Then there are the people who place so little value on other people, that they begrudge the tiniest amount of their tax money that goes to other people.
When the tax burden is around 50%, it's hard to call that the tiniest amount.
If someone lashes out violently because the probation officer pays more attention to them, then perhaps they should be flagged and locked up in a mental hospital.
No... no one misses anything. You've never used a DVR, I take it.
I'm aware of how a DVR works. If you're having to go back and forth replaying things then obviously your method of watching isn't very effective. And when you're replaying something, you're missing something else, which means having to replay again, and so you miss something else, etc.
Screaming people don't do anything for me.
You must be an armchair fan. The crowd is what distinguishes sport from more sterile and passive forms of entertainment. In my opinion there's nothing more fun than an opposition player making a massive mistake and the whole stadium jeering him. You don't get that sat on your armchair listening to Pink Floyd.
My TV does fill the viewer's entire field of vision. It's about 20 or so feet diagonal.
Well you must be a millionaire. I don't know anyone who even has room for a TV like that. Not even a projector. Even then, unless it's showing the whole field all the time, you're not getting the full picture, just a diluted, edited TV show. Sport Lite. And then what happens when the game you want isn't on HD? You get giant pixels?
I generally serve dishes such as shrimp cocktail, lobster tails, grilled steaks and greek salads.
Along with prawn sandwiches? I doubt you'll get that reference though.
And while you look at X, you miss Y.
Exactly, whilst the camera is focused on X, i.e. the player on the ball, you're missing Y, another player making a run on the other side. Or you're watching a closesup of a celebrity in the crowd.
Every pulled back shot in an HD game, from every angle, can be paused, zoomed, re-run.
Therefore missing everything else that happens whilst you're doing that. I'm sure your guests love missing the action to watch what they already watched again...
Hardly. We are soaking in the atmosphere, all right, but it isn't that old fart screaming at his kid next to you, it's generally some form of rock and roll or progressive rock.
My idea of atmosphere is tens of thousands of people loudly supporting their team, not sitting down listening to music. Sport isn't entertainment like cinema or theatre. Except to the prawn sandwich bridage of course.
Yes, that's a pretty good description, except generally the view isn't eye level
There's no TV big enough to fit in anyone's house that can show the whole field. HD only provides resolution, not size. Tell me when I can get a TV that fills my whole field of vision.
Thank goodness. I travel to see nature - Niagara falls, the sahara, the outback - and I travel to see architecture - the pyramids, Neuschwanstein, the Golden Gate - and I travel to see collections of marvelous things - the Smithsonian, the Louvre, the Franklin and Quartzite mineral shows
Pretentious assholes like you are generally not into sport, you must be a rare exception.
I should not have to alter my gameplay just because someone feels like interfering with me.
Why would you want to play a multi-player game if other players cannot interfere with you? If you're playing monopoly do you whine because a griefer put a hotel on Mayfair?
Sports are a category that greatly benefits from increased resolution.
Yeah, better resolution for all those graphics, talking heads, crowd shots, closeups and commercials, and for the few seconds they accidently show what's happening on the field uninterrupted.
Your problem is that you were trying to tell your players how to play the game. This sort of arrogance is what kills games, and they're replaced by games that let the players play how they want.
If you want people to roleplay but they want to advance their characters, trying to force them to roleplay is like Canute trying to turn back the tide.
Remember, people play games to do what they want, not what the designers want. This is the first lesson of game design.
# (nods) beer is cheaper # not limited to beer # not limited to alcohol # snacks are cheaper # not limited to snacks
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I go to a game...to watch the game, not to stuff myself with crap.
# you can pause # you can replay # you can record
And at the game, I can look at any part of the field I want, whenever at want. Meanwhile all the people at home are forced to look at closeups cutting off everything else, or shots of coaches or celebrities in the crowd, or talking heads, or commercials, or replays. Also whilst people at the game are soaking in the atmosphere, you're listening to some old boring bastard's mindless banter.
TV sports coverage is pre-chewed and diluted.
no travel
Part of the fun is travelling to the game with thousand of like-minded fans. Walking into your living room just isn't the same.
better seating (ok, a LOT better seating)
More comfortable yes, but a much inferior view. Unless you can tell me the TV technology that shows the ENTIRE field all the time in eye-level resolution, uninterrupted by all the crap mentioned above, and no commentators.
At the best games people aren't sat down anyway. In fact many stadiums don't bother with seats at all for this reason.
your right to wager will not be infringed
My team's stadiums has bookmakers. And what's stopping you putting bets on before you go? Oh right nothing.
TV Execs should be asking themselves Is there actually a business case for traditional TV?
Business cases are based on what most people are doing, not a couple of nerds who like to watch TV crouched over a desk.
I wonder how long it'll take the sports ground owners to start sueing broadcasters for loss of revinue because you get a better view of the game at home than you do with 10x binoculars from front-row seats?
Not until the date that TV shows more than a fraction of the pitch at a time, and isn't infected with graphics, replays, sound effects, talking heads, view changes and commercials, and all the other crap that gets in the way.
Second, US military hegemony is unmatched, especially at the point at which the US military spends more in a year than all the other nations in the world combined. Also, nuclear weapons.
Unfortuanately the American is so ill-disciplined and disorganised it isn't very effective at all. They can't even keep control of Iraq and Afghanistan, two small, weak countries. How the hell are they going to take on China and Russia?
Rubbish. We already get taxed far too much. Taxes need to go DOWN not up. Problem is people are too complacent. If people rioted everyone someone proposed some dumb tax they wouldn't happen, but people are content to sit down and take it up the arse.
*checks his power outlets* Sorry, don't have electricity in my house. Oh that's right, now I remember, I DON'T HAVE ELECTRICITY MORON!
