Actually no. The generation of textures is pretty fast (think shorter then the loading time of recent commercial FPS) yet the game is still choppy. Considering the minimum specs wich I meet and exceed I think they just haven't had the resources to test it on to much hardware.
It looks amazing with some real detail like metal nails that stuck out on doors but it also looked like it wasn't using my GPU and doing it all in software mode. Why I don't know.
If you had played it you would have noticed that it actually loads faster then most recent FPS. Hell I am currently beta testing a FPS wich takes longer to load then it took me to download this, extract, run and get shooting.
But no easier to blast something then actually take the time to test it.
Well howabout that this thing took less time to load then any recent FPS I played?
Also there may be a model for selling software online rather then on CD/DVD. Obviously this game would cost a bit less to host then say the 5CD farcry.
Also don't forget more portable solutions. Laptops or PDA's and other gadgets. They got extremely limited storage but my old calculator could hold this one. Not run it but hold it:)
Mostly however this is just a tech demo. Showing that you do not need a massive wad of textures just to make a nice looking game.
I think you are still not taking it far enough
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Sphere XP Makes GUI 3D
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The desk anology is a flawed one. Desks are not easy or efficient to use. Hunting for a calculator just to do a sum. Searching for the stapler then hunting for staples just to attach an image to a document. TOO MUCH WORK.
Of course the PC desktop (2D or 3D) is exactly the same. Hunting in the start menu (or whatever you call it) for the calculater. Hunting in the menu for the option attach image.
Ideally there would be no apps for me to start and stop. Rather the OS would "know" what I am trying to do and do it for me. Kinda like a real secretary does (a really good one). Real spellchecking, real document formatting, real dictation, real file retrieval, real fact finding.
Currently that seems impossible. Even a simple thing as spell checking is so complex most people don't even bother with it. Computers are not just dumb they are moronic.
The entire 2D desktop interface is just gludges to get around the moronicness of the OS. We got a HUGE taskbar taking up valuable space just because the OS has no clue as wich app we want to use and wich we don't, we add shortcuts constantly on screen just because noone has found a way to launch the right app at the right time.
I am not saying I got the answer or even that there is an answer. But just like drawers, putting things behind you, extra large desks, etc are in ways of getting around the limitations of a desk. All current desktop designs are just ways of getting around the limitations of the OS.
Ideally we want a star trek like computer. One wich "magically" can detect what we want to do and do it. Until then all we got is gludges.
Had the same problem. Good screen, death laptop. But the things are so integrated you can't salvage a thing. Is like trying to salvage the CPU or memory. Just can't be done. And the memory is a removable part but good luck finding a way to use it in anything other then another laptop (of the same make).
The LCD on my laptop had the controller on the motherboard. Not in the laptop itself. So it was not a case of figuring out the leads on the ribbon cable but rather of building my own controller for the LCD.
Safe to say that was a little bit more complicated then I could handle. From the posts so far this seems to be the general conclusion. LCD screens are not cost effective to salvage.
Then again a small screen ain't all that expensive anymore and we have come an awfull long way in resolution, speed and viewing angle.
For those with a working laptop, what could work is modding your laptop. break its back so that the base is behind the LCD and you have a thick screen you can mount. or maybe you can lenghten the ribbon cable. But basically you need the PC it came with to control the LCD.
AMD and Intel, he plays them both against each other and you the customers can choose. Well as long as you don't choose AMD-64 as Windows isn't quit ready for that.
And MS itself competes. Game on the PC or the X-box, the consumer chooses! Windows XP Home, Windows XP professional. What more could you want?
This troll brough to you buy a linux lover
Oh and to remain on topic. WOW that is ONE BIG FAN. Nice but ehm, don't high class boards with 64 bit pci have the first PCI slot setup to operate at a higher speed then the other slots? My opteron board certainly does.
As far as I remember they don't "send" them
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The Mellow Baboon
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Live as a low ranking male just isn't much fun. So if the current leader is in his prime and there are a couple of other hopefulls, it might just be wiser to try to get into an other group where the leadership is a bit past it and the competition is a bit less.
Baboons are far better predators then chimps. Basically baboons are a top predator. Meaning they eat and are not eaten.
Chimps are predators as well but more human. Meaning a while group of chimps can catch one small monkey but they do it by teamwork.
If you are in africa and you encounter a chimp the chimp will run. if you are in africa and you encounter a baboon you better hope it ain't hungry or pissed off.
