First of all, I've seen a movie ripped from DVD on a 512 stick and, although I don't know at what resolution, it looked fine. I have problem with your assessment of the PSP:
1. Homebrew
To be honest, why would a game system support homebrew and how many people are really going to run homebrew? Love how/. makes this seem like a feature that John Q. Public gives a shit about. I don't care, and only a tiny minority does. The only reason homebrew works on any systems is through hacks anyways.
2. No good games
The library is a little thin right now I agree but it is always thin at launch - no exceptions. I hate the argument that it should just run older PS2 games, but since those games are a little dated why bother? Some aren't really games that would port to a portable system either.
3. Portable DVD player instead
Moot point because those do not play games.
4. MP3
I didn't buy it to play MP3s and I doubt that anyone did. It's just a 'value added' feature that people expect since it's just that easy to do now.
Nice that you call millions of people 'dumb suckers'. I have disposable income and just choose to purchase something that I do enjoy playing. I will say that if you are getting it purely for playing media you need to look elsewhere.
Like another poster said, I just don't care. I'm not stealing anything - I am using the data that a rightly paid for and moving it to some other media. I have no ethical problem with this since I'm not selling it or putting it out on a torrent. I'm watching it and then deleting it. We do have a little bit of privacy in this country (yes, the USA) and the FBI doesn't care either as long as it's not costing anyone money.
Ripping a DVD and using the data for personal use doesn't result in sales lost by the MPAA since most movies aren't on UMD anyways and I'm not going to buy them on UMD either.
.. a PSP and a few UMD movies. My wife likes watching the movies before bed. Since our schedules are skewed a bit I can sleep while she watches and listens via headphones.
The problem is that new releases are $22 a piece, and since I like to watch movies at home more than at a theatre I know the difference between a DVD and a UMD. If Sony would their new releases down to even $15 per UMD with older releases at $10 or less they would easily surpass a million UMD sales by now. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $22 for a movie I most likely already own in a different format.
If I was smart I would buy a 512mb memory stick and transfer movies to it instead. I just need to cough up the ~$60+ for it.
Yeah, no kiddy games on the GameCube - like Animal Crossing! I play it regularly and I'm 12! You adults should be busy playing Resident Evil or Metroid Prime. . . . . . .
Ok, I'm actually 28. I really like Animal Crossing and literally used to fight my wife over who gets some play time at night after work.
Me: "I just need to get on and plant those trees before I go to bed!"
Wife: "NO! I have to get on before 10 cause Nook's closes then and I won't be able to buy my stuff!"
Seriously though, British comedy is not subtle. Americans tend to not really be interested in slap-stick comedy whereas British comedy is a lot of that. Also, British comedy is all about narcissism - Rimmer/Lister/Cat from Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, the boss from the Office. American comedy is about the lovable loser - Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Simpsons.
I think subconciously the British like to hate themselves. I like British comedy so am I really saying I hate myself?
I think this is probably just about impossible. The plain fact is that you have to get 150 miles in 10 hours. That's an average of 15 miles per hour minimum. You obviously need to go faster than that.
So I'm going into geek mode now and say that most of the time you need to be going 30 mph. So in one second (if i did my math right) you need to be able to see something ~14 meters in front of you. You most likely need at least a 5 second headstart since you have to break or turn. So about 60 meters sound right? The more the better. You need sensors/image processing that are powerful enough to be accurate out that far and then you need to process it. Don't forget AI so you know what to do.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is very cool and would love to try to do this, but I'm realistic. If someone suceeds this time I will be very surprised.
...for me once, in middle school. I was in the highest level math class with about 30 of the same level kids. Every night we would get around 2 hours of math problems. What sticks in my mind are the long division problems where we had to, by hand, keep dividing out until we could identify the repeating digits.
Now, I could see doing maybe 5 or 10 problems but after that you are only turning kids off to math, and that's the issue we struggle with in the states already. My parents felt it was excessive and my mother was a teacher as well!
