I guess this also makes for the largest act of masochism as well. Does it really make sense to do something so heartless to get their point across? And I thought that the mass deforestation done to protest the WTO in Seattle was bad.
Anyways, what will this accomplish? It seems to me like this will detract from their point, almost as if it's a lighthearted, happy little protest.
If I'm not mistaken, at least most of those games were in pseudo 3D. Virtua Racing actually had a 3D processor in the cartridge that was like the Super FX chip for the SNES.
Regardless, it was the first time that I had seen 3D on my Genesis. I played that game as a rental more than most of the games that I have purchased. All this talk about it is forcing me to go buy a copy.
The Super Mario Bros. series has a much larger fanbase than Virtua Fighter. Also, the Mario titles don't require the mastery that the Virtua Fighter titles do. This gave the Mario series a more casual fanbase as well.
There was nothing wrong with branching out with the Mario license, Nintendo pulled it off wonderfully. Yet, the Sonic and Pac-Man licenses tried and failed. The Virtua Fighter license isn't nearly as popular as Mario, Sonic, and Pac-Man.
Virtua Fighter isn't an extremely popular, casual gamer's title like Mario. It doesn't have that broad of a reach. Therefore, AM2 needs to please the fanbase that they have built. That fanbase was built around the fighting gameplay, thus they need to make sure that the fans are satisfied with that aspect.
People became fans of the Virtua Fighter series because of the deep gameplay mechanics. Now, they're wanting that same fanbase to play an action-RPG. I would hope that AM2 retains the mechanics that made the series popular. Otherwise, there will probably be a lot of disappointed fans.
I'm not so sure if it's just semantics considering that MMO and RPG do mean two very different things. The features like the ones you've mentioned have already been around for quite some time in sports games, just never put online or used in such RPG-ish terms, at least to my knowledge.
It looks to me as if they're taking features that have been around in sports games for quite some time in single player mode and putting them online.
Still, the game doesn't look all too good, and I fail to see exactly what makes this massively multiplayer. From what I can tell, you're still constrained to the field area. You can't roam the land trying to wrangle up teammates to find the perfect ballpark to call your own. Hell, there's even a player lobby, just like normal multiplayer games. To me, calling this game an MMO title is nothing but marketing babble for a crappy sports game without any professional licenses.
The biggest problem in my experience is that the teachers don't have a clue about what they're teaching. Many just rip shit straight out of a book instead of getting a decent understanding of what's being taught. The kids who knew more than the teachers ended up being much more useful than the teachers themselves. Almost each lesson that a teacher gave had at least one major problem.
Most of your smarter kids learn what they want to learn about computers outside of class. A good computer class would have a competent teacher showing the kids the fundamentals of computers and the problem solving skills necessary to use one, with more advanced classes ran by people who can handle them. Instead, most teachers show kids how to dick around with Word and make a crappy HTML page. Considering how most English teachers make it necessary to be able to use a word processor, Word is generally taken care of, so the kids are left with very little.
When you consider that most kids have computers at home anyways, most computer courses are an absolute joke and a complete waste of taxpayer money when we're talking about public schools. If the schools don't get things straight, I would much rather see no computers courses at all rather than the ones that they are offering.
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If you're wanting yet another way to discover new music, drive through the ghetto and pull up to a car with shiny chrome wheels. Odds are that they'll have something blaring through their speakers. It might not be good, but it's something.
Whoops, typo. The word should be hole, not whole. Just figured that I'd beat the grammar whores to it. But, can you find where in the post that mistake was made? Try to beat the other whores to it!
Nope, I'm no mod. I just recently got out of the -1 whole, was posting at zero for a bit. I just keep that sig because eventually, thanks to bad mods, I will be back at -1.
But, hey, during this run, I got to do at least four metamoderations! Yet, hat rarely happens since too many angry Stallmanites like to jump my ass.
The who, as far as who should hold each group accountable goes, is the people who hold opinions like the one stated in DeadHateMachine's post. Rather than accusing all corporations of being greedy, people should just focus on the subject of the discussion. It's just like including saying that every member of a certain race is a murderer because one member of that race killed somebody.
