The problem isn't a lack of people who bought the game. (The game has done relatively well, sales-wise.) The problem is the lack of people who bought KoTOR II and also play Wizards of the Coast's d20 Star Wars.
Out of the dozen or so people who I know have played KoTOR II, only two others besides myself also play the d20 RPG. Also, WotC's support for d20 Star Wars has been dwindling and tapering off for some time.
And it looks like it's only getting worse. Rumor is that WotC has either lost, or decided not to renew the Star Wars RPG license. No new books have been announced or released since June of last year. This is really odd considering a new Star Wars movie is 3 weeks away, and WotC has had a major release planned around the time both Ep. I and II came to theaters. So, my gaming group has been migrating back to the d6 rules. They're better written, anyway.
I'm looking straight at Warren Spector. Deus Ex: Invisible War was horrible. How did Warren respond? "The biggest mistake we made was not making the inventory screen mouse draggable." Oh, Warren, you're so cute when you're clueless.
I saw them circa 1980 . . . . U2 brought their full stadium sound gear.
U2 only played in one stadium before 1983. And they certainly weren't using their own gear at that concert. It was National Stadium in Dublin. Their last show before they were signed by Island Records. They didn't play in any other stadium until the North America leg of the War tour. And I doubt any of their venues during that tour sat 4500. Next time you go to a rock and roll show, maybe you should expect the music to be a little loud, but don't blame U2.
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I can never keep the schedule straight.
Well, it depends. If they make a verifiably good product that makes very little money, we like them. If they make a verifiably good product that makes TONS of money and increases their market share, we hate them.
. . . makes a dent in the PC Gaming market. IncaGold, publishers of such classics as Midnight Racing and . . . what else exactly? This is about as newsworthy as me deciding to port my SHA1 hasher utility to Linux. It will mean a whole new world opening up for hashing on Linux! Yeah, we almost care.
... a new 16% VAT on all automobiles. The money raised by the tax will go towards all banks in the country. Since cars are often used by bank robbers when they get away, the banks demand that cars be taxed accordingly.
Yeah. Makes about as much sense as a screen door on a submarine.
The problem for M$ is that consoles always outstrip the current offerings by computers - that's how they survive.
No. As a general rule, consoles NEVER outstrip the PC market. Are you trying to tell me that in November 2001, P3 733 w/ 64Mb was top of the line? Bzzzzzzzz... Or maybe you think that the PS2's ~300 MHz RISC was top of the line when it was released? Wrong. Next contestant please.
...when everyone and their dog has nukes. You'd think they would have learned their lesson after the Chinese got all of our nuke secrets.
Oh, and I suppose breaking into LANL will be an excuse for the Dept. of Homeland Security to have unlimited access to our private emails and hard drives.
You file where YOU are, which is where the crime took place.
Experts [nolo.com] disagree [fraserlawfirm.com].
Yes, but like the article says, if Sears has a store in your town, it's not too hard to sue in your local court. It's when the spam is sent from Yubama Untrago in Outer Mongolia that you probably won't get anywhere.
his epic series about a little white lion with black ears... a series which shares many elements with a Disney film from a few years ago. The lion in the US version of the series was called Kimba... although his original name was Simba.
The Tezuka estate should retroactively sue Disney. I'm sure there's room in the DMCA to fit something like that . ..
I think Paramount, Berman and Braga would do well to listen to the fans for a change
Yeah, okay. Let's listen to the fans. Like the fans who wrote Kirk on Spock gay fan fiction and obsess over why Khan doesn't have a beard, even though he's a Sikh? Uh huh. Being a trek fan myself, there is a far too vocal sector of trek fandom that would like to see episodes explore beards and whether or not the CO wants to have sex with the XO... oh wait... I guess they did that (Janeway/Chakotay).
Anyway, nothing's wrong with shaking up the establishment, but I for one would rather see Trek go away and left as it is... for the same reason Jordan should have stayed retired this time.
Speculative fiction, on the other hand, I characterize as the types of stories when the author says "what if this happened?"
One of the best books I read that falls into the category of speculative is The Practice Effect by David Brin. Just took one idea, that entropy INCREASES over time, and then builds a world based on that concept. What would the culture and society be like? Of course it's not possible, but an excellent what-if.
I've also noticed no mention of him, thus far. Brin's Uplift War novels stand with many of the great SF classics, IMHO. And then there's Earth, an excellent example of near future technologies being predicted accurately, a la William Gibson.
Brin's latest uplift trilogy also has some of the best applications of relativistic and quantum physics. He was able to make some of the strange ideas in physics into believable, concrete examples. In short, Brin rules.
