Has anyone heard anything about this possibility or am I just asking a bit too much?
Doubt it. Usually remakes sell at reduced price (like the final fantasy remakes) but it looks like a fair amount of money has been poured into this and thus a lot of gamecube owneres are excited about this. I would guess they could move a lot of units at regular price.
You might also be interested in the so-called "reverse Alan Sokal hoax", in which the Bogdanov brothers got published in a couple physics journals by submitting a bunch of gibberish that "sounded good".
Sympatico got rid of the caps a few months ago, link.
I guess they underestimated the amount of people that would leave because they got an extra charge one month. Consumers like flat rate pricing, Sympatico has competitors, competition drives down prices.
You have to wonder why they implemented caps in the first place. I think it had more to do with the desire to make more money than with bandwidth costs.
Hmm, don't like that, it would be better to redirect it to someplace harmless like http://127.0.0.1, or at least let the user specify where during installation.
According to the director/actor commentary on the Fight Club DVD, the film is anti-violence. So doesn't a beat 'em up game tie-in completely miss the point?
Probably, like Platoon for the 8-bit Nintendo completely missed Oliver Stone's anti-war message.
USA Blockbuster video version is missing nearly all of the sexual footage. This version runs approx. 10 min shorter than the theatrical release.
The box at Blockbuster just says "R Rated Version" in big letters, so it's easy to be mislead if you don't know the original was NC-17.
I wouldn't mind so much if they just refused to carry the movie, but since they carry "edited" versions of movies I never know if the movie I'm renting is original or not, so I've pretty much stopped renting movies there.
Please, do we really need Hollywood editors to "fix" it for American release?
I came across this quote from a Sony exec named Barker:
"Run Lola Run and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became huge because the younger generation, who are used to reading instant messaging on their home computers and CNN crawls at the bottom of the screen, are much more open to subtitles than people in their 40s and 50s," he said.
Personally, I can't remember the last time a dubbed film was hugely popular, but Shaolin Soccer has been sitting around being tinkered with because, I'm guessing, Harvey Weinstein is obsessed with dubbing and still can't comprehend that young audiences can enjoy a subtitled film.
One of the main reasons it's cheaper is because all elections are run by a single body, Elections Canada, but in the U.S. elections are generally run by individual counties, each having to make their own ballots and having their own procedures. This also adds to the problem where poorer counties would have to make do with older equipment.
It would be cheaper and more efficient if each state had a single body that administered elections, buying equipment in bulk, but most states "pass the buck" onto counties for budget reasons, even though it ends up costing taxpayers more in the end.
Lan-cafes or lan party pubs seemed to be a booming biz, and most people go play there than at the arcades just because you pay the hourly rate and play whatever games you want.
I've noticed this in Toronto too, there's a stretch on Bloor from Christie to Spadina that must have more than a dozen different lan places, several open 24 hours. Mostly people playing games but also surfing the web.
I had just assumed the lan places thing was happening everywhere, but articles I read suggest it's only really gotten that prevalent in some places such as Taiwan and Korea.
I've done a little research into Silent Hill 3 and I have to say that it looks like it's going to be a great game. It actually looks like it might have some of the best game-mode graphics I've seen on the PS2 yet.
Silent Hill 3 is a great looking PS2 game, especially the character designs, they look and sound like they could be based on real people, with freckles or wrinkes and normal clothes. Good architecture, the areas are designed like they could be real places. It feels like you're actually exploring a closed down mall or abandoned hospital. The monsters are bland looking, but the game is more about exploration and mood than killing. Some scary moments, more so because there are so few of them and are unexpected.
Only drawback is the game is short, my game was 8 or 9 hours. Though this could be an advantage if you don't have a lot of spare time. And there are features like extra costumes you can unlock by going through the game again.
Anybody else notice the irony of seeing the Microsoft coffee cup sitting next to Joseph Staten's Apple display and Harmon Kardon SoundSticks (2:06 into the movie)?
I found it more ironic that their "design lead" had a statuette of Rikku from FFX behind him... maybe he'd rather be at Square.
