Braid was Art. Deus Ex got more depth than half the books my mother reads.
Art is subjective and we only agree on the tip of the iceberg's looks.
Everyone agrees that Braid IS art. But then we can name and argue about the rest, just as we can argue whether Bieber's musique can be put in the same category as Shakespeare's litterature.
And second, it's true that "video games" is an industry delivering products, we just can't say Half-Life is similar to CoD. For each it's own appeal, feeling and nature. And just because one of them is less "Artistic", it doesn't mean that what is similar is also "Not-Artistic".
There will probably be lots of deads and ruined in this. But it really hit the most prepared country of all. I can't imagine how it would have been if it did hit the US shores first.
Al Jazeera's and Al Arabia's main audiences are Arabic ones. And, only lately, did the average Abd El Mottalib discover that Facebook and Youtube could be used for something else other than shitty oriental\pop culture star stalking.
Only after the Tunisian revolution did Al Arabia (The second largest arabic news channel) start advertising their online live streaming news and Facebook insta-notifications (I don't really know when did Al Jazeera start doing that, never cared about that one).
Point is, Arabic news channels only discovered that the internets could be useful in brain washing after the recent events, the same day dictatorships discovered it. The fact that Dailymotion jumps in the bandwagon this late is rather... "Meh".
But then I bought it on XBOX because, seriously, those spells really aren't easy to cast, especially not with a touchpad. At least with the xbox controlle,r you just had to follow key-sequences.
When libertarians and left wing parties earned the "power", they kind of decieved the populace and we ended up with the extremist right wings getting more influence again. I imagine that, as this continues, it will inevitably cause a new libertarian explosion and we will inevitably end up with much more lax and young gouvernments...... Yes am dreaming.
I hate this "Something is bad. Ban it" Attitude. Of all those Facebookers there are probably good students who use their laptops for something other than trivial comments. And, I don't know if I have some kind of jammer brain or something, but noise made in class never bothered me. If I wanted to concentrate with the lecture, I just had to. If you get distracted by someone's screensaver, crying and asking for every computer to be banned out of the college is as irresponsible as distracting others.
I remember a shaman from one of those South American cultures say something like: "We have been using tobacco for hundreds of years, and look at what it did to you when you discovered it. We have been using coca for generations, and look at what you did when you found it. I fear the worst for you once you find the rest of our plants." I guess the point is of the article is that the use of "drugs" is something part of nature, it's just how we do it that matters.
The very source of disagreament about this subject comes from this question "What is a better world?". Philosophy has it's answer, technocracy have got a different one.
Well, I don't remember when was the first time I watched pr0n, nor do I remember the first time I fapped, but I think it was around 11 yo.
Now, did that make a sex-predator out of me? Surely not. This is exactly like pretty much everything else governements do, trying to do damage control instead of asking where the damage comes from. Some parents can't get themselves to teach their kids about sex, and it's because of these parents that we end up with both rapers AND rape victims. The "it doesn't exist" policy isn't an ever-lasting, they should have learned that after going through homophoby, polution, corruption and shit like that.
Between "Keeping information from the wrong hands" and "Keeping information from all hands" there is one small border... Easilly crossed, easilly gone.
Well, I live in one of those internet black holes, myself. Tunisia.
In Tunisia, Youtube, Dailymotion, and many sites were, since 2007, blocked due to "offensive" content (read: politically dissident). What that caused was two things, mainly: More dissidence, and the banalisation of proxies. Right now kids in elementary schools know how to fiddle with proxies and DNS settings to get around the blockade, and despite the govt's sincere efforts, we still watch our vids on youtube (http://www.tekiano.com/net/web-2-0/2-7-1719/youtube-15eme-site-le-plus-visite-en-tunisie.html French blog, sorry).
At some point, FB was blocked too, but this nearly caused a riot (Yes, people didn't riot because of a tax increase but they started getting angry when they couldn't play Farmville). This, of course, tought our gov't one thing: being all official about blocking FB is an open invitation to a riot. Thus, they decided to do it diferently and now they block Tunisian IPs from certain pages with... delicate content. (this, I guess, was done hand to hand with Facebook's teams).
