for the "Christian self-righteousness" comment. This fiasco has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with a few vocal minorities who think parenting is a job best left to regulations and rules.
If anything, the conservative "Christian" circles I used to run in advocated taking personal responsibility for the activities of their children, including the content of the videogames they played.
It's pretty obvious why the original HL was far more moddable than HL2: HL was built off an iD engine, HL2 was one of Valve's own doing. Your experience with Doom 3 over against HL2 only validates that fact, sadly.
...is already open and is now "itemized" (i.e. the mobs there have appropriate loot tables for their difficulty). The only thing closed in Silithus is the area at the southern end of the zone that will, eventually, lead to a new instance.
If you want my money for UMD media, then allow me to rip/burn movies onto it that I already own. No way in hell I'm going to purchases shittier, more expensive versions of movies when I could have them in the DVD format with all the extras for less.
100,000 is nothing. It's the novelty factor, is all.
You do no need a female to go have wild fun partying adventures.
...
At one point I was even dating a stripper for a couple of months. I'm settled down and engaged now (NOT to the stripper), but I wouldn't trade those few years for ANYTHING.
Wait, so I need a female to have wild fun partying adventures, or do wild funy partying adventures come after the females?
1. Wild fun partying adventures
2. Females
3. Profit??
or
1. No Females
2. Wild fun partying adventures
3. Profit?
So you were being pedantic in your meaning of "bit-for-bit"...for what reason? I dunno. It's quite obvious that the person you responded to meant "the meaningful bits"...you know, those that contain the actual movie.
No one cares if you can't get the encrypted bits since the movie gets decrypted anyway during the process, but I guess some people love to take a statment out of context so that they can contravene it.
How do you think "digital cable" is already being piped to your home? Over the internet. My cable box has its own IP address and all, and I'm sure Insight Cable isn't exactly a pioneer in this regard.
If WoW hadn't pushed Cryptic (and Sony, for that matter, with EQ2) to do more, faster, you would never have seen a coliseum before CoV. That's my contention.
Regardless, point is that I'm glad to see several MMORPG's thriving and giving each other healthy competition. The EQ/Sony dominance was particularly unhealthy for its own playerbase, as most had nowhere to turn (DAOC notwithstanding).
"WoW for helping them to move up their schedule a bit"
Erm, that's kinda what I meant. Do you think Cryptic would have bothered with a coliseum before CoV if WoW hadn't captured such a large portion of the market and given PvP out of the box? Sincerely doubt it.
No way in hell am I going to buy movies in the format, coolness factor be damned. I want tools to get my already-purchased normal DVD's onto UMD media, it's that simple.
Having fought legal battles on behalf of its (albeit doomed) Betamax, you would think these guys would learn that their customers really want the flexibility and freedom to use that expensive PSP to its fullest potential. Sorry, Sony, but purchased UMD movies are going to be nothing more than a passing novelty.
With today's graphical capabilities, Jim Theis' prophetic vision can finally become reality!
A sweeping blade of flashing steel riveted from the massive barbarians hide enameled shield as his rippling right arm thrust forth, sending a steel shod blade to the hilt into the soldiers vital organs.
The disemboweled mercenary crumpled from his saddle and sank to the clouded sward, sprinkling the parched dust with crimson droplets of escaping life fluid.
The enthused barbarian swilveled about, his shock of fiery red hair tossing robustly in the humid air currents as he faced the attack of the defeated soldier's fellow in arms. "Damn you, barbarian" Shrieked the soldier as he observed his comrade in death.
A gleaming scimitar smote a heavy blow against the renegade's spiked helmet, bringing a heavy cloud over the Ecordian's misting brain.
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Only a couple.
for the "Christian self-righteousness" comment. This fiasco has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with a few vocal minorities who think parenting is a job best left to regulations and rules.
If anything, the conservative "Christian" circles I used to run in advocated taking personal responsibility for the activities of their children, including the content of the videogames they played.
Wow, I see some of you guys must have really loved that movie. Sorry to offend! :P
Well, there's one thing we won't have to worry about...explosions. Lots and lots of explosions.
Sign me up. Then I can bitchslap Lara Croft for starring in that shitty movie.
It's pretty obvious why the original HL was far more moddable than HL2: HL was built off an iD engine, HL2 was one of Valve's own doing. Your experience with Doom 3 over against HL2 only validates that fact, sadly.
