I don't think it perverts the process but I do think there's a difference between your stated scenarios and picking up the other ballot just for one vote. It's a bit of a seppuku move to basically throw away the rest of your primary ballot (presuming you would otherwise vote the other ballot) just to kick someone's Presidential bid in the balls. Our local politicians have a much larger impact on our day-to-day lives. I'd never consider trying to game the Presidential primary at the expense of those local primary votes. If that's what the voter wants to do, then more power to them. I just think it's a terrible price to pay.
Best soundtrack ever! I don't remember Culture Club being on there but I do remember the Giorgio Moroder instrumentals, the title track by Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey (of Human League fame), and at least one Jeff Lynne track.
Oooh, you're so awesome that you can kick someone's ass... at Goldeneye. My ranking was usually "Mostly Harmless." But I still had fun playing it because I wasn't playing to show how big my cock is. I was just playing to have some fun with friends.
Halo? Yeah, frat boys play Halo but they don't do it around girls. If anything, Goldendeye was the precursor to Wii Sports or Guitar Hero. For that brief shining moment, the game that EVERYONE played was an FPS. That's really sweet and it led to the FPS being a viable console genre. That's as groundbreaking as Super Mario was to the 2D platformer or Asteroids was to space shooters.
What Goldeneye brought to the table was people. It wasn't the first great multiplayer game but it was the first socially acceptable FPS game. When I was in college, people would play it at parties. And I don't mean LAN parties. I mean at real proper college parties with girls and beer you'd often find some folks gathered around the TV playing Goldeneye. No longer was the FPS a thing to be played by geeks on PCs. For the first time, the first person shooter was for everyone. And that's huge even if the game itself wasn't revolutionary.
I know you didn't just call out the Wii for not being "hardcore" compared to... wait for it... House of the Dead? WTF, dude? House of the Dead is about as casual as you can get. It's an arcade shooter that's designed to get people to stick a few quarters in for a few minutes of play. More to the point, THE FUCKING GAME IS AVAILABLE ON THE WII. Stop buying into marketing bullshit and start evaluating games and consoles for what they are. There's no logical definition that makes Metroid: Other M or Super Mario Galaxy any less "hardcore" than Mass Effect.
I'm going to call BS on this one. Games have been around for thousands of years. How many of those games are single-player? Solitare and its variations, some video games, can you think of any others? Traditionally, games have been multi-player. It's only very recently in our human history with the creation and popularity of video games that single-player games have become as popular as they are. 60 years is nothing compared to multi-player games like Go which have been around since around the 4th Century BC or chess which has been around since the 6th Century AD.
Back then they were Electronic Arts, not EA. Acronymising your company name almost always leads to increased sales but crappier products. For further examples, remember how good Kentucky Fried Chicken was? Or the International House of Pancakes?
I worked in sales for a Sun competitor for a while. When SGI was having troubles, we did a marketing campaign targeting SGI customers that was massively successful so when Sun was bought out we jumped on it, too. It was no SGI campaign, but a lot of enterprise-level customers were very interested in what we had to say. Our sales in the Sun campaign were twice what we were getting in our other targeted campaigns, but we burnt up a lot of time on the phone compared to the others. I don't think everybody has already decided to abandon Sun/Oracle, but if I were Oracle, I'd be a bit concerned that companies who would never in the past have talked to us are talking to us now.
Sitting in front of a TV and mashing buttons doesn't make you a gamer either, pal. Grab some friends and an Axis and Allies board and play a real game.
"Yes yes, Alec Guinness was known. Okay, but from WHAT exactly?"
Off the top of my head, The Ladykillers, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Doctor Zhivago. Alec Guinness was WELL known before he became Kenobi. It's a testament to the popularity of Star Wars that Alec Guiness isn't known primarily as Colonel Nicholson (the part he won a Best Actor for). Peter Cushing was also a very well-known actor before Star Wars, maybe more so than Guinness.
I read the 2 available and none adressed the console as anything more than spec sheets. Unless I can stick the spec sheet in the Wii slot and play it, I really don't care what's on it. Which ties right back in to my final point above: MS and Sony need must-have titles for their motion controllers and right now I don't see them. Maybe they will come in time, but it's a bit premature to say the Wii has nothing going for it when Nintendo is still making games exclusively for their own console.
