Yeah, realistic. That way 10+ year old software could enter the public domain ASAP, like, for example, Asteroids, MS office, Centipede... err wait, what was that?
uh, ok the quote even in the blurb says nothing of the sort. it says, paraphrased since it apparently was confusing the first time: "US companies' games have better graphics and gameplay, SK companies' games have more fashion-sense."
I thought the quote to be rather insulting to the Korean/Japanese gaming community, but... whatever. I'm not Korean/Japanese, so I suppose they were right to assume that I (conversely) would find fashion in my video games less important than plot and graphics (respectively, in my case, though graphics do provide the initial "ooo.." factor that gets you started on playing the game).
OK I could swear we had this exact same post a week ago, but whatever. In that article (whereever I read it) it stated that the harddrive would be a separate upgrade. (You buy the console for $XXX then buy the second controller cause the cheap fscks leave one out then buy the harddrive.)
The logic being that they were burned pretty hard with their expensive console the first go-round so they dropped the most expensive single item--the harddrive.
Dear AC:
This is slashdot. It's comment threads are full of what are known--in the vernacular--as "inside jokes." These "inside jokes" are pulled from various sources of pop culture; take the aforementioned post as an example. This particular variation on a theme is taken from a particularly uproarious episode of the television program commonly referred to as "South Park" or "Goddamn Funny Little Bastards in Colorado". I shall now demonstrate by means of a quote, but first a description:
Imagine, if you will, garden gnomes come to life. Yes, as insane as it may appear to you and me, these things truly do happen. Unforunately their voices are affected by their transformation from cheap plaster to living flesh, so in the following quote please envision it being read about three octaves too high for human ears to hear:
The first edition helped me get my current job (y'know, the one I'm ignoring by reading slashdot *right now*). My "interview" was to create a fully-formed dynamic website in one week using only python. The idea being that if you can learn a whole new language in a week and get a real project off the ground then you're the kind of guy they're looking for.
Anyway. I immediately ran off to the nearest bookstore and grabbed the first edition of the book. I read it once through and it--along with a lot of googling--helped me understand what I was doing, but once I had gone through it once I couldn't use it to recall the details of what I had been taught. If I wanted to look up something that I knew I had learned *from the book* I would have to look it up *on the web* (e.g. syntax or the required parameters of a function) because the index was useless. I never found anything I needed from that book once I did the initial once-through reading.
Though let's not gloss over the fact that I obviously learned python fairly well from this book because I did get the job! So sure, if you need to learn the language, the first edition did the job, but you'd better buy a *real* python book while you're there at the bookstore because as soon as you were done with Learning... it was nothing more than a paperweight.
1) Big publishers are defined as having big money, and therefore, naturally, they are going to make "uber-budget" games. Big publishers aren't interested in small budget - that's how indie came to exist. It's nothing new. You can't take back something that you are.
Since we're being anal here, they said take back a hold on the PC gaming market, not take back small budget game creation.
2) If PC sales are being dwarfed then that means relatively, less PC games are being sold. That means with a smaller window, the big budget games will have more shelf space, media coverage, more exposure.
Right. Bigger shelf space... in console gaming, where big budget game companies are focusing, as they said. Sure, those Big Money gaming companies that stay in the PC market will pay for and get more shelf space, but with less market for PC games the theory is that many Big Money companies will move out of the PC arena alltogether and thus leave only the Indie titles (or more accurately leave them a larger piece of the *smaller* pie).
As to whether that'll happen that way only time will tell, of course.
Has anyone had any luck finding a left handed X-Box controller?
A bunch of guys I know get together and play Halo for hours and I always get my ass beat because in the "Southpaw" configuration for the controls you can't move forward and melee at the same time. So I'm firing into their faces at point-blank range with a semi-automatic rifle and they walk up and bonk me on the head and *I* die instantly. Seriously fucking pisses me off. So basically I'd run out of excuses for getting my ass kicked if I could find a left-handed X-Box controller.
Someone later on mentioned making one yourself but unless they gave me a parts list, schema, and super glue I wouldn't be able to do it.
Sure it does. It means they can't prove you broke the law. All they know is that someone connected to you on the internet may have broken it. All of this only helps you if you're willing to actually fight it in court and not just pay them off...
Exactly my point, though instead of saying "introduction of monopoly" I should have said "the sudden full-on success of monopoly". If the game was around for 25 years before the great depression (in whatever form/fashion/name) and wasn't known for dick and then the great depression hits and all of a sudden it's a smashing success, THAT PROVES MY POINT. (*wooo... too much coffee*)
When I first read the blurb I thought they were talking about Human Chess (a la your favorite Renaissance Festival) where the tokens fight and the winner of the round determines the success of an attack. That'd be pretty sweet. The chessmasters would have to adapt their strategies based on known fighting-skills of their players.
