While I agree with your comment in general I don't agree that the "Corn" sign isn't manipulative. The manipulation is there, just very subtle and in a way that we have grown used to.
I believe that the "Corn" sign is manipulative because once you read the sign your thoughts are different than if you hadn't read the sign at all. As a result of reading it you may recall some memories of corn. Maybe the sign makes you check your current hunger status or if you have something planned for dinner tonight. To me that is a sign of manipulation. It's subtle and to me it is much more agreeable, but still manipulative.
Maybe think about it this way. If the seller didn't want to change/manipulate your thoughts then why put up the sign at all?
In other news you have a new friend. I look forward to reading more of your comments.
Maybe its because I've only been up for six minutes but I couldn't get the movie footloose out of my head when I read the summary. I picture some sort of chinese kevin bacon or maybe the real kevin bacon in china getting everyone to "cut-a foot LOOSE!"
I'm a broke student (as in 3 months late on my rent) and I still conned a few friends into helping me get an xbox for childs play last year. This year I'm asking that people give stuff (items or $$) to them instead of a lot of the smaller stuff that I get.
This is the perfect charity for me and I love the feeling every time that I turn on my xbox that there is some kid/family/whatever not too far from where I live who can enjoy a fun game for a while and forget about whatever pain they are in.
I sit a few rows behind you at the M's. I notice that your seats go empty a lot. Why not donate them the day of to a charity like Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Seattle? I'm sure they would get used even if you put them up an hour before the game.
Also what's up with your lady situation now a days? How am I supposed to gossip if I can't keep track of who is who. Maybe you should hand out a pamphlet to Jerry and he can distribute them when he tosses out candy to us during the stretch.
thanks -drew
Also I'm sorry for heckling you a few years ago when the Real Networks Jumbo Tron was messing up and I yelled "Hey the Real board is dropping frames."
Looking at the first 11 comments I see every argument that I would want to make, but since I am drunk I figure that I should state my case anyway.
The game was OK. It was more of a memorize/pattern match sequence than it was a true game.
There was humor. I know I laughed when I saw a few of my death sequences, but beyond that I don't think it brought much to the table in terms of "gameplay".
I liked it but I liked it for what it was. I don't claim that it was halflife. DL is so far from half life that a comparison is weak at best.
You know what. In reading the article I think that the author is full of crap. What was written was nothing more than a fanatic trying to bolster more support for the game and or himself. I guess the job was well done because I am another person that clicked on a link.
In summary: game ok for what it was; article lacked weight and read like a "look at me" type rant. Dont forget to notice the paypal link.
-drew
oh ya. mispellings and gramatical errors be damned.
I don't want to sound like a wank, but do you have a link to back up the cops in the movie theater statement. Im more interested in reading about that rather than challenging the validity of your statement.
I can see how many would think of sequils as a rip off of the previous titles but the ones cited in the article will be successful because they will be well developed games. Think about all those "first run" titles. Each of these games were good to great because they gave you a little more than the the status quo. Their developers understand what it takes to bring a solid sequil to market and I think that each of these next titles would have been great even if they weren't follow ups.
Now a game like the sims and their expansion packs is a totally different situation. To me an expansion pack is NOT a sequil. It just gives the user an expanded universe/options of things to do within the already created gamespace. There is nothing ground breaking or fabulously new in an expansion pack and I don't think they should be compared at all. Maybe I just don't understand right now how they compare with regards to the profits generated.... All I know that I am more willing to spend 40 dollars on an entirely new game (new engine, story focus, paradgim change...) than I am to spend 25 dollars on an expansion pack.
In all truth I do love well made expansion packs. I've played many a RTS where the expansion pack tweaked the game just right so I could really have fun playing it. That said, I don't want to see expansion packs be just the features that were cut before shipping the main title.
Wow. Thats way to much for what I wanted to say. I guess Im just drunk...
