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Go to www.dvdoverseas.com. They have lots of multi-standard tv's and VCR's. Someday I'm going to have to get one so I can start buying Australian DVD's. For some reason theirs have more scenes for less money.
Re:Good Idea for multistandard TV
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No one's replied to my post. All the other posts have repliers. What's wrong? Is it something I did. I feel so lonely and unloved.
Good Idea for multistandard TV
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The good thing about this is that most video cards adjust automatically for ntsc and pal format. This way you won't have to buy a pal compliant TV if you leave the states. At least if they did it right.
Final Fantasy III aka Final Fantasy VI was the best plotted game ever designed. period. It is the only game I've ever truly become addicted to. The plot was incredible, and you never felt like you were being forced to do anything. Sadly, games like that aren't made anymore.
Someone please explain to me why a RPG needs to be 3d. Does it add anything? I hate all this 3d crap. Other than fps, which bore me to death, 3d is just extra garbage. Aimlessness? A game doesn't have to force you in any direction, but it should at least give you a nudge. Otherwise your left with the "it's Sunday afternoon and I can't think of a thing to do" syndrome.
Looking back over this I realize I didn't give credit to 3d being necessary for flight and racing games. I personally stick to scrollers, action, and rpg.
They're problem is that they're trying to sell people something they already get for free. Even if I were going to buy a browser, I wouldn't pay $39 for it.
Having said that I have to say that Opera is the best browser I've ever used. If they keep the free version around, then lots of people are going to switch.
I see your point. What I was alluding to is the incremental release pattern that seems so common in open and free source projects.
Playing the 0.5.1, 0.6.3, 0.7.1, etc. version would tend to ruin a fast placed plot. I've seen several GPL games that do this instead of waiting till the whole thing is done. Of course, I don't have to download it until it's finished, but I've never been one for patience.:)
Ok this is my first post to slashdot. Be tender, be gentle, be rough.
Games just don't fit in with the open development, because their whole appeal is suprise. How interested would you have been in the plot of American Pie if everyone had sat around for 6 months discussing how it should end. The key point of entertainment is to be original. GPL is about taking someone elses ideas and improving them. No one would watch Armageddon again just to see the really cool new ending someone thought up. (Guess I forgot Meteor, or was it Asteroid) The point is that games, like all forms of entertainment are about creative flashes. Their not about a plot that everyone knows five weeks in advance. Unfounded rumors are part of the excitement about a new game.
I'm not against the GPL as far as the core game engine goes. A GPLed game engine with encryption for the data sets would be a great thing because it would allow for game programmers to build their games in secret, hiding those cool little easter eggs. A few people might hack the data sets, but it would stop the vast majority from having the plots, levels, secret codes, etc. from being spoiled for them.
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Go to www.dvdoverseas.com. They have lots of multi-standard tv's and VCR's. Someday I'm going to have to get one so I can start buying Australian DVD's. For some reason theirs have more scenes for less money.
No one's replied to my post. All the other posts have repliers. What's wrong? Is it something I did. I feel so lonely and unloved.
The good thing about this is that most video cards adjust automatically for ntsc and pal format. This way you won't have to buy a pal compliant TV if you leave the states. At least if they did it right.
Final Fantasy III aka Final Fantasy VI was the best plotted game ever designed. period. It is the only game I've ever truly become addicted to. The plot was incredible, and you never felt like you were being forced to do anything. Sadly, games like that aren't made anymore.
Someone please explain to me why a RPG needs to be 3d. Does it add anything? I hate all this 3d crap. Other than fps, which bore me to death, 3d is just extra garbage. Aimlessness? A game doesn't have to force you in any direction, but it should at least give you a nudge. Otherwise your left with the "it's Sunday afternoon and I can't think of a thing to do" syndrome.
Looking back over this I realize I didn't give credit to 3d being necessary for flight and racing games. I personally stick to scrollers, action, and rpg.
Ancestry.com is gonna love this. :)
They're problem is that they're trying to sell people something they already get for free. Even if I were going to buy a browser, I wouldn't pay $39 for it.
Having said that I have to say that Opera is the best browser I've ever used. If they keep the free version around, then lots of people are going to switch.
I see your point. What I was alluding to is the incremental release pattern that seems so common in open and free source projects.
Playing the 0.5.1, 0.6.3, 0.7.1, etc. version would tend to ruin a fast placed plot. I've seen several GPL games that do this instead of waiting till the whole thing is done. Of course, I don't have to download it until it's finished, but I've never been one for patience. :)
Ok this is my first post to slashdot. Be tender, be gentle, be rough.
Games just don't fit in with the open development, because their whole appeal is suprise. How interested would you have been in the plot of American Pie if everyone had sat around for 6 months discussing how it should end. The key point of entertainment is to be original. GPL is about taking someone elses ideas and improving them. No one would watch Armageddon again just to see the really cool new ending someone thought up. (Guess I forgot Meteor, or was it Asteroid) The point is that games, like all forms of entertainment are about creative flashes. Their not about a plot that everyone knows five weeks in advance. Unfounded rumors are part of the excitement about a new game.
I'm not against the GPL as far as the core game engine goes. A GPLed game engine with encryption for the data sets would be a great thing because it would allow for game programmers to build their games in secret, hiding those cool little easter eggs. A few people might hack the data sets, but it would stop the vast majority from having the plots, levels, secret codes, etc. from being spoiled for them.