A few years back, the surviving Python members got together on the Tonight Show (IIRC). It was the first time they had been together in years. One of them held an urn holding Chapman's ashes, saying that it really was all of them together again.
Then, not long into the interview, someone dropped the urn and the ashes spilled everywhere. The Python guys went nuts, cleaning it up (one pulled out a dusbuster, while someone else swept the ash under a rug) and then everyone realized it was a joke.
But once we get to photorealism, what is going to sustain growth?
The content! the story! how has hollywood sustained after achiving photorealistic CGI? Using it in interesting ways! Creating stories that people love.
Photorealism will just be polishing a tool. It will be up to creative people to sustain the growth of the games industry. Games are now a (highly technical) art form. Did people stop doing interesting things with painting after the Mona Lisa? No. This is just the begining of the game industry, not the end.
I'd only fly in a ship built by lucas if it sounded like the Fulcon while in flight. Also, all the warning sounds in the cabin had better be stright from the films.
...so when we have all these unanswered questions from Ep 3, Lucas can just say "it will be answered in teh series" and then he can let someone else worry about it.
I was paying $20 a year for Yahoo! Plus, and using POP3 at work and at home, but then I got gmail, and I liked the interface so much, I let my Y!+ expire.
I'm on my gmail account all day long, checking in with other friends at work (ok, SLACKING OFF), and having an RSS feed at the top would be kind of cool.
This is more proof that Google has a lot more in store for gmail, as well as other services.
Google might be affected a little, but anyone that is paying the AP to carry the story will still have it posted, and google (or fark) could get to it that way.
Depending on how much they are charging, though it might force other sites to start charging online subscruption fees, as a large amount of free news will not be there anymore...
It's not their "fault" but they certainly put in the effort to become popular: Market testing, advertising... no one accidently winds up with an empire. It takes some forethought and hard work.
Read all about it in my new book: How I become emporor of China in BC 500
If you go to Astor Place in NYC, you can see at least two other Starbucks from one, for a grand total of three.
The other weird part is that two of them are very large. Your Typical Starbuck in NYC is not gigantic, but two of them, less than 1000 feet apart, are huge.
And yes, always very, very busy. Stupid corporate America.
it's just after the snipers are shooting at Max in his apartment. You make your way up to the apartment they are shooting at you from, and there is a recording device there.
You should go back and play it- it's a great game.
There is a moment in Max Payne 2 where you can listen to recorded messages from Max's tapped phone lines. You hear a couple of phone conversations that push the story a little, and then there is one where Max calls a phone sex line. He sounds depressed, lonely and in a way, confused.
The whole game you have Max in your ear, talking in this very noir tone. He's narrating his own story, if you will, and telling the player what he wants them to hear. That moment when you hear the phone sex call was almost like a breach of privacy between the player and Max. It was on Max's intention for the player to hear this low moment in his life.
Games are great at making one scared, surprised, intrigued and a bunch of other emmotions, but that was the first time that I felt empathy towards a video game. It's not genre defining, but it was a moment that shows that there can be a lot of depth to what games can be. They can be more than just shoot-em-ups. They can convey some serious, complex emmotions. We will see more of this in games in the future.
Everyone is a snob of something. You have sports snobs, fashion snobs, IT snobs, food snobs, anything.
You raise a really, really good point about nerd culture in general. While nerds are seen as being outcasts by and large, we definatly push keep that true. We like unpopular things by choice, and shun popular things, much like popular things/people shun us.
I'm sure this will be an unpopular statement for some, but I don't LIKE the idea of state and city run internet. Frankly, I'd rather pay a private company that I know is not going to limit my access to the internet, and is not going reveal my activity to other companies without my consent.
Last year I worked at a Talent Agency that speacialized in Voice Overs (VO). A few of our guys had done some games. I got into a conversation with one guy who had done a bunch of the russain and italian mobsters for Max Payne 2. He told me he put in a full day at the studio doing these voices, and only got scale.
VO actors thrive on being able to do multiple sessions in one day. They studio hop, and although each gig pays less than an on-camera gig would, they make it up in the numbers.
Since video games are a little more like films, they take more time, and therefore these guys should be getting paid more.
IIRC, there are two major brackets for scale right now: On-Camera and VO. I'm willing to bet that Video Games will get their own bracket, and they will be somewhere in between the OC (about $700 a day, and that means the full day) and the VO (about $450 a day, per session, which are typically just an hours or two)
Actually, Duke Nukem is PRIME for a movie. Duke was a likeable character, and more interesting right off the bat than Doom. Although the story was still weak (aliens invading earth...) there is more to build on there (other characters, sub-plots) than a Doom movie.
When I was playing Half-Life 2 last week I was aiming to peacfully co-exist with the Combine. Unfortunatly the AI and I didn't see eye to eye, and I had to kill them.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not for me. I was Born to be Wired.
Yes, yes it is an attempt at humor.
A few years back, the surviving Python members got together on the Tonight Show (IIRC). It was the first time they had been together in years. One of them held an urn holding Chapman's ashes, saying that it really was all of them together again.
Then, not long into the interview, someone dropped the urn and the ashes spilled everywhere. The Python guys went nuts, cleaning it up (one pulled out a dusbuster, while someone else swept the ash under a rug) and then everyone realized it was a joke.
If only we could all be remembered like that.
But once we get to photorealism, what is going to sustain growth?