What if the stressed out females and lower ranking females defect from their aggresive leaders and join the friendly troop?
Suddenly you got 1 big friendly supportive of each other group who are not constantly stressed and so rested for any trouble and 1 small tribe with no females and constant infighting.
I remember another documentary on an ape troop. It was ruled by a male and a luitenant in a laid back kind of way. He took the top females his luitenant the lower ranking. He was basically a nice old guy. Also old but because he had a luitenant with everything to lose and nothing to gain and the support of the females he held out until finally he was overthrown by a new aggressive male.
The new male had no backing (was in fact constantly fighting with the other hopefulls) and no tact. He raped (compared to the old ruler) the females and threatned their offsping (the old males and his luitenant offspring). It didn't take long for him to end up severly wounded when the females decided enough was enough and ganged up on him. With no aid and the females protecting their young against him he barely got away with his life.
The end result was that the former luitenant now became the leader who continuened the laid back peacefull method. I think the old leader became his luitenant but note sure.
As you can tell I am not really a story teller but it did show clearly that this group choose the softer option. Not exactly democracy but certainly a peasant revolt took place here.
People put up with a lot until they come to the point where they got nothing to loose and everything to gain. Apes do migrate between groups if the group they are in becomes to dangerous for them. There are documented cases of "good" ape leaders protecting the weakest of their troop from the middle ranking. This could be seen as making sure that while their must be a pecking order you also can not afford to loose members at the bottom for fear that one day the top is the bottom.
Doesn't it allow to save anywhere on the pc?
As said never played it. Sorry but from the reviews (player reviews not paid for official reviews) I decided that it was not my kind of game.
5 bags of ramen? Hungry or just fat? :)
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Just kidding, yes it sounds like easy money. If you believe spammers would pay out. If your internet connection isn't closed of in a second. If you can deal with the risk of being targetted by AOL/MS and all the others who are fighting spam. If you are not worried about the taxman finding out.
But I got a technical question. How much power does a PC consume anyway? I sure know my electricity bill ain't cheap. You got free internet but you got to pay for the rest.
I think this is like the alladvantage idea. Remember them? Being paid to browse? Anyone ever received 1 cent from them?
Just one tiny little problem with this idea
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It is the old money trail. Cops are very good at finding these.
Let me explain. In normat botnets the criminals use a long chain of infected machines to hide their location. So from their HOME->infected A -> trojaned B -> rooted C -> IRC D -> botnet E -> target
But with this would not be possible. TARGET (the trojaned machine doing the spamming) would have an ID that would link directly to the criminal. Namely the ID by wich he is known at the spammer.
In order for this to work each spamming machine must have some kind of ID that it sends to the spammer to identify who did how many hours. This ID is of course linked to payment details (if you believe spammers would actually pay out) and this would be trivial for a police force to find out and track back to you. So then you would face both spamming and hacking laws as well as profitting from them. Not good I think.
game companies seem to be learning that the PC is not a console and is played differently. Meaning we expect to be able to save anytime anywhere. Granted some companies still use the "limited saves" joke because they have consolitis but it is getting better.
The game is also developed for the X-box wich because of its HD shouldn't have a technical reason for not being able to save anywhere. Gearbox is also an experienced PC developer and at least the games I played of them had a proper save system.
So I am hopefull. The graphics look absolutly wonderfull. If this can be had on relativly up-to-date hardware then it may be one of the best looking FPS ever.
Talking about FPS, what happend to Half-Life 2? Still down with the Duke Nukem fever?
It looks more like a RFID tag, the one injected in pets. They can then be scanned when the tag is close to a transmitter.
So no you couldn't track someone with it as in james bond. You would need to place scanners in places like public transport entrances, hospitals, shops, banks, all the places people have to go. Then anyone you want can be easily tracked moving through the transmitters and arrested at your convenience.
I am reminded of a similar project several decades ago. It was a bit more primitive. It was a yellow star sewn onto the clothes.
This looks like a hoax but not a funny one. Oh well at least for this we can rely on the christian fundamentalists to be on the good side. Marking someone like this is the devils work.
Your kidding right? I looked and found that all the opensource engines are terrible. Well that is not true. The ID engines are of course very good and the older ones are free.
But ehm those new commercial engines are available for free. I can make my mod without paying anyone except of course the price of the game.
