I somehow don't see EA buying Microsoft or Sony so we're likely to have at least three for a while.
(not that having only one cross platform games company would doo much good for the industry)
I've spent more time on the toilet than watching/reading Shakespeare; that does not make my bowel movements culturally significant.
You can't rate these things simply by immediate time sunk in to them, how many films have lifted their plots directly from Shakespeare? You should count every one of those in your calculations too (that 605 million man hours you calculated for WoW is probably bested by Romeo and Juliet alone).
The impact goes further when you consider his effect on the english language, name one use of language in WoW that you expect to be as significant in 400 years time as Shakespeare's invention of the phrase "thin air" for example.
My broadband contract explicitly bans me from sharing my connection with others (infact I must use a locked down provider supplied wireless router as well).
It may not be possible to track down who was downloading what via my DSL connection but that doesn't stop them from shutting it down for breach of contract.
Exactly, rate Wii Play on the same standards Mario Galaxy and it doesn't stand up too well.
Rate it as a nice low price bonus added to a Wiimote purchase and it's excellent value. Reviewers of the game seemeed to miss its point and failed to score it for what it was. But then reviewers tend to look down on anything outside of their definition of gaming. Which is probably why I've never seen a gaming mag review Bejeweled even though I bet it's one of the most played games in the world today.
In terms of price per hour of gameplay it probably ranks as the highest Wii game in my house, my "non gamer" wife (who spends more time playing casual games than I do playing my "proper" games) loves it and can't help but challenge visitors to a cow race or two.
Now excuse me I have to reclaim my fishing high score before she gets home...
Indeed, don't these fools know that both Troll and Flamebait would have been more appropriate.
Sadly there is no Wrong rating, my experiece of Amazon (personally and passed on from others) has been if something goes missing in the post, contacting them again seven days later resulted the parcel going out again the next day, no further questions asked.
I have never heard from a reliable source of the GPs experience occuring.
I wouldn't be so sure, here in the UK the game on it's own sells for £20 ($40 or so) on e-bay (it's not doing badly in the US either, seems like there's plenty of demand for it.
Plus if you rate it for what it is - 10 games at $1 each it's pretty good value. I wonder what the charts would look like if other budget games such as those from the Wii Market Place were included.
They won't, it will be one less reason for them to bury their heads in the sand.
Global temperatures will be going up, solar activity will be going up therefore the two will be linked as the definative cause of warming.
After that the drop in solar activity cancelling out global warming will be used as proof that there is no global warming and so on....
And generally the movies system does it's job whereas game ratings are completely ignored.
Normally the deal on self regulation is "if you can't work it for yourselves the government will do it for you"
Apathetic over the Wii? Then explain why it's almost as hard to get in the UK as it is in the US.
I'd buy a 360 over a PS3 and you'll find lot of other Europeans are too if you ever spoke to anyone outside of the official Sony fan club. Try checking Amazon.co.uk's games sales list, the top 3 PS3 games are at 18th, 40th and 61st, not exactly what I'd call a triumph.
If you're taling about Manhunt 2 I would disagree on it being "obviously marketed at adults". Adults tend to buy games based on things like good stories and gameplay, both of which Manhunt lacks. It was always clearly a cynical attempt to target a game at kids who are in that phase where they think that watching pointless extreme violence makes them somehow cool and mature.
Equally if a brand of beer was clearly being targeted at under age drinkers I'm sure the manufacurer would get into trouble.
Game is the largest dedicated retailer in Europe by far. They no longer have any links back to US companies but US visitors will feel right at home. (as long as getting trade in prices at half of the going e-bay rate and then seeing them put up for sale at a price higher than you can buy new online makes you feel at home).
My local Game (Buxton for those that are interested) had several in stock but were all in the £300 bundle I mentioned. The bundle wasn't bad, had four games including Paper Mario, Raving Rabbids 2, can't remember what the other two were but it was a reasonable choice. I heard the manager talking to an obviously confused parent, she told him that Nintendo put the bundles together and so they are forced to sell them that way (a blatant lie).
I've heard that forcing bundles on people is actually illegal in the UK and people have managed to get the console unbundled if they're willing/capable of pressing the issue up to the head offices.
