Ever notice that the big 'ol double truck ads at the front of the mag, and the stuff at the back, like the Dell ads, are always for games that somehow seemed better in the first five minutes than they did at the last five?
Magazines are losing readership like crazy, and newstands are increasingly pointless. Advertising dollars pay the bills. this is why a certain publishing house routinely gives out scores no worse than 6/10 in its console mags.
If every fucking game you review is an 8/10, then what the fuck is the baseline for your evaluation?
Imagine that: Congress allowed for two types of unsolicited phone calls to still be allowed!
Charities can still call and ask for money. That means the fake police department can still call and make you feel uncomfortable if you don't donate money.
And.... (Wait for it).... POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS! Wow, imagine that! There's no penalty for John Kerry, who keeps calling my house and talking at me. WHY WON'T HE LISTEN TO ME!?
OK, GameSpy is retarded. Their TCP stack in Arcade is HORRIBLE! Crash crash crash! I wouldn't trust their code any farther than I could shlep the psychotic price tag IGN seems to think it merits.
Steam's showed that this sort of plan can work, but GameSpy IGN is NOT the company we want behind the code involved in implementing ANYTHING, let alone streaming game software to our home machines.
Remember, about 90% of all college classes (not including labs and so forth) are going to involve reading, then coming to class and listening to someone read. For this reason, if your attention span is so vast when intrigued, I'd suggest skipping college all together, getting a job, and reading text books on your own.
It's a hell of a lot cheaper, and you'll learn the same things you'd learn at a $30,000 a year college,
After about 6 years of working, people stop caring if you have a degree in whatever field it is yer in.
1984: Game industry is bloated with too many consoles with too many accessories created ahead of demand (Intellivision2), the same games being re-branded and resold, too many boring tie-ins (E.T.), and a saturated market that was fed up with it.
Result: Industry colapses.
1994: Game industry is bloated with too many consoles with too many accessories created ahead of demand (Sega Genesis, 32X, CD, Saturn, Game Gear), the same games being re-branded and resold, too many boring tie-ins (Captain Novolin), and a saturated market that was fed up with it.
Result: Industry implodes.
2004: Game industry is blaoted with too many consoles with too many accessories (PS2 + HD + Network card + microphone + eyetoy = Jesus Fucking Christ!), the same games being re-branded and resold, too many boring tie-ins (Fight Club, the game?), an a saturated market that is getting poorer every day thanks to these wonderful tough times.
Result: Who knows, but you can bet your buttons that the Nokia nGage is going to die.
Well, maybe it won't happen till next year. But sooner would make such wonderful symetry.
So, Congress is supposedly still investigating whether a low power, 100 watt station, will interfere with a 10,000 watt big boy broadcaster. This is why the FCC pulled out about 75% of the possible frequencies and number of low-power stations per district.
Anyone want to place money on the outcome of that congressional research? I lay odds at 1 to 1 that the report will state that little broadcasters are ruining the signals of the big guys.
Congress is such a wonderful scientifically responsible and honest body.
When I was about 6 years old, my father got an Atari ST 520 for our house. After I begged for him to bring the color monitor home and use the black and white a one at work.
My dad and I loved this computer, and played Silent Service together on it. We wanted more games, but the Atari platform was not exactly popular in Maryland at the time. Silent Service and SunDog were all we could find. SunDog, however, was one of the best games ever made, but I was too young to appreciate it.
A fellow at his office, who went by the name "The Roe" told my dad to come over on the weekend and pick up some software for the ST, since he was a major enthusiast. My dad and I went to The Roe's place and he loaded us down with well over 100 Double sided disks of games from Brattacus to Time Bandits to a Spy Hunter clone who's name eludes me at the moment.
I played those games for 10 years. My life was irrevocably changed by that large stack of pirated Atari ST software. Today, my life revolves around games, though I buy them now since GameCube games aren't only available from a single small shop stall in Virginia.
But The Roe's single afternoon of piracy made me who I am today.
Probably not near the poster of the topic, but folks in the SF Bay Area can check out the Alameda County Computer Resource Center. They were/.'d a couple years back. They won't rebuild you 386, but they will strip it down and recycle everything inside without a single scrap going outside of the US for those purposes.
Yeah, the best part about this is the fact that Mitnik has probably already been paid for this book. All he has to do is pick some stories, ask someone like Poulsen to write an intro, and BANG, he gets to call himself a published author.
I left SprintPCS a while back, and it had nothign to do with my phone number. it had to do with faulty customer service, innaccurate billing, and an inability to get anything done without waiting on hold for 2 hours.
