This is all fine and dandy but think of the power consumed. Money might do a lot now, but it's rather useless when all you can buy is a car running on fossil fuels in a world where none are left because 10,000,000 PCs were left on with no point for 16 hours a day, every day.
No matter how you put it, it is censorship. You don't seem to understand what censorship is, like a lot of slashdot it seems.
Censorship is taking measures to restrict access to content. Be it through editing or disabling the supply chain at some point. To refuse to carry a book is not censorship, to force the book to never get published any where is censorship.
A private entity can censor something, it's just Americans seem to have this idea that if a company does it then it's legal. Well the BBC here puts beeps over words which aren't acceptable, that's censorship but the government doesn't beep it.
I swear I need to write a post out with what censorship is and karma whore it every time someone like you posts.
Not everything has a huge main objective behind it, but if you can say something impressive like "we went to the moon last week" you can get your name out there and get more funding and resources. People feel they are doing something now and not grinding away at an objective decades away.
Sure it's expensive, but think how much power it wields when you can go "we need ten billion for a new spoon.. yes a space spoon", it will go over better if you're going into Space and not just planning for ten years time.
You are using RIAA logic there. Book shops have no agreement to stock everything, if they do not feel the book suits their store they can refuse to stock it, the same way a library won't stock porn. It's not censoring anything, it's just not stocking it.
Censorship is removing content from something in order to deny people access to it. Not stocking a book isn't censorship, removing parts of the book is censorship.
Please learn what the word means, because claiming everything is censorship when it isn't is doing us more harm than good.
I'm English and I for one do not love these things. I feel I need a tin foil hat every time I go on a street and would really rather avoid constantly being on camera (I suppose I'm rather paranoid). It is not that we want them, it is that we have no choice in the matter. Even if we stand up and say no, we get ignored. The politicians don't care what people want and are too busy focusing on Global warming and "British values" currently to even bother worrying about this.
Cameras = Seem a solution = People vote for them to "solve crime"
I completely agree that tasers are to replace violence or firearms and should be reserved as such and in this case it was abuse of power for absolutely no reason. It was like having a child and going "I'm going to hit you if you don't behave" and then hitting it when it opens it's mouth to protest. Sure you "warned" them, but you just belted someone when you could of easily just picked them up and put them in the back of a car and been done with.
I hope someone does(n't) die from this crap, it sure would make an interest news story when someone gets tasered for doing nothing and ends up at a funeral for it.
I agree with you entirely.. I'm not scared of death, I'm scared of not knowing tomorrow. I'm sure glad I live in 2007 instead of 1807 but at the same time I don't have wish it was 3007. But for all we know humanity will get wiped out at the end of this decade and we're at the peak of human civilization at this moment in time.
So I see where you're coming from, but we could be the final humans just as we're likely to be the first humans who meet aliens.:)
So some idiot decides to abuse his power (for better or worse does not matter) and loses the company money? How is this remotely surprising? He's a bean counter, if he decides anything but which colour beans to count this week he gets kicked out for someone else.
How much are you expecting to make back if you spend this much on advertising?
All Halo 3 needed was a trailer every couple of months, a place holder website and to let magazine/online previewers play "demos" of areas every so often and it would still sell as well as it will now. It's like advertising toilet paper when you're the only people on Earth who makes it, why would you spend good money on such stupidity?
You sound angry and want extreme violence. You should really look into some sort of therapy because you're coming across as a 14 year old with an anger management problem rather than a mature person who enjoyed a game.
Sounds to me like you might like Guild wars. Every campaign so far has a clear defined ending and there is no grinding to do anything but get a special style of axe/sword/bow/armour whatever which is no more powerful than drops have been since mid game (even early game if you play factions). Plus it really breaks the mold in that your build is switchable on the fly (just visit town), so if you're bored of playing your Ranger relying heavily on his bow you can switch to a trapping ranger where you lay down an area of traps and then get the enemies to chase you through it to take massive damage.
If you haven't tried GWs pick up a copy of the original, it's dirt cheap now (bargain bin prices) and while the first game is slow compared to the others (they make it so you hit max level about 2/3rds the way through the original campaign compared to 1/4th of the later expansions) you will get the feel of it and the newbie area is one of the most amazing places I've seen in a game. It's amazingly detailed and has a very "Shire" type of feel to it.
Either way if you haven't given it a try you really should, it's nothing like other MMORPGs.
If they get this right it could be extremely interesting, but I get the feeling they will screw it up by making more and more high range beasts so what you took 12 weeks to earn before will become totally worthless in the next patch when they release and upgraded version which requires 3 12 week beasts to make.
People release code under the license they like. If you can't abide by the license then you should not use the code. It's not a complex issue, you either play by the rules or you can't use the equipment supplied by the other team. If you don't like their rules you can make your own stuff and set your own rules.
No, because it would drag on too long and the tension would be lost. If it was a mini series of 3-4 episodes it would work, but as a full series not really.
Silent hill sums it up perfectly, the movie wasn't too far removed from the games, but the movie isn't scary compared to the games and it's for 1 simple reason. Movies will continue no matter what, you can walk away and shrug and they will still play. Where as in a game you take control and must continue the fear to continue the plot.
