Yeah, that's good advice. Last time I threatened legal action against a company, they responded by filing a lawsuit against me for threatening a lawsuit against them, and won so much money that I had to declare bankruptcy.
Do you have a couple hundred bucks to spend on patenting every idea you've ever come up with? If so, you're either one of the richest people in the world, or earth-shatteringly stupid, so I'll assume the answer is no and let my point stand.
Nevermind the fact that a great majority of people don't feel that something should be patentable, much like people who think their programs should be open source. What's the easiest way to allow an idea to be unpatentable? Think of it, do it, don't patent it. Apparently that doesn't work so well.
Finally, do you honestly believe that any of the ISPs who started offering this service have ever read this patent before, even if it was after the patent was filed? No? They came up with it on their own? Well in that case, even though these guys may officially own the rights, it is pretty clear that the patent is OBVIOUS. And therefore VOID.
Let me put it to you this way. I have noticed they're sending a lot of landers and such to Mars right now. Well, perhaps I should patent sending a rover to Pluto. NASA has never done that, no prior art, they have not patented it so clearly it's not obvious and they've never thought of it... Sure...
kmph is what you mean, although km/h is preferred to distinguish it more clearly from mph. I think it may also be more correct according to SI rules as well, but I don't know.
I know a lot of people swear by ancient monitors, and whatever works for them is fine, but when I was looking to buy a monitor I dropped by my local computer surplus shop (They sell retired business equipment, overstock castoffs, liquidated equipment, etc.) They were very happy to hook a number up for me to show me how they looked. I looked at a beastly but rather old 19" Sony Trinitron monitor whose model number I forget, a completely ancient Sun 21" workstation monitor, and a nearly new Viewsonic P95+. All were within +/- $20 of each other.
Perhaps this is not the experience of everyone, but after adjusting all the controls to as good as I could get them and then seeing them hooked up next to each other, the Viewsonic blew the other two away in terms of brightness (without the SuperBright mode turned on), picture clarity, bright colors, as well as resolution and refresh rate.
Ultimately I picked out the Viewsonic, took it home and haven't ever been happier with a monitor. It had a severe case of melty-plastic-smell for the first two weeks or so, which I suspect is why it was given to the surplus shop in the first place. The smell is now gone completely and it really is a beautiful monitor.
However, I will say this: I trust Viewsonic so much, that 20 years down the road, I may be buying "ancient" Viewsonic monitors myself.;)
Welsh speakers already can speak English, almost all of them. In fact, that's kind of the problem. Welsh is a dying language. Wales is not a country anymore, it is a part of England, and as such, English is the official language. Welsh is not part of the standard curriculum there, so fewer and fewer people are learning it. And as fluent Welsh speakers age, there are fewer people to teach it as well.
Welsh is a unique language with a very rich history. It is also widely regarded as the hardest western language to learn, so learning it is somewhat a mark of honor.
I have probably been trolled, but I am 1/4 Welsh, and hate to see the language dying. Congrats to Alan.
BS. I could beat Anarki in Q3 on Hard using only my Toshiba's AccuPoint thing. And this was years ago. I imagine using one of those shitty trackpad things would suck, though. Which is why I avoid those like the plague when buying a laptop.
Why do all of these so-called 'Net.Art' sites look like 'modern art', which is to say, they look like they were done by a 12 year old newbie making a personal webpage for the first time?
This is crap. Modern art is also crap (in some cases literally). If I wanted to see random ASCII art or bad photoshop jobs I'd go look at SomethingAwful or Fark. Not Art. It's not. I promise. Even less than the teen love ballads that Britney sings are music.
You want to see Net.Art? Check out some of the personal weblogs and websites out there. Maybe they're not the most useful or navigable things in the world, but that's not what art is supposed to be is it? There is often a lot of effort put into making them look pretty/slick/professional.
I agree. The diagonal 3x2-1x2 and similar pieces (originated as roofing in the city series, IIRC) would be too handy to discard. Personally, I think that everything in between Blacktron and the original (red/blue/black) space police series struck a good balance between creativity and cool lookingness. Sure, you got your little engines, and your lasers, and cockpit glass, but mostly the things were still made out of real bricks.
Hmm, that could be. I never played the demo. I imagine it would be a rather unpleasant experience to be subjected to ads for a demo when the demo itself is supposed to be an ad for the game. I fully agree with you, anyway. I was just curious how I could've missed an ad which surely would've offended me greatly.:)
Tie Fighter? Dodge Neon ad? Where? It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I was obsessed with that game and played it religiously and never saw such an ad. Perhaps I've just forgotten.
