In approximately 2.5 years, after massive success with the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo of America will reveal its intentions, and along with the new Communist Act of America will seize the government using simple titles like Brain Age and Nintendogs. Following will be a Microsoft-Sony underground resistance called the Capitalist Underground Terror Developers(or the CUTDeep), flooding the market with games that you pay for, over and over and over. At this point the new American President, Shiguru Miyamoto will declare war on the CUTDeep. at which point the only salvation is to begin life anew on a distant earth-like planet called Alpha Centauri and nuke the planet Earth from orbit. Unfortunately, due to problems in the filing systems at NASA and the NSA, shortly after losing the tapes of the first moonlanding, NASA forgot how to even launch a shuttle, leaving us all doomed to play AAA Nintendo games.
Okay I'm tired of thinking this shit up, please Write your own adventure.
holy shit I only just now realized that the paragraph tag is allowed!
Man, you wouldn't believe how many times I'd be Previewing my post just so I wouldn't look like a re-re. I'm saying this in all seriousness right now but thank you for cluing me in to the wonderful world of anglyBracket P slashAnglyBracket. And I for one welcome my new Allowed HTML knowledgeable overlord. To anwser your question though, sometimes it's good to space the comment out so that more people will see it, makes karma whoring that much easier, I know this by experience
I think microsoft is thinking too big with the marketplace, or as I like to call it, the get-rich-quick-E-mart. The idea of placing marketplace items in fable (well TFA said something about buying a fancy sword from an ingame vendor, which seems to coincide with Fable 2 IMHO) may be interesting, but I feel that it will destroy gaming.This whole idea looks like it will go from the "hrm, I'm bored I wonder if I can get a new car to race in PGR3?" impulse micropayments to forcing people to make a purchase to continue the storyline of a certain game, either making a specific race in PGR not possible to win unless you have *supercar for "just 300 points", or by some form of misconcepted episodic gaming.
I mean, at best case a specific game could force you to "spend money to make money" and at worst (and most probably) just causing you to spend money to access content which should have been included with the game in the first place.
As to the forced cost on gamer pictures and themes, it is a wonderful way of making a quick buck for them, it is easy for you to be browsing the market and find a gamer picture and grabbing it because "it's only 80 points" I know i've been a victim/guilty of that myself.
Agreed. Starforce is absolutely killing the PC game industry. I don't know about anyone else, but when I see broken starforce games on the torrents, I'll download them JUST TO SPITE those Russian mafia crooks who made it. That's even if I have no interest in the game!
I'm sure someone might enjoy it on their Xbox 720, PS4, and Nintendo Fire-Water-Enema. It's starting to look like too human is the title that goes from "launch window" to "end of console lifespan / close to launch of next system / garbage heap in the backalley" like dinosaur planet or True Fantasy Live Online.
. . . our only refuge from the impending robotic uprising was to tilt those vending machine sized robots onto their backs, and now some american scientists have decided to go and ruin that for us. I suppose we better lay down and just accept our new dynamically upright robotic overlords.
At first I cringed over that subscription fee, but then I thought two things that make it significant for either Microsoft or "the people." Basically, I think Microsoft wants to ring people in who pay the fee thinking "I'm going to code myself a game for the X360!" and 6 months later they either have completely forgotten about it, or have just given up on making it. In this case MS makes money off of chumps. The other is that, say you and 3 friends decide to do a little development (call it a dev team if you will), and only buy one subscription, thus $25 each. Have one person doing testing and the rest development in the free pc environment.
Honestly, I don't think Microsoft would have a problem with that second case, I mean, their games department seems slightly less evil than their windows department.
please read it again. I said that there is always a group of people who will buy it, AND there is always a group of people who will steal it. I was suggesting that it is futile to chase those people who will steal it, because no matter what they will exist. My argument (that admittedly, I should have made explicit) was that instead of always finding ways of locking the theives out, they should try to lock IN the people who purchase it.
Generally AFAIK it is much easier to piss the paying customers off by locking out pirates than it is to piss them off by offering them a good product at a good price. Which is basically the same argument as yours. . .
don't kid yourself 30something and posting slashdot. . . doing it regularily?? HA Okay I'm joking, I know what you mean though, the who sex theme is just getting blown up by the media. They always say things like the object of the game is to use hookers and kill them for the money back, but its just something that can be done, making the gameworld a little more authentic towards real life.
I hope someone mods you up because that is extremely insightful information. I mean, some of it might seem like common sense to us but to the "socially inept" it isn't. That's probably why they are like that in the first place. Curious though, a friend of mine absolutely doesn't understand #1, he'll talk and sound like a complete retard not even listening to himself, but he does alright (better than normal) with girls.
I was coming to comment on that too, I say we form a virtual mob to virtually beat him every day. Joking, but I was still wondering why he felt he needed to mention his IQ in that sentence.
I'm actually quite surprised that a slightly anti-apple article has been posted. With that said, I think he is correct in calling their fascination with vista childish, I mean a coworker read that Jobs Comment about not wanting to reveal all the details about his new OS because Microsoft will copy them, and that is fairly childish in my opinion. Especially where MS has been very vocal about what Vista will be like, whereas Jobs hasn't said anything. Perhaps he's copying Vista features?
I mean, some of his statements are getting pretty crazy, like borderline Sony insanity!
Slashdot Mirror
flamebait for asking a deeply philosophical question? What is slashdot coming to?
http://www.ebay.com/
Fable was a remake?
does that extra 24gb of ladies' naked bodies really make a difference anyway?
Free everything.
