The Xbox360/MS Vista game they're calling Shadowrun centers around PC and console deathmath-type game types. From what I understand, Microsoft did a large amount of testing and balancing. They did a pretty good job at it. I saw a lot of 4 on 4 matches going on at PAX with computers on one side and 360s on the other.
I still cringe at it being called Shadowrun, though. I'll have to accept that FASA's dead one of these days.
Their parents were Hackers, thus they're Ethnical Hackers. They're a patriarchal society, so the ability to claim that Hacker ethnicity is passed from the Father's side.
Shaolin monks as everyone thinks of them haven't existed since the Communist Revolution of China back in 1966, when they killed or arrested as many monks as they could find. There are still monks at the Shaolin temple, but the oral tradition has been broken and all "secret techniques" have been lost. From what I've read, the modern monks there are basically showmen for tourists.
Of course, I am partially Japanese and could just be a ninja spreading ninja propaganda.
A slight modification to the bike analogy makes it valid.
He has several bikes in his yard. If he's the only one other one using a bike at the time, you're not causing any noticable interference. However, by using any of them, you're depriving him the ability to have a family outing with his wife and kids on the other bikes. He might not do it all the time, but you're preventing him from having the option available to him.
Their site ate it because their website's been poorly maintained for at least the past year. I've lost track of the number of times that I've gone to WotC's website and gotten a friendly error message saying that some portion or another was "down for maintenance" for hours at a time. Almost as often was the times I'd get an unfriendly error message for an entire wing of their site. I'm not sure if they maintain their servers in house or if they have it contracted out to someone else, but I'd say that either they're not getting their money's worth, or not they're not spending nearly enough. Which is kind of a shame, considering that they have a lot of good content on their site.
I see your point, but it's a difference of scale. I absolutely distrust the MP company whose members were screwing with the prisoners in Abu Ghraib. I don't distrust the entire MP corps. I distrusted the ING battalion whose members tried to kill us (and their fellow guardsmen, as they manned the checkpoint alongside us). I don't distrust the entire ING.
Routinely? Hardly. I've not seen nor heard of civilian vehicles getting shot simply because the convoy wanted the vehicle to move. Warning shots, sure, but never actually targeting the vehicle. The reason why I haven't heard of it is because it'd be a violation of CENTCOM's rules of engagement and whoever did it would have gotten his nuts crushed for it.
I don't see us putting a lot of value on the lives of people with Iraqi surnames.
No? Let me relate to you a fun story of mine.
About two and a half years ago, I was a squad leader in Iraq, just outside of Ar Ramadi. We had a pair of outposts on one of the major highways in the Anbar province, one on each side of the highway. Next to our outpost, there was a barracks for Iraqi National Guardsmen. We built it up for them, gave them beds, toilets, showers, water, food, weapons, ammo, training, etc. One night, two of them put on civilian clothes and their body armor, sneak out of their compound and begin digging a hole in the check point to put a bomb inside of.
One of my privates is on tower guard at the time and watches them do it. After radioing back and forth with the operations center, over the course of several minutes, he finally gets the authorization to open fire. He kills one and wounds the other. They flee back into their compound.
Long story short, the second guy went to Abu Ghirab and is probably in Guantanamo. You know what happened after we had unquestionable proof that we couldn't trust the battalion of Iraqi National Guardsmen? Not a damn thing. We continued working with them. We continued feeding them. We continued giving them water and fuel, working the checkpoint with them and going on patrols with them.
Next time you think that US soldiers don't care about the lives of Iraqis keep that in mind. We knew for a fact that at any time, we could get murdered by Iraqis that we had done so much for, but because it's THEIR country, we sucked up the danger and kept working with them.
the American strategy of concentrated firepower and fire first, ask questions later
Nice. I like how you've never been placed under restrictive rules of engagement, in which even if you see someone with a weapon you're not allowed to fire on them until they actually pointed it in your direction, but some how know EXACTLY what US military doctrine is. I really don't understand why these sorts of comments go unchallenged on Slashdot, when if you were to comment on any other complex, technical subject without knowing what the hell you were talking about, you'd be eaten alive by dozens of subject matter experts who have been working in that field for years.
I find it incredible that you are naive enough to believe that such abuses would stop just because the guys doing the firing were away from the combat zone.
I find it incredible that you know nothing of the military but what you read on the news and yet comment about it with great authority. Soldiers do indeed get into trouble over ROE violations. Just because it doesn't make the news doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
The US doesn't even keep a track of the number of civilians accidentally killed by its forces. Why do you think that is?
Because it's impossible. We'd have to perform an autopsy on pretty much every civilian that died in Iraq to try to figure out which stray bullet hit them, and/or get affidavits from all witnesses involved and any video available. Murder investigations take days or weeks of evidence gathering. Fire fights happen several times daily in Iraq. THAT'S why the US doesn't keep track of the number of civilians accidentally killed.
