So, clearly, you've never played any of the 3D iterations of GTA. There are numerous "rampage" (that's what they're called now) missions where you kill random pedestrians with a varied assortment of weapons. Sometimes you need to go after a specific group, but more often then not it's just anybody walking around.
This has to be the STUPIDEST analysis I've seen in months. So of course, it's (currently, and inexplicably) rated "Informative".
Besides the fact that you've got no numbers at all, you're comparing an entire company's SALES profits, over a line of several video game systems (including a portable market which it has dominated for well over a decade now), with a video game division (which includes quite a lot of R&D COSTS!) of a larger corporation that strategically pumps money into said division because it can mitigate the costs from other sources (evil monopoly, etc).
I like Nintendo. I hate Microsoft. But that post was idiotic, and completely offtopic.
Please tell me that they aren't this stupid? I have games from the PS1 that I haven't finished (turn based strategy games may look bad, but still play great) and a lot of games on the PS2 in progress.
Sony is, by a very large margin, the absolute worst company when it comes to memory storage. They sell the most expensive flash memory around, and you're lucky if it doesn't go obsolete within two years. I'm sorry, but they really are this stupid.
Yeah, you're right. There's no way to find out about game content before a parent buys a game for a kid. None. 'Specially not here on the web.
Let's not be facetious. Finding out about the content of a game requires zero time playing it, though it may require a bit more searching around than just looking at an ESRB rating. Say, two minutes while drinking the ol' morning coffee.
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Do a search for "Heat Vision and Jack", and download the pilot for best show you'll never see. Directed by Ben Stiller, starring Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Christine Taylor (and a certain evil government agent who also doubles as a B-movie actor). Friggin' hilarious.
I might be wrong, but as I understood it adblock still downloads banner ads, but doesn't display them. This shouldn't have an effect on ad-viewing counts. Now click-throughs are another matter, but that doesn't happen too often even for the people viewing ads. Popups are probably a different story, as the window to load them is never displayed.
Feel free to correct my assumption. I know that CSS style rules in Firefox will download but not display content, and I'm pretty sure adblock just overlays info onto those userContent.css rules, but I'm too lazy to look into it further.
That's a real interesting point. My question is, how could you reasonably implement captioning in a theater? There is no way that captioning for everybody would be an acceptable solution (horribly annoying for those who don't need it). Theoretically a "special" captioned screening could work, but with the number of people likely to attend, it would probably end up being a once-a-week or so thing (and even then prob. only available in major cities).
The only thing coming to my mind is some kind of inexpensive eye-line-level "personal" captioner ala those running tickers with the red-green-yellow light bulbs (like the ones usually behind the ticket window at a theater, but smaller). Have a row of seats with those much like the wheelchair row. Shouldn't be that expensive and could allow for captioning that wouldn't distract others (assuming the lights aren't too bright).
Or maybe...subliminal captions! Everyone will get to read the dialog without even realizing it!! Might be kinda cool for foreign films.
Maybe it's the cynic in me, but "changing laws" is an imaginary concept, at least as far as you or I are concerned.
When's the last time you had ANY significant say in your government? Lawmakers influence the laws, and they are usually self-serving (looking after the constituency, my ass). But like I said, I'm quite cynical and the past six years watching the American gov't in action haven't exactly improved this stance.
Yes, that's how all businesses work. It's sold, they got paid, it's current profit. The stores will eventually sell out and have to order more copies. For a hot game, this may mean weekly reorders. It could also mean two years. But the games ain't going back to EA, so how can you say this is over-hyped?
In the past year or so, what with the "No More Late Fees!" half-lie and the $15/mo. unlimited rental plan, my "shopping experience" at Blockbuster has consisted of settling on renting my twenty-fifth highest choice, as everything else is out, seemingly forever.
Online rental places have their flaws - good luck getting your top movies from Netflix after several months of membership - brick and mortar stores now have so few movies on hand that it's barely worth even going in. I'd say that about 2% of stock at the Blockbusters near me are movies from before 1990. There's still a whole shelf full of "The Passion of the Christ" however.
That said, online rentals will never catch fire, only create a spark. Movies on demand over cable/satellite/DSL are the wave of the future.
Hopefully this will allow both chains to better compete with Wal-Mart and Best Buy for our gaming dollars.
I don't understand, both GameStop and EB suffer from varying degrees of suckiness. I've had to deal with enough crap from both stores to wish they'd just go out of business altogether.
While Walmart and Best Buy might not be all that great either, they are ALWAYS, WITHOUT EXCEPTION cheaper or equal in pricing to GameStop/EB for new games.
Used games are a different story, but when I see games that retail new for $19.99 selling for $17.99 used, or $49.99 games selling for $44.99 used, I feel like you're a sucker for buying used games there (this intarweb thing works pretty well for that). On top of which is the fact that you won't get more than $5 cash/store credit for selling that $49.99 game that they turn around and sell for $44.99. Bastards.
Mod me a troll if you must, but I doubt I'm the only one with these complaints.
Why? Everybody here is clearly already an expert on the movie which they have never seen and yet are so sure it will suck.
The movie could turn out brilliant and the trolls here will still complain about the towel reference from page 140 that, unforgivably, is not in the movie.
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So, clearly, you've never played any of the 3D iterations of GTA. There are numerous "rampage" (that's what they're called now) missions where you kill random pedestrians with a varied assortment of weapons. Sometimes you need to go after a specific group, but more often then not it's just anybody walking around.
This has to be the STUPIDEST analysis I've seen in months. So of course, it's (currently, and inexplicably) rated "Informative".
Besides the fact that you've got no numbers at all, you're comparing an entire company's SALES profits, over a line of several video game systems (including a portable market which it has dominated for well over a decade now), with a video game division (which includes quite a lot of R&D COSTS!) of a larger corporation that strategically pumps money into said division because it can mitigate the costs from other sources (evil monopoly, etc).
