If I put the game down for a weekend or a week or two due to Real Life, and then come back and there's no way to get back into the character and remember what was going on in the story, then I'm done with the game.
This actually brings up an interesting thought for me. I wonder how well it would go over that, if you saved and walked away from a game, when you came back, it gave you one of those TV-esque 'Previously, on [game]...' intros (skip-able, of course). That might be a way to do a quick refresh of what was going on when you saved, perhaps what quests you were on or the point in the main story where you were at. So far I haven't seen any of that in games, and I know it would have helped me in quite a few instances to get back into the groove.
Lost Odyssey does something very similar - when you load a game it gives you a text run-down of recent events. Star Ocean TLH has a full text summary of everything that's happened so far available to read, which certainly comes in handy. Tales of Symphonia had a similar system. So they are out there, just need to see more of it.
I guess part of it is the game devs assuming the player will just be playing their game from start to finish, without any distractions whatsoever in between - something that's just not very likely to happen.
Bizarrely, my (tech-illiterate) father thought the "app" part was a contraction of "Apple" and kept referring to it as the Apple Store (I guess he'd never been into a B&M Apple Store location...)
Ah, there's your mistake; "Nazi" stands for "National Socialist", so the Nazis were left-wing, not right.
Of course, the current crop of lefties would VERY much like us all to forget that part.....
Hoping you're trolling, but anyway - National Socialist was just a _name_ as the Party was born out of the German Labor movement, indeed like a lot of left-wing parties. That's where the connection begins and ends however - you certainly can't call many of the Nazi policies "left wing":
- extermination of disabled / homosexuals / Jews / Gypsy(Roma)
- promotion of idea of _one_ perfect race
- class system that discriminated against particular groups... and that's just for starters. Pray tell, apart from having the word "Socialist" in their name, how on Earth can you describe the Nazis as being left-wing?
What's the problem? Can't Facebook get attract good developers the regular way anymore? Hmm. Maybe all the smart ones know Zuckerberg is a jerk and the company culture is rendered uninhabitable by the swarms of junior-grade developers writing junior-grade PHP, and demand more money than they could negotiate this way.
I haven't seen it, but I'm curious as to why virtually all cartoons these days are colored in South Korea. Strikes me that depicting it in such an allegorical way is somewhat appropriate.
Being a colorist is not easy, but it's hardly in the same league creatively with the folks that do the writing and modeling for the series. It sounds like it's away of pointing out that it's like working in the salt mines of the cartoon industry.
Interestingly, a lot of Japanese animation (which, in the past, was traditionally outsourced to Korea) is now being outsourced to places like Vietnam. Not sure if that indicated the Koreans have their hands full doing American animation, or if the other countries are simply cheaper.
It makes me think that in order to move large organizations away from XP, M$ is going to need to offer a pre-Cut-Down version of Windows 7 - with all the flashy extras turned off by default in order to run on the bare minimum.
Mind you, if someone is using their workstation solely to access a web-based app, perhaps this is a good time for that organization to move to something lighter anyway - not a lot of point throwing processing power at such basic needs.
Yeah it's costing us FORTY THREE BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.
$27 billion FFS, not $43b - that's the total project cost over TEN years. The public cost is capped at $27b (estimated spend between $22-27b). The remainder of the money will be raised by NBN Co through bond issues and commercial partnerships. Read up on the facts before bleating about the cost PLEASE!
This is welcome news for any (like me) who have Dreamcasts that work perfectly but have malfunctioning GD-ROM drives. Hopefully someone picks it up for Western distribution.
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If I put the game down for a weekend or a week or two due to Real Life, and then come back and there's no way to get back into the character and remember what was going on in the story, then I'm done with the game.
This actually brings up an interesting thought for me. I wonder how well it would go over that, if you saved and walked away from a game, when you came back, it gave you one of those TV-esque 'Previously, on [game]...' intros (skip-able, of course). That might be a way to do a quick refresh of what was going on when you saved, perhaps what quests you were on or the point in the main story where you were at. So far I haven't seen any of that in games, and I know it would have helped me in quite a few instances to get back into the groove.
Lost Odyssey does something very similar - when you load a game it gives you a text run-down of recent events. Star Ocean TLH has a full text summary of everything that's happened so far available to read, which certainly comes in handy. Tales of Symphonia had a similar system. So they are out there, just need to see more of it. I guess part of it is the game devs assuming the player will just be playing their game from start to finish, without any distractions whatsoever in between - something that's just not very likely to happen.
Bizarrely, my (tech-illiterate) father thought the "app" part was a contraction of "Apple" and kept referring to it as the Apple Store (I guess he'd never been into a B&M Apple Store location...)
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,254,152 tested so far." Geh, that's not especially promising...
Ah, there's your mistake; "Nazi" stands for "National Socialist", so the Nazis were left-wing, not right. Of course, the current crop of lefties would VERY much like us all to forget that part.....
Hoping you're trolling, but anyway - National Socialist was just a _name_ as the Party was born out of the German Labor movement, indeed like a lot of left-wing parties. That's where the connection begins and ends however - you certainly can't call many of the Nazi policies "left wing": - extermination of disabled / homosexuals / Jews / Gypsy(Roma) - promotion of idea of _one_ perfect race - class system that discriminated against particular groups ... and that's just for starters. Pray tell, apart from having the word "Socialist" in their name, how on Earth can you describe the Nazis as being left-wing?
On a related note, Hell just froze over...
If it's made it into a mainstream Australian paper (that's half cobbled together from wire sources) then it's fair to say it's already well known....
What's the problem? Can't Facebook get attract good developers the regular way anymore? Hmm. Maybe all the smart ones know Zuckerberg is a jerk and the company culture is rendered uninhabitable by the swarms of junior-grade developers writing junior-grade PHP, and demand more money than they could negotiate this way.
On this topic, an Australian newspaper article about devs leaving Google for Facebook
I haven't seen it, but I'm curious as to why virtually all cartoons these days are colored in South Korea. Strikes me that depicting it in such an allegorical way is somewhat appropriate. Being a colorist is not easy, but it's hardly in the same league creatively with the folks that do the writing and modeling for the series. It sounds like it's away of pointing out that it's like working in the salt mines of the cartoon industry.
Interestingly, a lot of Japanese animation (which, in the past, was traditionally outsourced to Korea) is now being outsourced to places like Vietnam. Not sure if that indicated the Koreans have their hands full doing American animation, or if the other countries are simply cheaper.
It makes me think that in order to move large organizations away from XP, M$ is going to need to offer a pre-Cut-Down version of Windows 7 - with all the flashy extras turned off by default in order to run on the bare minimum. Mind you, if someone is using their workstation solely to access a web-based app, perhaps this is a good time for that organization to move to something lighter anyway - not a lot of point throwing processing power at such basic needs.
You know these things happen 'accidentally' because 50% of the time the error is in the customer's favour.....
Haha, good point - I've personally lost count of the number of times my TelCo has given me bonus money for no good reason :}
Yeah it's costing us FORTY THREE BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.
$27 billion FFS, not $43b - that's the total project cost over TEN years. The public cost is capped at $27b (estimated spend between $22-27b). The remainder of the money will be raised by NBN Co through bond issues and commercial partnerships. Read up on the facts before bleating about the cost PLEASE!
This is welcome news for any (like me) who have Dreamcasts that work perfectly but have malfunctioning GD-ROM drives. Hopefully someone picks it up for Western distribution.