The games that you're talking about are all about hitting the right target and the right target only. They reward you for doing that, that's how you build a better score, progress through the game, etc, but in real life there are no such incentives.
Yeah, because it's not like the drone operator's chain of command will have access to the video recording of the flight. And even if such an implausible scenario were to arise, it's not as if anyone's ever had to face a court martial for an ROE violation. Too bad, though. Because that'd be a pretty good incentive to not kill indiscriminately.
2. It's psychologically easier to kill people the farther removed from them you get.
Just what the hell makes you think that pilots and air crew members aren't already picking their targets out on an LCD monitor and pushing a button to kill them?
There actually was a Dog mode in Rise of the Triad (early FPS. Probably the first to introduce pseudo 3D. Based off of the Wolfenstein 3D engine?)
Your viewpoint dropped about 4 feet, your weapons vanished and instead of hands in your view, there was a great big doggie snout. If I remember correctly, you gibbed people when you bit them. It was ridiculous, excessive and fun. Then again, so was pretty much everything else in Rise of the Triad.
Because people have heard of it. Brand names that have already generated millions of dollars across 3 continents sell better to entertainment executives than "Yeah, I've got this idea for a movie."
The article's Slashdotted, but that it calls the Wing a Sidekick replacement tells me about all I need to know about it. It's not a Sidekick replacement. It's an MDA replacement. Piss poor attention to detail. That T-Mobile's still offering SEVERAL Sidekicks, but that the MDA vanished from their stores and sites the same day the Wing came out *should* give a clue to that.
The review itself is pretty worthless and looks basically like they're just regurgitating the features sheet instead of actually trying it out. I'd really like to know how it stacks up against the MDA.
The problem isn't that the punishment for non-murder crimes is too high, it's that all too often murderers get off without a life imprisonment or capital punishment. Especially if they manage to wheel and deal their way down to manslaughter or something similar.
Works fine in the EB Games and Gamestops across the US. Probably other stores, as well, but I don't go out shopping to brick and mortar stores very much anymore.
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The Xbox360/MS Vista game they're calling Shadowrun centers around PC and console deathmath-type game types. From what I understand, Microsoft did a large amount of testing and balancing. They did a pretty good job at it. I saw a lot of 4 on 4 matches going on at PAX with computers on one side and 360s on the other.
I still cringe at it being called Shadowrun, though. I'll have to accept that FASA's dead one of these days.
Were there really that many lens flares or were you just having fun in post?
"FuckingburyGoogle" has a nice ring to it as well.
Wait, you're saying that to create a successful web comic, all I need to do is throw a bunch of bullshit together?
CAN DO! Oh, and because this is Slashdot, here's a strip that references subject matter that you guys may be familiar with.
Their parents were Hackers, thus they're Ethnical Hackers. They're a patriarchal society, so the ability to claim that Hacker ethnicity is passed from the Father's side.
Shaolin monks as everyone thinks of them haven't existed since the Communist Revolution of China back in 1966, when they killed or arrested as many monks as they could find. There are still monks at the Shaolin temple, but the oral tradition has been broken and all "secret techniques" have been lost. From what I've read, the modern monks there are basically showmen for tourists.
Of course, I am partially Japanese and could just be a ninja spreading ninja propaganda.
Woooosh!
I'd "draw" an ASCII picture of a joke flying over your head, but I'm lazy.
A slight modification to the bike analogy makes it valid.
He has several bikes in his yard. If he's the only one other one using a bike at the time, you're not causing any noticable interference. However, by using any of them, you're depriving him the ability to have a family outing with his wife and kids on the other bikes. He might not do it all the time, but you're preventing him from having the option available to him.
Their site ate it because their website's been poorly maintained for at least the past year. I've lost track of the number of times that I've gone to WotC's website and gotten a friendly error message saying that some portion or another was "down for maintenance" for hours at a time. Almost as often was the times I'd get an unfriendly error message for an entire wing of their site. I'm not sure if they maintain their servers in house or if they have it contracted out to someone else, but I'd say that either they're not getting their money's worth, or not they're not spending nearly enough. Which is kind of a shame, considering that they have a lot of good content on their site.
I see your point, but it's a difference of scale. I absolutely distrust the MP company whose members were screwing with the prisoners in Abu Ghraib. I don't distrust the entire MP corps. I distrusted the ING battalion whose members tried to kill us (and their fellow guardsmen, as they manned the checkpoint alongside us). I don't distrust the entire ING.
Routinely? Hardly. I've not seen nor heard of civilian vehicles getting shot simply because the convoy wanted the vehicle to move. Warning shots, sure, but never actually targeting the vehicle. The reason why I haven't heard of it is because it'd be a violation of CENTCOM's rules of engagement and whoever did it would have gotten his nuts crushed for it.
I don't see us putting a lot of value on the lives of people with Iraqi surnames.
No? Let me relate to you a fun story of mine.
