why do i care if you want to kill yourself (other than the mess you'll make all over the concrete)? if you want to - go right ahead.
also, if you want to complain - go right ahead. doesn't bother me; i partially agree w/ you. but trying to get rid of television is a little different. while you're at it, why not get rid of recreational reading? it doesn't do any good for anyone. who was ever better off for reading j.r.r. tolkein? that bastard was trying to convince us that elves really exist!! and video games? who BOY don't get me started on those Faker McFakerson electronic murder-teaching devices. and damn those machines for taking away any possible worldly experience a person could have!
or perhaps - and this is just a thought - just perhaps... not everyone is susceptible to the hidden messages from listening to iron maiden -- i mean watching tv?
i'm not agreeing or disagreeing with that. but if you willingly choose to sit down after 8 hours of work and relax by not having to think about anything for a while, who's to deny you?
i guess you are. after all, we don't want our hard-working populous to relax ever, do we?
you couldn't be more wrong. the democrats and republicans are both liberal and conservative about different topics. the rep.s are conservative about buisness, but liberal about the ecology. the dem.s are liberal about buisness but conservative about the ecology.
there's this little thing we american have that we like to call "freedom". as long as what you do doesn't hurt someone, there's no reason to ban it.
drugs? harm lots of people (read: colombia). television? uh... harms the couch we sit on?
also, the world doesn't want non-offensive television. the conservative population represented be the fcc wants non-offensive television. last i checked, having a law banning going past the lowest common denominator is stupid and drags society down. can we say welfare?
actually it would be a big deal for say, public access stations. joe average doesn't have the resources to hold 90 days of taped footage - he just wants to do a public acess show. but this would deny him that simply because somebody wants their child to be unprepared for the first time someone gets angry and curses.
this sounds a lot like "guilty until proven innocent".
FCC dude: "you'd beter keep proof that you're not being indecent, otherwise we'll know you are! think of the children!"
me: "shut the hell up - if you don't want children being exposed to "indecency" you'd better not let them go outside. if your kid hearing the word "shit" is your biggest problem then you're doing ok in this world".
oh, of course. the magnetic field keeps the water at bay./me raises eyebrow and how in the blue flaming hell is water going to stop a sulf-sustaining fusion reaction? wouldn't the tiny star just say "hm. more food. yum!"?
did anyone else notice that when that fusion reaction (see: star) was dropped into the river that a. there was no steam and b. the river was still there after having a star inserted into it.
if advertising gets in the way of an immersive game experience, the sales on the game will be remarkably low once word gets out that instead of inserting a flashbang into a zombie's mouth, you insert a bawls which you shoot to trigger the excessive caffiene to explode.
it's the same as it is for any game: say in warcraft 4 there are pizza hut bombadiers who hover from above and drop piping hot pizza onto the enemies' heads to sizzle them in sweet, sweet, melting cheeze. this can, of course be countered by the budwieser medics who pour an intoxicating elixer over the cheese wounds to nullify the heat. actually, having described all this, i want this game! you hear that blizzard? i want my pizza hut bombadiers! i want my budweiser medics! death to the immersive worlds where continuity is king - i want a game that i can't get involved in due to unecessary advertising!
and of course, the requisite penny-arcade link
one of the major marketing points for the ps2 was that it is a multi-media center. music, dvd, games - they were billing it as a replacement for all of your old crap so you could have just one thing which would do everything you need in a multimedia center. i'm not trying to say it does any of them well, but the ps2 does indeed do several things - that's what sony designed it to do.
i don't see anything wrong w/ having a multi-purpose game system unless those other purposes get in the way of the main purpose (games). can anyone say n-gage?
it just doesn't seem like such a good buisness strategy to tell your fans who have spent near or over $1000 (xbox, controllers and 10 games or so) that all that money was wasted because they have to get the next version of the console to have anything new. it's saying that all time and money you spend on the xbox isn't worth anything, and last time i checked, actively seeking to hurt your customers didn't work out so well.
w/o a doubt: dungeons and dragons (any edition). this is truly a gem of a game - actually getting a party to work together to get something done can make this a rediculously hard game.
it could also be that my dm had a thing for killing parties. it could also be that my dm also had a thing for running gygax campaigns. mmm... gygax...