If you took some time to learn our other official language, it might help you understand the accent quite a bit better. Not intended as a nasty barb, I'm just saying, I don't have any trouble understanding heavy french accents. Although my own french is far from perfect and probably heavily accented from a Quebecer's point of view. I am fluent enough to hold my own while travelling through there (and in France too, once you know the few but significant differences)
I do, on the other hand, have trouble understanding pointless knowledge-base responses, and yet no tech support has ever provided me with an option for getting around those. "Hi, my computer is not getting an IP address from my cable modem." "OK, the first thing I'm going to have you try is to go into Internet Explorer and clear your cache [pronounced as ca-shay]." But that's a rant for a different day.
This supercomputer was built by volunteers, so the cost is not something that can be reproduced easily.
Why? Were the volunteers and anyone who would consider volunteering for such a thing taken out at night and shot or something?
Hell, if some local university/company/government wanted to build a system like this and there was a newspaper article about it, I'd be very curious. If I found they were offering volunteer positions who get to connect loads of really cool hardware and have free pizza and coke like VT offered... hot damn, where do I sign up?
Seriously, I think volunteers for this sort of thing are rather easy to come by. In fact, you'd be surprised how easy it is to find volunteers in general, especially if you spin it the right way. If you're a jedi master of spin (or just lucky), you can get them to pay you for the priviledge.
A popular solution is Privoxy's popup blocking chained with Squid's caching. In my opinion, that's the way to go. Privoxy by default also blocks ads and webbugs and nasty javascript and other things, but you can disable those features.
These could probably be configured as a transparent proxy if you don't want to set it up manually on users' computers, but speaking as a power user, I would never sign up with an ISP that stuck me with a proxy I couldn't avoid.
For ext2, what you are saying is true. ext2 is a plain, boring, vanilla filesystem. ext3 is journalled. Which is why it is ext3 that is a concern.
With default settings, ext3 syncs the journal every 5 seconds. Automatically, without stopping. The journal being located in the same place on the card, of course.
For 1 million rewrites, this would kill your card in no less than 138.8 days. So, 4 months. I don't think that lifetime is still looking so great.
Yeah, and if I'm frustrated with the lack of those features awhile down the road, (chances are I won't be, as I've never had an SLR camera before and have gotten by just fine) guess what? I can take everything except the body -- lenses, memory, filters, cases -- and bring them up with me to a better model. Bring them to, assuming I have had some foresight in my lens purchases, a different manufacturer's camera.
Name any other "high-level consumer zoom camera" that I can do that with? Yes, the Digital Rebel is not the world's best SLR. It's an entry-level camera, it's designed as entry-level, marketed as entry-level, and most importantly it's priced as entry-level. The Digital Rebel will get my foot in the door of SLR photography, and for that I appreciate it.
"So, Ansel Adams, yeah, I think he'd love it,' LoPinto said.
End of story, begin ad copy.
And that leads to the hypothetical question, which Nikon digital camera would Ansel Adams use?
"Considering his typical tendency to use high-quality, large-format cameras and his desire that it be handy and convenient, I suspect he would be attracted to our D100, for its size and versatility and overall digital image quality."
And it goes on and on like that. Gross. If I wanted advertisements posing as stories I'd go read Gamespy reviews.
..that so many people, including the submitter of this story, blindly accuse motorcycling of being dangerous with an almost religious fervor. A motorcycle is just a vehicle. If driven safely and carefully, it has approximately the same amount of safety as a car, although in slightly different ways. The statistics will admittedly not bear this out. Why?
Just LOOK at the comments here: People talking about going 180mph, speeding tickets be damned. These are the sort of people who skew the statistics. It's a lot easier for a hot rodder to pick up a superpowered speedbike than it is a top-end sportscar, not to mention that being on a motorcycle is just perceived as 'sexier'.
I've known a number of motorcyclists who I consider to be extremely safe drivers. There's no need to be reckless when you're on a motorcycle, although most people are. This HUD can do nothing but good for them in my opinion. Nevermind the clueless folk who claim it will distract you. They are either going much too fast in the first place, or have never used a HUD.
I welcome this technology, and I keep hoping it will be applied more liberally. Give me one for my bike (of the non motored variety) and have it give me the time, my speed, and boy wouldn't a map of bike paths and bike-friendly roads be really nice? I find it hard to think of places where a well-laid-out HUD wouldn't be useful.