So far in 2010, I spent the vast majority of my video game time playing Wii Sports Resort, New Super Mario Bros, Mario Galaxy 2, and Other M. Some other titles worked their way in (Super Street Fighter IV comes to mind) but none stayed long. Nintendo just has a knack for making games I want to play.
I just looked up the price on Amazon. According to them, the only Kinect hardware I see is Kinect Sensor with Kinect Adventures for $197. Pardon my ignorance if that's more than retail. I really don't know.
Right now the Kinect is $200 and the PS3 Motion is $100 plus $70/controller according to Amazon. So just to add motion control to the 360, you have to shell out what you would for a new Wii. You can get a Wii used from Gamestop with a decent warranty for $120. And browsing the Kinect games, they look like the same stuff available on the Wii: some Sonic knock-offs, the EA exercise stuff, Deca Sports... Unless the Kinect and Motion can put out some must-have titles, people who don't already own a 360 or PS3 will likely opt for the Wii.
The director is right. This will be so popular that the robots could form a band and do a variety show. And just to get more people in the door, they could also serve pizza and have some kids games like Skee Ball and arcade machines and rides. And they could call it... Showbiz Pizza.
The future is here indeed.
Try doing it when you're 50 and get back to me on that. The older guys I worked with who couldn't really keep up but didn't have any other jobs skills were my primary motivation to get out.
I've dug ditches for a living and built houses for a living and done grunt work for a kitchen installation company. Whoever is considering sitting around in an air conditioned office and cranking out.NET code "shit labor" has a severe reality deficit disorder.
Obligatory: "Kahn, I'm laughing at your superior intellect."
What frustrates me more than anything else as a programmer is to walk into an over-engineered situation needing to make what should only be a slight alteration. Not only are over-engineered solutions unnecessary, they're generally hard to maintain.
As far as figuring out controllers, the multi-tap came with color-coded, numbered stickers for the controllers and ports. I've played more than a few 8-10 player rounds of Saturn Bomberman myself and can't imagine trying to do it without the stickers.
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I don't think it perverts the process but I do think there's a difference between your stated scenarios and picking up the other ballot just for one vote. It's a bit of a seppuku move to basically throw away the rest of your primary ballot (presuming you would otherwise vote the other ballot) just to kick someone's Presidential bid in the balls. Our local politicians have a much larger impact on our day-to-day lives. I'd never consider trying to game the Presidential primary at the expense of those local primary votes. If that's what the voter wants to do, then more power to them. I just think it's a terrible price to pay.
Best soundtrack ever! I don't remember Culture Club being on there but I do remember the Giorgio Moroder instrumentals, the title track by Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey (of Human League fame), and at least one Jeff Lynne track.
Oooh, you're so awesome that you can kick someone's ass... at Goldeneye. My ranking was usually "Mostly Harmless." But I still had fun playing it because I wasn't playing to show how big my cock is. I was just playing to have some fun with friends. Halo? Yeah, frat boys play Halo but they don't do it around girls. If anything, Goldendeye was the precursor to Wii Sports or Guitar Hero. For that brief shining moment, the game that EVERYONE played was an FPS. That's really sweet and it led to the FPS being a viable console genre. That's as groundbreaking as Super Mario was to the 2D platformer or Asteroids was to space shooters.
What Goldeneye brought to the table was people. It wasn't the first great multiplayer game but it was the first socially acceptable FPS game. When I was in college, people would play it at parties. And I don't mean LAN parties. I mean at real proper college parties with girls and beer you'd often find some folks gathered around the TV playing Goldeneye. No longer was the FPS a thing to be played by geeks on PCs. For the first time, the first person shooter was for everyone. And that's huge even if the game itself wasn't revolutionary.
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Yeah, my first thought was wondering how it would handle categories where Trebek tell us to "Note the [insert word here] is in quotation marks."
I know you didn't just call out the Wii for not being "hardcore" compared to... wait for it... House of the Dead? WTF, dude? House of the Dead is about as casual as you can get. It's an arcade shooter that's designed to get people to stick a few quarters in for a few minutes of play. More to the point, THE FUCKING GAME IS AVAILABLE ON THE WII. Stop buying into marketing bullshit and start evaluating games and consoles for what they are. There's no logical definition that makes Metroid: Other M or Super Mario Galaxy any less "hardcore" than Mass Effect.
