Filip Miucin was running the NVC Nintendo Voice Chat podcast for a few months or so, and he was doing a damn fine job. Right when he took over, the podcast in my opinion saw great improvement. They stayed on topic more, with a tighter, content packed podcast and no filler. They also had several great discussions on all things Nintendo. Just by hearing the guy talk I could tell this guy knows his shit. To blow such a cushy job with this silliness when he was clearly capable blows my mind. I actually do miss him on the podcast. They made a few professional comments and basically ignored it and moved on, which is to be expected, but it saddens me a bit that this guy did this to himself. These kinds of jobs have to be very hard to come by.
I have learned to basically trust Rottentomatoes on most genres of movies. I do find it to be fairly accurate within reason, except when it comes to comedies. Peoples' comedic senses are so different that it may be impossible to put a fair score on them. Some cheaply made comedies with nobodies for actors I personally just find hilarious. While on the other hand, I find most comedies with a 90+ rating to be overly safe and/or politically correct and I actually avoid them usually. Anyone else feel this way? Just curious.
Also, if it weren't for Rottentomatoes, I'd definitely watch a hell of a lot less movies, because it makes discovery so much easier.
Dennis Dyack said over and over how bad previews are for the industry after their disastrous showing which was anyone but their own fault...source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3158015
I listened to the podcast argument about this, which was very entertaining, but bottom line, end of the day, what happens? Previews come out for Too Human. Seems awful hypocritical to me...
> OT, but the replacement pizza was identical to the first, > with next to no cheese in the crust, but we were not in the > mood to dispute it again and I doubt they would have made a > third attempt to satisfy us. They have not received our > business since then.
Correction: the replacement pizza was identical to the first, except for all the free saliva...seriously...I wouldn't have the guts to send a pizza back like that.. !
Crystal Pepsi was a caffeine-free soft drink that was made by PepsiCo from 1992 to 1993 in the United States, Canada, and for a short time in Australia. In Europe, Crystal Pepsi was sold for a somewhat longer time. It is considered by some to be the company's equivalent of New Coke, as both were massive commercial failures along with Pepsi Kona.
I recently stubbed and broke my small toe, and it had to be on a Sunday. Never having been through this before, I figured I better get it checked out right away (it was horizontal to my foot). Only place open is the emergency room...ugh. All they did was take 1 X-ray, and tape the toe to the next toe. For this, doctor and hospital bills were $1,000. It makes me wanna puke. I do have insurance, though. After refiling the bills through insurance, insurance paid $200, I paid $100. Wanna puke again. You are screwed without insurance, but even so, such a bill is just plain absurd.
But this seems like it's mostly going to hurt people who pick up 360's off ebay, or second hand somewhere else. These banned boxes are going to be dumped, the people will probably rehack with a more undetectable hack, and the poor schmuck who buys their old box is going to be in for a big surprise.
Given say, a pc with internet access and excluding contacting your friends and family, could someone actually get off a desert island just using the web? I mean come on, who's gonna believe you, much less go to the trouble of looking for you. And assuming you don't know where you're at, you'd have to figure that out...I guess by mapping the stars. I just have an image in my head of someone posting on Slashdot "help, I'm stuck on an island" and it getting modded down as off topic:)
> Software specs could be sorted out quickly. The "What Operating System shall we use?" > thread will have one post in it: "I say Linux, anyone disagree?"
> Worse yet: why does _everyone_ and their grandma feel like they _have_ to sound like a hip smack-talking wisecracking wigger
It's not really everyone I think, it's just 1up. I like video game podcasts, and I can pretty much listen to any of the various gaming podcasts. But I had to quit listening to the '1up yours' show, I couldn't take it. They don't swear like sailors, they swear like 7 year olds trying to sound like they swear like sailors. Posted on their forums complaining, and they say they tried to clean up the language, but the show just didn't gel when they 'censored' themselves. So, these are the type of people running that site...people who can't just grow up. 'Adult' language doesn't always make you sound like one...sorry, had to rant.
