My sister and brother-in-law registered a domain for their baby girl who's now 19 months old. They upload photos and keep a log to share with family and friends. But I seriously doubt they would have registered if they had to pay $500.
God, what a loss to humanity that would have been.
I'm sure it's just somebody who likes owning more virtual land than they know what to do with. I'm sure they're not going to make ANY money off of their $100,000.00 land purchase.
They'd have to be paying that much. What people don't understand is that GMing is a labor of love. You can pay someone to GM a game, but you have to take into account all the time spent writing the campaign. Even at minimum wage, that's a good 50-80 dollars for a decent one-shot adventure.
Do you realize how much skill it takes to actually GM? More than most people think. Then you have to remember that you're talking about hundreds of Game Masters interfering with each other. Writing up dungeons on the fly? I've tried that. It doesn't work very well. Also, let's face it, your average MMORPGer really want's great equipment. He doesn't want to interact with the barmaids.
While it would be kind of neat, it will never happen in non-text-based or large-scale MMORPGs.
every important-enough-to-affect-the-product-line D&D campaign
Interesting choice of wording there. Are you talking about at least on female character, NPC, or monster, or at least one female writer/designer/editor?
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If I was writing an EULA, I would include everything from owning their person, their soul, their political opinion, and their children to not being responsible for anything I say, do, think, kill, or mess up.
America is a lawsuit-happy nation. Of course they're going to try to protect themselves.
I still wonder if it would be illegal to buy a game, and never install and agree to the EULA. Could I legally distribute copies of it, claiming I was ignorant of the EULA, and didn't agree to anything anyway?
Next time somebody wants to use the computer: "Look, I'm sorry, but this copy of Windows is only licensed to the primary user of this machine. Hey, don't look at me like that. You're the one who's against piracy! You can't just go around deciding which terms of the EULA you want to adhere to! That would be illegal."
It won't shift to the video packrat. The video packrat wants the best video he can possibly get, not his entire collection on a 1.5 inch screen. The video packrat is just going to buy Blu-Ray or HD-DVDs. It's different with music, because it's pretty much the same quality, whether it's coming from your $2,000.00 home PC, or from your $200.00 iPod.
What about the trendiness factor? If you have an iPod, you're cool.
And, girls get out of class, and half of them whip out their phones for a quick chat between classes. Most of them have trouble operating a PC. What would they do with a PDA?
Me? I don't leave the house (besides work and school) enough to warrant carrying a very breakable, very expensive object around with me. I'd rather drag along a GBA than a PDA. Better games, I'm never around a WiFi connection anyway, and I don't need to bring videos and my entire music collection everywhere with me. The whole $80.00 for a new GBA-SP doesn't hurt anything, either.
And, really, doesn't anybody else here still carry paperbacks around?
I didn't like the materia thing. It just seemed like a dumb gimmick. And then they went and threw all the minigames in there. I'm fine with minigames, but, as I recall, a lot of them were boring. Then it had that same "Talk to everybody ever at least 3 times every time you go to town or advance the plot, or you'll miss something, and spend a minute and a half checking every box, crate, crevice, rock, and bag, because sometimes we stick good stuff in there" thing inherent in every RPG. Some people would rather get the storyline going and get to the good parts without spending an hour in each town talking to 'yet another clone with a mustache'.
You want to talk scary games? Play Thief: The Dark Project. That is the scariest game I have ever played, bar none. Go ahead. Start playing level two. You'll beg to stop playing, but won't be able to take your hand off the mouse.
"Hmmm. I wonder if '25 to Life' and 'Grand Theft Auto III' are acceptable games for my child. Better look at the back. Let's see... Hoodlum beating up someone with a baseball bat, guy with a machine gun mowing down cops, hookers... Boy, I don't know what this 'M' means, and I don't really want to squint to read the text under it. Oh well, I guess, since I don't know what this rating means, I'd better just blindly buy Timmy this game."
You don't let your kid watch "The Ring". You don't let your kid play "Grand Theft Auto". A quick look at the back of the box, in either case, fixes everything.
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My sister and brother-in-law registered a domain for their baby girl who's now 19 months old. They upload photos and keep a log to share with family and friends. But I seriously doubt they would have registered if they had to pay $500.
God, what a loss to humanity that would have been.
It's the principle of the whole thing. .xxx domain?
They can sell cigarettes, beer and guns, and they won't allow a
Freedom of speech, anyone?
Ba-dum, Tsshhhhh!
The real reason is because Linux users would just try to make the land free for everyone to do whatever they want with.
I'm sure it's just somebody who likes owning more virtual land than they know what to do with. I'm sure they're not going to make ANY money off of their $100,000.00 land purchase.
They'd have to be paying that much.
