the show was not as good as you thought it was [...] It's time the/. crowd faced the facts... the average joe would sooner watch Just Shoot Me than some weird sci-fi show.
Then why the hell did they buy it in the first place?
Seriously, this is the thing that bothers people: They [insert evil MPAA member corporation's name] don't like the show, they don't give the show a good time slot, they don't promote it much, and they cancel it before its first season ends...why? Why bother? Why go through all this? Why not say "we're not interested" and let another network produce it?
Are they teasing geeks for fun? Are they frustrating people outta some weird deal with satan?
You're gonna say ratings huh? Then the question becomes: Are they really stupid enough to expect every single time slot to get excellent ratings? Lessee...when has Firefly been on? It played on a friday night at 8...but the first they showed wasn't the first in the story, so it was confusing because they didn't explain anything (the bit at the end when the big bad guy dies was neat though...and the bit where someone said "did he just go crazy and fall asleep?" had me laughing my ass off). The second time it played was a saturday morning at around 12:20 am. Yeah, so late a friday night that it was the following morning. The third week it was on at 8 again (lots of people expected it later and missed it). Then the week after it was on at 12:05 am. Then back at 8 for a couple of weeks, and then it didn't play at all (I had Happy Gilmour on Fox and on another channel that plays it it was replaced by cheap old Andromeda). And this week it isn't on either...
Oh yeah, the bad ratings are really caused by the fact that its weird and to geeky, not because its nearly impossible to watch the damn thing huh?
Adaptations of Asterix have been bad enough, especially those dreadful live-action ones with Depardieu...
Shut up, the first one was rather lame, but the one with Cleopatra totally captured the comic's feel, and was so close to the animated version too (wich I'll just assume you haven't seen).
I'm just asking because I'd never noticed music from one movie being used in another. Very strange.
Jeez, I noticed that trailers use music from previously released movies about 15 years ago, they allways use music from other movies. If its a comedy, listen for the soundtrack from Beetlejuice, if its action, the one from The Rock (alcatraz, not the wrasller).
I've been told that Dark City used its own music in the trailers, that's the only one I know of that did.
No need to get all angry at them, its just a trailer you know. I think they mostly do it because the music isn't allways done in time for the teasers and the trailers (I know that they finished the music for the crappy "reimagining" of Planet of the Apes about 2 weeks before its release). As far as copyrights are concerned, they either use music from their own studios (they own them) or they pay for 'em. No biggie.
lol, I pissed off someone, I got moded down as offtopic... ah well, here it goes again, wiiii! Oh, and of course, don't bother modding down the troll, he's allright huh?
Oh come on now moderators, you should be ashamed! An obvious troll and you mod him up to 5? Are you guys moderating drunk again? Tsk tsk tsk.
See, sentences like this: to all of you driving those stupid little Neighborhood Electric Vehichle... while you get all the really good parking spots at the mall. Are an obvious sign of trolling. Also, since he isn't stating anything actually relevant in this case (he names 7 forms of power generation and still doesn't mention the one actually used for seattle), modding him +1 Informative is a clear sign of moderating under the influence.
Sigh, and the metamoderation system won't spot this since they won't see the context...ah well, its just/., its not important eh? : )
Work on our roads and mass transit first thank you very much.
Proponents envision the project as the first segment of a 58-mile system that would eventually connect every neighborhood in the city. Passengers would zip along above the traffic, unimpeded by traffic jams and stoplights. The pollution-free transit would carry people
to jobs, shops, and to watch the city's major league teams play.
Opponents labeled the project an aesthetic and financial debacle. They foresee billions being spent that would do little to alleviate traffic congestion, plus miles of elevated track marring the skyline.
Clearly, adding another form of public transit that is not part of the current overcrowding of the roads can only be a good thing? Maybe the traffic would be less horrible if people were going around in monorails instead of driving around...
