No no no, you've got it all wrong. That's not capitalism, that's intelligent thought. The Capitalist way would be to try to enforce harsher DRM, outsource to an anti-cheat scheme that also lets you keep banning a steady number of people who will hopefully rebuy the game, and then blame piracy when the game doesnt sell well.
After all those damn pirates are funding drugs AND terrorism AND undermining our rights and freedoms by helping terrorists who sell drugs and commit acts of terrorism. While on drugs.
Then we're arguing from the same standpoint because the anti-inkblot crowd's got a good amount of proper support on it's side too. This isn't as one-sided as polygraph tests, there's actual research backing up either of our arguments here.
I just choose this side personally because, being a giger/beksinski fan, I'm a little tired of being told I need pills and a padded room because of two or three of the billion odd possible physical resemblences they have.
It doesn't matter how much you masturbate over the supposed scientific validity of the test when your test is asking people what random images, if any, they see in a bunch of ink blots. Furthermore just because scientific processes are applied to something does not mean that the end result is scientifically valid.
The whole concept that the various physical resemblences someone sees in random images, results which could be influences by anything from what someone had for breakfast to what the test giver has in the room itself, could somehow predict pathology in anything but the most comically extreme of cases is laughable. Just as laughable as the belief that there are psychologists who do NOT walk into an evaluation with biases which can substantially affect the outcome of such a subjective test.
But... as with any population, there are incompetent assholes who refuse to accept that anyone disagreeing with them might have legitimate cause and instead are merely ignorant fools who don't know any better.
The only projecting being done is by the examiner who decides that the results mean whatever the hell he wants because there's no possible way to correlate answers with anything meaningful.
It's not that, if you fill the bowl with loosely packed crushed ice and then pour water into it you'll get a solid block of ice. Doing it with really salty water lowers the freezing point enough that you can at least get your hand in.
If you're REALLY serious about trying to torture yourself with a bowl of something cold just use alcohol instead.
This is pretty much what I'm thinking. I've already got tons of people asking me why I don't respond to their messages because facebook randomly closed off my access to my account (used for overglorified email really) but left it fully open and searchable. I've tried about 4 times now to get it at least locked down so people can't keep finding it anymore but all I get is the runaround about how that is what they do (hint: they don't) and how it won't ever be reactivated.
the office computer has been around barely more than 20 years, desks have been designed for a lot longer than that around traditional "office desk" values. I'm sure it'd make an excellent paperwork shuffling and writing desk but that doesn't make it a good COMPUTER desk any more than the previously mentioned banana crate makes a good computer desk using chair, although it makes a fine and very stable step stool type platform.
I have a picture of My Desk too. It doesn't take an absurd amount of space and can easily accomodate a third CRT. You can't see it but all my network's crap is just behind the primary monitor where I can see it by leaning to the left a little and can pull it right out to the front of the desk. The other side's mostly empty space I haven't used, and underneath are a midtower and a fulltower with more room for filing cabinets on the right side.
My bedroom though has a similar setup to yours. That is, one with a good desk but not a good COMPUTER desk.
Seriously, I'm glad you are happy with CRTs and don't find any personal benefit to the reduced size of LCDs. I think you're a crack baby, but hey live and let live I say. In the meantime, I and the rest of the market are going to be buying LCDs exactly because their smaller dimensions are very, very appealing.
Like I told someone else: Your problem isn't your monitor, it's your desk. You may as well be blaming your keyboard when your arms start hurting from reaching up to type on it while sitting on a banana crate. Sure a change of keyboard to some random and wholly inferior technology might make a difference, especially if you're also convinced at the same time that said inferior technology is worth paying more for a lower quality device, but your technological stockholm syndrome and buyers rationalizations still don't change the facts that you had a problem because you were using a bad desk and blamed it on your monitor.
But that's just it then, sticking to the source material. If I'm going to have whatever I can scrap together and be severely limited in what I can put where on my mech the other guys had better be operating under the same rules as long as they're supposedly in the same situation I am.
Of course we all know what ACTUALLY happens is you wind up going up against guys that never seem to run out of gauss ammo until you remove it from him.
Take a look at how many other mechs you destroy in the average mechwarrior game and at how readily we can retrofit things here on earth. If they can make a giant walking robot (which is already physically impossible by it's design) then it isn't much more of a leap to think they could just take the missiles out of what is essentially a giant empty rack and put something else in there and plug it in.
The mech universe is inherently self-contradicting if you go by what you've put forth. Mechs are a rare commodity and yet you destroy hordes of them, mechs are specifically designed and yet their designs are ineffective and tend towards being self-destructive, you can keep maintained these massive and supremely complicated machines but you can't move some weapons around the chassis.
So the developers laziness or technological limitations are just cause for forcing players to choose specific loadouts?
It's got rocket pods on the shoulders, woo hoo, so let me alter the loadout on the shoulder pods and then alter them visually ingame or make those unalterable and give me the rockets but let me do what I want with the rest of the mech. An arm with a gun barrel on it doesn't automatically mean PPC any more than it means gauss or autocannon.
