I think that they should have released a new Freespace game as well as tried to get Volition or Outrage I think the company was to create Descent 4 in a non-Descent 3 kind of way.
Anyone ever been on the I-459 overpass around Birmingham? I prefer to call it the 459 Superspeedway, if you aren't going at least 85 you're going to get hit for going too slow.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say God appoints to everyone a time to die. You can die at any time. God knows of course, when you are going to die, but you aren't pre-determined by His choices 99.5% of the time.
Err, I forgot to put "They can't come out with enough high quality games as well as change their GameCube image". The GameBoy Advance and the Nintendo DS are great with awesome games.
Nintendo is a profitable company with billions in the bank (I remember a year or two ago a report that Nintendo has around 8 billion USD in the bank).
Nintendo's problem isn't that they can't make good games. They have completely messed up their entire image. Don't make purple consoles, while I think nothing of it there are a lot of stupid people who didn't buy the console cause it looked 'gay'. Everyone buys the black ones, so when you go to a store and see nothing but purple gamecube's, there's someone who thought about buying one but when looking at the sleek black and green Xbox or the black and blueish PS2, they probably went for it.
Nintendo ALSO needs to suck it up about their "WE know what is best for the gamer" attitude. They have said that, basically, in many interviews over the recent years.
Nintendo KNOWS people want portables, but they don't realize how much money they could make if they'd concentrate on their best online capabilities. Maybe they'll do this with their next console that is being released...late next year or early 2006, can't remember when they said they are launching it.
The biggest problem with Nintendo that I have seen is the fact that they think they know what gamers want, but they don't. Gamers want online gameplay. Nintendo says "we are sure that gamers aren't ready for this yet" but look at how many people play online with a Ps2 and Xbox? Xbox Live is mad, if GameCube had good online games with something along the lines of Xbox live I think they'd be doing a lot better.
Nintendo has said that they are sticking to what gamers want, but they don't know. I know several people who bought an Xbox soley so they could play a console online, a few of those people would have bought GameCubes for online play if it would have had it.
Erm, WoW was a little rough at launch. EQII was completely flawless. I have been playing EQII and have yet to open te launchpad only to find a server is down (for more than 2-3 minutes, and it's only down for 2-3-4 minutes usually when I'm not going to be playing).
I have yet to have any problems with any servers, they're giving us three days free and accelerated XP gain for their downtime.
SWG sucked. LucasArts isn't calling the shots on SWG, SOE is. SOE however, puts all of their money into EQ2. EQ2 is a good game that's pretty crowded, my server is almost always on "maximum" load.
I have played both World of Warcraft and EverQuest 2 on my crappy machine, 1.4ghz Athlo nXP 1600+, 768mb pc2100 DDR, Radeon 9700. Everyone I know has MAD graphics problems with EQ2 with their uber systems, but these people are idiots because they are turning the graphics as high as they can get them. WoW runs smoothly cause it really doesn't require much more power than Everquest 1. I run EQ2 on medium settings perfectly with little to no lag.
Oh, if anyone wants to rant about GameSpot's 7.8 for EQ2 and 9.5 for WoW, notice the same guy reviewed the games.
I played both WoW and EQII betas, and I'm glad I went with EQII. Most people just feel an attachment to the Warcraft series, therefore saying it is superior. I never played EverQuest 1, and coming from Star Wars Galaxies I was weary about trying another SOE product.
We haven't recieved one telemarketer call for months now. Quite happy about that, used to get one from the same company every day at almost the same time, told them not to call at least 2-3 times a week.
We still use VHS tapes about as much as DVDs, still buy both of them. I prefer DVDs myself for extra features and stuff, but 70% of the time on high qualtiy VHS's you don't notice a huge lack of quality when compared to a DVD
Exactly my point, the majority of people aren't going to want to get high while going about their buisness, not to mention the amount that are going to hate the smoke.
Smoking mariujana in public can possibly get other people high, resulting in nothing but lots of lawsuits. We need fines for people smoking in public, or maybe 10-20 days in jail, not to mention a huge tax on the product. That would discourage use of it.
Smoking it in private though is your own business.
I believe if individual cities/counties/states wants to legalize public marijuana smoking, that's the local government's business. I think there should be fines for people smoking pot in public areas, particularly areas where people are going to be all the time (city streets, parks, etc.). However, I think whatever the fsck you want to do in your own home is your business. If someone wants to sit on their property and smoke pot all day, so be it unto them.
I downloaded FireFox and I really hate the Interface, too much like Internet Explorer. I liked a lot of other things about it, and it made me want to switch except I use so many of Opera's features I don't want to. I do use a friend's copy of Opera that he didn't want, so I have no ad banners.
I won't support EMBRYONIC stem cell research until
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I am in complete support of adult stem cell research, and it does have great potential. Embryonic stem cell research, though, I cannot support because a embryo is a human being with the same rights as anyone else. Killing one human to save another (Technically/more/ than one human to save another if it doesn't work well the first time) is immoral and stupid.
I heard somewhere they are very close to being able to create stem cells without actually having conception with a sperm and an egg, if this is true I am in full support of it.
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I think that they should have released a new Freespace game as well as tried to get Volition or Outrage I think the company was to create Descent 4 in a non-Descent 3 kind of way.
The Apocalypse will have come and gone long before DNF is released.