A company I hate for their useless ad-covered-site and almost as useless reviews is merging with a company I hate for their useless reviews and almost as useless ad-covered-site.
Complementary strength synergies indeed. I can't wait to see what a review that's twice as insipid covered by twice as many ads looks like. Or maybe they'll just find some way to completely merge their ads with their reviews (as if the reviews aren't paid advertisements already)
Mainstream gaming news died a horrible death several years ago. The closest I come to reading mainstream gaming news is Bluesnews occasionally. Even they're an UGO affiliate, though.
Don't even get me started on the horrific things that IGN did to Voodooextreme.
It is people like you that are the problem with the electoral system in the USA.
Kang & Kodos: "Ha ha ha. You have to vote for one of us." Perot: "Vote for me!" Kang & Kodos: "Go ahead, throw away your vote!"
If you would just pull your heads out of your ass and VOTE BECAUSE YOU AGREE WITH THE PARTY'S POLICIES regardless of their size or influence some things might work out a little better.
Strategic voting is the worst thing that ever happened to democracy. We're seeing it here in Canada too, and it sucks ass.
Master of Orion 3 implemented all of the desires of the hardcore fans. What did we get? A game that only hardcore fans would love.
Quite the opposite I'm afraid. About the time MOO2 came out, I told the developers that I wanted to see a ship design editor in case I wanted to build my own badass looking ships (my own artistic lack-of-skills notwithstanding). Did they take that into consideration in MOO3? No. Instead, they took all ship model customization away, giving only one design per ship class. Not that it mattered, since the largest ship was approximately four pixels onscreen anyway. That was just my silly suggestion, though.
There was no end to the number of posts on quicksilver's website chastising features of the game, followed by the developers saying, "No, don't worry, we know it's going to be a lot different from the Master Of Orion you know. It's all part of the grand plan we have, trust us. It all works really well together with everything else in the game. We're confident you'll love it." If anything, us "hardcore fans" were too lenient with our demands, instead choosing to trust the developer who really seemed to believe in their game. That belief was infectious, and we all started to believe this would be a great game too, despite the seemingly insane things they were doing. That belief was also clearly misplaced.
Following the continued assurances, some people were treated to a beta. Poor reviews of the beta, especially regarding things like overcomplexity, were again dismissed by the developers with such claims as "Just give it a few weeks and it will grow on you, you'll love it." Fewer people believed them this time, but unfortunately I was one of them.
To call the game a disappointment would be a shocking understatement. But I disagree completely with your blame of the hardcore fans. Quicksilver implemented none of the features that the hardcore fans wanted. They made a miserable game that was lacking enjoyable features even on a very basic level, before you even consider any of the micromanagement which I presume is what you mean by the features that the hardcore gamers wanted in.
Since when do authorities really care about child pornography? Last I saw, their favourite passtime is occasionally busting people who download child pornography, always claiming "this is the most horrific child porn I've ever seen", to make people feel safe that "don't worry, we've taken another sicko pervert off the streets". Meanwhile, the people who actually abuse children and take the photographs and the people who sell them, well they're a little smarter than your average child porn downloader, so no one is willing to expend the effort and money required to stop them.
Quality is lacking in the Final Fantasy series? Um. Well clearly I don't realize it, so maybe I am a retard. In any case, care to enlighten me?
Please note that just because the games are not really "role-playing" games at all, does not mean that they're bad games. Judge the game, not how it fits into it's alleged genre. They have excellent graphics, soundtracks, stories, and provide me with countless hours of entertainment, something that few other games have ever accomplished for me.
On the other hand, if you simply think that anyone who doesn't agree with your tastes is retarded, then I'm sorry I even bothered responding to you.
Perhaps you have a different definition of fanboy/fanboi than I do, but while I do love Final Fantasy's graphics and gameplay, I will also readily admit that FF Anthology was a horribly done port, and that FF10 had painfully trite and uninteresting characters (and plot), and numerous other failings of Final Fantasy in general. In fact, I can often be a rather spiteful critic of it. I hated FF6's move towards steampunk-technology, I hated FF7's materia system and 3D graphics. Although the latter really grew on me once I started playing it.
Although if I could mod on this story, I'd still give you a +1 Funny.
