Lots of terrible things are happening these days, but being locked up or being fined for owning a 360 is never gunna happen.
Well, let's see. In the US people have been arrested for buying a gun and not returning it when a few months later laws were passed making them illegal.
Since the RIAA and MPAA want us all to believe Copyright Violation kills more people every year (and kittens, too) than Accidental Gun Deaths, yes, I can see us soon being arrested for having bought any hardware that has an analog hole in the DRM.
The Copyright Violation Enforcement Task Force will come door to door, asking people if they own anything which can be used to violate copyrights, including ink pens, fax machines, camera phones and autistic children with photographic memories. If people don't immediately submit to search and seisure the CVETF will return with their Analog Hole Sniffing Hellhounds (aka Lawyers).
The PS2 wasn't exactly hindered by it's backwards compatibility with the PS1, and it will very likely be the PS3's backwards compatibility with the PS2 that saves the PS3 from total failure. (That is, I wouldn't count on very many must have PS3 first generation titles).
I've found that keeping my long hair clean, and in pony tell as well as my goate trimmed and neat allows me to look every bit as professional as the short haired guys.
When I dress nice (which actually isn't required at my job) my long hair is almost never an issue with anyone.
In spite of my long hair, my computer skills are never in question. I've even had Tech Support call me for help. The funny thing is I don't even work in IT, though everyone I know thinks I probably should.
The problem is I've landed myself in a pretty good paying job and in order to go into the field working with my friends it would require I take a cut in pay. While the job satisfaction might be greater, and my long hair is obviously not an issue, I simply cannot afford to make the switch.
I would agree that being clean and presentable is by all means a favorable trait for someone working in a professional environment, but in my experience just long hair alone isn't considered "unclean". Having scruffy facial hair, unkempt hair and raggy clothes is a totally different issue from just having a pony tail or long well groomed hair.
I don't always look my best. As I said, my job doesn't require it. But I did notice long ago that I get treated much differently when I'm dressed nice and trimmed up.
I hate overly realistic "Gung-Ho" militant shit in games.
I couldn't give 2 rat's asses about racing games that look like my TV is tuned to some motosporting event. And as much as I like some racing games, I'd rather see more Carmageddons than Grand Turismos.
I'll puke if I see one more historical war rehash as a 3rd person shooter. I'll take Shogo's Comic Influence over any of the newest first person shooters any day.
I think the reason a lot of gamers feel the way I do is that video games are supposed to be fun, over the top, and SURREAL.
Yes. SURREAL. Pac-Man wasn't a dog, a pig, or a bug. He was a -- uh - A Pac-person. Mario might have been a plumber, but he wasn't stomping on Lawyers, he was stomping on -- uh -- whatever Goombas are.
Early video games were surreal probably more for the sake of their inherent limitations. Modern video games are surreal because realistic is dull and boring.
If every game looked relaistic, nothing would be interesting. The more advanced graphics rendering engines become the harder it is to differentiate the look of a game.
Give me surrealism to realism anyday. As far as I'm concerned there are too many "mainstream realism oriented" games today.
And to counter your view, in MY opinion the realism --IS-- the Pop-Culture. Not the cartoony surreal stuff. That, if anything, is the Unpop culture. It is the real spirit and heritage of video gaming. And if you don't like it, buy the games you do like. Just remember, some of us wouldn't have it any other way.
So what you're saying is that it is absolutely, completely, and utterly impossible for someone who is more or less self taught and just happens to have a MCSE to have equal or superior skills to someone who spent years at a University?
Here I was all along thinking it was just merely unlikely, but you have enlightened me so.
Not only that, but several phones have the ability to select ringing profiles and include certain numbers in the groups and exclude others.
What works for me is to simply set it up so that all of my friends cause my phone to ring, with a few select people excluded. Everyone else just shows the number and makes the phone vibrate. That is, unless you're someone I know I want to talk to, you're on "silent".
I'm not sure if all phones offer this, but the last couple of phones I have owned have had this feature.
Also, DNA is normally not a flaming mass of gases.
That's all a matter of perspective. If you're much smaller than quarks living in a super-submicrocosm, you might hold a different opinion on that matter.
It has been stated before that the Wand slips down into some Wavebird like controller. Because of this, it's safe to assume that the Wavebird like control (via the wand) retains some of the motion sensor capabilities.
