My mom has nothing to do with it either, being that i'm talking about my Little Brother's mom (as in Big Brothers; you know, volunteer work). What is the problem with releasing two different versions of any given game? How is that impeding your "enjoyment" of the game with the neck-breaking and all, and my LB's enjoyment of the game without such gore and blood?
BTW, it takes a big man to swear at somebody on the Internet. You must feel very proud at yourself right about now.
They can (GASP!) censor such violence in games? They can force game companies to release two versions of a game, one with all gore & such violence removed, the other with it fully enabled? I dunno. I really don't see the need to break people's necks in a video game (apparently it takes 10 seconds or so to do this?) so I guess I just don't get it in the first place.
Tell me: does anybody here really *want* this level of violence? If you've played the game and can comment, please do so!
Okay, so I volunteer with Big Brothers. My Little Brother has been trying to get his mom to let him buy Prince of Persia 2 (not original, gamecube game), but she's been hesitant because it's rated "M." He finally somehow convinced her by showing her some trailers and saying "it's exactly the same as the last one!" even though we all know it's not. So what has he been talking about for the last month? The best way to rip somebody's head off, or how cool a noise it makes when you sneak up behind somebody and slowly put pressure on their neck until it snaps. I was getting nauseous after five minutes of this.
Now, I'd be the first person to say that video games don't screw you up, but after hearing my LB talk about this for what seems like an eternity, I'm not so sure anymore. Letting an eleven-year old kid play this is completely screwed up. I know that there's not much they could do if his mom bought it and gave it to the kid, but there's gotta be something that the gov't can do so that kids with parents who obviously don't care about their children won't spend entire days focusing on the best method to break somebody's neck, or the best technique for putting as many swords into somebody else's body (with the resulting blood spurt).
They're not really dropping charges, they're just buying time (and gathering evidence, I'd wage) before charging them with a crime. From the article: "Charges could still be brought. This just allows us to talk to defense attorneys and negotiate things before having to bring an indictment against a particular individual."
In other words, normal lawyer tactics. Nothing to see here.
(couldn't reproduce I, F or V, so I is short uppercase I, F is SH shound, like ship, and V is inverted V, like the "u" sound in shut) is how I would pronounce it in English. This format is commonly used in linguistics, so you can look up the symbols and figure out how I'm saying it.
Anyway, you make it sound like "Science Fike-shun" or "Science Feection," and there's no "K" sound in the word "science" so that pretty much outs your definition of "skiffy." By the way, what the heck kind of accent is that? Science F-ick-shun is how most of us here in North America pronounce it.
Just wanted to point this out so that nobody ignores the rest of what you've said.
How would you feel if a pedophile got ahold of those pictures? I think the police could figure out that pictures in a family album are acceptable and not meant for titilation, but in the hands of somebody who has thousands of such pictures it *would* constitute child pornography. I dunno if that would make the original photographers (mom and dad) perpetrators of assault, but I still feel nonetheless that such pictures in the wrong hands are *dangerous*.
By definition, pictures of naked children (esp. kidnapped children, as this one apparently was) constitutes sexual assault. Furthermore, if the police disseminated the original pictures they would be as guilty as the pornographers, and the victim's face would be broadcasted over the Net and world.
"Given the propensity of the police to describe EVERY sexual encounter between a child and an adult as assault..." "...the government cheapens the experience both of those children who consented to sexual relations..."
Um, I don't know where you're from, but yes, every sexual encounter between a child and an adult *is* assault. No, children cannot consent to sexual relations. You sound like those creepy people who believe that pedastry (romantic relationships between men and boys, or more generally between adults and children) should be legally acceptable.
Finally, in regards to your nick (mods, if you'll indulge a religious criticism): When Balder was killed all of creation wept, for with his death the light had gone out of the world. I can assure you that nobody will weep when you likewise meet his fate. Your words bring shame on all *real* Asatruar.
Yes, but you didn't read what I wrote (or I didn't spell it out): from XP release to Summer 2004, I didn't have a router, nor a firewall, nor anything else protecting my system (while using Outlook and Opera). No viruses, no trojans, nothing.
That's a simplistic statement for a complex issue. Mac OS X has some inferior qualities, namely the relative lack of developers who want to work with it. You can have the greatest OS in the world, but if there isn't a lot of software for it (which I'm not necessarily pointing at OS X) then it's useless.