I do not expect the Saudi gov't to hold on their bloackade for too long, they should play it the smooth way and learn rom their fellow retarded govts.
The point of a degree is not to prove that you have skills, but rather to prove that you did answer correctly most questions and that you did well in practical sessions.
If I was a CEO, I wouldn't hire a guy with a dosen of diplomas when there is a talented guy next to him who did on his own and without teachers what others fail to understand.
It's sad, but it looks like pretty much everyone is giving importance to degrees, not to skills (and maybe natural affinity with things).
The GTA feel was the charming point in APB. I sure would have bought it because it kinda looked somewhere between GTA and mercenaries, with a touch of MMO-ness (with all the good and bad it brings). I would have taken a look into it if the friends who tried it didn't shun it like no tomorrow.
APB had a lot of possibilities, the business model might have killed it, but most people I know blame it on the "Incomplete" feel the game had.
I wonder what they spent their budget on, honestly...
Sure the development was cataclysmic and the business model fucked up, but this is bad news for us, players.
The next CEO to dive in the MMO sea will be even less enclined to take some risks and come up with something original.
Sadely today, for every interactions between two entities, there seems to be a person trying to be a middle-man.
For physical wares trading, they can be a bit useful, by taking care of all the exporting/importing work, all the advertisment work,.. But for things envolving two entities for an exchange that doesnt involve the middle-man's skill? They are kinda useless...
A company would be better off recruiting people from SourceForge.
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Braid was Art. Deus Ex got more depth than half the books my mother reads. Art is subjective and we only agree on the tip of the iceberg's looks. Everyone agrees that Braid IS art. But then we can name and argue about the rest, just as we can argue whether Bieber's musique can be put in the same category as Shakespeare's litterature. And second, it's true that "video games" is an industry delivering products, we just can't say Half-Life is similar to CoD. For each it's own appeal, feeling and nature. And just because one of them is less "Artistic", it doesn't mean that what is similar is also "Not-Artistic".
There will probably be lots of deads and ruined in this. But it really hit the most prepared country of all. I can't imagine how it would have been if it did hit the US shores first.
Al Jazeera's and Al Arabia's main audiences are Arabic ones. And, only lately, did the average Abd El Mottalib discover that Facebook and Youtube could be used for something else other than shitty oriental\pop culture star stalking.
Only after the Tunisian revolution did Al Arabia (The second largest arabic news channel) start advertising their online live streaming news and Facebook insta-notifications (I don't really know when did Al Jazeera start doing that, never cared about that one).
Point is, Arabic news channels only discovered that the internets could be useful in brain washing after the recent events, the same day dictatorships discovered it. The fact that Dailymotion jumps in the bandwagon this late is rather... "Meh".
But then I bought it on XBOX because, seriously, those spells really aren't easy to cast, especially not with a touchpad. At least with the xbox controlle,r you just had to follow key-sequences.
It would be, actually, so easy for terrorists to communicate on games like Counter Strike.
When libertarians and left wing parties earned the "power", they kind of decieved the populace and we ended up with the extremist right wings getting more influence again.
I imagine that, as this continues, it will inevitably cause a new libertarian explosion and we will inevitably end up with much more lax and young gouvernments...... Yes am dreaming.
Decentralization is the way.
Nihilism at its best?
I hate this "Something is bad. Ban it" Attitude.
Of all those Facebookers there are probably good students who use their laptops for something other than trivial comments. And, I don't know if I have some kind of jammer brain or something, but noise made in class never bothered me. If I wanted to concentrate with the lecture, I just had to. If you get distracted by someone's screensaver, crying and asking for every computer to be banned out of the college is as irresponsible as distracting others.
That would have been an epic win if it helped the console survive. But it didn't.
Fail?
