Now if only someone could produce an piece of code that analyzed slashdot submissions and weeded out duplicates like this one. You know, news that Slashdot did last year.
I just wish I'd never watched it again. I barely remember the movie, but watching it as an adult really was a bad move. Same with The Last Starfighter. I had such fond memories of both. And sure, they were great at the time. But that was 20+ years ago each.
It would be nice to have modern versions (not remakes, just comparable modern movies for this generation that were in the same sort of vein as those movies from 80-84). Hell, I remember this great movie about this guy's (Apple?) that got jealous of him and tried to take revenge on him and his girlfriend and eventually the computer gave up and committed suicide. It was AWESOME. Even today, it's still great. I think it was based on a book. Either that, or I just happened to read a book that was similar, too. But they don't make movies like that anymore, either.
Wargames holds up, by far, better than all of them, though.
A 9'x9' walking closet off my bedroom, carpeted with plush shag carpeting. Furnished with a $2,000 office chair (think, a trucker's seat, but at home), some beanbags, a lava lamp, a nice 5.1 audio system and all my gaming machines (including the computer) and a circulation system and a mini fridge.:)
Not a bathroom, but close enough. I just need to get some bottles big enough to piss in for marathon gaming sessions of Battlefield2.
Of course they're the same thing (essentially). One just adds the functionality of saying "if the other 100 pictures sharing these certain characteristics were labeled with these specific tags, then this one should be as well" rather than requiring the 101st photo to be manually tagged.
Hey, asshats - how about giving me a refund for the $50 I wasted buying The Matrix Online? I played for a solid week and the gameplay just got more tedious and dull. The graphics were mediocre (I really thought it seemed dated by a few years) and even after a week, it was rare to encounter another person. Biggest waste of money, ever.
Personally, I thought MySpace was for college students. Or really, anyone young enough to still be intrigued by being part of a "clique".
Imagine what happens when lots of people in public places use their webcams (the kind in most cities or small shops) to record and upload every person that walks by. You'd eventually have a huge public database of automatically catalogued photographic timelines of every person. Where they went, when, who they were with... yikes.
Most of my photos are upskirts of random strangers at the mall. This service is only useful if I'm going to be photographing the same shaved vaginas over and over again and, for that to happen, I'd have to be incredibly lucky. You try asking a hottie out when you have mirrors on your shoes and a camera with the "record" light on, aimed upward from knee-height.
The sad thing is that Jay Maynard probably still has ten times the life that most of us Slashdotters do. Myself, included.
Not to mention, that dude's got balls (no pun intended). I usually ridicule total dorks who make lameass fanboy suits and cosplay outfits, but he made a cool costume, had the guts to wear it, went national with it (Don and Mike, Jimmy Kimmel, etc) and had a good time with it. You really have to be comfortable with yourself to pull that off.
Who hasn't done some weird ass searches, though? Hell, I've done searches on the old "26 ways to kill a person" howto. That doesn't mean I'm going to do it. But if I've killed someone and they then use my searches as *additional* evidence in my trial, there's no problem with that. Just don't go out hunting blindly through every individual that's done that search to pin a crime on them.
I have not read the article (look at my UID, I've obviously spent many years being conditioned to not read articles). However, was this information gathered via google or just by searching this guy's cache? Or was it gathered by getting his login information for his google account from him (or his computer) and then doing a search of his history?
The reason I ask is that google talks about how the information they gather (including in search history, I guess?) is aggregated and in no way identifiable and linkable to an individual. So, then, how could a subpeona to google result in anything useful being returned?
However, this isn't a huge deal, really. I'm not one of those detestable "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care?" idiots, but the thing to learn here is that it's okay to look up "snap" and "neck" and even "how to murder someone" via google or any other engine. However, if you actually ARE going to murder someone, you probably should not look up "snap" and "neck" or "how to murder someone" via google. Or, rather, if the authorities are trying to tie a suspect to a murder, he is not going to be convicted soley on a few google searches. It will just be additional circumstancial evidence to add to the pot.
