Competition at work. Obviously to make the most shiny game make the most money or they wouldn't be trying. So we get the most shiny expensive developed products.
If they can't compete there and can in some other area we get better games there too.
Some games sell for cheap and there's a market for those to.
And the "oh games was better in the old days" is likely complete bullshit because the new ones seem to allow more stuff, even if one tried to make an old style game it may become more interesting today because one can build on ideas and use technology / new developments not available then. And obviously one can do games one simply couldn't do then.
Likely rather more and better implemented options and bigger more interesting environments.
The problem I have with the procedural is that there will be harder to make a good story, connection and make them make sense.
Say I explore a cave and meet people (guess WoW may make more sense) or drive around in a city doing quests (I don't know how GTA plays today but..)
If it was procedural it would just be do this and that and all over with less connection, if it was planned though the bigger structure would make sense. I don't want a grind game into nothingness.
Space is so large that any configuration I guess could possibly had been around somewhere and it would also be a chore to plan/create all of it.
I'm not very interested in a space sim either. There is one in the daily Humble Bundle for $1 but I'm not that interested to play in a "dead" space (not really dead.)
Maybe I should buy it anyway to try but too long and so on. I'd be much more interested in playing EvE in that case but it cost much more.
I think over here it's said that supposedly THE BETTER THE TEACHER ARE the better the pupils become.
We've got a problem there in that we're paying them too little. As is you can become a teacher with a 0.1 point at a kind of test your suitability for university studies test. The problem is just that simply answering C on every question supposedly would had given you 0.5. I think the average may be just under 1 on those tests, max is 2.
So yeah, anyone who totally don't know jack shit can start teacher studies. And for some subjects no-one is educating themselves. Possible reason being that if you're going to study that long to become a math teacher you can get a science master degree instead and earn more and likely also get a higher social status likely partly becauie teachers earn so little and isn't valued more by society.
Who would you want to have as a math teacher? The idiot or someone clever? (Now they of course have to pass the education too. Then again we've had lots of unqualified teachers too because those where the only ones available.)
(This country is Sweden. As is people can pick school and we allow many fleeing immigrants to come which lead to poor integration and schools with mostly immigrants and if your social class is lower, others struggle at school or maybe get tired in trying and there's language barriers that doesn't help either.)
But he mentioned "a selected few" / not everyone / leaved out Windows/PC on purpose.
"Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, and iOS"
As for 3DS now with so many games getting controller support also for PC and Intel doing low-end chips maybe it would be possible to make a portable PC console.
I live in Sweden and since you get items I don't know how that would work and whatever there is any requirement for a charity organization / whatever (this was Humble EA Bundle, I still haven't added or played any of the games.)
I kinda wish HB let one list all the payments and how much has gone where though. Or if nothing else at least between HB, charities and developers + total amount paid.
On the other hand I think Crysis 2 and a bunch of other games cost me $5 and possibly all of that went to charity (there wasn't even an option to pay EA for it.)
Well, Slashdot don't claim to be any longer either but it used to be.
And nerds don't get excited about "someone have put an OS on a usb stick and want to sell it" (No I haven't RTFA and I don't know if they are collecting money as a charity to give people drives or are selling the actual drives or what they want to raise money for or what OS it will run and whatever the OS will be a free one but I guess so. As said this is Slashdot and I'm a regular and we don't read the fucking articles we possibly read the summary and then we go into the comments - read and post!)
Promises of being able to use an old PC. What a great new idea!
Fact is running OS from USB stick is slow as fuck and if you already have a PC why not install it on the HDD in said PC? Now they said personal and fine. Are there a requirement for that? Maybe they could store their files on the USB stick instead? both is ok.
How do they get actual Internet connection?
What about electricity?
If they have limited electricity then something more modern would likely be better.
Also how do they take care of old electronic goods in Africa? Environmental safe recycling?..
And buy what game instead? Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, and iOS all have secret guidelines for what content is acceptable on their respective platforms.
PCs don't and the largest chunk of change is put into buying PC games too.
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There's also nothing to be fixed.
Competition at work. Obviously to make the most shiny game make the most money or they wouldn't be trying. So we get the most shiny expensive developed products.
If they can't compete there and can in some other area we get better games there too.
Some games sell for cheap and there's a market for those to.
And the "oh games was better in the old days" is likely complete bullshit because the new ones seem to allow more stuff, even if one tried to make an old style game it may become more interesting today because one can build on ideas and use technology / new developments not available then. And obviously one can do games one simply couldn't do then.
Likely rather more and better implemented options and bigger more interesting environments.
The problem I have with the procedural is that there will be harder to make a good story, connection and make them make sense.
Say I explore a cave and meet people (guess WoW may make more sense) or drive around in a city doing quests (I don't know how GTA plays today but ..)
If it was procedural it would just be do this and that and all over with less connection, if it was planned though the bigger structure would make sense. I don't want a grind game into nothingness.
Space is so large that any configuration I guess could possibly had been around somewhere and it would also be a chore to plan/create all of it.
