Argh! That's Final Fantasy FOUR and SIX. And I've got news for you. If all you've ever played was the American version of FF4 released as FF2, then you have barely scratched the surface of that game. See my article on the game for more details.
As for your statement claiming that modern games lack quality and fun, buy a GameCube and play Smash Bros Melee, Metroid Prime, Windwaker, etc. If you think all those games lack quality and fun, then you need your head examined.
So my money is on the former in your statement. I think you're just outgrowing gaming and/or getting bored with it. Just because you're bored doesn't mean all modern games suck.
Ex-fucking-actly. Everyone who bitches about gaming not being as good as it used to be is either A. outgrowing it or B. just pissed off because they finished their favorite game and can never get the same excitement from any other game ever again.
Before people go flaming me, I fit into this category! I've both outgrown gaming (for the most part) and played through my favorite games more times than I probably should have.
But I still recognize that new games are enticing, complex, and most definitely innovative. Especially on the GameCube. Personally, I won't be playing the GC until I can emulate it (I emulate all my console games as a matter of principle), but just because I'm quirky like that doesn't make me respect modern games any less.
I don't agree with the grandparent and I don't agree with the article. Modern gaming is fine. If it doesn't interest you, find another game, or find another hobby.
I read the headline and the summary and it left me wondering "uh, and?"
This just in, grass is green! Whether you're OS is corporate or open source, security patches are going to happen and revisions of security patches are going to happen.
Wtf? The GIMP has a terrible interface. Half a dozen windows spawned all over the place. Put a newbie in front of it and ask him to find the image plugins. Wait about ten minutes. He still can't find it. Why? Because you have to right click on the goddamned open image. God forbid there be a "plugins and filters" menu.
I guess I'll stick with Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. (depending on what platform I'm at the time.)
Sure it is. I got a BSOD in a CLEAN installation of Win2000 yesterday. It's rare but it CAN happen. When was the last time your Linux kernel crashed and forced a reboot?
Terraforming Mars is fun to think about but ultimately useless. In a few billion years, our sun will go red giant and boil away Earth's oceans and royally screw up the terraformed Mars as well. If we REALLY want to think about a space travel project that has the capacity to preserve the human race after our sun runs out of hydrogen to burn, we'd start colonizing extra solar planets. That way when one sun goes nova, there's plenty of humans in other solar systems. Only then is our race truly immortal! Until of course we get invaded by species 8472, the Borg, the Dominion, the Romulans, the Klingons, the Xindi, or... oh wait.
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Replace it with nfs unix file sharing maybe? Oh I forgot. We're talking about Windows here. God forbid Microsoft should support nfs. It's not as if it's better than smb or anything and it's not as if Mac and the rest of the Unix world already support it
My old high school dropped all their PCs for OSX Macs the year after I graduated. On one hand I was pleased, but on the other hand I was kind of pissed. It's as if they were waiting for me to leave!
Sarcasm and conspiracy aside, I'm glad that so many schools are realizing the benefits of upgrading their pre osx Macs and/or replacing their PCs. The world needs more *nix and less wintel.
Or you can free up all that space on your disk and make the ipod your stereo. And whenever you get a new album, as soon as it's ripped into mp3s, goes on the ipod never to return to the hdd.
The whole point of my argument is that I don't want to have to pick and choose between my music. Because maybe you can't understand this, but I really do listen to all of it. Currently I have my entire music collection loaded in Winamp5, XMMS, itunes (depending on which of my computers I'm using) set at random play. And when I have to start dividing it up into playlists, I start to miss what isn't there after a while.
I just don't work that way. All or nothing for me. If I bought an ipod I'd buy one that I could use to contain my entire music collection with enough space to accomodate the growth of my music collection for at least two years.
Currently I only own two portable devices capable of playing mp3s. My mp3 cd player which was ridiculously cheap and serves its purpose well, and my ibook which isnt really just an mp3 player.;)
For the moment the 40gb ipod is out of my price range and I have no great desire to buy an mp3 player. But surely the development of new and exponentially higher capacity ipods will eventually outpace my music collection's growth and I shall have my portable musical empire...
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I completely understand your point of view, and even meta modded your insightul as fair. But I disagree with you.
The way I see it, the original ipods are MORE than small enough. If it fits in my pocket, it's small enough for me. And the way I see it 4gb is crap. Keep in mind, though, that my music collection spans 23 gigs, and I wouldn't settle for anything LESS than a 40gb ipod.
That said, I understand that there are plenty of people who would never harbor such a massive music collection. And to that end, I can understand the mini's popularity.
