What I want to know is when do we see a football game that's designed to take advantage of EA's monopoly? The opportunity is right there waiting for someone to jump on it.
Since you can't have "NFL" football game you don't have to pay the NFL for rights to their teams, stadiums, logo, players, and other assorted bullshit that I'm sure they're making EA pay through the nose for. You also don't have to make a game that complies with anything the NFL insists on.
Screw them, it's not an "NFL" game is it?
What you do have to make is a better football game. It doesn't look too terribly hard when you take the Madden series into consideration. Design a better game and you're most of the way there.
The final thing you absolutely MUST do is make it easy as a motherfucker to mod. Ship that thing with a everything you need to make that any kind of football game the people playing it want it to be and I swear the mod community will turn it into a half dozen different kinds of NFL football before EA can even decide who to sue.
You'll have guys playing modern NFL leagues, Throwback leagues, USFL football, WFL football, and All Star leagues in no time complete with stadiums that will rival anything that's in Madden.
But who cares? If you have even the slightest interest in living without Windows for ten days then you've already done it. If you can't figure out how to do it without accidentally using Windows somehow then you have no business reading Slashdot.
If it takes you an entire day to find a game compatible with a Mac then hopefully you're playing titles from the Fisher-Price Learning Software Collection because you're truly "special".
True though, Windows reputation is much worse than the current version of the product. For that matter the last version was pretty good too. It took them too long to get there and I can't condone their business practices so I don't use it but it's much improved over the Win9x based versions that preceeded it.
I can't see any reason to complain about the price
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The price of the console is fine, exceptional even considering what you get. That's to be expected since they routinely sell these machines at a loss to get them in the hands of the game buying public.
$60 a pop for the games is insane though. I was raised on video games and I love video games but I'll be damned if I'm ever going to give anyone $60 for a game.
I still think the "optimum price" for a new game should be around $39. Anything more than that turns the game into an instant "I'll look at it again when it gets marked down, or I'll buy it used later on"
Keep hoping because I think you're going to get them. I figure that nobody wants anything from George Lucas that isn't Star Wars related and that's not going to change.
He'll take some time off and raise his kids.
Then he'll make a couple of films that suck even more than the prequels.
Finally he'll get to working on some kind of new version of the first 6 episodes and "discover" some new cool technology that he wants to play with and then just like that you'll get the headline.
"Lucas Announces Long Rumored Final Three Episodes"
I figure I'll be about 51 when it happens. I just turned 40 about two weeks ago.
So was FDR a "war pig"? Does he get a place in your list? How about ol' Winston Churchill? They led their countries during a war didn't they? They must be war pigs then right?
All war is not terrorism and terrorism is not war. You have no idea what you are talking about. None.
There's that whole "non-combatant" thing that screws up the curve and makes simplistic answers like the one you gave untrue. Patriots tend to know who non-combatants are. Terrorists don't know the meaning of the term.
I suspect that companies are willing to spend so much more on hardware to run OSX because they're pretty sure this means they don't have to worry about the office being blown off it's ass by the next virus to make the rounds and they don't have to worry about all the machines on the floor being taken over by spyware.
I'm not saying that those two situations will remain static. Things change. Right now though I'm sure that's what they're either reading or being told and it's getting through here and there. That and the ever popular (and often true) you keep Mac's longer so the price isn't as high as it seems considering how long you're going to use it.
Seriously, I'm starting to think that Microsoft is literally trying to lose market share with things like this. I'm sure "Digitally Secure" speakers are next up. If you have them then they only emit sound when you're playing files that you have a license for and if you don't have them then they add pops and hisses to your audio.
Of course the analog people will probably dig that but that's beside the point.
Let's teach some insects how to OPERATE MECHA! That seems like a good plan. Once we have the driving the little ones around we'll go ahead and give them the three story tall robots with weapons.
As if fighting off the cockroach hoardes isn't going to be tough enough in the future.
The only reason they're adding this to Longhorn is that the PURE EVIL that's also fully integrated into the OS turned out to be smaller than expected. It seems obvious now but at the time nobody at Microsoft knew that pure evil is concentrated and takes up less space than the "mostly evil" they'd been using. The end result being that there was room for this.
