Oh, right. And if someone throws a comparison to the tienanmen square image searches on google.cn and google.com, I will personally find you and shoot you. The whole shock thing doesn't work once it's been posted on every google story in/.
Lay off of Google once in a while. They're agreeing to provide free wi-fi to a city. I know that everyone loves to trounce on anything that's big, but big companies are not always bad things. I frankly don't care if google handles all of my internet capabilities, because I trust them to do the right thing, and so far thay haven't proven me wrong. If we're still complaining about their decision in china, I think they did the right thing. They have clearly labeled warnings if chinese denizens search for something that's censored, and at least they have some freedom. What if Google was cut out entirely in China, and the only search engines that worked were something that's 100% government friendly? I'm not saying you have to like everything Google has done, but they have on multiple occaisions stood up for our privacy where other's have buckled, and until they decide to change that (which I don't think will happen unless there's a complete sweep of the Board of Directors), I will happily consume their goods and services.
Not to put down the article much (I do like the way it was written, with some fresh data), but he's just using new data to re-re-reconfirm what many other people have many times. MMOs were decidedly going to get increasingly more important. We've got that ever since EverQuest came out. Cool. Now, if there was something more interesting, like, well, "Based on such-and-such, we should have 3D MMOs in 10 years, where people are completley immersed in the game", then I would be more impressed.
Cool data, old news.
Guys, guys, no need to fret. The french will just veto it. Again. You see, vetoing is like striking, and as such is something we are naturally proficient at. We just do what we do best.
Uh oh, my small fanboy-brain cant handle this. There is a small civil war going on in my brain. To the left, there's the "Yay for google, they are teh bestest!" camp, and to the right, there is the "OMG TEH BIG BROTHER IS GONNA GET YOUSE!" camp.....I just hope my brain doesnt explode....
"I don't picture overweight, pot-smoking, white college kids with 2.0 GPA's and a 1337 gaming PC playing first-person shooters as our fighting force. "
What about overweight, pot-smoking black college kids?
I, like my comrades above, think that this stage of Massive games is just a beginning. This is the gaming industry sticking their toe in the lake to test the water. When they eventually (and they will) take the dive, I think there would be a huge infux in gaming.
I for one am an avid MMO player, but I like to think that I am different from most others. I play these games not for the level grinding and the cool stuff and such, but for the social aspects of it. I don't think of MMOs as a game as much as the next step in chat rooms, a 3D IRC if you will, where you can find and chill with some people, talk about stuff, then go out and kill some monsters. I used to play City of Heroes spell, around a month or so after it came out. I found a little glitch in the game (not explaining what, I dont think that they have patched it by now) where you can wind up behind the map in little patches of land the devs didn' t take out. I was around level 27 and had both flight and teleportation, so I began forming parties and teleporting friends to the pach of land in the middle of nowhere, break out a boombox, and have fun. Some people thought it was majorly cool, others just wanted to leave. My point is that people gladly took time out of their level grinding to just go to a place and have fun and talk about current events.
When games make the eventual leap into some primitive form of virtual reality (which I think will happen in approx 20-30 years or so), and games pop up similar to the.hack universe (an anime series set in a universe where MMOs have taken the leap to VR), and a whole new series of issues would arise. Before everyone starts retorting on how this would never happen, look back on the past 20-30 years, where computers were just being brought out for public usage. Things have advaned insanely since then.
To try to sum up my ramblings: MMOs will become more popular, they will have a more social aspect, and when virtual reality is widley distributed, especially in MMOs (which it will), fecal matter will hit the fan.
The GameGear also required 6AA batteries that died out after 3-4 hours. The GameBoy required 4 AA batteries that lasted for 12-24 odd hours on end. THAT is why the Gameboy won. Well, that and the fact that the Game Boy had Kirby. And Kirby > most other characters at the time.
- 16-bit graphics! - 15 MB storage for your favorite MP3s! - Stereo Sound! - Easy to replace (Only need to unscrew one thing) game cartrages! - Wireless technology allowes you to play with someone up to fifteen (15) feet away!
I first saw porn at 12, looking through some search engine for a normal picture of Aeris/Aerith for my desktop. Course, searching for anything female results in porn, cuz thats the internet. Anyways, a whole bunch of years later, I'm still a normal person. I've played Doom at the age of 4. Still normal. I've played every GTA game when it came out. Still normal. Being on the internet as often as I was when I was a kid, I've seen some of the most disgusting stuff drempt of by humans, this is at the age of 10 on, and I'm still alive and normal and not turned on by excessive laxitives in donkeys. I now am studying psycology, and though I might not have a degree, I've studied enough to know that kids can normally discern the lines of imagination and reality from 9 on.
