When you said historical fiction was underdeveloped it made try to think of games of that type. The only one I could think of was The Last Express. A war is kind of involved there but not at all in the gameplay. Are there more?
generally parading out the clowns and disasters in society, whereas the daily show generally reports on relevant political and social issues (only occasionally parading out some freaks).
The clowns and disasters in society are often the people involved in relevant political and social issues.
I think the grandparent is not so much justifying piracy as explaining that for many people, the utility of having a mod chip lies in lots of highly illegal activites such as you describe. So it's not just the cool factor, it's the money savings (and maybe convenience) you can get from pirating a game rather than renting it or buying it. I do agree with you though that money isn't a compelling justification for piracy.
Also I defy you to find a trusted source for reviews anymore.
Many of the bug fixes are due to vulnerabilities allowing some kind of remote manipulation of your system, so maybe those aren't necessary. But for improvements or elimination of functionality bugs? I guess MS is saying those kind of updates won't be necessary since you can't access Windows Update with this OS.
Not a flame, but it's not a valid comparison to use mainstream media coverage versus what the Democratic party would do. Besides, both parties are working together to limit influence of other candidates. Witness the effort keep other candidates out of presidential candidate debates. They're not criticizing each other for that. I'm not certain which major party is the one for a "free and open debate" but it looks like really neither.
However, it's not considered seriously by the "leet". Why? IMHO, I think it's simply that there's no mad skillz involved. It's simply too shallow.
No. Leetness is about numbers and being better than other people, and killing these people in game. Take Diablo 2 for example, which is very much a numbers game. Get on battle.net and you'll find any number of people who really love being high level but really don't love playing the game. And while the combat mechanics can get pretty involved there, these people bypass that in favor of a formula.
Most of the nation is already set in stone as to who they will vote for. The only votes left up for grabs are the precious, the few, the "swing votes."
There are also a lot of people who currently don't intend to vote, but they do intend to watch movies. It may be that the influence is meant to get them to the polls.
Nah, just another boring ass RPG game where you sit around levelling up all day. They forgot the MMO part, it seems.
RPGs aren't supposed to be about leveling up either. The roleplaying has been left out of these kinds of games for a while now too, because everyone is more into the numbers. Luckily, there are enough people who want to be elite and have the best numbers in the game to support a new MMOG. For a while.
I don't think the business side would support a MMOG with a limited time frame, i.e. 3 months then it's done till the sequel. But for many people, a few months is all they can take. Grind grind grind.
I think this is a bit much but my first thought was also along these lines, i.e. don't send our whole genome out there. I think the concept that spacefaring aliens must surely be peaceful came from Star Trek.
I'd do a tinfoil hat joke here but I never got that joke in the first place.
The girls in my math classes seem to like it fine. In fact, they're often better at math than my boys. I read a study once that found that girls as early as 8 feel less capable than boys in
regards to mathematics. This wasn't a measure of mathematics achievement, it was math self concept. I can't believe that girls just have lower self esteem than boys by nature. I think it's been done to them.
Another poster says most people don't like math and related fields. I don't think that's true, I think they were either:
Turned off to math by a harsh/incompentent teacher
Turned off to math by the narrowness of the math experience in public schools
Math isn't a monolith. I've met people who said "I hate math. I like geometry a lot, but not math."
I see the problem of math education differently from most people. Many believe that by offering more math and science courses or requiring more math and science, we'll have more mathematicians and scientists. I don't believe that; I think my job is to teach skills etc, and also try to get kids to like math. No one will pursue it after high school if they don't like it.
I taught 6th grade for 2.5 years and in that first.5 we had science projects in the 4th quarter. One of the kids photocopied something out of an encyclopedia and it had the author's name at the end and everything. Later she didn't understand what the problem with that was.
Another poster said that college professors bear part of the responsibility for allowing copied papers to pollute academia. He also said those people should be teaching elementary school, and maybe they are.
I play Lineage II and though I'm on one of the north american servers, there are plenty of players who speak other languages natively. Most of the European players speak English to some degree, but many of the Chinese players do not.
I'm having fun learning some Mandarin though, so it's all in how you approach it.
There's no way to get over it until people can't just passively enjoy the benefits of racism. By doing nothing, some people still have racial advantages over others. Maybe you've never been on the receiving end of racism.
I'm sure you've been in neighborhoods with a lot of drug abuse and non-street crime and you just didn't know it.
Teaching is a career where it's generally valued to be unusually smart. Some of the other posters are correct in saying that humility is in order. The trick is:
Don't think you're special because you're smarter than people. It's not something you did on purpose.
Don't undervalue the work that other people have to put in to get what you have already.
I failed out of my first year of college for some of the reasons I've seen in other posts. No discipline, culture shock, laziness. I'm not saying you have to damage your academic records to learn the lesson, but you should find something you're not already good and put yourself in a position where you have to be able to do it.