So why should I mess with an engine that is several years behind in technology (show me a FPS capable engine that compares to todays commercial games) that nobody uses, that has no installed base and no content. Far easier to add the map/weapon/vehicle I want to an existing game then to build an entire game from scratch.
Only rarely do mods become entire games. The fast majority just add or tweak a tiny portion of the content.
MS became powerfull because IBM was the evil empire before. IBM was the fat arrogant bastard and MS was the liberator. It is therefore very easy to think the MS could now find itself as the evil empire to be liberated by say Linux.
There is however a problem. The problem is that IBM existed in a different world then MS does now. IBM technology was a small world populated by the techs. MS however exist in a world in wich IT is now used mostly by non-techs. These people are far less prepared to switch from MS to Linux as before the techs switched from Mainframes to DOS.
So what can happen?
Security
One is security. So far all the security problems have been mild. Nothing really major happened. People are not going to switch because of a few virusses (I am talking the non-techs here) or because they loose a little bit of data. Just ask youreselve how many cars have been produced that were so faulty that they killed people and what happened to the companies that produced those cars? Are those companies still around their cars still selling? Right. Apathy. People are stupid, lazy, shortsighted, greedy and gullible.
A major worm that really wipes out a large percentage of windows machine would be required for a shift to take place. Is this likely? Well so far it hasn't happened. None of the worms are really destructive enough.
MS missing the boat
This is mentioned in the article and I think it is wishfull thinking. MS has missed every damn boat out there. So far without result. People do without or pay extra or pay others. Just look at tcp/ip, browsers, png support in browsers, games (once Apple was the PC with games), and many many others.
Competition
Now we are talking. Linux itself isn't really competition as linux is not competiting. If Linux is used by 1 person then it still is a 100% success.
But there are others willing to use Linux as the base from wich to launch their own offensive.
I don't think companies like IBM or Sun or HP are any real threath. They had their change and goofed. But look to the east and you will see one huge evil empire who has everything to loose by MS being dominant and nothing to gain. China may for a lot of reasons become the bastion of freedom for the west ruled by DMCA/RIAA/MPAA/MS. People always talk about the richness off MS but forget that 50billion is peanuts to goverments. America is only so corrupt because its leaders are so cheaply bought. Just look at the donations given and the profits of the companies making the donations.
China however has a rememedy for that. A bullet paid for by the relatives.
Red flag linux run on a dragon chips would be a very nice way for china to first gain independence at home and second be a nice export article to those willing to break free from Longhorn/Blackcomb or whatever.
I think this is the only real threat to MS. A country wich cannot be bought, threatned or outsold. An asian pact would also break the MS office version deadlock. Want to trade in the east? You will comply with their standards or you will not trade.
Is any of this likely to happen?
Apart from the far east revolt I doubt that anything will change soon. We live in a world where only a tiny percentage of people even can be bothered to vote. Expecting those people to lead a revolt against a company is to much.
Of course that is no excuse for those of us who know better.
One for lorries going maybe 70 80. one for normal cars maybe going 120 and one for super cars going at 200+?
There is a speed limit because people can't agree on a single speed. You can set it any speed and there will be people travelling faster and people travelling slower. And it is the difference between the two that is the killer.
This is of course only on highways. Any road where other traffics crosses you also got the problem of seeing other traffic coming.
Try determining when it is safe to cross a F1 race track. There are several proffesionals in graves who failed that test.
Car drivers always amaze me. First to rant about traffic lights and first to create a total chaos when they aren't present. At least in holland. And in the places were the lights are not perfect and it requires a bit of common sense to keep traffic flowing you still screw up.
Had an office overlooking an exit from a highway. Huge fun each and every day watching them all clog up the intersection.
Traffic lights are there because people can't just be nice and obey basic traffic laws and common courtesy. Like do not drive through a green light if you can see that you are going to have to come to a stop in the middle of the intersection and block everyone else.
Next time you got to stop for a zebra crossing do not curse the traffic lights. Curse every car driver who doesn't stop for a zebra crossing without lights.
The deaf should screen what? They are not involved. It is a hearing scammer typing tekst to the translator who then places the order. The only part the deaf play is that they will get longer waiting times and possibly reduced service as companies will immidiatly suspect a call of this type.
So there is no taking care of themselves. They are just bystanders.
Mafia had all kinds of historical cars with fancy names. First user made patch? Turn all the fancy names to the real names.
Same with FPS war games. Far more fun to have a M16 then generic assault rifle type 2.
