Saw the google cache - if you actually read their stuff (hint: capitalized "FREE FREE FREE" is usually an indication something's not on the level) it's obvious this was not a great piece of software.
Then again, spyware isn't going to go away just by getting people to stop using it -- it's going to go away when we make it unprofitable by getting laws passed to sue the people buying their advertising.
HDTV confusion is dishonest salespeople.
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Face it -- on the sales floor, the bottom line is commission. You want the consumer to walk out having BOUGHT SOMETHING.
I've known more dishonest salesguys to talk up a particular high-margin unit, even if another (pricier) unit was actually what the buyer wanted, because they get better commission on the one they're steering people to.
So they'll call it an HDTV (it isn't). Or they'll exaggerate how fast that microwave can cook something. Or they'll suggest that "oh this particular model's proven itself very reliable" (it's been on the market for 2 weeks).
And then people get it home and they don't even know what they've bought.
Art Direction - THROWAWAY #1 Costume Design - THROWAWAY #2 Directing Film Editing Makeup - THROWAWAY #3 Music (Score) > Music (Song) > Between them, ONE counts as THROWAWAY #4 Best Picture Sound - THROWAWAY #5 Visual Effects - THROWAWAY #7 Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - THROWAWAY #8
Of the list of 11 nominations, only THREE are not in throwaway categories - that is to say, the crap categories the Academy came up with after the Star Wars debacle so that in the future, much-beloved films could be pointed to with a "but it won an Oscar for visual effects, we're being nice by letting you have that".
COMPLETELY FUCKING IGNORING THAT WITHOUT THE ACTORS, ROTK AND LOTR IN GENERAL WOULD HAVE SUCKED.
Come on. Sean Astin's Samwise Gamgee was BRILLIANT. Ian McKellen's portrayal of Gandalf, an incredibly difficult role to hold up to the scrutiny of those who have read the books inside and out and KNOW Gandalf, and yet he pulled it off.
Andy Serkis's Smeagol/Gollum. Three times now they have dissed him.
I would like to FUCK the ACADEMY, for being COMPLETELY FUCKING WORTHLESS AND IRRELEVANT.
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The whole point is to create rarity in the market, my friend. They sit on crap for 30 years, because they CAN, because they own it. Slowly, the existing copies disappear -- misuse, breaking of LP decks/8-track players, obsolescence of the playback technology.
Then, when just about nobody can play them back even if their original copy is still in decent shape, they release a "new" edition and charge ridiculous amounts of money for something that, though they claim it's "digitally restored", all they did is digitally record the line-in feed from the original master.
How else would we get all those "best of" collections years later, the ones that miss half the artist's good songs and include half the stuff that we all want to forget they made?
The man approved the US's pathetic "anti-spam" law, the one that killed stronger State provisions. Now he hires out spammers to annoy the entire nation, trolling for money for his reelection bid.
And the Slashdot editors want to hush it all up because he's a Democrat.
In my mind, Blinkenlights is a *tad* less important than our getting betrayed by our elected officials.
Now, you can USE your favorite weapon -- the one you worked hard to mod up the way you wanted it -- the entire game, instead of making it and then NOT USING IT BECAUSE THE DESIGNERS DIDN'T PUT ANY AMMO IN FOR IT IN LATER LEVELS.
I suppose theoretically you could still run out of ammo if you just shoot up the entire level, killing everyone. So? You can use melee weapons then, it's your own damn fault.
Lessee -- get to the end of the game with ammo for any gun I choose, or "oops I'm on the final boss but I can't use my machinegun because the designers didn't put ammo for it in for three levels."
"they decided to put the worst level in the game in the demo, which would be quite stupid, I can judge if I will like the game or not by playing that level."
Actually, the level put into the game WAS a pretty darn poor demonstration. Plus, the demo is made of an earlier build and has some other problems. Personally, I'd rather they hadn't released the stupid demo in the first place, they obviously would be better off with people seeing the game from the beginning than what they were forced to put out as a demo.
"but the only things you can't really judge from a demo are plot features."
All these are there in abundance. And yes, the demo is lousy for that too. But a demo of the original Deus Ex would have EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM unless it were 4-5 levels long. Consider the game we're talking about here. Consider it's garnering 8.5 - 9.5, consistently, on every review site. This game has great gameplay, and the fact that they were forced to rush out a demo is a poor reflection on Eidos, not on Ion Storm, and CERTAINLY you should try this game.
"If I could rent it and try it on console maybe I'd do it, but as a PC gamer I don't have that option and fifty dollars is just way too much for a trial of something which had a demo that suggested I wouldn't like it."
Again: -Check the reviews out. -Rent the Xbox version if you must.
