This game is telling a story without saying one word. It's a game about us, human beings, having to adapt to this hostile world that we don't really understand. It's about trying to control it, to forge it in a way that makes life is easier. It's about making a shelter for the night, about finding food and ultimately cultivating land (because it's much more practical). It's also about resources and ways of getting them. It's about making tools and weapons, about curiosity and exploration. Minecraft is really about the history of the human race, and it is told without a single line of dialog. To me anyway, this game is a piece of art.
Ever heard of Godwin's law?:)
Dude, chill out. The Bloq has no intention of running the canadian goverment. They're just there to defend Quebec's opinions at the federal level. You might disagree with their separatist view, but that's just the reality of living in a free country.
That film is nominated in the foreign film category and I would like to advise anyone who is even remotely interested in cinema to see it. Powerful stuff, to say the least.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/
> greyish-brown FPS
Oh god, please make them stop! I think I'm beginning to be allergic to brown and grey. Why can't I have a clear blue sky once in a while? Having the impression that your eyes are hurting because of all the beautiful light? Why does it always have to be a post apocalypse murky boring world? Even the daytime scenes in Alan Wake where never truly bright and sunny, a fact I can't get my head around. I don't think it would have ruin the atmosphere, quite the contrary: when you have a beautiful, normal setting, it can actually be more troubling because everything *looks* normal, but you know so well that it isn't. Half Life 2 really nailed it, IMO.
The assembly cost is very cheap, since they outsource it. The R&D, design, marketing and choice of materials stays the same. That's where lies the so called "Apple premium". And I think you exaggerate when you say 2-3x more expensive.
That doesn't mean shit. You don't get 5 weeks vacation per year when you work at Ubisoft outside of France. Ubisoft is a corporation and all it care about is the profit margin and pleasing the shareholders. Everybody is doing business the closer possible to 'the american way' nowadays.
I'm not a firm 'believer' nor a strong 'denier'.
From what I understand, it's the (average?) temperature of the whole earth that is rising. So that mean that it could affect this stream of warm water, or perhaps divert some dominant winds. Basically, that mean that we are supposed to see a reshuffling of weather systems, witch could very well explain why you guys in the US and Europe have more snow, while we in montreal don't get shit this winter. Our summer are also starting to looks similar to those of the UK (rainy and boooooring).
That being said, I'm not sure why everybody is making such a deal with all this. I mean, isn't it a great thing that we try to reduce the amount of crap we output everywhere? We all know that we breath, eat and drink all that crap as well. So really, this ol climate change debate is almost meaningless to me.
The fact is, if the Chinese Gov was really involved, the US Gov will just call the Chinese ambassador in, and say: "Hey stop that now".
And then he could reply: "no, and stop bothering us or we'll just start devaluating your currency so much, you're gonna be ruined".
You were speaking about the huge size of the US defence budget, yet it won't help much if most of your equivalently huge debt is owned by a foreign country.
I'm considering using a similar setup, but there is one little thing I never was able to setup properly: how do you get iTunes not to suck when your music collection is on a remote server? I tried putting all my music on my linux box and then mount the partition on my macbook through nfs or sshfs, but it always ends up beign a pain to use because of iTunes. It would take forever to start playing a song, or sometimes it will insist to rescan all my music to do its 'gapless playback' calculation (witch will take nearly 8 hours, for 60Gb of music).
That's kind of a silly thing to say and, frankly, sounds like fanboy talking. As a PC gamer I get pissed with all the DRM bullshit, because they're anti-consumers. As a console gamer I also get pissed when this sort of thing happens, for the same reason. More generally, consumers have every right to bitch when anti-consumer maneuvers get shove down their throat
While I agree with your post, I think it should be noted that there's alot of people who vote for the Bloc without being sovereignists. The sole purpose of this party is to defend Quebec at the federal level, which unfortunately seems like a much, much better deal than the two other "big" party.
Yeah but at least your are seeking intertainment, rather than being spoon fed, like the GP said. It's a much more active brain state. If sometimes being on teh internets means reading interesting things, you're no really wasting your time.
You'd be amazed at how quickly you stop worrying about what's on the TV anyway.
That's the most liberating decision you'll ever made. I stop watching tv a while ago and, while I still enjoy some shows, I find my tv free life saner. Every once in a while when I go see my dad, I am amazed on how lethargic people can became in from of the tube, especially when the commercials rolls in. A life without the constant bombarding of those is a much better life, simply put. When I watch them now, they don't work on me as much as before since I now find them deceitful and just plain stupid. You're gonna tell me "I already finds them stupid and borderline fraudulent" but trust me, live 6 months without tv and you'll see what I mean.
You can call me a conspirationist all you want, but I am now of the opinion that publicity and certain tv shows (news and what is now passed as news) are great tools to hardwired individuals into a certain mindset and infuse various ideas and ideals into the populace.
