Yeah, sure, run around in full armor, standing out like a sore thumb. That'll avoid suspicion! You do realize they can still send ground forces after you?
Launch an anti air missile and you'll have SWAT teams (or their local equivalent) on your ass in no time. You aren't even allowed to carry a knife in the UK, if you bring missiles to that party they'll think you're with Al Qaeda and shoot you on sight.
Meh, that's just a case of primitive game scripting to me. In games it's always about hitting triggers, when you're told something will take time while you should do something else you can be pretty damn sure it won't actually be timed but have some arbitrary trigger based on your location/action that will make the NPC claim the job is done. Similarly the world is designed to allow no means of progression besides the intended ones so if the game wants you to kill dude X before opening the door that's what you have to do even if the real world would have given you millions of ways to avoid that killing and still get to where you want to be.
That and unlike Steam you can't even tell Windows Live to download the patch while you browse the net or something, you have to start the game and stare at the progress bar that won't tell you how much time is left, if you alt-tab away it halts the download.
Oh crap, don't remind me of Lost in Translation. After hearing so much about it I rented it and watched it with the family. We all agreed that it was a terrible movie.
Professional reviewers seem to review more on polish than actual fun. My favourite examples here are MaBoShi's Arcade (WiiWare) and Earth Defense Force 2017 (Xbox 360). MaBoShi is extremely polished. Really to an insane degree, you can even download it to your DS and play on the go. The only downside is... the core gameplay is uninteresting. Most people got bored by the game. EDF on the other hand is extremely unpolished and that's because all that polish money went into more missions and weapons and whatnot, the game's crazy awesome fun but the lack of polish makes critics call it a "guilty pleasure". While they admit it's fun they won't rate it highly because it just doesn't look expensive. That's the reason I'm already ignoring Famitsu's review of the next game by the developer (Zangeki no Reginleiv, Wii), their main complaint was a lack of polish.
The polish demand also leads to a continuation of the industrialization of gaming. Polish is expensive and the shinier you make it the more expensive it becomes. Today's "AAA" (maximum polish) games cost tens of millions of dollars to make while their core gameplay isn't anything outstanding. This keeps indie developers from competing with large publishers on even footing since the large company can throw more money at polish and thus get a default victory in the ratings. Indie developers get pushed into side markets like digital distribution where they serve as a cute novelty people look at between "real" games. The big publishers love high end graphics on game systems for that reason, they increase the maximum polish a game can have and thus widen the gap between an indie and a major publisher even more. Some suspect that this is the reason major publishers fight tooth and nail against this whole blue ocean and disruption deal that's going around since it nullifies their large company advantages and prevents them from getting a default victory against indies, without that default victory they risk losing against tiny companies because the values that are being competed over are no longer out of reach for an indie.
Who knows if there aren't types of life that can subsist on the reduced solar power over there. There's also the option of volcanic activity feeding heat into the ecosystem but I think volcanic activity is fairly rare.
I think those sales numbers need to be put into perspective again: Nintendo's expectations were likely for the lifetime of the game and it only reached the 10M number last month, there's still a lot of time for it to go to reach the 15M or surpass it. While most games do their sales in the first month this is New Super Mario Bros Wii we're talking about, the previous NSMB game remained in the top-10 for over a year so we can expect a lot of sales to come at a later date.
Depends on what he has to pay. If he has to pay a penalty yes, it should be matched to his means but if he has to pay for the damage he caused it shouldn't be matched. If someone is so rich that the actual damage isn't enough to deter them then add a penalty on top.
The wrap used by companies like Nintendo is very different from the kind a shrinkwrap machine will produce, you can tell the difference at first glance. The only way to get away with that is when the store doesn't care or even encourages it (GameStop).
Look at the popular characters on TV. One of the recent big ones was a cynical doctor with a lame leg and drug addiction. People just prefer seemingly average people doing great things over superheroes.
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Of course a tanking currency isn't good for import but wouldn't a cheaper Euro actually help the Eurozone economy due to stronger export ability?
Considering how much value the GBP lost already it'd take a gigantic drop.
This is about the SWIFT database that catalogs international transactions, not the contents of your Swiss bank account.
We're talking about small UAVs, not full on gunships. Too far away for a rifle and too small for a chaingun turret.
Forget the enforcement aspect, if they could get away with it marketers would saturate the airspace with drones blaring their advertisements.
Yeah, sure, run around in full armor, standing out like a sore thumb. That'll avoid suspicion! You do realize they can still send ground forces after you?
