You're right about the V, R and L, but there's nothing wrong with the ending "n." "N" is the only consonant in the Japanese phoneme set that can stand alone without a vowel after it. And vowels alone are fine too. So the whole "-tion" end is just fine for Japanese pronunciation (and sounds the same as English" -- "TSCH-O-N"
Just FYI. The rest of your point stands, though, of course NES was "Famicom" and SNES was "Super Famicom" (Fami-Com = Family Computer like pasucom = pasunaru computa = Personal Computer ) so there is an alternative. I prefer Wii though.
Sure, if youre a first person shooter only X-box will fit you well.
As a hardcore FPS guy I find that comment odd. In my opinion FPS games on consoles are unplayable because using an analog stick to aim is clumsy and inefficient. While mouse and keayboard will be hard to beat (or even match) the Wii controller seems infinitely more suited for proper FPS gaming on a console than anything from MS or Sony.
$40? The most expensive I've seen are $35 (Animal Crossing, Star Wars Lego, and maybe one or two others.) Most are $30 or $20 even when new. Many are $15.
Seriously, someone says they have a 1080p plasma (which I, frankly, doubt since they're so rare -- most likely it's 1080i or 720p, and there's no 1080p broadcast content in AUS, but I digress) and you go off prosteletizing your anti-TV opinions based on some completely groundless assumptions. Specifically, none of the following are known to be true by you, and probably aren't:
His plasma TV costs "tens of thousands of dollars."
Owning a $20k+ TV means one's life is otherwise empty.
Owning a $20k+ TV means one does not have a family.
Owning a $20k+ TV means one has not accomplished anything of lasting value.
Owning a $20k+ TV prevents having real relationships.
The TV cost the GP poster a year's pay.
Your priorities and concepts of values are indisputable universal truths.
Now, re-reading those claims, it looks to me like you are exactly opposite of what a reasonable person might assume would be the case in several cases.
Hey, I'm no big fan of TV either, but I do have a 42" LCD, I only paid $1500 for it, and it's not used all that often. But it is really nice for watching a movie or playing a game. Your assumptions are so ridiculously out of touch with reality that you just come off as a grumpy, jealous, pathetic little person who thinks their value judgements should be shared by all.
You must be referring to pictures with Atomium in it (big, ugly metal thing, looks like an iron atom). No one is allowed to publish pictures of this building, as it's protected, indeed, by copyright. As far as I know it's the only building which is actively protected by copyright. If you're not referring to this building, then you're simply lying.
No one's allowed to publish photos of it, eh? I guess these 13,000 or so folks are breaking the "law" or maybe they got special permission?
Frankly, I think you're "lying," but I'll be nice and say you're just "mistaken."
There's an expiration date on almost all the content in a game. Ok so music you can have composed and rendered to WAV files and keep that forever. Soundeffects too maybe. Plot, well it's a FPS, plot is light anyhow but ya. However the really expensive and hard parts, the code and the graphics assets, expire after a year or two.
So, of:
Music
Sound effects
Plot
Code
Graphics
Two of them, Code and Graphics, have an "expiration date" and they comprise "almost all" the content?
In fact, if you look at their timeline they went from Q1 to Q2 to UE1 to UE1.5 to UE2 to UE2.5. Well that means there's had to be some significant updating of grpahics assets to keep pace with that.
So it's totally unheard of and impossible to make source art resources at a higher resolution and quality than is possible to render in real time and scale down for the engine implementation as needed? So they couldn't have had high-quality resources to begin with and re-generated the art to be used in-game over and over (at higher quality levels as the engine and modern hardware allowed?
So when development starts to stretch in to the 5+ year bracket you are losing a lot of work.
And that "expiration date" is around 5 years? And Quake1 in a FEAR market would be an example of this?
I think DNF faces a similar problem. Either they have been updating their engine and assets, in which case they've been wasting colossal amounts of time and money, even if it is their own, or they are talking about releasing a game with Quake 1 graphics to compete with things like FEAR.
Quake was released on July 22 1996.
F.E.A.R. was released on October 18, 2005.
FYI That's more than 9 years.
Well, that was an interesting post. I'm still confused about a lot of things, especially things related to DNF. But now there's one thing I'm sure of -- you're not a game developer, and you couldn't even play a convincing one on TV.
The Longhua plant is in Shenzhen, where the median annual household income is about 24000 RMB, or about $3000 US, or $250/month. So they're getting paid 1/5 of the median household income for the area, before their employer takes half of it for living expenses. Not to mention they're working 15 hour days, probably 6 days/week - or 4500 hours/year. In absolute terms, they're getting paid about $0.13 an hour.
In conclusion, you are an idiot, and an Apple apologist to boot.
BTW, how is 30% (then) or 25% (now) a fair share at all? The US and Japan combined pay 40% (more if you include "peacekeeping mission" financing) -- that doesn't seem right.
[In 2000] the United States is expected to get its payments for the $1 billion a year regular or administrative U.N. budget reduced from 25 percent to 22 percent. For fluctuating peacekeeping expenses, estimated at $3 billion, U.S. obligations are expected to fall from 30 percent to about 26 or 27 percent.