What people don't understand is that GMing is a labor of love. You can pay someone to GM a game, but you have to take into account all the time spent writing the campaign. Even at minimum wage, that's a good 50-80 dollars for a decent one-shot adventure.
Do you realize how much skill it takes to actually GM? More than most people think.
Then you have to remember that you're talking about hundreds of Game Masters interfering with each other.
Writing up dungeons on the fly? I've tried that. It doesn't work very well.
Also, let's face it, your average MMORPGer really want's great equipment. He doesn't want to interact with the barmaids.
While it would be kind of neat, it will never happen in non-text-based or large-scale MMORPGs.
every important-enough-to-affect-the-product-line D&D campaign
Interesting choice of wording there. Are you talking about at least on female character, NPC, or monster, or at least one female writer/designer/editor?
If I was writing an EULA, I would include everything from owning their person, their soul, their political opinion, and their children to not being responsible for anything I say, do, think, kill, or mess up.
America is a lawsuit-happy nation. Of course they're going to try to protect themselves.
I still wonder if it would be illegal to buy a game, and never install and agree to the EULA. Could I legally distribute copies of it, claiming I was ignorant of the EULA, and didn't agree to anything anyway?
Next time somebody wants to use the computer:
"Look, I'm sorry, but this copy of Windows is only licensed to the primary user of this machine.
Hey, don't look at me like that. You're the one who's against piracy! You can't just go around deciding which terms of the EULA you want to adhere to! That would be illegal."
Are you implying the price of a 54 gig USB drive might be lower than the price of a recordable Dual Layered Blu-Ray disc in the next 2-3 years?
First, my dear Pinky, the universities of America. Then, the world!
Muahahaha!
Too expensive.
Let's face it: For distributable media, people don't care about RW capabilities.
That's where next-gen recordable media comes in.
It won't shift to the video packrat.
The video packrat wants the best video he can possibly get, not his entire collection on a 1.5 inch screen.
The video packrat is just going to buy Blu-Ray or HD-DVDs.
It's different with music, because it's pretty much the same quality, whether it's coming from your $2,000.00 home PC, or from your $200.00 iPod.
It also relates to the Game Boy. And the GBA-SP. And the Walkman. And the...
I think I got them all.
What about the trendiness factor? If you have an iPod, you're cool.
And, girls get out of class, and half of them whip out their phones for a quick chat between classes. Most of them have trouble operating a PC. What would they do with a PDA?
Me? I don't leave the house (besides work and school) enough to warrant carrying a very breakable, very expensive object around with me.
I'd rather drag along a GBA than a PDA. Better games, I'm never around a WiFi connection anyway, and I don't need to bring videos and my entire music collection everywhere with me.
The whole $80.00 for a new GBA-SP doesn't hurt anything, either.
And, really, doesn't anybody else here still carry paperbacks around?
**crickets chirping**
Stupid PDFs.
Okay, now you have to go find a link to the background music from that scene.
My reaction to that scene: "Holy shit! Headcrabs!"
We just killed 'em with shotguns and pistols.
I didn't like the materia thing. It just seemed like a dumb gimmick. And then they went and threw all the minigames in there. I'm fine with minigames, but, as I recall, a lot of them were boring. Then it had that same "Talk to everybody ever at least 3 times every time you go to town or advance the plot, or you'll miss something, and spend a minute and a half checking every box, crate, crevice, rock, and bag, because sometimes we stick good stuff in there" thing inherent in every RPG.
Some people would rather get the storyline going and get to the good parts without spending an hour in each town talking to 'yet another clone with a mustache'.
You want to talk scary games? Play Thief: The Dark Project. That is the scariest game I have ever played, bar none.
Go ahead. Start playing level two. You'll beg to stop playing, but won't be able to take your hand off the mouse.
Hell yes.
Those were great questions. Noticed how he answered them? Look closely, if you will, at the great examples and insight he shares?
Hey, Blizzard! Sit up straight in your chair and pay attention. Stop staring out the window.
Well, at least the Core's not.
I love the "What impact might this have on Microsoft's decision to use HD-DVD on the Xbox 360?"
Uh, I dunno, maybe less people will have the hardware able to burn pirated disc images?
Good point. But how will this make the other rating system work any better?
From the too-much-time-on-their-hands dept.
"Hmmm. I wonder if '25 to Life' and 'Grand Theft Auto III' are acceptable games for my child. Better look at the back. Let's see... Hoodlum beating up someone with a baseball bat, guy with a machine gun mowing down cops, hookers...
Boy, I don't know what this 'M' means, and I don't really want to squint to read the text under it.
Oh well, I guess, since I don't know what this rating means, I'd better just blindly buy Timmy this game."
You don't let your kid watch "The Ring". You don't let your kid play "Grand Theft Auto". A quick look at the back of the box, in either case, fixes everything.