Perhaps I should have clarified that they categorize "themselves" as a prestige brand, not that their products are actually better than what one could find at Tarjay. Of course one could say that about many prestige or department store brands...Lancome, I'm looking at you, you know I'm just going to wait for the L'Oreal/Maybelline version of your new product since it won't be overpriced as much.
Also, MAC has been on its way down.
You sound like a former AFer (alt.fashion) or MUAer.
They're a prestige high-end brand like MAC, Nars, or Stila. You won't find their products at your local Walgreens. If my memory serves me well they're around the same vintage as those brands. They've been around longer than Youtube, that's for sure.
Avon's mostly crap, the good Avon stuff is in their Mark sub-brand.
Because I have not been made aware that a particular piece of information has since become outdated and incorrect.
Don't you think it's your responsibility to make sure your facts are correct BEFORE you post things like that? And considering that Manhunt 2 was released 8 YEARS AGO, you'd think that you'd have paid attention to what had actually happened considering you remembered the initial refusal.
Would it be more proper to phrase all such anecdotes in the past tense, citing a particular article that was published in a particular month and year?
It would be more "proper" and a "best practice" to check your anecdotes for accuracy yourself. You've got google, use it.
Which I did not mention at all.
You didn't need to. I figure most frequent commenters know of your grudge.
I never owned a PS2 so can't comment there (does it even have an HD?),
YES! The network adapter has a connector for a standard full size PATA drive. The official PS2 HDD's are 40GB Maxtors IIRC, they're "blessed" though, special firmware so games recognize them. PS2 Games won't recognize a non-blessed HDD. FFXI requires, and is shipped with the HDD. The only way to get the official retail non-Linux-kit PS2 HDD is by buying FFXI. There are a few other games that have HDD support in the US.
Linux on the PS2 is a different story, it can use any HDD, blessed or not.
It's Hyperthreaded as well, with an Altivec unit. It was DAMN fast on certain tasks (as any PS3 Linux user could tell you) The GIMP performs faster on a PS3 than it did on your average 2006-2008 vintage dual-core.
So yeah, making the PS4 backwards compatible with the PS3 would be very difficult. It's why they have PlayStation Now. Though I expect they'll eventually get around to doing something like: "Put a PS3 game in a PS4, pay a small fee and you get unlimited access to that game on PS Now.", sort of deal
Have game prices on consoles gone down as repeatedly pledged to us?
considering the amount of content, even in games with DLC, in modern games and taking inflation in account, we pay less. Remember, some single screen Atari 2600 games went for $40 bucks.
No. In fact, to play a game (or actually get a "game"'s worth of content), it requires hundreds of dollars of DLC.>/quote>
What game has hundreds of dollars of "required" DLC?
which can't even be sold at a used game store.
Where did you get that idea? Because you can. Perhaps you missed the news that Microsoft backtracked on that? As for Sony, you've always been able to sell retail releases.
But "real gamers", meaning gamers who don't only play tthe brown-shooter-of-the-week or sports-game-of-the-season, don't sell games.
The vast majority of the time, (maybe even all the time?), the pc release is cheaper than it is on a console.
That hasn't been the case in the US for years now.
But at the same time the pc is the most open and 'pirated' platform. hmmm...
PC gamers are notoriously cheap when it comes to software, especially those outside the US.
But now that's gone too, once you buy it its worth basically nothing because you can't sell it to anyone. So not only have console companies kept prices higher with zero copyright infringement they've kept prices high after cutting out the second hard market.
Where do you get the idea you can't sell physical copies second hand? Because you can.
While the Office Space and Fargo methods would probably work, I think Hanover Fiste of Heavy Metal has the right idea:
Spammers are nothing but low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worms! Hanging's too good for them. Burning's too good for them! They should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
I use both ISP e-mail and Gmail over IMAP with a proper e-mail client The ISP Spam filter works extremely well, always has, which is one reason I still use it. For years when someone has mentioned spam, I often said: "what is this spam thing you speak of?" For those who decry using ISP e-mail as a trap to keep you subscribed. Well perhaps, but since that ISP has had the fastest speeds and better service than any other local provide, I'm not worried that much. They did drop USENET though.