Bottom line is that without shear willpower and support from my parents I probably wouldn't have stayed in the high-level math. Would that have kept me out of the computer field later in life? Probably not, but why frustrate with extra homework that serves little purpose. It also was quite egotistical of my teacher to think that her class was the only one with homework.
I dropped calculus my senior year in high school to take woodshop and to be honest, that was one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. Designing furniture and then building it forced me to creatively apply the math I had learned and I discovered something I'm great at and enjoy doing as a hobby.
What's even more amazing is that there was a survey done somewhere, and quite a large portion of the average joes couldn't tell the difference between the PS1 and PS2's graphics...so good luck selling 'em this new generation;)
Wow, that's pure BS. I owned a PS1, and now own a PS2. There is a huge difference between the graphics. Quit being such an XBox fanboy. Find me the survey... and it better not have been sponsored by MS.
The fact is that you will see more of a jump from the PS2 to PS3 because there will be 2 years more between cycles then XBox to XBox 360. Sony won't let MS win this round and the PS3 will have XBox 360 features plus better graphics and a few more add-ons since it will be out a year later.
I was a big fan for a while. Season 1 was great, season 2 was pretty bad, definitely not good, and season 3 is only slightly better than 2. I haven't downloaded an episode for months.
I think it went downhill when they started giving donut or caboose (i get those two mixed up) more lines. The 'series' defnitely jumped the shark after season 1.
Just a side note, don't even bother with the Strangerhood. That 'series' is hideous and is a waste of bandwidth. I wonder what these guys are going to do once people get tired of RvB? Find real jobs I suppose. It was pretty interesting how much that website cleared out when WoW went online; it seemed like everyone was waiting for something else to waste their internet time on. I know I was.
I'm tired of all the/.'ers who think this is insignificant. The fact is that these judges said that this would infringe on a consumers ability to time-shift HDTV.
Don't be stupid and talk about DRM on DVDs because this isn't the same. I can watch a DVD over and over but with this flag I wouldn't be able to record 'Lost' and watch it later.
You may think that the average american, namely my father who was born in 1945 (yes, he's 59), wouldn't care about copying a DVD and you're right - he doesn't. But he sure as hell won't let anyone mess with his time-shifting ability, via TiVo (which he doesn't have but wants) or a VCR.
And when HDTV drops a little more he will get it and if he can't control it 100% like he wants he'll sick the AARP on them. And old people actually write their congressmen and complain until things get done.
And I'm supposed to believe a review from a guy who said 'Gigli' wasn't that bad. Because of what he said my wife and I rented it and - are you ready? - watched the entire movie.
It was bad. Not the worst movie I have ever seen, but definitely bottom 5. I have seen A LOT of movies. Enough said about that.
Thinking a Kevin Smith review is going to be objective would be like thinking a Win XP review done by Bill Gates is going to be objective. Smith is a fanboy and as poor a storyteller as Lucas.
Mind you, I liked Clerks, Mallrats, and thought Chasing Amy was his best. Dogma was good, but come on, Jay and Silent Bob was sophomoric and Jersey Girl was plain and boring. Kevin Smith is nothing special. The only difference between him and everyone else on/. is he got lucky with 1 movie and it has made his career. I really wonder how he can still make movies since all the ones he makes are medium-budget flops. After worldwide release JASBSB and Jersey Girl were flops. Only Dogma made a profit (8 mil profit). Don't know about the earlier - boxofficemojo.com doesn't have the production costs on those.
Funny thing is I loved Star Wars 4/5/6; you could even call me a fanboy. Same thing with Clerks/Mallrats/Chasing Amy - fanboy. Now both franchises only get a passing glance from me.
That said, yes, I am going to see it but I'm not excited about it when, if the franchise hadn't let me down, I should be. But it's just going to be another summer action movie like all the others and while that's fine, people get all bent out of shape expecting more.
