if anything, you would want the mix to come from the Monitor Engineer. they are already producing a seperate mix for each band member. The club I used to work at had dedicated monitor board and mixer who would routinely send a custom stereo mix to his portable DAT. Monitor engineers are the unsung heroes of rock. And they get great bootlegs.
I wonder if the author has looked at much of ANY magazine, TV show or movie in the past 20 years. There isn't much of anything that isn't sold by attatching hot nearly naked women to it. Powertools to alchohol to videogames to vacations in Jamaica- all brought to you by the power of your own biological urges.
This is nothing new. Videogames have rounded the bend on graphics enough to give us rendered juggy characters. Entertainment Weekly often has nearly naked women, so does Interview, so does Wallpaper, so does Vogue, so does pretty much any magazine aimed at anyone over pubescent age.
Ever wonder why so many "classic" paintings from the renaissance are of nude reclining women?
"but it's not known why Eidos' Fear Effect was optioned."
Gee, could it be because of the hot girl-on-girl action? Isn't that why people bought the game in the first place?
Well, in some cases, yes buying/owning the physical CD IS part of the experience. Some people really like the packaging as a piece of art in it's own right. Radioheads bound book package for Amnesiac, Crash Worships 3rd album w/ the screen printed copper plates, Danzig IIs inverted cross foldout liner notes, Tools lenticular Aenima covers... just to name a few.
Some of you dusty old farts may remember when albums were pressed on vinyl. Anyone who says the packaging isn't important has never owned a vinyl copy of Led Zepplin III or Physical Graffiti, or Sgt Peppers for that matter.
How about hunting for that one rare 7" from the Misfits? Lurking the rows at record shows for original release Zappa vinyl? Sure, you can get an MP3, but it doesn't have the same sense of reward.
Downloading is fine you like the TRL method of listening to music. If you buy the Greatest Hits rather than the entire catalog, downloading isn't robbing you of anything. If you are a fan of the album as a format- downloading individual tracks just doesn't cut it.
AOR completists will be dragged kicking and screaming into the downloading era.
As for games, I shop for them the same way I shop for records. I like to hold the box and look at the pictures, read the back, see what other games are nearby. Game packaging may not be as involved or exciting as a great double-gatefold vinyl record, but that doesn't mean that it can't be.
Star Wars being marketed? Ummmmmm have you ever been out of the house? Star Wars has been adorning lunch-boxes, bubblebath, shaped soaps, toothbrushes, dixiecups, kites, underwear, sheets, bandaids, lollipops, pez, legos, figures, games, cereal, trashcans, TV trays, trapper-keepers, pencil boxes, socks, shirts, and an infinite multitude of other random objects.
Sift through any landfill and you will find a rich 20 history of worthless shit adorned with the Star Wars name. At least this game makes more sense than a Lando Calrissian birth control pill dispenser.
I predict that this is the first of many of these stories. The industry is saturating the market with these games. I haven't played Everquest. or any of it's ilk. What I have gleaned from others complaints is that this genre demands LOTS of time. There must be a fixed amount of people in the world with the time and determination to keep playing. Flooding the market with these games is only going to disrupt the available pool of people willing to pay a monthly fee.
IOW, if X amount of people are ever going to be paying a monthly fee for a massively time consuming online game, having a glut of titles nets less total players per game. We will soon see a digital "darwinism" thinning the herds of these games.
Of course, it has always worked this way, with FPS and RTS games showing the pattern. However, none of these games were relying on monthly fees to make their money. Where it was easy to make a quick cash in on the RTS or FPS craze, the developers relying on subscriptions for profit are in for trouble.
Just becuase someone hasn't read the book does not indicate stupidity. One of the best outcomes of these films is that they are bringing the books to many who have not read them. Some may be waiting to read them after seeing all three films. Why spoil the surprise for them just because you are a snob?
I know of several people who fell in love with this story after seeing the films. They have read each book only after the film come out. Are they stupid for having not been curious enough to read the books beforehand? Should they be punished? (your use of the word mercy seems to imply that)
It is just common sense. Don't spoil the story, film book or otherwise. You are robbing people of the joy of discovering it themselves- from whatever medium they choose.
Congratulations- you have earned your geek validation points for the week by proving you have read the book. Now, you are having half of those points deducted for showing no sensitivity to those who haven't read the books and want to not have THE ENTIRE ENDING SPOILED.
Your deducted points will now be added to your asshole-fanboy score. Be careful not to let those points outweigh your geek-validation points or those braces will have to stay on for another 6 months.
And your DM will be kicking you out of the campaign.
