So, the govt is supposed to be there for preventing people being stupid with their own money
But it's NOT their own money. It's money they're borrowing from someone else, guaranteed by the government, that they're hoping to pay back.
Imagine you're shopping your startup to a bunch of VC's, might some of them have some requirements before they hand over money? Insist the company hire a CFO, get more organized, dump the beanbag chairs, etc etc.
making decisions for them?
Modern humans THINK they're super-capable, but we're just jumped-up better educated medieval peasants. We do stupid shit all the time for all kinds of reasons, including emotional ones. Think about this, your reasoning is basically saying things like:
"Hey, we don't need government deciding who's too drunk to drive, so lets get rid of all the impaired driving laws"
We are a civilization and we have to have rules, sometimes to protect us from ourselves.
I mean, there was no one with a gun to their heads telling them to take out all these massive loans.....
From a young age, those kids going to college have heard the following from Society/Culture/Parents/Teachers/Businessmen/Wall Street/Madison Avenue:
"If you want to be a success in life and have the american dream with a 4 bedroom house and two big SUV's, then you need a college degree."
That's the gun. Hell, Colleges themselves advertise on TV!
if you paid any attention over the years you'd KNOW i'm relatively self aware. I have ignored tons of homophobic, nativist, classist, misogynist and downright EVIL posts from you and the other alt-right coder-bros over the years. I've thought about responding to you and the others many times, but usually don't. I kept my mouth shut.
But I am tired of the MRA alt-right libertarian misogyny racism classism and homophobia here and blowing off steam. Of course it doesn't have much effect on you aspie coder-bros since you don't have fee-fees like us "snowflake SJW libtards with degrees in nonbinary gendered basketweaving who were too stupid to become coder-bros.".
I'm so horrible to stereotype YOU and the other libertarian aspies, but you and others do it to women, art majors, gay people, ethnic minorities, poor people, and people like ME ALL THE TIME and MUCH more often.
Think about how much you and others use SJW or "libtard" or "snowflake" or "fee-fees" as insults. But you don't care, you've got your tech toys, maybe a server in the basement, a well paying tech job, you don't have to care about the fee-fees of others or the people you probably think of as "parasites"
the methods the company is using to try to solve the problem are ideologically based
And what methods should they be based on? ones and zeroes? You want quotas? The problem is PEOPLE so ideology is going to be involved.
and they are not tolerant of other points of view.
The "other" point of view is that nothing needs to be done because "the females" aren't into computers and aren't as good with them anyway. Which is a lie because the number of women involved with computer science was HIGHER in the 80's than it is now.
And are you trying to say that because he isn't an expert
He isn't. He misinterpreted the data and cherry picked data which supported his pre-existing belief that there isn't a problem. And he's an autist so he simply does not have the necessary emotional intelligence to understand his own limitations and biases. He himself has said he has problems understanding how his words might be interpreted by others. If he's that much of an aspie, perhaps he should have kept his mouth shut about subjects he's not an expert in.
Let me put it this way, I'm not a programmer, I don't go on the Linux Kernel list and pontificate on schedulers or API. Damore is a coder, not a statistician or demographic expert or sociologist or psychologist. He simply DOES NOT have the background to make the statements and conclusions he did. Hell, Damore's own girlfriend disagrees with him and he still sticks by his "the females aren't into tech or board games and are neurotic" bit.
If you know my posting history, you know I'm fairly easygoing for the most part. I'm not one of those types who replies to every topic with a "trump is going to die in prison" response. (I assume those are Russian trolls, just like some of the more extreme "Killary is a warmonger" shit) But I've seen way too much aspie libertarian-right bullshit from spoiled tech-bros on Slashdot recently.
It makes me think. "What the fuck is up with those guys, didn't they learn to share? Were they that spoiled by their parents? Were they not taught empathy?" And while you might hit me with a "look at the SJW hypocrite without empathy hurr durr" response, if you paid attention over the years you'd know I'm fairly easygoing as I said.
That said, you, Mashiki, Roman-mir, mi, raymorris, archangel michael, and a few others are on what I think of as my "sociopathic selfish asshats" list. I'd have no trouble believing you to be a misogynist MRA gamergater alt-right nativist asshole. Is that fair to you, maybe not, but I've read your statements over the years and I'm going to lump you into the "I've got mine who cares about the indo-chimps, feminazi's, trannies, and brown people" crowd.
If you and the others don't want to be stereotyped as alt-right libertarian Randroid coder-bros, then stop being stereotypical randroid coder-bros. Besides if you and the other guys can use SJW as an insult towards AmiMoJo and others, then I ought to be able to stereotype you right back.
As I've said, normally I'm easygoing, but I've had it up to here with tech-bro asshattery. whatever happened to "compassionate conservatism"? But here on slashdot it's all "feminazi SJW tranny art majors are worthless scum only coders have value, if you can't measure it in lines of code it's not worth anything. who cares about aesthetics or fee-fees"
But My mood will pass and you and the Russian expat and the other Randroids and alt-righters can go back to insulting SJW's and liberals without me saying much. Hell, we might even have a friendly conversation about Linux or something.
What Nintendo should be doing is selling a CD or DVD or flash drive with all of its game ROMs for about $30.
They can't, they don't have the rights to all those NES titles, the publishers and developers do.
For example, one of my favorite NES games was the NES port of Might and Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum. It was a late NES game, copyright of 94 I believe. If memory serves me well it has 4 copyright notices, One for Jon Van Caneghem, the original developer. Another for New World Computing, another for the game's developer G-Amusements Ltd and another for the Publisher, American Sammy.
Getting the rights to publish this on VC would require dealing with 4 entities. JVC is still alive but New World computing is defunct, the assets are probably with Ubisoft, but you never know. I don't know about G-Amusements but American Sammy is also defunct, though Sega has their assets, but again, you never know if they have all of them.
Or think of The shooter/adventure hybrid game: The Guardian Legend. Copyrighted to Compile, Irem AND Broderbund! Broderbund's assets ended up with THQ and then Nordic, which then rebranded as THQ Nordic.
Or Battletoads, which was Rare, which is now owned by Microsoft. Do you think Microsoft would OK a VC release of Battletoads? That is even if they have the IP, they might not own all of Rare's IP.
Think of how even trying to figure out whom to negotiate with is complicated.
most old consoles output in 240p. TVs that supported 240p stopped being made probably 20 years ago
What the hell are you going on about, most HDTV's support 240p, no problem. There were some early models that didn't, though. Are you one of those nerds who gets outdated info fixed in their heads and never updates their info?
things like save batteries have to be manually desoldered and replaced
Nope, just pry the battery lose, put a new battery in. Sometimes you can just squeeze the contacts to hold it in place (Did that with a NES Zelda) or you can use a bit of tape.
Google employees and leadership themselves demonstrating an incredibly amount of animus to anyone with the wrong politics, and white, heterosexual males in particular.
What, and white libertarian coder bros aren't some of the most selfish bigoted assholes around? you think it's actual gay black people doing the GNAA posts? "indo-chimps"? all the disparagement of black people? the misogyny? the lack of humility and empathy? white tech guys are some of the worst racists, homophobes and bigots I have ever seen. And I will lay odds that before he wrote his paper, that at Google, ol Damore couldn't keep his mouth shut about politics, women in computing and other matters. And you know what, bigots, nativists and selfish objectivists are going to get animus from decent civilized people.
If you were concerned about hiring people just like you on a subconscious level, what better way could you help correct for that than by focusing on hiring people that think differently than you instead of demonizing them?