The PPG, Samurai jack, Dexter, are all done in a very stylised way. (you explained it all, no need for me to repeat)
They do that because it reduces the time it takes to do a frame (time is money), and for more artistic and less capitalist reasons too. Since those 3 cartoons were original creations, they were done in an "original" style (well, there are a lot of influences, the special blend is unique at least). For Star Wars I would expect that they would be asked to produce something in a style more closely ressembling that of the established characters (wich they can very well do, look at the Justice Friends characters from Dexter and the PPG, they look a lot like their Marvel inspirations). However, I wouldn't mind if they had the "square hand" look and all, its all in style, just because Star Wars is mostly a live-action product doesn't mean that they need to have photo-realistic drawings in an animated production.
and normally drawn noses
I hope you meant "normally" as in "characters from a race with a nose should have the nose drawn in", not in a "looking like the way I'm used for a nose-drawing to look" way...
If you paid attention to his previous works you'd notice a bunch of details, I don't see why he wouldn't put as much detail in a SW cartoon as in Dexter's or the powerpuff.
(Ever notice the A-Team van goin by in the streets of the city of TownsVille?)
Excuse me, but I was supposed to be lead tester for the PC version of that game last year, I saw an alpha, and never heard from it again...I was told by the higer-ups at the company (I'm not naming names) that there were "contract issues" and that they had dropped the game entirely. X-box you say? Well...figures...
This is solely based on that time when they surerndered to Nazi Germany right? Well, maybe you didn't notice, but the Nazis were the most powerfull force in history at the time (they didn't start conquering the world on a double dare you know).
What I don't get is why the joke is that France always surrender...bah, chuck it up to general xenophobia I guess.
Go swear stuff to a flag while I kiss my karma goodbye...
Check out the Matrix / Ghost in the Shell Comparison [geocities.com]. It's quite clear that the Wachowski brothers were influenced by anime.
I know that, I even said it in my previous post!
[...] to deliver the most aesthetic appeal. You will find that Matrix characters are similar in this respect.
Oh come on! Having a sense of aesthetics doesn't make it anime! Being japanese animation makes something anime, looking cool existed before the japs ever chot their first cell.
Go read my previous post again, and remeber my point: Just because something was inspired by anime doesn't make it anime.
The matrix was also inspired by westerns (the scene right before the subway "bullet time" when Neo and the agent are just looking at each other, very "high noon", they even have a piece of paper pretending to be one of those little bush that are always rolling around in westerns). Does that make the matrix a western? No! Its just one of its many inspirations. The Matrix is not animated, so it isn't anime. The animatrix will have anime episodes, although I think they won't all be in that style, so those will be anime.
In the same line of thought, Burton's Mars Attacks isn't a 50's flying saucer movie, its an hommage to the 50's flying saucers movies. Not being made in the 50's makes it separate from the real ones that were actually shot in the 50's. See what i mean?
The word anime is generally used as meaning cartoons from Japan. It is actually a romanization of the Japanese word for for animation. ANY animated video is, technically, anime.
I sorta got into that later in my post, might not have made myself clear, so here goes again:
In japanese it means any animations (AFAICT, IANJ), but if you use it in english, it refers back to "japanese animation".
You know, the japanese word for animation used to mean japanese animation...its all clever-like;- )
But then you get stuff meant to look like japanese animation (drawn with the same "llok", the eyes and the the mouthes and everything) but without the rest of the producti0on value associated with jap cartoons, like this show I had the misfortune to watch the other day...something about spies...3 girls...Spy Power or something like that. It looked like japanese animation, until you saw it actually moving...crappy perspective, akward movements...all around cheap.
I think when it gets confusing is when you gewt mixed teams. Like the 90's spider man cartoons. The first shows (I counted 8, could have missed a few) had a whole bunch of japanese names in the credits (yeah, I read credits), and the animation was superb! But as the show went on the japanese names went away, and so did the quality of the movements, the fluidity. Not to say that the japs are the only ones that can do good work, but there are a LOT of exellent japanese animators (and related animation jobs), and they tend to treat cartoons with more respect than the rest of the world.
What I hoped would happen was that the producers of cheap-ass cartoons would understand from the popularity of anime was that its the quality we like. What they seemed to have decided to do is to dress up their cheap crap as anime and hope people will somehow get duped into thingking its good. Sigh.
