So a man writes an article about how men are inherently incapable of portraying women properly in a videogame.
He knows this because so far, no man has ever portrayed a woman properly in a video game.
He knows that women have never been properly portrayed because he has a good idea as to how they should be portrayed and none of the women in videogames has ever measured up.
He is a man so he inherently doesn't know how to portray women properly.
But he knows how they should be portrayed.
But he can't know how they should be portrayed.
But...BRAIN EXPLODY
Thank you GameSpotting. Your amazing Zen koan has caused me to reach enlightenment.
You may not think so but I know a number of women who think that Samus is wikkid-cool and kickass and that that it's very empowering that she's a tough, independent woman who doesn't wear a bikini to work.
Mind you, none of them are too happy with the whole "play faster, see her strip more" aspect of the gameplay.
So, get a clue dude. It's pretty simple actually. Why do you insist on supporting an OS from Microsoft that is causing so many problems? You are part of the problem.
When it comes to viruses, whoever is using the OS that is in the majority will be part of the problem. The reason that virus writers write for Windows is that most people are using windows. If most people were using Macs then there would be a lot of viruses written for Macs.
Most of the worst viruses these days aren't even very clever, they're more or less glorified bulkmailer applications that people stupidly run. Unless I'm completely mistaken, they could just as easily be written for Macs or just about any other OS.
Security through minority is an even worse idea than security through obscurity.
According to Gamasutra Prince of Persia won game of the year and Beyond Good and Evil won excellence in writing. But GameSpy says that Bioware won both.
Which article is correct?
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Is this to say I can't tell when I'm being spammed?
Leaving aside the part where you barely avoid the paranoid rantings of a madman, yes, there are times when you can't tell if you're being spammed. Like, how many times have you accidentally deleted an email that you thought was spam but was really from a long-lost friend? Or how many times have you opened Spam because you weren't sure that it was Spam or something from your ISP (or whatever).
Say you've done it 10 times in 10 000 messages. If this program only did it once in 10 000 messages (false positive or missing negative) then it was 10x as accurate as you.
As for the techniques mentioned being possible with current consoles, that's true - but only in the same way that the last of the Nintendo games ventured into 3-D - It's possible by clever programming pusing the envelope, but it's not what the next-gen N64 machine was designed from ther ground up to be capable of.
What?
I've read this paragraph over six times and the only way I can make it make sense to my tiny mind if be replaceing "Nintendo" with "Super Nintendo" and "N64" with "Super Nintendo".
Nintendo ventured into 3d games late in the SNES lifecycle (Starfox) and the N64 was designed from the ground-up to be 3d. That's why all of the launch titles were 3d and the controller came with an analogue stick and the logo is a 3d cube carved to look like N's.
This virus mess could be solved very rapidly: Anyone that provides internet service needs to monitor outgoing port 25 connections, and do attachment scanning. You don't even need to scan the attachments for viruses. Just look for all Windows executable file extensions (including inside.zip files), and if you find one, you quarantine your likely-infected customer so that the only webpage they can see is one served from your network explaining that they are infected. Until they take steps to clean their machines, you quarantine all outgoing traffic on their connection.
1) Sometimes there are reasons that you might want to send executables. Legitimate reasons.
2) Your plan fails when faced with the "require a password to open the zip archive" scheme that the current crop of viruses are using.
3) False positives will make your customers very, very angry and they will take their business elsewhere.
This commercial IT market is becoming too patch-dependent.
Can anyone make products out-of-the-box any more? Viruses need daily patch updates. The OS need daily patch updates. This is ridiculous.
Yes, I agree. The main problem with all the modern virus scanners is that the can't detect viruses FROM THE FUTURE. What we really need is for someone to put together a program that anticipates the form that next year's viruses will take and then automatically deletes them.
Better yet, we need a program that predicts where the viruses will come from and then has the writers arrested before they even make the code. Problem solved!
We didn't see GTA until they had removed a scene in which you see a car rocking, windows steamed and can then get out and kill the woman and take the money.
"Scene"? I dont' remember any of the cinematics involving sex with hookers followed by murder. The only way to construct such a "scene" is if *you* choose to do it. The only way to prevent such a scene is to take out of of the elements (ability to have sex/ability to kill people).
I'm curious, which element was dropped in Australia?
