I'll chime in with this with a non anonymous post, because it needs to be said. Seriously, don't use it. If you're quoting someone else, then fine. But it's just a version. Calling it an SKU reeks of trying too hard.
Or you talk to a friend online and arrange an impromptu game of RS Vegas 2, and discover that the Ubisoft servers are down and that you have no way to simply create your own server and go. This isn't a fucking MMO, we just wanted to shoot AI bad guys between the two of us.
Weren't those the crazies that, when faced with increasing ridicule, changed their story to be something about some unamed terror, from the deep or something?
Last I heard they were just outright babbling about the apocalypse. Haven't heard anything in years though. I kinda miss them, in a go-crazy-and-shoot-all-my-friends-with-a-guided-rocket-launcher kinda way.
Mechwarrior 2 was doing it before then. Not a true FPS by definition but I don't know if we're sticking to the genre or just the game mechanic in general.
My brother bought a Sony laptop from one of those electronics and furniture and white goods all in one stores (Harvey Norman for people in Australia to reference), and they didn't give him any sort of discs at all. They simply said that when he needed a reformat or a service to bring it back in. I do believe I warned him repeatedly and gave him much better options, but then if there is something that every IT nerd knows, it's that family members will ask for advice on IT related issues, and then consistently go and do the exact opposite thing. No doubt Harvey Norman charge a tidy sum for running through the reformat/install on a recovery disk for 15 mins.
How is this insightful? Making things smaller has always been half the point of hardware manufacture, and has always been one of the most expensive things to achieve.
Fallout 3 allowed you to murder innocent people, wandering nomads, traders, basically anyone (well except kids), even a guy collapsed on the ground begging for water. In fact, any CRPG worth it's salt doesn't balk at the idea that not everyone is a noble minded hero and that innocent civillians are not impervious to all attacks.
Deus Ex allows you to kill innocent people, even sick people. Hell there is one small part where a guy asks you to kill him.
All of the Hitman games, Blood Money in particular, contain numerous civillians that you never ever have a reason to kill, yet the game provides no specific punishment for doing so.
Soldider of Fortune 1 and 2 would automatically kill you if you shot anyone but the bad guys. And it was a worse game for it.
Strife apparently had the vital signs of all civillians hooked up to the global alarm system and anyone that was killed would set it off, and they always knew it was you. Never did work out how they knew.
The Grand Theft Auto/Saint's Row games obviously have a police presence to attempt to stop you from killing too many people, which is accurate to the scenario and a entertaining facet to the game.
Carmageddon anyone?
I'm sure there are more. I imagine that the majority of older games didn't have civillians because there was only so many system resources to go around and it was a waste to spend them on non-enemy, non-quest related, non-vendor characters
If anything, this Modern Warfare 2 outrage is another reminded for me to put on my "get off my lawn" t-shirt and pine for a time when gaming was a secluded pastime seperate from society and it's impressive ability to freak out at anything and everything.
It's basically this. Frankly, I'm more disturbed by someone getting so emotionally invested in scenes in a video game than someone who isn't. I mean, I find footage of people being killed in war as disturbing as a lot of people, but that's real people getting really killed. For ever. A video game in which civillians get killed? You're getting upset because of the fact that your brain can't make the disconnect between a video game and reality. The type of people that get offended or 'outraged' at this sort of thing are reminding me of the studies that suggest video games affect people negatively. The majority of us go "wow, a game in which you kill civillians, that's different, and while I'm at it, it's about time someone had the balls to make a game from the other point of view", whereas I imagine the type of person that will steal cars and shoot cops after playing GTA for hours on end will go "oh my god that's terrible".
I have to agree with this. So much of "local" news on TV or print appears to regard a local car accident death as highly important information that we all need to know. Actual issues appear to take a distant second place to things involving violence or things to be scared of.
I'll assume the fact that I had to do this means that I can get full of myself. And I'm only 32. Extrapolating that out, I probably should have taken over the world by now.
This isn't a problem with the console vs. pc gamer market. As much as I hate to say it, this is a misguided response to piracy.
