While the MPAA ratings given are done within the industry, the guidlines for rating them are enforced by the FCC, IIRC. The ESRB ratings take a lot from those guidlines, and are basically a carbon copy at that. In essence, you are both right, However, Both parties would look really bad if they were to rate a movie lower than what it should be rated.
In essence, while it is quite easily for a group with interests to try to 'buy' a lower rating, it would more than likely come back to bite them in the ass when all the concerend parents groups, along with whoever else decides to rise against them for putting out such garbage.
First off, RTFA.. he did state that some games are impossible to play with only one hand, and fighting games were probably classed in that. Second, he didn't make any such claim, and stated that the only use he ever got out of it was for RPGs.
IGN is actually the only site I've seen give them a good review. Everyone else trashes them for the same reasons I don't like them: They are simply way too big. The controller is nearly as large as the original XBox controller, which, IIRC has been discontinued. I could be wrong about this, but I haven't seen one in a store for over a year at this point. As for $40 and up being inexpensive, keep in mind that Nintendo sells the Wavebird for around $30, and keeps the exact same feel as the original controller. To me, and most others, that is really the deciding factor on the utility of a controller.
I've given the Logitech PS2 controller a go, as well as the Pelican for the XBox. My issue with both of those is that they are both significantly larger and/or shaped differently enough to ruin the feel of the original controller, which I noted in my original post.
I have 3 consoles and a DVD player running on 1 TV. For all the AV cabling, I have a junction box which deals with that quite nicely. They run around $20 at a Best Buy or some other gaming store. For Controllers, I usually have them all stored unless they are actually in use, with the exception of my GCN. I have Wavebirds for that. I'd like to go the wireless route with controllers for the other 2 systems, but Sony and MS have yet to put out a decent wireless controller. Currently they are all IR based, which tends to be exceptionally laggy, short on range, and the controllers themselves lose the feel of the original controller. When they get a Wavebird equivilent, I'll probably grab those to deal with the rest. Oh, and for power cables, Belkin sells a set of velcro ties for cable management for $5 or so. A PC supply shop should carry those.
I grew up in a military household, with a father who was an officer in the US Navy. This means that for over half the year on average, my mother who worked in excess of 50 hours a week was the only parent raising myself and 2 siblings. As a result of this, I was in the same situation that these children who have gone out and 'played' GTA and committed other senseless acts of violence were, from a standpoint of the amount of time my parents were around. It is quite likely that they saw more of their parents, mostly due to the fact that one of their parents was not gone for 6 months out of the year. However, that does not mean that my parents were not involved in everything I did, from school activities, to the friends I hung out with to all of the video games I played. The reason that there is a deluge of comments about "where were the parents?" is not so much a literal one, but a figurative one pertaining to why were they not more involved.
I feel that a large part of the issue here is that all the parents of children who do these things is that the parents don't get involved in their lives, so in a somewhat desperate cry for attention, or perhaps to lash out at what they perceive to be a society that carries no love for them they act out the one thing that brings them comfort; a violent video game. While I don't think that the games are entirely to blame, I'm sure that with access to firearms and other weapons they would be quite capable of finding source material in movies or TV, the issue at the heart of all of this is parental involvement, moreso the appalling lack thereof which has come to be the norm in todays society.
I used to have one, but wore it out on FF games within a year of getting it. I haven't been able to find one since, and had forgotten the manufacturer. As for it being difficult to use, it was really only intended for RPGs, and with that purpose in mind, it is a wonderful controller to use, as it leaves a hand free for things like keeping the other half off my back or looking through a strategy guide.
A few years back Sony released a one handed controller for the PSOne. There is a catch with it, however. It does not feature one of the analog controllers, and would most likely not work for any game that required it. The other problem is that it is really designed for use with RPGs and is probably not suited to any other genre. I'd think that would be the case with most games out there, IMO.
