mentioned? He was a Buddhist monk! True, he was formerly a Pentecostal, but this was not the kind of thing I was expecting to hear at my temple! Although, I guess I can't really consider it my temple after that. Pity, because I'm close to some of the people who work there, one of the monks, and some of the members of the temple.
Still, I've been uneasy about this temple for a while, and this just helped me make a decision to disengage.
Oh, and also here is the Pingus engine game, Gallipoli: The Game
which has a very short bio of Ataturk on the page("Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Turkish): Killed a lot of Australians (and New Zealanders) at Gallipoli and therefore became the first President of Turkey."), but it also has a picture. You can play as Ataturk in the game which is a good example of Australian sardonic humor.
Not because I own an NGage, but because I'm sure it made at least one of the five guys who own one very happy. (I can talk of course, my Tapwave Zodiac has Warfare, Inc, and I'm still only playing the shareware version....)
Recently, I was listening to a clergyman speaking about ghouls, ghosts and goblins (not the Capcom game). I realized a few things:
1. This guy really believes in the existence of all these creatures, and he releated it to Dungeons and Dragons and basically said that kids were "going insane" because they were contacting malevolent entities. (So, I assume he believes in Gelatonous Cubes and Owl Bears as well as the more traditional creatures). He thought he was among friends, so he didn't spout the pseudo science they usually try to disguise their fear of ghosts in during his screed.
2. He ended his screed fearful about the popularity of XBoxes and "Nintendos."
Basically, this was all scary medieval superstition. I would've interjected, but I was worried it might turn out that I weigh as much as a duck in this hostile environment, if you catch my drift.
I've recently also read about anti-evolution and also, apparently, a resurgent movement towards geocentrism (I expect that in 100 years or less geocentrism will be the new creationism, after intelligent design has become official biological science throughout the US.) These people always couch their ideas in "science," because they realized its the only way to win, but its mostly superstitious nonsense of the kind we all hoped was wiped away by the Enlightenment.
Despite the name, Cannibal Holocaust, like Italian Giallo films, is actually fun, family friendly fair without any disturbing or objectionable imagery.
Notice that even though we've had the V-Chip (named so because it was supposed to solve the "problem" of TV violence) unfunded mandate for years, along with plenty of PSA's about how it works... the FCC still feels that television violence needs to be regulated and restricted.
Prediction, after TV violence has been toned down, regulated and restricted... the FCC will still feel it needs to be toned down, regulated and restricted.
In games that allow it, does everyone try for the "Menace to Society" endings like they had in all the episodes of the Enchanter series and the first Streets of Rage?
Well, here's my problem, what is a hardcore gamer?
I've heard the difference between hardcore gamer and softcore gamer described thusly, "Hardcore gamers buy a lot of video games during the life of a console, whereas non-hardcore gamers buy only a few popular titles."
I've also heard this, "Hardcore gamers are the ones who line up for consoles and pre-order games, wheras non-hardcore will wait until they are cheap and readily available."
But wait, I've also heard, "Hardcore gamers like traditional games (RTS, RPG, FPS, etc.) while non-hardcore like non-traditional (Brain Training, Nintendogs, Wii Sports)."
Well, which one is it? Is it all three? How does this impact Cars versus Gears?
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Here's an article: DIVX Bites The Dust!
"Just think, everytime some kid wants to watch The Little Mermaid, it'll be a payday for us," they chortled...
Take That!
I couldn't stand the Gameboy, and never would buy one (note, Gameboy Advance SP was worthwhile), but it won. Year after year, it won.
People who say that the N64 was graphically inferior were just wrong. Nintendo's decision to go with cartridges again may have hurt it, but the N64 was graphically superior to both its competitors (if you liked polygons.... otherwise...). The Gamecube was graphically superior to the Playstation 2 which was arguably inferior to all three of its competitors and definitely to the two that mattered: XBox and Gamecube.
That didn't matter, if you wanted games you owned a PS2. Even if they were in a Sony America prohibited category, you were still more likely to get them on PS2 than on Gamecube or Xbox.
The Playstation 3 is too expensive for a video game system, period. A mistake on Sony's part, they'll have to reduce the price to compete (and that means reducing their own costs). If they can do it fast they might still have a shot. They will still win a partial victory if the PS3 pushes Blueray over the top, but they sacrifice dominance this generation for that. Business wise it may be worth it.
My problem is that there are limits on the kinds of movies that can be made. A lot of Asimov's robot stories were more like a detective story, but they'd never be made into a detective movie.
I'm curious to see what they are going to do to Watchmen actually...
So, really, it's about a possible movement shift in the public perception of the term Science Fiction into being something that exclusively refers to a certain comfortable old shoe called Space Opera. The irony here being that Star Wars isn't science fiction really (it has magic in it after all, and is therefore fantasy with space ships) although it is Space Opera whereas Children of Men is Science Fiction but not Space Opera.
Science Fiction is actually every bit as powerful a fiction category as it ever was, it's just the category name that is tarnished. And it's not tarnished based on not being mainstream or not selling. The term "science fiction" tarnished as a category name that can include serious movies... in other words movies that don't make Star Wars kind of money, or get put in kids Happy Meals.
