I initially thought the PB being an accessory device to a BB would be an awesome idea.
However. With the big selling points being that it runs flash and run android apps but lacks email and basic productivity apps means that RIM forgot who their audience is. And it's not people in the market for tablets that can run android apps and play flash games.
at the core of mvc games are an undocumented maze of bugs, infinites, cancels, and combos that unless you're neck deep in the community, you probably won't discover on your own.
That means that good players can't have fun if they have to tone down their game so others can catch up.
It's no fun to have to play a game with kid gloves on.
On the other hand, Super Smash Bros. Brawl is wonderful in this aspect. Knowing advanced techniques is wonderful, and definitely gives a more skilled player the edge, however, the game system isn't overly complicated such that a noob or a casual player stands absolutely no chance.
I like games like Marvel vs Capcom, I like games like Smash. What Starcraft needs are gameplay modes baked into the game that can cater to player versus player games where basic strategy and tactics count more than knowing the nitty gritty of the game system.
What I think the Blizzard drone in the article missed is that the eSport aspect and the "fun" aspect can and should be together, it's not like having fun modes negates more serious competitive play.
But the issues you outline keep it from being enjoyable. Putting a proper scaler for output isn't too hard or expensive these days. I certainly hope they learned their lesson for the NGP.
It also had 16 gigs of onboard flash RAM and bluetooth connectivity. Also talked to SIXAXIS controllers(and DS3 controllers). That coupled with TV out made for a pretty interesting gaming experience.
As for the 3DS, they really dropped the ball, with the PSP as aged as it was, they should've moved swiftly and introduced the PSP's successor years ago. the psp is a pretty competent device, I love the platform(DS is also incredible; good time to be a gamer IMHO).
Having a little section on the bottom for quick app selection isn't the problem, it's that the whole UI looks ripped off from the iOS UI. The dock area was what tipped me off to what Apple was complaining about.
You're speaking to the specifics of this post, the GP was speaking to the general situation of IT versus Everyone Else.
In fairness, IT needs to be flexible on some level. Where I previously worked, my piddly little installs of Joomla and Moodle were treated with the same level of scrutiny as our CRM, our sales web portal, and other mission critical apps. I can understand why IT was that inflexible, but, there was a better way.
I used to work at a shop that had at first, pretty loose and easy IT regulations then got an IT manager that cracked down hard.
My ass was on the line when I couldn't be flexible enough to kiss some middle manager's ass and get some feature implemented NOW NOW NOW, because we were that flexible 8 months ago, despite me telling them that 4 months ago, IT cracked down and we have real change management procedures.
I understand why IT ops tend to have buttholes tighter than a snare drum, because there is quite a lot on the line. I can understand why developers and users hate it, and that's because business needs(Well, management's whims) move faster than IT's policy and procedures dictate.
Given Wallaby, Adobe's flash to HTML5 converter, this is by no means adobe's feat concession nor it's last. iOS is here to stay and adobe is slowly getting on board.
No, it wouldn't have. First off, a blank page would confuse the hell out of people.
Second off, it's probably also a due process issue. It's a complete run down about WHY the domain was seized and gives anyone who's reading the seized domain all the information about what happened.
Stop it with your goddamned anti-Government crusade. Fulltilt, ultimatebet, and other such sites fucked up and broke the damned law.
When I'm at the table, I know that all the people next to the guy who just posted the big blind is a real human and not some bot who's out to bilk me for all I've got.
There needs to be a certain amount of oversight and regulation when money is changing hands.
I live in a city that thrives off of gambling. The history of gambling and gaming is pretty much full of cheats, thugs, thieves and charlatans.
Unregulated gambling means you don't know if you're playing the online version of three card monte or instead a respectable poker game.
You anti-Government types all act like either history never happend, history is all rosy and perfect or that people getting screwed is something to be celebrated.
Uhm. Due process. They had warrants and reasonable cause to seize domains, equipment and conduct an investigation into the nature of these businesses.