Not quite true. There are hundreds of people who live aboard a cruiser, and generate their power from a mix of wind, solar and diesel power. My grandparents lived aboard a sailboat for almost 8 years, and owned 2 laptops and a desktop. This situation is very similar, although they had to deal with saltwater corrosion in addition to the power drawn by the PC.
On topic, I'd have to say that a laptop would definitely be the best choice based on a power consumption point; the PC they bought drew nearly double what either of the laptops did.
No, but it will be modded to +4, despite the fact that it is a really bad joke. I suppose there is no accounting for bad taste in a world without RTFA.;P
The theatre I saw it in had the trailer tacked on to about 15 mins of shitty commercials. I saw it and was like "oh great, another shitty commercial". About halfway thorough the rest of the trailers, the URL for www.IRobotMovie.com being at the end hit me, and I was pretty stoked to have realized that. nowhere, for any of the trailers I saw was there a green screen This is a preview.
I totally agree with that. I was a bit iffy on this at the outset, and then they put in the monthly storylines, which were good. However, in 6 months, there have been 2 parts to the monthly story. In addition, most of the monthly story is aimed at combat classes, and are nearly impossible for a crafter to complete. There is a huge amount they could have done, and still can do. It is simply a matter of the development team getting up and implementing it all.
First off, there is a lot more than a random profession path assigned by Holocrons. Second, once you have unlocked the FS Slot, you make your char, which starts as a Jedi Initiate. Around 10 Million XP later, you can be a Padawan. Around 3 million more gets you to the Jedi Knight tree. 20 more million and you are a Jedi Knight, and if you are still alive at this point, you are the closest thing to God. If you are still alive, and not hunted by every BH on the server that can get the missions for your head on a stick, around 40 million more XP gets you to Jedi Master. If you die your third time after that, you simply get reset back to Initiate, loosing all progress. The whole "Blue Glowy" Concept was removed about 2 months ago.
I played for 4 months, never grinded a single profession, and dropped it with 3 masteries, having completed just about all the content available to me. I'd killed a Krayt Dragon, I've killed a Dark Jedi Master. People stop playing for all the reasons the grandparent poster gave. This game simply has no content at all. There are a few buggy, half broken themeparks, a handful of quests, and beyond that, there is 35 professions, not counting the Jedi classes. That is where all the content is, and it is no substitute for a storyline or any quests.
Actually, I think the grandparent poster made a most excellent point. Despite the fact that Take Two and Interplay are very different companies, the money Take Two is spending on 3DR would be far better spent on Black Isle, keeping them up and going so that we can have more great games like NWN or KoToR stuff. I'd rather wait on that than this steaming pile of imaginary bullshit called Duke Nukem Forever. We'll see a completly stable version of SW:G long before that hits the shelves, anyway.
IANAL, but if that is indeed the case, you might want to go review your privacy protection and think about getting another ISP. Generally, when you sign on with them, they agree to protect all personal information you submit as per the Personal Privacy Act of 1975. That states that the information you give to them is given in the good faith that they will not hand it off to anyone who does not have your best interests in mind.
I think that if you take one book, break it into 6 sections plus the appendix, then publish it as either 2 books to a volume, or 1 whole book as it is meant to be, it's really not possible to make a sequel.
lol, yea. Personally, stuff like galaxies, and lately FFXI do nothing but prove to me that DirectX is from the devil, and should be abolished. OpenGL should become the new standard, because then you could tailor the drivers to the game, and pack them with it. Much much better, IMO, and then I could go back to my beloved Mandrake 8.1, although RedHat Fedora looks very very sexy....
Wow, looking at that, and seeing everything except your ram below reccomended specs, I'm surprised you can run it at all. I'm running 10X the system(which cost me $600 BTW) and it still lags, crashes and everything else. You must be a very lucky person.