Thinking along those lines, it's possible that the Twilight Princess uses a regular GC controller, but when played on a Revolution with the controller/wavebird configuration the control reacts to players motions.
There are two sides to that argument. First off, you don't HAVE to grinde mindlessly to enjoy WoW. There is the social aspect, and of course teh quests. There will be some level of grinding no matter how you choose to play, but in the end spending hours doing the same task over and over is not something you simply must do.
On the flip side, all of the combat is pretty much the same. No matter what class you play you will end up relying on the same few buttons for most of your moves, and in that respect when you are grinding you will notice repeatable patterns that could easily be automated if you really wanted to do things that way.
I tend to grind a few of the same areas over and over for money making purposes, but I do so knowing good and well that really I should be moving forward and getting things done. Greed just gets the better of me and I have a pretty good amount of gold to show for it. Most of my guildies have either caught up to me or are close to passing me in level, but I am by far the richest. So really it just depends on how you want to play.
Yes, the game can amount to endless grinding. If that's not your style though, it can be minimized quite a bit, though without some time spent grinding (read: FARMING) you might find yourself asking for money from guildies or resorting to the evils of buying gold.
The gaming industry is NOT healthy. It's dishing out too many sports game and war-themed FPSs. Those are niche markets and industry wide profits are down.
Just because the niche you happen to like is plentiful doesn't mean the industry is doing well. Many have been predicting a video game crash for a while now and more and more it's starting to look just that way.
Oh, and you can add MMOs to the list of genres that are being focused on too much by the industry. I mean, I love WoW just like the next person but that doesn't mean I'm ready to try out every new MMO that someone shits out onto market.
Oh well, at least we have Spore and Supreme Commander to look forward to.
If the PS3 could burn the content to disc so that the person would have a physical copy, this could really amount to quite a big thing.
Sony would no doubt impliment some kind of DRM to make sure the burned copy is only played on the PS3 that downloaded it, though. Not that I would blame them entirely, but I wouldn't mind it so much if you could actually transfer it to another machine. (Suppose your PS3 goes tits up as Sony hardware tends to do...)
This has potential. As it stands now as great as net-delivered content is, I'm not real comfortable paying for something unless I get to keep a physical media copy as well. Nintendo's online content delivery service might be crippled if it's limited to storing inside the Revolution hardware, though if you can transfer it to a memory card it won't be so bad.
How many times have I jumped tracks here? I'll shut up now.
All other "we" are hereby instructed to file formal complaints before further experiments take place. Complaints will be reviewed and taken into consideration after the experiments have been completed.
Link suffered from the "no jump button" partially because they wanted people to focus more on the problem solving than the issue of controls. Mario 64 was already pure action. Link was supposed to be something more.
Tomb Raider, in my opinion, failed totally to be anything better than a mediocre novelty because the controls schemes are too mechanical, they felt fake, and they were sluggish.
I used to hate how walking forward just a tad took you forward an exact and predictable amount. Turning turned you a specific number of degrees. It was like Lara Croft lived in a world where everybody walked around on a grid and they had to stand at the center of whatever block they occupied.
It was like a 3D reincarnation of Flashback, only less fun and more noticable, and the plots were infinitely more retarded.
Polygon pushing power has become so advanced these days and gamepads have become so versatile that there is no excuse to make a Tomb Raider game with such rigid and mechanical controls. They probably could adopt more traditional 3rd person control schemes and concentrate on a plot that doesn't suck with good results. But who are we kidding? Eidos isn't any more concerned with releasing good games than EA or Acclaim. That's going to show through no matter what they do with the next Tomb Raider.
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Lots of terrible things are happening these days, but being locked up or being fined for owning a 360 is never gunna happen.
Well, let's see. In the US people have been arrested for buying a gun and not returning it when a few months later laws were passed making them illegal.
Since the RIAA and MPAA want us all to believe Copyright Violation kills more people every year (and kittens, too) than Accidental Gun Deaths, yes, I can see us soon being arrested for having bought any hardware that has an analog hole in the DRM.
The Copyright Violation Enforcement Task Force will come door to door, asking people if they own anything which can be used to violate copyrights, including ink pens, fax machines, camera phones and autistic children with photographic memories. If people don't immediately submit to search and seisure the CVETF will return with their Analog Hole Sniffing Hellhounds (aka Lawyers).
