Thanks for the followup. That makes your point much clearer and I was figuring on something similar such as giving the mob super weak weapons or health. Still, that would effectively be the same thing as making the hero a superhuman since regulars would be underpowered. I agree with you, there's no easy way around it.
Now, would it be realistic, inside DC Universe, if Batman would do the same thing? That is how suspension of disbelief works: you choose to believe into a set that may not be realistic per se, but it is somehow coherent as presented to you.
Ok, how about the times when Superman beat the living hell out of Batman. Superman would have had to do it gently, because no matter how fit you are, when Superman hits you you're history.
Suspension of disbelief does not require that someone be a super-hero to overcome insane odds or stronger enemies. The concept of the "every-man" hero is extremely appealing regardless of how realistic it may really be. Your point in Batman is a perfect example. He's human. A well trained, smart, and loaded with gadgets...human.
The thing is, that "Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario World" really is FIVE games. Each were sold seperately at the time of their release. They aren't mini-games, and still hold value independantly(see the requests for each of them for the virtual console).
I've seen the same 2000 point card somewhere(wish I could remember) for $24.99. Ouch! With prices like that, I'd bet that the store will only sell a handfull of them. Pennywise and pound foolish.
The "market" i.e. employers will do whatever they can to get the cheapest labor they can. Illegally here? Great, I can abuse you and you can't complain. Outsourcing? Super, people feel they get the shaft calling tech support anyway, might as well pay less for it.
Of course there's an intervention in the market. Look at what happened when they tried to remove the intervention in the market for electricity, an essential utility service. Enron.
Just because it seems arbitrary doesn't mean that there isn't a good reason for some laws and market regulation.
Most carriers have chosen to do this using GPS chips.....Cingular and T-Mobile do *not* put GPS chips in all their handsets, instead relying on the old cell tower triangulation method.
Verizon uses tower triangulation too. That leaves Sprint/Nextel, and Alltel and I doubt they're using real GPS either.
That leaves either 1, 2, or none using GPS. I get this feeling that nobody's using GPS. In fact, they aren't even calling it GPS at Verizon. They're calling LBS, Location Based System. At its BEST it's only good to 50-150 meters radius. Sometimes it's worse, like a quarter mile radius.
Also, on Verizon, the person being located gets a notification on the screen of the phone and/or a text message saying "You're being located." I've seen people come back to the store so pissed off that they can't do it without tipping off the kid(and sometimes adult) they want to track.
Yes, it is completely different to have them ask you to bring it over all the time. The reason? You still can't get them in my area unless you go to the store every day. That's the only reason they're not playing one themselves for weeks.
I've had three non-gamers tell me they're gonna have to buy one because they had a blast with Wii Sports. When people have had enough Wii Sports, we play Smash Bros. When we're done playing that, it's Soul Calibur 2. Bloody Roar, Mario Kart, Starfox Assault, Bomberman '93... I've gone to friend's houses every weekend for the last month and played for hours with 3-5 people.. I'm sure I'm not alone.
When the novelty wears off, people will have a ton of fun because it'll still be FUN. Imagine that.:)
(I don't even really remember sports games on the NES, were there really this many?)
Yes. Tecmo Bowl, Super Tecmobowl, Baseball, Tengen Baseball, Base Wars, Tennis, Tecmo NBA Basketball, Baseball Simulator 1.000, Track and Field 1 & 2, the Power Pad games, Baseball Stars, Micro Machines, Rad Racer 1 & 2, Double Dribble, Ice Hockey, Blades of Steel, Punch Out, Arch Rivals, World Cup Soccer, etc...
If I tried looking I could find dozens more. Sports games are great sellers because they're inherently multiplayer, people recognize the game, and they can update the teams every year and sell you the same damn game. If it'll sell, they'll keep making them. That part hasn't changed in 20 years and won't change any time soon.
So it looks like Microsoft is trying to flood the retail stores in an attempt to be able to claim some shipped console number near 10 million. Can't be a smart move since there are going to be piles of 360s sitting around for the next few months and they are going to have to undership next quarter and any little benefit they get from claiming higher shipment numbers now will be offset with the reciprocal low shipment news next quarter.
There's a dirty little trick there that Sony's used before. What you do is recall the overshipment, and then re-ship to places that need it. You get to count those consoles as shipped twice. Nice isn't it?
CRTs can't handle progressive scan to my knowledge, don't know why, don't care.
Uhhh, I'm working on a CRT right now that does 1600x1200 progressive. There's nothing magical about it. Had it for years.
Now, if someone wants to buy something and they don't NEED it, why whine about someone buying something you don't value? I don't value sporty cars. They burn lots of gas and cost more $. That doesn't mean the people who buy them are necessarily "falling" for the marketing.