These sort of things only become a problem when they start seeking out suspects and disrupting innocent people's lives because the people made particular searches in a search engine. So rather than saying "We're pretty sure this guy killed this other person and we want to see his google history", they start going through all of google's data and investigating every person with suspiciously strange search keywords just in case whoever they are have committed whatever crime against whatever unknowned victims and are suspects soley because of the information they sought.
Have any of my fellow geeks who prattle on about how wonderful this movie is and how much they love it actually seen it in the last decade? It's easy to talk about something positively when you're basing it on nostalgic memories rather than reality.
The movie came out when I was four or five years old and I watched it when I was ten or twelve. It was good. Not great, but good. I watched it a decade ago, when I was about 18. You know what? It was terrible. As I said in that other StarWars post, Tron was I actually used to like Knight Rider?! awful. The same goes for The Last Starfighter.
And of course a disney game would have tron/CGI stuff in it. It's probably a reference to how Disney doesn't have animators anymore or do cell-animation since they're a CGI-only outfit these days.
And what exactly is wrong if it is objectification?
We base our entire choice of sex-partner, mate and societal/species evolution and propegation on objectification. You think women (and society in general) don't pick and judge males on a certain set of objectified traits such as height, weight, income, profession and posession? Men and women and society objectify each other in every way possible - especially when choosing who we're interested in sexually and who we are interested in as characters. Why do you think the likes of Jack Black and Chris Farley are anomolies?
It's not a bad thing. It's how we've evolved. It's how we continue to exist. Should a girl really be insulted every time a man compliments her on the way she looks or takes a moment to observe the nice package she's put together in appealing clothing for the day? If so, should I be insulted every time the first thing a woman asks is "what do you do for a living?" or when her girlfriends ask before any other question "what kind of car does your boyfriend drive"? Hell no. Because that's what I'm judged on - as a male. Just like women are judged on certain objectifying attributes and accomplishments.
There's nothing disrespectful about finding only certain parameters entertaining in a videogame or movie character anymore than there is in finding only certain parameters appealing in a person face to face in your real life.
You all might want to live in some doped-up androgynous THX 1138, but I sure as hell do not.
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What I love about women like this are that they whine and moan about how all men want to see in movies and videogames is hot stereotypical slender, big-breasted, young attractive women. They say men aren't open-minded enough and are too obsessive with physical aspects.
These same women almost never have an issue with men having to play the stereotypical bread-earning, work from birth to death, live shorter lives, provide stabilitiy and security roles, do they? And these same women (I've been around them in gab-sessions where they've said as much) turn around and talk about how all they want is a man who's at least 6'2" tall or he doesn't even get a chance to *talk* to her, has a six-pack belly, drives a NICE car and has a big penis.
So I take complaints about how men only want stereotypically hot women with a grain of salt, since it's all BS> It's not just men with women. It's how we are as a species, ALL TOGETHER. And that's the biological way it's supposed to be. No big deal.
After all, who wants to play a chunkster or a fugly loser? Come on.
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I don't know, I tend to think if the future of your entire "sex" depends on lessons learned and emulated from videogame characters, you have bigger problems. The entire article that chick wrote was one giant flame-bait. It might have had it's place in 1978, but it's 2005. Time to move on.
You should go read the comments on that site about the article. It's like everyone forgot that the women's movement ended a long time ago. Girls - you get to vote now. You can be CEOs. You (think) you can be perfect moms *and* professional independant career women all at the same time. Really, you don't have to sit around the house all day bemoaning the fate of women characters in videogames in your blog. You're free now. You can actually go DO stuff.
I'm all for people being equal (though that does NOT mean at all that they are same because clearly they are not and never will be). However, the best way to lose credibility in a discussion or "article" is to begin it with "I'm a feminist".
For one thing, the term has completely lost all meaning since the "all sex is rape" crowd and others got in the mix.
PS: I don't care about gender in a game. I care about gameplay and character development. And no, I don't necessarily want to play a fat chunky ugly female character rather than a hot big-titted one, but I don't want to play a fat ugly chunky loser male character either. Male characters in games are just as "stereotyped" and generic and unoriginal as the female ones. So what? So are magazine covers. So are movies. So are characters in most books. So are most anime characters. My vote goes to stop whining and start playing more.
