I am hoping Bloom is just a fad right now. First it was lens flare (many PS1 games, Wing Commander Prohpecy), then it was the "make everything look sealed in Saran wrap" (Halo, Doom3), and now the fad is Bloom (Oblivion, Half Life 2 Lost Coast). Hopefully we have something decent for the next fad.
I think many people would find if they exercised they would sleep better. On days when I work out I have no trouble falling asleep. On nights where I work late and then eat a late dinner are the nights I can't sleep.
I enjoyed Silent Hill 4, but it is my least favorite of the series. I don't understand why some people treat it like a travesity, but it was far from perfect. It was very annoying that they re-used all the locations, and the second time you had to drag around that idiot Eliene. The ghosts that you couldn't kill (just incompasitate with a limited number of weapons in the game) are really annoying as well.
I don't know where an "offical" announcement is, but on several Silent Hill forums posters bring up that Silent Hill 4 started as a different (new) game and Konami decided to make it a Silent Hill game and some point in the middle of development.
I actually enjoyed 7 more than 6, and 8 felt like a weak expansion pack, but I still enjoyed it. 9 didn't even feel like a Might and Magic game, it felt like a fan made alpha release. I tried, but I couldn't play more than 10 hours before I gave up on it.
When I hear people say things like this I have to wonder... if you can really make 50% somewhere else then what the heck are you doing?! Go get it! You said that this is a multimillion dollar company and not a church or a charity house, so why why why?! Are you just too lazy to interview for that 50% more? If it is because the company that would pay you 50% more won't let you telecommute, then it really isn't 50% more money, because that is a benefit you won't have.
By "plan your class poorly" do you mean did not base it on being a totally offensive player? Whenever I play games with character creation (TES and Might and Magic for example) I always made the strongest fighters and sometimes powerful casters.
With Oblivion I thought that I would totally change things up and create a custom "Merchant Theif" (what I called him). Oops. As I leveled up on my speechcraft and sneak skills the enemies kept getting strong and stronger while I just got better at bartering. I also took the birth sign that gives me the spell that enchants animals (forgot what it is called), because I thought that would be a nice changeup. Oops. The spells that come with your birth sign don't level up so after level 5 the spell couldn't even enchant a rat because they were a higher level.
I already have the leveling mod, so I am fine with the game now. But don't say I planned my class poorly. This is supposed to be sandbox game, but it is Bethesda that planned poorly by putting so much emphasis on combat in their dynamic leveling system.
This reminds me of when I bought my PS2 in 2001 at Best Buy. The person on the floor told me I should get a replacement plan because they had "allot of bad drives", then two employees at the checkout gave me the same garbage. I asked "Are you telling me you are selling a broken product?" They said no, but they were getting allot of returns. I responded with "If I taked this thing home and it doesn't work I can bring back and exchange it for 30 days right?", and they said "Oh, uhh, sure".
Bastards, extended warranties are a rip.
Wow, this one just missed the "Gaming's Biggest Blunders of 2006" article. So Valve got pissed when someone with a CS server put in Subway ads, and I am sure it is because Valve had something like this in works for a while. I think that if someone is running a server that sells Valve's games, Valve should let the servers collect revenue on these ads. I can't tell from the article if this is the case, but I assume Valve is collecting all the revenue for themselves (how would they do that anyway? do all the servers have to register with value to be available in steam?).
Many people have said it, but here it comes again. Ads are fine if they are not intrusive and make sense. On top of that, make the freaking ads destructible. I don't want to drop a grenade and have the whole area singed but the Pepsi ad is shiny and new.
This is a little different. For example, I have never yeard of yaroze play station, but I have heard of XBOX360, and a little thing called Windows that these tools will work on.
I have never had hibernation work 100% for me. Any self build PCs there are usually blue screens (some piece of hardware that doesn't play nice). With laptops I have had better luck, but there is always some minor problem. My last laptop would have a 50-50 chance of coming back up with no sound, and occasionly the Ethernet port would be dead. When my current Dell laptop comes back from hibernate the fan that normally spins up and down based on temperature stays spun up all the way, consistently. I might as well reboot if I am on battery, because I don't want this fan burning up all my power for me to be on my email.
I have one co-worker in my office of 15 people who does not have any problem with their laptop hibernating.
I have some burned CDs ranging from 1-8 years that have just been sitting in the dark in a CD binder. Visualy they look fine and I am still able to pull data from them without problems in the rare case I pull something off them. Are you leaving your CD-Rs in the sun, swapping them in and out of drives? Some of my music CD-Rs that get frequent use are not looking too good.