Gmail's filter, while effective at stopping spam, has a much higher false positive rate. I think it filters BEFORE my own filters kick in, when I'd rather it filtered AFTER.
But other games are rejected by Sony and Microsoft, such as Manhunt 2.
Tepples, why the heck do you keep stating such outdated and incorrect info? I know you have your axe against the console makers because they don't just hand out devkits and whatnot to every "garage developer" with a dream, but that's no excuse for getting facts wrong or exaggerating the facts to grind your axe against the console makers.
You're doing that thing again where you assume that because something was true at one time or for one particular group, that it is still true. Your hyperfocus and obsession with how you percieve indies being disregarded by Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo, seems to stop you from updating your knowledge. In other words, Where have YOU been?
Also, in the US the tech geeks jumped to commodity x86 hardware when EU geeks were living in the past with their Amiga's, ST's, Spectrum's and system wars.
Considering if it hadn't been for Watergate we'd have had that, since Richard Nixon thought it was a good idea, it must have been thought workable. We still have the pilot program, we call it "Earned Income Credit"
He was also in favor of single payer government run health insurance for everyone, the stickler was the details. Teddy Kennedy blamed himself for it not getting enacted, since he was holding out for more concessions towards the lower income folk...then Watergate happened and that ended any cooperation with Nixon.
The optimal racing game should be playable by a sugar-crazed 8 year old who keeps the throttle mashed down on full, bashes and crashes into everything, never touches the brake, and has no idea what a gear change is... and you can still succeed.
Or a 48 year old who is reverting to his sugar crazed 8 year old self after eating some marshmallow cereal on their day off. Kudos to you sir, for a laugh out loud moment.
Older versions of Gran Turismo could be played with skill, but you could also play a lot with just frenetic glee.
I stopped playing Gran Turismo when the game became more hardcore wheel-user centric.
also remember playing Street Fighter on SNES a long time ago at a party... some of the guys knew all the combos and all the fancy stuff... and some of the guys were almost randomly button mashing (OK, me) to surprising effect. You can't anticipate what I'm going to do if I have no plan or idea of what I'm gonna do.
Ha, yes. My adult sister did that to me when we were goofing off in Tekken Tag Tournament on the PS2 on a weekend, she ran circles around me with Ling Xiaoyu. It got even worse when she figured out some of the special moves and juggled me into the air with Ling, swapped in Panda and proceeded to kick my ass. And I'm mostly a button masher myself. Guess she was even better. I got even when I figured out she couldn't handle Jun's speed.
I, for one, prefer unrealistic "drift-style" racers to simulations - I get a lot of enjoyment from going as fast as possible, negotiating courses through a mixture of careful positioning and controlled drifts, with the height of skill being completing a lap without releasing the accelerator, without crashing.
Didn't one of the Gran turismo's have a drift centric rally mode? Or am I mis-remembering? Maybe it had to be earned or something?
I suspect I am not alone in finding that simulation-style games are not enjoyable without matching realistic controls, but have neither the space to dedicate to wheels, joysticks, throttles, pedals etc. - nor do I particularly want to spend the money or devote the time.
I gave up on Gran Turismo when the game became less casual friendly and more wheel-centric. Maybe I just need to find somet inexpensive quality wheel, yeah right.
For example, much as I am pleased that Elite: Dangerous and Star Citizen exist, I personally am holding out for No Man's Sky, simply because releasing on PS4 first means it is far more likely to have a simple control scheme which works on common controllers.
Yep, me too, though I'm going to try out Elite Dangerous as well, once the PS4 version releases. I have a x52 HOTAS I picked up for War Thunder. I don't actually use it with War Thunder because the PS4 version doesn't have the ability to save different control schemes for ground and air, so if I set up the X52 for planes, it messes up the ground controls, and if I reset the ground controls, it wipes out my settings for the X52. Annoying.
