Thats what I had back home when I lived in a Rual area. Speed was only about 256k, but it was only like $35 a month, and sure as hell beat dialup. ISP did suck though, they were famous for turning us off without warning and waiting for us to call and complain before they would tell us why.
You can almost hear the different departments banging their heads against the wall when one of them does stuff like this. I still find it hard to punish some of the departments for it, as well, the teams and management probabaly have no contact whatsoever with each other. I'm not gonna stop buying ps2/3 games because of something the BMG or PC acessories group did, i'll just stop buying from those divisions.
Thats idiotic. It was 2k games and ONLY 2k games that decided to make use of secureROM. Do not blame SOny for 2kgames insistance on installing securerom without informing the user. Your so sure it was deceptively sold to them without any information suggesting that was the case. Thats a clear showing of your bias towards sony.
I'm looking forward to Warhawk, Uncharted, Eye of Judgement, Folklore, as well as the above games. Eye Of Judgement has me stoked, with it's cheep price ($60 with the camera). Toss in the PSN games (Wipeout HD fTW!) and i'm hooked this fall.
The multiplatform stuff is nice, but it's all the nitche stuff thats comming that makes me love the ocnsole. EoJ alone will get a ton of playtime, given the ceoncept and my love of card games.
The reviews for ps3 games have been all over the map really, and the only two of the "holiday games" so far with reviews were lair and Heavenly sword. Nothing else to my knowledge has been reviewed yet.
The ps2 lacked games early on, even compaired with the dreamcast, which at the point of the ps2's launch had a stellar lineup going for it. The 360 is doing great, and seems to be holding itself well. The wii is in trouble game wise, with only a handful of first party titles getting any sort of notice. Most games on that console were sub-average so far. Sony had the game game draught as nintendo, but Sony's got more higher rated games out, and there are somethng like 15 fall titles i'm keeping my eye on.
I think thats really the great oddity this time around. Nintendo doesn't have the games, yet everyone claims it does. Not to mention, despite lacking features, games, and power, it's still the best selling console. I had one for 7 months, and thought it was pretty average to bad, and people think i'm insane for saying that. I gave it an honest shot, it just failed to live up to it.
Who to say that an animal does not have a religion? Your theory hinges on the idea that you do not see human religion and practices with them. But since you don't know how they practice theirs, or it's details, you have no idea what to look for. Perhaps animals do belief, and their belief doesn't require ceremony. They could be perhaps at a state of peace that humans have long strived for: They know their fate, accept it, and live with it without worry.
Now a human is special: we aren't comfortable with out place. We allow ourselves to be overcome with fear: fear of death, fear of the unknown, fear of pain, etc. This is why we look to the gods: they are something free of our fears. They are perfect, peaceful, and always in control. But there are those religions who strive to return to this state of harmony with all things, but they are not always popular, because it's hard to teach a man that the world is what it is, they you are not special, you just are.
As to the rise in the number of religious people? Your often indoctrinated at birth and childhood, and the population is ever increasing. That proves nothing, expect that fear is a popular thing.
As for evolution not accounting for religion's development? All evolution gave us was a mind capable of understanding, it's not it's job to dictate behavior. an organism does whatever the hell it wants to, after all. And Keep in mind, at the end of the day, you still breed, reproduce, and select mates based on traits you find attractive, and thats partially evolution at work.
So a human can't be accountable to his fellow humans? If memory serves, the justice system doesn't let you off, saying "well, the gods will take care of this" you face judgment from your fellow man who punishes you. Men are just as easily capable of deciding what is moral as the gods are, and frankly, you can't prove a single thing came from the gods that didn't pass though the arms or mouth of a man to get to us. Soceity, however, has written millions of laws over thousands of years, and that we can prove.
Ah, you do an experiment to understand the evidence, not to generate it. You need something to experiment with, after all. And All experiments produce results, thats the whole point. They just aren't always the results you'd expect.
If god doesn't exist, then how would anyone be able to find evidence of non-existence? Something that doesn't exist doesn't leave evidence. Hearsay isn't hard evidence, and so you can't consider it in a hypothesis. You can claim to have experienced anything, but unless you have proof, your just saying you did something. It's like claiming tohave met an alien, unless you bring back something to collaborate the event, it's useless.
