Tell ya what. I'll happily buy that when the FSM can be used in a discussion thread WITHOUT someone slamming the spiritual beliefs of others.
When "spiritual beliefs" stop being complete and total garbage I'm sure we'll all "happily" go along with that. Too bad for all of you "spiritual belief" is nothing but moronic delusion. It's time to grow up.
There is a much better educated silent majority that just reads slashdot without commenting, and hey, some of them actually might be in a position to make a difference.
Do you have any evidence to support that or are you just trolling? Not that the average slashdot commenter is particularly educated on the topics they mouth off about, but that is no reason to believe the people who keep quite and just read are any better.
Nothing "hard" about it, just annoying as fuck. The PS2 controller is superior in that you have a ton of buttons for shortcuts and can do most functions with the controller WITHOUT the use of the annoying on screen menu. I don't know where you got from what I said to thinking that it would be difficult to use. You've also clearly never used a PS2 gamepad to play DVDs. It's not great, but you can hit the menu, play, pause, seek, skip chapters, display playback information, and I think a few other things without using any on screen controls. Doing this without an on screen control menu with Wii would be impossible. Furthermore, you act like PC DVD player interfaces don't suck as well. They might work in a pinch, but it's hardly ideal.
So you think we should have left Saddam in power in Iraq since this is exactly how he operated and nothing he did would make anyone want to come kill Americans? Glad we agree.
Not so, they've patented bad service. Now I'm not going to read the article, but it sounds like what they're doing is computing some sort of score based on the likelihood of return visits and then putting the shipments with high scores toward the front. It also doesn't seem that they are basing this on (or at least not solely) repeat business. They're predicting future repeat business and then holding shipments for people who their system thinks won't shop there again regularly. So it is in fact punishing customers (aka bad service) and it will probably prove to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, since people who have their shit held before shipping for several days are going to be less likely to come back.
They already do stuff like this when it comes to their free shipping, which often (though not always) sits for several days before shipping. Patenting that could be argued as patenting good service, the other you could not.
Actually, improperly calibrated radar guns can clock a tree at 10mph on a windless day. What is not up for debate is that you are a fucking idiot and as un-American as they come. I don't care if you go back to China or Britain or wherever, but you can't stay here.
I have yet to see anything in a game that is so bad that children shouldn't be allowed to see it. If you don't want your kids buying stuff don't let them have any money. Seems pretty fucking easy to me. But don't make the rest of us go out to pick up Murder Simulator IV: Hooker Sex Edition when our kids are perfectly capable of taking their own damn selves to the store.
You've got it all backwards. They ARE greedy bastards. This really should not be in dispute, and is not necessarily a bad thing. Because they are greedy bastards they will spend as little as possible to produce their console and sell it for as much as they can, thus they left out DVD playback, a feature that they promised but no one would really miss. At least Reggie is on the record saying more or less that he is a greedy bastard. I was simply agreeing.
I totally agree that the Wii remote would suck as a DVD remote, probably even more than using a Playstation controller since at least there you've got a lot of buttons for shortcut keys that you'd have to use either a menu or some kind of gesture system to accomplish with just the Wii remote. But that is neither here nor there in this argument.
I was neither arguing that it was needed nor that there was anything particularly wrong with them leaving it out. I was merely pointing out that they left it out because of money, not because they were in any way incapable of including the feature. I don't know if it's still the case, but it used to cost something like $20 per player for the license to include DVD playback.
A note to mods, while the kind of comments that I seem to have gotten in reply might seem insightful, and are to some limited extent, they are actually redundant. My point was that the only reason it was not included with Wii was because of the cost and that basically no one cared if it was there or not so they took the money. In this case I refer to the decision-makers at Nintendo as "greedy bastards" with some amount of admiration. Though that would not be the case if discussing controller pricing as $60 for $9 in controller parts is a bit excessive and I can't believe that there are only a few people who factor that in when deciding whether or not to purchase four-player games. Not that I think they lose much sleep over it, there are still millions of people who will buy the damn things at that price so the folks at Nintendo are probably right since it's easier and cheaper than setting up their own mint.
You're making a mistake if you think that they couldn't get DVD playback on Wii in time for launch. The reason they pulled it is because Nintendo is made up of greedy bastards. They saw that demand for DVD playback would cause minimal blowback at the worst (has it caused any?) and it'd save them on the DVD licensing fees, not to mention actually developing the software or paying someone else to do it. So yes, Nintendo doesn't do convergence devices. But not because they can't, but because they won't. The difference being that they would be totally capable of doing so in the future if such a device looked likely to print money.
Really? America's economy has chugged along despite terrorist attacks, multiple front wars (Afgahn./Iraq), record high oil prices, a HUGE housing market bubble bursting, endless toy recalls scaring consumers as the toy buying season ramps up, amongst other things.