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Yeah, that's good advice. Last time I threatened legal action against a company, they responded by filing a lawsuit against me for threatening a lawsuit against them, and won so much money that I had to declare bankruptcy.
Do you have a couple hundred bucks to spend on patenting every idea you've ever come up with? If so, you're either one of the richest people in the world, or earth-shatteringly stupid, so I'll assume the answer is no and let my point stand.
Nevermind the fact that a great majority of people don't feel that something should be patentable, much like people who think their programs should be open source. What's the easiest way to allow an idea to be unpatentable? Think of it, do it, don't patent it. Apparently that doesn't work so well.
Finally, do you honestly believe that any of the ISPs who started offering this service have ever read this patent before, even if it was after the patent was filed? No? They came up with it on their own? Well in that case, even though these guys may officially own the rights, it is pretty clear that the patent is OBVIOUS. And therefore VOID.
Let me put it to you this way. I have noticed they're sending a lot of landers and such to Mars right now. Well, perhaps I should patent sending a rover to Pluto. NASA has never done that, no prior art, they have not patented it so clearly it's not obvious and they've never thought of it... Sure...
kph? kilo per hour? How fast is that?
kmph is what you mean, although km/h is preferred to distinguish it more clearly from mph. I think it may also be more correct according to SI rules as well, but I don't know.
I know a lot of people swear by ancient monitors, and whatever works for them is fine, but when I was looking to buy a monitor I dropped by my local computer surplus shop (They sell retired business equipment, overstock castoffs, liquidated equipment, etc.) They were very happy to hook a number up for me to show me how they looked. I looked at a beastly but rather old 19" Sony Trinitron monitor whose model number I forget, a completely ancient Sun 21" workstation monitor, and a nearly new Viewsonic P95+. All were within +/- $20 of each other.
;)
Perhaps this is not the experience of everyone, but after adjusting all the controls to as good as I could get them and then seeing them hooked up next to each other, the Viewsonic blew the other two away in terms of brightness (without the SuperBright mode turned on), picture clarity, bright colors, as well as resolution and refresh rate.
Ultimately I picked out the Viewsonic, took it home and haven't ever been happier with a monitor. It had a severe case of melty-plastic-smell for the first two weeks or so, which I suspect is why it was given to the surplus shop in the first place. The smell is now gone completely and it really is a beautiful monitor.
However, I will say this: I trust Viewsonic so much, that 20 years down the road, I may be buying "ancient" Viewsonic monitors myself.
Welsh speakers already can speak English, almost all of them. In fact, that's kind of the problem. Welsh is a dying language. Wales is not a country anymore, it is a part of England, and as such, English is the official language. Welsh is not part of the standard curriculum there, so fewer and fewer people are learning it. And as fluent Welsh speakers age, there are fewer people to teach it as well.
Welsh is a unique language with a very rich history. It is also widely regarded as the hardest western language to learn, so learning it is somewhat a mark of honor.
I have probably been trolled, but I am 1/4 Welsh, and hate to see the language dying. Congrats to Alan.
BS. I could beat Anarki in Q3 on Hard using only my Toshiba's AccuPoint thing. And this was years ago. I imagine using one of those shitty trackpad things would suck, though. Which is why I avoid those like the plague when buying a laptop.
Why do all of these so-called 'Net.Art' sites look like 'modern art', which is to say, they look like they were done by a 12 year old newbie making a personal webpage for the first time?
This is crap. Modern art is also crap (in some cases literally). If I wanted to see random ASCII art or bad photoshop jobs I'd go look at SomethingAwful or Fark. Not Art. It's not. I promise. Even less than the teen love ballads that Britney sings are music.
You want to see Net.Art? Check out some of the personal weblogs and websites out there. Maybe they're not the most useful or navigable things in the world, but that's not what art is supposed to be is it? There is often a lot of effort put into making them look pretty/slick/professional.
I agree. The diagonal 3x2-1x2 and similar pieces (originated as roofing in the city series, IIRC) would be too handy to discard. Personally, I think that everything in between Blacktron and the original (red/blue/black) space police series struck a good balance between creativity and cool lookingness. Sure, you got your little engines, and your lasers, and cockpit glass, but mostly the things were still made out of real bricks.
Hmm, that could be. I never played the demo. I imagine it would be a rather unpleasant experience to be subjected to ads for a demo when the demo itself is supposed to be an ad for the game. I fully agree with you, anyway. I was just curious how I could've missed an ad which surely would've offended me greatly. :)
Thanks for the info.