Oh and blocking modding and allowing them to force DLC on people. I'll be shocked if you get DLC-free servers more than a fortnight after any DLC release. I would say that it's part of abandoning the PC as a gaming platform but I don't think that's the case, it's more like they just want full control over the money flow. I think I read somewhere that they had put 100k into this IWNET server crap. Maybe I read wrong and it was 1 million. That hardly matters; if the game sells 9 million+ like the previous game did, and even if they were to only get $1 per DLC purchase, and only had a 50% take up of DLC and people just dropped the game, then if you can't play on the IWNET servers without DLC then the first DLC release alone (FIVE NEW MULTIPLAYER MAPS FOR ONLY $5! PLUS NEW HATS) will make them an insane profit on their original investment.
Everyone has responded with comments about correct slides and when the car is out of control. I think it would simply be enough to attempt to show people that cars going in the opposite direction colliding with each other hit with the same impact as a single car hitting a wall at their combined speeds.
I'm certain people do all sorts of stupid shit because they think that "we're only going 50km/h, how bad can an accident be", completely ignorant to the fact that if you happen to hit someone going on the other direction at that same speed, the contact is equivalent to hitting a wall at 100km/h. People swing past parked cars on the other side of the road, go wide on corners that they can't completely see around, take intersections between back streets as though there couldn't possibly be a car coming the other way that hasn't come into view yet, and I'm sure it's all because in their head they think that they're slowing down for the corner anyway, so an accident will only be at 30-40km/h, completely ignoring the fact that the car they will hit will be doing the same speed in the other direction, which combines the two speeds at the point of impact.
Although some basic driving practice wouldn't go astray. The only accident I've been involved in was because some complete idiot decided that public roads on blind corners were the best place to practice his powersliding. He was mid drift, I came around the corner, and instead of powering through and straightening the car up, he slammed on the brakes and the car lost all momemtum pulling it through the corner, continued sideways and straight into my bonnet. He shouldn't have been doing that anyway, but if you must insist on doing stupid shit, at least have the brains to know what to do if things go bad. I appreciate that it's asking an awful lot to make people think that far ahead though.
It's not even like it's a wrapper on the outside though. As you've said, the purchase has already been made. If they really want to enforce this sort of bullshit then each software purchase needs to occur like a proper legal meeting, with parties signing and co-signing and witnessess. And surely it needs to occur before the event that it's having a legal effect on. After the sale has been made, the EULA surely can only affect the installation, as it's too late to attempt to enforce rules that affect something that has already occured. How can you say that "now that you've purchased this, before you install you have to give up your right to resell"?, once you've purchased, but before you install, resell or return are the only other options you have.
I have no idea what I'm talking about but you know, the words all sound good when said in order.
I'll swap with her. I've had an artifical heart valve since very shortly after birth, and every single pulse of my life since I've been old enough to understand the concept of my heart beating is, so long as it's not overly noisy, completely audible. And because it's an internal noise, or because I know what to listen for, it's much easier to pick up than you would think. I'm sitting in an office with about 10 people all working at computers and I can hear it now.
Allow me to assure you that the tick of your own heart beating audibly for every single fucking beat, will slowly but almost certainly drive you mad. I used to sleep with a radio every single night on for a period of virtually 10 years. Even now from time to time I go to bed with headphones on to not bother my wife but still drown out the ticking.
I would swap an audible pulse for no pulse at all in a... well, heartbeat.
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That's a fine-sounding liberal opinion, but when did accessibility to a video game, which presupposes a minimum level of vision, become a privilege
Maybe they should have described them using a word that implies a visual aspect to these games. As soon as I think of one I'll let you know.
I'll chime in with this with a non anonymous post, because it needs to be said. Seriously, don't use it. If you're quoting someone else, then fine. But it's just a version. Calling it an SKU reeks of trying too hard.
Or you talk to a friend online and arrange an impromptu game of RS Vegas 2, and discover that the Ubisoft servers are down and that you have no way to simply create your own server and go. This isn't a fucking MMO, we just wanted to shoot AI bad guys between the two of us.
