I'm 24, and i'm planning to buy one as soon as I can spare the cash.
Maybe you just don't happen to have friends interested in it, or maybe they bought into the whole "OMG Nintendo is teh kiddie!!!1" stereotype. Not that anecdotal evidence like this means much, though.
IMHO GIMP is a great name, or at least as good as Ps would be for Phostoshop
Satisfied?
No. A word meaning "A person who limps" makes it sound like the program is crippled somehow, and has even less to do with graphic manipulation than "Photoshop" does.
If you really want "normal" people to start using open-source stuff like this, or professionals to switch to it, a good first step would be to make sure names are found that don't imply (consciously or unconsciously) that the software is subpar somehow.
Even other lesser-known Squaresoft games would be something. Seiken Densetsu 3?
While having a version that I could actually play on my TV would be nice....I and probably just about everyone else that really wanted to play it has done so already, thanks to a decent unofficial english translation being released over 6 years ago.
The legality of ROMs aside, it's probably better than what Square would do officially anyway, if the god-awful (Faris's pirate accent...Why?!) translation of FF5 was any indication.
Look, i'm a zealous XBox-hating Nintendo fanboy, but even I have to wonder what you're talking about here.
Ok, so let me get it straight. Microsoft took a credit card machine, masked it as a game console and shoved it out the door.
No, they made a machine that allows you to pay more for extra goodies if you want them. Can we assume you don't have a cellphone, cable/satelitte TV, or any other service where you're stuck with the vanilla package if you don't pay extra?
and after reading this I'm sure I will not be picking up a 360 since I really don't like the idea of paying someone everytime I want to change something
Nowhere in Zonk's article (or anywhere else on the net, for that matter) does it say this. You pay for, again, optional stuff like the Marketplace games, the Xbox Live subscription, and other add-ons.
Here's hoping that the Nintendo Revolution does not suck all that bad.
I imagine you'll be disappointed then, seeing as how Nintendo will most likely be offering purchasable downloads of one kind or another.
Dumping 500.000$ at once at an organisation that is not used to handling that kind of money isn't efficient.
If you'd actually read about the project, you'd see that the donations are split up among many different hospitals, and a large part of the donations are actually in the form of items bought through Amazon....So there is not going to be just a giant lump sum dumped on the charity or any of the receiving organizations.
Sega Genesis, Sonic 1 showed that hardware was no longer a limit for bright, good looking, speedy-looking 2D games.
Maybe it was just the crappy TV my family used to have back then, but aside from the Sonic games, I always found the color on Genesis games to be lacking a sort of vibrance and brightness that most SNES games had. And even the Sonic games looked pretty dull sometimes, especially the later ones.
On what other system can you spend a whole day enjoying a game designed for 8 year olds? Nintendo still produces games today that I would put head to head in enjoyablity with the 2600.
I find it to be that Nintendo produces games that (for the most part) you don't have to be any certain age to enjoy, rather than those that pander to a certain age group.
Speaking of dumbed-down, why are we talking about LEGOS on SLASHDOT yet again?!
I don't mean to stereotype, but I will - because the only grown men I've seen playing with legos in my life are those who probably attend star trek conventions and spend saturday night memorizing monty python scripts.
Speaking of wasting time, why are you complaining about people being NERDS on SLASHDOT?!
And why are you so annoyed about how some people spend their free time? Does it cause you actual physical harm if people are not "grown-up" enough for you?
Some of us are actually comfortable enough with ourselves to not worry if a given activity is "kiddie" or "grown-up".
My wife and I also have a great relationship. I like to play video games, she likes to watch (some) video games.
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up for me too - she's a bigger fan of playing on our favorite MUD or working through traditional PC RPGs like Baldur's Gate vs. console games, but still likes to sit and watch me play stuff like FFX or Disgaea that tends to have a lot of dialog, cinematics and flashy effects. Katamari Damacy is always a blast too, probably just about the best value I ever got for $20.
I'm in a stable and happy marriage with a woman that loves games and technology, so....I guess that would make me some sort of god, compared to Mr. "Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. " Seumas?
If you're with someone, you are only together because neither of you has had a better offer yet.
If that's been your experience so far, I pity you, I really do. Not to sound overly dramatic, but it can be so much deeper than that, and you really have no idea what you're missing.
Very true - even as someone that just graduated with an IT degree last March, I had 2-3 calls (sometimes more) per day for a few weeks before accepting something. Heck, I had 3 interviews lined up a month before I moved to Northern VA or even technically graduated.