Tie Fighter? Dodge Neon ad? Where? It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I was obsessed with that game and played it religiously and never saw such an ad. Perhaps I've just forgotten.
If you took some time to learn our other official language, it might help you understand the accent quite a bit better. Not intended as a nasty barb, I'm just saying, I don't have any trouble understanding heavy french accents. Although my own french is far from perfect and probably heavily accented from a Quebecer's point of view. I am fluent enough to hold my own while travelling through there (and in France too, once you know the few but significant differences)
I do, on the other hand, have trouble understanding pointless knowledge-base responses, and yet no tech support has ever provided me with an option for getting around those. "Hi, my computer is not getting an IP address from my cable modem." "OK, the first thing I'm going to have you try is to go into Internet Explorer and clear your cache [pronounced as ca-shay]." But that's a rant for a different day.
This supercomputer was built by volunteers, so the cost is not something that can be reproduced easily.
Why? Were the volunteers and anyone who would consider volunteering for such a thing taken out at night and shot or something?
Hell, if some local university/company/government wanted to build a system like this and there was a newspaper article about it, I'd be very curious. If I found they were offering volunteer positions who get to connect loads of really cool hardware and have free pizza and coke like VT offered... hot damn, where do I sign up?
Seriously, I think volunteers for this sort of thing are rather easy to come by. In fact, you'd be surprised how easy it is to find volunteers in general, especially if you spin it the right way. If you're a jedi master of spin (or just lucky), you can get them to pay you for the priviledge.
A popular solution is Privoxy's popup blocking chained with Squid's caching. In my opinion, that's the way to go. Privoxy by default also blocks ads and webbugs and nasty javascript and other things, but you can disable those features.
These could probably be configured as a transparent proxy if you don't want to set it up manually on users' computers, but speaking as a power user, I would never sign up with an ISP that stuck me with a proxy I couldn't avoid.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
For ext2, what you are saying is true. ext2 is a plain, boring, vanilla filesystem. ext3 is journalled. Which is why it is ext3 that is a concern.
With default settings, ext3 syncs the journal every 5 seconds. Automatically, without stopping. The journal being located in the same place on the card, of course.
For 1 million rewrites, this would kill your card in no less than 138.8 days. So, 4 months. I don't think that lifetime is still looking so great.
Yeah, and if I'm frustrated with the lack of those features awhile down the road, (chances are I won't be, as I've never had an SLR camera before and have gotten by just fine) guess what? I can take everything except the body -- lenses, memory, filters, cases -- and bring them up with me to a better model. Bring them to, assuming I have had some foresight in my lens purchases, a different manufacturer's camera.
Name any other "high-level consumer zoom camera" that I can do that with? Yes, the Digital Rebel is not the world's best SLR. It's an entry-level camera, it's designed as entry-level, marketed as entry-level, and most importantly it's priced as entry-level. The Digital Rebel will get my foot in the door of SLR photography, and for that I appreciate it.
"So, Ansel Adams, yeah, I think he'd love it,' LoPinto said.
End of story, begin ad copy.
And that leads to the hypothetical question, which Nikon digital camera would Ansel Adams use?
"Considering his typical tendency to use high-quality, large-format cameras and his desire that it be handy and convenient, I suspect he would be attracted to our D100, for its size and versatility and overall digital image quality."
And it goes on and on like that. Gross. If I wanted advertisements posing as stories I'd go read Gamespy reviews.
..that so many people, including the submitter of this story, blindly accuse motorcycling of being dangerous with an almost religious fervor. A motorcycle is just a vehicle. If driven safely and carefully, it has approximately the same amount of safety as a car, although in slightly different ways. The statistics will admittedly not bear this out. Why?
Just LOOK at the comments here: People talking about going 180mph, speeding tickets be damned. These are the sort of people who skew the statistics. It's a lot easier for a hot rodder to pick up a superpowered speedbike than it is a top-end sportscar, not to mention that being on a motorcycle is just perceived as 'sexier'.
I've known a number of motorcyclists who I consider to be extremely safe drivers. There's no need to be reckless when you're on a motorcycle, although most people are. This HUD can do nothing but good for them in my opinion. Nevermind the clueless folk who claim it will distract you. They are either going much too fast in the first place, or have never used a HUD.
I welcome this technology, and I keep hoping it will be applied more liberally. Give me one for my bike (of the non motored variety) and have it give me the time, my speed, and boy wouldn't a map of bike paths and bike-friendly roads be really nice? I find it hard to think of places where a well-laid-out HUD wouldn't be useful.