Yes, really. And you are in fact a moron (or indistinguishably ignorant) if you do not realize this. The stock market has done reasonably well and a huge housing bubble in much of the nation has propped up a lot of the numbers for the economy as a whole, but the people aren't seeing any benefit from any of these things. And the predatory credit bubble hasn't even burst yet. The economy exists to serve the people, if it fails at this it is a failure.
100% agree. It'll fail even more if states like Wisconsin or politicians like Hillary Clinton get their "universal health care". Health Care is failing because of costs. Period. Costs that have been capable of running out of control because everything gets passed through an insurance filter. Move the costs from private companies to the government won't solve cost problem, it'll just move from private to public dollars. Sure everyone will get health care, that's a good thing, but it'll kill the economy and all hard working citizens.
Wrong, except on the count of Hillary Clinton's proposals. What she is proposing would fail, and make the matter worse, because it would just shift the money flowing into private insurance companies from employers and the insured directly to the government. A government-run health care system would eliminate 20% (conservatively) right off the bat as it would remove the advertising expenses and administrative overhead that exists solely to deny coverage. Every other industrialized nation provides these services to their citizens at grossly lower cost, with most of them providing much higher quality services. You have to look at countries spending a few hundred dollars a year per citizen to find results as poor as what we get for 6-7 grand a head. If the French can do it we can do it fucking better.
While things are still rough in Iraq, you might have missed the significant progress being made there.
Any progress "we" are making is not toward the designed ends of the enterprise, so right there it's a failure. At a total cost that will be over 2 TRILLION dollars (and probably a whole lot more) for what will become a civil war that is unlikely to end until the regional religious cleansing of districts is complete only to give us a regime in Iraq that will be worse for America, and probably worse by any objective or subjective measure, is nothing but a failure. The drops in death count of Iraqis is due to the completion of the religious cleansing in many districts and a temporary cease fire by one of the factions, which has also decreased deaths among the US military. This is nothing "we" have done and to claim otherwise is the height of dishonesty.
100% agree, but blame China who is artificially keeping the value of their currency low as to make their products cheaper, along with government regulations banning imports from other countries.
China can't hurt us any more than we let them. It is the duty of the Congress to protect the people of the United States. If they will not or can not stop corporations from outsourcing their labor (and I would actually argue that they should not legislate against it) they need to protect our workers and industries through other means. Tariffs on imported goods is almost certainly the appropriate solution here. Leaving the financial security of our nation and workers up to a bunch of laissez-faire corporatist assholes who love money, but not America, is the worst possible solution. If this is allowed to continue it is DIRECTLY the fault of Congress.
Economics. You cannot really blame the government for this.
The fuck I can't. The government borrowing BILLIONS of dollars a month for failed occupations and not reining in lending i
Fuck experts or playing games, I hope they deal with the real issues instead, like our failing economic policies, failing health care system, failing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, failing trade policies, failing dollar, and this miserable failure of an illegitimate presidency.
Forget that shit, if you want to learn aggression pick up a copy of Cookie & Cream for PS2 and try playing through it with a 6-year-old. If that doesn't teach you aggression after a couple of hours nothing will.
If republicans weren't so brain dead and crazy there wouldn't be a question. It's their own fucking fault for being idiots. Seriously, you can't make up the kind of bullshit that these people actually believe, but some people do get pretty close.
It doesn't get much right (just like every other windows) and it brings a whole bunch of new things that suck to the table. All of this for an outrageous amount of money and ridiculous system requirements so that you can get useless graphical effects that don't even look nice.
Now run along and cash your microsoft check. If you hurry you might be able to make it before the bank closes.
Distant third? Are you stupid? Nintendo and microsoft finished about even at 20m hardware units, only Nintendo made about $3 BILLION more in the process.
I've just never been a big fan of the "cute" game thing, so no Mario or Zack & Wik (I like atmosphere).
You've got some strange ideas about the definition of atmosphere. How about you try the one in the dictionary?
An aesthetic quality or effect, especially a distinctive and pleasing one, associated with a particular place: a restaurant with an Old World atmosphere.
Mario Galaxy and Zack & Wiki both have these qualities in spades. Just because you have lame taste doesn't mean that they don't have "atmosphere."
Dude, Mario Strikers is crazy fun multiplayer. If you were expecting an actual sports game you'd probably be disappointed, but as a multiplayer action game with a sports theme it's pretty damn fun. Your critique would fit much better if applied to the GameCube original, though.
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Tell ya what. I'll happily buy that when the FSM can be used in a discussion thread WITHOUT someone slamming the spiritual beliefs of others.
When "spiritual beliefs" stop being complete and total garbage I'm sure we'll all "happily" go along with that. Too bad for all of you "spiritual belief" is nothing but moronic delusion. It's time to grow up.
