In the Bible, Nimrod is described as a mighty hunter. The name acquired its newer meaning thanks to Bugs Bunny, who used to refer to Elmer Fudd as a 'poor little Nimrod'.
This post of mine is only a month old, but I thought it would be worth trotting out:
The funny thing is, there's never really anything 'adult' about games that are rated 'Adults Only', nor is there anything particularly 'Mature' about games labeled such.
I figure at the rate things are going, there will one day be a game consisting solely of giant-sized genitalia doing battle with machine guns and bodily fluids while healing themselves with crack cocaine. The villain will be an undead mutant urethra, who rapes the players with his radioactive waste-spewing demon gonads and multifarious blood-dripping, sulfurous tube-like appendages, better known as 'Satan-tacles'. At that point, the ESRB will have to add a new category above 'Well-socialized And Upstanding Community Member' (which itself was created to categorize Puppy Molestors 4), probably named something like 'Confucian'. And the whole thing takes place in Hell. Perhaps more specifically, the issue is that the ratings denote that the content is inappropriate for children, not that it's of interest to or worthwhile to adults. A game doesn't get rature 'Mature' for making the player think, or for trying to enrich them. It gets labeled 'Mature' for showing blood and guts, or boobies. I know that I used to confuse the two quite a bit. I think that, as a teenager, violent movies and games were a way of marking myself as no longer being a child - after all, if I'm playing it, and it's inappropriate for children, then I'm not really a child, am I? Now that I'm (a little bit) older, I see it quite differently, and from my experience, that seems to be the norm for men in their early twenties.
Don't get me wrong; I enjoy a first-person shooter or a zombie game as much as anyone else. I just don't pretend that Dead Rising is a more 'mature' experience than Wii Sports.
I encounter many namespace collisions, unless I go full out and include my middle name. On the other hand, since I married a Jewish girl, coming up with distinct identifiers for my future children will be easy and not even require some stupid 'take a common name and spell it wrong' kind of thing. I mean, how many Jacob Kanodias can there be in the world?
Never used an LG phone, but I've never had any problems with my CD burner or refrigerator. Yes, refrigerator. Big-ass mother with aluminum case. It came with the apartment. What a world, eh?
Christ, that Village Voice article made my head hurt. From the article itself:
For nearly a decade, the popular video game series Resident Evil has been giving us excuses to shoot the living hell out of pale, pasty, flesh-eating zombies... The zombies themselves have been Westerners--unlucky ex-Americans or Europeans with undead faces as white as the series is dark.
The article then goes on to state that the upcoming game is racist, because it's set in Africa and thus has the protagonist shooting black zombies. There is simply no pleasing some people.
To keep it organized, we'll arrange for all of these different courts to be overseen by sort of a meta-forum which can serve as a place for resolution of disputes of all categorizations. This will be made possible by employing citizens whose expertise lies not in some day-to-day practice, but rather in the understanding of law, with each forum employing on a permanent basis one law expert who is also trained in matters of adjudication. These 'lawists' and 'judgers', if you would allow me to name them thusly, will ask questions of the plumbers and animal groomers and children and listen to their answers, integrating them into a legal framework.
The results from the remaining 6 were said to be better than chance
or, rather, when 500 people throw darts blindly, a few of them are bound to hit a bullseye. If those same six people could replicate their relative success, you might have something.
I absolutely hate my bookshelves. The point was kind of driven home forcefully when my wife and I moved to a new apartment. A large collection of music and a moderate collection of movies weighed maybe 25 pounds, between a hard drive and some CD binders, and a couple of iPods. But for some reason, less than a gigabyte of text data required us to transport 300 pounds of removable storage media called 'books', and a 70-pound case unit called a 'bookshelf'. While I am pleased with the bookshelf's low power consumption and the ability for multiple users to access volumes simultaneously, I think an ebook reader would be a wonderful thing. Get the price on this thing down to $150 and I'd buy two.
Nice way to not read the post you replied to at all. Red Steel used 'gesture recognition leads to canned animation', not 'track the movements of the remote'.