I'm going to call BS on this one. Games have been around for thousands of years. How many of those games are single-player? Solitare and its variations, some video games, can you think of any others? Traditionally, games have been multi-player. It's only very recently in our human history with the creation and popularity of video games that single-player games have become as popular as they are. 60 years is nothing compared to multi-player games like Go which have been around since around the 4th Century BC or chess which has been around since the 6th Century AD.
Back then they were Electronic Arts, not EA. Acronymising your company name almost always leads to increased sales but crappier products. For further examples, remember how good Kentucky Fried Chicken was? Or the International House of Pancakes?
No. they were Michael and Joey. And the daughter's name is Nicole. Judge Margaret frequently visits the trio to make sure they are getting along.
I can watch ABC and ABC Family shows the day after the original airing on Hulu. Why a different model with Netflix?
I worked in sales for a Sun competitor for a while. When SGI was having troubles, we did a marketing campaign targeting SGI customers that was massively successful so when Sun was bought out we jumped on it, too. It was no SGI campaign, but a lot of enterprise-level customers were very interested in what we had to say. Our sales in the Sun campaign were twice what we were getting in our other targeted campaigns, but we burnt up a lot of time on the phone compared to the others. I don't think everybody has already decided to abandon Sun/Oracle, but if I were Oracle, I'd be a bit concerned that companies who would never in the past have talked to us are talking to us now.
Sitting in front of a TV and mashing buttons doesn't make you a gamer either, pal. Grab some friends and an Axis and Allies board and play a real game.
"Yes yes, Alec Guinness was known. Okay, but from WHAT exactly?"
Off the top of my head, The Ladykillers, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Doctor Zhivago. Alec Guinness was WELL known before he became Kenobi. It's a testament to the popularity of Star Wars that Alec Guiness isn't known primarily as Colonel Nicholson (the part he won a Best Actor for). Peter Cushing was also a very well-known actor before Star Wars, maybe more so than Guinness.
Oh wait, here it is: Number 5. In your face, Number 6!
Have you ever considered open source? You'd make a wonderful Richard Stallman.
"Read the article."
I read the 2 available and none adressed the console as anything more than spec sheets. Unless I can stick the spec sheet in the Wii slot and play it, I really don't care what's on it. Which ties right back in to my final point above: MS and Sony need must-have titles for their motion controllers and right now I don't see them. Maybe they will come in time, but it's a bit premature to say the Wii has nothing going for it when Nintendo is still making games exclusively for their own console.
So far in 2010, I spent the vast majority of my video game time playing Wii Sports Resort, New Super Mario Bros, Mario Galaxy 2, and Other M. Some other titles worked their way in (Super Street Fighter IV comes to mind) but none stayed long. Nintendo just has a knack for making games I want to play.
I just looked up the price on Amazon. According to them, the only Kinect hardware I see is Kinect Sensor with Kinect Adventures for $197. Pardon my ignorance if that's more than retail. I really don't know.
Right now the Kinect is $200 and the PS3 Motion is $100 plus $70/controller according to Amazon. So just to add motion control to the 360, you have to shell out what you would for a new Wii. You can get a Wii used from Gamestop with a decent warranty for $120. And browsing the Kinect games, they look like the same stuff available on the Wii: some Sonic knock-offs, the EA exercise stuff, Deca Sports... Unless the Kinect and Motion can put out some must-have titles, people who don't already own a 360 or PS3 will likely opt for the Wii.
The director is right. This will be so popular that the robots could form a band and do a variety show. And just to get more people in the door, they could also serve pizza and have some kids games like Skee Ball and arcade machines and rides. And they could call it... Showbiz Pizza. The future is here indeed.
Try doing it when you're 50 and get back to me on that. The older guys I worked with who couldn't really keep up but didn't have any other jobs skills were my primary motivation to get out.
I've dug ditches for a living and built houses for a living and done grunt work for a kitchen installation company. Whoever is considering sitting around in an air conditioned office and cranking out .NET code "shit labor" has a severe reality deficit disorder.
"Then again, some us prefer both."
Well, then congratulations... jackass!
Obligatory: "Kahn, I'm laughing at your superior intellect."
What frustrates me more than anything else as a programmer is to walk into an over-engineered situation needing to make what should only be a slight alteration. Not only are over-engineered solutions unnecessary, they're generally hard to maintain.
As far as figuring out controllers, the multi-tap came with color-coded, numbered stickers for the controllers and ports. I've played more than a few 8-10 player rounds of Saturn Bomberman myself and can't imagine trying to do it without the stickers.