Y'all have very selective memories and are the modern equivalent of those people in the 80s who refused to acknowledge that video games were better than pinball games.
Video games aren't better than pinball games.
Video games are different than pinball games, and you've unwittingly proven the point of all the people who like 2D games better than 3D games. (My favorite pinballs? Addam's Family and Haunted House, most of the time those get my quarters when they have them in an arcade.)
I like 2d games. As an American, Sony says I'm not allowed to like 2d games. So, many years ago, I modded my Playstation so that I could buy all the 2d games from Japan that Sony decided that I couldn't have. It worked for a while, but then Sony hit on a technological solution to the problem. They added code to their licensed games that would detect the modchip and disable the games. (To be fair, I only saw this with Capcom games.)
I will note, however, that pirated games soon came out that bypassed this modchip code somehow. So what did I do?
I disconnected my Sony Playstation from my TV. I gave away my huge library of mint condition American region Playstation One games to some kid that I know (not a relative, either)... (I'll note, they ain't in mint condition anymore since she got her hands on them, c'est la vie.) I put my modded Playstation in a box with the imported games, accessories and the like, and I haven't opened that box in a long time.
I decided not to buy anymore Sony products. It's not a moral thing, by the way. It's a simple hatred of Sony, of their crassness and their lousy business practices that I've personally experienced. Sure, though, Microsoft and Nintendo are also tainted, they just don't inspire hatred in me the way Sony's disgusting semi-monopoly does. (Yeah, I know, Microsoft inspires many people to a more visceral reaction... well, I understand the objections to them, but they just don't inspire the same level of disgust with me, personally.)
See but if cost were the issue, I would expect console games to be doing worse than PC games, since they tend to be released at a cheaper price. For example, a game I bought just recently, Painkiller, is listed for $30.00 on Amazon and Far Cry is listed at $34.99, but it's rare you'll see a new console game that cheap (unless it was a disaster). In fact, just yesterday I bought Silent Hill III for PC for $9.99, it's still listed at $19.95 on Amazon for PS2 (oh, and Amazon is slightly higher on the PC version, but not by much it's listed as new at $10.95).
Exempt is equivalent to salaried. Hourly workers must be paid for their time. (of course, they could be asked to falsify time cards, but that would actually be illegal.)
I'm only rarely called on to do massive unpaid overtime at my current job (here in Florida). Overtime pay doesn't exist as a concept at this company, but it is a comfortable job compared to many others in the area. At least here it only happens when somebody screws up and it will affect revenue. My old job was overtime every day, my manager expected it... of course I was getting paid better money (it was a boom, after all). I'm happier now.
Hrm... that's a hard question to answer. I guess what I would like to see is for comic books to appeal to a wider audience. (In other words popularity earned through quality.) I mean, it makes no sense that translated manga are becoming more and more popular unless there is a market that isn't being tapped by the domestic comic book companies.
I really just wonder what the market would be like if pre-code trends had continued.
I mean, I noticed in Borders the other day that the comic book section was quite small compared to the manga section... I think they had actually reduced it to make room for more manga.
Oh well... it make no difference to me, financially, and I'm really just a casual comic book reader these days...
See, here's the problem, Clear Channel can't censor anyone because they're NOT THE GOVERNMENT.
I disagree, Clear Channel can only operate because they've got an FCC monopoly on the frequencies they use. To learn about the way that this is abused, try Means of Ascent by Robert Caro, a very enlightening book with regard to the FCC sausage making enterprise. (I. E. government regulation is like sausage, if you saw how it was done it would make you sick.)
Nothing in broadcasting counts as free enterprise it's more like government outsourcing to private industry. Don't kid yourself, they still keep very tight controls.
Hmm.... I saw my first nude scenes on PBS when I was a kid (say 30 years ago... or so). Masterpiece Theater had come on after whatever kids show I was watching. Nana, I think.... but if not it could've been I, Claudius easily...
Well, to be fair, American comics were way ahead of Japanese comics for years and years with a wide variety of stories (Science Fiction, Horror, Crime, War, Political Tracts etc.). Then came the House Subcomittee on Juvenile Delinquency.
Speaking of novels and comic books, I don't think Farenheit 451 would ever have been written if not for what the House Subcomittee on Juvenile Delinquency did to comics (and, almost as an afterthought, to pulps).
I'll be happy if American comics just catch up to where they were pre-HSJD. (I'm still waiting...)