What I don't understand is why you think that the government should be handling morality issues when they are exponentially more corrupt than any corporation could ever be. I don't believe that a government is put in place to enforce morality issues unless the people creating the government had socialist views.
The people who are against the RIAA and taking action are in the minority. Don't give even more power to the government, look how they handle the power that they do have. Instead, keep working on convincing people to hit the RIAA where it hurts the most, in the pocketbooks. If social pressure isn't enough, then your pressure wasn't strong enough for a reason and thus the government shouldn't enforce your views simply because the minority thinks that they are right. If they were strong enough, changes would be made. The government shouldn't even be a factor.
This isn't a troll folks, it's a funny joke. There's no need for downmodding him. I know people around here are itching to downmod, but don't do it when you don't know what's being talked about.
But, I should just say that my name wasn't in regards to the illuminati. I chose my name because it's Italian for illuminated and sounds much cooler than just calling myself illuminated.
The mod who called you a troll did a crappy job. On his behalf, I apologize.
God dammit, we have yet another bleeding heart anti-corporate post.
Instead of crying about how every single company wants to exploit the consumers, why not just hold each one accountable for their own actions? People need to quit acting like anybody with money is dying to fuck them over. Hold each group accountable for their own actions instead of making broad generalizations.
This isn't offtopic, it's on the topic of this story. This story sucks, it doesn't need to be on the site, let alone the main page. I'm not talking about another story, I'm talking about this one.
It's too bad that they won't allow people to see who moderates a particular post. I'd really like to find out who these jackass karma whores are.
Slashdot Mirror
How about this assumption?
One license is good for every piece of software.
Remember, put your hips into it when you stir the pot, baby.
This service reminds me of the Sega Channel. Here's a picture of the cartridge used for the service, along with some extra information.
It was pretty disastrous. It makes you wonder if a similar idea will work now.
I guess this also makes for the largest act of masochism as well. Does it really make sense to do something so heartless to get their point across? And I thought that the mass deforestation done to protest the WTO in Seattle was bad.
Anyways, what will this accomplish? It seems to me like this will detract from their point, almost as if it's a lighthearted, happy little protest.
If I'm not mistaken, at least most of those games were in pseudo 3D. Virtua Racing actually had a 3D processor in the cartridge that was like the Super FX chip for the SNES.
Regardless, it was the first time that I had seen 3D on my Genesis. I played that game as a rental more than most of the games that I have purchased. All this talk about it is forcing me to go buy a copy.
Man, Virtua Racing was one of my favorites. I about shit my pants seeing 3D on my Genesis for the first time.
The Super Mario Bros. series has a much larger fanbase than Virtua Fighter. Also, the Mario titles don't require the mastery that the Virtua Fighter titles do. This gave the Mario series a more casual fanbase as well.
There was nothing wrong with branching out with the Mario license, Nintendo pulled it off wonderfully. Yet, the Sonic and Pac-Man licenses tried and failed. The Virtua Fighter license isn't nearly as popular as Mario, Sonic, and Pac-Man.
Virtua Fighter isn't an extremely popular, casual gamer's title like Mario. It doesn't have that broad of a reach. Therefore, AM2 needs to please the fanbase that they have built. That fanbase was built around the fighting gameplay, thus they need to make sure that the fans are satisfied with that aspect.
People became fans of the Virtua Fighter series because of the deep gameplay mechanics. Now, they're wanting that same fanbase to play an action-RPG. I would hope that AM2 retains the mechanics that made the series popular. Otherwise, there will probably be a lot of disappointed fans.
I'm not so sure if it's just semantics considering that MMO and RPG do mean two very different things. The features like the ones you've mentioned have already been around for quite some time in sports games, just never put online or used in such RPG-ish terms, at least to my knowledge.
It looks to me as if they're taking features that have been around in sports games for quite some time in single player mode and putting them online.
Still, the game doesn't look all too good, and I fail to see exactly what makes this massively multiplayer. From what I can tell, you're still constrained to the field area. You can't roam the land trying to wrangle up teammates to find the perfect ballpark to call your own. Hell, there's even a player lobby, just like normal multiplayer games. To me, calling this game an MMO title is nothing but marketing babble for a crappy sports game without any professional licenses.
