No, they really aren't. They look like something from ten years ago. The game itself is dull, uninspired and lifeless.
Yes, the game is lacking a director in production. It's not exactly uninspired, but it is a but dull and lifeless at times. There are definitely better games out there for sure.
As for the graphics, mainly it's a hardware limitation in that you can't throw textures and high geometry like you can a dedicated gaming console these days. But that's ok, because it was purposefully designed to be a swashbuckling Wind Waker clone. It's truly an art form to match the evocative retro effect with the hardware you have. A perfect example is Horizon Chase on iOS. The It's flat-shaded polygons with arcade style synth music. If that looks and sounds like a hybrid modern/retro Sega Outrun clone, you would be correct:). So, depending on the game and designer, you can leverage HW limitation as a form of artistic expression. In some cases, emulate it for the retro effect.
The problem isn't hardware availability, it's content. The best title I have so far for the Apple TV is OceanHorn. It's basically a Zelda Wind Waker clone. The graphics are really superb, and the music is composed by the some of the best console musicians out there - Kalle Ylitalo, Nobu Uematsu (Final Fantasy) and Kenji Ito (Secret of Mana). It's a pale imitation and leaves lots to be desired. But the point is, the Apple TV with a 3rd party controller would explode in sales if Shigeru Minamoto coded games for it. So the platform is there. Nintendo just needs to develop for iOS and stop chasing waterfalls with new proprietary console hardware. It's a complete waste of their time IMHO.
How many other people own that controller or others like it? I haven't seen one third-party controller maker release sales figures, and without them, it becomes hard for a for-profit company to justify developing a game targeted at a particular third-party controller. It's also bulky to carry in a pocket.
I'm glad you asked. When the latest AppleTV got released, one of the first items to purchase with it was a game controller. At the time there was just the Nimbus, which is the one I got. Shortly thereafter, the Steel Series Status came out. Now there are a total of six different controllers in all available. The pricing ranges from what you normally expect, so nothing shocking here.
FYI - will continue on next post as lameness filter is fucked
GOP is done, and has been for awhile - as a party. From the ashes will be Trump and whatever falls after. Probably after the damage there will be a Libertarian movement from the ashes of both the GOP and DNC types - small government with urban liberal independent views and a mix of rural "don't tread of me" folk. Either way, first you must deal with the massive multi-billon dollar onslaught that Zuckerberg and Soros will be throwing. THEY ARE GOING FOR BROKE to ensure Clinton wins. They must, to SURVIVE!!! This is where it gets real fucking dangerous. You all haven't seen nothing -yet- from these two spawns of Satan.
The cold hard factual brutal reality of the situation of SanFran is this: This is the city of the young college graduate working campus. It's the first place you go as a professional first to cut your teeth on prior to leaving to another state/city to get married, have children, and settle down. SanFran will ALWAYS have a perpetual flow of a young expendable *cheap* workforce. Now add to the fact you've got unlimited H1Bs living in communes for the very same reason (prior to going back home to China and India) and you've got exactly what simple is of San Fran - a giant youth working campus/city. IT IS NOT A PLACE TO RAISE A FAMILY!!
Oh, you could do that, but then again, it's not console gaming. Console gaming typically implies a level playing field were all gamers (local or online) have the same controller, same platform/specs, and the same resolution. Out of fairness, I'd imagine these new "Plus" console editions to pair players up in the same game so as to not leave other players at a disadvantage. With PC gaming, anything goes with your own rig spec wise.
It's the dealers. They add in all sorts of fucking bullshit like lifetime nitrogen for the tires (Honda civic), or bolt-on running boards (Toyota RAV4, wtf?) that have insane profit margins. Wherever the sales guy falls short, the finance dept will make up for via some numerical wizardry and voodoo. After TTL, yeah, I can totally see that going up to 34k for a decent family car!
You will never pay MSRP, because MSRP doesn't include bullshit! Bullshit costs an extra 10% above and beyond what you expected!!!
