This theory was later found to be complete bunk.
It seems that for many involved their interest is making as much money as possible regardless of the impact on anyone else.
You seem not to have noticed that Newton, Einstein and Da'Vinci are dead (sorry to break the news to you). As a result they lack certain needs such as food and a place to live.
Much as I like free stuff and dislike DRM etc I appreciate that if I want someone to write a book, record an album or act in a film I enjoy then there needs to be some form of transaction that allows them access those little essentials that prevent them from going the way of Newton and friends. If we don't do this then you'll rapidly discover the next generation of artists doesn't exist because they are all to busy working to pay the rent.
If that's a promise, I'm gonna download it 24/7/365 to prevent more of this shit being made...
No, you forget it may be a bad game but the addition of extreme violence to the game means that it is also "art".
Not buying this game will destroy freedom of speech, ensure Ewe Boll will turn it into a film then donate the funds to Osama Bin Laden and force the baby Jesus to kill a minimum of eleven kittens.
They want you to see their listings.
They probably don't want you to see them buried amongst everyone else's listings though. The moment an external source becomes comprehenive people are no longer forced to tune to their channel or visit their web site to find out what is going on.
I doubt it works but most broadcasters seem to be locked into the old style attitudes that people still simply tune into their favourite channel and stay there for the evening.
What's/where's the threshold between a blob of carbon+goo, and me? Or at least, are there any theories? Or is all of this stuff discussed only in the philosphical realm?
You are assuming that self awareness is an all or nothing situation.
More realistically all living things could be placed on a scale with carbon and goo at the bottom end perhaps small mammals next, then moving up through apes to us.
And of course finally to dolphins and the white mice who are secretly running the whole experiment.
Google is your friend, learn how to use it.
It can also be found directly at amazon, e-bay and via various other obscure stores on this internet thing I hear the young people talking about these days.
PSYCHONAUTS IS AVAILABLE FROM STEAM For far more than you will pay elsewhere!
There corrected. Same goes for Bioshock, Vampire: Bloodlines and Sam & Max.
Add to that if you don't buy the Steam versions you can always sell them on again.
To give some actual figures according to good old wikipedia the men's world record in the highest weight categoryclean for and jerk is 263.5 kg (580.9 lb)wheras the women's record is 182.5 kg (402.3 lb).
I assume these people are exceptions though... clean and jerk normally comes in a different order for the average/. reader.
Dual format players don't end the format war. Sony will still want you to play Bluray on your dual format player because they make money if you choose that format, same for the HD-DVD side.
The only real posible loosers are PS3 owners and early adopters if it turns out that studios can mae a higher profit margin or undercut the competition using the format they didn't choose.
No rush, it's cheaper if you take your time rather than buy more than you can play.
I'm just playing through a cheap copy of Prey right now, and have FEAR plus the last two Broken Sword adventures on the the shelf after that.
All good games and cost me less than one new one would.
Staying a year out of date save a fortune on hardware upgrades too...
Mine would have been "Gold sellers keep mailing,/tell'ing and otherwise pestering me. And others. And from a few postings on a few boards, I gather that I'm not the only one who would considering 'hanging goldsellers from their testicles' as a suitable punishment. Care to give me a good reason why I shouldn't write a DDoS program, distribute it to everyone involved (i.e. all players of a variety of MMORPGs) and blast the advertised server into oblivion?"
Well if you were to RTFA you'd notice they claim they don't advertise their service in game. I suspect their answer would be "Please feel take down our in game spamming competitors' web sites it will drive more gold buyers to our site".
If take-two takes a loss on this game it could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech for years to come, and companies willingness to push the envelope.
If Take Two make a profit on this it will have the chilling effect of more and more companies pushing out sensationalist over violent rubbish masquerading as "art" at the expense of actual gameplay.
If we want companies to be encouraged to "push the envelope" I'd rather have them pushing the right ones.
Except PE is rigged to make the player base loose money overall.