Sounds like your real problem is you're using a bookshelf instead of a desk. You may as well blame your keyboard for wrist problems caused by sitting on a banana crate instead of a chair.
I have yet to see anyone using an LCD that didn't keep it the same distance from their face as a CRT and just have a whole lot of wasted space behind it. And how the hell does the crt's "bulk" take up FIFTY PERCENT of your usable desk space? Are you on a bookshelf or a desk? I can't think of anything smaller than my KEYBOARD ALONE that would be as cramped as you describe with a CRT but somehow magically fine with an LCD that has the same vertical and horizontal footprint.
not to mention their art department is apparently composed entirely of people using 10 inch laptop screens from 1997 with the brightness and gamma turned all the way down.
At least that would be my guess considering their obsession with making EVERYTHING glow like the freaking surface of the sun covered in a layer of radioactive maple syrup whenever HDR or bloom is on.
Sorry but that just doesn't fly when you actually play a PC game. I think it's cute that people are that obsessed with how it was originally configured in a tabletop game but there's no logical reason to start forcing me to use lasers instead of autocannons just because that's whan someone else did.
Gameplaywise I think MW2 really had it set. You could do pretty much anything you wanted, including strapping nothing but machineguns and PPCs to a mech that'd been stripped down to a leafblower for the engine and 3 sandwich wrappers for a heatsink. You'd explode if you tried to fire and never get anywhere but you COULD do it. It was up to you to find effective loadouts, you weren't shoehorned into it by some consoleized list of restrictions.
^^^ Parent has a good point. It's not about the level of graphics beyond a certain point so much as it is the POLISH of what level you've chosen. If you go for crysis and wind up looking like crysis on it's lower settings I'm going to hold graphics against you but if you settle for a lower graphical standard and do it WELL with good quality textures then I'll probably say "this is well done, how does it play?" and go looking for gameplay.
If you can stand something a little smaller and almost half the weight the 22" *trons are only 60lbs and still beat just about everything else in refresh rates and response times.
Other than that there's just playing the Panel Lotto and hoping you get an MVA or IPS family flatpanel.
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So am I supposed to be outraged just because the DMCA was involved?
No no no, you've got it all wrong. That's not capitalism, that's intelligent thought. The Capitalist way would be to try to enforce harsher DRM, outsource to an anti-cheat scheme that also lets you keep banning a steady number of people who will hopefully rebuy the game, and then blame piracy when the game doesnt sell well.
After all those damn pirates are funding drugs AND terrorism AND undermining our rights and freedoms by helping terrorists who sell drugs and commit acts of terrorism. While on drugs.
Japanese freighter spilled production materials, filming's been set back months.
We're done here.
Then we're arguing from the same standpoint because the anti-inkblot crowd's got a good amount of proper support on it's side too. This isn't as one-sided as polygraph tests, there's actual research backing up either of our arguments here.
I just choose this side personally because, being a giger/beksinski fan, I'm a little tired of being told I need pills and a padded room because of two or three of the billion odd possible physical resemblences they have.
No I just REALLY wanted at least one Freud joke. I couldn't find a way to fit my mother in their either.
It doesn't matter how much you masturbate over the supposed scientific validity of the test when your test is asking people what random images, if any, they see in a bunch of ink blots. Furthermore just because scientific processes are applied to something does not mean that the end result is scientifically valid.
The whole concept that the various physical resemblences someone sees in random images, results which could be influences by anything from what someone had for breakfast to what the test giver has in the room itself, could somehow predict pathology in anything but the most comically extreme of cases is laughable. Just as laughable as the belief that there are psychologists who do NOT walk into an evaluation with biases which can substantially affect the outcome of such a subjective test.
But... as with any population, there are incompetent assholes who refuse to accept that anyone disagreeing with them might have legitimate cause and instead are merely ignorant fools who don't know any better.
The only projecting being done is by the examiner who decides that the results mean whatever the hell he wants because there's no possible way to correlate answers with anything meaningful.
It's not that, if you fill the bowl with loosely packed crushed ice and then pour water into it you'll get a solid block of ice. Doing it with really salty water lowers the freezing point enough that you can at least get your hand in.
If you're REALLY serious about trying to torture yourself with a bowl of something cold just use alcohol instead.
Learn to read jim. "THAT" don't get out much, not ", THEY" don't get out much.
What about 4channers that don't get out much.
Have you tried doing this with a bowl full of really salty water and crushed ice?
This is pretty much what I'm thinking. I've already got tons of people asking me why I don't respond to their messages because facebook randomly closed off my access to my account (used for overglorified email really) but left it fully open and searchable. I've tried about 4 times now to get it at least locked down so people can't keep finding it anymore but all I get is the runaround about how that is what they do (hint: they don't) and how it won't ever be reactivated.