Over in the UK supply isn't bad (although so tight that Nintendo are considering dropping all adverts to keep demand down), don't expect to get one from the first shop you go to (unbundled anyway) but a bit of work to find out which day stock is arriving to which retailers and you can pick one up. E-bay prices are only about £20 over RRP. Supply seems even better over in Europe, many are ordering through Amazon's German wing.
The real shortage over here are certain games, Wii Play and High School Musical currently go for silly money on E-bay and Amazon.
It depends on their policy (see Gabe's post at the bottom) really.
Perhaps we'd all be better off if more sites only advertised products they genuinely liked. A site may get fewer adverts but those it did get would be far more valuable to the advertiser.
Couldn't you have at least pointed to an anti global warming site that isn't a complete joke?
To quote their first "argument": "Scientist are doubtful that CO2 harms the climate."
I half expected the second to be: "All your carbon credit are belong to us"
Because the concern is total carbon output for a country. The theory is that if you output a bajillion tons of CO2 and the farmer next door grows enough trees to take a bajillion tons of C02 back out of the atmosphere the two cancel each other out. To provide an analogy I can either tidy my own flat or I can pay someone to do it for me (if I do neither then the landlord takes it out of my deposit when I leave).
Neutralitly is of course pretty much impossible (at this point in time) so the government puts in credits to cover however much CO2 in total it wants to output and sets fines for uncredited output high enough to keep you in the scheme. There are now a number of options for you to choose a combination of:
1) You buy as many credits as you need, something like an auction will set the going rate for a credit
2) You cut your output so that you don't need as many credits
3) You grow trees or something to cancel out your output
4) You pay someone else to grow the trees for you
5) You pay some big fine that if set right is bigger than the cost of options 1-4
This introduces competition to the system, companies will work hard to become more efficient as long as it costs less than the credits (but the fewer who bother the higher the credit price will rise). Others will try and offset their outputs and the competition will drive them to find ways of creating carbon credits at a price below market value to sell at a profit.
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You forgot to apply your -1 modifier to the roll. Once corrected you'll find you now have the second post.
I somehow don't see EA buying Microsoft or Sony so we're likely to have at least three for a while.
(not that having only one cross platform games company would doo much good for the industry)
I've spent more time on the toilet than watching/reading Shakespeare; that does not make my bowel movements culturally significant.
You can't rate these things simply by immediate time sunk in to them, how many films have lifted their plots directly from Shakespeare? You should count every one of those in your calculations too (that 605 million man hours you calculated for WoW is probably bested by Romeo and Juliet alone).
The impact goes further when you consider his effect on the english language, name one use of language in WoW that you expect to be as significant in 400 years time as Shakespeare's invention of the phrase "thin air" for example.
My broadband contract explicitly bans me from sharing my connection with others (infact I must use a locked down provider supplied wireless router as well). It may not be possible to track down who was downloading what via my DSL connection but that doesn't stop them from shutting it down for breach of contract.
Exactly, rate Wii Play on the same standards Mario Galaxy and it doesn't stand up too well.
Rate it as a nice low price bonus added to a Wiimote purchase and it's excellent value. Reviewers of the game seemeed to miss its point and failed to score it for what it was. But then reviewers tend to look down on anything outside of their definition of gaming. Which is probably why I've never seen a gaming mag review Bejeweled even though I bet it's one of the most played games in the world today.
In terms of price per hour of gameplay it probably ranks as the highest Wii game in my house, my "non gamer" wife (who spends more time playing casual games than I do playing my "proper" games) loves it and can't help but challenge visitors to a cow race or two.
Now excuse me I have to reclaim my fishing high score before she gets home...
Unless your mom is also your dentist and you need the majority of your teeth extracted then it's actually significantly worse.
Indeed, don't these fools know that both Troll and Flamebait would have been more appropriate.
Sadly there is no Wrong rating, my experiece of Amazon (personally and passed on from others) has been if something goes missing in the post, contacting them again seven days later resulted the parcel going out again the next day, no further questions asked.
I have never heard from a reliable source of the GPs experience occuring.
I wouldn't be so sure, here in the UK the game on it's own sells for £20 ($40 or so) on e-bay (it's not doing badly in the US either, seems like there's plenty of demand for it.
Plus if you rate it for what it is - 10 games at $1 each it's pretty good value. I wonder what the charts would look like if other budget games such as those from the Wii Market Place were included.
They won't, it will be one less reason for them to bury their heads in the sand.