Congress had refused to pay most of the $1.5 billion Washington owes to the United Nations until the rate of U.S. payments was cut.
Maybe you were thinking of the WWII debt that Britain owed the US and finally paid off this year? Or the WWI debt that Britain (and many other European countries) still owe the US but have defaulted / stopped maintenance payments on?
Approximately two-thirds of foreign securities held by American investors fell into default over the course of the Depression decade. Contemporaries believed that the experience had a lingering impact on the attitudes of American investors.
Hi. Sorry to help him burst your fantasy bubble there pal, but you are so ignorant and you picked such bad examples that, well, I couldn't resist:
Tell me, is there a serious cultural movement to ban birth control in Japan? (I'm going to laugh at you if you say there is.)
If by "birth control" you mean "the pill" (and not, say, abortion) then you might be surprised to learn that it was not available in Japan until 1999.
Any gay people crucified on fences over there? No?
Homosexuals in Japan may not adopt or marry. While a fantastically unrealistic concept of homosexuality is tolerated in Japan, sometimes even esteemed, real homosexuality is almost always kept very discreet and is considered shameful by most. The disparity in "acceptance" of homosexuality between the rural and urban areas is even more stark than your colorfolly-worded description of the same issue in the US.
Any other ignorant fantasies about Japan you'd like shattered?
(I enjoyed that more than I should have, sure, but slapping morons is so fun.)
What I really want is a list of the names of those who loaned that shyster $70 million! Man that'd be a valuable list.:)
A separate SEC filing released on May 22nd has updated those interested on Infinium's parlous state of accounts: "Our loss from operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 was $2,752,327. Our loss from operations for the year ended December 31, 2005 was $29,814,606. At March 31, 2006, we had a working capital deficit of $11,523,869 and accumulated losses since inception of $69,331,794. In their report on our audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2005, our independent auditors expressed substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern."
Dude, wake up. You're the only one who failed anything here. You corrected someone incorrectly. If you can't handle being called on it when you make an ass out of yourself, just shut up when you think something "doesn't scan right."
The more you try to defend your idiocy the funnier and sadder it gets, so go again please!
(BTW, even if it were true, it's still not irony.)
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His "less than a gamer" what?
You're right about the V, R and L, but there's nothing wrong with the ending "n." "N" is the only consonant in the Japanese phoneme set that can stand alone without a vowel after it. And vowels alone are fine too. So the whole "-tion" end is just fine for Japanese pronunciation (and sounds the same as English" -- "TSCH-O-N"
Just FYI. The rest of your point stands, though, of course NES was "Famicom" and SNES was "Super Famicom" (Fami-Com = Family Computer like pasucom = pasunaru computa = Personal Computer ) so there is an alternative. I prefer Wii though.
Sure, if youre a first person shooter only X-box will fit you well.
As a hardcore FPS guy I find that comment odd. In my opinion FPS games on consoles are unplayable because using an analog stick to aim is clumsy and inefficient. While mouse and keayboard will be hard to beat (or even match) the Wii controller seems infinitely more suited for proper FPS gaming on a console than anything from MS or Sony.
$40? The most expensive I've seen are $35 (Animal Crossing, Star Wars Lego, and maybe one or two others.) Most are $30 or $20 even when new. Many are $15.
Seriously, someone says they have a 1080p plasma (which I, frankly, doubt since they're so rare -- most likely it's 1080i or 720p, and there's no 1080p broadcast content in AUS, but I digress) and you go off prosteletizing your anti-TV opinions based on some completely groundless assumptions. Specifically, none of the following are known to be true by you, and probably aren't:
- His plasma TV costs "tens of thousands of dollars."
- Owning a $20k+ TV means one's life is otherwise empty.
- Owning a $20k+ TV means one does not have a family.
- Owning a $20k+ TV means one has not accomplished anything of lasting value.
- Owning a $20k+ TV prevents having real relationships.
- The TV cost the GP poster a year's pay.
- Your priorities and concepts of values are indisputable universal truths.
Now, re-reading those claims, it looks to me like you are exactly opposite of what a reasonable person might assume would be the case in several cases.Hey, I'm no big fan of TV either, but I do have a 42" LCD, I only paid $1500 for it, and it's not used all that often. But it is really nice for watching a movie or playing a game. Your assumptions are so ridiculously out of touch with reality that you just come off as a grumpy, jealous, pathetic little person who thinks their value judgements should be shared by all.
The funny thing is your weak attempt at an insult and/or jab at the US is, to the cluefull, actually a compliment.
Thanks!
You're an idiot.
Me neither, but I agree.
Except that it's not funny . . . it's hilarious.
Your understanding of anti-trust and anti-competition is flawed.
whoosh . . .
You must be referring to pictures with Atomium in it (big, ugly metal thing, looks like an iron atom). No one is allowed to publish pictures of this building, as it's protected, indeed, by copyright. As far as I know it's the only building which is actively protected by copyright. If you're not referring to this building, then you're simply lying.
No one's allowed to publish photos of it, eh? I guess these 13,000 or so folks are breaking the "law" or maybe they got special permission?