One thing about my older CD-Rs is the look (the new ones are slightly translucent) and feel thicker than the newer ones I have purchased of the same brand (Imation).
This reminded me of something. I remember being scared to death when I was a kid (20 years ago) because I saw a news article that the o-zone may be completely gone in a 10 years!! Well, what the heck happened? I know there is still a big whole in the ozone but where is it now? The fear mongering media must have moved on.
I also remember in an early science class that we would be out of oil by 2015, but I saw a report recently that we wouldn't be hitting problems until 2050. Not that 2050 is good either, but I just do not respond well to this "SKY IS FALLING" attitude anymore..
My favorite argument for global warning I've heard is "Even though we can't prove it 100%, the consequences are so grave we should stop C02 emissions now!!" Well, I have a theory that I can't prove 100% that Aliens are going to invade the earth and grind us into sausages, and the only way to stop them would be to shroud the earth in a planet wide blanket so the earth can't be seen. I can't prove it, but DO YOU WANT TO BE GROUND INTO SAUSAGES?!?!.
I do believe that global warming COULD be a problem, but this is highly reminiscent of media fear mongering. Where are all those hurricanes we were going to have this year because of global warming?!
I think the FF7 FMV for the PC was just the PS1 video ripped and resized or something (the aspect ratio looks off). The static backgrounds looked like they were just the PS1 version as well, and the aspect ratio looks off there too.
FF8 FMV the PC looked waaay better, they must have gone back to the source and exported the content specificly for the PC resolutions.
This is a good point, this is probably just standard practice. Once a quarter somebody probably goes down a checklist and anyone who doesn't have everything done gets a form letter. Yes, it suggests that Activision is having a hard time cooking the books enough, but this isn't really a shocking move.
I remember hearing a similar story about an early mainframe at the University of Iowa. Using the speaker you could hear when a program would go into (and sometimes get stuck) in a loop.
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I feel the same way, and this is probably one of several reasons why I enjoyed Tie Fighter so much.
I am hoping Bloom is just a fad right now. First it was lens flare (many PS1 games, Wing Commander Prohpecy), then it was the "make everything look sealed in Saran wrap" (Halo, Doom3), and now the fad is Bloom (Oblivion, Half Life 2 Lost Coast). Hopefully we have something decent for the next fad.
And I see the Vendor's section with AMD in it is gone as well. I guess Intel put up enough cash to beat out AMD and get a misleading section name.
I think many people would find if they exercised they would sleep better. On days when I work out I have no trouble falling asleep. On nights where I work late and then eat a late dinner are the nights I can't sleep.
I enjoyed Silent Hill 4, but it is my least favorite of the series. I don't understand why some people treat it like a travesity, but it was far from perfect. It was very annoying that they re-used all the locations, and the second time you had to drag around that idiot Eliene. The ghosts that you couldn't kill (just incompasitate with a limited number of weapons in the game) are really annoying as well. I don't know where an "offical" announcement is, but on several Silent Hill forums posters bring up that Silent Hill 4 started as a different (new) game and Konami decided to make it a Silent Hill game and some point in the middle of development.
I actually enjoyed 7 more than 6, and 8 felt like a weak expansion pack, but I still enjoyed it. 9 didn't even feel like a Might and Magic game, it felt like a fan made alpha release. I tried, but I couldn't play more than 10 hours before I gave up on it.
When I hear people say things like this I have to wonder... if you can really make 50% somewhere else then what the heck are you doing?! Go get it! You said that this is a multimillion dollar company and not a church or a charity house, so why why why?! Are you just too lazy to interview for that 50% more? If it is because the company that would pay you 50% more won't let you telecommute, then it really isn't 50% more money, because that is a benefit you won't have.
Maybe he can't sell it, but that still does not answer if he gets to keep the source code he wrote.
By "plan your class poorly" do you mean did not base it on being a totally offensive player? Whenever I play games with character creation (TES and Might and Magic for example) I always made the strongest fighters and sometimes powerful casters.
With Oblivion I thought that I would totally change things up and create a custom "Merchant Theif" (what I called him). Oops. As I leveled up on my speechcraft and sneak skills the enemies kept getting strong and stronger while I just got better at bartering. I also took the birth sign that gives me the spell that enchants animals (forgot what it is called), because I thought that would be a nice changeup. Oops. The spells that come with your birth sign don't level up so after level 5 the spell couldn't even enchant a rat because they were a higher level.
I already have the leveling mod, so I am fine with the game now. But don't say I planned my class poorly. This is supposed to be sandbox game, but it is Bethesda that planned poorly by putting so much emphasis on combat in their dynamic leveling system.
