No, I worry about other governments becoming so big and out of control that they are a threat to our way of life. I say, give me my laser weilding goverment over any other in the world.
This article is about warfare technology. To whom here is it not obvious that the entire reason to develop any weapon is to blow someone or something up?
Kudos, that was one of the best posts I've seen here on slashdot in a while. I've never seen a better description of the typical crowd here at slashdot, than yours.
I agree, although, caveat emptor. A professional solution will be expensive... very expensive. You could buy the entire parking lot of cars at id software for what you will pay for a "professional" solution.
I hate arguments like this. Be it politics, gaming, religion or whatever. You have some elitist middle-of-the-road ass like GregoryD here, who is always claiming their way of thinking is right, because if you choose a "side" or you have a preference, then you are some disillusioned freak who can't see the forest for the trees.
Amen, I was wondering when someone would actually point out that Edios hasn't made a game worth playing in years. Someone post some news when a real developer quits the cube... then we all might care.
Hey, slashdot editors! GREAT EDITING JOB! WELL DONE! Be sure to just post whatever crap people send you. It's much easier than actually proofing an article.
I already have to decipher the text I read on message boards and IRC. Should I really have to do it here also?
LOL, now we get to the bottom of it. You, in your omniscience, have decided what is a fair salary for any human to make and Bill Gates is evil for making more than that. A thinly veiled plug for Marxism and an ultimately failed way of thinking.
I take offense to your remarks. Mostly because it's the same regurgitated crap about Americans being weird because we think nudity is *EVIL* and violence is something to share around the kitchen table. What a load of horse shite.
You have it 100% wrong, and honestly, I'm sick if hearing the same damn thing from you people over and over again.
Nudity is fine and dandy, it's great, I love it, you love it, everyone loves it. That's how we help to procreate. Getting undressed...
The problem here, is that you have nudity for the express purpose of getting a hard-on out of a bunch of just turned 17 year old pimply faced virgins who can finally see R movies, and nothing more. Please don't make the stupid mistake of comparing naked chicks in a film like T3 to actual nudity or art. Eroticism is not nudity. It's eroticism. Plain and simple.
What's wrong with eroticism you say? Nothing, if I want it, I can simply go home to my loving wife. You know... the real stuff. I don't buy tickets for some cheap, made-up, *unrealistic*, gimmick eroticism with cheap 2-bit actors playing the part.
If you are so keen on seeing nudity, turn on Discover channel or a National Geographic production. Hell, they show that in the daytime here.
Oh come on, those answers are so boring. I want to know: Did they leave to found a private space exploration company? Are they going to colonize mars? Are they going to run a daytime cooking show on PBS?
Last time I checked, Christians didn't have any problem reading a book full of violence and gore, so why should videogames be any different?
Who modded this insightful? This is such an old and tired argument by the same ignorant people, over and over again. Violence is not the real issue here.. it's gratuitous and extreme violence that is rewarded and has no consequences.
Violence is part of our world. People are violent every day. From the guys thinking ugly thoughts about a co-worker, to the guy yelling at a driver in traffic, to drive-bys in our inner-cities.
The difference between the violence in the Bible and the extreme violence you see in *some* of today's video games, is that in the former, it's painfully (no pun intended) obvious that the violence is wrong and there are concequences, often very serious.
The Bible doesn't give you all these examples of perfect people who live the life of the Simpson neighbor every day. These people were human. They did wrong things,they did violent things, but in the end they always came back to God and he forgave them for their hatred against other humans. Saul (who wrote much of the New Testiment) tortured and murdered many early Christians before he came to know Christ and became one of the greatest evangelists of all time. David was called a friend of God in the Bible. He murdered a man only for his wife.
What's my point here? Violence for the sake of violence (Duke Nukem Whenever) with no concequences is the real problem here, not Gordon Freeman saving the world from an alien invasion (or hopefully City 17 soon).
What happens is that a relative few start complaining about trash games like Duke Nukem Whenever and somehow that translates into every video game is bad.
And you, Mr Anonymous coward, are part of the problem of ignorance here. Go read the Bible, not only might it do you some good, but might be able to argue about it's contents in a intelligent fashion.
...the Vietnam war may not yet be appropriate subject matter...
What war is or isn't appropriate subject matter? War is hell, people die, sometimes the right people, sometimes the wrong people. War is hell, everyone knows this. Why is WWII somehow less of a hell than Vietnam was? Because a hippies protested? What a load of shite.
And, just to be clear, veterans of WWII are also still alive. Do we dishonor them every day with our WWII movies, games and even scale model building? No, we don't.