Because that's now how people work? You have limited control over your subconscious biases. Just like a coder to think you can control things like that. Feelings, subconscious, all that fee-fees and soft sciences stuff you aspie-coders denigrate doesn't work like computers!
It would be nice if we could say "Bob, you seem to be recommending guys who are pretty much just like you with the same background." and then have Bob say "oh, I didn't realize" and then stop it.
But people don't work that way, that's why we need laws, programs and other things to combat those biases Maybe you don't agree, you probably think things are fine just the way they are, but they aren't. You just don't see it.
Except none of what you are saying is either true or accurate.
What, Damore is a social scientist and not some aspie who thinks he's expert in everything?
I've read Damore's paper. I've read the entirety of the filing. I've alo looked at the exhibits which are direct captures of what Google employees were posting in their own words.
Damore was an asshat! he got the response he did because he never learned how to interact properly with other people who weren't just like him. And then he didn't understand why he got the response he did. I'd feel sorry for him if he didn't try to claim he's so smart and an expert and everyone else..including actual EXPERTS in the field he was commenting on, is wrong.
Or to put it in terms you might understand:
Damore was a beginning BASIC coder who weighed into a discussion on Linux kernel modules and got butthurt when REAL experts called him out because he's was being an asshat who didn't know jack and cherry picked his so called data.
And he doubled down and didn't know when to admit that he wasn't expert on social issues and didn't listen. And then he got fired. Maybe he shouldn't have got fired, but he was causing a mess for google. Maybe if he'd had some fucking humility and admitted he WASN'T an expert in social sciences then things might have calmed down.
And now he's like that fucking 30 year old aspie who thought he was a legal expert who sued his own parents for kicking him out of the house. if he was as smart as he thinks he is he'd drop his suit, go quiet and maybe get a job doing some quiet consulting or freelance work from home where he doesn't have do deal with actual human beings and can just stick with machines.
And gross generalizations, hell yeah, I've been on Slashdot long enough to know that too many Aspies here think that being a coder/engineer makes them an expert in EVERYTHING. And too many of them were tech spoiled on top of being economically privileged...not even taking race or gender into account. And yeah, the rise of importance of computing and tech has given some aspies big heads. a little more humility from some coders would be nice. Don't get me started on how disdainful some open source devs are towards actual users.
So yeah, I'm just a little bit on edge. This happens now and then.
No one wants to fire them all Look. People just want the people who make the final decisions on hiring to realize that they're probably hiring people just like them on a subconscious level. They're getting a monoculture without awareness. And some people are trying to fix that....and people like you are resisting. because hey, it's not broken to you.
Everyone is like you in the code-dungeon. Why do things need to change? They get your jokes, you're not going to complain about their half naked anime posters. And those hew-mon fe-males in HR are going to ruin it for you by hiring some hew-mon fe-males or worse some transfolks and putting them into your dungeon.
Because everyone knows women can't code, they only use computers for facebook and cat pictures, they're only good for HR and PR. They don't play D&D and they play candy crush, not nethack. EWWW! And they have those silly fee-fees! Emotions don't matter, only code. Hew-mon fe-males and their silly emotions. Why can't they be logical like us. Computers are logical. Women are the worst sort of luser sheeple. Wanting people to discuss bugs respectively. People who make bugs are IDIOTS who are worthless, even if the bug was accidentall. They aren't going to complain if we denigrate them, they don't have feelings, not like those silly women. and what's their obsession with aesthetics. Green on black is good enough for everyone.
And yeah if you were some kid who got new expensive tech toys every year, say a c64 one year, an amiga the next and a 386 the next, you were tech privileged and had advantages in becoming a coder that others did not.
Stallman, Gates, Zuck, all very privileged and every single one of them have problems understanding the concerns of "normal people" in regards to various computing issues.
I'm not triggered, I just think there's too damn many aspie douchebags who never learned how to BEHAVE like civilized human beings on Slashdot. Spoiled rotten with tech toys by parents. spoiled by their silicon valley employers with techtoys at work and nerf fights and whatnot.
And then they have hissy fits when they have a female boss or some female critic discusses tropes, or they have to learn to listen to people who aren't bearded aspies.
Stallman, Raymond, Torvalds, Damore, all the same shit. Aspies who never learned how to BEHAVE properly and then get/got away with all sorts of shit that NORMAL people would simply NOT do.
Damore is going to go nowhere with his filings. Those are just some aspie whining. Just like that guy who got kicked out of his parents house:
See that guy? Same ilk as Damore., Thinks he's an expert in everything. Goes on a hissy fit when called out for not knowing jack shit about what he thinks he knows.
And his lawyer has sued people for using photo in a blog post. The EFF came down on her for that. She's a self serving crackpot...look her up! Damore's complaint has already been rejected by the NLRB, it's going nowhere.
Bullshit. Old Nintendo ROMs aren't teaching anyone about game development other than how to try to work around horrific hardware limitations. Limitations that even the phone in my pocket doesn't have today.Sure, you might be a collector, but to ascribe to them the level of importance to the art that TFA does to ROMs is asinine.
you have to remember that these emulation sites are aspie-heavy. And yes they're the sort of guys who say things like that because THEY are still obsessed with NES Tetris or Concentration and spend hours upon hours making their Tetris clones or Concentration clones. To them Tetris or whatever is their obsession and the Most Important Game in the Universe and everyone should know that and it's a horror that the Tetris Company doesn't let their Aspie fans do whatever they want with their IP.
buy old games at retro-shops, pawn shops, Goodwill, garage sales, e-bay, whatever.
You want them on virtual console? well yeah, maybe I do too. But the rights for many old games are complicated.
Lets take for example, Rock N Roll racing. Who owns the rights? The game had TWO developers, Interplay was the publisher and does not exist as a singular entity. Who has Interplay's publishing rights? And what about the rights to the music, they were instrumental versions of rock songs, remember? Were they negotiated for a fixed term? fixed fee? royalties?
Heck it might require negotiation for EACH platform so say if it was on Wii, it might require more contracts and negotiation and MONEY to put it on WiiU, 3DS or Switch.
Or lets talk Diablo on the PSone which is NOT on PSN. The credits have Blizzard, Climax Entertainment, Davidson & Associates, Virgin Interactive, and EA! Think about the complexity of Sony trying to get the rights to put it on PSN.
no one thought of writing in accomodations for future technology into contracts. So you can't entirely blame Nintendo or Sony or whatever.
James Damore is no social scientist, and no expert. He's just one of those aspie libertarian-right guys who think they're John Galt or Lazarus Long in RL, and can become an expert in everything but are really the character Eddie Deezen played in Wargames.
Aspie coder-bros should stick to code because they're too brain addled to understand empathy or the fact that they've been privileged spoiled tech-bros all their lives. Then they go around complaining about SJW's and their Fee-fees (feelings) and feminazis, when THEY are the ones whining about their feelings of being not catered and coddled to every second. God forbid Google or Amazon try to encourage more minorities in tech. God forbid, aspies like Damore have to learn how to deal with emotions when dealing with people who AREN'T aspie-coders.
And now that jerk is the darling of the alt-right because he was discriminated against because he's male or something. No, he basically is just an asshat who didn't understand how coddled, and privileged he was and had a hissy fit when someone told him that.
I'm trying to remember if you're the one who is an expat from the former USSR. I get you confused with the other libertarian-right guys named Mashiki and Roman-Mir. Hmm, Mir is russian word...maybe he's another Randroid expat.