Science will adapt to fit new evidence. Genesis is frozen in time. That is the real difference between the two. Questioning scientific theory is how science works, but finding a gap in one theory doesn't invalidate all of science. If anything that article only changes how we view fossilization, not the geologic timeline.
The playstations never had a lot of games early on, they always hit around year one. I remember it being a huge crisis for the ps2 back in the day. Xbox and GCN had hype behind them, and the DC had quite a few killer games, and Sony really had nothing stellar for its first year.
Now, that all changed that fall though, when DMC, MGS, etc hit home. Sony's got a simular fall lineup this year, dropin something like 15-20 games I can see myself buying, most of which are exclusive.
As for the price? I can point you to a few thousand posts during the early ps2 years on the official playstation boards with people complaining about how DVD drive up the cost and how games didn't need that much storage. It took a long time for those folks to shut up about it. Did Blu-ray hurt Sony? Yeah, but considering what all Sony used tech wise, it was going to be expensive ether way. XDR, Cell, Blu-ray, etc, all couldn't have been cheep.
Despite being the worlds biggest ps1 and ps2 fan, $600 was just too much. When it droped to $500, I picked one up though. The 1.8 and 1.9 updates added all kinds of functionality, and now it's one well rounded and expandable system. Its a dozen devices in one package, and they keep adding stuff I don't even know how to use, such as all the audio options and such. What gets me is sony doesn't seem keen to advertise all that. You could devote a full page add to just listing features of the thing. This I think had been their greatest mistake.
We'll be okay. I hear they plan to build a bunch of space stations at strategic locations in the solar system, which will generate massive magnetic and gravity shields which would protect us from such a wave.
Actually, that would be a pretty neat policy. Send in your legit copy, get a legitimate, offically copied one back. They keep the scratched original, you get the reproduced one. If the game was still in production, you could get an original in a sleeve instead.
Alternatively, if its a PC game, or other game with a license, you could get a ISO to mount and a new CD-key, in exchange for your current CD-key, which woudl be deactivated. It might be harder to prove ownership though, unless they themselves tracked every sold cd-key to prevent people from using a cd-key generator.
Not really. Most are fetch quests or kill quests. Even if you do "grind" usualys its only for a few minutes to collect X number of items. Compair that to say, Everquest, where you spent 95% of the time sitting at a camp pulling mobs for hours on end for only a minor advancement in level.
Those aren't "good games" they just aren't "terrible games".
Sonic: Decent, but a rental at best.
Tiger Woods: Great start, but not any better than the other platforms.
SSX: Having to memorize shapes to draw really doesn't make it any easier than the previous games i the series. I gave it a rent, but it was too aggravating to buy.
Godfather: Didn't think it was that much better than previous versions.
Mario strikers: somewhat interesting, if unoriginal. I've heard it plays more like hockey than soccer.
Mario party: Hated it. Then again, i've never been much a fan of mini-games collections nor the MP series in general
Cooking mama: neat idea, btu again, its a rental.
Super paper mario: the 2d looked great, but 3d was empty and ugly. Toss in thats its too chatty to be a platformer, and too lacking in thought to be a RPG means it just didn't do enough good to outweight the bad.
RE4: Its a gcn port with outlook. I couldn't see buying it when i can get the GCN version for $15 used.
The wii hasn't yet produced a game that seems worth buying that I can't get ether on the GCN or on another platform in a equal or superior version. I only picked up a ps3 because the fall lineup had me drooling. Sold the wii for it in fact. After e3 and nintendo. imho, weak showing, I just lost faith in them. It all seems too much built on novelty, and simple games, and not the kind of stuff I want to shell 50-60 out for and play for longer than a week.
Reminds me of Nintendo denying a redesigned DS the day before they showed the DS Lite. Companies do this all the time, you don't normally annouce new models/prices in advance, because then no one buys them in the current form or current price.
If it's 6 years after they became aware of infringement, couldn't sony use the Emotion Engine, which also used vectors to co-process, as proof that more than that time has gone by and the company said nothing?
People still own/buy dreamcasts/ps1/anything prior to this gen despite not having new games produced.
By the time this lawsuit, if it happens, is complete, there will be a ton of systems and games out there. I can't see giving up my catalog of games and accessories just because there may be nothing new out there. Even if the ps3 died this spring, there would still be 20 something games I can see myself owning.
So simple is better in this case? So Grand epics are bad now? Frankly, after living though a decade of games where the only story was in the manual, i've taken quite a likening to modern games.
