This is like when you say something you think is hilarious, but nobody laughs, so you think they just didn't hear you right, so you say it again. Turns out no-one was laughing because they didn't think it was funny in the first place.
Apologies if you know this already and I'm missing your point, but "Le rosbif" is a slightly derogatory term for the English that the French use (referring to their lack of adventure in culinary circles). "Limeys" in that case sounds like good translation, a term that means more or less the same thing, but more likely to be familiar to a native English speaker.
Worse was in L'Haine, where the character called "Asterix" is subtitled as "Snoopy". That's just insulting your intelligence.
Also, in reply to myself - from looking online, it seems that particular Splinter Cell game doesn't have Starforce, so maybe it wasn't the culprit after all.
Shit!! This happened to my system about a year ago. Everything slowed WAAYY down. It was driving me mad, and after about 4 hours googling and messing about I finally worked out my IDE drive wasn't using DMA anymore (or something along those lines, it was a while ago now). Had to delete the IDE drivers for XP to 'automatically' reinstate them. That was a sweaty-palmed few seconds after that reboot, I can tell you!
I was baffled to how this happened (just blamed Windows;-), but after reading this I am wondering if it is possible Splinter Cell:Pandora Tomorrow has this protection and caused the slowdown? If so, I am *not* pleased... though good to finally find out what the hell happened.
Anyway, if so, that will be the last Ubisoft game I buy.
No matter how advanced we become technologically, we still cling to ridiculous superstition. It used to be sacrificing goats to prevent crop failure, now it's mysterious black boxes to "clean" our electricity. It's all about trying to gain a semblance of control over the events that effect us greatly in our day to day lives, but that we cannot influence.
(One common thread in all these alternative therapies - at the end of the chain, you have someone raking in the bucks.)
This world needs a little more rational thinking. Either that, or some good homeopathic remedies for gullibility.
You've said this a couple of times, can I ask you to explain this? What exactly is 'pre-rendering' in this context, that Oblivion can utilise, but SL cannot? The only prerendering I've heard about is in FMVs and cutscenes, but Oblivion is a full 3D game.
Your scissor character could cut rocks and other scissors just fine and was no longer limited to just chopping at paper.
Just like Chuck Norris! He always chooses rock. If you choose paper, he punches you in the face with his clenched fist and says "I thought your paper was going to protect you".
Another way to look at paying for a service as a positive is the income source. Without the income from subscription, another income stream would be required.
But they do have another income stream, a massive one: license fees and royalties from sold games.
Don't get me wrong, all things being equal I think they would charge for it. But this is a way to stick it to Microsoft - why pay $x per year on XBox360 when you can get it for free on PS3? Therefore I think it is entirely possible that their service will be as good as they can make it, without fees. (How good that turns out to be is another matter, given their track record...)
What the hell is the world coming to, when you announce something is going to be free, and people start whining that they want to pay for it? Big business has us well trained. Maybe in some parallel universe where paying for something improves the quality of it, but here in the real world comapnies just do the minimum they need to muddle through, fee or no fee.
You make a good point, but it seems like more and more apps are moving to remote web based clients (somewhat ironically, given the massive advances in CPU speeds), the advantages being "run anywhere nd on anything that has a decent browser". I read somewhere that this is really making Microsoft crap themselves (them wanting us to use.NET, or at the very least a Windows app), and speculation that this was why they didn't update IE for so long to try and stem the tide (didn't work, maybe thanks to Firefox?)
A lot of this is maybe to do with the decreasing cost of storage. I mean, a website that hosted video files for you would have been unthinkable even only 2 years ago.
That can backfire though. I had a friend tearing his hair out over Metal Gear Solid on the PSOne, he was telling me how a character was asking for the number on the back of the CD, and how he went everywhere looking for this CD in the game. His jaw hit the floor when I said "Er.. they mean the actual GAME cd". (MGS was particularly bad for that though. Way to break the suspension of disbelief, when in game speech starts talking about the triangle buttons, and Psycho Mantis tells you to put your controller on the floor. It would be like people in films stopping to ask you if wanted to go get a cup of tea!)
Apparently, what is going to happen is Batman and Superman are going to start franchises. You pay up and receive your starter kit, (lycra, tights and underpants) and you can be the fully licensed(TM) Batman(R) or Superman(C) in your local franchising area.
Batman(R) and Superman(C) look forward to working with you to unleash your mutual synergy and craft moneymaking opporutnities! All this requires is one low, low monthly fee. Order in the next ten minutes and receive your complentary DVD of Bruce Wayne's motiviational seminar!
Well, maybe that's a good thing - they're "cured".