Well if you are the expat, you might not be aware of the history behind immigration law in the US, which has at times been intentionally created with racist intent.
For example, Northern Europe was favored over Southern Europe because the WASPS running the country didn't want more "bead jiggling whore of babylon worshipping papist scum" coming to America. And of course, the "yellow peril" from Asia wasn't admitted at all. Read up on the Know Nothings, which was a nativist anti-immigrant (especially anti-catholic) movement of the past. They way they talked about Catholics was EXACTLY how the right-wing talks about Muslims today.
And of course, the US basically keeping immigration restrictions up even as Jews were trying to flee Europe making it VERY hard for Jews to escape.
And of course the irony of being against illegal immigration when I don't think anyone asked the Native Americans already living here for the 17th and 18th centruy equivalent of green cards. Remember this, there are Native American tribes whose names only exist in history books because they were wiped out. Exterminated. Genocided.
So if you don't want those filthy muslims and brown people from south of the border here, I think you're a hypocrite. If we welcomed some rabid Randroid from the Ukraine why can't we welcome people from Syria or Guatemala?
What's that? Maybe Your parents had college degrees paid for by the Collectivist State?
Well Tovarysch, you aren't that special. America doesn't just need spoiled expats from Commie-land shilling for that sociopathic economic philosophy of that selfish asshat Ayn Rand every chance they get. It also needs people to pick vegetables, work in meat packing, and yes bus tables or work as maids in hotels.
Do you want to do that Comrade Randroid? You're too good for that? You're John Galt and Lazarus Long combined and such work is beneath your great intelligence? Your kids too good for that? Well someone has to do that, and the people paying for that work don't want to pay what you'd want to be paid for such backbreaking low status work.
And people like you don't want a guest worker program and don't want to make immigration easier for those who want to come here to make a better life for themselves...yes even doing the work supposedly "real americans" like yourself don't want to do.
Our supposed enemies are nowhere near our actual borders. Those "brown people" emigrating from Latin America aren't our enemies. Hell their ancestors were HERE before ours. This country of ours is actually THEIRS, we just stole it from their more northerly relatives.
So go back to the Rodina, you'd love it amongst the dog eat dog kleptocracy and plutocracy. Nothing stopping you from lying, cheating and stealing your way into a fortune with some desperate-for-a-better-life anorexic czech/slovak/russian model turned trophy wife at your side. Well nothing unless you do something to upset an oligarch with ties to the Kremlin....or are gay, or atheist, or actually believe in democracy.
But hey, no regulation or SJW's to stop you from doing what you will. Comrade Putin will make sure of it and make you rich, that's what you want. No rules for the Uber-man-genius like yourself.
You know what, Russia gave us both the horrible ideology of Stalinism and the horrible selfish asshattery of Objectivism from Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum.... aka Ayn Rand.
One ruined russia, and the other is ruining the US, thanks to guys like you.
Hey, Maybe you're really a long term sleeper agent working for Russian interests. come over here, infest the US with Randroid asshattery and spread it on tech-sites. to bearded aspies who already have problems with empathy and compassion and already look down upon everyone who isn't a bearded aspie as normies, sheeple, lazy minorities, etc, etc.
With Unity and UE4, it's never been easier for small studios to develop for Linux in parallel, even if their primary market is Windows.
Sure indie developers support Linux, especially since the PS4 is BSD so they can share much of the codebase. But the problem is the non-indie devs. Bioware? Bethesda? Blizzard? Square-Enix?
Flight sticks?
They work. I've tested an HOTAS with the Linux version of War Thunder and while I don't have the hardware for TrackIR on Linux, it is possible to do headtracking on Linux.
I was running CentOS7 and I wanted to do a video capture recording of an application on my screen now on Windows I'd just install CamStudio, pretty much the top rated and I'm good to go, on macOS I fire up Quicktime and off I go. On CentOS it has no built in feature, the closest thing is you can record the entire desktop with ctrl+alt+shift+r on gnome so I went looking for a tool to do it. Kazam rated highly but turned out it wasn't in the repos, ok fair enough, next up was xvidcap.
Open source, cross-platform. While it is "streaming" focused, you can also use it just to capture without streaming. Much easier to use than fiddling with ffmpeg x11grab scripts.
Compare the reader responses on say Kotaku versus Eurogamer.
I also noticed the difference in a few message boards I visit, the UK folks (and Europeans to a lesser extent) were much more hostile, claiming they'd been lied to or that multiplayer had been "advertised"
So what you basically did was not read any marketing material, watch any interviews, and do any research about the game beforehand.
I most certainly DID do such things. I just didn't let any "Roger Dean sci-fi novel cover" fantasies override common sense on what a small UK dev could deliver. And I paid close attention to things like "preliminary footage" or "this is what we have currently" knowing that in development, things aren't certain until the title hits gold.
I distinctly heard Murray say that it only had "multiplayer of a sort" and that it was basically seeing planets/systems/animals that had been named by others and to NOT any kind of traditional multipler and to not expect to wing up with friends and shoot pirates.
Including those people who designed the box for the game. Including the people who had to submit the game to NICAM to get the PEGI rating. About the only people who didn't expect multiplayer on release are those poor guys who had to go buy boxes of stickers after the official PEGI rating was printed on the official box and officially included multiplayer days prior to launch, and they had to put stickers on the box with the updated rating.
The US box Limited edition box specifically says 1 Player, Online Play optional. if there was "real multiplayer" it would have said: 1 player, 2-xx Network Players, Online Play optional. "Online play optional" is often used for games with asynchronous interaction. Like leaving messages for a player, but never directly interact. That's how the back of the box # of players/online play descriptions work in the US. Perhaps the fault lies with NICAM?
Yeah. I've only got a Saitek x52 and the Thrustmaster T-flight HOTAS 4 myself, which I use solely with the PS4. (I run Linux and game on the PS4)
In the old days they included overlays with games to slap on your keyboard. Hell, even Star Raiders for the 2600 came with an overlay for the included keypad.
ED hides a lot of stuff in submenus, because you don't need access to everything at every moment. It makes the game more accessible to a larger player base.
And some of Tie Fighter's controls exist just to make it "seem" more complex. ED reduces throttle to three buttons, even on PC. ED also only uses one component targeting button (cyclical), rather than TF's 2
Some of Tie Fighters targeting controls are also redundant.
But I wasn't really referring to just the controls but the mechanics as well. ED isn't just space combat, it is also trading and exploration. In space...AND ground. A lot of that stuff is behind the menu systems you get when you hold down a button (or key)
But modern developers don't want to intimidate the players from wanting to play their game in the first place, accessibility and user friendliness matter Which is why ED has sold over 2.75 million copies.
It's not Ad hominem, I know from experience that Europeans especially those from eastern Europe are far more likely to be fervent PC Master Race types. In part because consoles came to their countries later and with heavy import duties.
You can see the attitude in the Euro-centric gamer websites too.
It can't.
It most certainly can, I've done it. Think about it, in ED you don't need ALL your functions all the time. So some are in submenus and some actions are context sensitive. This reduces UI complexity and makes it more accessible. One shouldn't judge a game on how many buttons it uses. One could design a VERY complex game that only uses a directional pad and two buttons: confirm and cancel.
They factually can't as i outlined above. Using the gamepad to play most of them is akin to saying you can use a wooden stick to mine for iron.
You are using the word "can't" when you really mean "I don't think it's practical" In English, those are VERY different things.
