You can't talk about something that costs 100 million dollars to produce and NOT talk about making money back on the thing. This isn't the government we're talking about where they try and waste money.
While watching the movie and making the movie should both be fun things to do, these people are doing their job. They are trying to make money.
... same goes for music. You spend 500k producing an album and you hope to at least break even (granted, with music people can occassionally make quality product for very low money (while with films that is much less likely (though still not impossible)).
This will never happen. What would prevent someone from just giving the DVD to a friend or having a viewing at home?
On top of that, big budget films rely on people return viewings to make significant money. Then there is the entire second-run film industry (dollar theaters and such) that would be run out of business by this and also cost the movie industry ticket revenue. Then there's the money they can make on pay-per-vue or exlusives to premium cable channels that would happen before a DVD release.
I often listen to WTOP for traffic reports, which are every 10 minutes, but if that doesn't sync up with your bail-out locations (which it rarely does) you may not hear the news in time.
Doesn't always cover your problem or concern
(other replies have raised this same point, but...) even long traffic reports often don't cover what you want and they are very subjective. I almost never get the answer to the question I have every day - "Should I take the bailout which always takes 10-30 minutes of my time or do I stay on the spur which can take between 4-60 minutes?" This question is rarely accurately answered unless there is an accident report.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Call of Cthulhu? I don't really see a link between Resident Evil and Paranoia.
The first RE game really just reminded me of Alone in the Dark, which really just reminded me of Call of Cthulhu.
Though, I do see the connection between CoC and Paranoia (mainly because those were the only 2 tabletop RPGs that I really liked and they were both out around the same time).
I agree this was a great part of the game. It did make GMing a game more confusing than actually playing the game, though.
I mean, you've got 4 or 5 people doing stuff and you are trying to direct them along while at the same time dealing with notes from all of them coming at you as fast as they can write them.
Though, the fact that the game didn't really have any rules did compensate for the notes a bit. You didn't really have to roll dice if you didn't feel like it to determine outcomes.
ahh, great game. I hadn't even realized it was out of print.
Your idea simply removes the compiler, and the language syntax for that matter, from the equation.
If you designed (and were somehow able to get people to use) an editor that was language aware and autocorrected for you, that doesn't mean that the underlying language would have to be case-insensitive.
But, would people programming without your editor be able to use the language at all? Would they be able to get more 'power' out of the language by using another editor?
Considering the number of people here who would prefer a caseless C/C++/Java perhaps you could make some money off of writing an editor that crippled the language and selling it. Maybe a grammer/spelling-correcting type module for MS-Word.
Then again, with language experience like VB and PHP, I doubt you've ever had to maintain an extermely large project (thing at least 5,000 source files with 300,000 lines of code). No offense, but it's nearly impossible to pull that off with VB and PHP. Although those who do have earned my respect.;)
Not to completely disagree with your main point (I'm a C/Java/C++ programmer and dislike using/maintaining case insensitive code), but it actually isn't too hard for a PHP/JSP/ASP site to get an extremely large file count. Look at some of the huge websites out there. Then figure how many includes, etc. make up each actually viewed page and remember that a lot of people don't understand the concept of code re-use.
The reason that this seems like less of an issue in some languages can be related to scope. Namespace collision isn't much of an issue on a 1000 file project if you don't have to worry about variable collision with another file or library.
well, the sniper in the MD/VA/DC area was actually using an AR-15 using.223 ammunition (which would map to the m4 in most of these games). As far as I know it wasn't armor piercing, but I didn't follow the case all that closely after they caught the guys.
1. Realism... If they are, so would be the MP44 Sturmgewehr or AK-47 at shorter distances, which use similarly sized ammunition.
Just because two weapons use the same sized ammunition doesn't mean they deliver the same kinetic blow.
First, bolt-action weapons don't waste any energy on blowback/rocker/whatever action to automatically cycle the next round into the chamber. This adds a whole lot of energy to the bullet as nothing is diverted from its purpose of propelling the bullet (this is why snipers still use bolt action weapons when newer technologies are open to them).