Today was interesting. EVERYONE was at least 5-10mph over the speedlimit and driving comfortably. There were still people who insisted on going 80+ and tailgating. Sometimes there were big empty lanes to pass, but they wouldn't use them; insisting that everyone move instead. Other times people would cut off the people in the right lanes to pass before people could even merge right to get out of their way.
Sometimes the best thing to do with extreme speeders is nothing. If you can't see them early enough to get out of the way safely, the best thing you can do is nothing. If things stay consistant then they can make their choices.
Honestly, what I see on YouTube IS mostly infringing works.
Seriously, having a thousand Dragonball Z montages with Coldplay or some other band is simply creative copyright infringement. Funny commercials, yeah, copyright infringement, if they weren't put there by the ad company.
Even half of the user generated content probably wasn't put up by the copyright holders. It was put up by someone who thought that it was a cool video. They didn't ask if they could put it up. Sure, it's not commercial, but it's still copyright infringement.
Yes, but then it's real cash and a real transaction. Without a real-life transaction, it's worth nothing. You turn off your account and it disappears. Your house doesn't disappear when you move out, someone else gets it. It's real.
And so does everyone else. Look at the Wii. One of the biggest features is... OLD GAMES! I want them. You want them. People will pay for the stuff they had that they loved that got broken and lost.
Huge hype over the Street Figher II release on Xbox arcade. Why? Because people love it. They want it. It's old. Bring it on.
I agree, the books were good. I remember one book which had a radioactive ore being mined for contruction of an idol. They don't state that it's radioactive, but if you know the symptoms, it becomes more clear over the course of the book. I could see that being implemented in a game as a sort of "cursed" item.
I've never gone for an MMORPG, but if they get it right, it would appeal to me.
As I understand, they will take some units back from overstocked retailers, then shipping the unit to someone else. This counts as 2 shipped. Potentially, you could have 20 million manufactured and 25 million shipped.
I've heard of retailers being purposely overstocked by software vendors for the same purpose. I don't know if Sony does the same, but I'm sure they have the means to do so. It's called channel stuffing.
(this Fall is going to be amazing - two new consoles, and 2nd gen 360... I'm giddy)
Great, that's what the 360 needs, a THIRD version with HD-DVD support. That leaves us with what?
A) Base version that can't do backwards compatibility or saves and such to HD. Costs way more than a "regular" version by the time you pay for all the "regular" add-ons.
B) Regular version that everyone currently has, but developers can't fully take advantage for because everything has to be made to run on the base version too. Costs to make it play HD-DVD will probably make it cost as much as a PS3.
C) Movie version with HD-DVD. Too bad game makers can't use it because none of millions of other Xbox 360 owners have them. Other than movies, what's the point?
I've calculated your storage needs to be 460,800 cubic feet. Your average cargo container(like you see on trucks or cargo ships) is 40 feet long and holds 2,200 cubic feet. You'll need 210 cargo containers assuming your caseload doesn't grow.
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Thanks for the followup. That makes your point much clearer and I was figuring on something similar such as giving the mob super weak weapons or health. Still, that would effectively be the same thing as making the hero a superhuman since regulars would be underpowered. I agree with you, there's no easy way around it.
The thing is, that "Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario World" really is FIVE games. Each were sold seperately at the time of their release. They aren't mini-games, and still hold value independantly(see the requests for each of them for the virtual console).
I've seen the same 2000 point card somewhere(wish I could remember) for $24.99. Ouch!
With prices like that, I'd bet that the store will only sell a handfull of them.
Pennywise and pound foolish.
The "market" i.e. employers will do whatever they can to get the cheapest labor they can. Illegally here? Great, I can abuse you and you can't complain. Outsourcing? Super, people feel they get the shaft calling tech support anyway, might as well pay less for it.
Of course there's an intervention in the market. Look at what happened when they tried to remove the intervention in the market for electricity, an essential utility service. Enron.
Just because it seems arbitrary doesn't mean that there isn't a good reason for some laws and market regulation.
You just aren't creative enough.
I'm sure someone tried to use them underwater or... internally. Fairy lights indeed.
Verizon uses tower triangulation too. That leaves Sprint/Nextel, and Alltel and I doubt they're using real GPS either.
That leaves either 1, 2, or none using GPS. I get this feeling that nobody's using GPS. In fact, they aren't even calling it GPS at Verizon. They're calling LBS, Location Based System. At its BEST it's only good to 50-150 meters radius. Sometimes it's worse, like a quarter mile radius.
Also, on Verizon, the person being located gets a notification on the screen of the phone and/or a text message saying "You're being located." I've seen people come back to the store so pissed off that they can't do it without tipping off the kid(and sometimes adult) they want to track.
Yes, it is completely different to have them ask you to bring it over all the time. The reason? You still can't get them in my area unless you go to the store every day. That's the only reason they're not playing one themselves for weeks.