Anyway, the problem here is that they feel they need to get to Rank 14. If you set yourself such an ambitious goal, you can hardly complain when it's so tough to complete.
You might say it is irresponsible of Blizzard to have such goals in the game in the first place - after all, human nature being what it is, some people are always going to try for it. On the other hand, if someone wants to play a game every waking hour, that's their choice.
Well, you might not like it when people take your precious money away from you, but we do live in a society and it's not in our interest to have hordes of feral children running about. It's only fair to the child that if their parents are good for nothing that the government will step in and lend a hand to ensure that the children get as good a start as possible, under the circumstances.
Either that, or forcibly sterilise people deemed to be unfit parents, but I don't think we want to be going down that route!
Unless the ratio of correct predictions to incorrect predictions is high, there is no point believing them "just in case". Even if it was 10 bad guesses to one good one, you're wasting time and effort planning for 9 eventualities that aren't going happen. That's not even counting when two different analysts make conflicting reports. "House prices to rise!" "House prices to fall!"
A lot of this 'analysis' is just voodoo guesswork. People are so impressed with the hits they forget all the misses. So the psychic who predicts 9/11 trumpets his success, while not mentioning that he also predicted the second coming of Jesus in 1999.
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That sounds rubbish. If you had a system like this, you have crossed the line from simulating something to actually doing it, which is not why we play games.
Games allow you to pretend to do things that you would not necessarily really want to do. You only want to bring realism so far. Even if displays were holographic 3D displays, they still wouldn't be real - there is a line there that can never be crossed, only approached. However, a fighting game that actually punched you in the face, that would have greatly increased realism, but what fun would that be? Similarly with iSmell. You're not going to want the sewer level to genuinely smell of shit, are you?
Might be useful for proper training simulations though.
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This is like when you say something you think is hilarious, but nobody laughs, so you think they just didn't hear you right, so you say it again. Turns out no-one was laughing because they didn't think it was funny in the first place.
Apologies if you know this already and I'm missing your point, but "Le rosbif" is a slightly derogatory term for the English that the French use (referring to their lack of adventure in culinary circles). "Limeys" in that case sounds like good translation, a term that means more or less the same thing, but more likely to be familiar to a native English speaker.
Worse was in L'Haine, where the character called "Asterix" is subtitled as "Snoopy". That's just insulting your intelligence.
Thanks, that's interesting.
Also, in reply to myself - from looking online, it seems that particular Splinter Cell game doesn't have Starforce, so maybe it wasn't the culprit after all.
Shit!! This happened to my system about a year ago. Everything slowed WAAYY down. It was driving me mad, and after about 4 hours googling and messing about I finally worked out my IDE drive wasn't using DMA anymore (or something along those lines, it was a while ago now). Had to delete the IDE drivers for XP to 'automatically' reinstate them. That was a sweaty-palmed few seconds after that reboot, I can tell you!
;-), but after reading this I am wondering if it is possible Splinter Cell:Pandora Tomorrow has this protection and caused the slowdown? If so, I am *not* pleased... though good to finally find out what the hell happened.
I was baffled to how this happened (just blamed Windows
Anyway, if so, that will be the last Ubisoft game I buy.
How about we phrase it this way and see if it sounds any different:
The two most successful consoles of all time have been backwardly compatible.
And the PS3 is going to be. Hence Microsoft's pretence at BC, it's what the customer expects these days - they can't afford not to have it.
No matter how advanced we become technologically, we still cling to ridiculous superstition. It used to be sacrificing goats to prevent crop failure, now it's mysterious black boxes to "clean" our electricity. It's all about trying to gain a semblance of control over the events that effect us greatly in
our day to day lives, but that we cannot influence.
(One common thread in all these alternative therapies - at the end of the chain, you have someone raking in the bucks.)
This world needs a little more rational thinking. Either that, or some good homeopathic remedies for gullibility.
You've said this a couple of times, can I ask you to explain this? What exactly is 'pre-rendering' in this context, that Oblivion can utilise, but SL cannot? The only prerendering I've heard about is in FMVs and cutscenes, but Oblivion is a full 3D game.
(Not a flame, just curious).
Your scissor character could cut rocks and other scissors just fine and was no longer limited to just chopping at paper.
Just like Chuck Norris! He always chooses rock. If you choose paper, he punches you in the face with his clenched fist and says "I thought your paper was going to protect you".
Nice. I wonder if history records his level of freakage?
"I hope everyone's looks like this..."
My mind is kind of boggling at any sort of practical demo that could illustrate that difference.
"Yes, and this stuff in my hand is semen, which I will now smear on to a slide - if you will come over and look into this microscope..."
