But I tease... there's nothing wrong with games that are graphically oriented rather than deeper sims/adventures. One form is not superior to the other.
I love a deep and complex simulation, but I also love a good platformer. If you still have access to a PS2, try out Sly Cooper. It's possibly the best and most fluid platformer ever created. There's levels that I finished and went back to replay simply because they were that damn fun.
Other platformers to consider are Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter (both have upcoming sequels). It's just a different type of gaming rather than better or worse. To be honest, I have a job that is deep and intellectual, so I make no excuses if I generally seek out the lighter side of gaming.
I also like FP shooters, third person shooters, turn based RPGs, non-turn based RPGs, action RPGs (Zelda, Kingdom Hearts-ish games), puzzle games, SimCity like stuff, and whatever the hell Monkey Ball was. Above all else, I want VARIETY more than anything.
But, yeah, there are a lot of crappy games. There's a lot of bad movies and books and TV shows and whatevers. Nothing new there.
It then taps the brake and tightens the seatbelt. A buzzer goes off and a light on the dash is illuminated.
An in-dash audio/video capture system allows the driver to make any final requests if they are clear headed enough. If not, it'll make a great file for collision and safetey research centers or alt.binaries.tasteless.
An embedded MP3 begins to play a prayer in the religious demoniation of the driver's choice or, if the driver is an athieist, something by, uh, Isaac Asimov or something.
The driver's lower portion is wrapped tightly in Saran-Wrap[tm] by robotic arms so that the ambulence workers can be shielded from the soiled underwear.
A small hole opens in the seat, and a pair of cybernetic lips firmly and lovingly kisses the driver's ass goodbye.
I've said for years now that when the first sex robots become practical, humanoid robotics will advance much like mathematics and cryptotech have advanced over at the NSA.
Robot dog? Feh... Robot Wynona Ryder? Now you're cooking with gas!
But seriously, can't these little ideologues stop projecting their miseries, mental issues, genital shortcomings, or whatever is causing them neurochemical dyspepsia upon everyone else?
They guy has caught the basic truth that there's a lot of solutions looking for problems out there in the tech world, but so what? My eight year old nephew has figured that one out. Is it wrong to innovate for the sake of innovation? Does every thought need a definable purpose that serves THE PEOPLE[tm]? A lot of useful and life saving technologies grew out of idle tinkering in a lab somewhere.
Enough with the technoangst already, and the bemoaning of our oh-so-hideous-so-empty-argh-so-very-depressinbgly- HUMAN Western culture. Honestly, this guy sounds like any disillusioned tech head I know when they aren't getting laid enough.
From out Cato way. Takes a rare middle of the road stance, and is one of the more thoughtful articles I have read on the topic. At the very least it's an alternative to the endless "IT SUUKZ!" and "QUIT YER WHYNIN!" camps.
It would be the same if there was a major movie released in America where the hero's name just happened to be 'Osama Bin Laden' (not that I'm drawing any significants comparison). Of course there would be uproar, and the movie would not be shown by most theatres regardless of it's artistic quality.
Well, I think a lot of theaters would still show it because of the curiosity factor. Maybe midnight showings.
But even if what you said above happened, at least it's the decision of private theater owners not to show it, and NOT a government mandate from an insane theocracy. In the USA, even in your worst case scenario, the movie would still be available one way or another (it would go to DVD very quickly, and to a BitTorrent near you), and viewing it would not be a crime.
Someone please do Roger Zelazny's "Creatures Of Light And Darkness". Now that would be a trippy miniseries, although the religious types would not be very pleased with the ending.
...they would ignore the second miniseries and weekly series, and pick up where the first miniseries left off. A basic description I read makes it sound that way. The first series ended with the humans beaming a cry for help into deep space, and a description of the new series talks of Earth gaining an ally. Radio messages are rather slow way to communicate, but these other aliens could have had a listening post nearby...
Actually, this has the potential to be the kickass knock down drag out fight to save the Earth that Independnece Day *could* have been. And, oh, wait.... NBC? Never mind.:-(
OK. That's cool. However, I *was* careful to say it was how *I* would feel in the same situation.
One also has to consider the strong possibility of many future employers simply knowing him as "that kid who wrote the piracy software" regardless of what the truth is. There is some merit to fighting this case tooth and nail.
Now why is this modded "Offtopic"? It's about similar legal bully tactics and how people some day soon might respond in a more extreme manner than any of these lawyers expect.
Some family member of the Trevor Law Group reading/.? Someone who thinks the current California government is not an utter disaster? That is not a partisan statement. I know hardcore Decocrats who would like to see much of the current crop of losers in Sacramento dragged into the street and shot. Should I have suggested a Beowolf cluster or made a claim anout Soviet Russia?