Why is it that people assume everyone has every worthless utility out there? I know it's hard to believe but there are those of us who don't have electricity, don't need electricity and don't want electricity.
Technology is great and all but this nonsense that people should always have the latest and greatest crap is one of the leading causes for out negative savings rate.
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Not to mention providing countless hours of entertainment, and employment for thousands of people?
Or more than likely, Google like clickfraud because it increases their profits.
When the tax burden is around 50%, it's hard to call that the tiniest amount.
If someone lashes out violently because the probation officer pays more attention to them, then perhaps they should be flagged and locked up in a mental hospital.
I'm she'd have reacted in a similar way if she found out you read Slashdot.
With a gas cooker, when you want to reduce the heat you just turn it down. With an electric cooker, your food burns.
They don't work perfectly fine. Electric cookers cannot be adjusted quick enough to cook anything reliably.
Electric heating is very ineffective, and electric cookers are beyond worthless.
All the nuclear power stations in the world won't help when you need gas to heat your house and cook your food.
What if she's a dog?
Where's the gameplay here? You control some sort of water boatman going road eating tadpoles... and... that's it.
I'm aware of how a DVR works. If you're having to go back and forth replaying things then obviously your method of watching isn't very effective. And when you're replaying something, you're missing something else, which means having to replay again, and so you miss something else, etc.
You must be an armchair fan. The crowd is what distinguishes sport from more sterile and passive forms of entertainment. In my opinion there's nothing more fun than an opposition player making a massive mistake and the whole stadium jeering him. You don't get that sat on your armchair listening to Pink Floyd.
Well you must be a millionaire. I don't know anyone who even has room for a TV like that. Not even a projector. Even then, unless it's showing the whole field all the time, you're not getting the full picture, just a diluted, edited TV show. Sport Lite. And then what happens when the game you want isn't on HD? You get giant pixels?
Maybe not arrogance, but a mistake. You don't judge people's wants by what they say, but what they do.
Along with prawn sandwiches? I doubt you'll get that reference though.
Exactly, whilst the camera is focused on X, i.e. the player on the ball, you're missing Y, another player making a run on the other side. Or you're watching a closesup of a celebrity in the crowd.
Therefore missing everything else that happens whilst you're doing that. I'm sure your guests love missing the action to watch what they already watched again...
My idea of atmosphere is tens of thousands of people loudly supporting their team, not sitting down listening to music. Sport isn't entertainment like cinema or theatre. Except to the prawn sandwich bridage of course.
There's no TV big enough to fit in anyone's house that can show the whole field. HD only provides resolution, not size. Tell me when I can get a TV that fills my whole field of vision.
Pretentious assholes like you are generally not into sport, you must be a rare exception.
Have you considered that the community on the messageboard don't actually represent the wishes of your playerbase?
Cooks, waiters, shelf-stackers, cleaners, most the service industry jobs are not sat down.
No, most factory work is stood up.
Why would you want to play a multi-player game if other players cannot interfere with you? If you're playing monopoly do you whine because a griefer put a hotel on Mayfair?
I've yet to hear a valid reason why people like killing mindless NPCs over and over again. Like manual labour except you ain't getting paid.
Here's a tip: never play Counterstrike, or Quake, or Monopoly, or any sport. Horrible people will be out to beat you and ruin your stay.
Oh nose! Let's eliminate losing, lest someone's feelings me hurt. Think of the children!
Your problem is that you were trying to tell your players how to play the game. This sort of arrogance is what kills games, and they're replaced by games that let the players play how they want.
If you want people to roleplay but they want to advance their characters, trying to force them to roleplay is like Canute trying to turn back the tide.
Remember, people play games to do what they want, not what the designers want. This is the first lesson of game design.
And at the game, I can look at any part of the field I want, whenever at want. Meanwhile all the people at home are forced to look at closeups cutting off everything else, or shots of coaches or celebrities in the crowd, or talking heads, or commercials, or replays. Also whilst people at the game are soaking in the atmosphere, you're listening to some old boring bastard's mindless banter.
TV sports coverage is pre-chewed and diluted.
Part of the fun is travelling to the game with thousand of like-minded fans. Walking into your living room just isn't the same.
More comfortable yes, but a much inferior view. Unless you can tell me the TV technology that shows the ENTIRE field all the time in eye-level resolution, uninterrupted by all the crap mentioned above, and no commentators.
At the best games people aren't sat down anyway. In fact many stadiums don't bother with seats at all for this reason.
My team's stadiums has bookmakers. And what's stopping you putting bets on before you go? Oh right nothing.
Business cases are based on what most people are doing, not a couple of nerds who like to watch TV crouched over a desk.
Not until the date that TV shows more than a fraction of the pitch at a time, and isn't infected with graphics, replays, sound effects, talking heads, view changes and commercials, and all the other crap that gets in the way.
In other words, never.
Unfortuanately the American is so ill-disciplined and disorganised it isn't very effective at all. They can't even keep control of Iraq and Afghanistan, two small, weak countries. How the hell are they going to take on China and Russia?
Rubbish. We already get taxed far too much. Taxes need to go DOWN not up. Problem is people are too complacent. If people rioted everyone someone proposed some dumb tax they wouldn't happen, but people are content to sit down and take it up the arse.
*checks his power outlets* Sorry, don't have electricity in my house. Oh that's right, now I remember, I DON'T HAVE ELECTRICITY MORON!
Why is it that people assume everyone has every worthless utility out there? I know it's hard to believe but there are those of us who don't have electricity, don't need electricity and don't want electricity.
Technology is great and all but this nonsense that people should always have the latest and greatest crap is one of the leading causes for out negative savings rate.