BUT GIVE IT A FAIR CHANCE INSTEAD OF RELYING ON THE WORD OF IDIOTS WHO SEEK TO PREDISPOSE YOU TO HATE THE GAME.
Locational damage is in -- TRUST ME, I KNOW. I've downed enemies with two headshots. True, it doesn't take just one headshot for instant kill, but you DEFINITELY get more damage from a headshot. I've done it.
If you want headshot lethality, take a look into the Ion forums again -- they ARE responding to user feedback, and they ARE looking into making some of those changes.
If you're just one of those idiots who thinks it's fashionable to bitch about this or that game -- and I'm betting you've only played the demo -- then bite me.
As for the rest:
-Skills system WHO THE FUCK CARES? The skills system was pointless, had only four levels of granularity anyways, and had tons of overlap. They rolled it into Biomods and actually made your choices tougher in that sense, but now you whine like a little bitch? Yeesh.
-Conversation logger. Meh. I can live without it. It's not as if I used it for anything other than looking up all those goddamn passwords in the last game anyways.
-Size-based inventory screen. No thank you. Size-based is all fine and good till you realize that EVERY TIME YOU PICK UP AN ITEM YOU HAVE TO PLAY TETRIS TO FIT IT TO INVENTORY. No thanks. This is a great improvement over the last game.
-Separate ammo types -- THEY EXPLAIN THIS ONE. I much prefer managing just one type of ammo, rather than going halfway through the game and running out of shots for my favorite gun. Plus, it makes more sense in other ways too. In the last game, JC walked around with a bunch of RPG rounds, 20 HE 20MM clips, tons of.72 ammo, tons of pistol ammo, boxes upon boxes of darts... was that realistic? FUCK NO. Does having just one type of ammo, by nanotech remodulation, seem slightly better? HELL YES.
-Weapon Reloading. Again, if you've got the nanotech to remod the ammo, feeding it isn't exactly a big deal. But if you're so worried about it, GO PLAY SOMETHING ELSE instead of whining like a spoiled little bitch that they didn't just remake your old game's flaws.
-length of game Yeah, sure. It's shorter. Except you can play through and join any one of a dozen factions, and STICK WITH THEM through the game for multiple endings. So the replay value is way up there, instead of playing through the old one just once and being able to take whichever ending you chose and being forced into certain factions at certain points.
Give it up. Deus Ex: Invisible War rules, it gives you the freedom to make your character whatever you want him to be, it makes you have the tough choices without the ridiculous ones, and it's great gameplay. The only valid complaint is the graphical setup, but now that the Xbox version has shipped I've no doubt that performance will be cleared up within the first patch.
Okay -- how about a Beowulf cluster of the new 64-bit Macs, used to monitor all these sensors in realtime and spit out tons of statistical data based on them (and maybe even generate a nice 3-D map of the landscape to view it on in realtime)?
I'm just sayin' is all.
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Well, sort of -- you can do multiple packages where BT downloads a whole folder-worth of files. Yes, you have to do a link to the folder, but so what?
If you are uploading multiple Kazaa files, they too will have to split your upload bandwidth. It has nothing to do with having one, two, or even three instances of the program up; two Kazaa upload threads is the same as two BT instances open. As long as cable companies cap the upload bandwidth, that's gonna be a problem.
It's also why BT is so beautiful -- your download isn't just courtesy of one person uploading, but multiple people, so you're good to go.
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Saw the google cache - if you actually read their stuff (hint: capitalized "FREE FREE FREE" is usually an indication something's not on the level) it's obvious this was not a great piece of software.
Then again, spyware isn't going to go away just by getting people to stop using it -- it's going to go away when we make it unprofitable by getting laws passed to sue the people buying their advertising.
Face it -- on the sales floor, the bottom line is commission. You want the consumer to walk out having BOUGHT SOMETHING.
I've known more dishonest salesguys to talk up a particular high-margin unit, even if another (pricier) unit was actually what the buyer wanted, because they get better commission on the one they're steering people to.
So they'll call it an HDTV (it isn't). Or they'll exaggerate how fast that microwave can cook something. Or they'll suggest that "oh this particular model's proven itself very reliable" (it's been on the market for 2 weeks).
And then people get it home and they don't even know what they've bought.
Reconsidered; in this context, BOTH musics are throwaways. that's why the lack of a #6; I forgot to fix the numbering above.
