Oh, I'm very much in support of games being labeled. However, this thing requires a patch to get to (or a gameshark code on ps2 I think) so people do not stumble upon it accidently. Even if it was accessible without the patch, while it should have been labeled correctly in the first place, it's adult content in an adult game. I don't think it should have caused all the fuss it did.
I applaud you for completely changing the subject under debate. Truthful advertising is the same thing as killing hookers, right?
Huh? I was comparing killing hookers in a game to a crappy porn-like minigame. I think the target audience for both is pretty much the same.
But I suppose you would just shrugs your shoulders when you got sold a box that said it had a 40" HDTV in it and found that it had a 16" black-and-white beast.
Uh, no. A better analogy would be if you were sold a 40" HDTV and actually got a 40" HDTV, but then you found an add-on for it that would make it download streaming porn from the internet. Maybe that's a plus, maybe that's a minus, but if you don't want the porn, don't install the add-on.
It was labeled not for kids. A quick look at the rating's content descriptors will tell you that it's not for the squeamish. This isn't Wind Waker. This is one of the most mature games available in mainstream stores without hot coffee. As for hot coffee itself, it's a lame psuedo-porn scene where the guy leaves on his pants. If your kids have ever seen a rated R movie, and if they're playing rated M games they probably have, then they've seen more explicit "porn" than in this. If you allow them enough access to the internet to find the patch to enable it, then they've seen way more explicit porn.
This was a "truth-in-labeling" violation. Parents thought they knew what they were buying for their kids, and may have been okay with the violence but not the sexuality of the "hot coffee" scene.
Yes, killing hookers is fine for young'uns, but consensual sex? Corrupt their poor minds!
Any kid who's not able to handle the hot coffee is too young to handle the rest of the game. Not to mention, they'll find more explicit porn just looking for the patch to unlock it.
I don't think being cross-platform is all that cool. Cross-platform games have to be designed for the lowest common demoninator and can't take advantage of any of the nifty things in a console. Playing a game with a wii-mote that you can tell was designed with the dual-shock in mind, or playing the game with the dual-shock that only uses half the buttons because the wii doesn't have as many doesn't sound like fun. I much prefer console exclusives. Of course, that's because I buy all the game consoles. I imagine if I could only buy one system each generation I might have a different opinion.
Also, I don't think the PC has the highest userbase. Well, technically if you compare it to the wii, ps3 and 360 right now it might have the most, but that's because two of those haven't been released yet. More people own ps2s, gamecubes, and xboxes than own a pc capable of playing high-end games, and I imagine the same thing will happen when the next generation kicks in gear.
You've got that reversed. It's not that the drunk people don't want to hang out with sober people, it's that sober people don't want to hang out with drunk people. I'll have some wine or hard lemonade every now and then, but I'm over the stage where I enjoyed getting plastered, and now people just look like idiots to me when they're drunk, and not in an entertaining way.
I haven't used Photoshop much, since I use Linux at home, so it's not a familiarity issue for me. It's just that Gimp is completely, 100% unituitive. I've self-taught myself dozens of other programs, and Gimp is by far the hardest for me to understand.
My husband eats mostly meat, and he's got heart problems already at 23. I've been trying to wean him onto soy meat, because he's just not going to last very long without any vegetables.
As for me, I've been a healthy vegetarian since I was 12.
As the sibling poster said, people have different dietary requirements. I'm glad you've found what works for you, but it won't work for everyone. I'd actually think that fewer people could do meat-only than could do vegetarian.
I think it's possible for a serious love story to work in a game.
Final Fantasy X had a serious love story, and it worked quite well.
I think games can actually have a more intense story that movies, because you get much more attached to the charactors in 50 hours of playing than you ever could after an hour and a half of a movie.
You can disable it by clicking on "preferences" then "comments" and then checking "normal" instead of "U of M testing".
You're only supposed to get it if you agreed to be a part of the survey and then went through a little tutorial on it. At least, that's how I got it. I guess slashdot just changed it for everyone now?
I've found the interface to be fairly buggy. It has some great potential, but sometimes the scripts freeze up and the sometimes show controls is there, sometimes it's not. I hope they work it out, because it could make slashdot a lot better if they do it right.