Yes, but that was the best 40 minutes of THEIR life. It was mind-numbingly easy. Why actually work hard of reviewing four cases in an hour (15 minutes each) when you can sit on your ass for at least 40 minutes on one call burning time on the clock? It wasn't for your benefit, it was for theirs; a few more like that and they can clock out with a less stressful day.
Social gaming around a centralized monitor (TV) with plug-in-play functionality. But yes, standardization is somewhat gone in favor for market segmentation. But the premise is still he same; plug in, turn on, choose game, pick up controller and game. Hardware wise, yeah, a glorified x86 based PC mass-produced on contract (to amortize the cost) for the projected generational life of the unit.
Urban starve. Rural has land / farms. Urban, while the most economically prosperous are also the most fragile. When SHTF, such as nuclear war or a natural disaster, the last place you want to be in is a major city.
Ok, I'm responding to you (post# 52380023) and Sibko (post# 52380113). Yes, RIM knows EXACTLY who their customers are; government and the banking industry in general! RIM is backing Clinton. They're betting the horse that she will enact provisions to weaken encryption, create yet a whole other department for managing all root certificates and mandating Gov having them installed on all devices, and RIM being the primary government contractor for cell phones.
As I've said time and time again. We've never had trickle-down or trickle-up economics; we're having trickle-out!! The US has, and is currently hemorrhaging wealth to overseas while the benefits go to the top 0.25% of the feudal ownership class. The lower and middle class are directly competing with low standards of livings in the East. Being that we refuse to lower our own standards, it's only natural that wages have stagnated to 1995 levels. Meanwhile, all those filthy rich Chinese have taking all hat new-found wealth and transferred it back to Canada, US, and Australia; all locked up in real-estate. And the governments that collect on the tax revenue from said transactions?? Totally looks the other way. It's a fucking crony capitalist racket we've got going on now. No wonder there's a massive global revolt going on against the Globalists; from Trump all the way to the Brexit. Even the Philippines are getting tired of this shit.
Yes, correct. But he also called 911 prior to shooting up joint pledging his allegiance to ISIS. I have no doubt this closeted homosexual was conflicted between his father, faith, and his own sexual identity. He sought help in the wrong online community, ISIS. There's even records of him taking trips to Saudia Arabia. Fucked up individual; fucked up situation all around.
No it's not. It isn't insane at all. It's the wealthy Chinese parking their money in foreign nations; locking it up tight. Realestate does that. So effectively, when you manufacture and send jobs oversees to nations with dubious governance; that wealth will flee to Western nations thus pricing YOU out of the market where you live. Chickens coming home to roost and all that.
Obviously you're not married to a stay-at-home mom that also works from my now given-to-her gaming PC. It has 16GB installed on it. I don't think I ever used more than 12GB. Most of the time, my wife has 30+ instance of Firefox running, and about 50+ tabs in each instance. Do the math. My i7 constantly runs 30% idle and often 98% of the RAM is in use. Fuck being a gamer, she can bring my rig to it's knees!! Wow!
Next one I built, I will max it out at 64GB (latest core series supports). That, I just have to go full-tilt Xeon with 128GB. This is getting absurd! Well, can't say she isn't happy; she rungs rings around me when it comes to multi-tasking. Women....
Whether you call it transcendence or evolution, I suspect all life of spacefaring advancement progressed in the following way universally.
Single-cell organism (on planet) --> Multi-cellular organism (on planet); such as Homo sapiens --> Tool of Homo Spiens; such as AI and robotics (on planet) --> Super AI machines (OFF PLANET); can bend space/time, warp, and hack the laws of physics beyond our comprehension!
It will be AI machines that will fill outer space. There might even being alien Super AI that engages in warfare against our own Super AI. Meanwhile, biological creatures will remain on the planet with the machines acting as the true host planet's ambassadors to outer-space. In fact, technically Voyager was our first intergalactic ambassador if only broadcasting the message as a monologue.
Because you took the opportunity to politicize one of the view items of research that's not a waste of tax dollars; which BTW is a very rare thing that congress does.