I live in seattle as well and our DTV signal is awesome. We have DTivo in one room and another regular box in another room. We will probably add a second DTivo box too because we use the tivo so much that the housemates are always fighting over it.
We got the DTivo package which I thought included our other box. I also believe that we get NASA TV.
This station is hands down the best radio station I have listened to in my entire life. Hit it up at kexp.org they have a wide variety of streams, archived shows, good hosts, good shows...
I was a PM at Microsoft and was involved in lots of meetings where marketing had direct impact on features. These were meetings held with Dev/Test/PM leads as well, but just like everyone else they had to have a damn good reason to promote or push off a component. I've also seen dev leads stonewall marketing related choices.
Nothing is absolute at Microsoft (in a good way). A good idea is a good idea, it doesn't matter who it comes from within the company.
By someone I mean a crusty old movie exec and by grave I mean his porshe.
Actually, I'm happy that they changing their business practices to better reflect the times/technology. I also don't think that it will really hurt them for second week earnings. A lot of people who would be waiting months to see it (who would be tempted to download it) will now have the chance to see it sooner.
Do you have to bid or pay for weapons like in other games? I took a look at the site and didn't see anything mentioned about that. Maybe I just overlooked something.
I really liked that added dynamic to CS. It made me become very effective with limited firepower. I see that they have a stamina system and that your gear selections affect that. Its a nice touch but I want a little more restrictions placed on me.
I've been out of FPS for a while. What game had a bidding system where your team had to pick from limited resources and you requested what you wanted?
Personally I am tired of all this SCO crap. I just see all of this as a stock pump and dump, anything else they get along the way is pure luck. I say we take what we learned from a very special Simpsons Halloween Special and apply it here. If we don't give any news time to SCO their big haunted lawsuit will shrivel up and die.
Or, I guess I could just add SCO topic to my do not show list.
Sweet! They finally got Outkast into that game. I can't decide if I want to be Big Boi or Andre 3000. Maybe I'll be someone from the DF. I bet Cee-Lo has this crazy ass power where he does something super funky and all the bad guys can't help but get down.
Ok the story of Skynet coming online would be something that I would want to see. Is this in any of the books? I'm too lazy do some googling and I know someone here has read all the books.
Then in case like this you can point all those submissions to the article you already covered. Maybe it will shut people up.
"How come Taco wont post my story on the new matrix movie?"...looks at submissions bin with tons of the same article. Sees link to existing article for that topic. "Well hell. I guess I will have to find something else from a few days ago on theregister to report on."
just a thought. probably not the best one I have had.
I think you are looking at it the wrong way. Instead of the X-box hardware has failed and we should just wait for XB2 focus your attention at the games.
The first generation of games for any console pretty much suck HARD. Half of them are extremely cut back on gameplay and merely a technology demo/gear up for the development house. People made such a big fuss about Halo because it was good from the get go.
I could go on and on about what I like and dislike between XB and PS2, but I really think that the XB will have much cooler games a year from now. The PS2 is basically at its full potential for what it can do and the XB is really just comming into itself.
I think a much truer comparison would be a timeline that shows quantity and quality of games from each of their release dates.
the xbox dvd controller is normally found for $25. The amazon inflated price is $29
basically the whole price of the xbox dvd controller is the licensing fee for dvd playback. they didn't include the feature in the box to keep the price down for people that didn't want to play dvd's like me.
What about when I want to select a couple of random files from a folder. Sure I can still use control to select independently, but I frequently had problems with explorer selecting things I didn't want it to and not selecting things I did want it too.
I HATE having to wait for the application to "believe" that I really wanted to highlight something.
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While I agree with your comment in general I don't agree that the "Corn" sign isn't manipulative. The manipulation is there, just very subtle and in a way that we have grown used to.
I believe that the "Corn" sign is manipulative because once you read the sign your thoughts are different than if you hadn't read the sign at all. As a result of reading it you may recall some memories of corn. Maybe the sign makes you check your current hunger status or if you have something planned for dinner tonight. To me that is a sign of manipulation. It's subtle and to me it is much more agreeable, but still manipulative.
