In addition to what the others have already replied, there's a huge difference between trash talking and taunting and just sitting in general chat being an ass.
I/taunt/laugh and/spit my opponents in battlegrounds all the time -- it's gamesmanship. It gets under their skin and they don't play as well. They start gunning for me and playing recklessly. It works out in my team's favor and helps us win.
General chat spam isn't gamesmanship. It's just a bunch of stupid kids being stupid.
Games are quickly moving away from the pre-rendered cut-scene plot advancements in a major way. If they had to supplement bad graphics with big CGI cut scenes it would be a big step backwards.
Oh, the irony of implying that because cut-scenes are moving away from pre-rendered graphics, that a Nintendo console is insufficient to produce them.
Nintendo has *never* done pre-rendered cut scenes to advance a story. There are a couple of shitty videos at the beginning of stuff like Mario Party and some of the Mario Sports games, and the one in the beginning of Marion Sunshine. But largely the games have all had their stories told within the rendering engine of the game itself. Wind Waker: No videos. Metroid Prime: No videos. Eternal Darkness: No videos (well, except for the kind of crappy cuts during the final boss battle, and yes, it was also Silicon Knights). Twilight Princess: No videos. These are all games that were extremely story heavy and didn't bother with pre-rendered cut scenes.
And nobody with a clue calls Final Fantasy an RPG. It's a JRPG. There's a big difference. Also, please point out more than a tiny handful of games where you can truly play a role. Deus Ex, a FPS, is probably one of the best examples of a "role playing" game in recent years.
When we were buying those NES and SNES games, we were also buying a cart that generally made up a large portion of the manufacturing cost. ($20ish) A lot of PS1 titles were $40 because they were cheap to manufacture.
How much do you think it costs to press those optical discs? Are Blu-ray discs an extra $10 per disc to justify that cost?
Today I've got languages and frameworks which abstracts the basic (boring?) stuff so I can focus on business logic.
Oh wow. Just wow. The basic operations are the interesting things. Business logic is about as mundane as you can get. I truly pity the person stuck in this field that thinks that knowing how a computer works is boring.
I teamed up with a graphic designer/fine arts friend of mine to do just this. He's the creative talent, I'm the person that makes the pages look the way he wants them to.
It's been working out quite well for us. We've been busy enough that we haven't had time to update the website in almost 9 months.:)
Actually, FUD usually refers to what is being spewed by (for instance) Microsoft as to why you *shouldn't* buy someone else's product. They try to say things that make the competition look undesirable.
What the original poster was saying was mindless optimism, which isn't really FUD. He's trying to encourage people to buy a product. He certainly might be feeling fear, uncertainty, and doubt, but he's not spreading it.
generally being a dick in MMORPGs. Do you know why? Of course you do: it's not real.
Umm, no. Those people you're being a dick to *are* real. You are aware that MMORPGs aren't entirely populated by AI characters, right? Maybe you lack the empathy to understand when you're causing grief to someone who you can't see, but that doesn't make you any less of a tool.
Just because it's cartoony doesn't mean it should be taken less seriously. If we took that attitude, next thing you know, you'd be getting shredded by a Hello Kitty full of C4 and nails.
Or we could just as easily be shredded by some completely innocuous looking thing full of C4 and nails.
If we shift our reasoning to immediately assume that some random thing that we can't identify is a bomb, then we've already lost to the terrorists. If our default reaction to the unknown is irrational fear and panic, then we deserve to be bombed to escape hell we've accepted for ourselves.
On the upside, though... if this does anything to curb advertising (which it won't, but I still try to find the silver lining), then I guess I could live with the ATHF scare.
I'm constantly bombarded with lefty bullshit propoganda (not that I'd prefer righty bullshit - I just wanted to learn calculus, chemistry, comp sci, and other subjects that deal in facts)
Then maybe you should have taken stuff like calculus, chemistry, and compilers instead of whatever poli-sci classes you must have been in.
Maybe it's just because I'm left-leaning myself, but I never really noticed a leftist bias when learning about linked lists or integrating by parts. There might have been a *tiny* bit of leftism in sociology when the professor mentioned that he thought that the "right to life" movement should be called "right to birth," seeing as how as soon as these kids are born, the right wingers don't want to have anything to do with them anymore. There might have also been a slightly liberal bias to ethics, since, well, liberalism is kind of grounded in ethics anyway.
all that happened was a cop came to talk to him about some suspicious behaviour he was engaged in.
It wasn't suspicious behavior. Period.
Once I was hanging around at night, waiting for a buddy, and a cop stopped to talk to me to ask what I was doing.
