The proper moderation in this situation, I believe, is underrated (If you're seeking to fix Molina's karma problem)
Furthermore, when metamoderating, look into the context of all redundancies, and metamoderate them as unfair freely - frankly, there are a thousand better uses of mod points than modding comments redundant anyway, and I have little sympathy for moderators who waste their points like that.
And this is one of the reasons I think PC gaming is doomed. Because you look at something like the Gamecube, and piracy becomes a much smaller issue. Sure, now people can do it over the network card, but it's a pain in the ass. Much harder than "Dump the image files to a disc and away you go."
The main person piracy helps is me. It's effect on the developers was never really a factor for me - if anything, their insistance on the validity of intellectual property made me actively unsympathetic to their desires in the whole process.
Why do you think their stock price has fallen off from its previous high? When they were just going after IBM and what was percieved by many as a disorganized group - the Linux creators - it looked like a saner bet. It was still risky, but investors accept risk - if SCO was right in their claim to own Linux, there was a lot of potential value there.
But now SCO is acting like they'll sue anything that types. Furthermore, their IBM/Linux cases are falling apart. That's no longer a risk - that's just madness.
What they need to do is pull back to a core of managable cases and claims, and work on actually making credible cases on those.
Yeah, but this isn't the next Gameboy. It's a new thing entirely.
As for the games, well, I don't imagine games will be announced until E3, as has been said for a while. I mean, certainly games wouldn't be announced for a device like this until the actual physical design were shown, which is E3.
And, as the article says, it doesn't look like this will be an AIM type IMer - it seems like it'll be a way to send text messages within the games. Which would be useful for, say, team-based strategy games.
If this is true, which I'm suspicious of, because, frankly, Nintendo is not a very leaky company, but if this is true, it looks like the speculation that Nintendo was going for some place between the GBA and the cube. That is to say, this is not something you whip out and play a few rounds of at the bus stop, but it is something that you can bring over to your friend's house and play with - it doesn't require a TV and a bunch of wiring.
I wonder if we're dealing with something that's portable in the same way that a laptop is portable - that is to say, usually going to be run off an outlet, and rather bulky, but still movable.
It would certainly be a new type of gaming device.
There's a difference between a hypothesis and an ideology. Randi's experiments are more akin to the "studies" by groups on whether or not being raised by gay parents negatively affects children. That is to say, he's not just guessing what the result is beforehand - he's actively fishing for a specific result, and is going to keep going until he proves it.
In mild defense of astrology, someone like Randi who actively seeks to debunk astrology and the supernatural is probably not terribly invested in designing a fair test. I mean, let's face it - his goal is not to determine whether or not astrology is accurate - his goal is to repeatedly show it is not.
Which is not good science - it's not objective. Which is where a lot of the science/religion conflict comes up. Each side really wants to disprove the other side.
In the end, they're equally based on unprovable assumptions. (Go ahead - prove that the world as you observe it corresponds to objective reality.)
The best that can be said is that, given a set of premises that contradict the premises of astrology, astrology is false.
I was actually being more snide to various Kabbalistic types who correspond some of their points on the kabbalistic tree with planets. Of course, they'd already had trouble with Pluto, because they really wanted the moon in there too./sigh
Sol is the sun, which is being pulled via chariot by Apollo, who is the God of the sun. (As distinct from the God that is the sun.) Apollo can also be called the Light god if you want to be technical. But, at that point, you're probably being more technical than the myths themselves.
Just to mock my own typos, I'd like to note the absurdity of calling a planet Mulciber instead of Vulcan to avoid "rabit Trekkies"
Though the notion of a horde of rabbits wearing Spock ears and communicators storming NASA with joy demanding a manned mission to Vulcan is going to give me much pleasure as I think about it for a few minutes.
I thought planets were Roman gods. It's not even like we've run out of them. We can still find Vulcan (Mulciber if you want to avoid rabit Trekkies), Juno, Minerva, Apollo (You can call this one Phoebus if you want to avoid confusing it with space probes), Diana, Vesta.
