I'm not going to list games you would like, necessarily, just titles from my shelf (possibly virtual) that deflate your non-point about modern genres.
Geometry Wars Boom Boom Rocket Uno Crackdown Guitar Hero God of War Shadow of the Colossus Dead Rising Katamari Damacy Rez Warioware: Smooth Moves Super Monkey Ball
Technically, Gears of War also fits the list since it's not an FPS, but too many people who haven't played it will argue about it.
I'm leaving off a bunch of stuff because I'm lazy. That's just the games I've played recently that I have to reshelve (and new XBLA stuff).
Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Let's destroy a huge portion of the world's ability to feed their families so some kids don't have to pay for music and software anymore. Yeah, I don't see anything wrong with that. I NEED MY ENTERTAINMENT, DAMMIT!
These shops typically have site licenses, and install whatever version of Windows they damn well please on their machines. This isn't limited to big shops, either - it's been true at every place I've worked from 15 employees to 15,000.
If you're a Microsoft shop, Microsoft makes money from you. Control is still just a little too slick for them to hold.
It doesn't seem like a campaign to me. From my vantage point (obsessively neutral about tools) it looks like insecurity masquerading as a big community hug and wank session.
People who are secure in the choices they've made don't need to trumpet them all over the place. In particular, they don't segue any possible (tenuous) link into a rant about the superiority of their choice.
The freedom of the protesters stops when it curtails the freedom of everybody else. Really really really believing you're right doesn't mean you get to enforce that view on other people by disrupting their lives.
Since the protesters are typically a vocal minority whose tactics include property destruction and disrupting the lives of people who don't agree, I say turn the hoses on em.
I say this as a former victim of a job in downtown DC, so I know what it's like to get caught in the whirlwind. There's nothing peaceful about some hippie flinging a brick through the Starbucks where you're trying to get a coffee because he doesn't like milk.
Maybe you need to realize that your standards of humor apply to exactly one person, and you have no basis for judgment of what anyone else finds funny. It's a big world out here, and you aren't in charge of its attitude.
Yes, if you want to convince someone that your subjective point of view is the correct one, you need to point it out for them. Welcome to the outside world. Your opinion is not the only one out here. You are not automatically correct in everything you believe, and your beliefs are not necessarily shared. I know it's tough to get used to it, but it will pay off in the end.
You're forgetting about the massive database of information Doubleclick has compiled by now. Doubleclick sells ads but they have also been in the information gathering business for years.
There's a fairly visible line between "not much" and "nothing" that you seem to have missed. In any case, no. I'll say whatever the hell I like. Welcome to freedom of speech. When we've encoded your freedom to not be offended, that's when I'll toe your line.
That sort of thinking is what makes these retarded publicity stunts of Jackson's work in the first place. I wonder if people will ever stop being so sensitive to words that don't mean much?
It's a real shame they won't sink a few million dollars into making a game that 50 people will buy just to make you happy. If they did, I wouldn't have to read such tortured baseless rants.
A lot of people watch Days of Our Lives for the story as well, and I make fun of them just as viciously. A crappy story doesn't care what medium uses it, but the medium I care about has enough crappy stories to last you JRPG fans a lifetime already. Quit polluting my game shelves with your bad taste.
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Didn't they give you the manual when you signed up here? Maybe they started doing it sometime after you. I'll quote the relevant section:
Entertainment wants to be free.
First, GTA isn't a driving game.
I'm not going to list games you would like, necessarily, just titles from my shelf (possibly virtual) that deflate your non-point about modern genres.
Geometry Wars
Boom Boom Rocket
Uno
Crackdown
Guitar Hero
God of War
Shadow of the Colossus
Dead Rising
Katamari Damacy
Rez
Warioware: Smooth Moves
Super Monkey Ball
Technically, Gears of War also fits the list since it's not an FPS, but too many people who haven't played it will argue about it.
I'm leaving off a bunch of stuff because I'm lazy. That's just the games I've played recently that I have to reshelve (and new XBLA stuff).
So, you were saying?
Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Let's destroy a huge portion of the world's ability to feed their families so some kids don't have to pay for music and software anymore. Yeah, I don't see anything wrong with that. I NEED MY ENTERTAINMENT, DAMMIT!
These shops typically have site licenses, and install whatever version of Windows they damn well please on their machines. This isn't limited to big shops, either - it's been true at every place I've worked from 15 employees to 15,000.
If you're a Microsoft shop, Microsoft makes money from you. Control is still just a little too slick for them to hold.
It doesn't seem like a campaign to me. From my vantage point (obsessively neutral about tools) it looks like insecurity masquerading as a big community hug and wank session.
People who are secure in the choices they've made don't need to trumpet them all over the place. In particular, they don't segue any possible (tenuous) link into a rant about the superiority of their choice.
You're so hot, I'll give you both inches.
It might have been the funniest joke in the world, but it sure was one of the more obvious examples.
The freedom of the protesters stops when it curtails the freedom of everybody else. Really really really believing you're right doesn't mean you get to enforce that view on other people by disrupting their lives.
Since the protesters are typically a vocal minority whose tactics include property destruction and disrupting the lives of people who don't agree, I say turn the hoses on em.
I say this as a former victim of a job in downtown DC, so I know what it's like to get caught in the whirlwind. There's nothing peaceful about some hippie flinging a brick through the Starbucks where you're trying to get a coffee because he doesn't like milk.
Nothing like a barely comprehensible paranoid rant to make your point really stick.
Maybe you need to realize that your standards of humor apply to exactly one person, and you have no basis for judgment of what anyone else finds funny. It's a big world out here, and you aren't in charge of its attitude.
You are a bitch. I don't have anyone to compare you to, unfortunately, so you'll have to stand alone in your anonymous bitchhood.
If you don't tell Spiderman that the wall is about to fall on him, then he might not see it. What will happen then, tough guy? Huh? Huh?
Yes, if you want to convince someone that your subjective point of view is the correct one, you need to point it out for them. Welcome to the outside world. Your opinion is not the only one out here. You are not automatically correct in everything you believe, and your beliefs are not necessarily shared. I know it's tough to get used to it, but it will pay off in the end.
Come on, mods. I want to see this +5 Insightful soon. The requisite off-topic US bash is there. Lets get this sucker seen.
What exactly is the dollar value over which things become evil? I missed the indoctrination meeting when I signed up for Slashdot.
You're forgetting about the massive database of information Doubleclick has compiled by now. Doubleclick sells ads but they have also been in the information gathering business for years.
There's a fairly visible line between "not much" and "nothing" that you seem to have missed. In any case, no. I'll say whatever the hell I like. Welcome to freedom of speech. When we've encoded your freedom to not be offended, that's when I'll toe your line.
Great, now we have "my kids are smarter than yours" trolls. Just what Slashdot needed.
Damn the Hitachi and its orgasm inducing powers.
That sort of thinking is what makes these retarded publicity stunts of Jackson's work in the first place. I wonder if people will ever stop being so sensitive to words that don't mean much?
Looks like Jesse Jackson got mod points today.
It's a real shame they won't sink a few million dollars into making a game that 50 people will buy just to make you happy. If they did, I wouldn't have to read such tortured baseless rants.
A lot of people watch Days of Our Lives for the story as well, and I make fun of them just as viciously. A crappy story doesn't care what medium uses it, but the medium I care about has enough crappy stories to last you JRPG fans a lifetime already. Quit polluting my game shelves with your bad taste.
They want to make money. That's the rationalization, if you could even apply such a heavy word. I don't know why you would even try to look deeper.