That's easy. Because the X Box will continue to have the popular games like it always has, and this time they're not latecomers to the race. Games like Madden will continue to dominate in sales, and the gaming industry will remain much the same as it is now to the dismay of that small group of gamers always complaining about the current crop of titles being released. It still won't matter though because that small group of gamers are not the ones making the gaming industry as profitable as it is.
So then how many series will it take to kill Battlestar Galactica? The first series was awful. Why they would want to remake it is beyond me. At least Buck Rogers had a sense of humor, BG was just plain depressing.
Don't lie to the guy. Point out the obvious...that a few mods thought it was cool to call Americans "sheep" and modded that putz up just for that. Mod points have almost nothing to do with your debating skills. People get modded up or down on the basis of whether the modder agrees with them or not. It's pure politics aka pure bullshit.
They're at it again. I hope you don't take all the whining and bitching TOO seriously because that's what Slashdotters do best. In between the occasionally truly inspiring or insightful remark, they like to complain about shit...politics, videogames, sex, whatever. Throw it up there in an article, and they'll complain about it or complain that others are complaining about it or complain that it was even posted at all. With all the grammar Nazis lurking here, you'd think this was a Shakespeare forum. Must be a lot of lit majors out of work and lingering around here. You said it right when you compared this to a to a pub. Do people watch their grammar in a pub? Not in any of the ones I've been in. I mean, we even have people in here bitching about geekspeak, and if you can't use geekspeak here than where?? Seriously, don't spend too much time or effort trying to make people happy in here because a whole lot of them never will be. They come here JUST to spout out all that grief. No reason for you to make yourself a target for it just so they can feel better or about themselves or whatever other trivial reason they like to run their mouths (figuratively speaking, of course).
Hey, I'm all for the "stuff that makes sense", and I never suggest GW just pull new executive powers out of his ass, all I said is we have to take measures to protect ourselves. But as always on Slashot, we have some paranoids who think the Patriot Act really means something, like the government couldn't theoretically spy on you or even make you disappear without it. That's the strange part. That people are so paranoid, and yet if they were actually right, they'd probably already being questioned at Gitmo or wherever for the comments they make on Slashdot. It's one thing to be paranoid if you live in Iran, but people here too easily off the deep end. Where do draw the line between reasonable fears of abuse of power and outright terror at the thought of "black U.N. helicopters" flying over your militia headquarters. Seems like a lot of people don't know the difference.
Isn't anybody going to come right out and say it? That over time the Bible has been twisted, distorted and used by whomever needed it for whatever political or personal reasons they might have until now even if one is a Christian, there's little point in reading it. You might as well write a new one yourself.
Remember that terrorism is insignificant when compared to other preventable deaths. More people are killed driving in a month than died in 9/11. But you don't see a "war on road deaths".
Yeah, you say that now until the terrorists set off a biological or nuclear weapon on American soil. Think they can't and never will be able to do it? Because the opportunity to do it may well present itself at sometime in the future, and if it does, a lot of people like you will become strangely silent on security measures in effect if that kind when that kind of horror unfolds on your tv. I don't want us to be caught off guard just because you feel like your rights are being taken away. You can always leave the country if it's too repressive for you. You still have that right. But you don't have the right to endanger other people.
As for road deaths, we don't call it a war on road deaths, but new measures are constantly being adopted and cars being made safer to prevent them.
It's something that exists only in the past, never in the present. It's not something that can be seen coming, because it won't even be recognized when it's here. When it does get here, it will be criticized and ridiculed until it's reduced to smouldering ashes. Some could say the Atari 2600 was the golden age because it freed us from pong. Others will say NES because it freed us from the likes of the 2600. Still others will say the 360, PS3 or Revolution because they've taken it a step further.
But the details make no difference whatsoever because the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence. It's always greener yesterday than it is today. Times are always getting worse, just ask the old timers. Some, no doubt, still think living in a medieval times in a castle was "romantic" and fighting with a sword and shield "noble" (even if living conditions back then required almost a miracle to survive). Some think the 50s was a golden age because they managed to ignore problems like prejudice and pretend there was no drug problem (even if Elvis was a pill freak and drunk). No, people will argue about golden ages forevermore, but the simply fact is they don't exist. At least not in the sense of a "heaven on earth" type scene. Instead, they exist as a part of canonization and selective memory. Something people can point to for argument's sake when their midway through their rant on whatever topic. But never something they'll truly enjoy unless it win them the argument or helps them quit complainging about how things have gone to hell for that moment in time.
