Should say "whether or not the ending is disappointing" rather than "the disappointing ending," because I wasn't disappointed by it. I felt it was a perfectly fine ending to the trilogy, and a very large number of people feel the same way as me. The difference is that those of us who enjoyed the ending aren't necessarily going to be vocal about it, whereas the goal of those who dislike it is to make as loud of a shout as possible so they can try and get their way. As much as people think they want a different ending (by and large they want a hollywood ending as opposed to the artistic ending, which is what their real problem with it is), sacrificing the integrity of the art for the sake of consumer demand is a far worse crime in my opinion.
How about everyone here who like the ending be vocal about it. Explain to the rest of us why you think the ending was in any way good. I am genuinely interested why you think crap tastes good.
Every game that you love is going to have a disappointing ending, because it is... an ending.
Not true. I have read/watched/played plenty of book/TV/movie/games series that I loved but was not disappointed by the ending. Don't get me wrong, I was disappointed that they were ending but I was not disappointed by the ending. What does disappointed and infuriate me is bad or non-existent endings. The creators and story-tellers need to have some pride in their work and actually make a ending worthy of the series.
I have -zero- desire to play the series again as-is.
Nor do I. I was a little annoyed by some of the choices that were made for me in Mass Effect 3 since I did not load a save (because I had reformatted my hard drive); however, prior to finishing Mass Effect 3, I was planning on going back and replaying the whole series from the beginning so that I could get the outcomes that I wanted. After getting to the crapping ending of the series, ALL desire to replay ANY of the Mass Effect games died. I had even planned to buy the DLCs that had come out after I had finished the respective game. I think I am just going to put EA on my blacklist with Apple and Sony.
As a Christian, while I don't approve of homosexual activity, I would not deny a person who practices such the church or the possibility of friendship. I figure, every person, whether they are Christian or not, not only sins but they sin regularly. Who am I to judge another due to their sin? That is between them and God.
That said, I still believe society has a obligation to hold those accountable take from others who are unwilling to give. For example, murder does not just affect those who volunteer to take part in the event. Stealing is another example.
Flipping to the other side of the coin, barring rape, all participates are willing when participating in sexual immorality of any kind. They sins is just as bad in the eye of God but who am I to stand in there way? I can still try to convince them to change their ways and help them if they choose to change but I would do wrong if I used force to stop their actions.
All this said, I am of course human. I still struggle to overcome my natural human tendencies to judge others and treat them unfairly but I do try to overcome.
Rumors are floating about of a required always-on internet connection...
If the next generation of consoles require an internet connection for offline processes, the current generation of consoles is the last generation of consoles I will be purchasing. This is coming from a person who spends a significant amount of time playing video games.
The alternative would be to close down the FCC and let people broadcast whatever they want wherever they want at whatever power pleases them.
Normally, I am against government regulation but that would lead to no good communication services using wireless technology. Everyone would be tripping over each other because businesses would have no way to prevent another business from broadcasting over each other. That said, I am sure the FCC could make it easier for new players to come into the market.
Why foist these tools into the school room? Why not sell them on the open market aimed at those who have a need and desire to write? Why not let them become self improvement tools.
If you are talking about pre-college, most people that age don't care enough to do any more school than they are given. Once they are an adult, if they still do not want to improve their skills, they only have themselves to blame if they have trouble getting a job that requires skill.
As soon as "grammar-parsing" software is used for grading, students will buy copies of it to make sure nothing is flagged as incorrect.
Wouldn't be a good thing for software to be able to give instant feedback to students on grammar and sentence structure. The students could then use this feedback to improve their writing. That said, I highly doubt auto-graders are currently sophisticated enough actually grade papers on all criteria necessary for good writing. They should only be used as a feedback tools for students and a grading helper tool for professors. Professors would still need to read and grade the papers manually; however, they wouldn't need to spend as much time critiquing grammar and sentence structure.
I wonder how long it will be before someone starts a showroom business model. You pay a few dollars at the door and they have all the latest gadgets for your viewing. They could partner with online retailers and have computer terminals onsite for you to make your purchases if you don't want to wait till you get home. They could also provide a place to deal with all the RMA/returns so that you don't have to. The most popular gadgets could be replaced onsite rather than having to wait for your DOA items to be resent. If there is a demand for showrooms, commercialize it.
We seriously need copyright reform. Copyright terms should be 14 years again.
Agreed. I never understood why copyright was for so long. Much of what is copyright has become part of our culture and society. They have become common experiences that bind us together. Assuming the content creators plans on creating new content within a franchise, I can understand having rules to protect the actual characters/worlds themselves in order to keep outside people from destroying the franchise; however, if they are never going to create new content, why protect the characters? 15 years should be more than enough time to protect individual works so that the creators can make money.