Then you have the difference in barrel length, which means that more of the energy of the gunpowder is utilized. (Ever fire a snub-nose magnum pistol... that huge jet of flames coming of out the muzzle may look cool, but it is all just wasted energy).
Then there are all the different powder loads you can put behind a bullet of the same caliber. This is something that games don't visibily take into account because it would add too much complexity (note the ability in Counter Strike and other games to simply put a silencer onto a weapon without using reduced load/subsonic ammunition. The game still makes the weapon do slightly less damage, but you don't need to buy or change ammo).
I wouldn't just rule out an entire class of games just because they are first person shoot-em-ups. The genre has evolved a bit.
pick up System Shock 2 in a bargain bin. It is possibly my 3rd favorite PC game of all time. (under FO2 and FO... I apparently really need to play PlanetScape after all this chatting up). hmm. Maybe 4th favorite. Jagged Alliance 2 is really great, too.
As have we all. I still replay FO and FO: 2. I guess I'll keep waiting; Maybe troika will get the license somehow.
I guess I can keep waiting. Because a few years for a new game isn't too long -- it's not as long as I've been waiting for "The Tick" #13 to come out. That's been at least a decade. Damn you, Ben Edlun. I need to know: Is one man's treasure another man's treasure?!
Both "Fallout 3" and "Tick #13" would have been nice entries on the recent "In my lifetime" poll.
Fallout Tactics may not have followed the Fallout universe well (or at all...) but the fact is that the team didn't want to make a Fallout game.
I think he was blaming Interplay/BIS management for the exact thing you just stated, and not the development team.
I personally think the dev team did a decent job with the assignment that they were given. Tactics wasn't a great game by any means, and it didn't hit you the way a Fallout game should; but I think it was better than many give it credit for.
It also looks a lot like the monobikes from the animated version of "Venus Wars". I wonder how long it'll be until we have crazy rollerderbie-like monobike races. That'd also be kind of cool.
Sadly I can't find a good image from the series, just the coverart for the DVD.
Yeah, I had similar problems. Steam tried to copy over my existing content and just didn't do anything - then it wouldn't even give me an option to try and fix what it farged up.
I've only got a 128k line though, so I wasn't about to sit and wait for steam to re-update itself again on a re-install.
You could just get a motorcycle or a scooter. Easier to park, decent fuel economy, cheaper than a car.
I'd personally take my bike over any scooter, but scooters have more storage capacity in a smaller package (I've heard good things about the new Suzuki burgman 650 - good power and lots of storage space).
Well even if your argument was valid, you fail to realize that the producers and the songwriters (if they differ from the performers) also make money from the sales of CDs. Sometimes they make some money up-front, but they usually get a percentage of the final sales.
So, the people you claim are doing all the real work are still not getting paid in your wacky alternate reality world.
Interesting points. Maybe the BIOS/Hardware manufacturers have taken this into account. Most people don't really need to upgrade thier computer's anymore - that extra 1 GHz isn't really needed to make Wordprocessing better.
So, if they force you to do upgrades to watch the newest stuff (using versioning to prevent you from playing New media on Old players, but still allowing backwards compatability), then they generate sales on new hardware and hardware upgrades.
I lived on a groundfloor suite during College. And a friend of ours had become addicted to NetHack and came over to play all the time.
Well, one afternoon after everyone is finally awake up (he's still playing) we notice that one of the window screens is broken, and the Lava Lamp has is out on the sidewalk, broken (it was a few feet away from the window, as if someone tried to steal it, but burnt themselves on the hot-lava).
So, we ask our friend what happened, as he'd been awake the whole time. He had heard people talking nearby, heard someone scream and something break, but didn't bother to get up or anything...
Maybe someone can hack it so that you could use a wireless USB NIC on the USB2 port. I guess it depends on if the device has a usable USB output port or a crazy one that takes a customized USB converter cable (haven't seen enough pictures to tell).
