The gamepad isn't that big of a deal, for someone that has a family? Have you ever played a game with your kids and realized that finding a compromise for making the game as challenging for you and the kids is almost impossible? Watching some Nintendo Land games and the new Super Mario Bros. demonstrated that the additional gamepad can easily break down that barrier. The idea of having to keeping the kids alive in Super Mario Bros. by placing platforms under em can be very challenging in itself. Rayman Legends also comes to mind in this regard with being a helpful sprite, or doing the opposite and letting the kid be your helper. The concept of babysitting in a game is often an awful experience dealing with AI NPCs, but when it comes with doing the same thing for your own children, it's a blast. The Wii U just makes the whole capacity of being an administrator or dungeon master in a game all that more appealing and feasible.
You can cry about Nintendo losing its touch with the demographic it was aiming to please with the Wii, but giving me more power over how a game plays out for both me and the little fellas is exactly what I'm interested in. And look, I don't even have to sacrifice a player slot to do it; the kids can have their friend over and I can still be involved!
Easily the best change was the level scaling. Yes indeed, the level scaling of damage certainly doesn't appear to be nearly as crippling as before. In the previous game, enemies only a few levels above were impossible because the damage inflicted was in single digits. Now the disparity in level does not seem to be all that oppressive, and the enemies won't always just one-shot ya either. It makes for very open gameplay and allows you to free roam into more dangerous territory without it being overwhelmingly punishing.
What are you using, a single-core Pentium? There's so many internal kernel changes to thread/core scheduling in Windows 7 from XP that accommodates multi-core systems that anything with 2 cores or more will greatly benefit compared to XP's shoddy outdated makeshift scheduler. Don't forget filesystem driver changes, memory manager updates, and object handling alterations that removed ugly bottlenecks, all of these designed to streamline processing on modern configurations. If you have a much older system, indeed, Windows XP works wonders, like with its smaller disk footprint, but anything that's been made in nearly the past half decade will be sorely limited by its presence.
Also, yes, as a tech, I am very much aware of hardware vendors already phasing out XP. Driver support is becoming far more difficult, to where I have had to limit purchasing good quality components and substitute with older less efficient parts because there just isn't viable support for them on an XP environment. This is especially evident with OEMs, which is something you're just going to have to deal with in corporate environments.
Since you're also posting, I guess that means it took one to know one, and my reply here at Slashdot does only to confirm the validity of my accusation.
An ultralight, some loudspeakers, and having his antics displayed on television sets and subsequently joked about on the internet. Is this not enough tech-related material for you?
I just took one look at the picture and thought the guy made it with 8 iPads. I felt a sigh of relief to know that no one would've been that stupid, but also paradoxically felt bummed that they weren't.
That wouldn't even be a feature on windows, it would be a disaster, because my 70 year old aunt would accidentally remove something important, not be sure what it was, and call me to find out how to fix it. All the people in my office would remove things, want them back, and not be able to find them. Etc.
Yes. Nearly half the support calls I get from older acquaintances and family are because they incidentally moved or hide some menu bar, icon or whatnot and can't for the life of them find it again. Performing a couple clicks or a mere click-n-drag to correct the issue just astounds them, and they'd tell me it seems so easy they'll do fine again, only to get a call from them months later about the same issue. If I already have enough calls for this kind of help with previous versions of Windows, the last thing I'd want is more of it.
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The gamepad isn't that big of a deal, for someone that has a family? Have you ever played a game with your kids and realized that finding a compromise for making the game as challenging for you and the kids is almost impossible? Watching some Nintendo Land games and the new Super Mario Bros. demonstrated that the additional gamepad can easily break down that barrier. The idea of having to keeping the kids alive in Super Mario Bros. by placing platforms under em can be very challenging in itself. Rayman Legends also comes to mind in this regard with being a helpful sprite, or doing the opposite and letting the kid be your helper. The concept of babysitting in a game is often an awful experience dealing with AI NPCs, but when it comes with doing the same thing for your own children, it's a blast. The Wii U just makes the whole capacity of being an administrator or dungeon master in a game all that more appealing and feasible.