...is already open and is now "itemized" (i.e. the mobs there have appropriate loot tables for their difficulty). The only thing closed in Silithus is the area at the southern end of the zone that will, eventually, lead to a new instance.
but the whole Leroy Jenkins video is wayyyy overrated. What's so funny about a guy telling people they're going to burn forever?
If you want my money for UMD media, then allow me to rip/burn movies onto it that I already own. No way in hell I'm going to purchases shittier, more expensive versions of movies when I could have them in the DVD format with all the extras for less.
100,000 is nothing. It's the novelty factor, is all.
without consuming nearly as much disk space
...but at the expense of far more time
You do no need a female to go have wild fun partying adventures.
...
At one point I was even dating a stripper for a couple of months. I'm settled down and engaged now (NOT to the stripper), but I wouldn't trade those few years for ANYTHING.
Wait, so I need a female to have wild fun partying adventures, or do wild funy partying adventures come after the females?
1. Wild fun partying adventures
2. Females
3. Profit??
or
1. No Females
2. Wild fun partying adventures
3. Profit?
I'm so confused!!
So you were being pedantic in your meaning of "bit-for-bit"...for what reason? I dunno. It's quite obvious that the person you responded to meant "the meaningful bits"...you know, those that contain the actual movie.
No one cares if you can't get the encrypted bits since the movie gets decrypted anyway during the process, but I guess some people love to take a statment out of context so that they can contravene it.
So while you can copy the bits from the pressed DVD, your DVD player won't be able to play them back without the keys.
Sure you can. When you copy the movie, it gets decrypted and those extra bits are no longer required. Voila!
Quite easy, actually - he pulled them out.
I might be going out on a limb, here, but maybe it's because the vast majority of E3 demographic like tits?
How do you think "digital cable" is already being piped to your home? Over the internet. My cable box has its own IP address and all, and I'm sure Insight Cable isn't exactly a pioneer in this regard.
I don't know which is bigger news, the backwards compatability or the fact that MSFT was able to get Square to bring the FF series to the 360!
Excellent news on all counts.
AO isn't relevant in the marketplace anymore.
If WoW hadn't pushed Cryptic (and Sony, for that matter, with EQ2) to do more, faster, you would never have seen a coliseum before CoV. That's my contention.
Regardless, point is that I'm glad to see several MMORPG's thriving and giving each other healthy competition. The EQ/Sony dominance was particularly unhealthy for its own playerbase, as most had nowhere to turn (DAOC notwithstanding).
"WoW for helping them to move up their schedule a bit"
Erm, that's kinda what I meant. Do you think Cryptic would have bothered with a coliseum before CoV if WoW hadn't captured such a large portion of the market and given PvP out of the box? Sincerely doubt it.
But you can thank World of Warcraft for the PvP coliseum.
I think it's absolutely great that the MMORPG market appears to be thriving - each attempting to out-do the other. It can only benefit the consumer.
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No way in hell am I going to buy movies in the format, coolness factor be damned. I want tools to get my already-purchased normal DVD's onto UMD media, it's that simple.
Having fought legal battles on behalf of its (albeit doomed) Betamax, you would think these guys would learn that their customers really want the flexibility and freedom to use that expensive PSP to its fullest potential. Sorry, Sony, but purchased UMD movies are going to be nothing more than a passing novelty.
I'm holding out for a Grignr-themed MMORPG.
With today's graphical capabilities, Jim Theis' prophetic vision can finally become reality!
A sweeping blade of flashing steel riveted from the massive barbarians hide enameled shield as his rippling right arm thrust forth, sending a steel shod blade to the hilt into the soldiers vital organs.
The disemboweled mercenary crumpled from his saddle and sank to the clouded sward, sprinkling the parched dust with crimson droplets of escaping life fluid.
The enthused barbarian swilveled about, his shock of fiery red hair tossing robustly in the humid air currents as he faced the attack of the defeated soldier's fellow in arms. "Damn you, barbarian" Shrieked the soldier as he observed his comrade in death.
A gleaming scimitar smote a heavy blow against the renegade's spiked helmet, bringing a heavy cloud over the Ecordian's misting brain.
It's a whole new...direction?
Today was going too well, so I needed a good kick to the face to bring me back to reality, thanks.
Really enjoyed College Hoops 2k5, too, and now it looks like that's gone.