Looking at the css file, it looks like the centre column is set at 96 pixels from the left, no matter how big the text in the left hand column is. So if the text in the left column is wider than 96 pixels it will bleed over the middle column.
I'm not really up on my css, but I would guess a solution would be to have the centre column floating next to the left column, or to define the distance from the left hand side in em units instead of pixels.
It would be hard to predict wether something like dating sims would ever catch on in the U.S.
So many things that a few years ago seemed like something only those wacky Japanese would be into (Tamagotchi, Kareoke, Shonen Jump, 60 hour work weeks) quickly have become part of American culture. I was surprised when the concept of "Idol Stars" and game shows revolving around torturing people quickly became part of American television.
Funny part is, I was just watching a Canadian reporter talking to an actual retired Quebec terrorist, and he kind of liked the idea, he thought it might make young people a little more militant.
There are like a zillion awesome video games, mostly rpg types, that we just don't have here.
I was just looking at some Korean RPGs, like Magna Carta, looks fascinating. They have imitated the look of the Final Fantasy games pretty well. I'm surprised Korean companies haven't tried releasing many English versions of these rpg games.
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Just a warning, I heard someone ask him this at a reading, his reply was "Yes." and he moved on to the next question.
The only solution to that is tempest-level shielding.
Or he could encrypt the message before he types it into the computer, perhaps using a deck of cards and solitaire, though that's a bit slow, but at least he wouldn't have to have encryption software on his laptop. Obfuscating the encrypted text might be tough though.
In my view the hurdle is not in the games themselves but in the delivery, quite simply the industry markets to young males not young females.
Good point, maybe SquareEnix should of run ads for Final Fantasy X-2 in girls and womens magazines, the thing is practically a girl game anyway (Dress Sphere system?).
Specifically Dragon Quest VI. I kept hearing all this hype about the Dragon Quest series from Japan, how it was suppossed to be even better than the Final Fantasy series, how there's some law against a game in the series being released on a school day.
Got a rom of DQ VI (it was never officially translated into Englsih so you have to use a fan translated version) and boy was it boring, I put about 35 hours into, got to the job system and played around to that, then gave up. The combat system was simplistic, the characters uninteresting. Not as good as FF VI or Chrono Trigger, the other big 16-bit rpgs.
Maybe I'll give it another go someday, but it just didn't live up to the hype for me.
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A contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern.
From your post, it looks like you just found out what a meme is and how it spreads firsthand.
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Doubt it. Usually remakes sell at reduced price (like the final fantasy remakes) but it looks like a fair amount of money has been poured into this and thus a lot of gamecube owneres are excited about this. I would guess they could move a lot of units at regular price.
The Bogdanov Affair
I guess they underestimated the amount of people that would leave because they got an extra charge one month. Consumers like flat rate pricing, Sympatico has competitors, competition drives down prices.
You have to wonder why they implemented caps in the first place. I think it had more to do with the desire to make more money than with bandwidth costs.
Hmm, don't like that, it would be better to redirect it to someplace harmless like http://127.0.0.1, or at least let the user specify where during installation.
Probably, like Platoon for the 8-bit Nintendo completely missed Oliver Stone's anti-war message.
USA Blockbuster video version is missing nearly all of the sexual footage. This version runs approx. 10 min shorter than the theatrical release.
The box at Blockbuster just says "R Rated Version" in big letters, so it's easy to be mislead if you don't know the original was NC-17.
I wouldn't mind so much if they just refused to carry the movie, but since they carry "edited" versions of movies I never know if the movie I'm renting is original or not, so I've pretty much stopped renting movies there.
I came across this quote from a Sony exec named Barker:
"Run Lola Run and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became huge because the younger generation, who are used to reading instant messaging on their home computers and CNN crawls at the bottom of the screen, are much more open to subtitles than people in their 40s and 50s," he said.
Personally, I can't remember the last time a dubbed film was hugely popular, but Shaolin Soccer has been sitting around being tinkered with because, I'm guessing, Harvey Weinstein is obsessed with dubbing and still can't comprehend that young audiences can enjoy a subtitled film.
