Occam's Razor would point out that they did what was easiest and less time consuming, which is disable this in the code and re-compile, when dealing with textures that are used for many different areas, taking out a little bit of code is a lot easier than remapping parts of a city or altering game art...
I would say they also made this decision close to submitting to the ESRB and chosing the safe road of not including this instead of seeing what the ESRB would rate them with it included and then being FORCED to remap parts of the city and change art...
"They pulled a fast one on ESRB and the parents so they could pad their bottom line. And it worked."
You are saying that they disabled this content but left it in the game to pad their bottom line?
How does this even make sense?!? It doesn't...
They disabled this content in the game, told no one about the content and only after how many months of record sales has someone reverse engineered the code to find this disabled content and make it available?
Maybe i could give your statement even a shred of believability if they had, in some way shape or form, let people know about this content... but unfortunately for you and your line of reasoning, they didn't...
The original bf1942 bot experience was ver rich, i could choose the number of bots, timelimit, ticket ratio, even BOT RATIO (to uneven the teams against you, which i like to do), BF2 gives you a preset love it or leave it single player EXP...
... and instead of kids kicking your seat they will have people who will jump up behind you and claw your back whenever the main character turns a corner.
I really liked the ending to Jurrasic bark, I thought it was touching and moving.
I didn't think it was depressing, I guess that is because Fry thought that the dog forgot all about him which would have been sad because they were such good friends, but instead the dog did love Fry and that love endured until his death... I dunno maybe I got the wrong message or i'm just too sentimental? *grabs tissue*
Yes! People are way over-taxed, especially the middle and upper classes."
I think the upper classes _should_ share a bigger burden of the tax, it is the lower classes that form the support structure that allow the upper classes to remain there.
Well the only problem with this assesment is that it doesn't hold true for the sex, no matter how the sex is represented on film or games (whether it is hardcore porn or 2 married people engaging in an act of ultimate love and bonding) it is treated the same way (censored).
Violence in any form is bad, but this does not hold true for sex so to treat them the same or sex worse than violence IS absurd.
"The *real* reason why sex is abhorred and violence is glorified is because we're a bunch of puritans in comparison to the rest of the world."
I thought it was because evil is the path to death and righteousness is the path to life...
Thats why the religous fundies hate anything related to sex because it ultimately promotes life.. but coudln't care less about violence because it ultimately leads to death.
Yes, I am saying that religous fundies are evil, but i base this on their actions, which always shows the face of evil rather than that of a following of Christ...
this reminds me of a movie i was watching on TV the other night, I can't remember the exact movie but think pulp fiction type violence and gore...
The funny thing about the movie was that after this long drawn out violent scene (bullets flying, people's insides splattering, blood everywhere) someone said Fuck you.
Now none of the violence was cut out or shortened, but the word fuck, oh noooo!!! Can't have that, instead the changed it to hug...
So after this long violent scene the character turned to the motionless bodies and said "No!, Hug you!!!
I tried to talk to him (via his email link on his Gov website) about violence and sex in gaming and one of the bills he was proposing (having to do with making games with a m or higher rating unavailable on a sales floor (aka porno shop back room)).
He didn't give a crap about my views, the information I was providing or the possible effect of his legislation... all he cared about is if I was in his voting district (which i am right outside of but feel like moving just so I can vote against him).
Obviously this is all about the way he looks to possible voters and showing them he "cares about the family" yadda yadda... this has little if anything to do with actually protecting children or helping parents raise/protect their kids.
"M is defined as "Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content, and/or strong language."
AO is defined as "Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity."
Well at least the ratings aren't vague and ambigous...
Sheesh can anyone tell me what differentiates intense violence/intense nudity and "Prolonged" intense violence/intense nudity?!?!
Is there a timer? If so how long is long enough to qualify for AO?!?
And finally.. what is less harmful about the duration of "intense violence/intense nudity"?
All of these ratings seem confused and unclear, but as long as the politicians feel better about what they spend their time on, i guess it doesn't matter if the ratings are accurate or effective...
All of the pictures in the article are drawn/created... none of them are in game screenshots... how can this be representative of the games actual beauty/graphics?
"George W. Bush had MORE people COME TOGETHER on election night than anyone you apparently consider a uniter."
Is that so?
It seems history tells a different story, if you look at the facts, Bill Clinton won by a bigger lead than George Bush, which would mean a bigger percentage of people united behind him...
"In 1996, Clinton won by 8.2 million votes over Republican Bob Dole, while Perot received 8.1 million votes. In 2004, George W. Bush won by 3.5 million votes."