Look again at what ROTK got nominated for:
Art Direction - THROWAWAY #1
Costume Design - THROWAWAY #2
Directing
Film Editing
Makeup - THROWAWAY #3
Music (Score) >
Music (Song) > Between them, ONE counts as THROWAWAY #4
Best Picture
Sound - THROWAWAY #5
Visual Effects - THROWAWAY #7
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - THROWAWAY #8
Of the list of 11 nominations, only THREE are not in throwaway categories - that is to say, the crap categories the Academy came up with after the Star Wars debacle so that in the future, much-beloved films could be pointed to with a "but it won an Oscar for visual effects, we're being nice by letting you have that".
COMPLETELY FUCKING IGNORING THAT WITHOUT THE ACTORS, ROTK AND LOTR IN GENERAL WOULD HAVE SUCKED.
Come on. Sean Astin's Samwise Gamgee was BRILLIANT. Ian McKellen's portrayal of Gandalf, an incredibly difficult role to hold up to the scrutiny of those who have read the books inside and out and KNOW Gandalf, and yet he pulled it off.
Andy Serkis's Smeagol/Gollum. Three times now they have dissed him.
I would like to FUCK the ACADEMY, for being COMPLETELY FUCKING WORTHLESS AND IRRELEVANT.
Congratulations to the "winners" in the actor categories. Your "award" is only worth the chocolate that's wrapped up inside that gold foil.
I'll do you one better.
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Well given that Eisner just completely eliminated their animation division... Disney's days are over.
It exists now only to exploit the old accomplishments of Walt as a cash-cow, and bribe Congress to extend copyright every 20 years.
Repeat with me now... I shall pray for the day Pixar leaves Disney...
Because that would make too much sense.
The whole point is to create rarity in the market, my friend. They sit on crap for 30 years, because they CAN, because they own it. Slowly, the existing copies disappear -- misuse, breaking of LP decks/8-track players, obsolescence of the playback technology.
Then, when just about nobody can play them back even if their original copy is still in decent shape, they release a "new" edition and charge ridiculous amounts of money for something that, though they claim it's "digitally restored", all they did is digitally record the line-in feed from the original master.
How else would we get all those "best of" collections years later, the ones that miss half the artist's good songs and include half the stuff that we all want to forget they made?
Story on anti-spam law, fine. What they are COVERING UP, you dingbat, is the fact that politicians are now SPAMMING US.
If the mods were interested in topics that actually MATTER (you know as in "Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff that MATTERS) I would.
they mod down, they mod down... the editors prefer political affiliation over our rights, every time.
and Russ Feingold the Moron Spammer doesn't?
Come on guys.
The man approved the US's pathetic "anti-spam" law, the one that killed stronger State provisions. Now he hires out spammers to annoy the entire nation, trolling for money for his reelection bid.
And the Slashdot editors want to hush it all up because he's a Democrat.
In my mind, Blinkenlights is a *tad* less important than our getting betrayed by our elected officials.
Russ Feingold betraying us all and allying with spammers to beg for campaign donations.
The Slashdot editors rejected the story, along with sending emails yelling at me for saying bad things about a Democrat.
Typical Slashdot bullshit. What do we really expect -- CmdrTaco probably runs a spam operation from his basement.
Only if you're a complete idiot.
Now, you can USE your favorite weapon -- the one you worked hard to mod up the way you wanted it -- the entire game, instead of making it and then NOT USING IT BECAUSE THE DESIGNERS DIDN'T PUT ANY AMMO IN FOR IT IN LATER LEVELS.
I suppose theoretically you could still run out of ammo if you just shoot up the entire level, killing everyone. So? You can use melee weapons then, it's your own damn fault.
Lessee -- get to the end of the game with ammo for any gun I choose, or "oops I'm on the final boss but I can't use my machinegun because the designers didn't put ammo for it in for three levels."
I'll take the second, thanks.
In other words, you proved my point for me.
You're a lamer who flamed a game he hadn't spent any decent amount of time playing.
Go home now and whine to mommy about the fact that they actually improved the game instead of just making a glorified expansion pack.
"they decided to put the worst level in the game in the demo, which would be quite stupid, I can judge if I will like the game or not by playing that level."
-Intrigue
Actually, the level put into the game WAS a pretty darn poor demonstration. Plus, the demo is made of an earlier build and has some other problems. Personally, I'd rather they hadn't released the stupid demo in the first place, they obviously would be better off with people seeing the game from the beginning than what they were forced to put out as a demo.
"but the only things you can't really judge from a demo are plot features."
Plot features:
-Nonlinearity
-Depth
-Replayability
All these are there in abundance. And yes, the demo is lousy for that too. But a demo of the original Deus Ex would have EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM unless it were 4-5 levels long. Consider the game we're talking about here. Consider it's garnering 8.5 - 9.5, consistently, on every review site. This game has great gameplay, and the fact that they were forced to rush out a demo is a poor reflection on Eidos, not on Ion Storm, and CERTAINLY you should try this game.