Ahhh, that's because I'm SECOND. Now it makes sense. No rush of excitement as my post lands on target before anyone elses, no wave of euphoria washing over me as I see nothing above my words.
See, THAT is the whole reason I posted this fucking drivel. Someone, somewhere has used a mod point on what may very well be the worst post I ever wrote.
It's every bit as "Redundant" as the moderator says it is but that's not the point is it? Of course it's not. The point of this little excercise was to seperate this moderator from one of his/her mod points and it was a complete success! They don't have the mod point anymore because they wasted it modding something down that was clearly lousy to begin with.
WHO'S REDUNDANT NOW MODERATOR? WHO? THAT'S RIGHT YOU ARE!
Mods should use their points to reward achievement in posting, not to punish AC's who post stupid shit. If you're going to police/. at least use the small amount of power you've been given to mod people with names. What does an AC care about losing a point? Anyone with a clue is already reading with AC's at -2 or so.
I've demonstrated how foolish you were to waste your mod point on me AND NOW YOU CAN READ THIS AND SEE THE WRATH OF JUDGEFURIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"We just came up with some miracle "demagnatizing spray" that would blow off the dust. I'd like to see how they pull this off without made up technologies."
Would you like a job? Seriously my group is in search of quality SciFi writing and you sound to me like you have what it takes to write for our next picture or television series. Please contact me at Paramount Studios as soon as possible. I'm really looking forward to hearing from you!
I think today we tend to lack appreciation for the type of war that WWII was. For all of my lifetime (and I'm 39 years old) every war the United States has been involved in has been in some fashion a limited war.
By WWII standard the use of atomic weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki was pretty much par for the course just as it would have been if Nazi Germany had reached those weapons first and dropped one on Washington D.C.
Today we just can't relate to "total war". I like to think that's an improvement in some way.
While of course that is true I feel it's important to point out that trying to get better terms from the Russians when the country you're (primarily) at war with is waiting to hear those special words "unconditional surrender" doesn't really count as "trying to surrender".
In so far as the Pacific theater was concerned there were two main combatants. The United States and Japan. Other nations took part but the Russians at that time were very late to the show and played almost no part in the conflict. Nice land grab there at the end of course but aside from that they were a non-factor and Japan knew it. Japan trying to surrender to the Russians would be like Germany trying to surrender to Argentina or Honduras instead of the USSR, Britain, and the USA in hopes of getting a better deal.
And Japan knew it.
Re:If Lucas would not sue, then we'd make a movie.
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Lucas said he wanted to "create myth" but do you really take him at his word? I for one don't. Lucas wanted to create money and that's exactly what he did.
I too was a child and my dreams were pervaded with heros and adventures in much the same way you describe. You would be amazed (or maybe not) at how many times the crew of the Enterprise helped the Justice League solve mysteries when my MEGO's got together. Later my Star Wars figures often rode around in my Eagle lander from Space 1999 and got help fighting the Empire from my Buck Rogers figures/vehicles. No lawsuit or power in the universe could prevent my child-self from building upon those works with whatever was at hand. That's why you miss the point.
You're an adult now, not a child. You need to create your own myths and quit blindly following the ones Lucas sells you because you have no right to his outside of your own mind. That's the way it's supposed to be. Create something new and give it away if you want to make new myths everyone can play with.
Lucas doesn't make myths, he makes money. It's about money, not your childhood.
You should see her in her Mandalorian bikini lounging around the cement pond at Jabba's palace.
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To those fans I'd say that the words "go make your own movie" should be followed by "from scratch".
Seriously, it's his "stuff". His characters, his situations, his stories, and his ideas. It plays out the way he wants it and just because a bunch of people like it a lot doesn't mean they get to choose what happens or how things are done. For that they need to go create their own "stuff".
You know it's cool that they're small but Enzyte could help them out with that and make them feel more confident. Maybe even make Mrs Dendrimers a little happier too.