Also, you can hack the save files emulators produce at the hex level. Cheating in console games is important to me (but only on certain levels) because I like to completely conquer the games I play. This is why I vastly enjoy the save and load state features that are present in most emulators. For example, saving and loading at certain times in FF7 chocobo racing can increase your chances of getting the extremely uber rare 3 pieces of materia the races have to offer. Shortens 3 straight days of gaming into 3 hours. Great for college students with tight schedules;)
A good example of where (hex edit) cheating is necessary is FF4 for the SNES. In order to get some of the game's items, you have to fight millions of battles! The odds are so much against you that I know people who have had the actual cartridge for upwards of twelve years and still haven't gotten it all.
So in response to this practically impossible difficulty I have created a guide for hacking FF4 ZSNES save states at the hex level, to be found here.
See, I see using console emulation like using open source software. If you don't like something about a console, too fucking bad. If you emulate it, chances are you can do something about it. Just like if you don't like something about closed source software, too fucking bad. But with open source, chances are you can do something about it.:)
Sorry, no. Star Trek Voyager showed us the Voth. A species which descended from dinosaurs and evolved into a space faring nomadic civilization. They left Earth before the ice age which makes THEM the first known species of dinosaurs to have survive the ice age...
Dude, it's the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. If you replace jumps with jumped then you have every letter of the alphabet except S, and the whole point of that sentence is to include every letter of the alphabet.
I also had my first VD (virtual desktop) experience with Sun's CDE. I use to think that the invented the concept. So can we now expect a new round of law suits against MS?
I don't think so. Just because MS is corporate god and can patent anything, it doesn't mean they can change history.
No offense to your +5 informative or anything but that has absolutely nothing to do with what I posted. What I posted is that Apple should create an open plugin system for the ipod so that other (good) file formats could be supported. I didn't say anything about this current chip.
Don't go telling the mods that though, they need someone to modbomb totally unfairly. As far as they're concerned, I must be a mac basher. The irony is that I'm typing this on my ibook.
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Argh! That's Final Fantasy FOUR and SIX. And I've got news for you. If all you've ever played was the American version of FF4 released as FF2, then you have barely scratched the surface of that game. See my article on the game for more details.
As for your statement claiming that modern games lack quality and fun, buy a GameCube and play Smash Bros Melee, Metroid Prime, Windwaker, etc. If you think all those games lack quality and fun, then you need your head examined.
So my money is on the former in your statement. I think you're just outgrowing gaming and/or getting bored with it. Just because you're bored doesn't mean all modern games suck.
Ex-fucking-actly. Everyone who bitches about gaming not being as good as it used to be is either A. outgrowing it or B. just pissed off because they finished their favorite game and can never get the same excitement from any other game ever again.
Before people go flaming me, I fit into this category! I've both outgrown gaming (for the most part) and played through my favorite games more times than I probably should have.
But I still recognize that new games are enticing, complex, and most definitely innovative. Especially on the GameCube. Personally, I won't be playing the GC until I can emulate it (I emulate all my console games as a matter of principle), but just because I'm quirky like that doesn't make me respect modern games any less.
I don't agree with the grandparent and I don't agree with the article. Modern gaming is fine. If it doesn't interest you, find another game, or find another hobby.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
I read the headline and the summary and it left me wondering "uh, and?"
This just in, grass is green! Whether you're OS is corporate or open source, security patches are going to happen and revisions of security patches are going to happen.
Gentoo's a bad example. You compile your own kernel. And if you use genkernel then you're even worse off.
:(
(Warning and disclaimer to moderation zealots, my Linux box dualboots fedora 1 and gentoo. I'm not spreading anti Gentoo FUD)
Try running Redhat or Debian with a default kernel and tell me how much it crashes?
As for your CD burner, burning CDs in *nix isn't always easy, I know
Wtf? The GIMP has a terrible interface. Half a dozen windows spawned all over the place. Put a newbie in front of it and ask him to find the image plugins. Wait about ten minutes. He still can't find it. Why? Because you have to right click on the goddamned open image. God forbid there be a "plugins and filters" menu.
I guess I'll stick with Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. (depending on what platform I'm at the time.)
Sure it is. I got a BSOD in a CLEAN installation of Win2000 yesterday. It's rare but it CAN happen. When was the last time your Linux kernel crashed and forced a reboot?
Terraforming Mars is fun to think about but ultimately useless. In a few billion years, our sun will go red giant and boil away Earth's oceans and royally screw up the terraformed Mars as well. If we REALLY want to think about a space travel project that has the capacity to preserve the human race after our sun runs out of hydrogen to burn, we'd start colonizing extra solar planets. That way when one sun goes nova, there's plenty of humans in other solar systems. Only then is our race truly immortal! Until of course we get invaded by species 8472, the Borg, the Dominion, the Romulans, the Klingons, the Xindi, or... oh wait.