Animal Crossing is a great game. When we got it my wife and I fought over time to play it, because it runs real-time if you didn't get home from work or we went out we would miss something.
It's best that we don't play it anymore. It was really consuming our lives.
... what is it that everyone expects from this movie? I haven't read any spoilers for the movie but, I mean we're all nerds here, we all know what happens:
Of all the Jedi only Yoda and Obi-wan are left, so you can expect Mace to die along with all the others. Obviously Anakin joins the Emperor and becomes dark, with the final battle against Anakin and Obi-wan in the whole 'lava extravaganza' in the previews is what physically destorys Anakin so he becomes Vader. Padme will be off with her baby (but there are really two! shocking!) to Alderaan. The Wookie angle might be something new but if you know a little back story you know how this turns out. Again the 'third' movie will end with muppets.
So really, why are the previews so upbeat? It's not as if the Jedi even have a chance at winning and everyone should know that by now. It seems like all the plot twists are reserved for episodes 4/5/6, which we've already seen. I would rather the commercials be dark, not this Nickelodeon/Disney crap.
Yes, I'm still going to go see it just like everyone else. I am a consumer whore.
The PSP I bought last Thursday had 3 out of the box. I returned it to Target and they allowed me to open another and turn it on to check it out. It didn't have any noticable dead pixels but it did have two 'dots' on the screen plastic whch were worse than any dead pixel. So we tried again, and the third one was perfect.
Went with a friend to get his, he decided to try WalMart and the first one was almost perfect. No dead pixels but a small imperfection in the screen plastic. He kept his because the imperfection was only about a millimeter or less from the top and it didn't affect game play.
Say what you want about the big store chains like Target and WalMart, but they had no problems accepting the unit back. No questions asked.
17% sounds just about right (maybe even too low) since of the 4 I saw only 2 were good enough to use.
Walnut is nice and with proper design allowing for maximum upgradability for hardware you could make more of a 'nerd's heirloom' - a nice piece of furniture that also serves as a media center.
Walnut, like most solid woods, can be expensive so always remember that a walnut veneered plywood works well and signifigantly reduces cost. It's also MUCH lighter than solid wood and doesn't shift with variances in moisture.
Articles like this one really make me want to get back into woodworking but I don't have the space due to apartment living:(
The answer to the question of how good Canseco was is "very, very good."
BS. Canseco was a mediocre player at best. His career batting average is barely above.250. The only reason anyone knows who Canseco is is because he hit home runs and apparently did that with the help of steriods.
He wasn't a baseball player, he was a batter. And this isn't a knock on the DH rule in the American League, it's a knock on Canseco. One time when he was playing outfield a fly ball bounced off his head and out of the park for a homerun and it should've been easily caught. Being an all-star is about popularity and hitting homeruns will make you popular, but where's his batting title? Where's his gold glove?
The hall of fame is for players who changed the game not cheapened it with one-sided play and CHEATING. Didn't his parents teach him that no one likes a cheater?
"New Games Journalism" does seem more like creative writing essays than anything else. You glean little to no information about a game. I enjoy the Always Black articles about anything more than everyday writing (AB is writing done extremely well).
For example, 'Bow, Nigger' could be about him playing any game online and seeing the same thing that ocurred. It really isn't game specific, it's just another anecdote from a different persective.
All this 'movement' really involves is good writers writing about a subject where good writers typically were few and far between. I wouldn't expect this stuff to fly in a game review magazine where people read to get facts on whether a game is worth buying or not.
I haven't played Eve Online and maybe I missed something (whether this is true or not) but scamming these people he only made 300 mil. I know he made closer to 500 mil but lost about 200 mil to a co-conspirator.
The problem I have is that he said he was making like 30 mil in some situations and it would only take a little while to hit 300 mil and he wouldn't have to be an ass in the mean time.
Good journalism or not, Metal Gear Solid 2 is not a good game. It may be art but is definitely wasn't fun, and I know because I forced myself to finish it after paying 50 bucks for it.
