IMHO this is a fad like ADD is and has been. Not that there aren't people with Asperger's Syndrome and Attention Deficit Disorder, but the nature of these conditions is more specific than people realize and many who are identified as having them actually don't. More to the point, giving (in my case - I'm a teacher) a student's situation a name is only useful if the overt "symptoms" can be used to give insight into other hidden features of the condition, or if the optimal response to one of the overt symptoms is counterintuitive. The Special Education department is good at figuring these things out about students who hit their radar, but for others we just do our best.
I didn't care about this announcement and was going to post "bleah who cares." Raven has shown with Star Trek Voyager Elite Force that they are capable of taking an existing work and making something good with it. I just wish there was more to the Quake world for them to work with. Say what you want about Star Trek but it's a pretty detailed and full universe.
"every convenience store learns to grab that data and sell it to Big Data for a nickel" Right. Because every time I got to the convenience store I have to present my license. Oh, wait, no I don't. FUD.
I think your post is right on but if the card has RFID in it you wouldn't have to present anything. Maybe I've fallen victim to the FUD myself but I wouldn't put it past Mr. Sensenbrenner.
Which is all the more ironic since an inexperienced player at level 60 is basically worthless in the endgame content. The only thing I can think would go easily is ganking people of way lower level where skill isn't as much a factor. Although I have seen the pvp go wrong for some of those eBay level 60s.
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I don't think it's a simplified control scheme that's needed but a well designed learning curve. A complicated interface is fine if it's not all needed at the very beginning. Much of what people are saying here to get girls into games applies to new gamers rather than girls specifically. Fighting games often have this kind of learning curve where advanced techniques and good timing are not needed until you face the CPU at higher skill levels. More than one poster here has mentioned that women like the fighting games. I'll add my own: my best friend's wife likes DOA better than Soul Calibur because there's something more visceral about a beatdown with your bare hands.
I think boys may have a higher tolerance for a poorly designed learning curve because they don't have cultural reasons to want to set games aside immediately.
Most often, people are opposed to corporate influence over legislation because usually those corporations are acting in their own interest and to the detriment of a large group of people.
Why are people afraid? Isn't more competition and innovation a good thing? Or are the same people who think the market will take care of everything upset when the market acts to their disadvantage?
It's interesting that you think motivation can be fixed in schools. The current reform is about raising standards and holding teachers and students accountable to them. This does not have the effect of making more students desirous of working in technical fields. I know your post wasn't about that, but I just want to point out that the education component of a return to American scholarship is more at the policy level, where teachers aren't really involved. Certain individual teachers do a good job of making their subjects interesting to students, but overall this is not the direction education is going at the moment.
I'm thinking that in the 70s there was some space race mentality that made students want to go into these fields.
Games can be art, and art changes you. Some articles in the "New Games Journalism" style do a better job of conveying this than others. There's room in the gaming press for both buyer's guides and reviews. Look at reviews of literature or performing arts or movies. They aren't all buyer's guides. As the art form is more and more evident in games, I think some people will naturally wish to write about the game itself, not the commerce. I agree that reviews in the "New" style can't replace buying guide writeups.
Join me next week as I discuss the problem with dumbing down your architecture so that you can hire morons for less money to maintain it when all your best talent gets fed up with their 2% raises and quits.
The anonymity afforded by a CS server probably lets them be more comfortable acting that way. Also remember, multiplayer gaming is still very much a solitary activity. I was reporting on a grand opening of a LAN gaming center when Baldur's Gate II came out, and the people playing never talked to each other except about technically getting the game going or to shout combat instructions. Not very social that way.
I don't really see the problem here. There was another post some time ago about how WOW has no staying power, and honestly I don't know that it needs to. Blizzard might be counting on a steady stream of new players, in the way they seem to be with Diablo 2. People are still playing Diablo 2 and still buying it. Maybe not in the same nubers as before, but the game is pretty old. Frontloading the content means that people picking up the game new won't be sorry. All these bans (if they've done them right) mean people won't join the game and buy lots of gold to get started.
Also, I wonder what costs are accrued to the states involved in internet transactions of this kind that warrant a tax on the transaction. Let's say that sales tax is charged to account for the costs to society of mechanisms of commerce in general. It seems like a download of an e-book incurs fewer such costs, if any.
I guess it's redundant to say that Wisconsin just wants in on that sweet iTunes action.
Is the Chewbacca defense something you had to see once to get why it's so funny? Does it have to be heard in south park voices to be funny? Is it even supposed to be funny?
Personal responsibility is nothing in the face of personal desire. Do you think anyone wants to go to prison? For more people, their desire not to answer for their crime overrides any belief that people in general should answer for their crimes.
Teaching this is harder than it sounds because of a tendency for people to factor self interest into every decision, even when it doesn't belong there. I remember some time ago there was public despair over the decline of morality in our nation's youth. I've observed that people often do know right from wrong, they just don't care because they do what they want. Self interest trumps the notion of "wrong." Trying to convey logic in this context is hard. I teach "Discrete Math" to high school students and we do some symbolic logic and propositional logic. So that's where my statements come from.
What can't be fixed at this point is that we have no character with whom to identify. This wasn't my observation originally, but in the old trilogy it was Han Solo, the skeptic.
Since you brought up story, let me ask you this: in the Phantom Menace, there was a naval blockade over some trade dispute, and a subsequent invasion, which were all foiled by a ragtag band of adventurers and a bit of luck. What if they hadn't foiled it? What was the plan supposed to be?
