In Manitowoc at least I know there are quite a few tourist locations that depend on car-ferry traffic to survive, when they heard about competition to the badger they many felt quite threatened, The badger represents a rush that makes up most of their visitors, My girlfriend who did tours on the USS Cobia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cobia Says that the Badger represents about 60% of their traffic when it was in service.
Manitowoc is a small town, and not exactly a tourist destination in itself, But thanks to the car-ferry which dumps it's passengers right into the downtown, a few things can stay alive that keep your attention for an afternoon. (A few blocks of downtown, an old time ice cream shop, a naval museum with submarine, and an art gallery.) Before they go to Door County (A real tourist area)
The fact that people are trying to put propaganda into wikipedia doesn't surprise me, and the fact that nobody from Milwaukee probably cares doesn't either. A few hundred people coming on a boat wont exactly make or break their economy, But here its the rush that keeps anything tourist related open.
This is why I think we need a "I don't necessarily agree with a what you said, but your points were well made" moderation... I don't know how well that would fit in the little box though;)
Personaly I think the patent office can be completely circumvented if you just make your application long enough and with enough sufficiently technical terms, sort of like a high school teacher that gives the dry 12 page report an A after glossing over the first page and deeming it of sufficiently impressive bulk.
Yeah man, you seem to have some sort of anger management issues, lashing out with profanity and insults when someone mentions a function of a game controller neither of you have used.
Post less, work on your social skills, take a breath before going into your rage, or that heart attack will catch up with you before long.
Well no they aren't cutting the umbilical cord so to speak.
Super Smash Bros will use the classic controller, as I'm sure other games will. The man behind the series realized motion sensitive gaming doesnt make this particular game more fun, only adds a needless gimic.
It takes a great group to take risks, (Motion sensitivity, Touch Screens on the DS etc) but it takes a wise company to know when those features aren't necessary. The DS suffered from it initial, everything needing to be touched in some way, even if it only detracts from the game play; but by now they seem to have it down very well, and only use the touch screen when it directly enhances game play.
Good point,
Back in the day, when these kind of events were populated by industry representatives instead of bloggers who talk about games, Magazines would seldom if ever mention tech demos in a negative light, instead trying to focus on the positive and what the game could possibly become.
Any responsible journalist should know these games have six months of development ahead of them, but bashing a game still under testing gets more 'diggs' to your 'blogg'
Especially since most of the insults boil down to the controller setup, which is quite possibly the easiest thing to continue to tweak and refine right up until the day it ships.
I'm shopping for a new laptop for my girlfriend, A old dell I gave her is getting a bit old, but mainly she doesn't like the spartan, utilitarian, unattractive, and slightly scratched exterior.
She has three criteria for a new laptop, in this order...
1. It looks pretty
2. Its a 17 inch widescreen.
3. I say that the specs are good enough.
She is quite enamored with the Toshiba's Due to the glowing lights, copper colour, and sleek design. Its only a bonus that their specs are pretty good for the money.
I would say a glaring one they missed right after bosses would be "The Weak Spot" So many games have them... The blinking yellow point that you need to hit to take out the boss. Im not saying its a particularly good mechanic, but I would say it made it in to a lot more games than sniper shot.
Its not hard to make an ATI graphics card crash on command, just accidently install the windows update "Upgrade" for your (actualy up to date) catalyst drivers.
A floppy drive is all you need, transfer a whole image of a windows CD Rom directory to a fat32 partition. Boot via a boot floppy and navigate over to the \i3856\i386\winnt That will begin the instalation of xp or 2000 you desire.
Look online for windows instalation from harddrive or without CD or something like that. Good Luck.
Imagine, going to a store, and quite seriously saying in a room packed with geeks standing around the 360 console in a whisper "I would like to preorder a wee please" then the clerk says "Whats that?" you reply in a slightly less hushed tone, "A wee, a nintendo wee, I would like to preorder one..." then the clerk says loudly "Oh a WEEE Yeah, We Have WEEEEES to Preorder, Let me go get the list" 15 seccods pass by with all the 360 geeks looking at you snickering, "Here you go, I hope you enjoy your WEEEEEEE when you get it!"