I'm not very interested in a space sim either. There is one in the daily Humble Bundle for $1 but I'm not that interested to play in a "dead" space (not really dead.)
Maybe I should buy it anyway to try but too long and so on. I'd be much more interested in playing EvE in that case but it cost much more.
Like Firewire any Thunderbolt device has full and unrestricted access to your computer's memory space
Is that always the case with DMA?
Imho USB drives are slow & demanding as fuck. I've wanted DMA support.
I think over here it's said that supposedly THE BETTER THE TEACHER ARE the better the pupils become.
We've got a problem there in that we're paying them too little. As is you can become a teacher with a 0.1 point at a kind of test your suitability for university studies test. The problem is just that simply answering C on every question supposedly would had given you 0.5. I think the average may be just under 1 on those tests, max is 2.
So yeah, anyone who totally don't know jack shit can start teacher studies. And for some subjects no-one is educating themselves. Possible reason being that if you're going to study that long to become a math teacher you can get a science master degree instead and earn more and likely also get a higher social status likely partly becauie teachers earn so little and isn't valued more by society.
Who would you want to have as a math teacher? The idiot or someone clever? (Now they of course have to pass the education too. Then again we've had lots of unqualified teachers too because those where the only ones available.)
(This country is Sweden. As is people can pick school and we allow many fleeing immigrants to come which lead to poor integration and schools with mostly immigrants and if your social class is lower, others struggle at school or maybe get tired in trying and there's language barriers that doesn't help either.)
I use English for the interweb. I don't read books. It is and become what it is.
e problem with Solaris is that you'll have to licence every bullet, individually from Oracle.
Or what?
"We've seen your yacht Larry Ellison and you don't stand a chance!"
You forgot The Book of Mormon and a few others.
Guess I should had only mentioned one.
Then I could have said "THOSE ARE ALL WRONG!"
Damn religinuts are retarded.
There's only need for the one book!
Bible or the Khoran. Your choice!
(No this isn't my opinion, "it's fact!", no really, I don't believe so.)
C&C:Generals is dropped too?
Lame. They should release a new game too. A good one.
Then again there's Starcraft.
96 kilograms or 6 percent of the U-233 produced is not accounted for.
Maybe it have a half-life time of 17 times the time since they last checked how much they had?
The games in question (IIRC) all have single player modes that continue to work.
My penis has a single player mode too but I doubt you can compare them and multi-player and socialising often make things more fun.
But he mentioned "a selected few" / not everyone / leaved out Windows/PC on purpose.
"Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, and iOS"
As for 3DS now with so many games getting controller support also for PC and Intel doing low-end chips maybe it would be possible to make a portable PC console.
I live in Sweden and since you get items I don't know how that would work and whatever there is any requirement for a charity organization / whatever (this was Humble EA Bundle, I still haven't added or played any of the games.)
I kinda wish HB let one list all the payments and how much has gone where though. Or if nothing else at least between HB, charities and developers + total amount paid.
On the other hand I think Crysis 2 and a bunch of other games cost me $5 and possibly all of that went to charity (there wasn't even an option to pay EA for it.)
Actually forget about the "or."
If you make multiplayer games _DO_ run servers and _DO_ run them forever.
If you can't make it happen make sure someone like Valve will make sure it do happen.
Or with only 1% of the load just let it run on some virtual machine / way fewer machines.
BBC isn't news for nerds.
Well, Slashdot don't claim to be any longer either but it used to be.
And nerds don't get excited about "someone have put an OS on a usb stick and want to sell it" (No I haven't RTFA and I don't know if they are collecting money as a charity to give people drives or are selling the actual drives or what they want to raise money for or what OS it will run and whatever the OS will be a free one but I guess so. As said this is Slashdot and I'm a regular and we don't read the fucking articles we possibly read the summary and then we go into the comments - read and post!)
.. also WTF is this doing on the front page of /.
If you've never heard about running a free (?) OS from a USB stick what are you doing at /. to begin with?
No I won't sponsor your project. Slashvertisment?
Seriously.
LIVE USB stick.
What a great new idea!
Free OS! What a great new idea.
Promises of being able to use an old PC. What a great new idea!
Fact is running OS from USB stick is slow as fuck and if you already have a PC why not install it on the HDD in said PC? Now they said personal and fine. Are there a requirement for that? Maybe they could store their files on the USB stick instead? both is ok.
How do they get actual Internet connection?
What about electricity?
If they have limited electricity then something more modern would likely be better.
Also how do they take care of old electronic goods in Africa? Environmental safe recycling? ..
What about paper buy using a hover-board to deliver papers? Never thought about that did they!
And buy what game instead? Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, and iOS all have secret guidelines for what content is acceptable on their respective platforms.
PCs don't and the largest chunk of change is put into buying PC games too.
I hope you can kill more than nazis in the new Wolfenstein game.
Because being able to kill anyone is important!
I can do it for $0.
My PC support 32 bit instructions.
- I'm sick of cheaters!
* Brings rocket launcher to knife fight *
Because GPL-nazi.
NO THIS ISN'T A FLAMEBAIT. It's the freaking truth.