"Bill Clinton never once broke the 50 percent barrier in his two elections, garnering only 43 percent in 1992 and 49 percent in '96"
So if Ross perot hadn't taken any votes then you would have definitely seen a greater than 51% vote for Clinton...
Just because George Bush won through fear mongering and a lack of a better option, doesn't mean people were united For Bush, they were either scared about the future of the US or didn't have a better option... that is seen by his current approval rating.
"And if you leave your front door unlocked you are granting access to anyone who wants to enter. NOT!"
This is more like leaving your front door wide open and handing out floor plans to people passing by on the street, any reasonable person would assume that you wanted them to go inside.. and I think that is all that needs to be proven in court... what a reasonable person would be expected to think...
"Yes, a joint might be as bad for you as 3 cigs, or even upwards of 6 or 8. But how many times have you seen someone chain smoke a pack of joints?"
This is a good point but also if it was legal you wouldn't have to smoke it, smoking is just the most cost effective way to get high since it is so expensive being a black market item.
Back in the day before it was illegal, you could buy hash chocolates (potent marijuana derivative covered in chocolate), so if it is legal you get rid of one of the biggest reasons critics have for keeping it illegal, the whole 3x deadlier than Tobacco arguement.
"Can you imagine if large sections of your population were partaking of pot regularly? It would be nuts."
It seems like this is already happening, albeit illegally.
I know many people who partake of pot regularly, even on a daily basis, who hold down steady employment and are otherwise completely legal contributing members of society...
"Maybe the apparent absence of visitors from the future constitutes some evidence that it won't happen. "
No it's because you can only time travel back through your period of life, and when you do, you can only inhabit bodies of people who are already living in that time period... so everyone else thinks you look like that person... of course Al can see you as yourself, but of course he is back in the Imaging chamber soyour secret is safe;)
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I'm not sure how that changes anything......
Occam's Razor would point out that they did what was easiest and less time consuming, which is disable this in the code and re-compile, when dealing with textures that are used for many different areas, taking out a little bit of code is a lot easier than remapping parts of a city or altering game art...
I would say they also made this decision close to submitting to the ESRB and chosing the safe road of not including this instead of seeing what the ESRB would rate them with it included and then being FORCED to remap parts of the city and change art...
How about you stop telling other people how to live their lives and concentrate on how you live yours?
"They pulled a fast one on ESRB and the parents so they could pad their bottom line. And it worked."
You are saying that they disabled this content but left it in the game to pad their bottom line?
How does this even make sense?!? It doesn't...
They disabled this content in the game, told no one about the content and only after how many months of record sales has someone reverse engineered the code to find this disabled content and make it available?
Maybe i could give your statement even a shred of believability if they had, in some way shape or form, let people know about this content... but unfortunately for you and your line of reasoning, they didn't...
"All these are things "wrong" with sex,"
Whats funny is all of those things can be avoided by following a religous view of no sex before marriage... but no one wants to hear that....
Mod parent up please...
The original bf1942 bot experience was ver rich, i could choose the number of bots, timelimit, ticket ratio, even BOT RATIO (to uneven the teams against you, which i like to do), BF2 gives you a preset love it or leave it single player EXP...
But in order for people to believe that it would have to be plausible...
... and instead of kids kicking your seat they will have people who will jump up behind you and claw your back whenever the main character turns a corner.
Ditto here, in fact I use DT instead of the BF2 cdrom to play the game (I hate the cdrom shuffle).
I really liked the ending to Jurrasic bark, I thought it was touching and moving.
I didn't think it was depressing, I guess that is because Fry thought that the dog forgot all about him which would have been sad because they were such good friends, but instead the dog did love Fry and that love endured until his death... I dunno maybe I got the wrong message or i'm just too sentimental? *grabs tissue*
"anti-taxes
Yes! People are way over-taxed, especially the middle and upper classes."
I think the upper classes _should_ share a bigger burden of the tax, it is the lower classes that form the support structure that allow the upper classes to remain there.
"Therefore, sex is repressed more than violence."
Well the only problem with this assesment is that it doesn't hold true for the sex, no matter how the sex is represented on film or games (whether it is hardcore porn or 2 married people engaging in an act of ultimate love and bonding) it is treated the same way (censored).
Violence in any form is bad, but this does not hold true for sex so to treat them the same or sex worse than violence IS absurd.
"The *real* reason why sex is abhorred and violence is glorified is because we're a bunch of puritans in comparison to the rest of the world."
I thought it was because evil is the path to death and righteousness is the path to life...
