For the bennifit of the norms who wondered in here by mistake I'll expalin where this quote from. It was how a cyrtal based life refered to humans, being entirley made of crystal it had little or no water in itself. If this makes me a geek fine. Go back to your "normal" converstation about Freinds or the latest reality show.
Of course games can be political. Simcity leaned heavily to the left, with a heavy emphisis on public transportation and enviromental concerns.
It also encouraged you to ban smoking in public buildings.
Good character is essential. Characters should fuel the plot. To many game companies have this backward starting with a concept and then dumping stock characters into that concept. Good game stories are often the result of hireing a character desginer who has a background as a author, instead of using another IT guy.
The problem is all the above statements are true, and people continue to kill each other. Just because it has happend in the past and will continue in the future doesn't mean we have to except it or ignore it.
Drug jokes aside , the game does have some ideas pulled from life. Turn a map of Hyrule over and you have the state of Washington. I gotta hunch Gannons castle sits where the city of Redmont is.
Can someone list any meaningfull danagers of GM food, preferably with something that resembles proof. I'm not trolling for either side here I'm simply curious.
I agree with most of what you say but...
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Video games can have orignal plot lines like you mentioned , but I have to admit this is rare. Some of the final fantasies reached this level. Yes they have pure evil to fight at the end, however they weren't predictable because of they layered the game with forgivable villains and imperfect hero's. Character act with complex and believeable motives weither for good, evil, or undefinable grey areas, where your not sure if their doing the right thing or not.
I've been saying this for years
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Video games = art every bit as much as paintings or scultures.
Art exists to express ideas or emotions without words. Maybe not all games live up to this defintion but niether does a painting of a bowl of fruit.
Most of the final fantasies reached this level, as they managed to evoke emotion in the player.
Myst convied a cold sense of the unknown.
Anything that attempts speaks to the soul should be considered art, those that succed should be considered good art, and those that midlessly blow things up should be placed next the picture of the bowl of fruit.
Sending the the whole of the middle east into poverty is not a good way to prevent a war. That being said alternative energy is still worth researching, it just won't solve all of life's problems.
A all loving all powerful God wouldn't create puppets under direct control 24.7 etiher. Suffering and evil exits because people have free will. If God removed our freedom of choice he would no longer be all loving. He wants people to love one another not because we have too but because we want to. In order to do that he had to give us the option of hateing each other as well.
Happy April fools day everyone.....wait what do you mean that was days ago....but slashdot only posts stories like this on April fools day....the calander must be wrong.
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Generally yes.
For the bennifit of the norms who wondered in here by mistake I'll expalin where this quote from. It was how a cyrtal based life refered to humans, being entirley made of crystal it had little or no water in itself. If this makes me a geek fine. Go back to your "normal" converstation about Freinds or the latest reality show.
Of course games can be political. Simcity leaned heavily to the left, with a heavy emphisis on public transportation and enviromental concerns. It also encouraged you to ban smoking in public buildings.
Good character is essential. Characters should fuel the plot. To many game companies have this backward starting with a concept and then dumping stock characters into that concept. Good game stories are often the result of hireing a character desginer who has a background as a author, instead of using another IT guy.
When did this happen? Would have loved to see that match.
The problem is all the above statements are true, and people continue to kill each other. Just because it has happend in the past and will continue in the future doesn't mean we have to except it or ignore it.
Ironically the greatest starcraft player of all time was from the U.K. I wonder if tillerman has a following in japan anyway?
Drug jokes aside , the game does have some ideas pulled from life. Turn a map of Hyrule over and you have the state of Washington. I gotta hunch Gannons castle sits where the city of Redmont is.
Can someone list any meaningfull danagers of GM food, preferably with something that resembles proof. I'm not trolling for either side here I'm simply curious.
Video games can have orignal plot lines like you mentioned , but I have to admit this is rare.
Some of the final fantasies reached this level.
Yes they have pure evil to fight at the end, however they weren't predictable because of they layered the game with forgivable villains and imperfect hero's. Character act with complex and believeable motives weither for good, evil, or undefinable grey areas, where your not sure if their doing the right thing or not.
Video games = art
every bit as much as paintings or scultures.
Art exists to express ideas or emotions without words. Maybe not all games live up to this defintion but niether does a painting of a bowl of fruit.
Most of the final fantasies reached this level, as they managed to evoke emotion in the player.
Myst convied a cold sense of the unknown.
Anything that attempts speaks to the soul should be considered art, those that succed should be considered good art, and those that midlessly blow things up should be placed next the picture of the bowl of fruit.
Sending the the whole of the middle east into poverty is not a good way to prevent a war. That being said alternative energy is still worth researching, it just won't solve all of life's problems.
Noah took extra kosher animals, and 2 of everything else. Noah loaded the extra animals in chapter in 7 after the parade of 2's in chapter 6.
A all loving all powerful God wouldn't create puppets under direct control 24.7 etiher. Suffering and evil exits because people have free will. If God removed our freedom of choice he would no longer be all loving. He wants people to love one another not because we have too but because we want to. In order to do that he had to give us the option of hateing each other as well.
Finally someone who defends christianity without trying to redefine it.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/edna/
Edna makes a great mp3 server , easy to setup too. Runs on python so it works for almost any OS.
Happy April fools day everyone.....wait what do you mean that was days ago....but slashdot only posts stories like this on April fools day....the calander must be wrong.
Who else made it in State Politics by beating people up.
Ah April fools day, the only day when the truth comes out. Nothings funnier than the world stripped of pretense.
Why d1dn't 1 th1nk 0f thi5!
if it weren't for those meddling kids and their penguin.
After his defeat will Mcbride remember he was once a jedi and kill the Empror Gates?
Brings new meaning to words toasted rice.
Is all the bad slashdot jokes regarding overlords and natlie portman with hot grits. How are we supposed to be taken seriously after all that.
I for one welcome our opensource baring overlords.