How will they keep the private chats between two people safe for kids? Will moderators invisibly jump from place to place, peeking into the conversations?
The funny thing is, LucasArts didn't develop KOTOR or any of the JK games beyond Dark Forces II:Jedi Knight. If you look at the list of games LucasArts has developed in-house, you'll notice that there hasn't been any great games coming out of them for a while. Mostly, cashcow prequel tie-ins.
It sucks that all you're going to be doing is fighting Dr. No's henchmen. So the gameplay will be the same as any old Bond game. If this game would do something creative, like let you KILL BOND or at least release a deadly virus to kill millions of innocents, I'd be more interested in it. But EA's probably not ballsy enough to take on the other side of morality like the GTA series did. Let me guess, towards the end of the game, you'll defeat Dr. No but afterwards, Goldfinger betrays you and orders you killed. You end up fighting the same people who you worked for, defeat them, end up seeing the truth about the nature of evil, and go home to rethink your life.
Elan Sleazebaggano: You wanna buy some death sticks?
Obi-Wan: You don't want to sell me death sticks.
Elan Sleazebaggano: I don't want to sell you death sticks.
Obi-Wan: You want to go home and rethink your life.
Elan Sleazebaggano: I want to go home and rethink my life.
The 007 game I'd like to play is one where you're Jaws and you go around biting things, and maybe lifting and throwing other things. Make that game EA, and I'll buy it.
The best free game I've played was Betrayal at Krondor when Sierra decided to give it away to promote Betrayal in Antara. I also would have never discovered Red Baron had Sierra not also given that away to promote, eh, Red Baron 2.
Some of the keywords, like "anime", "chat", "tv" seem to be aimed at non-pornographic entertainment sites. They also block "proxy". Maybe they don't want people to use a proxy to bypass their proxy (if that's at all possible). I still don't get "my" and "you". I also don't get why they blocked "anime" but not "hentai".
It (or a clone) was also featured in King of the Hill, the aforementioned South Park, and Lost in Translation (which had plenty of other bemani games in that arcade scene).
Of course there's some controversy over user rights with Steam. Every time you play a game you bought with Steam (at least play online), you have to log in, and it can automatically patch your game and patches Steam itself without your consent. And for a while Half-Life single player mode coudn't be played without going online and logging into Steam.
Nintendo's been known to remove crosses from a game no matter what the context. I'm surprised they let games use the letter "t". For example, in Earthbound they removed a red cross from a hospital. Actually, Mother 2/Earthbound went through a lot of changes from Japan to North America. Here are some other instances of Nintendo's game changes and censorship. And This page (Google cache) shows Nintendo of America's old video game content guidelines, along with examples of games that were changed to meet each of those guidelines.
I didn't know Sony Playstation had these problems, considering they released Xenogears, which depicted the crucifixion of furry critters.
Sure, any company can purchase the rights to sell DVD decoders for Linux. So why aren't they doing that? Probably because it would be unprofitable. The average Linux user tend to be a lot more technically proficient than the average Windows user. And they're a lot more receptive to the notion of open-source software. Thus everybody using Linux who wants to play DVDs on their Linux machines are probably playing DVDs on their Linux machines with a free player and a free (illegal) decoder.
Now a DVD decoder for Windows (not a player, just the decoder) will cost about $15. How many Linux users do you think will pay $15 to do something they've already been doing perfectly fine, just to get the MPAA's approval? Unless that decoder is bundled with an excellent player that people are willing to pay for, I doubt many people would pay up. In fact, very few Windows users actually purchase just a DVD decoder by itself either. Most of the time, the decoder came with their DVD drives or came bundled with the player (PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc.) they purchased. Most Linux users probably have already paid for a DVD decoder when they purchased their DVD drives, anyway. Those decoders just don't run on Linux.
from flt-ff.nfo
It has been a good few years, but it is now time for Fairlight to close its
doors for good. Many reasons have made us come to this judgement but we feel it
is for the best. The scene is getting to be a dangerous place. Not only do we
have to fear from the feds but also the unhonorable ones in the scene who lower
themselves to narq the competition. Retiring on top seems to be the best
decision for us. We want to thank all those throughout the years who have helped
us in one way or another.
