So I'm an idiot. That should have read "edit out foul language and nudity (if any)." Doesn't change the fact that I expect little to no editing. After all, to edit a series that you are explicitly presenting as "mature" kind of implies that it will be unedited or at the very least minimally edited.
If Cartoon Network decides to run this as a "mature" block, I expect the worst they'd do would be to edit out nudity and foul language. It would be insane to edit a show for content and call it "mature". Not to mention obscenely hypocriti-- oh.
Console games are expandable-- Grand Theft Auto on the PSX released a mission pack disc for London missions. In addition, Sonic Team allowed for expansions with the VMU-based mission downloads for Sonic Adventure and SA2.
Patching a console game is a far more difficult prospect. One, you would need a device similar to a Gameshark to actually implement the patch at boot time. Two, you'd have to find a way to make the patch match up with the code's internal checksum (if any-- I know Zelda 64 and Zelda: MM used encryption to protect the code). Finally, you'd have to have a permanent storage (i.e. not a memory card) medium for the patch to be stored on-- for XBox it's not a problem, but GC doesn't offer permanent storage, and PS2's HD is optional; without shelling out the $$ for the HD, the buggy game is near useless.
There are a lot of good points being thrown around, but the one which I noticed wasn't dwelled on too hard was the greed aspect. People generally don't like to pay money under any circumstances. They think that if it was once free, it should always be free, and if it's new, it should be free as a trial period (slippery slope).
But also, well, micropayments are quite a bit of a gamble. You drop your quarter or buck or whatever into the micropayment system to view an article on, say, IGN Insider. The article then turns out to be total crap. What happens then? Can you just hit the "coin return" slot like a soda machine? Nope, you saw it, you pay for it.
IGN Insider did something very bad to me earlier this month-- and a bunch of you, too, I'm sure. I was very interested in the "Now Loading" article at IGN Cube-- it was, after all, plastered all over the front page of 'Cube--, and was shocked to see the "This is part of IGN Insider" content warning. So I waited, thinking it would eventually be part of the main site. And waited. Eventually, yesterday, I managed to read it-- and found it was totally not worth either the wait or the payment I'd have to make to have read it two weeks ago.
If this is what payment gives me-- bad content at an inflated price-- then I say, let it be free. Content providers have to prove the worth of their content before anyone can consciously and conscientiously pay for it.
Or they can be unscrupulous bastards who make people pay for 404 pages.
The characters are close to photorealistic-- skin blemishes and wrinkles add the "human" touch to it-- but the detail of the human bodies drops sharply as you leave the face area. Not to say that it's not well-rendered elsewhere-- clothing and equipment in particular is incredible-- but the human hands, specifically, gave it away slightly.
'Course, then there were the times when I had to remind myself it wasn't real, but hey.
I don't know about anyone else, but I still pull out the toolboxes full of Legos every once in a while. In fact, the university I attend/work at uses Lego as a part of its Freshman Engineering Seminar course. I got to work a bit with them. Primarily, the course uses a large "computer" block that houses an MPU of some sort that can be programmed via some other Win software. This block could drive other pieces, like motors or light emitters/sensors. The class's assignment was to build something that followed an electrical-tape path on a large board. One group made a sweet-looking crab-walker thing.
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So I'm an idiot. That should have read "edit out foul language and nudity (if any)." Doesn't change the fact that I expect little to no editing. After all, to edit a series that you are explicitly presenting as "mature" kind of implies that it will be unedited or at the very least minimally edited.
If Cartoon Network decides to run this as a "mature" block, I expect the worst they'd do would be to edit out nudity and foul language. It would be insane to edit a show for content and call it "mature". Not to mention obscenely hypocriti-- oh.
Patching a console game is a far more difficult prospect. One, you would need a device similar to a Gameshark to actually implement the patch at boot time. Two, you'd have to find a way to make the patch match up with the code's internal checksum (if any-- I know Zelda 64 and Zelda: MM used encryption to protect the code). Finally, you'd have to have a permanent storage (i.e. not a memory card) medium for the patch to be stored on-- for XBox it's not a problem, but GC doesn't offer permanent storage, and PS2's HD is optional; without shelling out the $$ for the HD, the buggy game is near useless.
But also, well, micropayments are quite a bit of a gamble. You drop your quarter or buck or whatever into the micropayment system to view an article on, say, IGN Insider. The article then turns out to be total crap. What happens then? Can you just hit the "coin return" slot like a soda machine? Nope, you saw it, you pay for it.
IGN Insider did something very bad to me earlier this month-- and a bunch of you, too, I'm sure. I was very interested in the "Now Loading" article at IGN Cube-- it was, after all, plastered all over the front page of 'Cube--, and was shocked to see the "This is part of IGN Insider" content warning. So I waited, thinking it would eventually be part of the main site. And waited. Eventually, yesterday, I managed to read it-- and found it was totally not worth either the wait or the payment I'd have to make to have read it two weeks ago.
If this is what payment gives me-- bad content at an inflated price-- then I say, let it be free. Content providers have to prove the worth of their content before anyone can consciously and conscientiously pay for it.
Or they can be unscrupulous bastards who make people pay for 404 pages.
'Course, then there were the times when I had to remind myself it wasn't real, but hey.
I don't know about anyone else, but I still pull out the toolboxes full of Legos every once in a while. In fact, the university I attend/work at uses Lego as a part of its Freshman Engineering Seminar course. I got to work a bit with them. Primarily, the course uses a large "computer" block that houses an MPU of some sort that can be programmed via some other Win software. This block could drive other pieces, like motors or light emitters/sensors. The class's assignment was to build something that followed an electrical-tape path on a large board. One group made a sweet-looking crab-walker thing.