You already mentioned a lot of the things in DC that you want to see (Library of Congress, Smithsonian). You could probably also toss in the Spy Museum as a nifty place to go.
But, if you come early in September you can also hit the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, to get your Comic Book fix. (http://www.spxpo.com/).
I'm sure you can probably hit a few other Cons around the country, too. If you timed things right you could probably do an anime/game/comic convention tour and hit everything else in while travelling between them. Though, some of the cons can be expensive.
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While watching the movie and making the movie should both be fun things to do, these people are doing their job. They are trying to make money.
On top of that, big budget films rely on people return viewings to make significant money. Then there is the entire second-run film industry (dollar theaters and such) that would be run out of business by this and also cost the movie industry ticket revenue. Then there's the money they can make on pay-per-vue or exlusives to premium cable channels that would happen before a DVD release.
- Every 10 minutes is not on-demand.
- I often listen to WTOP for traffic reports, which are every 10 minutes, but if that doesn't sync up with your bail-out locations (which it rarely does) you may not hear the news in time.
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Doesn't always cover your problem or concern
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(other replies have raised this same point, but
...) even long traffic reports often don't cover what you want and they are very subjective. I almost never get the answer to the question I have every day - "Should I take the bailout which always takes 10-30 minutes of my time or do I stay on the spur which can take between 4-60 minutes?" This question is rarely accurately answered unless there is an accident report.
I'd love to hear a good answer to this question.I continue to buy scented candles.
Perhaps if they made a scented Britanica . . .
The first RE game really just reminded me of Alone in the Dark, which really just reminded me of Call of Cthulhu.
Though, I do see the connection between CoC and Paranoia (mainly because those were the only 2 tabletop RPGs that I really liked and they were both out around the same time).
I mean, you've got 4 or 5 people doing stuff and you are trying to direct them along while at the same time dealing with notes from all of them coming at you as fast as they can write them.
Though, the fact that the game didn't really have any rules did compensate for the notes a bit. You didn't really have to roll dice if you didn't feel like it to determine outcomes.
ahh, great game. I hadn't even realized it was out of print.
Your idea simply removes the compiler, and the language syntax for that matter, from the equation.
If you designed (and were somehow able to get people to use) an editor that was language aware and autocorrected for you, that doesn't mean that the underlying language would have to be case-insensitive.
But, would people programming without your editor be able to use the language at all? Would they be able to get more 'power' out of the language by using another editor?
Considering the number of people here who would prefer a caseless C/C++/Java perhaps you could make some money off of writing an editor that crippled the language and selling it. Maybe a grammer/spelling-correcting type module for MS-Word.
hmm. maybe I should patent this concept.
Not to completely disagree with your main point (I'm a C/Java/C++ programmer and dislike using/maintaining case insensitive code), but it actually isn't too hard for a PHP/JSP/ASP site to get an extremely large file count. Look at some of the huge websites out there. Then figure how many includes, etc. make up each actually viewed page and remember that a lot of people don't understand the concept of code re-use.
The reason that this seems like less of an issue in some languages can be related to scope. Namespace collision isn't much of an issue on a 1000 file project if you don't have to worry about variable collision with another file or library.
well, the sniper in the MD/VA/DC area was actually using an AR-15 using .223 ammunition (which would map to the m4 in most of these games). As far as I know it wasn't armor piercing, but I didn't follow the case all that closely after they caught the guys.
you're point is still valid, though.
Just because two weapons use the same sized ammunition doesn't mean they deliver the same kinetic blow.
First, bolt-action weapons don't waste any energy on blowback/rocker/whatever action to automatically cycle the next round into the chamber. This adds a whole lot of energy to the bullet as nothing is diverted from its purpose of propelling the bullet (this is why snipers still use bolt action weapons when newer technologies are open to them).
Then you have the difference in barrel length, which means that more of the energy of the gunpowder is utilized. (Ever fire a snub-nose magnum pistol ... that huge jet of flames coming of out the muzzle may look cool, but it is all just wasted energy).
