"Luigi's Mansion I tried to explain this game to my friends.... "It's like Resident Evil, right.... but instead of traumatizing scary zombies, it's cute mario ghosts and a silly vacum cleaner. But it works, I swear!" I honestly had more fun running around the mansion shouting "Marrrio!". At, best, it was "kinda fun"."
Luigi's Mansion is a great game. Not a lot of people gave it a chance because of how simple it is. But on the fun factor it is awesome.
"Anyone else here ever try to get a network game of Doom on with PC users back in the day?"
Actually yeah. On a power computer 604e based machine I used to network with nothing but PC users and had zero problems doing it. Mac Doom was a great port. Smooth play at a higher resolution than pc doom had.
This should never be a problem either. When you are driving you should be completely aware of the cars around you at all times. When I'm out I make a note of the color of cars around me or how many there are just in case I need to make an emergency swerve. Also not putting yourself into a situation at high speeds where you don't have a quick out is pretty stupid. Always have an out, whether it be a shoulder or a grass median or a sidewalk.
The point was (which you completely missed) that ALL video games and all computer content has the possibility of causing this problem. Whether they have a warning label on them or not. So why make the assumption (and risk) that some particular game won't cause problems just because there isn't a warning label? I guess some people just need to explicitly be told every single bad thing that might happen to them?
Forget thinking for yourself, or oh my god, asking the doctor? Nah, lets just assume its ok even though everything the game does has the potential to cause a problem. Afterall the programmers didn't include a warning page in the manual so they must know better than me, right?
If he did his homework he would have found that its not games, its moving images and textures that causes problems. Whether it be from tv, or games, or movies. You can have a reaction just driving your car. THAT is why the game talk is not relevent.
* The high flicker rate of CRTs means they present a very small risk to people with photosensitive epilepsy.
* LCD and TFT screens do not flicker at all.
* Increased brightness and sharpness of LCD and TFT screens may increase the risk to people with photosensitive epilepsy. This risk can be minimised by reducing the brightness of the screen.
* Any material being displayed that contains flicker or repetitive patterns on any type of screen poses a risk to people with photosensitive epilepsy.
* If you primarily use 'Office' or similar packages, an LCD/TFT screen is the better medium.
* For watching DVDs at full screen, a CRT is the better medium.
Whether the game had a warning or not is not relevent. See 4th * above.
So they'll know when and where I go to the bathroom? Will they know when I leave my house to go to the grocery store or walk to the mailbox also? Oh my god! Say it isn't so! I feel sorry for the one chosen to watch my life, they'll get bored quickly.
Which is why you don't put a HD in the box at release. Want to play Live then the Live kit includes a HD. Don't want to play live then you don't have to pay extra for something you don't want...aka a hard drive.
They may be seriously pushing Xbox live, but people aren't seriously buying it. Its a major niche add on.
I bet they move the HD to external via USB 2.0 or something. It may be useful but its not useful enough to justify forcing people to buy it. They would be able to keep the cost down a little more without the HD. Those that want it can just go buy it for a premium price.
Absolutely. I kind of assumed backwards compatibility was out the window when they announced they were using ATI instead of nvidia. So many console games are written to the hardware that even a graphics card switch makes backwards compatibility more difficult. But if they totally switch to a PPC chip then forget about it.
I'm guessing everyone who is complaining is either currently unemployed or never really had a job in the first place. If they did they would know that every company and big organization makes a decision like this.
Oh man...that does suck. I get up to around channel 60 something without a box. Everything after that is no go. But since most of the good channels are in the lower ones anyways its no big deal when I'm watching tv while on my computer or in another room.
I already am paying for it. $40 some a month for my internet connection that includes email. The problem is that I'm getting stuff that I don't want and there is no way to stop it. The ISP's say they hate spam and their servers can't handle it but then turn around and sell their user lists to the highest bidder which generates more spam. The free email folks say they hate spam yet do the same thing but also allow spammers to use them.
I say start charging per email, but have a limit. Say a thousand or so a month, anything beyond that you have to pay per 100 lot or something.
