More like dating. Except it's really more presents rather than money in exchange for sex. A timely article really *coughvalentinesdaycough*.
And as for this story, it's is a real "me too" kind of charge, politicians, religious groups, etc are all over GTA so why don't we bitch about it too? There is no hooker rape in the game (you pay) and you can kill anyone in San Andreas. It would be giving them special treatment if you couldn't kill them...
Okay actually Gamespot says there is one allusion to rape in the storyline, so fair is fair. Anyone that remembers this allusion and would care to say whether it glorified the rape?
You can really drive the sarcasm home with this link
"The best of these games is Animal Crossing, a game that we rightfully nominated for our Video Game of the Year award and a game that, in all seriousness, was by far the closest contender with Metroid Prime"
Getting 15 people together to do a statistical analysis to find out whether a boss self-desructs isn't quite as efficient as just having one person avoiding the boss for a while and just seeing whether it blows up or not.
A lot of the other stuff in the article was interesting though... looks like he put a lot of effort into it.
Well, keep in mind that Wikipedia does keep the history of articles. You can even see the changes from one revision to the next and who (screenname or IP) made those changes. Sure, you can't always stop the trolls, but you can see what they're doing and revert their changes at least.
I would say a very critical need for Wikipedia is the need for all the important subjects to be "watched" (ie subscribed) by a few good NPOV Wikipedians.
"PC game makers still have the advantage of using the keyboard and mouse as a controller"
Just wait till the Revo comes out... sure to some people it's not the same, but to me, much more natural (roll a mouse around a table vs. point at the screen, and typically a bigger screen at that).
The biggest obstacle would be getting good PC-style games on the Revolution. It's hardly guaranteed to happen, but hardware-wise it can, and if it does, I just might be playing a whole lot more FPS, RTSs, etc.
Hell even if they just ported Half-Life 2 + Source on the Revo that'd be somewhat cool. C'mon Nintendo, get Valve and other PC companies involved. You'll all make a lot of money... maybe.
Unfortanately, people buy sports games for roster changes. Sure, EA could easily put roster changes online and charge $5 a year or something for such a simple update (didn't one company provide NFL roster changes for free? Before EA choked them out with an exclusivitity deal?), but why do that when you have sports fans by the balls?
By the way, there are many "annual" games that I like, such as Mario Party and DDR. The difference? Those series actually provide a lot of value each year (Party has new games, boards, and mini-game modes, DDR has new songs and missions). I still don't buy every last one of them though.
"Xbox 360 sales can't even reach Xbox 1 sales due to shitty hardware design resulting in manufacturing defects and shitty graphics."
Xbox 360 sales can't even reach Xbox 1 sales because there aren't any Xbox 360s to sell here. I suppose that you could argue that this is due to "manufacturing defects", but certainly not due to "shitty graphics", in fact the graphical power of the console is actually too good, which makes the console pricy to build, suspect to defects, and makes companies (such as EA, oh snap I related this post to the original article) focus too much on graphics instead of gameplay.
So I states the the consoles are too expensive to build and focus too much on graphics. Now, use these clues to solve this question: "What next-gen console is Headcase88 most excited about?"
I like loading times for Nintendo systems in general. Many people might have derided the N64 cartridge, but I'll be damned if I didn't prefer the quick loading times of the N64 over the high memory capacity of the PS1. Besides, if you can fit Ocarina of Time into one cartridge...
The Gamecube is simarily designed with loading times in mind. Sure, not every game for the console is a poster child for quick loading, but most first-party and some third-party titles don't even have loading screens (Smash Bros Melee is particularily impressive; even the save times are instant), and the console boot-up is wicked-fast.
As for EA, I'm mostly avoiding their cookie-cutter innovation-squashing "games". I do want to play Burnout Revenge though... it seems that the guys behind that haven't had their spirits crushed by the money-making multi-... conglomarate...uh... trans-national... ummm... EA's bad.
You mean the link that's near the top of every GameTunnel page? C'mon man, that page is two clicks away from this one (well only one click away now that this comment is posted)...
The problem is, the kinds of execs you're talking about use unethical tactics to misleadingly spike the stock price, selling all their shares at the top of the spike. A better system would be to award them a more direct money bonus each day based on the growth of the stock over that day, something like
$ = ((1/s) + g) * (c*s))
Where c is the "standard" bonus, and g is the % that the stock has grown (shrunk), and s is how sensitive the bonus is to share value.