The article says that the driver is responsible for controlling the speed of the vehicle via the break pedal. :)
So this really isn't all that much different from someone being run over by your average driver.
The PS2 wasn't exactly hindered by it's backwards compatibility with the PS1, and it will very likely be the PS3's backwards compatibility with the PS2 that saves the PS3 from total failure. (That is, I wouldn't count on very many must have PS3 first generation titles).
This is basically a reply to say ditto.
I've found that keeping my long hair clean, and in pony tell as well as my goate trimmed and neat allows me to look every bit as professional as the short haired guys.
When I dress nice (which actually isn't required at my job) my long hair is almost never an issue with anyone.
In spite of my long hair, my computer skills are never in question. I've even had Tech Support call me for help. The funny thing is I don't even work in IT, though everyone I know thinks I probably should.
The problem is I've landed myself in a pretty good paying job and in order to go into the field working with my friends it would require I take a cut in pay. While the job satisfaction might be greater, and my long hair is obviously not an issue, I simply cannot afford to make the switch.
I would agree that being clean and presentable is by all means a favorable trait for someone working in a professional environment, but in my experience just long hair alone isn't considered "unclean". Having scruffy facial hair, unkempt hair and raggy clothes is a totally different issue from just having a pony tail or long well groomed hair.
I don't always look my best. As I said, my job doesn't require it. But I did notice long ago that I get treated much differently when I'm dressed nice and trimmed up.
I'm glad you're views aren't the strong majority.
I hate overly realistic "Gung-Ho" militant shit in games.
I couldn't give 2 rat's asses about racing games that look like my TV is tuned to some motosporting event. And as much as I like some racing games, I'd rather see more Carmageddons than Grand Turismos.
I'll puke if I see one more historical war rehash as a 3rd person shooter. I'll take Shogo's Comic Influence over any of the newest first person shooters any day.
I think the reason a lot of gamers feel the way I do is that video games are supposed to be fun, over the top, and SURREAL.
Yes. SURREAL. Pac-Man wasn't a dog, a pig, or a bug. He was a -- uh - A Pac-person. Mario might have been a plumber, but he wasn't stomping on Lawyers, he was stomping on -- uh -- whatever Goombas are.
Early video games were surreal probably more for the sake of their inherent limitations. Modern video games are surreal because realistic is dull and boring.
If every game looked relaistic, nothing would be interesting. The more advanced graphics rendering engines become the harder it is to differentiate the look of a game.
Give me surrealism to realism anyday. As far as I'm concerned there are too many "mainstream realism oriented" games today.
And to counter your view, in MY opinion the realism --IS-- the Pop-Culture. Not the cartoony surreal stuff. That, if anything, is the Unpop culture. It is the real spirit and heritage of video gaming. And if you don't like it, buy the games you do like. Just remember, some of us wouldn't have it any other way.
So what you're saying is that it is absolutely, completely, and utterly impossible for someone who is more or less self taught and just happens to have a MCSE to have equal or superior skills to someone who spent years at a University?
Here I was all along thinking it was just merely unlikely, but you have enlightened me so.
Not only that, but several phones have the ability to select ringing profiles and include certain numbers in the groups and exclude others.
What works for me is to simply set it up so that all of my friends cause my phone to ring, with a few select people excluded. Everyone else just shows the number and makes the phone vibrate. That is, unless you're someone I know I want to talk to, you're on "silent".
I'm not sure if all phones offer this, but the last couple of phones I have owned have had this feature.
That's funny.
When I run Windows I get the Blues.
I can totally see this! I mean there are SO many Xbox owners compared to iPod own...er... uh. Oh.
Are they sure they're not fudging numbers somewhere?
You probably have several in your house right now. If you look into them they show you an exact representation of the world outside.
It will be even more exciting when you read it here again in a couple of days.
Those people must be soo horrible and eat puppies for breakfast >:(
Savages! Everyone knows puppies are to be roasted for a late evening main course!
Also, DNA is normally not a flaming mass of gases.
That's all a matter of perspective. If you're much smaller than quarks living in a super-submicrocosm, you might hold a different opinion on that matter.
(I am of course kidding... but then again...)
It has been stated before that the Wand slips down into some Wavebird like controller. Because of this, it's safe to assume that the Wavebird like control (via the wand) retains some of the motion sensor capabilities.