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IMHO this is a fad like ADD is and has been. Not that there aren't people with Asperger's Syndrome and Attention Deficit Disorder, but the nature of these conditions is more specific than people realize and many who are identified as having them actually don't. More to the point, giving (in my case - I'm a teacher) a student's situation a name is only useful if the overt "symptoms" can be used to give insight into other hidden features of the condition, or if the optimal response to one of the overt symptoms is counterintuitive. The Special Education department is good at figuring these things out about students who hit their radar, but for others we just do our best.
There were good reviews.
Dude you're thinking of Basic Instinct.
I didn't care about this announcement and was going to post "bleah who cares." Raven has shown with Star Trek Voyager Elite Force that they are capable of taking an existing work and making something good with it. I just wish there was more to the Quake world for them to work with. Say what you want about Star Trek but it's a pretty detailed and full universe.
I think your post is right on but if the card has RFID in it you wouldn't have to present anything. Maybe I've fallen victim to the FUD myself but I wouldn't put it past Mr. Sensenbrenner.
Which is all the more ironic since an inexperienced player at level 60 is basically worthless in the endgame content. The only thing I can think would go easily is ganking people of way lower level where skill isn't as much a factor. Although I have seen the pvp go wrong for some of those eBay level 60s.
I don't think it's a simplified control scheme that's needed but a well designed learning curve. A complicated interface is fine if it's not all needed at the very beginning. Much of what people are saying here to get girls into games applies to new gamers rather than girls specifically. Fighting games often have this kind of learning curve where advanced techniques and good timing are not needed until you face the CPU at higher skill levels. More than one poster here has mentioned that women like the fighting games. I'll add my own: my best friend's wife likes DOA better than Soul Calibur because there's something more visceral about a beatdown with your bare hands.
I think boys may have a higher tolerance for a poorly designed learning curve because they don't have cultural reasons to want to set games aside immediately.
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Most often, people are opposed to corporate influence over legislation because usually those corporations are acting in their own interest and to the detriment of a large group of people.
This is a not the same thing at all.
can get Christo to make the sari
It's been said before and better, but the larger the development house, the lower the risk tolerance?
Why are people afraid? Isn't more competition and innovation a good thing? Or are the same people who think the market will take care of everything upset when the market acts to their disadvantage?
It's interesting that you think motivation can be fixed in schools. The current reform is about raising standards and holding teachers and students accountable to them. This does not have the effect of making more students desirous of working in technical fields. I know your post wasn't about that, but I just want to point out that the education component of a return to American scholarship is more at the policy level, where teachers aren't really involved. Certain individual teachers do a good job of making their subjects interesting to students, but overall this is not the direction education is going at the moment.
I'm thinking that in the 70s there was some space race mentality that made students want to go into these fields.
Games can be art, and art changes you. Some articles in the "New Games Journalism" style do a better job of conveying this than others. There's room in the gaming press for both buyer's guides and reviews. Look at reviews of literature or performing arts or movies. They aren't all buyer's guides. As the art form is more and more evident in games, I think some people will naturally wish to write about the game itself, not the commerce. I agree that reviews in the "New" style can't replace buying guide writeups.
The anonymity afforded by a CS server probably lets them be more comfortable acting that way. Also remember, multiplayer gaming is still very much a solitary activity. I was reporting on a grand opening of a LAN gaming center when Baldur's Gate II came out, and the people playing never talked to each other except about technically getting the game going or to shout combat instructions. Not very social that way.
that you're a Bulgarian expatriate
I don't think they're even sophisticated enough to consider that there's any kind of filesharing that could be legitimate.
I don't really see the problem here. There was another post some time ago about how WOW has no staying power, and honestly I don't know that it needs to. Blizzard might be counting on a steady stream of new players, in the way they seem to be with Diablo 2. People are still playing Diablo 2 and still buying it. Maybe not in the same nubers as before, but the game is pretty old. Frontloading the content means that people picking up the game new won't be sorry. All these bans (if they've done them right) mean people won't join the game and buy lots of gold to get started.
The summary seems to suggest that all downloads would be subject to tax, like on a per MB basis but it's not that at all.
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Also, I wonder what costs are accrued to the states involved in internet transactions of this kind that warrant a tax on the transaction. Let's say that sales tax is charged to account for the costs to society of mechanisms of commerce in general. It seems like a download of an e-book incurs fewer such costs, if any.
I guess it's redundant to say that Wisconsin just wants in on that sweet iTunes action.
Is the Chewbacca defense something you had to see once to get why it's so funny? Does it have to be heard in south park voices to be funny? Is it even supposed to be funny?
cuz I still don't get it
It reminds me somewhat of Windows Media Player. I wonder if this is on purpose?
Personal responsibility is nothing in the face of personal desire. Do you think anyone wants to go to prison? For more people, their desire not to answer for their crime overrides any belief that people in general should answer for their crimes.
When was the last time you saw art with inappropriate content marketed to children?
Teaching this is harder than it sounds because of a tendency for people to factor self interest into every decision, even when it doesn't belong there. I remember some time ago there was public despair over the decline of morality in our nation's youth. I've observed that people often do know right from wrong, they just don't care because they do what they want. Self interest trumps the notion of "wrong." Trying to convey logic in this context is hard. I teach "Discrete Math" to high school students and we do some symbolic logic and propositional logic. So that's where my statements come from.
What can't be fixed at this point is that we have no character with whom to identify. This wasn't my observation originally, but in the old trilogy it was Han Solo, the skeptic.
Since you brought up story, let me ask you this: in the Phantom Menace, there was a naval blockade over some trade dispute, and a subsequent invasion, which were all foiled by a ragtag band of adventurers and a bit of luck. What if they hadn't foiled it? What was the plan supposed to be?