If you don't have a GBA you might want a score that's not affected by "not much of an improvement over the previous version". To make both kinds of people happy (those that already have a GBA and those that don't) you'd need two scores and that'd just confuse.
If it makes you happy, just take the GBASP score and subtract it from the GBAM score.
I prefer the word "customer" when it's about businesses screwing over people buying their stuff because not every citizen is affected but yes, to me the word "consumer" is equivalent with "livestock".
If it was selling, then you and everyone that bought a copy of Thriller would own the songs and the distribution and royalty rights. Instead you bought usage of the content.
Nope, in the case of most copyrighted material what you buy is a physical copy. Copyright is NOT the right to restrict usage, only the right to restrict copying!
I think he meant DRMed files that you can play back at least once but that have restrictions you don't like. Since you can play them back you'd have to have the means to decrypt them and it should be possible to repeat the decryption process somehow. Well, DRM is compromised the moment code can be injected into ANY playback application so I wouldn't be worried.
Considering that Elite 2 and 3 were rather unpopular with the general audience while Elite 1 is still seen as one of the best games in the genre, copying features from Elite 2 might not be that good an idea.
The HDR has to be done by the GPU because otherwise the output data will still be 8 bit per channel. And the bus is strained enough as is, you can't send the frame from the GPU to the CPU again without a severe performance loss.
X had simplified physics but the rotational inertia already pissed off enough people, I'd wager they'd have lost a lot of sales had they implemented true space physics because true space physics are too hard to handle and things like docking would have been impossible. By the way, I don't seem to remember Elite having space physics, either.
The AI only tried to ram me when I had much weaker shields, enemies that wouldn't survive the collision dodged before they hit me. Isn't that a valid method? If you're bigger, run 'em over?
Okay, now we've got two statements: Nintendo does everything right and everybody else sucks and Nintendo does everything wrong and everyone else is better. Hm, how likely is it that either of these is correct?
Isn't it more likely that Nintendo, just like everyone else, has a number of good and bad games? Double Dash happens to be one of the more mediocre ones, Metroid Prime and Wind Waker are much better games. Neither is flawless but neither is Halo and that was heralded as the second coming. Or how about SSBM? Or is that just a rehash of SSB to you while Burnout Revenge is such a huge step up on Burnout?
Some car dealerships take new cars, transfer ownership of the car to some employee, drive around the block and transfer it back to the store. The reason for this is to circumvent pricing contracts. The car is still as good as new but they can sell it for a lower price. So there's your "used car" that's pretty much the same as a new one.
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You mean SpellForce 1, the sequel is still in the works.
Backpack? Um, the SP isn't somehow three times as large in the US or something, right? I mean, isn't the SP small enough for most pockets?
If you don't have a GBA you might want a score that's not affected by "not much of an improvement over the previous version". To make both kinds of people happy (those that already have a GBA and those that don't) you'd need two scores and that'd just confuse.
If it makes you happy, just take the GBASP score and subtract it from the GBAM score.
I prefer the word "customer" when it's about businesses screwing over people buying their stuff because not every citizen is affected but yes, to me the word "consumer" is equivalent with "livestock".
If it was selling, then you and everyone that bought a copy of Thriller would own the songs and the distribution and royalty rights. Instead you bought usage of the content.
Nope, in the case of most copyrighted material what you buy is a physical copy. Copyright is NOT the right to restrict usage, only the right to restrict copying!
I think he meant DRMed files that you can play back at least once but that have restrictions you don't like. Since you can play them back you'd have to have the means to decrypt them and it should be possible to repeat the decryption process somehow. Well, DRM is compromised the moment code can be injected into ANY playback application so I wouldn't be worried.
Didn't the first four seals release the horsemen and the rest just did additional junk?
Considering that these robots will lack weapons, it'd be easier and at least as effective to just throw them at people.
Is that what the robots will teach kids?
Knowing Thompson he'd probably add a clause that makes the developer liable if some stupid mom buys the game for her kids and complains.
I'm all for it. Cigarette sales could be blamed on the RIAA and we get rid of two of the greatest enemies of freedom in the US.
The other way around would have been more interesting, at least.
Considering that Elite 2 and 3 were rather unpopular with the general audience while Elite 1 is still seen as one of the best games in the genre, copying features from Elite 2 might not be that good an idea.
It's good manners to post mirrors anonymously.
Zeus had assistance.
Do you think they'll lob the reactor fuel rods at the enemy or what? Fuel rods are not weapon grade material.
The HDR has to be done by the GPU because otherwise the output data will still be 8 bit per channel. And the bus is strained enough as is, you can't send the frame from the GPU to the CPU again without a severe performance loss.
X had simplified physics but the rotational inertia already pissed off enough people, I'd wager they'd have lost a lot of sales had they implemented true space physics because true space physics are too hard to handle and things like docking would have been impossible. By the way, I don't seem to remember Elite having space physics, either.
The AI only tried to ram me when I had much weaker shields, enemies that wouldn't survive the collision dodged before they hit me. Isn't that a valid method? If you're bigger, run 'em over?
USA PATRIOT and CAN SPAM are just acronyms, if there's any meaning to these labels that's pure coincidence, right?
Not really, it's not hard to tell "no glass" from "empty glass".
Okay, now we've got two statements: Nintendo does everything right and everybody else sucks and Nintendo does everything wrong and everyone else is better. Hm, how likely is it that either of these is correct?
Isn't it more likely that Nintendo, just like everyone else, has a number of good and bad games? Double Dash happens to be one of the more mediocre ones, Metroid Prime and Wind Waker are much better games. Neither is flawless but neither is Halo and that was heralded as the second coming. Or how about SSBM? Or is that just a rehash of SSB to you while Burnout Revenge is such a huge step up on Burnout?
They're currently remaking FF3 (you know, the last NES FF) for the DS. Some claim they're doing a home console remake of FF7, too.
Any online service that involves children is worried about child abusers using the service to find victims.
Some car dealerships take new cars, transfer ownership of the car to some employee, drive around the block and transfer it back to the store. The reason for this is to circumvent pricing contracts. The car is still as good as new but they can sell it for a lower price. So there's your "used car" that's pretty much the same as a new one.