AMD Athlon XP 1800
640 MB Ram
13.5 GB HD - This is my Windows box, btw
GeForce 4 MX 440, PCI, 64 MB
Win XP
Only if they plan on marketing it over here. I am not sure on this, and IANAL, but I believe that due to US restrictions on export of US developed GPS tracking software, Garmin is prohibited from selling GPS technology overseas due to gov't restrictions, as well as their ownership of the GPS NavSats.
I've already seen the anime, legend of twilights bracelet, as for the tokyopop translation of the title, well, densetsu no udewa translates quite literally as legend of dusk's bracelet. I can't remeber remeber the full japanese title, but look around and you'll find it. as far as there not being a translation of the anime to the manga, I've seen scanslations of that here and there. As far as their being a toonami/adult swim version, I could care less. I still have my fansubs, and will replace them with dvds. CN edits suck. Reference Kenshin for that.
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In essence, while it is quite easily for a group with interests to try to 'buy' a lower rating, it would more than likely come back to bite them in the ass when all the concerend parents groups, along with whoever else decides to rise against them for putting out such garbage.
I think you should go troll elsewhere, BTW.
IGN is actually the only site I've seen give them a good review. Everyone else trashes them for the same reasons I don't like them: They are simply way too big. The controller is nearly as large as the original XBox controller, which, IIRC has been discontinued. I could be wrong about this, but I haven't seen one in a store for over a year at this point. As for $40 and up being inexpensive, keep in mind that Nintendo sells the Wavebird for around $30, and keeps the exact same feel as the original controller. To me, and most others, that is really the deciding factor on the utility of a controller.
I've given the Logitech PS2 controller a go, as well as the Pelican for the XBox. My issue with both of those is that they are both significantly larger and/or shaped differently enough to ruin the feel of the original controller, which I noted in my original post.
I have 3 consoles and a DVD player running on 1 TV. For all the AV cabling, I have a junction box which deals with that quite nicely. They run around $20 at a Best Buy or some other gaming store. For Controllers, I usually have them all stored unless they are actually in use, with the exception of my GCN. I have Wavebirds for that. I'd like to go the wireless route with controllers for the other 2 systems, but Sony and MS have yet to put out a decent wireless controller. Currently they are all IR based, which tends to be exceptionally laggy, short on range, and the controllers themselves lose the feel of the original controller. When they get a Wavebird equivilent, I'll probably grab those to deal with the rest. Oh, and for power cables, Belkin sells a set of velcro ties for cable management for $5 or so. A PC supply shop should carry those.
I feel that a large part of the issue here is that all the parents of children who do these things is that the parents don't get involved in their lives, so in a somewhat desperate cry for attention, or perhaps to lash out at what they perceive to be a society that carries no love for them they act out the one thing that brings them comfort; a violent video game. While I don't think that the games are entirely to blame, I'm sure that with access to firearms and other weapons they would be quite capable of finding source material in movies or TV, the issue at the heart of all of this is parental involvement, moreso the appalling lack thereof which has come to be the norm in todays society.
I used to have one, but wore it out on FF games within a year of getting it. I haven't been able to find one since, and had forgotten the manufacturer. As for it being difficult to use, it was really only intended for RPGs, and with that purpose in mind, it is a wonderful controller to use, as it leaves a hand free for things like keeping the other half off my back or looking through a strategy guide.
A few years back Sony released a one handed controller for the PSOne. There is a catch with it, however. It does not feature one of the analog controllers, and would most likely not work for any game that required it. The other problem is that it is really designed for use with RPGs and is probably not suited to any other genre. I'd think that would be the case with most games out there, IMO.
On topic, I'd have to say that a laptop would definitely be the best choice based on a power consumption point; the PC they bought drew nearly double what either of the laptops did.
