Nobody gives a shit about an enthralling story or character development anymore. Developers have to give players multiplayer rewards for anyone to want to go play their 6-9 hour poorly written story now.
Im sure I am not alone in yerning again for the days where you got a real story that took a damn long time to finish it, 40-50 hours was considered to be short once now Its an "epic".
My opinion is the "hollywoodizing" of the Game industries is the problem. Game Studios think they need to spend 100's of millions of dollar to make games, which they then have to sell 20 million copies to break even. And the games of course, are short because they don't have the time to make a nice long game and debug it, they need to get it shipped out as soon as possible, so they can get some money back. Bugs? they just issue updates later.
Now, since every sale matters to make a profit, they are really going gung ho on anyone who plays their game without paying full price for it. Used games? Oh fuck no. Piracy? oh they are evil people stealing money from our pockets!!!!
Because the number of digits on your ID indicate how long you've been reading slashdot... I've read slashdot for many years now and only recently bothered to make an account. Perhaps you're correct and he was being facetious. It's equally possible that he really didn't know who CowboyNeal was and was genuinely curious. No need to be an elitist.
don't be a hater because you just recently joined Slashdot and feel it's necessary to say you've been "reading slashdot for many years now and only recently bothered to make an account", mainly when it's obvious that isn't true.
the lower your number only means you've registered before someone else, does NOT make anyone smarter, or more with the slashdot scene.
being Elite is well, just because some of us kick ass at everything we do. Sorry, but I was born Elite, it's not something I get for having a certain UID.
Oh ya, i also just "read" slashdot from when it was created for some years before I registered, which is why my UID isn't 1 digit. Really.
that we spend 100's of Billions of dollars in some stupid ass war we don't need or want, when we could be spending money on something valuable, like learning more about our solar system.
We spend $20 billion on air condition in Iraq & Afghanistan, and spent just over $18 Billion on Nasa. (http://theweek.com/article/index/216786/the-militarys-20-billion-air-conditioning-bill-by-the-numbers)
fuck you US Government, fucking corporate fuck toys.
I got drunk at first. I then took Acid and MDA (XTC's daddy) I tried some weed, but didn't like it. Spent most of the next year, Drunk or high on acid or MDA finally, started smoking marijuana regularly. Still drank, still did Acid & MDA, and some other stuff. Discovered Heroin. Wasted the next 15 years. Quit the heroin. Just smoke weed now.
In hindsight, I should of just stayed with the weed and maybe my life would be different, but since that doesn't matter shit, I have this to say:
No fucking drug was a gateway drug for me. I choose to do "harder" drugs because I wanted to. I made the choice, I wasn't forced to the choice by any drugs I took before, since they can NOT force me to do anything.
Gateway drugs is just an excuse for our failings as humans to keep others safe from the dangers of themselves. We only care about what a druggy/alcoholic is doing with it affects us, otherwise, we don't give a damn.
Guess what, people are going to drink, people are going to do drugs. Why? because they generally want to, or they are stupid and let peer pressure them into doing it, but it comes down to their choice. Nothing you could of done would probably change that. People make choices all the time, good or bad. But they make them.
By the way, the British film This Is England does a pretty great job of covering the early 80s skinhead scene, and is just a really good film in general.
...The US claimed that national security was at stake.
...
In way it is, because if they keep trying to pull this shit over us, people might start taking the streets and doing some serious protesting.
It's time for a new government, completely, our old one is broken and can not be fixed.
They should be scared, because as much as I don't care for violence, I see a need for a bunch of people to forcefully removed from office and put in gitmo (ya, you should of closed it Obama, now enjoy your stay there.)
Oh shit, now I'm on some government list as someone to watch.
.... It is as with kids - if t hey ask seemingly innocent question long enough they get an agreement not because we really agree but because we are tired of being asked the same question all t he time.....
Did you read the linked article? As a Christian, I rolled my eyes most at the BBC radio headline, "The Higgs boson is another nail in the CRUCIFIX of religion."....
We vote for him because Romney means we'd lose everything; the middle class would cease to exist and businesses would take over every aspect of our lives. So Obama is the lesser of two evils.
Or.. put another way... I think Obama will help to strengthen the middle class (i.e. restore the wealth of the middle 30% or so of the populace) and thus give us the means to power to reclaim the rest.
Step by step.