Uh huh, and the "there's not innovation in video games today" crowd modded this up to 5. Grow the fuck up, people. Stop whining. You don't like the games, find a new hobby.
Admittedly, I haven't done WOW, but I have done all the Warcraft series, and none of it seemed new to me. All of it was the same old thing you'd find in D&D, only the game had nice graphics, good music and a sense of humor.
BTW, sexually active people ought to have better things to do than linger online in MMORPGs. Or maybe they're not active enough.
But isn't that the whole point of the RPG? To make your own story? You don't have to like George's story to make use of the framework he created, and everything he did can and has been greatly expanded on. He's admitted he's not a great writer, but people like Zahn have done great things with what he started.
It amazes me that fantasy ever wins out in that battle with it's limited imagination. Sci Fi brings loads of races, weapons, ships, worlds, languages, cultures. Fantasy was done and over with, or should have been, with Tolkien. All fantasy after that was pretty much borrowing from him (after he borrowed from Norse mythology). D&D should have been played out in the 80s, but somehow people just never get tired of the same old thing. "Nope, give me my sword and let me kill more goblins. It's all I aspire to."
Meanwhile Star Wars gives you the experience of an entire galaxy, not just a continent like Middle Earth and manages to mix in a fantasy element too (the Force).
Sci Fi has way more to offer if only they get the mechanics of SWG down. You'd think in a tech forum like Slashdot, Sci Fi would win hands down.
Oh this is cute. Any pro-Nintendo comments instantly modded up, anti-Nintendo comments modded down. Grow up, mods! Maybe it's about time they make a separate Nintendo section for Slashdot where you can all happily froth at the mouth together as you compare your virtual pets in Nintendogs.
Insightful, my ass. Higher quality games? Please more Mario rewrites than you can keep track of. More childish games is what you mean to say. More robust hardware? How does the weakest processing power equal robust hardware.
And get a clue already. Microsoft and Sony have different business models which is why they can afford to take a loss on their consoles while making their money elsewhere. Nintendo doesn't have that option.
when you come in third place in console sales, you have lost the battle, though being bitch slapped might be overly strong terminology. All day long we get to hear from Nintendo fanatics how awesome they are, but yet they remain the minority.
We got to see it in Game Informer magazine recently, and now it rears its ugly head once again here on Slashdot. I have a suggestion for you disgruntled gamers. Give it up. Get a life, get a job, get a degree, get a shrink, get a significant other, most importantly get off your asses and do something else if the games are really so unbearable. And while you're at it, you can spare the rest of us your whining. The game industry doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around people who are realistic enough to simply buy the games they like and not buy the ones they don't like. They're just games, not a religion.
Sorry you think you should be allowed to speak like an idiot and have no one say anything, but that's not how this world works.
The idea of someone talking like an idiot is a matter of opinion and doesn't even prevent someone from reaching the White House, so why should it matter on Slashdot?
It wasn't a question of what they CAN do. It's whether or not they're going overboard. How in the hell are comments made in a internet blog any business of Marquette's? It would be one thing for him to walk up to the professor and verbally abuse him, but what this blogger is saying is probably no different than the type of comments getting thrown around at the local tavern or around the dorm room even. So what's to be done? Should they bug the students to make sure that no negative comments are ever made?
The term "professionl behaviour" is probably a pretty loose one considering that ANY person on a given bad day might let loose with some colorful language. I'm sure even deans of universities are not above throwing occassionaly. Frankly, I thought that was half the point of blogs to be bitchfests, to get it out of your system. Nobody has to read the blogs.
So yeah, Marquette is within their rights to suspend the guy, but they ought to be more reasonable, less repressive about comments made in a blog.
Amazing that so many of you would take the school's side in this. Curious because I can find any number of websites, blogs, etc. ridiculing this president or another, calling him the vilest of names, and you'll note how there's no response from the White House unless an actual threat is made. But for this college, suddenly free speech is unimportant. It's kind of implied with free speech that you may not like being what's said, but that what's most important is your or someone else's right to say it. Without that, we may as well be living in Cuba.
Far too many people seem to think that they should be "free" to say whatever crazy, stupid, or outrageous thing, but that the folks that they abuse shouldn't be free to do something about it.