For another, they don't use "English" phrasing constructs, because they're American.
Yep, accent/dialect is a dead giveaway. I have been tempted to use my best impression of Hank Azara as Apu from the Simpsons the next time "Windows" calls. So far I've only had 1 "Windows" call and didn't have the time to play with them when they called. What I've thought about doing is this:
[apu voice]: I am glad to be you are calling. I am Mahatma from the Windows India. I have been monitoring your computer and you have the virus. You need to be installing the teamviewer so I can be having the remote access to fix the problem. But you are to be giving me your credit card number so I can be scamming you.
That should do the trick, unless they're in Bangladesh or Pakistan.
If I had even more time and ability I'd set up a Windows VM for them, but I really don't know very much about setting up a VM and don't have a Windows VM lying around. Wonder if I could set up a live CD of XFCE or something as a VM for them.
Wouldn't a PS3 or PS4 work fairly well for your Amazon Prime and DLNA needs? The caveat being that they cost more than the FireTV Stick, and are seriously overpowered if all you want is a streaming stick.
But then again, if you play games and already have one, you're good to go and don't really need a Chromecast/FireTV/Roku
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Perhaps I should have clarified that they categorize "themselves" as a prestige brand, not that their products are actually better than what one could find at Tarjay. Of course one could say that about many prestige or department store brands...Lancome, I'm looking at you, you know I'm just going to wait for the L'Oreal/Maybelline version of your new product since it won't be overpriced as much.
Also, MAC has been on its way down.
You sound like a former AFer (alt.fashion) or MUAer.
Please be aware that the following is a joke, always wanted to do this one:
I'm allergic to strawberries you insignificant clod!
Which is sad, I do like strawberries, but can't eat them fresh.
They're a prestige high-end brand like MAC, Nars, or Stila. You won't find their products at your local Walgreens. If my memory serves me well they're around the same vintage as those brands. They've been around longer than Youtube, that's for sure.
Avon's mostly crap, the good Avon stuff is in their Mark sub-brand.
Because I have not been made aware that a particular piece of information has since become outdated and incorrect.
Don't you think it's your responsibility to make sure your facts are correct BEFORE you post things like that? And considering that Manhunt 2 was released 8 YEARS AGO, you'd think that you'd have paid attention to what had actually happened considering you remembered the initial refusal.
Would it be more proper to phrase all such anecdotes in the past tense, citing a particular article that was published in a particular month and year?
It would be more "proper" and a "best practice" to check your anecdotes for accuracy yourself. You've got google, use it.
Which I did not mention at all.
You didn't need to. I figure most frequent commenters know of your grudge.
I don't know any way to copy those along, you have to redownload them AFAIK,
You can do a system backup to external drives now, Firmware 2.50 added that feature.
http://manuals.playstation.net...
I never owned a PS2 so can't comment there (does it even have an HD?),
YES! The network adapter has a connector for a standard full size PATA drive. The official PS2 HDD's are 40GB Maxtors IIRC, they're "blessed" though, special firmware so games recognize them. PS2 Games won't recognize a non-blessed HDD. FFXI requires, and is shipped with the HDD. The only way to get the official retail non-Linux-kit PS2 HDD is by buying FFXI. There are a few other games that have HDD support in the US.
Linux on the PS2 is a different story, it can use any HDD, blessed or not.
game performance over USB would suffer tremendously. You wouldn't want to do that.
You CAN do system backups to USB.
I suppose so, if you use webmail. I haven't tried the web browser with gmail or my ISP's webmail interface.
PS3: Cell CPU with one "generic" core
It's Hyperthreaded as well, with an Altivec unit. It was DAMN fast on certain tasks (as any PS3 Linux user could tell you) The GIMP performs faster on a PS3 than it did on your average 2006-2008 vintage dual-core.
