If it weren't for Super Monkey Ball 2, Super Mario Sunshine, Viewtiful Joe, the Wavebird,and the GBA Player, I'd be able to get rid of my Cube forever and ever. But I can't because of those 5 things. Dammit! My XBox gets played about 30x more than my Cube, yet it still has its place on the media center, and will for at least the next few years.
I never claimed to have all the answers, or that I'm the final word on worldy concerns, but I do have an opinion on each of these.
1) Abortion - right or wrong? Right. It's basically forcing a miscarriage, and those happen all the time. If it reaches the third trimester, though, it'd be better if the woman just had the child and gave him up for adoption. In fact, donate those aborted fetuses to stem cell research while you're at it. 2) Should adults be prevented from growing, buying and consuming cannabis. No. And I speak out against the laws regarding it, as per my previous post. 3) "War on terror" - payback for america, or unjustified acts of uncivilized criminals? Payback for the American government's actions, easily. They're also uncivilized criminals, but it wasn't unjustified. 4) P2P swapping - major threat to the music/movie industry, or actually encourages people to buy more products after sampling them? Encourages people to buy more products after sampling them. Also a major threat to the music/movie industry, but just like all us displaced IT folk, they'll just have to evolve or die. 5) Capital punishment. Unneeded. More economical to society and detrimental to the prisoner to keep him in a cell the rest of his life, plus it allows for future evidence that might prove his innocence. 6) Should someone be allowed to punish anyone who he feels/senses has committed a crime? No fucking way. Call the authorities, help them apprehend the percepted criminal, testify in court in front of an objective jury, sure, sure, but he shouldn't cast judgement and punish said criminal himself. Even that Jesus fella everyones always talking about didn't do that.
You think it sucks that the lowest common denominator for game design is consoles now, just wait until mobile phones become the lowest common denominator. Microsoft is already helping facilitate it with their XNA platform.
"Law and justice are NOT THE SAME. I wish people could get this through their thick skulls."
I know and understand that. In fact, I'm against Capital Punishment for precisely that reason (i.e. sometimes the court fails and a man is convicted and executed, only to find out later that new evidence reveals his innocence). However, can someone who was close to the victim, who has a personal hatred against the killer, who has a vested interest in only paying attention to the facts that convince himself that the antagonist was guilty while conveniently ignoring the rest so he can justify the only action he feels will bring his mind piece, shortly after the event occured, a better arbiter of justice than a disconnected, objective, impartial judge and a group of random people who get to hear both sides of the case, all the facts, and decide after mutual discussion whether the antagonist is guilty of the crime, and what his fate should be?
I'd have to say I'd vote with the latter. I've seen too many people react too often in a irrational matter because they let their emotions cloud their decisions, and a judge and jury, while still not perfect, at least helps to insure that justice is more often served than not.
Sure, it doens't bring your brother back, but they won't kill anyone else,
The point is, that's not for you to decide, but the laws. For all you know, your brother attacked this person and he killed him in self defense. You have to trust the law to apprehend him and determine whether or not he is guilty of the crime and needs to be removed from society to prevent him from killing again. You can't take the law in your own hands. You may not be as well informed in the law to the proper course of action, or know the whole story (or even want to know the whole story, so you can justify it according to your morals). There are ways of coping with a loss without resorting in eye for an eye.
because someone doing that and then being free to get on with their life isn't fair.
Ah, so we should go back to the days of eye for an eye as well as become a socialist country eh? I run over your cat accidentally, you are therefore entitled to run over mine? I get hired for a job we both applied for, so I must therefore find you an equal paying job? Your friend attacks me and I kill your friend in self defense so therefore one of my friends is forced to attack you so you can kill him in self defense? Life isn't fair, and previous attempts to force it that way have been major disasters. Trust the law to do its job, and if its not, speak out and vote for change. But don't decide you're better qualified and "do their jobs" for them.
Work: If you have a job that requires you to periodically monitor something, but not continuously working (hey, look at all the people that cruise Slashdot at work! Same difference:), or when you need to take a break throughout the day.
School: Some kids don't need to pay attention to the teacher all the time. In junior high/high school, I programmed and played my own games on those TI calculators during class because I understood what the teacher said in the first 10 minutes (the last 40 minutes was him repeating and reiterating and showing examples the rest of the class needed but I didn't). I still graduated with almost straight A's. In college, I sometimes play games on my mobile for the same reason (even more so now, those lectures are long, dry, and available on the network).