But I can't really see that much marketting for it. Surely real gun nuts shudder at the kind of ballestics you find in games and simirally a FPS fan will have little use for a gun you have to use OUTSIDE?
I can see product placement in a game like The Sims. Say coca-cola company making free models available sporting their logo. Coca-Cola fridge? The pizza delivery guy in a domino skin?
But will this sell anything?
Sports games have long since had real advertising but the way I understood at least in the time of "grand prix legends" it was more the game makers begging if they could please use the image instead of being paid to include a companies logos.
Emulation is not illegal. Well not in free countries anyway. As long as the emulator is written "clean", meaning without use of copyrighted information or by breaking someone else code, then it is perfectly acceptable. Look at nintendo and the GBA emulators. They would love to break that down but can't. The emulators are perfectly legal.
So there are no rules being broken. As long as you buy the game legally you can run it however you see fit. If you want to put a PS1 cd into your audio player and listen to the static that is 100% okay.
These kind of raids are very real. Sure guns are holstered but these are real cops and anyone not cooperating will soon learn what being raided really means.
Do they bust open doors and put people in handcuffs? YES if anyone on site is foolish enough to resist. Usually most people are not. Would you an army of cops for your boss?
No a raid is precisly what happened. It just won't make a good episode of cops. That is because while collar criminals are smart enough not to wrestle 10 cops with guns.
You will behave in the manner wich I dictate. If I say you will only get into my restaurant if you are wearing a suit and tie then you will only get in wearing a suit and tie. If you break that I can even call the cops to remove you.
Same with the use of items. If you drive on my parking lot I set the speed limit. Nobody else. If I tell you you can't park motorcycles in my car park then that is the law.
AND if I tell you NO PHONE then you better not use the phone or you will be kicked out by my bouncers and they are insured against breakages. Hope you are.
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It looks amazing with some real detail like metal nails that stuck out on doors but it also looked like it wasn't using my GPU and doing it all in software mode. Why I don't know.
But no easier to blast something then actually take the time to test it.
Also there may be a model for selling software online rather then on CD/DVD. Obviously this game would cost a bit less to host then say the 5CD farcry.
Also don't forget more portable solutions. Laptops or PDA's and other gadgets. They got extremely limited storage but my old calculator could hold this one. Not run it but hold it :)
Mostly however this is just a tech demo. Showing that you do not need a massive wad of textures just to make a nice looking game.
Of course the PC desktop (2D or 3D) is exactly the same. Hunting in the start menu (or whatever you call it) for the calculater. Hunting in the menu for the option attach image.
Ideally there would be no apps for me to start and stop. Rather the OS would "know" what I am trying to do and do it for me. Kinda like a real secretary does (a really good one). Real spellchecking, real document formatting, real dictation, real file retrieval, real fact finding.
Currently that seems impossible. Even a simple thing as spell checking is so complex most people don't even bother with it. Computers are not just dumb they are moronic.
The entire 2D desktop interface is just gludges to get around the moronicness of the OS. We got a HUGE taskbar taking up valuable space just because the OS has no clue as wich app we want to use and wich we don't, we add shortcuts constantly on screen just because noone has found a way to launch the right app at the right time.
I am not saying I got the answer or even that there is an answer. But just like drawers, putting things behind you, extra large desks, etc are in ways of getting around the limitations of a desk. All current desktop designs are just ways of getting around the limitations of the OS.
Ideally we want a star trek like computer. One wich "magically" can detect what we want to do and do it. Until then all we got is gludges.
The LCD on my laptop had the controller on the motherboard. Not in the laptop itself. So it was not a case of figuring out the leads on the ribbon cable but rather of building my own controller for the LCD.
Safe to say that was a little bit more complicated then I could handle. From the posts so far this seems to be the general conclusion. LCD screens are not cost effective to salvage.
Then again a small screen ain't all that expensive anymore and we have come an awfull long way in resolution, speed and viewing angle.
For those with a working laptop, what could work is modding your laptop. break its back so that the base is behind the LCD and you have a thick screen you can mount. or maybe you can lenghten the ribbon cable. But basically you need the PC it came with to control the LCD.
And MS itself competes. Game on the PC or the X-box, the consumer chooses! Windows XP Home, Windows XP professional. What more could you want?
This troll brough to you buy a linux lover
Oh and to remain on topic. WOW that is ONE BIG FAN. Nice but ehm, don't high class boards with 64 bit pci have the first PCI slot setup to operate at a higher speed then the other slots? My opteron board certainly does.