So yeah, making the PS4 backwards compatible with the PS3 would be very difficult. It's why they have PlayStation Now. Though I expect they'll eventually get around to doing something like: "Put a PS3 game in a PS4, pay a small fee and you get unlimited access to that game on PS Now.", sort of deal
Have game prices on consoles gone down as repeatedly pledged to us?
considering the amount of content, even in games with DLC, in modern games and taking inflation in account, we pay less. Remember, some single screen Atari 2600 games went for $40 bucks.
No. In fact, to play a game (or actually get a "game"'s worth of content), it requires hundreds of dollars of DLC.>/quote>
What game has hundreds of dollars of "required" DLC?
which can't even be sold at a used game store.
Where did you get that idea? Because you can. Perhaps you missed the news that Microsoft backtracked on that? As for Sony, you've always been able to sell retail releases.
But "real gamers", meaning gamers who don't only play tthe brown-shooter-of-the-week or sports-game-of-the-season, don't sell games.
The vast majority of the time, (maybe even all the time?), the pc release is cheaper than it is on a console.
That hasn't been the case in the US for years now.
But at the same time the pc is the most open and 'pirated' platform. hmmm...
PC gamers are notoriously cheap when it comes to software, especially those outside the US.
But now that's gone too, once you buy it its worth basically nothing because you can't sell it to anyone. So not only have console companies kept prices higher with zero copyright infringement they've kept prices high after cutting out the second hard market.
Where do you get the idea you can't sell physical copies second hand? Because you can.
While the Office Space and Fargo methods would probably work, I think Hanover Fiste of Heavy Metal has the right idea:
Spammers are nothing but low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worms! Hanging's too good for them. Burning's too good for them! They should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
I use both ISP e-mail and Gmail over IMAP with a proper e-mail client The ISP Spam filter works extremely well, always has, which is one reason I still use it. For years when someone has mentioned spam, I often said: "what is this spam thing you speak of?" For those who decry using ISP e-mail as a trap to keep you subscribed. Well perhaps, but since that ISP has had the fastest speeds and better service than any other local provide, I'm not worried that much. They did drop USENET though.
Gmail's filter, while effective at stopping spam, has a much higher false positive rate. I think it filters BEFORE my own filters kick in, when I'd rather it filtered AFTER.
But other games are rejected by Sony and Microsoft, such as Manhunt 2.
Tepples, why the heck do you keep stating such outdated and incorrect info? I know you have your axe against the console makers because they don't just hand out devkits and whatnot to every "garage developer" with a dream, but that's no excuse for getting facts wrong or exaggerating the facts to grind your axe against the console makers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Wii
https://store.playstation.com/...
The rejection was more "nuanced" than you implied. The AO version was rejected, the game was then edited to M status, and that was released.
/me shakes head.
You're doing that thing again where you assume that because something was true at one time or for one particular group, that it is still true. Your hyperfocus and obsession with how you percieve indies being disregarded by Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo, seems to stop you from updating your knowledge. In other words, Where have YOU been?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://store.playstation.com/...
That's a copyright issue involving companies trying to copy another's idea, not a "ban" issue.
Also, in the US the tech geeks jumped to commodity x86 hardware when EU geeks were living in the past with their Amiga's, ST's, Spectrum's and system wars.
Basic income is not a workable idea
Considering if it hadn't been for Watergate we'd have had that, since Richard Nixon thought it was a good idea, it must have been thought workable. We still have the pilot program, we call it "Earned Income Credit"
He was also in favor of single payer government run health insurance for everyone, the stickler was the details. Teddy Kennedy blamed himself for it not getting enacted, since he was holding out for more concessions towards the lower income folk...then Watergate happened and that ended any cooperation with Nixon.
The optimal racing game should be playable by a sugar-crazed 8 year old who keeps the throttle mashed down on full, bashes and crashes into everything, never touches the brake, and has no idea what a gear change is ... and you can still succeed.
Or a 48 year old who is reverting to his sugar crazed 8 year old self after eating some marshmallow cereal on their day off. Kudos to you sir, for a laugh out loud moment.
Older versions of Gran Turismo could be played with skill, but you could also play a lot with just frenetic glee.