Well my friend, times of changed. One thing I've learned about brand loyalty is that my loyalty changes when the underlying people that constitute the brand changes. So yes, AVG was great in the early mid 2000's, but now, succumbed to scummy tool-bar practices. Meanwhile, products such as ZoneAlarm, Lavasoft, and Spybot Search and Destroy have long been superseded by more advanced anti-malware products and advancements in newer Windows versions (7, 8 , Win10 etc).
Time is money. While yes, you aim to provide results, you're really selling time; however much time a client is willing pay to reach that goal. Some will do a flat-fee. I don't. OTOH, it's often not worth a client burning half the cost of upgrading/repairing a computer if it's more than five years old too. It's why I focus more on the aspects of consulting and data migration along with backup solutions vs just the machine itself. It's a tool. Tools change. But the business objectives and interests of people often don't change nearly as much as the underlaying platform.
Ok, that advice aside, if you're looking for a Free AV solution, try the FortiClient. It's ranked up there really high and does a pretty good job a blocking 'malvertisements' from what I understand. As for a first-line of defense, for residential users (not business due to terms of agreement), Norton ConnectSafe does a good job a stoping a lot of malvertisements too at the DNS level. OpenDNS does the same thing at the more granular level, but it also requires a subscription. This would be good for a SOHO or SMB. Above and beyond that, you're looking at using a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) for first-line of defense.
Asshole! You do realize that Joseph R. Biden III (his son) dies of brain cancer, right?! Despite the fact the current VP is a walking gaffe, joke, side-show bob; the death of his son forever changed him profoundly. No man should have to bare the weight of his son dyeing before his father out of an uncontrollable act of nature. If there's a silver lining in this event, is that future lives are saved through the collaborative effort of scientific discovery and progress. As always, it unfortunately it takes an act of death to push the impetus to save lives.
FYI, while Ted Cruz would have gotten my vote, that now falls to Trump; and I will swim through lava to cast it over Clinton!
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Yes, the game is lacking a director in production. It's not exactly uninspired, but it is a but dull and lifeless at times. There are definitely better games out there for sure.
As for the graphics, mainly it's a hardware limitation in that you can't throw textures and high geometry like you can a dedicated gaming console these days. But that's ok, because it was purposefully designed to be a swashbuckling Wind Waker clone. It's truly an art form to match the evocative retro effect with the hardware you have. A perfect example is Horizon Chase on iOS. The It's flat-shaded polygons with arcade style synth music. If that looks and sounds like a hybrid modern/retro Sega Outrun clone, you would be correct :). So, depending on the game and designer, you can leverage HW limitation as a form of artistic expression. In some cases, emulate it for the retro effect.
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The problem isn't hardware availability, it's content. The best title I have so far for the Apple TV is OceanHorn. It's basically a Zelda Wind Waker clone. The graphics are really superb, and the music is composed by the some of the best console musicians out there - Kalle Ylitalo, Nobu Uematsu (Final Fantasy) and Kenji Ito (Secret of Mana). It's a pale imitation and leaves lots to be desired. But the point is, the Apple TV with a 3rd party controller would explode in sales if Shigeru Minamoto coded games for it. So the platform is there. Nintendo just needs to develop for iOS and stop chasing waterfalls with new proprietary console hardware. It's a complete waste of their time IMHO.
How many other people own that controller or others like it? I haven't seen one third-party controller maker release sales figures, and without them, it becomes hard for a for-profit company to justify developing a game targeted at a particular third-party controller. It's also bulky to carry in a pocket.
I'm glad you asked. When the latest AppleTV got released, one of the first items to purchase with it was a game controller. At the time there was just the Nimbus, which is the one I got. Shortly thereafter, the Steel Series Status came out. Now there are a total of six different controllers in all available. The pricing ranges from what you normally expect, so nothing shocking here.
FYI - will continue on next post as lameness filter is fucked
GOP is done, and has been for awhile - as a party. From the ashes will be Trump and whatever falls after. Probably after the damage there will be a Libertarian movement from the ashes of both the GOP and DNC types - small government with urban liberal independent views and a mix of rural "don't tread of me" folk. Either way, first you must deal with the massive multi-billon dollar onslaught that Zuckerberg and Soros will be throwing. THEY ARE GOING FOR BROKE to ensure Clinton wins. They must, to SURVIVE!!! This is where it gets real fucking dangerous. You all haven't seen nothing -yet- from these two spawns of Satan.