Keeping a resume regularly refreshed on Monster seemed to help very much, even if it meant I would get the occasional useless call from someone wanting me to work 3000 miles away or somesuch.
You'll have to accept that it is a matter of taste. That people are going to talk about what they like and what they do not like. Here's what I don't like:
The problem is, the more vocal anti-Nintendo types tend to be those that turn "I don't like Nintendo's games, and that is my personal taste" into "Nintendo's games are only for little kids, and if you like them, you must have the intellect of a small child/be a small child/be an idiot/have no taste/etc."
In other words, Microsoft seems to be identifying "compatibility" with "authorization by us" for a game to run on the 360 console. I guess it's what one would expect, given their desire for control, although it certainly isn't helpful to players who own minority-interest games.
Yeah, this seems unecessarily limited to me too - at the very least, seems like a choice to tell the system "Try and run this game, I understand that it's not Microsoft's fault if it doesn't work. *insert massive legal disclaimer here*" would be better than locking people out of games that could very well work immediately.
Please tell me you're not really that dense. Between the above comment and the other stuff you've spewed, any weight your opinions might have had is pretty much gone.
You're not serious, are you? Fixed camera angles, linear gameplay, predictable action sequences.. this is what you consider the 'best game ever'? I think we can find a few more candidates than that to fill the spot of 'best game ever'.
Could you make it any more obvious that you haven't actually played the game?
Sorry, I can't cite a link because I'm at work, and like hell I will visit either freerepublic or Democratic underground while my stats are logged. But to suggest that it is false to say that inflammatory, and indeed violent screeds do not take place on either one of those sites is foolish. Be it right or left, percieved anonymity brings out the brashness in people.
Aside from the fact that entire sites are considered inflammatory by default depending on your political orientation....Sure, indvidual posters put out stuff that's inflammatory and violent.
The difference seems to be that while places like Freerepublic pretty much actively encourage, create, and support violent/inflammatory/racist/etc. material, things are kept much more under control somewhere like Daily Kos.
That is what I take issue with. The original poster's statement Just go visit Democrat Underground or Daily Kos. You will find many articles that discuss violence against authority and the death of our President and Vice President. is (as far as I can see) completely false until they can provide links to articles that prove so, not posts by random angry and irrational people that probably either got ignored or marked as trolls.
He's obviously citing something partisan, but I'm not his mammy, It's not my job to defend him, only the main point. In the US, we do not have speech codes of the like that exist in europe.
Okaaaaay....I agree with you. I'm not really sure where I said I didn't, but whatever.
But a book was written in the run up to the election in 2004, where the subject was on assasinating a modern president. Pretty hard to take that out of context. Not only was it not shut down, it was lauded by the national press as an example of outside of the box thinking.
So one book (what was the title of that, by the way? I must have missed it) was written by some wacko, and that's supposed to prove something about a whole group of indviduals? I guess the whole human race is fux0red, then, because random people do insane, counter-productive crap like that every day.
I'm not trying to win anything. I really do want you to lighten up. I really do want you to savor some mean barbeque while drinking a glass of lemonade. I really do want you to smile some times.
Again, I love it when people talk like that and get condescending.
No, I will not lighten up, I will discuss what I like and I don't care if you don't like it:) I will smile, too, and it's about time to head home and have one of those glasses of lemonade you keep mentioning:)
The parent post was not saying one group is better then any other. He was using Kos and Democrat underground as an example of the fact we do not have the kind of speech codes that exist in europe. You want to include Freerepublic in that list? Fine, be my guest. You only bolster his point.
So just because that wasn't his main point, it makes it okay to lie and spread false information?
I am sick and damn tired of kneejerk rebuttles from partisans, when they aren't even being attacked
If the parent didn't want to bring partisan politics into this, maybe he shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place.
Or mentioned:
"I am always amazed at the shouts from the left that they are being "oppressed" in this country. I am going practically deaf from their oppression."
Or perhaps he meant to argue that lying, exaggerating, and taking out of context writings from left-wingers is the only way to demonstrate free speech?
Ease up people. Drink a glass of lemonade. Smile sometime.
I love people that say this to try and "win" arguments. Perhaps you should ease up and have a drink yourself, as you seem about as upset as anyone else here.
Just go visit Democrat Underground or Daily Kos. You will find many articles that discuss violence against authority and the death of our President and Vice President.
Do they? Perhaps you could give some specific links, because i'm not seeing those articles.