You should say "nothing." If the cop presses further, then don't be a cowardly douchebag and play his game -- tell him to piss off instead like a responsible citizen.
I never played Battletoads when I was younger, but I started collecting NES games in the mid-90s and came across a copy. One of my friends was a huge fan of the game (and a skilled gamer) who had played it to death when he was a kid, and told me how ridiculously hard it was.
So we fired it up in 2-player mode, and got to the first racing level where I quickly died. I watched him go through the rest of the game up to the last level, but he was too out of practice to get through it.
I'm no slouch when it comes to games myself, so I spent the next week or so memorizing all the timings on when/where to jump (which is really all the game is, for the most part) and beat it once.
We decided to give it another shot with 2 people, and this time we were able to make it to the gear level before dying. It was just too difficult because your margin of error for 2 people was almost nil. We gave up on it after that play, and that was the last time I ever played Battletoads. Maybe we should've practiced a little more to try to beat it with 2 players just for the bragging rights...
In a year or so? I dunno, but Twilight Princess already looks pretty damn good to me right now. 480p 16:
And while not mind-blowing, things like Rayman, Super Monkey Ball, and Excite Truck all look surprisingly good for first-gen titles -- especially considering their sort of mini game oriented design. They look spectacularly good if you compare them to the first-gen titles of the PS2/'Cube/Xbox era.
And I suppose that your god that created the universe just created himself? Or was he created by a bigger god?
Your attempt to apply logic and reason to your argument was certainly entertaining, but can you just admit to yourself and everyone else that you believe it because it's what you were (hey) given to believe when you were a child, and you never really questioned it?
Yeah, but the difference is that if nobody comes along and builds a McDonald's, you don't somehow earn money off of the deal.
These people essentially set up a fake McDonald's storefront and then make money by allowing solicitors and panhandlers to mob you before you realize it's not where you want to be.
No, by 100% backwards compatibility, GP meant 100% backwards compatibility with Gamecube games you already own. And yes, of the couple dozen Gamecube games I've tried in it, it does appear to have 100% backwards compatibility.
GP even went on to clarify that when talking about the virtual console as something separate.
I'm not a security expert by any means, however, AFAIK, the public key can *only* be used to encrypt. The private key is what allows you to decrypt the ciphered message.
Whoever modded this informative, was the correct spelling of "Alderaan" the informative part? Or was it the "God I'm a loser" part that you found informative?
You weren't running any games at 1600x1200 on that S3. You were mostly at 320x200. Your Windows resolution *might* have been 1600x1200, but then you would have also had a $1,000 monitor.
Your example of Win95 vs. whatever version of Mac OS was out at the time is a pretty terrible one.
Say what you want about it, but Win95 was the first end-user-oriented, preemptive multitasking, (poorly) protected-memory operating system. (We won't count OS/2, because we all know that despite its marketing, it was never end-user-oriented) Crow all you want about OSX, but '95 had been through 3 major revisions by the time it showed up, and Win2k showed up at approximately the same time.
And as for it being DOS based, that's meaningless. DOS was used as a loader, nothing more. You wouldn't claim that your favorite Linux release was based on Lilo or Grub because they "run" before the OS does, would you?
When you see the hot model on TV eating McDonalds (lately it's just been a group of racially diverse trendy-looking idiots smiling while they eat the garbage) you KNOW that it's an ad.
With an astroturfing campaign like this, you don't know whether or not it's a genuine fan site or if it's Sony-sponsored. This site even goes so far as to display an image that says "this is not an ad."
Can you seriously not see the difference? The first ad is clearly a McDonalds ad -- they just try to give you a favorable impression of their product by showing pretty people eating it. The 2nd is masquerading as a fan site, trying to make you think that there's someone out there that really does believe all of the things they're saying without being paid to believe it.
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In addition to what the others have already replied, there's a huge difference between trash talking and taunting and just sitting in general chat being an ass.
/taunt /laugh and /spit my opponents in battlegrounds all the time -- it's gamesmanship. It gets under their skin and they don't play as well. They start gunning for me and playing recklessly. It works out in my team's favor and helps us win.
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General chat spam isn't gamesmanship. It's just a bunch of stupid kids being stupid.
--Jeremy
So basically, if you killed someone on the block and people who saw it are either your buddies or are shit scared of you, you get to walk away free?
Well, yeah. If there's no other evidence against you, then you're home free.
--Jeremy
I'm glad I have all my freaks at +5. Your posts are consistently amusing to read.