The wii is an interesting system, but its focus on simple games feels so boring to me. I want my adventures, my dramas, my action packed blockbusters. I want games that try to be art, that tell complex plots, that keep me remembering them for years after the fact. I just don't see alot of that on the wii. It feels like a giant step back for the industry.
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Thats what I had back home when I lived in a Rual area. Speed was only about 256k, but it was only like $35 a month, and sure as hell beat dialup. ISP did suck though, they were famous for turning us off without warning and waiting for us to call and complain before they would tell us why.
xbox worked because of the PC ports and because the Dreamcast was all but dead by the time it hit.
You can almost hear the different departments banging their heads against the wall when one of them does stuff like this. I still find it hard to punish some of the departments for it, as well, the teams and management probabaly have no contact whatsoever with each other. I'm not gonna stop buying ps2/3 games because of something the BMG or PC acessories group did, i'll just stop buying from those divisions.
Thats idiotic. It was 2k games and ONLY 2k games that decided to make use of secureROM. Do not blame SOny for 2kgames insistance on installing securerom without informing the user. Your so sure it was deceptively sold to them without any information suggesting that was the case. Thats a clear showing of your bias towards sony.
I'm looking forward to Warhawk, Uncharted, Eye of Judgement, Folklore, as well as the above games. Eye Of Judgement has me stoked, with it's cheep price ($60 with the camera). Toss in the PSN games (Wipeout HD fTW!) and i'm hooked this fall. The multiplatform stuff is nice, but it's all the nitche stuff thats comming that makes me love the ocnsole. EoJ alone will get a ton of playtime, given the ceoncept and my love of card games.
The ps2 lacked games early on, even compaired with the dreamcast, which at the point of the ps2's launch had a stellar lineup going for it. The 360 is doing great, and seems to be holding itself well. The wii is in trouble game wise, with only a handful of first party titles getting any sort of notice. Most games on that console were sub-average so far. Sony had the game game draught as nintendo, but Sony's got more higher rated games out, and there are somethng like 15 fall titles i'm keeping my eye on.
I think thats really the great oddity this time around. Nintendo doesn't have the games, yet everyone claims it does. Not to mention, despite lacking features, games, and power, it's still the best selling console. I had one for 7 months, and thought it was pretty average to bad, and people think i'm insane for saying that. I gave it an honest shot, it just failed to live up to it.
Now a human is special: we aren't comfortable with out place. We allow ourselves to be overcome with fear: fear of death, fear of the unknown, fear of pain, etc. This is why we look to the gods: they are something free of our fears. They are perfect, peaceful, and always in control. But there are those religions who strive to return to this state of harmony with all things, but they are not always popular, because it's hard to teach a man that the world is what it is, they you are not special, you just are.
As to the rise in the number of religious people? Your often indoctrinated at birth and childhood, and the population is ever increasing. That proves nothing, expect that fear is a popular thing.
As for evolution not accounting for religion's development? All evolution gave us was a mind capable of understanding, it's not it's job to dictate behavior. an organism does whatever the hell it wants to, after all. And Keep in mind, at the end of the day, you still breed, reproduce, and select mates based on traits you find attractive, and thats partially evolution at work.
So a human can't be accountable to his fellow humans? If memory serves, the justice system doesn't let you off, saying "well, the gods will take care of this" you face judgment from your fellow man who punishes you. Men are just as easily capable of deciding what is moral as the gods are, and frankly, you can't prove a single thing came from the gods that didn't pass though the arms or mouth of a man to get to us. Soceity, however, has written millions of laws over thousands of years, and that we can prove.
Ah, you do an experiment to understand the evidence, not to generate it. You need something to experiment with, after all. And All experiments produce results, thats the whole point. They just aren't always the results you'd expect.
If god doesn't exist, then how would anyone be able to find evidence of non-existence? Something that doesn't exist doesn't leave evidence. Hearsay isn't hard evidence, and so you can't consider it in a hypothesis. You can claim to have experienced anything, but unless you have proof, your just saying you did something. It's like claiming tohave met an alien, unless you bring back something to collaborate the event, it's useless.
Science will adapt to fit new evidence. Genesis is frozen in time. That is the real difference between the two. Questioning scientific theory is how science works, but finding a gap in one theory doesn't invalidate all of science. If anything that article only changes how we view fossilization, not the geologic timeline.