Now, if you're talking about independent posters making such comments, then yeah, it happens from time to time. Generally (at least on DailyKos, I don't read the other one on a daily basis), the community will self-regulate anyone that gets out of hand, much as is done here.
A normail Yahoo mail user would train their system by reporting false negatives as they came in.
Yeah, I tried that at first, along with setting up huge sweeping filters...Worked for a while, but the volume is just too high. That account receives probably 150 bulk mails a day easily, and about 60 misdirects into the inbox - not worth it when all I have to deal with in GMail is a couple per week in the inbox, and that with an address that's in daily use.
Just wanted to point that if you use your Yahoo account for "stupid registration-required sites" and keep your GMail box private, then you shouldn't be surprise if the Yahoo one gets filled with spam while the GMail one doesn't.
See, that's the thing - i've been using my GMail constantly to sign up sites and otherwise put out on the web since I got an account, and I still only get one or two spams per week in my inbox, and sometimes not even that.
Comparatively, my yahoo account gets around 4500 bulk mail and 1800 spams in the inbox per month....And I haven't even used it in 5 years.
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No they didn't loose they are measuring their incredible success in volume of emails per second that get throw the system....
Wonder if that includes the massive amount of mail that their utterly useless spam filter lets through?
As of writing this, my yahoo mail account (that I haven't used anywhere for 5 years now) contains 4,630 bulk mails, plus another 1,829 messages that didn't get filtered and ended up in my inbox. I don't mind the bulk mailbox - that's where they should go, and it's good for a laugh every once in a while. The amount of crap flowing into the inbox as "real" mail, though, makes the account essentially useless.
Beyond that- do you ever see anyone flip over a card and check if yours is signed, much less if the signatures match? The first happens once every 20 or so purchases, the last almost never.
I see people do it all the time when I buy stuff, but even when i've had an old card with the signature strip rubbed off, they never say anything - just flip, look, flip it back, and continue without a word about it.
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I'm 24, and i'm planning to buy one as soon as I can spare the cash.
Maybe you just don't happen to have friends interested in it, or maybe they bought into the whole "OMG Nintendo is teh kiddie!!!1" stereotype. Not that anecdotal evidence like this means much, though.
IMHO GIMP is a great name, or at least as good as Ps would be for Phostoshop
Satisfied?
No. A word meaning "A person who limps" makes it sound like the program is crippled somehow, and has even less to do with graphic manipulation than "Photoshop" does.
If you really want "normal" people to start using open-source stuff like this, or professionals to switch to it, a good first step would be to make sure names are found that don't imply (consciously or unconsciously) that the software is subpar somehow.
Even other lesser-known Squaresoft games would be something. Seiken Densetsu 3?
While having a version that I could actually play on my TV would be nice....I and probably just about everyone else that really wanted to play it has done so already, thanks to a decent unofficial english translation being released over 6 years ago.
The legality of ROMs aside, it's probably better than what Square would do officially anyway, if the god-awful (Faris's pirate accent...Why?!) translation of FF5 was any indication.
Look, i'm a zealous XBox-hating Nintendo fanboy, but even I have to wonder what you're talking about here.
Ok, so let me get it straight. Microsoft took a credit card machine, masked it as a game console and shoved it out the door.
No, they made a machine that allows you to pay more for extra goodies if you want them. Can we assume you don't have a cellphone, cable/satelitte TV, or any other service where you're stuck with the vanilla package if you don't pay extra?
and after reading this I'm sure I will not be picking up a 360 since I really don't like the idea of paying someone everytime I want to change something
Nowhere in Zonk's article (or anywhere else on the net, for that matter) does it say this. You pay for, again, optional stuff like the Marketplace games, the Xbox Live subscription, and other add-ons.
Here's hoping that the Nintendo Revolution does not suck all that bad.
I imagine you'll be disappointed then, seeing as how Nintendo will most likely be offering purchasable downloads of one kind or another.
Dumping 500.000$ at once at an organisation that is not used to handling that kind of money isn't efficient .
If you'd actually read about the project, you'd see that the donations are split up among many different hospitals, and a large part of the donations are actually in the form of items bought through Amazon....So there is not going to be just a giant lump sum dumped on the charity or any of the receiving organizations.
Sega Genesis, Sonic 1 showed that hardware was no longer a limit for bright, good looking, speedy-looking 2D games.
