There was a game called syndicate wars that was alot like this.
Unfortionatly the graphics were terrible and you kept loosing your units behind buildings (alpha transparency wasn't an option then).
The gameplay was awesome though, not to mention the cool sci-fi neo-tokyo surroundings.
1) Australian Parliment Level. Guess what the mission is? 2) Marching Bands and playgrounds( in tribute to postal) 3) Mormons (with bikes!), Jehovah's Witnesses, Krishnas, etc. 4) Nudist Park Rampage 5) Drinking at the wheel improves score
How do you know the guys watching arn't the sickos? It's not like they will give you background checks on these guys or that you'll bother to check. Knowing the government they will probably pay convicts $1.00 an hour to do it.
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Put the guts of a laptop in a nice looking box, and make holes for the game ports, sound ports and TV adaptor. Then, modify the linux kernel so it is suited just for playing games straight off the CD.
I hear thats what the PS2 is but I have no clue really =)
Go right ahead.
My programs are usually so specialized that they wouldn't do anybody but the client any good.
If the client allows it, I usually release it to the public anyhow.
FYI, I am a programmer. I make money by creating programs that fit a specific need. If someone can find a free program that does what they need, I would expect they would use that rather than hire me.
Doctors, Nurses, Programmers and Musicians all provide some services that cannot be duplicated electronically. If a computer could do free surgery as well as a doctor, why should I pay a doctor?
It was a highly exaggerated scenerio that would never occur. My post was poorly written.
I doubt anyone was hurt by napster, except maybe the rare occasion of songs still in production being uploaded.
I agree, Im sure napster helped alot more musicians than it hurt.
I'm sure your a great altruist. You probably take care of your sick grandmother while working 3 jobs so you can buy Celine Dion CD's for poor inner city youth. Or maybe, like me, you are just another self-absorbed consumer that likes the sound of their own voice. If your sick of hearing selfish idiots making excuses to justify their ways I suggest you get off the internet, or rather, the planet.
If every musicians in the world went broke from napster, I would still think it was great.
There would be other incentives besides money to create music and life would go on. Maybe there wouldn't be so much of it, but is that such a bad thing?
If I were a musician, of course I'd be pissed, just like anyone else who chooses a profession thats core business model has become obsolete.
I'm sure this post is short sighted, poorly thought out and doesn't consider the massive effect entertainment has on the economy.
I don't care and neither did the thousands of napster users who were told by the recording industry that they needed music in order to live.
The music they forced down the throats of our generation is what encourages this attitude, now they reap what they sow.
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There was a game called syndicate wars that was alot like this.
Unfortionatly the graphics were terrible and you kept loosing your units behind buildings (alpha transparency wasn't an option then).
The gameplay was awesome though, not to mention the cool sci-fi neo-tokyo surroundings.
1) Australian Parliment Level. Guess what the mission is?
2) Marching Bands and playgrounds( in tribute to postal)
3) Mormons (with bikes!), Jehovah's Witnesses, Krishnas, etc.
4) Nudist Park Rampage
5) Drinking at the wheel improves score
No it doesn't. That is what made it so fun. You put grand turismo physics in GTA and it would be dull.
How do you know the guys watching arn't the sickos? It's not like they will give you background checks on these guys or that you'll bother to check. Knowing the government they will probably pay convicts $1.00 an hour to do it.
Funny that you mention it. When I looking at the grand canyon, the first thing that came to mind was "wow, it's like looking at a gigantic picture."
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They could expect you to build one bitchin' dilithium powered hibatchi from space junk.
This gallery will be at my house between 5-12PM every night, $20 + various snack foods is the enterance fee.
If it looked real, it would probably cease to be funny.
You know, like the man who's not afraid of 3 inch bees.
It seems to me like everytime a major game company gets pissed off with their platform manufacturer they go to sony.
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I thought Walter Matthau's role as chewbacca was excellent.
I think luke skywalker put it best:
What a peice of junk. =)
Put the guts of a laptop in a nice looking box, and make holes for the game ports, sound ports and TV adaptor.
Then, modify the linux kernel so it is suited just for playing games straight off the CD.
I hear thats what the PS2 is but I have no clue really =)
Excellent. If I knew how the moderation system worked I would mod you up. If my stupid ramblings got a 5, this deserves a 10.
Go right ahead.
My programs are usually so specialized that they wouldn't do anybody but the client any good.
If the client allows it, I usually release it to the public anyhow.
FYI, I am a programmer. I make money by creating programs that fit a specific need. If someone can find a free program that does what they need, I would expect they would use that rather than hire me.
Doctors, Nurses, Programmers and Musicians all provide some services that cannot be duplicated electronically.
If a computer could do free surgery as well as a doctor, why should I pay a doctor?
It was a highly exaggerated scenerio that would never occur. My post was poorly written.
I doubt anyone was hurt by napster, except maybe the rare occasion of songs still in production being uploaded.
I agree, Im sure napster helped alot more musicians than it hurt.
I'm sure your a great altruist. You probably take care of your sick grandmother while working 3 jobs so you can buy Celine Dion CD's for poor inner city youth.
Or maybe, like me, you are just another self-absorbed consumer that likes the sound of their own voice.
If your sick of hearing selfish idiots making excuses to justify their ways I suggest you get off the internet, or rather, the planet.
Napster was great.
If every musicians in the world went broke from napster, I would still think it was great.
There would be other incentives besides money to create music and life would go on. Maybe there wouldn't be so much of it, but is that such a bad thing?
If I were a musician, of course I'd be pissed, just like anyone else who chooses a profession thats core business model has become obsolete.
I'm sure this post is short sighted, poorly thought out and doesn't consider the massive effect entertainment has on the economy.
I don't care and neither did the thousands of napster users who were told by the recording industry that they needed music in order to live.
The music they forced down the throats of our generation is what encourages this attitude, now they reap what they sow.
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground, try this trick and spin it.
Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it and you'll ask yourself:
Where is my mind?
I said crippling Microsoft, not windows.
I'd imagine the internal letters between linux developers on crippling microsoft are 100x worse.