Ah well, there's Samurai Jack...its certainly not hiding the fact that its heavily inspired by anime, but its good in its own way, without trying too copy it, they learned from it.
Then how about "Robots in Disguise [transfandom.com]", the movie, and the other non-imported TF cartoons animated by Japanese studios (Headmasters, Victory, Beast Wars Neo, etc.)?
Oh, those were anime (like you said: "cartoons animated by Japanese studios")...that and the GI Joe movie...man those were weird, but did I ever love 'em : )
Not sure about killing off Bumblebee...that bumed me out, but it sure beats having to watch show after show of a war were nobody ever dies.
Some would argue that only animated films from Japan would be considered anime, other's would say that it's the style - the large, expressive eyes.
Is a VanGoh only one painted by the one-earned artist or anything with swirly lines? Animé is animated shows/movies from japan; Akira doesn't have huge freakin eyes, its still animé, and the PowerPuff Girls have HUGE eyes, it ain't animé, its Hanna-Barbera.
I've talked to some who consider some shows to be anime - like branding The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to be "live-action" anime.
So, the animated Matrix shows would be animated-live-action-animé then? To consider these movies to be animé is to be both ignorant and illogical. These show are much more related to hong-kong action movies than to japanese cartoons. Hell, one of 'em has 2 big hong kong stars, and they both have a legendary hong kong stunt/fight choreographer. And animé is there for the "animated" quality, not the "asian action" quality. japanese cartoons don't all have crazy action and insane violence, some are cute little romantic bits, wich don't make it big in the states for various reasons.
Personally, I define "anime" as being related to the style - again, the large, expressive eyes, usually made in Japan but not always, often (but not always) dealing with subjects suitable for the 12 and older group.
I strongly disagree. Anime is one thing, your own weird personnal definition dillutes it into a vague something else. As far as I can tell, "Animé" is a japanese word taken from the french "dessin animé", and it refers to all animated works. When migrated to the english language it refers to japanese animated cartoons. Wether they be violent or not, big eyed or not, and it definatly does not refer to non-animated works.
you can compare the Matrix to animés you know, but keep the apples and the oranges separate, please.
As for Transformers, its a bastard thing, but since it was mostly made by US people for the US market, I says it doesn't qualify. Of course, when you have mixed international teams, it gets iffy, but you're better off recognising the mixed nature of these individual works than to change the meaning of the word "anime" to make it include 'em.
Just my $0.02. And yes, I agree - The Matrix is live-action anime with plenty of Judeo-Christianity imagry.
And the animatrix is animated-live-action-anime? The matrix is a movie with PLENTY of influences, including animé, US superhero comics, hong-kong action flicks, french film-noir, italian westerns, Alice in wonderland, etc. Don't twist a word to make its definition fit an exceptionnal movie, you'll just sink into incoherance in no time.
Lemme tell you: nobody pays any attention to the testers. I can't tell you how many times I've seen the words "not a bug" "not a defect" or "will not fix" (!). Seriously, if a team of people are spending 60 hours a week (yeah, 60) on average playing your game, you might want to listen to what they have to say. If we say the enemies sometimes see you through the walls in a level where being seen means game over, then LISTEN you %$#@ stupid programmers/VP/marketing drones! Seriously, the testers can tell you if the gameplay sucks, we know, we spend a lot of time playing it. If any part of it sucks, we'll notice, and you should listen.
I'm ranting, I know, but serioulsy, developers, listen to your testers.
And, also, try to schedule enough time for testing. Giving a week, a single week of testing time, is not smart. Not smart at all. Finding bugs is one thing, fixing 'em is another (and fixing a bug will very often create 2 new bugs).
I used to love testing game (I was good at it), but there's so many times a guy can be blamed for someone else's mistake before he's had his fill (testers are the bottom of the barrel, guess wich way the shit goes when trouble brews).
I spent two weeks retouching pictures of N*SYNC for my old job...it was hell. And since I'm a perfectionist, I took the time to learn all their names (to my surprise, that ugly one with a goatee was actually 2 different ugly ones with goatees).
The worst part? The client that we were doing this job for went belly up right after we were done. All that staring at Joey "phat one" Fatone for naught!