Car: Car pools? Road trips (where you're not driving)? I just went on a 6 hour road trip with three of my buddies a few days ago and it helped kill some of the quiet moments in the car.
I'm not sure there's EVER been a Mario game for PC.
Mario is Missing
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/data/24115.html
Mario Teaches Typing
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/data/35144.html
I think that's it. There may be more, but that's all I'm aware of.
I could do with being a little less accessible the rest of the time.
That's why I fought getting a cell phone for forever (didn't get one till a couple months ago, actually). My friends were always telling me "You're so hard to get ahold of. Get a cell phone!"... but that's kinda the point. If you can't get ahold of me I don't WANT to be contacted, and that's just the way I like it.
Now, I just keep the cell turned off 80% of the time. It's there for me to make calls from wherever and catch voicemail. Not for people to bug me whenever they feel its convenient.
*plays Taps*
It was bound to happen sometime. Farewell, Neo Geo. You lasted longer than most of the consoles out there. You'll be missed. And played:).
I don't know about you, but before I fix a computer for any PHBs or cheerleaders, I always make certain the PHB gives me a good rimjob and the cheerleader gives me some juicy stock tips beforehand.
5.6 million CD's to music-education programs? Did the government specify what counted as educational? They could have just used this as an opportunity to send more "Don't be an evil pirate, YAAAR!" propaganda to the schools.
Radio stations don't pay a dime for playing music. It's the other way around. Ever heard of payola? The music industry PAYS the radio stations to play their music.
I've actually been getting back into sitcoms recently for a couple reasons:
1) the setting rarely changes
2) once you know the voices well enough you don't have to actually *watch* the show
I've downloaded the whole series of Newsradio in tiny 15MB files to listen to at work since they are distracting enough to take my mind off of the tiresome overanalysis it does on trivial matters whenever it gets bored which drains the life out of me. I find my time at work passes faster and I'm more refreshed after work, ready to go home and do some homebrew development. I'm out of Newsradio though. Guess it's time to move on to Seinfeld.
Ditto, except I never even bother to sit down in front of the TV ever, unless it's for movies or games (and even that's getting rarer). I just can't build my life around what's on TV on any given night. If there's a show I really want to see, chances are it's available online to download and watch at my convenience in a 150x100 box while I'm programming or reading forums.
They should run with the PC concept a bit more, and develop an OS that can override options in games. You want to listen to custom soundtracks? Bring up the OS(from within the game), turn off in-game music, turn on one of your soundtracks. Want to know if your friends are on Live? Bring up the OS and check. Maybe they could even have control mapping to have custom controls per game, instead of developers usually giving you one or two configs. No more gently requesting the developers opt-in to these features. It should be forced by the OS.
Also, they should allow for XBox Live accounts to set up profiles, for families who don't want to buy multiple subscriptions for a single 'box (which really shouldn't be necessary) but want to distinguish between themselves when they're online.
I don't really care. I'm digging mine. I haven't owned a portable device I could develop games for since the TI-86. It feels like junior high all over again:). And this time I can play NES and Arcade games too, while I'm learning how to develop for the device.
Porn hustlers are the most brilliant minds alive today. They're the first to embrace new technology, have the most secure websites on the web (well, the major ones, at least), great marketers (TITS!), and can coerce the populace to do their bidding to make even more money. I wish I was even half as brilliant as they are...
Zodiac uses Palm OS, an allready existing OS that peoples will actually make programs for.
Not to nitpick, but the rest of your argument kinda falls apart because you included this line.
Let's put this in terms of what the N-Gage really does:
N-Gage uses Symbian Series 60 OS, an already existing OS used in over a dozen phones that people will (and have, a good couple thousand at a casual glance) make programs for, as well as the ability to play Java apps. There's even Macromedia Flash support for the device thanks to Flash MX 2004 Pro and Mobiclip. 3+ separate platforms? That's quite a bit of support for homebrew development.
...completing missions when and in what order I want...
Well, not really anymore. Sure you could choose between a few locations, but the missions at those places are completely linear. GTA hasn't had truly nonlinear mission completion since GTA2.
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If it weren't for Super Monkey Ball 2, Super Mario Sunshine, Viewtiful Joe, the Wavebird,and the GBA Player, I'd be able to get rid of my Cube forever and ever. But I can't because of those 5 things. Dammit! My XBox gets played about 30x more than my Cube, yet it still has its place on the media center, and will for at least the next few years.
I never claimed to have all the answers, or that I'm the final word on worldy concerns, but I do have an opinion on each of these.