So we go through all the nonsense of using friend codes to keep the console kiddie-friendly, and still the wii is targetted by prudes and whatnot. What gives? Just drop the stupid friend codes, you're not winning friends on either side of this issue, Nintendo.
Whoops! Luke missed last weeks podcast. Let me fill him in for you: fuck fuck fuck fuckin' fuck fuck! Rest assured, his deletion from the show wouldn't be missed from this gamer.
My favorite mag was and probably still is Video Games & Computer Entertainment. I remember Bill Kunkel the "Game Doctor"...Andy Katz was editor I think...Zach somebody. The cover artwork was always hand-drawn, making it look more adult than the other magazines. Most of the reviews were a full page of text just about corner to corner, with maybe two small screenshots on the page, and the reviews were really in depth (which was boring if you weren't interested in the game, but great if you were). They were probably the first magazine to cover consoles and pc games, and I remember basically how dull all the PC games looked back then. I remember a lot of war games and RPGs....but then again I remember seeing a review of the Simpsons arcade game ported to PC and wishing I could play that. The layout was plain but I liked that you could see exactly who wrote what, as I had favorite reviewers. This always irritated me about newer magazines like Next Generation, which would never tell who wrote a review. It's pretty obvious that an entire magazine staff cannot have the same opinion about a game, and the review should reflect upon an individual in my opinion. But that's my second favorite magazine, Next Generation. Very, very interesting articles all about the inside scoop of game development. And when they first started, awesome hard covers on each issue! I own every issue of Next Generation (later NextGen) and about 90% of Video Games & Computer Entertainment. It's pretty easy to cheaply fill video game magazine collections on ebay, no one seems to want them. I don't know why I keep them, but it sure is fun to reminisce.
>I think that anything man can think of he should share with his fellow man. >I should get paid for my service, and my labor, but I completely disapprove >of people OWNING ideas.
Farnsworth: "Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in... get the hell off my property!" Free Waterfall Junior: "You can't OWN property, man." Farnsworth: "I can. But that's because I'm not a penniless hippie."
I agree! At first that's how I thought it was, til I realized wtf? These articles are totally unrelated. I agree that just MAKING it related is a great idea. Really, -when- the side article is posted is irrelevant, it should only make the main page when a related article is good enough for the main page.
You know, you do raise interesting points. Of course that manufacturer would want to stop all modifications to their cars. This would force you to go to the dealer to have everything (including repairs) done. They could theoretically put DRM chips on all car parts, but you are right, they would then dissolve due to competition. But the reverse is happening on the computer front, where ALL the content companies are in my eyes "colluding" so that competition on the open use front isn't even taking place. I mean if I take a Disney movie, and turn it into a spoof and resell it, as long as I bought one copy of each Disney movie before I editted it and resold it, why should Disney care, right? After all, if you mess up a Ford truck and resell it as a Ford truck, doesn't that mess up Ford's good name as well? Just some irritated thoughts, I hope they came out well enough.
> I really love how a simple hardware/economics problem has been turned into "DRM is evil" by the Slashdot crowd here. As if renting games would make economic sense without copy protection (even a leaky form) - it would become equivalent to simply buying the game, but at a fraction of the original price.
Ya mean like rented DVDs? Obviously that's taken off horribly...that is the whole point, after all. Most people are simply not thieves, and those that are, you're not stopping anyway with invasive DRM.
Wow! I can't believe all 100 things were on a single page, not even separated by giant ads! Just shows you can make a decent news site if you really want to...
Slashdot Mirror
Filip Miucin was running the NVC Nintendo Voice Chat podcast for a few months or so, and he was doing a damn fine job. Right when he took over, the podcast in my opinion saw great improvement. They stayed on topic more, with a tighter, content packed podcast and no filler. They also had several great discussions on all things Nintendo. Just by hearing the guy talk I could tell this guy knows his shit. To blow such a cushy job with this silliness when he was clearly capable blows my mind. I actually do miss him on the podcast. They made a few professional comments and basically ignored it and moved on, which is to be expected, but it saddens me a bit that this guy did this to himself. These kinds of jobs have to be very hard to come by.
