Was having a re-think on the chess part of my comment. It could be argued that you are just 'capturing' the pieces, rather than destroying them. But I guess Battlechess would be a contradiction to that arguement.:-)
Also, I'm wondering about wether the representation of the tokens/objects in the game influenced the way the study was carried out. For the Pacman example, if the ghosts and pacman had been replaced with coloured blobs, and the death animation of the players object just faded away instead, would it have still scored as highly in the study? Because I vaguely recall her mentioning the ghosts in regards to how a 3 year old perceives them, and has trouble differentiating reality from fantasy.
I think it comes down to how the Dr T defines violence. It had little to do with how graphicly it was depicted but how it related to the experience of playing the game, like the winning and loosing conditions and the interaction between the game objects. As for how valid that view is, is open to opinion. Ditto with how much violence seen or acted out is good for a person.
So for pacman, eating dots being the primary goal isnt violent, eating a power pill and then eating ghosts a supporting goal is violent, and getting caught by a ghost to loose a life is also violent. The fact that the violence was not portrayed in a realistic or gruesome manner was not considered.
Thus by her definition, Space Invaders, chess, Quake would all easily out rank pacman for violence because the primary goal is eliminate/kill an enemy, and the loss condition being death of the players avatar. Where as solitaire, most racing games, or DDR would be almost devoid of violence.
The best bit about her reply was saying that the parents of kids are ultimately responsible for what they let their kids play.
Regardless of what Dr T said to some senate committee, it will be perverted/given spin by the politicians for their own means.
So the next step is to make an animal (cow, pig, whatever) happy with the prospect of being eaten by us and add enough intelligence so that it can communicate this to us.
Its closely related to the double-en-tondre, but since we're dealing with objects that are in the vicinity of Uranus, I think I'll stop now, lest I get sucked into the black hole of Karma-whoring:-)
Make art because you love it, not because you love money. If you love something, set it free!
While I agree with you sentiment, there are things that make it harder to do that.
To be great at ones art, you have to practice it everyday, and that usually requires being able to sell it to pay for living expenses. On the other hand, as in my case, I have to work in a 9-5 job to pay for living, and my art comes afterwards and I do it because I enjoy it, it isnt as good as it could be but is still good as I've got some talent. I can thus afford to make my art available for others for free in a way (plug for my profile on dA).
If I had the opportunity to sell some of my works or license them for royalties, I probably would, and could possibly consider quiting my day job and work on my art full time as I enjoy doing it.
I did once think that maybe I could just collect donations from people who've seen my work, but, alas, I have the hunch the vast majority of people wouldnt give money to someone that they've obtained something for free. Though I have seen street artists/performers struggle in many cities, so maybe it could be possible, but not able to afford my modest lifestyle.
To be fair, there are costs for servers and maintenance, design and maintaince for the web site, and bandwidth to pay for. But I think that these would be significantly less than the above items.
So if the sun excerts such a pull on the moon when its orbit goes between the Earth and the sun, would it make sense to launch rockets from Earth to take advantage of the extra pull from the sun + moon to cut down on fuel needed to launch? Or do they do this already?
Whilest in principle I would agree the German games are more original, I disagree partly with the Carcassonne franchise as it has been getting several re-hashes/tweeking with the 'Hunters and Gatherers', 'The Castle', 'The City', 'Arc of the Covenant' variations, and to be honest having played them, they are pretty much the same game with slight changes to rules/mechanics.
The original was the best version. And all the expansions to the original base game do help with its longevity, but at some point it became like all the other popular games getting stupid numbers of expansions. Milk that cash cow!
I prefer Peurto Rico as it has better multi-player mechanics, as what you do affects the other players.
So would it be cheating if you had one of those groin guards/boxes they use in cricket?
Its all about cross branding (or is that now crotch-branding?)
(now for the O/T part) I think that the common trial of life most youngsters face these days is avoiding or getting over addictive compulsive habbits (gaming/drugs/other), and actually doing something productive with their lives.
I concur that Ratchet and Clank are great. And they are 3d platforms mixed with combat. Having played all but the first one of the series, I'd say that they each had good stories, lots of fun levels and interesting diversions with various vehicle combat. The thing was that interesting in some levels was the ability to walking up a wall onto the ceiling, or the small moons/asteroid levels where you got to jump around in low gravity, which made the experience much more refreshing from a regular 2d platformer.
And I recommend the remake of head over heels to download for your pc, which updates the gfx and sound from the original versions.
I'd heard a rumour of there being a hybrid machine which combined both the ddr mat and the parapara motion sensors, which would be an interesting game to try. Also there is a ddr / singstar hybrid in a arcade hall(?) in japan called Dance Dance Revolution Karaoke Mix.
But its hardly suprising that people are trying to get various rythym games to work together. I'm willing to bet that eventually you'll be able to have all the various rythym games linkable to do an entire band line up with accompanying dancers.
What is lacking in the dancing games is tutorials about dancing styles like waltz, salsa or rock'n'roll, where you dance with a partner. Wait a sec... this is slashdot.... hmmm.. wonder if how well the asimo can dance?...