Maybe think about it this way. If the seller didn't want to change/manipulate your thoughts then why put up the sign at all?
In other news you have a new friend. I look forward to reading more of your comments.
Maybe its because I've only been up for six minutes but I couldn't get the movie footloose out of my head when I read the summary. I picture some sort of chinese kevin bacon or maybe the real kevin bacon in china getting everyone to "cut-a foot LOOSE!"
or not.
-drew
Does this fabric make me look fat?
This is the perfect charity for me and I love the feeling every time that I turn on my xbox that there is some kid/family/whatever not too far from where I live who can enjoy a fun game for a while and forget about whatever pain they are in.
http://www.childsplaycharity.org/
http://www.childsplaycharity.org/
http://www.childsplaycharity.org/
Hey Rob:
I sit a few rows behind you at the M's. I notice that your seats go empty a lot. Why not donate them the day of to a charity like Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Seattle? I'm sure they would get used even if you put them up an hour before the game.
Also what's up with your lady situation now a days? How am I supposed to gossip if I can't keep track of who is who. Maybe you should hand out a pamphlet to Jerry and he can distribute them when he tosses out candy to us during the stretch.
thanks
-drew
Also I'm sorry for heckling you a few years ago when the Real Networks Jumbo Tron was messing up and I yelled "Hey the Real board is dropping frames."
Looking at the first 11 comments I see every argument that I would want to make, but since I am drunk I figure that I should state my case anyway.
The game was OK. It was more of a memorize/pattern match sequence than it was a true game.
There was humor. I know I laughed when I saw a few of my death sequences, but beyond that I don't think it brought much to the table in terms of "gameplay".
I liked it but I liked it for what it was. I don't claim that it was halflife. DL is so far from half life that a comparison is weak at best.
You know what. In reading the article I think that the author is full of crap. What was written was nothing more than a fanatic trying to bolster more support for the game and or himself. I guess the job was well done because I am another person that clicked on a link.
In summary: game ok for what it was; article lacked weight and read like a "look at me" type rant. Dont forget to notice the paypal link.
-drew
oh ya. mispellings and gramatical errors be damned.
I don't want to sound like a wank, but do you have a link to back up the cops in the movie theater statement. Im more interested in reading about that rather than challenging the validity of your statement.
-drew
I can see how many would think of sequils as a rip off of the previous titles but the ones cited in the article will be successful because they will be well developed games. Think about all those "first run" titles. Each of these games were good to great because they gave you a little more than the the status quo. Their developers understand what it takes to bring a solid sequil to market and I think that each of these next titles would have been great even if they weren't follow ups.
Now a game like the sims and their expansion packs is a totally different situation. To me an expansion pack is NOT a sequil. It just gives the user an expanded universe/options of things to do within the already created gamespace. There is nothing ground breaking or fabulously new in an expansion pack and I don't think they should be compared at all. Maybe I just don't understand right now how they compare with regards to the profits generated.... All I know that I am more willing to spend 40 dollars on an entirely new game (new engine, story focus, paradgim change...) than I am to spend 25 dollars on an expansion pack.
In all truth I do love well made expansion packs. I've played many a RTS where the expansion pack tweaked the game just right so I could really have fun playing it. That said, I don't want to see expansion packs be just the features that were cut before shipping the main title.
Wow. Thats way to much for what I wanted to say. I guess Im just drunk...
love
-drew
I live in seattle as well and our DTV signal is awesome. We have DTivo in one room and another regular box in another room. We will probably add a second DTivo box too because we use the tivo so much that the housemates are always fighting over it.
We got the DTivo package which I thought included our other box. I also believe that we get NASA TV.
oh. Lasers. Cheese. What the hell?
My bad I saw xiao and I jumped the gun just a bit.
