Oh thank you. I thought I might be the only one. I mean, Speed Racer? Who greenlighted that piece of shit?!
I swear, it's like for every good movie out of Hollywood, there are five marginal movies, and for every marginal movies, there are ten that are complete crap, like this one: a movie based on a badly dubbed and chopped piece of crap cartoon about a guy who races in every single episode in this, okay, admittedly, tricked out car, and he's smart enough to remember which button is the jump skis (or whatever the fuck those things are) and which button is the buzzsaw in the front bumper, but he's too fucking stupid to check the trunk for the kid and the chimp, and no one picks up that Racer X is his brother.
What's next? Thundercats the movie? Blues Clues the movie?
Here's hoping it tanks like a Uwe Boll film and Hollywood gets the message.
Well, let's be fair here.... saying it's the best comic-book movie isn't a far stretch when you look at the stinkers of Catwoman, Elektra, Daredevil (yes, it sucked), the Ang Lee Incredible Hulk (Sorry, Ang, but you did an awesome Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but a lousy Hulk movie), the third X-Men movie (the first two were alright), the last Blade movie.... really, the only competition Iron Man has for "best comic-book movie" should be the Spider-Man movies, and I have yet to see #3, so I can't judge that one.
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We may have outsourced a lot of weapons manufacturing to foreign-owned companies, but that doesn't mean all of it is outsourced, or even outside the U.S.
There is a FN (Fabrique Nationale) plant not 20 miles away from where I live, and I'm in the Deep South. The M16, which is the primary automatic rifle of the U.S. Military is made by FN (which is a Belgian company), and whoops, also by Colt, which is U.S. owned. So with one minute of research, I have already shot down (pardon the pun) your assumption.
But let's continue.... Lockheed Martin? U.S. company. Boeing? U.S. company. Together, they make the F-22. Whoops, there's another hole in your rapidly sinking ship. Yes, they may (and probably do) contract out some of the parts to other companies, some of which might be owned by foreign interests, but it's not anywhere near your "nearly 100%".
And another... General Dynamics, makers of the M-1 Abrams, U.S. owned. (And the only reason they were not allowed to Newport News Shipbuilding was because it would have made them the sole manufacturer of nuke subs in the U.S.)
I haven't been horribly impressed with what I've seen either, and I can't figure out how they could have spent millions on design, unless they're rolling in the costs of all the pizzas, sodas and chips they bought during the process.
Well, that hardly seems unique to the Dilbert site. For some reason, every site that I visit in Firefox that relies heavily on Flash seems to think that I don't have Flash installed.
The only comment I want to leave is "How the hell do I get to the other comic strips?" It used to be that I would read Dilbert, and then go read another dozen or so different strips (Get Fuzzy, Rudy Park, etc.) hosted on the comics.com site, because there was a little drop-down navigation menu on the Dilbert site.
Now? I can't find a drop-down menu for those other strips or any indication of a link. The fuck?
Unless I did it as part of a "work for hire" agreement. If he (Ainsworth) did the work under such an agreement, then he doesn't own the copyright (or any creation rights) on the armor he originally created for Lucas.
Have you ever worked retail? The customer is frequently wrong. Sometimes wildly so. The trick is to explain to the customer how he is wrong without pissing him off.
Yes, it is escapism. But my escapism at my computer also has sounds of traffic from outside, the occassional phone call from work, and since I'm not some basement-dwelling, sun-shunning pasty geek with no life, I don't play for 22 hours straight and end up thinking I really can fly or shoot energy beams from my eyes.
As shocking as it may seem, my desires from a game are not the same as your desires from a game, and not the same as anyone else's. If ads for McD's or Coke or whatever don't make the game run slower for me, then I don't care if they're in the game at all or not. Hell, I'd actually like to see movie posters for upcoming movies in the game. Is that weird of me? Probably. But again, as long as the game doesn't significantly slow down for me, it's not a big deal.
I think the big problem Jack Emmert had was that while he may have had these wonderful (or maybe not so wonderful, depending on your point of view) bold plans for CoH/CoV, he was horrible at communicating them to the players.
And you're missing the point that the advertising in the game will be opt-out. And if it's like every other graphical setting in the game, it's going to be something you click once and you choose your viewing settings. We're hardly talking about some sort of burden requiring a notarized letter to the NCSoft headquarters indicating your desire to opt out of the advertising.
And let's face it... NCSoft (and Cryptic before they sold their interest in the game to NCSoft) has dealt with the hordes of upset customers before, with the whole flak over ED and the GDN (if you don't know what those are, they were nerfs in the game that affected just about every character), and I'm willing to bet that they'll lose less customers over the advertising thing then they did over ED/GDN.
I swear, people here are acting like putting real-life ads in the game requires squeezing blood out of babies or something.
Yeah, but if I quit a MMORPG every time they did some little thing that annoyed me, I wouldn't have played WoW for three years. And that's what this is. A little thing. There are already billboards and signs in CoH/CoV. And honestly, unless you're going by specific areas repeatedly, or flying or super-leaping all the time, you're probably not going to notice most of the billboards and signs right now. And since the plans are to put real ads only where the billboards and signs currently exist, and not plaster them over every wall, it still won't be a huge deal. (mind you, I could see them expanding it a bit to have real movie posters outside the movie theaters...)