I've been there, worked there, will never live there.
The cold hard factual brutal reality of the situation of SanFran is this: This is the city of the young college graduate working campus. It's the first place you go as a professional first to cut your teeth on prior to leaving to another state/city to get married, have children, and settle down. SanFran will ALWAYS have a perpetual flow of a young expendable *cheap* workforce. Now add to the fact you've got unlimited H1Bs living in communes for the very same reason (prior to going back home to China and India) and you've got exactly what simple is of San Fran - a giant youth working campus/city. IT IS NOT A PLACE TO RAISE A FAMILY!!
Ok, make that FEDS (Flying Explosive Drone Spiders). In either case, you don't want them on you.
Oh, just wait for explosive flying spider drones - a swarm of them!! They surround, latch on, and boom!!! that's all she wrote.
Oh, you could do that, but then again, it's not console gaming. Console gaming typically implies a level playing field were all gamers (local or online) have the same controller, same platform/specs, and the same resolution. Out of fairness, I'd imagine these new "Plus" console editions to pair players up in the same game so as to not leave other players at a disadvantage. With PC gaming, anything goes with your own rig spec wise.
It's the dealers. They add in all sorts of fucking bullshit like lifetime nitrogen for the tires (Honda civic), or bolt-on running boards (Toyota RAV4, wtf?) that have insane profit margins. Wherever the sales guy falls short, the finance dept will make up for via some numerical wizardry and voodoo. After TTL, yeah, I can totally see that going up to 34k for a decent family car!
You will never pay MSRP, because MSRP doesn't include bullshit! Bullshit costs an extra 10% above and beyond what you expected!!!
Yes, but that was the best 40 minutes of THEIR life. It was mind-numbingly easy. Why actually work hard of reviewing four cases in an hour (15 minutes each) when you can sit on your ass for at least 40 minutes on one call burning time on the clock? It wasn't for your benefit, it was for theirs; a few more like that and they can clock out with a less stressful day.
What is the purpose of the console?
Social gaming around a centralized monitor (TV) with plug-in-play functionality. But yes, standardization is somewhat gone in favor for market segmentation. But the premise is still he same; plug in, turn on, choose game, pick up controller and game. Hardware wise, yeah, a glorified x86 based PC mass-produced on contract (to amortize the cost) for the projected generational life of the unit.
The poor will starve first
Urban starve. Rural has land / farms. Urban, while the most economically prosperous are also the most fragile. When SHTF, such as nuclear war or a natural disaster, the last place you want to be in is a major city.
We have the Texas State Guard (TXSG) that falls under the direct command of the Governor of Texas. FYI.
Ok, I'm responding to you (post# 52380023) and Sibko (post# 52380113). Yes, RIM knows EXACTLY who their customers are; government and the banking industry in general! RIM is backing Clinton. They're betting the horse that she will enact provisions to weaken encryption, create yet a whole other department for managing all root certificates and mandating Gov having them installed on all devices, and RIM being the primary government contractor for cell phones.
As I've said time and time again. We've never had trickle-down or trickle-up economics; we're having trickle-out!! The US has, and is currently hemorrhaging wealth to overseas while the benefits go to the top 0.25% of the feudal ownership class. The lower and middle class are directly competing with low standards of livings in the East. Being that we refuse to lower our own standards, it's only natural that wages have stagnated to 1995 levels. Meanwhile, all those filthy rich Chinese have taking all hat new-found wealth and transferred it back to Canada, US, and Australia; all locked up in real-estate. And the governments that collect on the tax revenue from said transactions?? Totally looks the other way. It's a fucking crony capitalist racket we've got going on now. No wonder there's a massive global revolt going on against the Globalists; from Trump all the way to the Brexit. Even the Philippines are getting tired of this shit.