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The problem isn't a lack of people who bought the game. (The game has done relatively well, sales-wise.) The problem is the lack of people who bought KoTOR II and also play Wizards of the Coast's d20 Star Wars.
Out of the dozen or so people who I know have played KoTOR II, only two others besides myself also play the d20 RPG. Also, WotC's support for d20 Star Wars has been dwindling and tapering off for some time.
And it looks like it's only getting worse. Rumor is that WotC has either lost, or decided not to renew the Star Wars RPG license. No new books have been announced or released since June of last year. This is really odd considering a new Star Wars movie is 3 weeks away, and WotC has had a major release planned around the time both Ep. I and II came to theaters. So, my gaming group has been migrating back to the d6 rules. They're better written, anyway.
I'm looking straight at Warren Spector. Deus Ex: Invisible War was horrible. How did Warren respond? "The biggest mistake we made was not making the inventory screen mouse draggable." Oh, Warren, you're so cute when you're clueless.
Our first look at what Microsoft's next-next generation console can do
Um. No.
If you check ilovebees.com, you'll notice that the new countdown matches up with Feb 9th, 2553. So, there ya go.
I saw them circa 1980 . . . . U2 brought their full stadium sound gear.
U2 only played in one stadium before 1983. And they certainly weren't using their own gear at that concert. It was National Stadium in Dublin. Their last show before they were signed by Island Records. They didn't play in any other stadium until the North America leg of the War tour. And I doubt any of their venues during that tour sat 4500. Next time you go to a rock and roll show, maybe you should expect the music to be a little loud, but don't blame U2.
I can never keep the schedule straight.
Well, it depends. If they make a verifiably good product that makes very little money, we like them. If they make a verifiably good product that makes TONS of money and increases their market share, we hate them.
Those bastards... Well, this lawsuit seems par for the course then.
What did they do? Elaborate for those not in the know.
. . . makes a dent in the PC Gaming market. IncaGold, publishers of such classics as Midnight Racing and . . . what else exactly? This is about as newsworthy as me deciding to port my SHA1 hasher utility to Linux. It will mean a whole new world opening up for hashing on Linux! Yeah, we almost care.
... a new 16% VAT on all automobiles. The money raised by the tax will go towards all banks in the country. Since cars are often used by bank robbers when they get away, the banks demand that cars be taxed accordingly.
Yeah. Makes about as much sense as a screen door on a submarine.
The problem for M$ is that consoles always outstrip the current offerings by computers - that's how they survive.
No. As a general rule, consoles NEVER outstrip the PC market. Are you trying to tell me that in November 2001, P3 733 w/ 64Mb was top of the line? Bzzzzzzzz... Or maybe you think that the PS2's ~300 MHz RISC was top of the line when it was released? Wrong. Next contestant please.
Oh, and I suppose breaking into LANL will be an excuse for the Dept. of Homeland Security to have unlimited access to our private emails and hard drives.
You file where YOU are, which is where the crime took place.
Experts [nolo.com] disagree [fraserlawfirm.com].
Yes, but like the article says, if Sears has a store in your town, it's not too hard to sue in your local court. It's when the spam is sent from Yubama Untrago in Outer Mongolia that you probably won't get anywhere.
Something like, "It'll be a cold day in hell..."
The Tezuka estate should retroactively sue Disney. I'm sure there's room in the DMCA to fit something like that . . .
Yeah, okay. Let's listen to the fans. Like the fans who wrote Kirk on Spock gay fan fiction and obsess over why Khan doesn't have a beard, even though he's a Sikh? Uh huh. Being a trek fan myself, there is a far too vocal sector of trek fandom that would like to see episodes explore beards and whether or not the CO wants to have sex with the XO... oh wait... I guess they did that (Janeway/Chakotay).
Anyway, nothing's wrong with shaking up the establishment, but I for one would rather see Trek go away and left as it is... for the same reason Jordan should have stayed retired this time.
Speculative fiction, on the other hand, I characterize as the types of stories when the author says "what if this happened?"
One of the best books I read that falls into the category of speculative is The Practice Effect by David Brin. Just took one idea, that entropy INCREASES over time, and then builds a world based on that concept. What would the culture and society be like? Of course it's not possible, but an excellent what-if.
I've also noticed no mention of him, thus far. Brin's Uplift War novels stand with many of the great SF classics, IMHO. And then there's Earth, an excellent example of near future technologies being predicted accurately, a la William Gibson.
Brin's latest uplift trilogy also has some of the best applications of relativistic and quantum physics. He was able to make some of the strange ideas in physics into believable, concrete examples. In short, Brin rules.