Sure, Mario Party gets reincarnated every year, (although I did find the installments on the N64 to be pretty fun and long-lasting), but Nintendo makes more than that. Ever played Super Smash Bros. Brawl? It is a pretty fun game (except for the screwed up online play) and quite a bit more innovative than "traditional" fighting games. Really, Nintendo has an amazing answer to almost every genere, RPGs? Golden Sun, Fire Emblem and Earthbound are all outstanding examples of RPGs (and Pokemon pretty much revolutionized the genere too, though recently they seem to have gotten stuck in a remake cycle). Racing? Both F-Zero and Mario Kart are outstanding examples of racing games that focus on fun, not realism. FPS games? Metroid Prime is one of the best FPS games I've played on a console. Puzzle? Dr. Mario, Puzzle League (it was titled Tetris Attack on the SNES or Panel De Pon on the Super Famicom) along with other more obscure titles (Yoshi, Wario's Woods, etc). Along with a large amount of more casual games such as Animal Crossing, the "Wii" series (Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Fit, etc), and others.
Its funny, because when you mention these games that are out of the Wii, all I can think is "they're STILL making those games?" I played f-zero on the SNES already, as well as mario kart. Also metroid. Dr. Mario was the on the NES.. Zelda on the wii was fun again, but it was nothing really different. the causal games don't interest me, and I havent tired the one cario game yet.
While Nintendo and consequently Nintendo's consoles don't really get overloaded with one "good" genre, there are shining examples of every genre on Nintendo's consoles, many from Nintendo itself.
I'd rather play a few really good games then a boatload of ok games. And its good that Nintendo is making good games, because 3rd parties have been severely lacking. So much that I finally got a PS3 a few months ago.
Oh I forgot about all the other original ideas coming out of all the other console makers. All the original FPS games that in no way are the exact same, all the original sports games which in no way are the same game as before with new players, all the innovative racing games, etc.
I don't really play FPSs that much, and I'm not having a hard time finding games I like on the PS3. Fallout 3 is exteremly fun, as was RE5 (I played RE4 on the Wii... which was the first RE game I've played, being out of consoles since the SNES). Oblivion is also good... thats mostly all the games I have so far, but there are plenty I plan on picking up... unlike the Wii, which having owned for a couple of years now, I have a hard time finding games I want to play (even looking into the Gamecube library).
Its amusing that you find all the rehashing Nintendo is doing original then slam the other two for having nothing but FPSes.
Do you have proof that he does? I find it far more useful to believe in things that exhibit that they exist, than to believe in things that HAVEN'T exhibited that they exist. I mean, I don't have proof that the FSM doesn't exist either... shall I (or you?) believe in that too?
It makes perfect sense for the property sales unit and the mortgage unit to be pursuing different agendas.
No it doesn't, its still one company. There should already be a procedure in place to handle these kinds of conflicts. The fact that there isn't just shows we should have let this bank fail, because clearly they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Instead of spouting how insecure Silverlight is, perhaps actually READ something about it. Siliverlight OOB is STILL STANDBOXED. No file system access, nothing it couldn't do before has been added.
He doesn't even exist to be able to forgive me. At least all those other belief systems are based around actual things that exist (people, technology, etc). There's no proof at all that a god exists; there's even less proof that he cares at all about anyone if he does.
Um, ya, like that one difference makes up for the fact that the rest of your beliefs are based on nothing more than fairy tails. But please, don't let me stop you from bashing the fairy tails of Catholics.
Ha. No kidding. Its not even wine, its grape juice.
Nothing like seeing the blood of christ being poured out of a juicy juicy bottle in the rectory, and seeing his body in tiny wafer form filling plastic bags tied up with wire ties, sitting on the floor.
Ya, well they are also raised to believe an invisible man in the sky sent a son who died and came back from the dead... and many hold to that belief well into adulthood, never abandoning it.
I know there are plenty of examples throughout history where the military has quelled it's own populace, but I would like to think that US troops would hopefully be above that. I never understood this mentality, the one where the people you're protecting aboard are all the sudden worthless and you should beat the crap out of them, or worse, slaughter them. I'm sure someone has researched it fully, but honestly, I don't get it.
Ya, ok, American human beings are different than ALL OTHER HUMAN BEINGS BEFORE THEM. Sure, stick your head in the sand all you want.. our Founders fortunately had more forethought. US troops would simply do what Chinese troops did in Tianemen Square; the divisions brought it were from the other side of China, and thus no ties to the locals they were quelling.