Maybe it was just the crappy TV my family used to have back then, but aside from the Sonic games, I always found the color on Genesis games to be lacking a sort of vibrance and brightness that most SNES games had. And even the Sonic games looked pretty dull sometimes, especially the later ones.
On what other system can you spend a whole day enjoying a game designed for 8 year olds? Nintendo still produces games today that I would put head to head in enjoyablity with the 2600.
I find it to be that Nintendo produces games that (for the most part) you don't have to be any certain age to enjoy, rather than those that pander to a certain age group.
Speaking of dumbed-down, why are we talking about LEGOS on SLASHDOT yet again?!
I don't mean to stereotype, but I will - because the only grown men I've seen playing with legos in my life are those who probably attend star trek conventions and spend saturday night memorizing monty python scripts.
Speaking of wasting time, why are you complaining about people being NERDS on SLASHDOT?!
And why are you so annoyed about how some people spend their free time? Does it cause you actual physical harm if people are not "grown-up" enough for you?
Some of us are actually comfortable enough with ourselves to not worry if a given activity is "kiddie" or "grown-up".
My wife and I also have a great relationship. I like to play video games, she likes to watch (some) video games.
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up for me too - she's a bigger fan of playing on our favorite MUD or working through traditional PC RPGs like Baldur's Gate vs. console games, but still likes to sit and watch me play stuff like FFX or Disgaea that tends to have a lot of dialog, cinematics and flashy effects. Katamari Damacy is always a blast too, probably just about the best value I ever got for $20.
I'm in a stable and happy marriage with a woman that loves games and technology, so....I guess that would make me some sort of god, compared to Mr. "Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. " Seumas?
If you're with someone, you are only together because neither of you has had a better offer yet.
If that's been your experience so far, I pity you, I really do. Not to sound overly dramatic, but it can be so much deeper than that, and you really have no idea what you're missing.
Very true - even as someone that just graduated with an IT degree last March, I had 2-3 calls (sometimes more) per day for a few weeks before accepting something. Heck, I had 3 interviews lined up a month before I moved to Northern VA or even technically graduated.
Keeping a resume regularly refreshed on Monster seemed to help very much, even if it meant I would get the occasional useless call from someone wanting me to work 3000 miles away or somesuch.
You'll have to accept that it is a matter of taste. That people are going to talk about what they like and what they do not like. Here's what I don't like:
The problem is, the more vocal anti-Nintendo types tend to be those that turn "I don't like Nintendo's games, and that is my personal taste" into "Nintendo's games are only for little kids, and if you like them, you must have the intellect of a small child/be a small child/be an idiot/have no taste/etc."
In other words, Microsoft seems to be identifying "compatibility" with "authorization by us" for a game to run on the 360 console. I guess it's what one would expect, given their desire for control, although it certainly isn't helpful to players who own minority-interest games.
Yeah, this seems unecessarily limited to me too - at the very least, seems like a choice to tell the system "Try and run this game, I understand that it's not Microsoft's fault if it doesn't work. *insert massive legal disclaimer here*" would be better than locking people out of games that could very well work immediately.
Wow. Just....Wow.
Please tell me you're not really that dense. Between the above comment and the other stuff you've spewed, any weight your opinions might have had is pretty much gone.
Console only?
Yes. RTFA.
You're not serious, are you? Fixed camera angles, linear gameplay, predictable action sequences .. this is what you consider the 'best game ever'? I think we can find a few more candidates than that to fill the spot of 'best game ever'.
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Could you make it any more obvious that you haven't actually played the game?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_4
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Resident+Evi
Better luck with your next troll.
Sorry, I can't cite a link because I'm at work, and like hell I will visit either freerepublic or Democratic underground while my stats are logged. But to suggest that it is false to say that inflammatory, and indeed violent screeds do not take place on either one of those sites is foolish. Be it right or left, percieved anonymity brings out the brashness in people.
:) I will smile, too, and it's about time to head home and have one of those glasses of lemonade you keep mentioning :)
Aside from the fact that entire sites are considered inflammatory by default depending on your political orientation....Sure, indvidual posters put out stuff that's inflammatory and violent.
The difference seems to be that while places like Freerepublic pretty much actively encourage, create, and support violent/inflammatory/racist/etc. material, things are kept much more under control somewhere like Daily Kos.
That is what I take issue with. The original poster's statement Just go visit Democrat Underground or Daily Kos. You will find many articles that discuss violence against authority and the death of our President and Vice President. is (as far as I can see) completely false until they can provide links to articles that prove so, not posts by random angry and irrational people that probably either got ignored or marked as trolls.