They aren't. The two platforms diverged on their own paths a long time ago. We don't play the same games
I just checked the top 10 games being played on Steam right now, they are:
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Dota 2 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Warframe Grand Theft Auto V Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Football Manager 2018 ARK: Survival Evolved Team Fortress 2 Rocket League
Only ONE of those games is PC exclusive.
Maybe YOU think console and PC gamers are totally different beasts, but they're not. You may think the platforms have diverged, but they have more games in common than ever. Sure there's a few outliers from the more PC partisan devs in Europe and UK, but like I said, we're mostly playing the same games: Minecraft, Skyrim, Fortnite, GTA, PUBG, Brown-shooter-of-the-week, etc etc.
(with shitty default gamepad in mind).
I'm going to quote this right back at you: You may not like it, but i don't care what you don't like, your like is not my problem.
I have a whole Steam library of games that can't fit on the default console controller, that can't be played on it, that need to be stripped down and broken to play on consoles.
What, a bunch of hex wargames from Polish, Romanian or Russian devs either too poor or too full of that PC Master race partisan bullshit to go console?
It showcases that PC has evolved, while consoles are stagnant.
Stagnant? I can remember a time when PC Master race asshats like yourself said things like:
You're never see a blood soaked slugathon like DOOM on a kiddie console:
Or: Consoles may have DOOM but you'll never have online Deathmatch
or: Consoles may be online but you'll never have an MMO
or: You may have MMO's but you'll never have Bioware, Bethesda or Blizzard do a console game
or: You may have Bioware, Blizzard and Bethesda, but you'll never play a game like Minecraft.
etc etc.
MMO has evolved into games unplayable on consoles with default controllers, etc.
It has? If anything MMO's have become more actionized than in the past. EVERY MMO I have on my PS4 is also on PC. You telling me I haven't played STO, ESO, Neverwinter, DCUO, FFXIV, Onigiri, and Tera on my PS4?
Hell your console industry has gone so anti-consumer you don't even have proper backwards compatibility anymore
The reason we don't have it is because adding hardware compatibility drives the cost UP...everyone complained how much the early model PS3's cost. And there was an architecture shift from PPC to x86-64.
and your online gameplay premium cost scam i don't even want to go into.
you sure as fuck won't play Total War games on consoles unless they are some simplistic degraded version.
Isn't total war, turn-based and from ex amiga developers turned PC Master Race dickheads? Of course they aren't going to port the thing, they hate consoles because they killed their precious Amiga as a platform.
Consoles have their OWN turn-based strategy game series, which you don't know about.
Consoles come with shitty default console gamepads that are all low-input slow devices. PC's come with a keyboard + mouse by default which are jointly high-input fast devices.
What the hell are you on about? Keyboard, fast? Going to play a platformer with your keyboard then? Going to control pitch and yaw with a keyboard? Going to steer a car with a keyboard?
Low-input and slow is superficial and limited (stagnant), high-input and fast enables more deep and complexity.
Ever play Carnage heart? It's a mech game where you program your mechs using boolean logic...it's a console game. You just THINK PC games are more complex and "cerebral" because of your pre-existing bias. If you were to really honestly take a look outside at what's really going on, you'd see games just as complex on consoles.
You remind me of CGW's former RPG guy, Desslock. He derided console games as "mushroom man" games because his idea of what console games were was set back in 1985 and he never updated his views over time. He thought there were NO console strategy or RPG games because he didn't see any titles he recognized from the PC series he was familiar with One of his compatriots, who played both PC and console, got tired of his ignorance and told him about various console RPG's and strategy games that he simply didn't know about.
His last essay in the magazine before they got rid of their RPG section was 4 great RPG's he considered "Must Play". Three were cross-platform with at least one console, and the 4th....it was PS3 only at that time. He'd bought a PS3 specifically to play it.
The PC has left the consoles in dust in terms of gameplay innovation and advancement because the console gamepads in their shitty low input state are the default on consoles
You really do believe the innovation is all on the PC side? Truly? What was the last console game you played?
Elite Dangerous can't be played on a console gamepad, as this article sums up everything with a page dedicated to every control system: Elite: Dangerous Guide > Game Guide > Controls
I'm sorry, but that guide is from a Polish guy and we all know how Poles tend to be PC Master Race asshats who don't know console gaming because of import duties making console stuff more expensive.
ED CAN be played on a gamepad, because I've done it. I own the game. Have you tried it, or are you parroting the PC Master race shit because you don't know any better.
How is this relevant to the fact that console gamepads can't run the game
"Can't" is a rather strong thing to say, isn't it. How do you know it's "Can't"? Basically, "can't" is your opinion.
rather than some random guy, thank you.
Tie Fighter uses atmospheric style turning, not actual space physics! And besides, you're "a random guy" too. What makes you an expert on what consoles can and cannot do? Do you even own one?
You pointed a bunch of games of which half have less mechanics than TIE Fighter itself, or which can't be run on a console gamepad.
Did you even look at the ED control setup? ED has MUCH more complexity than Tie-Fighter.
Every single one of the games I linked to can be played with gamepad as well.
because it doesn't have the limited default input device like a console controller, are two different things.
The default input on PC is keyboard...which isn't analog. Would you really want to fly a plane with just the keyboard?
Meanwhile PC developers work with a much more sophisticated and dynamic keyboard, therefore resulting in advanced and advancing games and genres.
But PC developers and console developers are the SAME developers. We're all, PC and Console gamers, playing pretty much the SAME games. This story is about No Man's Sky, which is both on console AND PC.
This is simple fact you can't argue since it is quantifiable at first sight.
So you get to shut down any disagreement because you're PC master race? It is NOT a simple fact because there have been advancing games and genres on consoles. For goodness sake the first RTS was a console game! WoW has borrowed ideas from console MMOs. The original version of Elite was inspired by Star Raiders on 2600 and Atari 400/800.
The relationship between PC gaming and console gaming (which are also computers), is synergistic. You might think you're all superior because you play on PC, but games are games. And things have changed since the days of Tie Fighter, we're all playing pretty much the same games now whatever the platform.
I still long for a Babylon 5-themed space sim, though.
Something Wing Commander-ish?
And, of course, filthy console peasants are not fit to wash the feet of your PC Gaming Overlords. Denying that just shows the onset of the cognitive decline that accompanies console gaming.
Laughs.
Foolish PC Gaming Dick Slurp All-Star! The Atari 2600 was released when all PC games had was text based games like hangman or snake or yahtzee, or maybe Rogue if you were lucky.
Console games were already big business in 1977. PC games...not so much. Even high selling PC games in 1980 might sell only 10 or 20 thousand copies. Console games...well the 2600 version of Space Invaders sold 2 million copies. That's professionally packaged. Not some hand copied disk in a baggie with mimeographed instructions like say Akalabeth or something.
That said, the relationship between console gaming, notwithstanding the consoles are a type of computer, and "PC" gaming is synergistic.
We're all pretty much playing the same games now anyway. Minecraft, Skyrim, Brown-Shooter-of-the-Week, niche-market-space-game like NMS, indie games.
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So, the govt is supposed to be there for preventing people being stupid with their own money
But it's NOT their own money. It's money they're borrowing from someone else, guaranteed by the government, that they're hoping to pay back.
Imagine you're shopping your startup to a bunch of VC's, might some of them have some requirements before they hand over money? Insist the company hire a CFO, get more organized, dump the beanbag chairs, etc etc.
making decisions for them?
