Graphics do not equal compelling gameplay. Gameplay is paramount. See Cave Story.
Consoles deliver a reliable experience. You do not have to update three drivers and toggle video card settings in the vague hopes it will alleviate an uneven play experience, which is more fundamental to enjoying a game than how good it looks when running at normal speed. A good PC experience is equivalent to a well-made console title. The difference being you usually have to work for a good PC experience, whereas console titles are either well-made (God of War 3), or poor (Orange Box, PS3).
Evolutionary theo-ray has been proven ta be unree-liable! Praise Be!
But... but what are all them thar antedelluvian dates doing in our new justification for willful ignorance?
But it can also apply when someone's writings can disturb an individual, Delelio said. What a fucking moronic law. I'm guessing this guy ain't much of a reader, since Edward Lee, Brian Keene, and Richard Laymon remain free (and in Laymon's case, sorely missed). I find Delelio's statement disturbing and insulting, could we please get him arrested?
To be frank, I understand that Delelio's point of view stems not from any understanding of literature but an intense desire to cover his own ass. Better to censor this kid than be the guy who ignored the tell-tales of another Virginia Tech massacre, right? What REALLY irritates me is that we get the name of the kid who wrote the piece, but not the name of the dumbass English teacher who seems to have provoked the paper in question and then reported it! Here is a person that needs to consider accountability before ruining one of her student's lives (or vastly improving his sex life, as the case may be).
This all may be a misunderstanding. It might be that the kid is a sociopath and that his writing was a thinly veiled threat against some individuals... but all sides are admitting this does not appear to be the case, that this kid just managed to offend some chickenshit's delicate sensibilities.
1) I think the important question is whether or not any of those patents are currently being licensed by any of the big companies - there's a vector for revenue, right there.
2) Actual members of the industry seem to favor an artificial, incremental advancement to anything revolutionary.
3) The photo stock appears to be printed out on transparent plastic - the images appear slightly translucent in the video, I thought.
4) Yeah, that's pretty disgusting. Either employees or the most impressionable fanboy-material I can possibly imagine.
5) *shrugs* Entirely their prerogative? You wouldn't expect people developing shit for the express purpose of patenting it to have a day-by-day development blog, would you? Maybe they do all their pitching directly to companies and only need a bare commercial website.
It is not as though people are going to be making purchasing decisions without something a lot more concrete than a video demo (oh God, I hope) so right now all these guys can claim is that they "conned" the media. And maybe some loose investors.
Now included free with every PS3! A wireless device you can't live with/out!
Sony's hotshit ultrawideband technology summons soul-sucking ghosts from another dimension to EAT YOUR SOUL!
[watch them spin it as a viral marketing scheme]
You take away from him.
You leave him alone, and wait until he notices the vaccum. Hopefully this will occur before he is fired. If his old tried-and-true support network comes a tumblin' down, he'll soon become more concerned with what he's lost, rather then raiding UBRS for his class chestpiece for the thirtieth fucking time.
The Sony PSP is an amagamation of existing technology. You want to throw the UMD up there, fine.
Christ, did the all-star panel of hip-hop singers do the nominations as well?
Viva le Unreal Engine 3!
If you think about all the flak people tend to catch for "posing" in the various aspects of anti-culture the people that associate themselves publically represent, you'll see they're all pathetic, grasping at something they don't understand but seem to enjoy. All of them, "posers".
It has been argued before that HD support could give an unfair advantage to those people without HD-capable televisions. This action by Nintendo is ACTUALLY just a way to level the playing field!
Heh. Yeah, right.
When you are talking about buying a system that should last you a few years, promoting the fact that it is the cheapest of the systems is the last thing you want to do. Need a solid show to back this up. That said, even if Revolution gameplay is heads and tails above anything on the other two systems, you'll always have monkeyheads clamouring for the Splinter Cell: Idaho and Halo 3.
So it is changed in a few textbooks. I doubt Websters gives a shit what Kansas thinks.
I wonder if this will damage the future employment opportunities of those poor kids indoctrinated into such bullshit. It would be interesting to see if the students take this sitting down.
Ya gotta wonder if such willful ignorance is doing a disservice to humanity at large - this is a dangerous and stupid precendent that cannot be allowed to stand. Knock "intelligent design" outta the park along with every other effort to entrench upon children's minds such openly biased shit.
