Not only that, but I think the original post was on 4chan, not Facebook, making it even more public (you could argue that if his facebook is set to private then it isnt strictly "in the public domain".)
I should have been more specific, but my point still stands. LED LCDs have not been on the market for very long, thus making it "new" technology in the eyes of the consumer. And there's no denying that the picture quality greatly improves.
You raise fair points, and I can see now the justification for going forward with 3D technology (though 3D PC gaming still seems far-fetched to me, since it is such a relatively small screen, I think 3D would make it too "busy").
I must pick you up on one point:
That, and there's no real new tech in TVs these days
On the contrary, LED TVs are making their way into the consumer market, and are mightily impressive, though still very expensive. The picture they produce are brilliant. I think my next TV will be an LED (though not a 3D one).
Haha, indeed, I do not envy you with this condition.
I would look at your budget. a 37" or 42" does nicely (anything bigger than that, I find, is not really worth the money, but that's just me).
If you can afford it, get an LED. Otherwise, many 1080p 37-40" LCD's can be very impressive (check the contrast ratio, the higher it is, the crisper the picture looks in terms of bright whites and dark blacks).
Fair points, though they do not much apply to me:
1) My partner would rather join me playing PS3 (she especially likes LBP). Though mostly we are PC gamers, both of us.
2)Don't have kids.
3) Last point is valid, though as mentioned I am more likely to be playing FPS's on a PC, and thus the screen problem is not an issue.
Don't worry, friend. 3D is mostly very disappointing. Shapes that were flat on the screen come out at you, but are still flat. And it is still not fully immersive (unless you've got a 360 display setup) so it is more like instead of looking at a picture book, its like one of those popup books you used to get as a kid.
And I wouldn't worry about upgrading your TV. I believe this 3D thing will either a)never really take off at all in the consumer/home market, or b)become briefly popular and then die away (like the minidisc).
I have to agree with you. I was a bit confused by this sudden surge of 3D movies and tech in the last year. 3D has been around for so long, why is it suddenly being marketed so heavily now? I also do not see any real benefit from it; it seems to me like a silly gimmick. I am reminded of the Wii; motion sensor technology had also been around for years and years, yet the Wii used it to sell a ton of consoles to casuals (and yet...who still plays on their Wii? For me, the novelty has worn off, and I am back to playing FPSs on my PC or PS3...except for the occasional drunken game of Mario Kart with my friends).
I, for one, will not be buying a 3D display/TV/monitor anytime soon. I think it is a fad that will pass (3D glasses or not). I did have a look at the new LED TVs the other day though, those look fantastic. Might save up for one.
I would agree they might be desensitised to animated/fake violence, but as has been mentioned already, were said normal person to witness actual violence (or even real violence on a tape) it would affect them differently. Two examples stand out, one being myself, quite possibly highly desensitised by violent video games and movies, but every so often I come across one of those murder videos that circulate the internet ( the one that stands out in my mind is a couple of russian neo-nazis beheading an immigrant) and my stomach turns. I felt disturbed and ill for the rest of the day.
Another example is with soldiers. I know a few, and at least one plays CoD and BF:BC2 regularly. However whilst being deployed, seeing actual warfare, killing, they realised they were not so desensitised after all..
...something like a video game cannot turn a normal person violent. The tendency has to be there already. You could argue that without violent games and movies these tendencies would not be realised, but I think that is a very naive notion. I think violent games for adolescents/adults are a good thing for society. In this castrated western world where two dudes wanna get drunk and fight each other are both reprimanded, and all kinds of contact sport gets softened up and dumbed down, it is natural to seek other means of expressing a competitive/violent yearning.
I don't have children, but when the time comes I will not ban them from all violent games (like my parents did) but rather let them play them as long as I am satisfied they understand the context, that there is a difference between movies and games and the real life.
You think thats bad? Remember when Kanye West said he was the voice of our generation? First I had to find out who the hell Kanye West was. Then I raged. Hard.
Now, it's not the fact that they pulled it without "just cause" that upset me
I get what you're saying, but the person you're replying to said "just 'cause", not "just cause". The two are very different.
It seems to me Apple can reject an app "just 'cause" (just because..[we feel like it]), which is quite the opposite of "just cause".
