A lot of the gaming industry is like the business industry. To really get anywhere big, it's mostly about being in the right place at the right time with the right people and having the right contacts (preferably contacts with lots of spare cash).
Talent and hard work are important, but don't get you far without being from the right family or having the right contacts.
I've clearly been around here since your mom was in diapers. He got modded informative, most likely, because game design is even more dog-eat dog than game programming. Getting into game programming is like striving to be the Kraft Services guy in the movie industry while game design is more like striving to be a set designer, casting director or writer in the movie industry.
Every time I'm trying to be funny, Slashdot mods give me a +5, INTERESTING or INSIGHTFUL. Every time I'm trying to be insightful or interesting, they give me a +5, FUNNY.
No, I haven't played Nintendogs or Animcal crossing. I'm a straight male, thanks.
And I haven't found a single person who found Killer 7 engaging. Maybe compared to the average Nintendo release, but not compared to the rest of the world. Everything I've seen about it woudl lead me to play it if a friend had a copy of it in his machine and I was sitting around totally bored, but certainly wouldnt' spend $70 for it (or however much console games are these days).
Killer 7 was extremely over-hyped in the beginning... that seems to have died down once people actually were able to play it.
Really, Animal crossing? An RPG with cute avatars? Nintendogs - just aan advanced version of the Katz and Dogz screensavers from a fifteen years ago. And.. KILLER 7?! A crappy cell-shaded game with little interesting gameplay?! XIII was beautifully done with cell-shading and had awesome gameplay and is like... three years old.
I'm not a Katamari fanboy (never played it, dont' own a console of any kind, etc) - but to call that stuff "innovative"... Only if you're using the Microsoft version of the word...!
Most people investing in Google don't know what a P/E ratio is. They just asked their nephew to get on The Interweb and buy them some of that google they hear so much about these days.
I don't know about celebrity voice overs (though I liked that Duchovney did the agent in XIII), but I sure like a game with great graphics. But they don't have to be blast-'em-up graphics like Doom - but take a look at Rome: Total War. Not even the combat portions - just the gameboard play. It's beautiful and well done and makes the game even more engaging.
I can't wait to play Katamari, but I guess they're probably not going to release it for the Mac or PC, so I probably never will.:)
Katamari just proves that Japan has plenty of openly available drugs.:D
+ Music CDs are about 33% to 25% the cost of a game. + Chances are you're not going to buy a music CD unless you're familiar with the artist and have probably heard most of the songs on that CD over the radio or elsewhere. + Music CDs don't have product descriptions. They list the name of the album, artist and then list the tracks on the CD. That's hardly a product description.
I've never heard of "V is for Vendetta" (then again, I'm not a comic book geek) - but from what I've seen recently, it sounds very cool. I hope they do it justice. I know Sin City was supposed to be just insanely wonderful and I felt let down by it. Not that it was awful at all, but it was less than spectacular. I certainly wouldn't buy the DVD and I'm glad I didn't spend the money to rent it. It was violent, gritty and interestingly shot, but the story was ho-hum.
It seems, the last few years, comic book adaptations are either just flashy, brain-dead gob-stopper type movies (Fantastic Four) or artistic accomplishments with little story/involvement. As much as I wanted to hate Spiderman, I have to admit that I actually have found both of them to be fun and interesting. They were to big cinema what.. well... the Indiana Jones movies were. Big, crazy, fantastic adventures that make you feel like a ten year old at a doublefeature on a saturday afternoon.
Sin city didn't make me feel like that. I'm hoping V is for Vendetta does.
And by the way, Sin City wasn't really all that violent. I've seen worse on television. And definitely far worse in a lot of movies. And it wasn't even grotesque or disgusting. It was kind of routine violence. Severed heads. Spears through people's bodies. Standard.
Oh - I thought Road to Perdition was a pretty good adaptation of a comic book, though. Just so you don't get the idea that I only get off on comic-based movies that have lots of high-flying unrealistic action in them or anything.
We didn't "defend Britain against the fascists." We fought alongside the British.
The brittish were getting the shit blasted out of them and we fought alongside them, defending their country. At what point did Hitler blow the shit out of an American city in which the Brittish fought alongside us?