I served for 5 years in the Marine Corps, and obviously I was never faced with this situation, but I would hope that I would see through the B.S. and refuse unlawful orders that asked me to harm the civilian populace. (defending yourself from attack is another situation though.)
You would simply be arrested by the MPs. Unfortunately, theres already been research showing that if told to hurt someone else by someone in authority, they likely will.
No, the difference is that this camera would ALWAYS be up, and the guy is quoted that "you'll never know if you are being watched" by the government. If that's not a sentimate in line with "pre-cursor to police state," I don't know what is.
Really? I don't see Fallout 3 and other such games on sat. morning tv, do you?
Does that conversation have any merit? No
Well, what you think is irrelevent. It does matter; the games are censored because people are falsely claiming the games are for kids. How many times do you see "omg a 12 yr old is killing hookers in GTA 4!!" Well GTA 4 IS NOT MARKETED AT KIDS, yet everyone wanting to censor them is claiming they are.
As far as your comments about "not guaranteed life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness," that is true, but that doesn't give you carte blanche to actively interfere in my life, liberty or pursuit of happiness. Your argument is foolish; you say we should throw away the context in which the Consitution was written and only look at that document when interperating it? I find that to be nonsense.
I can imagine engineers at Microsoft still believing that each household has one desktop and no expectation of the need to use your computer remotely. No one needs to access their computer on vacation at grandma's house or from an internet cafe, or from their netbook which is a primary driver of multi-desktops per household. This is the problem that Google is solving with their online apps.
Which is why I don't think Google is going to get anywhere. The problem is already solved; those needing to use a computer remotely have A LAPTOP. Most people don't even think about getting the picture off their computer at home; its either already online, or they'll simply wait until they are home and copy it from their desktop.
Which is probably fine.. most people don't understand enough to secure their WAP, I'm not sure its a great idea for these same people to open a port which allows remote connections to the wide open internet.
So, its not really in demand (power users will want such a feature, but I doubt most home users do) and its an added risk.
WTF? I haven't either, but haven't started the last quest (wanted to do other quests). But I've uncovered a good number of references to aliens already.
Well, a few things. Your skill level for certain kinds of weapons matters; small arms vs big arms, etc. Also, the condition of the weapon mattered... the better the condition, the more accurate.
Finally, all weapons naturally have a scatter pattern; no bullet will exactly follow the course of the previous one. Not sure why this was done, maybe to make it a bit more real (as I'm sure you're not holding a gun totally still as you shoot).
When you first start playing you have low skill and badly damaged weapons; try again now. I like using the Chinese Assault Rifle because I can use it effectively with or without VATS.
But VATS is just cool... following the bullet from a rifle as it slowly makes a Ghouls head explode.. very fun.
Its not a bug if its functioning as designed. The design may no longer be relevent to current computer setups, but that doesn't make it a bug. A bug is unintended behavior; the old design of GDI WAS the intended behavior. That behavior is now causing problems, hence a redesign.
Maybe that's the real point where Microsoft is to blame: setting a world-wide standard for low quality software, damaging expectations well beyond the OS market up to the point where no customer is allowed to expect software that works flawlessly.
Ya, well dream on. Its not MSs fault though. Software can be flawless, on the exact same equipment. However, not all motherboards are created equal, nor are processors, or memory, or video or sound cards. Even a 300W power supply isn't a 300W power supply, as our manufacroting group recently learned. 15V is around 15V, not exactly.
given that the hardware is such a moving target, I'm suprised general software can run at all.
The conversation about video games has always been about how they have been traditionally marketed to children and how there is (or was???) no explicit regulation on the sale of video/sexual/obscene games to children.
Except that video games pretty much aren't for kids. The vast majority of those playing are in their 30s.
I actually agree with you on expecting parents to be parents. However, as a parent, I have to mention that sometimes my kids stay over at other kids houses. We don't always get the ability to audit everything available in that house before they stay there.
So then don't let you kids stay at someone else's house. If you want total control, then thats what you should be doing... but instead you're going to the government to ensure your neighbor doesn't have anything objectionable to YOU.
Oh, don't see you agree, because you don't. "However" and "but" are just words used to negate whatever you said previously.
Oh? My belongs AREN'T searched whenever I try to fly? My itinerary ISN'T being sent to the government ahead of time?
The new tools in the patriot act is primarily the old tools adapted to different scenarios. Please explain what your talking about here.
Um, you mean like warrentless wiretapping? There is a court where a warrant can be gotten after the fact... the new tools do away with the warrant completely. The "adapting to different scenarios" you gloss over directly violate the constitution.