IANAL so I now have a bunch of questions about the point you raised over the dA agreement that allows them to modify content. For reference the submission agreement http://about.deviantart.com/policy/submission/
Under 3e it states : Artist acknowledges that Artist will not have any right, title, or interest in any other materials with which Artist Materials may be combined or into which all or any portion of Artist Materials may be incorporated.
So does that part of the agreement absolve me of responsibility for a work which has been modified by dA?
Or only in the case of when its been combined with other works?
And if the worst case situation was that I was liable, would I have to go to the USA for the court proceedings? Or would they be held in Australia where I live?
Lastly, if in court I was able to provide the physical originals of my pictures that were scanned and then sent to the dA server, would this count for anything in my defence?
As an artist that has put up stuff on dA, I'd like to say that originally I was loathe to put 'content' up there, but as I thought about wether I wanted exposure or to retain complete control/ownership I decided that I'd rather get exposure. But I have chosen which works I wanted to put up there, which is primarily my older works, and have several recent pieces that I wont put up as I feel they are superior to my earlier ones.
And its not like dA have total ownership of the pieces I've put up, IIRC they have a limited license to cover themselves legally, and I can still put up the pictures on another site if I choose. One day when I decide to upgrade my membership there so I can sell prints, dA will still only have a limited license and I could still sell prints at local markets/fairs.
Maybe I'm going about this wrong, as I'm not 100% sure of what is the right way to do this, so if anyone from the/. gallery wants to comment, feel free.
And if you troll/browse places like deviantart.com you will see the best and worst of it. But what does it take to become known for your art? Usually a lucky break because of someone you know. I'd be extremely happy to get such a break as he did, but until that comes along, I keep working my day job and doing my art as a hobby. Though I admit while I have some talent as an artist, I dont think that I'd be able to fill that niche.
Now that would be a better series to turn into a series of movies or tv shows, would definately be adult themed. I've no idea who to have voice Drizzt though.
At least in australia there is http://www.greenfleet.com.au/
for those of us who want to do something towards the planting trees to offset car emissions.
The only time unlocking content is not lame is
on
Just Let Me Play!
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· Score: 1
when: - when it works well with the story - it just adds bling (different colours to your avatar) - unlocks cheat modes (so you can play the same content again in different way)
A game will keep me playing because it is fun, not because there is content to be unlocked.
Slashdot Mirror
Just had a thought.
What they eat would then be data-grams.
Was having a re-think on the chess part of my comment. It could be argued that you are just 'capturing' the pieces, rather than destroying them. But I guess Battlechess would be a contradiction to that arguement. :-)
Also, I'm wondering about wether the representation of the tokens/objects in the game influenced the way the study was carried out. For the Pacman example, if the ghosts and pacman had been replaced with coloured blobs, and the death animation of the players object just faded away instead, would it have still scored as highly in the study? Because I vaguely recall her mentioning the ghosts in regards to how a 3 year old perceives them, and has trouble differentiating reality from fantasy.
I think it comes down to how the Dr T defines violence. It had little to do with how graphicly it was depicted but how it related to the experience of playing the game, like the winning and loosing conditions and the interaction between the game objects. As for how valid that view is, is open to opinion. Ditto with how much violence seen or acted out is good for a person.
So for pacman, eating dots being the primary goal isnt violent, eating a power pill and then eating ghosts a supporting goal is violent, and getting caught by a ghost to loose a life is also violent. The fact that the violence was not portrayed in a realistic or gruesome manner was not considered.
Thus by her definition, Space Invaders, chess, Quake would all easily out rank pacman for violence because the primary goal is eliminate/kill an enemy, and the loss condition being death of the players avatar. Where as solitaire, most racing games, or DDR would be almost devoid of violence.
The best bit about her reply was saying that the parents of kids are ultimately responsible for what they let their kids play.
Regardless of what Dr T said to some senate committee, it will be perverted/given spin by the politicians for their own means.
Only if they can then open their mouth as fast.
Then you could have a killa-bites-per-second.
So the next step is to make an animal (cow, pig, whatever) happy with the prospect of being eaten by us and add enough intelligence so that it can communicate this to us.
I think thats the word off the top of my head.
:-)
A few examples are: Nail, shag, root, screw.
Its closely related to the double-en-tondre, but since we're dealing with objects that are in the vicinity of Uranus, I think I'll stop now, lest I get sucked into the black hole of Karma-whoring
While I agree with you sentiment, there are things that make it harder to do that.
To be great at ones art, you have to practice it everyday, and that usually requires being able to sell it to pay for living expenses. On the other hand, as in my case, I have to work in a 9-5 job to pay for living, and my art comes afterwards and I do it because I enjoy it, it isnt as good as it could be but is still good as I've got some talent. I can thus afford to make my art available for others for free in a way (plug for my profile on dA).
If I had the opportunity to sell some of my works or license them for royalties, I probably would, and could possibly consider quiting my day job and work on my art full time as I enjoy doing it.
I did once think that maybe I could just collect donations from people who've seen my work, but, alas, I have the hunch the vast majority of people wouldnt give money to someone that they've obtained something for free. Though I have seen street artists/performers struggle in many cities, so maybe it could be possible, but not able to afford my modest lifestyle.