You just won't get what people talk about at work sometimes:P
I'm not sure you are right. Sure, you won't find games for non-gamers on the monthly top ten, but that's just because of the more traditional market reaction to new releases. You got quite a lot of people that "can't wait" for your game to come out. Then it's released, those guys rush to the store and buy the game. Good sales the first week or two, then it's stalling to an halt. The casual market is different. You can have a game that sell averagely, but chances are that it would sell that way for months. Big difference here. It's more of a long term thing.
As I said in a earlier post, the company I was working for last year made some casual games on the Wii, iphone and PC. They didn't show up high on the charts but they are still selling to this day. They made quite a bit of profit with this despite the game selling for 30$. Half the price of a normal game. I think it took 9 months to make, with a team of 4 programmers and 3 artists. Compare that to where I work now, teams of hundred, working on he same game for *years*. You didn't make a profit? No kidding!
So to me, the old model is slowly fading away, and as a game fan I think it's for the best. We're probably going to see more smaller (and arguably more fun and original) games. We are still be playing bigger titles, but they risk beign more sporadic in release.
Some developers are stuck in their development model me thinks. You need to sell a million games to turn a profit? You want to rise the price of the games you made? Bullsh*t to that. The last company I work for was making game on the Wii and the PC. We didn't sell millions of copies but still turn a nice profit. And the game was going for 30$ for god sake! Ok so it was more of casual nature, but that's ok, really. You then take some of that money and try to do a more complex, graphic intensive games.
I agree with your post. A lot of developing house should *greatly reduce* the number of tripple-A-five-years-in-the-making-top-graphics-open-world-online-multiplayer-with-DLC-and-all-those-other-silly-thing.
Agreed. Furthermore, why do big studios always rely on big name actors? Not only do they cost millions of dollars to hired, but I guess that at the end of the movie the sum of all their expenses must be pretty ridiculous. I'm sure there is plenty of pretty good, lesser know/unknown actors who could fill these roles.
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This game is telling a story without saying one word. It's a game about us, human beings, having to adapt to this hostile world that we don't really understand. It's about trying to control it, to forge it in a way that makes life is easier. It's about making a shelter for the night, about finding food and ultimately cultivating land (because it's much more practical). It's also about resources and ways of getting them. It's about making tools and weapons, about curiosity and exploration. Minecraft is really about the history of the human race, and it is told without a single line of dialog. To me anyway, this game is a piece of art.
Ever heard of Godwin's law? :)
Dude, chill out. The Bloq has no intention of running the canadian goverment. They're just there to defend Quebec's opinions at the federal level. You might disagree with their separatist view, but that's just the reality of living in a free country.
That film is nominated in the foreign film category and I would like to advise anyone who is even remotely interested in cinema to see it. Powerful stuff, to say the least. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/
Normally a new console would have been announced by now.
I think the proper citations should be "I can haz door?" and "I haz bin scratchin glass, outside yes?"
If it's to make some tomato sauce, try some of these, they're in a glass bottle: http://magasin.iga.net/Search/BasicSearch.aspx?Search=coulis%20de%20tomate
> greyish-brown FPS Oh god, please make them stop! I think I'm beginning to be allergic to brown and grey. Why can't I have a clear blue sky once in a while? Having the impression that your eyes are hurting because of all the beautiful light? Why does it always have to be a post apocalypse murky boring world? Even the daytime scenes in Alan Wake where never truly bright and sunny, a fact I can't get my head around. I don't think it would have ruin the atmosphere, quite the contrary: when you have a beautiful, normal setting, it can actually be more troubling because everything *looks* normal, but you know so well that it isn't. Half Life 2 really nailed it, IMO.
Really? What's your ISP?
The assembly cost is very cheap, since they outsource it. The R&D, design, marketing and choice of materials stays the same. That's where lies the so called "Apple premium". And I think you exaggerate when you say 2-3x more expensive.
They didn't say that there won't be any manuals. Just no "dead trees" manuals. A bit like the games you buy on the virtual console.
That doesn't mean shit. You don't get 5 weeks vacation per year when you work at Ubisoft outside of France. Ubisoft is a corporation and all it care about is the profit margin and pleasing the shareholders. Everybody is doing business the closer possible to 'the american way' nowadays.
Look at the screenshots here: http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-03-01/north-korea-cyber-weapon.html?fullstory
It's KDE 3.5, actually.
I'm not a firm 'believer' nor a strong 'denier'. From what I understand, it's the (average?) temperature of the whole earth that is rising. So that mean that it could affect this stream of warm water, or perhaps divert some dominant winds. Basically, that mean that we are supposed to see a reshuffling of weather systems, witch could very well explain why you guys in the US and Europe have more snow, while we in montreal don't get shit this winter. Our summer are also starting to looks similar to those of the UK (rainy and boooooring).