About two and a half years ago, I was a squad leader in Iraq, just outside of Ar Ramadi. We had a pair of outposts on one of the major highways in the Anbar province, one on each side of the highway. Next to our outpost, there was a barracks for Iraqi National Guardsmen. We built it up for them, gave them beds, toilets, showers, water, food, weapons, ammo, training, etc. One night, two of them put on civilian clothes and their body armor, sneak out of their compound and begin digging a hole in the check point to put a bomb inside of.
One of my privates is on tower guard at the time and watches them do it. After radioing back and forth with the operations center, over the course of several minutes, he finally gets the authorization to open fire. He kills one and wounds the other. They flee back into their compound.
Long story short, the second guy went to Abu Ghirab and is probably in Guantanamo. You know what happened after we had unquestionable proof that we couldn't trust the battalion of Iraqi National Guardsmen? Not a damn thing. We continued working with them. We continued feeding them. We continued giving them water and fuel, working the checkpoint with them and going on patrols with them.
Next time you think that US soldiers don't care about the lives of Iraqis keep that in mind. We knew for a fact that at any time, we could get murdered by Iraqis that we had done so much for, but because it's THEIR country, we sucked up the danger and kept working with them.
the American strategy of concentrated firepower and fire first, ask questions later
Nice. I like how you've never been placed under restrictive rules of engagement, in which even if you see someone with a weapon you're not allowed to fire on them until they actually pointed it in your direction, but some how know EXACTLY what US military doctrine is. I really don't understand why these sorts of comments go unchallenged on Slashdot, when if you were to comment on any other complex, technical subject without knowing what the hell you were talking about, you'd be eaten alive by dozens of subject matter experts who have been working in that field for years.
I find it incredible that you are naive enough to believe that such abuses would stop just because the guys doing the firing were away from the combat zone.
I find it incredible that you know nothing of the military but what you read on the news and yet comment about it with great authority. Soldiers do indeed get into trouble over ROE violations. Just because it doesn't make the news doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
The US doesn't even keep a track of the number of civilians accidentally killed by its forces. Why do you think that is?
Because it's impossible. We'd have to perform an autopsy on pretty much every civilian that died in Iraq to try to figure out which stray bullet hit them, and/or get affidavits from all witnesses involved and any video available. Murder investigations take days or weeks of evidence gathering. Fire fights happen several times daily in Iraq. THAT'S why the US doesn't keep track of the number of civilians accidentally killed.
The games that you're talking about are all about hitting the right target and the right target only. They reward you for doing that, that's how you build a better score, progress through the game, etc, but in real life there are no such incentives.
Yeah, because it's not like the drone operator's chain of command will have access to the video recording of the flight. And even if such an implausible scenario were to arise, it's not as if anyone's ever had to face a court martial for an ROE violation. Too bad, though. Because that'd be a pretty good incentive to not kill indiscriminately.
2. It's psychologically easier to kill people the farther removed from them you get.
Just what the hell makes you think that pilots and air crew members aren't already picking their targets out on an LCD monitor and pushing a button to kill them?
(Incidently, what does "B&M" mean?)
Brick and Mortar. In other words a store with physical presence, as opposed to an online store.
Wowhead (a WoW information database) has to ZAM (Affinity Media) for the price of $1 Million.
Has to what? WHAT?! DAMN YOU, MattHock! I NEED TO KNOW!
There actually was a Dog mode in Rise of the Triad (early FPS. Probably the first to introduce pseudo 3D. Based off of the Wolfenstein 3D engine?)
Your viewpoint dropped about 4 feet, your weapons vanished and instead of hands in your view, there was a great big doggie snout. If I remember correctly, you gibbed people when you bit them. It was ridiculous, excessive and fun. Then again, so was pretty much everything else in Rise of the Triad.
Because people have heard of it. Brand names that have already generated millions of dollars across 3 continents sell better to entertainment executives than "Yeah, I've got this idea for a movie."
Thank you. It sounds like a fun toy. When my MDA gets a little older, I'll probably make the switch.
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I don't think I've ever seen someone type with a lisp before.
The article's Slashdotted, but that it calls the Wing a Sidekick replacement tells me about all I need to know about it. It's not a Sidekick replacement. It's an MDA replacement. Piss poor attention to detail. That T-Mobile's still offering SEVERAL Sidekicks, but that the MDA vanished from their stores and sites the same day the Wing came out *should* give a clue to that.
The review itself is pretty worthless and looks basically like they're just regurgitating the features sheet instead of actually trying it out. I'd really like to know how it stacks up against the MDA.
I hate that arguement.
The problem isn't that the punishment for non-murder crimes is too high, it's that all too often murderers get off without a life imprisonment or capital punishment. Especially if they manage to wheel and deal their way down to manslaughter or something similar.
Works fine in the EB Games and Gamestops across the US. Probably other stores, as well, but I don't go out shopping to brick and mortar stores very much anymore.