Between the television ads and the constant payola the pharmaceutical companies are giving to the doctors, you are lucky to get a perscription drug that has a generic. Too many morons demand what they saw during Oprah, and the crooked doctors are more than happy to assume that you are one of them.
The ads should be banned, but more importantly the pharmaceutical industry needs some good old-fashioned regulation.
Much of that "liberal media" is now calling this a "hoax." "How in a post 9/11 world could they not have known?"
1) This is not a hoax. If it were someone would have had to claim they were bombs.
2) Now they want to prosecute the poor fucker who put them up. They want him to go to jail. Why? He never claimed they were bombs. They weren't bombs. Anything more than the least severe vandalism charge (nothing was damaged) or trespassing charge would be tyrannical. No one was hurt. No one tried to scare anyone. Let him go.
3) Are we going to start prosecuting anyone who drops a non-descript cardboard box? A lady drops a can of soup in the NYC subway. Does she do 5 years for that?
Windows might have died years ago if Apple had made an operating system for the PC. The fact is that no matter how awful you think Microsoft's business practices are, Apple is the company that demands that you own their hardware if you want to use their operating system. If Microsoft did that, they would be broken up in a week.
Anything green is good! If you do not agree than you are a fascist! I know what is right in all cases, and I refuse to hear arguments to the contrary. It doesn't matter if you raise a valid point, for I am a perfect intellect! I don't even need to refute your point. Simple scorn and name-calling will suffice to put you back in your place!
You know mabu, it is morons like you that hurt everything that reasonable liberals try to do.
The problem is that gender is socially determined, and not an individually determined predisposition.
If that were the case, I'd have far fewer problems in my life. You toss out the possibility that we may have instincts that predispose us to different desires, and you are wrong. Sometimes people are born with a set of instincts different from the norm, and fight this society their whole lives.
Let me add one thing. People bend over backward in today's society to encourage women to take traditional male roles and cheer them as they do. When the situation is reversed, society isn't so kind.
Let's let everyone be who they are and stop running around like we know what's best for everyone else. Please.
Dude, Dragon Quest 9 is a DS exclusive. Sony is shitting bricks.
Also, I think your point #1 is wrong. The PS3 is supposed to be what plows HD-DVD into the ground. They're not counting on Blu-Ray to make the PS3 successful. It's the other way around. Blu-Ray can fail without the PS3 failing.
You are forgetting something here. If the PS3 succeeds and Blu-ray fails, Sony is in trouble, because the huge subsidies for each PS3 sale were not made for the sake of game sales alone. If they were, the PS3 would be better priced at $400. If Blu-Ray fails, Sony will have trouble recouping the cost of their massive PS3 subsidy. They were trying to leverage a near monopoly to gain a royalty of every movie sold for the next 10 years. What will happen when they don't get that?
We are witnessing the death of Sony as we know it. With any luck they will rise again as the company they were in the 80s.
Episodic content has nothing to do with the needs of the gamer. If everything is equal, a fully-realized episodic game is the same to an end user as a well-made traditional game with possible sequels. So, for starters, people aren't exactly clamoring for this. It fills no need on the consumer side.
Why does anyone want this then? Money.
The seductive argument is that since the cost of making an episode would be smaller than a whole game, smaller development teams would get revenue streams earlier and allow more of them to make these types of games. In reality, this isn't a valid argument. Hoping for some retail success midstream to keep you afloat is very unreliable, and it will likely result in more unfinished than finished games. That's great for us, isn't it? Wouldn't a better use of money be to make a whole game with a more narrow scope? If it is story driven, spend the money on story and not on graphics. Go 2D if you have to. Finish the damned game, and give people a reason to give you more money the next time.
I'd like to believe the motivations for episodic content are pure, but I'm sure that certain companies are licking their chops at the prospect of selling the parts of a game for more than the whole. Look at what happened with online mp3 sales. Customers pay about the same price. Artists get less money. Corporations sleep on a bed of profits, and they still try to get Jobs to raise the prices. Don't even get me started on the last "next big thing," microtransactions. Why should we think this would be any different?
In all of this, where do you see a tangible benefit for us? That is the gigantic problem. We, the gamers, have little to gain from episodic content in the best of circumstances. Developers have little to gain from episodic content in the long run. Publishers, however, have a lot to gain. This is why I fear episodic games, but it is also why I don't think they will ever become embraced by the public.
