I REALLY wish the lawyers here on/. would step in sometime!
IANAL. From what I understand, ONLY the Governement can restrict the FIRST Amendment. What I'm getting at is that a corp can do what ever the fuck they want to.
So let's say we are classifying planets according to their ability to support humans. Let's just say Earth is class, oh, M. Is this planet class M? Certainly not! No human could survive in -220 Celsius! Far from being like earth. Ok I'm done being uber trekie:)
Actually, the M stands for "Minshara". It is a Vulcan term. It would be more accurate to say "No Vulcan could survive in -220 Celsius."
Kickball only works until about middle school. After that the kids are so strong that most of them are kicking homeruns(I wasn't one of them). Kickball, baseball, and softball are not very engaging sports, especialy when they are only played for about 40 minutes. Half the kids are sitting on the bench waiting to kick, and the other half are in the outfield waiting for the ball to come to them. With class sizes the way they were when I was in high school, there was even more waiting. Not much excercise going on there.
Ultimate Frisby is probably the best option for an all-inclusive sport. With a few frisbies you can break the class up into smaller groups, so that more kids can actually play the game. It requires the good hand-eye coordination that we nerds have built up through years of computer use and masturbating. It is also a lot of fun to play( that is coming from me, some one who generally doesn't like sports).
I never had archery in gym class. I'd expect that to be pretty popular in the post-LotR movie era. Of course most schools are too worried about having a zero-tolerance weapon policy to ever have something like this. And if there ever was an unfortunate mishap, I've no doubt video games would be to blame, given the large number of Hunters in World of Warcraft.
And I'm a fresh college graduate male - I'm YOUR demographic. Living on my own in an apartment, paying off college loans, looking for a job in this miserable market, and attempting to think "gee, I can buy FOOD today."
Actually, you're not Sony's target demographic. Sony's target demographic is one with money.
Forget the numbers for a second. Those are mostly pulled out of the asses of the people who write the tech manuals. I tend to go with what I see on screen.
Take into account the hand-held weaponry. What is the worst case scenario when some one is hit with a Blaster? They are killed, with only a small whole in them. The worst case scenario when dealing with a Phaser is complete vaporization. Now scale that up to starship-size and tell me what is logically more powerful.
Next look at the cloaking device. As we, on earth, are progressing technologically, we are also miniaturizing it. In the Empire Strikes Back, Captain Needa states that no ship as small as the Millennium Falcon can be equipped with a cloaking device. In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode The Emperor's New Cloak, Quark and Rom steal a Klingon cloaking device, which is about a meter long and is able to power itself. So if a complicated system, like the cloaking device, can be miniaturized far more so in Star Trek than Star Wars, it can be assumed that it is also more advanced. Since it is such a complex piece of technology, and can be made so small, what other tech could be more sophisticated?
I admit that both series focus less on the Sci and more on the Fi, they both contradict themselves many times, but Star Trek kicks Star Wars's ass any day of the week.
I saw a good number of Psychonauts TV commercials a few months ago. It would seem that that is a big deal considering most games don't get advertised on TV.
Hey, maybe they will continue to produce some decent games. Just because they are going to be spending less money developing their games doesn't mean they will be going under. I think Serious Sam proved that a budget game doesn't have to suck, while it was just a shooting gallery they did have co-op, which seems to be a largely ignored feature these days.
I remember spending some time on the Startrek.com boards and there were pages and pages of threads discussing whether a Star Trek ship could beat a Star Wars ship. Yep, those guys were nerds.
But seriously, there is no way a Star Wars ship could beat a Star Trek ship... well unless of course they modified the main deflector array to send out an inverse-tachyon pulse, but those inept Star Wars engineers would really have to ignite the midnight petroleum to figure that one out.
I thought the article would be about characters crossing over to different franchises. Like all those Capcom VS SNK games and Smash Bros. On gaming forums across the net the question is asked "Who would win in a fight _____ or _____?" That's why Super Smash Bros was so great. Sure it would have been a fun game to have all original characters, but with all the old favorites you feel an attachment to you characters that might not otherwise be there. You swung Bowser around by his tail, you plunged the master sword into Ganondorf's draconic chest, you fired those bombs into Andross's mouth.