In the town I used to live in CT, you could make a donation to the police station, and, depending on the size of your donation, you got the respective colored sticker (window sticker, for your back window or whatever). The gold sticker, aptly, was the best you could get (highest donation, something like $100). For some reason, cars displaying this fancy sticker never got pulled over, never got ticketed, never got hassled...
Do you find you play more in teh winter time? I have a similar lifestyle to you (although, since the Mrs moved in, I game less..) I work 9-5, but my commute is only 5-10 mins. I find in summer I game less, because being the UK I want to enjoy what little nice weather we get. In the winter it's already dark when I get home from work so I easily clock 1-3 hours in the evening.
There are plenty of countries where the police are well known to be massively corrupt, and are completely untrusted by the citizens.
It may surprise you, but one of these countries is England. Recent polls a few months ago suggested that less than half of the people questioned trusted their police force. Less than half said if, in a hypothetical situation, would they phone the cops if they witnessed a crime. Contacting the police here only brings more trouble for yourself, so people do not bother.
My personal experience (in the UK) is this; when I have needed them, they are not there. When they ARE there, they are harassing me:
I have been subjected to random searches on the street several times, for illicit drugs, and for offensive weapons. They never found anything because I don't own either of those things. When my car was broken into, all they could do was take details and give me a reference number. I never saw them. When my scummy neighbors have loud parties and use drugs and break things in their garden at 2 in the morning, the police say it is not a police matter. When I reported that a horse (it's the west country, go figure) was loose in the high street, they just laughed.
Unless I am being charged with a crime, I never speak to the police anymore, simply to safeguard myself. The police have this misguided notion that their job is anything but to arrest and detain for the purposes of trial and arrest/release. They are not there to punish, they are not there to judge. They are there to find someone that has been reported to be committing crime, and take them in for questioning. That is all. They are not judge, they are not jury, they are not executioner.
Well, I should have quoted the last bit, so it could be taken out of context. I agree, the examples provided are quite the opposite of something Rove would say.
See, even a 0.5% beer would put you over the limit in Norway, so the only alternative to full-strength beer is alcohol-free (as in 0.000%). As mentioned, it tastes awful, probably for the reasons you describe.
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Not only that, but I think the original post was on 4chan, not Facebook, making it even more public (you could argue that if his facebook is set to private then it isnt strictly "in the public domain".)
I should have been more specific, but my point still stands. LED LCDs have not been on the market for very long, thus making it "new" technology in the eyes of the consumer. And there's no denying that the picture quality greatly improves.
I must pick you up on one point:
That, and there's no real new tech in TVs these days
On the contrary, LED TVs are making their way into the consumer market, and are mightily impressive, though still very expensive. The picture they produce are brilliant. I think my next TV will be an LED (though not a 3D one).
Haha, indeed, I do not envy you with this condition.
I would look at your budget. a 37" or 42" does nicely (anything bigger than that, I find, is not really worth the money, but that's just me).
If you can afford it, get an LED. Otherwise, many 1080p 37-40" LCD's can be very impressive (check the contrast ratio, the higher it is, the crisper the picture looks in terms of bright whites and dark blacks).
Fair points, though they do not much apply to me:
1) My partner would rather join me playing PS3 (she especially likes LBP). Though mostly we are PC gamers, both of us.
2)Don't have kids.
3) Last point is valid, though as mentioned I am more likely to be playing FPS's on a PC, and thus the screen problem is not an issue.
Don't worry, friend. 3D is mostly very disappointing. Shapes that were flat on the screen come out at you, but are still flat. And it is still not fully immersive (unless you've got a 360 display setup) so it is more like instead of looking at a picture book, its like one of those popup books you used to get as a kid.
And I wouldn't worry about upgrading your TV. I believe this 3D thing will either a)never really take off at all in the consumer/home market, or b)become briefly popular and then die away (like the minidisc).
In most populations (i.e. not San Francisco, Brighton, etc.) it is more like 2-5%
But your point still stands.
I have to agree with you. I was a bit confused by this sudden surge of 3D movies and tech in the last year. 3D has been around for so long, why is it suddenly being marketed so heavily now? I also do not see any real benefit from it; it seems to me like a silly gimmick. I am reminded of the Wii; motion sensor technology had also been around for years and years, yet the Wii used it to sell a ton of consoles to casuals (and yet...who still plays on their Wii? For me, the novelty has worn off, and I am back to playing FPSs on my PC or PS3...except for the occasional drunken game of Mario Kart with my friends).