So if the stock loses 3% over the last week and the standard bonus is $50 (remember this is daily), with sensitivity of 10, the bonus is (.1 -.03) * ($20 * 10) = $35. The higher up you are, the higher your bonus and sensitivity should be.
The twist is, you don't get the monetary award you've earned until a year after, and you must still be with the company. So your cumulative bonus earnings in Jan 2004 aren't collected unless you stay until Jan 2005. So you can't artificially inflate the stock, jump ship, and keep the bonus. The exception being is if you are laid-off, but from reasons different from trying to selfishly inflate the stock price. Then you'll get the bonus money you're entitled to.
Yeah, I'm sure that this system is either unrepairably faulty or something like it is already used by some companies. I'm obviously no expert in the field, but it seems more sensible to me than saying "here, have this stock, sell it and flee to a tropical island when you know it's about to go down".
The bottom line is that there needs to be a system where you don't get the money right away, before we get to see the aftermath of your decisions. The boys at Enron got the money first and are now facing trial. If they knew they'd have to face trial (or at least watch their daily bonus drop the same amount as it had risen) before getting the money, do you think they would have done it?
No, it's not obvious. Different people like different games.
For example, I like simplistic but challenging games that have as little ambiguity as possible as to whether you're playing the right way, but requires lots of time to really master the hidden layers of strategy (ie Ikaruga, any rhythm game, most games made by Nintendo+subsidiaries).
Some like story driven RPGs, especially ones that challenge you to be "inventive" (Dark Cloud 2's invention system...). Some people like realistic games such as FPSs and traditional sports games. Some people will just play anything delightfully quirky (luckily most of those games fall under simple but challenging), etc etc.
Lessons learned: never say a console has the "best" games, never say a console has the "worst" games, never post a massive list of games that are "good" to prove a console as best, never take a list and games and try to explain how "bad" they are, and above all else, never ever trust a review score.
"[at E3] We expect to see Zelda: Twilight Princess running on Revolution with the new features discussed a couple weeks ago, and maybe Smash Brothers and a Mario title with a couple of little mini-games... If we can play Smash, Mario and some Nintendo classics on the show floor we'll be happy Nintendo. Don't let us down!"
Screw you journalists. All I or most of us care about is when the gaming public gets to play it. "Make sure you have lots of games ready for our elitist expo, Nintendo, we want to play as many games as we can before most people get to". Bah.
(But man, I can't wait for those Smash Bros videos!)
Oh, and another thing, what's the deal with all the (true?) rumours about the GC version of Twilight Princess using the Revo controller? That's not the Nintendo way! Nintendo would release the GC version with no compatibility, and then half way through the Revo's life, they'd package Twilight Princess with pre-orders to the next Zelda game, now with Revo controller functionality(!)
Or... after sending the proof of purchase of 5 Revo games, after a convoluted process you can get Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and maybe some N64 Zelda games (though you can get those through the web portal) with brand new Revo controller functionality(!)
That's the Nintendo way! Why give that sweet, sweet Revo functionality for free when you can force purchase of the next Zelda game or put people through a time-consuming mail-in process:P
News Reporter: "(reporting on a space launch) Unbelievable, and just imagine the logistics of weightlessness. And of course, this could have literally millions of applications here on Earth -- everything from watchmaking to watch repair."
Slashdot Mirror
"The irony that a class of people that he wouldn't be caught dead with are now trying to champion his case is going to put him in a tough spot.
Eh, not really. That's like saying someone is like a Nazi because neither would want to drink poison.
(No, I'm not saying GTA is poison).
You've never looked up the difference between the word "widely" and the word "entirely", have you?
More like dating. Except it's really more presents rather than money in exchange for sex. A timely article really *coughvalentinesdaycough*.
And as for this story, it's is a real "me too" kind of charge, politicians, religious groups, etc are all over GTA so why don't we bitch about it too? There is no hooker rape in the game (you pay) and you can kill anyone in San Andreas. It would be giving them special treatment if you couldn't kill them...
Okay actually Gamespot says there is one allusion to rape in the storyline, so fair is fair. Anyone that remembers this allusion and would care to say whether it glorified the rape?