No, but it will be modded to +4, despite the fact that it is a really bad joke. I suppose there is no accounting for bad taste in a world without RTFA. ;P
BMW has done an entire series of those here in the states. One of them even had Madonna in it. You can find them all here at BMWFilms.com
The theatre I saw it in had the trailer tacked on to about 15 mins of shitty commercials. I saw it and was like "oh great, another shitty commercial". About halfway thorough the rest of the trailers, the URL for www.IRobotMovie.com being at the end hit me, and I was pretty stoked to have realized that. nowhere, for any of the trailers I saw was there a green screen This is a preview.
I totally agree with that. I was a bit iffy on this at the outset, and then they put in the monthly storylines, which were good. However, in 6 months, there have been 2 parts to the monthly story. In addition, most of the monthly story is aimed at combat classes, and are nearly impossible for a crafter to complete. There is a huge amount they could have done, and still can do. It is simply a matter of the development team getting up and implementing it all.
First off, there is a lot more than a random profession path assigned by Holocrons. Second, once you have unlocked the FS Slot, you make your char, which starts as a Jedi Initiate. Around 10 Million XP later, you can be a Padawan. Around 3 million more gets you to the Jedi Knight tree. 20 more million and you are a Jedi Knight, and if you are still alive at this point, you are the closest thing to God. If you are still alive, and not hunted by every BH on the server that can get the missions for your head on a stick, around 40 million more XP gets you to Jedi Master. If you die your third time after that, you simply get reset back to Initiate, loosing all progress. The whole "Blue Glowy" Concept was removed about 2 months ago.
I played for 4 months, never grinded a single profession, and dropped it with 3 masteries, having completed just about all the content available to me. I'd killed a Krayt Dragon, I've killed a Dark Jedi Master. People stop playing for all the reasons the grandparent poster gave. This game simply has no content at all. There are a few buggy, half broken themeparks, a handful of quests, and beyond that, there is 35 professions, not counting the Jedi classes. That is where all the content is, and it is no substitute for a storyline or any quests.
Actually, I think the grandparent poster made a most excellent point. Despite the fact that Take Two and Interplay are very different companies, the money Take Two is spending on 3DR would be far better spent on Black Isle, keeping them up and going so that we can have more great games like NWN or KoToR stuff. I'd rather wait on that than this steaming pile of imaginary bullshit called Duke Nukem Forever. We'll see a completly stable version of SW:G long before that hits the shelves, anyway.
IANAL, but if that is indeed the case, you might want to go review your privacy protection and think about getting another ISP. Generally, when you sign on with them, they agree to protect all personal information you submit as per the Personal Privacy Act of 1975. That states that the information you give to them is given in the good faith that they will not hand it off to anyone who does not have your best interests in mind.
I think that if you take one book, break it into 6 sections plus the appendix, then publish it as either 2 books to a volume, or 1 whole book as it is meant to be, it's really not possible to make a sequel.
I think you need to curl up with a COBOL programming book. You'll find your explanation there.
You, my friend are in luck. Seiken Densetsu 3 was realeased on the PSOne under the name Legend of Mana.
lol, yea. Personally, stuff like galaxies, and lately FFXI do nothing but prove to me that DirectX is from the devil, and should be abolished. OpenGL should become the new standard, because then you could tailor the drivers to the game, and pack them with it. Much much better, IMO, and then I could go back to my beloved Mandrake 8.1, although RedHat Fedora looks very very sexy....
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Only if they plan on marketing it over here. I am not sure on this, and IANAL, but I believe that due to US restrictions on export of US developed GPS tracking software, Garmin is prohibited from selling GPS technology overseas due to gov't restrictions, as well as their ownership of the GPS NavSats.
I've already seen the anime, legend of twilights bracelet, as for the tokyopop translation of the title, well, densetsu no udewa translates quite literally as legend of dusk's bracelet. I can't remeber remeber the full japanese title, but look around and you'll find it. as far as there not being a translation of the anime to the manga, I've seen scanslations of that here and there. As far as their being a toonami/adult swim version, I could care less. I still have my fansubs, and will replace them with dvds. CN edits suck. Reference Kenshin for that.