Yes, correct. But he also called 911 prior to shooting up joint pledging his allegiance to ISIS. I have no doubt this closeted homosexual was conflicted between his father, faith, and his own sexual identity. He sought help in the wrong online community, ISIS. There's even records of him taking trips to Saudia Arabia. Fucked up individual; fucked up situation all around.
No it's not. It isn't insane at all. It's the wealthy Chinese parking their money in foreign nations; locking it up tight. Realestate does that. So effectively, when you manufacture and send jobs oversees to nations with dubious governance; that wealth will flee to Western nations thus pricing YOU out of the market where you live. Chickens coming home to roost and all that.
Obviously you're not married to a stay-at-home mom that also works from my now given-to-her gaming PC. It has 16GB installed on it. I don't think I ever used more than 12GB. Most of the time, my wife has 30+ instance of Firefox running, and about 50+ tabs in each instance. Do the math. My i7 constantly runs 30% idle and often 98% of the RAM is in use. Fuck being a gamer, she can bring my rig to it's knees!! Wow!
Next one I built, I will max it out at 64GB (latest core series supports). That, I just have to go full-tilt Xeon with 128GB. This is getting absurd! Well, can't say she isn't happy; she rungs rings around me when it comes to multi-tasking. Women....
Whether you call it transcendence or evolution, I suspect all life of spacefaring advancement progressed in the following way universally.
Single-cell organism (on planet) --> Multi-cellular organism (on planet); such as Homo sapiens --> Tool of Homo Spiens; such as AI and robotics (on planet) --> Super AI machines (OFF PLANET); can bend space/time, warp, and hack the laws of physics beyond our comprehension!
It will be AI machines that will fill outer space. There might even being alien Super AI that engages in warfare against our own Super AI. Meanwhile, biological creatures will remain on the planet with the machines acting as the true host planet's ambassadors to outer-space. In fact, technically Voyager was our first intergalactic ambassador if only broadcasting the message as a monologue.
Or we're all living in a simulator and the 'alien' expansion pack hasn't been released....yet.
Solution is to *NOT* use JIT code in a NON-SANDBOXED environment. If you must, run native apps.
Why am I an asshole ?
Because you took the opportunity to politicize one of the view items of research that's not a waste of tax dollars; which BTW is a very rare thing that congress does.
Well my friend, times of changed. One thing I've learned about brand loyalty is that my loyalty changes when the underlying people that constitute the brand changes. So yes, AVG was great in the early mid 2000's, but now, succumbed to scummy tool-bar practices. Meanwhile, products such as ZoneAlarm, Lavasoft, and Spybot Search and Destroy have long been superseded by more advanced anti-malware products and advancements in newer Windows versions (7, 8 , Win10 etc).
Time is money. While yes, you aim to provide results, you're really selling time; however much time a client is willing pay to reach that goal. Some will do a flat-fee. I don't. OTOH, it's often not worth a client burning half the cost of upgrading/repairing a computer if it's more than five years old too. It's why I focus more on the aspects of consulting and data migration along with backup solutions vs just the machine itself. It's a tool. Tools change. But the business objectives and interests of people often don't change nearly as much as the underlaying platform.
Ok, that advice aside, if you're looking for a Free AV solution, try the FortiClient. It's ranked up there really high and does a pretty good job a blocking 'malvertisements' from what I understand. As for a first-line of defense, for residential users (not business due to terms of agreement), Norton ConnectSafe does a good job a stoping a lot of malvertisements too at the DNS level. OpenDNS does the same thing at the more granular level, but it also requires a subscription. This would be good for a SOHO or SMB. Above and beyond that, you're looking at using a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) for first-line of defense.
Asshole! You do realize that Joseph R. Biden III (his son) dies of brain cancer, right?! Despite the fact the current VP is a walking gaffe, joke, side-show bob; the death of his son forever changed him profoundly. No man should have to bare the weight of his son dyeing before his father out of an uncontrollable act of nature. If there's a silver lining in this event, is that future lives are saved through the collaborative effort of scientific discovery and progress. As always, it unfortunately it takes an act of death to push the impetus to save lives.
FYI, while Ted Cruz would have gotten my vote, that now falls to Trump; and I will swim through lava to cast it over Clinton!