My personal reason for not playing videogames is that most games released today are way too time consuming to extract fun out of. My idea of a good game is something that I can sit down with some friends, all have us learn it in 2 minutes, and have some fun. While I did find it fun playing 8-16 person Halo tournaments, there would always be the guy who devoted his life to Halo and much better than anyone else, and then the people who play video games once a year and could hardly walk around let around shoot. This discrepancy in ability has led to less interest among those of us who are on the bottom of the curve. That is why game playing is declining.
I sincerely doubt the reason is that kids are "growing up" and moving on to other things. At the same time there are kids who are growing up and finding girls, there are kids gaining motor skills to pick up controllers and start playing. Normal flucations wouldn't lead to a big drop.
I can see the price of video games leading to some of the drop, but I think the main reason is what I described.
This is why I'm extremely excited to see what the Revolution is going to do to the video game market, with it's online arcade or whatever and non scary controller, I think it could shake things up and gain interest outside of the video game stereotypical male 10-25 market. There will be games that have small learning curves, and everyone can pick up quickly, and I think it will be great for casual gamers, the market that is shying away right now.
He understands it's the correct behavior, and that it is preferred, etc. But just because most users prefer Gnome, doesn't mean I use it. Just because most users prefer Emacs doesn't mean I use it. *nix is about choice. He's asking what choices he has.
IDNRTA, but is this applying to future predictions that don't hold true (ie. Duke Nukem Forever will exist sometime)? It seems Enron claimed that something existed at the time they said it, which didn't hold true. Surely companies should be able to state that their product will be at point b in production by date x, (whether they truly believe it or not) and then have it at only point a when date x rolls around.
Or the first time around they could give advertisements for it. I hadn't even heard of Spirited Away before the Academy Awards.
Now saying this obviously makes me not an anime fan, but I think they should be trying to attract non-anime fans to go see this. A lot of the big corporations like to do this with movies/shows, they don't give it a chance to succeed and then say it failed, i.e. they don't advertise it, make it an inconvience to see it, etc.
Is this the company (Orange Communications) that the former Apple Communications based it's name on, being an oppenent of that company, but then Apple Computers made them change there name, as posted earlier on/.?
top ten signs you spend too much time on the computer:
10-you look at the stars on your monitor
seriously though, where is the fun in looking at the stars on a computer than actually getting outside and looking up at the sky, possibly with the help of a backyard observatory
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My personal reason for not playing videogames is that most games released today are way too time consuming to extract fun out of. My idea of a good game is something that I can sit down with some friends, all have us learn it in 2 minutes, and have some fun. While I did find it fun playing 8-16 person Halo tournaments, there would always be the guy who devoted his life to Halo and much better than anyone else, and then the people who play video games once a year and could hardly walk around let around shoot. This discrepancy in ability has led to less interest among those of us who are on the bottom of the curve. That is why game playing is declining.
I sincerely doubt the reason is that kids are "growing up" and moving on to other things. At the same time there are kids who are growing up and finding girls, there are kids gaining motor skills to pick up controllers and start playing. Normal flucations wouldn't lead to a big drop. I can see the price of video games leading to some of the drop, but I think the main reason is what I described.
This is why I'm extremely excited to see what the Revolution is going to do to the video game market, with it's online arcade or whatever and non scary controller, I think it could shake things up and gain interest outside of the video game stereotypical male 10-25 market. There will be games that have small learning curves, and everyone can pick up quickly, and I think it will be great for casual gamers, the market that is shying away right now.
z*4jhDm28&:1~ IS my dogs name, you insensitive clod!
You mean he was still awake after he read the article on Canadian politics?
Wow, he's got me beat.
Hollywood is much bigger than the game industry, says google.
Hollywood wins 35 million to 15 million! Hollywood is over double the size of the game industry!
He understands it's the correct behavior, and that it is preferred, etc. But just because most users prefer Gnome, doesn't mean I use it. Just because most users prefer Emacs doesn't mean I use it. *nix is about choice. He's asking what choices he has.
IDNRTA, but is this applying to future predictions that don't hold true (ie. Duke Nukem Forever will exist sometime)? It seems Enron claimed that something existed at the time they said it, which didn't hold true. Surely companies should be able to state that their product will be at point b in production by date x, (whether they truly believe it or not) and then have it at only point a when date x rolls around.
Or the first time around they could give advertisements for it. I hadn't even heard of Spirited Away before the Academy Awards.
Now saying this obviously makes me not an anime fan, but I think they should be trying to attract non-anime fans to go see this. A lot of the big corporations like to do this with movies/shows, they don't give it a chance to succeed and then say it failed, i.e. they don't advertise it, make it an inconvience to see it, etc.
Just my 2 cents.
This guy is not a hacker, he is a cracker! (actually he's probably both)
/. would be able to get that right.
I would think at least
Well why don't you just make 10 louder and have it only go up to 10?
The big problems have been setting up lights and a camera in my study properly, so that I don't look dead, or hung over
What about when you _are_ hung over?
And working for 100 hours every week? That's a lot.
'will have the burden of proving its innocence' Ah yes, I hate it when that happens
Do we get to put mod-chips in these arcades and run linux on them too?
This is not real. There are many reasons as to why this is not true. Check out the thread on the ISONEWS forums for more information :
Forum Thread
Also there is no official press release from the DOJ:
DOJ February Press Releases
Well I would want to be working the conmission's at an electronic store on boxing day for 2006, thats for sure
A couple other have submitted this story
So does that mean a couple other editors will post this story in a few days?
So know are we going to be able to use pay-phones as hacking devices like in the movie Hackers (and Hackers 2)?
Yeah, make yourself googeable so when you're on slashdot, they can always go to the cache!
Is this the company (Orange Communications) that the former Apple Communications based it's name on, being an oppenent of that company, but then Apple Computers made them change there name, as posted earlier on /.?
I was wondering when people would catch on to this.
imagine a beowulf cluster of..
please don't hurt me
this goes out to my mother, and all my supporters
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top ten signs you spend too much time on the computer:
10-you look at the stars on your monitor
seriously though, where is the fun in looking at the stars on a computer than actually getting outside and looking up at the sky, possibly with the help of a backyard observatory
here's the google cache of the website: cache
adf karma burn