This is a recurring topic these days - how can kids/minors "blame" something that by law they could not have seen, unless they broke the law. And if they did, shouldn't they be prosecuted for breaking the viewing-18s-material law and not grafitti?
E.g., if I get syphillis from a hooker, can I sue/blame the hooker and not be arrested for soliciting? Or that is a context argument. If I was 14 and got shitfaced drunk and say shot somebody, could I "blame" alcohol and avoid prosecution?
So where is this tolerance level coming from? These kids admitted to obtaining and viewing for personal use what for them is illicit material. That's enough for a paedophile webring so why not a bunch of vandals who were too stupid to avboid getting caught?
Just thinking about the BF series, it was obvious that EA should go for it as they already have a possible 60 years of games - Battlefield 1943, 1944, 1945....1966.....1984 (ooer!).....2004, 2005 and so on.
Yeah I got a shock when I heard that DICE made BF1942, what great game it was c/t just about every other WW2 shooter and then realised it was actually Digital Illusions Computer Entertainment or something; a very pleasant surprise. I still have the Dream/Fantasies and Illusions around somewhere on A500 disks, great games indeed and would be perfect for the Nintendo DS.
So that's 3.50 and 1.75 in current exchange rates. Enough for a wrap and maybe a smoothie here in Ireland, probably the $600 and $300 will help a few hundred American's buy houses or maybe a gallon of petrol.
Hmmm, now it's only a week since the last Slashdot Halo 2 "Article" (Advert).
Running out of thigns to say about it? How about: "Halo 2 is best sequel" or "Halo 2 saves white mice from experiments" seeing as Slashdot has ran just about every other Halo 2 related story for no good reason.
I think this shows what a fucked up society exists that children turn to electronics for comfort and not their family or parents.
How dysfunctional is that? They end up in any crisis situation needed some sort of instant gratification from video games - basically like a drug, like tranquilisers.
This is advertising and product/brand placement gone too far. When I read this stuff in a newspaper I wonder does anyone believe it's an actual article or is it basically advertising - there's no need to mention:
Microsoft (14 times)
Halo 2 (12 times)
Excel (11 times)
Halo 2 stuff was everywhere - marketed to the kids but now they are trying to get to the money market of 25-35 yo people (the PS2 market).
It's a sure fire way to get people to pirate copies of Office XP though. This Seattle Times "article" is an advert, nothing more.
I'm surprised it's taken them what, 18 months or thereabouts to start pushing a new C&C out the door. They could start by remaking the original games in the Sage engine, which would make the EA board of directors jump around with excitement. After that maybe start releasing uniform updates to show who the big teams are and how things have changed since the last year's release, plus even "player names" updates as all your old soldiers keep getting killed!
I would have read the bloody thing if it wasn't slashdotted, so rather than leave a post go uncommented I just went with the usual meaning behind such front page news.
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In other Slashdot news, 6000 other web logs by male scientist reporters continue to be unimportant due to their lack of being female.
Next up: a girl called Kristin installs Linux.......hold off whacking it just yet.
WIth a downgrading of credit rating what could happen Sony if the PSP is *not* a success - the battery life issue could kill it although they probably have cash to push it along meaninglessly for years like Minidisc.
If it doesn't work, surely that would mean *another* adjustment of credit status in a year or so with sales to look at. Then I suppose it's PS3 time but what if...oh my god.....Sony got fucked and we were left with only Microsoft.
The best way to see that newspapers and media are by-and-large a load of shit is to for example, read an article on a topic which you know loads about, like something you work in. Watch the way the jornalist successfully manages to miss the core of the purpose for the device/drug/political-stance/whatever, and it's obvious to you that this journalist is an idiot and knows squat because hell you work in the field.
Then apply this same logic to those other articles that you don't know anything about - you can simply presume that somewhere out there somebody else is criticising that other article for exactly the same reasons.
Deus Ex was great but the sequel was nothing compared to it. Neither was Theif 3 c/t 1 or 2. There was severe dumbing down to appeal to the mass market - who can blame a man for someone shoving benjamins up his ass.
Interesting to see how Far Cry runs seeing as it is a resource hog on XP (I run it with a GB of RAM to get it smooth - it's not a gfx issue even on my 9700 Pro). The Doom 3 comparison isn't really a realistic comparison as legit executables are made with both linux and win32 in mind.
So Far Cry is a good game to test - it chews RAM but is prob comparable on video cards. If only I could remember how to run lilo with initrd thing I could reboot into linux and check.....ah happy days....
If this is so normal then why haven't I heard of it. I swear they are covering up a massive catastrophe by just inventing science and making it part of history like some sort of science-meets-1984 thing.
I'm off to get my insulated thermal tinfoil hat to see me through this.
It's obvious now that a good soundtrack does probably more for a game than good graphics. Everyone knows that the gfx won't be much better in terms of tech c/t Vice City as the PS2 has been pushed about as far as it can.
So it's a refreshing change that the hype around GTA: SA is about it's music and not that it has 6 trillion teraquads of polymorphic bitmaps.
I have a solution to the matter of the US elections.
If everyone campaigns and elects a single person in each state to vote, only one person does that, and there is an easy way of counting the electoral college votes.
So really, the democrats need to convince the republicans that they have it won so easily that they all sit at home and don't bother voting while secretly all the democrats go and vote mwahahahahahha. Or is that what the Republicans are doing to the democrats
It's oncogenes and stuff. Similar to what cancer cells do when mitosis goes out of control, and given that knowledge of the out-of-control-and-really-obvious-with-retrospect thing is very much a late 20th century development, maybe no one will figure out why cells divide at all naturally for years.