This station is hands down the best radio station I have listened to in my entire life. Hit it up at kexp.org they have a wide variety of streams, archived shows, good hosts, good shows...
I was a PM at Microsoft and was involved in lots of meetings where marketing had direct impact on features. These were meetings held with Dev/Test/PM leads as well, but just like everyone else they had to have a damn good reason to promote or push off a component. I've also seen dev leads stonewall marketing related choices.
Nothing is absolute at Microsoft (in a good way). A good idea is a good idea, it doesn't matter who it comes from within the company.
By someone I mean a crusty old movie exec and by grave I mean his porshe.
Actually, I'm happy that they changing their business practices to better reflect the times/technology. I also don't think that it will really hurt them for second week earnings. A lot of people who would be waiting months to see it (who would be tempted to download it) will now have the chance to see it sooner.
Or I could totally have my head up my ass.
Do you have to bid or pay for weapons like in other games? I took a look at the site and didn't see anything mentioned about that. Maybe I just overlooked something.
I really liked that added dynamic to CS. It made me become very effective with limited firepower. I see that they have a stamina system and that your gear selections affect that. Its a nice touch but I want a little more restrictions placed on me.
I've been out of FPS for a while. What game had a bidding system where your team had to pick from limited resources and you requested what you wanted?
Personally I am tired of all this SCO crap. I just see all of this as a stock pump and dump, anything else they get along the way is pure luck. I say we take what we learned from a very special Simpsons Halloween Special and apply it here. If we don't give any news time to SCO their big haunted lawsuit will shrivel up and die.
Or, I guess I could just add SCO topic to my do not show list.
Sweet! They finally got Outkast into that game. I can't decide if I want to be Big Boi or Andre 3000. Maybe I'll be someone from the DF. I bet Cee-Lo has this crazy ass power where he does something super funky and all the bad guys can't help but get down.
or maybe I didn't read the article.
Do you work for Wag Ed? Don't be offended but you sound very PR-ish. If so say hello to Sharpe for me.
Ok the story of Skynet coming online would be something that I would want to see. Is this in any of the books? I'm too lazy do some googling and I know someone here has read all the books.
Answers, anyone?
I believe you ment to say that sounds so WANG (insert link to penny-arcade.com here)
Then in case like this you can point all those submissions to the article you already covered. Maybe it will shut people up.
...looks at submissions bin with tons of the same article. Sees link to existing article for that topic. "Well hell. I guess I will have to find something else from a few days ago on theregister to report on."
"How come Taco wont post my story on the new matrix movie?"
just a thought. probably not the best one I have had.
Comming soon: Provigil in suppository form!
I think you are looking at it the wrong way. Instead of the X-box hardware has failed and we should just wait for XB2 focus your attention at the games.
The first generation of games for any console pretty much suck HARD. Half of them are extremely cut back on gameplay and merely a technology demo/gear up for the development house. People made such a big fuss about Halo because it was good from the get go.
I could go on and on about what I like and dislike between XB and PS2, but I really think that the XB will have much cooler games a year from now. The PS2 is basically at its full potential for what it can do and the XB is really just comming into itself.
I think a much truer comparison would be a timeline that shows quantity and quality of games from each of their release dates.
WRONG!
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005O0
the xbox dvd controller is normally found for $25. The amazon inflated price is $29
basically the whole price of the xbox dvd controller is the licensing fee for dvd playback. they didn't include the feature in the box to keep the price down for people that didn't want to play dvd's like me.
I have yet to see how this will enhance my life on a daily basis, i.e. better porn
I guess they could simulate how my roommates huge stack of porn would be affected by a nuclear blast.
Porn.
ok I will stop.
What about when I want to select a couple of random files from a folder. Sure I can still use control to select independently, but I frequently had problems with explorer selecting things I didn't want it to and not selecting things I did want it too.
I HATE having to wait for the application to "believe" that I really wanted to highlight something.