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What I want to know is when do we see a football game that's designed to take advantage of EA's monopoly? The opportunity is right there waiting for someone to jump on it. Since you can't have "NFL" football game you don't have to pay the NFL for rights to their teams, stadiums, logo, players, and other assorted bullshit that I'm sure they're making EA pay through the nose for. You also don't have to make a game that complies with anything the NFL insists on. Screw them, it's not an "NFL" game is it? What you do have to make is a better football game. It doesn't look too terribly hard when you take the Madden series into consideration. Design a better game and you're most of the way there. The final thing you absolutely MUST do is make it easy as a motherfucker to mod. Ship that thing with a everything you need to make that any kind of football game the people playing it want it to be and I swear the mod community will turn it into a half dozen different kinds of NFL football before EA can even decide who to sue. You'll have guys playing modern NFL leagues, Throwback leagues, USFL football, WFL football, and All Star leagues in no time complete with stadiums that will rival anything that's in Madden.
But who cares? If you have even the slightest interest in living without Windows for ten days then you've already done it. If you can't figure out how to do it without accidentally using Windows somehow then you have no business reading Slashdot.
That pretty much sums it up.
If it takes you an entire day to find a game compatible with a Mac then hopefully you're playing titles from the Fisher-Price Learning Software Collection because you're truly "special".
True though, Windows reputation is much worse than the current version of the product. For that matter the last version was pretty good too. It took them too long to get there and I can't condone their business practices so I don't use it but it's much improved over the Win9x based versions that preceeded it.
The price of the console is fine, exceptional even considering what you get. That's to be expected since they routinely sell these machines at a loss to get them in the hands of the game buying public.
$60 a pop for the games is insane though. I was raised on video games and I love video games but I'll be damned if I'm ever going to give anyone $60 for a game.
I still think the "optimum price" for a new game should be around $39. Anything more than that turns the game into an instant "I'll look at it again when it gets marked down, or I'll buy it used later on"
Keep hoping because I think you're going to get them. I figure that nobody wants anything from George Lucas that isn't Star Wars related and that's not going to change.
He'll take some time off and raise his kids.
Then he'll make a couple of films that suck even more than the prequels.
Finally he'll get to working on some kind of new version of the first 6 episodes and "discover" some new cool technology that he wants to play with and then just like that you'll get the headline.
"Lucas Announces Long Rumored Final Three Episodes"
I figure I'll be about 51 when it happens. I just turned 40 about two weeks ago.
So was FDR a "war pig"? Does he get a place in your list? How about ol' Winston Churchill? They led their countries during a war didn't they? They must be war pigs then right?
All war is not terrorism and terrorism is not war. You have no idea what you are talking about. None.
Close. It's not quite that simple.
There's that whole "non-combatant" thing that screws up the curve and makes simplistic answers like the one you gave untrue. Patriots tend to know who non-combatants are. Terrorists don't know the meaning of the term.
"Good"
I'm sorry, that's just exactly how I feel about spammers. Spammers leave the world not one penny poorer for their passing.
I suspect that companies are willing to spend so much more on hardware to run OSX because they're pretty sure this means they don't have to worry about the office being blown off it's ass by the next virus to make the rounds and they don't have to worry about all the machines on the floor being taken over by spyware.
I'm not saying that those two situations will remain static. Things change. Right now though I'm sure that's what they're either reading or being told and it's getting through here and there. That and the ever popular (and often true) you keep Mac's longer so the price isn't as high as it seems considering how long you're going to use it.
Seriously, I'm starting to think that Microsoft is literally trying to lose market share with things like this. I'm sure "Digitally Secure" speakers are next up. If you have them then they only emit sound when you're playing files that you have a license for and if you don't have them then they add pops and hisses to your audio.
Of course the analog people will probably dig that but that's beside the point.
Let's teach some insects how to OPERATE MECHA! That seems like a good plan. Once we have the driving the little ones around we'll go ahead and give them the three story tall robots with weapons.
As if fighting off the cockroach hoardes isn't going to be tough enough in the future.
The only reason they're adding this to Longhorn is that the PURE EVIL that's also fully integrated into the OS turned out to be smaller than expected. It seems obvious now but at the time nobody at Microsoft knew that pure evil is concentrated and takes up less space than the "mostly evil" they'd been using. The end result being that there was room for this.
Otherwise they'd have left it out.