Modern humans THINK they're super-capable, but we're just jumped-up better educated medieval peasants. We do stupid shit all the time for all kinds of reasons, including emotional ones. Think about this, your reasoning is basically saying things like:
"Hey, we don't need government deciding who's too drunk to drive, so lets get rid of all the impaired driving laws"
We are a civilization and we have to have rules, sometimes to protect us from ourselves.
I mean, there was no one with a gun to their heads telling them to take out all these massive loans.....
From a young age, those kids going to college have heard the following from Society/Culture/Parents/Teachers/Businessmen/Wall Street/Madison Avenue:
"If you want to be a success in life and have the american dream with a 4 bedroom house and two big SUV's, then you need a college degree."
That's the gun. Hell, Colleges themselves advertise on TV!
The M61 Vulcan IS a Gatling:
The M61 Vulcan is a hydraulically or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon
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if you paid any attention over the years you'd KNOW i'm relatively self aware. I have ignored tons of homophobic, nativist, classist, misogynist and downright EVIL posts from you and the other alt-right coder-bros over the years. I've thought about responding to you and the others many times, but usually don't. I kept my mouth shut.
But I am tired of the MRA alt-right libertarian misogyny racism classism and homophobia here and blowing off steam. Of course it doesn't have much effect on you aspie coder-bros since you don't have fee-fees like us "snowflake SJW libtards with degrees in nonbinary gendered basketweaving who were too stupid to become coder-bros.".
I'm so horrible to stereotype YOU and the other libertarian aspies, but you and others do it to women, art majors, gay people, ethnic minorities, poor people, and people like ME ALL THE TIME and MUCH more often.
Think about how much you and others use SJW or "libtard" or "snowflake" or "fee-fees" as insults. But you don't care, you've got your tech toys, maybe a server in the basement, a well paying tech job, you don't have to care about the fee-fees of others or the people you probably think of as "parasites"
the methods the company is using to try to solve the problem are ideologically based
And what methods should they be based on? ones and zeroes? You want quotas? The problem is PEOPLE so ideology is going to be involved.
and they are not tolerant of other points of view.
The "other" point of view is that nothing needs to be done because "the females" aren't into computers and aren't as good with them anyway. Which is a lie because the number of women involved with computer science was HIGHER in the 80's than it is now.
And are you trying to say that because he isn't an expert
He isn't. He misinterpreted the data and cherry picked data which supported his pre-existing belief that there isn't a problem. And he's an autist so he simply does not have the necessary emotional intelligence to understand his own limitations and biases. He himself has said he has problems understanding how his words might be interpreted by others. If he's that much of an aspie, perhaps he should have kept his mouth shut about subjects he's not an expert in.
Let me put it this way, I'm not a programmer, I don't go on the Linux Kernel list and pontificate on schedulers or API. Damore is a coder, not a statistician or demographic expert or sociologist or psychologist. He simply DOES NOT have the background to make the statements and conclusions he did. Hell, Damore's own girlfriend disagrees with him and he still sticks by his "the females aren't into tech or board games and are neurotic" bit.
If you know my posting history, you know I'm fairly easygoing for the most part. I'm not one of those types who replies to every topic with a "trump is going to die in prison" response. (I assume those are Russian trolls, just like some of the more extreme "Killary is a warmonger" shit) But I've seen way too much aspie libertarian-right bullshit from spoiled tech-bros on Slashdot recently.
It makes me think. "What the fuck is up with those guys, didn't they learn to share? Were they that spoiled by their parents? Were they not taught empathy?" And while you might hit me with a "look at the SJW hypocrite without empathy hurr durr" response, if you paid attention over the years you'd know I'm fairly easygoing as I said.
That said, you, Mashiki, Roman-mir, mi, raymorris, archangel michael, and a few others are on what I think of as my "sociopathic selfish asshats" list. I'd have no trouble believing you to be a misogynist MRA gamergater alt-right nativist asshole. Is that fair to you, maybe not, but I've read your statements over the years and I'm going to lump you into the "I've got mine who cares about the indo-chimps, feminazi's, trannies, and brown people" crowd.
If you and the others don't want to be stereotyped as alt-right libertarian Randroid coder-bros, then stop being stereotypical randroid coder-bros. Besides if you and the other guys can use SJW as an insult towards AmiMoJo and others, then I ought to be able to stereotype you right back.
As I've said, normally I'm easygoing, but I've had it up to here with tech-bro asshattery. whatever happened to "compassionate conservatism"? But here on slashdot it's all "feminazi SJW tranny art majors are worthless scum only coders have value, if you can't measure it in lines of code it's not worth anything. who cares about aesthetics or fee-fees"
But My mood will pass and you and the Russian expat and the other Randroids and alt-righters can go back to insulting SJW's and liberals without me saying much. Hell, we might even have a friendly conversation about Linux or something.
What Nintendo should be doing is selling a CD or DVD or flash drive with all of its game ROMs for about $30.
They can't, they don't have the rights to all those NES titles, the publishers and developers do.
For example, one of my favorite NES games was the NES port of Might and Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum. It was a late NES game, copyright of 94 I believe. If memory serves me well it has 4 copyright notices, One for Jon Van Caneghem, the original developer. Another for New World Computing, another for the game's developer G-Amusements Ltd and another for the Publisher, American Sammy.
Getting the rights to publish this on VC would require dealing with 4 entities. JVC is still alive but New World computing is defunct, the assets are probably with Ubisoft, but you never know. I don't know about G-Amusements but American Sammy is also defunct, though Sega has their assets, but again, you never know if they have all of them.
Or think of The shooter/adventure hybrid game: The Guardian Legend. Copyrighted to Compile, Irem AND Broderbund! Broderbund's assets ended up with THQ and then Nordic, which then rebranded as THQ Nordic.
Or Battletoads, which was Rare, which is now owned by Microsoft. Do you think Microsoft would OK a VC release of Battletoads? That is even if they have the IP, they might not own all of Rare's IP.
Think of how even trying to figure out whom to negotiate with is complicated.
most old consoles output in 240p. TVs that supported 240p stopped being made probably 20 years ago
What the hell are you going on about, most HDTV's support 240p, no problem. There were some early models that didn't, though. Are you one of those nerds who gets outdated info fixed in their heads and never updates their info?
things like save batteries have to be manually desoldered and replaced
Nope, just pry the battery lose, put a new battery in. Sometimes you can just squeeze the contacts to hold it in place (Did that with a NES Zelda) or you can use a bit of tape.
There's no need to overcomplicate things.
Google employees and leadership themselves demonstrating an incredibly amount of animus to anyone with the wrong politics, and white, heterosexual males in particular.
What, and white libertarian coder bros aren't some of the most selfish bigoted assholes around? you think it's actual gay black people doing the GNAA posts? "indo-chimps"? all the disparagement of black people? the misogyny? the lack of humility and empathy? white tech guys are some of the worst racists, homophobes and bigots I have ever seen. And I will lay odds that before he wrote his paper, that at Google, ol Damore couldn't keep his mouth shut about politics, women in computing and other matters. And you know what, bigots, nativists and selfish objectivists are going to get animus from decent civilized people.
If you were concerned about hiring people just like you on a subconscious level, what better way could you help correct for that than by focusing on hiring people that think differently than you instead of demonizing them?
Because that's now how people work? You have limited control over your subconscious biases. Just like a coder to think you can control things like that. Feelings, subconscious, all that fee-fees and soft sciences stuff you aspie-coders denigrate doesn't work like computers!
