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It's pretty obvious he's only talking about unmodified multiplayer Starcraft. Once you get into mods (custom maps), it's hard to really still call them "Starcraft" (the game) despite them running within "Starcraft" (the piece of software).
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Wow, an actual use for the simple version of wikipedia. Who knew?
A corporation can't shut down my private website or my personal DVD writer that I can use to distribute my Twin Towers Destruction game. The government can. I can't buy porn at Walmart or Target, yet somehow porn still gets purchased. Clearly the retailer oligarchy has failed to censor porn.
Go to the developer's homepage and download it or order it and have it shipped to your house. That's how many people are beginning to get their PC games these days anyway.
Pretty sure a shooter involving taking down the Trade Centre would be banned in the USA.
No. It wouldn't. And that's the difference between the USA and most other countries (including ones that consider themselves modern liberal democracies). Retailers might refuse to sell it, but the government would not be able to (legally) ban it, and most responsible government officials wouldn't even try.
I don't like motion control either, but you really should read some of the reviews for Skyward Sword. They almost unanimously state that this is the first game to actually have a good implementation of motion controls in a game.
I'm not going to buy it either, but I'm interested to try it at a friend's house to see how true these reviews are.
Even if they had tours etc. the conspiracy theorists would just say they moved them somewhere else and cleaned it up after the fact. You can't satisfy these people.
He's paid to teach you what the class curriculum entails. He's not paid to teach you basic math concepts that you're assumed to already know beforehand. If you do not know them and still elect to take the class, then yes, it is YOUR responsibility to learn them on your own time. At my school at least, there are tons of resources to help you with this such as free tutoring, teacher's assistants, and all professors are required to have office hours in which you could visit them and ask them to help you without slowing down the curriculum for everyone else.
If your school doesn't have these kinds of resources then it's just a shitty school. But either way, it's not the professor's job to teach you anything that isn't on the stated curriculum of the class during class hours. Lecture time is limited enough as it is.
When your choices are to slip by with C's in an engineering/hard science degree while studying constantly, or to get straight A's in a social science/liberal arts/business degree while doing almost zero studying and partying every night, which one are you going to pick?
When I was in elementary school in the late 80s/early 90s, there were usually 0-2 kids (out of 30-35) in my class each grade that had to take some kind of medicine for hyperactivity. At least one of them I remember specifically it was pretty clear when he hadn't taken his medicine that he literally couldn't sit still in his chair.
Every new expansion has been *announced* within a year of the previous being released. The only thing different about this one is that it might be released faster than previous ones.
They've actually been improving the PS2 software emulation over time. A lot of games run perfectly even on non-PS2-hardware PS3's. Don't know if the list includes those games yet, but either way, it's silly to lump in PS2 games with PS3 games, even if they do run on the same machine.
Keep in mind that until it launches on PS3, it effectively has not launched in Japan. They're basically using the NA/EU PC market as an extended beta for the "real" version, which will be the Japanese PS3 release. If they can get that core Japanese console market to play the game for another ~7 years like they did with FFXI, then they can likely make back their losses and their pride.
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It's pretty obvious he's only talking about unmodified multiplayer Starcraft. Once you get into mods (custom maps), it's hard to really still call them "Starcraft" (the game) despite them running within "Starcraft" (the piece of software).
Wow, an actual use for the simple version of wikipedia. Who knew?
One is about the government passing judgement on the issue. One is just about a dick company continuing to be a dick.
Recently downgraded to: "Mostly harmless."
Crysis 2 had a PC demo. It was released before the game and had multiplayer.
This. I doubt many of these people pirated Crysis 2 to play it. They pirated it to run benchmarks.
I'll explain how they fixed it: they opened it up and let it dry out over night, then sent it back.
A corporation can't shut down my private website or my personal DVD writer that I can use to distribute my Twin Towers Destruction game. The government can. I can't buy porn at Walmart or Target, yet somehow porn still gets purchased. Clearly the retailer oligarchy has failed to censor porn.
Go to the developer's homepage and download it or order it and have it shipped to your house. That's how many people are beginning to get their PC games these days anyway.
No. It wouldn't. And that's the difference between the USA and most other countries (including ones that consider themselves modern liberal democracies). Retailers might refuse to sell it, but the government would not be able to (legally) ban it, and most responsible government officials wouldn't even try.
How the fuck is starvation a disease?
Well words have been changing for at least 20,000 years so good luck with your crusade.
I think if you have an 9.0 earthquake and a 8m high tsunami in outer space, then you've got bigger things to worry about.
I don't like motion control either, but you really should read some of the reviews for Skyward Sword. They almost unanimously state that this is the first game to actually have a good implementation of motion controls in a game.
I'm not going to buy it either, but I'm interested to try it at a friend's house to see how true these reviews are.
I hope you meant to say "willing to download a crack", and are not implying some correlation between modding and piracy.
Even if they had tours etc. the conspiracy theorists would just say they moved them somewhere else and cleaned it up after the fact. You can't satisfy these people.
He's paid to teach you what the class curriculum entails. He's not paid to teach you basic math concepts that you're assumed to already know beforehand. If you do not know them and still elect to take the class, then yes, it is YOUR responsibility to learn them on your own time. At my school at least, there are tons of resources to help you with this such as free tutoring, teacher's assistants, and all professors are required to have office hours in which you could visit them and ask them to help you without slowing down the curriculum for everyone else.
If your school doesn't have these kinds of resources then it's just a shitty school. But either way, it's not the professor's job to teach you anything that isn't on the stated curriculum of the class during class hours. Lecture time is limited enough as it is.
Spock and McCoy were both scientists. Even Kirk was portrayed as an explorer (meaning someone interested in learning new things).
Exactly. TV is not a conspiracy to make people stupid or keep people stupid. PEOPLE ARE JUST STUPID.
When your choices are to slip by with C's in an engineering/hard science degree while studying constantly, or to get straight A's in a social science/liberal arts/business degree while doing almost zero studying and partying every night, which one are you going to pick?
When I was in elementary school in the late 80s/early 90s, there were usually 0-2 kids (out of 30-35) in my class each grade that had to take some kind of medicine for hyperactivity. At least one of them I remember specifically it was pretty clear when he hadn't taken his medicine that he literally couldn't sit still in his chair.
Every new expansion has been *announced* within a year of the previous being released. The only thing different about this one is that it might be released faster than previous ones.
Huh, I guess not. Thought I had read they changed that in a firmware update.
They've actually been improving the PS2 software emulation over time. A lot of games run perfectly even on non-PS2-hardware PS3's. Don't know if the list includes those games yet, but either way, it's silly to lump in PS2 games with PS3 games, even if they do run on the same machine.
Keep in mind that until it launches on PS3, it effectively has not launched in Japan. They're basically using the NA/EU PC market as an extended beta for the "real" version, which will be the Japanese PS3 release. If they can get that core Japanese console market to play the game for another ~7 years like they did with FFXI, then they can likely make back their losses and their pride.