Why protect copyrighted material for the sake of copyright? I could understand if they were going to do something with the script but it helps no one if it just sits around and gathers dust. Is someone making money off this series?
I'm looking forward to the day when we use logic and reason instead of emotion and fear to get science funding and sway public opinion.
I am not sure if you are including this situation in your thinking. The logical move is to find alternative pesticides that do not harm the bees. Bees pollinate our crops in most areas of the world. We need them.
From one of the videos from the Udacity class, apparently they still not have solved the snow problem. They talk about possibly using trees, buildings, and such as reference points instead of the lines on the road.
Why would we force people to use driverless cars? Even if we thought everyone should use them, we wouldn't need to force anyone. Many people will see the utility of not having to drive and want to such a car. Assuming it is affordable, people will buy the cars. Some of those people will be bad drivers which will make the roads safer since they are no longer driving. I could see forcing people with so many points on their driver's license to use driverless cars.
All the machine has to do is make fewer mistakes than the human. When it gets there and you still take issue, the problem is you.
Actually, the machine only needs to make, at most, an equal number of mistakes to make sense from the safety perspective. Of course, when I say "equal number", I mean the number of mistakes weighted by the impact of those mistakes.
Actually, I kind of wish they had rail systems along the interstates that you could attach to and detach from. Semi-trucks and long distance drivers could connect to the rail and not have to get off until their exists several hundred miles away. While on the rail, the speed/brake would be controlled by computers in order to avoid collisions.
I would rather have an accident caused by human mistake every now and then than a future where all traffic stops and backs up for hours because a branch fell onto the road and the systems raise an alert for "unknown, may not be safe to pass", and don't understand the policeman who waves at you to go around it despite having to cross double yellow lines.
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Should say "whether or not the ending is disappointing" rather than "the disappointing ending," because I wasn't disappointed by it. I felt it was a perfectly fine ending to the trilogy, and a very large number of people feel the same way as me. The difference is that those of us who enjoyed the ending aren't necessarily going to be vocal about it, whereas the goal of those who dislike it is to make as loud of a shout as possible so they can try and get their way. As much as people think they want a different ending (by and large they want a hollywood ending as opposed to the artistic ending, which is what their real problem with it is), sacrificing the integrity of the art for the sake of consumer demand is a far worse crime in my opinion.
How about everyone here who like the ending be vocal about it. Explain to the rest of us why you think the ending was in any way good. I am genuinely interested why you think crap tastes good.
Every game that you love is going to have a disappointing ending, because it is... an ending.
Not true. I have read/watched/played plenty of book/TV/movie/games series that I loved but was not disappointed by the ending. Don't get me wrong, I was disappointed that they were ending but I was not disappointed by the ending. What does disappointed and infuriate me is bad or non-existent endings. The creators and story-tellers need to have some pride in their work and actually make a ending worthy of the series.
I have -zero- desire to play the series again as-is.
Nor do I. I was a little annoyed by some of the choices that were made for me in Mass Effect 3 since I did not load a save (because I had reformatted my hard drive); however, prior to finishing Mass Effect 3, I was planning on going back and replaying the whole series from the beginning so that I could get the outcomes that I wanted. After getting to the crapping ending of the series, ALL desire to replay ANY of the Mass Effect games died. I had even planned to buy the DLCs that had come out after I had finished the respective game. I think I am just going to put EA on my blacklist with Apple and Sony.
Explain why you thought the ending was brilliant.
If you feed someone crap with frosting on it, you are still feeding them crap.
So why does life call for faster internet in the first place?
To get your current data faster and to enable technologies that will eventually use that bandwidth.
1 GPS is enough for anybody.
Maybe that is true today but what about tomorrow?
As a Christian, while I don't approve of homosexual activity, I would not deny a person who practices such the church or the possibility of friendship. I figure, every person, whether they are Christian or not, not only sins but they sin regularly. Who am I to judge another due to their sin? That is between them and God.
That said, I still believe society has a obligation to hold those accountable take from others who are unwilling to give. For example, murder does not just affect those who volunteer to take part in the event. Stealing is another example.
Flipping to the other side of the coin, barring rape, all participates are willing when participating in sexual immorality of any kind. They sins is just as bad in the eye of God but who am I to stand in there way? I can still try to convince them to change their ways and help them if they choose to change but I would do wrong if I used force to stop their actions.