No need to proof read anything, I'll aways have AC like you to do it for me.
This reminds me of when I bought my PS2 in 2001 at Best Buy. The person on the floor told me I should get a replacement plan because they had "allot of bad drives", then two employees at the checkout gave me the same garbage. I asked "Are you telling me you are selling a broken product?" They said no, but they were getting allot of returns. I responded with "If I taked this thing home and it doesn't work I can bring back and exchange it for 30 days right?", and they said "Oh, uhh, sure". Bastards, extended warranties are a rip.
The 5 item thing was definately annyoing. I highly recommend you look into BTMod.
Wow, this one just missed the "Gaming's Biggest Blunders of 2006" article. So Valve got pissed when someone with a CS server put in Subway ads, and I am sure it is because Valve had something like this in works for a while. I think that if someone is running a server that sells Valve's games, Valve should let the servers collect revenue on these ads. I can't tell from the article if this is the case, but I assume Valve is collecting all the revenue for themselves (how would they do that anyway? do all the servers have to register with value to be available in steam?).
Many people have said it, but here it comes again. Ads are fine if they are not intrusive and make sense. On top of that, make the freaking ads destructible. I don't want to drop a grenade and have the whole area singed but the Pepsi ad is shiny and new.
Well, my NES never fell apart, but I had to blow on cartridges until my face turned blue. I wonder if that was placebo or if that ever worked?
Unless you or your driver users plan on using Vista, then you have to pay MS to get a "Publisher Identity Certificate".
This is a little different. For example, I have never yeard of yaroze play station, but I have heard of XBOX360, and a little thing called Windows that these tools will work on.
I have never had hibernation work 100% for me. Any self build PCs there are usually blue screens (some piece of hardware that doesn't play nice). With laptops I have had better luck, but there is always some minor problem. My last laptop would have a 50-50 chance of coming back up with no sound, and occasionly the Ethernet port would be dead. When my current Dell laptop comes back from hibernate the fan that normally spins up and down based on temperature stays spun up all the way, consistently. I might as well reboot if I am on battery, because I don't want this fan burning up all my power for me to be on my email.
I have one co-worker in my office of 15 people who does not have any problem with their laptop hibernating.
I have some burned CDs ranging from 1-8 years that have just been sitting in the dark in a CD binder. Visualy they look fine and I am still able to pull data from them without problems in the rare case I pull something off them. Are you leaving your CD-Rs in the sun, swapping them in and out of drives? Some of my music CD-Rs that get frequent use are not looking too good. One thing about my older CD-Rs is the look (the new ones are slightly translucent) and feel thicker than the newer ones I have purchased of the same brand (Imation).
And don't forget it you are on XBox Live EA will charge you for the ketchup
4. Don't be complacent, demand fair use for what you paid for.
This reminded me of something. I remember being scared to death when I was a kid (20 years ago) because I saw a news article that the o-zone may be completely gone in a 10 years!! Well, what the heck happened? I know there is still a big whole in the ozone but where is it now? The fear mongering media must have moved on.
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I also remember in an early science class that we would be out of oil by 2015, but I saw a report recently that we wouldn't be hitting problems until 2050. Not that 2050 is good either, but I just do not respond well to this "SKY IS FALLING" attitude anymore.
My favorite argument for global warning I've heard is "Even though we can't prove it 100%, the consequences are so grave we should stop C02 emissions now!!" Well, I have a theory that I can't prove 100% that Aliens are going to invade the earth and grind us into sausages, and the only way to stop them would be to shroud the earth in a planet wide blanket so the earth can't be seen. I can't prove it, but DO YOU WANT TO BE GROUND INTO SAUSAGES?!?!.
I do believe that global warming COULD be a problem, but this is highly reminiscent of media fear mongering. Where are all those hurricanes we were going to have this year because of global warming?!
I think the FF7 FMV for the PC was just the PS1 video ripped and resized or something (the aspect ratio looks off). The static backgrounds looked like they were just the PS1 version as well, and the aspect ratio looks off there too. FF8 FMV the PC looked waaay better, they must have gone back to the source and exported the content specificly for the PC resolutions.
This is a good point, this is probably just standard practice. Once a quarter somebody probably goes down a checklist and anyone who doesn't have everything done gets a form letter. Yes, it suggests that Activision is having a hard time cooking the books enough, but this isn't really a shocking move.
I remember hearing a similar story about an early mainframe at the University of Iowa. Using the speaker you could hear when a program would go into (and sometimes get stuck) in a loop.
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