BTW: Check my freaks list to see some jackasses that can't take a joke, or somehow think they know more about teh intarnets than the rest of us.
--Jeremy
Games are quickly moving away from the pre-rendered cut-scene plot advancements in a major way. If they had to supplement bad graphics with big CGI cut scenes it would be a big step backwards.
Oh, the irony of implying that because cut-scenes are moving away from pre-rendered graphics, that a Nintendo console is insufficient to produce them.
Nintendo has *never* done pre-rendered cut scenes to advance a story. There are a couple of shitty videos at the beginning of stuff like Mario Party and some of the Mario Sports games, and the one in the beginning of Marion Sunshine. But largely the games have all had their stories told within the rendering engine of the game itself. Wind Waker: No videos. Metroid Prime: No videos. Eternal Darkness: No videos (well, except for the kind of crappy cuts during the final boss battle, and yes, it was also Silicon Knights). Twilight Princess: No videos. These are all games that were extremely story heavy and didn't bother with pre-rendered cut scenes.
And nobody with a clue calls Final Fantasy an RPG. It's a JRPG. There's a big difference. Also, please point out more than a tiny handful of games where you can truly play a role. Deus Ex, a FPS, is probably one of the best examples of a "role playing" game in recent years.
--Jeremy
And *your* post was grade AA fertilizer.
When we were buying those NES and SNES games, we were also buying a cart that generally made up a large portion of the manufacturing cost. ($20ish) A lot of PS1 titles were $40 because they were cheap to manufacture.
How much do you think it costs to press those optical discs? Are Blu-ray discs an extra $10 per disc to justify that cost?
--Jeremy
Oh wow. Just wow. The basic operations are the interesting things. Business logic is about as mundane as you can get. I truly pity the person stuck in this field that thinks that knowing how a computer works is boring.
--Jeremy
I teamed up with a graphic designer/fine arts friend of mine to do just this. He's the creative talent, I'm the person that makes the pages look the way he wants them to.
:)
It's been working out quite well for us. We've been busy enough that we haven't had time to update the website in almost 9 months.
Rocket Surgery
--Jeremy
Actually, FUD usually refers to what is being spewed by (for instance) Microsoft as to why you *shouldn't* buy someone else's product. They try to say things that make the competition look undesirable.
What the original poster was saying was mindless optimism, which isn't really FUD. He's trying to encourage people to buy a product. He certainly might be feeling fear, uncertainty, and doubt, but he's not spreading it.
--Jeremy
generally being a dick in MMORPGs. Do you know why? Of course you do: it's not real.
Umm, no. Those people you're being a dick to *are* real. You are aware that MMORPGs aren't entirely populated by AI characters, right? Maybe you lack the empathy to understand when you're causing grief to someone who you can't see, but that doesn't make you any less of a tool.
--Jeremy
Just because it's cartoony doesn't mean it should be taken less seriously. If we took that attitude, next thing you know, you'd be getting shredded by a Hello Kitty full of C4 and nails.
... if this does anything to curb advertising (which it won't, but I still try to find the silver lining), then I guess I could live with the ATHF scare.
Or we could just as easily be shredded by some completely innocuous looking thing full of C4 and nails.
If we shift our reasoning to immediately assume that some random thing that we can't identify is a bomb, then we've already lost to the terrorists. If our default reaction to the unknown is irrational fear and panic, then we deserve to be bombed to escape hell we've accepted for ourselves.
On the upside, though
--Jeremy
I'm constantly bombarded with lefty bullshit propoganda (not that I'd prefer righty bullshit - I just wanted to learn calculus, chemistry, comp sci, and other subjects that deal in facts)
Then maybe you should have taken stuff like calculus, chemistry, and compilers instead of whatever poli-sci classes you must have been in.
Maybe it's just because I'm left-leaning myself, but I never really noticed a leftist bias when learning about linked lists or integrating by parts. There might have been a *tiny* bit of leftism in sociology when the professor mentioned that he thought that the "right to life" movement should be called "right to birth," seeing as how as soon as these kids are born, the right wingers don't want to have anything to do with them anymore. There might have also been a slightly liberal bias to ethics, since, well, liberalism is kind of grounded in ethics anyway.
all that happened was a cop came to talk to him about some suspicious behaviour he was engaged in.
It wasn't suspicious behavior. Period.
Once I was hanging around at night, waiting for a buddy, and a cop stopped to talk to me to ask what I was doing.
You should say "nothing." If the cop presses further, then don't be a cowardly douchebag and play his game -- tell him to piss off instead like a responsible citizen.