Having the players box would make gameplay anticlimactic... Envision if you will... They're jumping around pounding away at one another jowls flopping, sweat spraying, a grunt of pain as a glove makes contact... the bell rings and... they stop.
They pull off their gloves, whip out their favorite thinking caps and perhaps a calabash pipe spending the next five minutes staring fixedly at the plastic tokens before them.... yeah... that's rousing.
They'd even have to switch announcers just to bring the rousing mood down further. Start off with a classic boxing announcer and end up with a golf-level announcer. *snore*
Well, that just proves that the phrase Timing is Everything really holds true. Recall, if you will, world events during the introduction of Monopoly: The Great Depression. People were obsessed with money because they had none. They also had a lot of time to sit around thinking about it because they had no jobs. Thus the insanely long-winded (and successful) Monopoly was born.
Right. A game publisher is more interested in playability and fun than looks anyway. Take Magic: The Gathering as an example. The developer of the game had a bunch of index cards with little photos taped on, but presentation aside, the game's playability shone through and a couple years later it's a phenomenon.:/
Assuming you're guilty for using the program wouldn't work simply because p2p programs have been deemed legal applications in and of themselves. Any copyright holder would need to prove that you obtained and were distributing illegal copies of their copyrighted material before they could attack you legally.
Even if they did use the approach that "we noticed this illegal file going to his IP address" they would need to prove that you were the one willfully hosting and distributing the file, not your neighbor in apt 44b.
It's not really the quality of the english voice acting, it's the casting and direction of european voice actors that often doesn't fit. For example, in the series Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X), the Japanese version had a woman doing the voice of Kenshin and it was convincing. In the english version they had a guy sounding like he'd been kicked in the balls and perpetually on happy pills do the voice acting.
If you're six years old then the latter is probably more interesting (for example who can stand the sound of Barney's voice for more than a minute except a six year old?), but to me I prefer the more natural voice (even though it was from a woman, her voice was rather ambiguous in that way and it did seem to fit Kenshin).
erm.... never? when was the last time you saw anything on mainstream media subtitled? Sure, I've seen a few foreign films (e.g. those up for oscars for best foreign film or something) but they have been at "that" theatre that is specifically known for showing oddities.;) and on TV? on cartoon network??
Dunno, Maybe on the Anime Network late at night. who knows.;)
I also would like to point out that perhaps the male to female player ratio is off, so gender bending might create some sense of equilibrium.
Further, the study would be helped if you checked a predominantly female-played online rpg (as if there was one!) and checked to see if more women than men switched the gender of their online characters.
You know, this is probably a long-delayed response to the MS/Ford comments that were sent around. If you remember, Steve Ballmer (apparently) said in a MS speech that if Ford moved like Microsoft we'd have flying cars, 1,000mph speedlimits, etc..
So the prez of Ford responds that if Ford moved like MS our cars would randomly stop working while we were driving and the only way to start them would be to pull over to the side of the road, get out hold the radio antenae, lift the door handle, and honk the horn... or... you know.. something like that.;)
Toynbee was a religious historian who believed that "well-being of a civilization depends on its ability to respond successfully to challenges, human and environmental"
Right... For example the challenge of handling slashdotters on Toynbee.net?;)
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Yeah, realistic. That way 10+ year old software could enter the public domain ASAP, like, for example, Asteroids, MS office, Centipede ... err wait, what was that?
I thought the quote to be rather insulting to the Korean/Japanese gaming community, but ... whatever. I'm not Korean/Japanese, so I suppose they were right to assume that I (conversely) would find fashion in my video games less important than plot and graphics (respectively, in my case, though graphics do provide the initial "ooo.." factor that gets you started on playing the game).
The logic being that they were burned pretty hard with their expensive console the first go-round so they dropped the most expensive single item--the harddrive.
Imagine, if you will, garden gnomes come to life. Yes, as insane as it may appear to you and me, these things truly do happen. Unforunately their voices are affected by their transformation from cheap plaster to living flesh, so in the following quote please envision it being read about three octaves too high for human ears to hear:
"Step one: Steal underpants. ..............
Step two
Step three: profit!"
You guys should read the short story 'Harrison Bergeron' by Kurt Vonnegut. (It's in the book 'Welcome to the Monkey House.')
I've been using Albatross ( http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross/ ) and Albatross Extensions ( http://axe.pseudocode.net/ ) on Apache + mod_python.
Anyway. I immediately ran off to the nearest bookstore and grabbed the first edition of the book. I read it once through and it--along with a lot of googling--helped me understand what I was doing, but once I had gone through it once I couldn't use it to recall the details of what I had been taught. If I wanted to look up something that I knew I had learned *from the book* I would have to look it up *on the web* (e.g. syntax or the required parameters of a function) because the index was useless. I never found anything I needed from that book once I did the initial once-through reading.