He's obviously citing something partisan, but I'm not his mammy, It's not my job to defend him, only the main point. In the US, we do not have speech codes of the like that exist in europe.
Okaaaaay....I agree with you. I'm not really sure where I said I didn't, but whatever.
But a book was written in the run up to the election in 2004, where the subject was on assasinating a modern president. Pretty hard to take that out of context. Not only was it not shut down, it was lauded by the national press as an example of outside of the box thinking.
So one book (what was the title of that, by the way? I must have missed it) was written by some wacko, and that's supposed to prove something about a whole group of indviduals? I guess the whole human race is fux0red, then, because random people do insane, counter-productive crap like that every day.
I'm not trying to win anything. I really do want you to lighten up. I really do want you to savor some mean barbeque while drinking a glass of lemonade. I really do want you to smile some times.
Again, I love it when people talk like that and get condescending.
No, I will not lighten up, I will discuss what I like and I don't care if you don't like it
The parent post was not saying one group is better then any other. He was using Kos and Democrat underground as an example of the fact we do not have the kind of speech codes that exist in europe. You want to include Freerepublic in that list? Fine, be my guest. You only bolster his point.
So just because that wasn't his main point, it makes it okay to lie and spread false information?
I am sick and damn tired of kneejerk rebuttles from partisans, when they aren't even being attacked
If the parent didn't want to bring partisan politics into this, maybe he shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place.
Or mentioned:
"I am always amazed at the shouts from the left that they are being "oppressed" in this country. I am going practically deaf from their oppression."
Or perhaps he meant to argue that lying, exaggerating, and taking out of context writings from left-wingers is the only way to demonstrate free speech?
Ease up people. Drink a glass of lemonade. Smile sometime.
I love people that say this to try and "win" arguments. Perhaps you should ease up and have a drink yourself, as you seem about as upset as anyone else here.
Just go visit Democrat Underground or Daily Kos. You will find many articles that discuss violence against authority and the death of our President and Vice President.
Do they? Perhaps you could give some specific links, because i'm not seeing those articles.
Now, if you're talking about independent posters making such comments, then yeah, it happens from time to time. Generally (at least on DailyKos, I don't read the other one on a daily basis), the community will self-regulate anyone that gets out of hand, much as is done here.
A normail Yahoo mail user would train their system by reporting false negatives as they came in.
Yeah, I tried that at first, along with setting up huge sweeping filters...Worked for a while, but the volume is just too high. That account receives probably 150 bulk mails a day easily, and about 60 misdirects into the inbox - not worth it when all I have to deal with in GMail is a couple per week in the inbox, and that with an address that's in daily use.
Just wanted to point that if you use your Yahoo account for "stupid registration-required sites" and keep your GMail box private, then you shouldn't be surprise if the Yahoo one gets filled with spam while the GMail one doesn't.
See, that's the thing - i've been using my GMail constantly to sign up sites and otherwise put out on the web since I got an account, and I still only get one or two spams per week in my inbox, and sometimes not even that.
Comparatively, my yahoo account gets around 4500 bulk mail and 1800 spams in the inbox per month....And I haven't even used it in 5 years.
No they didn't loose they are measuring their incredible success in volume of emails per second that get throw the system....
Wonder if that includes the massive amount of mail that their utterly useless spam filter lets through?
As of writing this, my yahoo mail account (that I haven't used anywhere for 5 years now) contains 4,630 bulk mails, plus another 1,829 messages that didn't get filtered and ended up in my inbox. I don't mind the bulk mailbox - that's where they should go, and it's good for a laugh every once in a while. The amount of crap flowing into the inbox as "real" mail, though, makes the account essentially useless.
Beyond that- do you ever see anyone flip over a card and check if yours is signed, much less if the signatures match? The first happens once every 20 or so purchases, the last almost never.
I see people do it all the time when I buy stuff, but even when i've had an old card with the signature strip rubbed off, they never say anything - just flip, look, flip it back, and continue without a word about it.
Then why, when any decent games are advertised, it says Xbox and PS2 at the bottom but never Gamecube?
So, what is your idea of a decent game, exactly? And why are you convinced that all other people share your views?
Your question should more accurately read "Then why, when any games I like are advertised, it says Xbox and PS2 at the bottom but never Gamecube?"
If nothing on Gamecube looks interesting to you, then so be it. Just don't assume that other people won't find something there to like.