It must be a word now, its in the Dictionary! yeah, THE dictionary -- as if there were only one, as if dictionary's have anything to do with enforcing officialism, which it does not.
The word 'addiction' is used in such a pejorative way these days. who cares what Joe Bob, the next door neighbor, does with his time and money? this issue is unworthy of serious attention. What concerns me more is addiction to television and all-out drama. have you seen anything on television lately? if world war 3 came around in a couple years, I'm sure they'd even turn that into a reality show and everyone would love to sit mindlessly infront of their brain sucking CRTs. unless you've got evidence of a truely and physically addictive act, then don't call it addiction. call them what you will: hobbyists, enthusiasts, whatever, but don't call them addicts.
I work 40 hours a week, all 52 weeks of the year. working takes up all day 5 out of 7 days a week that I could be spending with my family. are you going to call me a job addict because that interferes with my family life?
correct me if I'm wrong, but there were 4 novels, not 5. Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Mostly Harmless, and the Resturant at the End of the Galaxy. where's the fifth??
I must say, slashdot is a great source of news. The only problem I see with it is the fact that people don't want to hear anything logical or rational, and when they do they bash whoever posted it like yo ujust did. Sure, I may have been irrational in my previous post, and may very well get banned for it. If you want a pointer in life, here is one: Don't talk down to people!
Firstly, take me for my opinion and only my opinion. Secondly, HTML formatting is selected by default so my spacing and indentations were completely lost because I forgot to select text formatting. My perspective is that of a pissed off 19 year old. I'm just sick of people like you complaining about petty things like punc-tu-a-tion. wooedpy shit. loook at mee i m not spell i nngg rihghhttt. I hate you. go kill yourself.
"It was while standing in my first-ever ladies' room line at E3 2004 as I pondered the Playboy bunnies, the return of Leisure Suit Larry, and the slew of buxom virtual ladies headlining each booth that I questioned whether the industry had evolved at all."
femenist bullshit. if it was playgirl magazine figures, men in tight underwaer and virutal "gentlemen" handling each booth, you'd have no complaint. end of story.
I'm so sick of people (namely women) looking down upon human sexuality. sure it's primitive, but you cant keep labido on a leash. Nor can you bash an industry for selling what sells. and big breasted women in bikkini's sell.
so please, stop complaing about how the "gaming industry has not evolved", and continue to rule the world with hot chicks and sex. that would be the intelligent choice of action.
"It's just like the R rating at theaters, or the fact that kids can't buy tobacco until 18, or beer until 21. I certainly woulnd't want my kids to (at age 9) walk into a store and buy GTA 8: Be a Porn Star. When he's 18, or I decide to buy it for him.. fine."
you don't seem to understand. this is nothign like R ratings at movie theatres. the point you're missing is that even if YOU decide your child can play a violent of sexually explicit video game, he STILL cannot, and you will be sent to jail or be fined and all that, and who knows, child protection agencies would take your kid away because you did what you thought was best for him or her.
what this means, is that video games will become controband to minors, no matter WHAT the parent has to say about it.
"video games are NOT physically harmful!"
nor are they harmful psychologically, I might add. (that is if you aren't already psychologically unstable)
"Alcohol and tobacco are PHYSICALLY HARMFUL"
can you die of marijuana? nope. not unless you sufffocate, which I don't think has ever happened, or do something under the influence. but hey, marijuana is far less harmful than alcohol. nobody that has ever read any statistics or studies can't argue that.
and finally, I can't end a post and not mention fascists:
video games are not a problem to anyone, only the assholes that want to censor what they dont think is fit for complete strangers. we have a name for these people. they are called FASCISTS. and I personally (and obviously) have quite a peeve about them.
int isRehabFascism(void) { bool fascist; char rehab[401];// unless rehab is sought out by the person who is// getting "rehabilitated", it's pure fascism.
strcpy(rehab, "your view of the world is wrong, this is the right one."); fascist = true;
This is further proof that corporations like Sony and Microsoft do not belong in the console industry. Nintendo is the only console company that I can respect (Being a die-never PC gamer, I still have to play all the Resident Evils or Zeldas). More or less, I'm just not a big fan of the titles. Sony makes everything...