That's not what I am saying at all and you know it. If people do something at your direction, you are just as responsible and liable for those actions.
Sure it is; you claimed that merely saying something is the same as doing, and you continue to state that. You claim that you could tell 10 people to go after my parents, and they would... with nothing other than you stating thats what you wanted done.
By stating that someone is reasonable because they said "oh i wish someone would get rid of bob" you remove some of the responsiblity from the nut that went and killed bob... all because you don't think someone should be able to say something like that.
Lol.. OK so when the CEO tells an employee who should know better to ignore the environmental safety laws and just dump those toxic chemicals in the city water reservoir, that CEO is completely innocent because the employee should have known better. Got ya there.
No, you didn't "get me there." You changed the details of your story slightly to make your point, but its no longer the same point. You've now introduced cohersion where there was none before. Its called a strawman arguement. Might want to look it up.
And the garbage pleas to emotion was nothing but pointing something out. If you don't like it, it is probably because you are fucked in the head.
No, its because I'm tired of people trying to say "OMG what if this happened then this happened and that should SCARE YOU." You're an idiot who doesn't have a point trying to use emotion to outweight logic. Your desired result was "oh, well I wouldn't want anything happen to my parents so I guess he's right." See, it has nothing to do with the validity of your argument so much as it does my feelings for my parents. I'm not fucked in the head, I'm not some baby thats scared of my own shadow and won't backpeddle my beliefs just because you mention my parents in an argument.
No, I left the option of you being a complete and total idiot instead of a troll. As I said, I believe you are a bit of both.
Aww poor baby, whats a matter? I didn't fall for you stupid emotional argument, and then didn't fall for your strawman?
Just because you're wrong and know it doesn't make me a troll or an idiot. You're the retard that apparently thinks ever person that ever uttered "i wish so and so were dead" thrown in jail.
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Sure, Mario Party gets reincarnated every year, (although I did find the installments on the N64 to be pretty fun and long-lasting), but Nintendo makes more than that. Ever played Super Smash Bros. Brawl? It is a pretty fun game (except for the screwed up online play) and quite a bit more innovative than "traditional" fighting games. Really, Nintendo has an amazing answer to almost every genere, RPGs? Golden Sun, Fire Emblem and Earthbound are all outstanding examples of RPGs (and Pokemon pretty much revolutionized the genere too, though recently they seem to have gotten stuck in a remake cycle). Racing? Both F-Zero and Mario Kart are outstanding examples of racing games that focus on fun, not realism. FPS games? Metroid Prime is one of the best FPS games I've played on a console. Puzzle? Dr. Mario, Puzzle League (it was titled Tetris Attack on the SNES or Panel De Pon on the Super Famicom) along with other more obscure titles (Yoshi, Wario's Woods, etc). Along with a large amount of more casual games such as Animal Crossing, the "Wii" series (Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Fit, etc), and others.
Its funny, because when you mention these games that are out of the Wii, all I can think is "they're STILL making those games?" I played f-zero on the SNES already, as well as mario kart. Also metroid. Dr. Mario was the on the NES.. Zelda on the wii was fun again, but it was nothing really different. the causal games don't interest me, and I havent tired the one cario game yet.
While Nintendo and consequently Nintendo's consoles don't really get overloaded with one "good" genre, there are shining examples of every genre on Nintendo's consoles, many from Nintendo itself.
I'd rather play a few really good games then a boatload of ok games. And its good that Nintendo is making good games, because 3rd parties have been severely lacking. So much that I finally got a PS3 a few months ago.
Oh I forgot about all the other original ideas coming out of all the other console makers. All the original FPS games that in no way are the exact same, all the original sports games which in no way are the same game as before with new players, all the innovative racing games, etc.
I don't really play FPSs that much, and I'm not having a hard time finding games I like on the PS3. Fallout 3 is exteremly fun, as was RE5 (I played RE4 on the Wii... which was the first RE game I've played, being out of consoles since the SNES). Oblivion is also good... thats mostly all the games I have so far, but there are plenty I plan on picking up... unlike the Wii, which having owned for a couple of years now, I have a hard time finding games I want to play (even looking into the Gamecube library).
Its amusing that you find all the rehashing Nintendo is doing original then slam the other two for having nothing but FPSes.
So, why can I run it just fine on a pc last upgraded in 2004, except for the HD (only because the old one died)?
1gb ddr ram, amd athlon 3800+ x2, a8v mb, geforce 5700 graphics.
