the story to First person shooters / adventure games is not engaging enough.
That's like the story to a kung fu movie: It's just an excuse for the hero to kick ass. You're not paying for a story, you're there for action, and lots of it!
Game tester would be ok, if you actually make a living at it.
I've done QA professionally, and let me tell you, it's not as fun as it sounds. It beats, say, scrubbing toilets, hands down, but... low pay, bad hours, NO respect, stress a' plenty.
Testers are to the game industry as goblins are to fantasy settings: You need them, they do the dirty work, but if a few of 'em die? No one's upset.
Those are all things that are blamed for their evil influence on children.
Well, games aren't just for kids, neither are comic books or cartoons. They are medias, they happen to have been mostly targetted at kids, but NOT exclusively.
The movie industry has a (somewhat stupid) rating system, they made it up to escape legal limitations to what they could film. Games have a rating system, all people have to do is enforce it.
GTA isn't a kid's game, don't sell 'em to kids, and parents, don't buy it for your kids. Simple as that.
Do you have an attribution for this quote? I couldn't locate one on Google.
Ah. My bad, that was an "interpreted" Bush quote it seems. The correct one is "there ought to be limits to freedom". A statement made in 1999 concerning a parody web site he didn't like, ironically, because it contained made-up Bush quotes.
The U.S. vetoed acting in Rwanda. They actually said that the problem wasn't important enough to risk American lives there.
Are you insane? Watching too much Michael Moore? There were UN peackeepers from many countries in Rwanda, under command of Romeo Dallaire. Dallaire told the UN in New York that there was a genocide in the making, but the peacekeepers were ordered by Kofi Annan to stand aside and ignore the genocide.
"It's up to Rwanda not to let others forget they are criminally responsible for the genocide," he said, singling out France, Britain and the United States.
[...] Dallaire battled for a more robust U.N. peacekeeping mission with a mandate to stop the killings, but Security Council members voted instead to cut his force from 2,500 troops to 450 poorly trained and ill-equipped men.
Dallaire said on Tuesday events in Somalia in 1993, when 18 U.S. troops supporting a U.N. peace mission were killed and one of their bodies was dragged through the streets, had created a "fear of casualties" in the West.
The solution to spam is not government intervention, but better mail protocols.
Spam isn't limited to email...
Simply put I think many governments fear a free and uncontrolled Internet.The idea that their citizens can directly, or indirectly through proxies, read things that the government doesn't think "proper" drives them up the wall.
Unfortunatly true : (
"Some people have too much freedom." George W. Bush
The Internet is teaching these governments fear, and now they will try to use the UN as a tool to restrain what they view as dangerous knowledge.
Well, I haven't made up my mind on this U.N.-internet thing, but what if the U.N. internet rules included disallowing some forms of censoship? Sure, coming from a chinese official, that sounds douptfull, but it could be well done. I mean, it's improbable, there's, as you pointed out, a lot of opposition to basic freedoms, but the U.N. has had some sucesses in the past, maybe this could turn out allright. Maybe.
I'd be thrilled if the U.N. banned nations from blocking acess to health information. The religious nutjobs wouldn't be able to pass laws forbidding access to sites containing real information on contraception and other "touchy" subjects.
If anything, the Iraq situation should have taught us that the UN's edicts are meaningless. There were binding security council resolutions not only allowing, but compelling, member nations to act to force Iraq into compliance, and scores of instances of verified, documented, UN-acknowledged material breach of its binding resolutions on the part of Iraq. And still, there was no meaningful action. Some UN member nations ended up having to act on their own.
Oh my FUCKING god! You're saying that the unilateral invasion of Iraq by the U.S. was justified based on the argument presented to the U.N. security council? Show me the damn arsenal of weapons of mass destruction deployable in 45 minuttes... oh wait, even Dubya acknowledge that it doesn't exist.
Pull your head out of the sand, and drop that cup of Kool Aid!
Create a program with the dynamism of the original Star Trek with NONE of the structural baggage. Tell me, is this really an impossible challenge?
It was called Firefly. They cancelled it.
Wow. We must not have been watching the same show. [...] I'm not sure why you felt Firefly seemed like a space comedy.
I agree with everything you said about Firefly (read the.sig), but what gave you the impression he was dissing it? I was about to write the exact same thing as him: the "sucessor" to Star Trek was Firefly, and they cancelled it.
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I believe it more to be a lack of interest/effort on the gaming publisher's part that has resulted in the current player demographic profile.