The original Battlestar Galactica had a few things going for it. The Cylon Centurions had to be the coolest looking robots, ever. Lorne Greene kicked ass in Bonanza. The dogfights were pretty cool at first, then they just re-used the same ones over and over again. The opening theme music had to be one of the best and most epic of all sc-fi television.
They took almost all of the coolest parts of the original and multiplied it by about a thousand. They got Edward James Olmos, who kicked ass in Stand and Deliver, to play Lorne Greene's part. They created awesome dogfights that are just amazing to watch. Now there are all sorts of politics and love triangles to watch out for. They did play the original theme music once.
The only part of this new show that doesn't shine are the Cylon Centurions.
I mean the MMORPG's are stupid. You can't just play for a few minutes and have some fun. After spending hour upon hour in them what are you left with in the end? Nothing. What's the point?
The fun is in the multiplayer. You are supposed to make friends, interact, go on quests, and work together. I only play on the Role-Playing servers, because that seems to be the only place that people understand this. I am more interested in meeting other people people and developing unique personalities than getting to the next level.
At their core, these games are little more than chatrooms. Only they give people a cause to work together. The game is only there to get things started, the users are supposed to make it fun.
The Star Trek universe will not translate well into a large scale RTS game. One starship is a powerful, complicated, and impressive machine, but when massed together their splendor is trivialized. Starships take a long time to build, you couldn't just pump out 100 galaxy class ships in war time.
I'd much rather see a game that focuses more on an individual ship and exploration, like Bridge Commander(only less linear) or Starfleet Command(only with less boring missions).
Forget that scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise navigates that fancy holographic computer interface with his glove, I want to see some simple, effective Star Trek: TNG LCARS GUIs.
But who is going to buy Madden NFL 2007 when it looks just Madden NFL 2006? Well I guess maybe the die-hard fans who played the first two-thousand-and-six NFL games and want to know what happens next in the series.
Permafrost will keep the vault below freezing point
Great... say, I wonder if they've heard of global warming?:)
I mean if this is a long term apres apocalypse type plan, maybe, just maybe, they might want to consider that issue. But credit to them, for having some long range vision.
It's right in the name! Permafrost, as in permanent. Duh!
I want to see an RTS for the Nintendo DS. It has a near perfect interface for one already. A joystick just isn't fast and precise enough to command an entire army and deal with multiple tasks at once(like fighting a war on two fronts). The stylus can mimic a mouse very well, all you would really be missing are hotkeys.
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Kickball only works until about middle school. After that the kids are so strong that most of them are kicking homeruns(I wasn't one of them). Kickball, baseball, and softball are not very engaging sports, especialy when they are only played for about 40 minutes. Half the kids are sitting on the bench waiting to kick, and the other half are in the outfield waiting for the ball to come to them. With class sizes the way they were when I was in high school, there was even more waiting. Not much excercise going on there.
Ultimate Frisby is probably the best option for an all-inclusive sport. With a few frisbies you can break the class up into smaller groups, so that more kids can actually play the game. It requires the good hand-eye coordination that we nerds have built up through years of computer use and masturbating. It is also a lot of fun to play( that is coming from me, some one who generally doesn't like sports).
I never had archery in gym class. I'd expect that to be pretty popular in the post-LotR movie era. Of course most schools are too worried about having a zero-tolerance weapon policy to ever have something like this. And if there ever was an unfortunate mishap, I've no doubt video games would be to blame, given the large number of Hunters in World of Warcraft.
Forget the numbers for a second. Those are mostly pulled out of the asses of the people who write the tech manuals. I tend to go with what I see on screen.
Take into account the hand-held weaponry. What is the worst case scenario when some one is hit with a Blaster? They are killed, with only a small whole in them. The worst case scenario when dealing with a Phaser is complete vaporization. Now scale that up to starship-size and tell me what is logically more powerful.