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what the founders intended isn't half as important as what is right now
it does mean that if you're the paranoid american government. and you have to admit, our government sure is paranoid anymore...
why do i care if you want to kill yourself (other than the mess you'll make all over the concrete)? if you want to - go right ahead.
also, if you want to complain - go right ahead. doesn't bother me; i partially agree w/ you. but trying to get rid of television is a little different. while you're at it, why not get rid of recreational reading? it doesn't do any good for anyone. who was ever better off for reading j.r.r. tolkein? that bastard was trying to convince us that elves really exist!! and video games? who BOY don't get me started on those Faker McFakerson electronic murder-teaching devices. and damn those machines for taking away any possible worldly experience a person could have!
or perhaps - and this is just a thought - just perhaps... not everyone is susceptible to the hidden messages from listening to iron maiden -- i mean watching tv?
i'm not agreeing or disagreeing with that. but if you willingly choose to sit down after 8 hours of work and relax by not having to think about anything for a while, who's to deny you?
i guess you are. after all, we don't want our hard-working populous to relax ever, do we?
drugs? harm lots of people (read: colombia). television? uh... harms the couch we sit on?
also, the world doesn't want non-offensive television. the conservative population represented be the fcc wants non-offensive television. last i checked, having a law banning going past the lowest common denominator is stupid and drags society down. can we say welfare?
actually it would be a big deal for say, public access stations. joe average doesn't have the resources to hold 90 days of taped footage - he just wants to do a public acess show. but this would deny him that simply because somebody wants their child to be unprepared for the first time someone gets angry and curses.
this sounds a lot like "guilty until proven innocent".
FCC dude: "you'd beter keep proof that you're not being indecent, otherwise we'll know you are! think of the children!"
me: "shut the hell up - if you don't want children being exposed to "indecency" you'd better not let them go outside. if your kid hearing the word "shit" is your biggest problem then you're doing ok in this world".
oh, of course. the magnetic field keeps the water at bay. /me raises eyebrow
and how in the blue flaming hell is water going to stop a sulf-sustaining fusion reaction? wouldn't the tiny star just say "hm. more food. yum!"?
did anyone else notice that when that fusion reaction (see: star) was dropped into the river that a. there was no steam and b. the river was still there after having a star inserted into it.
there doesn't even need to be mockery of this post. the original post says it all: by Anonymous Coward. i think that pretty much says it all.
cool spot featuring spot, the 7-up red circle. man was that game cool. snes rocks.
if advertising gets in the way of an immersive game experience, the sales on the game will be remarkably low once word gets out that instead of inserting a flashbang into a zombie's mouth, you insert a bawls which you shoot to trigger the excessive caffiene to explode. it's the same as it is for any game: say in warcraft 4 there are pizza hut bombadiers who hover from above and drop piping hot pizza onto the enemies' heads to sizzle them in sweet, sweet, melting cheeze. this can, of course be countered by the budwieser medics who pour an intoxicating elixer over the cheese wounds to nullify the heat. actually, having described all this, i want this game! you hear that blizzard? i want my pizza hut bombadiers! i want my budweiser medics! death to the immersive worlds where continuity is king - i want a game that i can't get involved in due to unecessary advertising!
and of course, the requisite penny-arcade link
one of the major marketing points for the ps2 was that it is a multi-media center. music, dvd, games - they were billing it as a replacement for all of your old crap so you could have just one thing which would do everything you need in a multimedia center. i'm not trying to say it does any of them well, but the ps2 does indeed do several things - that's what sony designed it to do.
i don't see anything wrong w/ having a multi-purpose game system unless those other purposes get in the way of the main purpose (games). can anyone say n-gage?
it just doesn't seem like such a good buisness strategy to tell your fans who have spent near or over $1000 (xbox, controllers and 10 games or so) that all that money was wasted because they have to get the next version of the console to have anything new. it's saying that all time and money you spend on the xbox isn't worth anything, and last time i checked, actively seeking to hurt your customers didn't work out so well.
unless you happen to be the RIAA.
w/o a doubt: dungeons and dragons (any edition). this is truly a gem of a game - actually getting a party to work together to get something done can make this a rediculously hard game.
it could also be that my dm had a thing for killing parties. it could also be that my dm also had a thing for running gygax campaigns. mmm... gygax...
i can't wait for duke nukem: forever...