Picture and story time kids, a few lines of short words, a medium sized picture and enormous slow loading adds, repeat 13 times to celebrate the birthday of a series of games where the hero visits the houses of oppressed villagers and smashes all their crockery, looting all their gold and potions.
Well, google probably fares much better for most people than typing the URL directly. There's a reason why scammers register typoed URLs.
Then there are of course a lot of people who already use google to type any web addresses, not realizing there's even such a thing as URL bar.
Of course encouraging more people to browse or find sites exclusively by search engine = more $$$
Oh it might have the added side effect of an extra half inch of screen real estate.
How is that a thing? It's a videogame, your character dies all the... Wait, you mean -ACTUAL- player deaths?!? Like the game kills people? Whoa man... I really dodged a bullet there...
In most FPS games they have a bit about 2 thirds of the way through where the formula dictates they change the pace of the game before building up to the big finale. In many of these games they decide 'I know a really annoying jumping on moving platforms bit where the player falls down again and again before finally getting past would flesh this out'. In Mirrors Edge it had entire maps following this annoying jumping bit formula only when you fall down you die and respawn instead of having to climb back up and that to me was pretty immersion breaking.
I would say the map design was pretty good, and dying wasn't an issue because the level design was implemented in such a way that dying wasn't that much of a punishment.
Thats exactly the problem I had with the game, where dying becomes part of the game mechanic, then instantly re-spawning and doing it again properly. That to me screams failed map design. The game itself was very enjoyable and I didn't have any problem with the shooting that everyone else seems to have, it's just that it could have been so much more.
Yes but as you have no doubt heard, 'Correlation does not imply causation'. It is just as likely that the only reason we find nudists weird is because of thousands of years of religious brainwashing.
Ah 2012 - thought the Mayans said Mother earth was going to laugh and reformat herself. Looks like Father Sun has a different choice for cooking us.
Ah 2012 - thought the Mayans said Mother earth was going to laugh and reformat herself. Looks like Father Sun has a different choice for cooking us.
Mayans never said anything about 2012 doomsday, they just have a calender that cycles every 1,872,000 days. It's like aliens believing the universe will explode because this primitive Western human tribes calender only goes up to the 31st of December and then suddenly.......ends......
that bittorrent can be used for legit purposes. Hopefully as a side benifit, this will make it harder for the MPAA crowd to villify these types of file sharing networks.
Though the threat to private Colleges and Universities that free learning poses could actually further fund and empower the MPAA.
It's easier to steal or loose your phone than it is to break into your home and steal your desktop and considering the majority of people use the same passwords for email, Facebook, Amazon shopping and online banking, I'd consider this a serious security breach. Yes you can call people dumb for not being tech savvy but isn't that the target audience for apple products? (I don't mean dumb, just non-technical minded folk)
Someone should send them a copy of Rapelay.
At least then they would have something genuinely seedy to cry over as opposed to just a silly game featuring childish violence.
Considering the number of typos in the ad itself (octivative or activative), I'll wait until an official announcement of the price (or until it starts selling).
Actually I misread the title... I only came here looking for an XCOM tablet.
Pseudo-science will always win because the media outlets can get "passionate" famous people behind the campaigns.
What's more is the media are making a fortune from killing children by peddling fear and misinformation while publicity starved celebrities from yesteryear will tout any radical bullshit in order to get just one more hit of the publicity heroin.
Parents should inform their kids about this danger (or rather - "do not meet anyone that you only met on the internet before"), since this is quite popular now (a girl in my country found a "boyfriend" on FB, went to his city and got murdered).
Yes the problem is that most parents either do not understand the technology or have no idea of the risks and the things their kid is being exposed to.
If they can make it less effort to stream or download a film to watch than it is to pirate something then they may be onto something glaringly obvious that the big media companies seem to have failed to realise. However I suspect people may be subjected to DRM restrictions and too many hoops to jump through to cross that threshold of ease of use offered by many torrent sites.
However, I do not think that this law is bad. The parents are given power to control the gaming of their children, which seems appropriate, just like web content filters (installed by parents) or some program that limits how long the kid can be using the PC.
Having previously worked for an online games company with a player-base demographic of mostly kids or young teens, I very strongly support at least the idea of this.
Once you have seen one of the many chat logs where your trained eyes spot an adult in amongst the kids pretending to be another kid and your blood runs cold. The adult then tries to isolate the kid from their friends, then the adult tries to isolate the kid from their parents (are you alone, can we speak private etc.) then the talk turns sexual and a meet up IRL is attempted. When you have read some of the awful things these creeps say, I'm sure you may be more inclined to support this kind of action too, especially when you consider that there are many other similar kids games out there where the developers or publishers save money by not having in game player support and the report things like murder threats, suicide threats, child abuse and grooming.