Like I said, I'm waiting for someone to prove me wrong.
telling us why episodic content is great and start showing us. Yes, I know about all the advantages, but maybe we should start talking about overcoming the hefty drawbacks rather than pretending they don't exist.
I honestly do not see a future for episodic content. Like microtransactions, the thought of the idea becoming an industry standard makes me sick to my stomach. But hey, I'm waiting for someone to prove me wrong. That's the problem. For all the talk, no one has done it.
Sorry, but you are way out of date here. These are not 'slightly' speeded up. They are dramatically seeded up here. The links to global warming are not tentative - ice melts on that scale because of global warming.
Warming of the earth in the recent past is a fact. "Global Warming," or human initiated carbon emission based climate change, is up for debate contrary to conventional wisdom.
I find that procrastination helps me work more efficiently. Stay with me. If I start early, I can never concentrate, but if I allow myself to procrastinate, the fear of the deadline gives me adrenaline. That helps me focus.
The end result is that I am able to get things done faster and more effectively as the deadline approaches.
When the browser went live I was able to use YouTube without a problem. This morning they put up some bullshit about not having the newest flash and Java plugins.
However, the shitty Rocky Balboa trailer embedded on their homepage works just fine.
I will say this to you: take a gander at ebay. PS3s are selling at only a $50 premium. Compare that to the 360 last year and the far more abundant Wii (selling at a $200-250 premium), and you can see that the demand for the PS3 is worryingly low. The media simply isn't talking about it anymore.
Done all that. I've found that twisting the controller to the right helps, but if you do that you must be very careful to have your backswing register as the swing.
Golf: Putting is amazingly hard. The game does not register slight movements consistently, so the easiest putts in real life take the utmost care and effort.
Bowling: Wii sports is the greatest bowling game ever, but bowling on the Wii is much easier than real life. Bowling is not easy in real life. My brother has a ~130 average in real life and can bowl over 200 consistently in Wii sports. I have over a 200 average in real life and I can't break 190, because my skills just don't translate as well.
It would seem the DS was the first step towards their revolution, and I personally think we're witnessing a Nintendo renaissance.
As a Nintendo fan for a very long time, I've been waiting for this time for many years. I'm not going to talk about a return to dominance or shit like that. That doesn't matter. Nintendo has always promised this "new way to play games," but most of their innovations, while good in their own right, have fallen short of their lofty words.
Now with the DS and the Wii, Nintendo has finally come through on those promises. I only hope it won't be another 10 or 20 years till they do it again.
Really, what the hell do you think weather is? How do you think one forecasts it? What are these things you call "maths?"
I understand if you don't want to look at the undergraduate courses and course requirements that I laid out for you. At least pretend like you did. You could even dig a little deeper to find the graduate study.
Dr. Grey is a climatologist in that he studies climate change as it relates to how hurricanes and tropical systems are formed. You'd be surprised that "Climatologist" is not a common PhD. Most "Climatologists" have their degrees in "Meteorology."
Your hair-splitting is not analogous to Physics and Math. It is more analogous to Particle Physics and Materials Science, or maybe better yet Particle Physics and Quantum Physics.
I can't and won't prove that every meteorologist studies "volcanism, glaciation and biological fluxes of CO2," but if you look in my links, you will see that some do, even at the undergraduate level.
This is the level of our discourse. I only suggested that one man had enough experience to be listened to, and that it was odd that people are tossing his views and pointing to those of someone with no experience. Now I have to prove that meteorology is at least as close to climatology as being elected to the office of Vice President.
Listen to whomever you want. Run around like a chicken with your head cut off. What pisses ME off is that Global Warming is being used as a smoke screen for far more important environmental issues.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Fuck yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.
Between the television ads and the constant payola the pharmaceutical companies are giving to the doctors, you are lucky to get a perscription drug that has a generic. Too many morons demand what they saw during Oprah, and the crooked doctors are more than happy to assume that you are one of them.
The ads should be banned, but more importantly the pharmaceutical industry needs some good old-fashioned regulation.
Much of that "liberal media" is now calling this a "hoax." "How in a post 9/11 world could they not have known?"
1) This is not a hoax. If it were someone would have had to claim they were bombs.