1) Abortion - right or wrong? Right. It's basically forcing a miscarriage, and those happen all the time. If it reaches the third trimester, though, it'd be better if the woman just had the child and gave him up for adoption. In fact, donate those aborted fetuses to stem cell research while you're at it.
2) Should adults be prevented from growing, buying and consuming cannabis. No. And I speak out against the laws regarding it, as per my previous post.
3) "War on terror" - payback for america, or unjustified acts of uncivilized criminals? Payback for the American government's actions, easily. They're also uncivilized criminals, but it wasn't unjustified.
4) P2P swapping - major threat to the music/movie industry, or actually encourages people to buy more products after sampling them? Encourages people to buy more products after sampling them. Also a major threat to the music/movie industry, but just like all us displaced IT folk, they'll just have to evolve or die.
5) Capital punishment. Unneeded. More economical to society and detrimental to the prisoner to keep him in a cell the rest of his life, plus it allows for future evidence that might prove his innocence.
6) Should someone be allowed to punish anyone who he feels/senses has committed a crime? No fucking way. Call the authorities, help them apprehend the percepted criminal, testify in court in front of an objective jury, sure, sure, but he shouldn't cast judgement and punish said criminal himself. Even that Jesus fella everyones always talking about didn't do that.
You think it sucks that the lowest common denominator for game design is consoles now, just wait until mobile phones become the lowest common denominator. Microsoft is already helping facilitate it with their XNA platform.
"Law and justice are NOT THE SAME. I wish people could get this through their thick skulls." I know and understand that. In fact, I'm against Capital Punishment for precisely that reason (i.e. sometimes the court fails and a man is convicted and executed, only to find out later that new evidence reveals his innocence). However, can someone who was close to the victim, who has a personal hatred against the killer, who has a vested interest in only paying attention to the facts that convince himself that the antagonist was guilty while conveniently ignoring the rest so he can justify the only action he feels will bring his mind piece, shortly after the event occured, a better arbiter of justice than a disconnected, objective, impartial judge and a group of random people who get to hear both sides of the case, all the facts, and decide after mutual discussion whether the antagonist is guilty of the crime, and what his fate should be? I'd have to say I'd vote with the latter. I've seen too many people react too often in a irrational matter because they let their emotions cloud their decisions, and a judge and jury, while still not perfect, at least helps to insure that justice is more often served than not.
If someone kills your brother, you kill them.
Only in the movies.
Sure, it doens't bring your brother back, but they won't kill anyone else,
The point is, that's not for you to decide, but the laws. For all you know, your brother attacked this person and he killed him in self defense. You have to trust the law to apprehend him and determine whether or not he is guilty of the crime and needs to be removed from society to prevent him from killing again. You can't take the law in your own hands. You may not be as well informed in the law to the proper course of action, or know the whole story (or even want to know the whole story, so you can justify it according to your morals). There are ways of coping with a loss without resorting in eye for an eye.
because someone doing that and then being free to get on with their life isn't fair.
Ah, so we should go back to the days of eye for an eye as well as become a socialist country eh? I run over your cat accidentally, you are therefore entitled to run over mine? I get hired for a job we both applied for, so I must therefore find you an equal paying job? Your friend attacks me and I kill your friend in self defense so therefore one of my friends is forced to attack you so you can kill him in self defense? Life isn't fair, and previous attempts to force it that way have been major disasters. Trust the law to do its job, and if its not, speak out and vote for change. But don't decide you're better qualified and "do their jobs" for them.
Appropriate uses for gaming in those areas:
:), or when you need to take a break throughout the day.
Work: If you have a job that requires you to periodically monitor something, but not continuously working (hey, look at all the people that cruise Slashdot at work! Same difference
School: Some kids don't need to pay attention to the teacher all the time. In junior high/high school, I programmed and played my own games on those TI calculators during class because I understood what the teacher said in the first 10 minutes (the last 40 minutes was him repeating and reiterating and showing examples the rest of the class needed but I didn't). I still graduated with almost straight A's. In college, I sometimes play games on my mobile for the same reason (even more so now, those lectures are long, dry, and available on the network).
Car: Car pools? Road trips (where you're not driving)? I just went on a 6 hour road trip with three of my buddies a few days ago and it helped kill some of the quiet moments in the car.
I'm not sure there's EVER been a Mario game for PC. Mario is Missing http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/data/24115 .html
Mario Teaches Typing
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/data/35144 .html
I think that's it. There may be more, but that's all I'm aware of.