I expect most of the ads will be for high-caffeine sodas and energy drinks. (Although I've never seen the one mentioned in the first link.) I mean, this is a gamer market....
Buying the game and paying the monthly fee means you get to play the game. That's it. It doesn't give you anything beyond that. You don't own part of the company because you pay a monthly fee, you don't get to break the rules whenever you want because you pay a monthly fee, and you don't get to decide what the company does to bring in extra revenue because you pay a monthly fee.
Actually, I did read the article. I also post on the CoH forums, where this was first brought to my attention last week, and I play the game (not right this second because I'm stuck at work). His point was "WAAAAH! WE PAYS A FEE! WE SHOULD ALWAYS GET WHAT WE WANT!" which isn't true, and I can't recall an MMORPG where it ever has been.
Yeah, you can vote with your feet. That's the extent of your control over the direction of the game. And I seriously doubt this is going to cause as big a turmoil or exodus as ED or the GDN.
I don't know about that. I mean, you're right in that a significant percentage will opt-out. I'm probably going to opt-in, at least at first, and if the advertising doesn't significantly degrade my playing experience (i.e. cause tons of lag), then I'll probably leave it on, if for no other reason that it would be nice to see something other then the same couple dozen or so current billboards in CoH/CoV. But I can't see them changing the ads to always being on, if for no other reason then the range of graphics settings you can play the game in, where the lowest settings would probably make the ads all but unreadable unless right on top of them. (Which is, alas, the setting I have to run on whenever there's a Rikti raid...)
And apparently, NCSoft is making enough money on the current monthly fees and game sales where they are not considering consolidating servers that are generally low population or slowing the release of regular updates of new material. (Issue 12 is probably going to be about in a couple of months or less, for example.)
A monthly fee is to access and play the game. It doesn't mean that I can stomp my feet and get my way on everything. I can't demand to play a Tanker/Defender/Scrapper triple Archtype with 25 extra powers that no-one else gets, and it damn sure doesn't mean I get a say in the business decisions that the company makes.
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Oh thank you. I thought I might be the only one. I mean, Speed Racer? Who greenlighted that piece of shit?!
I swear, it's like for every good movie out of Hollywood, there are five marginal movies, and for every marginal movies, there are ten that are complete crap, like this one: a movie based on a badly dubbed and chopped piece of crap cartoon about a guy who races in every single episode in this, okay, admittedly, tricked out car, and he's smart enough to remember which button is the jump skis (or whatever the fuck those things are) and which button is the buzzsaw in the front bumper, but he's too fucking stupid to check the trunk for the kid and the chimp, and no one picks up that Racer X is his brother.
What's next? Thundercats the movie? Blues Clues the movie?
Here's hoping it tanks like a Uwe Boll film and Hollywood gets the message.
was I the only one who initially read the headline as "Modeling Supermodels with a Supercomputer"?
Well, let's be fair here.... saying it's the best comic-book movie isn't a far stretch when you look at the stinkers of Catwoman, Elektra, Daredevil (yes, it sucked), the Ang Lee Incredible Hulk (Sorry, Ang, but you did an awesome Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but a lousy Hulk movie), the third X-Men movie (the first two were alright), the last Blade movie.... really, the only competition Iron Man has for "best comic-book movie" should be the Spider-Man movies, and I have yet to see #3, so I can't judge that one.
Was that Superman flying by?
Well, it would be an interesting change from what we have right now....
We may have outsourced a lot of weapons manufacturing to foreign-owned companies, but that doesn't mean all of it is outsourced, or even outside the U.S.
There is a FN (Fabrique Nationale) plant not 20 miles away from where I live, and I'm in the Deep South. The M16, which is the primary automatic rifle of the U.S. Military is made by FN (which is a Belgian company), and whoops, also by Colt, which is U.S. owned. So with one minute of research, I have already shot down (pardon the pun) your assumption.
But let's continue.... Lockheed Martin? U.S. company. Boeing? U.S. company. Together, they make the F-22. Whoops, there's another hole in your rapidly sinking ship. Yes, they may (and probably do) contract out some of the parts to other companies, some of which might be owned by foreign interests, but it's not anywhere near your "nearly 100%".
And another... General Dynamics, makers of the M-1 Abrams, U.S. owned. (And the only reason they were not allowed to Newport News Shipbuilding was because it would have made them the sole manufacturer of nuke subs in the U.S.)
First you must prove intelligence. Only after that condition has been satisfied, can we check for genius.
Someone should notify Darkman.
I haven't been horribly impressed with what I've seen either, and I can't figure out how they could have spent millions on design, unless they're rolling in the costs of all the pizzas, sodas and chips they bought during the process.
Well, that hardly seems unique to the Dilbert site. For some reason, every site that I visit in Firefox that relies heavily on Flash seems to think that I don't have Flash installed.