Though let's not gloss over the fact that I obviously learned python fairly well from this book because I did get the job! So sure, if you need to learn the language, the first edition did the job, but you'd better buy a *real* python book while you're there at the bookstore because as soon as you were done with Learning... it was nothing more than a paperweight.
Since we're being anal here, they said take back a hold on the PC gaming market, not take back small budget game creation.
2) If PC sales are being dwarfed then that means relatively, less PC games are being sold. That means with a smaller window, the big budget games will have more shelf space, media coverage, more exposure.
Right. Bigger shelf space ... in console gaming, where big budget game companies are focusing, as they said. Sure, those Big Money gaming companies that stay in the PC market will pay for and get more shelf space, but with less market for PC games the theory is that many Big Money companies will move out of the PC arena alltogether and thus leave only the Indie titles (or more accurately leave them a larger piece of the *smaller* pie).
As to whether that'll happen that way only time will tell, of course.
no, seriously. :P
Has anyone had any luck finding a left handed X-Box controller? A bunch of guys I know get together and play Halo for hours and I always get my ass beat because in the "Southpaw" configuration for the controls you can't move forward and melee at the same time. So I'm firing into their faces at point-blank range with a semi-automatic rifle and they walk up and bonk me on the head and *I* die instantly. Seriously fucking pisses me off. So basically I'd run out of excuses for getting my ass kicked if I could find a left-handed X-Box controller. Someone later on mentioned making one yourself but unless they gave me a parts list, schema, and super glue I wouldn't be able to do it.
Sure it does. It means they can't prove you broke the law. All they know is that someone connected to you on the internet may have broken it. All of this only helps you if you're willing to actually fight it in court and not just pay them off...
Or give them the gift that keeps on giving, for less: WinMx, KaZaA ... same content, less pricey. ;)
Exactly my point, though instead of saying "introduction of monopoly" I should have said "the sudden full-on success of monopoly". If the game was around for 25 years before the great depression (in whatever form/fashion/name) and wasn't known for dick and then the great depression hits and all of a sudden it's a smashing success, THAT PROVES MY POINT. (*wooo... too much coffee*)
Having the players box would make gameplay anticlimactic... Envision if you will... They're jumping around pounding away at one another jowls flopping, sweat spraying, a grunt of pain as a glove makes contact... the bell rings and... they stop.
They pull off their gloves, whip out their favorite thinking caps and perhaps a calabash pipe spending the next five minutes staring fixedly at the plastic tokens before them.... yeah... that's rousing.
They'd even have to switch announcers just to bring the rousing mood down further. Start off with a classic boxing announcer and end up with a golf-level announcer. *snore*
Well, that just proves that the phrase Timing is Everything really holds true. Recall, if you will, world events during the introduction of Monopoly: The Great Depression. People were obsessed with money because they had none. They also had a lot of time to sit around thinking about it because they had no jobs. Thus the insanely long-winded (and successful) Monopoly was born.
Right. A game publisher is more interested in playability and fun than looks anyway. Take Magic: The Gathering as an example. The developer of the game had a bunch of index cards with little photos taped on, but presentation aside, the game's playability shone through and a couple years later it's a phenomenon. :/
Even if they did use the approach that "we noticed this illegal file going to his IP address" they would need to prove that you were the one willfully hosting and distributing the file, not your neighbor in apt 44b.
Along those lines, I'd probably buy myself a new monitor. :)
If you're six years old then the latter is probably more interesting (for example who can stand the sound of Barney's voice for more than a minute except a six year old?), but to me I prefer the more natural voice (even though it was from a woman, her voice was rather ambiguous in that way and it did seem to fit Kenshin).
Dunno, Maybe on the Anime Network late at night. who knows. ;)
I also would like to point out that perhaps the male to female player ratio is off, so gender bending might create some sense of equilibrium.
Further, the study would be helped if you checked a predominantly female-played online rpg (as if there was one!) and checked to see if more women than men switched the gender of their online characters.
"My Doctor learned to operate by watching DVDs and The Learning Channel!"
So the prez of Ford responds that if Ford moved like MS our cars would randomly stop working while we were driving and the only way to start them would be to pull over to the side of the road, get out hold the radio antenae, lift the door handle, and honk the horn... or... you know.. something like that. ;)
Really, Michael J. Fox tried to tell us this in the 80's in BttF3. ;) Self-cleaning and self-sizing jacket, self-tying shoes... very cool. ;)
Right... For example the challenge of handling slashdotters on Toynbee.net? ;)