I like Nintendo. I hate Microsoft. But that post was idiotic, and completely offtopic.
Throwing tea into a river != Blowing up buildings
Please tell me that they aren't this stupid? I have games from the PS1 that I haven't finished (turn based strategy games may look bad, but still play great) and a lot of games on the PS2 in progress.
Sony is, by a very large margin, the absolute worst company when it comes to memory storage. They sell the most expensive flash memory around, and you're lucky if it doesn't go obsolete within two years. I'm sorry, but they really are this stupid.
I'm hoping she dies before anything comes of this. People like this need to go away.
Yeah, you're right. There's no way to find out about game content before a parent buys a game for a kid. None. 'Specially not here on the web.
Let's not be facetious. Finding out about the content of a game requires zero time playing it, though it may require a bit more searching around than just looking at an ESRB rating. Say, two minutes while drinking the ol' morning coffee.
Do a search for "Heat Vision and Jack", and download the pilot for best show you'll never see. Directed by Ben Stiller, starring Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Christine Taylor (and a certain evil government agent who also doubles as a B-movie actor). Friggin' hilarious.
Makes me laugh just thinking about it.
I might be wrong, but as I understood it adblock still downloads banner ads, but doesn't display them. This shouldn't have an effect on ad-viewing counts. Now click-throughs are another matter, but that doesn't happen too often even for the people viewing ads. Popups are probably a different story, as the window to load them is never displayed.
Feel free to correct my assumption. I know that CSS style rules in Firefox will download but not display content, and I'm pretty sure adblock just overlays info onto those userContent.css rules, but I'm too lazy to look into it further.
That's a real interesting point. My question is, how could you reasonably implement captioning in a theater? There is no way that captioning for everybody would be an acceptable solution (horribly annoying for those who don't need it). Theoretically a "special" captioned screening could work, but with the number of people likely to attend, it would probably end up being a once-a-week or so thing (and even then prob. only available in major cities).
The only thing coming to my mind is some kind of inexpensive eye-line-level "personal" captioner ala those running tickers with the red-green-yellow light bulbs (like the ones usually behind the ticket window at a theater, but smaller). Have a row of seats with those much like the wheelchair row. Shouldn't be that expensive and could allow for captioning that wouldn't distract others (assuming the lights aren't too bright).
Or maybe...subliminal captions! Everyone will get to read the dialog without even realizing it!! Might be kinda cool for foreign films.
That's owned by the Beatles label.
...for me to poop on!
Proabably tasted the same too.
No, I'm kidding. A dirty whore can't possibly taste as bad as a Domino's pie.
...I'll be taking pre-orders shortly for the fifth printing of my new, yet-to-be-written novel. You know you want to read it, because I say so!
You can't just make up laws to fit your needs, ya know.
If you own a movie on DVD, US copyright law says you have zero right to download it.
Post of the Year! Decade even!
Very nice, my AC friend. Very nice.
Maybe it's the cynic in me, but "changing laws" is an imaginary concept, at least as far as you or I are concerned.
When's the last time you had ANY significant say in your government? Lawmakers influence the laws, and they are usually self-serving (looking after the constituency, my ass). But like I said, I'm quite cynical and the past six years watching the American gov't in action haven't exactly improved this stance.
This is what happens when corrupt corporations stop paying off the SEC.
This is like Burger King saying McDonald's hamburgers taste bad. Who gives a shit what Ballmer thinks?
Yes, that's how all businesses work. It's sold, they got paid, it's current profit. The stores will eventually sell out and have to order more copies. For a hot game, this may mean weekly reorders. It could also mean two years. But the games ain't going back to EA, so how can you say this is over-hyped?
In the past year or so, what with the "No More Late Fees!" half-lie and the $15/mo. unlimited rental plan, my "shopping experience" at Blockbuster has consisted of settling on renting my twenty-fifth highest choice, as everything else is out, seemingly forever.
Online rental places have their flaws - good luck getting your top movies from Netflix after several months of membership - brick and mortar stores now have so few movies on hand that it's barely worth even going in. I'd say that about 2% of stock at the Blockbusters near me are movies from before 1990. There's still a whole shelf full of "The Passion of the Christ" however.
That said, online rentals will never catch fire, only create a spark. Movies on demand over cable/satellite/DSL are the wave of the future.
Sometimes I think slashdot editors approve submissions solely for ACs to regurgitate those typical slashdot idiot jokes.
Up next...a retrospective story about a guy who blew his nose a few decades ago in Soviet Russia.
To which someone will respond...
Hopefully this will allow both chains to better compete with Wal-Mart and Best Buy for our gaming dollars.
I don't understand, both GameStop and EB suffer from varying degrees of suckiness. I've had to deal with enough crap from both stores to wish they'd just go out of business altogether.
While Walmart and Best Buy might not be all that great either, they are ALWAYS, WITHOUT EXCEPTION cheaper or equal in pricing to GameStop/EB for new games.
Used games are a different story, but when I see games that retail new for $19.99 selling for $17.99 used, or $49.99 games selling for $44.99 used, I feel like you're a sucker for buying used games there (this intarweb thing works pretty well for that). On top of which is the fact that you won't get more than $5 cash/store credit for selling that $49.99 game that they turn around and sell for $44.99. Bastards.
Mod me a troll if you must, but I doubt I'm the only one with these complaints.
Why? Everybody here is clearly already an expert on the movie which they have never seen and yet are so sure it will suck.
The movie could turn out brilliant and the trolls here will still complain about the towel reference from page 140 that, unforgivably, is not in the movie.
The Heart of Gold is great and all...but can it run Linux?