On the contrary, they are free to do something about. They can create their own blog. But any college censoring a student for his private blog doesn't understand the principle of free speech. Unless you've got a case for libel, then you've got nothing. This is outrageous.
is that they will announce they're in 3rd place once again in the console wars and content to be there as long as they attract the adolescent and high school girl gamer crowds. Except that the only ones surprised by it will be the adolescent and high school girl gamer crowds.
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That's easy. Because the X Box will continue to have the popular games like it always has, and this time they're not latecomers to the race. Games like Madden will continue to dominate in sales, and the gaming industry will remain much the same as it is now to the dismay of that small group of gamers always complaining about the current crop of titles being released. It still won't matter though because that small group of gamers are not the ones making the gaming industry as profitable as it is.
So then how many series will it take to kill Battlestar Galactica? The first series was awful. Why they would want to remake it is beyond me. At least Buck Rogers had a sense of humor, BG was just plain depressing.
Don't lie to the guy. Point out the obvious...that a few mods thought it was cool to call Americans "sheep" and modded that putz up just for that. Mod points have almost nothing to do with your debating skills. People get modded up or down on the basis of whether the modder agrees with them or not. It's pure politics aka pure bullshit.
They're at it again. I hope you don't take all the whining and bitching TOO seriously because that's what Slashdotters do best. In between the occasionally truly inspiring or insightful remark, they like to complain about shit...politics, videogames, sex, whatever. Throw it up there in an article, and they'll complain about it or complain that others are complaining about it or complain that it was even posted at all. With all the grammar Nazis lurking here, you'd think this was a Shakespeare forum. Must be a lot of lit majors out of work and lingering around here. You said it right when you compared this to a to a pub. Do people watch their grammar in a pub? Not in any of the ones I've been in. I mean, we even have people in here bitching about geekspeak, and if you can't use geekspeak here than where?? Seriously, don't spend too much time or effort trying to make people happy in here because a whole lot of them never will be. They come here JUST to spout out all that grief. No reason for you to make yourself a target for it just so they can feel better or about themselves or whatever other trivial reason they like to run their mouths (figuratively speaking, of course).
And if the Bible was bunk, how exactly would you know it if the entire basis of it is faith-based anyway?
Hey, I'm all for the "stuff that makes sense", and I never suggest GW just pull new executive powers out of his ass, all I said is we have to take measures to protect ourselves. But as always on Slashot, we have some paranoids who think the Patriot Act really means something, like the government couldn't theoretically spy on you or even make you disappear without it. That's the strange part. That people are so paranoid, and yet if they were actually right, they'd probably already being questioned at Gitmo or wherever for the comments they make on Slashdot. It's one thing to be paranoid if you live in Iran, but people here too easily off the deep end. Where do draw the line between reasonable fears of abuse of power and outright terror at the thought of "black U.N. helicopters" flying over your militia headquarters. Seems like a lot of people don't know the difference.
Oh, of course, we should do absolutely nothing. Let's just take our chances that Osama's not mad at us anymore.
Isn't anybody going to come right out and say it? That over time the Bible has been twisted, distorted and used by whomever needed it for whatever political or personal reasons they might have until now even if one is a Christian, there's little point in reading it. You might as well write a new one yourself.
We seem to have a whole lot more articles bashing this game, that movie whatever than praising anything that's done. Why is that?
Remember that terrorism is insignificant when compared to other preventable deaths. More people are killed driving in a month than died in 9/11. But you don't see a "war on road deaths".
Yeah, you say that now until the terrorists set off a biological or nuclear weapon on American soil. Think they can't and never will be able to do it? Because the opportunity to do it may well present itself at sometime in the future, and if it does, a lot of people like you will become strangely silent on security measures in effect if that kind when that kind of horror unfolds on your tv. I don't want us to be caught off guard just because you feel like your rights are being taken away. You can always leave the country if it's too repressive for you. You still have that right. But you don't have the right to endanger other people.
As for road deaths, we don't call it a war on road deaths, but new measures are constantly being adopted and cars being made safer to prevent them.
It's something that exists only in the past, never in the present. It's not something that can be seen coming, because it won't even be recognized when it's here. When it does get here, it will be criticized and ridiculed until it's reduced to smouldering ashes. Some could say the Atari 2600 was the golden age because it freed us from pong. Others will say NES because it freed us from the likes of the 2600. Still others will say the 360, PS3 or Revolution because they've taken it a step further.