Thats why the religous fundies hate anything related to sex because it ultimately promotes life.. but coudln't care less about violence because it ultimately leads to death.
Yes, I am saying that religous fundies are evil, but i base this on their actions, which always shows the face of evil rather than that of a following of Christ...
this reminds me of a movie i was watching on TV the other night, I can't remember the exact movie but think pulp fiction type violence and gore...
The funny thing about the movie was that after this long drawn out violent scene (bullets flying, people's insides splattering, blood everywhere) someone said Fuck you.
Now none of the violence was cut out or shortened, but the word fuck, oh noooo!!! Can't have that, instead the changed it to hug...
So after this long violent scene the character turned to the motionless bodies and said "No!, Hug you!!!
It's insane
He is a twit of the highest caliber..
I tried to talk to him (via his email link on his Gov website) about violence and sex in gaming and one of the bills he was proposing (having to do with making games with a m or higher rating unavailable on a sales floor (aka porno shop back room)).
He didn't give a crap about my views, the information I was providing or the possible effect of his legislation... all he cared about is if I was in his voting district (which i am right outside of but feel like moving just so I can vote against him).
Obviously this is all about the way he looks to possible voters and showing them he "cares about the family" yadda yadda... this has little if anything to do with actually protecting children or helping parents raise/protect their kids.
"M is defined as "Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content, and/or strong language."
AO is defined as "Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity."
Well at least the ratings aren't vague and ambigous...
Sheesh can anyone tell me what differentiates intense violence/intense nudity and "Prolonged" intense violence/intense nudity?!?!
Is there a timer? If so how long is long enough to qualify for AO?!?
And finally.. what is less harmful about the duration of "intense violence/intense nudity"?
All of these ratings seem confused and unclear, but as long as the politicians feel better about what they spend their time on, i guess it doesn't matter if the ratings are accurate or effective...
All of the pictures in the article are drawn/created... none of them are in game screenshots... how can this be representative of the games actual beauty/graphics?
" "anti-semiticism" in the new testament? Where specifically? (It's anti-semitism BTW)."
He is probably just confused by all the FUD spread by anti-jesus groups...
"George W. Bush had MORE people COME TOGETHER on election night than anyone you apparently consider a uniter."
Is that so?
It seems history tells a different story, if you look at the facts, Bill Clinton won by a bigger lead than George Bush, which would mean a bigger percentage of people united behind him...
"In 1996, Clinton won by 8.2 million votes over Republican Bob Dole, while Perot received 8.1 million votes. In 2004, George W. Bush won by 3.5 million votes."
"Bill Clinton never once broke the 50 percent barrier in his two elections, garnering only 43 percent in 1992 and 49 percent in '96"
So if Ross perot hadn't taken any votes then you would have definitely seen a greater than 51% vote for Clinton...
Just because George Bush won through fear mongering and a lack of a better option, doesn't mean people were united For Bush, they were either scared about the future of the US or didn't have a better option... that is seen by his current approval rating.
"And if you leave your front door unlocked you are granting access to anyone who wants to enter. NOT!"
This is more like leaving your front door wide open and handing out floor plans to people passing by on the street, any reasonable person would assume that you wanted them to go inside.. and I think that is all that needs to be proven in court... what a reasonable person would be expected to think...
"Yes, a joint might be as bad for you as 3 cigs, or even upwards of 6 or 8. But how many times have you seen someone chain smoke a pack of joints?"
This is a good point but also if it was legal you wouldn't have to smoke it, smoking is just the most cost effective way to get high since it is so expensive being a black market item.
Back in the day before it was illegal, you could buy hash chocolates (potent marijuana derivative covered in chocolate), so if it is legal you get rid of one of the biggest reasons critics have for keeping it illegal, the whole 3x deadlier than Tobacco arguement.
"Can you imagine if large sections of your population were partaking of pot regularly? It would be nuts."
It seems like this is already happening, albeit illegally.
I know many people who partake of pot regularly, even on a daily basis, who hold down steady employment and are otherwise completely legal contributing members of society...
Please mod parent up...
"Maybe the apparent absence of visitors from the future constitutes some evidence that it won't happen. "
;)
No it's because you can only time travel back through your period of life, and when you do, you can only inhabit bodies of people who are already living in that time period... so everyone else thinks you look like that person... of course Al can see you as yourself, but of course he is back in the Imaging chamber soyour secret is safe
" Rocket Jumping has to be considered legitimate by now. Everyone making a game knows about it, no excuses."
Was rocket jumping ever considered a cheat/exploit?!?!? I don't think so...