And on a related topic -- if the stupid CD/Book/game is now longer avaailable because it's "out of print", then all talk of copyright is moot. If I make an unauthorized copy, how is it piracy when the origional isn't avaialble for sale?
Because the owners of the copyright might be deliberatly abstaining from distributing that product in order to create a shortage that will bring about the correct conditions for the special edition release at grossly inflated prices. Its the same scam they use to make extra-valuable "rare" cards of collectible card games (like Magic: The gathering).
Its not about piracy, it never was. Its about controll.
People might like to think that Apple is somehow better than Microsoft
If you work for Microsoft and are trolling/. to promote your dark overlord, please say so.
In the meantime, Apple is better than Microsoft, and not just "somehow". They have better software, better hardware (althought I am using a microsoft mouse with my mac...I love the little wheel), their stuff looks better, works better, is more innovative, etc.
I've been using Macs and PCs since the 80's, I've followed the evolution of both, I'm not some one-side zealot. I'm telling you: The only things Microsoft has over the mac are 1-Popularity (more people use it because more people use it, vicious circle), 2-Cheap ass hardware (you get what you pay for), and better CD management (but the floppy thing is lamer than a one-legged lemur). Oh, and 4-Wheely mice (although they do make mac drivers for 'em, yay!).
if they had Microsoft's monopoly, their behavior would be no better
There are so many things wrong with this sentence, I'm having trouble replying. Ok, lets see...
Many people HATE microsoft, while many people are just in love with apple. Why is that? Because of Microsoft's behaviour. The very behaviour that led them to a monopoly position. So if Apple had the same attribute as Microsoft (a lousy attitude and a monopoly), people's attitude to Apple would be the same as it is towards Microsoft. Big fat DUH.
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Then why the hell did they buy it in the first place?
Seriously, this is the thing that bothers people: They [insert evil MPAA member corporation's name] don't like the show, they don't give the show a good time slot, they don't promote it much, and they cancel it before its first season ends...why? Why bother? Why go through all this? Why not say "we're not interested" and let another network produce it?
Are they teasing geeks for fun? Are they frustrating people outta some weird deal with satan?
You're gonna say ratings huh? Then the question becomes: Are they really stupid enough to expect every single time slot to get excellent ratings?
Lessee...when has Firefly been on? It played on a friday night at 8...but the first they showed wasn't the first in the story, so it was confusing because they didn't explain anything (the bit at the end when the big bad guy dies was neat though...and the bit where someone said "did he just go crazy and fall asleep?" had me laughing my ass off). The second time it played was a saturday morning at around 12:20 am. Yeah, so late a friday night that it was the following morning. The third week it was on at 8 again (lots of people expected it later and missed it). Then the week after it was on at 12:05 am. Then back at 8 for a couple of weeks, and then it didn't play at all (I had Happy Gilmour on Fox and on another channel that plays it it was replaced by cheap old Andromeda). And this week it isn't on either...
Oh yeah, the bad ratings are really caused by the fact that its weird and to geeky, not because its nearly impossible to watch the damn thing huh?
Too late...
There was one already in 1961, and another in '64.
in the name of all that is Holy -please- adapt them as cartoons...
Hmmm...that would be 1969 and 1972
Adaptations of Asterix have been bad enough, especially those dreadful live-action ones with Depardieu...
Shut up, the first one was rather lame, but the one with Cleopatra totally captured the comic's feel, and was so close to the animated version too (wich I'll just assume you haven't seen).
I'm just asking because I'd never noticed music from one movie being used in another. Very strange.
Jeez, I noticed that trailers use music from previously released movies about 15 years ago, they allways use music from other movies.
If its a comedy, listen for the soundtrack from Beetlejuice, if its action, the one from The Rock (alcatraz, not the wrasller).
I've been told that Dark City used its own music in the trailers, that's the only one I know of that did.
No need to get all angry at them, its just a trailer you know. I think they mostly do it because the music isn't allways done in time for the teasers and the trailers (I know that they finished the music for the crappy "reimagining" of Planet of the Apes about 2 weeks before its release). As far as copyrights are concerned, they either use music from their own studios (they own them) or they pay for 'em. No biggie.
lol, I pissed off someone, I got moded down as offtopic...
ah well, here it goes again, wiiii! Oh, and of course, don't bother modding down the troll, he's allright huh?
