While it may be true that the boy spends too much time playing GTA, using the first person to describe what happens in a videogame to a character you control is not unusual, I'd say.
E.g. "The ghost killed me just the second after the power pill ran out!"
That wouldn't be considered delusional. I think it's just the violent subject matter is freaking you out.
Re:I can see the headlines right now...
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I admire your optimism. More likely it will be stories about "10 signs that your child is an illegal downloader" and advice about how to turn them in for their own good before it's too late. As far as the media goes, it's only "won't someone think of the children!" when the kids are at risk of being affected by outside forces. If it is the kids themselves offending, it's "try 'em as adults, and throw away the key."
Come on. If you are playing chess and someone takes one of your pawns, is he stealing from you? If you are playing Monopoly, do you call the cops if someone overcharges you for rent on Old Kent Road?
The best phrase I've heard to describe this sort of gratification is "Perpetually scratching a perpetual itch". That nails the MMORPG levelling treadmill pretty well.
This is one hell of a funny article, even funnier that everyone is taking it at face value (or more likely, commenting based on only reading the summary). Go on, read it - you'll laugh.
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"We left this mini-game code in thinking it would be a laugh when someone unlocked it, but now it's caused such a scandal we are shitting ourselves and are blustering about reverse-engineering and license breaking"
Rockstar have been very open in the past, even supportive, to people messing around with their code (see the numerous Vice City mods, such as Multi-theft Auto). Hope this doesn't spoil it for everyone.
You saying that reminds me of a program I wrote in my youth too, an Eliza style program that all you could do was talk to. It actually turned out quite a decent conversation - as far as i could see it appears to be more effective (as far as faking a naturalistic-seeming conversation is concerned) to use a brute force approach to these sort of things, where you just think of as many keywords as possible, and have numerous canned responses chosen randomly, rather than some sort of AI-theory driven language analysis approach where it ends up like you're speaking to an alien.
My program also had a rudimentary memory, and would occasionally spew back things you had previously said to it, and remember answers to questions it had asked you. It wasn't difficult to break it, but if you played along it could come out pretty damn well.
And I was only about 11! To think of it, all that early potential wasted;-)
[reo4k] just type/quit whoever, and it'll quit them from irc * luckyb1tch has quit IRC (r`heaven) * r3devl has quit IRC (r`heaven) * sasopi has quit IRC (r`heaven) * phhhfft has quit IRC (r`heaven) * blackersnake has quit IRC (r`heaven) [ibaN`reo4k[ex]] that's gotta hurt [r`heaven]:(
Altough you may have a point about better compression algorithms, there is a PS2 game on 2 disks (Star Ocean: Til the End of Time) and at least one dual layer game (Champions of Norrath).
Yeah, this provokes the same sort of glassy-eyed bored politeness that is usually reserved for when people start describing their dreams to you in excruciating detail. Or when they give you an in-depth run-down of the last 5 seasons of their team in Championship Manager.
Well, there was an album I was going to buy, but I borrowed it from a friend and listened to it until I was sick of it, then gave it back. That deprived the record company of money. Am I a thief?
"..[developers have] still got that outmoded notion that the player is your adversary. He isn't. He's your audience, the person you're trying to entertain and provide enjoyment to."
Amen! I hope the next time a designer considers putting a jumping puzzle or a maze into a game, he stops and thinks of that.
Also, I have tons of free diskspace left and 2 gigs of RAM. There's no reason anything should be streaming off my DVD. Drop the entire contents on the HD, and stream it from there.
Granted, console gamers are out of luck (for the moment).
Not so, in GTA:San Andreas, you can drive from one end of the (huuge) playfield to the other without seeing any loading screens. That's just great.
(If you have a slightly knackered PS2, sometimes the DVD laser can't keep up and you end up driving into extreme pop-up, but that's just kind of endearing.)
To help prevent information overload, the new version of Outlook will randomly delete 50% of all incoming email. That'll really help you focus on the other stuff.
You don't emulate games, man, you emulate hard-ware. So, if what you're saying is they are going to do a half-assed emulator 'just good enough' to run a selected sub-set of games, then fair enough but that isn't backwards compatibility.
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While it may be true that the boy spends too much time playing GTA, using the first person to describe what happens in a videogame to a character you control is not unusual, I'd say.
E.g. "The ghost killed me just the second after the power pill ran out!"
That wouldn't be considered delusional. I think it's just the violent subject matter is freaking you out.
Just you wait to see what Nintendo have in store next!
Dunno, but I bet it has to do with Terrorism!
I admire your optimism. More likely it will be stories about "10 signs that your child is an illegal downloader" and advice about how to turn them in for their own good before it's too late.
As far as the media goes, it's only "won't someone think of the children!" when the kids are at risk of being affected by outside forces. If it is the kids themselves offending, it's "try 'em as adults, and throw away the key."