Obama is going to be strengthening the bank accounts of the 1%, while limiting our rights. The middle class is being raped and plundered by the corporations. And Obama is helping them.
I agree with you completely. Isn't it cool!? I'm 52 now, and as a kid, before the moon landing, many people then thought it quite possible that the lunar lander might sink into the 'green cheese' surface of the moon! I know that sounds crazy to anyone born after 1969 reading this, but that was people's thinking back then. We couldn't be sure what the moon was made of. We really didn't know! We've come so far since then in our knowledge of the universe, and every pic of anything we haven't done or seen before always makes me feel so awed. Awed, and grateful. Grateful for being alive in this amazing time of discovery we live in. And I wonder how far we'll eventually go.....
I don't think most people have gotten smarter since then, sure, most know the moon is rock, but that's only because they believe everything that is told to them.
You have 4 types of people when it comes to computers.
You have the Alpha, the person who understand both hardware and software. This is the best type, sounds like it's you, and there isn't that many of us around.
Next time, is the Person who understands hardware, but not software.
And next, is the Person who understand software but not hardware.
And then, you have 75% off the rest, the people who don't understand shit about computers.
The problem is, most people don't understand shit about computers. You get the people that understand hardware, but do NOT understand software at all, and fuck up their computers OS all the time. You find these people usually working at places like best buy, or other places that sells computers or builds computers to sell.
Then you got the people who understand software but do NOT understand hardware. These are the most common computer users, next to the idiots that don't know shit about computers. These are the people who will call up tech support because their mouse stopped working, when it just probably became unplugged. These sound like the people you work with, because while they couldn't get the software running, they didn't do any looking on the hardware to see if it was a setting problem.
And the rest i don't need to discuss, because you probably do tech support for them, because they are not only in your family, they live next to you also.
But dude, you sound like you are at the top of the heap and don't let everyone else's lack of knowledge bother you. They don't see computers like you do, they never will. You on the other hand, are going to be able to solve most the computer problems that get thrown at you, mainly if you keep on the path you are. When I first got my taste of computers back in the early 80's, I could NOT get enough of them. I spent most my high school years taking classes with access to computers, spending too many hours at the local Radio Shack (TRS-80's were my first computers).
Ya man, you keep doing what you are doing, and don't worry about everyone else being stupid, I think you are going to find that most the people you deal with are dumber then you are. Part of life.
... Christianity doesn't require you to pay money before they will reveal all of the church doctrines...
True, but once they suck you in all Christian organisations want your money and they want it tax free.
But it is still a believer's choice to give or not, unlike scientology. And you should be glad that they are tax exempt. That's the only thing that keeps them from being able to tell their followers who to vote for. Being tax exempt means they can only speak on the issues, not the candidates.
Ya, except some church's go on and on about giving, and Give to God and God will Give to You. tithes and offerings, and tithes means like 10% plus you got to give more for offerings.
They badger you so much on Sundays and if it was a holiday like easter or Xmas that pulled people in, omg, they would keep harping about it. Sort of like when you get them "free" vacations but you have to listen to them timeshare seminars while you are there? It is exactly like that.
That of course, was like 30 years ago when I was forced to go to church. Has it changed since then? I doubt it. It's a way of some Christians to feel even better about themselves because they give to the church and are religious.
What I do know is, the pastor bought a new car ever 6 months (caddies of course) and most the upper church management lived very very very comfortably.
Pretty good for a bunch of people who used to be drug addicts and "got religion".
In case anyone wonder who am I talking about, I'm mostly referring to Christian Faith Center in Seattle, and the red headed paster, Casey Treat.
I could tell you stories about them and their fake beliefs. Life how they would have someone speak out in "tongues" then someone "randomly blessed by god" with the interpretation of what they said. One day, some guy says the interpretation of it, and I see by the look on Casey Treats face, that this guy isn't supposed to be talking. So what does Casey do? He says that god just told him that wasn't the interpretation we were to hear and then one of the deacons (and good buddies of Casey) said what the interpretation of the tongues where. Apparently they think I'm stupid as the rest of them, because I'm supposed to accept the blatant lie that just went on?
Ya, fuck that.
In these times of economic struggle, the Government should just take away the Tax Exemption for Religions. It would only be fair and if the religions have a problem with that, then they can pray to their gods for help with money.
I disliked the use of 'church' for another reason. That is, I don't see a difference between Christianity & Scientology. Both are about believing in magic men in the sky.