Burn karma BURN!
Oh come on now moderators, you should be ashamed! An obvious troll and you mod him up to 5? Are you guys moderating drunk again? Tsk tsk tsk.
... while you get all the really good parking spots at the mall.
/., its not important eh? : )
See, sentences like this:
to all of you driving those stupid little Neighborhood Electric Vehichle
Are an obvious sign of trolling. Also, since he isn't stating anything actually relevant in this case (he names 7 forms of power generation and still doesn't mention the one actually used for seattle), modding him +1 Informative is a clear sign of moderating under the influence.
Sigh, and the metamoderation system won't spot this since they won't see the context...ah well, its just
Clearly, adding another form of public transit that is not part of the current overcrowding of the roads can only be a good thing? Maybe the traffic would be less horrible if people were going around in monorails instead of driving around...
Ah, ok.
That's not "details", that style. : )
The PPG, Samurai jack, Dexter, are all done in a very stylised way. (you explained it all, no need for me to repeat)
They do that because it reduces the time it takes to do a frame (time is money), and for more artistic and less capitalist reasons too.
Since those 3 cartoons were original creations, they were done in an "original" style (well, there are a lot of influences, the special blend is unique at least). For Star Wars I would expect that they would be asked to produce something in a style more closely ressembling that of the established characters (wich they can very well do, look at the Justice Friends characters from Dexter and the PPG, they look a lot like their Marvel inspirations). However, I wouldn't mind if they had the "square hand" look and all, its all in style, just because Star Wars is mostly a live-action product doesn't mean that they need to have photo-realistic drawings in an animated production.
and normally drawn noses
I hope you meant "normally" as in "characters from a race with a nose should have the nose drawn in", not in a "looking like the way I'm used for a nose-drawing to look" way...
If you paid attention to his previous works you'd notice a bunch of details, I don't see why he wouldn't put as much detail in a SW cartoon as in Dexter's or the powerpuff.
(Ever notice the A-Team van goin by in the streets of the city of TownsVille?)
Wow!
Excuse me, but I was supposed to be lead tester for the PC version of that game last year, I saw an alpha, and never heard from it again...I was told by the higer-ups at the company (I'm not naming names) that there were "contract issues" and that they had dropped the game entirely.
X-box you say? Well...figures...
Man, the testers were bummed we lost that one.
Hey, you're right...I hadn't thought of that...
I never get those french-surrender jokes.
This is solely based on that time when they surerndered to Nazi Germany right? Well, maybe you didn't notice, but the Nazis were the most powerfull force in history at the time (they didn't start conquering the world on a double dare you know).
What I don't get is why the joke is that France always surrender...bah, chuck it up to general xenophobia I guess.
Go swear stuff to a flag while I kiss my karma goodbye...
Check out the Matrix / Ghost in the Shell Comparison [geocities.com]. It's quite clear that the Wachowski brothers were influenced by anime.
I know that, I even said it in my previous post!
[...] to deliver the most aesthetic appeal. You will find that Matrix characters are similar in this respect.
Oh come on! Having a sense of aesthetics doesn't make it anime! Being japanese animation makes something anime, looking cool existed before the japs ever chot their first cell.
Go read my previous post again, and remeber my point: Just because something was inspired by anime doesn't make it anime.
The matrix was also inspired by westerns (the scene right before the subway "bullet time" when Neo and the agent are just looking at each other, very "high noon", they even have a piece of paper pretending to be one of those little bush that are always rolling around in westerns). Does that make the matrix a western? No! Its just one of its many inspirations.
The Matrix is not animated, so it isn't anime.
The animatrix will have anime episodes, although I think they won't all be in that style, so those will be anime.
In the same line of thought, Burton's Mars Attacks isn't a 50's flying saucer movie, its an hommage to the 50's flying saucers movies. Not being made in the 50's makes it separate from the real ones that were actually shot in the 50's.
See what i mean?