Kansas - whose sincere efforts to lower the level of public discourse closely parallel the effects of the Internet upon our society.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster mocks Kansas.
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Okay, new tangent that came to me after reading last response to my sub-thread.
Blizzard might not have been willing to put out the money it would take to host a free event. Make something free and people will be coming out of the woodwork, and just get pissed off when all the reserved slots are filled. This happened anyway, but with a $100+ "control", things were not as intense as they might have been.
The logistical problems of putting ten thousand people through the same schedule they had printed up for this Blizzcon also could have been a problem. And finding a single structure big enough, not only to house all these people but get information to them as well.
There's also the question of whether or not you'd have enough people qualified to give presentations. Renting out a sports complex to show off 3rd-Tier armor design next year would be pretty funny, though.
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Guild Wars is not an MMORPG though, it is more of a semi-persistant thing. This I have played. I thought of it as a 3D Diablo, with a 3D chat interface. If you are comparing WoW's patch rate with that of GW, which is a bit shallower (though not so much as CoH), then maybe there is a problem. But from my experience, that patches are coming fast and hard.
Whatever, fuck it.
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Anyone recall the Pearls Before Swine cartoon, where Rat left the New York Times journalist position for a tabloid, and then quit that because the tabloid had scruples, and required multiple sources in order to justify an article?
The Serious Bomb was as unimpressive as to be criminal. SS:SE (was it introduced, then?) had much more umph to it. Accourse, improving upon it would require some kind of bullet-time slowdown where you witness the enlarging sphere of destruction growing around you and hitting the enemies one by... hmm... *starts mod sheet*
The auto-shotgun differed from the double-barrel by, I think, about half-second reload time, which made it more practical for the weaker hordes. Kleers and whatnot required double-barrel to take out in one shot, though you could only kill one full-health at once.
Some weapons are also majorly underutilized. The flame thrower does not make a return. They have a plasma gun that you use in perhaps two levels, and a grenade launcher that is only worth using when you don't have any rocket launcher ammo. Splash damage seemed exaggerated from previous versions, as well. I found myself hardly using any explosives, save the Serious Cannon, another weapon that suffered from serious lack-of-effect.
The big, bad boss that invaded Earth with the swarms of baddies you spend the game retiring. I believe it most often referred to with gender neutral pronouns. Apparently Sam's father, so take from this what you would.
Sorry sorry. You HEAR Mental, and you see it's little escape craft. You don't see the creature itself. The fact that Mental is inside the robot is not evident until the game is finished.
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id Software make games which, with the exception of patches, stay static and do not require an investment from them to maintain. I don't know the financial standings of either company (and apparently neither do you), but I would guess that id has a lot more assets it could liquidate quickly.
All you have done is multiply the subscription rate by the number of American subscribers, which is all fine and dandy if the game was being hosted on the client's computers. How much bandwidth does each server go through in a month, and who is providing the pipes for that? How about server resource management? How many physical units are required to run each server? I've read that all the US servers are housed in a single location despite the early time-zone segregation, but what about the European and Korean servers? How quickly do they burn through hardware? How many staff members is required to maintain each server location? How many GMs actually exist (meta or sever-specific), and how much do they get paid?
And overseas conditions, particuarly the services they provide in China, must be a great deal different. At least they haven't ratted any bloggers out yet.
Anyway, try to keep the age-related commentary to a minimum, it lowers the level of discourse. My age is immaterial, but I assure you I could order from the cash bar.
And please qualify the statement you made concerning the rate of content being published as only acceptable. With Ultima Online (up until they added the new continents), most patches were concerned with trying to figure out how to stop people from breaking in to your house. I left just as, Oh Shock!, the different colored ores were released. With Everquest, I never noticed a significant update outside of the expansions except for a few quests and minor tweaks to monks (that class and druid, I played). I would (superficially) compare the rate of content release about on level with CoH, though WoW's schedule is incremental, whereas CoH is episodic. If you are referring to AO, EQ2, Lineage 1 or 2, or AC 1 or 2, do tell, I have not played any of those titles long enough to know about their patch schedule.
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Ideal and stereotype being equivalent, naturally. The best of us versus the majority of us.
Lab Tech Union Shuffles Nervously, Coughs & Laughs Into Their Hands.
Graphics do not equal compelling gameplay. Gameplay is paramount. See Cave Story.