The biggest problem in my experience is that the teachers don't have a clue about what they're teaching. Many just rip shit straight out of a book instead of getting a decent understanding of what's being taught. The kids who knew more than the teachers ended up being much more useful than the teachers themselves. Almost each lesson that a teacher gave had at least one major problem.
Most of your smarter kids learn what they want to learn about computers outside of class. A good computer class would have a competent teacher showing the kids the fundamentals of computers and the problem solving skills necessary to use one, with more advanced classes ran by people who can handle them. Instead, most teachers show kids how to dick around with Word and make a crappy HTML page. Considering how most English teachers make it necessary to be able to use a word processor, Word is generally taken care of, so the kids are left with very little.
When you consider that most kids have computers at home anyways, most computer courses are an absolute joke and a complete waste of taxpayer money when we're talking about public schools. If the schools don't get things straight, I would much rather see no computers courses at all rather than the ones that they are offering.
...he might even come to your town!
Mr Hankey loves this stuff. He'll be coming to my town every year now!
Correction! Remove first sentence!
I put in that first sentence deliberately so that I could correct it, but then a post limit kicked in.
I'm just curious as to what they have to say.
Thanks for your dumb post, as it gives me a chance to make another, in your opinion, dumb reply. I feel gratified.
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If you're wanting yet another way to discover new music, drive through the ghetto and pull up to a car with shiny chrome wheels. Odds are that they'll have something blaring through their speakers. It might not be good, but it's something.
Whoops, typo. The word should be hole, not whole. Just figured that I'd beat the grammar whores to it. But, can you find where in the post that mistake was made? Try to beat the other whores to it!
Nope, I'm no mod. I just recently got out of the -1 whole, was posting at zero for a bit. I just keep that sig because eventually, thanks to bad mods, I will be back at -1.
But, hey, during this run, I got to do at least four metamoderations! Yet, hat rarely happens since too many angry Stallmanites like to jump my ass.
Uh oh, an angry cockwad moderator mislabeled my post. It was meant to be funny.
To the mod who handled the parent post, I lost my pet bug, could you please check your ass? If he's there, get him out, ok? Try not to hurt him.
God, the mods suck.
What the fuck kind of name is Ransom Love? And who would go into a tech business with somebody who sounds like he came out of a failed 80s hair band?
The who, as far as who should hold each group accountable goes, is the people who hold opinions like the one stated in DeadHateMachine's post. Rather than accusing all corporations of being greedy, people should just focus on the subject of the discussion. It's just like including saying that every member of a certain race is a murderer because one member of that race killed somebody.
What I don't understand is why you think that the government should be handling morality issues when they are exponentially more corrupt than any corporation could ever be. I don't believe that a government is put in place to enforce morality issues unless the people creating the government had socialist views.
The people who are against the RIAA and taking action are in the minority. Don't give even more power to the government, look how they handle the power that they do have. Instead, keep working on convincing people to hit the RIAA where it hurts the most, in the pocketbooks. If social pressure isn't enough, then your pressure wasn't strong enough for a reason and thus the government shouldn't enforce your views simply because the minority thinks that they are right. If they were strong enough, changes would be made. The government shouldn't even be a factor.
This isn't a troll folks, it's a funny joke. There's no need for downmodding him. I know people around here are itching to downmod, but don't do it when you don't know what's being talked about.
But, I should just say that my name wasn't in regards to the illuminati. I chose my name because it's Italian for illuminated and sounds much cooler than just calling myself illuminated.
The mod who called you a troll did a crappy job. On his behalf, I apologize.
God dammit, we have yet another bleeding heart anti-corporate post.
Instead of crying about how every single company wants to exploit the consumers, why not just hold each one accountable for their own actions? People need to quit acting like anybody with money is dying to fuck them over. Hold each group accountable for their own actions instead of making broad generalizations.
This isn't offtopic, it's on the topic of this story. This story sucks, it doesn't need to be on the site, let alone the main page. I'm not talking about another story, I'm talking about this one.
It's too bad that they won't allow people to see who moderates a particular post. I'd really like to find out who these jackass karma whores are.
I know that they don't, I just want them to.