I remember hearing someone describe it as "a soap opera with a dart gun." If you want to piss off your target audience, that's the kind of game to make.
Those two items do not restrict use of the signal except where asked. For example, I imagine my TV has a v-chip but I don't use it. I don't have any kids so I don't need to restrict access to certain show ratings (what the intent of the v-chip is).
Closed captioning once again doesn't limit me. If I want it it's on, if I don't it's not. Besides it only allows MORE people access to the media instead of restricting access.
This broadcast flag limits my usage of the media in some way, mostly by not letting me time-shift. The difference is I will be kept from using the media that I rightly paid for and already has precedent which allows me to record and time-shift programs.
Listen gamers MIGHT pay to play for a while but mom and dad are NOT going to pay:
$50 a month for the internet
$20 bucks a month for Xbox Live
$20 bucks a month for little Johnny to play WOW:
I think you are even missing a bigger market segment. I'd like to play WOW with my friends but I'd like to also have an account for my wife. So $50 x 2 startup, and $15 x 2 per month (after the first month). $130 for 2 months of play for two people. We won't be power gamers either, probably playing 4-8 hours a week. You could incur the same costs or more if you have more than 1 kid in the family who wants to play.
So along with a modified payment structure maybe a lower payment structure for extra accounts? Say 50% per month for extra accounts on the same credit card? That would certainly get a few other players here or there...
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First of all, I've seen a movie ripped from DVD on a 512 stick and, although I don't know at what resolution, it looked fine. I have problem with your assessment of the PSP:
/. makes this seem like a feature that John Q. Public gives a shit about. I don't care, and only a tiny minority does. The only reason homebrew works on any systems is through hacks anyways.
1. Homebrew
To be honest, why would a game system support homebrew and how many people are really going to run homebrew? Love how
2. No good games
The library is a little thin right now I agree but it is always thin at launch - no exceptions. I hate the argument that it should just run older PS2 games, but since those games are a little dated why bother? Some aren't really games that would port to a portable system either.
3. Portable DVD player instead
Moot point because those do not play games.
4. MP3
I didn't buy it to play MP3s and I doubt that anyone did. It's just a 'value added' feature that people expect since it's just that easy to do now.
Nice that you call millions of people 'dumb suckers'. I have disposable income and just choose to purchase something that I do enjoy playing. I will say that if you are getting it purely for playing media you need to look elsewhere.
Like another poster said, I just don't care. I'm not stealing anything - I am using the data that a rightly paid for and moving it to some other media. I have no ethical problem with this since I'm not selling it or putting it out on a torrent. I'm watching it and then deleting it. We do have a little bit of privacy in this country (yes, the USA) and the FBI doesn't care either as long as it's not costing anyone money.
Ripping a DVD and using the data for personal use doesn't result in sales lost by the MPAA since most movies aren't on UMD anyways and I'm not going to buy them on UMD either.
.. a PSP and a few UMD movies. My wife likes watching the movies before bed. Since our schedules are skewed a bit I can sleep while she watches and listens via headphones.
The problem is that new releases are $22 a piece, and since I like to watch movies at home more than at a theatre I know the difference between a DVD and a UMD. If Sony would their new releases down to even $15 per UMD with older releases at $10 or less they would easily surpass a million UMD sales by now. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $22 for a movie I most likely already own in a different format.
If I was smart I would buy a 512mb memory stick and transfer movies to it instead. I just need to cough up the ~$60+ for it.
I don't like RPGs so I defintely would agree that the Myth series was not an RPG. Loved all 3. Yes, 3 as well.
Yeah, no kiddy games on the GameCube - like Animal Crossing! I play it regularly and I'm 12! You adults should be busy playing Resident Evil or Metroid Prime.
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Ok, I'm actually 28. I really like Animal Crossing and literally used to fight my wife over who gets some play time at night after work.
