Some reviewers will tell you the puzzle highlights but spoil the solution in the process, making the best puzzles trivial. Some will spoil surprises (like in Metroid Zero Mission). I don't mind plot spoilers if they're about the kind that's blindingly obvious anyway (e.g. that the big government/organization in any jRPG is evil).
Cost of running a red light? Don't people get demerit points on their license or a license suspension for that where you live? Over here (Germany) it's 3 points for running within 1 second of the light going red, 4 points and 1 month suspension for running after that.
That is they have a one to two second 4 way red between swapping the roads that are given the green.
Huh? I thought that's normal, AFAIK all traffic lights do that here in Germany. Always remain red for as long as it would take to clear the road, then give green to the next road.
Well, overall violence went down, it's just reported more in the mass media. Also I don't think studies actually dealt with the difference between imagining violence and acting it out. Obviously it wouldn't be very easy to test whether the subjects are more likely to be unacceptably violent, i.e. not just punching a cushion in a controlled environment or something but actually harming people who don't want to be harmed, after all there's much less inhibition when you tell someone that he can use violence because you want to see it for your study. The really representative part would be to anger the subject in a situation where the subject doesn't suspect being part of the experiment and seeing if he's willing to use illegal violence there. IMO it's worthless to say people are more likely to act out violence when offered the chance or just have more violent thoughts, actually breaking the law is very different.
The thing is that entanglement still requires the quanta to have been in the same place at some point and from what it looks like there is no possibility to transfer information later on. They are like sealed letters, you know the content hasn't been seen by anyone before you and you know the other letter says the same thing as yours (yes, yes, inverted and all...). Sure, reading them affects both but since there is no way to check if they have been affected by that without reading them that's not usable for information transfer either. As it is entanglement is a nice way to encode your OTP before sending it via snail-mail (well, if you can keep the entangled quanta stable) but that's where it ends. Sure, it may be possible with future knowledge to use that for information transfer but it's just as possible that future knowledge will have some other method of instant communication.
I think that something that changed between Marathon and Halo is what made Halo successful. Maybe it became more appealing to people outside the "hardcore" FPS crowd, i.e. it's a "casual" FPS and there are always more people who are "casual" than "hardcore"?
How much more hand holding can they do when the genre conventions already include having the amount of time you played the game dictate your strength? How sad is it that people call an MMO "hard" because it takes more time to get stronger? How much sadder is it that people define themselves as "hardcore" for playing games that waste more time than others?
But Warden is an anti-cheat measure, not a copy protection measure. Does this mean that circumventing ANY measure, no matter what it's for, is illegal now? Does that include nonsense like "rightclick blocker" Javascript?
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Some reviewers will tell you the puzzle highlights but spoil the solution in the process, making the best puzzles trivial. Some will spoil surprises (like in Metroid Zero Mission). I don't mind plot spoilers if they're about the kind that's blindingly obvious anyway (e.g. that the big government/organization in any jRPG is evil).
The whole show is marketing, people get attached to the contestants as they progress and that attachment translates to sales.
I think they don't want people to attempt going past in the last second or speed up to catch it.
Cost of running a red light? Don't people get demerit points on their license or a license suspension for that where you live? Over here (Germany) it's 3 points for running within 1 second of the light going red, 4 points and 1 month suspension for running after that.
That is they have a one to two second 4 way red between swapping the roads that are given the green.
Huh? I thought that's normal, AFAIK all traffic lights do that here in Germany. Always remain red for as long as it would take to clear the road, then give green to the next road.
Here in Germany everybody uses mayo...
If not for wingnuts like good ol' Jack; Lieberman and Rodham-Clinton may have been successful in creating government censorship of games.
Doesn't the credit for preventing that go to the First Amendment and the Supreme Court?
Maybe you read Shakespeare and were influenced by "the first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers".
So they didn't enjoy violence but they used it anyway. Perfect data point.
Well, overall violence went down, it's just reported more in the mass media. Also I don't think studies actually dealt with the difference between imagining violence and acting it out. Obviously it wouldn't be very easy to test whether the subjects are more likely to be unacceptably violent, i.e. not just punching a cushion in a controlled environment or something but actually harming people who don't want to be harmed, after all there's much less inhibition when you tell someone that he can use violence because you want to see it for your study. The really representative part would be to anger the subject in a situation where the subject doesn't suspect being part of the experiment and seeing if he's willing to use illegal violence there. IMO it's worthless to say people are more likely to act out violence when offered the chance or just have more violent thoughts, actually breaking the law is very different.
The Wii doesn't even have a Megaman 9 demo... AFAIK the 360 doesn't have a webbrowser so that comparison wouldn't work either.
The thing is that entanglement still requires the quanta to have been in the same place at some point and from what it looks like there is no possibility to transfer information later on. They are like sealed letters, you know the content hasn't been seen by anyone before you and you know the other letter says the same thing as yours (yes, yes, inverted and all...). Sure, reading them affects both but since there is no way to check if they have been affected by that without reading them that's not usable for information transfer either. As it is entanglement is a nice way to encode your OTP before sending it via snail-mail (well, if you can keep the entangled quanta stable) but that's where it ends. Sure, it may be possible with future knowledge to use that for information transfer but it's just as possible that future knowledge will have some other method of instant communication.
I think that something that changed between Marathon and Halo is what made Halo successful. Maybe it became more appealing to people outside the "hardcore" FPS crowd, i.e. it's a "casual" FPS and there are always more people who are "casual" than "hardcore"?
They always say it's correct, no matter what I do. The people around me don't agree.
Really worst game ever...
Your post fails to account for Dangerous Vaults.
It's completely possible to innovate in an FPS, it just doesn't sound like FC2 does.
And other people think "there are many games that manage to be less repetitive and remain fun for longer, why doesn't FC2 manage that?"
A really smart ad would show the home address of its creator when it sees someone hold a gun.
With the kind of stuff that's on the internet... One look in the wrong folder would drive you insane faster than a staring contest with Cthulhu.
More like the other way around, it's illegal to poke holes in a condom since that circumvents the copyprotection.
How much more hand holding can they do when the genre conventions already include having the amount of time you played the game dictate your strength? How sad is it that people call an MMO "hard" because it takes more time to get stronger? How much sadder is it that people define themselves as "hardcore" for playing games that waste more time than others?
But Warden is an anti-cheat measure, not a copy protection measure. Does this mean that circumventing ANY measure, no matter what it's for, is illegal now? Does that include nonsense like "rightclick blocker" Javascript?
just that those good programmers aren't working for the government
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
Is that any rightsholder or only one cartel of them? Because, you know, anyone can hold a copyright...
So the console demos don't count? Aren't those subject to people finding out that the game sucks, too?