I'm not sure that GTA has similarly positive lessons to be learned from it. GTA has the advantage that the aggression is pretend, but has, from what I've seen, no corresponding lessons about control and responsibility to teach.
I take it you've never accidentally racked up five stars of police presence while driving home, then? There is definitely a time and place for aggression in GTA, and it is not when trying to get back to your garage after a mission.
Heroin, tobacco, or assault weapons? No, I think the comparison you're looking for is the one the article makes: the movie industry, an entertainment medium which also has a voluntary rating system and no legislative oversight in the process.
Most of the posts here, presumably, will be of the "blame the parents" variety, many, I suspect, from children themselves.
But, such attempts to exonerate movie studios for playing to the purient interests of children. Sure, responsible parents ought to ensure that their kids don't buy or see any movie they think is inappropriate. But, frankly, parents cannot accompany their kids on every trip to the mall and they certainly cannot stop their kids from seeing any movie they choose at a friend's home.
The people who make and market movies have as much responsibiility for the impact of their products as do the people who make and market heroin, tobacco, or assault weapons.
There, doesn't that look silly? This "outrage" at the ESRB will end once the parents start using the ratings. How long did movie ratings take to catch on, before a mom could look at PG-13 or R and make her decision instantly?
They could make the game into an ad, like the old Cool Spot for NES or Darkened Skye for PC. Skye was even a pretty good game: it suffered from auto-aim problems, but the writing and voice acting was top-notch.
I submitted this bug report to Apple the day after Tiger came out. (Bug ID 4104116)
Summary:
In Tiger, the iCal Info Drawer becomes an invisible window in Expose's windowing modes when the main window is minimized.
Steps to Reproduce:
1) Open iCal.
2) Open the main iCal window.
3) Click the "i" button in the lower right (or press command-i) to open the Info Drawer.
4) Minimize the window.
5) With iCal as the active application, trigger the Expose "Application Windows" mode.
6) Mouse over where the Info Drawer would appear if the main iCal window were not minimized.
A) Now trigger the Expose "All Windows" mode.
B) Mouse around the empty spots of the screen.
Expected Results:
After both step 6 and step B, there should be no window found.
Actual Results:
After both step 6 and step B, there is an invisible "window" with no name that can be clicked to activate iCal. It is the approximate size and shape of the iCal Info Drawer.
Regression:
OS X 10.4.0 Build 8A428
iCal 2.0 (1024)
The bug only occurs IF one is using 10.4.0 AND iCal's main window is open AND the Info Drawer is open AND the main window is minimized. If iCal's main window is open and visible, Expose treats it correctly. If iCal's window is closed, no phantom Expose window appears. If the Info Drawer is closed, no phantom Expose window appears.
Notes:
This is obviously not a show-stopping bug, just something very very weird. It does throw off the window-arrangement calculations of Expose, so I suppose it has slight usability implications.
And once again, as with my iTunes + null separator character bug, it was quickly marked "No Workaround" and I lost privileges to view it. I cannot fathom why they don't want me to see the report again.
Granted, it may have something to do with the fact that it was 2AM and I was somewhat sleep-deprived, but when I made it back to the starting room of Ico and had to fend off all the little shadows I was...mildly annoyed.
Then I noticed that all of them had tiny horns, just like me, and I put that together with the fact that they were coming out of the caskets I had escaped, and...I didn't want to fight them any more. I wanted to put the controller down and let them take out their ghostly despair on my hide. I felt a profound sadness, pity, but to save us all I had to first beat them down.
On top of that, Mario was originally (circa Donkey Kong) concepted as a carpenter. It wasn't until Mario Bros/Super Mario Bros that the plumber image took hold.
The article writer is obviously too old-school for Zonk;)
I can't wait for next year's Mechmania. The building they had before was larger than anything at NDSU (with a lot more wasted space). Now I have all-new nooks and hallways to explore!
I immediately thought of Beyond Good and Evil while reading the blurb, and right up there with it is the more recent Kya: Dark Lineage. Kya is a kung-fu goddess with magical boomerang skills who has to save her brother from her father. I don't know what more Greg could want.
Although Kya's gender doesn't play into the game itself, during the credits she does a quite fetching come-hither dance for all the fanboys. I think we got the best of all worlds with this game...in respect to gender differences, anyway.
I got an F in my high school's Keyboarding class (a pathetic gateway to our more advanced computer classes) because of my "hacking", where "hacking" is defined as "repeatedly trying to guess the admin password and failing."
My teacher was only in charge of that class because he was the soccer coach and had to officially be a teacher at the school.
My siblings and I always had good times with X-Wing CD. It's a bit old to run on anything now, but if you can find something similar...One of us (on joystick) was the main pilot/gunner, tasked with shooting stuff and not getting us blown up. The other (on keyboard) was the R2 unit, keeping our shields filled and oriented, weapons selected and charged, and cycling targets on request. It made our simple X-Wing into a whirling dervish of pain without overwhelming either of us. Especially in Bonus Mission 2, the 90-minute convoy raid.
Puzzle games like Grim Fandango or The Longest Journey are always better with a partner. Your teammate can spot tiny hotspots you may miss, or you can just show off your clever riddling and inventory-management abilities.