Word, I don't don't trust Church's Chicken, probably try to sell me a sermon with my food!!!!
I hate how everyone and their twin brother are making shooter games where you play in the 3rd person.
Look, Dead Space was NOT scary because I was in 3rd Person.
Postal 3? sucked because I was in 3rd person.
How the fuck can I enjoy a game by trying to pretend I'm the character, when I'm looking over it's shoulder or at it's butt all the time?
I don't have a problem with all the Zombie games, I have a problem with all the 3rd Person Zombie games.
Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 is fun, because I feel like i'm there, killing the shit.
Those other games, not so much. Dead Island's problem was that zombies just spawned back up after you killed them and left the area. I'm on a fucking island, if I kill a zombie, it should stay fucking dead. But whatever, I guess I'm stupid for expecting some realism in my zombie shooters.
I would rather the government built and ran them. I trust government workers to stick to engineering spec and scientific guideline more then a company where a CEO will make a larger bonus by putting off storage costs another year.
The government who gives the job to pretty much the cheapest bid?
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"Unless you don't care about PC gaming at all, by now you're aware of Valve's entry into the MOBA/ARTS genre, Dota 2."
Unless you're a total douche-bag, you wouldn't even think of penning something like that.
Wow, take that personally did you?
Is the cancer killing videogames.
Nobody gives a shit about an enthralling story or character development anymore. Developers have to give players multiplayer rewards for anyone to want to go play their 6-9 hour poorly written story now.
Im sure I am not alone in yerning again for the days where you got a real story that took a damn long time to finish it, 40-50 hours was considered to be short once now Its an "epic".
My opinion is the "hollywoodizing" of the Game industries is the problem. Game Studios think they need to spend 100's of millions of dollar to make games, which they then have to sell 20 million copies to break even. And the games of course, are short because they don't have the time to make a nice long game and debug it, they need to get it shipped out as soon as possible, so they can get some money back. Bugs? they just issue updates later.
Now, since every sale matters to make a profit, they are really going gung ho on anyone who plays their game without paying full price for it. Used games? Oh fuck no. Piracy? oh they are evil people stealing money from our pockets!!!!
I'm skeptical of low IDs--back in the day, you were distrustful of identifying yourself and all the cool people stayed anonymous.
I am not a number, I am a free man!
Because the number of digits on your ID indicate how long you've been reading slashdot... I've read slashdot for many years now and only recently bothered to make an account. Perhaps you're correct and he was being facetious. It's equally possible that he really didn't know who CowboyNeal was and was genuinely curious. No need to be an elitist.
don't be a hater because you just recently joined Slashdot and feel it's necessary to say you've been "reading slashdot for many years now and only recently bothered to make an account", mainly when it's obvious that isn't true.
the lower your number only means you've registered before someone else, does NOT make anyone smarter, or more with the slashdot scene.
being Elite is well, just because some of us kick ass at everything we do. Sorry, but I was born Elite, it's not something I get for having a certain UID.
Oh ya, i also just "read" slashdot from when it was created for some years before I registered, which is why my UID isn't 1 digit. Really.
that we spend 100's of Billions of dollars in some stupid ass war we don't need or want, when we could be spending money on something valuable, like learning more about our solar system.
We spend $20 billion on air condition in Iraq & Afghanistan, and spent just over $18 Billion on Nasa. (http://theweek.com/article/index/216786/the-militarys-20-billion-air-conditioning-bill-by-the-numbers)
fuck you US Government, fucking corporate fuck toys.
People who want live sports are pretty likely to shut up and pay for whatever bundle-o-crap that the providers are selling.
nope, they can order then online and steam them.
Screw giving money to Comcast, i'd rather give money to the panhandlers on the corner. (and I have no desire to give panhandlers anything)
is the TSA.
I got drunk at first.
I then took Acid and MDA (XTC's daddy)
I tried some weed, but didn't like it.
Spent most of the next year, Drunk or high on acid or MDA
finally, started smoking marijuana regularly.
Still drank, still did Acid & MDA, and some other stuff.
Discovered Heroin.
Wasted the next 15 years.
Quit the heroin.
Just smoke weed now.
In hindsight, I should of just stayed with the weed and maybe my life would be different, but since that doesn't matter shit, I have this to say:
No fucking drug was a gateway drug for me. I choose to do "harder" drugs because I wanted to. I made the choice, I wasn't forced to the choice by any drugs I took before, since they can NOT force me to do anything.