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The problem isnt marketing, it being an adult and trying to explain to your friends coworkers and parents that you enjoy playing on a Nintendo "Wii" and be taken seriously, Even if the "Nintendo: Dora The Explorer Happy Fun Time Console" Played some wicked FPS, I probably wouldnt be bragging about it to my friends and expect to not be laughed at.
Give them some negetive feedback, maybe, just maybe, we wont be able to get revolution back, but Maybe they will try to get another.. less absolutely horid name.
Jesus, getting rid of the green isnt the REASON for a redesign?!
Sometimes I end up on the linux or politics area of the site and think "Oh my god, slashdot isnt absolutely fucking hideous anymore!" sadly its short lived as I realize.. nope, thats just the not as hideous part of the site, the mainpage hasnt changed one bit
This "style" is NOT something you want to hold on to. Dont fool yourself, Ugly is not a design element.
Who the hell gives a crap about someone who is that preoccupied by the 1% of the 1% who view "Professional Gaming" as the most important part of the video game culture?
Why isnt anyone more concerned with the constant video game images of either the helpless damsel in distress, or the sex object in her "armor plated battle thong" and her "enchanted DD breasts of gravity defiance"
Whatever these "Professional Gamers" like to fawn over at conventions is really the saddest moot point possible. How about a culture of game design that doesnt make normal non paid women look at our games and laugh at our sad little toys before ever giving them a chance.
Would we really give a game a chance if all the women wore normal clothing with regular proportions while every single polygon male runs around with bustling muscles wearing nothing but a terribly well rendered well endowed bannana hammock everywhere, with gratuitous slow pans from the his legs to his mostly bare ass?
Okay, some of you might give that game a chance. but still, you get my point. We are never going to get a large proportion of real women to really play video games, when only a small contigent of the market doesnt objectifiy them at every turn.
So Shrek 2, best movie of 2004? Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, sweeps the awards for `99, Jar Jar for best male in a supporting role?
While we are at it, spider man deserves some awards, lets say best actor, we can give it to him again for his sequel.
Then finaly, best actor of 2004? Jesus Crist, as Himself, in the Passion of the Christ.
Please, look at this for the caliber of movies you would be awarding for excellence. http://www.filmsite.org/boxoffice.html I didnt go past the top ten. but look down, Meet the Fockers, Home Alone, Beverly Hills Cop, and How the Grinch Stole Xmas would all atleast be nominated, Top box office are really a who's who of crappy movies we should probably be ashamed of (With notable exceptions)
Box office success says Nothing about how good a movie is, nothing about how good of acting it had, and nothing about how good the story, is, box office success is having a movie start from the begining trying to hone in on a target audience and run a targeted non stop marketing blitz in the months between October and Thanksgiving. Can great movies top the box office, Of course, Can a great movie be something you have never heard of, Definately, maybe you should check them out now that you have.
Finaly, incase you really are that dense, let me shout at you... JURRASIC PARK AND MRS DOUBTFIRE ARE IN NO WAY AS CULTURALY SIGNIFICANT AS SCHINDLER'S LIST!!!
Nobody watched MST3k for the movies, infact some of the movies were so bad it was hard to enjoy the part you are actualy watching, the work of a bunch of comedians with great wit. If you ever watched a MST3k movie without the riffing*, you will know what I mean.
*Unless you are having a party with a bunch of like minded and funny friends.
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In Manitowoc at least I know there are quite a few tourist locations that depend on car-ferry traffic to survive, when they heard about competition to the badger they many felt quite threatened, The badger represents a rush that makes up most of their visitors, My girlfriend who did tours on the USS Cobia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cobia Says that the Badger represents about 60% of their traffic when it was in service.