Baboons are far better predators then chimps. Basically baboons are a top predator. Meaning they eat and are not eaten.
Chimps are predators as well but more human. Meaning a while group of chimps can catch one small monkey but they do it by teamwork.
If you are in africa and you encounter a chimp the chimp will run. if you are in africa and you encounter a baboon you better hope it ain't hungry or pissed off.
Suddenly you got 1 big friendly supportive of each other group who are not constantly stressed and so rested for any trouble and 1 small tribe with no females and constant infighting.
I remember another documentary on an ape troop. It was ruled by a male and a luitenant in a laid back kind of way. He took the top females his luitenant the lower ranking. He was basically a nice old guy. Also old but because he had a luitenant with everything to lose and nothing to gain and the support of the females he held out until finally he was overthrown by a new aggressive male.
The new male had no backing (was in fact constantly fighting with the other hopefulls) and no tact. He raped (compared to the old ruler) the females and threatned their offsping (the old males and his luitenant offspring). It didn't take long for him to end up severly wounded when the females decided enough was enough and ganged up on him. With no aid and the females protecting their young against him he barely got away with his life.
The end result was that the former luitenant now became the leader who continuened the laid back peacefull method. I think the old leader became his luitenant but note sure.
As you can tell I am not really a story teller but it did show clearly that this group choose the softer option. Not exactly democracy but certainly a peasant revolt took place here.
People put up with a lot until they come to the point where they got nothing to loose and everything to gain. Apes do migrate between groups if the group they are in becomes to dangerous for them. There are documented cases of "good" ape leaders protecting the weakest of their troop from the middle ranking. This could be seen as making sure that while their must be a pecking order you also can not afford to loose members at the bottom for fear that one day the top is the bottom.
Doesn't it allow to save anywhere on the pc? As said never played it. Sorry but from the reviews (player reviews not paid for official reviews) I decided that it was not my kind of game.
But I got a technical question. How much power does a PC consume anyway? I sure know my electricity bill ain't cheap. You got free internet but you got to pay for the rest.
I think this is like the alladvantage idea. Remember them? Being paid to browse? Anyone ever received 1 cent from them?
Let me explain. In normat botnets the criminals use a long chain of infected machines to hide their location. So from their HOME->infected A -> trojaned B -> rooted C -> IRC D -> botnet E -> target
But with this would not be possible. TARGET (the trojaned machine doing the spamming) would have an ID that would link directly to the criminal. Namely the ID by wich he is known at the spammer.
In order for this to work each spamming machine must have some kind of ID that it sends to the spammer to identify who did how many hours. This ID is of course linked to payment details (if you believe spammers would actually pay out) and this would be trivial for a police force to find out and track back to you. So then you would face both spamming and hacking laws as well as profitting from them. Not good I think.
The game is also developed for the X-box wich because of its HD shouldn't have a technical reason for not being able to save anywhere. Gearbox is also an experienced PC developer and at least the games I played of them had a proper save system.
So I am hopefull. The graphics look absolutly wonderfull. If this can be had on relativly up-to-date hardware then it may be one of the best looking FPS ever.
Talking about FPS, what happend to Half-Life 2? Still down with the Duke Nukem fever?
So no you couldn't track someone with it as in james bond. You would need to place scanners in places like public transport entrances, hospitals, shops, banks, all the places people have to go. Then anyone you want can be easily tracked moving through the transmitters and arrested at your convenience.
I am reminded of a similar project several decades ago. It was a bit more primitive. It was a yellow star sewn onto the clothes.
This looks like a hoax but not a funny one. Oh well at least for this we can rely on the christian fundamentalists to be on the good side. Marking someone like this is the devils work.
But ehm those new commercial engines are available for free. I can make my mod without paying anyone except of course the price of the game.
So why should I mess with an engine that is several years behind in technology (show me a FPS capable engine that compares to todays commercial games) that nobody uses, that has no installed base and no content. Far easier to add the map/weapon/vehicle I want to an existing game then to build an entire game from scratch.
Only rarely do mods become entire games. The fast majority just add or tweak a tiny portion of the content.
There is however a problem. The problem is that IBM existed in a different world then MS does now. IBM technology was a small world populated by the techs. MS however exist in a world in wich IT is now used mostly by non-techs. These people are far less prepared to switch from MS to Linux as before the techs switched from Mainframes to DOS.
So what can happen?