If they did the near impossible and made it unbiased, both sides would probably be offended.
This is a video game. Not only is it very possible to make it balanced, it's almost 99% certain that it will. Who wants to play a game where only side can win?
What really is the point of your post? Since something is controversial, we should just sweep it under the rug? Pretend it didn't happen? Walk around flagellating ourselves with whips to pay penance?
I've never worked a job where you would be fired for being 1 minute late. I've never worked a job that didn't compensate me fairly.
You know what though? If I did, I'd quit and go find another job. I'm a free man, you know.
I bet you are too, unless you are part of a union. Then your hard earned money is taken from you and filtered out to tons of political causes you may or may not support and it goes towards a fat paycheck for the union boss over your area. You aren't free to work if your union calls a strike and you aren't free to be compensated any more than your fellow union members, no matter how much you bust your ass.
Worse, if you want to work at certain companies, you aren't free to not be in the union. (Like for instance, a local grocery store in Canton, OH.)
Personally, you can take any union job and shove it up the union bosses ass for all I'm concerned. I prefer to live a free man.
I'm in the USA! The democracy where we're number one and we fight for our freedom, except for discussing personal rights or labor issues - heck that's commie talk.
Why do people take the legitimate griefs of other people, blow them wildly out of proportion, and then use them as a straw-man arguments?
There is no magical autocad plugin that just redesigns the shuttle system. Just because we all want to see some sort of B5 or Star Trek design hurtling up into space, holodeck and all, doesn't make it worth while to scrap an entire group of shuttles, their support systems and the related industries behind it.
In any case, if you want to do something about the sad state of the space program, push for giving the private sector the ability to do what NASA does. There is where your real innovation will take place.
How the hell did his comment get modded up to funny? It's funny to call other people names and spout off unintelligent crap? What are you all, a bunch of high school dropouts?
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$255 to replace a battery that everyone here would agree should have lasted longer than a year and a half is ridiculous. That's the point.
+1 funny
No, I worry about other governments becoming so big and out of control that they are a threat to our way of life. I say, give me my laser weilding goverment over any other in the world.
This article is about warfare technology. To whom here is it not obvious that the entire reason to develop any weapon is to blow someone or something up?
Kudos, that was one of the best posts I've seen here on slashdot in a while. I've never seen a better description of the typical crowd here at slashdot, than yours.
I agree, although, caveat emptor. A professional solution will be expensive... very expensive. You could buy the entire parking lot of cars at id software for what you will pay for a "professional" solution.
I hate arguments like this. Be it politics, gaming, religion or whatever. You have some elitist middle-of-the-road ass like GregoryD here, who is always claiming their way of thinking is right, because if you choose a "side" or you have a preference, then you are some disillusioned freak who can't see the forest for the trees.
Amen, I was wondering when someone would actually point out that Edios hasn't made a game worth playing in years. Someone post some news when a real developer quits the cube... then we all might care.
Yes... the story instantly went from "interesting" to "who the hell cares".
OMG, someone mod this one funny please.
This is old news. OLD NEWS! Slashdot editors live about 24 to 36 hours late in life.
This story is so editorially idotic, I don't even have a pithy comment to make.
Hey, slashdot editors! GREAT EDITING JOB! WELL DONE! Be sure to just post whatever crap people send you. It's much easier than actually proofing an article.
I already have to decipher the text I read on message boards and IRC. Should I really have to do it here also?
+5 Mean Spirited
LOL, now we get to the bottom of it. You, in your omniscience, have decided what is a fair salary for any human to make and Bill Gates is evil for making more than that. A thinly veiled plug for Marxism and an ultimately failed way of thinking.
I take offense to your remarks. Mostly because it's the same regurgitated crap about Americans being weird because we think nudity is *EVIL* and violence is something to share around the kitchen table. What a load of horse shite.
You have it 100% wrong, and honestly, I'm sick if hearing the same damn thing from you people over and over again.
Nudity is fine and dandy, it's great, I love it, you love it, everyone loves it. That's how we help to procreate. Getting undressed...
The problem here, is that you have nudity for the express purpose of getting a hard-on out of a bunch of just turned 17 year old pimply faced virgins who can finally see R movies, and nothing more. Please don't make the stupid mistake of comparing naked chicks in a film like T3 to actual nudity or art. Eroticism is not nudity. It's eroticism. Plain and simple.
What's wrong with eroticism you say? Nothing, if I want it, I can simply go home to my loving wife. You know... the real stuff. I don't buy tickets for some cheap, made-up, *unrealistic*, gimmick eroticism with cheap 2-bit actors playing the part.