At least with cable you could get all nondigital channels without a box though. If I want to go directtv I would have to buy 3 receivers to give me service on 3 tvs. If I add a tv to another bedroom I have to go buy yet another receiver. Right now I only need one cable box in my main room, on the other tvs I just get all non-digital channels. And if I want to add another tv I don't need to buy anything but the tv.
This is a very dangerous thing they are trying to do. Basically it boils down to the gov't telling people how they need to have their servers configured. Granted open relays are a bad thing, but having some gov't body tell someone running a private server that they have to change how their system is setup? No thanks. I'd rather have open relays.
I think we'll see big competition between sony and nintendo when sony releases its portable. I'm looking forward to seeing nintendo knocked back a little to shock it awake in the portable department. I've got an SP but I would love to have a more powerful device. Competition is the only thing that will make that happen.
I think one of the biggest reasons NGage will fail and all other devices that merge phone and game: air travel. You CANNOT use an ngage or other phone that plays games on a plane. Even if you turn the phone part off. They will still make you put it away. It says in the back under what devices are allowable and specifically says phones used to play games.
So according to you we should just remove personal responsibility entirely from everyones job. Ooops, I'm sorry hospital that your server crashed, but since firing me still won't get the job done I'm not going to be held responsible for what happened.
I guess all legal contracts should be null and void too. Afterall if someone can't pay the fines why bother to go after them and hold them responsible for breaking a contract. While were at it lets just make every single product free. After all there is no point in paying for anything since it should all be free, out of the goodness of our hearts.
"Why is it so confusing to imagine that (a) People do like to do things out of the "kindness" of their collective hearts"
Probably because if something like this goes down, there is no one that will step up and accept responsibility. But if they were all under contract then there would be someone responsible for the failures. Its not just some project anymore, it is the heart and lungs of the entire system and it needs to give guarantees.
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"Luigi's Mansion I tried to explain this game to my friends.... "It's like Resident Evil, right.... but instead of traumatizing scary zombies, it's cute mario ghosts and a silly vacum cleaner. But it works, I swear!" I honestly had more fun running around the mansion shouting "Marrrio!". At, best, it was "kinda fun"."
Luigi's Mansion is a great game. Not a lot of people gave it a chance because of how simple it is. But on the fun factor it is awesome.
"Anyone else here ever try to get a network game of Doom on with PC users back in the day?"
Actually yeah. On a power computer 604e based machine I used to network with nothing but PC users and had zero problems doing it. Mac Doom was a great port. Smooth play at a higher resolution than pc doom had.
Bungie ditched the mac and windows. I bet there are still bitter mac users that deep down just want to hurt Bungie.
Yes, you should know about someone in the left lane. Its not that hard.
This should never be a problem either. When you are driving you should be completely aware of the cars around you at all times. When I'm out I make a note of the color of cars around me or how many there are just in case I need to make an emergency swerve. Also not putting yourself into a situation at high speeds where you don't have a quick out is pretty stupid. Always have an out, whether it be a shoulder or a grass median or a sidewalk.
The point was (which you completely missed) that ALL video games and all computer content has the possibility of causing this problem. Whether they have a warning label on them or not. So why make the assumption (and risk) that some particular game won't cause problems just because there isn't a warning label? I guess some people just need to explicitly be told every single bad thing that might happen to them?
Forget thinking for yourself, or oh my god, asking the doctor? Nah, lets just assume its ok even though everything the game does has the potential to cause a problem. Afterall the programmers didn't include a warning page in the manual so they must know better than me, right?
If he did his homework he would have found that its not games, its moving images and textures that causes problems. Whether it be from tv, or games, or movies. You can have a reaction just driving your car. THAT is why the game talk is not relevent.
...on photosensitive epilepsy:
http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/photo.html
In summary:
* The high flicker rate of CRTs means they present a very small risk to people with photosensitive epilepsy.
* LCD and TFT screens do not flicker at all.
* Increased brightness and sharpness of LCD and TFT screens may increase the risk to people with photosensitive epilepsy. This risk can be minimised by reducing the brightness of the screen.
* Any material being displayed that contains flicker or repetitive patterns on any type of screen poses a risk to people with photosensitive epilepsy.
* If you primarily use 'Office' or similar packages, an LCD/TFT screen is the better medium.