That was almost reality here in California. A law firm called the Trevor Law Group was shaking down small businesses to settle out of court on asinine technical violations (complete bullshit stuff like abbreviating something that's supposed to be spelled out in a newspaper ad). The Trevor folks, unable to find any actual complainants for such silly things, set up fake charities to enter into the "complainant" line on the forms. It was legal terrorism, pure and simple. They even singled out businesses owned by legal immigrants who spoke poor English or did not fully understand their right, so they're a bunch of racist cockgobblers as well.
A local radio show took up the cause, held protests outside the Trevor LG offices and hammered at local politicians on the air, but things are still up in the air. The California State Bar can't even decide if these Trevor LG assholes should face disbarment. Nuisance suits, extortions, fraudulent charities, clear patterns of racist intimidation and the Bar and the State Attorney General are sitting around all like, "Oh, gee, we can't just rush into this, gosh, we have to analyze this, ummmm, huminahuminahumina..." and so on. There might even be a change to the law that will allow such extortion lawsuits EASIER to file. This is what happens when your state is run by evil, corrupt hippies who no longer possess functioning brain cells
Anyway, one woman called into the radio show, and said that at an early meeting amongst all these target small business owners (they formed a group to fight back, and they are the ones who initially informed the radio show), there were some who were seriously advocating hiring assassins of some sort to take out these scumbag lawyers. That's how desperate and frustrated some of these folks felt. They were faced by an unstoppable (by conventional means) system run by the lawyers and for the lawyers.
It's sad, but I don't think the pendulum is going to start to tilt the other way until some poor sap who lost the farm because he forgot to stamp a barcode on his apple crates one day walks into the law firm that victimized him and sets off the 100 pounds of explosive strapped to his body.
I just couldn't. I think I'd completely flip out, barricade myself in my dorm/apartment before I settled, and call/email every news outlet in the world. Let people see the cops called in to go after a student whose only crime was to write a search engine.
Build a to-scale *working* model, and I'll be impressed.
"Hit the brakes, Barney!"
(Screech! Wooooosh!)
"May goodnes, Betty! Was that a UFO?"
"I think it was a scale model of Saturn, Barney."
(Ping! Tap! Tick!)
"Ah... Trojan asteroids..."
There is some talk about getting other countries to sign on to this. Canadia and Mexico would be best bets to start, and you move outward geographically from there. Make it part of NATO doctrine, and as a requirement for China's continued favored nation status. Tie it into anti-spam legislation for a combined assault on the bandwidth wasters.
Eventually we'll push all the telemarketing centers into terrorist nations that won't sign up to the list. The terrorists would then slaughter the telemarketers for their evil capitalist ways, or for just being annoying prats. And if that's not a goal worth working toward, I don't know what is.:)
On top of that, the data they're getting is not "global" data, it represents the data taken from households where either a) expendable income is high...
Yeah, geez, I mean, what stupid advertiser looks for *that* demographic anyway?;-)
Chill, dude. Most of the Neilson comparisons was just theory and discussion. That's what we're here for, yes?
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I'd read the article, but I have 25,000 lines of VHDL to write today.
*sigh* :-(
I love a deep and complex simulation, but I also love a good platformer. If you still have access to a PS2, try out Sly Cooper. It's possibly the best and most fluid platformer ever created. There's levels that I finished and went back to replay simply because they were that damn fun.
Other platformers to consider are Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter (both have upcoming sequels). It's just a different type of gaming rather than better or worse. To be honest, I have a job that is deep and intellectual, so I make no excuses if I generally seek out the lighter side of gaming.
I also like FP shooters, third person shooters, turn based RPGs, non-turn based RPGs, action RPGs (Zelda, Kingdom Hearts-ish games), puzzle games, SimCity like stuff, and whatever the hell Monkey Ball was. Above all else, I want VARIETY more than anything.
But, yeah, there are a lot of crappy games. There's a lot of bad movies and books and TV shows and whatevers. Nothing new there.
Now if the radar detects a person in the road, the system should actually speed the car up.
Now in showrooms! Buy the new 2004 Honda Misanthropy!
An in-dash audio/video capture system allows the driver to make any final requests if they are clear headed enough. If not, it'll make a great file for collision and safetey research centers or alt.binaries.tasteless.
An embedded MP3 begins to play a prayer in the religious demoniation of the driver's choice or, if the driver is an athieist, something by, uh, Isaac Asimov or something.
The driver's lower portion is wrapped tightly in Saran-Wrap[tm] by robotic arms so that the ambulence workers can be shielded from the soiled underwear.