I have the sudden urge to use that technology in something like Counter-Strike or Quake 3. sniping and railing would be ridiculously easy...I want it! when will NewEgg have one of these helmet-mouse... mouse-cap...thingies?:-D
err...I wonder what the DPI is on one of those things compared to a mouse.
that'll teach them to send ME popups! MUAHAHAH! the internet was not intended for advertising and solicitation. the only problem is maintaining a server without making the $$$ from advertising. does it REALLY take that much!?
"A correspondent of Novinky.Cz recently attended the Prague set of "Doom" and reported back a well spring of information in regards to the video game adaptation.
Originally, the $70 million film was supposed to be helmed by Enda McCallion. Later, he was replaced by Andrzej Bartkowiak. Screenwriter Dave Callahan claims "everyone was keen to keep the game's atmosphere", though there are some "minor" changes done to the film's concept: The monsters have nothing to do with hell, the plot is not taking place on Mars and "space marines" are not well "space marines" as their outfits are more like SWAT team members.
The story follows eight marines, teleported into a command centre of a secret base on a remote planet. There, they learn that something strange is happening and soon monsters start to appear. The monsters aren't from hell, but rather people mutated by some nasty super-virus although the monsters look very similar to those in the game.
One character is a technician called "Pinky" who has a cybernetic wheelchair thanks to a bad teleporting accident. Pinky later mutates into something remotely resembling a creature from Doom 3. Producers claim that the film will be more of a horror than an action shooter.
There will be loads of shooting though, especially in the end where a large number of sequences will be shot purely in "first-person" perspective of the leading character (Karl Urban). The chainsaw and Bio Force Gun do appear in the film. "
first of all, everyone knows its not a "Bio Force Gun"...its a Big Fkucing gun. I, as well as anyone that knows of me, consider myself a huge fan of the Doom series. what I get out of this is basically: " we have change the whole story, changed the environment, changed the main character's role, threw in some crap that we thought was cool [ala SUPER-virus!] all for the sake of ruining the name of a PC gaming legend. oh, but we kept the same monsters! except, a pinky demon sits in a wheel chair."
I was actually looking forward to this movie. now I realize its been completely screwed by the movie industry. I'd ask if this was an independant film, but from what I've seen, this has to be hollywood's fault.
it better have some cacodemans, hell-knights, barons, soem lost sould, and an arch-vile. imps are a given, they're sure to screw up the former human sergents and soldiers, and I already know the pinkie demon is screwed. I want HELL, not some fancy virus! I'm sick of virii in movies...its time for change. lets go back to the good old days of movies like "The Gate". that was a great movie.
wel thats just great. the world already has way too many people in it (and the number is rising!) the last thing we need is people living 10 times longer than they should. I, for one, am extremely opposed to the idea of prolonging life for that long. a lif expectancy of 85 years is plenty to do everything there is to do in life.
can you say over-population? great, we can live to be 1000, but we'll all starve before then. humanity sickens me, and more than that, humanity sickens nature.
if the governement fears attacks from the internet, then the governement should stay the hell away from the internet and it will have nothing to worry about. our rights are being torn from us. there is no such thing as personal freedom. I cant drive a car without wearing a seatbelt because some fascist indirectly claims it saves lives. lies. this is MY life. what we are seeing is a slow desensitization of the government taking our rights away. slowly, but surely, there will be much controversy (as if there isnt already).
I'd like to see some studies on how much brain activity is used during the act of sex with different subjects. you'd think that your brain would be workign over-time for that.
Slashdot Mirror
...thats the logical solution, where no one suffers.
Law makers should protect everyone from spam.
if you like spam, please raise your hand.
It must be a word now, its in the Dictionary! yeah, THE dictionary -- as if there were only one, as if dictionary's have anything to do with enforcing officialism, which it does not.
is that to say that all 10,000 subjects in the statistics have liver disease? and all of them drink caffine, just some more than others. hmm...