I get that, but I still think it's misleading to present this as a problem of the monitor's when the real issue is that so many desks are inadequate.
the office computer has been around barely more than 20 years, desks have been designed for a lot longer than that around traditional "office desk" values. I'm sure it'd make an excellent paperwork shuffling and writing desk but that doesn't make it a good COMPUTER desk any more than the previously mentioned banana crate makes a good computer desk using chair, although it makes a fine and very stable step stool type platform.
I have a picture of My Desk too. It doesn't take an absurd amount of space and can easily accomodate a third CRT. You can't see it but all my network's crap is just behind the primary monitor where I can see it by leaning to the left a little and can pull it right out to the front of the desk. The other side's mostly empty space I haven't used, and underneath are a midtower and a fulltower with more room for filing cabinets on the right side.
My bedroom though has a similar setup to yours. That is, one with a good desk but not a good COMPUTER desk.
Seriously, I'm glad you are happy with CRTs and don't find any personal benefit to the reduced size of LCDs. I think you're a crack baby, but hey live and let live I say. In the meantime, I and the rest of the market are going to be buying LCDs exactly because their smaller dimensions are very, very appealing.
Like I told someone else: Your problem isn't your monitor, it's your desk. You may as well be blaming your keyboard when your arms start hurting from reaching up to type on it while sitting on a banana crate. Sure a change of keyboard to some random and wholly inferior technology might make a difference, especially if you're also convinced at the same time that said inferior technology is worth paying more for a lower quality device, but your technological stockholm syndrome and buyers rationalizations still don't change the facts that you had a problem because you were using a bad desk and blamed it on your monitor.
But that's just it then, sticking to the source material. If I'm going to have whatever I can scrap together and be severely limited in what I can put where on my mech the other guys had better be operating under the same rules as long as they're supposedly in the same situation I am.
Of course we all know what ACTUALLY happens is you wind up going up against guys that never seem to run out of gauss ammo until you remove it from him.
Take a look at how many other mechs you destroy in the average mechwarrior game and at how readily we can retrofit things here on earth. If they can make a giant walking robot (which is already physically impossible by it's design) then it isn't much more of a leap to think they could just take the missiles out of what is essentially a giant empty rack and put something else in there and plug it in.
The mech universe is inherently self-contradicting if you go by what you've put forth. Mechs are a rare commodity and yet you destroy hordes of them, mechs are specifically designed and yet their designs are ineffective and tend towards being self-destructive, you can keep maintained these massive and supremely complicated machines but you can't move some weapons around the chassis.
The logic just doesn't work in it's own context.
So the developers laziness or technological limitations are just cause for forcing players to choose specific loadouts?
It's got rocket pods on the shoulders, woo hoo, so let me alter the loadout on the shoulder pods and then alter them visually ingame or make those unalterable and give me the rockets but let me do what I want with the rest of the mech. An arm with a gun barrel on it doesn't automatically mean PPC any more than it means gauss or autocannon.
Sounds like your real problem is you're using a bookshelf instead of a desk. You may as well blame your keyboard for wrist problems caused by sitting on a banana crate instead of a chair.
I have yet to see anyone using an LCD that didn't keep it the same distance from their face as a CRT and just have a whole lot of wasted space behind it. And how the hell does the crt's "bulk" take up FIFTY PERCENT of your usable desk space? Are you on a bookshelf or a desk? I can't think of anything smaller than my KEYBOARD ALONE that would be as cramped as you describe with a CRT but somehow magically fine with an LCD that has the same vertical and horizontal footprint.
not to mention their art department is apparently composed entirely of people using 10 inch laptop screens from 1997 with the brightness and gamma turned all the way down.
At least that would be my guess considering their obsession with making EVERYTHING glow like the freaking surface of the sun covered in a layer of radioactive maple syrup whenever HDR or bloom is on.
Sorry but that just doesn't fly when you actually play a PC game. I think it's cute that people are that obsessed with how it was originally configured in a tabletop game but there's no logical reason to start forcing me to use lasers instead of autocannons just because that's whan someone else did.
Gameplaywise I think MW2 really had it set. You could do pretty much anything you wanted, including strapping nothing but machineguns and PPCs to a mech that'd been stripped down to a leafblower for the engine and 3 sandwich wrappers for a heatsink. You'd explode if you tried to fire and never get anywhere but you COULD do it. It was up to you to find effective loadouts, you weren't shoehorned into it by some consoleized list of restrictions.
^^^ Parent has a good point. It's not about the level of graphics beyond a certain point so much as it is the POLISH of what level you've chosen. If you go for crysis and wind up looking like crysis on it's lower settings I'm going to hold graphics against you but if you settle for a lower graphical standard and do it WELL with good quality textures then I'll probably say "this is well done, how does it play?" and go looking for gameplay.
If you can stand something a little smaller and almost half the weight the 22" *trons are only 60lbs and still beat just about everything else in refresh rates and response times.
Other than that there's just playing the Panel Lotto and hoping you get an MVA or IPS family flatpanel.