God, I only WISH the people from Rockstar get up there in front of the House and basically say "Screw you...we'll make anything we want and you idiots won't do anything about it...it's a fricken videogame people...now get back to work and stop wasting everyone's money with this crap. No, we don't apologize for anything and in fact the next Grand Theft Auto will feature 90% sex!" Then get up and walk out.
Actually, I don't have cable or satellite. Me and my family don't watch TV.
We surf the internet and read. We used to watch a ton of TV, but when we moved to our new house we didn't feel like paying through the nose to Comcast and there are too many Trees in the way for a Satellite. This was 2 years ago and we haven't missed it. We don't even have an antenna hooked up.
We still have a TV for watching movies we rent and playing Xbox/Playstation/Gamecube...but it's mainly my son that plays those. But he doesn't even play them that much.
So this means all our games now will be free...right? Like our commercial TV is free cause we watch all the ads.
And just like going to the movies is now free cause of all the ads in the beginning...right?
/Sarcasm mode terminated.
This is bullshit. If the consumer isn't getting any benefits out of it I guess I'll avoid the privilege of paying for something that throws advertisements at me.
But banks and financial institutions have all had their software built for daylight savings time ending sooner! Now everything will be out of whack as the banks and computers and the electronic grid system will think it's an hour later than it is!
Planes will fall out of the sky! The banks will collapse! LIFE AS WE KNOW IT WILL CEASE! We need to panic people! PANIC! Start hiring floors and floors of programmers to change all the code out there.
It was a Kids in the Hall movie about a new drug. But there was a part in the movie where the corporate honchos were more concerned about the name of the drug and what to call it than the drug itself. They brought in a famous consultant and had board meetings etc etc about the name.
I don't know, this just reminded me of Brain Candy.
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Had a friend that I met through the Amiga that developed Disk Mechanic for the Amiga. Eric Quackenbush. He was independent before he went to Greater Valley Products to develop for them. He was a HELL of a programmer. Last I heard he was doing things for OS/2 but this had to be 10 years ago.
I remember I had lured some guys from Pixar to a Chicago Amigafest to see if they wanted to port Renderman to the Amiga. The Amigafests were small affairs compared to the Apple or Microsoft ones back then, but I got a guy to fly out to it. He was nice and everything, but you could tell he thought it was kinda small-time. He was polite and suggested that we just make a Renderman compliant renderer for the Amiga. And looking back he was right, the Amiga just didn't have the horsepower to run Renderman at the time.
This was when Alan Hastings had just come out with Lightwave for NewTek...having hired Alan after his Videoscape 3D was a semi hit. Videoscape had competition from Sculpt-Animate 4D and Turbo-Silver 3D. But it was Lightwave that really broke through. This was in the days when it was a single guy doing all the programming/developing for the product. Remember them? Alan had very little help when developing Videoscape and I believe he had a partner join him in making the first version of Lightwave. Newtek was the center of the Amiga universe at the show with the VideoToaster and Lightwave.
I miss that really. It was a small group of very rabid fans that loved this machine. I used to go to Amiga user group meetings and met a lot of really friendly people. But all good things come to an end. I just wished the Amiga had a more dignified death.
First I've heard of it...I still play a ton of new games and more are coming out etc etc.
Or is this one of those things where the media says it's declining so it MUST be true. I mean I have an Xbox, a PS2 and a Gamecube and I couldn't tell you one game that's coming out for them. The Gamecube get's played more as that's my 11 year old son's favorite. But the Xbox and PS2 are hardly touched. I mean, when they first came out they were played much more...but now they mainly collect dust while I play World of Warcraft and BF2 and Silent Hunter 3 etc etc.
Sure you can play all those on a console...er...wait a minute, you can't! So I guess it all comes down to what you want to play. No way in hell am I playing a FPS with a controller when I've spent the last 12 years playing with a mouse and keyboard.
But the difference is THAT was in GTA:SA no matter what the developers said. This is different as Sims2 has been out for quite a while now and everyone knows that this isn't something that you can just unlock and automatically get nipple rings and pubic hair.
I mean, there was a mod in the original Sims too that does this exact same thing.
Should we also put warning labels on Poser too? I mean, those are totally NAKED people with genitals and everything on that! And you can...gasp...use them to draw dirty pictures and paintings!
But you don't see anything like pubic hair or nipples or anything with this cheat, you have to go out of your way to download a skin that has all these things...much like a nude skin for UT2004 or Quake or whatever.
This isn't a secret cheat or anything that was left in the code like San Andreas.