The word 'addiction' is used in such a pejorative way these days. who cares what Joe Bob, the next door neighbor, does with his time and money? this issue is unworthy of serious attention. What concerns me more is addiction to television and all-out drama. have you seen anything on television lately? if world war 3 came around in a couple years, I'm sure they'd even turn that into a reality show and everyone would love to sit mindlessly infront of their brain sucking CRTs. unless you've got evidence of a truely and physically addictive act, then don't call it addiction. call them what you will: hobbyists, enthusiasts, whatever, but don't call them addicts.
I work 40 hours a week, all 52 weeks of the year. working takes up all day 5 out of 7 days a week that I could be spending with my family. are you going to call me a job addict because that interferes with my family life?
this issue is absolutely frivolous and unfounded.
correct me if I'm wrong, but there were 4 novels, not 5. Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Mostly Harmless, and the Resturant at the End of the Galaxy. where's the fifth??
I must say, slashdot is a great source of news. The only problem I see with it is the fact that people don't want to hear anything logical or rational, and when they do they bash whoever posted it like yo ujust did. Sure, I may have been irrational in my previous post, and may very well get banned for it. If you want a pointer in life, here is one: Don't talk down to people!
Firstly, take me for my opinion and only my opinion. Secondly, HTML formatting is selected by default so my spacing and indentations were completely lost because I forgot to select text formatting. My perspective is that of a pissed off 19 year old. I'm just sick of people like you complaining about petty things like punc-tu-a-tion. wooedpy shit. loook at mee i m not spell i nngg rihghhttt. I hate you. go kill yourself.
"It was while standing in my first-ever ladies' room line at E3 2004 as I pondered the Playboy bunnies, the return of Leisure Suit Larry, and the slew of buxom virtual ladies headlining each booth that I questioned whether the industry had evolved at all." femenist bullshit. if it was playgirl magazine figures, men in tight underwaer and virutal "gentlemen" handling each booth, you'd have no complaint. end of story. I'm so sick of people (namely women) looking down upon human sexuality. sure it's primitive, but you cant keep labido on a leash. Nor can you bash an industry for selling what sells. and big breasted women in bikkini's sell. so please, stop complaing about how the "gaming industry has not evolved", and continue to rule the world with hot chicks and sex. that would be the intelligent choice of action.
there will always be money to be made in the market of technology surpression. its why we still run our cars on gas.
you knew what it said, and you chose to ignore it :-)
"It's just like the R rating at theaters, or the fact that kids can't buy tobacco until 18, or beer until 21. I certainly woulnd't want my kids to (at age 9) walk into a store and buy GTA 8: Be a Porn Star. When he's 18, or I decide to buy it for him.. fine."
you don't seem to understand. this is nothign like R ratings at movie theatres. the point you're missing is that even if YOU decide your child can play a violent of sexually explicit video game, he STILL cannot, and you will be sent to jail or be fined and all that, and who knows, child protection agencies would take your kid away because you did what you thought was best for him or her.
what this means, is that video games will become controband to minors, no matter WHAT the parent has to say about it.
"video games are NOT physically harmful!" nor are they harmful psychologically, I might add. (that is if you aren't already psychologically unstable) "Alcohol and tobacco are PHYSICALLY HARMFUL" can you die of marijuana? nope. not unless you sufffocate, which I don't think has ever happened, or do something under the influence. but hey, marijuana is far less harmful than alcohol. nobody that has ever read any statistics or studies can't argue that. and finally, I can't end a post and not mention fascists: video games are not a problem to anyone, only the assholes that want to censor what they dont think is fit for complete strangers. we have a name for these people. they are called FASCISTS. and I personally (and obviously) have quite a peeve about them.
everyones a fascist... and to say something worthwhile: "...to children younger than 18" hmm...I bet this governor is a 50 year old child.
int isRehabFascism(void) // unless rehab is sought out by the person who is // getting "rehabilitated", it's pure fascism.