Gateway drugs is just an excuse for our failings as humans to keep others safe from the dangers of themselves. We only care about what a druggy/alcoholic is doing with it affects us, otherwise, we don't give a damn.
Guess what, people are going to drink, people are going to do drugs. Why? because they generally want to, or they are stupid and let peer pressure them into doing it, but it comes down to their choice. Nothing you could of done would probably change that. People make choices all the time, good or bad. But they make them.
..
By the way, the British film This Is England does a pretty great job of covering the early 80s skinhead scene, and is just a really good film in general.
yep, great flick.
..
Do you run around punching people who wear Bluetooth headsets in the ear?
Yes I do.
Then I say, "Can you hear me now?"
...The US claimed that national security was at stake.
...
In way it is, because if they keep trying to pull this shit over us, people might start taking the streets and doing some serious protesting.
It's time for a new government, completely, our old one is broken and can not be fixed.
They should be scared, because as much as I don't care for violence, I see a need for a bunch of people to forcefully removed from office and put in gitmo (ya, you should of closed it Obama, now enjoy your stay there.)
Oh shit, now I'm on some government list as someone to watch.
.... It is as with kids - if t hey ask seemingly innocent question long enough they get an agreement not because we really agree but because we are tired of being asked the same question all t he time. ....
That makes you a very crappy parent.
You forget our lord and saviour....
Bob Dobbs Jr?
Or you talking about the Zombie Xian dude, Jesus? Too many shows/movies with zombies these days, he needs another schtick.
So much for a fucking democracy. Virtually none of us want this and yet it'll still get passed.
And what the fuck is going on here: the same politicians who want all of our secrets are keeping mum when it comes to themselves:
Web snooping policy shrouded in secrecy
No Minister: 90% of web snoop document censored to stop 'premature unnecessary debate'
How the FUCK did we end up in this bizarro world?
By not doing anything.
You want change? go make change, namely, get the right people in office, any way you can.
...
Just wait for Romney to be elected. The fix is in.
I heard that 4 years ago with Obama.
Hope and Change.
I lost hope and can't afford to make change.
Did you read the linked article? As a Christian, I rolled my eyes most at the BBC radio headline, "The Higgs boson is another nail in the CRUCIFIX of religion." ....
Fixed that for ya...
We vote for him because Romney means we'd lose everything; the middle class would cease to exist and businesses would take over every aspect of our lives. So Obama is the lesser of two evils.
Or.. put another way ... I think Obama will help to strengthen the middle class (i.e. restore the wealth of the middle 30% or so of the populace) and thus give us the means to power to reclaim the rest.
Step by step.
Obama is going to be strengthening the bank accounts of the 1%, while limiting our rights. The middle class is being raped and plundered by the corporations. And Obama is helping them.
I agree with you completely. Isn't it cool!? I'm 52 now, and as a kid, before the moon landing, many people then thought it quite possible that the lunar lander might sink into the 'green cheese' surface of the moon! I know that sounds crazy to anyone born after 1969 reading this, but that was people's thinking back then. We couldn't be sure what the moon was made of. We really didn't know! We've come so far since then in our knowledge of the universe, and every pic of anything we haven't done or seen before always makes me feel so awed. Awed, and grateful. Grateful for being alive in this amazing time of discovery we live in. And I wonder how far we'll eventually go.....
I don't think most people have gotten smarter since then, sure, most know the moon is rock, but that's only because they believe everything that is told to them.
For everyone else: DON'T PUT YOUR FUCKING PHONE IN THE MICROWAVE.
yes, the microwave is for organic stuff, like drying your pet. Or your baby.
Ya, Nukes keep the world safe.
That is why there has been wars going on pretty much non stop since we've had nukes.
Our nukes have kept us safe, after all, the threat of us having nukes keep 9/11 from happening. Oh, wait, it didn't.
Our having nukes have keep our soldiers safe. oh, wait, they have been dying.
Israel having nukes have keep them safe, right? No terrorist acts, no people dying?
Nukes haven't done shit but make the USA a big ass bully.
You have 4 types of people when it comes to computers.
You have the Alpha, the person who understand both hardware and software. This is the best type, sounds like it's you, and there isn't that many of us around.
Next time, is the Person who understands hardware, but not software.
And next, is the Person who understand software but not hardware.