Indeed. I clearly suck at this "First Post" thing. I'm going back to commenting on stories that interest me.
Ahhh, that's because I'm SECOND. Now it makes sense. No rush of excitement as my post lands on target before anyone elses, no wave of euphoria washing over me as I see nothing above my words.
Missed it by that much.
Just curious about posting first. Turns out it's no big deal really.
See, THAT is the whole reason I posted this fucking drivel. Someone, somewhere has used a mod point on what may very well be the worst post I ever wrote.
/. at least use the small amount of power you've been given to mod people with names. What does an AC care about losing a point? Anyone with a clue is already reading with AC's at -2 or so.
It's every bit as "Redundant" as the moderator says it is but that's not the point is it? Of course it's not. The point of this little excercise was to seperate this moderator from one of his/her mod points and it was a complete success! They don't have the mod point anymore because they wasted it modding something down that was clearly lousy to begin with.
WHO'S REDUNDANT NOW MODERATOR? WHO? THAT'S RIGHT YOU ARE!
Mods should use their points to reward achievement in posting, not to punish AC's who post stupid shit. If you're going to police
I've demonstrated how foolish you were to waste your mod point on me AND NOW YOU CAN READ THIS AND SEE THE WRATH OF JUDGEFURIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"We just came up with some miracle "demagnatizing spray" that would blow off the dust. I'd like to see how they pull this off without made up technologies."
Would you like a job? Seriously my group is in search of quality SciFi writing and you sound to me like you have what it takes to write for our next picture or television series. Please contact me at Paramount Studios as soon as possible. I'm really looking forward to hearing from you!
Sincerly
Rick Berman
Mine went more like
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion..."
I think today we tend to lack appreciation for the type of war that WWII was. For all of my lifetime (and I'm 39 years old) every war the United States has been involved in has been in some fashion a limited war.
By WWII standard the use of atomic weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki was pretty much par for the course just as it would have been if Nazi Germany had reached those weapons first and dropped one on Washington D.C.
Today we just can't relate to "total war". I like to think that's an improvement in some way.
While of course that is true I feel it's important to point out that trying to get better terms from the Russians when the country you're (primarily) at war with is waiting to hear those special words "unconditional surrender" doesn't really count as "trying to surrender".
In so far as the Pacific theater was concerned there were two main combatants. The United States and Japan. Other nations took part but the Russians at that time were very late to the show and played almost no part in the conflict. Nice land grab there at the end of course but aside from that they were a non-factor and Japan knew it. Japan trying to surrender to the Russians would be like Germany trying to surrender to Argentina or Honduras instead of the USSR, Britain, and the USA in hopes of getting a better deal.
And Japan knew it.
Lucas said he wanted to "create myth" but do you really take him at his word? I for one don't. Lucas wanted to create money and that's exactly what he did.
I too was a child and my dreams were pervaded with heros and adventures in much the same way you describe. You would be amazed (or maybe not) at how many times the crew of the Enterprise helped the Justice League solve mysteries when my MEGO's got together. Later my Star Wars figures often rode around in my Eagle lander from Space 1999 and got help fighting the Empire from my Buck Rogers figures/vehicles. No lawsuit or power in the universe could prevent my child-self from building upon those works with whatever was at hand. That's why you miss the point.
You're an adult now, not a child. You need to create your own myths and quit blindly following the ones Lucas sells you because you have no right to his outside of your own mind. That's the way it's supposed to be. Create something new and give it away if you want to make new myths everyone can play with.
Lucas doesn't make myths, he makes money. It's about money, not your childhood.
You should see her in her Mandalorian bikini lounging around the cement pond at Jabba's palace.
To those fans I'd say that the words "go make your own movie" should be followed by "from scratch".
Seriously, it's his "stuff". His characters, his situations, his stories, and his ideas. It plays out the way he wants it and just because a bunch of people like it a lot doesn't mean they get to choose what happens or how things are done. For that they need to go create their own "stuff".
You know it's cool that they're small but Enzyte could help them out with that and make them feel more confident. Maybe even make Mrs Dendrimers a little happier too.
"Allah Ackbar!!!"?
"IT'S A TRAP!"