Market share, in this instance, is predominantly microsoft simply because XP now comes pre-bundled on nearly every new computer, and because Windows has been pre-bundled on every new computer for the past what, ten, fifteen years?
Besides, I *like* XP. It works, it's fast, it looks nice (once you sufficiently "mod" it - StyleXP and Yzdock go a long way in this regard) and unlike the author of this story I've never had my computer "flood" with viruses and trojans moments after a new reinstall, with or without a firewall.
It was only about about a year ago that I bought a router (for my wireless card). No built-in firewall, no virus checker (free online virus checker twice a year). How many viruses? None. I think this whole "install windows and it gets flooded with viruses!" issue is just hysteria and nothing more. I've never seen it, I don't know anybody else whom has seen it, and I haven't heard any hard evidence aside from anecdocal remarks like this on Slashdot (which has a Linux-centric attitude). This does not necessarily that the virus-flood hysteria is false, but it just seems so inconceivable so as to be an apocryphal story that everybody's heard of but nobody's actually seen.
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Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, Luck. S.P.E.C.I.A.L. It also includes the "perk" system that's been imitated many times since.
Yes, but Deus Ex 1 had a tight (as in narrow) storyline to go with its excellent engine. Bethesda is planning on giving us the entire irradiated country and saying "There's fifty cities! Go find them! Oh, and don't mind the bajillions of spawned monsters in between here and there!"
Bethesda hasn't yet proven that they can make a game with a good focused plot instead of hundreds of tiny plots thrown at the player simultaneously.
"With Elder Scrolls, we do aim for something enormous, and we simply can't focus on say - 20 to 40 really deep strong characters and just do them."
Considering my past experiences with Bethesda, this means they're going to create face templates for 100 characters and change their hair, eyes & skin colour in order to create thousands of "unique" characters.
The advantage of 20-40 well-developed characters in FO1 and 2 was the fact that they *were* well-developed and not just cookie-cutter characters with different lines. The fact that the original team focused on a smaller number of characters indicated that they wanted a few realistic characters instead of many obviously artificial characters. I guess Bethesda missed the point on this one.
Licencing out the.WMA format for other MP3 players does not make it an apples-to-apples comparison. Apple sells both MP3 hardware and software. Microsoft sells only "mp3" software. It's impossible to compete on the basis of hardware alone, then - Microsoft cannot compete when it comes to hardware simply because it does not sell mp3 hardware.
Ubisoft, in the past, has turned out some pretty good stuff. I'm not arguing this. What I am concerned about is the current government's tendency to spend wads of cash without asking us, the taxpayers, what we think. There was a "sponsorship scandal" here recently in which the federal government supplied the Quebecois government with millions of dollars of cash in order to make the Canada "brand" more visible in the francophone province. As it turns out, most of that money disappeared into the wallets of bureaucrats and CEOs of advertising moguls, with hardly any money at all going towards this dubious end.
I love computer games, but I like health care more, which is what our MINORITY government *should* be spending more money on. $57 million dollars would go a long way in hiring new doctors and nurses, equipment, and other hospital staff. I'm also really appalled that the first I've heard of this is on Slashdot and not on CTV, CBC or Global (three major news outlets in Canada).
As he pointed out in his blog, there's nothing by Gibson in the entire catalog. Although not a "historical" document, it certainly is important when it comes to the history of computing as a major literary work. Sigh... like I could afford a first-edition signed Gollancz anyway;)
Get an IBM X-Series (just the pointer) or a T-Series and replace the wrist-rest with one that doesn't include a trackpad. It's extremely easy to do and costs $20 or so.
Admittedly I'm not up on current Apple hardware, but what about a scroll wheel? Do you mean you actually scroll *manually*? Explain how this works exactly.
Dude, in the future They will be manufacturing the tin foil, and let me tell you, it will not have the same beam-reflecting qualities that current tin-foil does. It'll be shiny Saran Wrap, which we all know is utterly useless when it comes to Their various beams (mind, credit card, etc.) That's why I'm stockpiling *real* tin-foil now, to give to my grandkids.
"Your argument only holds water if the movies are free to begin with."