If you are so keen on seeing nudity, turn on Discover channel or a National Geographic production. Hell, they show that in the daytime here.
Oh come on, those answers are so boring. I want to know: Did they leave to found a private space exploration company? Are they going to colonize mars? Are they going to run a daytime cooking show on PBS?
Someone mod this one funny, please.
Wow.. this has been around for ages and it finally gets on Slashdot?
Last time I checked, Christians didn't have any problem reading a book full of violence and gore, so why should videogames be any different?
Who modded this insightful? This is such an old and tired argument by the same ignorant people, over and over again. Violence is not the real issue here.. it's gratuitous and extreme violence that is rewarded and has no consequences.
Violence is part of our world. People are violent every day. From the guys thinking ugly thoughts about a co-worker, to the guy yelling at a driver in traffic, to drive-bys in our inner-cities.
The difference between the violence in the Bible and the extreme violence you see in *some* of today's video games, is that in the former, it's painfully (no pun intended) obvious that the violence is wrong and there are concequences, often very serious.
The Bible doesn't give you all these examples of perfect people who live the life of the Simpson neighbor every day. These people were human. They did wrong things,they did violent things, but in the end they always came back to God and he forgave them for their hatred against other humans. Saul (who wrote much of the New Testiment) tortured and murdered many early Christians before he came to know Christ and became one of the greatest evangelists of all time. David was called a friend of God in the Bible. He murdered a man only for his wife.
What's my point here? Violence for the sake of violence (Duke Nukem Whenever) with no concequences is the real problem here, not Gordon Freeman saving the world from an alien invasion (or hopefully City 17 soon).
What happens is that a relative few start complaining about trash games like Duke Nukem Whenever and somehow that translates into every video game is bad.
And you, Mr Anonymous coward, are part of the problem of ignorance here. Go read the Bible, not only might it do you some good, but might be able to argue about it's contents in a intelligent fashion.
...the Vietnam war may not yet be appropriate subject matter...
What war is or isn't appropriate subject matter? War is hell, people die, sometimes the right people, sometimes the wrong people. War is hell, everyone knows this. Why is WWII somehow less of a hell than Vietnam was? Because a hippies protested? What a load of shite.
And, just to be clear, veterans of WWII are also still alive. Do we dishonor them every day with our WWII movies, games and even scale model building? No, we don't.
If they did the near impossible and made it unbiased, both sides would probably be offended.
This is a video game. Not only is it very possible to make it balanced, it's almost 99% certain that it will. Who wants to play a game where only side can win?
What really is the point of your post? Since something is controversial, we should just sweep it under the rug? Pretend it didn't happen? Walk around flagellating ourselves with whips to pay penance?
Your kid gloves don't fit my hands.
I've never worked a job where you would be fired for being 1 minute late. I've never worked a job that didn't compensate me fairly.
You know what though? If I did, I'd quit and go find another job. I'm a free man, you know.
I bet you are too, unless you are part of a union. Then your hard earned money is taken from you and filtered out to tons of political causes you may or may not support and it goes towards a fat paycheck for the union boss over your area. You aren't free to work if your union calls a strike and you aren't free to be compensated any more than your fellow union members, no matter how much you bust your ass.
Worse, if you want to work at certain companies, you aren't free to not be in the union. (Like for instance, a local grocery store in Canton, OH.)
Personally, you can take any union job and shove it up the union bosses ass for all I'm concerned. I prefer to live a free man.
Why do people take the legitimate griefs of other people, blow them wildly out of proportion, and then use them as a straw-man arguments?
There is no magical autocad plugin that just redesigns the shuttle system. Just because we all want to see some sort of B5 or Star Trek design hurtling up into space, holodeck and all, doesn't make it worth while to scrap an entire group of shuttles, their support systems and the related industries behind it.
In any case, if you want to do something about the sad state of the space program, push for giving the private sector the ability to do what NASA does. There is where your real innovation will take place.
ack.. to clarify.. "you" as in, people here reading slashdot that might have agreed with you.
I doubt that if this company was part of the axis of evil (Microsoft, Music Industry, Bush 2004 Campaign) you would be saying the same thing.
It's amazing to see the amount of random hatred, anger and intolerance afforded to people who believe in a god.
It's one thing to disagree with someone about something, but to hate and despise because of a belief that can be neither 100% proven or disproven?
How the hell did his comment get modded up to funny? It's funny to call other people names and spout off unintelligent crap? What are you all, a bunch of high school dropouts?