Oh, and if I asked how I could speak about my bill quicker, I was directed to a SprintPCS store where I was instructed to pick up a red phone on the wall and wait on hold for an hour. They cut their hold times in half!
Now I'm with T-Mobile. No bad billing, and quick customer service. But 1/2 the time I make a call, it doesn't go through. The second time, though, it usually connects.
This piece is a newspaper first story. It's only secondarily published online. Any factual innacuracies (l337-speak coming from Quake, and Valve creating Counter-Strike) are due to the readership of the East Bay Express. This is not a tech paper. It's a free weekly along the lines of the Village Voice or the SF Weekly.
Yes, I know L337-speak predates Quake. Yes, I know Valve didn't initially create Counter-Strike.
This is a piece about culture, not about games. I hedged in the truth a bit to save complication and so as not to confuse the unsophisticated readers.
And yes, I am having a secret torrid love afair with Ricky. He wears too much eye-shadow too.
Well, I wasn't trying to come off as being a football hero jock. I just portraied Ricky as the person he presented himself as. I thought I was poo-poo-ing the popular kids, not the gamers.
But if that's the way you read it, I guess I did something wrong.
Self image issues? I guess if I can write 8 pages and you actually read them all, something's right.
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Ever notice that the big 'ol double truck ads at the front of the mag, and the stuff at the back, like the Dell ads, are always for games that somehow seemed better in the first five minutes than they did at the last five?
Magazines are losing readership like crazy, and newstands are increasingly pointless. Advertising dollars pay the bills. this is why a certain publishing house routinely gives out scores no worse than 6/10 in its console mags.
If every fucking game you review is an 8/10, then what the fuck is the baseline for your evaluation?
Time to toot my own horn. My Blog has my account of the FASB meeting.
:wq
The article I wrote on the meeting is available here.
Imagine that: Congress allowed for two types of unsolicited phone calls to still be allowed!
Charities can still call and ask for money. That means the fake police department can still call and make you feel uncomfortable if you don't donate money.
And.... (Wait for it).... POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS! Wow, imagine that! There's no penalty for John Kerry, who keeps calling my house and talking at me. WHY WON'T HE LISTEN TO ME!?
Final Fantasy IV and VI are available on Super Nintendo, not just PS1
Of course, none of Nintendo's systems are backwards compatible, even if you use a hammer to jam that SNES cart into the N64.
OK, GameSpy is retarded. Their TCP stack in Arcade is HORRIBLE! Crash crash crash! I wouldn't trust their code any farther than I could shlep the psychotic price tag IGN seems to think it merits.
Steam's showed that this sort of plan can work, but GameSpy IGN is NOT the company we want behind the code involved in implementing ANYTHING, let alone streaming game software to our home machines.
Remember, about 90% of all college classes (not including labs and so forth) are going to involve reading, then coming to class and listening to someone read. For this reason, if your attention span is so vast when intrigued, I'd suggest skipping college all together, getting a job, and reading text books on your own.
It's a hell of a lot cheaper, and you'll learn the same things you'd learn at a $30,000 a year college,
After about 6 years of working, people stop caring if you have a degree in whatever field it is yer in.
When I write like this, I don't say anything terribly offensive.
BUT WITH CAPS LOCK ON YOU ARE ALL COMPLETE SPAZMOID LOSER DORKS WITH GLASSES.
Now, did that change come from my keyboard, or from you all
TURNING INTO BUTT MUNCHES!
This is not news. This is the 5000th company to dump money into the empty pit that is scent reproduction on the computer.
Give it up people, even Digiscents was too late and too dumb.
In 2000 some company even wanted to put this type of tech into the gaming community. Wow, smell the singed flesh and the burning rubber!
It's almost repeating to an exact year.
1984: Game industry is bloated with too many consoles with too many accessories created ahead of demand (Intellivision2), the same games being re-branded and resold, too many boring tie-ins (E.T.), and a saturated market that was fed up with it.
Result:
Industry colapses.
1994: Game industry is bloated with too many consoles with too many accessories created ahead of demand (Sega Genesis, 32X, CD, Saturn, Game Gear), the same games being re-branded and resold, too many boring tie-ins (Captain Novolin), and a saturated market that was fed up with it.
Result:
Industry implodes.
2004: Game industry is blaoted with too many consoles with too many accessories (PS2 + HD + Network card + microphone + eyetoy = Jesus Fucking Christ!), the same games being re-branded and resold, too many boring tie-ins (Fight Club, the game?), an a saturated market that is getting poorer every day thanks to these wonderful tough times.
Result:
Who knows, but you can bet your buttons that the Nokia nGage is going to die.
Well, maybe it won't happen till next year. But sooner would make such wonderful symetry.