It would be nice if we could say "Bob, you seem to be recommending guys who are pretty much just like you with the same background." and then have Bob say "oh, I didn't realize" and then stop it.
But people don't work that way, that's why we need laws, programs and other things to combat those biases Maybe you don't agree, you probably think things are fine just the way they are, but they aren't. You just don't see it.
Except none of what you are saying is either true or accurate.
What, Damore is a social scientist and not some aspie who thinks he's expert in everything?
I've read Damore's paper. I've read the entirety of the filing. I've alo looked at the exhibits which are direct captures of what Google employees were posting in their own words.
Damore was an asshat! he got the response he did because he never learned how to interact properly with other people who weren't just like him. And then he didn't understand why he got the response he did. I'd feel sorry for him if he didn't try to claim he's so smart and an expert and everyone else..including actual EXPERTS in the field he was commenting on, is wrong.
Or to put it in terms you might understand:
Damore was a beginning BASIC coder who weighed into a discussion on Linux kernel modules and got butthurt when REAL experts called him out because he's was being an asshat who didn't know jack and cherry picked his so called data.
And he doubled down and didn't know when to admit that he wasn't expert on social issues and didn't listen. And then he got fired. Maybe he shouldn't have got fired, but he was causing a mess for google. Maybe if he'd had some fucking humility and admitted he WASN'T an expert in social sciences then things might have calmed down.
And now he's like that fucking 30 year old aspie who thought he was a legal expert who sued his own parents for kicking him out of the house. if he was as smart as he thinks he is he'd drop his suit, go quiet and maybe get a job doing some quiet consulting or freelance work from home where he doesn't have do deal with actual human beings and can just stick with machines.
And gross generalizations, hell yeah, I've been on Slashdot long enough to know that too many Aspies here think that being a coder/engineer makes them an expert in EVERYTHING. And too many of them were tech spoiled on top of being economically privileged...not even taking race or gender into account. And yeah, the rise of importance of computing and tech has given some aspies big heads. a little more humility from some coders would be nice. Don't get me started on how disdainful some open source devs are towards actual users.
So yeah, I'm just a little bit on edge. This happens now and then.
No one wants to fire them all
Look. People just want the people who make the final decisions on hiring to realize that they're probably hiring people just like them on a subconscious level. They're getting a monoculture without awareness. And some people are trying to fix that....and people like you are resisting. because hey, it's not broken to you.
Everyone is like you in the code-dungeon. Why do things need to change? They get your jokes, you're not going to complain about their half naked anime posters. And those hew-mon fe-males in HR are going to ruin it for you by hiring some hew-mon fe-males or worse some transfolks and putting them into your dungeon.
Because everyone knows women can't code, they only use computers for facebook and cat pictures, they're only good for HR and PR. They don't play D&D and they play candy crush, not nethack. EWWW! And they have those silly fee-fees! Emotions don't matter, only code. Hew-mon fe-males and their silly emotions. Why can't they be logical like us. Computers are logical. Women are the worst sort of luser sheeple. Wanting people to discuss bugs respectively. People who make bugs are IDIOTS who are worthless, even if the bug was accidentall. They aren't going to complain if we denigrate them, they don't have feelings, not like those silly women. and what's their obsession with aesthetics. Green on black is good enough for everyone.
And yeah if you were some kid who got new expensive tech toys every year, say a c64 one year, an amiga the next and a 386 the next, you were tech privileged and had advantages in becoming a coder that others did not.
Stallman, Gates, Zuck, all very privileged and every single one of them have problems understanding the concerns of "normal people" in regards to various computing issues.
I'm not triggered, I just think there's too damn many aspie douchebags who never learned how to BEHAVE like civilized human beings on Slashdot. Spoiled rotten with tech toys by parents. spoiled by their silicon valley employers with techtoys at work and nerf fights and whatnot.
And then they have hissy fits when they have a female boss or some female critic discusses tropes, or they have to learn to listen to people who aren't bearded aspies.
Stallman, Raymond, Torvalds, Damore, all the same shit. Aspies who never learned how to BEHAVE properly and then get/got away with all sorts of shit that NORMAL people would simply NOT do.
Damore is going to go nowhere with his filings. Those are just some aspie whining. Just like that guy who got kicked out of his parents house:
https://nypost.com/2018/05/22/...
See that guy? Same ilk as Damore., Thinks he's an expert in everything. Goes on a hissy fit when called out for not knowing jack shit about what he thinks he knows.
And his lawyer has sued people for using photo in a blog post. The EFF came down on her for that. She's a self serving crackpot...look her up! Damore's complaint has already been rejected by the NLRB, it's going nowhere.
Bullshit. Old Nintendo ROMs aren't teaching anyone about game development other than how to try to work around horrific hardware limitations. Limitations that even the phone in my pocket doesn't have today.Sure, you might be a collector, but to ascribe to them the level of importance to the art that TFA does to ROMs is asinine.
you have to remember that these emulation sites are aspie-heavy. And yes they're the sort of guys who say things like that because THEY are still obsessed with NES Tetris or Concentration and spend hours upon hours making their Tetris clones or Concentration clones. To them Tetris or whatever is their obsession and the Most Important Game in the Universe and everyone should know that and it's a horror that the Tetris Company doesn't let their Aspie fans do whatever they want with their IP.
buy old games at retro-shops, pawn shops, Goodwill, garage sales, e-bay, whatever.
You want them on virtual console? well yeah, maybe I do too. But the rights for many old games are complicated.
Lets take for example, Rock N Roll racing. Who owns the rights? The game had TWO developers, Interplay was the publisher and does not exist as a singular entity. Who has Interplay's publishing rights? And what about the rights to the music, they were instrumental versions of rock songs, remember? Were they negotiated for a fixed term? fixed fee? royalties?
Heck it might require negotiation for EACH platform so say if it was on Wii, it might require more contracts and negotiation and MONEY to put it on WiiU, 3DS or Switch.
Or lets talk Diablo on the PSone which is NOT on PSN. The credits have Blizzard, Climax Entertainment, Davidson & Associates, Virgin Interactive, and EA! Think about the complexity of Sony trying to get the rights to put it on PSN.
no one thought of writing in accomodations for future technology into contracts. So you can't entirely blame Nintendo or Sony or whatever.
James Damore is no social scientist, and no expert. He's just one of those aspie libertarian-right guys who think they're John Galt or Lazarus Long in RL, and can become an expert in everything but are really the character Eddie Deezen played in Wargames.
Aspie coder-bros should stick to code because they're too brain addled to understand empathy or the fact that they've been privileged spoiled tech-bros all their lives. Then they go around complaining about SJW's and their Fee-fees (feelings) and feminazis, when THEY are the ones whining about their feelings of being not catered and coddled to every second. God forbid Google or Amazon try to encourage more minorities in tech. God forbid, aspies like Damore have to learn how to deal with emotions when dealing with people who AREN'T aspie-coders.
And now that jerk is the darling of the alt-right because he was discriminated against because he's male or something. No, he basically is just an asshat who didn't understand how coddled, and privileged he was and had a hissy fit when someone told him that.
I'm trying to remember if you're the one who is an expat from the former USSR. I get you confused with the other libertarian-right guys named Mashiki and Roman-Mir. Hmm, Mir is russian word...maybe he's another Randroid expat.
Well if you are the expat, you might not be aware of the history behind immigration law in the US, which has at times been intentionally created with racist intent.