Me: "I just need to get on and plant those trees before I go to bed!"
Wife: "NO! I have to get on before 10 cause Nook's closes then and I won't be able to buy my stuff!"
Hypno-Toad!
Seriously though, British comedy is not subtle. Americans tend to not really be interested in slap-stick comedy whereas British comedy is a lot of that. Also, British comedy is all about narcissism - Rimmer/Lister/Cat from Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, the boss from the Office. American comedy is about the lovable loser - Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Simpsons.
I think subconciously the British like to hate themselves. I like British comedy so am I really saying I hate myself?
I think this is probably just about impossible. The plain fact is that you have to get 150 miles in 10 hours. That's an average of 15 miles per hour minimum. You obviously need to go faster than that.
So I'm going into geek mode now and say that most of the time you need to be going 30 mph. So in one second (if i did my math right) you need to be able to see something ~14 meters in front of you. You most likely need at least a 5 second headstart since you have to break or turn. So about 60 meters sound right? The more the better. You need sensors/image processing that are powerful enough to be accurate out that far and then you need to process it. Don't forget AI so you know what to do.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is very cool and would love to try to do this, but I'm realistic. If someone suceeds this time I will be very surprised.
Think as a parent for a moment.
I am, and at the same time feeling sorry for little Johnny because his parents most likely had an NES/SNES and he won't get any time to play it.
I'll be honest and say that if older games are downloadable for free (or even cheap) it's going to be the first next-gen system in my media cabinet.
...for me once, in middle school. I was in the highest level math class with about 30 of the same level kids. Every night we would get around 2 hours of math problems. What sticks in my mind are the long division problems where we had to, by hand, keep dividing out until we could identify the repeating digits.
Now, I could see doing maybe 5 or 10 problems but after that you are only turning kids off to math, and that's the issue we struggle with in the states already. My parents felt it was excessive and my mother was a teacher as well!
Bottom line is that without shear willpower and support from my parents I probably wouldn't have stayed in the high-level math. Would that have kept me out of the computer field later in life? Probably not, but why frustrate with extra homework that serves little purpose. It also was quite egotistical of my teacher to think that her class was the only one with homework.
I dropped calculus my senior year in high school to take woodshop and to be honest, that was one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. Designing furniture and then building it forced me to creatively apply the math I had learned and I discovered something I'm great at and enjoy doing as a hobby.
What's even more amazing is that there was a survey done somewhere, and quite a large portion of the average joes couldn't tell the difference between the PS1 and PS2's graphics...so good luck selling 'em this new generation ;)
Wow, that's pure BS. I owned a PS1, and now own a PS2. There is a huge difference between the graphics. Quit being such an XBox fanboy. Find me the survey... and it better not have been sponsored by MS.
The fact is that you will see more of a jump from the PS2 to PS3 because there will be 2 years more between cycles then XBox to XBox 360. Sony won't let MS win this round and the PS3 will have XBox 360 features plus better graphics and a few more add-ons since it will be out a year later.
I was a big fan for a while. Season 1 was great, season 2 was pretty bad, definitely not good, and season 3 is only slightly better than 2. I haven't downloaded an episode for months.
I think it went downhill when they started giving donut or caboose (i get those two mixed up) more lines. The 'series' defnitely jumped the shark after season 1.
Just a side note, don't even bother with the Strangerhood. That 'series' is hideous and is a waste of bandwidth. I wonder what these guys are going to do once people get tired of RvB? Find real jobs I suppose. It was pretty interesting how much that website cleared out when WoW went online; it seemed like everyone was waiting for something else to waste their internet time on. I know I was.
I'm tired of all the /.'ers who think this is insignificant. The fact is that these judges said that this would infringe on a consumers ability to time-shift HDTV.
Don't be stupid and talk about DRM on DVDs because this isn't the same. I can watch a DVD over and over but with this flag I wouldn't be able to record 'Lost' and watch it later.