Also, read The Introvert Advantage by Marti Olsen Laney:
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/ 2143241&mode=nested&tid=134&tid=188&tid=19 2
I don't think there's a sense of national shame yet. Maybe there should be, but it doesn't feel like it's there to me. Instead, what I see are people trying to reconcile wrong actions by the US with their unconditional patriotism. They get more and more wild eyed as they do it.
Patenting this idea (is less than)* being first to market. In the patent scenario, they're using the (nanny?) state to avoid having to be first. Hell they could sit on the patent and avoid having to do anything. In the second case, they're competing.
Maybe I missed the point.
In general, I'm more interested in where my money goes than what I'm getting. With my discretionary income at least. People are pretty focused on what they want though. Dunno why. My personal desires aren't very high on my list of Important Things.
Ravi
*I can't believe I couldn't figure out how to put a less than symbol in my post.
Often, people can tell right from wrong and just don't care. I don't think it's computer games' responsibility to address the secondary issue of people who do wrong knowing it's wrong. These same people have no problem doing something wrong as long as they are not punished. Games often attempt to convey the sense that an action was wrong, but in those cases, it's usually just the wrong way to go about something because it doesn't help you achieve the game goal, or else you "die." If you do something morally wrong and the game rewards you, then you've succeeded.
The debate over "whose version of morality" would be interesting if games were more nuanced. As it is, most of the moral choices you face while playing a game are pretty simple.
I have a theory that because Christianity forbids judgement in favor of consequences, people have an idea that the moral good is determined by what happens to you when you do it. If nothing bad happens to you, then everything's OK and you're still a good person. I'm from a Hindu background, where the emphasis is the other way. If you do enough bad things, then you're a bad person. Evil. No way around it. Thus it's important to protect who you are by taking only right actions.
Oh I'm named for Rabindranath Tagore myself I just though it was interesting that the father's first and last name were so close to the famous man. If I saw someone's father listed as Francis S. Key in the US I'd have the same suspicion.
I don't watch so much TV that I have any use for 7 tuners recording at once, but one thing that I like about a good TV show is that the people behind it put some thought in before presenting it to me. The idea that they're trying to say something appeals to me. All media have this feature, that is: mediation.
I find in my conversations with people that there isn't very much going on behind the words. Since I don't enjoy people per se, there's really no reason to make small talk. There are some times, but mostly smalltalk omg no. I'm a teacher so I talk to people plenty during the day.
Obsidian's not Bioware, but was instead founded by some people from Black Isle. Black Isle is the studio recently cancelled by Interplay. BI produced the greatest CRPG of all time - Planescape: Torment.
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When you said historical fiction was underdeveloped it made try to think of games of that type. The only one I could think of was The Last Express. A war is kind of involved there but not at all in the gameplay. Are there more?
The clowns and disasters in society are often the people involved in relevant political and social issues.
I think the grandparent is not so much justifying piracy as explaining that for many people, the utility of having a mod chip lies in lots of highly illegal activites such as you describe. So it's not just the cool factor, it's the money savings (and maybe convenience) you can get from pirating a game rather than renting it or buying it. I do agree with you though that money isn't a compelling justification for piracy.
Also I defy you to find a trusted source for reviews anymore.
RaviMany of the bug fixes are due to vulnerabilities allowing some kind of remote manipulation of your system, so maybe those aren't necessary. But for improvements or elimination of functionality bugs? I guess MS is saying those kind of updates won't be necessary since you can't access Windows Update with this OS.
RaviNot a flame, but it's not a valid comparison to use mainstream media coverage versus what the Democratic party would do. Besides, both parties are working together to limit influence of other candidates. Witness the effort keep other candidates out of presidential candidate debates. They're not criticizing each other for that. I'm not certain which major party is the one for a "free and open debate" but it looks like really neither.
This is also old news like the parent post.
RaviNo. Leetness is about numbers and being better than other people, and killing these people in game. Take Diablo 2 for example, which is very much a numbers game. Get on battle.net and you'll find any number of people who really love being high level but really don't love playing the game. And while the combat mechanics can get pretty involved there, these people bypass that in favor of a formula.
RaviThere are also a lot of people who currently don't intend to vote, but they do intend to watch movies. It may be that the influence is meant to get them to the polls.
Raviit's too late because of Brannon Braga
RPGs aren't supposed to be about leveling up either. The roleplaying has been left out of these kinds of games for a while now too, because everyone is more into the numbers. Luckily, there are enough people who want to be elite and have the best numbers in the game to support a new MMOG. For a while.
I don't think the business side would support a MMOG with a limited time frame, i.e. 3 months then it's done till the sequel. But for many people, a few months is all they can take. Grind grind grind.
RaviStarship Titanic kind of counts as IF but not really. It's probably very cheap now if not cheaper but I wouldn't go out of my way to find it.
RaviI think this is a bit much but my first thought was also along these lines, i.e. don't send our whole genome out there. I think the concept that spacefaring aliens must surely be peaceful came from Star Trek.
I'd do a tinfoil hat joke here but I never got that joke in the first place.
If all hiring was based solely on merit you might have an argument.
