But, I think what the parent is saying... you COULD! You (we) are so unfathomably brilliant at survival that, even being raised in relative comfort, we could still use logic, common sense and reasoning to save ourselves. Could you sharpen a rock and put it on a stick to kill an animal if you absolutely had to? Could you build a shelter from natural surroundings to protect you from the elements? Even though you have never had to do these... I can guarantee you could, if your life depended on it. Our ability to adapt and manipulate tools and use critical reasoning and problem solving make us extraordinarily brilliant. What computer, faced with insurmountable problems, could do anything about it other than tell you the odds of them?
On that note... Rove isn't even brilliant at covering his tracks. If he were any other man, his obvious footprints would have resulted in his incarceration. McCain Smearing, Plaime Outing, Justice Firings... he left his dirty fingerprints EVERYWHERE, but his best friend is the single most powerful man in the world. I can pretty much guarantee that if MY best friend were the President of the United States, I could get away with slander, libel, theft and treason. I think a much better example of a brilliant political strategist would be Bill Hillsman, consultant and election advertiser for Paul Wellstone and Jesse Ventura.
I'll attest to that. I've seen him live twice in my life (in the past decade... I'm a bit too young to have seen his 70s performances) and he puts on a terrific show. He plays to the audience, and really gets into the piano. No lip syncing, no flashy dancers... just Elton, his band and the piano. I even caught the Billy Joel Elton John tour, which was fantastic... the two of them played off each other very well. People talk about real musicians and artists... I don't think they come much more genuine than Elton John. Even if he made no money performing shows... I would imagine he would still be composing songs.
Absolutely, I would echo the same sentiment I made about female leads to males. Hulking testosterone fueled behemoths that rip and tear shit left and right (Gears of War is quite possibly the Heavenly Sword of male leads). Just as the majority of female leads are terrible role models and shallow characters... so are most males. In my studies I came across a film called Tough Guise, a terrific film looking at male portrayals in media and their roles for young boys in society. It's certainly an interesting film and worth a viewing (I'm not sure if youtube has the entire film).
This game, beyond most, incredibly irks me. I put up with a lot of marginalizing and foolishness from video games and plots... but Heavenly Sword seems, to me, the pinnacle of what I hate about female protagonists in games. Here we have the finest example of hyper-sexualizing women in games. A woman, barely 100 pounds, swinging weapons of ungodly size and weight and crushing countless minions. Does she cover herself in protective armor to shield herself from the damaging blows of foes? Of course not, she's a woman... she wears a couple bands of fabric covering her nipples and her crotch. She's petite, nimble, sexy and a total badass too... not to mention she has the flamboyant red hair of many female video game leads.
I know this is an ongoing trend... Oni, Lara Croft, Alyx Vance, Chick from Sin Episodes, Chick from No One lives forever, Every DoA Chick and a dozen other games with female characters (Even Samus has fallen into this pit). They're all petite and totally badass. They're blatantly one dimensional... even Alyx from Half Life is pretty shallow and a generic hot chick. Heavenly Sword just gets to me, it seems like the worst of the bunch... "Let's take God of War and make it star a red haired bombshell who will kill you and fuck you before you hit the floor." How can we demand more realistic female characters in video games (male too... but that's for a different rant)? Are we doomed to play games with shallow female leads because that's what we "want"?
For the record, while writing this rant, I was contemplating genuine female leads. Many were from LucasArts adventure games (The Dig, Fate of Atlantis) and other adventure games as well. I also thought of the original Alone in the Dark... I was around 10/11 when it was released and I started thinking about what a unique character Emily Hartwood was... just the niece of a suicidal lunatic trying to find out what happened, she's obviously feminine but not sexualized .
[new paragraph]Enough of this bickering [italic]CLEARLY[end italic] there are people with a slashdot user account who are more naive.[enter][enter] Why do people feel like they have to be the best at everything, even on the intranets using their unbunto.
Will Wright is working on that for his next game. You have to live the life of a video game designer who makes turn based strategy games. You start out in the 80s making EGA games, then you learn and research VGA graphics, Pentium chips, 3d Accelerators, and then you start new companies and then get contracted to make games for your former employers.
The most surprising part to me... is that the DS is NOT named the Gameboy DS. Until this very minute, I had no idea the DS wasn't a "Gameboy". I just always used the term "Gameboy DS" in common dialogue with people. To me, the Gameboy brand name is much stronger than anything else they want to call it... and any handheld by Nintendo will be a "Gameboy". I guess I'm a marketing director's worst nightmare.