That being said, I'm not sure why everybody is making such a deal with all this. I mean, isn't it a great thing that we try to reduce the amount of crap we output everywhere? We all know that we breath, eat and drink all that crap as well. So really, this ol climate change debate is almost meaningless to me.
The Yes Men's entire raisin d'etre is...
raisin means grapes. The word you're looking for is raison.
The fact is, if the Chinese Gov was really involved, the US Gov will just call the Chinese ambassador in, and say: "Hey stop that now".
And then he could reply: "no, and stop bothering us or we'll just start devaluating your currency so much, you're gonna be ruined".
You were speaking about the huge size of the US defence budget, yet it won't help much if most of your equivalently huge debt is owned by a foreign country.
Oh my god. I just tried it now. I didn't know about cmd-`
Thanks for the tips bro!
Ok, so it's only usable when you shared the library. I don't want to replace my current box though, so I'm tempted to try a solution like this.
I'm considering using a similar setup, but there is one little thing I never was able to setup properly: how do you get iTunes not to suck when your music collection is on a remote server? I tried putting all my music on my linux box and then mount the partition on my macbook through nfs or sshfs, but it always ends up beign a pain to use because of iTunes. It would take forever to start playing a song, or sometimes it will insist to rescan all my music to do its 'gapless playback' calculation (witch will take nearly 8 hours, for 60Gb of music).
That's kind of a silly thing to say and, frankly, sounds like fanboy talking. As a PC gamer I get pissed with all the DRM bullshit, because they're anti-consumers. As a console gamer I also get pissed when this sort of thing happens, for the same reason. More generally, consumers have every right to bitch when anti-consumer maneuvers get shove down their throat
While I agree with your post, I think it should be noted that there's alot of people who vote for the Bloc without being sovereignists. The sole purpose of this party is to defend Quebec at the federal level, which unfortunately seems like a much, much better deal than the two other "big" party.
Yeah but at least your are seeking intertainment, rather than being spoon fed, like the GP said. It's a much more active brain state. If sometimes being on teh internets means reading interesting things, you're no really wasting your time.
You'd be amazed at how quickly you stop worrying about what's on the TV anyway.
That's the most liberating decision you'll ever made. I stop watching tv a while ago and, while I still enjoy some shows, I find my tv free life saner. Every once in a while when I go see my dad, I am amazed on how lethargic people can became in from of the tube, especially when the commercials rolls in. A life without the constant bombarding of those is a much better life, simply put. When I watch them now, they don't work on me as much as before since I now find them deceitful and just plain stupid. You're gonna tell me "I already finds them stupid and borderline fraudulent" but trust me, live 6 months without tv and you'll see what I mean.
:P
You can call me a conspirationist all you want, but I am now of the opinion that publicity and certain tv shows (news and what is now passed as news) are great tools to hardwired individuals into a certain mindset and infuse various ideas and ideals into the populace.
You just won't get what people talk about at work sometimes
I'm not sure you are right. Sure, you won't find games for non-gamers on the monthly top ten, but that's just because of the more traditional market reaction to new releases. You got quite a lot of people that "can't wait" for your game to come out. Then it's released, those guys rush to the store and buy the game. Good sales the first week or two, then it's stalling to an halt. The casual market is different. You can have a game that sell averagely, but chances are that it would sell that way for months. Big difference here. It's more of a long term thing.
As I said in a earlier post, the company I was working for last year made some casual games on the Wii, iphone and PC. They didn't show up high on the charts but they are still selling to this day. They made quite a bit of profit with this despite the game selling for 30$. Half the price of a normal game. I think it took 9 months to make, with a team of 4 programmers and 3 artists. Compare that to where I work now, teams of hundred, working on he same game for *years*. You didn't make a profit? No kidding!
So to me, the old model is slowly fading away, and as a game fan I think it's for the best. We're probably going to see more smaller (and arguably more fun and original) games. We are still be playing bigger titles, but they risk beign more sporadic in release.
Some developers are stuck in their development model me thinks. You need to sell a million games to turn a profit? You want to rise the price of the games you made? Bullsh*t to that. The last company I work for was making game on the Wii and the PC. We didn't sell millions of copies but still turn a nice profit. And the game was going for 30$ for god sake! Ok so it was more of casual nature, but that's ok, really. You then take some of that money and try to do a more complex, graphic intensive games.
I agree with your post. A lot of developing house should *greatly reduce* the number of tripple-A-five-years-in-the-making-top-graphics-open-world-online-multiplayer-with-DLC-and-all-those-other-silly-thing.
Agreed. Furthermore, why do big studios always rely on big name actors? Not only do they cost millions of dollars to hired, but I guess that at the end of the movie the sum of all their expenses must be pretty ridiculous. I'm sure there is plenty of pretty good, lesser know/unknown actors who could fill these roles.