Actually, if you let the terrorists get far enough ahead of you then you can shoot them dead;
I guess I didn't try hard enough then...
but then the game stops and tells you that your mission failed because you're not supposed to shoot the bad guys. Your idea where you could you die trying to stop them is great as an American Terrorist body in the sky mall area of the airport would be just as good as a body at the end of the mission in terms of the plot line.
That's exactly what I meant. The whole flavor and moral overtone of that mission would change completely if success meant you had to die trying to stop them and failure meant you killed civilians or security or did nothing.
I actually went back to re-play the mission to answer the same question as soon as I'd finished the campaign. The game will not let you fire on the terrorists at all.
This is where I think the developers could have really done something special and failed... if as soon as you realize the intent of the terrorists you could eliminate them (or die trying) there could have been two paths to the storyline... one in which you complete the massacre, and one in which it is stopped short. They could have easily wrapped both up in the whole story with minimal impact on cut scenes.
Not having the opportunity to do the right thing here is where the scene fails.
What I'd like to know is how many players get to this sequence and wonder "Now wtf do I do?" And what does it imply about those people who start blowing away the civilians without pause?
If you do NOT ponder the morals of a video game allowing you the choice of massacring dozens of unarmed civilians then there are larger issues at stake.
I actually found myself facing a moral quandry when I got to this mission. So I opted to try not using my weapon at all... this was no problem until we faced heavy opposition from the security forces and I opted to apply my fire selectively for self defense. So all told I fired less than 50 rounds, didn't shoot a single civilian and mostly hid behind things.
That being said I have been waiting for this to hit the proverbial fan ever since.
This does work. This spring my son dropped out of the reserves (to save his grades for his final year of school and thereby his whole career path) and left himself without his planned summer job. So I paid him and two of his friends minimum wage for a month as they completely re-landscaped my yard and built me a deck. It was a real win/win. He graduated, my yard looks better than ever and they stayed out of trouble and still had some fun because they spent a month hanging out in the sun.
I did not read the whole report but there is absolutely no mention of severity in that press release... nor does it mention how they counted them. Are these defects that have been acknowledged and fixed? From what I can see it's entirely possible that they've counted the THOUSANDS of trivial defects that Firefox discloses and fixes as a matter of course while Microsoft will only disclose the severe ones.
Don't get too excited by the Green River shale solving all our problems - that stuff has to be stripped mined out, and then processed with water... a lot of water in drought prone areas... so your # barrels per day from the deposit is never going to be high enough to meet domestic needs.
Read up on the emerging disaster that is the Alberta Tar Sands project to get a good perspective on just how bad an idea it would be to attempt to process that crap.
Both Oracle and Sun do an enormous amount of business in Europe and as such I expect they operate locale offices or divisions that exist as entities subject to European law.
Similarly US subsidiaries of organizations such as Siemens who are primarily European are subject to US law. (And why it was legal for Cuba to nationalize all those companies way beck when, their ball, their rules.)
More like "thanks for raising the bar and forcing us to improve". I have long argued that the role of OSS isn't necessarily to take over the world but to make it a better place by doing things better for free than most companies do for profit. (Sort of like the NDP party in Canada, they'll never run the country because every time they have a good idea the Liberals take it, implement it and claim it as their own.)
No need for nightmares. Africa isn't going to split up. It's just another one of those Godzilla type monsters breaking free. It should head over to Japan before starting its killing spree, with atomic bombs being dropped on it all along its path. Nothing to worry about at all.
Oh crap not again. Do you have ANY idea how long it takes to concoct a viable cover-up story every time Godzilla comes into Tokyo?
(P.S. at this point, isn't dual-core the new single core? It's almost less "this system is so fast" and more "maaaan, this program is so non-bloated that it runs fine on a mere dual-core; suck it, Crysis!" I kid, I kid).
Good question really... My gaming rig for the past two years has been a quad-core, I can barely tolerate the old dual-core crap my company pays for now.
Consequently I am seriously entertaining the thought of getting a mac-pro with a PAIR of quad cores and enough ram to bathe in.
That's one reason I stopped using X11 forwarding even though I could: If I lost connection on my laptop for any reason, every application I had open was dead. With VNC (or RDP), they were always running remotely.
Also, if I have an application open on display:0 I have no way (that I know) of moving it from:0 to:10 and having it appear uninterrupted on my local display.
Amen brother.
Random but related question to the "experts": Is there no way to "suspend" an X session and allow it to reconnect later? It would be a truly killer feature.
By the way, the wikipedia page says this about GDI: "GDI is similar to Macintosh's QuickDraw and Linux Xlib."
Whereas the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy refers to it as: "The result of a lost weekend of binge drinking by a group of wankers who will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes."
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Actually, if you let the terrorists get far enough ahead of you then you can shoot them dead;
I guess I didn't try hard enough then...
but then the game stops and tells you that your mission failed because you're not supposed to shoot the bad guys. Your idea where you could you die trying to stop them is great as an American Terrorist body in the sky mall area of the airport would be just as good as a body at the end of the mission in terms of the plot line.
That's exactly what I meant. The whole flavor and moral overtone of that mission would change completely if success meant you had to die trying to stop them and failure meant you killed civilians or security or did nothing.
I actually went back to re-play the mission to answer the same question as soon as I'd finished the campaign. The game will not let you fire on the terrorists at all.