I'm sorry, but that doesn't make one bit of sense. At best, it just proves how stupid Microsoft's XBOX division things the population is (and to a degree, I can't fault them there). But come on, not knowing what "360" refers to is like staring blankly when someone uses the expression "cart before the horse". Geometry class or not, you know it from... well... living. Television, books, skateboarding, driving... Do you really think there is a single individual over the age of ten in all of North America that will read that and say "oh wow - so that's what it means!"?
Good RPGs (not just linear choose your own adventure type stuff) and MMORPGs are missing from the console world. Part of that obviously has to do with lack of screen resolution. You need more screen real-estate when playing both games and you certainly need higher resolution (even more than the 360's 720p?) just to read all the text that is involved in such games (strategy games, too).
So once they've resolved those couple of things, they're just left figuring out a better control system than they have now. I guess that's where selling the extra mouse and keyboard come in(non-USB, of course - because you want to force the customers to pay into Microsoft's pockets after all!) - so you can have better control of your game and experience.
I think I'll still stick to PC, but that's only because I like the controls and the more involved feeling of playing a game in that environment. On a console, I feel too much like I'm just making insignificant choices to follow someone else's guided paths.
I have to doubt that. Televisions with HDTV screens are already pretty prevelant and affordable. They don't have an adapter, but I doubt you need one to play XBOX 360 in HD (just like your Comcast digital cable box has an HDTV converter inside to use HDTV).
Hell, I've had mine for almost six years and I didn't pay that much for it. And it's even 60". So a standard sized screen today has to be pretty affordable...
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Yeah, exactly!
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Now I need to rent it from Netflix.
That sounds like it (more or less). I know I've seen it on IMDB at some point, but can't find it right now.
Now if only someone could produce an piece of code that analyzed slashdot submissions and weeded out duplicates like this one. You know, news that Slashdot did last year.
I just wish I'd never watched it again. I barely remember the movie, but watching it as an adult really was a bad move. Same with The Last Starfighter. I had such fond memories of both. And sure, they were great at the time. But that was 20+ years ago each.
It would be nice to have modern versions (not remakes, just comparable modern movies for this generation that were in the same sort of vein as those movies from 80-84). Hell, I remember this great movie about this guy's (Apple?) that got jealous of him and tried to take revenge on him and his girlfriend and eventually the computer gave up and committed suicide. It was AWESOME. Even today, it's still great. I think it was based on a book. Either that, or I just happened to read a book that was similar, too. But they don't make movies like that anymore, either.
Wargames holds up, by far, better than all of them, though.
I live in a CLOSET you insensitive asshole.
:)
A 9'x9' walking closet off my bedroom, carpeted with plush shag carpeting. Furnished with a $2,000 office chair (think, a trucker's seat, but at home), some beanbags, a lava lamp, a nice 5.1 audio system and all my gaming machines (including the computer) and a circulation system and a mini fridge.
Not a bathroom, but close enough. I just need to get some bottles big enough to piss in for marathon gaming sessions of Battlefield2.
Of course they're the same thing (essentially). One just adds the functionality of saying "if the other 100 pictures sharing these certain characteristics were labeled with these specific tags, then this one should be as well" rather than requiring the 101st photo to be manually tagged.
Hey, asshats - how about giving me a refund for the $50 I wasted buying The Matrix Online? I played for a solid week and the gameplay just got more tedious and dull. The graphics were mediocre (I really thought it seemed dated by a few years) and even after a week, it was rare to encounter another person. Biggest waste of money, ever.
Wow. What dufus marked your post "offtopic"...!?
Personally, I thought MySpace was for college students. Or really, anyone young enough to still be intrigued by being part of a "clique".
Imagine what happens when lots of people in public places use their webcams (the kind in most cities or small shops) to record and upload every person that walks by. You'd eventually have a huge public database of automatically catalogued photographic timelines of every person. Where they went, when, who they were with... yikes.
So, basically, Apple users need not apply.