I could do with being a little less accessible the rest of the time. That's why I fought getting a cell phone for forever (didn't get one till a couple months ago, actually). My friends were always telling me "You're so hard to get ahold of. Get a cell phone!" ... but that's kinda the point. If you can't get ahold of me I don't WANT to be contacted, and that's just the way I like it.
Now, I just keep the cell turned off 80% of the time. It's there for me to make calls from wherever and catch voicemail. Not for people to bug me whenever they feel its convenient.
*plays Taps* It was bound to happen sometime. Farewell, Neo Geo. You lasted longer than most of the consoles out there. You'll be missed. And played :).
I think I'd be fine with that. Better than $150,000 per song lawsuit filings, at least.
I don't know about you, but before I fix a computer for any PHBs or cheerleaders, I always make certain the PHB gives me a good rimjob and the cheerleader gives me some juicy stock tips beforehand.
Yeah, you can. It's the XBox version of the game that allows you to do so, on Live.
Wow, a whole 13.86. Feels like Christmas all over again.
Maybe I'll spend it on a CD! I might even have enough money left over to tip the cashier a few nickels.
5.6 million CD's to music-education programs? Did the government specify what counted as educational? They could have just used this as an opportunity to send more "Don't be an evil pirate, YAAAR!" propaganda to the schools.
Radio stations don't pay a dime for playing music. It's the other way around. Ever heard of payola? The music industry PAYS the radio stations to play their music.
a /index.html
http://dir.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/03/14/payol
They could save a lot of marketing dollars if they stopped doing this and just let P2P run its course.
OH, but that would let the independent record labels sneak in and actually have a fighting chance against the big boys. We can't have THAT!
I've actually been getting back into sitcoms recently for a couple reasons: 1) the setting rarely changes 2) once you know the voices well enough you don't have to actually *watch* the show I've downloaded the whole series of Newsradio in tiny 15MB files to listen to at work since they are distracting enough to take my mind off of the tiresome overanalysis it does on trivial matters whenever it gets bored which drains the life out of me. I find my time at work passes faster and I'm more refreshed after work, ready to go home and do some homebrew development. I'm out of Newsradio though. Guess it's time to move on to Seinfeld.
...how is gaming with other people in the room relatively new? Especially when N64 did it so well with Mario Kart 64 and Goldeneye?
Ditto, except I never even bother to sit down in front of the TV ever, unless it's for movies or games (and even that's getting rarer). I just can't build my life around what's on TV on any given night. If there's a show I really want to see, chances are it's available online to download and watch at my convenience in a 150x100 box while I'm programming or reading forums.
All I know is that Mech Assault has been out since XBox Live launched, and I can still find games to join on it pretty easily.
Looks like you aren't the only person here who has an XBox.
They should run with the PC concept a bit more, and develop an OS that can override options in games. You want to listen to custom soundtracks? Bring up the OS(from within the game), turn off in-game music, turn on one of your soundtracks. Want to know if your friends are on Live? Bring up the OS and check. Maybe they could even have control mapping to have custom controls per game, instead of developers usually giving you one or two configs. No more gently requesting the developers opt-in to these features. It should be forced by the OS.
Also, they should allow for XBox Live accounts to set up profiles, for families who don't want to buy multiple subscriptions for a single 'box (which really shouldn't be necessary) but want to distinguish between themselves when they're online.
I don't really care. I'm digging mine. I haven't owned a portable device I could develop games for since the TI-86. It feels like junior high all over again :). And this time I can play NES and Arcade games too, while I'm learning how to develop for the device.
Porn hustlers are the most brilliant minds alive today. They're the first to embrace new technology, have the most secure websites on the web (well, the major ones, at least), great marketers (TITS!), and can coerce the populace to do their bidding to make even more money. I wish I was even half as brilliant as they are...
Zodiac uses Palm OS, an allready existing OS that peoples will actually make programs for. Not to nitpick, but the rest of your argument kinda falls apart because you included this line. Let's put this in terms of what the N-Gage really does: N-Gage uses Symbian Series 60 OS, an already existing OS used in over a dozen phones that people will (and have, a good couple thousand at a casual glance) make programs for, as well as the ability to play Java apps. There's even Macromedia Flash support for the device thanks to Flash MX 2004 Pro and Mobiclip. 3+ separate platforms? That's quite a bit of support for homebrew development.
...completing missions when and in what order I want... Well, not really anymore. Sure you could choose between a few locations, but the missions at those places are completely linear. GTA hasn't had truly nonlinear mission completion since GTA2.