For example, Northern Europe was favored over Southern Europe because the WASPS running the country didn't want more "bead jiggling whore of babylon worshipping papist scum" coming to America. And of course, the "yellow peril" from Asia wasn't admitted at all. Read up on the Know Nothings, which was a nativist anti-immigrant (especially anti-catholic) movement of the past. They way they talked about Catholics was EXACTLY how the right-wing talks about Muslims today.
And of course, the US basically keeping immigration restrictions up even as Jews were trying to flee Europe making it VERY hard for Jews to escape.
And of course the irony of being against illegal immigration when I don't think anyone asked the Native Americans already living here for the 17th and 18th centruy equivalent of green cards. Remember this, there are Native American tribes whose names only exist in history books because they were wiped out. Exterminated. Genocided.
So if you don't want those filthy muslims and brown people from south of the border here, I think you're a hypocrite. If we welcomed some rabid Randroid from the Ukraine why can't we welcome people from Syria or Guatemala?
What's that? Maybe Your parents had college degrees paid for by the Collectivist State?
Well Tovarysch, you aren't that special. America doesn't just need spoiled expats from Commie-land shilling for that sociopathic economic philosophy of that selfish asshat Ayn Rand every chance they get. It also needs people to pick vegetables, work in meat packing, and yes bus tables or work as maids in hotels.
Do you want to do that Comrade Randroid? You're too good for that? You're John Galt and Lazarus Long combined and such work is beneath your great intelligence? Your kids too good for that? Well someone has to do that, and the people paying for that work don't want to pay what you'd want to be paid for such backbreaking low status work.
And people like you don't want a guest worker program and don't want to make immigration easier for those who want to come here to make a better life for themselves...yes even doing the work supposedly "real americans" like yourself don't want to do.
Our supposed enemies are nowhere near our actual borders. Those "brown people" emigrating from Latin America aren't our enemies. Hell their ancestors were HERE before ours. This country of ours is actually THEIRS, we just stole it from their more northerly relatives.
So go back to the Rodina, you'd love it amongst the dog eat dog kleptocracy and plutocracy. Nothing stopping you from lying, cheating and stealing your way into a fortune with some desperate-for-a-better-life anorexic czech/slovak/russian model turned trophy wife at your side. Well nothing unless you do something to upset an oligarch with ties to the Kremlin....or are gay, or atheist, or actually believe in democracy.
But hey, no regulation or SJW's to stop you from doing what you will. Comrade Putin will make sure of it and make you rich, that's what you want. No rules for the Uber-man-genius like yourself.
You know what, Russia gave us both the horrible ideology of Stalinism and the horrible selfish asshattery of Objectivism from Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum.... aka Ayn Rand.
One ruined russia, and the other is ruining the US, thanks to guys like you.
Hey, Maybe you're really a long term sleeper agent working for Russian interests. come over here, infest the US with Randroid asshattery and spread it on tech-sites. to bearded aspies who already have problems with empathy and compassion and already look down upon everyone who isn't a bearded aspie as normies, sheeple, lazy minorities, etc, etc.
With Unity and UE4, it's never been easier for small studios to develop for Linux in parallel, even if their primary market is Windows.
Sure indie developers support Linux, especially since the PS4 is BSD so they can share much of the codebase. But the problem is the non-indie devs. Bioware? Bethesda? Blizzard? Square-Enix?
Flight sticks?
They work. I've tested an HOTAS with the Linux version of War Thunder and while I don't have the hardware for TrackIR on Linux, it is possible to do headtracking on Linux.
I was running CentOS7 and I wanted to do a video capture recording of an application on my screen now on Windows I'd just install CamStudio, pretty much the top rated and I'm good to go, on macOS I fire up Quicktime and off I go. On CentOS it has no built in feature, the closest thing is you can record the entire desktop with ctrl+alt+shift+r on gnome so I went looking for a tool to do it. Kazam rated highly but turned out it wasn't in the repos, ok fair enough, next up was xvidcap.
You don't know about OBS? https://obsproject.com/
Open source, cross-platform. While it is "streaming" focused, you can also use it just to capture without streaming. Much easier to use than fiddling with ffmpeg x11grab scripts.
Compare the reader responses on say Kotaku versus Eurogamer.
I also noticed the difference in a few message boards I visit, the UK folks (and Europeans to a lesser extent) were much more hostile, claiming they'd been lied to or that multiplayer had been "advertised"
So what you basically did was not read any marketing material, watch any interviews, and do any research about the game beforehand.
I most certainly DID do such things. I just didn't let any "Roger Dean sci-fi novel cover" fantasies override common sense on what a small UK dev could deliver. And I paid close attention to things like "preliminary footage" or "this is what we have currently" knowing that in development, things aren't certain until the title hits gold.
I distinctly heard Murray say that it only had "multiplayer of a sort" and that it was basically seeing planets/systems/animals that had been named by others and to NOT any kind of traditional multipler and to not expect to wing up with friends and shoot pirates.
Including those people who designed the box for the game. Including the people who had to submit the game to NICAM to get the PEGI rating. About the only people who didn't expect multiplayer on release are those poor guys who had to go buy boxes of stickers after the official PEGI rating was printed on the official box and officially included multiplayer days prior to launch, and they had to put stickers on the box with the updated rating.
The US box Limited edition box specifically says 1 Player, Online Play optional. if there was "real multiplayer" it would have said: 1 player, 2-xx Network Players, Online Play optional. "Online play optional" is often used for games with asynchronous interaction. Like leaving messages for a player, but never directly interact. That's how the back of the box # of players/online play descriptions work in the US. Perhaps the fault lies with NICAM?
Yeah. I've only got a Saitek x52 and the Thrustmaster T-flight HOTAS 4 myself, which I use solely with the PS4. (I run Linux and game on the PS4)
In the old days they included overlays with games to slap on your keyboard. Hell, even Star Raiders for the 2600 came with an overlay for the included keypad.
ED hides a lot of stuff in submenus, because you don't need access to everything at every moment. It makes the game more accessible to a larger player base.
And some of Tie Fighter's controls exist just to make it "seem" more complex. ED reduces throttle to three buttons, even on PC.
ED also only uses one component targeting button (cyclical), rather than TF's 2
Some of Tie Fighters targeting controls are also redundant.
But I wasn't really referring to just the controls but the mechanics as well. ED isn't just space combat, it is also trading and exploration. In space...AND ground. A lot of that stuff is behind the menu systems you get when you hold down a button (or key)
But modern developers don't want to intimidate the players from wanting to play their game in the first place, accessibility and user friendliness matter Which is why ED has sold over 2.75 million copies.
Ad Hom is not an argument.
It's not Ad hominem, I know from experience that Europeans especially those from eastern Europe are far more likely to be fervent PC Master Race types. In part because consoles came to their countries later and with heavy import duties.
You can see the attitude in the Euro-centric gamer websites too.
It can't.
It most certainly can, I've done it. Think about it, in ED you don't need ALL your functions all the time. So some are in submenus and some actions are context sensitive. This reduces UI complexity and makes it more accessible. One shouldn't judge a game on how many buttons it uses. One could design a VERY complex game that only uses a directional pad and two buttons: confirm and cancel.
They factually can't as i outlined above. Using the gamepad to play most of them is akin to saying you can use a wooden stick to mine for iron.
You are using the word "can't" when you really mean "I don't think it's practical" In English, those are VERY different things.