Not to nitpick, but Counterstrike has had material- and weapon-dependent bullet penetration since forever. I haven't played it long enough to remember if it has flashbang grenades, but Rainbow Six certainly had them. And Metal Gear Solid 3 had a sniper duel in an open environment with lots of paths and cover that had you crawling around the jungle with a scope and a laser mic.
You're forgetting the flipside, which is the part where a department gets to watch a co-worker being lead out of the building by security. I'm sure that's great for morale.
Two things: first, research in network protocols costs a lot of money. Second, building the infrastructure costs a lot of money. Geeks may not like to admit that, but it counts for a lot. Saying that the internet had already been 'created' is rather disingenuous. If the internet of today consisted of a couple hundred research institutions which were connected via a haphazard set of links of dubious uptime, then you wouldn't be able to buy things on Amazon.com or get Google Maps on your cellphone or call your friends on Skype or look up Al Gore on Wikipedia. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had this to say about the 'Al Gore claims he invented the internet' meme:
[A]s the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time. Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective. As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily forgotten, now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial concept.
So if you know more about the early days of the internet/the late days of ARPANET than Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, I would consider myself extraordinarily fortunate if a person of such amazing insight could shed some light on their mistake.
Houses on stilts are also a great idea if you live in a flood zone. I have an aunt who lives by a creek in Napa, California, which causes minor flooding every few years. She and her husband spent a long time saving up to have a new house built, which was finished around 2000, I think. The new house sits 3' off the ground on pilings which are driven 12' deep. During the terrible flooding last year, the two of them just holed up in their house and they were fine. Granted, they suffered a ton of damage to their property in general, but the house itself didn't need any work done.
'A few years from now' would make the Wii four years old. I agree that it would not be unreasonable to release 'WiiHD' at that point - but it would have to be a replacement device with backwards compatibility, not a coexisting product line.
And games are still getting released for the PS2, but neither the PS2 nor the GBA are seeing nearly as many releases as they did when they were the top-tier technology. More to the point, how many games can run on the GBA but also take advantage of additional features on the DS?
Backwards compatibility is a fine thing, but it's used to make the transition from an obsolete platform less painful. Taking a new, healthy platform and arbitrarily declaring it to be the second-class citizen of the family is a way to confuse and alienate your userbase.
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He said fiscally conservative, not short-sighted Randroid.
Stop charging my first born for service.
Hey, this isn't a soup kitchen! If your first born wants service, they have to PAY for it, pal!
don't judge a person till you've walked a mile in their shoes
It's sound advice. When you finally do judge them, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes. (shamelessly cribbed from Jack Handey)
In the Bible, Nimrod is described as a mighty hunter. The name acquired its newer meaning thanks to Bugs Bunny, who used to refer to Elmer Fudd as a 'poor little Nimrod'.
I figure at the rate things are going, there will one day be a game consisting solely of giant-sized genitalia doing battle with machine guns and bodily fluids while healing themselves with crack cocaine. The villain will be an undead mutant urethra, who rapes the players with his radioactive waste-spewing demon gonads and multifarious blood-dripping, sulfurous tube-like appendages, better known as 'Satan-tacles'. At that point, the ESRB will have to add a new category above 'Well-socialized And Upstanding Community Member' (which itself was created to categorize Puppy Molestors 4), probably named something like 'Confucian'. And the whole thing takes place in Hell. Perhaps more specifically, the issue is that the ratings denote that the content is inappropriate for children, not that it's of interest to or worthwhile to adults. A game doesn't get rature 'Mature' for making the player think, or for trying to enrich them. It gets labeled 'Mature' for showing blood and guts, or boobies. I know that I used to confuse the two quite a bit. I think that, as a teenager, violent movies and games were a way of marking myself as no longer being a child - after all, if I'm playing it, and it's inappropriate for children, then I'm not really a child, am I? Now that I'm (a little bit) older, I see it quite differently, and from my experience, that seems to be the norm for men in their early twenties.
Don't get me wrong; I enjoy a first-person shooter or a zombie game as much as anyone else. I just don't pretend that Dead Rising is a more 'mature' experience than Wii Sports.