You can cry about Nintendo losing its touch with the demographic it was aiming to please with the Wii, but giving me more power over how a game plays out for both me and the little fellas is exactly what I'm interested in. And look, I don't even have to sacrifice a player slot to do it; the kids can have their friend over and I can still be involved!
I for one welcome our new robotic factory-working subordinates.
All knowledge and no experience?
Wouldn't this constitute as being voyeurism for tree huggers?
It doesn't help the OS when the default design of it looks like I just turned on all the Accessibility options.
Duh, they just store it in the crystal as a README.
Time Warner's fault. Always.
Easily the best change was the level scaling. Yes indeed, the level scaling of damage certainly doesn't appear to be nearly as crippling as before. In the previous game, enemies only a few levels above were impossible because the damage inflicted was in single digits. Now the disparity in level does not seem to be all that oppressive, and the enemies won't always just one-shot ya either. It makes for very open gameplay and allows you to free roam into more dangerous territory without it being overwhelmingly punishing.
What are you using, a single-core Pentium? There's so many internal kernel changes to thread/core scheduling in Windows 7 from XP that accommodates multi-core systems that anything with 2 cores or more will greatly benefit compared to XP's shoddy outdated makeshift scheduler. Don't forget filesystem driver changes, memory manager updates, and object handling alterations that removed ugly bottlenecks, all of these designed to streamline processing on modern configurations. If you have a much older system, indeed, Windows XP works wonders, like with its smaller disk footprint, but anything that's been made in nearly the past half decade will be sorely limited by its presence.
Also, yes, as a tech, I am very much aware of hardware vendors already phasing out XP. Driver support is becoming far more difficult, to where I have had to limit purchasing good quality components and substitute with older less efficient parts because there just isn't viable support for them on an XP environment. This is especially evident with OEMs, which is something you're just going to have to deal with in corporate environments.
They need to preserve the glitch where your crowbar gets stuck in animation and hits the enemy a million times a second.
Won't get quite as much money patent trolling a misspelled word, but good luck with that!
Maybe I am stretching things in this case, perhaps they should have used duct tape.
Looks like a job for the Possum Lodge Institute of Science and Technology.
Since you're also posting, I guess that means it took one to know one, and my reply here at Slashdot does only to confirm the validity of my accusation.
An ultralight, some loudspeakers, and having his antics displayed on television sets and subsequently joked about on the internet. Is this not enough tech-related material for you?
The space program is an effort to combat poverty, by providing opportunities to get those poor, homeless PhD-carrying souls into a proper workplace!
I just took one look at the picture and thought the guy made it with 8 iPads. I felt a sigh of relief to know that no one would've been that stupid, but also paradoxically felt bummed that they weren't.
So I take it we'll be seeing the next president riding around in a wood-sided grocery getter?
Don't you see that the OP is just disgruntled because his workplace doesn't properly consider his disability?
Honorable Judge Dredd can tell you that DNA evidence isn't reliable enough to convict someone.
So I take it this means the Time Cube guy got converted, yes?
That wouldn't even be a feature on windows, it would be a disaster, because my 70 year old aunt would accidentally remove something important, not be sure what it was, and call me to find out how to fix it. All the people in my office would remove things, want them back, and not be able to find them. Etc.
Yes. Nearly half the support calls I get from older acquaintances and family are because they incidentally moved or hide some menu bar, icon or whatnot and can't for the life of them find it again. Performing a couple clicks or a mere click-n-drag to correct the issue just astounds them, and they'd tell me it seems so easy they'll do fine again, only to get a call from them months later about the same issue. If I already have enough calls for this kind of help with previous versions of Windows, the last thing I'd want is more of it.
They'll arrest you on account of wiretapping.
If I have a clean keyboard, what will I turn to when I need to acquire emergency food rations?
I'm staying out of this; I feel saturnine enough as it is.
You have my word.
- Nigerian Prince
P.S. Please help me and my country.