The game allows players to make their "own" modules, or adventures, and DM them for up to 64 friends.
Who owns what module? Bioware? Or the consumers? Inquiring minds want to know!
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based on BO sales is simply silly being that Spiderman was shown on something between 1000-2000 more screens than Star Wars. Also Star Wars was twenty minutes longer than Spidey which will make a difference on running times nationally. If both Spiderman and Star Wars were shown in the same conditions as one another, then your interpretation might have some relevance. In fact, with the BO take being so close, I'd argue that Star Wars did better than Spidey being it was longer and on fewer screens. But this really means nothing besides rich studio execs raking in the obscene amounts of cash.
Btw, is anyone else a little tired of the whole Joseph Conrad myth thing being force-fed down your throat?
Very true - rooting for Sony is the equivilent of rooting for Michael Myers over Jason. In the end, your screwed either way. Nintendo might be less evil, but how less evil? Like Freddy Kruegar evil? Alas.
I wonder if these are the same buffoons who calculate damages due to software piracy - aka the nebulous experts. If they really want to tabulate wasted productivity, send a team over to Disneyland. I mean, you got schmoes waiting for hours to get in a metal bucket that shakes through a hallway of Indiana Jones decor.
The new process begins with turning waste "biomass" into hydrogen, methane, water, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, using standard gasification techniques that involve heat and pressure.
Is it me, or is this just doing the same thing as typical fossil fuels? I mean, if we utilize this new method and create carbon dioxide as a side effect, then what's the point? Besides turning my shitbox car into a literal shitbox, we still have the carbon dioxide emission problem not to mention a new added smell which might bring farting back into the mainstream.
Can someone please explain why this is a good thing? I'd like to know.
I love Star Wars for its pulp. In agreeing with the Salon article, I think you lose site of this when you start bringing mythic theory or any other theory into it - basically, the equivilent of putting a hamburger on an altar. Don't get me wrong, I'm no hamburger basher. I love 'em like the next guy. But a hamburger is just a hamburger. And Star Wars is just a fun movie. Bring Joeseph Cambell into it and you've just entered the Bullshit Ocean aboard the SS Pretentious. Just my 2 cents
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I managed to get a peek at the site before it got slashdotted. I only got to view one page but here it is on my own server:
Maybe I'm igrnorant or just slightly dumb, but do you think that when you announce that the April Fools joke is over that you should give a list of stories which fell under the April Fool umbrella? I know some of them are fake, but others I'm clueless.
That's not biased reporting, that's just the simple truth.
Reporting, by its nature, is biased. Two facts are inherently "not equal" and it is the process of one's own political ideology which determines which "fact" is better than "this other fact". The reporter may not be aware of this - but intent has nothing to do with the message being communicated. That is why conspiracies having nothing to do with this because conspiraices imply intent. When observing (the keyword here as opposed to consuming) the news, I like to examine the message and its inferences (or lack thereof) rather than focus on the people who crafted them. As for "truth" - that's an entirely different conversation originally started by Plato.
As for this message, the reviewer was reviewing games of all make. He starts the article with the mention of Duke Nukem and he will use that game as judging criteria. There he states:
Before beginning MSNBC.com's list of must-avoid games, let us discuss Duke Nukem for game.com, the yardstick by which all bad games must be measured.
He explains that a bad game can have good graphics, it will suffer from a horrible framerate. You could probably argue even further that a bad game is a game that can't preform.
Now does he use this yardstick? No.
NFLGameday (PS2) - not a bad game according to his definition. Just a bad looking game which is why he considers it "bad".
Bloodwake (X Box) - not a bad game at all. Just the physics are just too "overly-consistent".
Artic Thunder (PS2) - a bad game due to slowdown which fits his definition.
Kabuki Warrior (X Box) - not a bad game. Just a button masher.
Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure (Gamecube) - Not a bad game. Just a bad concept.
Mortal Kombat Advance (GBA) - A bad game due to framerate problems.
So in summary alone, Playstation has one bad game, Advance one bad game, and X-Box and the Game cube have none.
Now lets look at bad looking games - only the playstation.