Good point; based on the content of the review, I would have expected the final score to be around a 3.
I encounter many namespace collisions, unless I go full out and include my middle name. On the other hand, since I married a Jewish girl, coming up with distinct identifiers for my future children will be easy and not even require some stupid 'take a common name and spell it wrong' kind of thing. I mean, how many Jacob Kanodias can there be in the world?
I used to cheat at board games, you insensitive clod!
Never used an LG phone, but I've never had any problems with my CD burner or refrigerator. Yes, refrigerator. Big-ass mother with aluminum case. It came with the apartment. What a world, eh?
The article then goes on to state that the upcoming game is racist, because it's set in Africa and thus has the protagonist shooting black zombies. There is simply no pleasing some people.
And, more importantly, "Will they blend?"
To keep it organized, we'll arrange for all of these different courts to be overseen by sort of a meta-forum which can serve as a place for resolution of disputes of all categorizations. This will be made possible by employing citizens whose expertise lies not in some day-to-day practice, but rather in the understanding of law, with each forum employing on a permanent basis one law expert who is also trained in matters of adjudication. These 'lawists' and 'judgers', if you would allow me to name them thusly, will ask questions of the plumbers and animal groomers and children and listen to their answers, integrating them into a legal framework.
Don't worry, I'm sure megaditto will volunteer to die and be resurrected in order to help you investigate this phenomenon.
The results from the remaining 6 were said to be better than chance
or, rather, when 500 people throw darts blindly, a few of them are bound to hit a bullseye. If those same six people could replicate their relative success, you might have something.
I absolutely hate my bookshelves. The point was kind of driven home forcefully when my wife and I moved to a new apartment. A large collection of music and a moderate collection of movies weighed maybe 25 pounds, between a hard drive and some CD binders, and a couple of iPods. But for some reason, less than a gigabyte of text data required us to transport 300 pounds of removable storage media called 'books', and a 70-pound case unit called a 'bookshelf'. While I am pleased with the bookshelf's low power consumption and the ability for multiple users to access volumes simultaneously, I think an ebook reader would be a wonderful thing. Get the price on this thing down to $150 and I'd buy two.
Nice way to not read the post you replied to at all. Red Steel used 'gesture recognition leads to canned animation', not 'track the movements of the remote'.
Not to nitpick, but Counterstrike has had material- and weapon-dependent bullet penetration since forever. I haven't played it long enough to remember if it has flashbang grenades, but Rainbow Six certainly had them. And Metal Gear Solid 3 had a sniper duel in an open environment with lots of paths and cover that had you crawling around the jungle with a scope and a laser mic.
That's kind of a tautology.
Someone obviously Took the grandparent poster's Wish.
You're forgetting the flipside, which is the part where a department gets to watch a co-worker being lead out of the building by security. I'm sure that's great for morale.
"Now there's a wave of destruction that's easy on the eyes!"
So if you know more about the early days of the internet/the late days of ARPANET than Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, I would consider myself extraordinarily fortunate if a person of such amazing insight could shed some light on their mistake.
Houses on stilts are also a great idea if you live in a flood zone. I have an aunt who lives by a creek in Napa, California, which causes minor flooding every few years. She and her husband spent a long time saving up to have a new house built, which was finished around 2000, I think. The new house sits 3' off the ground on pilings which are driven 12' deep. During the terrible flooding last year, the two of them just holed up in their house and they were fine. Granted, they suffered a ton of damage to their property in general, but the house itself didn't need any work done.
'A few years from now' would make the Wii four years old. I agree that it would not be unreasonable to release 'WiiHD' at that point - but it would have to be a replacement device with backwards compatibility, not a coexisting product line.
And games are still getting released for the PS2, but neither the PS2 nor the GBA are seeing nearly as many releases as they did when they were the top-tier technology. More to the point, how many games can run on the GBA but also take advantage of additional features on the DS?
Backwards compatibility is a fine thing, but it's used to make the transition from an obsolete platform less painful. Taking a new, healthy platform and arbitrarily declaring it to be the second-class citizen of the family is a way to confuse and alienate your userbase.