But Madden is the highest selling game every year. Clearly enough people think the game is fun, without being overly innovative. Sports games are stuck because the rules are set, EA can't add in a feature to allow you to have all your players rush the field and beat the opposing team or drive a car... those aren't part of (American) Football. The worst thing that happened to Madden was the lost of competing sports titles, but it's still arguable that the developers try to do some neat changes to the game to make it "innovative"... FP view of the QB, play the season as one person, the new animation system... They can't innovate the rules of the game... but they can try to do some changes to the play style. Maybe you don't enjoy sports games, but the numbers don't lie, Madden is always the highest selling game in the Unites States and clearly those people thing it's fun.
Oh come on, stop right there. Something doesn't need to be "innovative" to be fun. Twilight princess isn't really innovative, but it's fun. Dozens of FPS and "Madden" games don't have to be "innovative", but many are fun... (and if you want to nitpick, the newest Madden for 2008 is supposed to be a complete overhaul of the physics engine and straying from canned animation sequences to dynamic... so that could be argued as "innovative"). So Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Prey and etc aren't fun because they're not "innovative"? I had fun playing them, so don't try and be the guardian of "fun", we'll decide that for ourselves, thanks. Frankly, I don't see Nintendo doing a whole lot of innovation. The Wii and the remote function are interesting but, to be honest, I haven't see many games take advantage of the functionality... and even if they do, and it IS innovative... is it "fun"? Red Steel was largely panned as a poor game... despite being "innovative". There is no link between "innovation" and fun.
When kids burn themselves on the stove, they stop putting their hand on it. The music industry hasn't learned to stop putting their hand on the stove. NO RIAA, STOVE HOT! NO!
30 years ago, this level of violence was unthinkable. It's not the violence itself that I mind, it's the fascination with violence that really disgusts me.
About 65 years ago, when she was 7, my (deceased) grandmother was taken to see a lynching of a black man in Kentucky.
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But, I think what the parent is saying... you COULD! You (we) are so unfathomably brilliant at survival that, even being raised in relative comfort, we could still use logic, common sense and reasoning to save ourselves. Could you sharpen a rock and put it on a stick to kill an animal if you absolutely had to? Could you build a shelter from natural surroundings to protect you from the elements? Even though you have never had to do these... I can guarantee you could, if your life depended on it. Our ability to adapt and manipulate tools and use critical reasoning and problem solving make us extraordinarily brilliant. What computer, faced with insurmountable problems, could do anything about it other than tell you the odds of them?
On that note... Rove isn't even brilliant at covering his tracks. If he were any other man, his obvious footprints would have resulted in his incarceration. McCain Smearing, Plaime Outing, Justice Firings... he left his dirty fingerprints EVERYWHERE, but his best friend is the single most powerful man in the world. I can pretty much guarantee that if MY best friend were the President of the United States, I could get away with slander, libel, theft and treason. I think a much better example of a brilliant political strategist would be Bill Hillsman, consultant and election advertiser for Paul Wellstone and Jesse Ventura.
Sounds like the premise for a new Discover Channel show "Deadliest Catch: Titan".
I'll attest to that. I've seen him live twice in my life (in the past decade... I'm a bit too young to have seen his 70s performances) and he puts on a terrific show. He plays to the audience, and really gets into the piano. No lip syncing, no flashy dancers... just Elton, his band and the piano. I even caught the Billy Joel Elton John tour, which was fantastic... the two of them played off each other very well. People talk about real musicians and artists... I don't think they come much more genuine than Elton John. Even if he made no money performing shows... I would imagine he would still be composing songs.
Blatherin' Blatherskite?
I have been studying Ronald Reagan's policies and they make sense.
Like selling arms to Iran in order to fund Nicaraguan Rebels?
What is Love?
Haddaway.
Absolutely, I would echo the same sentiment I made about female leads to males. Hulking testosterone fueled behemoths that rip and tear shit left and right (Gears of War is quite possibly the Heavenly Sword of male leads). Just as the majority of female leads are terrible role models and shallow characters... so are most males. In my studies I came across a film called Tough Guise, a terrific film looking at male portrayals in media and their roles for young boys in society. It's certainly an interesting film and worth a viewing (I'm not sure if youtube has the entire film).
This game, beyond most, incredibly irks me. I put up with a lot of marginalizing and foolishness from video games and plots... but Heavenly Sword seems, to me, the pinnacle of what I hate about female protagonists in games. Here we have the finest example of hyper-sexualizing women in games. A woman, barely 100 pounds, swinging weapons of ungodly size and weight and crushing countless minions. Does she cover herself in protective armor to shield herself from the damaging blows of foes? Of course not, she's a woman... she wears a couple bands of fabric covering her nipples and her crotch. She's petite, nimble, sexy and a total badass too... not to mention she has the flamboyant red hair of many female video game leads.
