States like Tex-Ass and Wisconsin, who enacted massive tax breaks for certain billionaires that seem to just magically coincide with how much the budget is short in the last year or two.
Who are now screaming about how everything needs to be cut because of a "budget shortfall."
It's not the bitrates that I find problematic. I like anime, so I tend to reencode my discs to include the language and subtitle track options.
Then, of course, I have to set the upnp server to select a given one by track number, which isn't always the first choice, and every now and then I want to switch anyways (some have crappy english tracks, some don't).
On the other hand, a lot of that's due to the Retardicans constantly stonewalling and wasting time.
And of course, their "tax breaks for billionaires paid for by fucking the poor" philosophy that's resulted in massive state budget problems in pretty much every state these assholes control.
Eh. For me - still running an early version PS3 - this doesn't do anything yet.
I'd love to install it, really I would. This + Linux XBMC would make the PS3 into an awesome media device. (And no, "just install a upnp server" is not an option - upnp servers are crap, require you to leave a box rather than just a network storage device running, and don't allow for anything approaching quick fast-forward/rewind or turning subtitles on/off or switching language tracks).
But, looks like this is yet another of those "just for the models we play around with" setups, rather than being coded to work properly across all models.
Sony had a legal responsibility to secure their customers' data.
They failed. In a way that cannot be seen as anything other than sheer negligence.
A month of a service I never signed up for, that I never intended to use, as "payment" for the crap I have to go through re-securing my identity? Please. That's complete bullshit.
The US Supreme Court just ruled that "unconscionable contract" provisions in state laws are null and void.
The difference between the US and China is fading fast. The only difference is the Chinese call their system "Communism" when it's really an oligarchy run by a few giant corporations, while the US call their system "Capitalism" and it's really an oligarchy run by a few giant corporations.
I was not a part of any attack. However, due entirely to Sony's fuckwitted lack of security concerning sensitive data, I have had to take measures to protect my identity.
The number of customers whose data was exposed are legion. Being given a "free month of PSN Plus", when I do not play games online through the PS3, is bullshit.
I, like most Sony customers, know better than to patronize them in the future. Fool me once, shame on you: fool me twice...
And if I have to be holding the controller up making small pointing motions for more than a half hour, my shoulder starts getting tired.
Whereas, if it is my recreation time and I want to spend 2 hours in one evening because the rest of my week is full-up, well, I want to sit down and play. I don't want to be standing there taking "gee my shoulder is tired" breaks constantly.
If I had to design a controller from scratch to be perfect for an FPS, I'd go get a keyboard and mouse. Absent that, I'd be straight onto the two-thumbsticks design.
Trying to do an FPS with the Wiimote is like trying to bolt half of a PS2 Dualshock onto the ass end of an arcade House of the Dead gun. It's insane.
The same people who think the Wiimote+Nunchuck is "great" for FPS gaming probably thought this pile of crap was the bee's knees.
If you moved it towards the edge of the screen, you'd start turning/looking that way. The closer to the edge, the faster you turned. So you could strafe left while turning right, 'circling' around an enemy. One issue is that shooting while turning can be problematic,
Point made right there. Shooting while turning - or trying to quickly shoot at an enemy that was near the edge of the screen at the start of your motion - was a pain in the ass.
The Wii has a perfectly serviceable controller for this kind of game: the "Classic" controller.
The Goldeneye remake had some of the best controls on the Wii, and they did it by letting people pick and choose. You wanted to plug in a Gamecube controller? Go for it. Want to use the Classic? Sure. Want to use Metroid-Prime-style controls? Go ahead. You'll almost certainly get your ass handed to you by the people using one of the other two control systems, but they did give you the option.
I own all 3 systems. I play on them back and forth.
I've even tried out cross-platform games released for both consoles.
You want to know why having two analog sticks works for gaming? Because it makes sense. Intuitively, if I am in an FPS, I want an axis for forward/back motion, an axis for side-to-side motion, an axis for left/right turning, and an axis for up/down look control. Four axes = two sticks, easily controlled with two thumbs and leaving the fingers free for triggers.
Meanwhile, the Wiimote's controls - when used PROPERLY - can make for a good game. The problem is even in titles that aren't technically "shovelware", the developers constantly feel they have to "show off" the Wiimote by including some mechanic where instead of simply pressing a goddamn button, you shake the wiimote, or shimmy it, or turn it upside down, or whatever the hell else they can come up with. And with all of those mechanics, YOU DO NOT KNOW PRECISELY WHEN YOUR INPUT HAS BEEN TAKEN. With a button press, I know when I pressed the damn button. When I'm shaking the Wiimote up and down like mad trying to get it to react so that Donkey Kong will roll, or Spider-Man will do a special attack, or Captain America will throw his stupid shield, or something like that?