And then, you have 75% off the rest, the people who don't understand shit about computers.
The problem is, most people don't understand shit about computers. You get the people that understand hardware, but do NOT understand software at all, and fuck up their computers OS all the time. You find these people usually working at places like best buy, or other places that sells computers or builds computers to sell.
Then you got the people who understand software but do NOT understand hardware. These are the most common computer users, next to the idiots that don't know shit about computers. These are the people who will call up tech support because their mouse stopped working, when it just probably became unplugged.
These sound like the people you work with, because while they couldn't get the software running, they didn't do any looking on the hardware to see if it was a setting problem.
And the rest i don't need to discuss, because you probably do tech support for them, because they are not only in your family, they live next to you also.
But dude, you sound like you are at the top of the heap and don't let everyone else's lack of knowledge bother you. They don't see computers like you do, they never will. You on the other hand, are going to be able to solve most the computer problems that get thrown at you, mainly if you keep on the path you are. When I first got my taste of computers back in the early 80's, I could NOT get enough of them. I spent most my high school years taking classes with access to computers, spending too many hours at the local Radio Shack (TRS-80's were my first computers).
Ya man, you keep doing what you are doing, and don't worry about everyone else being stupid, I think you are going to find that most the people you deal with are dumber then you are. Part of life.
... Christianity doesn't require you to pay money before they will reveal all of the church doctrines...
True, but once they suck you in all Christian organisations want your money and they want it tax free.
But it is still a believer's choice to give or not, unlike scientology. And you should be glad that they are tax exempt. That's the only thing that keeps them from being able to tell their followers who to vote for. Being tax exempt means they can only speak on the issues, not the candidates.
Ya, except some church's go on and on about giving, and Give to God and God will Give to You. tithes and offerings, and tithes means like 10% plus you got to give more for offerings.
They badger you so much on Sundays and if it was a holiday like easter or Xmas that pulled people in, omg, they would keep harping about it. Sort of like when you get them "free" vacations but you have to listen to them timeshare seminars while you are there? It is exactly like that.
That of course, was like 30 years ago when I was forced to go to church. Has it changed since then? I doubt it. It's a way of some Christians to feel even better about themselves because they give to the church and are religious.
What I do know is, the pastor bought a new car ever 6 months (caddies of course) and most the upper church management lived very very very comfortably.
Pretty good for a bunch of people who used to be drug addicts and "got religion".
In case anyone wonder who am I talking about, I'm mostly referring to Christian Faith Center in Seattle, and the red headed paster, Casey Treat.
I could tell you stories about them and their fake beliefs. Life how they would have someone speak out in "tongues" then someone "randomly blessed by god" with the interpretation of what they said. One day, some guy says the interpretation of it, and I see by the look on Casey Treats face, that this guy isn't supposed to be talking. So what does Casey do? He says that god just told him that wasn't the interpretation we were to hear and then one of the deacons (and good buddies of Casey) said what the interpretation of the tongues where. Apparently they think I'm stupid as the rest of them, because I'm supposed to accept the blatant lie that just went on?
Ya, fuck that.
In these times of economic struggle, the Government should just take away the Tax Exemption for Religions. It would only be fair and if the religions have a problem with that, then they can pray to their gods for help with money.
I disliked the use of 'church' for another reason. That is, I don't see a difference between Christianity & Scientology. Both are about believing in magic men in the sky.
Word, I don't don't trust Church's Chicken, probably try to sell me a sermon with my food!!!!
I hate how everyone and their twin brother are making shooter games where you play in the 3rd person.
Look, Dead Space was NOT scary because I was in 3rd Person.
Postal 3? sucked because I was in 3rd person.
How the fuck can I enjoy a game by trying to pretend I'm the character, when I'm looking over it's shoulder or at it's butt all the time?
I don't have a problem with all the Zombie games, I have a problem with all the 3rd Person Zombie games.
Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 is fun, because I feel like i'm there, killing the shit.
Those other games, not so much. Dead Island's problem was that zombies just spawned back up after you killed them and left the area. I'm on a fucking island, if I kill a zombie, it should stay fucking dead. But whatever, I guess I'm stupid for expecting some realism in my zombie shooters.
I would rather the government built and ran them. I trust government workers to stick to engineering spec and scientific guideline more then a company where a CEO will make a larger bonus by putting off storage costs another year.
The government who gives the job to pretty much the cheapest bid?