I've actually walked in on seminars for parents on how to ristrict internet access for kids, and when they learned if he/she has been on the internet for a while, their lovely perfect child might have seen porn. There were gasps, I saw some white faces, and one woman actually fainted. Their kids were in 6th grade. Sorry, but as a human I have issues with that kind of parenting, and while it might be their right as parents to control everything their kids do, I know for a fact that it is far worse for a kid to grow up in a parental bubble where everything is funny and fluffy then to see a pair of breasts.
I live in a boarding school, which forces us to go through a proxy. This proxy does not allow any form of ftp transfer (or anything at all that doesnt go through 80 for that matter. Fare thee well IRC...) Well, I got the extended directors cut HL2 ultra turbo edition, and, well, I can't play it. And neither can 14 other people here who bought it. And this blows. I know that the majority of the Steam consumers are not behind a proxy, but for us minority, we cant play the god damn game...
Its not like companies haven't done reaserch on this before. There are many many subtle tactics used in commercials nowadays. The most obvious one is how everything is priced at 19.95 instead of 20$, because we subconsiously think that we are getting a bargain out of it. There is a whole department in most corperations devoted to this kind of stuff (Public Relations). This just makes it easier for companies to pick up more of those little subtleties, so instead of having to have a focus group you just have a CAT scan.
Well PlanetSide will go down the tube anyways because UT and BF offer pretty much massively multiplayer without a monthly subscription or anything, and the mod capabilities are way higher. AC is nothing special, an expansion to an MMO is nothing really new. Mostly just getting you to shell out 30$ for something a programmer doodled with in his spare time...
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Oh, right. And if someone throws a comparison to the tienanmen square image searches on google.cn and google.com, I will personally find you and shoot you. The whole shock thing doesn't work once it's been posted on every google story in /.
Lay off of Google once in a while. They're agreeing to provide free wi-fi to a city. I know that everyone loves to trounce on anything that's big, but big companies are not always bad things. I frankly don't care if google handles all of my internet capabilities, because I trust them to do the right thing, and so far thay haven't proven me wrong. If we're still complaining about their decision in china, I think they did the right thing. They have clearly labeled warnings if chinese denizens search for something that's censored, and at least they have some freedom. What if Google was cut out entirely in China, and the only search engines that worked were something that's 100% government friendly? I'm not saying you have to like everything Google has done, but they have on multiple occaisions stood up for our privacy where other's have buckled, and until they decide to change that (which I don't think will happen unless there's a complete sweep of the Board of Directors), I will happily consume their goods and services.
Still no cure for cancer. But we're getting closer.
To quote a good friend of mine: "Sarcasm gets lost after the http:///" Sorry for the misunderstanding :-P
The code will also include an automatic call to the local SWAT team if any pirate-related activity is detected.
well, 'cept for the whole bubble and the recession and that. That kinda killed the whole ".coms = money" theory.
Not to put down the article much (I do like the way it was written, with some fresh data), but he's just using new data to re-re-reconfirm what many other people have many times. MMOs were decidedly going to get increasingly more important. We've got that ever since EverQuest came out. Cool. Now, if there was something more interesting, like, well, "Based on such-and-such, we should have 3D MMOs in 10 years, where people are completley immersed in the game", then I would be more impressed. Cool data, old news.
Guys, guys, no need to fret. The french will just veto it. Again. You see, vetoing is like striking, and as such is something we are naturally proficient at. We just do what we do best.
Ah, I can see it now...
Gender: Female
Breast Size: +30
Skirt Size: -20
Skirt Flap in Wind: Yes
Uh oh, my small fanboy-brain cant handle this. There is a small civil war going on in my brain. To the left, there's the "Yay for google, they are teh bestest!" camp, and to the right, there is the "OMG TEH BIG BROTHER IS GONNA GET YOUSE!" camp.....I just hope my brain doesnt explode....
"I don't picture overweight, pot-smoking, white college kids with 2.0 GPA's and a 1337 gaming PC playing first-person shooters as our fighting force. "
What about overweight, pot-smoking black college kids?
Biting server shiny metal asses since 1997.
Duke Nukem: Forever
I, like my comrades above, think that this stage of Massive games is just a beginning. This is the gaming industry sticking their toe in the lake to test the water. When they eventually (and they will) take the dive, I think there would be a huge infux in gaming.