The word anime is generally used as meaning cartoons from Japan. It is actually a romanization of the Japanese word for for animation. ANY animated video is, technically, anime.
;- )
I sorta got into that later in my post, might not have made myself clear, so here goes again:
In japanese it means any animations (AFAICT, IANJ), but if you use it in english, it refers back to "japanese animation".
You know, the japanese word for animation used to mean japanese animation...its all clever-like
But then you get stuff meant to look like japanese animation (drawn with the same "llok", the eyes and the the mouthes and everything) but without the rest of the producti0on value associated with jap cartoons, like this show I had the misfortune to watch the other day...something about spies...3 girls...Spy Power or something like that. It looked like japanese animation, until you saw it actually moving...crappy perspective, akward movements...all around cheap.
I think when it gets confusing is when you gewt mixed teams. Like the 90's spider man cartoons. The first shows (I counted 8, could have missed a few) had a whole bunch of japanese names in the credits (yeah, I read credits), and the animation was superb! But as the show went on the japanese names went away, and so did the quality of the movements, the fluidity.
Not to say that the japs are the only ones that can do good work, but there are a LOT of exellent japanese animators (and related animation jobs), and they tend to treat cartoons with more respect than the rest of the world.
What I hoped would happen was that the producers of cheap-ass cartoons would understand from the popularity of anime was that its the quality we like. What they seemed to have decided to do is to dress up their cheap crap as anime and hope people will somehow get duped into thingking its good. Sigh.
Ah well, there's Samurai Jack...its certainly not hiding the fact that its heavily inspired by anime, but its good in its own way, without trying too copy it, they learned from it.
Then how about "Robots in Disguise [transfandom.com]", the movie, and the other non-imported TF cartoons animated by Japanese studios (Headmasters, Victory, Beast Wars Neo, etc.)?
Oh, those were anime (like you said: "cartoons animated by Japanese studios")...that and the GI Joe movie...man those were weird, but did I ever love 'em : )
Not sure about killing off Bumblebee...that bumed me out, but it sure beats having to watch show after show of a war were nobody ever dies.
But quit putting the fruity accent on anime, please.
And another thing, its pokémon, not pokemon...
: )
In regular animation, the laws of physics are generally followed,
All I need to know about physics I learned from watching the RoadRunner...
Some would argue that only animated films from Japan would be considered anime, other's would say that it's the style - the large, expressive eyes.
Is a VanGoh only one painted by the one-earned artist or anything with swirly lines?
Animé is animated shows/movies from japan; Akira doesn't have huge freakin eyes, its still animé, and the PowerPuff Girls have HUGE eyes, it ain't animé, its Hanna-Barbera.
I've talked to some who consider some shows to be anime - like branding The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to be "live-action" anime.
So, the animated Matrix shows would be animated-live-action-animé then?
To consider these movies to be animé is to be both ignorant and illogical. These show are much more related to hong-kong action movies than to japanese cartoons. Hell, one of 'em has 2 big hong kong stars, and they both have a legendary hong kong stunt/fight choreographer. And animé is there for the "animated" quality, not the "asian action" quality. japanese cartoons don't all have crazy action and insane violence, some are cute little romantic bits, wich don't make it big in the states for various reasons.
Personally, I define "anime" as being related to the style - again, the large, expressive eyes, usually made in Japan but not always, often (but not always) dealing with subjects suitable for the 12 and older group.
I strongly disagree.
Anime is one thing, your own weird personnal definition dillutes it into a vague something else.
As far as I can tell, "Animé" is a japanese word taken from the french "dessin animé", and it refers to all animated works. When migrated to the english language it refers to japanese animated cartoons. Wether they be violent or not, big eyed or not, and it definatly does not refer to non-animated works.
you can compare the Matrix to animés you know, but keep the apples and the oranges separate, please.
As for Transformers, its a bastard thing, but since it was mostly made by US people for the US market, I says it doesn't qualify.
Of course, when you have mixed international teams, it gets iffy, but you're better off recognising the mixed nature of these individual works than to change the meaning of the word "anime" to make it include 'em.
Just my $0.02. And yes, I agree - The Matrix is live-action anime with plenty of Judeo-Christianity imagry.