Then there are all the different powder loads you can put behind a bullet of the same caliber. This is something that games don't visibily take into account because it would add too much complexity (note the ability in Counter Strike and other games to simply put a silencer onto a weapon without using reduced load/subsonic ammunition. The game still makes the weapon do slightly less damage, but you don't need to buy or change ammo).
pick up System Shock 2 in a bargain bin. It is possibly my 3rd favorite PC game of all time. (under FO2 and FO ... I apparently really need to play PlanetScape after all this chatting up). hmm. Maybe 4th favorite. Jagged Alliance 2 is really great, too.
I guess I can keep waiting. Because a few years for a new game isn't too long -- it's not as long as I've been waiting for "The Tick" #13 to come out. That's been at least a decade. Damn you, Ben Edlun. I need to know: Is one man's treasure another man's treasure?!
Both "Fallout 3" and "Tick #13" would have been nice entries on the recent "In my lifetime" poll.
I think he was blaming Interplay/BIS management for the exact thing you just stated, and not the development team.
I personally think the dev team did a decent job with the assignment that they were given. Tactics wasn't a great game by any means, and it didn't hit you the way a Fallout game should; but I think it was better than many give it credit for.
It also looks a lot like the monobikes from the animated version of "Venus Wars". I wonder how long it'll be until we have crazy rollerderbie-like monobike races. That'd also be kind of cool.
Sadly I can't find a good image from the series, just the coverart for the DVD.
So, how many solar flares do you think it will take to turn all the people on the Space Station into superheros?
will this start our glorious age of super powers?
If the music was insecure would we have to label it as emo?
Yeah, I had similar problems. Steam tried to copy over my existing content and just didn't do anything - then it wouldn't even give me an option to try and fix what it farged up.
I've only got a 128k line though, so I wasn't about to sit and wait for steam to re-update itself again on a re-install.
You could just get a motorcycle or a scooter. Easier to park, decent fuel economy, cheaper than a car.
I'd personally take my bike over any scooter, but scooters have more storage capacity in a smaller package (I've heard good things about the new Suzuki burgman 650 - good power and lots of storage space).
Well even if your argument was valid, you fail to realize that the producers and the songwriters (if they differ from the performers) also make money from the sales of CDs. Sometimes they make some money up-front, but they usually get a percentage of the final sales.
So, the people you claim are doing all the real work are still not getting paid in your wacky alternate reality world.
Interesting points. Maybe the BIOS/Hardware manufacturers have taken this into account. Most people don't really need to upgrade thier computer's anymore - that extra 1 GHz isn't really needed to make Wordprocessing better.
So, if they force you to do upgrades to watch the newest stuff (using versioning to prevent you from playing New media on Old players, but still allowing backwards compatability), then they generate sales on new hardware and hardware upgrades.
unpleasant, but probable.
I lived on a groundfloor suite during College. And a friend of ours had become addicted to NetHack and came over to play all the time.
Well, one afternoon after everyone is finally awake up (he's still playing) we notice that one of the window screens is broken, and the Lava Lamp has is out on the sidewalk, broken (it was a few feet away from the window, as if someone tried to steal it, but burnt themselves on the hot-lava).
So, we ask our friend what happened, as he'd been awake the whole time. He had heard people talking nearby, heard someone scream and something break, but didn't bother to get up or anything...
glad out place wasn't burning down.
Maybe someone can hack it so that you could use a wireless USB NIC on the USB2 port. I guess it depends on if the device has a usable USB output port or a crazy one that takes a customized USB converter cable (haven't seen enough pictures to tell).
You already mentioned a lot of the things in DC that you want to see (Library of Congress, Smithsonian). You could probably also toss in the Spy Museum as a nifty place to go.
But, if you come early in September you can also hit the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, to get your Comic Book fix. (http://www.spxpo.com/).
I'm sure you can probably hit a few other Cons around the country, too. If you timed things right you could probably do an anime/game/comic convention tour and hit everything else in while travelling between them. Though, some of the cons can be expensive.