Global temperatures will be going up, solar activity will be going up therefore the two will be linked as the definative cause of warming.
After that the drop in solar activity cancelling out global warming will be used as proof that there is no global warming and so on....
And generally the movies system does it's job whereas game ratings are completely ignored.
Normally the deal on self regulation is "if you can't work it for yourselves the government will do it for you"
And imagine a beowulf cluster of them!
Apathetic over the Wii? Then explain why it's almost as hard to get in the UK as it is in the US.
I'd buy a 360 over a PS3 and you'll find lot of other Europeans are too if you ever spoke to anyone outside of the official Sony fan club. Try checking Amazon.co.uk's games sales list, the top 3 PS3 games are at 18th, 40th and 61st, not exactly what I'd call a triumph.
If you're taling about Manhunt 2 I would disagree on it being "obviously marketed at adults". Adults tend to buy games based on things like good stories and gameplay, both of which Manhunt lacks. It was always clearly a cynical attempt to target a game at kids who are in that phase where they think that watching pointless extreme violence makes them somehow cool and mature.
Equally if a brand of beer was clearly being targeted at under age drinkers I'm sure the manufacurer would get into trouble.
But if the film could update itself how would they sell you the same product over and over again?
Game is the largest dedicated retailer in Europe by far. They no longer have any links back to US companies but US visitors will feel right at home. (as long as getting trade in prices at half of the going e-bay rate and then seeing them put up for sale at a price higher than you can buy new online makes you feel at home).
My local Game (Buxton for those that are interested) had several in stock but were all in the £300 bundle I mentioned. The bundle wasn't bad, had four games including Paper Mario, Raving Rabbids 2, can't remember what the other two were but it was a reasonable choice. I heard the manager talking to an obviously confused parent, she told him that Nintendo put the bundles together and so they are forced to sell them that way (a blatant lie).
I've heard that forcing bundles on people is actually illegal in the UK and people have managed to get the console unbundled if they're willing/capable of pressing the issue up to the head offices.
Over in the UK supply isn't bad (although so tight that Nintendo are considering dropping all adverts to keep demand down), don't expect to get one from the first shop you go to (unbundled anyway) but a bit of work to find out which day stock is arriving to which retailers and you can pick one up. E-bay prices are only about £20 over RRP. Supply seems even better over in Europe, many are ordering through Amazon's German wing.
The real shortage over here are certain games, Wii Play and High School Musical currently go for silly money on E-bay and Amazon.
It depends on their policy (see Gabe's post at the bottom) really.
Perhaps we'd all be better off if more sites only advertised products they genuinely liked. A site may get fewer adverts but those it did get would be far more valuable to the advertiser.
The PS2 has sold over 100 million and is still selling. I'd consider that pretty mass market and it has a lot of buttons on the controller.
It may not be ideal but something like the average hourly wage might work.
Would you rather people think about these issues before it is needed or after?
You missed off Sony backing CDs and DVDs.
They didn't do too badly on the PS1 and PS2 either.
Couldn't you have at least pointed to an anti global warming site that isn't a complete joke?
To quote their first "argument": "Scientist are doubtful that CO2 harms the climate."
I half expected the second to be: "All your carbon credit are belong to us"
Because the concern is total carbon output for a country. The theory is that if you output a bajillion tons of CO2 and the farmer next door grows enough trees to take a bajillion tons of C02 back out of the atmosphere the two cancel each other out. To provide an analogy I can either tidy my own flat or I can pay someone to do it for me (if I do neither then the landlord takes it out of my deposit when I leave).
Neutralitly is of course pretty much impossible (at this point in time) so the government puts in credits to cover however much CO2 in total it wants to output and sets fines for uncredited output high enough to keep you in the scheme. There are now a number of options for you to choose a combination of:
1) You buy as many credits as you need, something like an auction will set the going rate for a credit
2) You cut your output so that you don't need as many credits
3) You grow trees or something to cancel out your output
4) You pay someone else to grow the trees for you
5) You pay some big fine that if set right is bigger than the cost of options 1-4
This introduces competition to the system, companies will work hard to become more efficient as long as it costs less than the credits (but the fewer who bother the higher the credit price will rise). Others will try and offset their outputs and the competition will drive them to find ways of creating carbon credits at a price below market value to sell at a profit.