Since you seem to be 'in the know'- what about speed dents? If I whack my car with a ball-peen hammer enough, can I get the golf-ball effect for my car?
I just find it a sad commentary on society that violence is more acceptable than nudity
I think that if you were to compare it as the appearance of nudity, compared to the appearance of violence, then it may balance the perspective on this a bit. I could see where a game that had 'real' nudity be rated 18+, but a game where you genuinely murdered people in real life would be putting people in prison.
You're not kidding. I once worked for a small ISP that had a picture of a mountain at the top of their homepage for years. The browser install software would set their page as the default page. It turns out that they had used a copyrighted image for the original webdesign, and replaced it with a different mountain picture. I couldn't believe the number of calls we got, complaining that 'the mountain is different', 'my mountain is gone', or 'I can tell that I'm not getting online, because the mountain doesn't look right'.
The only time I've had that many calls about the webpage before, was the time we auto-redirected the main page through a random babelfish language. Nothing quite as fun as getting a call that claims the 'Net is broken, cause it's in Spanish.
Maybe he meant Gran Turismo A-Spec? I was all too sad to discover that the Target counter-monkey didn't know the difference either when I asked if a PS2 came bundled with 'GTA'...
Is it just me, or has GTA clouded the minds of others as well?
I knew that I had been playing too much GTA when my first instict upon seeing a garbage truck was a big rush, tied with the instinct to ram the driver's door and steal it. It only takes 0.01 seconds to realize just how crazy that is, and laugh, but that impulse is preatty freaky.
When I worked in a call center, most of the reps there (myself included) would mute the line, rather than put a customer on hold. I figured it's because they kept call stats, and reps with lots of hold time were spoken to. Regardless, everyone who used mute instead still asked the customer to hold. You'd be surprised the things that you can hear when a customer thinks that no one is listening. As strange as it is, lots of times what you heard would be a tip on what they were actually trying to get, that they wouldn't tell you when you're on the line, so you could actually help them better than if you hadn't heard their 'hold' comments.
Of course, if the comments were them admiting they were wrong to someone nearby, 'better' doesn't necessarily mean in their favor...
You are falling prey to a humorless bias. You can't simply read this post once and assume it's serious. It exploits an irony condition. See comments below from people who also only read this post 1 or 2 times in order to get it to unfunny.
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The Windows Myth Filters can automatically query your mythbackend to give recordings the appropriate names, IIRC.
College you say? Hate to break it to you man, those were all coitally related damage. The 'spilled water' group just tried to clean up first
Wow man, that sucks. Maybe this'll help:
'Tis better to have
Cheesed and lost
Than never to have
uhm, Cheese at all?
err... maybe not?
Sure. But what about when I want to turn the computer back on?
It's actually a picture of Mr. T, reading "You didn't buy fast enough, Fool!"
Nintendo SNES has already pwn3d home consoles for 5 years, PS1 is too little, too late. Too bad, so... Wait? What!?
Since you seem to be 'in the know'- what about speed dents? If I whack my car with a ball-peen hammer enough, can I get the golf-ball effect for my car?
So, you had competing standards, and it saw lots of bandwidth?
I think that if you were to compare it as the appearance of nudity, compared to the appearance of violence, then it may balance the perspective on this a bit. I could see where a game that had 'real' nudity be rated 18+, but a game where you genuinely murdered people in real life would be putting people in prison.
The only time I've had that many calls about the webpage before, was the time we auto-redirected the main page through a random babelfish language. Nothing quite as fun as getting a call that claims the 'Net is broken, cause it's in Spanish.
Don't you mean render realism more realistically than really realized?
Take a cue from Nintendo: WiSuperMax, WiUltraMax, and then WiCubeMax (or maybe WiMax^3 would make more sense?)
Wait. You can decapitate people in Halo 2? How would you even know if they're in the same game?
If there's evern been a time for -1 'Oh God, that's just Wrong!', it's now.
And add frickin' sharks!
Is this why I'm not allowed to lick the inside of the toaster?
Maybe he meant Gran Turismo A-Spec? I was all too sad to discover that the Target counter-monkey didn't know the difference either when I asked if a PS2 came bundled with 'GTA'...
I knew that I had been playing too much GTA when my first instict upon seeing a garbage truck was a big rush, tied with the instinct to ram the driver's door and steal it. It only takes 0.01 seconds to realize just how crazy that is, and laugh, but that impulse is preatty freaky.
When I worked in a call center, most of the reps there (myself included) would mute the line, rather than put a customer on hold. I figured it's because they kept call stats, and reps with lots of hold time were spoken to. Regardless, everyone who used mute instead still asked the customer to hold. You'd be surprised the things that you can hear when a customer thinks that no one is listening. As strange as it is, lots of times what you heard would be a tip on what they were actually trying to get, that they wouldn't tell you when you're on the line, so you could actually help them better than if you hadn't heard their 'hold' comments.
Of course, if the comments were them admiting they were wrong to someone nearby, 'better' doesn't necessarily mean in their favor...
You are falling prey to a humorless bias. You can't simply read this post once and assume it's serious. It exploits an irony condition. See comments below from people who also only read this post 1 or 2 times in order to get it to unfunny.
You might try a hole and cement?
(you and your wife) for 10-12 hours?
Must
A genuine and insightful post from Microsoft's perspective!?!
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The very successful seldom want company.
I'm actually typing this out on my cell phone, camped outside GameStop, waiting for the next CFL release as I post this. Dude, I am so psyched!