Kingdom Hearts: A story of teenage love and princesses. Or Dark Cloud 2, where there was a boy and a girl playable character, and you had to play with both. Metal Gear Solid 2, with the girly-man player character (eye candy?) with the super-realistic girlfriend (she keeps calling you all the time to talk about your relationship, keeps asking you what you're thinking of, if you love her, etc).
But, more importantly, why should we care if chicks want to game or not? Some do, some don't. Trying to change games to fit a different demographic than current gamers just crapyfies the game. Grow up, let the gamer chicks play games, and stop trying to squeeze revenue out of every demographic you can think of: It's not healthy.
I wanna see the Earth-Romulus War already! I wanna see the humans take all their anti-Vulcan aggression out on the other green-blooded, pointy-ear bastards!
The good folk of the starship Enterprise, NCC 1701, were (will be? Willem haveth been??) the first to see the ressemblance between the Romulans and the Vulcans.
Them shifty Romies never even showed their face before... the dastardly space weasels!
I'm burned out by all things Trek. The concept is totally worn out, and deserves to be retired.
No. The concept is as good as it's ever been. The trouble is that for years we've been fed a horrible charade passing itself off as Trek. I want to watch Star Trek, I really do, but the only thing they aired for the last few years was that insipid dredge called Enterprise.
I'm worn out by all things Rick Berman, not Star Trek. Unfortunatly, he's in charge of it: As long as he's there, it's gonna keep sucking.
I am aware of the tactic, but if the troll says something that adds to the discussion, does the fact that there's some insipid element hidden in there really matter?
Well, this is the kind of stuff for wich the moderation system actually works pretty well. You have some people modding it down for the insipid element, some people modding it up for the less insipid parts.
Frankly, I don't see what was so interresting in that post. He says that the visual history is not vitally needed, on account of a previously existing changelog. Duh, it's still neat: A visual history lets you see in an instant the back and forth dance of the vandalisation, the lil' edits in the parts that stay. Stating that it had a non-visual log isn't so much insightfull as redundant.
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Among the numbers, 7% of those surveyed hit the computer, 13% yell at first, and another 13% try to "sweet-talk" their computer.
It's like beating a dead horse, but without the smell.
I'd like to see them ship this sooner rather than later.
Yeah, waiting for final QA is such a drag... finding all those exciting new bugs on our own would be fun!
What will apple do when they run out of felines to name their OSes after?
They start naming them after hybrid species...
Futur mac rumour: "I heard that OSX 'Liger' would be coded for it's skills in magic!"
the story to First person shooters / adventure games is not engaging enough.
That's like the story to a kung fu movie: It's just an excuse for the hero to kick ass.
You're not paying for a story, you're there for action, and lots of it!
I also liked the ET game.
*DUCKS*
You mispelled "*FALLS IN A HOLE*"...
Game tester would be ok, if you actually make a living at it.
I've done QA professionally, and let me tell you, it's not as fun as it sounds.
It beats, say, scrubbing toilets, hands down, but... low pay, bad hours, NO respect, stress a' plenty.
Testers are to the game industry as goblins are to fantasy settings: You need them, they do the dirty work, but if a few of 'em die? No one's upset.
Those are all things that are blamed for their evil influence on children.
Well, games aren't just for kids, neither are comic books or cartoons. They are medias, they happen to have been mostly targetted at kids, but NOT exclusively.
The movie industry has a (somewhat stupid) rating system, they made it up to escape legal limitations to what they could film. Games have a rating system, all people have to do is enforce it.
GTA isn't a kid's game, don't sell 'em to kids, and parents, don't buy it for your kids. Simple as that.
Do you have an attribution for this quote? I couldn't locate one on Google.
Ah. My bad, that was an "interpreted" Bush quote it seems.
The correct one is "there ought to be limits to freedom". A statement made in 1999 concerning a parody web site he didn't like, ironically, because it contained made-up Bush quotes.
Spam isn't limited to email...
Simply put I think many governments fear a free and uncontrolled Internet.The idea that their citizens can directly, or indirectly through proxies, read things that the government doesn't think "proper" drives them up the wall.
Unfortunatly true : (
The Internet is teaching these governments fear, and now they will try to use the UN as a tool to restrain what they view as dangerous knowledge.
Well, I haven't made up my mind on this U.N.-internet thing, but what if the U.N. internet rules included disallowing some forms of censoship? Sure, coming from a chinese official, that sounds douptfull, but it could be well done. I mean, it's improbable, there's, as you pointed out, a lot of opposition to basic freedoms, but the U.N. has had some sucesses in the past, maybe this could turn out allright. Maybe.
I'd be thrilled if the U.N. banned nations from blocking acess to health information. The religious nutjobs wouldn't be able to pass laws forbidding access to sites containing real information on contraception and other "touchy" subjects.