Security
One is security. So far all the security problems have been mild. Nothing really major happened. People are not going to switch because of a few virusses (I am talking the non-techs here) or because they loose a little bit of data. Just ask youreselve how many cars have been produced that were so faulty that they killed people and what happened to the companies that produced those cars? Are those companies still around their cars still selling? Right. Apathy. People are stupid, lazy, shortsighted, greedy and gullible.
A major worm that really wipes out a large percentage of windows machine would be required for a shift to take place. Is this likely? Well so far it hasn't happened. None of the worms are really destructive enough.
MS missing the boat
This is mentioned in the article and I think it is wishfull thinking. MS has missed every damn boat out there. So far without result. People do without or pay extra or pay others. Just look at tcp/ip, browsers, png support in browsers, games (once Apple was the PC with games), and many many others.
Competition
Now we are talking. Linux itself isn't really competition as linux is not competiting. If Linux is used by 1 person then it still is a 100% success.
But there are others willing to use Linux as the base from wich to launch their own offensive.
I don't think companies like IBM or Sun or HP are any real threath. They had their change and goofed. But look to the east and you will see one huge evil empire who has everything to loose by MS being dominant and nothing to gain. China may for a lot of reasons become the bastion of freedom for the west ruled by DMCA/RIAA/MPAA/MS. People always talk about the richness off MS but forget that 50billion is peanuts to goverments. America is only so corrupt because its leaders are so cheaply bought. Just look at the donations given and the profits of the companies making the donations.
China however has a rememedy for that. A bullet paid for by the relatives.
Red flag linux run on a dragon chips would be a very nice way for china to first gain independence at home and second be a nice export article to those willing to break free from Longhorn/Blackcomb or whatever.
I think this is the only real threat to MS. A country wich cannot be bought, threatned or outsold. An asian pact would also break the MS office version deadlock. Want to trade in the east? You will comply with their standards or you will not trade.
Is any of this likely to happen?
Apart from the far east revolt I doubt that anything will change soon. We live in a world where only a tiny percentage of people even can be bothered to vote. Expecting those people to lead a revolt against a company is to much.
Of course that is no excuse for those of us who know better.
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There is a speed limit because people can't agree on a single speed. You can set it any speed and there will be people travelling faster and people travelling slower. And it is the difference between the two that is the killer.
This is of course only on highways. Any road where other traffics crosses you also got the problem of seeing other traffic coming.
Try determining when it is safe to cross a F1 race track. There are several proffesionals in graves who failed that test.
It ain't exactly rocketscience is it?
Had an office overlooking an exit from a highway. Huge fun each and every day watching them all clog up the intersection.
Traffic lights are there because people can't just be nice and obey basic traffic laws and common courtesy. Like do not drive through a green light if you can see that you are going to have to come to a stop in the middle of the intersection and block everyone else.
Next time you got to stop for a zebra crossing do not curse the traffic lights. Curse every car driver who doesn't stop for a zebra crossing without lights.
So there is no taking care of themselves. They are just bystanders.
Same with FPS war games. Far more fun to have a M16 then generic assault rifle type 2.
But I can't really see that much marketting for it. Surely real gun nuts shudder at the kind of ballestics you find in games and simirally a FPS fan will have little use for a gun you have to use OUTSIDE?
I can see product placement in a game like The Sims. Say coca-cola company making free models available sporting their logo. Coca-Cola fridge? The pizza delivery guy in a domino skin?
But will this sell anything?
Sports games have long since had real advertising but the way I understood at least in the time of "grand prix legends" it was more the game makers begging if they could please use the image instead of being paid to include a companies logos.
So there are no rules being broken. As long as you buy the game legally you can run it however you see fit. If you want to put a PS1 cd into your audio player and listen to the static that is 100% okay.
So go troll somewhere else.
Do they bust open doors and put people in handcuffs? YES if anyone on site is foolish enough to resist. Usually most people are not. Would you an army of cops for your boss?
No a raid is precisly what happened. It just won't make a good episode of cops. That is because while collar criminals are smart enough not to wrestle 10 cops with guns.
Same with the use of items. If you drive on my parking lot I set the speed limit. Nobody else. If I tell you you can't park motorcycles in my car park then that is the law.
AND if I tell you NO PHONE then you better not use the phone or you will be kicked out by my bouncers and they are insured against breakages. Hope you are.
Thank god I am not one of those.
No I am not up late. I am up early. You will learn about insomnia one day too young one :(