Weren't those the crazies that, when faced with increasing ridicule, changed their story to be something about some unamed terror, from the deep or something?
Last I heard they were just outright babbling about the apocalypse. Haven't heard anything in years though. I kinda miss them, in a go-crazy-and-shoot-all-my-friends-with-a-guided-rocket-launcher kinda way.
I'm so disappointed to hear that my dream of a UE powered Tux Racer is no longer a possibility. Whatever.
Mechwarrior 2 was doing it before then. Not a true FPS by definition but I don't know if we're sticking to the genre or just the game mechanic in general.
Yeah, and Halo invented the first person perspective for shooters and Splinter Cell invented stealth gameplay.
Please remove yourself from the grassed area outside my house.
My brother bought a Sony laptop from one of those electronics and furniture and white goods all in one stores (Harvey Norman for people in Australia to reference), and they didn't give him any sort of discs at all. They simply said that when he needed a reformat or a service to bring it back in. I do believe I warned him repeatedly and gave him much better options, but then if there is something that every IT nerd knows, it's that family members will ask for advice on IT related issues, and then consistently go and do the exact opposite thing. No doubt Harvey Norman charge a tidy sum for running through the reformat/install on a recovery disk for 15 mins.
How is this insightful? Making things smaller has always been half the point of hardware manufacture, and has always been one of the most expensive things to achieve.
Fallout 3 allowed you to murder innocent people, wandering nomads, traders, basically anyone (well except kids), even a guy collapsed on the ground begging for water. In fact, any CRPG worth it's salt doesn't balk at the idea that not everyone is a noble minded hero and that innocent civillians are not impervious to all attacks.
Deus Ex allows you to kill innocent people, even sick people. Hell there is one small part where a guy asks you to kill him.
All of the Hitman games, Blood Money in particular, contain numerous civillians that you never ever have a reason to kill, yet the game provides no specific punishment for doing so.
Soldider of Fortune 1 and 2 would automatically kill you if you shot anyone but the bad guys. And it was a worse game for it.
Strife apparently had the vital signs of all civillians hooked up to the global alarm system and anyone that was killed would set it off, and they always knew it was you. Never did work out how they knew.
The Grand Theft Auto/Saint's Row games obviously have a police presence to attempt to stop you from killing too many people, which is accurate to the scenario and a entertaining facet to the game.
Carmageddon anyone?
I'm sure there are more. I imagine that the majority of older games didn't have civillians because there was only so many system resources to go around and it was a waste to spend them on non-enemy, non-quest related, non-vendor characters
If anything, this Modern Warfare 2 outrage is another reminded for me to put on my "get off my lawn" t-shirt and pine for a time when gaming was a secluded pastime seperate from society and it's impressive ability to freak out at anything and everything.
It's basically this. Frankly, I'm more disturbed by someone getting so emotionally invested in scenes in a video game than someone who isn't. I mean, I find footage of people being killed in war as disturbing as a lot of people, but that's real people getting really killed. For ever. A video game in which civillians get killed? You're getting upset because of the fact that your brain can't make the disconnect between a video game and reality. The type of people that get offended or 'outraged' at this sort of thing are reminding me of the studies that suggest video games affect people negatively. The majority of us go "wow, a game in which you kill civillians, that's different, and while I'm at it, it's about time someone had the balls to make a game from the other point of view", whereas I imagine the type of person that will steal cars and shoot cops after playing GTA for hours on end will go "oh my god that's terrible".
I have to agree with this. So much of "local" news on TV or print appears to regard a local car accident death as highly important information that we all need to know. Actual issues appear to take a distant second place to things involving violence or things to be scared of.
They are great for commentary but don't produce original news, unless if there is an agenda.
Yes, yes, but what about the newspaper alternatives?
I'll assume the fact that I had to do this means that I can get full of myself. And I'm only 32. Extrapolating that out, I probably should have taken over the world by now.
So it's kinda like end-of-the-world confirmation bias? Actually, can it even be confirmation bias if they're only ever right once?
The freaky part is that only 28 members of the crew were female.