So, Congress is supposedly still investigating whether a low power, 100 watt station, will interfere with a 10,000 watt big boy broadcaster. This is why the FCC pulled out about 75% of the possible frequencies and number of low-power stations per district.
Anyone want to place money on the outcome of that congressional research? I lay odds at 1 to 1 that the report will state that little broadcasters are ruining the signals of the big guys.
Congress is such a wonderful scientifically responsible and honest body.
When I was about 6 years old, my father got an Atari ST 520 for our house. After I begged for him to bring the color monitor home and use the black and white a one at work.
My dad and I loved this computer, and played Silent Service together on it. We wanted more games, but the Atari platform was not exactly popular in Maryland at the time. Silent Service and SunDog were all we could find. SunDog, however, was one of the best games ever made, but I was too young to appreciate it.
A fellow at his office, who went by the name "The Roe" told my dad to come over on the weekend and pick up some software for the ST, since he was a major enthusiast. My dad and I went to The Roe's place and he loaded us down with well over 100 Double sided disks of games from Brattacus to Time Bandits to a Spy Hunter clone who's name eludes me at the moment.
I played those games for 10 years. My life was irrevocably changed by that large stack of pirated Atari ST software. Today, my life revolves around games, though I buy them now since GameCube games aren't only available from a single small shop stall in Virginia.
But The Roe's single afternoon of piracy made me who I am today.
Watch out for that IRC overflow that allows users you're sniffing to take over yer box. I wish Ethereal didn't run as root.
Tippett, the 3D effects house that did Starship Troopers and Robocop's special effects, is a family run business.
They're also completely fucking insane and tough to work for, from what I hear.
That's the best comment I could possibly hope for.
Thank you
Probably not near the poster of the topic, but folks in the SF Bay Area can check out the Alameda County Computer Resource Center. They were /.'d a couple years back. They won't rebuild you 386, but they will strip it down and recycle everything inside without a single scrap going outside of the US for those purposes.
Doesn't anyone realize that the Boilerplate stuff is complete fabrication?
HAH! A truism that's also a pun! Ok, ok, I suppose they really couldn't fabricate the parts for him back then...
But it's still a load of horse pucky.
Yeah, the best part about this is the fact that Mitnik has probably already been paid for this book. All he has to do is pick some stories, ask someone like Poulsen to write an intro, and BANG, he gets to call himself a published author.
And, isn't he not allowed to use email?
I didn't say they stole from me this time.
However, I have had verbatim text stolen from proposed stories in the past.
I don't want to say that wired.com steals other people's stories. They certainly didn't steal my story this time
But I would like to point out that i wrote a piece about this sort of stuff a while back.
I left SprintPCS a while back, and it had nothign to do with my phone number. it had to do with faulty customer service, innaccurate billing, and an inability to get anything done without waiting on hold for 2 hours.
Oh, and if I asked how I could speak about my bill quicker, I was directed to a SprintPCS store where I was instructed to pick up a red phone on the wall and wait on hold for an hour. They cut their hold times in half!
Now I'm with T-Mobile. No bad billing, and quick customer service. But 1/2 the time I make a call, it doesn't go through. The second time, though, it usually connects.
Oy!
So does this mean that verisign-is-staffed-entirely-by-vegisexual-nazis.c om is no longer owned by Verisign?
k ittens-a-day-by-management.com now.
I'm sure they'll want to register verisign-employees-are-required-to-eat-seventeen-
Well, Twitch Boy has landed. But of course, he's back on the outside world and he'll probably come after my balls now.
My bet is he'll enjoy the federal pen since he swings that way anyway.
It's interesting to see that there's actually someone out there less socially functional than kevin Mitnick.
and why do you need to hump little boys to give one?
This piece is a newspaper first story. It's only secondarily published online. Any factual innacuracies (l337-speak coming from Quake, and Valve creating Counter-Strike) are due to the readership of the East Bay Express. This is not a tech paper. It's a free weekly along the lines of the Village Voice or the SF Weekly.
Yes, I know L337-speak predates Quake. Yes, I know Valve didn't initially create Counter-Strike.
This is a piece about culture, not about games. I hedged in the truth a bit to save complication and so as not to confuse the unsophisticated readers.
And yes, I am having a secret torrid love afair with Ricky. He wears too much eye-shadow too.
Well, I wasn't trying to come off as being a football hero jock. I just portraied Ricky as the person he presented himself as. I thought I was poo-poo-ing the popular kids, not the gamers.
But if that's the way you read it, I guess I did something wrong.
Self image issues? I guess if I can write 8 pages and you actually read them all, something's right.