771 flawless missions. That is actually pretty impressive, you'd think someone's sense of smell would degrade after so much time and so many tests. I wonder if he has to prepare himself in any way before he carries out one of these "missions".
If you were to RTFA you would learn that he does in fact need to prepare himself and that he callibrates his nose at the beginning of this mission. Also, how awesome is it that someone's job involves them CALLIBRATING THEIR NOSE? Very awesome.
Wouldn't a cheaper solution than buying the licenses have been so switch from linux to freebsd? With the cost of those licenses being so high. Then no fear of law suit. This seems like it could be the more cost effective solution.
TCO (Total cost of Ownership). While BSD itself might be free, the cost to the company in terms of installing and configuring the new system, training staff on it, providing customers with support for it (and for the inevitable errors that happen during the install and set-up phase) and generally bringing everyone involved up to a level of expertise comparable to the one that they have now with Linux would probably cost more than buying off SCO.
This idea that a corporation should have rights - such as free speech - as if it were a person strikes me as being quite spectacularly daft.
No, no, you've got it backwards. You're right that the problem is that corporations are not subject to the same restrictions and penalties as persons but what if instead of shying away from corporations as people we went full steam ahead?
I want to see corporations getting speeding tickets. I want to see them charged with crimes and allowed to vote. When corporations turn 18 they should be eligible for the draft. When they turn 21 they should be allowed to drink and go to porn theatres. And after they've killed enough people, I want to see an evil corporation wasting away on death row.
This may be a stretch, but I can interpret that 'license' to allow Microsoft and it's partners to send spam from your machine to others. Think of targeted ads to those in your address book that appear to be from you personally.
Yes, that's a stretch.
What it says is that you can impliment this standard in any way that you want and you can sell the resulting Work so long as you allow anyone else to impliment this standard and sell their Work as well. There is nothing these that in anyway implies that Microsoft would then gain control of your mailserver.
True, I see how this may help stop some spam, but it also means (if I understood the article correctly) that everyone can find out where I mail from... and in some instances that could be a problem too.
That's true in the real world too. They're called postmarks. You may have seen them stamped on your snail letters.
Don't like it? The don't send email that complies with the standard and hope that the people receiving are willing to read letters from people who aren't complying. Or use a messageboard. Or a webcafe.
The further question is, if humans aren't as accurate as the computer, how are they measuring the accuracy at all? That is, how do they know that the 1 in 6250 messages is wrong, if a human, known to be inaccurate, was testing for accuracy?
You're joking right? I give my students math problems all the time and they regularily give me back inaccurate results. I can still correct those results. Yet, I also make mathematical errors from time to time. Sometimes, I can even correct my own results. This is a normal part of testing.
*cough*newbie*cough* Most older games don't have tutorials. Try picking up a game of Final Fantasy I. No in game instructions, no in game tutorial, no "how-to". (Hell the game was so hard you could get killed before reaching the first boss if you chose a bad party or didn't stock up.) "Experimenting" with a game is a recent thing.
OK, first off he is talking about Super Nintendo and N64 games. Most of those *did* leave all kinds of room for experimentation to learn the games. Second off, you can play Final Fantasy (on NES) with no manual. I know this because I played it on an NES with no manual. See also: Metroid, Mario Bros. etc.
In fact, as long as we're waving the size of our gamers dicks around, I can tell you that you can play most Atari 2600 games without a manual because there is an Atari 2600 with a box full of cartridges and no manuals on my floor.
Again, in the past this was certainly not true. While modern connection speeds may make searching GameFAQs seem easier than flipping through a strategy guide, believe it or not there was a time when most gamers didn't know about the existance of GameFAQs (gasp).
We aren't talking about the past. We're talking about right now. Right now, he's complaining that he can't find the manuals for the secondhand games he buys for his kid to play. I suggest that he should go to GameFAQs and look for the information he is missing there.
SOME of us like to preserve our childhood. Hell some people like to collect bottlecaps and stamps, what wrong with collecting old video game boxes?
There is nothing wrong with wanting to collect videogame boxes. There is something wrong with writing an article about how you are sad when you learn that it is HARD to collect old videogame boxes, then accusing the store owners of intentionally destroying the boxes and then suggesting that the solution to this "problem" is that stores should only accept secondhand videogames that are mint in the box.