Do you have proof that he does? I find it far more useful to believe in things that exhibit that they exist, than to believe in things that HAVEN'T exhibited that they exist. I mean, I don't have proof that the FSM doesn't exist either... shall I (or you?) believe in that too?
Touche.
It makes perfect sense for the property sales unit and the mortgage unit to be pursuing different agendas.
No it doesn't, its still one company. There should already be a procedure in place to handle these kinds of conflicts. The fact that there isn't just shows we should have let this bank fail, because clearly they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Instead of spouting how insecure Silverlight is, perhaps actually READ something about it. Siliverlight OOB is STILL STANDBOXED. No file system access, nothing it couldn't do before has been added.
Wow... its amazing how uninformed people here are when discussing MS.
http://www.mokosh.co.uk/post/Silverlight-Out-of-Browser-applications.aspx
I suppose, if you only read the sentence and then never bother to look into how SL handles this...
He doesn't even exist to be able to forgive me. At least all those other belief systems are based around actual things that exist (people, technology, etc). There's no proof at all that a god exists; there's even less proof that he cares at all about anyone if he does.
Um, ya, like that one difference makes up for the fact that the rest of your beliefs are based on nothing more than fairy tails. But please, don't let me stop you from bashing the fairy tails of Catholics.
Ha. No kidding. Its not even wine, its grape juice.
Nothing like seeing the blood of christ being poured out of a juicy juicy bottle in the rectory, and seeing his body in tiny wafer form filling plastic bags tied up with wire ties, sitting on the floor.
Ya, well they are also raised to believe an invisible man in the sky sent a son who died and came back from the dead... and many hold to that belief well into adulthood, never abandoning it.
I know there are plenty of examples throughout history where the military has quelled it's own populace, but I would like to think that US troops would hopefully be above that. I never understood this mentality, the one where the people you're protecting aboard are all the sudden worthless and you should beat the crap out of them, or worse, slaughter them. I'm sure someone has researched it fully, but honestly, I don't get it.
Ya, ok, American human beings are different than ALL OTHER HUMAN BEINGS BEFORE THEM. Sure, stick your head in the sand all you want.. our Founders fortunately had more forethought. US troops would simply do what Chinese troops did in Tianemen Square; the divisions brought it were from the other side of China, and thus no ties to the locals they were quelling.
I served for 5 years in the Marine Corps, and obviously I was never faced with this situation, but I would hope that I would see through the B.S. and refuse unlawful orders that asked me to harm the civilian populace. (defending yourself from attack is another situation though.)
You would simply be arrested by the MPs. Unfortunately, theres already been research showing that if told to hurt someone else by someone in authority, they likely will.
No, the difference is that this camera would ALWAYS be up, and the guy is quoted that "you'll never know if you are being watched" by the government. If that's not a sentimate in line with "pre-cursor to police state," I don't know what is.
Really? I don't see Fallout 3 and other such games on sat. morning tv, do you?
Does that conversation have any merit? No
Well, what you think is irrelevent. It does matter; the games are censored because people are falsely claiming the games are for kids. How many times do you see "omg a 12 yr old is killing hookers in GTA 4!!" Well GTA 4 IS NOT MARKETED AT KIDS, yet everyone wanting to censor them is claiming they are.
As far as your comments about "not guaranteed life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness," that is true, but that doesn't give you carte blanche to actively interfere in my life, liberty or pursuit of happiness. Your argument is foolish; you say we should throw away the context in which the Consitution was written and only look at that document when interperating it? I find that to be nonsense.
Half joking, half serious.
I can imagine engineers at Microsoft still believing that each household has one desktop and no expectation of the need to use your computer remotely. No one needs to access their computer on vacation at grandma's house or from an internet cafe, or from their netbook which is a primary driver of multi-desktops per household. This is the problem that Google is solving with their online apps.
Which is why I don't think Google is going to get anywhere. The problem is already solved; those needing to use a computer remotely have A LAPTOP. Most people don't even think about getting the picture off their computer at home; its either already online, or they'll simply wait until they are home and copy it from their desktop.
Which is probably fine.. most people don't understand enough to secure their WAP, I'm not sure its a great idea for these same people to open a port which allows remote connections to the wide open internet.
So, its not really in demand (power users will want such a feature, but I doubt most home users do) and its an added risk.
WTF? I haven't either, but haven't started the last quest (wanted to do other quests). But I've uncovered a good number of references to aliens already.
Well, a few things. Your skill level for certain kinds of weapons matters; small arms vs big arms, etc. Also, the condition of the weapon mattered... the better the condition, the more accurate.