Hmm...
So all and all you can infer that the X-Box and Gamecube seem to have the "better" system because there are really no "bad" games for them. At least according to his "yardstick" definition at the top of the article. The playstation is the only other console system that has a "bad" game for it whereas the GBA is a hand held system.
Interesting inferences, no?
Why is this an X-Box vs Playstation issue - because he frames the article such by putting playstation first, then x-box, then playstation, then x-box again. Are you seeing the compare-contrast dynamic that I'm seeing?
Now we can argue until we're blue in the face which is a better system, but I'm not arguing about that. I'm arguing that this article is slanted towards his employers and Nintendo which hopefully, I've proved it to you.
Now for homework, check out the local news and ask yourself during an important story "what aern't they saying". After awhile, you'll come to see that the media are entirely biased. This isn't conspiracy theory, its simply journalism.
This reads exactly as an ad. You just have to read into the implications. First off, just compare how the reviewer examines X-box titles in comparasin to Playstation titles. In x-box titles, he lists poor game design choices such as the game being simply a button masher, or the game having too real of physics. Now look at the Playstion games - horrible graphics - horrible frame rate - etc. This author is implicity stating - wow - these are horrible x box titles even though they having amazing graphics, incredible real time physics, and so on. Of course, if these titles are horrible with their amazing graphics, imagine what the good titles are like. That's the implicit statment. The playstation reviews attack the platform as being inferior. Frame rate problems, poor graphics - damn, can't get much better.
Of course, they drop in the MSNBC is owned by Microsoft to make you think, "Oh, these guys are owned by Microsoft so they will make sure to make a biased article" when in fact they do exactly opposite.
This is an adverstisement. Trust me.
And this practice doesn't simply occur in game reviews, check CNN or especially Fox news to see this overtly in action. Unbiased news is a myth.
Why make games on the PS2 when you can play them - aka - am I the only fool who wants this so I can play MAME arcade games in my living room? Talk about an adolescent dream being realized here....
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I don't know what Hitchhiker book Douglas Adams wrote it in - but there was this floating party that literally floated above a planet, causing all sorts of havoc. Whenever it needs supplies, the party would raid some poor country, take all their booze, then float away.
Slashdot is so like that. Its a floating party that hijacks poor websites, kills them, then moves on to other unsuspecting fools
I absolutely agree with you in regards to the creation of custom installers. RPMS are wonderful when they work. But getting stuck in dependency hell is worse than gum surgery.
It's great people are donating all this time, but if Linux is ever to suceed on the desktop outside its niche audieneces, than this simple problem must be addressed. Plus in terms of downloading, I do not mind waiting for a large download with all the dependacies included, rather than searching the net like a lunatic just so I can get this app to work. By the time I eventually give up, I'm ready to go back to Windows.
Oh yeah - video editing on Linux would be fantastic. (waves wand - poof - there it is)
i'm a total Linux newbie. I was really all Microsoft until one day my company asked me to move all our web site over to a Linux box. Good grief, I said. I should probably learn Linux. What better way than to install it on my work computer - sort of jumping in with both feet.
So, I installed Mandrake 8.0 at work. It was so damn easy. I've been using Linux for three months now and I am so damn impressed with power and functionality of it. It's great.
I still have to use my Windows box for some custom data apps which we are currently porting over to Linux and of course, there is always Civilization 3:)
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So in a nutshell, you are blaming consumers for the corporation's mistakes? I agree that admins should take some responsibility in rectifying the situation, but companies such as Microsoft should be held accountable for producing shoddy products in the first place. And lets face it, not everyone is super connected and does know about this. Its Microsoft's responisibilty to do everything they can to notify Win 2000 customers and solve this problem. It's their design flaw, not the admins. So they need to fix it. The end.
Its probably running Windows CE Outer Limits Edition. If you think about it, it makes total sense. My computer runs Windows 98 and it does some of the strangest things, yet nobody raises an eyebrow.
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The game allows players to make their "own" modules, or adventures, and DM them for up to 64 friends.
