Actually, this is big news for those people who love pinball. Pinball is a dying art, or to whom you ask, a dead art. For a pinball machine to be released in conjunction with such a big name movie gives pinball wizards hope. If the layout of the pin and ruleset is anything near as good as Stern's previous pin (Simpsons Party Pinball) then LOTR pinball will be a very collectible and sought after item.
Medieval Madness, one of the last games made by Williams before they shuttered their pinball division, is similar in tone to what LOTR will be and MM pinball machines now sell for over SEVEN GRAND.
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I laughed at my buddy a few years back when he said that the U.N. could fly over your house and scan it to see how much money is in it. Now that is a reality. The RFID tags would be useful for inventory purposes, but the privacy thing is hard to shake. Who says that "advanced" criminals in the future won't develop a "super RFID scanner" and scan all of the houses in a neighborhood and "see" what goodies are in each house to try to figure out which house to rob. OR the government can use it to see which house is guilty of thought crime!:)
Why would I want to pay for something that does not exist and "degrades" over time, just like the real world. I am curious as to how this economy is going to work. Is it going to be setup like "paypal," where one dollar is worth one "Entropia" dollar, or will there be an exchange rate? On the surface this concept is neat, but I fear that someone will crack this really quick and leave all the suckers who paid real money out in the cold. I think this concept would work better in a "Sims" type environment, not a space epic. Is little timmy going to have to save up to buy that "Millenium Falcon" in Entropia?
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Actually, this is big news for those people who love pinball. Pinball is a dying art, or to whom you ask, a dead art. For a pinball machine to be released in conjunction with such a big name movie gives pinball wizards hope. If the layout of the pin and ruleset is anything near as good as Stern's previous pin (Simpsons Party Pinball) then LOTR pinball will be a very collectible and sought after item. Medieval Madness, one of the last games made by Williams before they shuttered their pinball division, is similar in tone to what LOTR will be and MM pinball machines now sell for over SEVEN GRAND.
Ha! I laughed at my buddy a few years back when he said that the U.N. could fly over your house and scan it to see how much money is in it. Now that is a reality. The RFID tags would be useful for inventory purposes, but the privacy thing is hard to shake. Who says that "advanced" criminals in the future won't develop a "super RFID scanner" and scan all of the houses in a neighborhood and "see" what goodies are in each house to try to figure out which house to rob. OR the government can use it to see which house is guilty of thought crime! :)
Jeez, that really is greedy. They want you to pay for everything and then install spyware and popups. Fudge that.
Why would I want to pay for something that does not exist and "degrades" over time, just like the real world. I am curious as to how this economy is going to work. Is it going to be setup like "paypal," where one dollar is worth one "Entropia" dollar, or will there be an exchange rate? On the surface this concept is neat, but I fear that someone will crack this really quick and leave all the suckers who paid real money out in the cold. I think this concept would work better in a "Sims" type environment, not a space epic. Is little timmy going to have to save up to buy that "Millenium Falcon" in Entropia?