If you run it on a low level you can only increase your usage by about 1-2 and still help the project, there is no logical reason to run the client at 100% if it's going to cost you a bomb, where as at 1-2% you won't win any contests, but you will be helping the project and paying at most a buck or two extra on electric a month.
Me and a friend were discussing this the other day and decided that we liked the concept of the original manhunt, but the game was just too violent to be worth playing. If the game involves violence but has another focus (Tenchu comes to mind, it's a very similar game style) then the violent is acceptable, it's there as a means to an end and fits the setting, but when that flows backwards (The game is the violence not the violence is part of the game) it just loses all interest to both of us.
We're both 21, both been avid gamers since we were kids and both play games ranging from Mario to GTA:SA to Silent Hill, we're not the type of people to be overly conservative and avoid a game based on religious content or violence, but we expect a game to use these mediums and others in a way which enhances the game, rather than steals focus from it. If Manhunt was a good stealth game which just happens to be realistic in it's violence to the point of being uncomfortable we both would have picked it up, but being a violence game with a bit of stealth just makes it appeal to children (12-16 year olds) rather than appeal to the exact audience they claim to be aiming for.
These manhunt stories seem like iPhone stories to me now. The hype is feeding the hype rather than the product. The iPhone was on Slashdot daily, it was going to spawn undead and be the new hot drug on the street, instead it just faded into the mists and rarely gets mentioned any more, the hype is no longer needed and the content of the product just isn't enough to stand on it's own two feet. That's how I feel Manhunt is going, it's unlikely we will see a third, or they will attempt to be even more extreme by which time the crowd will have gone "bored of you beating nurses to death with a fetus, I'm off thanks" and it won't get hype or sales.
Maybe it's just me here, but isn't it a bad idea to link to a known softcore pornography site on a site aimed at the entire age scale? I mean sure it might be a good article, but if the messenger is wearing nipple clamps and a strap on vibrating horse penis you might just want to side step it all together.
Police should now be on the hunt for these. In some situations these are more dangerous than a gun or a knife. Having one with you could kill tens or even hundreds of people (think shy scrapers and such). If you're that bothered by someone on the phone just politely ask if they could be a little quieter or go else where. For all you know some 10 year old kid has a bad heart and has to keep his cell phone on 24/7 for that all important "Get to hospital NOW" call.
But hey, if watching the latest blockbuster is more important than someone's life by all means carry one around, hell try two!
You forgot to mention that You can get the best items and all the skills if you buy them with real cash and you can give them to any PvP character of your choice but you can also grind for your stuff but by level 20-24mobs the best items in the game will be dropping, you just need to take parts from one or the other to make them.
But yea, Guild wars breaks the mold, it's skill based and requires real team work. Something most MMOs don't.
I would disagree, if you move outside of the ultra violent FPS style games you can find some real gems in the RTS/TBS games. I may not be a military genius but I would suspect calculating risks of my actions and unit movement in a game based on this stuff would improve my over all skill in that area. Sure it may not be balancing a check book, but figuring out if I can afford that new uber tank tech upgrade or if I should wait for the next one is a good life skill in general.
I mean how many times do you go "I need a new X, I could afford a basic model or give it a couple of weeks and get the upgrade, how do I benefit from the upgrade and is it worth it?" in life? It may not be that often but having it as a basic insight into things by nature is better than not. The same could be said for having patience, waiting for the right moment to do things and even accepting that some times you will just plain fail and you need to accept this, rebuild and hope for the best.
Games may not teach us to shoot guns or go on violent rampages, but they can help you learn basic skills which may not seem all that difficult but that clash with human nature.
To me the game just seems a gimmick, I can't possibly see people wanting to buy a game then hundreds of cards just for the fun of it. Surely once you buy the game that's all you should need, instead this way you have to keep buying every few months or your cards are too weak and useless in such a cutthroat place like online gaming.
What about in the UK? Where would I need to look to see this thing?
I know/. is American centered but the world is a pretty big place and those of us not in that continent might like to know where we can/can't see things.
Don't forget if I am some kind of suspect and they have me on a no flying list I'm going to either cut all contact from everyone involved or I'm going to go "alright then" and go out all guns blazing the next day. It's pretty much one huge ass warning sign glowing neon green in the middle of a desert at night. You can't miss this stuff and these days it's not even like they haven't secured planes or at least claimed to be doing so.
