and before you mod Troll, here's the reason why: Halo's a war story, more or less; and I cannot envision a world where, after the script has been rung through upteenth million committees that it won't be a generic, explosion ridden, war-themed action fest. Really people, how could it possibly make it through production without having every warstory cliche in the book tacked on for good measure? I don't care what the original screenwritter wants, I don't care what the director wants. To maximize profits, The final product will be tailor made for the broadest audience possible. The result will appeal to all and be watchable by none. Oh well, could be worse. Could be Tomb Raider III....
Now I will do something that will quite possibly make me the most hated man alive: defend the Super Mario Brother movie. I've never understood why people revial it so. It wasn't great, but it wasn't a souless rape of my childhood (that what the live action Scooby Doo was for). Watching it, I felt the cast and crew genuinely tried to make a good movie. It didn't have the laziness of a Tomb Raider or the cheapness of Street Fighter. Then again I was a kid when I saw it, and in the target audience. Go back and watch some of the crap you watched as a kid and loved (Thundercats, anyone) and see how well it holds up.
Anyway, that's it for me. Be here next week when I explain why E.T. for the Atari 2600 really wasn't that awful a game. No, really, stop laughing. It's not funny. Certainly not that funny. You can stop laughing now.....
I dig on Linux and all (got Slack 10 running right now), but I figured out early on that the Microsoft tax isn't that big a deal to the OEMs. Plus, and OEM has the luxury of punting their problems customers to Microsoft tech support (which is by far the biggest reason you're not gonna see Dell pushing Linux on the desktop for the masses anytime soon). The problem here is I can get a much better (numbers wise, I won't argue reality) notebook from Dell for ~$200 more. Call me when it's $300, maybe $350.
Because that's how the stock market works. If a corporation isn't staffed with blood thirsty, morally defunct, money grabing assholes it's not as profitable, and sooner or later the nice guys get 'let go' and replaced with said blood thirsty, morally defunct, money grabing assholes. It's inevitable.
is competition from a class of people I call "idiots with a screwdriver and a copy of Norton". It's so easy to get started consulting (although it gets hard, fast) that just about anybody looking for work whose even seen a computer considers jumping in. It's really tough charging a decent amount for decent service when I've got morons charging half what I do and then calling Microsoft for support. Oh well, at least with everything going to India these shmucks are out their tech support life line. Should help weed out the worst of the bunch. My favorite is having another (usually better looking/more personable) consultant hiring me do to his job, and then double charging the customer. Oh well, I still get paid....
because people are used to computers crashing, and aren't usually quick-witted enough to think of why. All most players know is they can't log on, not why. There's the forums, and there's plenty of players who'll look at you funny if you mention the word. Pretty soon Valve'll have the servers back up, and the bulk of people will blame those darn 'puters that always crash all tha time.
DRM is too valuable a technology for it to be abandoned just because a few geeks and nerds are aware of how bad a thing it is.
You know, this does more or less what Exchange does, and ask any business if they could live w/o Outlook/Exchange (or Lotus, whatever) these days and the answer's no. I guess with the price tag (wasn't a Next workstation something like $20 grand?) nobody cared, but he did say he was going to port to 486. I can't help but wonder if a 486 could do this kind of stuff (a dx 100 could, but I think the dx33s where current when this was being done). All I can say is, what the heck happened? I've read a bit of the history (I hear those MO drives they Next Stations ran off of were kinda buggy), but this is big enough stuff that they should have been able to get through a few lean years and sell the technology....
darnit, I wanted to see that again. If I remember right, they just showed the japanese ad, which came off really cool and weird (Japanese ads are really different to begin with, they tend to be half the length of an American add, so they have to hurry up and catch your attention).
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which is a much bigger deal than people used to thinking realized. Depending on who you talk to, up to %50 of Americans are functionally illiterate. I remember working in a fast food restuarant in High School and being told not to tell customers to read the order screen in front of them because half of them couldn't. The hope is if you hit them with enough warnings, they'll either stop and read them (which is very hard for them to do) or get scared and just click 'no'.