Let's face it. If I wanted to use a controller that reacted that poorly to controls, and where the motions made no fucking sense, I could just go back to using the UForce.
Any multiplatform-released title turns out SHIT on the Wii.
Last one I had the misfortune to try was Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.
On the Xbox360/PS3? Easy controls. Jump, grab, attack light, attack heavy, webshoot, each have their own button. One analog stick for motion, one for camera.
On the Wii? Analog stick for motion: check. Camera on... nope, just a recenter button on the D-pad. Jump? "A" button. Attack light? "c" button. Ok... attack heavy? SHAKE THE NUNCHUCK UP AND DOWN.
I mean come on, WTF? I have to shake the fucking controller to get an attack to work?
Same kind of crap with Donkey Kong Country Returns, too. Instead of a button to roll-attack, I have to shake the fucking controller up and down?
Wiimote could be a fine controller. But every fucking developer seems to think they "have" to have some gimmicky, fucking worthless "ooh it's a wiimote" control mechanism that annoys the piss out of gamers.
Surely the police raided the right people, the owners of the wireless device that facilitated the downloading
Actually, it turned out the downloader had been downloading using half a dozen access points, and they eventually caught him by tracing back his login from where he had downloaded at a university through the U's secured wireless.
So the raid was not just worthless, it was a waste of time and involved the needless trampling and horrific treatment of innocent people.
In other words, whoever collected the "evidence" and authorized the raid were being a couple of lazy fuckasses, which we should never allow law enforcement to be, and which is why it's so important to enshrine into precedent that an IP address IS NOT A PERSON and should not be enough to authorize a raid.
Sadly, none of the Retardicans/Ree Tardy fringe today are smart enough to even acknowledge that the Founding Fathers said it. They're too busy trampling all over our rights and reenacting Nazi Germany in the name of "Security" and "Freedom" and opposition to "Communism."
Wait, you mean the police might have to do actual police work rather than relying on shoddy "evidence" that doesn't point to the right place, raiding innocent people's houses, trampling all over civil liberties...
Gee. I must be insane to think we could agree that the cops should be required to do their due diligence...
I'm neither - I have no love for the left-wing nutcases (the "open borders, one world government, woohoo communism" types) nor do I have any love for the Retardican/Ree Tardier types.
On the other hand, who's currently doing a shit-ton of damage to the US? Take one guess.
Christians are like beaten wives who keep going back to their abuser.
No, seriously.
Take a look at what they have to believe: #1 - God gave them a paradise. Told them they could have anything in it except the most delicious, tasty fruit. Which he put right dead-center in easy reach, rather than, say, outside the walls, or in an easily avoided corner.
#2 - God then, when they slipped up once, kicked them out into the "harsh world." Which he had created. Rather than making the entire world a paradise, no, he made a fucking harsh world in preparation for when they slipped up.
#3 - Then, he hits them with diseases. Cancer. Senility. Oh sure, "Go forth and multiply and take stewardship of the earth."
#4 - And God "loves them." So much that he "sends his son" who is also God... (wait I'm confused, is God a hermaphrodite or something?) to "die" in order to "conquer death" to give them "everlasting life" (with standard advertising-spreak disclaimer: everlasting life offer only good if you behave well enough for God's impossible standards, offer not valid if seal is broken, etc...)
#5 - But don't worry. In the meantime, God gave them the ability to completely fuck up the world around them. Pollution? Check. Natural disasters - fire, flood, volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, plagues... check. Horrific degenerative genetic diseases? Check. Rampant diseases that will take away your eyesight, or hearing, or ability to control your own body's movement? Check.
You know what? It's a small wonder the monotheists have a major tradition of beaten-wife syndrome. Their "God" is basically nothing but an abusive prick anyways and yet they keep on worshiping.
Fox News has been pushing the Birther meme like there was no tomorrow. Glenn Beck has been pushing birther crap for years.
The Hate Radio twerps in my area, especially on a station run by this shithead called Dan Patrick who's managed to get himself elected to state senate, are STILL trying to come up with ways to believe that Obama's not a citizen.
In a world where most of the Retardicans get their "news" from Hate Radio screeds, and eagerly await their daily reprogramming (don't worry, if Rush got something wrong two weeks ago, he'll gleefully just reprogram them all today to believe he never said what he said), the "facts" don't seem to matter much.
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States like Tex-Ass and Wisconsin, who enacted massive tax breaks for certain billionaires that seem to just magically coincide with how much the budget is short in the last year or two.
Who are now screaming about how everything needs to be cut because of a "budget shortfall."
I smell a rat. With a big grey trunk.
It's not the bitrates that I find problematic. I like anime, so I tend to reencode my discs to include the language and subtitle track options.
Then, of course, I have to set the upnp server to select a given one by track number, which isn't always the first choice, and every now and then I want to switch anyways (some have crappy english tracks, some don't).