Really, I'm offended whenever I sit down and play a video game and my character is always some macho, buff Alpha-male with sweaty, glistening pecks and hard hard washboard abs, tight leather pants and boots, tasteful tattoos and with a face that looks like he doesn't take shit from anyone and he'll make them pay...oh yes, he'll make them ALL pay! MWHAHAHAHAHA!!!...cough...you get what I mean.
Er...perhaps games are more fantasy than reality. Though in some games like Star Wars Galaxies you can modify your character to be a overweight housewife if you want. But lets face it, most video games are made for the young male.
And get back to me in 200 years (hell, I bet even 50 years) when they're still playing Beethoven and no one has heard of the Beatles.
Could be. Though in 50 years they may not be playing anything. Who knows.
But it's funny that just a few years ago, I think 2000 or 2001 The Beatles were the number one group for that year in sales. Not bad for a band that broke up 30 years ago. You really want to stick by your 50 year prediction? I have a feeling you may be wrong. Or that you're just a troll which is why you hid behind the Anonymous Coward shield.
The Beatles were much more than their songs. Also, much more than the induvidual performers. Get back to me when Beethoven goes toe-to-toe with Abbey Road or Revolver.
I'm looking at iTunes right now and don't see any Beatles anywhere. There is no Sgt. Pepper's for sale there.
They list two albums with "The Beatles" in them. There's "Canta Como - Sing Along: The Beatles" and "In the Beginning" that's about the Beatles backing up Tony Sheridan.
You first start out acting like you've never played these but only "seen" them. Then you claim that the PvP in WoW is pretty lame...but if you've never played it, how would you know? Just wondering, not making a judgment.
But any game like this is what you make out of it. If you really want to play WoW and never ever ever talk to anyone else or even acknowledge anyone else and that would be ok. Or you could be totally social and go on PvP raids, join and guild etc etc. You can do what you want really.
But these type of games don't appeal to everyone, like CS and UT2004 don't appeal to everyone. Hell, some people just want to play Tetris. I kind think you personally wouldn't like WoW.
Um, I'm confused. How was the above post a troll? Cause I wished I could build my own hardware to save a few dollars?
I didn't even say anything negative about Apple. I suppose if someone kind of glanced at it they may take away something that seemed like a slight jab at their prices. But a troll? I'm an Apple supporter, but have the other fanboys out there totally taken things out of proportion?
This is all true. I am only pointing out the crappy things, but I certainly don't have a solution.
Though I guess code something in that if you run over a teammate you automatically get forgiven...if you run over the same team member again you then get the punish option.
Also, if he's in a tank and he decides to run over an entire team squad all at once, then he get's auto punish, which prevents a blatent TKing situation. The only thing this doesn't prevent is a TKer that picks and chooses his victims, but if someone is really doing that, he's being much more of a jerk.
Also, fix the voting system to where someone CAN be voted off.
But as I said, I don't have the solutions and the ones I listed are pretty lame...but then again, I'm not a game designer.
I didn't mean to imply that Macs are only for the wealthy. I'm just talking about my situation.
When I start building a computer, I start off with the case...usually bought on a sale from Newegg. Then the motherboard when another sale comes along a few weeks later. I keep doing this, getting stuff that's on sale or a good bargain. This way I save money and build a really nice machine that actually would be the equivalent of a high end Mac.
Yes, I suppose I could just wait the 5 or 6 months it usually takes me to gather all the components for my PC and just outright buy a G5. But the way I do it for my personal situation is better for me.
But you're right, I don't really need a Mac, even though I'm a photographer/artist that uses Photoshop/Painter/Maya quite a bit. But being on a very tight starving artist budget I have to do what I can do with what I have. A Mac would certainly be great, but I would also have to re-buy all the software I'm using now.
No, it's not that, as you will notice about the people that run out on purpose in front of you JUST to punish you. Ruining YOUR game experience.
Accidents happen though. So as you say "it's for people like you that the punish system exists"...to punish people for accidents? People that make a mistake and accidentally run over someone gets what they deserve? That's why the punish system exists? You really want to stand by that?
OK, I'll let you off the hook, the real reason the punish system exists is to punish team killers that go out of their way to TK. THAT'S why it exists.
Also, I personally forgive 100% of the time unless it's blatant team killing which surprisingly isn't that rampant.
I would love to go to the Apple if I could build my own machine instead of being locked into what they want me to have.
But that's just me...not everyone builds their computers. I do it cause it's cheaper and I just don't have the disposable income that others have. But I'll always crave a Mac.
Well, not really even 2 patches as within days of the first patch EA "recalled" it and suggested people just reinstall the game and NOT patch it.
But that's neither here or there. I'm done with this game. It's just too tiring to play anymore.