* For watching DVDs at full screen, a CRT is the better medium.
Whether the game had a warning or not is not relevent. See 4th * above.
If a hair drier didn't have a warning label on it warning you not to toss it in a bathtub full of water would you then assume that it was safe?
So they'll know when and where I go to the bathroom? Will they know when I leave my house to go to the grocery store or walk to the mailbox also? Oh my god! Say it isn't so! I feel sorry for the one chosen to watch my life, they'll get bored quickly.
Which is why you don't put a HD in the box at release. Want to play Live then the Live kit includes a HD. Don't want to play live then you don't have to pay extra for something you don't want...aka a hard drive.
They may be seriously pushing Xbox live, but people aren't seriously buying it. Its a major niche add on.
I bet they move the HD to external via USB 2.0 or something. It may be useful but its not useful enough to justify forcing people to buy it. They would be able to keep the cost down a little more without the HD. Those that want it can just go buy it for a premium price.
Absolutely. I kind of assumed backwards compatibility was out the window when they announced they were using ATI instead of nvidia. So many console games are written to the hardware that even a graphics card switch makes backwards compatibility more difficult. But if they totally switch to a PPC chip then forget about it.
I'm guessing everyone who is complaining is either currently unemployed or never really had a job in the first place. If they did they would know that every company and big organization makes a decision like this.
Oh man...that does suck. I get up to around channel 60 something without a box. Everything after that is no go. But since most of the good channels are in the lower ones anyways its no big deal when I'm watching tv while on my computer or in another room.
I already am paying for it. $40 some a month for my internet connection that includes email. The problem is that I'm getting stuff that I don't want and there is no way to stop it. The ISP's say they hate spam and their servers can't handle it but then turn around and sell their user lists to the highest bidder which generates more spam. The free email folks say they hate spam yet do the same thing but also allow spammers to use them.
I say start charging per email, but have a limit. Say a thousand or so a month, anything beyond that you have to pay per 100 lot or something.
At least with cable you could get all nondigital channels without a box though. If I want to go directtv I would have to buy 3 receivers to give me service on 3 tvs. If I add a tv to another bedroom I have to go buy yet another receiver. Right now I only need one cable box in my main room, on the other tvs I just get all non-digital channels. And if I want to add another tv I don't need to buy anything but the tv.
This is a very dangerous thing they are trying to do. Basically it boils down to the gov't telling people how they need to have their servers configured. Granted open relays are a bad thing, but having some gov't body tell someone running a private server that they have to change how their system is setup? No thanks. I'd rather have open relays.
I think we'll see big competition between sony and nintendo when sony releases its portable. I'm looking forward to seeing nintendo knocked back a little to shock it awake in the portable department. I've got an SP but I would love to have a more powerful device. Competition is the only thing that will make that happen.
I think one of the biggest reasons NGage will fail and all other devices that merge phone and game: air travel. You CANNOT use an ngage or other phone that plays games on a plane. Even if you turn the phone part off. They will still make you put it away. It says in the back under what devices are allowable and specifically says phones used to play games.
I don't know if you can consider virtualboy a portable game system though. It is more in line with the Vectrix.
Funny considering we never see people with integrity WIN. Either they don't exist or people don't want people with integrity serving them.
This isn't about video games. This is about a candidate trying to get women voters to vote for him.
What kind of dumb-ass question is this? Who cares? Its about as stupid as asking: "whats your ring tone on your cell phone???"
So according to you we should just remove personal responsibility entirely from everyones job. Ooops, I'm sorry hospital that your server crashed, but since firing me still won't get the job done I'm not going to be held responsible for what happened.
I guess all legal contracts should be null and void too. Afterall if someone can't pay the fines why bother to go after them and hold them responsible for breaking a contract. While were at it lets just make every single product free. After all there is no point in paying for anything since it should all be free, out of the goodness of our hearts.
What kind of world do YOU live in?
"Why is it so confusing to imagine that (a) People do like to do things out of the "kindness" of their collective hearts"
Probably because if something like this goes down, there is no one that will step up and accept responsibility. But if they were all under contract then there would be someone responsible for the failures. Its not just some project anymore, it is the heart and lungs of the entire system and it needs to give guarantees.