On the other hand, a lot of that's due to the Retardicans constantly stonewalling and wasting time.
And of course, their "tax breaks for billionaires paid for by fucking the poor" philosophy that's resulted in massive state budget problems in pretty much every state these assholes control.
Eh. For me - still running an early version PS3 - this doesn't do anything yet.
I'd love to install it, really I would. This + Linux XBMC would make the PS3 into an awesome media device. (And no, "just install a upnp server" is not an option - upnp servers are crap, require you to leave a box rather than just a network storage device running, and don't allow for anything approaching quick fast-forward/rewind or turning subtitles on/off or switching language tracks).
But, looks like this is yet another of those "just for the models we play around with" setups, rather than being coded to work properly across all models.
Learn to read, moron.
Sony had a legal responsibility to secure their customers' data.
They failed. In a way that cannot be seen as anything other than sheer negligence.
A month of a service I never signed up for, that I never intended to use, as "payment" for the crap I have to go through re-securing my identity? Please. That's complete bullshit.
Ever been to a UAW plant?
Ever seen them in action?
I have and you're full of shit.
You were saying?
Haven't you heard?
The US Supreme Court just ruled that "unconscionable contract" provisions in state laws are null and void.
The difference between the US and China is fading fast. The only difference is the Chinese call their system "Communism" when it's really an oligarchy run by a few giant corporations, while the US call their system "Capitalism" and it's really an oligarchy run by a few giant corporations.
That was rather the point.
I was not a part of any attack. However, due entirely to Sony's fuckwitted lack of security concerning sensitive data, I have had to take measures to protect my identity.
The number of customers whose data was exposed are legion. Being given a "free month of PSN Plus", when I do not play games online through the PS3, is bullshit.
I, like most Sony customers, know better than to patronize them in the future. Fool me once, shame on you: fool me twice...
Sony, go fuck yourselves.
We are not "Anonymous."
We are the customers whose data you exposed by being a bunch of idiot fucktards who wouldn't bother with the most basic of data encryption.
And WE ARE STILL LEGION.
And if I have to be holding the controller up making small pointing motions for more than a half hour, my shoulder starts getting tired.
Whereas, if it is my recreation time and I want to spend 2 hours in one evening because the rest of my week is full-up, well, I want to sit down and play. I don't want to be standing there taking "gee my shoulder is tired" breaks constantly.
If I had to design a controller from scratch to be perfect for an FPS, I'd go get a keyboard and mouse. Absent that, I'd be straight onto the two-thumbsticks design.
Trying to do an FPS with the Wiimote is like trying to bolt half of a PS2 Dualshock onto the ass end of an arcade House of the Dead gun. It's insane.
The same people who think the Wiimote+Nunchuck is "great" for FPS gaming probably thought this pile of crap was the bee's knees.
If you moved it towards the edge of the screen, you'd start turning/looking that way. The closer to the edge, the faster you turned. So you could strafe left while turning right, 'circling' around an enemy. One issue is that shooting while turning can be problematic,
Point made right there. Shooting while turning - or trying to quickly shoot at an enemy that was near the edge of the screen at the start of your motion - was a pain in the ass.
The Wii has a perfectly serviceable controller for this kind of game: the "Classic" controller.
The Goldeneye remake had some of the best controls on the Wii, and they did it by letting people pick and choose. You wanted to plug in a Gamecube controller? Go for it. Want to use the Classic? Sure. Want to use Metroid-Prime-style controls? Go ahead. You'll almost certainly get your ass handed to you by the people using one of the other two control systems, but they did give you the option.
Ok, I'll take you on.
I own all 3 systems. I play on them back and forth.
I've even tried out cross-platform games released for both consoles.
You want to know why having two analog sticks works for gaming? Because it makes sense. Intuitively, if I am in an FPS, I want an axis for forward/back motion, an axis for side-to-side motion, an axis for left/right turning, and an axis for up/down look control. Four axes = two sticks, easily controlled with two thumbs and leaving the fingers free for triggers.
Meanwhile, the Wiimote's controls - when used PROPERLY - can make for a good game. The problem is even in titles that aren't technically "shovelware", the developers constantly feel they have to "show off" the Wiimote by including some mechanic where instead of simply pressing a goddamn button, you shake the wiimote, or shimmy it, or turn it upside down, or whatever the hell else they can come up with. And with all of those mechanics, YOU DO NOT KNOW PRECISELY WHEN YOUR INPUT HAS BEEN TAKEN. With a button press, I know when I pressed the damn button. When I'm shaking the Wiimote up and down like mad trying to get it to react so that Donkey Kong will roll, or Spider-Man will do a special attack, or Captain America will throw his stupid shield, or something like that?
Let's face it. If I wanted to use a controller that reacted that poorly to controls, and where the motions made no fucking sense, I could just go back to using the UForce.
