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Well, I'm the complete opposite, so I don't think you should be telling developers what to do. Master Chief/Halo and Solid Snake/MGS sold enough copies to show that there's a market for a 3rd person game where you're playing as a great character and not some faceless Joe. I like my protagonists with a personality because otherwise, game dialog is pretty flat. A lot of it has to do with the technology not being sufficiently advanced enough so that the player could actually talk (or type) to NPCs with them understanding what you're saying, so games like Portal and Half Life bring you in by not having many very NPCs or the NPCs not really interacting with you and expecting a response. Otherwise, NPCs ask you questions and you're relegated to a multiple choice response that destroys any semblance of character that the protagonist may have, and it alienates the players because through multiple choice, they don't feel like they're the ones making the responses. So, there's room for both, but I prefer heroes to have personality.
If they post the music, along with an open letter to Congress requesting the radical alteration and/or repeal of recent copyright legislation like the NET Act or the DMCA, then I would consider spending my money with them.
And as long as we're making up completely unrealistic expectations, Metallica also needs to give me a magical unicorn.
I agree with you 100%. I just don't get all the hype around this game. I loved GTA3 and Vice City, but I don't get how a sequel to those can spawn hyperbole such as:
"Niko's journey, the one crafted by Rockstar, may have ended, but Niko's adventures in the story I am creating have just begun."
It's a game, not a novel, and even as a game the story in it is on the lower tier as far as game stories go. This isn't Half Life or Bioshock where the stories are integral to the game. It's a game where you go around killing gangsters and prostitutes on the way to becoming a mob boss. And while that's a lot of fun and the game will be great, there's no need to use flowery language to build the status of the game up to legendary.
Home theaters have always lagged behind the big screen in terms of technology. Why would Pixar continue to take a back seat to the tech, when they could make a better experience for the theater goers with 3D technology? Eventually, 3D will be commonplace in home theater systems, but until that time, filmmakers should be pushing the boundaries of their films instead of catering to the last generation. And by creating a different experience for theater goers, they're going to get people seeing the movies in 3D in the theater and then still buying them on DVD and Blu-Ray 6 months after the theater run instead of having people just wait for the Blu-Ray disk because their home experience is better than the theater.
society as a whole has taken on an overtly feminized aura to it. There is no balance anymore, the way there used to be.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the rest of your viewpoint, but society as a whole has been overtly masculated for as far back as when men won their women over by clubbing them and dragging them back to their caves. Saying that there was balance during the time when kids ran around with firecrackers blowing their hands off with their fathers standing on the sidelines going "boys will be boys" is pretty ridiculous. Women and their tendency for risk aversion is being taken more seriously now than ever before, true, but it's all in the name of creating a more balanced society. Whether it's swinging more toward one way or another is hard to say since society hasn't tested the limits of swinging completely toward feminization, as it has toward masculization at some points in history.
But the "Wear whatever the fuck you want" uniform always falls into one of the aforementioned categories. If you buy your clothes in any store, you fall into a category. If you decide to make your own clothes from scratch, you fall into another category. You decide to not wear clothes at all, you fall into another category. What's so sad about that? People usually wear whatever the fuck they want but they want to wear things that seem stylish to them, and are usually correspondent to their personalities. It's their preference. They don't put on the uniform to show the world who they are, they are who they are because of their choice in attitude which is reflected in their clothing.
Portal - just an FPS with 1 weapon and decent writing flOw - just Eco the Dolphin with no story Peggle - just another puzzle game with physics Mass Effect - just another FPS game but with RPG elements
see? You could take the innovation out of any game by breaking it down to its elements.
Owning a Macbook Air looks like being nibbled to death by ducks. Not only is it super-expensive, but Apple's actually charging for things that have come included in all their other laptops, like the video adapter:
Wait, so how is that like being nibbled to death by ducks?
I'm not a lawyer of course, but it's not about this group of people making a calendar company called Ford so your example is completely irrelevant. They're making a calendar of Ford cars, and people MIGHT confuse their calendar as being sponsored by Ford. Since they can't control the content of the calendar, they don't want people having a negative impression of the brand from a badly made product. Hence, the cease and desist letter to this car club. I'm not saying I agree with what they're doing, but that's why they're doing it.
Reading the interview, I'm really glad these people are political. By going with the line you propose, these people will always be on the run from new laws. "Oh, now torrents are illegal? Well, we're only supplying hyperlinks." What these people are going for are social and political change so they won't have to keep running from new laws and don't have to sit idly by while all of your civil liberties are taken away in the name of IP reform, or terrorism. Sure, it's a lot harder making that change and fighting that battle, but there's more at stake than a free CD.
Your rant on PR is dead on. Another side effect of PR is the mistrust of science by the public. My parents refuse to believe in science and medicine and instead mostly opt for "natural" treatments. The reason, they say, is that they're always hearing on the news about how stuff like chocolate is good for you and then a few months later go back to saying it's bad for you. They never look into it further than the 10 'o clock news, so they don't trust scientists.