Every aspect of it is basically a slot machine - you pay money for ammo/prospecting charges/crafting equipment, you use it, you on average then get back goods worth less than what you put in. Once in a while someone hits the jackpot and it is broadcast to everyone on the server to keep them going at it.
Security is very tight on the economy too, using exploits to earn money are kind of tough when every object and coin has it's own unique ID in the game.
That doesn't make any sense. Is the USA in the EU? No, thank goodness. Please troll sensibly... wait, that's a contradiction.
It makes perfect sense if you keep up with the news, try here for an article on what is being referred to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6733353.st m
To sum up, many have claimed the CIA is indeed in the EU and merrily carrying out the acts of torture they don't want taking place on US soil.
I suspect Nintendo are working on the pointer already.
On the home menu's you get a hand pointer that rotates if you rotate the wiimote. I noticed when I first got my Wii that while you did this the pointer would become erratic and jiggle about. After the most recent firmware update I've noticed that this doesn't happen any more and the moving and twisting responds exactly as you'd expect it to now.
A general calibration routine would be great though, does anyone know if this would work or if each game has to build up it's controller routines itself?
SWG is not tied to the stories to the same extent as LOTRO is, while limited by featuring characters that have a story some time in the future it does not follow these characters anywhere plot wise. We may know that Darth Vader has a destiny and so cannot be killed but SWG is fixed motionless in time and we will never see it.
LOTRO is different; for those of you who haven't played it has an epic quest line that follows the books, I have not gone far in the game but have already gone from a point where missions involved clearing the way for Frodo to make it to Bree to Aragorn having to flee the Prancing Pony following a visit from the Ring Wraiths. I gather that Turbine intend to continue in this way following the story to Mount Doom. It appears right now that as opposed to SWG LOTRO will actually meet it's destiny not just sit there and look at it from a distance.
You are of course acting like the entirety of Middle Earth vanished the moment the ring hit the lava (apologies for the spoiler).
But we already know that the shire needed to be set in order and I imagine if Turbine wanted there could be years of further content fighting bands of orc led by remainging ring wraiths for example.
I think the whole argument is flawed because it says to me "Nintendo makes great games, they sell well, are fun, and get new people to play them. This is a bad thing because third party developers can't sell their crappy games, and have to spend more time and resources to compete by making decent games."
I think people are missing who the analyst who wrote this in the first place is writing for. It's a comment on the value of investments in the gaming industry and the sole point is "how do we make a quick buck from this".
Sure we're all gamers here and we want to see developers like Nintendo and other developers pouring their heart and soul into a game and making it as good as it can be regardless of cost.
What an investor wants is the biggest return per dollar invested and that sadly means the kind of crappy film tie in that just isn't going to sell unless Nintendo stop spoiling it by producing better games. Other developers could of course spend more money and make better games but that works out good for us, not for investors.
If you read the investors note linked to in the article it's basically saying get ready to sell stock in companies that make crappy games, there may not be any money in it for much longer.
This game sounds like a bit of fun, but having looked on the sideline at these games, I'm getting a bit tired, there's nothing revolutionary here. Even worse, still it doesn't really seem to be focused on real role playing. Just another pump and dump RPG scheme in the wake of world of warcraft?
This appears to be more of a problem with how Turbine are managing the US servers (no specific flagged RP servers I believe).
Over here in Europe where the release is being run by Codemasters there is a dedicated Roleplay server (one each actually for English, French and German languages actually) with tighter naming rules and so on to ensure the experience. I've not dropped in to the server yet myself but a quick look at the English RP server's official message board suggests the players are making the most of it.
There are plenty of in game features to support roleplay too, from the simple - for example using the emote/sit while next to a chair will result in the player actually sitting in the chair and there's a good range of emotes inclooding moods which change facial expressions - to the more complicated such as the music system which allows you to buy and play your own tunes on various instruments which allows stuff like this. The tools to roleplay are there they just need to be used.