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if anything, you would want the mix to come from the Monitor Engineer. they are already producing a seperate mix for each band member. The club I used to work at had dedicated monitor board and mixer who would routinely send a custom stereo mix to his portable DAT. Monitor engineers are the unsung heroes of rock. And they get great bootlegs.
I wonder if the author has looked at much of ANY magazine, TV show or movie in the past 20 years. There isn't much of anything that isn't sold by attatching hot nearly naked women to it. Powertools to alchohol to videogames to vacations in Jamaica- all brought to you by the power of your own biological urges. This is nothing new. Videogames have rounded the bend on graphics enough to give us rendered juggy characters. Entertainment Weekly often has nearly naked women, so does Interview, so does Wallpaper, so does Vogue, so does pretty much any magazine aimed at anyone over pubescent age. Ever wonder why so many "classic" paintings from the renaissance are of nude reclining women?
"but it's not known why Eidos' Fear Effect was optioned." Gee, could it be because of the hot girl-on-girl action? Isn't that why people bought the game in the first place?
Well, in some cases, yes buying/owning the physical CD IS part of the experience. Some people really like the packaging as a piece of art in it's own right. Radioheads bound book package for Amnesiac, Crash Worships 3rd album w/ the screen printed copper plates, Danzig IIs inverted cross foldout liner notes, Tools lenticular Aenima covers... just to name a few.
Some of you dusty old farts may remember when albums were pressed on vinyl. Anyone who says the packaging isn't important has never owned a vinyl copy of Led Zepplin III or Physical Graffiti, or Sgt Peppers for that matter.
How about hunting for that one rare 7" from the Misfits? Lurking the rows at record shows for original release Zappa vinyl? Sure, you can get an MP3, but it doesn't have the same sense of reward.
Downloading is fine you like the TRL method of listening to music. If you buy the Greatest Hits rather than the entire catalog, downloading isn't robbing you of anything. If you are a fan of the album as a format- downloading individual tracks just doesn't cut it.
AOR completists will be dragged kicking and screaming into the downloading era.
As for games, I shop for them the same way I shop for records. I like to hold the box and look at the pictures, read the back, see what other games are nearby. Game packaging may not be as involved or exciting as a great double-gatefold vinyl record, but that doesn't mean that it can't be.
Star Wars being marketed? Ummmmmm have you ever been out of the house? Star Wars has been adorning lunch-boxes, bubblebath, shaped soaps, toothbrushes, dixiecups, kites, underwear, sheets, bandaids, lollipops, pez, legos, figures, games, cereal, trashcans, TV trays, trapper-keepers, pencil boxes, socks, shirts, and an infinite multitude of other random objects. Sift through any landfill and you will find a rich 20 history of worthless shit adorned with the Star Wars name. At least this game makes more sense than a Lando Calrissian birth control pill dispenser.
I predict that this is the first of many of these stories. The industry is saturating the market with these games. I haven't played Everquest. or any of it's ilk. What I have gleaned from others complaints is that this genre demands LOTS of time. There must be a fixed amount of people in the world with the time and determination to keep playing. Flooding the market with these games is only going to disrupt the available pool of people willing to pay a monthly fee. IOW, if X amount of people are ever going to be paying a monthly fee for a massively time consuming online game, having a glut of titles nets less total players per game. We will soon see a digital "darwinism" thinning the herds of these games. Of course, it has always worked this way, with FPS and RTS games showing the pattern. However, none of these games were relying on monthly fees to make their money. Where it was easy to make a quick cash in on the RTS or FPS craze, the developers relying on subscriptions for profit are in for trouble.
Just becuase someone hasn't read the book does not indicate stupidity. One of the best outcomes of these films is that they are bringing the books to many who have not read them. Some may be waiting to read them after seeing all three films. Why spoil the surprise for them just because you are a snob? I know of several people who fell in love with this story after seeing the films. They have read each book only after the film come out. Are they stupid for having not been curious enough to read the books beforehand? Should they be punished? (your use of the word mercy seems to imply that) It is just common sense. Don't spoil the story, film book or otherwise. You are robbing people of the joy of discovering it themselves- from whatever medium they choose.
Congratulations- you have earned your geek validation points for the week by proving you have read the book. Now, you are having half of those points deducted for showing no sensitivity to those who haven't read the books and want to not have THE ENTIRE ENDING SPOILED. Your deducted points will now be added to your asshole-fanboy score. Be careful not to let those points outweigh your geek-validation points or those braces will have to stay on for another 6 months. And your DM will be kicking you out of the campaign.