It boggles my mind that the author's first theory on the lack of good mint old boxes is that the cardboard has fallen apart and that his second is that stores must be throwing them away. It seems to me to be FAR more likely that what's happening is that people like me DON'T KEEP OUR PACKAGING. I have a lot of games and a pretty small appartment. When I pack to move, my first thought isn't "oh man, I'd better work out how to fit all of this cardboard into the moving van".
I'm especially surprised, given that this article is coming from GamerDad. I mean if he's a dad, that means he has children, right? So maybe he's seen how children treat their toys? When I was a kid, I was pulling heads off of G.I. Joes. Do you think I was treating the packaging in a respectful manner?
From my point of view (I like games, not boxes) the only real problem that he raises in the entire article is that sometimes the games are missing the manual. Here are some solutions:
1) Don't worry about it, most games have ingame tutorials and most manuals were pretty useless. You can learn how to play by experimenting with the game.
2) Check out sites like GameFAQs. Many of the best written FAQs have instructions on how to play the game in the introductions.
3) Pay extra for games with manual (and box if you really want it). Then stores can pay kids selling games extra for their used games with manual (and box) and there will be incentive for them to take care of the product.
As long as spammers can take in more money than it costs them, they will continue to spam. This is "rational" behavior in the economic sense.
I don't follow. Responding to "market forces" (and God knows I'm an ESR-esque capitalist) doesn't give you the right to invade my privacy. Arguably, the mafia responds to market forces. Extortion is "rational behavior in the economic sense." Your point being?
His point being "The problem is that our approach to the solution has also been short-term thinking. We have to think long-term. We have to make the spammers pay more than we do." I know, I know, reading the WHOLE article is very hard. Congratulations on your +4 Insightful.
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So a man writes an article about how men are inherently incapable of portraying women properly in a videogame.
He knows this because so far, no man has ever portrayed a woman properly in a video game.
He knows that women have never been properly portrayed because he has a good idea as to how they should be portrayed and none of the women in videogames has ever measured up.
He is a man so he inherently doesn't know how to portray women properly.
But he knows how they should be portrayed.
But he can't know how they should be portrayed.
But...BRAIN EXPLODY
Thank you GameSpotting. Your amazing Zen koan has caused me to reach enlightenment.
Have you noticed any hard core feminists that are REALLY hot? Probably not.
Apparently, you've never near an arts university. Or you just don't like black sweaters and boxy glasses.
You may not think so but I know a number of women who think that Samus is wikkid-cool and kickass and that that it's very empowering that she's a tough, independent woman who doesn't wear a bikini to work.
Mind you, none of them are too happy with the whole "play faster, see her strip more" aspect of the gameplay.
Quake was a much better game and a much more engaging experience thanks to the Nine Inch Nails logo.
So, get a clue dude. It's pretty simple actually. Why do you insist on supporting an OS from Microsoft that is causing so many problems? You are part of the problem.
When it comes to viruses, whoever is using the OS that is in the majority will be part of the problem. The reason that virus writers write for Windows is that most people are using windows. If most people were using Macs then there would be a lot of viruses written for Macs.
Most of the worst viruses these days aren't even very clever, they're more or less glorified bulkmailer applications that people stupidly run. Unless I'm completely mistaken, they could just as easily be written for Macs or just about any other OS.
Security through minority is an even worse idea than security through obscurity.
According to Gamasutra Prince of Persia won game of the year and Beyond Good and Evil won excellence in writing. But GameSpy says that Bioware won both.
Which article is correct?
Is this to say I can't tell when I'm being spammed?
Leaving aside the part where you barely avoid the paranoid rantings of a madman, yes, there are times when you can't tell if you're being spammed. Like, how many times have you accidentally deleted an email that you thought was spam but was really from a long-lost friend? Or how many times have you opened Spam because you weren't sure that it was Spam or something from your ISP (or whatever).
Say you've done it 10 times in 10 000 messages. If this program only did it once in 10 000 messages (false positive or missing negative) then it was 10x as accurate as you.
As for the techniques mentioned being possible with current consoles, that's true - but only in the same way that the last of the Nintendo games ventured into 3-D - It's possible by clever programming pusing the envelope, but it's not what the next-gen N64 machine was designed from ther ground up to be capable of.