A small hole opens in the seat, and a pair of cybernetic lips firmly and lovingly kisses the driver's ass goodbye.
Robot dog? Feh... Robot Wynona Ryder? Now you're cooking with gas!
Not really, no.
They guy has caught the basic truth that there's a lot of solutions looking for problems out there in the tech world, but so what? My eight year old nephew has figured that one out. Is it wrong to innovate for the sake of innovation? Does every thought need a definable purpose that serves THE PEOPLE[tm]? A lot of useful and life saving technologies grew out of idle tinkering in a lab somewhere.
Enough with the technoangst already, and the bemoaning of our oh-so-hideous-so-empty-argh-so-very-depressinbgly- HUMAN Western culture. Honestly, this guy sounds like any disillusioned tech head I know when they aren't getting laid enough.
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Well, I think a lot of theaters would still show it because of the curiosity factor. Maybe midnight showings.
But even if what you said above happened, at least it's the decision of private theater owners not to show it, and NOT a government mandate from an insane theocracy. In the USA, even in your worst case scenario, the movie would still be available one way or another (it would go to DVD very quickly, and to a BitTorrent near you), and viewing it would not be a crime.
Sorry. Too much prior art by the fine folks over at the Warfare, Disease, Hate and Darwin Award departments.
Not many, which is why I also said (on the same line)"but these other aliens could have had a listening post nearby..."
Sheesh...
Someone please do Roger Zelazny's "Creatures Of Light And Darkness". Now that would be a trippy miniseries, although the religious types would not be very pleased with the ending.
Actually, this has the potential to be the kickass knock down drag out fight to save the Earth that Independnece Day *could* have been. And, oh, wait.... NBC? Never mind. :-(
All three of which are better than more Crossing Over With John (bleeping) Edwards, or Scare (bleeping) Tactics.
One also has to consider the strong possibility of many future employers simply knowing him as "that kid who wrote the piracy software" regardless of what the truth is. There is some merit to fighting this case tooth and nail.
Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ, what did I say to deserve that? Did everyone get up on the wrong side of the bed today? Is it just the Monday effect?
Some family member of the Trevor Law Group reading /.? Someone who thinks the current California government is not an utter disaster? That is not a partisan statement. I know hardcore Decocrats who would like to see much of the current crop of losers in Sacramento dragged into the street and shot. Should I have suggested a Beowolf cluster or made a claim anout Soviet Russia?
ObSheesh: Sheesh!
A local radio show took up the cause, held protests outside the Trevor LG offices and hammered at local politicians on the air, but things are still up in the air. The California State Bar can't even decide if these Trevor LG assholes should face disbarment. Nuisance suits, extortions, fraudulent charities, clear patterns of racist intimidation and the Bar and the State Attorney General are sitting around all like, "Oh, gee, we can't just rush into this, gosh, we have to analyze this, ummmm, huminahuminahumina..." and so on. There might even be a change to the law that will allow such extortion lawsuits EASIER to file. This is what happens when your state is run by evil, corrupt hippies who no longer possess functioning brain cells
Anyway, one woman called into the radio show, and said that at an early meeting amongst all these target small business owners (they formed a group to fight back, and they are the ones who initially informed the radio show), there were some who were seriously advocating hiring assassins of some sort to take out these scumbag lawyers. That's how desperate and frustrated some of these folks felt. They were faced by an unstoppable (by conventional means) system run by the lawyers and for the lawyers.
It's sad, but I don't think the pendulum is going to start to tilt the other way until some poor sap who lost the farm because he forgot to stamp a barcode on his apple crates one day walks into the law firm that victimized him and sets off the 100 pounds of explosive strapped to his body.
I just couldn't. I think I'd completely flip out, barricade myself in my dorm/apartment before I settled, and call/email every news outlet in the world. Let people see the cops called in to go after a student whose only crime was to write a search engine.
"Hit the brakes, Barney!"
(Screech! Wooooosh!)
"May goodnes, Betty! Was that a UFO?"
"I think it was a scale model of Saturn, Barney."
(Ping! Tap! Tick!)
"Ah... Trojan asteroids..."
Build one out of old relays. *Then* I'll be impressed.
Eventually we'll push all the telemarketing centers into terrorist nations that won't sign up to the list. The terrorists would then slaughter the telemarketers for their evil capitalist ways, or for just being annoying prats. And if that's not a goal worth working toward, I don't know what is. :)
I believe it's handy for legacy printers that lack OSX drivers.
Yeah, geez, I mean, what stupid advertiser looks for *that* demographic anyway? ;-)
Chill, dude. Most of the Neilson comparisons was just theory and discussion. That's what we're here for, yes?