A company I hate for their useless ad-covered-site and almost as useless reviews is merging with a company I hate for their useless reviews and almost as useless ad-covered-site.
Complementary strength synergies indeed. I can't wait to see what a review that's twice as insipid covered by twice as many ads looks like. Or maybe they'll just find some way to completely merge their ads with their reviews (as if the reviews aren't paid advertisements already)
Mainstream gaming news died a horrible death several years ago. The closest I come to reading mainstream gaming news is Bluesnews occasionally. Even they're an UGO affiliate, though.
Don't even get me started on the horrific things that IGN did to Voodooextreme.
It is people like you that are the problem with the electoral system in the USA.
Kang & Kodos: "Ha ha ha. You have to vote for one of us."
Perot: "Vote for me!"
Kang & Kodos: "Go ahead, throw away your vote!"
If you would just pull your heads out of your ass and VOTE BECAUSE YOU AGREE WITH THE PARTY'S POLICIES regardless of their size or influence some things might work out a little better.
Strategic voting is the worst thing that ever happened to democracy. We're seeing it here in Canada too, and it sucks ass.
They also did it in real life. Putting out those fires was nontrivial, to say the least.
Master of Orion 3 implemented all of the desires of the hardcore fans. What did we get? A game that only hardcore fans would love.
Quite the opposite I'm afraid. About the time MOO2 came out, I told the developers that I wanted to see a ship design editor in case I wanted to build my own badass looking ships (my own artistic lack-of-skills notwithstanding). Did they take that into consideration in MOO3? No. Instead, they took all ship model customization away, giving only one design per ship class. Not that it mattered, since the largest ship was approximately four pixels onscreen anyway. That was just my silly suggestion, though.
There was no end to the number of posts on quicksilver's website chastising features of the game, followed by the developers saying, "No, don't worry, we know it's going to be a lot different from the Master Of Orion you know. It's all part of the grand plan we have, trust us. It all works really well together with everything else in the game. We're confident you'll love it." If anything, us "hardcore fans" were too lenient with our demands, instead choosing to trust the developer who really seemed to believe in their game. That belief was infectious, and we all started to believe this would be a great game too, despite the seemingly insane things they were doing. That belief was also clearly misplaced.
Following the continued assurances, some people were treated to a beta. Poor reviews of the beta, especially regarding things like overcomplexity, were again dismissed by the developers with such claims as "Just give it a few weeks and it will grow on you, you'll love it." Fewer people believed them this time, but unfortunately I was one of them.
To call the game a disappointment would be a shocking understatement. But I disagree completely with your blame of the hardcore fans. Quicksilver implemented none of the features that the hardcore fans wanted. They made a miserable game that was lacking enjoyable features even on a very basic level, before you even consider any of the micromanagement which I presume is what you mean by the features that the hardcore gamers wanted in.
Since when do authorities really care about child pornography? Last I saw, their favourite passtime is occasionally busting people who download child pornography, always claiming "this is the most horrific child porn I've ever seen", to make people feel safe that "don't worry, we've taken another sicko pervert off the streets". Meanwhile, the people who actually abuse children and take the photographs and the people who sell them, well they're a little smarter than your average child porn downloader, so no one is willing to expend the effort and money required to stop them.
Just one of my pet peeves.
Quality is lacking in the Final Fantasy series? Um. Well clearly I don't realize it, so maybe I am a retard. In any case, care to enlighten me?
Please note that just because the games are not really "role-playing" games at all, does not mean that they're bad games. Judge the game, not how it fits into it's alleged genre. They have excellent graphics, soundtracks, stories, and provide me with countless hours of entertainment, something that few other games have ever accomplished for me.
On the other hand, if you simply think that anyone who doesn't agree with your tastes is retarded, then I'm sorry I even bothered responding to you.
Perhaps you have a different definition of fanboy/fanboi than I do, but while I do love Final Fantasy's graphics and gameplay, I will also readily admit that FF Anthology was a horribly done port, and that FF10 had painfully trite and uninteresting characters (and plot), and numerous other failings of Final Fantasy in general. In fact, I can often be a rather spiteful critic of it. I hated FF6's move towards steampunk-technology, I hated FF7's materia system and 3D graphics. Although the latter really grew on me once I started playing it.
Although if I could mod on this story, I'd still give you a +1 Funny.