My request is that you not be such a fucking twat and stop being so fucking sensitive. Why the fuck would you take "defend britain against the fascists" as anything other than defending them against the fascists? Who the hell said that the Brittish were sitting on their asses sipping tea while we defended them? If that's the assumption you made, that's on YOU. Don't go around being a cry baby about it.
It'd be nice to say "glad I live in America", but that doesn't mean anything anymore. The fourth amendment only exists as a historical notion. No longer do you have to consent to a search or have just-cause to be searched. In fact, you don't even have to KNOW you're being searched, thanks to "sneak and peak" *ahem* "warrants".
And that's why they want these keys. Sure, they could just ask people for their encryption keys when they have a legal reason to do so from a court, but that kind of screws up the secrecy part of it. The fact that they're searching you is blown and you're well aware of it by that point. But if they have a huge database of EVERYONE'S keys, they can use any of them whenever they feel like it, without going through a court and without tipping you off that you're being peaked at.
If breaking into the average house wasn't so incredibly simple, they'd be demanding a copy of everyone's housekey to store in a police or FBI storehouse so they could let themselves in and search it when you're at work or on vacation, too. But since it's so easy for them to get into your home without a key, they don't bother with such a demand.
It's kind of amusing that we defended Brittain against the fascists sixty years ago and now we're encouraging them to adopt our fascism. And thankfully, since "terrorism" is a concept and not a group or person or country, there is an unending supply of fear and inducement to manipulate for the rest of eternity.
Actually, I found it kind of interesting, but not for popularity.
I did a little search on my accounts and compared them to each other. I was most interested in the account I've had for about seven years that AOL shut down out of nowhere for no reason with no explanation (and they wouldn't help unless I became an AOL subscriber).
My main account these days is around 3,000 on that scale.
The account I've had for seven years, but haven't been able to use for almost two years now, was 23,000 on that scale.
Just goes to show that if someone where to just yank away your email account or AIM account or phone number out of nowhere, you potentially lose a lot of contacts and communication. Even if you retain contact lists, the retention rate when you switch contact methods is never complete.
The grandparent poster has this backwards. The terrorists aren't using our own government officials against us to limit our freedoms. Our government officials are using the convenience of "terrorism" against us to limit our freedoms.
The attacks on 9/11 and every attack since then in the world is like the biggest christmas ever for the fascists in government. Are you kidding?! They couldn't be more pleased.
The saddest part is that the patriot act that was signed into law was not the patriot act that our representatives agreed on previously. A new copy was drafted and printed overnight and rammed through congress with only a few hours between when the altered (by the administration) version came off the press and the vote was taken. And it was hundreds of pages long. Most people went along with it because they didn't want to seem unpagtriotic, but Peter DeFazio (I think) was one of the ones who actually stood up and demanded accountability on the floor during the vote.
We live in a country where Ashcroft was able to just put whatever laws he wanted into a bill after it was already discussed and agreed upon in a certain form, force the vote on it and get it anyway, without anyone even remotely having a possible way to know what was actually IN it since you could change or add ANYTHING to a several hundred page long document before voting when you know there is no way in the world the person voting on it could read it in time.
How about when police officers attend pre-assembly rallies and discussions under cover and try to promote violence from within and then attend the actual rallies under cover and start spraying people randomly with pepper spray just to stir them up and cause a disturbance so you can claim that they are violent and not peaceful?
And yes, this does happen. It has been videotaped.
Then why roll it back an hour? Why not roll it back two and save twice as much energy? Or three, even?
And of course, with more daylight, people certainly aren't going to be driving gas guzzling cars around more than they would in the dark while they go find things to do with the extra daylight.
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Someone shoudl build a beowolf cluster of these.
A lot of the gaming industry is like the business industry. To really get anywhere big, it's mostly about being in the right place at the right time with the right people and having the right contacts (preferably contacts with lots of spare cash).
Talent and hard work are important, but don't get you far without being from the right family or having the right contacts.
Hey, hey, hey. Let's not turn this into a "Who's dick is bigger" argument.
I didn't know there was any question...
*whips out yardstick*
I've clearly been around here since your mom was in diapers. He got modded informative, most likely, because game design is even more dog-eat dog than game programming. Getting into game programming is like striving to be the Kraft Services guy in the movie industry while game design is more like striving to be a set designer, casting director or writer in the movie industry.