You can really drive the sarcasm home with this link
"The best of these games is Animal Crossing, a game that we rightfully nominated for our Video Game of the Year award and a game that, in all seriousness, was by far the closest contender with Metroid Prime"
Not that I'd trust Gamespot, but still.
I got the final rank in Blast Corps.
;)
It takes a little while
(If you've done the same, you know what I'm talking about!)
Getting 15 people together to do a statistical analysis to find out whether a boss self-desructs isn't quite as efficient as just having one person avoiding the boss for a while and just seeing whether it blows up or not.
A lot of the other stuff in the article was interesting though... looks like he put a lot of effort into it.
Let's count it up. MSN, Internet Explorer, Windows Autoupdate...
:P
I kid, I kid
Good lord, that's a step towards /.ers having sex!
It's new era, my brothers!
(yeah, sorry, I know "/.ers don't have sex" is a tired gag)
"Nothing is 'as simple as that'"
;)
Well that's a pretty simple rule
Well, keep in mind that Wikipedia does keep the history of articles. You can even see the changes from one revision to the next and who (screenname or IP) made those changes. Sure, you can't always stop the trolls, but you can see what they're doing and revert their changes at least.
I would say a very critical need for Wikipedia is the need for all the important subjects to be "watched" (ie subscribed) by a few good NPOV Wikipedians.
Ok, so MediaWise gave them an F. So who the hell is MediaWise, and why should I (or the ESRB) care about what they have to say?
.com or .org", and an F--- for "amount of positive impact on society per dollar".
Anyone can start an organization and give out Fs to everything they hate. It's easy, watch.
The Headcase88 Advisory Group gave MediaWise a D+ for "grading accuracy", a 0/2 for "ability to get to their site by typing the name of their organization and adding
See, it's really not all that hard.
"PC game makers still have the advantage of using the keyboard and mouse as a controller"
Just wait till the Revo comes out... sure to some people it's not the same, but to me, much more natural (roll a mouse around a table vs. point at the screen, and typically a bigger screen at that).
The biggest obstacle would be getting good PC-style games on the Revolution. It's hardly guaranteed to happen, but hardware-wise it can, and if it does, I just might be playing a whole lot more FPS, RTSs, etc.
Hell even if they just ported Half-Life 2 + Source on the Revo that'd be somewhat cool. C'mon Nintendo, get Valve and other PC companies involved. You'll all make a lot of money... maybe.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Well I'm Canadian and if they ever attack our Superbowl, we know what to do.
:(
I hope Nintendo's still good when people like Miyamoto retires. Luckily Iwata should be heading the company for a while.
Unfortanately, people buy sports games for roster changes. Sure, EA could easily put roster changes online and charge $5 a year or something for such a simple update (didn't one company provide NFL roster changes for free? Before EA choked them out with an exclusivitity deal?), but why do that when you have sports fans by the balls?
By the way, there are many "annual" games that I like, such as Mario Party and DDR. The difference? Those series actually provide a lot of value each year (Party has new games, boards, and mini-game modes, DDR has new songs and missions). I still don't buy every last one of them though.
"Xbox 360 sales can't even reach Xbox 1 sales due to shitty hardware design resulting in manufacturing defects and shitty graphics."
Xbox 360 sales can't even reach Xbox 1 sales because there aren't any Xbox 360s to sell here. I suppose that you could argue that this is due to "manufacturing defects", but certainly not due to "shitty graphics", in fact the graphical power of the console is actually too good, which makes the console pricy to build, suspect to defects, and makes companies (such as EA, oh snap I related this post to the original article) focus too much on graphics instead of gameplay.
So I states the the consoles are too expensive to build and focus too much on graphics. Now, use these clues to solve this question: "What next-gen console is Headcase88 most excited about?"
I like loading times for Nintendo systems in general. Many people might have derided the N64 cartridge, but I'll be damned if I didn't prefer the quick loading times of the N64 over the high memory capacity of the PS1. Besides, if you can fit Ocarina of Time into one cartridge...
The Gamecube is simarily designed with loading times in mind. Sure, not every game for the console is a poster child for quick loading, but most first-party and some third-party titles don't even have loading screens (Smash Bros Melee is particularily impressive; even the save times are instant), and the console boot-up is wicked-fast.