What?
I've read this paragraph over six times and the only way I can make it make sense to my tiny mind if be replaceing "Nintendo" with "Super Nintendo" and "N64" with "Super Nintendo".
Nintendo ventured into 3d games late in the SNES lifecycle (Starfox) and the N64 was designed from the ground-up to be 3d. That's why all of the launch titles were 3d and the controller came with an analogue stick and the logo is a 3d cube carved to look like N's.
Yes. That would be mentioned onpage 3 of the article.
This virus mess could be solved very rapidly: Anyone that provides internet service needs to monitor outgoing port 25 connections, and do attachment scanning. You don't even need to scan the attachments for viruses. Just look for all Windows executable file extensions (including inside .zip files), and if you find one, you quarantine your likely-infected customer so that the only webpage they can see is one served from your network explaining that they are infected. Until they take steps to clean their machines, you quarantine all outgoing traffic on their connection.
1) Sometimes there are reasons that you might want to send executables. Legitimate reasons.
2) Your plan fails when faced with the "require a password to open the zip archive" scheme that the current crop of viruses are using.
3) False positives will make your customers very, very angry and they will take their business elsewhere.
This commercial IT market is becoming too patch-dependent.
Can anyone make products out-of-the-box any more? Viruses need daily patch updates. The OS need daily patch updates. This is ridiculous.
Yes, I agree. The main problem with all the modern virus scanners is that the can't detect viruses FROM THE FUTURE. What we really need is for someone to put together a program that anticipates the form that next year's viruses will take and then automatically deletes them.
Better yet, we need a program that predicts where the viruses will come from and then has the writers arrested before they even make the code. Problem solved!
You idiot.
We didn't see GTA until they had removed a scene in which you see a car rocking, windows steamed and can then get out and kill the woman and take the money.
"Scene"? I dont' remember any of the cinematics involving sex with hookers followed by murder. The only way to construct such a "scene" is if *you* choose to do it. The only way to prevent such a scene is to take out of of the elements (ability to have sex/ability to kill people).
I'm curious, which element was dropped in Australia?
771 flawless missions. That is actually pretty impressive, you'd think someone's sense of smell would degrade after so much time and so many tests. I wonder if he has to prepare himself in any way before he carries out one of these "missions".
If you were to RTFA you would learn that he does in fact need to prepare himself and that he callibrates his nose at the beginning of this mission. Also, how awesome is it that someone's job involves them CALLIBRATING THEIR NOSE? Very awesome.
Wouldn't a cheaper solution than buying the licenses have been so switch from linux to freebsd? With the cost of those licenses being so high. Then no fear of law suit. This seems like it could be the more cost effective solution.
TCO (Total cost of Ownership). While BSD itself might be free, the cost to the company in terms of installing and configuring the new system, training staff on it, providing customers with support for it (and for the inevitable errors that happen during the install and set-up phase) and generally bringing everyone involved up to a level of expertise comparable to the one that they have now with Linux would probably cost more than buying off SCO.
This idea that a corporation should have rights - such as free speech - as if it were a person strikes me as being quite spectacularly daft.
No, no, you've got it backwards. You're right that the problem is that corporations are not subject to the same restrictions and penalties as persons but what if instead of shying away from corporations as people we went full steam ahead?
I want to see corporations getting speeding tickets. I want to see them charged with crimes and allowed to vote. When corporations turn 18 they should be eligible for the draft. When they turn 21 they should be allowed to drink and go to porn theatres. And after they've killed enough people, I want to see an evil corporation wasting away on death row.
This may be a stretch, but I can interpret that 'license' to allow Microsoft and it's partners to send spam from your machine to others. Think of targeted ads to those in your address book that appear to be from you personally.
Yes, that's a stretch.
What it says is that you can impliment this standard in any way that you want and you can sell the resulting Work so long as you allow anyone else to impliment this standard and sell their Work as well. There is nothing these that in anyway implies that Microsoft would then gain control of your mailserver.
True, I see how this may help stop some spam, but it also means (if I understood the article correctly) that everyone can find out where I mail from... and in some instances that could be a problem too.
That's true in the real world too. They're called postmarks. You may have seen them stamped on your snail letters.
Don't like it? The don't send email that complies with the standard and hope that the people receiving are willing to read letters from people who aren't complying. Or use a messageboard. Or a webcafe.