:)
I've had three non-gamers tell me they're gonna have to buy one because they had a blast with Wii Sports.
When people have had enough Wii Sports, we play Smash Bros. When we're done playing that, it's Soul Calibur 2. Bloody Roar, Mario Kart, Starfox Assault, Bomberman '93... I've gone to friend's houses every weekend for the last month and played for hours with 3-5 people.. I'm sure I'm not alone.
When the novelty wears off, people will have a ton of fun because it'll still be FUN. Imagine that.
Yes.
Tecmo Bowl, Super Tecmobowl, Baseball, Tengen Baseball, Base Wars, Tennis, Tecmo NBA Basketball, Baseball Simulator 1.000, Track and Field 1 & 2, the Power Pad games, Baseball Stars, Micro Machines, Rad Racer 1 & 2, Double Dribble, Ice Hockey, Blades of Steel, Punch Out, Arch Rivals, World Cup Soccer, etc...
If I tried looking I could find dozens more. Sports games are great sellers because they're inherently multiplayer, people recognize the game, and they can update the teams every year and sell you the same damn game. If it'll sell, they'll keep making them. That part hasn't changed in 20 years and won't change any time soon.
There's a dirty little trick there that Sony's used before. What you do is recall the overshipment, and then re-ship to places that need it. You get to count those consoles as shipped twice. Nice isn't it?
Uhhh, I'm working on a CRT right now that does 1600x1200 progressive. There's nothing magical about it. Had it for years.
Now, if someone wants to buy something and they don't NEED it, why whine about someone buying something you don't value?
I don't value sporty cars. They burn lots of gas and cost more $. That doesn't mean the people who buy them are necessarily "falling" for the marketing.
Today was interesting. EVERYONE was at least 5-10mph over the speedlimit and driving comfortably.
There were still people who insisted on going 80+ and tailgating. Sometimes there were big empty lanes to pass, but they wouldn't use them; insisting that everyone move instead. Other times people would cut off the people in the right lanes to pass before people could even merge right to get out of their way.
Sometimes the best thing to do with extreme speeders is nothing. If you can't see them early enough to get out of the way safely, the best thing you can do is nothing. If things stay consistant then they can make their choices.
Of course they will. They'll be: Wii, Not-So-Wii, and Frickin' HUGE!
And of course we won't look like the Tron guy. We'll all have night elf avatars.
51 gigs per picture? Nice, I could keep eight!
Printing it? Only takes 2 years to process to the printer. You're in no rush right?
Hmm, I think I'll go take a 10 gigapixel picture of my... my motherboard! Yeah, that's it.
Honestly, what I see on YouTube IS mostly infringing works.
Seriously, having a thousand Dragonball Z montages with Coldplay or some other band is simply creative copyright infringement. Funny commercials, yeah, copyright infringement, if they weren't put there by the ad company.
Even half of the user generated content probably wasn't put up by the copyright holders. It was put up by someone who thought that it was a cool video. They didn't ask if they could put it up. Sure, it's not commercial, but it's still copyright infringement.
Yes, but then it's real cash and a real transaction. Without a real-life transaction, it's worth nothing. You turn off your account and it disappears. Your house doesn't disappear when you move out, someone else gets it. It's real.
As the population grows, so does the workforce.
A 10% growth is entirely possible without necessarily consuming 10% of the total workforce.
And so does everyone else. Look at the Wii. One of the biggest features is... OLD GAMES! I want them. You want them. People will pay for the stuff they had that they loved that got broken and lost.
Huge hype over the Street Figher II release on Xbox arcade. Why? Because people love it. They want it. It's old. Bring it on.
Wow, that's messed up.
I agree, the books were good. I remember one book which had a radioactive ore being mined for contruction of an idol. They don't state that it's radioactive, but if you know the symptoms, it becomes more clear over the course of the book. I could see that being implemented in a game as a sort of "cursed" item.
I've never gone for an MMORPG, but if they get it right, it would appeal to me.
You do realize that the Wii will play the original just fine right? No need to buy a GameCube.
As I understand, they will take some units back from overstocked retailers, then shipping the unit to someone else. This counts as 2 shipped. Potentially, you could have 20 million manufactured and 25 million shipped.
I've heard of retailers being purposely overstocked by software vendors for the same purpose. I don't know if Sony does the same, but I'm sure they have the means to do so. It's called channel stuffing.
Great, that's what the 360 needs, a THIRD version with HD-DVD support. That leaves us with what?
Wouldn't you rather have games?
I've calculated your storage needs to be 460,800 cubic feet.
:)
Your average cargo container(like you see on trucks or cargo ships) is 40 feet long and holds 2,200 cubic feet.
You'll need 210 cargo containers assuming your caseload doesn't grow.
Just thought I'd get you started.