.hack universe (an anime series set in a universe where MMOs have taken the leap to VR), and a whole new series of issues would arise. Before everyone starts retorting on how this would never happen, look back on the past 20-30 years, where computers were just being brought out for public usage. Things have advaned insanely since then.
I for one am an avid MMO player, but I like to think that I am different from most others. I play these games not for the level grinding and the cool stuff and such, but for the social aspects of it. I don't think of MMOs as a game as much as the next step in chat rooms, a 3D IRC if you will, where you can find and chill with some people, talk about stuff, then go out and kill some monsters. I used to play City of Heroes spell, around a month or so after it came out. I found a little glitch in the game (not explaining what, I dont think that they have patched it by now) where you can wind up behind the map in little patches of land the devs didn' t take out. I was around level 27 and had both flight and teleportation, so I began forming parties and teleporting friends to the pach of land in the middle of nowhere, break out a boombox, and have fun. Some people thought it was majorly cool, others just wanted to leave. My point is that people gladly took time out of their level grinding to just go to a place and have fun and talk about current events.
When games make the eventual leap into some primitive form of virtual reality (which I think will happen in approx 20-30 years or so), and games pop up similar to the
To try to sum up my ramblings: MMOs will become more popular, they will have a more social aspect, and when virtual reality is widley distributed, especially in MMOs (which it will), fecal matter will hit the fan.
The GameGear also required 6AA batteries that died out after 3-4 hours. The GameBoy required 4 AA batteries that lasted for 12-24 odd hours on end. THAT is why the Gameboy won. Well, that and the fact that the Game Boy had Kirby. And Kirby > most other characters at the time.
An Ending.
Eidos is like a mansion in a corny horror movie: anything that goes in dies. Ion Storm gets to play the part of the black dude.
- 16-bit graphics!
- 15 MB storage for your favorite MP3s!
- Stereo Sound!
- Easy to replace (Only need to unscrew one thing) game cartrages!
- Wireless technology allowes you to play with someone up to fifteen (15) feet away!
BUY IT NOW!!!
hehe... Reader Rabbit... *nostalgic moment.... now*
I first saw porn at 12, looking through some search engine for a normal picture of Aeris/Aerith for my desktop. Course, searching for anything female results in porn, cuz thats the internet. Anyways, a whole bunch of years later, I'm still a normal person. I've played Doom at the age of 4. Still normal. I've played every GTA game when it came out. Still normal. Being on the internet as often as I was when I was a kid, I've seen some of the most disgusting stuff drempt of by humans, this is at the age of 10 on, and I'm still alive and normal and not turned on by excessive laxitives in donkeys. I now am studying psycology, and though I might not have a degree, I've studied enough to know that kids can normally discern the lines of imagination and reality from 9 on.
I've actually walked in on seminars for parents on how to ristrict internet access for kids, and when they learned if he/she has been on the internet for a while, their lovely perfect child might have seen porn. There were gasps, I saw some white faces, and one woman actually fainted. Their kids were in 6th grade. Sorry, but as a human I have issues with that kind of parenting, and while it might be their right as parents to control everything their kids do, I know for a fact that it is far worse for a kid to grow up in a parental bubble where everything is funny and fluffy then to see a pair of breasts.
I live in a boarding school, which forces us to go through a proxy. This proxy does not allow any form of ftp transfer (or anything at all that doesnt go through 80 for that matter. Fare thee well IRC...) Well, I got the extended directors cut HL2 ultra turbo edition, and, well, I can't play it. And neither can 14 other people here who bought it. And this blows. I know that the majority of the Steam consumers are not behind a proxy, but for us minority, we cant play the god damn game...
I wonder if this is a move based on that "mind reading" ad campaign?
Its not like companies haven't done reaserch on this before. There are many many subtle tactics used in commercials nowadays. The most obvious one is how everything is priced at 19.95 instead of 20$, because we subconsiously think that we are getting a bargain out of it. There is a whole department in most corperations devoted to this kind of stuff (Public Relations). This just makes it easier for companies to pick up more of those little subtleties, so instead of having to have a focus group you just have a CAT scan.
Well PlanetSide will go down the tube anyways because UT and BF offer pretty much massively multiplayer without a monthly subscription or anything, and the mod capabilities are way higher. AC is nothing special, an expansion to an MMO is nothing really new. Mostly just getting you to shell out 30$ for something a programmer doodled with in his spare time...
I can imagine certain channels that "cant be found", that just happen to have had some falling out with microsoft...