Another favorite anecdote: I was once called out to fix an Internet connection for some secretaries, who could get to their homepage but after that it was "Page Could Not Be Displayed". The problem? Their homepage was secure, and they kept clicking 'no' to the warning they were leaving a secure page for an unsecure one.
he's a programmer. He's going to side with the console that gives him more power, and makes it easier to realize his vision as a developer. Heck, given the choice I'd much rather be turned loose on the PSP hardware than the DS. But as a consumer who's going to be lugging the thing around and having to keep the thing charged, I'll pass on both and stick with my GBASP.
changing the script on the programmers/designers would kinda fuck up all their plans. Did you stop to think that maybe the programers wrote the original script around what they where able to do given the time/money they had? Or the limitations of the engine? Maybe if things hadn't gotten shuffled aournd on them, they good have produced a much more solid game.
EA wouldn't exist at all without its original and ongoing investors.
Because EA, a software company, couldn't possibly have started without Gobs and Gobs of money. They couldn't possibly started out modestly, had a few successful products, and then used a portion of the profits to grow their business. Nope, that can't happen. You need INVESTORS. Lots and lots of money, going in and comming out at all hours of the day....
And naturally, anything that puts more money in those investors pockets is A-OK. Firing people, destroying their livelyhood, monopolies, 90 hour work weeks, it's all OK. Because we've got investors, and you can't have an economy without investors.
I doubt this has anything to do with rehabilitation and more to do with some Republican twit wanting to appear tough on crime. For those of you wondering why it matters that hes a Rep., there's less pressure on Dems. to do crap like this. Not saying they don't, just saying not as often. So anyway, these guys loose a major means of relaxation and fun primarilly for some jerk's political career.
I can see it now: Earl Weaver III:Knee Deep in Gore. The Yankees thought they were just going to play a little exhibition on the moon, and then all Hell broke loose (literally)! Now the only question is: Doom 3 or Source?
the 1.0 release plays it just fine. Either that or the latest mplayer should be able to handle it. WMV's kind of a moving target, you've got to constantly update your software to play it....
Oh, and Totem and xine use the same back end (xine-lib) so if one can't play it, the other won't (unless you've got something screwy going on where they're using different library paths). Just a heads up....
but I don't know if I'd want to do it for a printer. What I've generally heard is that HP and other printer manufacturers make their European and Japanese Printers much higher quality than the American ones. Suppositly they last at least twice as long. I could believe it, Americans have a bad habit of buying the same cheap junk again and again (like HP computers w/o software restore CDs).
for the simple fact that, if you want to play Final Fantasy, you have to buy a PS/2. I can get the latest sports game for any console, because EA ports the same damn to all of them (and will scale down their specs to the lowest common denominator).
my harddrive's had lots of changes this year. I added more memory to my harddrive, I added a new video to it to play them new games. Now my computer, that hasn't been upgrade since I bought it from Viewsonic.....
and Microsoft is still trying not to step on anyone's toes too much (just yet, anyway). Yeah, I know, the lines get hazy sometime, but there you go....
who've gotten used to Windows letting them put crap in their PCs. Back in the Days of 98, There used to be a reg hack that was needed before the OS would use all your memory, before that it used the page file after filling things up to 2/3 full or so. OEMs took advantage of this to through a bad stick of RAM in and advertise more RAM. This worked great until people startup upgrading to XP, whose setup process would use all available RAM (and promptly crash when it hit the bad RAM). I'm a computer tech and I still have to rescue busted upgrades on Gateways, Compaqs and Dells almost daily. And I always hear the same damn thing: "but it always worked before....." (said with a nasally whine)....
Frankly I'm glad, since this kind of stuff makes it harder and harder for OEMs to through cheap junk hardware in the computer when the OS actually uses that hardware. I suppose the OEMs feel betrayed, and maybe they should. But fuck 'em. In the long run, they and their customers will get what they deserve (can you tell I'm bitter).