Now, that all changed that fall though, when DMC, MGS, etc hit home. Sony's got a simular fall lineup this year, dropin something like 15-20 games I can see myself buying, most of which are exclusive.
As for the price? I can point you to a few thousand posts during the early ps2 years on the official playstation boards with people complaining about how DVD drive up the cost and how games didn't need that much storage. It took a long time for those folks to shut up about it. Did Blu-ray hurt Sony? Yeah, but considering what all Sony used tech wise, it was going to be expensive ether way. XDR, Cell, Blu-ray, etc, all couldn't have been cheep.
Despite being the worlds biggest ps1 and ps2 fan, $600 was just too much. When it droped to $500, I picked one up though. The 1.8 and 1.9 updates added all kinds of functionality, and now it's one well rounded and expandable system. Its a dozen devices in one package, and they keep adding stuff I don't even know how to use, such as all the audio options and such. What gets me is sony doesn't seem keen to advertise all that. You could devote a full page add to just listing features of the thing. This I think had been their greatest mistake.
But what if it's a USB toaster?
10 points to whomever gets that one.
Alternatively, if its a PC game, or other game with a license, you could get a ISO to mount and a new CD-key, in exchange for your current CD-key, which woudl be deactivated. It might be harder to prove ownership though, unless they themselves tracked every sold cd-key to prevent people from using a cd-key generator.
Not really. Most are fetch quests or kill quests. Even if you do "grind" usualys its only for a few minutes to collect X number of items. Compair that to say, Everquest, where you spent 95% of the time sitting at a camp pulling mobs for hours on end for only a minor advancement in level.
Those aren't "good games" they just aren't "terrible games".
Sonic: Decent, but a rental at best.
Tiger Woods: Great start, but not any better than the other platforms.
SSX: Having to memorize shapes to draw really doesn't make it any easier than the previous games i the series. I gave it a rent, but it was too aggravating to buy.
Godfather: Didn't think it was that much better than previous versions.
Mario strikers: somewhat interesting, if unoriginal. I've heard it plays more like hockey than soccer.
Mario party: Hated it. Then again, i've never been much a fan of mini-games collections nor the MP series in general
Cooking mama: neat idea, btu again, its a rental.
Super paper mario: the 2d looked great, but 3d was empty and ugly. Toss in thats its too chatty to be a platformer, and too lacking in thought to be a RPG means it just didn't do enough good to outweight the bad.
RE4: Its a gcn port with outlook. I couldn't see buying it when i can get the GCN version for $15 used.
The wii hasn't yet produced a game that seems worth buying that I can't get ether on the GCN or on another platform in a equal or superior version. I only picked up a ps3 because the fall lineup had me drooling. Sold the wii for it in fact. After e3 and nintendo. imho, weak showing, I just lost faith in them. It all seems too much built on novelty, and simple games, and not the kind of stuff I want to shell 50-60 out for and play for longer than a week.
I don't think WoW counts as a grindfest. Everquest was a grindfest. AC was grind. WoW's best played by just doing quests.
well, at least till the high end. Then it's all about farming. Loot seems to flow like water in BC though, so it's not much a concern.
If playing Civilization makes them warmongers, what happens to the folks who play Populas?
Reminds me of Nintendo denying a redesigned DS the day before they showed the DS Lite. Companies do this all the time, you don't normally annouce new models/prices in advance, because then no one buys them in the current form or current price.
If it's 6 years after they became aware of infringement, couldn't sony use the Emotion Engine, which also used vectors to co-process, as proof that more than that time has gone by and the company said nothing?
People still own/buy dreamcasts/ps1/anything prior to this gen despite not having new games produced.
By the time this lawsuit, if it happens, is complete, there will be a ton of systems and games out there. I can't see giving up my catalog of games and accessories just because there may be nothing new out there. Even if the ps3 died this spring, there would still be 20 something games I can see myself owning.
Nope, just this void dragon fellow.
So simple is better in this case? So Grand epics are bad now? Frankly, after living though a decade of games where the only story was in the manual, i've taken quite a likening to modern games.
The wii is an interesting system, but its focus on simple games feels so boring to me. I want my adventures, my dramas, my action packed blockbusters. I want games that try to be art, that tell complex plots, that keep me remembering them for years after the fact. I just don't see alot of that on the wii. It feels like a giant step back for the industry.