If they had to ask nicely whether or not they were committing any crimes, do you honestly think the criminals will just willingly hand over incriminating evidence?
i"m a JS developer, and the only time I've *ever* pegged a CPU with pure JS was when I was trying some recursion technique to traverse DOM information, and that's ONLY because I got > and confused for end point check and that was only for about 20 seconds because Firefox eventually shits itself when unchecked recursion runs.
If the current timeline continues as it is, Duke Nukem Forever will come out before Episode 3.
Normally I wouldn't care about Half Life, but Ep2's introduction of the Borealis hit all the right buttons for me. Namely, the buttons that really liked Portal.
Speaking of ads, I was on a site with heavy flash ads, and noticed that Activity Monitor was showing both my CPU cores pegging. I check it out and Chrome's Flash handler was using something like 150% of CPU time.
Funny enough, or ironically enough depending on your view, when you install OSX Apple trusts that you bought it and doesn't know or care if you pirated it. No CD Keys, no activation codes, no serials...
Given that Apple isn't worried about it's cash flow anytime soon, it makes me wonder if CD Keys are really worth the hassle.
much like the Borg at the end of Star Trek: Voyager's run, Microsoft has become a giant impotent joke, but you really still don't want to get on their bad side.
I don't know if mshell or other mobile programming languages have any real system integration this thing does. Sort of reminds me of hacking in AppleScript.
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I initially thought the PB being an accessory device to a BB would be an awesome idea.
However. With the big selling points being that it runs flash and run android apps but lacks email and basic productivity apps means that RIM forgot who their audience is. And it's not people in the market for tablets that can run android apps and play flash games.
Not to mention developer experience.
http://blog.jamiemurai.com/2011/02/you-win-rim/
at the core of mvc games are an undocumented maze of bugs, infinites, cancels, and combos that unless you're neck deep in the community, you probably won't discover on your own.
That means that good players can't have fun if they have to tone down their game so others can catch up.
It's no fun to have to play a game with kid gloves on.
On the other hand, Super Smash Bros. Brawl is wonderful in this aspect. Knowing advanced techniques is wonderful, and definitely gives a more skilled player the edge, however, the game system isn't overly complicated such that a noob or a casual player stands absolutely no chance.
I like games like Marvel vs Capcom, I like games like Smash. What Starcraft needs are gameplay modes baked into the game that can cater to player versus player games where basic strategy and tactics count more than knowing the nitty gritty of the game system.
What I think the Blizzard drone in the article missed is that the eSport aspect and the "fun" aspect can and should be together, it's not like having fun modes negates more serious competitive play.
You clearly don't know how to play Marvel Vs Capcom.
Good players can eat button mashers for breakfast.
Besides, in terms of "bad design" Marvel vs Capcom is pretty up there.
(Seriously between it and it's two sequels, MvC2/MvC3, it's seriously friggin' broken.)
I didn't say good, I said interesting :)
But the issues you outline keep it from being enjoyable. Putting a proper scaler for output isn't too hard or expensive these days. I certainly hope they learned their lesson for the NGP.
Well, not exactly *Less* functional.
It also had 16 gigs of onboard flash RAM and bluetooth connectivity. Also talked to SIXAXIS controllers(and DS3 controllers). That coupled with TV out made for a pretty interesting gaming experience.
As for the 3DS, they really dropped the ball, with the PSP as aged as it was, they should've moved swiftly and introduced the PSP's successor years ago. the psp is a pretty competent device, I love the platform(DS is also incredible; good time to be a gamer IMHO).
Having a little section on the bottom for quick app selection isn't the problem, it's that the whole UI looks ripped off from the iOS UI. The dock area was what tipped me off to what Apple was complaining about.
You're speaking to the specifics of this post, the GP was speaking to the general situation of IT versus Everyone Else.
In fairness, IT needs to be flexible on some level. Where I previously worked, my piddly little installs of Joomla and Moodle were treated with the same level of scrutiny as our CRM, our sales web portal, and other mission critical apps. I can understand why IT was that inflexible, but, there was a better way.