I don't like how the author equates fair use and piracy with morality. People are getting jaded with corporations taking away their rights, and their jobs to make a profit. A week doesn't go by without hearing about some corporation letting go of thousands of Americans so they could save money using outsourcing or of a company suing their customers. The days of being a lifelong member of a company are gone, and with that went company loyalty. So it comes as no surprise to me that less and less people care about screwing over a corporation since less and less corporations care about screwing over their customers and employees. Equating that with some kind of moral decline among youth is wrong. Now switch those examples in the article over to a hypothetical stealing of a movie from your friend's collection and you're going to have a better test.
Find a nice mom & pop electronics store. They're harder to find, but worth the effort.
The problem with mom and pop electronic stores are that they gouge their customers because they don't have enough employees to gouge. I shopped at mom and pop places for years, but they're struggling to keep ends meet since big box stores and the internet have taken their customers away, so now they overcharge and treat their remaining customers like crap.
Ms. Clinton has always struck me as the kind of person who, if presented with a pistol and a note from _person_ that stated if she killed the people on the attached list _something would happen_
Yeah! And why even report back to the authorities? If you find someone you saw on the news, why not just track them using the available camera data, get a group of your buddies, and bring the person to justice on your own! No need to waste some police officer's valuable time. I might be over-exaggerating but the last thing I want is 30,000 busy bodies looking through camera data for people SUSPECTED of a crime that they heard about on the fear-mongering news station. It's bad enough that police have access to this. Can you imagine when it's the nosy neighbor next door?
I don't know if you were being sarcastic or anything, but you were modded interesting so I'll respond. I know these people are working for tax payer dollars and you want oversight, but you're probably working for private dollars and I don't think you'd be working there for too long if your boss had a webcam on you all day while at the office. Public servants still should have their right to work without a webcam pointed at them all day, because otherwise it would just be a shitty job and we wouldn't get many public servants.
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Well, I'm the complete opposite, so I don't think you should be telling developers what to do. Master Chief/Halo and Solid Snake/MGS sold enough copies to show that there's a market for a 3rd person game where you're playing as a great character and not some faceless Joe. I like my protagonists with a personality because otherwise, game dialog is pretty flat. A lot of it has to do with the technology not being sufficiently advanced enough so that the player could actually talk (or type) to NPCs with them understanding what you're saying, so games like Portal and Half Life bring you in by not having many very NPCs or the NPCs not really interacting with you and expecting a response. Otherwise, NPCs ask you questions and you're relegated to a multiple choice response that destroys any semblance of character that the protagonist may have, and it alienates the players because through multiple choice, they don't feel like they're the ones making the responses. So, there's room for both, but I prefer heroes to have personality.
Now we know how the government archived those missing e-mails.
Nah, in these days, reporters just outsource that part to the government.
If they post the music, along with an open letter to Congress requesting the radical alteration and/or repeal of recent copyright legislation like the NET Act or the DMCA, then I would consider spending my money with them.
And as long as we're making up completely unrealistic expectations, Metallica also needs to give me a magical unicorn.
I agree with you 100%. I just don't get all the hype around this game. I loved GTA3 and Vice City, but I don't get how a sequel to those can spawn hyperbole such as:
"Niko's journey, the one crafted by Rockstar, may have ended, but Niko's adventures in the story I am creating have just begun."
It's a game, not a novel, and even as a game the story in it is on the lower tier as far as game stories go. This isn't Half Life or Bioshock where the stories are integral to the game. It's a game where you go around killing gangsters and prostitutes on the way to becoming a mob boss. And while that's a lot of fun and the game will be great, there's no need to use flowery language to build the status of the game up to legendary.
I literally spit out a mouthful of Diet Coke upon reading that.
Pics or it didn't happen.
Home theaters have always lagged behind the big screen in terms of technology. Why would Pixar continue to take a back seat to the tech, when they could make a better experience for the theater goers with 3D technology? Eventually, 3D will be commonplace in home theater systems, but until that time, filmmakers should be pushing the boundaries of their films instead of catering to the last generation. And by creating a different experience for theater goers, they're going to get people seeing the movies in 3D in the theater and then still buying them on DVD and Blu-Ray 6 months after the theater run instead of having people just wait for the Blu-Ray disk because their home experience is better than the theater.
society as a whole has taken on an overtly feminized aura to it. There is no balance anymore, the way there used to be.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the rest of your viewpoint, but society as a whole has been overtly masculated for as far back as when men won their women over by clubbing them and dragging them back to their caves. Saying that there was balance during the time when kids ran around with firecrackers blowing their hands off with their fathers standing on the sidelines going "boys will be boys" is pretty ridiculous. Women and their tendency for risk aversion is being taken more seriously now than ever before, true, but it's all in the name of creating a more balanced society. Whether it's swinging more toward one way or another is hard to say since society hasn't tested the limits of swinging completely toward feminization, as it has toward masculization at some points in history.