I love that "if necessary" bit. As if you're going to be told "Nah, false alarm, go on home, we don't need you after all."
Well, to be fair, Aeris is the translation, as performed by Square's paid translation staff. Aerith is some sort of fanboy Kanji transliteration.
Isn't this constant linking to 1up.com getting a little obvious?
Seriously though.. and this is only going back 1 week!! What's going on?
Well, if that site is 1up.com, and the submitter is Zonk, then hell yeah!
Come on. If you are playing chess and someone takes one of your pawns, is he stealing from you? If you are playing Monopoly, do you call the cops if someone overcharges you for rent on Old Kent Road?
The best phrase I've heard to describe this sort of gratification is "Perpetually scratching a perpetual itch". That nails the MMORPG levelling treadmill pretty well.
This is one hell of a funny article, even funnier that everyone is taking it at face value (or more likely, commenting based on only reading the summary). Go on, read it - you'll laugh.
"We left this mini-game code in thinking it would be a laugh when someone unlocked it, but now it's caused such a scandal we are shitting ourselves and are blustering about reverse-engineering and license breaking"
Rockstar have been very open in the past, even supportive, to people messing around with their code (see the numerous Vice City mods, such as Multi-theft Auto). Hope this doesn't spoil it for everyone.
You saying that reminds me of a program I wrote in my youth too, an Eliza style program that all you could do was talk to. It actually turned out quite a decent conversation - as far as i could see it appears to be more effective (as far as faking a naturalistic-seeming conversation is concerned) to use a brute force approach to these sort of things, where you just think of as many keywords as possible, and have numerous canned responses chosen randomly, rather than some sort of AI-theory driven language analysis approach where it ends up like you're speaking to an alien.
;-)
My program also had a rudimentary memory, and would occasionally spew back things you had previously said to it, and remember answers to questions it had asked you.
It wasn't difficult to break it, but if you played along it could come out pretty damn well.
And I was only about 11!
To think of it, all that early potential wasted
I propose this mechanism : a built in microphone. If it detects screaming inside the car, then the the override is activated.
I'm guessing whoever wins this "prize" will dump them on ebay for $10,000
Step 1. Win auction of NES games for $10,000+
Step 2. Sell all NES games on ebay for $10,000
Step 3. Prof... oh, crap.
Yeah, and he couldn't even be bothered to do a proper link to the list of games he references, instead telling us to Google it!
Anyway, I did, and Google spellcheck said "Do you mean Mike Hitler's rarity list?"
Um.. no...
And that reminds me of one of my favourite bash quotes.
/quit whoever, and it'll quit them from irc :(
[reo4k] just type
* luckyb1tch has quit IRC (r`heaven)
* r3devl has quit IRC (r`heaven)
* sasopi has quit IRC (r`heaven)
* phhhfft has quit IRC (r`heaven)
* blackersnake has quit IRC (r`heaven)
[ibaN`reo4k[ex]] that's gotta hurt
[r`heaven]
Altough you may have a point about better compression algorithms, there is a PS2 game on 2 disks (Star Ocean: Til the End of Time) and at least one dual layer game (Champions of Norrath).
But for bots, putting up a poker-face would be hard... without a face
How are you going to put up your poker-facer, Mr. Anderson, when you haven't got... a face?
Yeah, this provokes the same sort of glassy-eyed bored politeness that is usually reserved for when people start describing their dreams to you in excruciating detail. Or when they give you an in-depth run-down of the last 5 seasons of their team in Championship Manager.
Well, there was an album I was going to buy, but I borrowed it from a friend and listened to it until I was sick of it, then gave it back. That deprived the record company of money. Am I a thief?
from the article:
"..[developers have] still got that outmoded notion that the player is your adversary. He isn't. He's your audience, the person you're trying to entertain and provide enjoyment to."
Amen! I hope the next time a designer considers putting a jumping puzzle or a maze into a game, he stops and thinks of that.
Also, I have tons of free diskspace left and 2 gigs of RAM. There's no reason anything should be streaming off my DVD. Drop the entire contents on the HD, and stream it from there.
Granted, console gamers are out of luck (for the moment).
Not so, in GTA:San Andreas, you can drive from one end of the (huuge) playfield to the other without seeing any loading screens. That's just great.
(If you have a slightly knackered PS2, sometimes the DVD laser can't keep up and you end up driving into extreme pop-up, but that's just kind of endearing.)
To help prevent information overload, the new version of Outlook will randomly delete 50% of all incoming email. That'll really help you focus on the other stuff.
You don't emulate games, man, you emulate hard-ware. So, if what you're saying is they are going to do a half-assed emulator 'just good enough' to run a selected sub-set of games, then fair enough but that isn't backwards compatibility.