How are you meant to solve the biggest problem first when the biggest problem is a group of people who won't be happy until they achieve 100% victory? Terrorists aren't just some FPS enemy who will run at you and self destruct because they feel like it, they have feelings, thoughts and opinions, some of which are correct and some of which are incorrect but which is which will depend on your personal view. How are you meant to deal with people who have lost their families, have nothing in life and been convinced through pure hatred that they must take down invading armies in Iraq and their life is meaningless enough that they are happy to die for it?
We're not talking "oh you bad terrorist, please stop" we're talking about people crawling up the wall with pure unrefined rage, these people aren't going to be won over no matter how hard you try, they are more zealous than any paladin could ever dream of, purely because they have nothing left to lose as they lost it all already. They believe in their cause 100% and while some will lose the rage and see their mistake (or not depending on your view) most of them will never do so, no matter how hard you try.
So how do you deal with people like this? They have nothing to lose either way, if they die it's relief from their sorrows and hatred, if they live then they have absolutely nothing and want revenge for their pain. Look at global warming, people keep saying "we need to reduce our carbon footprint" and yet people refuse to change their ways when they have pretty much nothing to lose for it, how the hell are you going to get zealots to change if you can't get the average Joe to change from leaving a light on?
An emotional response in games is not difficult to achieve any more so than a book or a movie, if anything it is easier because you have a longer contact period with the main character than you do in any other medium, we have many long books but how many are as long as a good Japanese RPG?
People who have never felt any emotions in games should really try to play through a silent hill, while I didn't have any emotions for the characters themselves, the environment is very much a creepy and it's very difficult for it not to provoke a sense of paranoid and a sensation of being unsafe even in the safest areas. Rather than go with shock horror it just puts you in a position where everything seems evil, where you don't know if you should curl up in the corner with a gun and hope everything goes away or continue deeper into the nightmare like world to get out of it quicker. In modern life we rarely come across such situations so in a game it is very disturbing to feel.
The "are games art" argument is a difficult one but one again I think Silent hill addresses, It does not have the best graphics, it does not have the best acting, but all the small details pull it together to make an entire product that expresses things, tells a good story and invokes ideas and thoughts in your head. There is much argument about what art is, but to myself art is something that provokes thoughts you would not have thought otherwise in a styled medium of some sort. I feel games can be art, but games like Halo and Bioshock aren't where I would look got art in games, I would look at Mario and Zelda, where the style of the art is clearly defined in a set way rather than just trying to make it look as real as possible.
Don't 4chan users already do this all the time by putting books inside jpgs?
I believe the technique is you open the jpg with winrar and it ignores everything before the start of the zip file, so ignores the jpg but still reads the zip fine.
If little kids making penis jokes can do it with so much ease I very much doubt it's "too complex" to be useful in other ways. All it takes is the knowledge and you can hide stuff in broad day light, or at least make it very difficult for people to find that zip of (lets go with the emotional response) child porn hidden among your 500 holiday snaps to the south of France.
The most recent Gundam game has done just this in the arcade. It's taken the anime cockpits and made 'real' versions of them, the same lay out and everything, it seems to be quite the interesting game.
Because that's the Male character from Pokemon Fire Red and Satoshi/Ash does not look like that? Pokemon If anything that is "Fire red" as the Pokemon naming system goes from the comics.
Can someone please do something about this tagging? They're being used to mark things with opinions not with a better way to search for things. For example the current tags are.
He's a musician featured on Slashdot several times.
For a year he released a song a week completely free on his website, each song was written and performed in the week it was released. It was quite an impressive feat and he did many great songs in that time, including "Code Monkey" which took wings and is pretty damn popular around here.
Basically he's a geek with a guitar who took a gamble on singing for a living while still wanting to release things for free and letting people buy from him if they want to pay for the stuff.
Not to support the guy but he's got a point, why should a taxi driver get an easy ride because he's a taxi driver? Surely there is 1 person in that care going from A to B, the driver is little more than a horse pulling a cart.
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Or you could have a sensible health care system where the rich can have giant breasts and the poor don't die from common and curable things.
You know, just a thought.
If you run it on a low level you can only increase your usage by about 1-2 and still help the project, there is no logical reason to run the client at 100% if it's going to cost you a bomb, where as at 1-2% you won't win any contests, but you will be helping the project and paying at most a buck or two extra on electric a month.