As for EA, I'm mostly avoiding their cookie-cutter innovation-squashing "games". I do want to play Burnout Revenge though... it seems that the guys behind that haven't had their spirits crushed by the money-making multi-... conglomarate...uh... trans-national... ummm... EA's bad.
Slashdot comment about Linux possibly having vulnerabilities gets modded flamebait, read all about it!
How ignorant. Hopefully someone will mod this post back up to at least 1.
That was the joke.[/McBainFromSimpsons]
You mean the link that's near the top of every GameTunnel page? C'mon man, that page is two clicks away from this one (well only one click away now that this comment is posted)...
The problem is, the kinds of execs you're talking about use unethical tactics to misleadingly spike the stock price, selling all their shares at the top of the spike. A better system would be to award them a more direct money bonus each day based on the growth of the stock over that day, something like
.03) * ($20 * 10) = $35. The higher up you are, the higher your bonus and sensitivity should be.
$ = ((1/s) + g) * (c*s))
Where c is the "standard" bonus, and g is the % that the stock has grown (shrunk), and s is how sensitive the bonus is to share value.
So if the stock loses 3% over the last week and the standard bonus is $50 (remember this is daily), with sensitivity of 10, the bonus is (.1 -
The twist is, you don't get the monetary award you've earned until a year after, and you must still be with the company. So your cumulative bonus earnings in Jan 2004 aren't collected unless you stay until Jan 2005. So you can't artificially inflate the stock, jump ship, and keep the bonus. The exception being is if you are laid-off, but from reasons different from trying to selfishly inflate the stock price. Then you'll get the bonus money you're entitled to.
Yeah, I'm sure that this system is either unrepairably faulty or something like it is already used by some companies. I'm obviously no expert in the field, but it seems more sensible to me than saying "here, have this stock, sell it and flee to a tropical island when you know it's about to go down".
The bottom line is that there needs to be a system where you don't get the money right away, before we get to see the aftermath of your decisions. The boys at Enron got the money first and are now facing trial. If they knew they'd have to face trial (or at least watch their daily bonus drop the same amount as it had risen) before getting the money, do you think they would have done it?
No, it's not obvious. Different people like different games.
For example, I like simplistic but challenging games that have as little ambiguity as possible as to whether you're playing the right way, but requires lots of time to really master the hidden layers of strategy (ie Ikaruga, any rhythm game, most games made by Nintendo+subsidiaries).
Some like story driven RPGs, especially ones that challenge you to be "inventive" (Dark Cloud 2's invention system...). Some people like realistic games such as FPSs and traditional sports games. Some people will just play anything delightfully quirky (luckily most of those games fall under simple but challenging), etc etc.
Lessons learned: never say a console has the "best" games, never say a console has the "worst" games, never post a massive list of games that are "good" to prove a console as best, never take a list and games and try to explain how "bad" they are, and above all else, never ever trust a review score.
"[at E3] We expect to see Zelda: Twilight Princess running on Revolution with the new features discussed a couple weeks ago, and maybe Smash Brothers and a Mario title with a couple of little mini-games... If we can play Smash, Mario and some Nintendo classics on the show floor we'll be happy Nintendo. Don't let us down!"
:P
Screw you journalists. All I or most of us care about is when the gaming public gets to play it. "Make sure you have lots of games ready for our elitist expo, Nintendo, we want to play as many games as we can before most people get to". Bah.
(But man, I can't wait for those Smash Bros videos!)
Oh, and another thing, what's the deal with all the (true?) rumours about the GC version of Twilight Princess using the Revo controller? That's not the Nintendo way! Nintendo would release the GC version with no compatibility, and then half way through the Revo's life, they'd package Twilight Princess with pre-orders to the next Zelda game, now with Revo controller functionality(!)
Or... after sending the proof of purchase of 5 Revo games, after a convoluted process you can get Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and maybe some N64 Zelda games (though you can get those through the web portal) with brand new Revo controller functionality(!)
That's the Nintendo way! Why give that sweet, sweet Revo functionality for free when you can force purchase of the next Zelda game or put people through a time-consuming mail-in process
Reminds me of the hilarious Simpsons quote:
News Reporter: "(reporting on a space launch) Unbelievable, and just imagine the logistics of weightlessness. And of course, this could have literally millions of applications here on Earth -- everything from watchmaking to watch repair."