Well, I downloaded it and tried it (the Mac version), and I was anything but impressed. Never mind graphics or gameplay, but the performance was horrible (especially considering the aforementioned graphics). Brand new Powerbook, and it played like ass. To top it off, the sound code is damn buggy (very choppy during loading, and laggy/buggy in-game). Oh, and don't forget that it takes FOREVER to load.
Doesn't play well on new hardware, has bugs that I spotted in the first few minutes of playing it, has mediocre graphics. I admire that they're making an independent game on 3 platforms, but it's just not very good.
I'm sure the headline makes sense to some people, but not many people are going to understand FOI or GIS. I can't be the only person who thought this was about Google image search data and images at first glance.
It's just kind of ridiculous when a native English speaker can't make sense of the headline. Please, at least explain these things in the submission.
Another thing about the show is how freaking boring it is. I like chess, but that doesn't mean I'd ever want to watch a terribly overdramatized anime about it.
Hikaru no Go drinking game: 1 drink for each of the following:
-someone bursts into tears after a game of Go
-ominous music and foreshadowing to announce an evil board game player
-lame flashback to another Go game
-Hikaru showing his angry/stunned face in response to some AMAZING MOVE or one of the aforementioned evil players (this seems to come up much more than the rest)
Just wondering, does anyone know if an updated Mac demo is going to be released? I've read a lot about how performance on Powerbooks has improved since the first demo, but I'd like to actually try it before I buy.
A lot nicer? Sheesh, there's one tiny thing that isn't anti-aliased in Camino (parts of the left sidebar). It's had good anti-aliasing for a long time, which used to be one of its major attractions.
Interesting, what pages are you talking about in particular? I just fired it up and checked out a few sites (of course the all-important slashdot.jp), and I don't see any problems. Are you unable to fix this even by changing the text encoding? Only thing I noticed is that a few words in Japanese seem a bit blurry, but I don't know if that's a Japanese-specific bug or not.
No, I think this is specifically to annoy people like you who will almost have heart attacks over a video game. Nobody else cares, and we can at least read the post before jumping to conclusions.
Nah, transfer to DVD from the laserdiscs. Not the greatest quality, but easily found at the usual places. Here's an excellent thread with info on a lot of the different fan-made releases (not only for the original trilogy, but also re-edits of the prequels).
And where does one get the Food from? We need another card.. unless the expansion sets have gone even further downhill since I stopped keeping track of them.
People who complain about subtitles are nuts. Reading short lines of dialogue is not the hardest thing in the world, nor should it be distracting if the language of the subtitles is your mother tongue. Literacy helps, of course...
Yeah, funny that someone who just complained about service in.nl would be complaining about Bush's effect on their job. Except they're not, because they're from the Netherlands.
To be fair, he's getting an iBook, not a Mac desktop. I use a Logitech 6-button mouse with my Powerbook whenever it's at a desk, but it's simply not an option on the road.
Fuck you. America is a country of immigrants, in case you haven't noticed. People said the exact same things about the immigrants who came here years ago, and those are the same people who you consider to be AMERICANS (the capitals show emphasis, obviously). And if you've never had to try to learn a completely different language through immersion (at an age where you're while past being able to learn through immersion!), don't criticize others for not doing it. It's incredibly difficult, and even moreso if you have duties like supporting a family as well.
Grandparent gets modded to +5 insightful, and I get modded down to troll for bringing up a relevant point. Great. You might want to believe that all Mac users are shining examples for the rest of us, but it's not true.
Bullshit. Have you ever checked out the Mac-specific piracy scene? Bittorrent, Carracho, and others, all with tons of software being pirated. On top of that, what about the (not going to mention name here) Mac database of serial numbers that's regularily kept up to date? Mac users pirate just as much as other users if you ask me.
Ehh, you deserve to get eaten alive by the mods. Sneakers are not a valid comparison at all. Do you really believe that having a completely different OS is the same as having slightly different shoes?
Really? First off, Quicktime is an application/api, not a video codec. Secondly, they're looking for an open source and royalty-free way to do this. Quicktime most definitely isn't open source, only runs (officially) on two platforms, and the best codecs included with it are definitely not royalty-free.
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Well, I downloaded it and tried it (the Mac version), and I was anything but impressed. Never mind graphics or gameplay, but the performance was horrible (especially considering the aforementioned graphics). Brand new Powerbook, and it played like ass. To top it off, the sound code is damn buggy (very choppy during loading, and laggy/buggy in-game). Oh, and don't forget that it takes FOREVER to load.
Doesn't play well on new hardware, has bugs that I spotted in the first few minutes of playing it, has mediocre graphics. I admire that they're making an independent game on 3 platforms, but it's just not very good.