There is a much better educated silent majority that just reads slashdot without commenting, and hey, some of them actually might be in a position to make a difference.
Do you have any evidence to support that or are you just trolling? Not that the average slashdot commenter is particularly educated on the topics they mouth off about, but that is no reason to believe the people who keep quite and just read are any better.
Nothing "hard" about it, just annoying as fuck. The PS2 controller is superior in that you have a ton of buttons for shortcuts and can do most functions with the controller WITHOUT the use of the annoying on screen menu. I don't know where you got from what I said to thinking that it would be difficult to use. You've also clearly never used a PS2 gamepad to play DVDs. It's not great, but you can hit the menu, play, pause, seek, skip chapters, display playback information, and I think a few other things without using any on screen controls. Doing this without an on screen control menu with Wii would be impossible. Furthermore, you act like PC DVD player interfaces don't suck as well. They might work in a pinch, but it's hardly ideal.
The United States of America, look into it.
So you think we should have left Saddam in power in Iraq since this is exactly how he operated and nothing he did would make anyone want to come kill Americans? Glad we agree.
Not so, they've patented bad service. Now I'm not going to read the article, but it sounds like what they're doing is computing some sort of score based on the likelihood of return visits and then putting the shipments with high scores toward the front. It also doesn't seem that they are basing this on (or at least not solely) repeat business. They're predicting future repeat business and then holding shipments for people who their system thinks won't shop there again regularly. So it is in fact punishing customers (aka bad service) and it will probably prove to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, since people who have their shit held before shipping for several days are going to be less likely to come back.
They already do stuff like this when it comes to their free shipping, which often (though not always) sits for several days before shipping. Patenting that could be argued as patenting good service, the other you could not.
Actually, improperly calibrated radar guns can clock a tree at 10mph on a windless day. What is not up for debate is that you are a fucking idiot and as un-American as they come. I don't care if you go back to China or Britain or wherever, but you can't stay here.
I like the brown color. Only thing I like about the zune. Maybe it's because it's so out there as far as being ugly as fuck.
I have yet to see anything in a game that is so bad that children shouldn't be allowed to see it. If you don't want your kids buying stuff don't let them have any money. Seems pretty fucking easy to me. But don't make the rest of us go out to pick up Murder Simulator IV: Hooker Sex Edition when our kids are perfectly capable of taking their own damn selves to the store.
HL2 was the worst in this area. Each episode takes like 2 years to load!
You've got it all backwards. They ARE greedy bastards. This really should not be in dispute, and is not necessarily a bad thing. Because they are greedy bastards they will spend as little as possible to produce their console and sell it for as much as they can, thus they left out DVD playback, a feature that they promised but no one would really miss. At least Reggie is on the record saying more or less that he is a greedy bastard. I was simply agreeing.
I totally agree that the Wii remote would suck as a DVD remote, probably even more than using a Playstation controller since at least there you've got a lot of buttons for shortcut keys that you'd have to use either a menu or some kind of gesture system to accomplish with just the Wii remote. But that is neither here nor there in this argument.
I was neither arguing that it was needed nor that there was anything particularly wrong with them leaving it out. I was merely pointing out that they left it out because of money, not because they were in any way incapable of including the feature. I don't know if it's still the case, but it used to cost something like $20 per player for the license to include DVD playback.
A note to mods, while the kind of comments that I seem to have gotten in reply might seem insightful, and are to some limited extent, they are actually redundant. My point was that the only reason it was not included with Wii was because of the cost and that basically no one cared if it was there or not so they took the money. In this case I refer to the decision-makers at Nintendo as "greedy bastards" with some amount of admiration. Though that would not be the case if discussing controller pricing as $60 for $9 in controller parts is a bit excessive and I can't believe that there are only a few people who factor that in when deciding whether or not to purchase four-player games. Not that I think they lose much sleep over it, there are still millions of people who will buy the damn things at that price so the folks at Nintendo are probably right since it's easier and cheaper than setting up their own mint.
You're making a mistake if you think that they couldn't get DVD playback on Wii in time for launch. The reason they pulled it is because Nintendo is made up of greedy bastards. They saw that demand for DVD playback would cause minimal blowback at the worst (has it caused any?) and it'd save them on the DVD licensing fees, not to mention actually developing the software or paying someone else to do it. So yes, Nintendo doesn't do convergence devices. But not because they can't, but because they won't. The difference being that they would be totally capable of doing so in the future if such a device looked likely to print money.
Really? America's economy has chugged along despite terrorist attacks, multiple front wars (Afgahn./Iraq), record high oil prices, a HUGE housing market bubble bursting, endless toy recalls scaring consumers as the toy buying season ramps up, amongst other things.
