Putting something free on the PC version of FSW but charging for it on the XBox version makes the latter look bad, which in turn makes the XBox look bad. Perhaps a portion of the $5 fee is going to Microsoft as restitution?
H2O is a significant greenhouse gas. Or, more accurately, a significant greenhouse vapor. Unfortunately, most of it is naturally-occuring. Just like CO2, incidentally.
Which brings up the point, whats the use of a treaty if you can just buy yourself a pass?
If one country buys a pass, another country (Russia in this case) has to reduce its emissions accordingly. The net amount of world emissions would stay the same, but the richer countries (which generally emit more than poorer countries by necessity) would be allowed to emit more, and poorer countries get a financial reward for emitting less. That part of the Kyoto Treaty actually makes sense.
Rob
I wouldn't exactly call this "novel"
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Glitch Art
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People have been doing stuff like this for quite some time. For just one recent example, Dave Kelly opened up his Flash Tub column at Something Awful with a few Flashes exploiting the weird sounds that an NES Game Genie makes. Not exactly the same thing, but very close.
I'd say that it was highly anticipated by "in-the-know" gamers (not to mention people in the game industry itself) and not much else. Though word-of-mouth seems to have worked in the game's favor since it got media attention a few months ago.
The relatively unknown game is completely out of stock because retailers base their orders on preorders...which they didn't allow for this title.
If that's true, then why does the article say this:
This time, your local game store employee's dire warning came true--if you didn't preorder a copy of Katamari before its release date, you were out of luck.
According to the article, the reason why Katamari Damacy was sold out so quickly is purely that retailers thought that no one would want a quirky Japanese game.
I dunno if this is revisionist history or not, but the DNF that was hyped up way back in 1996 supposedly isn't the same DNF that we're talking about right now. The original DNF was third-person like the first Duke Nukem games, but was never finished. It might have inspired Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project, which came out some time ago. The DNF we all know and love, on the other hand, was started right near the beginning of 1998.
Of course, it's not like that two years makes much of a difference when the seven-year anniversary of DNF's development comes this December.
If someone then compelled her to vote, her vote would be an uninformed vote.
Like 90% of the other votes. All that getting more people to vote would do is get more people active in things that actually affect their future.
Rob
I submitted something about this
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It was a few days ago; it got rejected, I'm guessing because the main bit of information was one of those annoying registration-required articles.
Anyway, David Braben was interviewed recently by Computer and Video Games. He actually gave some details on Elite IV:
It will have first- and third-person combat in addition to the usual space exploration.
It was originally conceived as an MMOG but Braben decided against it because of what he felt were "weaknesses in the Internet infrastructure" (paraphrased). There will still be LAN-style MP in addition to the single-player, though.
A major part of the game will be the lifelike, interactive characters that exhibit group dynamics and realistic animation.
You can take a look for yourself if you don't mind registering.
The idea is that English lit teachers are supposed to teach English lit. Whether or not their students vote is really irrelevant to their job, and thus shouldn't be made relevant to their students' grades (except possibly as optional extra credit). Whether or not this should be considered an indictment of our educational system is up to you, but this is the way our system is set up right now, like it or not.
BTW, I didn't have to take English in college due to AP scores. But I get your point.
Rob (Why is the fact that she's a Quaker relevant, anyway?)
you know how the not-so-free nations achieve their high voting percentage(apart from just twisting the numbers)?
Yes, they force their citizens to vote for a specific party. You can choose to abstain if you don't want to vote for anyone in the Presidential race, BTW; there are many other offices and issues to vote on in this election. It's even possible to abstain on everything, even though there wouldn't be much of a point in turning in an empty ballot.
I don't know the usa laws about this, but in any free nation you could get smacked with charges of some kind for pulling off this kinda stunt
Why? She's not telling them to vote for a specific person (I'm assuming; I'm too lazy to register and RTFA); she's just telling them to vote. I don't think that that's illegal, nor do I think it should be.
It reminds me a lot of that multiplayer Battletech 3025 game that Microsoft canceled sometime during its beta (though a fan group is supposed to be remaking it). Is there anyone who has played this game and can offer some opinions on gameplay, the ranking system, the community, etc.?
In FF7, I spent 30 extra hours easily at the Golden Saucer and running around finding all the secrets. In FF8, collecting all the GFs, doing the side card quest, and basically just flying around looking for rare monsters to draw from were all part of the what I think of as the Final Fantasy experience.