1. The voting system sucks...I've NEVER seen one vote ever go through. Ever. I'm sure there's someone out there that's seen a vote pass...but not me.
2. The punish system just plain sucks. You kill someone by accident..like in a tank and you can't see behind you and you're not totally paying attention to the mini-map to see anyone near you and WHAM you run over your team mate cause they decided to just jump out in front of you. Do they forgive? Not a chance. Always get punished. Very rare do you not get punished. This just needs to totally go away.
3. People never act like a team anymore. In the first few days of the retail release there were people that seemed to really want to win the game...but now it's just point whores that only care about how many points they can rack up...doesn't matter if their side wins or loses. The retard level is very high at the moment.
4. Now we get into the people that rage the game. Like the myg0t morons and their ilk. The ones that go out of their way to run out in front of a jeep or tank so they CAN punish people on purpose. They'll jump on top of a chopper so they die when they take off, they'll run to a place that's about to be shelled so they can punish the commander. This is happening more and more.
5. Random disconnects for no reason.
I'm done. Guess it was a 50 dollar lesson in waiting a few months after release of a new game. EA should be ashamed of themselves releasing this bug-ridden crap. I may just go back and play the demo as that wasn't as bad.
I mean, a spam filter playing chess is one thing, but I need my cat to play better chess. I mean, he ALWAYS starts off with the Ruy Lopez...so it's so easy to see where he's going and if I throw a Sicilian Defence at him he gets really confused. And I don't even want to talk about his end game...it's really weak.
Perhaps I'll breed some form of mutant albino chess-cat to play.
Yeah, me too. Doing something like this is chickenshit in my opinion...no matter who. Legal for sure, but mainly just a jab at the guy that's leaving...a final "fuck you" if you will.
Called a contract. If you're stupid enough to sign a contract that says you couldn't get another job, then the burden is on you.
I'm sure it was a non-compete clause in the contract and that's what their disputing. Sure, it's chickenshit on Microsoft's part, but still it's probably a valid argument.
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God, I only WISH the people from Rockstar get up there in front of the House and basically say "Screw you...we'll make anything we want and you idiots won't do anything about it...it's a fricken videogame people...now get back to work and stop wasting everyone's money with this crap. No, we don't apologize for anything and in fact the next Grand Theft Auto will feature 90% sex!" Then get up and walk out.
Actually, I don't have cable or satellite. Me and my family don't watch TV.
We surf the internet and read. We used to watch a ton of TV, but when we moved to our new house we didn't feel like paying through the nose to Comcast and there are too many Trees in the way for a Satellite. This was 2 years ago and we haven't missed it. We don't even have an antenna hooked up.
We still have a TV for watching movies we rent and playing Xbox/Playstation/Gamecube...but it's mainly my son that plays those. But he doesn't even play them that much.
So this means all our games now will be free...right? Like our commercial TV is free cause we watch all the ads.
And just like going to the movies is now free cause of all the ads in the beginning...right?
/Sarcasm mode terminated.
This is bullshit. If the consumer isn't getting any benefits out of it I guess I'll avoid the privilege of paying for something that throws advertisements at me.
But banks and financial institutions have all had their software built for daylight savings time ending sooner! Now everything will be out of whack as the banks and computers and the electronic grid system will think it's an hour later than it is!
Planes will fall out of the sky! The banks will collapse! LIFE AS WE KNOW IT WILL CEASE! We need to panic people! PANIC! Start hiring floors and floors of programmers to change all the code out there.
Ok, maybe not...
But just wait until these buildings decide that it's the HUMANS inside of them that are the main source of the dirt/mess on and inside.
Then the buildings band together to start the extermination of the human race!
STAY AWAY FROM THE BUILDINGS.
It was a Kids in the Hall movie about a new drug. But there was a part in the movie where the corporate honchos were more concerned about the name of the drug and what to call it than the drug itself. They brought in a famous consultant and had board meetings etc etc about the name.
I don't know, this just reminded me of Brain Candy.
Had a friend that I met through the Amiga that developed Disk Mechanic for the Amiga. Eric Quackenbush. He was independent before he went to Greater Valley Products to develop for them. He was a HELL of a programmer. Last I heard he was doing things for OS/2 but this had to be 10 years ago.
I remember I had lured some guys from Pixar to a Chicago Amigafest to see if they wanted to port Renderman to the Amiga. The Amigafests were small affairs compared to the Apple or Microsoft ones back then, but I got a guy to fly out to it. He was nice and everything, but you could tell he thought it was kinda small-time. He was polite and suggested that we just make a Renderman compliant renderer for the Amiga. And looking back he was right, the Amiga just didn't have the horsepower to run Renderman at the time.