I'm from the UK, I do not follow American politics, so no I could not, sorry. :)
Me and a friend were discussing this the other day and decided that we liked the concept of the original manhunt, but the game was just too violent to be worth playing. If the game involves violence but has another focus (Tenchu comes to mind, it's a very similar game style) then the violent is acceptable, it's there as a means to an end and fits the setting, but when that flows backwards (The game is the violence not the violence is part of the game) it just loses all interest to both of us.
We're both 21, both been avid gamers since we were kids and both play games ranging from Mario to GTA:SA to Silent Hill, we're not the type of people to be overly conservative and avoid a game based on religious content or violence, but we expect a game to use these mediums and others in a way which enhances the game, rather than steals focus from it. If Manhunt was a good stealth game which just happens to be realistic in it's violence to the point of being uncomfortable we both would have picked it up, but being a violence game with a bit of stealth just makes it appeal to children (12-16 year olds) rather than appeal to the exact audience they claim to be aiming for.
These manhunt stories seem like iPhone stories to me now. The hype is feeding the hype rather than the product. The iPhone was on Slashdot daily, it was going to spawn undead and be the new hot drug on the street, instead it just faded into the mists and rarely gets mentioned any more, the hype is no longer needed and the content of the product just isn't enough to stand on it's own two feet. That's how I feel Manhunt is going, it's unlikely we will see a third, or they will attempt to be even more extreme by which time the crowd will have gone "bored of you beating nurses to death with a fetus, I'm off thanks" and it won't get hype or sales.
Maybe it's just me here, but isn't it a bad idea to link to a known softcore pornography site on a site aimed at the entire age scale? I mean sure it might be a good article, but if the messenger is wearing nipple clamps and a strap on vibrating horse penis you might just want to side step it all together.
Police should now be on the hunt for these. In some situations these are more dangerous than a gun or a knife. Having one with you could kill tens or even hundreds of people (think shy scrapers and such). If you're that bothered by someone on the phone just politely ask if they could be a little quieter or go else where. For all you know some 10 year old kid has a bad heart and has to keep his cell phone on 24/7 for that all important "Get to hospital NOW" call.
But hey, if watching the latest blockbuster is more important than someone's life by all means carry one around, hell try two!
You forgot to mention that You can get the best items and all the skills if you buy them with real cash and you can give them to any PvP character of your choice but you can also grind for your stuff but by level 20-24mobs the best items in the game will be dropping, you just need to take parts from one or the other to make them.
But yea, Guild wars breaks the mold, it's skill based and requires real team work. Something most MMOs don't.
People would just use lines for their picture, cracking will become a game of battleships at best and at worst a program will play it for you.
I would disagree, if you move outside of the ultra violent FPS style games you can find some real gems in the RTS/TBS games. I may not be a military genius but I would suspect calculating risks of my actions and unit movement in a game based on this stuff would improve my over all skill in that area. Sure it may not be balancing a check book, but figuring out if I can afford that new uber tank tech upgrade or if I should wait for the next one is a good life skill in general.
I mean how many times do you go "I need a new X, I could afford a basic model or give it a couple of weeks and get the upgrade, how do I benefit from the upgrade and is it worth it?" in life? It may not be that often but having it as a basic insight into things by nature is better than not. The same could be said for having patience, waiting for the right moment to do things and even accepting that some times you will just plain fail and you need to accept this, rebuild and hope for the best.
Games may not teach us to shoot guns or go on violent rampages, but they can help you learn basic skills which may not seem all that difficult but that clash with human nature.
To me the game just seems a gimmick, I can't possibly see people wanting to buy a game then hundreds of cards just for the fun of it. Surely once you buy the game that's all you should need, instead this way you have to keep buying every few months or your cards are too weak and useless in such a cutthroat place like online gaming.
What about in the UK? Where would I need to look to see this thing?
/. is American centered but the world is a pretty big place and those of us not in that continent might like to know where we can/can't see things.
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Don't forget if I am some kind of suspect and they have me on a no flying list I'm going to either cut all contact from everyone involved or I'm going to go "alright then" and go out all guns blazing the next day. It's pretty much one huge ass warning sign glowing neon green in the middle of a desert at night. You can't miss this stuff and these days it's not even like they haven't secured planes or at least claimed to be doing so.
How are you meant to solve the biggest problem first when the biggest problem is a group of people who won't be happy until they achieve 100% victory? Terrorists aren't just some FPS enemy who will run at you and self destruct because they feel like it, they have feelings, thoughts and opinions, some of which are correct and some of which are incorrect but which is which will depend on your personal view. How are you meant to deal with people who have lost their families, have nothing in life and been convinced through pure hatred that they must take down invading armies in Iraq and their life is meaningless enough that they are happy to die for it?