If you are interested in comics, I suggest going to DC comics Website and seeing what they have available in the form of Free Downloads. I've been on a bit of a comic book jag lately. In no particular order I've read:
1. Watchmen (yes, finally gotten around to it)
2. Lucifer (the first 3 trades)
3. V for Vendetta
4. The Goon: Nothin' but Misery
5. Miracleman (Don't ask me how I got a hold of it... obviously through sinister channels)
I dislike the superior tone, "dumbed down, etc..." Especially as I also read regular books. I just finished Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson, which is not a novel but was still interesting. Besides, when I go to the science fiction shelf at my local Borders, I see way too many novels with things like Star Trek or Dragonlance in the title. This bothers me, even though I've read a few that were interesting. I think that something like V for Vendetta is comparatively intellectual.
Oh, from years back I have three E. C. library's (two horror, one miscellanious) which are interesting reading. I don't think you can get them any more, and they were kind of pricey anyway.
Well, someone modded your post as underrated, I think I'll quote it:
Doesn't this just confirm what many of us already knew. The industry has a congenital hatred towards 2D games, despite the fact that a good 2D romp like metal slug has no counterpart in the 3D world. So this means that SCEA think of only one thing first, graphics. Forget about gameplay, innovation, longevity. If it's not pretty we don't want it. Consquently we're all stuck with lovely looking, 'high concept' games which are all bubble and no squeak.
However I suspect SCEE are just as guilty of promoting only soccer and racing games.
If they just allowed everyone to publish every game going, there would be a lot of crap, but you'd get a lot more diamonds in the rough. Increase would not be linear of course!:E
Hmm... it's a very good post, that mod must be on crack!
Tachyons were an important part of the comic book Watchmen, though, which came out in 1985. And Watchmen is considered one of the most influential comic books ever. (The tachyons are related to Dr. Manhattan's powers, I can't say more without giving away parts of the plot.)
Sayah's (the Swedish lady) comments were good advertising, though, because she sounded like she actually gave a damn about the game. I was curious enough to investigate it, it seems like they are basing their business model on the whole auctioning in-game items thing that has become part of a lot of the other MMRPGs without being planned:
About Project Entropia
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A lot of the other women there, when asked for comments about games, seemed to take the "it's just a job" approach.
Terry Nation may own the Daleks, but how about Kaled Mutants (the organic part of a Dalek, for those who don't know). They could skitter around like that hideous creature in the Basket Case movies.
Well, perhaps the case they are thinking of is K. C. Munchkin, which was a travesty of justice, paricularly considering the fact that Atari's Pac-Man game seemed like it was designed to make children cry.
Several employees of the Tampa Club, a business and dining club, were on the top two floors of the Bank of America building when the plane crashed. There were no injuries in the building, which was evacuated.
Though the plane leaked fuel, it did not catch fire. Firefighters inside the building sprayed the area with foam.
Killed the pilot, did some relatively minor damage to the building, that's about it....
I keep wondering when this became a country of snivelling cowards...
The good news is that you can still head down to your local Wal-Mart or Jim-bo's Guns 'n Booze emporium and buy yourself enough ammo for even the most psychotic killing rampage.
One of the many activities I was involved in as a child was a model rocketry class. I spent my summer vactaion painting and building my rocket and at the end we were supposed to go out and fire the rocket. Unfortunately, I had to miss the last class so I still have this *chortle* *snicker* deadly terrorist weapon hanging around, as yet unfired, I'll just wait and *giggle* sell this oh-so-*snort* deadly device to my local al-Quaida cell and live on easy street (well, until easy street gets blown up, I guess.)
Seriously, though, the model rockets we used to build were cool and all, but they are much less dangerous than the average twelve-gauge shotgun that you can by at your local Walmart.
Still, I have to remember that the government is currently run by people who think that you can be hexed by Harry Potter books, I guess this is sort of the start of the Interregnum (R. A. Heinlein, for those who don't know... he wasn't that far off, except for thinking the First Prophet would be named Nehemiah Scudder...)
I like the way Kim Jong-Il turned the Marxist version of the historic class struggle into a monster movie. (***Caution Spoilers:*** I. E. Like capitalism, Pulgasari fights the evil king (aristocracy) on behalf of the peasantry, but after defeating him turns on the working class....) I just wish it was available on DVD...
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Video games are different than pinball games, and you've unwittingly proven the point of all the people who like 2D games better than 3D games. (My favorite pinballs? Addam's Family and Haunted House, most of the time those get my quarters when they have them in an arcade.)
I will note, however, that pirated games soon came out that bypassed this modchip code somehow. So what did I do?
I disconnected my Sony Playstation from my TV. I gave away my huge library of mint condition American region Playstation One games to some kid that I know (not a relative, either)... (I'll note, they ain't in mint condition anymore since she got her hands on them, c'est la vie.) I put my modded Playstation in a box with the imported games, accessories and the like, and I haven't opened that box in a long time.