Launch an anti air missile and you'll have SWAT teams (or their local equivalent) on your ass in no time. You aren't even allowed to carry a knife in the UK, if you bring missiles to that party they'll think you're with Al Qaeda and shoot you on sight.
Also flying forests give plausible deniability if you accidentally tree the wrong person.
Provided they ever make another London GTA game that is, they seem to assume only American cities are of interest.
And hell, even if you buy a PC to install Linux on it you may end up with an OEM copy of Windows on it anyway.
On the other hand buying off eBay is the quickest way to get yourself some counterfeit goods.
Careful, the PR dudes know that and send viral marketers out there to pose as end users.
Meh, that's just a case of primitive game scripting to me. In games it's always about hitting triggers, when you're told something will take time while you should do something else you can be pretty damn sure it won't actually be timed but have some arbitrary trigger based on your location/action that will make the NPC claim the job is done. Similarly the world is designed to allow no means of progression besides the intended ones so if the game wants you to kill dude X before opening the door that's what you have to do even if the real world would have given you millions of ways to avoid that killing and still get to where you want to be.
Steam tends to mention third party DRM, in this case it says "Securom allows unlimited activations on up to five PCs".
That and unlike Steam you can't even tell Windows Live to download the patch while you browse the net or something, you have to start the game and stare at the progress bar that won't tell you how much time is left, if you alt-tab away it halts the download.
Oh crap, don't remind me of Lost in Translation. After hearing so much about it I rented it and watched it with the family. We all agreed that it was a terrible movie.
Professional reviewers seem to review more on polish than actual fun. My favourite examples here are MaBoShi's Arcade (WiiWare) and Earth Defense Force 2017 (Xbox 360). MaBoShi is extremely polished. Really to an insane degree, you can even download it to your DS and play on the go. The only downside is... the core gameplay is uninteresting. Most people got bored by the game. EDF on the other hand is extremely unpolished and that's because all that polish money went into more missions and weapons and whatnot, the game's crazy awesome fun but the lack of polish makes critics call it a "guilty pleasure". While they admit it's fun they won't rate it highly because it just doesn't look expensive. That's the reason I'm already ignoring Famitsu's review of the next game by the developer (Zangeki no Reginleiv, Wii), their main complaint was a lack of polish.
The polish demand also leads to a continuation of the industrialization of gaming. Polish is expensive and the shinier you make it the more expensive it becomes. Today's "AAA" (maximum polish) games cost tens of millions of dollars to make while their core gameplay isn't anything outstanding. This keeps indie developers from competing with large publishers on even footing since the large company can throw more money at polish and thus get a default victory in the ratings. Indie developers get pushed into side markets like digital distribution where they serve as a cute novelty people look at between "real" games. The big publishers love high end graphics on game systems for that reason, they increase the maximum polish a game can have and thus widen the gap between an indie and a major publisher even more. Some suspect that this is the reason major publishers fight tooth and nail against this whole blue ocean and disruption deal that's going around since it nullifies their large company advantages and prevents them from getting a default victory against indies, without that default victory they risk losing against tiny companies because the values that are being competed over are no longer out of reach for an indie.
Does that mean oil?
I think I hear NASA's budget skyrocketing.
Who knows if there aren't types of life that can subsist on the reduced solar power over there. There's also the option of volcanic activity feeding heat into the ecosystem but I think volcanic activity is fairly rare.
I think those sales numbers need to be put into perspective again: Nintendo's expectations were likely for the lifetime of the game and it only reached the 10M number last month, there's still a lot of time for it to go to reach the 15M or surpass it. While most games do their sales in the first month this is New Super Mario Bros Wii we're talking about, the previous NSMB game remained in the top-10 for over a year so we can expect a lot of sales to come at a later date.
Depends on what he has to pay. If he has to pay a penalty yes, it should be matched to his means but if he has to pay for the damage he caused it shouldn't be matched. If someone is so rich that the actual damage isn't enough to deter them then add a penalty on top.
The wrap used by companies like Nintendo is very different from the kind a shrinkwrap machine will produce, you can tell the difference at first glance. The only way to get away with that is when the store doesn't care or even encourages it (GameStop).
Where did tzanger accuse him of murder? He calle dthe guy a thief, thieves usually don't kill people.
Honestly, a better punishment would be to strip Chung of his citizenship and deport him to China
What, so they can give him a medal for years of good service?
Look at the popular characters on TV. One of the recent big ones was a cynical doctor with a lame leg and drug addiction. People just prefer seemingly average people doing great things over superheroes.
Meh, teaches him consequences. Do bad things, get punished. Maybe his parents should've taught him that lesson before he learned it the hard way.