This is where I think the developers could have really done something special and failed... if as soon as you realize the intent of the terrorists you could eliminate them (or die trying) there could have been two paths to the storyline... one in which you complete the massacre, and one in which it is stopped short. They could have easily wrapped both up in the whole story with minimal impact on cut scenes.
Not having the opportunity to do the right thing here is where the scene fails.
What I'd like to know is how many players get to this sequence and wonder "Now wtf do I do?" And what does it imply about those people who start blowing away the civilians without pause?
If you do NOT ponder the morals of a video game allowing you the choice of massacring dozens of unarmed civilians then there are larger issues at stake.
Question - do you find it a moral quandary to run over people in the GTA games? Or play a thief stealing from people in any number of games?
Nowhere near as much as the massacre scene. It's very deliberately quite disturbing.
I actually found myself facing a moral quandry when I got to this mission. So I opted to try not using my weapon at all... this was no problem until we faced heavy opposition from the security forces and I opted to apply my fire selectively for self defense. So all told I fired less than 50 rounds, didn't shoot a single civilian and mostly hid behind things.
That being said I have been waiting for this to hit the proverbial fan ever since.
*breaks down sobbing*
I need a hug!
PTSD or nostalgia?
This does work. This spring my son dropped out of the reserves (to save his grades for his final year of school and thereby his whole career path) and left himself without his planned summer job. So I paid him and two of his friends minimum wage for a month as they completely re-landscaped my yard and built me a deck. It was a real win/win. He graduated, my yard looks better than ever and they stayed out of trouble and still had some fun because they spent a month hanging out in the sun.
Never a mod point when you need one. *tips hat*
I did not read the whole report but there is absolutely no mention of severity in that press release... nor does it mention how they counted them. Are these defects that have been acknowledged and fixed? From what I can see it's entirely possible that they've counted the THOUSANDS of trivial defects that Firefox discloses and fixes as a matter of course while Microsoft will only disclose the severe ones.
The medieval Saudi despots and thugs like Hugo Chavez want to grab all the money they can while THEY'RE alive.
Unlike the great patriots like Bush who have NO personal interest in the oil business? Hello? McFly?
Don't get too excited by the Green River shale solving all our problems - that stuff has to be stripped mined out, and then processed with water... a lot of water in drought prone areas... so your # barrels per day from the deposit is never going to be high enough to meet domestic needs.
Read up on the emerging disaster that is the Alberta Tar Sands project to get a good perspective on just how bad an idea it would be to attempt to process that crap.
Both Oracle and Sun do an enormous amount of business in Europe and as such I expect they operate locale offices or divisions that exist as entities subject to European law.
Similarly US subsidiaries of organizations such as Siemens who are primarily European are subject to US law. (And why it was legal for Cuba to nationalize all those companies way beck when, their ball, their rules.)
A "Thanks for trying but we are still #1" cake?
More like "thanks for raising the bar and forcing us to improve". I have long argued that the role of OSS isn't necessarily to take over the world but to make it a better place by doing things better for free than most companies do for profit. (Sort of like the NDP party in Canada, they'll never run the country because every time they have a good idea the Liberals take it, implement it and claim it as their own.)
... we have no choice but to believe in free will. Our society depends on it.
Quite possibly the most insightful comment I've ever seen on Slashdot.
*turns in uber geek card* ... I feel so old ...
What about the other 10%?
Random symptoms ranging from mild shock to catatonia.
No need for nightmares. Africa isn't going to split up. It's just another one of those Godzilla type monsters breaking free. It should head over to Japan before starting its killing spree, with atomic bombs being dropped on it all along its path. Nothing to worry about at all.
Oh crap not again. Do you have ANY idea how long it takes to concoct a viable cover-up story every time Godzilla comes into Tokyo?
In other news, running "sudo rm -rf /" as may cause migraines in up to 90% of linux administrators.
Windows 7 had 1.9% market share before launch?
Similar to how I was running Ubuntu 9.10 the week before it launched, nothing to see here, move along.
(P.S. at this point, isn't dual-core the new single core? It's almost less "this system is so fast" and more "maaaan, this program is so non-bloated that it runs fine on a mere dual-core; suck it, Crysis!" I kid, I kid).
Good question really... My gaming rig for the past two years has been a quad-core, I can barely tolerate the old dual-core crap my company pays for now.
Consequently I am seriously entertaining the thought of getting a mac-pro with a PAIR of quad cores and enough ram to bathe in.
That's one reason I stopped using X11 forwarding even though I could: If I lost connection on my laptop for any reason, every application I had open was dead. With VNC (or RDP), they were always running remotely.
Also, if I have an application open on display :0 I have no way (that I know) of moving it from :0 to :10 and having it appear uninterrupted on my local display.
Amen brother.
Random but related question to the "experts": Is there no way to "suspend" an X session and allow it to reconnect later? It would be a truly killer feature.
By the way, the wikipedia page says this about GDI: "GDI is similar to Macintosh's QuickDraw and Linux Xlib."
Whereas the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy refers to it as: "The result of a lost weekend of binge drinking by a group of wankers who will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes."
Have you ever tried to search for a torrent outside of the warm and cozy confines of TPB?
Conversely you could try not violating copyright law.... just saying...
They might just dress you up in women's clothing...
... and hang around in bars?
Warm, fresh baguettes are one of life's greatest pleasures; why would you have a cold, dry one? :( Ça, c'est la vrai calamité !
*makes note to visit bakery on the way home*