Yes, really. And you are in fact a moron (or indistinguishably ignorant) if you do not realize this. The stock market has done reasonably well and a huge housing bubble in much of the nation has propped up a lot of the numbers for the economy as a whole, but the people aren't seeing any benefit from any of these things. And the predatory credit bubble hasn't even burst yet. The economy exists to serve the people, if it fails at this it is a failure.
100% agree. It'll fail even more if states like Wisconsin or politicians like Hillary Clinton get their "universal health care". Health Care is failing because of costs. Period. Costs that have been capable of running out of control because everything gets passed through an insurance filter. Move the costs from private companies to the government won't solve cost problem, it'll just move from private to public dollars. Sure everyone will get health care, that's a good thing, but it'll kill the economy and all hard working citizens.
Wrong, except on the count of Hillary Clinton's proposals. What she is proposing would fail, and make the matter worse, because it would just shift the money flowing into private insurance companies from employers and the insured directly to the government. A government-run health care system would eliminate 20% (conservatively) right off the bat as it would remove the advertising expenses and administrative overhead that exists solely to deny coverage. Every other industrialized nation provides these services to their citizens at grossly lower cost, with most of them providing much higher quality services. You have to look at countries spending a few hundred dollars a year per citizen to find results as poor as what we get for 6-7 grand a head. If the French can do it we can do it fucking better.
While things are still rough in Iraq, you might have missed the significant progress being made there.
Any progress "we" are making is not toward the designed ends of the enterprise, so right there it's a failure. At a total cost that will be over 2 TRILLION dollars (and probably a whole lot more) for what will become a civil war that is unlikely to end until the regional religious cleansing of districts is complete only to give us a regime in Iraq that will be worse for America, and probably worse by any objective or subjective measure, is nothing but a failure. The drops in death count of Iraqis is due to the completion of the religious cleansing in many districts and a temporary cease fire by one of the factions, which has also decreased deaths among the US military. This is nothing "we" have done and to claim otherwise is the height of dishonesty.
100% agree, but blame China who is artificially keeping the value of their currency low as to make their products cheaper, along with government regulations banning imports from other countries.
China can't hurt us any more than we let them. It is the duty of the Congress to protect the people of the United States. If they will not or can not stop corporations from outsourcing their labor (and I would actually argue that they should not legislate against it) they need to protect our workers and industries through other means. Tariffs on imported goods is almost certainly the appropriate solution here. Leaving the financial security of our nation and workers up to a bunch of laissez-faire corporatist assholes who love money, but not America, is the worst possible solution. If this is allowed to continue it is DIRECTLY the fault of Congress.
Economics. You cannot really blame the government for this.
The fuck I can't. The government borrowing BILLIONS of dollars a month for failed occupations and not reining in lending i
Good point, I stand corrected. Except on the dollar. I don't think it's done failing yet.
Fuck experts or playing games, I hope they deal with the real issues instead, like our failing economic policies, failing health care system, failing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, failing trade policies, failing dollar, and this miserable failure of an illegitimate presidency.
About the same as the odds that they'll actually do the people's work when there's bullshit to discuss.
Forget that shit, if you want to learn aggression pick up a copy of Cookie & Cream for PS2 and try playing through it with a 6-year-old. If that doesn't teach you aggression after a couple of hours nothing will.
If republicans weren't so brain dead and crazy there wouldn't be a question. It's their own fucking fault for being idiots. Seriously, you can't make up the kind of bullshit that these people actually believe, but some people do get pretty close.
I have to think that it depends on what the woman actually did. If she was being a complete prick, who cares? Fuck her. Does anyone know the details?
It doesn't get much right (just like every other windows) and it brings a whole bunch of new things that suck to the table. All of this for an outrageous amount of money and ridiculous system requirements so that you can get useless graphical effects that don't even look nice.
Now run along and cash your microsoft check. If you hurry you might be able to make it before the bank closes.
Distant third? Are you stupid? Nintendo and microsoft finished about even at 20m hardware units, only Nintendo made about $3 BILLION more in the process.
I've just never been a big fan of the "cute" game thing, so no Mario or Zack & Wik (I like atmosphere).
You've got some strange ideas about the definition of atmosphere. How about you try the one in the dictionary?
An aesthetic quality or effect, especially a distinctive and pleasing one, associated with a particular place: a restaurant with an Old World atmosphere.
Mario Galaxy and Zack & Wiki both have these qualities in spades. Just because you have lame taste doesn't mean that they don't have "atmosphere."
Dude, Mario Strikers is crazy fun multiplayer. If you were expecting an actual sports game you'd probably be disappointed, but as a multiplayer action game with a sports theme it's pretty damn fun. Your critique would fit much better if applied to the GameCube original, though.
Zack & Wiki