Instead, I would like to challenge someone to explain how this could possibly be a good thing.
The families of trolls will be charged the price of the bullet.
All the US Bashers that abound on Slashdot (An American Site nonetheless) [...]
I say if its in superceedence (??) of US interests, shut them down
The U.N. is there to help the world.
Your jingoism aside: The World > The U.S.A.
If anything, the Iraq situation should have taught us that the UN's edicts are meaningless. There were binding security council resolutions not only allowing, but compelling, member nations to act to force Iraq into compliance, and scores of instances of verified, documented, UN-acknowledged material breach of its binding resolutions on the part of Iraq. And still, there was no meaningful action. Some UN member nations ended up having to act on their own.
Oh my FUCKING god!
You're saying that the unilateral invasion of Iraq by the U.S. was justified based on the argument presented to the U.N. security council?
Show me the damn arsenal of weapons of mass destruction deployable in 45 minuttes... oh wait, even Dubya acknowledge that it doesn't exist.
Pull your head out of the sand, and drop that cup of Kool Aid!
They have an impeccable record of getting things right. Look at Dafur, Rwanda, Sudan, Food for Oil. Lets hand it over!
The U.S. vetoed acting in Rwanda. They actually said that the problem wasn't important enough to risk American lives there.
The U.N. can't act if it's biggest member won't let it.
And, for all we know, everybody then knew the Romulans were pointy-eared bastards, but there was a Vulcan cover-up in the Federation after the war.
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So that's the secret to watching Enterprise: You make you OWN shit up, to cover up their snafus!
Everybody sing: Bounce the graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish!
I agree with everything you said about Firefly (read the
I believe it more to be a lack of interest/effort on the gaming publisher's part that has resulted in the current player demographic profile.
Kingdom Hearts: A story of teenage love and princesses.
Or Dark Cloud 2, where there was a boy and a girl playable character, and you had to play with both.
Metal Gear Solid 2, with the girly-man player character (eye candy?) with the super-realistic girlfriend (she keeps calling you all the time to talk about your relationship, keeps asking you what you're thinking of, if you love her, etc).
But, more importantly, why should we care if chicks want to game or not? Some do, some don't. Trying to change games to fit a different demographic than current gamers just crapyfies the game. Grow up, let the gamer chicks play games, and stop trying to squeeze revenue out of every demographic you can think of: It's not healthy.
William Shatner has released this official statement in regards to Paramount's dismissal of his show concept:
;-)
"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN"
What an odd remark... I have no idea what you mean
And when Smallville came out people were saying it was copying Roswell.
Wellcome to post-modernism: Where every idea has been done already, and all that's left is recycling them in new combinations.
I wanna see the Earth-Romulus War already! I wanna see the humans take all their anti-Vulcan aggression out on the other green-blooded, pointy-ear bastards!
The good folk of the starship Enterprise, NCC 1701, were (will be? Willem haveth been??) the first to see the ressemblance between the Romulans and the Vulcans.
Them shifty Romies never even showed their face before... the dastardly space weasels!
StarTrek has really come to an end. It has had a good 50 some odd years of episodes. Let it die with at least some dignity.
Enterprise... you're saying that ending on fucking ENTERPRISE is ending it in dignity? Damn! I mean... DAMN!
I'm burned out by all things Trek. The concept is totally worn out, and deserves to be retired.
No. The concept is as good as it's ever been.
The trouble is that for years we've been fed a horrible charade passing itself off as Trek. I want to watch Star Trek, I really do, but the only thing they aired for the last few years was that insipid dredge called Enterprise.
I'm worn out by all things Rick Berman, not Star Trek. Unfortunatly, he's in charge of it: As long as he's there, it's gonna keep sucking.
he convinces an entire town that he's filming a movie there.
A big name Hollywood actor with a bunch of cameras fooled people into thinking he was there to shoot a movie?
My, how incredibly clever.
Seriously though, I'm glad he went over that douchebag's head.
Only Shatner could go over that bastard Berman.
It's like "Battle of the egos" or something.
I am aware of the tactic, but if the troll says something that adds to the discussion, does the fact that there's some insipid element hidden in there really matter?
Well, this is the kind of stuff for wich the moderation system actually works pretty well. You have some people modding it down for the insipid element, some people modding it up for the less insipid parts.
Frankly, I don't see what was so interresting in that post. He says that the visual history is not vitally needed, on account of a previously existing changelog. Duh, it's still neat: A visual history lets you see in an instant the back and forth dance of the vandalisation, the lil' edits in the parts that stay. Stating that it had a non-visual log isn't so much insightfull as redundant.