OMFG Man I hate people that slow down to see a wreck. That pisses me off more than anything else.
Anyone ever been on the I-459 overpass around Birmingham? I prefer to call it the 459 Superspeedway, if you aren't going at least 85 you're going to get hit for going too slow.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say God appoints to everyone a time to die. You can die at any time. God knows of course, when you are going to die, but you aren't pre-determined by His choices 99.5% of the time.
Err, I forgot to put "They can't come out with enough high quality games as well as change their GameCube image". The GameBoy Advance and the Nintendo DS are great with awesome games.
Nintendo is a profitable company with billions in the bank (I remember a year or two ago a report that Nintendo has around 8 billion USD in the bank).
Nintendo's problem isn't that they can't make good games. They have completely messed up their entire image. Don't make purple consoles, while I think nothing of it there are a lot of stupid people who didn't buy the console cause it looked 'gay'. Everyone buys the black ones, so when you go to a store and see nothing but purple gamecube's, there's someone who thought about buying one but when looking at the sleek black and green Xbox or the black and blueish PS2, they probably went for it.
Nintendo ALSO needs to suck it up about their "WE know what is best for the gamer" attitude. They have said that, basically, in many interviews over the recent years.
Descent > Quake...wasn't Descent out first?
is not to find out who really won, it's to recount until you win (both sides).
Nintendo KNOWS people want portables, but they don't realize how much money they could make if they'd concentrate on their best online capabilities. Maybe they'll do this with their next console that is being released...late next year or early 2006, can't remember when they said they are launching it.
The biggest problem with Nintendo that I have seen is the fact that they think they know what gamers want, but they don't. Gamers want online gameplay. Nintendo says "we are sure that gamers aren't ready for this yet" but look at how many people play online with a Ps2 and Xbox? Xbox Live is mad, if GameCube had good online games with something along the lines of Xbox live I think they'd be doing a lot better.
Nintendo has said that they are sticking to what gamers want, but they don't know. I know several people who bought an Xbox soley so they could play a console online, a few of those people would have bought GameCubes for online play if it would have had it.
Erm, WoW was a little rough at launch. EQII was completely flawless. I have been playing EQII and have yet to open te launchpad only to find a server is down (for more than 2-3 minutes, and it's only down for 2-3-4 minutes usually when I'm not going to be playing). I have yet to have any problems with any servers, they're giving us three days free and accelerated XP gain for their downtime.
I have a cell phone and a regular phone, if I'm at home I always use the regular.
SWG sucked. LucasArts isn't calling the shots on SWG, SOE is. SOE however, puts all of their money into EQ2. EQ2 is a good game that's pretty crowded, my server is almost always on "maximum" load.
Let the WoW vs. EQII flames begin. ....EQII is better.
first post...and I'm gay....
I have played both World of Warcraft and EverQuest 2 on my crappy machine, 1.4ghz Athlo nXP 1600+, 768mb pc2100 DDR, Radeon 9700. Everyone I know has MAD graphics problems with EQ2 with their uber systems, but these people are idiots because they are turning the graphics as high as they can get them. WoW runs smoothly cause it really doesn't require much more power than Everquest 1. I run EQ2 on medium settings perfectly with little to no lag.
Oh, if anyone wants to rant about GameSpot's 7.8 for EQ2 and 9.5 for WoW, notice the same guy reviewed the games.
I played both WoW and EQII betas, and I'm glad I went with EQII. Most people just feel an attachment to the Warcraft series, therefore saying it is superior. I never played EverQuest 1, and coming from Star Wars Galaxies I was weary about trying another SOE product.
We haven't recieved one telemarketer call for months now. Quite happy about that, used to get one from the same company every day at almost the same time, told them not to call at least 2-3 times a week.
We still use VHS tapes about as much as DVDs, still buy both of them. I prefer DVDs myself for extra features and stuff, but 70% of the time on high qualtiy VHS's you don't notice a huge lack of quality when compared to a DVD
Exactly my point, the majority of people aren't going to want to get high while going about their buisness, not to mention the amount that are going to hate the smoke.
Smoking mariujana in public can possibly get other people high, resulting in nothing but lots of lawsuits. We need fines for people smoking in public, or maybe 10-20 days in jail, not to mention a huge tax on the product. That would discourage use of it. Smoking it in private though is your own business.
I believe if individual cities/counties/states wants to legalize public marijuana smoking, that's the local government's business. I think there should be fines for people smoking pot in public areas, particularly areas where people are going to be all the time (city streets, parks, etc.). However, I think whatever the fsck you want to do in your own home is your business. If someone wants to sit on their property and smoke pot all day, so be it unto them.
I downloaded FireFox and I really hate the Interface, too much like Internet Explorer. I liked a lot of other things about it, and it made me want to switch except I use so many of Opera's features I don't want to. I do use a friend's copy of Opera that he didn't want, so I have no ad banners.
I am in complete support of adult stem cell research, and it does have great potential. Embryonic stem cell research, though, I cannot support because a embryo is a human being with the same rights as anyone else. Killing one human to save another (Technically /more/ than one human to save another if it doesn't work well the first time) is immoral and stupid.
I heard somewhere they are very close to being able to create stem cells without actually having conception with a sperm and an egg, if this is true I am in full support of it.