And if *I* were the MPAA, I would seriously consider this: no ticket sales, profit-sharing with concessions, Hollywood pays a percentage of the actual theatre buildings, etc. I'm sure they could get their money back and this way they could compete with the other "free" way to make music. I know that Famous Players has reduced their ticket prices (this week, AFAIK) instead of driving them up, which is definitely a reaction to p2p. What's going to happen in the future with the next generation of broadband technology?
I can already download an entire movie in just under an hour, which is sometimes how long it takes to get everybody packed up, in the car, purchase the tickets, get through the concession stand, find a seat, and then wait through 20 minutes worth of commercials. If the MPAA doesn't adapt, and I mean *now*, they're going to lose out on an entire generation of movie-goers. My friend's younger brother (11) hasn't been to the movies in three months, but in that time he's downloaded at least two or three movies a week, simply because it's so easy.
Music CDs are a different argument, because it's much more difficult to see a band live than it is to see a movie in virtually any city in North America, so no, I'm not going in that direction.
Okay, so knowing Sony's past record on consoles (Playstation & PSOne, etc.), and since we're sure that they're aware of their competitor's (Nintendo) past record, within two years there's going to be a PSP SP with the problem "fixed." No question about it.
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BTW, it takes a big man to swear at somebody on the Internet. You must feel very proud at yourself right about now.
Tell me: does anybody here really *want* this level of violence? If you've played the game and can comment, please do so!
Now, I'd be the first person to say that video games don't screw you up, but after hearing my LB talk about this for what seems like an eternity, I'm not so sure anymore. Letting an eleven-year old kid play this is completely screwed up. I know that there's not much they could do if his mom bought it and gave it to the kid, but there's gotta be something that the gov't can do so that kids with parents who obviously don't care about their children won't spend entire days focusing on the best method to break somebody's neck, or the best technique for putting as many swords into somebody else's body (with the resulting blood spurt).
It helps that linguistics is one of my hobbies ;)
In other words, normal lawyer tactics. Nothing to see here.
(couldn't reproduce I, F or V, so I is short uppercase I, F is SH shound, like ship, and V is inverted V, like the "u" sound in shut) is how I would pronounce it in English. This format is commonly used in linguistics, so you can look up the symbols and figure out how I'm saying it.
Anyway, you make it sound like "Science Fike-shun" or "Science Feection," and there's no "K" sound in the word "science" so that pretty much outs your definition of "skiffy." By the way, what the heck kind of accent is that? Science F-ick-shun is how most of us here in North America pronounce it.
Just wanted to point this out so that nobody ignores the rest of what you've said.
How would you feel if a pedophile got ahold of those pictures? I think the police could figure out that pictures in a family album are acceptable and not meant for titilation, but in the hands of somebody who has thousands of such pictures it *would* constitute child pornography. I dunno if that would make the original photographers (mom and dad) perpetrators of assault, but I still feel nonetheless that such pictures in the wrong hands are *dangerous*.
"Given the propensity of the police to describe EVERY sexual encounter between a child and an adult as assault..." "...the government cheapens the experience both of those children who consented to sexual relations..."
Um, I don't know where you're from, but yes, every sexual encounter between a child and an adult *is* assault. No, children cannot consent to sexual relations. You sound like those creepy people who believe that pedastry (romantic relationships between men and boys, or more generally between adults and children) should be legally acceptable.
Finally, in regards to your nick (mods, if you'll indulge a religious criticism): When Balder was killed all of creation wept, for with his death the light had gone out of the world. I can assure you that nobody will weep when you likewise meet his fate. Your words bring shame on all *real* Asatruar.
Yes, but you didn't read what I wrote (or I didn't spell it out): from XP release to Summer 2004, I didn't have a router, nor a firewall, nor anything else protecting my system (while using Outlook and Opera). No viruses, no trojans, nothing.
Honestly, what more do you need than a free online virus checker and adaware?
That's a simplistic statement for a complex issue. Mac OS X has some inferior qualities, namely the relative lack of developers who want to work with it. You can have the greatest OS in the world, but if there isn't a lot of software for it (which I'm not necessarily pointing at OS X) then it's useless.
Market share, in this instance, is predominantly microsoft simply because XP now comes pre-bundled on nearly every new computer, and because Windows has been pre-bundled on every new computer for the past what, ten, fifteen years?
