More like he doesn't know himself. Humans have a natural sense of morality, studies with people from all kinds of cultures (including cargo cults and whatnot) showed that specific morality questions (about when to trade one life for another and such) get overwhelmingly answered the same way by humans everywhere. Of course it's not obvious to a person what's nature or nurture about them.
Real crazies are mostly harmless because they're either so nuts that they can't actually act on any desire to harm people or they still have a functioning moral compass (or in many cases they become completely oblivious to the outside world). The really dangerous people are sane but fanatic. Insanity is a term that has been misused to describe assholes but all that misuse does is ostracize the insane who are treated as dangerous killers instead of the helpless sick people that they are. To be dangerous a person has to know what he's doing. Hitler was sane, Stalin was sane, Mao was sane. They knew what they were doing and they thought it was the right thing. You don't organize a program to murder millions of people when you're busy talking to imaginary voices.
That depends on the specific denomination of Christianity that you follow. The rules of salvation differ between those (and even more if you look through history considering what sparked the protestant revolution) though the more mainstream ones have relaxed them a lot after it turned out that fire and brimstone wasn't too popular.
I don't think the idea of Saint Nickolaus bringing gifts is a very old one. As a child I was taught that it's baby Jesus ("Christkind") bringing those gifts, Saint Nickolaus comes on the 6th which is his saints day.
Of course these days they're trying to push nonsense like Halloween on us just so the costume industry can sell goods twice per year instead of only once when carnival rolls around.
The population is starving, wouldn't surprise me if it's in the process of collapsing but with states that can take decades. NK is very concerned about blocking all information coming out of the country so we can't really tell whether the country is currently sustainable.
Yeah that's the goal of the law. Unfortunately when you tell a lawyer "don't be an asshole" he'll immediately start arguing what constitutes being an asshole and as a result you need to codify an insane amount of stuff, leading to an impenetrable jungle of rules and most likely bugs. And those bugs get abused by the assholes you want to stop.
Price is very important when it comes to selling what people want. People want cheap goods and will accept compromises on a lot of things to get that low price. Especially in the early days of a technology that price can often affect whether the customers can afford the product at all. Look at how important the Tin Lizzy was to automobiles! You can always get something better for more money but for most people money is too precious to blow on better things when the cheaper ones will do the job they need done. The whole PC revolution was about PCs becoming really damn cheap and more and more people being able to afford PCs.
On the other hand Motorola just got an injunction against Apple for basic GPRS tech in Germany. Apple will sooner or later learn that getting into a patent war with cellphone manufacturers that have been making the things for decades is not a good idea.
Sure you can ride around a huge field but in LttP the world was big without resorting to huge empty spaces. The tile graphics let them put interesting stuff on every screen.
It's a bad input method when the game is designed for pressing buttons and those buttons get arbitrarily replaced by gestures. Of course it doesn't improve games that aren't using it properly, just like an analog stick doesn't improve 2D fighting games or pinball games.
Motion controls are an analog input. Using them like that makes them work. Wii Sports uses analog input, it doesn't just check if you swing the controller but how you do it and that influences the outcome (e.g. how you hit the ball). Sports games in general did benefit the most from the motion controls because they're based on a game design where skill with the tool you're using is a crucial element of the gameplay and previous control methods had to build convoluted replacement systems to challenge the player.
However most current game designs simply presuppose that you are perfect with your tools and only hit a button to use them. Your character will never swing his sword wrong, hold his gun wrong or fail to grab that bar he jumped towards. Of course mapping that to motion controls will go wrong and lead to a "loss of precision". Change the game design to make that loss of precision a part of the challenge: If the player holds the sword wrong while swinging it doesn't cut as well, if the player holds the gun wrong then he will miss his target and if the player doesn't grab that bar then he falls.
Of course all this is separate from the IR pointer controls which are the second best way of controlling an FPS game (the mouse is of course more accurate). Some freaks claim that dual analogs are better but that's simply their inexperience with pointer controls talking, they've played with dual analogs for decades, try five minutes of pointer controls and then just switch to analog controls while whining about the IR pointer. Yes, the shitty default controls in most Wii FPSes and the included statement that you're supposed to tweak that shit yourself are horrible. However once you've found a setup that works (near-zero bounding boxes work for me) it's much quicker and more precise than analog stick aiming. The Wiimote is the only console controller that actually uses that IR pointer scheme (the Move uses some trickery, it's better for spotting where you're holding the controller but worse for spotting where you're pointing it) so the other motion control systems simply cannot replicate that accuracy despite being attached to systems with WAY more first person shooters.
There's Zangeki no Reginleiv but not even NoE is bringing that one to the West. It doesn't use the M+ all that much (mostly relies on IR but the M+ keeps it more accurate when the cursor goes off-screen) but it's clearly a game that wouldn't work as well with any other input device. You pretty much draw lines on the screen that your attack goes along but those lines only draw when you're moving the controller quickly. Also it goes pretty silly with its weapon ranges (a sword can cut stuff at 20 meters range) and lets you chop limbs off enemies (the limbs regenerate after a while if you let the enemy live that long). That limb chopping is pretty important in combat to disable some enemy attacks and generally deal with crowd control.