To be fair, there are costs for servers and maintenance, design and maintaince for the web site, and bandwidth to pay for. But I think that these would be significantly less than the above items.
Hey, this is /.
:-)
If I could be, I would be getting some female attention.
And I'd be a lot less stressed.
Its like 'How many ladies would understand that I'm looking for some horizontal DDR?'
So if the sun excerts such a pull on the moon when its orbit goes between the Earth and the sun, would it make sense to launch rockets from Earth to take advantage of the extra pull from the sun + moon to cut down on fuel needed to launch?
Or do they do this already?
I would have thought that the seven deadly sins would have been better categories for grouping searchers by. eg Pr0n hunter == Lust.
Whilest in principle I would agree the German games are more original, I disagree partly with the Carcassonne franchise as it has been getting several re-hashes/tweeking with the 'Hunters and Gatherers', 'The Castle', 'The City', 'Arc of the Covenant' variations, and to be honest having played them, they are pretty much the same game with slight changes to rules/mechanics.
The original was the best version. And all the expansions to the original base game do help with its longevity, but at some point it became like all the other popular games getting stupid numbers of expansions. Milk that cash cow!
I prefer Peurto Rico as it has better multi-player mechanics, as what you do affects the other players.
So would it be cheating if you had one of those groin guards/boxes they use in cricket?
Its all about cross branding (or is that now crotch-branding?)
(now for the O/T part)
I think that the common trial of life most youngsters face these days is avoiding or getting over addictive compulsive habbits (gaming/drugs/other), and actually doing something productive with their lives.
I concur that Ratchet and Clank are great. And they are 3d platforms mixed with combat. Having played all but the first one of the series, I'd say that they each had good stories, lots of fun levels and interesting diversions with various vehicle combat. The thing was that interesting in some levels was the ability to walking up a wall onto the ceiling, or the small moons/asteroid levels where you got to jump around in low gravity, which made the experience much more refreshing from a regular 2d platformer.
And I recommend the remake of head over heels to download for your pc, which updates the gfx and sound from the original versions.
I'd heard a rumour of there being a hybrid machine which combined both the ddr mat and the parapara motion sensors, which would be an interesting game to try. Also there is a ddr / singstar hybrid in a arcade hall(?) in japan called Dance Dance Revolution Karaoke Mix.
But its hardly suprising that people are trying to get various rythym games to work together.
I'm willing to bet that eventually you'll be able to have all the various rythym games linkable to do an entire band line up with accompanying dancers.
What is lacking in the dancing games is tutorials about dancing styles like waltz, salsa or rock'n'roll, where you dance with a partner. Wait a sec... this is slashdot.... hmmm.. wonder if how well the asimo can dance?...
Under 3e it states : Artist acknowledges that Artist will not have any right, title, or interest in any other materials with which Artist Materials may be combined or into which all or any portion of Artist Materials may be incorporated.
So does that part of the agreement absolve me of responsibility for a work which has been modified by dA?
Or only in the case of when its been combined with other works?
And if the worst case situation was that I was liable, would I have to go to the USA for the court proceedings? Or would they be held in Australia where I live?
Lastly, if in court I was able to provide the physical originals of my pictures that were scanned and then sent to the dA server, would this count for anything in my defence?
As an artist that has put up stuff on dA, I'd like to say that originally I was loathe to put 'content' up there, but as I thought about wether I wanted exposure or to retain complete control/ownership I decided that I'd rather get exposure. But I have chosen which works I wanted to put up there, which is primarily my older works, and have several recent pieces that I wont put up as I feel they are superior to my earlier ones.
/. gallery wants to comment, feel free.
And its not like dA have total ownership of the pieces I've put up, IIRC they have a limited license to cover themselves legally, and I can still put up the pictures on another site if I choose. One day when I decide to upgrade my membership there so I can sell prints, dA will still only have a limited license and I could still sell prints at local markets/fairs.
Maybe I'm going about this wrong, as I'm not 100% sure of what is the right way to do this, so if anyone from the
I would have thought a service/gas station is 3rd party support for a car.
Maybe the place where people learn to say..
:-)
George double-ewe Bush
But that brings bad images to mind
And if you troll/browse places like deviantart.com you will see the best and worst of it.
But what does it take to become known for your art? Usually a lucky break because of someone you know.
I'd be extremely happy to get such a break as he did, but until that comes along, I keep working my day job and doing my art as a hobby.
Though I admit while I have some talent as an artist, I dont think that I'd be able to fill that niche.
Now that would be a better series to turn into a series of movies or tv shows, would definately be adult themed. I've no idea who to have voice Drizzt though.
At least in australia there is http://www.greenfleet.com.au/ for those of us who want to do something towards the planting trees to offset car emissions.
Banana in exhaust pipe.*
Dowload the torrent at 11.
* - only vs combustion powered robot types.
when:
- when it works well with the story
- it just adds bling (different colours to your avatar)
- unlocks cheat modes (so you can play the same content again in different way)
A game will keep me playing because it is fun, not because there is content to be unlocked.
... with all that WINE^H^H^Hhineing