--Jeremy
Wish I had mod points. I'm going to start putting +1 funny on these in the future, I think.
--Jeremy
I never played Battletoads when I was younger, but I started collecting NES games in the mid-90s and came across a copy. One of my friends was a huge fan of the game (and a skilled gamer) who had played it to death when he was a kid, and told me how ridiculously hard it was.
So we fired it up in 2-player mode, and got to the first racing level where I quickly died. I watched him go through the rest of the game up to the last level, but he was too out of practice to get through it.
I'm no slouch when it comes to games myself, so I spent the next week or so memorizing all the timings on when/where to jump (which is really all the game is, for the most part) and beat it once.
We decided to give it another shot with 2 people, and this time we were able to make it to the gear level before dying. It was just too difficult because your margin of error for 2 people was almost nil. We gave up on it after that play, and that was the last time I ever played Battletoads. Maybe we should've practiced a little more to try to beat it with 2 players just for the bragging rights...
--Jeremy
In a year or so? I dunno, but Twilight Princess already looks pretty damn good to me right now. 480p 16:
And while not mind-blowing, things like Rayman, Super Monkey Ball, and Excite Truck all look surprisingly good for first-gen titles -- especially considering their sort of mini game oriented design. They look spectacularly good if you compare them to the first-gen titles of the PS2/'Cube/Xbox era.
--Jeremy
However, PS3 sales are still somewhat lower than they could be
... how, exactly?
And this is different than the Wii's short supply
--Jeremy
I'd mod, but there's no option for "-1, whiney Mac fanboy who doesn't understand exaggeration"
The funny thing is that even though your entire post is technically correct, you're still wrong.
--Jeremy
And I suppose that your god that created the universe just created himself? Or was he created by a bigger god?
Your attempt to apply logic and reason to your argument was certainly entertaining, but can you just admit to yourself and everyone else that you believe it because it's what you were (hey) given to believe when you were a child, and you never really questioned it?
--Jeremy
Yeah, but the difference is that if nobody comes along and builds a McDonald's, you don't somehow earn money off of the deal.
These people essentially set up a fake McDonald's storefront and then make money by allowing solicitors and panhandlers to mob you before you realize it's not where you want to be.
--Jeremy
No, by 100% backwards compatibility, GP meant 100% backwards compatibility with Gamecube games you already own. And yes, of the couple dozen Gamecube games I've tried in it, it does appear to have 100% backwards compatibility.
GP even went on to clarify that when talking about the virtual console as something separate.
--Jeremy
I'm not a security expert by any means, however, AFAIK, the public key can *only* be used to encrypt. The private key is what allows you to decrypt the ciphered message.
--Jeremy
You conveniently forget Myth and its sequels.
Bungie had been doing quite well on the PC platform, pre-MS buyout -- I can't imagine why Halo wouldn't have made it to the PC as well.
--Jeremy
Ok, I'm just curious:
Whoever modded this informative, was the correct spelling of "Alderaan" the informative part? Or was it the "God I'm a loser" part that you found informative?
--Jeremy
Come on. I had a gaming computer in 1995 too.
You weren't running any games at 1600x1200 on that S3. You were mostly at 320x200. Your Windows resolution *might* have been 1600x1200, but then you would have also had a $1,000 monitor.
--Jeremy
Your example of Win95 vs. whatever version of Mac OS was out at the time is a pretty terrible one.
Say what you want about it, but Win95 was the first end-user-oriented, preemptive multitasking, (poorly) protected-memory operating system. (We won't count OS/2, because we all know that despite its marketing, it was never end-user-oriented) Crow all you want about OSX, but '95 had been through 3 major revisions by the time it showed up, and Win2k showed up at approximately the same time.
And as for it being DOS based, that's meaningless. DOS was used as a loader, nothing more. You wouldn't claim that your favorite Linux release was based on Lilo or Grub because they "run" before the OS does, would you?
--Jeremy
Why is this so hard to understand?
When you see the hot model on TV eating McDonalds (lately it's just been a group of racially diverse trendy-looking idiots smiling while they eat the garbage) you KNOW that it's an ad.
With an astroturfing campaign like this, you don't know whether or not it's a genuine fan site or if it's Sony-sponsored. This site even goes so far as to display an image that says "this is not an ad."
Can you seriously not see the difference? The first ad is clearly a McDonalds ad -- they just try to give you a favorable impression of their product by showing pretty people eating it. The 2nd is masquerading as a fan site, trying to make you think that there's someone out there that really does believe all of the things they're saying without being paid to believe it.
--Jeremy