In the US Nintendo has a policy of releasing games on Sundays. I think it has to do with not wanting children to skip school for the games or something. That's not possible in Europe since at least Germany doesn't allow stores to open on Sundays outside of special occasions and I'm sure plenty of other countries also shut down stores on Sundays. Can't release a game when stores are closed.
It's due to shipping schedules. In Europe games arrive in stores on Thursdays (this also applies to re-stocking if something sells out). Hence release dates are put on Fridays so the stores have enough time to unpack the goods and put them on shelves. Some stores just put stuff on the shelves as it arrives, others wait for the official date. When games get released on unconventional dates (e.g. a Tuesday) that confuses retailers because it means their usual handling schedule doesn't apply. E.g. Space Marine came out on a Tuesday but since shipping happens on Thursdays it had to be in stores at the end of the previous week. As a result I got the game several days ahead of its release date (which didn't mean much to me since I got the PC version and that only activates on release day) because the retailers just shoved it out there on the shelves on the day they got the shipment in.
Generally the term assault rifle refers to rifles chambered for intermediate rounds and usable in both semi-automatic and fully automatic fire modes. They were invented by the Nazis after it turned out that most battles happened at ranges too long for submachine guns (fully automatic rifles that use pistol ammo) but not requiring as much precision as the slow semi-automatic or even bolt action battle rifles offer. ARs offer a higher rate of fire with less recoil than the full-sized-ammo-using battle rifles.
For spray and pray you'd probably want a submachine gun. A proper machine gun (light ones use full powered rifle rounds, heavy ones even bigger bullets, they're designed to fire hundreds of bullets) is probably too unwieldy for terrorism.
On the other hand all that heavy gear probably fits more into gang warfare than any reasonable legal scenario and would drastically increase the collateral damage of gang fights. The big guns aren't something you'd use for self defense or carry concealed, keeping them banned allows the police to arrest any gang members carrying them right away instead of waiting for the gang to start firing a heavy machine gun into the rough direction of their competitors.
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More like he doesn't know himself. Humans have a natural sense of morality, studies with people from all kinds of cultures (including cargo cults and whatnot) showed that specific morality questions (about when to trade one life for another and such) get overwhelmingly answered the same way by humans everywhere. Of course it's not obvious to a person what's nature or nurture about them.
Real crazies are mostly harmless because they're either so nuts that they can't actually act on any desire to harm people or they still have a functioning moral compass (or in many cases they become completely oblivious to the outside world). The really dangerous people are sane but fanatic. Insanity is a term that has been misused to describe assholes but all that misuse does is ostracize the insane who are treated as dangerous killers instead of the helpless sick people that they are. To be dangerous a person has to know what he's doing. Hitler was sane, Stalin was sane, Mao was sane. They knew what they were doing and they thought it was the right thing. You don't organize a program to murder millions of people when you're busy talking to imaginary voices.
That depends on the specific denomination of Christianity that you follow. The rules of salvation differ between those (and even more if you look through history considering what sparked the protestant revolution) though the more mainstream ones have relaxed them a lot after it turned out that fire and brimstone wasn't too popular.
So basically NK is worried that their people might see "hey, they got electricity on the other side of the border!"
I don't think the idea of Saint Nickolaus bringing gifts is a very old one. As a child I was taught that it's baby Jesus ("Christkind") bringing those gifts, Saint Nickolaus comes on the 6th which is his saints day.
Of course these days they're trying to push nonsense like Halloween on us just so the costume industry can sell goods twice per year instead of only once when carnival rolls around.
This is a pseudocommunist dictatorship we're talking about, to them there's no difference between companies, religions and governments.
Here in Germany the common portrayal of the "christmas man" is that he doesn't give naughty children coal, he brings a birch...
The population is starving, wouldn't surprise me if it's in the process of collapsing but with states that can take decades. NK is very concerned about blocking all information coming out of the country so we can't really tell whether the country is currently sustainable.
Even better, these are unskilled laborers. Even more unskilled than usual.
Amazon gave away headsets with an autotuning function to people who preordered that game.
Yeah that's the goal of the law. Unfortunately when you tell a lawyer "don't be an asshole" he'll immediately start arguing what constitutes being an asshole and as a result you need to codify an insane amount of stuff, leading to an impenetrable jungle of rules and most likely bugs. And those bugs get abused by the assholes you want to stop.
But does it matter? You can just sue the practicing parent company. Then it's not called a counter suit but how much does that matter?
Porsche makes pickups under some of the brands of what's now the VW Group. They founded VW back when the Nazis wanted cheap cars for the masses.
Not that it really matters for the Apple comparison but Porsche is far more than the sports cars they're associated with now.
Price is very important when it comes to selling what people want. People want cheap goods and will accept compromises on a lot of things to get that low price. Especially in the early days of a technology that price can often affect whether the customers can afford the product at all. Look at how important the Tin Lizzy was to automobiles! You can always get something better for more money but for most people money is too precious to blow on better things when the cheaper ones will do the job they need done. The whole PC revolution was about PCs becoming really damn cheap and more and more people being able to afford PCs.