A couple of years ago we were all debating about same-sex marriage and medicinal marijuana. Now it seems these issues have been pushed aside in favor of copyright issues and how much money goes to the military.
Didn't those issues get pushed aside because you got them? I mean, what else is there to discuss about same-sex marriage once you've started marrying them? Are you going to start un-marrying people? And who really wants to stop cancer patients from smoking pot? It's better for them than any other painkiller they could take.
Is your post sarcastic and I missed it? Because copyright issues and military spending are much more important than stopping same sex marriage or pot smokers, because copyright and military spending affect everyone, not just a small group of people that want to do what they want.
Learning Urdu involves more than just a free download. I don't see what's so hard about downloading OOo for ODF files. People download Acrobat instead of complaining it should be in.doc format. Anyways, the GPP was talking about ODF for internal communications, not sending out ODF to customers and other companies and whoever. I see nothing unreasonable about a company insisting that all employees use a standard that they decide is best for the company. Do you?
I'm sure once Fedora's stripped down and put on a black-and-white screen it won't look any better than DSL. That said, it does make a lot of sense to go with what's pretty much the biggest name in Linux with a large corporate backing than to go with one that, well, isn't.
What would be the point of that? So spammers could just use the phonebook, add @usa.gov (or whatever) to the names and get a giant list of active email addresses? People can already get their choice of free email addresses, what benefit would a government one provide besides a target for spammers?
I'm not saying the potential isn't there for people to get help/help themselves. But having and using a bare bones cell phone is a far cry from having a wireless laptop. And in any case, there is a need for social programs to help the homeless that internet access is not going to alleviate. (I can't believe that I, a fiscal conservative, just said that.) It's actually more cost effective to give people a housing subsidy than it is to give them a bed in a shelter. I think the figures I saw were on the order of $6000 a year for a Section 8 subsidy vs. $35,000 a year per bed in a shelter. And this doesn't even count the costs to local governments for institutionalizing those with mental problems that could be placed into proper (privately run) board and care facilities through such programs.
Don't worry, you can still call yourself conservative. A liberal would be calling for all sorts of public (government-run) facilities irregardless of the cost. The reason for that is because we can't guarantee that private programs will always be there and won't discriminate (not that we can guarantee when it comes to government, but technically we should be able to control government more than private business).
Do you have a source for the figures you quoted? Section 8 sounds about right, but $35,000 for a bed in a shelter sounds insane. Do you you know if that might have included food or other things Section 8 doesn't?
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Oh, I'm very much in support of games being labeled. However, this thing requires a patch to get to (or a gameshark code on ps2 I think) so people do not stumble upon it accidently. Even if it was accessible without the patch, while it should have been labeled correctly in the first place, it's adult content in an adult game. I don't think it should have caused all the fuss it did.
Uh, no. A better analogy would be if you were sold a 40" HDTV and actually got a 40" HDTV, but then you found an add-on for it that would make it download streaming porn from the internet. Maybe that's a plus, maybe that's a minus, but if you don't want the porn, don't install the add-on.
It was labeled not for kids. A quick look at the rating's content descriptors will tell you that it's not for the squeamish. This isn't Wind Waker. This is one of the most mature games available in mainstream stores without hot coffee. As for hot coffee itself, it's a lame psuedo-porn scene where the guy leaves on his pants. If your kids have ever seen a rated R movie, and if they're playing rated M games they probably have, then they've seen more explicit "porn" than in this. If you allow them enough access to the internet to find the patch to enable it, then they've seen way more explicit porn.
I just don't see why it was that big of a deal.
Any kid who's not able to handle the hot coffee is too young to handle the rest of the game. Not to mention, they'll find more explicit porn just looking for the patch to unlock it.
All the girls from FF7 through 10 cannot match the whineyness that is Tidus.
Square needs to break their stupid mold. I like FFs, but I'm sick of playing some whiney boy pining over some mage girl.
Tactics 2 is actually Tactics Advance.
:P
You forgot Final Fantasy Adventure, but that was really Sword of Mana, but the Legends were SaGas so whatever.