So no, the game isn't revolutionary but it is well done, the graphics give it a good atmosphere, the player versus monster player system provides an opportunity for PvP action without the opportunity for griefing, class roles are just different enough from the standards to make them feel familiar but original, the quest texts if you read them give far more story than most MMOs I've encountered (and the epic quest line provides a genuine story that tracks along with the journey of Frodo and friends), the focus on gaining experience from quest completion rather than kills makes the game feel far less of a grind and the people playing seem to be a generally friendly and polite bunch compared to the WoW crowd.
I don't see the game beating WoW in terms of numbers but as long as they keep the servers stable and keep the kind of additional content promised in their first post relase patch rolling in on a regular basis I could see it being the number two 'western' MMORPG.
Surely the $/Watt includes all the things you have just thrown in so when calculating your examples:
1) The cost of the land would have to be taken in to account
2) The cost of maintenance would be taken in to account
3) The cost of legal fees and vet bills for treating spontaniously combusted neigbours pets would be taken in to account.
The parent's point still holds, the important factor is the total cost of a PV system (installation, land space, maintenance and enclosure costs included) divided by the power it produces.
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This theory was later found to be complete bunk.
It seems that for many involved their interest is making as much money as possible regardless of the impact on anyone else.
You seem not to have noticed that Newton, Einstein and Da'Vinci are dead (sorry to break the news to you). As a result they lack certain needs such as food and a place to live.
Much as I like free stuff and dislike DRM etc I appreciate that if I want someone to write a book, record an album or act in a film I enjoy then there needs to be some form of transaction that allows them access those little essentials that prevent them from going the way of Newton and friends. If we don't do this then you'll rapidly discover the next generation of artists doesn't exist because they are all to busy working to pay the rent.
Perhaps they plant trees over the urban area it destroys to offset the CO2 release.
There is already a Duck Hunt style game on Wii Play though.
Not buying this game will destroy freedom of speech, ensure Ewe Boll will turn it into a film then donate the funds to Osama Bin Laden and force the baby Jesus to kill a minimum of eleven kittens.
They want you to see their listings.
They probably don't want you to see them buried amongst everyone else's listings though. The moment an external source becomes comprehenive people are no longer forced to tune to their channel or visit their web site to find out what is going on.
I doubt it works but most broadcasters seem to be locked into the old style attitudes that people still simply tune into their favourite channel and stay there for the evening.
More realistically all living things could be placed on a scale with carbon and goo at the bottom end perhaps small mammals next, then moving up through apes to us.
And of course finally to dolphins and the white mice who are secretly running the whole experiment.
Google is your friend, learn how to use it.
It can also be found directly at amazon, e-bay and via various other obscure stores on this internet thing I hear the young people talking about these days.
We have one already: The Bunnies don't go to the dentist minigame in Rayman Raving Rabbids taught me all I know about dental hygiene...
PSYCHONAUTS IS AVAILABLE FROM STEAM For far more than you will pay elsewhere!
There corrected. Same goes for Bioshock, Vampire: Bloodlines and Sam & Max.
Add to that if you don't buy the Steam versions you can always sell them on again.
To give some actual figures according to good old wikipedia the men's world record in the highest weight categoryclean for and jerk is 263.5 kg (580.9 lb)wheras the women's record is 182.5 kg (402.3 lb). /. reader.
I assume these people are exceptions though... clean and jerk normally comes in a different order for the average
Dual format players don't end the format war. Sony will still want you to play Bluray on your dual format player because they make money if you choose that format, same for the HD-DVD side.
The only real posible loosers are PS3 owners and early adopters if it turns out that studios can mae a higher profit margin or undercut the competition using the format they didn't choose.
No rush, it's cheaper if you take your time rather than buy more than you can play. I'm just playing through a cheap copy of Prey right now, and have FEAR plus the last two Broken Sword adventures on the the shelf after that.
All good games and cost me less than one new one would.
Staying a year out of date save a fortune on hardware upgrades too...
Correction: Most people who buy a Wii don't care what the differences in the hardware specs are between the systems. They only look at the gameplay.
Just watch, the Halo movie will come out exclusively on Blu-Ray...
If we want companies to be encouraged to "push the envelope" I'd rather have them pushing the right ones.
Except PE is rigged to make the player base loose money overall.