2) Now they want to prosecute the poor fucker who put them up. They want him to go to jail. Why? He never claimed they were bombs. They weren't bombs. Anything more than the least severe vandalism charge (nothing was damaged) or trespassing charge would be tyrannical. No one was hurt. No one tried to scare anyone. Let him go.
3) Are we going to start prosecuting anyone who drops a non-descript cardboard box? A lady drops a can of soup in the NYC subway. Does she do 5 years for that?
I fear for my country.
That is what I said. Both companies have a high douchebag coefficient for different reasons.
Windows might have died years ago if Apple had made an operating system for the PC. The fact is that no matter how awful you think Microsoft's business practices are, Apple is the company that demands that you own their hardware if you want to use their operating system. If Microsoft did that, they would be broken up in a week.
Anything green is good! If you do not agree than you are a fascist! I know what is right in all cases, and I refuse to hear arguments to the contrary. It doesn't matter if you raise a valid point, for I am a perfect intellect! I don't even need to refute your point. Simple scorn and name-calling will suffice to put you back in your place!
You know mabu, it is morons like you that hurt everything that reasonable liberals try to do.
The problem is that gender is socially determined, and not an individually determined predisposition.
If that were the case, I'd have far fewer problems in my life. You toss out the possibility that we may have instincts that predispose us to different desires, and you are wrong. Sometimes people are born with a set of instincts different from the norm, and fight this society their whole lives.
Let me add one thing. People bend over backward in today's society to encourage women to take traditional male roles and cheer them as they do. When the situation is reversed, society isn't so kind.
Let's let everyone be who they are and stop running around like we know what's best for everyone else. Please.
That something would come along so soon and make the PS3 look like a sound investment.
Dude, Dragon Quest 9 is a DS exclusive. Sony is shitting bricks.
Also, I think your point #1 is wrong. The PS3 is supposed to be what plows HD-DVD into the ground. They're not counting on Blu-Ray to make the PS3 successful. It's the other way around. Blu-Ray can fail without the PS3 failing.
You are forgetting something here. If the PS3 succeeds and Blu-ray fails, Sony is in trouble, because the huge subsidies for each PS3 sale were not made for the sake of game sales alone. If they were, the PS3 would be better priced at $400. If Blu-Ray fails, Sony will have trouble recouping the cost of their massive PS3 subsidy. They were trying to leverage a near monopoly to gain a royalty of every movie sold for the next 10 years. What will happen when they don't get that?
We are witnessing the death of Sony as we know it. With any luck they will rise again as the company they were in the 80s.
Yes, but they have only been in power... today. Can we give them 24 hours or so?
Episodic content has nothing to do with the needs of the gamer. If everything is equal, a fully-realized episodic game is the same to an end user as a well-made traditional game with possible sequels. So, for starters, people aren't exactly clamoring for this. It fills no need on the consumer side.
Why does anyone want this then? Money.
The seductive argument is that since the cost of making an episode would be smaller than a whole game, smaller development teams would get revenue streams earlier and allow more of them to make these types of games. In reality, this isn't a valid argument. Hoping for some retail success midstream to keep you afloat is very unreliable, and it will likely result in more unfinished than finished games. That's great for us, isn't it? Wouldn't a better use of money be to make a whole game with a more narrow scope? If it is story driven, spend the money on story and not on graphics. Go 2D if you have to. Finish the damned game, and give people a reason to give you more money the next time.
I'd like to believe the motivations for episodic content are pure, but I'm sure that certain companies are licking their chops at the prospect of selling the parts of a game for more than the whole. Look at what happened with online mp3 sales. Customers pay about the same price. Artists get less money. Corporations sleep on a bed of profits, and they still try to get Jobs to raise the prices. Don't even get me started on the last "next big thing," microtransactions. Why should we think this would be any different?
In all of this, where do you see a tangible benefit for us? That is the gigantic problem. We, the gamers, have little to gain from episodic content in the best of circumstances. Developers have little to gain from episodic content in the long run. Publishers, however, have a lot to gain. This is why I fear episodic games, but it is also why I don't think they will ever become embraced by the public.
Like I said, I'm waiting for someone to prove me wrong.
If you're rolling your eyes already, wait til you get to "geodetic markers in memespace".