Which is odd, since this seems aimed right up their alley.
Most of my photos are upskirts of random strangers at the mall. This service is only useful if I'm going to be photographing the same shaved vaginas over and over again and, for that to happen, I'd have to be incredibly lucky. You try asking a hottie out when you have mirrors on your shoes and a camera with the "record" light on, aimed upward from knee-height.
Oh, wonderful... so I can expect to have to play "Ten Things I Hate About Eating the Rich and Dying Trying" soon?
The sad thing is that Jay Maynard probably still has ten times the life that most of us Slashdotters do. Myself, included.
Not to mention, that dude's got balls (no pun intended). I usually ridicule total dorks who make lameass fanboy suits and cosplay outfits, but he made a cool costume, had the guts to wear it, went national with it (Don and Mike, Jimmy Kimmel, etc) and had a good time with it. You really have to be comfortable with yourself to pull that off.
why dont you read the very short article instead of speculating about facts you don't know for sure
Hi, you must be new here.
You think these google city-wide "wifi" projects are honestly just wifi? Hah. . . Dude, you're so gullible!
Who hasn't done some weird ass searches, though? Hell, I've done searches on the old "26 ways to kill a person" howto. That doesn't mean I'm going to do it. But if I've killed someone and they then use my searches as *additional* evidence in my trial, there's no problem with that. Just don't go out hunting blindly through every individual that's done that search to pin a crime on them.
I have not read the article (look at my UID, I've obviously spent many years being conditioned to not read articles). However, was this information gathered via google or just by searching this guy's cache? Or was it gathered by getting his login information for his google account from him (or his computer) and then doing a search of his history?
The reason I ask is that google talks about how the information they gather (including in search history, I guess?) is aggregated and in no way identifiable and linkable to an individual. So, then, how could a subpeona to google result in anything useful being returned?
However, this isn't a huge deal, really. I'm not one of those detestable "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care?" idiots, but the thing to learn here is that it's okay to look up "snap" and "neck" and even "how to murder someone" via google or any other engine. However, if you actually ARE going to murder someone, you probably should not look up "snap" and "neck" or "how to murder someone" via google. Or, rather, if the authorities are trying to tie a suspect to a murder, he is not going to be convicted soley on a few google searches. It will just be additional circumstancial evidence to add to the pot.
These sort of things only become a problem when they start seeking out suspects and disrupting innocent people's lives because the people made particular searches in a search engine. So rather than saying "We're pretty sure this guy killed this other person and we want to see his google history", they start going through all of google's data and investigating every person with suspiciously strange search keywords just in case whoever they are have committed whatever crime against whatever unknowned victims and are suspects soley because of the information they sought.
Have any of my fellow geeks who prattle on about how wonderful this movie is and how much they love it actually seen it in the last decade? It's easy to talk about something positively when you're basing it on nostalgic memories rather than reality.
The movie came out when I was four or five years old and I watched it when I was ten or twelve. It was good. Not great, but good. I watched it a decade ago, when I was about 18. You know what? It was terrible. As I said in that other StarWars post, Tron was I actually used to like Knight Rider?! awful. The same goes for The Last Starfighter.
And of course a disney game would have tron/CGI stuff in it. It's probably a reference to how Disney doesn't have animators anymore or do cell-animation since they're a CGI-only outfit these days.
And what exactly is wrong if it is objectification?
We base our entire choice of sex-partner, mate and societal/species evolution and propegation on objectification. You think women (and society in general) don't pick and judge males on a certain set of objectified traits such as height, weight, income, profession and posession? Men and women and society objectify each other in every way possible - especially when choosing who we're interested in sexually and who we are interested in as characters. Why do you think the likes of Jack Black and Chris Farley are anomolies?
It's not a bad thing. It's how we've evolved. It's how we continue to exist. Should a girl really be insulted every time a man compliments her on the way she looks or takes a moment to observe the nice package she's put together in appealing clothing for the day? If so, should I be insulted every time the first thing a woman asks is "what do you do for a living?" or when her girlfriends ask before any other question "what kind of car does your boyfriend drive"? Hell no. Because that's what I'm judged on - as a male. Just like women are judged on certain objectifying attributes and accomplishments.