Silent Hill games make you feel like at any moment you could be jumped by some insanely powerful monster and then it toys with you with the radio, a little noise here, a little growl there, is it just random noise or is a complete freak out monster about to maim you? who knows? These things get to us, we have no idea -how- to rationally deal with these things because they are beyond all logic, movies we can go "CGI" "Make up" "hero must survive" and then we play silent hill and suddenly it's "oh fuck, what the hell is going on?"
One thing I would note is the cultural differences, Japanese horror tends to work on tension and supernatural things. Ghosts, bumps in the night, general feeling of unease. Where as Western horror tends to be more gore and shock, the gore and shock has long ago lost it's shock value to us adults, where as the feeling of tension is very hard to break no matter what.
Compare Resident evil (Western horror style) with Silent Hill (Japanese horror style) and you'll see one is scary for a while, where as the other continues to be scary even if you're in a safe room with nothing creepy ever.
And just because it needs mentioning. The mannequin beheading event in Silent hill 3 is the scariest moment I've ever had in a game, just insanely creepy even though it presented no danger to me, it felt like I HAD to leave that room or something would behead me next.
Half-life 2 had the poisonous head crabs, those things screams sent me running in fear. Was insanely hard for one to kill you, but one of them and anything support wise and you were struggling to survive. Absolute nightmare and one hell of a rush.
I'm a geek, but I believe in supernatural things and beings greater than ourselves. I don't believe they are Gods or whatever, but I do believe there are things in -this- world we can't even understand fully yet, so I'm pretty sure there are things -out there- which I can't even start to grasp. I have no evidence for this, I have no faith for this, I just think logically the universe is way too big for there not to be other life and the way we evolved and changed won't be the same as others, so for all we know there are beings who can breath fire or live in molten lead without flinching.
Logic tells me there is some crazy stuff out there, stuff I probably don't want to mess with, but I'm not going to worship it, just going to go "oh it's possible, believe if you like but I want to meet this guy before I believe in him directly".
Yes, I still play pen and paper games but over IRC. Sure we don't buy most the books (yay for torrents!) but we buy the core ones and any expansions we find useful.
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This is all fine and dandy but think of the power consumed. Money might do a lot now, but it's rather useless when all you can buy is a car running on fossil fuels in a world where none are left because 10,000,000 PCs were left on with no point for 16 hours a day, every day.
No matter how you put it, it is censorship. You don't seem to understand what censorship is, like a lot of slashdot it seems.
Censorship is taking measures to restrict access to content. Be it through editing or disabling the supply chain at some point. To refuse to carry a book is not censorship, to force the book to never get published any where is censorship.
A private entity can censor something, it's just Americans seem to have this idea that if a company does it then it's legal. Well the BBC here puts beeps over words which aren't acceptable, that's censorship but the government doesn't beep it.
I swear I need to write a post out with what censorship is and karma whore it every time someone like you posts.
Morale and propaganda.
Not everything has a huge main objective behind it, but if you can say something impressive like "we went to the moon last week" you can get your name out there and get more funding and resources. People feel they are doing something now and not grinding away at an objective decades away.
Sure it's expensive, but think how much power it wields when you can go "we need ten billion for a new spoon.. yes a space spoon", it will go over better if you're going into Space and not just planning for ten years time.
That is the current 'debate' to the point where it's wasting time and money on nothing.
You are using RIAA logic there. Book shops have no agreement to stock everything, if they do not feel the book suits their store they can refuse to stock it, the same way a library won't stock porn. It's not censoring anything, it's just not stocking it.
Where did you move? Seems like the entire world is like this.
Censorship is removing content from something in order to deny people access to it. Not stocking a book isn't censorship, removing parts of the book is censorship.
Please learn what the word means, because claiming everything is censorship when it isn't is doing us more harm than good.
I'm English and I for one do not love these things. I feel I need a tin foil hat every time I go on a street and would really rather avoid constantly being on camera (I suppose I'm rather paranoid). It is not that we want them, it is that we have no choice in the matter. Even if we stand up and say no, we get ignored. The politicians don't care what people want and are too busy focusing on Global warming and "British values" currently to even bother worrying about this.
Cameras = Seem a solution = People vote for them to "solve crime"
I completely agree that tasers are to replace violence or firearms and should be reserved as such and in this case it was abuse of power for absolutely no reason. It was like having a child and going "I'm going to hit you if you don't behave" and then hitting it when it opens it's mouth to protest. Sure you "warned" them, but you just belted someone when you could of easily just picked them up and put them in the back of a car and been done with.
I hope someone does(n't) die from this crap, it sure would make an interest news story when someone gets tasered for doing nothing and ends up at a funeral for it.
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I agree with you entirely.. I'm not scared of death, I'm scared of not knowing tomorrow. I'm sure glad I live in 2007 instead of 1807 but at the same time I don't have wish it was 3007. But for all we know humanity will get wiped out at the end of this decade and we're at the peak of human civilization at this moment in time.