(As an aside, I wonder who was the first guy to look at semen in a microscope? That dude must have been freaked the fuck out, big time!)
Maybe he loves her? ;-)
Another way to look at paying for a service as a positive is the income source. Without the income from subscription, another income stream would be required.
But they do have another income stream, a massive one: license fees and royalties from sold games.
Don't get me wrong, all things being equal I think they would charge for it. But this is a way to stick it to Microsoft - why pay $x per year on XBox360 when you can get it for free on PS3? Therefore I think it is entirely possible that their service will be as good as they can make it, without fees. (How good that turns out to be is another matter, given their track record...)
What the hell is the world coming to, when you announce something is going to be free, and people start whining that they want to pay for it? Big business has us well trained.
Maybe in some parallel universe where paying for something improves the quality of it, but here in the real world comapnies just do the minimum they need to muddle through, fee or no fee.
You make a good point, but it seems like more and more apps are moving to remote web based clients (somewhat ironically, given the massive advances in CPU speeds), the advantages being "run anywhere nd on anything that has a decent browser". I read somewhere that this is really making Microsoft crap themselves (them wanting us to use .NET, or at the very least a Windows app), and speculation that this was why they didn't update IE for so long to try and stem the tide (didn't work, maybe thanks to Firefox?)
A lot of this is maybe to do with the decreasing cost of storage. I mean, a website that hosted video files for you would have been unthinkable even only 2 years ago.
That can backfire though. I had a friend tearing his hair out over Metal Gear Solid on the PSOne, he was telling me how a character was asking for the number on the back of the CD, and how he went everywhere looking for this CD in the game. His jaw hit the floor when I said "Er.. they mean the actual GAME cd".
(MGS was particularly bad for that though. Way to break the suspension of disbelief, when in game speech starts talking about the triangle buttons, and Psycho Mantis tells you to put your controller on the floor. It would be like people in films stopping to ask you if wanted to go get a cup of tea!)
heh, nice ideas in this thread, but don't kid yourselves. It's gonna be whomping rats for phat lootz, all the way.
It's the quiet ones you have to watch...
Double plus ungood.
Apparently, what is going to happen is Batman and Superman are going to start franchises. You pay up and receive your starter kit, (lycra, tights and underpants) and you can be the fully licensed(TM) Batman(R) or Superman(C) in your local franchising area.
Batman(R) and Superman(C) look forward to working with you to unleash your mutual synergy and craft moneymaking opporutnities! All this requires is one low, low monthly fee. Order in the next ten minutes and receive your complentary DVD of Bruce Wayne's motiviational seminar!
Well, maybe that's a good thing - they're "cured".
Anyway, the problem here is that they feel they need to get to Rank 14. If you set yourself such an ambitious goal, you can hardly complain when it's so tough to complete.
You might say it is irresponsible of Blizzard to have such goals in the game in the first place - after all, human nature being what it is, some people are always going to try for it. On the other hand, if someone wants to play a game every waking hour, that's their choice.
"The information that previously appeared here has been removed under the threat of legal action from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe."
What's going on? Did anyone get the chance to read it before it was pulled? Can't imagine this pretty obvious news provoking such a threat!
(Oh yeah, and nice one Sony, your PR machine pulls another great move)
Well, you might not like it when people take your precious money away from you, but we do live in a society and it's not in our interest to have hordes of feral children running about. It's only fair to the child that if their parents are good for nothing that the government will step in and lend a hand to ensure that the children get as good a start as possible, under the circumstances.
Either that, or forcibly sterilise people deemed to be unfit parents, but I don't think we want to be going down that route!
Unless the ratio of correct predictions to incorrect predictions is high, there is no point believing them "just in case". Even if it was 10 bad guesses to one good one, you're wasting time and effort planning for 9 eventualities that aren't going happen. That's not even counting when two different analysts make conflicting reports. "House prices to rise!" "House prices to fall!"
A lot of this 'analysis' is just voodoo guesswork. People are so impressed with the hits they forget all the misses. So the psychic who predicts 9/11 trumpets his success, while not mentioning that he also predicted the second coming of Jesus in 1999.
This is the coolest graph ever.
That sounds rubbish. If you had a system like this, you have crossed the line from simulating something to actually doing it, which is not why we play games.
Games allow you to pretend to do things that you would not necessarily really want to do. You only want to bring realism so far. Even if displays were holographic 3D displays, they still wouldn't be real - there is a line there that can never be crossed, only approached. However, a fighting game that actually punched you in the face, that would have greatly increased realism, but what fun would that be? Similarly with iSmell. You're not going to want the sewer level to genuinely smell of shit, are you?
Might be useful for proper training simulations though.