The only comment I want to leave is "How the hell do I get to the other comic strips?" It used to be that I would read Dilbert, and then go read another dozen or so different strips (Get Fuzzy, Rudy Park, etc.) hosted on the comics.com site, because there was a little drop-down navigation menu on the Dilbert site.
Now? I can't find a drop-down menu for those other strips or any indication of a link. The fuck?
May I suggest that we start renaming files to "Joe_Biden_is_an_ignorant_prick"?
They can reserve the copyrights all they want. You're not selling the copyrights on eBay, you're selling the CD, which was a free gift.
Unless I did it as part of a "work for hire" agreement. If he (Ainsworth) did the work under such an agreement, then he doesn't own the copyright (or any creation rights) on the armor he originally created for Lucas.
Have you ever worked retail? The customer is frequently wrong. Sometimes wildly so. The trick is to explain to the customer how he is wrong without pissing him off.
From my point of view, yes, lag is the big one.
Yes, it is escapism. But my escapism at my computer also has sounds of traffic from outside, the occassional phone call from work, and since I'm not some basement-dwelling, sun-shunning pasty geek with no life, I don't play for 22 hours straight and end up thinking I really can fly or shoot energy beams from my eyes.
As shocking as it may seem, my desires from a game are not the same as your desires from a game, and not the same as anyone else's. If ads for McD's or Coke or whatever don't make the game run slower for me, then I don't care if they're in the game at all or not. Hell, I'd actually like to see movie posters for upcoming movies in the game. Is that weird of me? Probably. But again, as long as the game doesn't significantly slow down for me, it's not a big deal.
I think the big problem Jack Emmert had was that while he may have had these wonderful (or maybe not so wonderful, depending on your point of view) bold plans for CoH/CoV, he was horrible at communicating them to the players.
So, did you miss the whole "Opt out" part, or what?
And you're missing the point that the advertising in the game will be opt-out. And if it's like every other graphical setting in the game, it's going to be something you click once and you choose your viewing settings. We're hardly talking about some sort of burden requiring a notarized letter to the NCSoft headquarters indicating your desire to opt out of the advertising.
And let's face it... NCSoft (and Cryptic before they sold their interest in the game to NCSoft) has dealt with the hordes of upset customers before, with the whole flak over ED and the GDN (if you don't know what those are, they were nerfs in the game that affected just about every character), and I'm willing to bet that they'll lose less customers over the advertising thing then they did over ED/GDN.
I swear, people here are acting like putting real-life ads in the game requires squeezing blood out of babies or something.
Yeah, but if I quit a MMORPG every time they did some little thing that annoyed me, I wouldn't have played WoW for three years. And that's what this is. A little thing. There are already billboards and signs in CoH/CoV. And honestly, unless you're going by specific areas repeatedly, or flying or super-leaping all the time, you're probably not going to notice most of the billboards and signs right now. And since the plans are to put real ads only where the billboards and signs currently exist, and not plaster them over every wall, it still won't be a huge deal. (mind you, I could see them expanding it a bit to have real movie posters outside the movie theaters...)
I expect most of the ads will be for high-caffeine sodas and energy drinks. (Although I've never seen the one mentioned in the first link.) I mean, this is a gamer market....
Buying the game and paying the monthly fee means you get to play the game. That's it. It doesn't give you anything beyond that. You don't own part of the company because you pay a monthly fee, you don't get to break the rules whenever you want because you pay a monthly fee, and you don't get to decide what the company does to bring in extra revenue because you pay a monthly fee.
If you find it annoying, opt out.
Actually, I did read the article. I also post on the CoH forums, where this was first brought to my attention last week, and I play the game (not right this second because I'm stuck at work). His point was "WAAAAH! WE PAYS A FEE! WE SHOULD ALWAYS GET WHAT WE WANT!" which isn't true, and I can't recall an MMORPG where it ever has been.
Yeah, you can vote with your feet. That's the extent of your control over the direction of the game. And I seriously doubt this is going to cause as big a turmoil or exodus as ED or the GDN.
I don't know about that. I mean, you're right in that a significant percentage will opt-out. I'm probably going to opt-in, at least at first, and if the advertising doesn't significantly degrade my playing experience (i.e. cause tons of lag), then I'll probably leave it on, if for no other reason that it would be nice to see something other then the same couple dozen or so current billboards in CoH/CoV. But I can't see them changing the ads to always being on, if for no other reason then the range of graphics settings you can play the game in, where the lowest settings would probably make the ads all but unreadable unless right on top of them. (Which is, alas, the setting I have to run on whenever there's a Rikti raid...)
And apparently, NCSoft is making enough money on the current monthly fees and game sales where they are not considering consolidating servers that are generally low population or slowing the release of regular updates of new material. (Issue 12 is probably going to be about in a couple of months or less, for example.)
And your point is?
A monthly fee is to access and play the game. It doesn't mean that I can stomp my feet and get my way on everything. I can't demand to play a Tanker/Defender/Scrapper triple Archtype with 25 extra powers that no-one else gets, and it damn sure doesn't mean I get a say in the business decisions that the company makes.