The girls in my math classes seem to like it fine. In fact, they're often better at math than my boys. I read a study once that found that girls as early as 8 feel less capable than boys in regards to mathematics. This wasn't a measure of mathematics achievement, it was math self concept. I can't believe that girls just have lower self esteem than boys by nature. I think it's been done to them.
Another poster says most people don't like math and related fields. I don't think that's true, I think they were either:
- Turned off to math by a harsh/incompentent teacher
- Turned off to math by the narrowness of the math experience in public schools
Math isn't a monolith. I've met people who said "I hate math. I like geometry a lot, but not math."I see the problem of math education differently from most people. Many believe that by offering more math and science courses or requiring more math and science, we'll have more mathematicians and scientists. I don't believe that; I think my job is to teach skills etc, and also try to get kids to like math. No one will pursue it after high school if they don't like it.
RaviI taught 6th grade for 2.5 years and in that first .5 we had science projects in the 4th quarter. One of the kids photocopied something out of an encyclopedia and it had the author's name at the end and everything. Later she didn't understand what the problem with that was.
Another poster said that college professors bear part of the responsibility for allowing copied papers to pollute academia. He also said those people should be teaching elementary school, and maybe they are.
I play Lineage II and though I'm on one of the north american servers, there are plenty of players who speak other languages natively. Most of the European players speak English to some degree, but many of the Chinese players do not. I'm having fun learning some Mandarin though, so it's all in how you approach it.
There's no way to get over it until people can't just passively enjoy the benefits of racism. By doing nothing, some people still have racial advantages over others. Maybe you've never been on the receiving end of racism.
I'm sure you've been in neighborhoods with a lot of drug abuse and non-street crime and you just didn't know it.
Teaching is a career where it's generally valued to be unusually smart. Some of the other posters are correct in saying that humility is in order. The trick is:
- Don't think you're special because you're smarter than people. It's not something you did on purpose.
- Don't undervalue the work that other people have to put in to get what you have already.
I failed out of my first year of college for some of the reasons I've seen in other posts. No discipline, culture shock, laziness. I'm not saying you have to damage your academic records to learn the lesson, but you should find something you're not already good and put yourself in a position where you have to be able to do it.Also, read The Introvert Advantage by Marti Olsen Laney:/ 2143241&mode=nested&tid=134&tid=188&tid=19 2
Ravihttp://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16
Don't forget guilt and embarrassment. People will do all kinds of things to avoid these two states. Like lying to cover things up:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2101786/
RaviI don't think there's a sense of national shame yet. Maybe there should be, but it doesn't feel like it's there to me. Instead, what I see are people trying to reconcile wrong actions by the US with their unconditional patriotism. They get more and more wild eyed as they do it.
RaviPatenting this idea (is less than)* being first to market. In the patent scenario, they're using the (nanny?) state to avoid having to be first. Hell they could sit on the patent and avoid having to do anything. In the second case, they're competing.
Maybe I missed the point.
In general, I'm more interested in where my money goes than what I'm getting. With my discretionary income at least. People are pretty focused on what they want though. Dunno why. My personal desires aren't very high on my list of Important Things.
Ravi*I can't believe I couldn't figure out how to put a less than symbol in my post.
Often, people can tell right from wrong and just don't care. I don't think it's computer games' responsibility to address the secondary issue of people who do wrong knowing it's wrong. These same people have no problem doing something wrong as long as they are not punished. Games often attempt to convey the sense that an action was wrong, but in those cases, it's usually just the wrong way to go about something because it doesn't help you achieve the game goal, or else you "die." If you do something morally wrong and the game rewards you, then you've succeeded.
The debate over "whose version of morality" would be interesting if games were more nuanced. As it is, most of the moral choices you face while playing a game are pretty simple.
I have a theory that because Christianity forbids judgement in favor of consequences, people have an idea that the moral good is determined by what happens to you when you do it. If nothing bad happens to you, then everything's OK and you're still a good person. I'm from a Hindu background, where the emphasis is the other way. If you do enough bad things, then you're a bad person. Evil. No way around it. Thus it's important to protect who you are by taking only right actions.
RaviOh I'm named for Rabindranath Tagore myself I just though it was interesting that the father's first and last name were so close to the famous man. If I saw someone's father listed as Francis S. Key in the US I'd have the same suspicion.
RaviThat second one is interesting since the father's name is pretty much Rabindranath Tagore. I wonder if it's fake. Ravi
I don't watch so much TV that I have any use for 7 tuners recording at once, but one thing that I like about a good TV show is that the people behind it put some thought in before presenting it to me. The idea that they're trying to say something appeals to me. All media have this feature, that is: mediation.
I find in my conversations with people that there isn't very much going on behind the words. Since I don't enjoy people per se, there's really no reason to make small talk. There are some times, but mostly smalltalk omg no. I'm a teacher so I talk to people plenty during the day.
RaviObsidian's not Bioware, but was instead founded by some people from Black Isle. Black Isle is the studio recently cancelled by Interplay. BI produced the greatest CRPG of all time - Planescape: Torment.
Hope that helps :)
Ravi