/Team FairLight
I guess they didn't follow their own advice. It seems Fairlight reactivated 2 months after that message, possibly under new management or because whatever FBI sweep was going on at the time was over.
"Clerks" the animated series was alternately "filmed before a live studio audience", "drawn before a live studio audience", "filmed by a live studio audience", and "drawn by a live studio audience". Having it drawn by the live studio audience is a good idea. It saves a lot of money.
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How will they keep the private chats between two people safe for kids? Will moderators invisibly jump from place to place, peeking into the conversations?
What happens after January 1, 2005? Do they get to keep all that sweet cash?
The funny thing is, LucasArts didn't develop KOTOR or any of the JK games beyond Dark Forces II:Jedi Knight. If you look at the list of games LucasArts has developed in-house, you'll notice that there hasn't been any great games coming out of them for a while. Mostly, cashcow prequel tie-ins.
Elan Sleazebaggano: You wanna buy some death sticks?
Obi-Wan: You don't want to sell me death sticks.
Elan Sleazebaggano: I don't want to sell you death sticks.
Obi-Wan: You want to go home and rethink your life.
Elan Sleazebaggano: I want to go home and rethink my life.
The 007 game I'd like to play is one where you're Jaws and you go around biting things, and maybe lifting and throwing other things. Make that game EA, and I'll buy it.
The best free game I've played was Betrayal at Krondor when Sierra decided to give it away to promote Betrayal in Antara. I also would have never discovered Red Baron had Sierra not also given that away to promote, eh, Red Baron 2.
Never mind. Had I RTF opennetinitiative.net A, I would have know that yes indeed you can.
Some of the keywords, like "anime", "chat", "tv" seem to be aimed at non-pornographic entertainment sites. They also block "proxy". Maybe they don't want people to use a proxy to bypass their proxy (if that's at all possible). I still don't get "my" and "you". I also don't get why they blocked "anime" but not "hentai".
Could you still view blocked sites through the IBB service if you enter the IP address instead of the domain name?
It (or a clone) was also featured in King of the Hill, the aforementioned South Park, and Lost in Translation (which had plenty of other bemani games in that arcade scene).
...that they can't have hot space sex.
Of course there's some controversy over user rights with Steam. Every time you play a game you bought with Steam (at least play online), you have to log in, and it can automatically patch your game and patches Steam itself without your consent. And for a while Half-Life single player mode coudn't be played without going online and logging into Steam.
Also, I'd be interested to see if the person who marked the comment informative will get on the news for murdering Segway users.
The most obvious use for this vehicle is to run over those snotty people using Segways. Of course, I guess you'd have to back up over them.
I didn't know Sony Playstation had these problems, considering they released Xenogears, which depicted the crucifixion of furry critters.
So did Marc Ewing ever get his hat back, or was the whole enterprise a failure?
Now a DVD decoder for Windows (not a player, just the decoder) will cost about $15. How many Linux users do you think will pay $15 to do something they've already been doing perfectly fine, just to get the MPAA's approval? Unless that decoder is bundled with an excellent player that people are willing to pay for, I doubt many people would pay up. In fact, very few Windows users actually purchase just a DVD decoder by itself either. Most of the time, the decoder came with their DVD drives or came bundled with the player (PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc.) they purchased. Most Linux users probably have already paid for a DVD decoder when they purchased their DVD drives, anyway. Those decoders just don't run on Linux.
I'm pretty sure every single Japanese video game ever has had a full symphony playing it's music eventually.
It has been a good few years, but it is now time for Fairlight to close its doors for good. Many reasons have made us come to this judgement but we feel it is for the best. The scene is getting to be a dangerous place. Not only do we have to fear from the feds but also the unhonorable ones in the scene who lower themselves to narq the competition. Retiring on top seems to be the best decision for us. We want to thank all those throughout the years who have helped us in one way or another.
/Team FairLight
I guess they didn't follow their own advice. It seems Fairlight reactivated 2 months after that message, possibly under new management or because whatever FBI sweep was going on at the time was over.
They could do a sequel to that and call it "Trekkies 2". Never mind, someone did that too.
"Clerks" the animated series was alternately "filmed before a live studio audience", "drawn before a live studio audience", "filmed by a live studio audience", and "drawn by a live studio audience". Having it drawn by the live studio audience is a good idea. It saves a lot of money.