And that's before you start getting slightly obscure ones like Janus, Bacchus (Or Liber), Fanus, Quirinus, Pomona, or Vertumnus.
See, I enjoyed playing ED as much as I enjoyed seeing its innovation. It felt to me very much like a classic Zelda game - walk through more or less 2D dungeon and hit things with the sword. Some nice puzzle-based gameplay in there too.
I mean, yeah, the gameplay itself wasn't as cutting edge as the plotting and madness effects, but it was still gameplay that fell squarely in a really classic tradition - indeed, the Zelda tradition.
I've gotta go with choice B here - the fact that it said Nokia on it was not a problem (Any more than the fact that the Playstation said Sony on it, and Sony was known as a maker of Walkmen).
The problem was that it had a crappy display, crappy controls, and you had to take the battery out to change the games.
They could have released that under any brand name, and it would have bombed.
What does the title of this article have to do with its content?
In terms of US releases... and in terms of the Game Cube, which is where I do most of my gaming... I got Prince of Persia, 1080, Mario Kart, Pac-Man Vs., and Rebel Strike. Which of the big releases did I miss?
On GBA, I got Mario and Luigi, SMB3, and FF:TA.
Again, did I miss anything?
It's perfectly easy to buy all the good games around Christmas. I mean, 4 games at $50 and 4 at $20-30 isn't that much...
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The proper moderation in this situation, I believe, is underrated (If you're seeking to fix Molina's karma problem)
Furthermore, when metamoderating, look into the context of all redundancies, and metamoderate them as unfair freely - frankly, there are a thousand better uses of mod points than modding comments redundant anyway, and I have little sympathy for moderators who waste their points like that.
I own a GBA, a PS2, a GC, and an XBox, so, really, I'm not losing games eiher.
Consider me a cultural Darwinist.
Or, put another way, if the entire ecosystem is founded on flawed and immoral premises, its death may not be an entirely bad thing.
I find a lot of people store old video game collections on eBay...
And this is one of the reasons I think PC gaming is doomed. Because you look at something like the Gamecube, and piracy becomes a much smaller issue. Sure, now people can do it over the network card, but it's a pain in the ass. Much harder than "Dump the image files to a disc and away you go."
The main person piracy helps is me. It's effect on the developers was never really a factor for me - if anything, their insistance on the validity of intellectual property made me actively unsympathetic to their desires in the whole process.
Why do you think their stock price has fallen off from its previous high? When they were just going after IBM and what was percieved by many as a disorganized group - the Linux creators - it looked like a saner bet. It was still risky, but investors accept risk - if SCO was right in their claim to own Linux, there was a lot of potential value there.
But now SCO is acting like they'll sue anything that types. Furthermore, their IBM/Linux cases are falling apart. That's no longer a risk - that's just madness.
What they need to do is pull back to a core of managable cases and claims, and work on actually making credible cases on those.
Yeah, but this isn't the next Gameboy. It's a new thing entirely.
As for the games, well, I don't imagine games will be announced until E3, as has been said for a while. I mean, certainly games wouldn't be announced for a device like this until the actual physical design were shown, which is E3.
And, as the article says, it doesn't look like this will be an AIM type IMer - it seems like it'll be a way to send text messages within the games. Which would be useful for, say, team-based strategy games.
If this is true, which I'm suspicious of, because, frankly, Nintendo is not a very leaky company, but if this is true, it looks like the speculation that Nintendo was going for some place between the GBA and the cube. That is to say, this is not something you whip out and play a few rounds of at the bus stop, but it is something that you can bring over to your friend's house and play with - it doesn't require a TV and a bunch of wiring.
I wonder if we're dealing with something that's portable in the same way that a laptop is portable - that is to say, usually going to be run off an outlet, and rather bulky, but still movable.
It would certainly be a new type of gaming device.
There's a difference between a hypothesis and an ideology. Randi's experiments are more akin to the "studies" by groups on whether or not being raised by gay parents negatively affects children. That is to say, he's not just guessing what the result is beforehand - he's actively fishing for a specific result, and is going to keep going until he proves it.