This was when Alan Hastings had just come out with Lightwave for NewTek...having hired Alan after his Videoscape 3D was a semi hit. Videoscape had competition from Sculpt-Animate 4D and Turbo-Silver 3D. But it was Lightwave that really broke through. This was in the days when it was a single guy doing all the programming/developing for the product. Remember them? Alan had very little help when developing Videoscape and I believe he had a partner join him in making the first version of Lightwave. Newtek was the center of the Amiga universe at the show with the VideoToaster and Lightwave.
I miss that really. It was a small group of very rabid fans that loved this machine. I used to go to Amiga user group meetings and met a lot of really friendly people. But all good things come to an end. I just wished the Amiga had a more dignified death.
First I've heard of it...I still play a ton of new games and more are coming out etc etc.
Or is this one of those things where the media says it's declining so it MUST be true. I mean I have an Xbox, a PS2 and a Gamecube and I couldn't tell you one game that's coming out for them. The Gamecube get's played more as that's my 11 year old son's favorite. But the Xbox and PS2 are hardly touched. I mean, when they first came out they were played much more...but now they mainly collect dust while I play World of Warcraft and BF2 and Silent Hunter 3 etc etc.
Sure you can play all those on a console...er...wait a minute, you can't! So I guess it all comes down to what you want to play. No way in hell am I playing a FPS with a controller when I've spent the last 12 years playing with a mouse and keyboard.
But the difference is THAT was in GTA:SA no matter what the developers said. This is different as Sims2 has been out for quite a while now and everyone knows that this isn't something that you can just unlock and automatically get nipple rings and pubic hair.
I mean, there was a mod in the original Sims too that does this exact same thing.
Should we also put warning labels on Poser too? I mean, those are totally NAKED people with genitals and everything on that! And you can...gasp...use them to draw dirty pictures and paintings!
Faints...
But you don't see anything like pubic hair or nipples or anything with this cheat, you have to go out of your way to download a skin that has all these things...much like a nude skin for UT2004 or Quake or whatever.
This isn't a secret cheat or anything that was left in the code like San Andreas.
Really, I'm offended whenever I sit down and play a video game and my character is always some macho, buff Alpha-male with sweaty, glistening pecks and hard hard washboard abs, tight leather pants and boots, tasteful tattoos and with a face that looks like he doesn't take shit from anyone and he'll make them pay...oh yes, he'll make them ALL pay! MWHAHAHAHAHA!!!...cough...you get what I mean.
Er...perhaps games are more fantasy than reality. Though in some games like Star Wars Galaxies you can modify your character to be a overweight housewife if you want. But lets face it, most video games are made for the young male.
And get back to me in 200 years (hell, I bet even 50 years) when they're still playing Beethoven and no one has heard of the Beatles.
Could be. Though in 50 years they may not be playing anything. Who knows.
But it's funny that just a few years ago, I think 2000 or 2001 The Beatles were the number one group for that year in sales. Not bad for a band that broke up 30 years ago. You really want to stick by your 50 year prediction? I have a feeling you may be wrong. Or that you're just a troll which is why you hid behind the Anonymous Coward shield.
Meh, who knows...
So it wasn't at all the "Beatles" vs. Beethoven.
The Beatles were much more than their songs. Also, much more than the induvidual performers. Get back to me when Beethoven goes toe-to-toe with Abbey Road or Revolver.
I'm looking at iTunes right now and don't see any Beatles anywhere. There is no Sgt. Pepper's for sale there.
They list two albums with "The Beatles" in them. There's "Canta Como - Sing Along: The Beatles" and "In the Beginning" that's about the Beatles backing up Tony Sheridan.
So...what are they talking about?
I can't belive the one site that has EVERYTHING one could ever ever want isn't included.
That site: zombo.com
You first start out acting like you've never played these but only "seen" them. Then you claim that the PvP in WoW is pretty lame...but if you've never played it, how would you know? Just wondering, not making a judgment.
But any game like this is what you make out of it. If you really want to play WoW and never ever ever talk to anyone else or even acknowledge anyone else and that would be ok. Or you could be totally social and go on PvP raids, join and guild etc etc. You can do what you want really.
But these type of games don't appeal to everyone, like CS and UT2004 don't appeal to everyone. Hell, some people just want to play Tetris. I kind think you personally wouldn't like WoW.
Um, I'm confused. How was the above post a troll? Cause I wished I could build my own hardware to save a few dollars?