So, the problem is you go to a movie producer with an idea for a science fiction movie, and he gets stuck on the words science fiction and tries to shoehorn your movie into a comfortable action adventure type movie rather than the more cereberal movie you had in mind. See I, Robot for this principal in action.
My response? "Welcome to Hollywood." Most producers would toss away a hundred Children of Men for one Star Wars, even if privately they felt that Children of Men was the more worthy film.
Most of the responses here are stirring defenses of Space Opera, but the thing is Space Opera is healthy, happy and eating many of other kind of science fictions' lunches (and beating them up and stealing their milk money as well).
Though it doesn't mess with it's younger brother, Superhero, lately, cause he's really bulked up. He must've been doing strength training or something.
1. Getting out of debt
2. Never getting in debt again
3. Filing a police report against my SO is she ever gets me into debt again. (Because she won't do it without identity theft this time.)
I don't know, seem fairly solid to me.
There's a reason why the word mandatory is there many people would like to work until they die. I know I would.
However, for me work isn't an end exactly, my philosophy is just "habit and routine make my life possible." I don't like to break from my routine one iota, and I don't like vacation for this reason.
As to "enjoying the wealth I've aquired," my SO has taken care of that for me for the forseeable future. My time when I'm not at work is spent on figuring out ways to get out of debt. It's not enjoyable.
Are you clinically insane or something?
Beavis: Books are for losers
Butthead: Yeah, if I wanted to read, I'd go to school.
I'm glad to see that modern schools are at last understanding this wisdom.
I think that's just this year's ten, if I read the article correctly.
Captain America faces his critics.
"But this limitation, unlike Microsoft's attempts, is not opressive."
Yes, but there's an important difference between Microsoft and Linux, and this is something that is fundementally different in philosophy. To Microsoft, you are a "devil user," who is not to be allowed full control over your hardware anymore than a virus, trojan, or worm is. Linux, of course, is based on the idea of free users who can control their own hardware.
Because of this Microsoft has to be oppressive, because they want to opress you. It's part of their belief system.
The scary thing is, the clergyman I mentioned? He was a Buddhist monk! True, he was formerly a Pentecostal, but this was not the kind of thing I was expecting to hear at my temple! Although, I guess I can't really consider it my temple after that. Pity, because I'm close to some of the people who work there, one of the monks, and some of the members of the temple.
Still, I've been uneasy about this temple for a while, and this just helped me make a decision to disengage.
Gary Brecher: Glory to the Turks
Oh, and also here is the Pingus engine game, Gallipoli: The Game which has a very short bio of Ataturk on the page("Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Turkish): Killed a lot of Australians (and New Zealanders) at Gallipoli and therefore became the first President of Turkey."), but it also has a picture. You can play as Ataturk in the game which is a good example of Australian sardonic humor.
Well, it was something that happened in Texas. http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/16739153.htm
http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/launchrev iew.asp?reviewid=714357
Not because I own an NGage, but because I'm sure it made at least one of the five guys who own one very happy. (I can talk of course, my Tapwave Zodiac has Warfare, Inc, and I'm still only playing the shareware version....)
Recently, I was listening to a clergyman speaking about ghouls, ghosts and goblins (not the Capcom game). I realized a few things:
1. This guy really believes in the existence of all these creatures, and he releated it to Dungeons and Dragons and basically said that kids were "going insane" because they were contacting malevolent entities. (So, I assume he believes in Gelatonous Cubes and Owl Bears as well as the more traditional creatures). He thought he was among friends, so he didn't spout the pseudo science they usually try to disguise their fear of ghosts in during his screed.
2. He ended his screed fearful about the popularity of XBoxes and "Nintendos."
Basically, this was all scary medieval superstition. I would've interjected, but I was worried it might turn out that I weigh as much as a duck in this hostile environment, if you catch my drift.
I've recently also read about anti-evolution and also, apparently, a resurgent movement towards geocentrism (I expect that in 100 years or less geocentrism will be the new creationism, after intelligent design has become official biological science throughout the US.) These people always couch their ideas in "science," because they realized its the only way to win, but its mostly superstitious nonsense of the kind we all hoped was wiped away by the Enlightenment.
What are the words that mean the opposite of the words "virtual" and "figuratively?"
There aren't any.
Despite the name, Cannibal Holocaust, like Italian Giallo films, is actually fun, family friendly fair without any disturbing or objectionable imagery.
Prediction, after TV violence has been toned down, regulated and restricted... the FCC will still feel it needs to be toned down, regulated and restricted.
In games that allow it, does everyone try for the "Menace to Society" endings like they had in all the episodes of the Enchanter series and the first Streets of Rage?
I've heard the difference between hardcore gamer and softcore gamer described thusly, "Hardcore gamers buy a lot of video games during the life of a console, whereas non-hardcore gamers buy only a few popular titles."
I've also heard this, "Hardcore gamers are the ones who line up for consoles and pre-order games, wheras non-hardcore will wait until they are cheap and readily available."
But wait, I've also heard, "Hardcore gamers like traditional games (RTS, RPG, FPS, etc.) while non-hardcore like non-traditional (Brain Training, Nintendogs, Wii Sports)."
Well, which one is it? Is it all three? How does this impact Cars versus Gears?
That would make sense, although it might even be better to ship an earphone of some sort with it.