I was facepalming over this until I saw some side by sides linked from Daring Fireball.
Sauce 1
Sauce 2.
I didn't give a shit until I saw the dock ripoff on the Samsung devices. that's just fuggin' blatant.
I blame management.
I used to work at a shop that had at first, pretty loose and easy IT regulations then got an IT manager that cracked down hard.
My ass was on the line when I couldn't be flexible enough to kiss some middle manager's ass and get some feature implemented NOW NOW NOW, because we were that flexible 8 months ago, despite me telling them that 4 months ago, IT cracked down and we have real change management procedures.
I understand why IT ops tend to have buttholes tighter than a snare drum, because there is quite a lot on the line. I can understand why developers and users hate it, and that's because business needs(Well, management's whims) move faster than IT's policy and procedures dictate.
Given Wallaby, Adobe's flash to HTML5 converter, this is by no means adobe's feat concession nor it's last. iOS is here to stay and adobe is slowly getting on board.
No, it wouldn't have. First off, a blank page would confuse the hell out of people.
Second off, it's probably also a due process issue. It's a complete run down about WHY the domain was seized and gives anyone who's reading the seized domain all the information about what happened.
Stop it with your goddamned anti-Government crusade. Fulltilt, ultimatebet, and other such sites fucked up and broke the damned law.
When I'm at the table, I know that all the people next to the guy who just posted the big blind is a real human and not some bot who's out to bilk me for all I've got.
There needs to be a certain amount of oversight and regulation when money is changing hands.
Lemme put it to you this way.
How is this any different than wrapping a house with that "POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS" yellow tape they wrap busted crack and methlabs with?
To alert users what's going on rather than just leave a blank nothing?
Sure it's a threat, but, last time I checked, it was the Government's job to enforce the law.
I live in Las Vegas, we have the Nevada Gaming Commission to keep the casinos fair.
Fair is, "Here's the odds" and if the game is rigged that those odds don't match up with the bets being presented, the game is shut down.
Christ this is ridiculous.
I live in a city that thrives off of gambling. The history of gambling and gaming is pretty much full of cheats, thugs, thieves and charlatans.
Unregulated gambling means you don't know if you're playing the online version of three card monte or instead a respectable poker game.
You anti-Government types all act like either history never happend, history is all rosy and perfect or that people getting screwed is something to be celebrated.
Fuck you.
Uhm. Due process. They had warrants and reasonable cause to seize domains, equipment and conduct an investigation into the nature of these businesses.
If they had to ask nicely whether or not they were committing any crimes, do you honestly think the criminals will just willingly hand over incriminating evidence?
i"m a JS developer, and the only time I've *ever* pegged a CPU with pure JS was when I was trying some recursion technique to traverse DOM information, and that's ONLY because I got > and confused for end point check and that was only for about 20 seconds because Firefox eventually shits itself when unchecked recursion runs.
If the current timeline continues as it is, Duke Nukem Forever will come out before Episode 3.
Normally I wouldn't care about Half Life, but Ep2's introduction of the Borealis hit all the right buttons for me. Namely, the buttons that really liked Portal.
Probably.
Speaking of ads, I was on a site with heavy flash ads, and noticed that Activity Monitor was showing both my CPU cores pegging. I check it out and Chrome's Flash handler was using something like 150% of CPU time.
The whole web indeed.
Funny enough, or ironically enough depending on your view, when you install OSX Apple trusts that you bought it and doesn't know or care if you pirated it. No CD Keys, no activation codes, no serials...
Given that Apple isn't worried about it's cash flow anytime soon, it makes me wonder if CD Keys are really worth the hassle.
much like the Borg at the end of Star Trek: Voyager's run, Microsoft has become a giant impotent joke, but you really still don't want to get on their bad side.
It is a very cool tool.
I don't know if mshell or other mobile programming languages have any real system integration this thing does. Sort of reminds me of hacking in AppleScript.