"Hmmm? Oh, what? Oh, yes old bean, jolly bad show. Yes. Those bounders at the NHS need a...oh, just a moment, my phone's ringing, give me a minute. What? No, I'm giving a quote. Yes, thank you. Right, right, right. Yes. Microsoft. Very naughty blighters indeed. I shall immediately...I'm sorry, what was the question? Don't we do the caption round at this point? Gosh."
Maybe that's the secret to it. Let the companies do GTA style adverts with the logos and slogans and things, rather than squirming and worrying about THE MIGHTY BRAND! Turn them into a part of the gameworld, rather than slapping the logo on the top.
On the other hand, I doubt there's many companies willing to give that amount of creative freedom where THE MIGHTY BRAND might be included.
Darkened Skye was an interesting one. It was a Skittles license, based on their advertising campaign, but it didn't advertise it anywhere.
However, before condemning it, it's worth noting that it did have a sense of humour about being a totally whored out game - the writers took the opportunity to rip the piss out of the genre ("Nah, we can't go in there yet." "How do you know?" "I read the script...uh...I mean, I HAD A SACRED VISION!"), as well taking a number of pokes at the whole concept (particularly in one scene where you get one out of a monster's stomach, and the heroine comes up with some line along the lines of "A Skittles! Surprisingly well preserved. You see, Marketing wouldn't let us show one all funked up from stomach juices and...well...I'll be quiet now") It wasn't a very good platform game at all, but it did have its charms. Its Lucky Charms.
The benefit of GMail isn't the raw space, it's the searching tool. I filter several accounts into my account purely so that I can pluck what I need at a moment's notice.
An ancient, supposedly anti-drugs edutainment title called Wrecked. Apparently the best way to teach kids about their dangers was throug the medium of a platform game in which they all appeared as power-ups. The demo's still floating around a few FTP sites out there, and is genuinely terrible. Best bit - after snuffing it, it tried scaring you by warning you how long you'd be in the clink for your stash. The old "Needed Them For Medicinal Purposes And Also Escaping From A Nightmarish Castle of Hell" defence apparently didn't hold much water with judges in the early 90s.
"They played a medieval-themed game called Squire's Quest, developed by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine's Children's Nutrition Research Center. Kids win by getting promoted from squire to knight. But the real goal is to get them to eat more fruits and vegetables."
"Unfortunately, most of them are still trying to work out how to give the Kerrek a cold one."
One thing I thought was good about Starship Troopers (as a parody/satire) was that the people in it don't have a problem with their ultra-fascist surroundings (as in, to use a totally random modern example, Equilibrium - in which our hero goes from being the Judge Dredd of emotion suppression to the guy who takes the entire system down). They happily fight and die for it on the grounds that it's their world, rather than suddenly saying "You know, screw it. Let's go democratic!"
I'm told the director's commentary makes for excellent listening.
Nah, the sequel's just your standard, every-day B-horror-movie, down to Random Naked Killer Girl and Downtrodden Veteran With Ultimate Sense of Honour. It's not great, but it stands up okay. It's just an obvious target as a low-budget sequel to a blockbuster action film.
On the plus side, unlike the almost-as-unlucky Cutthroat Island, they weren't shopping it around to people on the basis that it was an action movie starring Geena Davis...
(Especially since the first MK, while not a classic or anything, really wasn't that bad by B-movie standards. Certainly kicked the shinola out of stuff like Street Fighter and Mario Brothers)
"It also distracts people from the message you are trying to get across."
Good point, even if that message does largely boil down to 'Copyright's a tool; The Industry's just tools.'
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"I think it's important to remind everyone that even slashdot seems concerned about protecting it's copyrighted material"
So does the FSF. What's your point? When Slashdot starts sending out COD letters to people because they've copy and pasted a goatse link, it's time to start shouting and screaming...
Slashdot Mirror
Certainly a character...
"Hmmm? Oh, what? Oh, yes old bean, jolly bad show. Yes. Those bounders at the NHS need a...oh, just a moment, my phone's ringing, give me a minute. What? No, I'm giving a quote. Yes, thank you. Right, right, right. Yes. Microsoft. Very naughty blighters indeed. I shall immediately...I'm sorry, what was the question? Don't we do the caption round at this point? Gosh."
"Where to have the debate where it might be read by those who mater:"
And you lead with Boris?!
"Bah. Look at that asshole with his code and his caffeine soap and his lah-de-dah Google-fu. I could kick his ass, like...SO hard..."