But the "Wear whatever the fuck you want" uniform always falls into one of the aforementioned categories. If you buy your clothes in any store, you fall into a category. If you decide to make your own clothes from scratch, you fall into another category. You decide to not wear clothes at all, you fall into another category. What's so sad about that? People usually wear whatever the fuck they want but they want to wear things that seem stylish to them, and are usually correspondent to their personalities. It's their preference. They don't put on the uniform to show the world who they are, they are who they are because of their choice in attitude which is reflected in their clothing.
The design is over 50yrs old.
So what you're saying is that this design is more equivalent to old people porn? Yuck!
the link on the firefox website says it's from google
I never knew math could be so filthy.
You have to put more effort into a letter, so they are going to pay more attention to it.
Plus they could read it on the shitter.
or he could have ripped them from one of the many CDs they've put out, since iTunes does automatically convert a cd to MP3 or AAC when inserted.
Then again, maybe Washington needs them more for the big ones they have there.
Tenax for President in '08! He'll clean up Washington!
Portal - just an FPS with 1 weapon and decent writing
flOw - just Eco the Dolphin with no story
Peggle - just another puzzle game with physics
Mass Effect - just another FPS game but with RPG elements
see? You could take the innovation out of any game by breaking it down to its elements.
Owning a Macbook Air looks like being nibbled to death by ducks. Not only is it super-expensive, but Apple's actually charging for things that have come included in all their other laptops, like the video adapter:
Wait, so how is that like being nibbled to death by ducks?
I'm not a lawyer of course, but it's not about this group of people making a calendar company called Ford so your example is completely irrelevant. They're making a calendar of Ford cars, and people MIGHT confuse their calendar as being sponsored by Ford. Since they can't control the content of the calendar, they don't want people having a negative impression of the brand from a badly made product. Hence, the cease and desist letter to this car club. I'm not saying I agree with what they're doing, but that's why they're doing it.
Reading the interview, I'm really glad these people are political. By going with the line you propose, these people will always be on the run from new laws. "Oh, now torrents are illegal? Well, we're only supplying hyperlinks." What these people are going for are social and political change so they won't have to keep running from new laws and don't have to sit idly by while all of your civil liberties are taken away in the name of IP reform, or terrorism. Sure, it's a lot harder making that change and fighting that battle, but there's more at stake than a free CD.
Your rant on PR is dead on. Another side effect of PR is the mistrust of science by the public. My parents refuse to believe in science and medicine and instead mostly opt for "natural" treatments. The reason, they say, is that they're always hearing on the news about how stuff like chocolate is good for you and then a few months later go back to saying it's bad for you. They never look into it further than the 10 'o clock news, so they don't trust scientists.
I don't like how the author equates fair use and piracy with morality. People are getting jaded with corporations taking away their rights, and their jobs to make a profit. A week doesn't go by without hearing about some corporation letting go of thousands of Americans so they could save money using outsourcing or of a company suing their customers. The days of being a lifelong member of a company are gone, and with that went company loyalty. So it comes as no surprise to me that less and less people care about screwing over a corporation since less and less corporations care about screwing over their customers and employees. Equating that with some kind of moral decline among youth is wrong. Now switch those examples in the article over to a hypothetical stealing of a movie from your friend's collection and you're going to have a better test.
Find a nice mom & pop electronics store. They're harder to find, but worth the effort.
The problem with mom and pop electronic stores are that they gouge their customers because they don't have enough employees to gouge. I shopped at mom and pop places for years, but they're struggling to keep ends meet since big box stores and the internet have taken their customers away, so now they overcharge and treat their remaining customers like crap.
Ms. Clinton has always struck me as the kind of person who, if presented with a pistol and a note from _person_ that stated if she killed the people on the attached list _something would happen_
That sentence is missing a few things.
Yeah! And why even report back to the authorities? If you find someone you saw on the news, why not just track them using the available camera data, get a group of your buddies, and bring the person to justice on your own! No need to waste some police officer's valuable time. I might be over-exaggerating but the last thing I want is 30,000 busy bodies looking through camera data for people SUSPECTED of a crime that they heard about on the fear-mongering news station. It's bad enough that police have access to this. Can you imagine when it's the nosy neighbor next door?
I don't know if you were being sarcastic or anything, but you were modded interesting so I'll respond. I know these people are working for tax payer dollars and you want oversight, but you're probably working for private dollars and I don't think you'd be working there for too long if your boss had a webcam on you all day while at the office. Public servants still should have their right to work without a webcam pointed at them all day, because otherwise it would just be a shitty job and we wouldn't get many public servants.