The chat logs in the game are not continually and permanently stored I might add, they are buffered and if someone reports abusive or suspicious behaviour then that buffer is dumped to disc and sent to staff for analysis who do not really actually read the logs, but train their eye to scan through endless pages of crap for specific key words and phrases.
If you are going to let your children play an online game, please check what support is offered by the developers and if there are no parental controls then your internal alarm bells should be ringing.
I try to focus on the fact that I'm not a pussy and I've been through far more pain than having a little bit of fucking dental work done. Seriously...grow a set of balls you bunch of fucking jackholes-in-namby-pamby-land.
Your right, computer nerds would never consider trying to use science to remove discomfort; they are well known for pointless gestures of machismo.
However I could see this as being a great way to add hardcore mode in such games, no more 'cheating' by reloading save files - you die, and everything gets deleted at the cloud:-)
Steam already does this with some games such as X3 Terran Conflict.
How many redundant bookmarks should I have just in case one gets lost?
It's not a question of redundancy, its a question of if you can trust a company like Sony not to use innovation for evil. The possibility that you cannot save your game unless you are connected to the internet suddenly means that useful tool is actually just another form of legitimate owner punishing DRM.
The gene VMAT2 is likely what they are talking about. VMAT2 is a physiological arrangement that produces the sensations associated, by some, with mystic experiences, including the presence of God or others. Carl Zimmer claimed that, given the low explanatory power of VMAT2, it would have been more accurate for Hamer to call his book A Gene That Accounts for Less Than One Percent of the Variance Found in Scores on Psychological Questionnaires Designed to Measure a Factor Called Self-Transcendence, Which Can Signify Everything from Belonging to the Green Party to Believing in ESP.
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That remains to be seen; will the (somewhat) secular tyrants be replaced by (at least a little bit) secular democracies or fundamentalist tyrants?
Or perhaps corrupt, tax dodging, corporate capitalists like we have running the West.
Picture and story time kids, a few lines of short words, a medium sized picture and enormous slow loading adds, repeat 13 times to celebrate the birthday of a series of games where the hero visits the houses of oppressed villagers and smashes all their crockery, looting all their gold and potions.
Well, google probably fares much better for most people than typing the URL directly. There's a reason why scammers register typoed URLs.
Then there are of course a lot of people who already use google to type any web addresses, not realizing there's even such a thing as URL bar.
Of course encouraging more people to browse or find sites exclusively by search engine = more $$$
Oh it might have the added side effect of an extra half inch of screen real estate.
You are correct. But although he is definitely a religious fanatic, he's not a Christian fanatic, because he's Mormon.
To the average atheist I doubt this makes any difference. It's still just superstition.
and an awful lot of player deaths
How is that a thing? It's a videogame, your character dies all the... Wait, you mean -ACTUAL- player deaths?!? Like the game kills people? Whoa man... I really dodged a bullet there...
In most FPS games they have a bit about 2 thirds of the way through where the formula dictates they change the pace of the game before building up to the big finale. In many of these games they decide 'I know a really annoying jumping on moving platforms bit where the player falls down again and again before finally getting past would flesh this out'. In Mirrors Edge it had entire maps following this annoying jumping bit formula only when you fall down you die and respawn instead of having to climb back up and that to me was pretty immersion breaking.
I would say the map design was pretty good, and dying wasn't an issue because the level design was implemented in such a way that dying wasn't that much of a punishment.
Thats exactly the problem I had with the game, where dying becomes part of the game mechanic, then instantly re-spawning and doing it again properly. That to me screams failed map design. The game itself was very enjoyable and I didn't have any problem with the shooting that everyone else seems to have, it's just that it could have been so much more.
Such a shame, the first one had so much potential but was partially spoiled by terrible map design and an awful lot of player deaths.
From the fact that we find nudists weird?
Yes but as you have no doubt heard, 'Correlation does not imply causation'. It is just as likely that the only reason we find nudists weird is because of thousands of years of religious brainwashing.
Ah 2012 - thought the Mayans said Mother earth was going to laugh and reformat herself. Looks like Father Sun has a different choice for cooking us.
Ah 2012 - thought the Mayans said Mother earth was going to laugh and reformat herself. Looks like Father Sun has a different choice for cooking us.
Mayans never said anything about 2012 doomsday, they just have a calender that cycles every 1,872,000 days. It's like aliens believing the universe will explode because this primitive Western human tribes calender only goes up to the 31st of December and then suddenly.......ends......
that bittorrent can be used for legit purposes. Hopefully as a side benifit, this will make it harder for the MPAA crowd to villify these types of file sharing networks.
Though the threat to private Colleges and Universities that free learning poses could actually further fund and empower the MPAA.
Seriously... Let's just remove China from the Internet. Let's take back the millions of IPv4 addresses and solve several problems with one action.