Replace it with nfs unix file sharing maybe? Oh I forgot. We're talking about Windows here. God forbid Microsoft should support nfs. It's not as if it's better than smb or anything and it's not as if Mac and the rest of the Unix world already support it
My old high school dropped all their PCs for OSX Macs the year after I graduated. On one hand I was pleased, but on the other hand I was kind of pissed. It's as if they were waiting for me to leave!
Sarcasm and conspiracy aside, I'm glad that so many schools are realizing the benefits of upgrading their pre osx Macs and/or replacing their PCs. The world needs more *nix and less wintel.
More messy than this SCO situation though?
... I'd switch to BSD. :)
IANAL, but wouldn't that be a great way to get SCO off your back?
Or you can free up all that space on your disk and make the ipod your stereo. And whenever you get a new album, as soon as it's ripped into mp3s, goes on the ipod never to return to the hdd.
The whole point of my argument is that I don't want to have to pick and choose between my music. Because maybe you can't understand this, but I really do listen to all of it. Currently I have my entire music collection loaded in Winamp5, XMMS, itunes (depending on which of my computers I'm using) set at random play. And when I have to start dividing it up into playlists, I start to miss what isn't there after a while.
I just don't work that way. All or nothing for me. If I bought an ipod I'd buy one that I could use to contain my entire music collection with enough space to accomodate the growth of my music collection for at least two years.
;)
Currently I only own two portable devices capable of playing mp3s. My mp3 cd player which was ridiculously cheap and serves its purpose well, and my ibook which isnt really just an mp3 player.
For the moment the 40gb ipod is out of my price range and I have no great desire to buy an mp3 player. But surely the development of new and exponentially higher capacity ipods will eventually outpace my music collection's growth and I shall have my portable musical empire...
I completely understand your point of view, and even meta modded your insightul as fair. But I disagree with you.
The way I see it, the original ipods are MORE than small enough. If it fits in my pocket, it's small enough for me. And the way I see it 4gb is crap. Keep in mind, though, that my music collection spans 23 gigs, and I wouldn't settle for anything LESS than a 40gb ipod.
That said, I understand that there are plenty of people who would never harbor such a massive music collection. And to that end, I can understand the mini's popularity.
Also, you can hack the save files emulators produce at the hex level. Cheating in console games is important to me (but only on certain levels) because I like to completely conquer the games I play. This is why I vastly enjoy the save and load state features that are present in most emulators. For example, saving and loading at certain times in FF7 chocobo racing can increase your chances of getting the extremely uber rare 3 pieces of materia the races have to offer. Shortens 3 straight days of gaming into 3 hours. Great for college students with tight schedules ;)
:)
A good example of where (hex edit) cheating is necessary is FF4 for the SNES. In order to get some of the game's items, you have to fight millions of battles! The odds are so much against you that I know people who have had the actual cartridge for upwards of twelve years and still haven't gotten it all.
So in response to this practically impossible difficulty I have created a guide for hacking FF4 ZSNES save states at the hex level, to be found here.
See, I see using console emulation like using open source software. If you don't like something about a console, too fucking bad. If you emulate it, chances are you can do something about it. Just like if you don't like something about closed source software, too fucking bad. But with open source, chances are you can do something about it.
The important question then, I suppose, is how cold can you get them with "light-cooling"?
If this technique were to develop well enough, it could spawn a whole new method of refridgeration.
Sorry, no. Star Trek Voyager showed us the Voth. A species which descended from dinosaurs and evolved into a space faring nomadic civilization. They left Earth before the ice age which makes THEM the first known species of dinosaurs to have survive the ice age...
Dude, it's the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. If you replace jumps with jumped then you have every letter of the alphabet except S, and the whole point of that sentence is to include every letter of the alphabet.
Does he have any relation to Fox McCloud?
Took the words right out of my mouth.
No offense to your +5 informative or anything but that has absolutely nothing to do with what I posted. What I posted is that Apple should create an open plugin system for the ipod so that other (good) file formats could be supported. I didn't say anything about this current chip.
Don't go telling the mods that though, they need someone to modbomb totally unfairly. As far as they're concerned, I must be a mac basher. The irony is that I'm typing this on my ibook.
Because it's a terrible file format compared to MP3, and MP3 is already the standard?
Call me misinformed but what is this all about? I recently bought an ibook and haven't had a single problem with it.