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flawless ballance, tons of great characters. Strategy, skill and button mashing all get rewarded. It's the sort of game that if I ever get sick of playing, I'm sick of Video Games in general.
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and before you mod Troll, here's the reason why: Halo's a war story, more or less; and I cannot envision a world where, after the script has been rung through upteenth million committees that it won't be a generic, explosion ridden, war-themed action fest. Really people, how could it possibly make it through production without having every warstory cliche in the book tacked on for good measure? I don't care what the original screenwritter wants, I don't care what the director wants. To maximize profits, The final product will be tailor made for the broadest audience possible. The result will appeal to all and be watchable by none. Oh well, could be worse. Could be Tomb Raider III....
Now I will do something that will quite possibly make me the most hated man alive: defend the Super Mario Brother movie. I've never understood why people revial it so. It wasn't great, but it wasn't a souless rape of my childhood (that what the live action Scooby Doo was for). Watching it, I felt the cast and crew genuinely tried to make a good movie. It didn't have the laziness of a Tomb Raider or the cheapness of Street Fighter. Then again I was a kid when I saw it, and in the target audience. Go back and watch some of the crap you watched as a kid and loved (Thundercats, anyone) and see how well it holds up.
Anyway, that's it for me. Be here next week when I explain why E.T. for the Atari 2600 really wasn't that awful a game. No, really, stop laughing. It's not funny. Certainly not that funny. You can stop laughing now.....
I dig on Linux and all (got Slack 10 running right now), but I figured out early on that the Microsoft tax isn't that big a deal to the OEMs. Plus, and OEM has the luxury of punting their problems customers to Microsoft tech support (which is by far the biggest reason you're not gonna see Dell pushing Linux on the desktop for the masses anytime soon). The problem here is I can get a much better (numbers wise, I won't argue reality) notebook from Dell for ~$200 more. Call me when it's $300, maybe $350.
I'm really looking forward to the tricked out sequel, NFS:Ultima Underground.
except in Nebraska.
Because that's how the stock market works. If a corporation isn't staffed with blood thirsty, morally defunct, money grabing assholes it's not as profitable, and sooner or later the nice guys get 'let go' and replaced with said blood thirsty, morally defunct, money grabing assholes. It's inevitable.
is competition from a class of people I call "idiots with a screwdriver and a copy of Norton". It's so easy to get started consulting (although it gets hard, fast) that just about anybody looking for work whose even seen a computer considers jumping in. It's really tough charging a decent amount for decent service when I've got morons charging half what I do and then calling Microsoft for support. Oh well, at least with everything going to India these shmucks are out their tech support life line. Should help weed out the worst of the bunch. My favorite is having another (usually better looking/more personable) consultant hiring me do to his job, and then double charging the customer. Oh well, I still get paid....
because people are used to computers crashing, and aren't usually quick-witted enough to think of why. All most players know is they can't log on, not why. There's the forums, and there's plenty of players who'll look at you funny if you mention the word. Pretty soon Valve'll have the servers back up, and the bulk of people will blame those darn 'puters that always crash all tha time.
DRM is too valuable a technology for it to be abandoned just because a few geeks and nerds are aware of how bad a thing it is.
You know, this does more or less what Exchange does, and ask any business if they could live w/o Outlook/Exchange (or Lotus, whatever) these days and the answer's no. I guess with the price tag (wasn't a Next workstation something like $20 grand?) nobody cared, but he did say he was going to port to 486. I can't help but wonder if a 486 could do this kind of stuff (a dx 100 could, but I think the dx33s where current when this was being done). All I can say is, what the heck happened? I've read a bit of the history (I hear those MO drives they Next Stations ran off of were kinda buggy), but this is big enough stuff that they should have been able to get through a few lean years and sell the technology....
darnit, I wanted to see that again. If I remember right, they just showed the japanese ad, which came off really cool and weird (Japanese ads are really different to begin with, they tend to be half the length of an American add, so they have to hurry up and catch your attention).
which is a much bigger deal than people used to thinking realized. Depending on who you talk to, up to %50 of Americans are functionally illiterate. I remember working in a fast food restuarant in High School and being told not to tell customers to read the order screen in front of them because half of them couldn't. The hope is if you hit them with enough warnings, they'll either stop and read them (which is very hard for them to do) or get scared and just click 'no'.