Every aspect of it is basically a slot machine - you pay money for ammo/prospecting charges/crafting equipment, you use it, you on average then get back goods worth less than what you put in. Once in a while someone hits the jackpot and it is broadcast to everyone on the server to keep them going at it.
Security is very tight on the economy too, using exploits to earn money are kind of tough when every object and coin has it's own unique ID in the game.
To sum up, many have claimed the CIA is indeed in the EU and merrily carrying out the acts of torture they don't want taking place on US soil.
I suspect Nintendo are working on the pointer already.
On the home menu's you get a hand pointer that rotates if you rotate the wiimote. I noticed when I first got my Wii that while you did this the pointer would become erratic and jiggle about. After the most recent firmware update I've noticed that this doesn't happen any more and the moving and twisting responds exactly as you'd expect it to now.
A general calibration routine would be great though, does anyone know if this would work or if each game has to build up it's controller routines itself?
SWG is not tied to the stories to the same extent as LOTRO is, while limited by featuring characters that have a story some time in the future it does not follow these characters anywhere plot wise. We may know that Darth Vader has a destiny and so cannot be killed but SWG is fixed motionless in time and we will never see it.
LOTRO is different; for those of you who haven't played it has an epic quest line that follows the books, I have not gone far in the game but have already gone from a point where missions involved clearing the way for Frodo to make it to Bree to Aragorn having to flee the Prancing Pony following a visit from the Ring Wraiths. I gather that Turbine intend to continue in this way following the story to Mount Doom. It appears right now that as opposed to SWG LOTRO will actually meet it's destiny not just sit there and look at it from a distance.
You are of course acting like the entirety of Middle Earth vanished the moment the ring hit the lava (apologies for the spoiler).
But we already know that the shire needed to be set in order and I imagine if Turbine wanted there could be years of further content fighting bands of orc led by remainging ring wraiths for example.
Sure we're all gamers here and we want to see developers like Nintendo and other developers pouring their heart and soul into a game and making it as good as it can be regardless of cost.
What an investor wants is the biggest return per dollar invested and that sadly means the kind of crappy film tie in that just isn't going to sell unless Nintendo stop spoiling it by producing better games. Other developers could of course spend more money and make better games but that works out good for us, not for investors.
If you read the investors note linked to in the article it's basically saying get ready to sell stock in companies that make crappy games, there may not be any money in it for much longer.
Over here in Europe where the release is being run by Codemasters there is a dedicated Roleplay server (one each actually for English, French and German languages actually) with tighter naming rules and so on to ensure the experience. I've not dropped in to the server yet myself but a quick look at the English RP server's official message board suggests the players are making the most of it.
There are plenty of in game features to support roleplay too, from the simple - for example using the emote /sit while next to a chair will result in the player actually sitting in the chair and there's a good range of emotes inclooding moods which change facial expressions - to the more complicated such as the music system which allows you to buy and play your own tunes on various instruments which allows stuff like this. The tools to roleplay are there they just need to be used.
So no, the game isn't revolutionary but it is well done, the graphics give it a good atmosphere, the player versus monster player system provides an opportunity for PvP action without the opportunity for griefing, class roles are just different enough from the standards to make them feel familiar but original, the quest texts if you read them give far more story than most MMOs I've encountered (and the epic quest line provides a genuine story that tracks along with the journey of Frodo and friends), the focus on gaining experience from quest completion rather than kills makes the game feel far less of a grind and the people playing seem to be a generally friendly and polite bunch compared to the WoW crowd.
I don't see the game beating WoW in terms of numbers but as long as they keep the servers stable and keep the kind of additional content promised in their first post relase patch rolling in on a regular basis I could see it being the number two 'western' MMORPG.
1) The cost of the land would have to be taken in to account
2) The cost of maintenance would be taken in to account
3) The cost of legal fees and vet bills for treating spontaniously combusted neigbours pets would be taken in to account.
The parent's point still holds, the important factor is the total cost of a PV system (installation, land space, maintenance and enclosure costs included) divided by the power it produces.