You may think that the average american, namely my father who was born in 1945 (yes, he's 59), wouldn't care about copying a DVD and you're right - he doesn't. But he sure as hell won't let anyone mess with his time-shifting ability, via TiVo (which he doesn't have but wants) or a VCR.
And when HDTV drops a little more he will get it and if he can't control it 100% like he wants he'll sick the AARP on them. And old people actually write their congressmen and complain until things get done.
And I'm supposed to believe a review from a guy who said 'Gigli' wasn't that bad. Because of what he said my wife and I rented it and - are you ready? - watched the entire movie.
/. is he got lucky with 1 movie and it has made his career. I really wonder how he can still make movies since all the ones he makes are medium-budget flops. After worldwide release JASBSB and Jersey Girl were flops. Only Dogma made a profit (8 mil profit). Don't know about the earlier - boxofficemojo.com doesn't have the production costs on those.
It was bad. Not the worst movie I have ever seen, but definitely bottom 5. I have seen A LOT of movies. Enough said about that.
Thinking a Kevin Smith review is going to be objective would be like thinking a Win XP review done by Bill Gates is going to be objective. Smith is a fanboy and as poor a storyteller as Lucas.
Mind you, I liked Clerks, Mallrats, and thought Chasing Amy was his best. Dogma was good, but come on, Jay and Silent Bob was sophomoric and Jersey Girl was plain and boring. Kevin Smith is nothing special. The only difference between him and everyone else on
Funny thing is I loved Star Wars 4/5/6; you could even call me a fanboy. Same thing with Clerks/Mallrats/Chasing Amy - fanboy. Now both franchises only get a passing glance from me.
That said, yes, I am going to see it but I'm not excited about it when, if the franchise hadn't let me down, I should be. But it's just going to be another summer action movie like all the others and while that's fine, people get all bent out of shape expecting more.
Animal Crossing is a great game. When we got it my wife and I fought over time to play it, because it runs real-time if you didn't get home from work or we went out we would miss something.
It's best that we don't play it anymore. It was really consuming our lives.
... what is it that everyone expects from this movie? I haven't read any spoilers for the movie but, I mean we're all nerds here, we all know what happens:
Of all the Jedi only Yoda and Obi-wan are left, so you can expect Mace to die along with all the others. Obviously Anakin joins the Emperor and becomes dark, with the final battle against Anakin and Obi-wan in the whole 'lava extravaganza' in the previews is what physically destorys Anakin so he becomes Vader. Padme will be off with her baby (but there are really two! shocking!) to Alderaan. The Wookie angle might be something new but if you know a little back story you know how this turns out. Again the 'third' movie will end with muppets.
So really, why are the previews so upbeat? It's not as if the Jedi even have a chance at winning and everyone should know that by now. It seems like all the plot twists are reserved for episodes 4/5/6, which we've already seen. I would rather the commercials be dark, not this Nickelodeon/Disney crap.
Yes, I'm still going to go see it just like everyone else. I am a consumer whore.
we finally won't have to hear the standard 'WoW vs. FFO' flamewars? That would really make my year.
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WoW Fanboy: 'FFO sucks, it's just so blah, blah, blah...'
FFO Fanboy: 'Real gamers play real MMOs like FFO blah, blah, blah...'
WoW Fanboy: 'You're an idiot, 'real gamers'?! If you look at stats blah, blah, blah...'
FFO Fanboy: 'You don't know sh!t, Blizzard sucks blah, blah, blah...'
ad nauseum
Happy April Fool's everyone....
The PSP I bought last Thursday had 3 out of the box. I returned it to Target and they allowed me to open another and turn it on to check it out. It didn't have any noticable dead pixels but it did have two 'dots' on the screen plastic whch were worse than any dead pixel. So we tried again, and the third one was perfect.
Went with a friend to get his, he decided to try WalMart and the first one was almost perfect. No dead pixels but a small imperfection in the screen plastic. He kept his because the imperfection was only about a millimeter or less from the top and it didn't affect game play.
