Using the "hate America" rhetoric is another kind of spin. Have you ever heard Cmd Taco ever actually say, "I hate America"? No. The point of the article is to make you think. Are we doing enough to limit our impact on the environment? It is a matter of fact that on average the American population consumes more resources per capita than any other nation. What can we do both governmentally and at the citizen level to make sure that either that consumption rate is insured to be put to good use or limit that consumption, and reduce it? Can we recycle more? Can we do better? What can we learn from ours and others mistakes?
If Cmdr Taco really thinks the United States is so awful, he should pack his toothbrush, a change of underwear, and his laptop and move to some country that better suits his ill-tempered ideology. But he'd be well advised to look at their violent crime rates before he moves to some European cities. And in any case, please spare us these mindless rants.
You know, if you don't like Slashdot, you can go find your intelligent news elsewhere.
There is a relatively well known subconcious perseption from people in general that only tall and good looking are capable of running companies well. So when the appointment comes from a board of directors in a public company, the choices are subconciously limited to those who fit the ideal look. So, generally the only way you will find it to be otherwise, is when the short and ugly found their own company and become successful on their own.
Yea, picture that with not just one, but two of the nunchucku! Are any developers making any games that would really make good use of that kind of gameplay?
The social gaming aspect of Star Wars Galaxies was great. They had four master-able professions that actually specialized in it before they threw it all away. I still don't understand their reasonings of getting rid of the entertainer aspect of the game. What a waste of code that drew a large crowd which I think was the glue that held it all together.
Killing has actually not been the primary "objective" of the GTA games since they were of the the top down variety. The objective, aka the plotline, in the last three Playstation titles have been more about survival on very mean streets. In fact its actually more about survival a any means possible. GTA3 was about surviving a bad rap, Vice City was surviving the problems caused in GTA3. San Andreas was about surviving a group of bad cops.
The professor in question is probably an undercover agent for Logitech. They need to create a market for the Digital Pen somehow... That's one classroom down.
If they want to put the American public on camera. Make them be under the publics eye for at least five years prior to any change. Let them see what its like first.
They really don't have much entertainment value left. Why leave home to play video games at $1-$2 a play, when you can pay $20-50 to play at home as much as you want?
I think was my favorite game ever. All in the crisp, beautiful graphics of an Amiga 500! Definately a great one. Rescuing my beautiful queen from those nasty Normans. Gaining the help of Robin Hood's merry men in the conquest against the Saxons. Yea, I went both ways.
After that, Ports of Call and Black Gold were some of the best Economic Strategy games ever made.
Of course, as once mentioned before, X-Com. The original was the best. I had the single engagement demo for a long time. I played that one to death.
It sure qould make things a lot easier if the parent of the child playing a violent video game, would just explain the more serious reality of the game. For example, GTA, it should be explained to the child that his violent actions are considered wrong in real life. If he made the same choices in real life, his game would be over. Something along those lines. A violent game can be used as an education tool.
To claim that liberals are able to do much anything in American federal government is to have blinders on. State government on the other hand, it seems to be both Republican and Democrat controlled offices that are pushing for video game censorship.
In short, to claim censorship as a left or right issue is short sighted. Any kind of censorship should be held as politically bad move by the citizens in all aspects, except when it comes to under age children.
The tiered model is what brought down the old Prodigy service. For a while, when they started out, there was one basic fee for Prodigy when I used to use it. Then after a year or two, they added a fee for every minute you looked at a bulletin board and some other fee for every e-mail over 15 sent that month.
This business model is exactly what killed it, everyone split shortly after the changes were made. You can expect people to not happily go along with it this time either.
If the game were to show the truth of it all. Perhaps include the consequences for losing all the great minds that were lost to racial attacks. Also to show what is wrong about such immorally driven fighting.
I know that I wished Gun gave you a chance to talk your way through the Apache story. Unfortunately the interactive story (what little story there was) they were telling in the game did not allow for that.