I, for one, will not be buying a 3D display/TV/monitor anytime soon. I think it is a fad that will pass (3D glasses or not). I did have a look at the new LED TVs the other day though, those look fantastic. Might save up for one.
I would agree they might be desensitised to animated/fake violence, but as has been mentioned already, were said normal person to witness actual violence (or even real violence on a tape) it would affect them differently. Two examples stand out, one being myself, quite possibly highly desensitised by violent video games and movies, but every so often I come across one of those murder videos that circulate the internet ( the one that stands out in my mind is a couple of russian neo-nazis beheading an immigrant) and my stomach turns. I felt disturbed and ill for the rest of the day.
Another example is with soldiers. I know a few, and at least one plays CoD and BF:BC2 regularly. However whilst being deployed, seeing actual warfare, killing, they realised they were not so desensitised after all..
...something like a video game cannot turn a normal person violent. The tendency has to be there already. You could argue that without violent games and movies these tendencies would not be realised, but I think that is a very naive notion. I think violent games for adolescents/adults are a good thing for society. In this castrated western world where two dudes wanna get drunk and fight each other are both reprimanded, and all kinds of contact sport gets softened up and dumbed down, it is natural to seek other means of expressing a competitive/violent yearning.
I don't have children, but when the time comes I will not ban them from all violent games (like my parents did) but rather let them play them as long as I am satisfied they understand the context, that there is a difference between movies and games and the real life.
Facebook generation
Please don't call us that.
You think thats bad? Remember when Kanye West said he was the voice of our generation? First I had to find out who the hell Kanye West was. Then I raged. Hard.
Now, it's not the fact that they pulled it without "just cause" that upset me
I get what you're saying, but the person you're replying to said "just 'cause", not "just cause". The two are very different.
It seems to me Apple can reject an app "just 'cause" (just because..[we feel like it]), which is quite the opposite of "just cause".
In the town I used to live in CT, you could make a donation to the police station, and, depending on the size of your donation, you got the respective colored sticker (window sticker, for your back window or whatever). The gold sticker, aptly, was the best you could get (highest donation, something like $100). For some reason, cars displaying this fancy sticker never got pulled over, never got ticketed, never got hassled...
Get a job!
Do you find you play more in teh winter time? I have a similar lifestyle to you (although, since the Mrs moved in, I game less..) I work 9-5, but my commute is only 5-10 mins. I find in summer I game less, because being the UK I want to enjoy what little nice weather we get. In the winter it's already dark when I get home from work so I easily clock 1-3 hours in the evening.
I choose Hitler. At least I would have career prospects.
There are plenty of countries where the police are well known to be massively corrupt, and are completely untrusted by the citizens.
It may surprise you, but one of these countries is England. Recent polls a few months ago suggested that less than half of the people questioned trusted their police force. Less than half said if, in a hypothetical situation, would they phone the cops if they witnessed a crime. Contacting the police here only brings more trouble for yourself, so people do not bother.
My personal experience (in the UK) is this; when I have needed them, they are not there. When they ARE there, they are harassing me:
I have been subjected to random searches on the street several times, for illicit drugs, and for offensive weapons. They never found anything because I don't own either of those things. When my car was broken into, all they could do was take details and give me a reference number. I never saw them. When my scummy neighbors have loud parties and use drugs and break things in their garden at 2 in the morning, the police say it is not a police matter. When I reported that a horse (it's the west country, go figure) was loose in the high street, they just laughed.
Unless I am being charged with a crime, I never speak to the police anymore, simply to safeguard myself. The police have this misguided notion that their job is anything but to arrest and detain for the purposes of trial and arrest/release. They are not there to punish, they are not there to judge. They are there to find someone that has been reported to be committing crime, and take them in for questioning. That is all. They are not judge, they are not jury, they are not executioner.
I once taped a football game without the expressed permission of ABC and the NFL.
Or a website dedicated to videos of police brutality
How long til the party gets gay?
Well, I should have quoted the last bit, so it could be taken out of context. I agree, the examples provided are quite the opposite of something Rove would say.
IG Farben perhaps...
Karl Rove? Is that you? You don't work there anymore!
See, even a 0.5% beer would put you over the limit in Norway, so the only alternative to full-strength beer is alcohol-free (as in 0.000%). As mentioned, it tastes awful, probably for the reasons you describe.
You don't know Norwegian drink-driving laws..