But it's probably something really simple. Plants do it because they sit in the sun.
Regarding the post above, I think camels may still be too much hassle to clone - I saw the Day of the Triffids two days ago and I think cloning mutant plants might be easier. Plus it would look stupid if your clones had only one hump instead of two, and you might end with scary hybrids with *three* humps. ARGH!
I am going to start with beetroot or turnips because 10ft screaming vegetables would instil way more terror in people (when invading towns for world domination plan, etc., ).
Ha! I can see a future in which the auto industries don't settle on one type of fuel cell and gas stations are forced to carry a number of types of fuels as a result.
Hmmm....in my local station and just about everywhere in the country (Ireland), you can get Unleaded, Lead-Replacement Petrol or Diesel.....surely all different for different engines? No really a problem either, if the "recharge with hydrogen" thing is the only constant, each auto maker could pick whatever they felt was the most suitable storage-sodium-borohydride unit.
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Great Alro Guthrie quote, I'd mod you up if I had any points left!
E.g., if I get syphillis from a hooker, can I sue/blame the hooker and not be arrested for soliciting? Or that is a context argument. If I was 14 and got shitfaced drunk and say shot somebody, could I "blame" alcohol and avoid prosecution?
So where is this tolerance level coming from? These kids admitted to obtaining and viewing for personal use what for them is illicit material. That's enough for a paedophile webring so why not a bunch of vandals who were too stupid to avboid getting caught?
Yeah I got a shock when I heard that DICE made BF1942, what great game it was c/t just about every other WW2 shooter and then realised it was actually Digital Illusions Computer Entertainment or something; a very pleasant surprise. I still have the Dream/Fantasies and Illusions around somewhere on A500 disks, great games indeed and would be perfect for the Nintendo DS.
I should have previewed first.
So that's 3.50 and 1.75 in current exchange rates. Enough for a wrap and maybe a smoothie here in Ireland, probably the $600 and $300 will help a few hundred American's buy houses or maybe a gallon of petrol.
Running out of thigns to say about it? How about: "Halo 2 is best sequel" or "Halo 2 saves white mice from experiments" seeing as Slashdot has ran just about every other Halo 2 related story for no good reason.
Ah shit it's 2004 and that's been done to death.....FUCK it..
How dysfunctional is that? They end up in any crisis situation needed some sort of instant gratification from video games - basically like a drug, like tranquilisers.
Let's see what these kids are like as adults.
OK, enough with Halo 2. Plenty more games have larger userbases so stop advertising Halo 2 on Slashdot, for the love of god.
Microsoft (14 times) Halo 2 (12 times) Excel (11 times)
Halo 2 stuff was everywhere - marketed to the kids but now they are trying to get to the money market of 25-35 yo people (the PS2 market).
It's a sure fire way to get people to pirate copies of Office XP though. This Seattle Times "article" is an advert, nothing more.
I'm surprised it's taken them what, 18 months or thereabouts to start pushing a new C&C out the door. They could start by remaking the original games in the Sage engine, which would make the EA board of directors jump around with excitement. After that maybe start releasing uniform updates to show who the big teams are and how things have changed since the last year's release, plus even "player names" updates as all your old soldiers keep getting killed!
I would have read the bloody thing if it wasn't slashdotted, so rather than leave a post go uncommented I just went with the usual meaning behind such front page news.
Next up: a girl called Kristin installs Linux.......hold off whacking it just yet.
If it doesn't work, surely that would mean *another* adjustment of credit status in a year or so with sales to look at. Then I suppose it's PS3 time but what if...oh my god.....Sony got fucked and we were left with only Microsoft.
ARGHHHGH
Then apply this same logic to those other articles that you don't know anything about - you can simply presume that somewhere out there somebody else is criticising that other article for exactly the same reasons.
Deus Ex was great but the sequel was nothing compared to it. Neither was Theif 3 c/t 1 or 2. There was severe dumbing down to appeal to the mass market - who can blame a man for someone shoving benjamins up his ass.
So Far Cry is a good game to test - it chews RAM but is prob comparable on video cards. If only I could remember how to run lilo with initrd thing I could reboot into linux and check.....ah happy days....
I'm off to get my insulated thermal tinfoil hat to see me through this.
So it's a refreshing change that the hype around GTA: SA is about it's music and not that it has 6 trillion teraquads of polymorphic bitmaps.
If everyone campaigns and elects a single person in each state to vote, only one person does that, and there is an easy way of counting the electoral college votes.
So really, the democrats need to convince the republicans that they have it won so easily that they all sit at home and don't bother voting while secretly all the democrats go and vote mwahahahahahha. Or is that what the Republicans are doing to the democrats
WTF is that? Buying it?
But it's probably something really simple. Plants do it because they sit in the sun.
I am going to start with beetroot or turnips because 10ft screaming vegetables would instil way more terror in people (when invading towns for world domination plan, etc., ).
Hmmm....in my local station and just about everywhere in the country (Ireland), you can get Unleaded, Lead-Replacement Petrol or Diesel.....surely all different for different engines? No really a problem either, if the "recharge with hydrogen" thing is the only constant, each auto maker could pick whatever they felt was the most suitable storage-sodium-borohydride unit.