When the west 'share' IP its exercising freedom of information. When the East steal IP, its piracy!
It's easier to steal or loose your phone than it is to break into your home and steal your desktop and considering the majority of people use the same passwords for email, Facebook, Amazon shopping and online banking, I'd consider this a serious security breach. Yes you can call people dumb for not being tech savvy but isn't that the target audience for apple products? (I don't mean dumb, just non-technical minded folk)
Fortunately, there isn't any rape in this game.
Someone should send them a copy of Rapelay.
At least then they would have something genuinely seedy to cry over as opposed to just a silly game featuring childish violence.
I am a small consultant, finding work is more and more difficult. Big companies do not consider me since I am too small...
Its a sad day when even oompa loompa's are being laid off.
Considering the number of typos in the ad itself (octivative or activative), I'll wait until an official announcement of the price (or until it starts selling).
Actually I misread the title... I only came here looking for an XCOM tablet.
Pseudo-science will always win because the media outlets can get "passionate" famous people behind the campaigns.
What's more is the media are making a fortune from killing children by peddling fear and misinformation while publicity starved celebrities from yesteryear will tout any radical bullshit in order to get just one more hit of the publicity heroin.
Parents should inform their kids about this danger (or rather - "do not meet anyone that you only met on the internet before"), since this is quite popular now (a girl in my country found a "boyfriend" on FB, went to his city and got murdered).
Yes the problem is that most parents either do not understand the technology or have no idea of the risks and the things their kid is being exposed to.
If they can make it less effort to stream or download a film to watch than it is to pirate something then they may be onto something glaringly obvious that the big media companies seem to have failed to realise. However I suspect people may be subjected to DRM restrictions and too many hoops to jump through to cross that threshold of ease of use offered by many torrent sites.
However, I do not think that this law is bad. The parents are given power to control the gaming of their children, which seems appropriate, just like web content filters (installed by parents) or some program that limits how long the kid can be using the PC.
Having previously worked for an online games company with a player-base demographic of mostly kids or young teens, I very strongly support at least the idea of this.
Once you have seen one of the many chat logs where your trained eyes spot an adult in amongst the kids pretending to be another kid and your blood runs cold. The adult then tries to isolate the kid from their friends, then the adult tries to isolate the kid from their parents (are you alone, can we speak private etc.) then the talk turns sexual and a meet up IRL is attempted. When you have read some of the awful things these creeps say, I'm sure you may be more inclined to support this kind of action too, especially when you consider that there are many other similar kids games out there where the developers or publishers save money by not having in game player support and the report things like murder threats, suicide threats, child abuse and grooming.
The chat logs in the game are not continually and permanently stored I might add, they are buffered and if someone reports abusive or suspicious behaviour then that buffer is dumped to disc and sent to staff for analysis who do not really actually read the logs, but train their eye to scan through endless pages of crap for specific key words and phrases.
If you are going to let your children play an online game, please check what support is offered by the developers and if there are no parental controls then your internal alarm bells should be ringing.
I try to focus on the fact that I'm not a pussy and I've been through far more pain than having a little bit of fucking dental work done. Seriously...grow a set of balls you bunch of fucking jackholes-in-namby-pamby-land.
Your right, computer nerds would never consider trying to use science to remove discomfort; they are well known for pointless gestures of machismo.
You know... if the save games are saved on their servers that wouldn't happen...
So you are happy to loose ownership of your own gameplay data? How long before loose ownership of your games altogether and instead have to rent them?
However I could see this as being a great way to add hardcore mode in such games, no more 'cheating' by reloading save files - you die, and everything gets deleted at the cloud :-)
Steam already does this with some games such as X3 Terran Conflict.
How many redundant bookmarks should I have just in case one gets lost?
It's not a question of redundancy, its a question of if you can trust a company like Sony not to use innovation for evil. The possibility that you cannot save your game unless you are connected to the internet suddenly means that useful tool is actually just another form of legitimate owner punishing DRM.
What a ******* load of bunk !
The gene VMAT2 is likely what they are talking about. VMAT2 is a physiological arrangement that produces the sensations associated, by some, with mystic experiences, including the presence of God or others.
Carl Zimmer claimed that, given the low explanatory power of VMAT2, it would have been more accurate for Hamer to call his book A Gene That Accounts for Less Than One Percent of the Variance Found in Scores on Psychological Questionnaires Designed to Measure a Factor Called Self-Transcendence, Which Can Signify Everything from Belonging to the Green Party to Believing in ESP.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_gene
It's worth noting that one of the other research pioneers of this so called God Gene, Dean H. Hamer pretty much disproves the whole God Gene theory in his own book by the same title.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=faith-boosting-genes
Though Egypt without the internet should perhaps be renamed Gypt?