In mild defense of astrology, someone like Randi who actively seeks to debunk astrology and the supernatural is probably not terribly invested in designing a fair test. I mean, let's face it - his goal is not to determine whether or not astrology is accurate - his goal is to repeatedly show it is not.
Which is not good science - it's not objective. Which is where a lot of the science/religion conflict comes up. Each side really wants to disprove the other side.
In the end, they're equally based on unprovable assumptions. (Go ahead - prove that the world as you observe it corresponds to objective reality.)
The best that can be said is that, given a set of premises that contradict the premises of astrology, astrology is false.
I was actually being more snide to various Kabbalistic types who correspond some of their points on the kabbalistic tree with planets. Of course, they'd already had trouble with Pluto, because they really wanted the moon in there too. /sigh
Silly rabbits.
No, Apollo is the God of the sun. Which is distinct from the sun itself. Diana would be the moon.
Sol is the sun, which is being pulled via chariot by Apollo, who is the God of the sun. (As distinct from the God that is the sun.) Apollo can also be called the Light god if you want to be technical. But, at that point, you're probably being more technical than the myths themselves.
That would be Prometheus, but thank you for playing.
Just to mock my own typos, I'd like to note the absurdity of calling a planet Mulciber instead of Vulcan to avoid "rabit Trekkies"
Though the notion of a horde of rabbits wearing Spock ears and communicators storming NASA with joy demanding a manned mission to Vulcan is going to give me much pleasure as I think about it for a few minutes.
Yeah, it'll probably cost a lot to reprint all the New Age ancient traditions to include a tenth planet.
I thought planets were Roman gods. It's not even like we've run out of them. We can still find Vulcan (Mulciber if you want to avoid rabit Trekkies), Juno, Minerva, Apollo (You can call this one Phoebus if you want to avoid confusing it with space probes), Diana, Vesta.
And that's before you start getting slightly obscure ones like Janus, Bacchus (Or Liber), Fanus, Quirinus, Pomona, or Vertumnus.
See, I enjoyed playing ED as much as I enjoyed seeing its innovation. It felt to me very much like a classic Zelda game - walk through more or less 2D dungeon and hit things with the sword. Some nice puzzle-based gameplay in there too.
I mean, yeah, the gameplay itself wasn't as cutting edge as the plotting and madness effects, but it was still gameplay that fell squarely in a really classic tradition - indeed, the Zelda tradition.
I've gotta go with choice B here - the fact that it said Nokia on it was not a problem (Any more than the fact that the Playstation said Sony on it, and Sony was known as a maker of Walkmen).
The problem was that it had a crappy display, crappy controls, and you had to take the battery out to change the games.
They could have released that under any brand name, and it would have bombed.
Nintendo is going to win the 9th generation! And my pet seamonkeys will win the one after that!
Sorry, I just wanted to indulge in random and useless speculation like the authors of the article.
I'm done now, so I guess I'll go play Zelda.
$10 a report?
Glad to know the circle of price gouging stretches ever onward.
I suspect, though, that if you're a single console owner, it's still not that hard.
If you paid for all three consoles, you should probably expect to need to buy about three times as many games to get all the highlights.
So what you're saying is that Microsoft is totally abandoning their online strategy?
That or they're selling the hard drive as an extra to squeeze more cash out of people.
The first seems unlikely, the second is just bleh.
Guess I'll stick to Nintendo.
What does the title of this article have to do with its content?
In terms of US releases... and in terms of the Game Cube, which is where I do most of my gaming... I got Prince of Persia, 1080, Mario Kart, Pac-Man Vs., and Rebel Strike. Which of the big releases did I miss?
On GBA, I got Mario and Luigi, SMB3, and FF:TA.
Again, did I miss anything?
It's perfectly easy to buy all the good games around Christmas. I mean, 4 games at $50 and 4 at $20-30 isn't that much...