Because moderators are idiots.
Every time I'm trying to be funny, Slashdot mods give me a +5, INTERESTING or INSIGHTFUL. Every time I'm trying to be insightful or interesting, they give me a +5, FUNNY.
No, I haven't played Nintendogs or Animcal crossing. I'm a straight male, thanks.
And I haven't found a single person who found Killer 7 engaging. Maybe compared to the average Nintendo release, but not compared to the rest of the world. Everything I've seen about it woudl lead me to play it if a friend had a copy of it in his machine and I was sitting around totally bored, but certainly wouldnt' spend $70 for it (or however much console games are these days).
Killer 7 was extremely over-hyped in the beginning... that seems to have died down once people actually were able to play it.
That's becuase you have fervently established prior art.
In Korea, only old people patent smileys.
Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Wario Ware, Electroplankton, Nintendogs, Killer 7
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
Really, Animal crossing? An RPG with cute avatars? Nintendogs - just aan advanced version of the Katz and Dogz screensavers from a fifteen years ago. And.. KILLER 7?! A crappy cell-shaded game with little interesting gameplay?! XIII was beautifully done with cell-shading and had awesome gameplay and is like... three years old.
I'm not a Katamari fanboy (never played it, dont' own a console of any kind, etc) - but to call that stuff "innovative"... Only if you're using the Microsoft version of the word...!
Most people investing in Google don't know what a P/E ratio is. They just asked their nephew to get on The Interweb and buy them some of that google they hear so much about these days.
I don't know about celebrity voice overs (though I liked that Duchovney did the agent in XIII), but I sure like a game with great graphics. But they don't have to be blast-'em-up graphics like Doom - but take a look at Rome: Total War. Not even the combat portions - just the gameboard play. It's beautiful and well done and makes the game even more engaging.
:)
:D
I can't wait to play Katamari, but I guess they're probably not going to release it for the Mac or PC, so I probably never will.
Katamari just proves that Japan has plenty of openly available drugs.
Also:
+ Music CDs are about 33% to 25% the cost of a game.
+ Chances are you're not going to buy a music CD unless you're familiar with the artist and have probably heard most of the songs on that CD over the radio or elsewhere.
+ Music CDs don't have product descriptions. They list the name of the album, artist and then list the tracks on the CD. That's hardly a product description.
If PC games were going anywhere, all the really cool games wouldn't be coming out on PC first and later ported to consoles. Doom? Counterstrike?
Not to mention, there are a few popular PC titles that I don't believe are available on any other platform.
You know, a few silly titles like World of Warcraft, Everquest, Ultima Online, Dungeon Siege, Neverwinter Nights, The Sims, The Sims Online...
I've never heard of "V is for Vendetta" (then again, I'm not a comic book geek) - but from what I've seen recently, it sounds very cool. I hope they do it justice. I know Sin City was supposed to be just insanely wonderful and I felt let down by it. Not that it was awful at all, but it was less than spectacular. I certainly wouldn't buy the DVD and I'm glad I didn't spend the money to rent it. It was violent, gritty and interestingly shot, but the story was ho-hum.
It seems, the last few years, comic book adaptations are either just flashy, brain-dead gob-stopper type movies (Fantastic Four) or artistic accomplishments with little story/involvement. As much as I wanted to hate Spiderman, I have to admit that I actually have found both of them to be fun and interesting. They were to big cinema what.. well... the Indiana Jones movies were. Big, crazy, fantastic adventures that make you feel like a ten year old at a doublefeature on a saturday afternoon.
Sin city didn't make me feel like that. I'm hoping V is for Vendetta does.
And by the way, Sin City wasn't really all that violent. I've seen worse on television. And definitely far worse in a lot of movies. And it wasn't even grotesque or disgusting. It was kind of routine violence. Severed heads. Spears through people's bodies. Standard.
Oh - I thought Road to Perdition was a pretty good adaptation of a comic book, though. Just so you don't get the idea that I only get off on comic-based movies that have lots of high-flying unrealistic action in them or anything.
We didn't "defend Britain against the fascists." We fought alongside the British.
The brittish were getting the shit blasted out of them and we fought alongside them, defending their country. At what point did Hitler blow the shit out of an American city in which the Brittish fought alongside us?