Manitowoc is a small town, and not exactly a tourist destination in itself, But thanks to the car-ferry which dumps it's passengers right into the downtown, a few things can stay alive that keep your attention for an afternoon. (A few blocks of downtown, an old time ice cream shop, a naval museum with submarine, and an art gallery.) Before they go to Door County (A real tourist area)
The fact that people are trying to put propaganda into wikipedia doesn't surprise me, and the fact that nobody from Milwaukee probably cares doesn't either. A few hundred people coming on a boat wont exactly make or break their economy, But here its the rush that keeps anything tourist related open.
This is why I think we need a "I don't necessarily agree with a what you said, but your points were well made" moderation... I don't know how well that would fit in the little box though ;)
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fnet ahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r= 1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=6960975.PN.&OS=PN/6960975&RS= PN/6960975
Personaly I think the patent office can be completely circumvented if you just make your application long enough and with enough sufficiently technical terms, sort of like a high school teacher that gives the dry 12 page report an A after glossing over the first page and deeming it of sufficiently impressive bulk.
Yeah man, you seem to have some sort of anger management issues, lashing out with profanity and insults when someone mentions a function of a game controller neither of you have used.
Post less, work on your social skills, take a breath before going into your rage, or that heart attack will catch up with you before long.
In short, Relax, its just a game.
Well no they aren't cutting the umbilical cord so to speak.
Super Smash Bros will use the classic controller, as I'm sure other games will. The man behind the series realized motion sensitive gaming doesnt make this particular game more fun, only adds a needless gimic.
It takes a great group to take risks, (Motion sensitivity, Touch Screens on the DS etc) but it takes a wise company to know when those features aren't necessary. The DS suffered from it initial, everything needing to be touched in some way, even if it only detracts from the game play; but by now they seem to have it down very well, and only use the touch screen when it directly enhances game play.
Good point, Back in the day, when these kind of events were populated by industry representatives instead of bloggers who talk about games, Magazines would seldom if ever mention tech demos in a negative light, instead trying to focus on the positive and what the game could possibly become. Any responsible journalist should know these games have six months of development ahead of them, but bashing a game still under testing gets more 'diggs' to your 'blogg' Especially since most of the insults boil down to the controller setup, which is quite possibly the easiest thing to continue to tweak and refine right up until the day it ships.
You are obviously not a woman.
I'm shopping for a new laptop for my girlfriend, A old dell I gave her is getting a bit old, but mainly she doesn't like the spartan, utilitarian, unattractive, and slightly scratched exterior.
She has three criteria for a new laptop, in this order...
1. It looks pretty
2. Its a 17 inch widescreen.
3. I say that the specs are good enough.
She is quite enamored with the Toshiba's Due to the glowing lights, copper colour, and sleek design. Its only a bonus that their specs are pretty good for the money.
Season three of the all new Battlestar Galactica...
I would say a glaring one they missed right after bosses would be "The Weak Spot" So many games have them... The blinking yellow point that you need to hit to take out the boss. Im not saying its a particularly good mechanic, but I would say it made it in to a lot more games than sniper shot.
Its not hard to make an ATI graphics card crash on command, just accidently install the windows update "Upgrade" for your (actualy up to date) catalyst drivers.
Normaly slashdoters are paranoid delusional, but your making sense.
...Spooky
Hell, I dont plan on pirating it.
A floppy drive is all you need, transfer a whole image of a windows CD Rom directory to a fat32 partition. Boot via a boot floppy and navigate over to the \i3856\i386\winnt That will begin the instalation of xp or 2000 you desire.
Look online for windows instalation from harddrive or without CD or something like that.
Good Luck.
Maybe you need to take a look at what slashdot thinks of the intelectual property...
s hdot.org+intelectual+property&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Asla
Now we can be treated to a few hundred geeks arguing over who's music collectionis bigger.
Imagine, going to a store, and quite seriously saying in a room packed with geeks standing around the 360 console in a whisper "I would like to preorder a wee please" then the clerk says "Whats that?" you reply in a slightly less hushed tone, "A wee, a nintendo wee, I would like to preorder one..." then the clerk says loudly "Oh a WEEE Yeah, We Have WEEEEES to Preorder, Let me go get the list" 15 seccods pass by with all the 360 geeks looking at you snickering, "Here you go, I hope you enjoy your WEEEEEEE when you get it!"