Who owns what module? Bioware? Or the consumers? Inquiring minds want to know!
based on BO sales is simply silly being that Spiderman was shown on something between 1000-2000 more screens than Star Wars. Also Star Wars was twenty minutes longer than Spidey which will make a difference on running times nationally. If both Spiderman and Star Wars were shown in the same conditions as one another, then your interpretation might have some relevance. In fact, with the BO take being so close, I'd argue that Star Wars did better than Spidey being it was longer and on fewer screens. But this really means nothing besides rich studio execs raking in the obscene amounts of cash.
Btw, is anyone else a little tired of the whole Joseph Conrad myth thing being force-fed down your throat?
Very true - rooting for Sony is the equivilent of rooting for Michael Myers over Jason. In the end, your screwed either way. Nintendo might be less evil, but how less evil? Like Freddy Kruegar evil? Alas.
Woody Allen said it best in his little film
"He has made some very financially successful American films."
"That should tell you everything you need to know about him."
I wonder if these are the same buffoons who calculate damages due to software piracy - aka the nebulous experts. If they really want to tabulate wasted productivity, send a team over to Disneyland. I mean, you got schmoes waiting for hours to get in a metal bucket that shakes through a hallway of Indiana Jones decor.
The new process begins with turning waste "biomass" into hydrogen, methane, water, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, using standard gasification techniques that involve heat and pressure.
Is it me, or is this just doing the same thing as typical fossil fuels? I mean, if we utilize this new method and create carbon dioxide as a side effect, then what's the point? Besides turning my shitbox car into a literal shitbox, we still have the carbon dioxide emission problem not to mention a new added smell which might bring farting back into the mainstream.
Can someone please explain why this is a good thing? I'd like to know.
I love Star Wars for its pulp. In agreeing with the Salon article, I think you lose site of this when you start bringing mythic theory or any other theory into it - basically, the equivilent of putting a hamburger on an altar. Don't get me wrong, I'm no hamburger basher. I love 'em like the next guy. But a hamburger is just a hamburger. And Star Wars is just a fun movie. Bring Joeseph Cambell into it and you've just entered the Bullshit Ocean aboard the SS Pretentious. Just my 2 cents
I managed to get a peek at the site before it got slashdotted. I only got to view one page but here it is on my own server:
http://www.jezner.com/slashdot/vdrs.html
Maybe I'm igrnorant or just slightly dumb, but do you think that when you announce that the April Fools joke is over that you should give a list of stories which fell under the April Fool umbrella? I know some of them are fake, but others I'm clueless.
That's not biased reporting, that's just the simple truth.
Reporting, by its nature, is biased. Two facts are inherently "not equal" and it is the process of one's own political ideology which determines which "fact" is better than "this other fact". The reporter may not be aware of this - but intent has nothing to do with the message being communicated. That is why conspiracies having nothing to do with this because conspiraices imply intent. When observing (the keyword here as opposed to consuming) the news, I like to examine the message and its inferences (or lack thereof) rather than focus on the people who crafted them. As for "truth" - that's an entirely different conversation originally started by Plato.
As for this message, the reviewer was reviewing games of all make. He starts the article with the mention of Duke Nukem and he will use that game as judging criteria. There he states:
Before beginning MSNBC.com's list of must-avoid games, let us discuss Duke Nukem for game.com, the yardstick by which all bad games must be measured.
He explains that a bad game can have good graphics, it will suffer from a horrible framerate. You could probably argue even further that a bad game is a game that can't preform.
Now does he use this yardstick? No.
NFLGameday (PS2) - not a bad game according to his definition. Just a bad looking game which is why he considers it "bad".
Bloodwake (X Box) - not a bad game at all. Just the physics are just too "overly-consistent".
Artic Thunder (PS2) - a bad game due to slowdown which fits his definition.
Kabuki Warrior (X Box) - not a bad game. Just a button masher.
Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure (Gamecube) - Not a bad game. Just a bad concept.
Mortal Kombat Advance (GBA) - A bad game due to framerate problems.
So in summary alone, Playstation has one bad game, Advance one bad game, and X-Box and the Game cube have none.
Now lets look at bad looking games - only the playstation.
Hmm...