And in FFX, you had the Monster Arena, Blitzball, Chocobo racing, etc., etc., etc.
My point is that if you don't like FFX specifically, it can't be because it's too linear. Maybe it's just that you prefer the illusion of non-linearity (for whatever reason) over actual non-linearity or undisguised linearity.
BTW, FFX was also just as innovative as most of the other FFs. The initiative-based battle system was a great idea, and being able to change your party members mid-battle is something that was a long time coming in the FF series. Even the Sphere Grid was thoughtful, despite its basic lack of differentiation from more traditional leveling systems.
He said that a lot of people think that FFX royally sucks, I said that a lot of people are stupid. These are both factual statements, and aren't necessarily linked together. Though I do believe that there is some correlation, at least among the group of people who also believe that other FFs are good (i.e. the fact that his opinion differs from mine isn't what makes him stupid).
SaGa Frontier isn't all that innovative, BTW; try FF2 or one of the Gameboy SaGa (Final Fantasy Legend) games, all of which do a better job with the SaGa-style gameplay than SaGa Frontier does. For the disconnected characters aspect, try the superior Live a Live for the Super Famicom. And these are just out of the games that Square itself has produced.
FFX and X2 (the most mainstream and least innovative of the FF games, in my opinion--I mean, you can't even control the airship?!)
Who cares about controlling the airship? All you're getting there is an illusion of freedom. With the exception of FFX-2 (and FFXI, I guess), the other FFs are no more or less linear than FFX. Unless you count the second half of FF6, which was pure crap.
unlike Final Fantasy X, where the story continued after Sin was destroyed (As it always has for 10 years, but this time possibly longer?, but i'm sure there is more too it than FFX2), the ending of FF7 was the END OF the 'Human' existance!
Only for some interpretations. This is the reason why making a sequel to FF7 is a bad idea, though; it completely ruins the ambiguity of the ending.
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Ah, I guess I should've RTFAed.
Rob
I'm asking because a paper named "The Lone Star Iconoclast" doesn't sound too mainstream, and suggests pre-existing partisanship.
Rob
Putting something free on the PC version of FSW but charging for it on the XBox version makes the latter look bad, which in turn makes the XBox look bad. Perhaps a portion of the $5 fee is going to Microsoft as restitution?
Rob
from the at-least-it's-not-a-love-simulator dept.
Whoops. Though to be honest, I wasn't sure whether or not the submitter was using "visual novel" euphemistically either until I saw this post.
Rob
H2O is a significant greenhouse gas. Or, more accurately, a significant greenhouse vapor. Unfortunately, most of it is naturally-occuring. Just like CO2, incidentally.
Rob (Informative Wikipedia article)
Which brings up the point, whats the use of a treaty if you can just buy yourself a pass?
If one country buys a pass, another country (Russia in this case) has to reduce its emissions accordingly. The net amount of world emissions would stay the same, but the richer countries (which generally emit more than poorer countries by necessity) would be allowed to emit more, and poorer countries get a financial reward for emitting less. That part of the Kyoto Treaty actually makes sense.
Rob
People have been doing stuff like this for quite some time. For just one recent example, Dave Kelly opened up his Flash Tub column at Something Awful with a few Flashes exploiting the weird sounds that an NES Game Genie makes. Not exactly the same thing, but very close.
Rob
I'd say that it was highly anticipated by "in-the-know" gamers (not to mention people in the game industry itself) and not much else. Though word-of-mouth seems to have worked in the game's favor since it got media attention a few months ago.
Rob
The relatively unknown game is completely out of stock because retailers base their orders on preorders...which they didn't allow for this title.
If that's true, then why does the article say this:
This time, your local game store employee's dire warning came true--if you didn't preorder a copy of Katamari before its release date, you were out of luck.
According to the article, the reason why Katamari Damacy was sold out so quickly is purely that retailers thought that no one would want a quirky Japanese game.
Rob
I dunno if this is revisionist history or not, but the DNF that was hyped up way back in 1996 supposedly isn't the same DNF that we're talking about right now. The original DNF was third-person like the first Duke Nukem games, but was never finished. It might have inspired Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project, which came out some time ago. The DNF we all know and love, on the other hand, was started right near the beginning of 1998.
Of course, it's not like that two years makes much of a difference when the seven-year anniversary of DNF's development comes this December.
Rob
If someone then compelled her to vote, her vote would be an uninformed vote.