I stopped playing Gran Turismo when the game became more hardcore wheel-user centric.
also remember playing Street Fighter on SNES a long time ago at a party ... some of the guys knew all the combos and all the fancy stuff ... and some of the guys were almost randomly button mashing (OK, me) to surprising effect. You can't anticipate what I'm going to do if I have no plan or idea of what I'm gonna do.
Ha, yes. My adult sister did that to me when we were goofing off in Tekken Tag Tournament on the PS2 on a weekend, she ran circles around me with Ling Xiaoyu. It got even worse when she figured out some of the special moves and juggled me into the air with Ling, swapped in Panda and proceeded to kick my ass. And I'm mostly a button masher myself. Guess she was even better. I got even when I figured out she couldn't handle Jun's speed.
I, for one, prefer unrealistic "drift-style" racers to simulations - I get a lot of enjoyment from going as fast as possible, negotiating courses through a mixture of careful positioning and controlled drifts, with the height of skill being completing a lap without releasing the accelerator, without crashing.
Didn't one of the Gran turismo's have a drift centric rally mode? Or am I mis-remembering? Maybe it had to be earned or something?
I suspect I am not alone in finding that simulation-style games are not enjoyable without matching realistic controls, but have neither the space to dedicate to wheels, joysticks, throttles, pedals etc. - nor do I particularly want to spend the money or devote the time.
I gave up on Gran Turismo when the game became less casual friendly and more wheel-centric. Maybe I just need to find somet inexpensive quality wheel, yeah right.
For example, much as I am pleased that Elite: Dangerous and Star Citizen exist, I personally am holding out for No Man's Sky, simply because releasing on PS4 first means it is far more likely to have a simple control scheme which works on common controllers.
Yep, me too, though I'm going to try out Elite Dangerous as well, once the PS4 version releases. I have a x52 HOTAS I picked up for War Thunder. I don't actually use it with War Thunder because the PS4 version doesn't have the ability to save different control schemes for ground and air, so if I set up the X52 for planes, it messes up the ground controls, and if I reset the ground controls, it wipes out my settings for the X52. Annoying.
For another, they don't use "English" phrasing constructs, because they're American.
Yep, accent/dialect is a dead giveaway. I have been tempted to use my best impression of Hank Azara as Apu from the Simpsons the next time "Windows" calls. So far I've only had 1 "Windows" call and didn't have the time to play with them when they called. What I've thought about doing is this:
[apu voice]: I am glad to be you are calling. I am Mahatma from the Windows India. I have been monitoring your computer and you have the virus. You need to be installing the teamviewer so I can be having the remote access to fix the problem. But you are to be giving me your credit card number so I can be scamming you.
That should do the trick, unless they're in Bangladesh or Pakistan.
If I had even more time and ability I'd set up a Windows VM for them, but I really don't know very much about setting up a VM and don't have a Windows VM lying around. Wonder if I could set up a live CD of XFCE or something as a VM for them.
i know from experience the bluetooth driver for ps3 controllers is a pain in the arse.
It's a pain for Windows users, Linux users don't have that problem.
They are incompatible with PC unless you use a sketchy, 3rd party, reverse-engineered driver that constantly phones home.
you mean "incompatible with Windows", PS3 controllers work just fine on Linux. I take it the sketchy driver you're referring to is the MotionJoy one?
"Elite:Dangerous" was pre-released for XBONE yesterday.
Oooh nice! We PS4 people have to wait a bit longer.
E:D needs many buttons & controls: PC players typically use HOTAS to play.
Doesn't the Xbox One version have HOTAS support?
Wouldn't a PS3 or PS4 work fairly well for your Amazon Prime and DLNA needs? The caveat being that they cost more than the FireTV Stick, and are seriously overpowered if all you want is a streaming stick.
But then again, if you play games and already have one, you're good to go and don't really need a Chromecast/FireTV/Roku
http://www.universalmediaserve...
It's a fork of PS3mediaserver.