And there's FFVII: Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus. And Mystic Quest.
And 4 is 2 and 6 is 3, so 2 and 3 are 2j and 3j.
And yes, I'm purposefully trying to confuse you now.
I don't think being cross-platform is all that cool. Cross-platform games have to be designed for the lowest common demoninator and can't take advantage of any of the nifty things in a console. Playing a game with a wii-mote that you can tell was designed with the dual-shock in mind, or playing the game with the dual-shock that only uses half the buttons because the wii doesn't have as many doesn't sound like fun. I much prefer console exclusives. Of course, that's because I buy all the game consoles. I imagine if I could only buy one system each generation I might have a different opinion.
Also, I don't think the PC has the highest userbase. Well, technically if you compare it to the wii, ps3 and 360 right now it might have the most, but that's because two of those haven't been released yet. More people own ps2s, gamecubes, and xboxes than own a pc capable of playing high-end games, and I imagine the same thing will happen when the next generation kicks in gear.
You've got that reversed. It's not that the drunk people don't want to hang out with sober people, it's that sober people don't want to hang out with drunk people. I'll have some wine or hard lemonade every now and then, but I'm over the stage where I enjoyed getting plastered, and now people just look like idiots to me when they're drunk, and not in an entertaining way.
Funny; paintbrush seems to be the only thing I can consistently do in Gimp. :P
"Not-Gimp-like" and "Intuitive" are synonyms. :)
I haven't used Photoshop much, since I use Linux at home, so it's not a familiarity issue for me. It's just that Gimp is completely, 100% unituitive. I've self-taught myself dozens of other programs, and Gimp is by far the hardest for me to understand.
My husband eats mostly meat, and he's got heart problems already at 23. I've been trying to wean him onto soy meat, because he's just not going to last very long without any vegetables.
As for me, I've been a healthy vegetarian since I was 12.
As the sibling poster said, people have different dietary requirements. I'm glad you've found what works for you, but it won't work for everyone. I'd actually think that fewer people could do meat-only than could do vegetarian.
I think games can actually have a more intense story that movies, because you get much more attached to the charactors in 50 hours of playing than you ever could after an hour and a half of a movie.
You can disable it by clicking on "preferences" then "comments" and then checking "normal" instead of "U of M testing".
You're only supposed to get it if you agreed to be a part of the survey and then went through a little tutorial on it. At least, that's how I got it. I guess slashdot just changed it for everyone now?
I've found the interface to be fairly buggy. It has some great potential, but sometimes the scripts freeze up and the sometimes show controls is there, sometimes it's not. I hope they work it out, because it could make slashdot a lot better if they do it right.
Is your post sarcastic and I missed it? Because copyright issues and military spending are much more important than stopping same sex marriage or pot smokers, because copyright and military spending affect everyone, not just a small group of people that want to do what they want.
Learning Urdu involves more than just a free download. I don't see what's so hard about downloading OOo for ODF files. People download Acrobat instead of complaining it should be in .doc format. Anyways, the GPP was talking about ODF for internal communications, not sending out ODF to customers and other companies and whoever. I see nothing unreasonable about a company insisting that all employees use a standard that they decide is best for the company. Do you?
I'm sure once Fedora's stripped down and put on a black-and-white screen it won't look any better than DSL. That said, it does make a lot of sense to go with what's pretty much the biggest name in Linux with a large corporate backing than to go with one that, well, isn't.
The WRT54G runs Linux, so I'm sure that, given enough effort, people can do (and have done) all sorts of shit with it.
What would be the point of that? So spammers could just use the phonebook, add @usa.gov (or whatever) to the names and get a giant list of active email addresses? People can already get their choice of free email addresses, what benefit would a government one provide besides a target for spammers?
Ok, I get your point now.
However, I'm not sure if giving money to panhandlers is the best method of preventing muggings. I think there's got to be better ways.
We're not talking about muggings, we're talking about panhandlers.
Do you have a source for the figures you quoted? Section 8 sounds about right, but $35,000 for a bed in a shelter sounds insane. Do you you know if that might have included food or other things Section 8 doesn't?