Thinking along those lines, it's possible that the Twilight Princess uses a regular GC controller, but when played on a Revolution with the controller/wavebird configuration the control reacts to players motions.
Let's also not forget that killer app for Windows. Solitaire.
There are two sides to that argument. First off, you don't HAVE to grinde mindlessly to enjoy WoW. There is the social aspect, and of course teh quests. There will be some level of grinding no matter how you choose to play, but in the end spending hours doing the same task over and over is not something you simply must do.
On the flip side, all of the combat is pretty much the same. No matter what class you play you will end up relying on the same few buttons for most of your moves, and in that respect when you are grinding you will notice repeatable patterns that could easily be automated if you really wanted to do things that way.
I tend to grind a few of the same areas over and over for money making purposes, but I do so knowing good and well that really I should be moving forward and getting things done. Greed just gets the better of me and I have a pretty good amount of gold to show for it. Most of my guildies have either caught up to me or are close to passing me in level, but I am by far the richest. So really it just depends on how you want to play.
Yes, the game can amount to endless grinding. If that's not your style though, it can be minimized quite a bit, though without some time spent grinding (read: FARMING) you might find yourself asking for money from guildies or resorting to the evils of buying gold.
The gaming industry is NOT healthy. It's dishing out too many sports game and war-themed FPSs. Those are niche markets and industry wide profits are down.
Just because the niche you happen to like is plentiful doesn't mean the industry is doing well. Many have been predicting a video game crash for a while now and more and more it's starting to look just that way.
Oh, and you can add MMOs to the list of genres that are being focused on too much by the industry. I mean, I love WoW just like the next person but that doesn't mean I'm ready to try out every new MMO that someone shits out onto market.
Oh well, at least we have Spore and Supreme Commander to look forward to.
You can get the same effect with any garden-variety stripper.
That's an interesting garden you have. How might I go about planting my own?
If the PS3 could burn the content to disc so that the person would have a physical copy, this could really amount to quite a big thing.
Sony would no doubt impliment some kind of DRM to make sure the burned copy is only played on the PS3 that downloaded it, though. Not that I would blame them entirely, but I wouldn't mind it so much if you could actually transfer it to another machine. (Suppose your PS3 goes tits up as Sony hardware tends to do...)
This has potential. As it stands now as great as net-delivered content is, I'm not real comfortable paying for something unless I get to keep a physical media copy as well. Nintendo's online content delivery service might be crippled if it's limited to storing inside the Revolution hardware, though if you can transfer it to a memory card it won't be so bad.
How many times have I jumped tracks here? I'll shut up now.
This guy mentions the word "Mediocre" a whole lot, and I'm trying to figure out which games he's trying to say were that good.
Oh, well, I suppose maybe he means WoW, since that's the only game people are playing anyway.
including the 'mystery-feature'
...hmm...
Imagine if that huge fire button were touch sensitive like a virtual track ball...
In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true.
It took this statement for me to find a similarity between Slashdot and a Religion (or cult).
Well, this "we" is.
All other "we" are hereby instructed to file formal complaints before further experiments take place. Complaints will be reviewed and taken into consideration after the experiments have been completed.
Link suffered from the "no jump button" partially because they wanted people to focus more on the problem solving than the issue of controls. Mario 64 was already pure action. Link was supposed to be something more.
Tomb Raider, in my opinion, failed totally to be anything better than a mediocre novelty because the controls schemes are too mechanical, they felt fake, and they were sluggish.
I used to hate how walking forward just a tad took you forward an exact and predictable amount. Turning turned you a specific number of degrees. It was like Lara Croft lived in a world where everybody walked around on a grid and they had to stand at the center of whatever block they occupied.
It was like a 3D reincarnation of Flashback, only less fun and more noticable, and the plots were infinitely more retarded.
Polygon pushing power has become so advanced these days and gamepads have become so versatile that there is no excuse to make a Tomb Raider game with such rigid and mechanical controls. They probably could adopt more traditional 3rd person control schemes and concentrate on a plot that doesn't suck with good results. But who are we kidding? Eidos isn't any more concerned with releasing good games than EA or Acclaim. That's going to show through no matter what they do with the next Tomb Raider.
Because that's sure to net them some goodwill and customer loyalty.
I was thinking maybe they could do the same thing by announcing a cool product and then selling it sometime shortly after that.