US cost $3.27
One of the main reasons it's cheaper is because all elections are run by a single body, Elections Canada, but in the U.S. elections are generally run by individual counties, each having to make their own ballots and having their own procedures. This also adds to the problem where poorer counties would have to make do with older equipment.
It would be cheaper and more efficient if each state had a single body that administered elections, buying equipment in bulk, but most states "pass the buck" onto counties for budget reasons, even though it ends up costing taxpayers more in the end.
I've noticed this in Toronto too, there's a stretch on Bloor from Christie to Spadina that must have more than a dozen different lan places, several open 24 hours. Mostly people playing games but also surfing the web.
I had just assumed the lan places thing was happening everywhere, but articles I read suggest it's only really gotten that prevalent in some places such as Taiwan and Korea.
I've done a little research into Silent Hill 3 and I have to say that it looks like it's going to be a great game. It actually looks like it might have some of the best game-mode graphics I've seen on the PS2 yet.
Silent Hill 3 is a great looking PS2 game, especially the character designs, they look and sound like they could be based on real people, with freckles or wrinkes and normal clothes. Good architecture, the areas are designed like they could be real places. It feels like you're actually exploring a closed down mall or abandoned hospital. The monsters are bland looking, but the game is more about exploration and mood than killing. Some scary moments, more so because there are so few of them and are unexpected.
Only drawback is the game is short, my game was 8 or 9 hours. Though this could be an advantage if you don't have a lot of spare time. And there are features like extra costumes you can unlock by going through the game again.
I found it more ironic that their "design lead" had a statuette of Rikku from FFX behind him... maybe he'd rather be at Square.
Every time they got a game coming out the make up some outlandish proposal to get some press. You'd think people would catch on by now.
You might be interested in this album, Farinelli: Original Soundtrack in which computers where used to simulate the sound of a castrati singer.
Looking at the css file, it looks like the centre column is set at 96 pixels from the left, no matter how big the text in the left hand column is. So if the text in the left column is wider than 96 pixels it will bleed over the middle column.
I'm not really up on my css, but I would guess a solution would be to have the centre column floating next to the left column, or to define the distance from the left hand side in em units instead of pixels.
So many things that a few years ago seemed like something only those wacky Japanese would be into (Tamagotchi, Kareoke, Shonen Jump, 60 hour work weeks) quickly have become part of American culture. I was surprised when the concept of "Idol Stars" and game shows revolving around torturing people quickly became part of American television.
Funny part is, I was just watching a Canadian reporter talking to an actual retired Quebec terrorist, and he kind of liked the idea, he thought it might make young people a little more militant.
With all the money labels are paying to get songs on the radio, why would they be complaining about internet radio stations doing it for free?
I was just looking at some Korean RPGs, like Magna Carta, looks fascinating. They have imitated the look of the Final Fantasy games pretty well. I'm surprised Korean companies haven't tried releasing many English versions of these rpg games.
Just a warning, I heard someone ask him this at a reading, his reply was "Yes." and he moved on to the next question.
Or he could encrypt the message before he types it into the computer, perhaps using a deck of cards and solitaire, though that's a bit slow, but at least he wouldn't have to have encryption software on his laptop. Obfuscating the encrypted text might be tough though.
Good point, maybe SquareEnix should of run ads for Final Fantasy X-2 in girls and womens magazines, the thing is practically a girl game anyway (Dress Sphere system?).
Specifically Dragon Quest VI. I kept hearing all this hype about the Dragon Quest series from Japan, how it was suppossed to be even better than the Final Fantasy series, how there's some law against a game in the series being released on a school day.
Got a rom of DQ VI (it was never officially translated into Englsih so you have to use a fan translated version) and boy was it boring, I put about 35 hours into, got to the job system and played around to that, then gave up. The combat system was simplistic, the characters uninteresting. Not as good as FF VI or Chrono Trigger, the other big 16-bit rpgs.
Maybe I'll give it another go someday, but it just didn't live up to the hype for me.
From one of the definitions in the google glossary:
From your post, it looks like you just found out what a meme is and how it spreads firsthand.You know what's strange, how hundreds of weblogs all suddenly decided to include that text this weekend, starting on the 12th. Quite a quick meme.
Probably just a coincidence, maybe...