Today FOI and GIS, tomorrow OMG ASL PLZ!11! ROFL
Think about it, man. Do you really want that on your conscience?
I'm sure the headline makes sense to some people, but not many people are going to understand FOI or GIS. I can't be the only person who thought this was about Google image search data and images at first glance.
It's just kind of ridiculous when a native English speaker can't make sense of the headline. Please, at least explain these things in the submission.
They're a little melty, but damn are they exquisite!
Another thing about the show is how freaking boring it is. I like chess, but that doesn't mean I'd ever want to watch a terribly overdramatized anime about it.
Hikaru no Go drinking game: 1 drink for each of the following:
-someone bursts into tears after a game of Go
-ominous music and foreshadowing to announce an evil board game player
-lame flashback to another Go game
-Hikaru showing his angry/stunned face in response to some AMAZING MOVE or one of the aforementioned evil players (this seems to come up much more than the rest)
Just wondering, does anyone know if an updated Mac demo is going to be released? I've read a lot about how performance on Powerbooks has improved since the first demo, but I'd like to actually try it before I buy.
A lot nicer? Sheesh, there's one tiny thing that isn't anti-aliased in Camino (parts of the left sidebar). It's had good anti-aliasing for a long time, which used to be one of its major attractions.
Interesting, what pages are you talking about in particular? I just fired it up and checked out a few sites (of course the all-important slashdot.jp), and I don't see any problems. Are you unable to fix this even by changing the text encoding? Only thing I noticed is that a few words in Japanese seem a bit blurry, but I don't know if that's a Japanese-specific bug or not.
No, I think this is specifically to annoy people like you who will almost have heart attacks over a video game. Nobody else cares, and we can at least read the post before jumping to conclusions.
Nah, transfer to DVD from the laserdiscs. Not the greatest quality, but easily found at the usual places. Here's an excellent thread with info on a lot of the different fan-made releases (not only for the original trilogy, but also re-edits of the prequels).
And where does one get the Food from? We need another card.. unless the expansion sets have gone even further downhill since I stopped keeping track of them.
Heh. I know many Windows script kiddies who tell me they're "hacking" when they're doing just that...
People who complain about subtitles are nuts. Reading short lines of dialogue is not the hardest thing in the world, nor should it be distracting if the language of the subtitles is your mother tongue. Literacy helps, of course...
Yeah, funny that someone who just complained about service in .nl would be complaining about Bush's effect on their job. Except they're not, because they're from the Netherlands.
To be fair, he's getting an iBook, not a Mac desktop. I use a Logitech 6-button mouse with my Powerbook whenever it's at a desk, but it's simply not an option on the road.
(yes, I am being picky) Wrong. It's arigatou, and I won't accept any excuses about (wrong and inaccurate) romanization!
People who are affected by it care, obviously. I ran upstairs to check my battery the moment I saw this on Slashdot.
Granted, it's not a huge deal, but it's useful information to those who might be affected by it.
Fuck you. America is a country of immigrants, in case you haven't noticed. People said the exact same things about the immigrants who came here years ago, and those are the same people who you consider to be AMERICANS (the capitals show emphasis, obviously). And if you've never had to try to learn a completely different language through immersion (at an age where you're while past being able to learn through immersion!), don't criticize others for not doing it. It's incredibly difficult, and even moreso if you have duties like supporting a family as well.
Thank god you have Linux, you're safe from this copy protection. You're also safe from such things as, I don't know, playing the game.
(yeah, yeah, someone's going to jump on me because it might be playable with Wine. That's not the point here).
Grandparent gets modded to +5 insightful, and I get modded down to troll for bringing up a relevant point. Great. You might want to believe that all Mac users are shining examples for the rest of us, but it's not true.
Can you figure out basic things without me holding your hand (like how a modern OS is a hell of a lot more complicated than a shoe)?
Bullshit. Have you ever checked out the Mac-specific piracy scene? Bittorrent, Carracho, and others, all with tons of software being pirated. On top of that, what about the (not going to mention name here) Mac database of serial numbers that's regularily kept up to date? Mac users pirate just as much as other users if you ask me.
Ehh, you deserve to get eaten alive by the mods. Sneakers are not a valid comparison at all. Do you really believe that having a completely different OS is the same as having slightly different shoes?
(don't mod this up, it's a 1 minute response)
Really? First off, Quicktime is an application/api, not a video codec. Secondly, they're looking for an open source and royalty-free way to do this. Quicktime most definitely isn't open source, only runs (officially) on two platforms, and the best codecs included with it are definitely not royalty-free.
Pronounciation: ah-roo-zay
:)
Yes, I'm a humourless bastard (living in Japan).