We're not talking "oh you bad terrorist, please stop" we're talking about people crawling up the wall with pure unrefined rage, these people aren't going to be won over no matter how hard you try, they are more zealous than any paladin could ever dream of, purely because they have nothing left to lose as they lost it all already. They believe in their cause 100% and while some will lose the rage and see their mistake (or not depending on your view) most of them will never do so, no matter how hard you try.
So how do you deal with people like this? They have nothing to lose either way, if they die it's relief from their sorrows and hatred, if they live then they have absolutely nothing and want revenge for their pain. Look at global warming, people keep saying "we need to reduce our carbon footprint" and yet people refuse to change their ways when they have pretty much nothing to lose for it, how the hell are you going to get zealots to change if you can't get the average Joe to change from leaving a light on?
An emotional response in games is not difficult to achieve any more so than a book or a movie, if anything it is easier because you have a longer contact period with the main character than you do in any other medium, we have many long books but how many are as long as a good Japanese RPG?
People who have never felt any emotions in games should really try to play through a silent hill, while I didn't have any emotions for the characters themselves, the environment is very much a creepy and it's very difficult for it not to provoke a sense of paranoid and a sensation of being unsafe even in the safest areas. Rather than go with shock horror it just puts you in a position where everything seems evil, where you don't know if you should curl up in the corner with a gun and hope everything goes away or continue deeper into the nightmare like world to get out of it quicker. In modern life we rarely come across such situations so in a game it is very disturbing to feel.
The "are games art" argument is a difficult one but one again I think Silent hill addresses, It does not have the best graphics, it does not have the best acting, but all the small details pull it together to make an entire product that expresses things, tells a good story and invokes ideas and thoughts in your head. There is much argument about what art is, but to myself art is something that provokes thoughts you would not have thought otherwise in a styled medium of some sort. I feel games can be art, but games like Halo and Bioshock aren't where I would look got art in games, I would look at Mario and Zelda, where the style of the art is clearly defined in a set way rather than just trying to make it look as real as possible.
Don't 4chan users already do this all the time by putting books inside jpgs?
I believe the technique is you open the jpg with winrar and it ignores everything before the start of the zip file, so ignores the jpg but still reads the zip fine.
If little kids making penis jokes can do it with so much ease I very much doubt it's "too complex" to be useful in other ways. All it takes is the knowledge and you can hide stuff in broad day light, or at least make it very difficult for people to find that zip of (lets go with the emotional response) child porn hidden among your 500 holiday snaps to the south of France.
The most recent Gundam game has done just this in the arcade. It's taken the anime cockpits and made 'real' versions of them, the same lay out and everything, it seems to be quite the interesting game.
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-14983-Akihabara+News+test+Senjo+No+Kizuna%2C+the+ultimate+Mecha+Simulator+Arcade+Game..html has a video of it, but the guy has no clue what he's talking about nor really doing IMO.
And why can't we just use a gamecube pad? It's my favourite joypad to date and I see no reason why it won't be included.
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It means Dragon in Japanese. It's quite a common name too.
Because that's the Male character from Pokemon Fire Red and Satoshi/Ash does not look like that? Pokemon If anything that is "Fire red" as the Pokemon naming system goes from the comics.
I hate you.. now I have to play part 3.. I adore your mod but you don't half work up the paranoia..
Taco, how are you dealing with people faking a party to get the free swag?
Have to admit it came to my mind "hey free swag!", and so I'm sure others will take the bait and do exactly that even if I won't.
Can someone please do something about this tagging? They're being used to mark things with opinions not with a better way to search for things. For example the current tags are.
linuxbites, linuxisinsecure, linuxsucks
How is that related to this article at all?
He's a musician featured on Slashdot several times.
For a year he released a song a week completely free on his website, each song was written and performed in the week it was released. It was quite an impressive feat and he did many great songs in that time, including "Code Monkey" which took wings and is pretty damn popular around here.
Basically he's a geek with a guitar who took a gamble on singing for a living while still wanting to release things for free and letting people buy from him if they want to pay for the stuff.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/ is his website.
Not to support the guy but he's got a point, why should a taxi driver get an easy ride because he's a taxi driver? Surely there is 1 person in that care going from A to B, the driver is little more than a horse pulling a cart.
I just found out about "voices from the hellmouth" know if I can still get it??