Consoles deliver a reliable experience. You do not have to update three drivers and toggle video card settings in the vague hopes it will alleviate an uneven play experience, which is more fundamental to enjoying a game than how good it looks when running at normal speed. A good PC experience is equivalent to a well-made console title. The difference being you usually have to work for a good PC experience, whereas console titles are either well-made (God of War 3), or poor (Orange Box, PS3).
So uh... anyone read Cell by Stephen King?
Evolutionary theo-ray has been proven ta be unree-liable! Praise Be! But... but what are all them thar antedelluvian dates doing in our new justification for willful ignorance?
But it can also apply when someone's writings can disturb an individual, Delelio said.
What a fucking moronic law. I'm guessing this guy ain't much of a reader, since Edward Lee, Brian Keene, and Richard Laymon remain free (and in Laymon's case, sorely missed). I find Delelio's statement disturbing and insulting, could we please get him arrested?
To be frank, I understand that Delelio's point of view stems not from any understanding of literature but an intense desire to cover his own ass. Better to censor this kid than be the guy who ignored the tell-tales of another Virginia Tech massacre, right? What REALLY irritates me is that we get the name of the kid who wrote the piece, but not the name of the dumbass English teacher who seems to have provoked the paper in question and then reported it! Here is a person that needs to consider accountability before ruining one of her student's lives (or vastly improving his sex life, as the case may be).
This all may be a misunderstanding. It might be that the kid is a sociopath and that his writing was a thinly veiled threat against some individuals... but all sides are admitting this does not appear to be the case, that this kid just managed to offend some chickenshit's delicate sensibilities.
Hello Jury Nullification! A crying shame that this will never be included in actual Jury instruction.
1) I think the important question is whether or not any of those patents are currently being licensed by any of the big companies - there's a vector for revenue, right there.
2) Actual members of the industry seem to favor an artificial, incremental advancement to anything revolutionary.
3) The photo stock appears to be printed out on transparent plastic - the images appear slightly translucent in the video, I thought.
4) Yeah, that's pretty disgusting. Either employees or the most impressionable fanboy-material I can possibly imagine.
5) *shrugs* Entirely their prerogative? You wouldn't expect people developing shit for the express purpose of patenting it to have a day-by-day development blog, would you? Maybe they do all their pitching directly to companies and only need a bare commercial website.
It is not as though people are going to be making purchasing decisions without something a lot more concrete than a video demo (oh God, I hope) so right now all these guys can claim is that they "conned" the media. And maybe some loose investors.
Dead horse, I know.
Now included free with every PS3! A wireless device you can't live with/out!
Sony's hotshit ultrawideband technology summons soul-sucking ghosts from another dimension to EAT YOUR SOUL!
[watch them spin it as a viral marketing scheme]
Oh no. A plot device from The Pulse!
Expect initial releases of the hardware to cause ghosts dancing in slow motion to fall out of shadows by your desk, then eat your life.
You take away from him. You leave him alone, and wait until he notices the vaccum. Hopefully this will occur before he is fired. If his old tried-and-true support network comes a tumblin' down, he'll soon become more concerned with what he's lost, rather then raiding UBRS for his class chestpiece for the thirtieth fucking time.
Well... now we've got a new justification for 1337 speak. Haven't had one since the good ol' days of dialup BBS, but the bastard is back.
The Sony PSP is an amagamation of existing technology. You want to throw the UMD up there, fine. Christ, did the all-star panel of hip-hop singers do the nominations as well? Viva le Unreal Engine 3! If you think about all the flak people tend to catch for "posing" in the various aspects of anti-culture the people that associate themselves publically represent, you'll see they're all pathetic, grasping at something they don't understand but seem to enjoy. All of them, "posers".
It has been argued before that HD support could give an unfair advantage to those people without HD-capable televisions. This action by Nintendo is ACTUALLY just a way to level the playing field! Heh. Yeah, right. When you are talking about buying a system that should last you a few years, promoting the fact that it is the cheapest of the systems is the last thing you want to do. Need a solid show to back this up. That said, even if Revolution gameplay is heads and tails above anything on the other two systems, you'll always have monkeyheads clamouring for the Splinter Cell: Idaho and Halo 3.
So it is changed in a few textbooks. I doubt Websters gives a shit what Kansas thinks.
I wonder if this will damage the future employment opportunities of those poor kids indoctrinated into such bullshit. It would be interesting to see if the students take this sitting down.