{
bool fascist;
char rehab[401];
strcpy(rehab, "your view of the world is wrong, this is the right one.");
fascist = true;
return fascist;
}
the same concept applies.
This is further proof that corporations like Sony and Microsoft do not belong in the console industry. Nintendo is the only console company that I can respect (Being a die-never PC gamer, I still have to play all the Resident Evils or Zeldas). More or less, I'm just not a big fan of the titles. Sony makes everything...
that reminds me of a quote:
"jack of all traits, master of none."
I have the sudden urge to use that technology in something like Counter-Strike or Quake 3. sniping and railing would be ridiculously easy...I want it! when will NewEgg have one of these helmet-mouse... mouse-cap...thingies? :-D
err...I wonder what the DPI is on one of those things compared to a mouse.
that'll teach them to send ME popups! MUAHAHAH! the internet was not intended for advertising and solicitation. the only problem is maintaining a server without making the $$$ from advertising. does it REALLY take that much!?
"A correspondent of Novinky.Cz recently attended the Prague set of "Doom" and reported back a well spring of information in regards to the video game adaptation. Originally, the $70 million film was supposed to be helmed by Enda McCallion. Later, he was replaced by Andrzej Bartkowiak. Screenwriter Dave Callahan claims "everyone was keen to keep the game's atmosphere", though there are some "minor" changes done to the film's concept: The monsters have nothing to do with hell, the plot is not taking place on Mars and "space marines" are not well "space marines" as their outfits are more like SWAT team members. The story follows eight marines, teleported into a command centre of a secret base on a remote planet. There, they learn that something strange is happening and soon monsters start to appear. The monsters aren't from hell, but rather people mutated by some nasty super-virus although the monsters look very similar to those in the game. One character is a technician called "Pinky" who has a cybernetic wheelchair thanks to a bad teleporting accident. Pinky later mutates into something remotely resembling a creature from Doom 3. Producers claim that the film will be more of a horror than an action shooter. There will be loads of shooting though, especially in the end where a large number of sequences will be shot purely in "first-person" perspective of the leading character (Karl Urban). The chainsaw and Bio Force Gun do appear in the film. " first of all, everyone knows its not a "Bio Force Gun"...its a Big Fkucing gun. I, as well as anyone that knows of me, consider myself a huge fan of the Doom series. what I get out of this is basically: " we have change the whole story, changed the environment, changed the main character's role, threw in some crap that we thought was cool [ala SUPER-virus!] all for the sake of ruining the name of a PC gaming legend. oh, but we kept the same monsters! except, a pinky demon sits in a wheel chair." I was actually looking forward to this movie. now I realize its been completely screwed by the movie industry. I'd ask if this was an independant film, but from what I've seen, this has to be hollywood's fault. it better have some cacodemans, hell-knights, barons, soem lost sould, and an arch-vile. imps are a given, they're sure to screw up the former human sergents and soldiers, and I already know the pinkie demon is screwed. I want HELL, not some fancy virus! I'm sick of virii in movies...its time for change. lets go back to the good old days of movies like "The Gate". that was a great movie.
thats just great. now I'll have to deal with this old hag an extra, approximately, 920 more years. great. marriage sucks.
wel thats just great. the world already has way too many people in it (and the number is rising!) the last thing we need is people living 10 times longer than they should. I, for one, am extremely opposed to the idea of prolonging life for that long. a lif expectancy of 85 years is plenty to do everything there is to do in life. can you say over-population? great, we can live to be 1000, but we'll all starve before then. humanity sickens me, and more than that, humanity sickens nature.
if the governement fears attacks from the internet, then the governement should stay the hell away from the internet and it will have nothing to worry about. our rights are being torn from us. there is no such thing as personal freedom. I cant drive a car without wearing a seatbelt because some fascist indirectly claims it saves lives. lies. this is MY life. what we are seeing is a slow desensitization of the government taking our rights away. slowly, but surely, there will be much controversy (as if there isnt already).
Again I say! Fascists!
I'd like to see some studies on how much brain activity is used during the act of sex with different subjects. you'd think that your brain would be workign over-time for that.