I would have thought that the most appropriate result for "slash" would have been some hot Kirk on Spock action.
So I guess Booble wins.
Gonna get modded as a troll for this one... but here goes...
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I think that it's awesome that you think that you'd get modded down for ripping on the MPAA and CSS on
The further question is, if humans aren't as accurate as the computer, how are they measuring the accuracy at all? That is, how do they know that the 1 in 6250 messages is wrong, if a human, known to be inaccurate, was testing for accuracy?
You're joking right? I give my students math problems all the time and they regularily give me back inaccurate results. I can still correct those results. Yet, I also make mathematical errors from time to time. Sometimes, I can even correct my own results. This is a normal part of testing.
*cough*newbie*cough* Most older games don't have tutorials. Try picking up a game of Final Fantasy I. No in game instructions, no in game tutorial, no "how-to". (Hell the game was so hard you could get killed before reaching the first boss if you chose a bad party or didn't stock up.) "Experimenting" with a game is a recent thing.
OK, first off he is talking about Super Nintendo and N64 games. Most of those *did* leave all kinds of room for experimentation to learn the games. Second off, you can play Final Fantasy (on NES) with no manual. I know this because I played it on an NES with no manual. See also: Metroid, Mario Bros. etc.
In fact, as long as we're waving the size of our gamers dicks around, I can tell you that you can play most Atari 2600 games without a manual because there is an Atari 2600 with a box full of cartridges and no manuals on my floor.
Again, in the past this was certainly not true. While modern connection speeds may make searching GameFAQs seem easier than flipping through a strategy guide, believe it or not there was a time when most gamers didn't know about the existance of GameFAQs (gasp).
We aren't talking about the past. We're talking about right now. Right now, he's complaining that he can't find the manuals for the secondhand games he buys for his kid to play. I suggest that he should go to GameFAQs and look for the information he is missing there.
SOME of us like to preserve our childhood. Hell some people like to collect bottlecaps and stamps, what wrong with collecting old video game boxes?
There is nothing wrong with wanting to collect videogame boxes. There is something wrong with writing an article about how you are sad when you learn that it is HARD to collect old videogame boxes, then accusing the store owners of intentionally destroying the boxes and then suggesting that the solution to this "problem" is that stores should only accept secondhand videogames that are mint in the box.
It boggles my mind that the author's first theory on the lack of good mint old boxes is that the cardboard has fallen apart and that his second is that stores must be throwing them away. It seems to me to be FAR more likely that what's happening is that people like me DON'T KEEP OUR PACKAGING. I have a lot of games and a pretty small appartment. When I pack to move, my first thought isn't "oh man, I'd better work out how to fit all of this cardboard into the moving van".
I'm especially surprised, given that this article is coming from GamerDad. I mean if he's a dad, that means he has children, right? So maybe he's seen how children treat their toys? When I was a kid, I was pulling heads off of G.I. Joes. Do you think I was treating the packaging in a respectful manner?
From my point of view (I like games, not boxes) the only real problem that he raises in the entire article is that sometimes the games are missing the manual. Here are some solutions:
1) Don't worry about it, most games have ingame tutorials and most manuals were pretty useless. You can learn how to play by experimenting with the game.
2) Check out sites like GameFAQs. Many of the best written FAQs have instructions on how to play the game in the introductions.
3) Pay extra for games with manual (and box if you really want it). Then stores can pay kids selling games extra for their used games with manual (and box) and there will be incentive for them to take care of the product.
They're donating millions of CD's for educational purposes? I'd love to see what those albums are, and what their educational value truly is.
Come now, "I'm gonna get you naked by the end of this song" is at least as educational as Microsoft Encarta.
As long as spammers can take in more money than it costs them, they will continue to spam. This is "rational" behavior in the economic sense.
I don't follow. Responding to "market forces" (and God knows I'm an ESR-esque capitalist) doesn't give you the right to invade my privacy. Arguably, the mafia responds to market forces. Extortion is "rational behavior in the economic sense." Your point being?
His point being "The problem is that our approach to the solution has also been short-term thinking. We have to think long-term. We have to make the spammers pay more than we do." I know, I know, reading the WHOLE article is very hard. Congratulations on your +4 Insightful.