And yet you noticed them.
Maybe that's the secret to it. Let the companies do GTA style adverts with the logos and slogans and things, rather than squirming and worrying about THE MIGHTY BRAND! Turn them into a part of the gameworld, rather than slapping the logo on the top.
On the other hand, I doubt there's many companies willing to give that amount of creative freedom where THE MIGHTY BRAND might be included.
Darkened Skye was an interesting one. It was a Skittles license, based on their advertising campaign, but it didn't advertise it anywhere.
However, before condemning it, it's worth noting that it did have a sense of humour about being a totally whored out game - the writers took the opportunity to rip the piss out of the genre ("Nah, we can't go in there yet." "How do you know?" "I read the script...uh...I mean, I HAD A SACRED VISION!"), as well taking a number of pokes at the whole concept (particularly in one scene where you get one out of a monster's stomach, and the heroine comes up with some line along the lines of "A Skittles! Surprisingly well preserved. You see, Marketing wouldn't let us show one all funked up from stomach juices and...well...I'll be quiet now") It wasn't a very good platform game at all, but it did have its charms. Its Lucky Charms.
Buy a box of Lucky Charms.
Not to mention that that specific scene in Doctor Strangelove was the one where they inadvertently destroy the world...
When it suddenly kicks in when you're in the middle of someth(NO CARRIER)
"It turned out that the software was even better than us, picking up spam we'd incorrectly classified as legitimate emails."
Then you are nitwits.
The benefit of GMail isn't the raw space, it's the searching tool. I filter several accounts into my account purely so that I can pluck what I need at a moment's notice.
"Zeus Almighty, get me a shotgun" - Plato
Yeah, it's a giant bin like thing with a dollar symbol on the side, just outside of Duckberg.
(Hyphens can take care of themselves...)
In my new world order, anyone found misusing apostrophes will have one inserted in an even more inconvenient place...
An ancient, supposedly anti-drugs edutainment title called Wrecked. Apparently the best way to teach kids about their dangers was throug the medium of a platform game in which they all appeared as power-ups. The demo's still floating around a few FTP sites out there, and is genuinely terrible. Best bit - after snuffing it, it tried scaring you by warning you how long you'd be in the clink for your stash. The old "Needed Them For Medicinal Purposes And Also Escaping From A Nightmarish Castle of Hell" defence apparently didn't hold much water with judges in the early 90s.
Post WarioWare, who knows?
"They played a medieval-themed game called Squire's Quest, developed by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine's Children's Nutrition Research Center. Kids win by getting promoted from squire to knight. But the real goal is to get them to eat more fruits and vegetables."
"Unfortunately, most of them are still trying to work out how to give the Kerrek a cold one."
Another food-game story from the BBC:
"The game itself is somewhere between a game like Tomb Raider and a lecture from the WFP," explained the game's designer, Mike Harrison.
Those funky, funky people...
Sorry, we lost Carmen Sandiego, Tetris and The Oregon Trail to software piracy. Remember kids, don't copy that floppy!
One thing I thought was good about Starship Troopers (as a parody/satire) was that the people in it don't have a problem with their ultra-fascist surroundings (as in, to use a totally random modern example, Equilibrium - in which our hero goes from being the Judge Dredd of emotion suppression to the guy who takes the entire system down). They happily fight and die for it on the grounds that it's their world, rather than suddenly saying "You know, screw it. Let's go democratic!"
I'm told the director's commentary makes for excellent listening.
Nah, the sequel's just your standard, every-day B-horror-movie, down to Random Naked Killer Girl and Downtrodden Veteran With Ultimate Sense of Honour. It's not great, but it stands up okay. It's just an obvious target as a low-budget sequel to a blockbuster action film.
On the plus side, unlike the almost-as-unlucky Cutthroat Island, they weren't shopping it around to people on the basis that it was an action movie starring Geena Davis...
Gah! Do not mention the Dark One!
(Especially since the first MK, while not a classic or anything, really wasn't that bad by B-movie standards. Certainly kicked the shinola out of stuff like Street Fighter and Mario Brothers)
"It also distracts people from the message you are trying to get across."
Good point, even if that message does largely boil down to 'Copyright's a tool; The Industry's just tools.'
"I think it's important to remind everyone that even slashdot seems concerned about protecting it's copyrighted material"
So does the FSF. What's your point? When Slashdot starts sending out COD letters to people because they've copy and pasted a goatse link, it's time to start shouting and screaming...