Ya gotta wonder if such willful ignorance is doing a disservice to humanity at large - this is a dangerous and stupid precendent that cannot be allowed to stand. Knock "intelligent design" outta the park along with every other effort to entrench upon children's minds such openly biased shit. Kansas - whose sincere efforts to lower the level of public discourse closely parallel the effects of the Internet upon our society.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster mocks Kansas.
Okay, new tangent that came to me after reading last response to my sub-thread. Blizzard might not have been willing to put out the money it would take to host a free event. Make something free and people will be coming out of the woodwork, and just get pissed off when all the reserved slots are filled. This happened anyway, but with a $100+ "control", things were not as intense as they might have been.
The logistical problems of putting ten thousand people through the same schedule they had printed up for this Blizzcon also could have been a problem. And finding a single structure big enough, not only to house all these people but get information to them as well.
There's also the question of whether or not you'd have enough people qualified to give presentations. Renting out a sports complex to show off 3rd-Tier armor design next year would be pretty funny, though.
Guild Wars is not an MMORPG though, it is more of a semi-persistant thing. This I have played. I thought of it as a 3D Diablo, with a 3D chat interface. If you are comparing WoW's patch rate with that of GW, which is a bit shallower (though not so much as CoH), then maybe there is a problem. But from my experience, that patches are coming fast and hard. Whatever, fuck it.
Anyone recall the Pearls Before Swine cartoon, where Rat left the New York Times journalist position for a tabloid, and then quit that because the tabloid had scruples, and required multiple sources in order to justify an article?
No, no, you see, that's the problem. This will make the books MUCH HARDER to burn.
In other words, it is time for a forced re-distribution of wealth?
The Serious Bomb was as unimpressive as to be criminal. SS:SE (was it introduced, then?) had much more umph to it. Accourse, improving upon it would require some kind of bullet-time slowdown where you witness the enlarging sphere of destruction growing around you and hitting the enemies one by... hmm... *starts mod sheet*
The auto-shotgun differed from the double-barrel by, I think, about half-second reload time, which made it more practical for the weaker hordes. Kleers and whatnot required double-barrel to take out in one shot, though you could only kill one full-health at once.
Some weapons are also majorly underutilized. The flame thrower does not make a return. They have a plasma gun that you use in perhaps two levels, and a grenade launcher that is only worth using when you don't have any rocket launcher ammo. Splash damage seemed exaggerated from previous versions, as well. I found myself hardly using any explosives, save the Serious Cannon, another weapon that suffered from serious lack-of-effect.
Industrialized world, then.
The big, bad boss that invaded Earth with the swarms of baddies you spend the game retiring. I believe it most often referred to with gender neutral pronouns. Apparently Sam's father, so take from this what you would.
Sorry sorry. You HEAR Mental, and you see it's little escape craft. You don't see the creature itself. The fact that Mental is inside the robot is not evident until the game is finished.
id Software make games which, with the exception of patches, stay static and do not require an investment from them to maintain. I don't know the financial standings of either company (and apparently neither do you), but I would guess that id has a lot more assets it could liquidate quickly.
All you have done is multiply the subscription rate by the number of American subscribers, which is all fine and dandy if the game was being hosted on the client's computers. How much bandwidth does each server go through in a month, and who is providing the pipes for that? How about server resource management? How many physical units are required to run each server? I've read that all the US servers are housed in a single location despite the early time-zone segregation, but what about the European and Korean servers? How quickly do they burn through hardware? How many staff members is required to maintain each server location? How many GMs actually exist (meta or sever-specific), and how much do they get paid?
And overseas conditions, particuarly the services they provide in China, must be a great deal different. At least they haven't ratted any bloggers out yet.
Anyway, try to keep the age-related commentary to a minimum, it lowers the level of discourse. My age is immaterial, but I assure you I could order from the cash bar.
And please qualify the statement you made concerning the rate of content being published as only acceptable. With Ultima Online (up until they added the new continents), most patches were concerned with trying to figure out how to stop people from breaking in to your house. I left just as, Oh Shock!, the different colored ores were released. With Everquest, I never noticed a significant update outside of the expansions except for a few quests and minor tweaks to monks (that class and druid, I played). I would (superficially) compare the rate of content release about on level with CoH, though WoW's schedule is incremental, whereas CoH is episodic. If you are referring to AO, EQ2, Lineage 1 or 2, or AC 1 or 2, do tell, I have not played any of those titles long enough to know about their patch schedule.