I remember a shaman from one of those South American cultures say something like: "We have been using tobacco for hundreds of years, and look at what it did to you when you discovered it. We have been using coca for generations, and look at what you did when you found it. I fear the worst for you once you find the rest of our plants."
I guess the point is of the article is that the use of "drugs" is something part of nature, it's just how we do it that matters.
The very source of disagreament about this subject comes from this question "What is a better world?". Philosophy has it's answer, technocracy have got a different one.
Seaweed makes you live longer, fact.
Well, I don't remember when was the first time I watched pr0n, nor do I remember the first time I fapped, but I think it was around 11 yo.
Now, did that make a sex-predator out of me? Surely not.
This is exactly like pretty much everything else governements do, trying to do damage control instead of asking where the damage comes from. Some parents can't get themselves to teach their kids about sex, and it's because of these parents that we end up with both rapers AND rape victims.
The "it doesn't exist" policy isn't an ever-lasting, they should have learned that after going through homophoby, polution, corruption and shit like that.
Between "Keeping information from the wrong hands" and "Keeping information from all hands" there is one small border... Easilly crossed, easilly gone.
Well, I live in one of those internet black holes, myself. Tunisia. In Tunisia, Youtube, Dailymotion, and many sites were, since 2007, blocked due to "offensive" content (read: politically dissident). What that caused was two things, mainly: More dissidence, and the banalisation of proxies. Right now kids in elementary schools know how to fiddle with proxies and DNS settings to get around the blockade, and despite the govt's sincere efforts, we still watch our vids on youtube (http://www.tekiano.com/net/web-2-0/2-7-1719/youtube-15eme-site-le-plus-visite-en-tunisie.html French blog, sorry). At some point, FB was blocked too, but this nearly caused a riot (Yes, people didn't riot because of a tax increase but they started getting angry when they couldn't play Farmville). This, of course, tought our gov't one thing: being all official about blocking FB is an open invitation to a riot. Thus, they decided to do it diferently and now they block Tunisian IPs from certain pages with... delicate content. (this, I guess, was done hand to hand with Facebook's teams). I do not expect the Saudi gov't to hold on their bloackade for too long, they should play it the smooth way and learn rom their fellow retarded govts.
In a related news, archeologists excavated a giant window in northern Canada. More at eleven...
The point of a degree is not to prove that you have skills, but rather to prove that you did answer correctly most questions and that you did well in practical sessions. If I was a CEO, I wouldn't hire a guy with a dosen of diplomas when there is a talented guy next to him who did on his own and without teachers what others fail to understand. It's sad, but it looks like pretty much everyone is giving importance to degrees, not to skills (and maybe natural affinity with things).
The GTA feel was the charming point in APB. I sure would have bought it because it kinda looked somewhere between GTA and mercenaries, with a touch of MMO-ness (with all the good and bad it brings). I would have taken a look into it if the friends who tried it didn't shun it like no tomorrow. APB had a lot of possibilities, the business model might have killed it, but most people I know blame it on the "Incomplete" feel the game had. I wonder what they spent their budget on, honestly...
Sure the development was cataclysmic and the business model fucked up, but this is bad news for us, players. The next CEO to dive in the MMO sea will be even less enclined to take some risks and come up with something original.
Probably the same day they port Duke Nukem Forever to the PS3.
Somehow DNF jokes aren't that funny anymore.... It makes me a little sad inside.
Where is the study about how female hormones make a smarter and better CEO out of you? I honestly did not expect less from a the Rambo-hormone....
Well isn't it normally much easier in space? Though there is still this big difference between pulling and pushing.
So How will Fox News report this? The terrorists of the internetdoing good things? Am curious.
Sadely today, for every interactions between two entities, there seems to be a person trying to be a middle-man. For physical wares trading, they can be a bit useful, by taking care of all the exporting/importing work, all the advertisment work,.. But for things envolving two entities for an exchange that doesnt involve the middle-man's skill? They are kinda useless... A company would be better off recruiting people from SourceForge.