But the details make no difference whatsoever because the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence. It's always greener yesterday than it is today. Times are always getting worse, just ask the old timers. Some, no doubt, still think living in a medieval times in a castle was "romantic" and fighting with a sword and shield "noble" (even if living conditions back then required almost a miracle to survive). Some think the 50s was a golden age because they managed to ignore problems like prejudice and pretend there was no drug problem (even if Elvis was a pill freak and drunk). No, people will argue about golden ages forevermore, but the simply fact is they don't exist. At least not in the sense of a "heaven on earth" type scene. Instead, they exist as a part of canonization and selective memory. Something people can point to for argument's sake when their midway through their rant on whatever topic. But never something they'll truly enjoy unless it win them the argument or helps them quit complainging about how things have gone to hell for that moment in time.
Uh huh, and the "there's not innovation in video games today" crowd modded this up to 5. Grow the fuck up, people. Stop whining. You don't like the games, find a new hobby.
BTW, sexually active people ought to have better things to do than linger online in MMORPGs. Or maybe they're not active enough.
But isn't that the whole point of the RPG? To make your own story? You don't have to like George's story to make use of the framework he created, and everything he did can and has been greatly expanded on. He's admitted he's not a great writer, but people like Zahn have done great things with what he started.
Really? Because I see the same old pro-Nintendo mantras getting modded up each time. Why is that?
Meanwhile Star Wars gives you the experience of an entire galaxy, not just a continent like Middle Earth and manages to mix in a fantasy element too (the Force).
Sci Fi has way more to offer if only they get the mechanics of SWG down. You'd think in a tech forum like Slashdot, Sci Fi would win hands down.
Oh this is cute. Any pro-Nintendo comments instantly modded up, anti-Nintendo comments modded down. Grow up, mods! Maybe it's about time they make a separate Nintendo section for Slashdot where you can all happily froth at the mouth together as you compare your virtual pets in Nintendogs. Insightful, my ass. Higher quality games? Please more Mario rewrites than you can keep track of. More childish games is what you mean to say. More robust hardware? How does the weakest processing power equal robust hardware. And get a clue already. Microsoft and Sony have different business models which is why they can afford to take a loss on their consoles while making their money elsewhere. Nintendo doesn't have that option.
when you come in third place in console sales, you have lost the battle, though being bitch slapped might be overly strong terminology. All day long we get to hear from Nintendo fanatics how awesome they are, but yet they remain the minority.
We got to see it in Game Informer magazine recently, and now it rears its ugly head once again here on Slashdot. I have a suggestion for you disgruntled gamers. Give it up. Get a life, get a job, get a degree, get a shrink, get a significant other, most importantly get off your asses and do something else if the games are really so unbearable. And while you're at it, you can spare the rest of us your whining. The game industry doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around people who are realistic enough to simply buy the games they like and not buy the ones they don't like. They're just games, not a religion.
The idea of someone talking like an idiot is a matter of opinion and doesn't even prevent someone from reaching the White House, so why should it matter on Slashdot?
It wasn't a question of what they CAN do. It's whether or not they're going overboard. How in the hell are comments made in a internet blog any business of Marquette's? It would be one thing for him to walk up to the professor and verbally abuse him, but what this blogger is saying is probably no different than the type of comments getting thrown around at the local tavern or around the dorm room even. So what's to be done? Should they bug the students to make sure that no negative comments are ever made? The term "professionl behaviour" is probably a pretty loose one considering that ANY person on a given bad day might let loose with some colorful language. I'm sure even deans of universities are not above throwing occassionaly. Frankly, I thought that was half the point of blogs to be bitchfests, to get it out of your system. Nobody has to read the blogs. So yeah, Marquette is within their rights to suspend the guy, but they ought to be more reasonable, less repressive about comments made in a blog.
Uh, care to show some references for those claims?
Amazing that so many of you would take the school's side in this. Curious because I can find any number of websites, blogs, etc. ridiculing this president or another, calling him the vilest of names, and you'll note how there's no response from the White House unless an actual threat is made. But for this college, suddenly free speech is unimportant. It's kind of implied with free speech that you may not like being what's said, but that what's most important is your or someone else's right to say it. Without that, we may as well be living in Cuba.
On the contrary, they are free to do something about. They can create their own blog. But any college censoring a student for his private blog doesn't understand the principle of free speech. Unless you've got a case for libel, then you've got nothing. This is outrageous.
is that they will announce they're in 3rd place once again in the console wars and content to be there as long as they attract the adolescent and high school girl gamer crowds. Except that the only ones surprised by it will be the adolescent and high school girl gamer crowds.