I didn't even say anything negative about Apple. I suppose if someone kind of glanced at it they may take away something that seemed like a slight jab at their prices. But a troll? I'm an Apple supporter, but have the other fanboys out there totally taken things out of proportion?
This wasn't a troll.
This is all true. I am only pointing out the crappy things, but I certainly don't have a solution.
Though I guess code something in that if you run over a teammate you automatically get forgiven...if you run over the same team member again you then get the punish option.
Also, if he's in a tank and he decides to run over an entire team squad all at once, then he get's auto punish, which prevents a blatent TKing situation. The only thing this doesn't prevent is a TKer that picks and chooses his victims, but if someone is really doing that, he's being much more of a jerk.
Also, fix the voting system to where someone CAN be voted off.
But as I said, I don't have the solutions and the ones I listed are pretty lame...but then again, I'm not a game designer.
I didn't mean to imply that Macs are only for the wealthy. I'm just talking about my situation.
When I start building a computer, I start off with the case...usually bought on a sale from Newegg. Then the motherboard when another sale comes along a few weeks later. I keep doing this, getting stuff that's on sale or a good bargain. This way I save money and build a really nice machine that actually would be the equivalent of a high end Mac.
Yes, I suppose I could just wait the 5 or 6 months it usually takes me to gather all the components for my PC and just outright buy a G5. But the way I do it for my personal situation is better for me.
But you're right, I don't really need a Mac, even though I'm a photographer/artist that uses Photoshop/Painter/Maya quite a bit. But being on a very tight starving artist budget I have to do what I can do with what I have. A Mac would certainly be great, but I would also have to re-buy all the software I'm using now.
My situation is certainly not the norm though.
No, it's not that, as you will notice about the people that run out on purpose in front of you JUST to punish you. Ruining YOUR game experience.
Accidents happen though. So as you say "it's for people like you that the punish system exists"...to punish people for accidents? People that make a mistake and accidentally run over someone gets what they deserve? That's why the punish system exists? You really want to stand by that?
OK, I'll let you off the hook, the real reason the punish system exists is to punish team killers that go out of their way to TK. THAT'S why it exists.
Also, I personally forgive 100% of the time unless it's blatant team killing which surprisingly isn't that rampant.
I would love to go to the Apple if I could build my own machine instead of being locked into what they want me to have.
But that's just me...not everyone builds their computers. I do it cause it's cheaper and I just don't have the disposable income that others have. But I'll always crave a Mac.
No, the MacMini doesn't cut it for me.
Well, not really even 2 patches as within days of the first patch EA "recalled" it and suggested people just reinstall the game and NOT patch it.
But that's neither here or there. I'm done with this game. It's just too tiring to play anymore.
1. The voting system sucks...I've NEVER seen one vote ever go through. Ever. I'm sure there's someone out there that's seen a vote pass...but not me.
2. The punish system just plain sucks. You kill someone by accident..like in a tank and you can't see behind you and you're not totally paying attention to the mini-map to see anyone near you and WHAM you run over your team mate cause they decided to just jump out in front of you. Do they forgive? Not a chance. Always get punished. Very rare do you not get punished. This just needs to totally go away.
3. People never act like a team anymore. In the first few days of the retail release there were people that seemed to really want to win the game...but now it's just point whores that only care about how many points they can rack up...doesn't matter if their side wins or loses. The retard level is very high at the moment.
4. Now we get into the people that rage the game. Like the myg0t morons and their ilk. The ones that go out of their way to run out in front of a jeep or tank so they CAN punish people on purpose. They'll jump on top of a chopper so they die when they take off, they'll run to a place that's about to be shelled so they can punish the commander. This is happening more and more.
5. Random disconnects for no reason.
I'm done. Guess it was a 50 dollar lesson in waiting a few months after release of a new game. EA should be ashamed of themselves releasing this bug-ridden crap. I may just go back and play the demo as that wasn't as bad.
I mean, a spam filter playing chess is one thing, but I need my cat to play better chess. I mean, he ALWAYS starts off with the Ruy Lopez...so it's so easy to see where he's going and if I throw a Sicilian Defence at him he gets really confused. And I don't even want to talk about his end game...it's really weak.
Perhaps I'll breed some form of mutant albino chess-cat to play.
Yeah, me too. Doing something like this is chickenshit in my opinion...no matter who. Legal for sure, but mainly just a jab at the guy that's leaving...a final "fuck you" if you will.
Called a contract. If you're stupid enough to sign a contract that says you couldn't get another job, then the burden is on you.
I'm sure it was a non-compete clause in the contract and that's what their disputing. Sure, it's chickenshit on Microsoft's part, but still it's probably a valid argument.