even then - I only read Kotaku to get my daily dose of seething anger - everything they say or comment on that I have first (or I guess second) hand experience of, I know to be a lie. Especially their Japan reporting. Which is weird, as Tim , of insertcredit, who does all their Tokyo-based stuff is a friend-of-a-friend through two different freinds...
(not meant to be namedropping. If I were namedropping I'd be mentioning "real" celebrities, not just foreigners in Japan with a website)
The number of PS2 games incompatible with the newest model slimline PS2 is already measured in 10s. It's going to be higher if they use software - it may well be hardware if they use the same chip as an embedded component.
The reason MS has problems in Japan is that the marketing is terrible (They use English terms like "high definition" the Japanese don't know), there are almost no games released, and those that are tend to be awful and VERY American (Madden is coming out on 360 next month IIRC. wtf?)
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Bad example there, as Fable is both British and, though it tries to hide it a bit, very linear.
Nokia don't seem to sell in Japan (ran adverts a few years ago, but nothing seemed to come of it) and their popularity has been in freefall in Europe for a while - even then, noone wanted an N-Gage.
No, they charge by the number of bedrooms IF THEY CAN BE LOCKED - if you have a totally common student house you only need the one license even if each person has a TV.
The reason they crack down on students is that a lot of student accomodation has lockable rooms so they're treating each room as a seperate flat.
Given that it's an article from the UK (where it's called Project Zero) about a game from Japan (where it's called Project Zero) that's not a big surprise. Next you'll be complaining about the Sega Megadrive and Jet Set Radio.
I have a degree in it, as does my father. I've been electrocuted by mains too many times to hurt - and the technicians (in particular) I know wear their eletrocution stories like battle scars.
I take it that you neither have a background in electrics/electronics nor do you know any electrical engineer / technician types?
220v through your hand shouldn't hurt you. It's when it arcs through your heart that it causes problems, mainly heart palpitations.
Popcap games have consistently stolen their games from older games by other companies (often "bigger" companies) - they're currently being sued by Mitchell for copywrite infringement over one of their games.
That said - most "casual game" companies seem to steal as much of their game as possible from older games. It's bad enough when it's open source, but it's pitiful when you expect to be paid.
Chinese is tonal - those aren't really homonyms - it's Japanese that has that problem. Also, in Chinese, each character only has one reading, but in Japanese it has at least two (then there's the joy of forced readings using rubi)
As someone who works in his non-native language in the world of high-tech, I'd love to see the miracle context-aware machine translation software you speak of.
Hey! My TV is Sony brand and does have a Memory Stick.
It also has a special PS2 connector on the back, though I've never seen a cable for the PS2 with that connector.
Surely if you want to look at German, you'd want to look at the classes of beer such as Lager and Pils?
"Malt Liquor" is an abomination generated by the fucking weird laws over alcohol sales and consumption in some states.
Stuff brewed from grain is not "beer" in other countries. C.f. the fact that Budweiser (and I assume other US beers...) is only brewed from rice in the US, and in other countries it is brewed from wheat, same as other beer. For instance, in Japan they have "happoshu" which ISN'T beer, isn't allowed to be called beer, and is taxed at a different rate to beer.
The US has no (or very few) controls on what things are called compared to the rest of the civilised world - it's why you have cheap domestic "whisky" and "champage" (that last has just recently been changed so that only real Champagne can carry the name now)
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even then - I only read Kotaku to get my daily dose of seething anger - everything they say or comment on that I have first (or I guess second) hand experience of, I know to be a lie. Especially their Japan reporting. Which is weird, as Tim , of insertcredit, who does all their Tokyo-based stuff is a friend-of-a-friend through two different freinds... (not meant to be namedropping. If I were namedropping I'd be mentioning "real" celebrities, not just foreigners in Japan with a website)
normally sane? You're not a great reader of Kotaku are you?
The number of PS2 games incompatible with the newest model slimline PS2 is already measured in 10s. It's going to be higher if they use software - it may well be hardware if they use the same chip as an embedded component.
The reason MS has problems in Japan is that the marketing is terrible (They use English terms like "high definition" the Japanese don't know), there are almost no games released, and those that are tend to be awful and VERY American (Madden is coming out on 360 next month IIRC. wtf?)
Bad example there, as Fable is both British and, though it tries to hide it a bit, very linear.
well, "Not another doctor", you never know. If the submitter was "** doctors-doctors", then I'd be suspicious.
The script that leaked - which is the one being used when he came onboard - was so much better than the script we ended up with.
Nokia don't seem to sell in Japan (ran adverts a few years ago, but nothing seemed to come of it) and their popularity has been in freefall in Europe for a while - even then, noone wanted an N-Gage.
No, they charge by the number of bedrooms IF THEY CAN BE LOCKED - if you have a totally common student house you only need the one license even if each person has a TV. The reason they crack down on students is that a lot of student accomodation has lockable rooms so they're treating each room as a seperate flat.
So you're trying to claim that MS are like the programming world's equivalent of Noah Webster?
"Randy Bender", who was a hilighted NCSE beats them all, I think
Given that it's an article from the UK (where it's called Project Zero) about a game from Japan (where it's called Project Zero) that's not a big surprise. Next you'll be complaining about the Sega Megadrive and Jet Set Radio.
I have a degree in it, as does my father. I've been electrocuted by mains too many times to hurt - and the technicians (in particular) I know wear their eletrocution stories like battle scars.
I take it that you neither have a background in electrics/electronics nor do you know any electrical engineer / technician types? 220v through your hand shouldn't hurt you. It's when it arcs through your heart that it causes problems, mainly heart palpitations.
Well, surely the next in line is the "DS lite", which does for the DS what the micro did for the GBA.
The GBA Micro dosen't play GB/GBC games either though: backwards compatibility isn't a requirement it seems.
Judging by the nudists I've seen, that's a good thing, too.
Popcap games have consistently stolen their games from older games by other companies (often "bigger" companies) - they're currently being sued by Mitchell for copywrite infringement over one of their games. That said - most "casual game" companies seem to steal as much of their game as possible from older games. It's bad enough when it's open source, but it's pitiful when you expect to be paid.
Chinese is tonal - those aren't really homonyms - it's Japanese that has that problem. Also, in Chinese, each character only has one reading, but in Japanese it has at least two (then there's the joy of forced readings using rubi)
As someone who works in his non-native language in the world of high-tech, I'd love to see the miracle context-aware machine translation software you speak of.
Hey! My TV is Sony brand and does have a Memory Stick. It also has a special PS2 connector on the back, though I've never seen a cable for the PS2 with that connector.
Surely if you want to look at German, you'd want to look at the classes of beer such as Lager and Pils? "Malt Liquor" is an abomination generated by the fucking weird laws over alcohol sales and consumption in some states.
Now that I think about it, there's also the phenomenon of "beef" burgers and "chicken" nuggets. America is a very Caveat Emptor place.
Stuff brewed from grain is not "beer" in other countries. C.f. the fact that Budweiser (and I assume other US beers...) is only brewed from rice in the US, and in other countries it is brewed from wheat, same as other beer. For instance, in Japan they have "happoshu" which ISN'T beer, isn't allowed to be called beer, and is taxed at a different rate to beer. The US has no (or very few) controls on what things are called compared to the rest of the civilised world - it's why you have cheap domestic "whisky" and "champage" (that last has just recently been changed so that only real Champagne can carry the name now)
It's made from rice. By law and common sense that makes it not-beer everywhere BUT the US.