My personal opinion is that anything to do with The Sims, and any future plans for new Sims or Sims-like games should be destroyed, and i'll tell you why. I have to admit, the original "The Sims" was a good game to waste a couple hours in. I don't however think it was good enough to spend money on 7 or so expansions to the game. Honestly, how people get away with sending out the same crap more than once in different boxes without being thrown in jail (gangraped, etc.) is beyond me. Now there's "The Urbz." This seems to me much like the move made by Mcdonalds when they changed their slogan to "i'm lovin it." To quote Maddox from his site: (in reference to Mcdonalds.) "Everything about the new campaign is engineered to target "the culture of today's consumer." Apparently the culture of today's consumer doesn't mind the implied discrimination with the use of specific grammar and punctuation used in the new slogan."
This seems much the same. Kind of pathetic if you ask me.
That is a great article. I myself have had lots of problems with noisy computers. I've tried everything from new fans to power supplies, etc. With my luck, these all broke rather quickly of course -_-. It was an old computer and I got tired of replacing parts constantly so I basically did something like this and bought a new computer. Happy days!
If a female (or male) character is portrayed in a game as being helpless, it's that way for a reason. A game without some form of conflict wouldn't be very interesting in my opinion. Its not just females that are portrayed as weak anyways. Off hand, Half-Life comes to mind; the scientists (male) are quite helpless. This of course could be in some respects contributed to AI, but never the less is still a good example that this happens on both ends. It was mentioned earlier, but women are portrayed as being quite strong in many a game. I can remember getting owned quite a bit by female characters in Diablo 2, etc.
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My personal opinion is that anything to do with The Sims, and any future plans for new Sims or Sims-like games should be destroyed, and i'll tell you why. I have to admit, the original "The Sims" was a good game to waste a couple hours in. I don't however think it was good enough to spend money on 7 or so expansions to the game. Honestly, how people get away with sending out the same crap more than once in different boxes without being thrown in jail (gangraped, etc.) is beyond me. Now there's "The Urbz." This seems to me much like the move made by Mcdonalds when they changed their slogan to "i'm lovin it." To quote Maddox from his site: (in reference to Mcdonalds.) "Everything about the new campaign is engineered to target "the culture of today's consumer." Apparently the culture of today's consumer doesn't mind the implied discrimination with the use of specific grammar and punctuation used in the new slogan." This seems much the same. Kind of pathetic if you ask me.
Ack, "this" was in reference to a movie. My link didn't work for some reason ^_^. Lets try again - link
That is a great article. I myself have had lots of problems with noisy computers. I've tried everything from new fans to power supplies, etc. With my luck, these all broke rather quickly of course -_-. It was an old computer and I got tired of replacing parts constantly so I basically did something like this and bought a new computer. Happy days!
If a female (or male) character is portrayed in a game as being helpless, it's that way for a reason. A game without some form of conflict wouldn't be very interesting in my opinion. Its not just females that are portrayed as weak anyways. Off hand, Half-Life comes to mind; the scientists (male) are quite helpless. This of course could be in some respects contributed to AI, but never the less is still a good example that this happens on both ends. It was mentioned earlier, but women are portrayed as being quite strong in many a game. I can remember getting owned quite a bit by female characters in Diablo 2, etc.