And the animatrix is animated-live-action-anime?
The matrix is a movie with PLENTY of influences, including animé, US superhero comics, hong-kong action flicks, french film-noir, italian westerns, Alice in wonderland, etc. Don't twist a word to make its definition fit an exceptionnal movie, you'll just sink into incoherance in no time.
The star -- one of only four stars known as magnetars -- is billions of times stronger than the most powerful magnets on Earth.
Well golly! Really?
A stellar object that has more power than something man-made? How could that be?
I mean, they're making this acessible to the man of the street, that's allright, but do they have to assume that the man on the street is that dumb?
I used to work in games QA (quality assurance).
/rant
Lemme tell you: nobody pays any attention to the testers.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen the words "not a bug" "not a defect" or "will not fix" (!). Seriously, if a team of people are spending 60 hours a week (yeah, 60) on average playing your game, you might want to listen to what they have to say.
If we say the enemies sometimes see you through the walls in a level where being seen means game over, then LISTEN you %$#@ stupid programmers/VP/marketing drones!
Seriously, the testers can tell you if the gameplay sucks, we know, we spend a lot of time playing it. If any part of it sucks, we'll notice, and you should listen.
I'm ranting, I know, but serioulsy, developers, listen to your testers.
And, also, try to schedule enough time for testing. Giving a week, a single week of testing time, is not smart. Not smart at all. Finding bugs is one thing, fixing 'em is another (and fixing a bug will very often create 2 new bugs).
I used to love testing game (I was good at it), but there's so many times a guy can be blamed for someone else's mistake before he's had his fill (testers are the bottom of the barrel, guess wich way the shit goes when trouble brews).
I spent two weeks retouching pictures of N*SYNC for my old job...it was hell. And since I'm a perfectionist, I took the time to learn all their names (to my surprise, that ugly one with a goatee was actually 2 different ugly ones with goatees).
The worst part? The client that we were doing this job for went belly up right after we were done.
All that staring at Joey "phat one" Fatone for naught!
Pity me
N*SYNC free since november 2000!
Its a shame it won't last...
And on a related topic -- if the stupid CD/Book/game is now longer avaailable because it's "out of print", then all talk of copyright is moot. If I make an unauthorized copy, how is it piracy when the origional isn't avaialble for sale?
Because the owners of the copyright might be deliberatly abstaining from distributing that product in order to create a shortage that will bring about the correct conditions for the special edition release at grossly inflated prices.
Its the same scam they use to make extra-valuable "rare" cards of collectible card games (like Magic: The gathering).
Its not about piracy, it never was. Its about controll.
in the new show FMC the brits often lose and find it all rather funny and are very self-deprecating. but the americans sometimes cry!
;- )
As an American, I feel a strange sort of pride at this.
Wuss...
Oh, I forgot to number the CD thing...
OSX - a closed source operating system
/. to promote your dark overlord, please say so.
Can you say "open"?
People might like to think that Apple is somehow better than Microsoft
If you work for Microsoft and are trolling
In the meantime, Apple is better than Microsoft, and not just "somehow". They have better software, better hardware (althought I am using a microsoft mouse with my mac...I love the little wheel), their stuff looks better, works better, is more innovative, etc.
I've been using Macs and PCs since the 80's, I've followed the evolution of both, I'm not some one-side zealot. I'm telling you: The only things Microsoft has over the mac are 1-Popularity (more people use it because more people use it, vicious circle), 2-Cheap ass hardware (you get what you pay for), and better CD management (but the floppy thing is lamer than a one-legged lemur). Oh, and 4-Wheely mice (although they do make mac drivers for 'em, yay!).
if they had Microsoft's monopoly, their behavior would be no better
There are so many things wrong with this sentence, I'm having trouble replying. Ok, lets see...
Many people HATE microsoft, while many people are just in love with apple. Why is that? Because of Microsoft's behaviour. The very behaviour that led them to a monopoly position. So if Apple had the same attribute as Microsoft (a lousy attitude and a monopoly), people's attitude to Apple would be the same as it is towards Microsoft. Big fat DUH.
Your FUD bothers me.