Frankly, I think you're "lying," but I'll be nice and say you're just "mistaken."
Crabs and herpes are just a couple of examples that condoms won't block.
Wait . . . what?!
Condoms don't block herpes?! Oh shi
There is no game. No one is working on the game. The investors got fleeced.
That's all I needed to read to know you're full of shit.
There are no investors. 3Drealms has been in business sincde 1991, has never taken out a loan, and has never had a layoff.
In short, there was no post. You did not make a post. The readers who thought they were reading a post were fleeced. You're a moron.
So, of:
- Music
- Sound effects
- Plot
- Code
- Graphics
Two of them, Code and Graphics, have an "expiration date" and they comprise "almost all" the content?In fact, if you look at their timeline they went from Q1 to Q2 to UE1 to UE1.5 to UE2 to UE2.5. Well that means there's had to be some significant updating of grpahics assets to keep pace with that.
So it's totally unheard of and impossible to make source art resources at a higher resolution and quality than is possible to render in real time and scale down for the engine implementation as needed? So they couldn't have had high-quality resources to begin with and re-generated the art to be used in-game over and over (at higher quality levels as the engine and modern hardware allowed?
So when development starts to stretch in to the 5+ year bracket you are losing a lot of work.
And that "expiration date" is around 5 years? And Quake1 in a FEAR market would be an example of this?
I think DNF faces a similar problem. Either they have been updating their engine and assets, in which case they've been wasting colossal amounts of time and money, even if it is their own, or they are talking about releasing a game with Quake 1 graphics to compete with things like FEAR.
Quake was released on July 22 1996.
F.E.A.R. was released on October 18, 2005.
FYI That's more than 9 years.
Well, that was an interesting post. I'm still confused about a lot of things, especially things related to DNF. But now there's one thing I'm sure of -- you're not a game developer, and you couldn't even play a convincing one on TV.
Well, at least you're a creative blathering moron!
The Longhua plant is in Shenzhen, where the median annual household income is about 24000 RMB, or about $3000 US, or $250/month. So they're getting paid 1/5 of the median household income for the area, before their employer takes half of it for living expenses. Not to mention they're working 15 hour days, probably 6 days/week - or 4500 hours/year. In absolute terms, they're getting paid about $0.13 an hour.
In conclusion, you are an idiot, and an Apple apologist to boot.
BTW, how is 30% (then) or 25% (now) a fair share at all? The US and Japan combined pay 40% (more if you include "peacekeeping mission" financing) -- that doesn't seem right.
Wrong.
Check again:
[In 2000] the United States is expected to get its payments for the $1 billion a year regular or administrative U.N. budget reduced from 25 percent to 22 percent. For fluctuating peacekeeping expenses, estimated at $3 billion, U.S. obligations are expected to fall from 30 percent to about 26 or 27 percent.
Congress had refused to pay most of the $1.5 billion Washington owes to the United Nations until the rate of U.S. payments was cut.
Maybe you were thinking of the WWII debt that Britain owed the US and finally paid off this year? Or the WWI debt that Britain (and many other European countries) still owe the US but have defaulted / stopped maintenance payments on?
Approximately two-thirds of foreign securities held by American investors fell into default over the course of the Depression decade. Contemporaries believed that the experience had a lingering impact on the attitudes of American investors.
On the contrary -- I'd say it proves your point.
Unless that's supposed to be a book title you didn't fix anything. Removing the comma will fix it.
Hi. Sorry to help him burst your fantasy bubble there pal, but you are so ignorant and you picked such bad examples that, well, I couldn't resist:
Tell me, is there a serious cultural movement to ban birth control in Japan? (I'm going to laugh at you if you say there is.)
If by "birth control" you mean "the pill" (and not, say, abortion) then you might be surprised to learn that it was not available in Japan until 1999.
Any gay people crucified on fences over there? No?
Homosexuals in Japan may not adopt or marry. While a fantastically unrealistic concept of homosexuality is tolerated in Japan, sometimes even esteemed, real homosexuality is almost always kept very discreet and is considered shameful by most. The disparity in "acceptance" of homosexuality between the rural and urban areas is even more stark than your colorfolly-worded description of the same issue in the US.
Any other ignorant fantasies about Japan you'd like shattered?
(I enjoyed that more than I should have, sure, but slapping morons is so fun.)
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No thanks.
What I really want is a list of the names of those who loaned that shyster $70 million! Man that'd be a valuable list. :)
A separate SEC filing released on May 22nd has updated those interested on Infinium's parlous state of accounts: "Our loss from operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 was $2,752,327. Our loss from operations for the year ended December 31, 2005 was $29,814,606. At March 31, 2006, we had a working capital deficit of $11,523,869 and accumulated losses since inception of $69,331,794. In their report on our audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2005, our independent auditors expressed substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern."
Dude, wake up. You're the only one who failed anything here. You corrected someone incorrectly. If you can't handle being called on it when you make an ass out of yourself, just shut up when you think something "doesn't scan right."
The more you try to defend your idiocy the funnier and sadder it gets, so go again please!
(BTW, even if it were true, it's still not irony.)