"If I could rent it and try it on console maybe I'd do it, but as a PC gamer I don't have that option and fifty dollars is just way too much for a trial of something which had a demo that suggested I wouldn't like it."
Again:
-Check the reviews out.
-Rent the Xbox version if you must.
BUT GIVE IT A FAIR CHANCE INSTEAD OF RELYING ON THE WORD OF IDIOTS WHO SEEK TO PREDISPOSE YOU TO HATE THE GAME.
After further thought, the man bitches about the game without reason -- it's obvious he has not played it.
MOD PARENT DOWN, PLEASE
Locational damage is in -- TRUST ME, I KNOW. I've downed enemies with two headshots. True, it doesn't take just one headshot for instant kill, but you DEFINITELY get more damage from a headshot. I've done it.
.72 ammo, tons of pistol ammo, boxes upon boxes of darts... was that realistic? FUCK NO. Does having just one type of ammo, by nanotech remodulation, seem slightly better? HELL YES.
If you want headshot lethality, take a look into the Ion forums again -- they ARE responding to user feedback, and they ARE looking into making some of those changes.
If you're just one of those idiots who thinks it's fashionable to bitch about this or that game -- and I'm betting you've only played the demo -- then bite me.
As for the rest:
-Skills system
WHO THE FUCK CARES? The skills system was pointless, had only four levels of granularity anyways, and had tons of overlap. They rolled it into Biomods and actually made your choices tougher in that sense, but now you whine like a little bitch? Yeesh.
-Conversation logger.
Meh. I can live without it. It's not as if I used it for anything other than looking up all those goddamn passwords in the last game anyways.
-Size-based inventory screen.
No thank you. Size-based is all fine and good till you realize that EVERY TIME YOU PICK UP AN ITEM YOU HAVE TO PLAY TETRIS TO FIT IT TO INVENTORY. No thanks. This is a great improvement over the last game.
-Separate ammo types -- THEY EXPLAIN THIS ONE. I much prefer managing just one type of ammo, rather than going halfway through the game and running out of shots for my favorite gun. Plus, it makes more sense in other ways too. In the last game, JC walked around with a bunch of RPG rounds, 20 HE 20MM clips, tons of
-Weapon Reloading.
Again, if you've got the nanotech to remod the ammo, feeding it isn't exactly a big deal. But if you're so worried about it, GO PLAY SOMETHING ELSE instead of whining like a spoiled little bitch that they didn't just remake your old game's flaws.
-length of game
Yeah, sure. It's shorter. Except you can play through and join any one of a dozen factions, and STICK WITH THEM through the game for multiple endings. So the replay value is way up there, instead of playing through the old one just once and being able to take whichever ending you chose and being forced into certain factions at certain points.
Give it up. Deus Ex: Invisible War rules, it gives you the freedom to make your character whatever you want him to be, it makes you have the tough choices without the ridiculous ones, and it's great gameplay. The only valid complaint is the graphical setup, but now that the Xbox version has shipped I've no doubt that performance will be cleared up within the first patch.
Come on -- you even parody the Beowulf numbdice, and they mod you down?
Yeesh. The mods have the brains of lemmings.
A Beowulf cluster of...
hey, wait a second.
Okay -- how about a Beowulf cluster of the new 64-bit Macs, used to monitor all these sensors in realtime and spit out tons of statistical data based on them (and maybe even generate a nice 3-D map of the landscape to view it on in realtime)?
I'm just sayin' is all.
This lame joke brought to you by the Coalition to Bring Back Beowulf Cluster Jokes.
Well, sort of -- you can do multiple packages where BT downloads a whole folder-worth of files. Yes, you have to do a link to the folder, but so what?
If you are uploading multiple Kazaa files, they too will have to split your upload bandwidth. It has nothing to do with having one, two, or even three instances of the program up; two Kazaa upload threads is the same as two BT instances open. As long as cable companies cap the upload bandwidth, that's gonna be a problem.
It's also why BT is so beautiful -- your download isn't just courtesy of one person uploading, but multiple people, so you're good to go.
When will we have airplanes that don't rely on outdated instruments that aren't properly shielded from the inside of the cockpit?
Considering I submitted the thing 48 hours before the mods finally approved it... F* you AC.
Thankfully, Divx isn't one of them. Attempting to tie their codec to the presence of shitware would be a good way to make the geek community revolt.
They'd never be heard from again and they know it. They skirt the edge as it is.
I think the title says it all. Download the adware version, install, run Ad-Aware, and presto, you're good to go.
We should all be happy for this. And shame on those gator-pushing money grubbing bastards.