I know this is an ongoing trend... Oni, Lara Croft, Alyx Vance, Chick from Sin Episodes, Chick from No One lives forever, Every DoA Chick and a dozen other games with female characters (Even Samus has fallen into this pit). They're all petite and totally badass. They're blatantly one dimensional... even Alyx from Half Life is pretty shallow and a generic hot chick. Heavenly Sword just gets to me, it seems like the worst of the bunch... "Let's take God of War and make it star a red haired bombshell who will kill you and fuck you before you hit the floor." How can we demand more realistic female characters in video games (male too... but that's for a different rant)? Are we doomed to play games with shallow female leads because that's what we "want"?
For the record, while writing this rant, I was contemplating genuine female leads. Many were from LucasArts adventure games (The Dig, Fate of Atlantis) and other adventure games as well. I also thought of the original Alone in the Dark... I was around 10/11 when it was released and I started thinking about what a unique character Emily Hartwood was... just the niece of a suicidal lunatic trying to find out what happened, she's obviously feminine but not sexualized .
Hell, Doom was heavily scrutinized in 1999 for violence, being blamed for the Comumbine shootings... and it was already 6 years old then.
According to research, drinking is not associated with weight gain.
I really wish I could, honestly. But, as they say on slashdot, IANAL. Honestly, I'm no fool, but I have a hard time making heads or tails of it.
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[new paragraph]Enough of this bickering [italic]CLEARLY[end italic] there are people with a slashdot user account who are more naive.[enter][enter] Why do people feel like they have to be the best at everything, even on the intranets using their unbunto.
Will Wright is working on that for his next game. You have to live the life of a video game designer who makes turn based strategy games. You start out in the 80s making EGA games, then you learn and research VGA graphics, Pentium chips, 3d Accelerators, and then you start new companies and then get contracted to make games for your former employers.
The most surprising part to me... is that the DS is NOT named the Gameboy DS. Until this very minute, I had no idea the DS wasn't a "Gameboy". I just always used the term "Gameboy DS" in common dialogue with people. To me, the Gameboy brand name is much stronger than anything else they want to call it... and any handheld by Nintendo will be a "Gameboy". I guess I'm a marketing director's worst nightmare.
Or, more likely, be dead.
But Madden is the highest selling game every year. Clearly enough people think the game is fun, without being overly innovative. Sports games are stuck because the rules are set, EA can't add in a feature to allow you to have all your players rush the field and beat the opposing team or drive a car... those aren't part of (American) Football. The worst thing that happened to Madden was the lost of competing sports titles, but it's still arguable that the developers try to do some neat changes to the game to make it "innovative"... FP view of the QB, play the season as one person, the new animation system... They can't innovate the rules of the game... but they can try to do some changes to the play style. Maybe you don't enjoy sports games, but the numbers don't lie, Madden is always the highest selling game in the Unites States and clearly those people thing it's fun.
Oh come on, stop right there. Something doesn't need to be "innovative" to be fun. Twilight princess isn't really innovative, but it's fun. Dozens of FPS and "Madden" games don't have to be "innovative", but many are fun... (and if you want to nitpick, the newest Madden for 2008 is supposed to be a complete overhaul of the physics engine and straying from canned animation sequences to dynamic... so that could be argued as "innovative"). So Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Prey and etc aren't fun because they're not "innovative"? I had fun playing them, so don't try and be the guardian of "fun", we'll decide that for ourselves, thanks. Frankly, I don't see Nintendo doing a whole lot of innovation. The Wii and the remote function are interesting but, to be honest, I haven't see many games take advantage of the functionality... and even if they do, and it IS innovative... is it "fun"? Red Steel was largely panned as a poor game... despite being "innovative". There is no link between "innovation" and fun.
Messing with the Special Olympics? Screw you guys.
They're probably just bitter the president's 4x8 relay team was crushed.
That's not true... Atari and SEGA had numerous bad console releases they couldn't recover from from.
Eat up Martha.
Don't be too sure about that! (Definitely NSFW)
When kids burn themselves on the stove, they stop putting their hand on it. The music industry hasn't learned to stop putting their hand on the stove. NO RIAA, STOVE HOT! NO!
30 years ago, this level of violence was unthinkable. It's not the violence itself that I mind, it's the fascination with violence that really disgusts me.
About 65 years ago, when she was 7, my (deceased) grandmother was taken to see a lynching of a black man in Kentucky.