A reminder of the bad parts of American and human history at large is a good way to avoid repeating it.
I hope no one is offended by the content of this post, no offensive remarks are intended
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6147984.stm seems to be an innocent story, but guess who got it placed? My own company's UK subsidiary. An interesting story nonetheless for us geeks :)
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Turn about is fair play. The Bush Whitehouse is still sticking it to the Clinton administration.
You know, if you don't like Slashdot, you can go find your intelligent news elsewhere.
Bah, the worm and the grenade attack was killer.
Bah, suck it up and go play.
It would make it hard to keep it PG-13, I don't think fucktard falls under the PG-13 vocabulary.
No you typed it. You know, with a keyboard interfaced computer.
There is a relatively well known subconcious perseption from people in general that only tall and good looking are capable of running companies well. So when the appointment comes from a board of directors in a public company, the choices are subconciously limited to those who fit the ideal look. So, generally the only way you will find it to be otherwise, is when the short and ugly found their own company and become successful on their own.
Wow, great news... I guess they too now know that the Wii chips have now... uh... shipped...
This just in, Wii chips are actually WOW! chips, mmm... OLean. Pfft! Pun intended.
Yea, picture that with not just one, but two of the nunchucku! Are any developers making any games that would really make good use of that kind of gameplay?
The social gaming aspect of Star Wars Galaxies was great. They had four master-able professions that actually specialized in it before they threw it all away. I still don't understand their reasonings of getting rid of the entertainer aspect of the game. What a waste of code that drew a large crowd which I think was the glue that held it all together.
The multi-class game developer, ninja monkey pirate robot.
Killing has actually not been the primary "objective" of the GTA games since they were of the the top down variety. The objective, aka the plotline, in the last three Playstation titles have been more about survival on very mean streets. In fact its actually more about survival a any means possible. GTA3 was about surviving a bad rap, Vice City was surviving the problems caused in GTA3. San Andreas was about surviving a group of bad cops.
The professor in question is probably an undercover agent for Logitech. They need to create a market for the Digital Pen somehow... That's one classroom down.
No, I think they did mean Kiddush Cups.
There is no question about it, there will only be Revolution!
If they want to put the American public on camera. Make them be under the publics eye for at least five years prior to any change. Let them see what its like first.
They really don't have much entertainment value left. Why leave home to play video games at $1-$2 a play, when you can pay $20-50 to play at home as much as you want?
I think was my favorite game ever. All in the crisp, beautiful graphics of an Amiga 500! Definately a great one. Rescuing my beautiful queen from those nasty Normans. Gaining the help of Robin Hood's merry men in the conquest against the Saxons. Yea, I went both ways.
After that, Ports of Call and Black Gold were some of the best Economic Strategy games ever made.
Of course, as once mentioned before, X-Com. The original was the best. I had the single engagement demo for a long time. I played that one to death.
The worm kicked everyones ass. I mean really, a worm with a grenade! Who would of thought it would beat the crap out of everyone?
No, its not the violent depiction of the comic. Its the fact that it is an image of the Prophet Muhammad, which is considered blasphemous.
It sure qould make things a lot easier if the parent of the child playing a violent video game, would just explain the more serious reality of the game. For example, GTA, it should be explained to the child that his violent actions are considered wrong in real life. If he made the same choices in real life, his game would be over. Something along those lines. A violent game can be used as an education tool.
In short, to claim censorship as a left or right issue is short sighted. Any kind of censorship should be held as politically bad move by the citizens in all aspects, except when it comes to under age children.
This business model is exactly what killed it, everyone split shortly after the changes were made. You can expect people to not happily go along with it this time either.
I know that I wished Gun gave you a chance to talk your way through the Apache story. Unfortunately the interactive story (what little story there was) they were telling in the game did not allow for that.
A reminder of the bad parts of American and human history at large is a good way to avoid repeating it.
I hope no one is offended by the content of this post, no offensive remarks are intended