Like 90% of the other votes. All that getting more people to vote would do is get more people active in things that actually affect their future.
Rob
Anyway, David Braben was interviewed recently by Computer and Video Games. He actually gave some details on Elite IV:
You can take a look for yourself if you don't mind registering.
Rob
The idea is that English lit teachers are supposed to teach English lit. Whether or not their students vote is really irrelevant to their job, and thus shouldn't be made relevant to their students' grades (except possibly as optional extra credit). Whether or not this should be considered an indictment of our educational system is up to you, but this is the way our system is set up right now, like it or not.
BTW, I didn't have to take English in college due to AP scores. But I get your point.
Rob (Why is the fact that she's a Quaker relevant, anyway?)
you know how the not-so-free nations achieve their high voting percentage(apart from just twisting the numbers)?
Yes, they force their citizens to vote for a specific party. You can choose to abstain if you don't want to vote for anyone in the Presidential race, BTW; there are many other offices and issues to vote on in this election. It's even possible to abstain on everything, even though there wouldn't be much of a point in turning in an empty ballot.
Rob
I don't know the usa laws about this, but in any free nation you could get smacked with charges of some kind for pulling off this kinda stunt
Why? She's not telling them to vote for a specific person (I'm assuming; I'm too lazy to register and RTFA); she's just telling them to vote. I don't think that that's illegal, nor do I think it should be.
Rob
...if it was for a poli sci class, especially one focusing on America. I can't make any sense out of it being a requirement for English lit.
Rob
It reminds me a lot of that multiplayer Battletech 3025 game that Microsoft canceled sometime during its beta (though a fan group is supposed to be remaking it). Is there anyone who has played this game and can offer some opinions on gameplay, the ranking system, the community, etc.?
Rob
Just because facts are subjective doesn't mean that truth is. Facts are not synonymous with the truth.
Rob
In FF7, I spent 30 extra hours easily at the Golden Saucer and running around finding all the secrets. In FF8, collecting all the GFs, doing the side card quest, and basically just flying around looking for rare monsters to draw from were all part of the what I think of as the Final Fantasy experience.
And in FFX, you had the Monster Arena, Blitzball, Chocobo racing, etc., etc., etc.
My point is that if you don't like FFX specifically, it can't be because it's too linear. Maybe it's just that you prefer the illusion of non-linearity (for whatever reason) over actual non-linearity or undisguised linearity.
BTW, FFX was also just as innovative as most of the other FFs. The initiative-based battle system was a great idea, and being able to change your party members mid-battle is something that was a long time coming in the FF series. Even the Sphere Grid was thoughtful, despite its basic lack of differentiation from more traditional leveling systems.
Rob
He said that a lot of people think that FFX royally sucks, I said that a lot of people are stupid. These are both factual statements, and aren't necessarily linked together. Though I do believe that there is some correlation, at least among the group of people who also believe that other FFs are good (i.e. the fact that his opinion differs from mine isn't what makes him stupid).
SaGa Frontier isn't all that innovative, BTW; try FF2 or one of the Gameboy SaGa (Final Fantasy Legend) games, all of which do a better job with the SaGa-style gameplay than SaGa Frontier does. For the disconnected characters aspect, try the superior Live a Live for the Super Famicom. And these are just out of the games that Square itself has produced.
Rob
You've gotta be kidding. I can understand liking SaGa Frontier personally, but that game is still one of the least liked in the Square line-up.
Rob
FFX and X2 (the most mainstream and least innovative of the FF games, in my opinion--I mean, you can't even control the airship?!)
Who cares about controlling the airship? All you're getting there is an illusion of freedom. With the exception of FFX-2 (and FFXI, I guess), the other FFs are no more or less linear than FFX. Unless you count the second half of FF6, which was pure crap.
Rob
And make the plot nonsensical in the process?
Face it, there was never a storyline involving Aeris' resurrection.
Rob
unlike Final Fantasy X, where the story continued after Sin was destroyed (As it always has for 10 years, but this time possibly longer?, but i'm sure there is more too it than FFX2), the ending of FF7 was the END OF the 'Human' existance!
Only for some interpretations. This is the reason why making a sequel to FF7 is a bad idea, though; it completely ruins the ambiguity of the ending.
Rob
The thing about FF games, is that everyone remembers their first as the best.
Haven't people given up on this lame-brained theory yet?
Rob