My request is that you not be such a fucking twat and stop being so fucking sensitive. Why the fuck would you take "defend britain against the fascists" as anything other than defending them against the fascists? Who the hell said that the Brittish were sitting on their asses sipping tea while we defended them? If that's the assumption you made, that's on YOU. Don't go around being a cry baby about it.
It'd be nice to say "glad I live in America", but that doesn't mean anything anymore. The fourth amendment only exists as a historical notion. No longer do you have to consent to a search or have just-cause to be searched. In fact, you don't even have to KNOW you're being searched, thanks to "sneak and peak" *ahem* "warrants".
And that's why they want these keys. Sure, they could just ask people for their encryption keys when they have a legal reason to do so from a court, but that kind of screws up the secrecy part of it. The fact that they're searching you is blown and you're well aware of it by that point. But if they have a huge database of EVERYONE'S keys, they can use any of them whenever they feel like it, without going through a court and without tipping you off that you're being peaked at.
If breaking into the average house wasn't so incredibly simple, they'd be demanding a copy of everyone's housekey to store in a police or FBI storehouse so they could let themselves in and search it when you're at work or on vacation, too. But since it's so easy for them to get into your home without a key, they don't bother with such a demand.
It's kind of amusing that we defended Brittain against the fascists sixty years ago and now we're encouraging them to adopt our fascism. And thankfully, since "terrorism" is a concept and not a group or person or country, there is an unending supply of fear and inducement to manipulate for the rest of eternity.
Actually, I found it kind of interesting, but not for popularity.
I did a little search on my accounts and compared them to each other. I was most interested in the account I've had for about seven years that AOL shut down out of nowhere for no reason with no explanation (and they wouldn't help unless I became an AOL subscriber).
My main account these days is around 3,000 on that scale.
The account I've had for seven years, but haven't been able to use for almost two years now, was 23,000 on that scale.
Just goes to show that if someone where to just yank away your email account or AIM account or phone number out of nowhere, you potentially lose a lot of contacts and communication. Even if you retain contact lists, the retention rate when you switch contact methods is never complete.
The grandparent poster has this backwards. The terrorists aren't using our own government officials against us to limit our freedoms. Our government officials are using the convenience of "terrorism" against us to limit our freedoms.
The attacks on 9/11 and every attack since then in the world is like the biggest christmas ever for the fascists in government. Are you kidding?! They couldn't be more pleased.
The saddest part is that the patriot act that was signed into law was not the patriot act that our representatives agreed on previously. A new copy was drafted and printed overnight and rammed through congress with only a few hours between when the altered (by the administration) version came off the press and the vote was taken. And it was hundreds of pages long. Most people went along with it because they didn't want to seem unpagtriotic, but Peter DeFazio (I think) was one of the ones who actually stood up and demanded accountability on the floor during the vote.
We live in a country where Ashcroft was able to just put whatever laws he wanted into a bill after it was already discussed and agreed upon in a certain form, force the vote on it and get it anyway, without anyone even remotely having a possible way to know what was actually IN it since you could change or add ANYTHING to a several hundred page long document before voting when you know there is no way in the world the person voting on it could read it in time.
YAY DEMOCRACY!
OH! AND YAY FOR FREEDOM FRIES!
You have very little to offer the mainstream OS,
Which is why Microsoft tries to emulate Apple as best they can and linux (GNOME/KDE) try to emulate Microsoft as best they can.
Unconstitutional (torrent)
How about when police officers attend pre-assembly rallies and discussions under cover and try to promote violence from within and then attend the actual rallies under cover and start spraying people randomly with pepper spray just to stir them up and cause a disturbance so you can claim that they are violent and not peaceful?
And yes, this does happen. It has been videotaped.
I bet you can't remember who you walked past and what they were wearing at 8:03am today, let alone something that happened a few weeks ago.
Cops don't have a pen and a notebook to write shit down in?
Then why roll it back an hour? Why not roll it back two and save twice as much energy? Or three, even?
And of course, with more daylight, people certainly aren't going to be driving gas guzzling cars around more than they would in the dark while they go find things to do with the extra daylight.
I'll tell you what - you stop driving your fucking SUV to pick up the kids at school and I'll start reading in the dark.