All this said, I am of course human. I still struggle to overcome my natural human tendencies to judge others and treat them unfairly but I do try to overcome.
Rumors are floating about of a required always-on internet connection ...
If the next generation of consoles require an internet connection for offline processes, the current generation of consoles is the last generation of consoles I will be purchasing. This is coming from a person who spends a significant amount of time playing video games.
The same goes for the games themselves.
# Returns anti-patents neccessary to keep business from suing each other for patent infringement.
def generate_antipatents():
patents = []
for business in all_businesses:
patents.append("Sue " + business + " for patent infringement.")
return patents
They were released with no charges after the situation was cleared up, right? Also, were the handcuffs really necessary?
The alternative would be to close down the FCC and let people broadcast whatever they want wherever they want at whatever power pleases them.
Normally, I am against government regulation but that would lead to no good communication services using wireless technology. Everyone would be tripping over each other because businesses would have no way to prevent another business from broadcasting over each other. That said, I am sure the FCC could make it easier for new players to come into the market.
You are going to leave blow all the plants in the world?
Why foist these tools into the school room? Why not sell them on the open market aimed at those who have a need and desire to write? Why not let them become self improvement tools.
If you are talking about pre-college, most people that age don't care enough to do any more school than they are given. Once they are an adult, if they still do not want to improve their skills, they only have themselves to blame if they have trouble getting a job that requires skill.
Actually, it is LIttle Bobby Tables.
As soon as "grammar-parsing" software is used for grading, students will buy copies of it to make sure nothing is flagged as incorrect.
Wouldn't be a good thing for software to be able to give instant feedback to students on grammar and sentence structure. The students could then use this feedback to improve their writing. That said, I highly doubt auto-graders are currently sophisticated enough actually grade papers on all criteria necessary for good writing. They should only be used as a feedback tools for students and a grading helper tool for professors. Professors would still need to read and grade the papers manually; however, they wouldn't need to spend as much time critiquing grammar and sentence structure.
I wonder how long it will be before someone starts a showroom business model. You pay a few dollars at the door and they have all the latest gadgets for your viewing. They could partner with online retailers and have computer terminals onsite for you to make your purchases if you don't want to wait till you get home. They could also provide a place to deal with all the RMA/returns so that you don't have to. The most popular gadgets could be replaced onsite rather than having to wait for your DOA items to be resent. If there is a demand for showrooms, commercialize it.
We seriously need copyright reform. Copyright terms should be 14 years again.
Agreed. I never understood why copyright was for so long. Much of what is copyright has become part of our culture and society. They have become common experiences that bind us together. Assuming the content creators plans on creating new content within a franchise, I can understand having rules to protect the actual characters/worlds themselves in order to keep outside people from destroying the franchise; however, if they are never going to create new content, why protect the characters? 15 years should be more than enough time to protect individual works so that the creators can make money.
Why protect copyrighted material for the sake of copyright? I could understand if they were going to do something with the script but it helps no one if it just sits around and gathers dust. Is someone making money off this series?
I'm looking forward to the day when we use logic and reason instead of emotion and fear to get science funding and sway public opinion.
I am not sure if you are including this situation in your thinking. The logical move is to find alternative pesticides that do not harm the bees. Bees pollinate our crops in most areas of the world. We need them.
From one of the videos from the Udacity class, apparently they still not have solved the snow problem. They talk about possibly using trees, buildings, and such as reference points instead of the lines on the road.
Why would we force people to use driverless cars? Even if we thought everyone should use them, we wouldn't need to force anyone. Many people will see the utility of not having to drive and want to such a car. Assuming it is affordable, people will buy the cars. Some of those people will be bad drivers which will make the roads safer since they are no longer driving. I could see forcing people with so many points on their driver's license to use driverless cars.
All the machine has to do is make fewer mistakes than the human. When it gets there and you still take issue, the problem is you.
Actually, the machine only needs to make, at most, an equal number of mistakes to make sense from the safety perspective. Of course, when I say "equal number", I mean the number of mistakes weighted by the impact of those mistakes.
Replacing roads with rails, ....
Actually, I kind of wish they had rail systems along the interstates that you could attach to and detach from. Semi-trucks and long distance drivers could connect to the rail and not have to get off until their exists several hundred miles away. While on the rail, the speed/brake would be controlled by computers in order to avoid collisions.
I would rather have an accident caused by human mistake every now and then than a future where all traffic stops and backs up for hours because a branch fell onto the road and the systems raise an alert for "unknown, may not be safe to pass", and don't understand the policeman who waves at you to go around it despite having to cross double yellow lines.
This is why you have overrides.