I decided not to buy anymore Sony products. It's not a moral thing, by the way. It's a simple hatred of Sony, of their crassness and their lousy business practices that I've personally experienced. Sure, though, Microsoft and Nintendo are also tainted, they just don't inspire hatred in me the way Sony's disgusting semi-monopoly does. (Yeah, I know, Microsoft inspires many people to a more visceral reaction... well, I understand the objections to them, but they just don't inspire the same level of disgust with me, personally.)
Oh, well, England Prevails, I guess....
See but if cost were the issue, I would expect console games to be doing worse than PC games, since they tend to be released at a cheaper price. For example, a game I bought just recently, Painkiller, is listed for $30.00 on Amazon and Far Cry is listed at $34.99, but it's rare you'll see a new console game that cheap (unless it was a disaster). In fact, just yesterday I bought Silent Hill III for PC for $9.99, it's still listed at $19.95 on Amazon for PS2 (oh, and Amazon is slightly higher on the PC version, but not by much it's listed as new at $10.95).
You also lose if you make a reference to Godwin's Law.
I'm only rarely called on to do massive unpaid overtime at my current job (here in Florida). Overtime pay doesn't exist as a concept at this company, but it is a comfortable job compared to many others in the area. At least here it only happens when somebody screws up and it will affect revenue. My old job was overtime every day, my manager expected it... of course I was getting paid better money (it was a boom, after all). I'm happier now.
Otherwise, I'd be thinking of a career change.
My Mom does the whole books on tape thing, but I've never been able to get into it...
I really just wonder what the market would be like if pre-code trends had continued.
I mean, I noticed in Borders the other day that the comic book section was quite small compared to the manga section... I think they had actually reduced it to make room for more manga.
Oh well... it make no difference to me, financially, and I'm really just a casual comic book reader these days...
Nothing in broadcasting counts as free enterprise it's more like government outsourcing to private industry. Don't kid yourself, they still keep very tight controls.
Hmm.... I saw my first nude scenes on PBS when I was a kid (say 30 years ago... or so). Masterpiece Theater had come on after whatever kids show I was watching. Nana, I think.... but if not it could've been I, Claudius easily...
The History of Superhero Comic Books
Speaking of novels and comic books, I don't think Farenheit 451 would ever have been written if not for what the House Subcomittee on Juvenile Delinquency did to comics (and, almost as an afterthought, to pulps).
I'll be happy if American comics just catch up to where they were pre-HSJD. (I'm still waiting...)
Basically, ampersand gt semicolon and ampersand lt semicolon.
1. Watchmen (yes, finally gotten around to it)
2. Lucifer (the first 3 trades)
3. V for Vendetta
4. The Goon: Nothin' but Misery
5. Miracleman (Don't ask me how I got a hold of it... obviously through sinister channels)
I dislike the superior tone, "dumbed down, etc..." Especially as I also read regular books. I just finished Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson, which is not a novel but was still interesting. Besides, when I go to the science fiction shelf at my local Borders, I see way too many novels with things like Star Trek or Dragonlance in the title. This bothers me, even though I've read a few that were interesting. I think that something like V for Vendetta is comparatively intellectual.
Oh, from years back I have three E. C. library's (two horror, one miscellanious) which are interesting reading. I don't think you can get them any more, and they were kind of pricey anyway.
Tachyons were an important part of the comic book Watchmen, though, which came out in 1985. And Watchmen is considered one of the most influential comic books ever. (The tachyons are related to Dr. Manhattan's powers, I can't say more without giving away parts of the plot.)
Forgot the URL: Project Entropia
Terry Nation may own the Daleks, but how about Kaled Mutants (the organic part of a Dalek, for those who don't know). They could skitter around like that hideous creature in the Basket Case movies.
Well, perhaps the case they are thinking of is K. C. Munchkin, which was a travesty of justice, paricularly considering the fact that Atari's Pac-Man game seemed like it was designed to make children cry.
Police: Tampa pilot voiced support for bin Laden
Killed the pilot, did some relatively minor damage to the building, that's about it....I keep wondering when this became a country of snivelling cowards...
*nodding solemnly* "Yes, thank God..."
But Tommy did do something similar in Vice City, though I think I killed more people with my chopper blades than with the bombs I set...
Seriously, though, the model rockets we used to build were cool and all, but they are much less dangerous than the average twelve-gauge shotgun that you can by at your local Walmart.
Still, I have to remember that the government is currently run by people who think that you can be hexed by Harry Potter books, I guess this is sort of the start of the Interregnum (R. A. Heinlein, for those who don't know... he wasn't that far off, except for thinking the First Prophet would be named Nehemiah Scudder...)
Stomp Tokyo: Pulgasari
I like the way Kim Jong-Il turned the Marxist version of the historic class struggle into a monster movie. (***Caution Spoilers:*** I. E. Like capitalism, Pulgasari fights the evil king (aristocracy) on behalf of the peasantry, but after defeating him turns on the working class....) I just wish it was available on DVD...
The producer from hell