So all and all you can infer that the X-Box and Gamecube seem to have the "better" system because there are really no "bad" games for them. At least according to his "yardstick" definition at the top of the article. The playstation is the only other console system that has a "bad" game for it whereas the GBA is a hand held system.
Interesting inferences, no?
Why is this an X-Box vs Playstation issue - because he frames the article such by putting playstation first, then x-box, then playstation, then x-box again. Are you seeing the compare-contrast dynamic that I'm seeing?
Now we can argue until we're blue in the face which is a better system, but I'm not arguing about that. I'm arguing that this article is slanted towards his employers and Nintendo which hopefully, I've proved it to you.
Now for homework, check out the local news and ask yourself during an important story "what aern't they saying". After awhile, you'll come to see that the media are entirely biased. This isn't conspiracy theory, its simply journalism.
if the internet is an insane asylum, slashdot is the violent ward.
This reads exactly as an ad. You just have to read into the implications. First off, just compare how the reviewer examines X-box titles in comparasin to Playstation titles. In x-box titles, he lists poor game design choices such as the game being simply a button masher, or the game having too real of physics. Now look at the Playstion games - horrible graphics - horrible frame rate - etc. This author is implicity stating - wow - these are horrible x box titles even though they having amazing graphics, incredible real time physics, and so on. Of course, if these titles are horrible with their amazing graphics, imagine what the good titles are like. That's the implicit statment. The playstation reviews attack the platform as being inferior. Frame rate problems, poor graphics - damn, can't get much better. Of course, they drop in the MSNBC is owned by Microsoft to make you think, "Oh, these guys are owned by Microsoft so they will make sure to make a biased article" when in fact they do exactly opposite. This is an adverstisement. Trust me. And this practice doesn't simply occur in game reviews, check CNN or especially Fox news to see this overtly in action. Unbiased news is a myth.
Why make games on the PS2 when you can play them - aka - am I the only fool who wants this so I can play MAME arcade games in my living room? Talk about an adolescent dream being realized here....
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I don't know what Hitchhiker book Douglas Adams wrote it in - but there was this floating party that literally floated above a planet, causing all sorts of havoc. Whenever it needs supplies, the party would raid some poor country, take all their booze, then float away.
Slashdot is so like that. Its a floating party that hijacks poor websites, kills them, then moves on to other unsuspecting fools
To that - I can only say -
Drinks on the house
I absolutely agree with you in regards to the creation of custom installers. RPMS are wonderful when they work. But getting stuck in dependency hell is worse than gum surgery.
It's great people are donating all this time, but if Linux is ever to suceed on the desktop outside its niche audieneces, than this simple problem must be addressed. Plus in terms of downloading, I do not mind waiting for a large download with all the dependacies included, rather than searching the net like a lunatic just so I can get this app to work. By the time I eventually give up, I'm ready to go back to Windows.
Oh yeah - video editing on Linux would be fantastic. (waves wand - poof - there it is)
i'm a total Linux newbie. I was really all Microsoft until one day my company asked me to move all our web site over to a Linux box. Good grief, I said. I should probably learn Linux. What better way than to install it on my work computer - sort of jumping in with both feet.
:)
So, I installed Mandrake 8.0 at work. It was so damn easy. I've been using Linux for three months now and I am so damn impressed with power and functionality of it. It's great.
I still have to use my Windows box for some custom data apps which we are currently porting over to Linux and of course, there is always Civilization 3
So in a nutshell, you are blaming consumers for the corporation's mistakes? I agree that admins should take some responsibility in rectifying the situation, but companies such as Microsoft should be held accountable for producing shoddy products in the first place. And lets face it, not everyone is super connected and does know about this. Its Microsoft's responisibilty to do everything they can to notify Win 2000 customers and solve this problem. It's their design flaw, not the admins. So they need to fix it. The end.
Its only a matter of time before Microsoft produces a "light server" effectively leaving us all in the dark.
Its probably running Windows CE Outer Limits Edition. If you think about it, it makes total sense. My computer runs Windows 98 and it does some of the strangest things, yet nobody raises an eyebrow.