You are far braver than I. "Grok" was enough warning for me to turn away.
telling us why episodic content is great and start showing us. Yes, I know about all the advantages, but maybe we should start talking about overcoming the hefty drawbacks rather than pretending they don't exist.
I honestly do not see a future for episodic content. Like microtransactions, the thought of the idea becoming an industry standard makes me sick to my stomach. But hey, I'm waiting for someone to prove me wrong. That's the problem. For all the talk, no one has done it.
Yeah, but the PS3 ain't selling. It's almost as if the American consumer grew a brain.
Sorry, but you are way out of date here. These are not 'slightly' speeded up. They are dramatically seeded up here. The links to global warming are not tentative - ice melts on that scale because of global warming.
Warming of the earth in the recent past is a fact. "Global Warming," or human initiated carbon emission based climate change, is up for debate contrary to conventional wisdom.
I find that procrastination helps me work more efficiently. Stay with me. If I start early, I can never concentrate, but if I allow myself to procrastinate, the fear of the deadline gives me adrenaline. That helps me focus.
The end result is that I am able to get things done faster and more effectively as the deadline approaches.
So many big words, so little knowledge.
Come off it. The only ps3 consoles selling at a premium according to your own link were those with extras such as included games.
Many of the listings had no bids at all, just the dashed hopes of a seller with a starting bid (of $650) that no one wants to make.
When the browser went live I was able to use YouTube without a problem. This morning they put up some bullshit about not having the newest flash and Java plugins.
However, the shitty Rocky Balboa trailer embedded on their homepage works just fine.
They are fucking with us.
I will say this to you: take a gander at ebay. PS3s are selling at only a $50 premium. Compare that to the 360 last year and the far more abundant Wii (selling at a $200-250 premium), and you can see that the demand for the PS3 is worryingly low. The media simply isn't talking about it anymore.
I'm trying to think what criteria Next Gen might have used to judge Iwata that might make him second on this list.
English accent?
Penis size?
I really am at a loss. This should have been a lock for him.
I was waiting to see if there were any true Douglas Adams fans here.
Done all that. I've found that twisting the controller to the right helps, but if you do that you must be very careful to have your backswing register as the swing.
Golf: Putting is amazingly hard. The game does not register slight movements consistently, so the easiest putts in real life take the utmost care and effort.
Bowling: Wii sports is the greatest bowling game ever, but bowling on the Wii is much easier than real life. Bowling is not easy in real life. My brother has a ~130 average in real life and can bowl over 200 consistently in Wii sports. I have over a 200 average in real life and I can't break 190, because my skills just don't translate as well.
It would seem the DS was the first step towards their revolution, and I personally think we're witnessing a Nintendo renaissance.
As a Nintendo fan for a very long time, I've been waiting for this time for many years. I'm not going to talk about a return to dominance or shit like that. That doesn't matter. Nintendo has always promised this "new way to play games," but most of their innovations, while good in their own right, have fallen short of their lofty words.
Now with the DS and the Wii, Nintendo has finally come through on those promises. I only hope it won't be another 10 or 20 years till they do it again.
Really, what the hell do you think weather is? How do you think one forecasts it? What are these things you call "maths?"
I understand if you don't want to look at the undergraduate courses and course requirements that I laid out for you. At least pretend like you did. You could even dig a little deeper to find the graduate study.
Dr. Grey is a climatologist in that he studies climate change as it relates to how hurricanes and tropical systems are formed. You'd be surprised that "Climatologist" is not a common PhD. Most "Climatologists" have their degrees in "Meteorology."
Your hair-splitting is not analogous to Physics and Math. It is more analogous to Particle Physics and Materials Science, or maybe better yet Particle Physics and Quantum Physics.
I can't and won't prove that every meteorologist studies "volcanism, glaciation and biological fluxes of CO2," but if you look in my links, you will see that some do, even at the undergraduate level.
This is the level of our discourse. I only suggested that one man had enough experience to be listened to, and that it was odd that people are tossing his views and pointing to those of someone with no experience. Now I have to prove that meteorology is at least as close to climatology as being elected to the office of Vice President.
Listen to whomever you want. Run around like a chicken with your head cut off. What pisses ME off is that Global Warming is being used as a smoke screen for far more important environmental issues.
Oh yeah, by the way, Mars is warming too.