Yeah, because trying something earlier... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_&_Watch
Necessarily defines how succesful it's followup will be. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS
The problem isnt marketing, it being an adult and trying to explain to your friends coworkers and parents that you enjoy playing on a Nintendo "Wii" and be taken seriously, Even if the "Nintendo: Dora The Explorer Happy Fun Time Console" Played some wicked FPS, I probably wouldnt be bragging about it to my friends and expect to not be laughed at.
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/webform.jsp
Give them some negetive feedback, maybe, just maybe, we wont be able to get revolution back, but Maybe they will try to get another.. less absolutely horid name.
(hell, we got farscape back on the air)
"This site needs a complete overhaul, unless you want to be the only site on the Internet that looks like it was designed in 1998."
Nah, Aint it cool news will always have slashdot beat in that respect...
Note to participants: Celebrate to our roots! Animated Gifs and Tiled Backgrounds, dont let our history die!
Jesus, getting rid of the green isnt the REASON for a redesign?!
Sometimes I end up on the linux or politics area of the site and think "Oh my god, slashdot isnt absolutely fucking hideous anymore!" sadly its short lived as I realize.. nope, thats just the not as hideous part of the site, the mainpage hasnt changed one bit This "style" is NOT something you want to hold on to. Dont fool yourself, Ugly is not a design element.
"I want my games to be fun, lazy, and distractions, not things I need to devote my life and body to (okay, I'm out of shape, sue me)."
You just described a DS.
Who the hell gives a crap about someone who is that preoccupied by the 1% of the 1% who view "Professional Gaming" as the most important part of the video game culture?
Why isnt anyone more concerned with the constant video game images of either the helpless damsel in distress, or the sex object in her "armor plated battle thong" and her "enchanted DD breasts of gravity defiance"
Whatever these "Professional Gamers" like to fawn over at conventions is really the saddest moot point possible. How about a culture of game design that doesnt make normal non paid women look at our games and laugh at our sad little toys before ever giving them a chance.
Would we really give a game a chance if all the women wore normal clothing with regular proportions while every single polygon male runs around with bustling muscles wearing nothing but a terribly well rendered well endowed bannana hammock everywhere, with gratuitous slow pans from the his legs to his mostly bare ass?
Okay, some of you might give that game a chance. but still, you get my point. We are never going to get a large proportion of real women to really play video games, when only a small contigent of the market doesnt objectifiy them at every turn.
So Shrek 2, best movie of 2004? Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, sweeps the awards for `99, Jar Jar for best male in a supporting role?
While we are at it, spider man deserves some awards, lets say best actor, we can give it to him again for his sequel.
Then finaly, best actor of 2004? Jesus Crist, as Himself, in the Passion of the Christ.
Please, look at this for the caliber of movies you would be awarding for excellence. http://www.filmsite.org/boxoffice.html I didnt go past the top ten. but look down, Meet the Fockers, Home Alone, Beverly Hills Cop, and How the Grinch Stole Xmas would all atleast be nominated, Top box office are really a who's who of crappy movies we should probably be ashamed of (With notable exceptions)
Box office success says Nothing about how good a movie is, nothing about how good of acting it had, and nothing about how good the story, is, box office success is having a movie start from the begining trying to hone in on a target audience and run a targeted non stop marketing blitz in the months between October and Thanksgiving. Can great movies top the box office, Of course, Can a great movie be something you have never heard of, Definately, maybe you should check them out now that you have.
Finaly, incase you really are that dense, let me shout at you...
JURRASIC PARK AND MRS DOUBTFIRE ARE IN NO WAY AS CULTURALY SIGNIFICANT AS SCHINDLER'S LIST!!!
Nobody watched MST3k for the movies, infact some of the movies were so bad it was hard to enjoy the part you are actualy watching, the work of a bunch of comedians with great wit. If you ever watched a MST3k movie without the riffing*, you will know what I mean.
*Unless you are having a party with a bunch of like minded and funny friends.