Besides, I *like* XP. It works, it's fast, it looks nice (once you sufficiently "mod" it - StyleXP and Yzdock go a long way in this regard) and unlike the author of this story I've never had my computer "flood" with viruses and trojans moments after a new reinstall, with or without a firewall.
It was only about about a year ago that I bought a router (for my wireless card). No built-in firewall, no virus checker (free online virus checker twice a year). How many viruses? None. I think this whole "install windows and it gets flooded with viruses!" issue is just hysteria and nothing more. I've never seen it, I don't know anybody else whom has seen it, and I haven't heard any hard evidence aside from anecdocal remarks like this on Slashdot (which has a Linux-centric attitude). This does not necessarily that the virus-flood hysteria is false, but it just seems so inconceivable so as to be an apocryphal story that everybody's heard of but nobody's actually seen.
Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, Luck. S.P.E.C.I.A.L. It also includes the "perk" system that's been imitated many times since.
Bethesda hasn't yet proven that they can make a game with a good focused plot instead of hundreds of tiny plots thrown at the player simultaneously.
Considering my past experiences with Bethesda, this means they're going to create face templates for 100 characters and change their hair, eyes & skin colour in order to create thousands of "unique" characters.
The advantage of 20-40 well-developed characters in FO1 and 2 was the fact that they *were* well-developed and not just cookie-cutter characters with different lines. The fact that the original team focused on a smaller number of characters indicated that they wanted a few realistic characters instead of many obviously artificial characters. I guess Bethesda missed the point on this one.
Licencing out the .WMA format for other MP3 players does not make it an apples-to-apples comparison. Apple sells both MP3 hardware and software. Microsoft sells only "mp3" software. It's impossible to compete on the basis of hardware alone, then - Microsoft cannot compete when it comes to hardware simply because it does not sell mp3 hardware.
Competing product? Since when did Microsoft sell a portable MP3 player?
Maybe because not everybody uses Debian?
I love computer games, but I like health care more, which is what our MINORITY government *should* be spending more money on. $57 million dollars would go a long way in hiring new doctors and nurses, equipment, and other hospital staff. I'm also really appalled that the first I've heard of this is on Slashdot and not on CTV, CBC or Global (three major news outlets in Canada).
As he pointed out in his blog, there's nothing by Gibson in the entire catalog. Although not a "historical" document, it certainly is important when it comes to the history of computing as a major literary work. Sigh... like I could afford a first-edition signed Gollancz anyway ;)
Get an IBM X-Series (just the pointer) or a T-Series and replace the wrist-rest with one that doesn't include a trackpad. It's extremely easy to do and costs $20 or so.
Admittedly I'm not up on current Apple hardware, but what about a scroll wheel? Do you mean you actually scroll *manually*? Explain how this works exactly.
Dude, in the future They will be manufacturing the tin foil, and let me tell you, it will not have the same beam-reflecting qualities that current tin-foil does. It'll be shiny Saran Wrap, which we all know is utterly useless when it comes to Their various beams (mind, credit card, etc.) That's why I'm stockpiling *real* tin-foil now, to give to my grandkids.
And if *I* were the MPAA, I would seriously consider this: no ticket sales, profit-sharing with concessions, Hollywood pays a percentage of the actual theatre buildings, etc. I'm sure they could get their money back and this way they could compete with the other "free" way to make music. I know that Famous Players has reduced their ticket prices (this week, AFAIK) instead of driving them up, which is definitely a reaction to p2p. What's going to happen in the future with the next generation of broadband technology?
I can already download an entire movie in just under an hour, which is sometimes how long it takes to get everybody packed up, in the car, purchase the tickets, get through the concession stand, find a seat, and then wait through 20 minutes worth of commercials. If the MPAA doesn't adapt, and I mean *now*, they're going to lose out on an entire generation of movie-goers. My friend's younger brother (11) hasn't been to the movies in three months, but in that time he's downloaded at least two or three movies a week, simply because it's so easy.
Music CDs are a different argument, because it's much more difficult to see a band live than it is to see a movie in virtually any city in North America, so no, I'm not going in that direction.
Okay, so knowing Sony's past record on consoles (Playstation & PSOne, etc.), and since we're sure that they're aware of their competitor's (Nintendo) past record, within two years there's going to be a PSP SP with the problem "fixed." No question about it.