So I see where you're coming from, but we could be the final humans just as we're likely to be the first humans who meet aliens.
So some idiot decides to abuse his power (for better or worse does not matter) and loses the company money? How is this remotely surprising? He's a bean counter, if he decides anything but which colour beans to count this week he gets kicked out for someone else.
How much are you expecting to make back if you spend this much on advertising?
All Halo 3 needed was a trailer every couple of months, a place holder website and to let magazine/online previewers play "demos" of areas every so often and it would still sell as well as it will now. It's like advertising toilet paper when you're the only people on Earth who makes it, why would you spend good money on such stupidity?
You sound angry and want extreme violence. You should really look into some sort of therapy because you're coming across as a 14 year old with an anger management problem rather than a mature person who enjoyed a game.
Sounds to me like you might like Guild wars. Every campaign so far has a clear defined ending and there is no grinding to do anything but get a special style of axe/sword/bow/armour whatever which is no more powerful than drops have been since mid game (even early game if you play factions). Plus it really breaks the mold in that your build is switchable on the fly (just visit town), so if you're bored of playing your Ranger relying heavily on his bow you can switch to a trapping ranger where you lay down an area of traps and then get the enemies to chase you through it to take massive damage.
If you haven't tried GWs pick up a copy of the original, it's dirt cheap now (bargain bin prices) and while the first game is slow compared to the others (they make it so you hit max level about 2/3rds the way through the original campaign compared to 1/4th of the later expansions) you will get the feel of it and the newbie area is one of the most amazing places I've seen in a game. It's amazingly detailed and has a very "Shire" type of feel to it.
Either way if you haven't given it a try you really should, it's nothing like other MMORPGs.
Yea, that or someone hacked the servers in the same way Half-life 2 got leaked.
It's extremely unlikely but it's a possibility.
If they get this right it could be extremely interesting, but I get the feeling they will screw it up by making more and more high range beasts so what you took 12 weeks to earn before will become totally worthless in the next patch when they release and upgraded version which requires 3 12 week beasts to make.
Good idea, doubt it will go well though.
Or you have a wider knowledge of things than hollywood movies?
People release code under the license they like. If you can't abide by the license then you should not use the code. It's not a complex issue, you either play by the rules or you can't use the equipment supplied by the other team. If you don't like their rules you can make your own stuff and set your own rules.
100% of people who took this survey are likely to answer surveys, but how many people who don't answer surveys are likely to have blogs hmm?
No, because it would drag on too long and the tension would be lost. If it was a mini series of 3-4 episodes it would work, but as a full series not really.
I have PE2, it's a good game :)
SH4 gave you candles which would let you be safe though, it wasn't great but it would sop you being hurt even if that room was uber creepy still.
Silent hill sums it up perfectly, the movie wasn't too far removed from the games, but the movie isn't scary compared to the games and it's for 1 simple reason. Movies will continue no matter what, you can walk away and shrug and they will still play. Where as in a game you take control and must continue the fear to continue the plot.
Silent Hill games make you feel like at any moment you could be jumped by some insanely powerful monster and then it toys with you with the radio, a little noise here, a little growl there, is it just random noise or is a complete freak out monster about to maim you? who knows? These things get to us, we have no idea -how- to rationally deal with these things because they are beyond all logic, movies we can go "CGI" "Make up" "hero must survive" and then we play silent hill and suddenly it's "oh fuck, what the hell is going on?"
One thing I would note is the cultural differences, Japanese horror tends to work on tension and supernatural things. Ghosts, bumps in the night, general feeling of unease. Where as Western horror tends to be more gore and shock, the gore and shock has long ago lost it's shock value to us adults, where as the feeling of tension is very hard to break no matter what.
Compare Resident evil (Western horror style) with Silent Hill (Japanese horror style) and you'll see one is scary for a while, where as the other continues to be scary even if you're in a safe room with nothing creepy ever.
And just because it needs mentioning. The mannequin beheading event in Silent hill 3 is the scariest moment I've ever had in a game, just insanely creepy even though it presented no danger to me, it felt like I HAD to leave that room or something would behead me next.
Half-life 2 had the poisonous head crabs, those things screams sent me running in fear. Was insanely hard for one to kill you, but one of them and anything support wise and you were struggling to survive. Absolute nightmare and one hell of a rush.
I'm a geek, but I believe in supernatural things and beings greater than ourselves. I don't believe they are Gods or whatever, but I do believe there are things in -this- world we can't even understand fully yet, so I'm pretty sure there are things -out there- which I can't even start to grasp. I have no evidence for this, I have no faith for this, I just think logically the universe is way too big for there not to be other life and the way we evolved and changed won't be the same as others, so for all we know there are beings who can breath fire or live in molten lead without flinching.
Logic tells me there is some crazy stuff out there, stuff I probably don't want to mess with, but I'm not going to worship it, just going to go "oh it's possible, believe if you like but I want to meet this guy before I believe in him directly".
Yes, I still play pen and paper games but over IRC. Sure we don't buy most the books (yay for torrents!) but we buy the core ones and any expansions we find useful.