Another favorite anecdote: I was once called out to fix an Internet connection for some secretaries, who could get to their homepage but after that it was "Page Could Not Be Displayed". The problem? Their homepage was secure, and they kept clicking 'no' to the warning they were leaving a secure page for an unsecure one.
he's a programmer. He's going to side with the console that gives him more power, and makes it easier to realize his vision as a developer. Heck, given the choice I'd much rather be turned loose on the PSP hardware than the DS. But as a consumer who's going to be lugging the thing around and having to keep the thing charged, I'll pass on both and stick with my GBASP.
changing the script on the programmers/designers would kinda fuck up all their plans. Did you stop to think that maybe the programers wrote the original script around what they where able to do given the time/money they had? Or the limitations of the engine? Maybe if things hadn't gotten shuffled aournd on them, they good have produced a much more solid game.
I doubt this has anything to do with rehabilitation and more to do with some Republican twit wanting to appear tough on crime. For those of you wondering why it matters that hes a Rep., there's less pressure on Dems. to do crap like this. Not saying they don't, just saying not as often. So anyway, these guys loose a major means of relaxation and fun primarilly for some jerk's political career.
I can see it now: Earl Weaver III:Knee Deep in Gore. The Yankees thought they were just going to play a little exhibition on the moon, and then all Hell broke loose (literally)! Now the only question is: Doom 3 or Source?
the 1.0 release plays it just fine. Either that or the latest mplayer should be able to handle it. WMV's kind of a moving target, you've got to constantly update your software to play it....
Oh, and Totem and xine use the same back end (xine-lib) so if one can't play it, the other won't (unless you've got something screwy going on where they're using different library paths). Just a heads up....
is worse than the day before, so that every day you see me is the worst day of my life.
but I don't know if I'd want to do it for a printer. What I've generally heard is that HP and other printer manufacturers make their European and Japanese Printers much higher quality than the American ones. Suppositly they last at least twice as long. I could believe it, Americans have a bad habit of buying the same cheap junk again and again (like HP computers w/o software restore CDs).
for the simple fact that, if you want to play Final Fantasy, you have to buy a PS/2. I can get the latest sports game for any console, because EA ports the same damn to all of them (and will scale down their specs to the lowest common denominator).
my harddrive's had lots of changes this year. I added more memory to my harddrive, I added a new video to it to play them new games. Now my computer, that hasn't been upgrade since I bought it from Viewsonic.....
and Microsoft is still trying not to step on anyone's toes too much (just yet, anyway). Yeah, I know, the lines get hazy sometime, but there you go....
if this is just about the most expensive toaster in the world, just what is?
who've gotten used to Windows letting them put crap in their PCs. Back in the Days of 98, There used to be a reg hack that was needed before the OS would use all your memory, before that it used the page file after filling things up to 2/3 full or so. OEMs took advantage of this to through a bad stick of RAM in and advertise more RAM. This worked great until people startup upgrading to XP, whose setup process would use all available RAM (and promptly crash when it hit the bad RAM). I'm a computer tech and I still have to rescue busted upgrades on Gateways, Compaqs and Dells almost daily. And I always hear the same damn thing: "but it always worked before....." (said with a nasally whine)....
Frankly I'm glad, since this kind of stuff makes it harder and harder for OEMs to through cheap junk hardware in the computer when the OS actually uses that hardware. I suppose the OEMs feel betrayed, and maybe they should. But fuck 'em. In the long run, they and their customers will get what they deserve (can you tell I'm bitter).
my brother kompiled KDE once.... once!.
flawless ballance, tons of great characters. Strategy, skill and button mashing all get rewarded. It's the sort of game that if I ever get sick of playing, I'm sick of Video Games in general.