Next look at the cloaking device. As we, on earth, are progressing technologically, we are also miniaturizing it. In the Empire Strikes Back, Captain Needa states that no ship as small as the Millennium Falcon can be equipped with a cloaking device. In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode The Emperor's New Cloak, Quark and Rom steal a Klingon cloaking device, which is about a meter long and is able to power itself. So if a complicated system, like the cloaking device, can be miniaturized far more so in Star Trek than Star Wars, it can be assumed that it is also more advanced. Since it is such a complex piece of technology, and can be made so small, what other tech could be more sophisticated?
I admit that both series focus less on the Sci and more on the Fi, they both contradict themselves many times, but Star Trek kicks Star Wars's ass any day of the week.
I saw a good number of Psychonauts TV commercials a few months ago. It would seem that that is a big deal considering most games don't get advertised on TV.
Hey, maybe they will continue to produce some decent games. Just because they are going to be spending less money developing their games doesn't mean they will be going under. I think Serious Sam proved that a budget game doesn't have to suck, while it was just a shooting gallery they did have co-op, which seems to be a largely ignored feature these days.
I remember spending some time on the Startrek.com boards and there were pages and pages of threads discussing whether a Star Trek ship could beat a Star Wars ship. Yep, those guys were nerds.
But seriously, there is no way a Star Wars ship could beat a Star Trek ship... well unless of course they modified the main deflector array to send out an inverse-tachyon pulse, but those inept Star Wars engineers would really have to ignite the midnight petroleum to figure that one out.
I thought the article would be about characters crossing over to different franchises. Like all those Capcom VS SNK games and Smash Bros. On gaming forums across the net the question is asked "Who would win in a fight _____ or _____?" That's why Super Smash Bros was so great. Sure it would have been a fun game to have all original characters, but with all the old favorites you feel an attachment to you characters that might not otherwise be there. You swung Bowser around by his tail, you plunged the master sword into Ganondorf's draconic chest, you fired those bombs into Andross's mouth.
The original Battlestar Galactica had a few things going for it. The Cylon Centurions had to be the coolest looking robots, ever. Lorne Greene kicked ass in Bonanza. The dogfights were pretty cool at first, then they just re-used the same ones over and over again. The opening theme music had to be one of the best and most epic of all sc-fi television.
They took almost all of the coolest parts of the original and multiplied it by about a thousand. They got Edward James Olmos, who kicked ass in Stand and Deliver, to play Lorne Greene's part. They created awesome dogfights that are just amazing to watch. Now there are all sorts of politics and love triangles to watch out for. They did play the original theme music once.
The only part of this new show that doesn't shine are the Cylon Centurions.
At their core, these games are little more than chatrooms. Only they give people a cause to work together. The game is only there to get things started, the users are supposed to make it fun.
The Star Trek universe will not translate well into a large scale RTS game. One starship is a powerful, complicated, and impressive machine, but when massed together their splendor is trivialized. Starships take a long time to build, you couldn't just pump out 100 galaxy class ships in war time.
I'd much rather see a game that focuses more on an individual ship and exploration, like Bridge Commander(only less linear) or Starfleet Command(only with less boring missions).
You gotta ask yourself "How many people would have actually responded if he didn't include that last sentence?"
Forget that scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise navigates that fancy holographic computer interface with his glove, I want to see some simple, effective Star Trek: TNG LCARS GUIs.
But who is going to buy Madden NFL 2007 when it looks just Madden NFL 2006? Well I guess maybe the die-hard fans who played the first two-thousand-and-six NFL games and want to know what happens next in the series.
Maybe you should look up "entertainment" in the dictionary.
Didn't you hear? PC gaming died a few times last year.
And how are you supposed to play this bastard child of the PC control scheme and the Xbox, hunched over your coffee table?
I want to see an RTS for the Nintendo DS. It has a near perfect interface for one already. A joystick just isn't fast and precise enough to command an entire army and deal with multiple tasks at once(like fighting a war on two fronts). The stylus can mimic a mouse very well, all you would really be missing are hotkeys.
if taht hapins he mite not win the neckst electian