They aren't. The two platforms diverged on their own paths a long time ago. We don't play the same games
I just checked the top 10 games being played on Steam right now, they are:
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Dota 2
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Warframe
Grand Theft Auto V
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Football Manager 2018
ARK: Survival Evolved
Team Fortress 2
Rocket League
Only ONE of those games is PC exclusive.
Maybe YOU think console and PC gamers are totally different beasts, but they're not. You may think the platforms have diverged, but they have more games in common than ever. Sure there's a few outliers from the more PC partisan devs in Europe and UK, but like I said, we're mostly playing the same games: Minecraft, Skyrim, Fortnite, GTA, PUBG, Brown-shooter-of-the-week, etc etc.
(with shitty default gamepad in mind).
I'm going to quote this right back at you: You may not like it, but i don't care what you don't like, your like is not my problem.
I have a whole Steam library of games that can't fit on the default console controller, that can't be played on it, that need to be stripped down and broken to play on consoles.
What, a bunch of hex wargames from Polish, Romanian or Russian devs either too poor or too full of that PC Master race partisan bullshit to go console?
It showcases that PC has evolved, while consoles are stagnant.
Stagnant? I can remember a time when PC Master race asshats like yourself said things like:
You're never see a blood soaked slugathon like DOOM on a kiddie console:
Or: Consoles may have DOOM but you'll never have online Deathmatch
or: Consoles may be online but you'll never have an MMO
or: You may have MMO's but you'll never have Bioware, Bethesda or Blizzard do a console game
or: You may have Bioware, Blizzard and Bethesda, but you'll never play a game like Minecraft.
etc etc.
MMO has evolved into games unplayable on consoles with default controllers, etc.
It has? If anything MMO's have become more actionized than in the past. EVERY MMO I have on my PS4 is also on PC. You telling me I haven't played STO, ESO, Neverwinter, DCUO, FFXIV, Onigiri, and Tera on my PS4?
Hell your console industry has gone so anti-consumer you don't even have proper backwards compatibility anymore
The reason we don't have it is because adding hardware compatibility drives the cost UP...everyone complained how much the early model PS3's cost. And there was an architecture shift from PPC to x86-64.
and your online gameplay premium cost scam i don't even want to go into.
Somebody has to pay for the servers, maybe you
Paragraph breaks are a thing, you know.
PC has more genres than consoles for starters,
It does?
you sure as fuck won't play Total War games on consoles unless they are some simplistic degraded version.
Isn't total war, turn-based and from ex amiga developers turned PC Master Race dickheads? Of course they aren't going to port the thing, they hate consoles because they killed their precious Amiga as a platform.
Consoles have their OWN turn-based strategy game series, which you don't know about.
Consoles come with shitty default console gamepads that are all low-input slow devices.
PC's come with a keyboard + mouse by default which are jointly high-input fast devices.
What the hell are you on about? Keyboard, fast? Going to play a platformer with your keyboard then? Going to control pitch and yaw with a keyboard? Going to steer a car with a keyboard?
Low-input and slow is superficial and limited (stagnant), high-input and fast enables more deep and complexity.
Ever play Carnage heart? It's a mech game where you program your mechs using boolean logic...it's a console game. You just THINK PC games are more complex and "cerebral" because of your pre-existing bias. If you were to really honestly take a look outside at what's really going on, you'd see games just as complex on consoles.
You remind me of CGW's former RPG guy, Desslock. He derided console games as "mushroom man" games because his idea of what console games were was set back in 1985 and he never updated his views over time. He thought there were NO console strategy or RPG games because he didn't see any titles he recognized from the PC series he was familiar with One of his compatriots, who played both PC and console, got tired of his ignorance and told him about various console RPG's and strategy games that he simply didn't know about.
His last essay in the magazine before they got rid of their RPG section was 4 great RPG's he considered "Must Play". Three were cross-platform with at least one console, and the 4th....it was PS3 only at that time. He'd bought a PS3 specifically to play it.
The PC has left the consoles in dust in terms of gameplay innovation and advancement because the console gamepads in their shitty low input state are the default on consoles
You really do believe the innovation is all on the PC side? Truly? What was the last console game you played?
Elite Dangerous can't be played on a console gamepad, as this article sums up everything with a page dedicated to every control system:
Elite: Dangerous Guide > Game Guide > Controls
I'm sorry, but that guide is from a Polish guy and we all know how Poles tend to be PC Master Race asshats who don't know console gaming because of import duties making console stuff more expensive.
ED CAN be played on a gamepad, because I've done it. I own the game. Have you tried it, or are you parroting the PC Master race shit because you don't know any better.
How is this relevant to the fact that console gamepads can't run the game
"Can't" is a rather strong thing to say, isn't it. How do you know it's "Can't"? Basically, "can't" is your opinion.
rather than some random guy, thank you.
Tie Fighter uses atmospheric style turning, not actual space physics! And besides, you're "a random guy" too. What makes you an expert on what consoles can and cannot do? Do you even own one?
You pointed a bunch of games of which half have less mechanics than TIE Fighter itself, or which can't be run on a console gamepad.
Did you even look at the ED control setup? ED has MUCH more complexity than Tie-Fighter.
Every single one of the games I linked to can be played with gamepad as well.
because it doesn't have the limited default input device like a console controller, are two different things.
The default input on PC is keyboard...which isn't analog. Would you really want to fly a plane with just the keyboard?
Meanwhile PC developers work with a much more sophisticated and dynamic keyboard, therefore resulting in advanced and advancing games and genres.
But PC developers and console developers are the SAME developers. We're all, PC and Console gamers, playing pretty much the SAME games. This story is about No Man's Sky, which is both on console AND PC.
This is simple fact you can't argue since it is quantifiable at first sight.
So you get to shut down any disagreement because you're PC master race? It is NOT a simple fact because there have been advancing games and genres on consoles. For goodness sake the first RTS was a console game! WoW has borrowed ideas from console MMOs. The original version of Elite was inspired by Star Raiders on 2600 and Atari 400/800.
The relationship between PC gaming and console gaming (which are also computers), is synergistic. You might think you're all superior because you play on PC, but games are games. And things have changed since the days of Tie Fighter, we're all playing pretty much the same games now whatever the platform.
but they were at least "simcade"
Yeah, the same would apply to Colony Wars or the various Wing Commanders, and some other games both console and PC.
I don't think there is an actual space sim beyond KSP
Which is on console now.
and that one NASA game.
Moonbase alpha? AEIOU! JOHN MADDEN!
Though I'm thinking there was some game with Buzz Aldrin in the 90's? This one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I still long for a Babylon 5-themed space sim, though.
Something Wing Commander-ish?
And, of course, filthy console peasants are not fit to wash the feet of your PC Gaming Overlords. Denying that just shows the onset of the cognitive decline that accompanies console gaming.
Laughs.
Foolish PC Gaming Dick Slurp All-Star! The Atari 2600 was released when all PC games had was text based games like hangman or snake or yahtzee, or maybe Rogue if you were lucky.
Atari commercial from 1977:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Console games were already big business in 1977. PC games...not so much. Even high selling PC games in 1980 might sell only 10 or 20 thousand copies. Console games...well the 2600 version of Space Invaders sold 2 million copies. That's professionally packaged. Not some hand copied disk in a baggie with mimeographed instructions like say Akalabeth or something.
That said, the relationship between console gaming, notwithstanding the consoles are a type of computer, and "PC" gaming is synergistic.
We're all pretty much playing the same games now anyway. Minecraft, Skyrim, Brown-Shooter-of-the-Week, niche-market-space-game like NMS, indie games.