Is this a joke? Look at the screenshots...it becomes clear that if you want to play N64 games, you're better off buying a cheap used N64 from eBay. I honestly couldn't believe that the ones with poor draw distance were the GameCube version. But sadly, look at the image names. The columns are not mislabeled, it really does look that bad. All the advantages of "high-res" go right out the window when you don't update the textures at the same time. And there are sound errors now? So not only is the game not updated for the new console, it's not even as good as the first version.
Maybe Nintendo should take some programming tips from the evil emulator community.
I don't feel that the government itself is "inferior because of its faults". The faults are of those who make up the government at any point in time. Democratic republics are fine as a concept.
I also like the understated manner in which you demonstrated that outcome-based education is strangling our civic discussion. Your lack of proper punctuation and sentence structure is a poignant reminder that in order to have well-educated leaders, we must first have a well-educated populace.
I'd like to see Broderbund brought to justice for Number Muncher's role in the mental anguish and derision I suffered as an elementary-school math dork.
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I take it you've never accidentally racked up five stars of police presence while driving home, then? There is definitely a time and place for aggression in GTA, and it is not when trying to get back to your garage after a mission.
Most of the posts here, presumably, will be of the "blame the parents" variety, many, I suspect, from children themselves.
But, such attempts to exonerate movie studios for playing to the purient interests of children. Sure, responsible parents ought to ensure that their kids don't buy or see any movie they think is inappropriate. But, frankly, parents cannot accompany their kids on every trip to the mall and they certainly cannot stop their kids from seeing any movie they choose at a friend's home.
The people who make and market movies have as much responsibiility for the impact of their products as do the people who make and market heroin, tobacco, or assault weapons.
There, doesn't that look silly? This "outrage" at the ESRB will end once the parents start using the ratings. How long did movie ratings take to catch on, before a mom could look at PG-13 or R and make her decision instantly?
They could make the game into an ad, like the old Cool Spot for NES or Darkened Skye for PC. Skye was even a pretty good game: it suffered from auto-aim problems, but the writing and voice acting was top-notch.
Let us know when you see a preview of Serenity, yeah?
I find it more likely that Zelda turns into the horse by day, while Link turns into the wolf by night. Hey, she's only a princess after twilight...
I submitted this bug report to Apple the day after Tiger came out. (Bug ID 4104116)
And once again, as with my iTunes + null separator character bug, it was quickly marked "No Workaround" and I lost privileges to view it. I cannot fathom why they don't want me to see the report again.
Granted, it may have something to do with the fact that it was 2AM and I was somewhat sleep-deprived, but when I made it back to the starting room of Ico and had to fend off all the little shadows I was...mildly annoyed.
Then I noticed that all of them had tiny horns, just like me, and I put that together with the fact that they were coming out of the caskets I had escaped, and...I didn't want to fight them any more. I wanted to put the controller down and let them take out their ghostly despair on my hide. I felt a profound sadness, pity, but to save us all I had to first beat them down.
That moment will stick with me a long time.
Are talking about cartridges or consoles here? I know all about pirating game cartridges -- ahem -- but I've never really heard of a pirated console.
Yoshimi couldn't let those robots eat me. It'd be tragic if those evil robots win.
Did you intend this post to clash humorously with your sig? Because it does.
The article writer is obviously too old-school for Zonk ;)
You would enjoy the Read or Die OVA, then. Every power unique and bizarre, every power used to its fullest.
Well, every game except for Kirby's Tilt N Tumble. Good luck with that on your 50-pound hard-drive-havin' console.
I believe you mean this: MRE Instructions (just add water and rock or something)
I can't wait to go fish the big two-sided river. (Jerry Oltion, Analog Feb 89)
I can't wait for next year's Mechmania. The building they had before was larger than anything at NDSU (with a lot more wasted space). Now I have all-new nooks and hallways to explore!
Although Kya's gender doesn't play into the game itself, during the credits she does a quite fetching come-hither dance for all the fanboys. I think we got the best of all worlds with this game...in respect to gender differences, anyway.
My teacher was only in charge of that class because he was the soccer coach and had to officially be a teacher at the school.
Seriously, though, we should really be more concerned about the rampant genocide already present in gaming culture.
One last thing: why is the "strike" tag not supported? I can't be the only one sick of seeing ^Hs.
Puzzle games like Grim Fandango or The Longest Journey are always better with a partner. Your teammate can spot tiny hotspots you may miss, or you can just show off your clever riddling and inventory-management abilities.
They...they shall finally unite me with PaRappa 2. And there shall be a reckoning, for the kicking and punching is all in the mind.
Is this a joke? Look at the screenshots...it becomes clear that if you want to play N64 games, you're better off buying a cheap used N64 from eBay. I honestly couldn't believe that the ones with poor draw distance were the GameCube version. But sadly, look at the image names. The columns are not mislabeled, it really does look that bad. All the advantages of "high-res" go right out the window when you don't update the textures at the same time. And there are sound errors now? So not only is the game not updated for the new console, it's not even as good as the first version. Maybe Nintendo should take some programming tips from the evil emulator community.
I don't feel that the government itself is "inferior because of its faults". The faults are of those who make up the government at any point in time. Democratic republics are fine as a concept.
I also like the understated manner in which you demonstrated that outcome-based education is strangling our civic discussion. Your lack of proper punctuation and sentence structure is a poignant reminder that in order to have well-educated leaders, we must first have a well-educated populace.
Why no, I don't know what I'm talking about. Why do you ask?
I'd like to see Broderbund brought to justice for Number Muncher's role in the mental anguish and derision I suffered as an elementary-school math dork.