I've got to say this.
Any multiplatform-released title turns out SHIT on the Wii.
Last one I had the misfortune to try was Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.
On the Xbox360/PS3? Easy controls. Jump, grab, attack light, attack heavy, webshoot, each have their own button. One analog stick for motion, one for camera.
On the Wii? Analog stick for motion: check. Camera on... nope, just a recenter button on the D-pad. Jump? "A" button. Attack light? "c" button. Ok... attack heavy? SHAKE THE NUNCHUCK UP AND DOWN.
I mean come on, WTF? I have to shake the fucking controller to get an attack to work?
Same kind of crap with Donkey Kong Country Returns, too. Instead of a button to roll-attack, I have to shake the fucking controller up and down?
Wiimote could be a fine controller. But every fucking developer seems to think they "have" to have some gimmicky, fucking worthless "ooh it's a wiimote" control mechanism that annoys the piss out of gamers.
Here I'll make it easy for you.
How will Nintendo make their next gen console? Duct Tape three Gamecubes together.
Presto, 50% more power than the current Wii which is only two Gamecubes duct taped together.
Surely the police raided the right people, the owners of the wireless device that facilitated the downloading
Actually, it turned out the downloader had been downloading using half a dozen access points, and they eventually caught him by tracing back his login from where he had downloaded at a university through the U's secured wireless.
So the raid was not just worthless, it was a waste of time and involved the needless trampling and horrific treatment of innocent people.
In other words, whoever collected the "evidence" and authorized the raid were being a couple of lazy fuckasses, which we should never allow law enforcement to be, and which is why it's so important to enshrine into precedent that an IP address IS NOT A PERSON and should not be enough to authorize a raid.
You mean like "civil suits" where the MafiAA are using unlicensed, illegal "investigators"?
This was a sentiment of the founding fathers.
Sadly, none of the Retardicans/Ree Tardy fringe today are smart enough to even acknowledge that the Founding Fathers said it. They're too busy trampling all over our rights and reenacting Nazi Germany in the name of "Security" and "Freedom" and opposition to "Communism."
Wait, you mean the police might have to do actual police work rather than relying on shoddy "evidence" that doesn't point to the right place, raiding innocent people's houses, trampling all over civil liberties...
Gee. I must be insane to think we could agree that the cops should be required to do their due diligence...
Pity this'll never survive through the appellate courts, since the MafiAA bought off all the appellate judges long ago.
Eh. In a couple years we'll all be having Demolition man style virtual sex anyways :P
I'm neither - I have no love for the left-wing nutcases (the "open borders, one world government, woohoo communism" types) nor do I have any love for the Retardican/Ree Tardier types.
On the other hand, who's currently doing a shit-ton of damage to the US? Take one guess.
Sorry, but this isn't an invention.
It's already been done.
Christians are like beaten wives who keep going back to their abuser.
No, seriously.
Take a look at what they have to believe:
#1 - God gave them a paradise. Told them they could have anything in it except the most delicious, tasty fruit. Which he put right dead-center in easy reach, rather than, say, outside the walls, or in an easily avoided corner.
#2 - God then, when they slipped up once, kicked them out into the "harsh world." Which he had created. Rather than making the entire world a paradise, no, he made a fucking harsh world in preparation for when they slipped up.
#3 - Then, he hits them with diseases. Cancer. Senility. Oh sure, "Go forth and multiply and take stewardship of the earth."
#4 - And God "loves them." So much that he "sends his son" who is also God... (wait I'm confused, is God a hermaphrodite or something?) to "die" in order to "conquer death" to give them "everlasting life" (with standard advertising-spreak disclaimer: everlasting life offer only good if you behave well enough for God's impossible standards, offer not valid if seal is broken, etc...)
#5 - But don't worry. In the meantime, God gave them the ability to completely fuck up the world around them. Pollution? Check. Natural disasters - fire, flood, volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, plagues... check. Horrific degenerative genetic diseases? Check. Rampant diseases that will take away your eyesight, or hearing, or ability to control your own body's movement? Check.
You know what? It's a small wonder the monotheists have a major tradition of beaten-wife syndrome. Their "God" is basically nothing but an abusive prick anyways and yet they keep on worshiping.
Sorry but no.
Fox News has been pushing the Birther meme like there was no tomorrow. Glenn Beck has been pushing birther crap for years.
The Hate Radio twerps in my area, especially on a station run by this shithead called Dan Patrick who's managed to get himself elected to state senate, are STILL trying to come up with ways to believe that Obama's not a citizen.
In a world where most of the Retardicans get their "news" from Hate Radio screeds, and eagerly await their daily reprogramming (don't worry, if Rush got something wrong two weeks ago, he'll gleefully just reprogram them all today to believe he never said what he said), the "facts" don't seem to matter much.