The content! the story! how has hollywood sustained after achiving photorealistic CGI? Using it in interesting ways! Creating stories that people love.
Photorealism will just be polishing a tool. It will be up to creative people to sustain the growth of the games industry. Games are now a (highly technical) art form. Did people stop doing interesting things with painting after the Mona Lisa? No. This is just the begining of the game industry, not the end.
Not to mention, NASA would then have two big events competing for air time, the shuttle and the comet-impacting probe that is set to collide on 7/4/05
Moot point, since the launch window for the shuttle starts on the 13th.
...they don't have this problem.
Using cliches on Slashdot... it's a TRAP!
When everyone carries a camera, watch the available photographic evidence for car accidents, muggings and other crimes go through the roof.
Give it ten years time, and the government will have a system set up for anyone to instantly send a picture of a crime to a pholice database.
I'd only fly in a ship built by lucas if it sounded like the Fulcon while in flight. Also, all the warning sounds in the cabin had better be stright from the films.
...so when we have all these unanswered questions from Ep 3, Lucas can just say "it will be answered in teh series" and then he can let someone else worry about it.
I just realized that as I'm reading this thread, I'm sitting on two days worth of backup tapes.
I bet you have a harder time selling the district on a free, less popular product than on an expensive, popular one.
Not a testament to M$'s programming, but it a testament to their marketing department.
Not since I got gmail.
I was paying $20 a year for Yahoo! Plus, and using POP3 at work and at home, but then I got gmail, and I liked the interface so much, I let my Y!+ expire.
I'm on my gmail account all day long, checking in with other friends at work (ok, SLACKING OFF), and having an RSS feed at the top would be kind of cool.
This is more proof that Google has a lot more in store for gmail, as well as other services.
Google might be affected a little, but anyone that is paying the AP to carry the story will still have it posted, and google (or fark) could get to it that way.
Depending on how much they are charging, though it might force other sites to start charging online subscruption fees, as a large amount of free news will not be there anymore...
I'd like to know what a piece of tin foil is going to do against a meteor impact.
It's not their "fault" but they certainly put in the effort to become popular: Market testing, advertising... no one accidently winds up with an empire. It takes some forethought and hard work.
Read all about it in my new book: How I become emporor of China in BC 500
Let me rephrase that: I am willing to pay money to a private company where I will be able to see their policies and restrictions to their service.
Or, in other words, let's leave some choice in where our information is coming from.
If you go to Astor Place in NYC, you can see at least two other Starbucks from one, for a grand total of three.
The other weird part is that two of them are very large. Your Typical Starbuck in NYC is not gigantic, but two of them, less than 1000 feet apart, are huge.
And yes, always very, very busy. Stupid corporate America.
it's just after the snipers are shooting at Max in his apartment. You make your way up to the apartment they are shooting at you from, and there is a recording device there.
You should go back and play it- it's a great game.
There is a moment in Max Payne 2 where you can listen to recorded messages from Max's tapped phone lines. You hear a couple of phone conversations that push the story a little, and then there is one where Max calls a phone sex line. He sounds depressed, lonely and in a way, confused.
The whole game you have Max in your ear, talking in this very noir tone. He's narrating his own story, if you will, and telling the player what he wants them to hear. That moment when you hear the phone sex call was almost like a breach of privacy between the player and Max. It was on Max's intention for the player to hear this low moment in his life.
Games are great at making one scared, surprised, intrigued and a bunch of other emmotions, but that was the first time that I felt empathy towards a video game. It's not genre defining, but it was a moment that shows that there can be a lot of depth to what games can be. They can be more than just shoot-em-ups. They can convey some serious, complex emmotions. We will see more of this in games in the future.
I worked at this same company. We also had a graphic designer that wanted to build a kiosk that had a vagina.
Everyone is a snob of something. You have sports snobs, fashion snobs, IT snobs, food snobs, anything.
You raise a really, really good point about nerd culture in general. While nerds are seen as being outcasts by and large, we definatly push keep that true. We like unpopular things by choice, and shun popular things, much like popular things/people shun us.
It's great to be a geek.
I'm sure this will be an unpopular statement for some, but I don't LIKE the idea of state and city run internet. Frankly, I'd rather pay a private company that I know is not going to limit my access to the internet, and is not going reveal my activity to other companies without my consent.
Thats something I will pay dearly for.
Last year I worked at a Talent Agency that speacialized in Voice Overs (VO). A few of our guys had done some games. I got into a conversation with one guy who had done a bunch of the russain and italian mobsters for Max Payne 2. He told me he put in a full day at the studio doing these voices, and only got scale.
VO actors thrive on being able to do multiple sessions in one day. They studio hop, and although each gig pays less than an on-camera gig would, they make it up in the numbers.
Since video games are a little more like films, they take more time, and therefore these guys should be getting paid more.
IIRC, there are two major brackets for scale right now: On-Camera and VO. I'm willing to bet that Video Games will get their own bracket, and they will be somewhere in between the OC (about $700 a day, and that means the full day) and the VO (about $450 a day, per session, which are typically just an hours or two)
Actually, Duke Nukem is PRIME for a movie. Duke was a likeable character, and more interesting right off the bat than Doom. Although the story was still weak (aliens invading earth...) there is more to build on there (other characters, sub-plots) than a Doom movie.
When I was playing Half-Life 2 last week I was aiming to peacfully co-exist with the Combine. Unfortunatly the AI and I didn't see eye to eye, and I had to kill them.