I have learned to basically trust Rottentomatoes on most genres of movies. I do find it to be fairly accurate within reason, except when it comes to comedies. Peoples' comedic senses are so different that it may be impossible to put a fair score on them. Some cheaply made comedies with nobodies for actors I personally just find hilarious. While on the other hand, I find most comedies with a 90+ rating to be overly safe and/or politically correct and I actually avoid them usually. Anyone else feel this way? Just curious.
Also, if it weren't for Rottentomatoes, I'd definitely watch a hell of a lot less movies, because it makes discovery so much easier.
No possibilities for trojans here..move along.
Dennis Dyack said over and over how bad previews are for the industry after their disastrous showing which was anyone but their own fault...source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3158015
I listened to the podcast argument about this, which was very entertaining, but bottom line, end of the day, what happens? Previews come out for Too Human. Seems awful hypocritical to me...
> OT, but the replacement pizza was identical to the first,
.. !
> with next to no cheese in the crust, but we were not in the
> mood to dispute it again and I doubt they would have made a
> third attempt to satisfy us. They have not received our
> business since then.
Correction: the replacement pizza was identical to the first,
except for all the free saliva...seriously...I wouldn't
have the guts to send a pizza back like that
Actually, I just checked wikipedia and it says:
Crystal Pepsi was a caffeine-free soft drink that was made by PepsiCo from 1992 to 1993 in the United States, Canada, and for a short time in Australia. In Europe, Crystal Pepsi was sold for a somewhat longer time. It is considered by some to be the company's equivalent of New Coke, as both were massive commercial failures along with Pepsi Kona.
No caffeine, no wonder it flopped!
I recently stubbed and broke my small toe, and it had to be on a Sunday. Never having been through this before, I figured I better get it checked out right away (it was horizontal to my foot). Only place open is the emergency room...ugh. All they did was take 1 X-ray, and tape the toe to the next toe. For this, doctor and hospital bills were $1,000. It makes me wanna puke. I do have insurance, though. After refiling the bills through insurance, insurance paid $200, I paid $100. Wanna puke again. You are screwed without insurance, but even so, such a bill is just plain absurd.
But this seems like it's mostly going to hurt people who pick up 360's off ebay, or second hand somewhere else. These banned boxes are going to be dumped, the people will probably rehack with a more undetectable hack, and the poor schmuck who buys their old box is going to be in for a big surprise.
> Whatever game can teach me to:
> 1) Survive
> 2) Build a raft
> 3) Not die horribly in the middle of the ocean
Life of Pi - The Movie - The Game!
bonus: you learn how to tame a tiger! Just in case...
Given say, a pc with internet access and excluding contacting your friends and family, could someone actually get off a desert island just using the web? I mean come on, who's gonna believe you, much less go to the trouble of looking for you. And assuming you don't know where you're at, you'd have to figure that out...I guess by mapping the stars. I just have an image in my head of someone posting on Slashdot "help, I'm stuck on an island" and it getting modded down as off topic :)
> Software specs could be sorted out quickly. The "What Operating System shall we use?"
> thread will have one post in it: "I say Linux, anyone disagree?"
Replies 2-346: What distro?
> Worse yet: why does _everyone_ and their grandma feel like they _have_ to sound like a hip smack-talking wisecracking wigger
It's not really everyone I think, it's just 1up. I like video game podcasts, and I can pretty much listen to any of the various gaming podcasts. But I had to quit listening to the '1up yours' show, I couldn't take it. They don't swear like sailors, they swear like 7 year olds trying to sound like they swear like sailors. Posted on their forums complaining, and they say they tried to clean up the language, but the show just didn't gel when they 'censored' themselves. So, these are the type of people running that site...people who can't just grow up. 'Adult' language doesn't always make you sound like one...sorry, had to rant.
> And yes I agree with adding rumble to make it vibrate. Then Batgirl might give it a..yah
Haven't you heard? Rumble is obsolete! Wouldn't you much rather they added tilt detection?