This isn't a problem with the console vs. pc gamer market. As much as I hate to say it, this is a misguided response to piracy.
Oh and blocking modding and allowing them to force DLC on people. I'll be shocked if you get DLC-free servers more than a fortnight after any DLC release. I would say that it's part of abandoning the PC as a gaming platform but I don't think that's the case, it's more like they just want full control over the money flow. I think I read somewhere that they had put 100k into this IWNET server crap. Maybe I read wrong and it was 1 million. That hardly matters; if the game sells 9 million+ like the previous game did, and even if they were to only get $1 per DLC purchase, and only had a 50% take up of DLC and people just dropped the game, then if you can't play on the IWNET servers without DLC then the first DLC release alone (FIVE NEW MULTIPLAYER MAPS FOR ONLY $5! PLUS NEW HATS) will make them an insane profit on their original investment.
You've made a powerful enemy today, sign.
My server (Blackrock) is full of utter retards. Full to bursting. I don't have main or trade chat on at all, ever.
Theorem : The greater internet fuckwad theory.
Proof : Blackrock WoW server.
QED.
Full colon? It's either colon or semi-colon, isn't it?
Everyone has responded with comments about correct slides and when the car is out of control. I think it would simply be enough to attempt to show people that cars going in the opposite direction colliding with each other hit with the same impact as a single car hitting a wall at their combined speeds.
I'm certain people do all sorts of stupid shit because they think that "we're only going 50km/h, how bad can an accident be", completely ignorant to the fact that if you happen to hit someone going on the other direction at that same speed, the contact is equivalent to hitting a wall at 100km/h. People swing past parked cars on the other side of the road, go wide on corners that they can't completely see around, take intersections between back streets as though there couldn't possibly be a car coming the other way that hasn't come into view yet, and I'm sure it's all because in their head they think that they're slowing down for the corner anyway, so an accident will only be at 30-40km/h, completely ignoring the fact that the car they will hit will be doing the same speed in the other direction, which combines the two speeds at the point of impact.
Although some basic driving practice wouldn't go astray. The only accident I've been involved in was because some complete idiot decided that public roads on blind corners were the best place to practice his powersliding. He was mid drift, I came around the corner, and instead of powering through and straightening the car up, he slammed on the brakes and the car lost all momemtum pulling it through the corner, continued sideways and straight into my bonnet. He shouldn't have been doing that anyway, but if you must insist on doing stupid shit, at least have the brains to know what to do if things go bad. I appreciate that it's asking an awful lot to make people think that far ahead though.
A poke can lack a focus as well. If you don't deliberately try and poke anyone, you simply end up poking your own belly and giggling.
Wow, better odds than winning lotto? But ... but ... someone wins that nearly every single week ... WE'RE DOOMED ... (deep breath) DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It's not even like it's a wrapper on the outside though. As you've said, the purchase has already been made. If they really want to enforce this sort of bullshit then each software purchase needs to occur like a proper legal meeting, with parties signing and co-signing and witnessess. And surely it needs to occur before the event that it's having a legal effect on. After the sale has been made, the EULA surely can only affect the installation, as it's too late to attempt to enforce rules that affect something that has already occured. How can you say that "now that you've purchased this, before you install you have to give up your right to resell"?, once you've purchased, but before you install, resell or return are the only other options you have.
I have no idea what I'm talking about but you know, the words all sound good when said in order.
I'll swap with her. I've had an artifical heart valve since very shortly after birth, and every single pulse of my life since I've been old enough to understand the concept of my heart beating is, so long as it's not overly noisy, completely audible. And because it's an internal noise, or because I know what to listen for, it's much easier to pick up than you would think. I'm sitting in an office with about 10 people all working at computers and I can hear it now.
Allow me to assure you that the tick of your own heart beating audibly for every single fucking beat, will slowly but almost certainly drive you mad. I used to sleep with a radio every single night on for a period of virtually 10 years. Even now from time to time I go to bed with headphones on to not bother my wife but still drown out the ticking.
I would swap an audible pulse for no pulse at all in a ... well, heartbeat.