On the other hand Motorola just got an injunction against Apple for basic GPRS tech in Germany. Apple will sooner or later learn that getting into a patent war with cellphone manufacturers that have been making the things for decades is not a good idea.
But at least that means they've built something practical, i.e. something that likely violates a dozen patents owned by other people.
Many politicians were lawyers before being elected so they don't need bribes, they're working for themselves.
Xenoblade is great but isn't the jury still out on Last Story and especially Pandora's Tower?
Sure you can ride around a huge field but in LttP the world was big without resorting to huge empty spaces. The tile graphics let them put interesting stuff on every screen.
It's a bad input method when the game is designed for pressing buttons and those buttons get arbitrarily replaced by gestures. Of course it doesn't improve games that aren't using it properly, just like an analog stick doesn't improve 2D fighting games or pinball games.
Motion controls are an analog input. Using them like that makes them work. Wii Sports uses analog input, it doesn't just check if you swing the controller but how you do it and that influences the outcome (e.g. how you hit the ball). Sports games in general did benefit the most from the motion controls because they're based on a game design where skill with the tool you're using is a crucial element of the gameplay and previous control methods had to build convoluted replacement systems to challenge the player.
However most current game designs simply presuppose that you are perfect with your tools and only hit a button to use them. Your character will never swing his sword wrong, hold his gun wrong or fail to grab that bar he jumped towards. Of course mapping that to motion controls will go wrong and lead to a "loss of precision". Change the game design to make that loss of precision a part of the challenge: If the player holds the sword wrong while swinging it doesn't cut as well, if the player holds the gun wrong then he will miss his target and if the player doesn't grab that bar then he falls.
Of course all this is separate from the IR pointer controls which are the second best way of controlling an FPS game (the mouse is of course more accurate). Some freaks claim that dual analogs are better but that's simply their inexperience with pointer controls talking, they've played with dual analogs for decades, try five minutes of pointer controls and then just switch to analog controls while whining about the IR pointer. Yes, the shitty default controls in most Wii FPSes and the included statement that you're supposed to tweak that shit yourself are horrible. However once you've found a setup that works (near-zero bounding boxes work for me) it's much quicker and more precise than analog stick aiming. The Wiimote is the only console controller that actually uses that IR pointer scheme (the Move uses some trickery, it's better for spotting where you're holding the controller but worse for spotting where you're pointing it) so the other motion control systems simply cannot replicate that accuracy despite being attached to systems with WAY more first person shooters.
There's Zangeki no Reginleiv but not even NoE is bringing that one to the West. It doesn't use the M+ all that much (mostly relies on IR but the M+ keeps it more accurate when the cursor goes off-screen) but it's clearly a game that wouldn't work as well with any other input device. You pretty much draw lines on the screen that your attack goes along but those lines only draw when you're moving the controller quickly. Also it goes pretty silly with its weapon ranges (a sword can cut stuff at 20 meters range) and lets you chop limbs off enemies (the limbs regenerate after a while if you let the enemy live that long). That limb chopping is pretty important in combat to disable some enemy attacks and generally deal with crowd control.
In the US Nintendo has a policy of releasing games on Sundays. I think it has to do with not wanting children to skip school for the games or something. That's not possible in Europe since at least Germany doesn't allow stores to open on Sundays outside of special occasions and I'm sure plenty of other countries also shut down stores on Sundays. Can't release a game when stores are closed.
It's due to shipping schedules. In Europe games arrive in stores on Thursdays (this also applies to re-stocking if something sells out). Hence release dates are put on Fridays so the stores have enough time to unpack the goods and put them on shelves. Some stores just put stuff on the shelves as it arrives, others wait for the official date. When games get released on unconventional dates (e.g. a Tuesday) that confuses retailers because it means their usual handling schedule doesn't apply. E.g. Space Marine came out on a Tuesday but since shipping happens on Thursdays it had to be in stores at the end of the previous week. As a result I got the game several days ahead of its release date (which didn't mean much to me since I got the PC version and that only activates on release day) because the retailers just shoved it out there on the shelves on the day they got the shipment in.
Generally the term assault rifle refers to rifles chambered for intermediate rounds and usable in both semi-automatic and fully automatic fire modes. They were invented by the Nazis after it turned out that most battles happened at ranges too long for submachine guns (fully automatic rifles that use pistol ammo) but not requiring as much precision as the slow semi-automatic or even bolt action battle rifles offer. ARs offer a higher rate of fire with less recoil than the full-sized-ammo-using battle rifles.
For spray and pray you'd probably want a submachine gun. A proper machine gun (light ones use full powered rifle rounds, heavy ones even bigger bullets, they're designed to fire hundreds of bullets) is probably too unwieldy for terrorism.
On the other hand all that heavy gear probably fits more into gang warfare than any reasonable legal scenario and would drastically increase the collateral damage of gang fights. The big guns aren't something you'd use for self defense or carry concealed, keeping them banned allows the police to arrest any gang members carrying them right away instead of waiting for the gang to start firing a heavy machine gun into the rough direction of their competitors.
I suppose "high explosives" wasn't the answer the guy was looking for.