Say what you want about the big store chains like Target and WalMart, but they had no problems accepting the unit back. No questions asked.
17% sounds just about right (maybe even too low) since of the 4 I saw only 2 were good enough to use.
Walnut is nice and with proper design allowing for maximum upgradability for hardware you could make more of a 'nerd's heirloom' - a nice piece of furniture that also serves as a media center.
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Walnut, like most solid woods, can be expensive so always remember that a walnut veneered plywood works well and signifigantly reduces cost. It's also MUCH lighter than solid wood and doesn't shift with variances in moisture.
Articles like this one really make me want to get back into woodworking but I don't have the space due to apartment living
I think it's called 'Final Fantasy XXX: Cleveland Steamers'.
The answer to the question of how good Canseco was is "very, very good."
.250. The only reason anyone knows who Canseco is is because he hit home runs and apparently did that with the help of steriods.
BS. Canseco was a mediocre player at best. His career batting average is barely above
He wasn't a baseball player, he was a batter. And this isn't a knock on the DH rule in the American League, it's a knock on Canseco. One time when he was playing outfield a fly ball bounced off his head and out of the park for a homerun and it should've been easily caught. Being an all-star is about popularity and hitting homeruns will make you popular, but where's his batting title? Where's his gold glove?
The hall of fame is for players who changed the game not cheapened it with one-sided play and CHEATING. Didn't his parents teach him that no one likes a cheater?
"New Games Journalism" does seem more like creative writing essays than anything else. You glean little to no information about a game. I enjoy the Always Black articles about anything more than everyday writing (AB is writing done extremely well).
For example, 'Bow, Nigger' could be about him playing any game online and seeing the same thing that ocurred. It really isn't game specific, it's just another anecdote from a different persective.
All this 'movement' really involves is good writers writing about a subject where good writers typically were few and far between. I wouldn't expect this stuff to fly in a game review magazine where people read to get facts on whether a game is worth buying or not.
I haven't played Eve Online and maybe I missed something (whether this is true or not) but scamming these people he only made 300 mil. I know he made closer to 500 mil but lost about 200 mil to a co-conspirator.
The problem I have is that he said he was making like 30 mil in some situations and it would only take a little while to hit 300 mil and he wouldn't have to be an ass in the mean time.
Maybe someone can clear this up if I'm wrong.
Good journalism or not, Metal Gear Solid 2 is not a good game. It may be art but is definitely wasn't fun, and I know because I forced myself to finish it after paying 50 bucks for it. I remember hearing someone describe it as "a soap opera with a dart gun." If you want to piss off your target audience, that's the kind of game to make.
Those two items do not restrict use of the signal except where asked. For example, I imagine my TV has a v-chip but I don't use it. I don't have any kids so I don't need to restrict access to certain show ratings (what the intent of the v-chip is).
Closed captioning once again doesn't limit me. If I want it it's on, if I don't it's not. Besides it only allows MORE people access to the media instead of restricting access.
This broadcast flag limits my usage of the media in some way, mostly by not letting me time-shift. The difference is I will be kept from using the media that I rightly paid for and already has precedent which allows me to record and time-shift programs.
Listen gamers MIGHT pay to play for a while but mom and dad are NOT going to pay:
$50 a month for the internet
$20 bucks a month for Xbox Live
$20 bucks a month for little Johnny to play WOW:
I think you are even missing a bigger market segment. I'd like to play WOW with my friends but I'd like to also have an account for my wife. So $50 x 2 startup, and $15 x 2 per month (after the first month). $130 for 2 months of play for two people. We won't be power gamers either, probably playing 4-8 hours a week. You could incur the same costs or more if you have more than 1 kid in the family who wants to play.
So along with a modified payment structure maybe a lower payment structure for extra accounts? Say 50% per month for extra accounts on the same credit card? That would certainly get a few other players here or there...