So we go through all the nonsense of using friend codes to keep the console kiddie-friendly, and still the wii is targetted by prudes and whatnot. What gives? Just drop the stupid friend codes, you're not winning friends on either side of this issue, Nintendo.
Whoops! Luke missed last weeks podcast. Let me fill him in for you: fuck fuck fuck fuckin' fuck fuck! Rest assured, his deletion from the show wouldn't be missed from this gamer.
I did a little jig and an *oh snap* just reading the title. Do the Hustle!!!
My favorite mag was and probably still is Video Games & Computer Entertainment. I remember Bill Kunkel the "Game Doctor"...Andy Katz was editor I think...Zach somebody. The cover artwork was always hand-drawn, making it look more adult than the other magazines. Most of the reviews were a full page of text just about corner to corner, with maybe two small screenshots on the page, and the reviews were really in depth (which was boring if you weren't interested in the game, but great if you were). They were probably the first magazine to cover consoles and pc games, and I remember basically how dull all the PC games looked back then. I remember a lot of war games and RPGs....but then again I remember seeing a review of the Simpsons arcade game ported to PC and wishing I could play that. The layout was plain but I liked that you could see exactly who wrote what, as I had favorite reviewers. This always irritated me about newer magazines like Next Generation, which would never tell who wrote a review. It's pretty obvious that an entire magazine staff cannot have the same opinion about a game, and the review should reflect upon an individual in my opinion. But that's my second favorite magazine, Next Generation. Very, very interesting articles all about the inside scoop of game development. And when they first started, awesome hard covers on each issue! I own every issue of Next Generation (later NextGen) and about 90% of Video Games & Computer Entertainment. It's pretty easy to cheaply fill video game magazine collections on ebay, no one seems to want them. I don't know why I keep them, but it sure is fun to reminisce.
>I think that anything man can think of he should share with his fellow man.
>I should get paid for my service, and my labor, but I completely disapprove
>of people OWNING ideas.
Farnsworth: "Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in... get the hell off my property!"
Free Waterfall Junior: "You can't OWN property, man."
Farnsworth: "I can. But that's because I'm not a penniless hippie."
That URL trick's been gone for a while, I noticed when my proxomitron auto-url changer quit killing the god awful color on the IT section :)
I third it! Topical attachment is the way to go! Great feature, really, even if it isn't topical, but it makes sense to do it that way.
I agree! At first that's how I thought it was, til I realized wtf? These articles are totally unrelated. I agree that just MAKING it related is a great idea. Really, -when- the side article is posted is irrelevant, it should only make the main page when a related article is good enough for the main page.
I can see Andy Kaufman if he were still alive to day making a show about gaming, and have it only show FF7 Chocobo Breeding.
You know, you do raise interesting points. Of course that manufacturer would want to stop all modifications to their cars. This would force you to go to the dealer to have everything (including repairs) done. They could theoretically put DRM chips on all car parts, but you are right, they would then dissolve due to competition. But the reverse is happening on the computer front, where ALL the content companies are in my eyes "colluding" so that competition on the open use front isn't even taking place. I mean if I take a Disney movie, and turn it into a spoof and resell it, as long as I bought one copy of each Disney movie before I editted it and resold it, why should Disney care, right? After all, if you mess up a Ford truck and resell it as a Ford truck, doesn't that mess up Ford's good name as well? Just some irritated thoughts, I hope they came out well enough.
> I really love how a simple hardware/economics problem has been turned into "DRM is evil" by the Slashdot crowd here. As if renting games would make economic sense without copy protection (even a leaky form) - it would become equivalent to simply buying the game, but at a fraction of the original price.
Ya mean like rented DVDs? Obviously that's taken off horribly...that is the whole point, after all. Most people are simply not thieves, and those that are, you're not stopping anyway with invasive DRM.
Wow! I can't believe all 100 things were on a single page, not even separated by giant ads! Just shows you can make a decent news site if you really want to...