Finally, all weapons naturally have a scatter pattern; no bullet will exactly follow the course of the previous one. Not sure why this was done, maybe to make it a bit more real (as I'm sure you're not holding a gun totally still as you shoot).
When you first start playing you have low skill and badly damaged weapons; try again now. I like using the Chinese Assault Rifle because I can use it effectively with or without VATS.
But VATS is just cool... following the bullet from a rifle as it slowly makes a Ghouls head explode.. very fun.
a major video display bugfix
Its not a bug if its functioning as designed. The design may no longer be relevent to current computer setups, but that doesn't make it a bug. A bug is unintended behavior; the old design of GDI WAS the intended behavior. That behavior is now causing problems, hence a redesign.
just have to look at the single user desktop model STILL in use by Windows
My wife and I tried one of those multi user desktops, but we were contstantly fighting over the keyboard and mouse.
Maybe that's the real point where Microsoft is to blame: setting a world-wide standard for low quality software, damaging expectations well beyond the OS market up to the point where no customer is allowed to expect software that works flawlessly.
Ya, well dream on. Its not MSs fault though. Software can be flawless, on the exact same equipment. However, not all motherboards are created equal, nor are processors, or memory, or video or sound cards. Even a 300W power supply isn't a 300W power supply, as our manufacroting group recently learned. 15V is around 15V, not exactly.
given that the hardware is such a moving target, I'm suprised general software can run at all.
The fact that rights aren't as tramped here as in Europe does not excuse rights being tramped here. I fail to see your point.
The conversation about video games has always been about how they have been traditionally marketed to children and how there is (or was???) no explicit regulation on the sale of video/sexual/obscene games to children.
Except that video games pretty much aren't for kids. The vast majority of those playing are in their 30s.
I actually agree with you on expecting parents to be parents. However, as a parent, I have to mention that sometimes my kids stay over at other kids houses. We don't always get the ability to audit everything available in that house before they stay there.
So then don't let you kids stay at someone else's house. If you want total control, then thats what you should be doing... but instead you're going to the government to ensure your neighbor doesn't have anything objectionable to YOU.
Oh, don't see you agree, because you don't. "However" and "but" are just words used to negate whatever you said previously.
you haven't lost that or anything of the sort.
Oh? My belongs AREN'T searched whenever I try to fly? My itinerary ISN'T being sent to the government ahead of time?
The new tools in the patriot act is primarily the old tools adapted to different scenarios. Please explain what your talking about here.
Um, you mean like warrentless wiretapping? There is a court where a warrant can be gotten after the fact... the new tools do away with the warrant completely. The "adapting to different scenarios" you gloss over directly violate the constitution.
That's not what I am saying at all and you know it. If people do something at your direction, you are just as responsible and liable for those actions.
Sure it is; you claimed that merely saying something is the same as doing, and you continue to state that. You claim that you could tell 10 people to go after my parents, and they would... with nothing other than you stating thats what you wanted done.
By stating that someone is reasonable because they said "oh i wish someone would get rid of bob" you remove some of the responsiblity from the nut that went and killed bob... all because you don't think someone should be able to say something like that.
Lol.. OK so when the CEO tells an employee who should know better to ignore the environmental safety laws and just dump those toxic chemicals in the city water reservoir, that CEO is completely innocent because the employee should have known better. Got ya there.
No, you didn't "get me there." You changed the details of your story slightly to make your point, but its no longer the same point. You've now introduced cohersion where there was none before. Its called a strawman arguement. Might want to look it up.
And the garbage pleas to emotion was nothing but pointing something out. If you don't like it, it is probably because you are fucked in the head.
No, its because I'm tired of people trying to say "OMG what if this happened then this happened and that should SCARE YOU." You're an idiot who doesn't have a point trying to use emotion to outweight logic. Your desired result was "oh, well I wouldn't want anything happen to my parents so I guess he's right." See, it has nothing to do with the validity of your argument so much as it does my feelings for my parents. I'm not fucked in the head, I'm not some baby thats scared of my own shadow and won't backpeddle my beliefs just because you mention my parents in an argument.
No, I left the option of you being a complete and total idiot instead of a troll. As I said, I believe you are a bit of both.
Aww poor baby, whats a matter? I didn't fall for you stupid emotional argument, and then didn't fall for your strawman?
Just because you're wrong and know it doesn't make me a troll or an idiot. You're the retard that apparently thinks ever person that ever uttered "i wish so and so were dead" thrown in jail.