There's nothing disrespectful about finding only certain parameters entertaining in a videogame or movie character anymore than there is in finding only certain parameters appealing in a person face to face in your real life.
You all might want to live in some doped-up androgynous THX 1138, but I sure as hell do not.
What I love about women like this are that they whine and moan about how all men want to see in movies and videogames is hot stereotypical slender, big-breasted, young attractive women. They say men aren't open-minded enough and are too obsessive with physical aspects.
These same women almost never have an issue with men having to play the stereotypical bread-earning, work from birth to death, live shorter lives, provide stabilitiy and security roles, do they? And these same women (I've been around them in gab-sessions where they've said as much) turn around and talk about how all they want is a man who's at least 6'2" tall or he doesn't even get a chance to *talk* to her, has a six-pack belly, drives a NICE car and has a big penis.
So I take complaints about how men only want stereotypically hot women with a grain of salt, since it's all BS> It's not just men with women. It's how we are as a species, ALL TOGETHER. And that's the biological way it's supposed to be. No big deal.
After all, who wants to play a chunkster or a fugly loser? Come on.
I don't know, I tend to think if the future of your entire "sex" depends on lessons learned and emulated from videogame characters, you have bigger problems. The entire article that chick wrote was one giant flame-bait. It might have had it's place in 1978, but it's 2005. Time to move on.
You should go read the comments on that site about the article. It's like everyone forgot that the women's movement ended a long time ago. Girls - you get to vote now. You can be CEOs. You (think) you can be perfect moms *and* professional independant career women all at the same time. Really, you don't have to sit around the house all day bemoaning the fate of women characters in videogames in your blog. You're free now. You can actually go DO stuff.
I'm all for people being equal (though that does NOT mean at all that they are same because clearly they are not and never will be). However, the best way to lose credibility in a discussion or "article" is to begin it with "I'm a feminist".
For one thing, the term has completely lost all meaning since the "all sex is rape" crowd and others got in the mix.
SAMUS?!
I've been ripped off. Call my IP lawyer!
PS: I don't care about gender in a game. I care about gameplay and character development. And no, I don't necessarily want to play a fat chunky ugly female character rather than a hot big-titted one, but I don't want to play a fat ugly chunky loser male character either. Male characters in games are just as "stereotyped" and generic and unoriginal as the female ones. So what? So are magazine covers. So are movies. So are characters in most books. So are most anime characters. My vote goes to stop whining and start playing more.
I'm sorry, but that doesn't make one bit of sense. At best, it just proves how stupid Microsoft's XBOX division things the population is (and to a degree, I can't fault them there). But come on, not knowing what "360" refers to is like staring blankly when someone uses the expression "cart before the horse". Geometry class or not, you know it from... well... living. Television, books, skateboarding, driving... Do you really think there is a single individual over the age of ten in all of North America that will read that and say "oh wow - so that's what it means!"?
Good RPGs (not just linear choose your own adventure type stuff) and MMORPGs are missing from the console world. Part of that obviously has to do with lack of screen resolution. You need more screen real-estate when playing both games and you certainly need higher resolution (even more than the 360's 720p?) just to read all the text that is involved in such games (strategy games, too).
So once they've resolved those couple of things, they're just left figuring out a better control system than they have now. I guess that's where selling the extra mouse and keyboard come in(non-USB, of course - because you want to force the customers to pay into Microsoft's pockets after all!) - so you can have better control of your game and experience.
I think I'll still stick to PC, but that's only because I like the controls and the more involved feeling of playing a game in that environment. On a console, I feel too much like I'm just making insignificant choices to follow someone else's guided paths.
I have to doubt that. Televisions with HDTV screens are already pretty prevelant and affordable. They don't have an adapter, but I doubt you need one to play XBOX 360 in HD (just like your Comcast digital cable box has an HDTV converter inside to use HDTV).
Hell, I've had mine for almost six years and I didn't pay that much for it. And it's even 60". So a standard sized screen today has to be pretty affordable...