In approximately 2.5 years, after massive success with the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo of America will reveal its intentions, and along with the new Communist Act of America will seize the government using simple titles like Brain Age and Nintendogs. Following will be a Microsoft-Sony underground resistance called the Capitalist Underground Terror Developers(or the CUTDeep), flooding the market with games that you pay for, over and over and over. At this point the new American President, Shiguru Miyamoto will declare war on the CUTDeep. at which point the only salvation is to begin life anew on a distant earth-like planet called Alpha Centauri and nuke the planet Earth from orbit. Unfortunately, due to problems in the filing systems at NASA and the NSA, shortly after losing the tapes of the first moonlanding, NASA forgot how to even launch a shuttle, leaving us all doomed to play AAA Nintendo games.
Okay I'm tired of thinking this shit up, please Write your own adventure.
holy shit I only just now realized that the paragraph tag is allowed!
Man, you wouldn't believe how many times I'd be Previewing my post just so I wouldn't look like a re-re. I'm saying this in all seriousness right now but thank you for cluing me in to the wonderful world of anglyBracket P slashAnglyBracket. And I for one welcome my new Allowed HTML knowledgeable overlord. To anwser your question though, sometimes it's good to space the comment out so that more people will see it, makes karma whoring that much easier, I know this by experience
I think microsoft is thinking too big with the marketplace, or as I like to call it, the get-rich-quick-E-mart. The idea of placing marketplace items in fable (well TFA said something about buying a fancy sword from an ingame vendor, which seems to coincide with Fable 2 IMHO) may be interesting, but I feel that it will destroy gaming.This whole idea looks like it will go from the "hrm, I'm bored I wonder if I can get a new car to race in PGR3?" impulse micropayments to forcing people to make a purchase to continue the storyline of a certain game, either making a specific race in PGR not possible to win unless you have *supercar for "just 300 points", or by some form of misconcepted episodic gaming.
I mean, at best case a specific game could force you to "spend money to make money" and at worst (and most probably) just causing you to spend money to access content which should have been included with the game in the first place.
As to the forced cost on gamer pictures and themes, it is a wonderful way of making a quick buck for them, it is easy for you to be browsing the market and find a gamer picture and grabbing it because "it's only 80 points" I know i've been a victim/guilty of that myself.
it my not be a bright idea, but it will be fun!
Hell I was damaging property BEFORE I knew there was money to be found in "them there floorboards"!
communist.
Joking, but it is a success for capatalism when the kid has to go and buy another one with their allowance. . .
Throwing chairs at them?
it'll make aimbots that much easier to spot though. . . when every enemy is illuminated while in buy mode, you know a teammate is a cheat.
Agreed. Starforce is absolutely killing the PC game industry. I don't know about anyone else, but when I see broken starforce games on the torrents, I'll download them JUST TO SPITE those Russian mafia crooks who made it. That's even if I have no interest in the game!
now that's a game I'd like to play with the wiimote!
I'm sure someone might enjoy it on their Xbox 720, PS4, and Nintendo Fire-Water-Enema.
It's starting to look like too human is the title that goes from "launch window" to "end of console lifespan / close to launch of next system / garbage heap in the backalley" like dinosaur planet or True Fantasy Live Online.
hotdog gloves?
. . . our only refuge from the impending robotic uprising was to tilt those vending machine sized robots onto their backs, and now some american scientists have decided to go and ruin that for us. I suppose we better lay down and just accept our new dynamically upright robotic overlords.
At first I cringed over that subscription fee, but then I thought two things that make it significant for either Microsoft or "the people." Basically, I think Microsoft wants to ring people in who pay the fee thinking "I'm going to code myself a game for the X360!" and 6 months later they either have completely forgotten about it, or have just given up on making it. In this case MS makes money off of chumps.
The other is that, say you and 3 friends decide to do a little development (call it a dev team if you will), and only buy one subscription, thus $25 each. Have one person doing testing and the rest development in the free pc environment.
Honestly, I don't think Microsoft would have a problem with that second case, I mean, their games department seems slightly less evil than their windows department.
but apparently it does warrant a +5 Informative.
please read it again.
I said that there is always a group of people who will buy it, AND there is always a group of people who will steal it. I was suggesting that it is futile to chase those people who will steal it, because no matter what they will exist. My argument (that admittedly, I should have made explicit) was that instead of always finding ways of locking the theives out, they should try to lock IN the people who purchase it.
Generally AFAIK it is much easier to piss the paying customers off by locking out pirates than it is to piss them off by offering them a good product at a good price. Which is basically the same argument as yours. . .
don't kid yourself 30something and posting slashdot. . . doing it regularily?? HA
Okay I'm joking, I know what you mean though, the who sex theme is just getting blown up by the media. They always say things like the object of the game is to use hookers and kill them for the money back, but its just something that can be done, making the gameworld a little more authentic towards real life.
I hope someone mods you up because that is extremely insightful information. I mean, some of it might seem like common sense to us but to the "socially inept" it isn't. That's probably why they are like that in the first place.
Curious though, a friend of mine absolutely doesn't understand #1, he'll talk and sound like a complete retard not even listening to himself, but he does alright (better than normal) with girls.
I was coming to comment on that too, I say we form a virtual mob to virtually beat him every day.
Joking, but I was still wondering why he felt he needed to mention his IQ in that sentence.
No you don't http://secondlife.com/
Okay so that was lame, you are correct.
I'm actually quite surprised that a slightly anti-apple article has been posted.
With that said, I think he is correct in calling their fascination with vista childish, I mean a coworker read that Jobs Comment about not wanting to reveal all the details about his new OS because Microsoft will copy them, and that is fairly childish in my opinion. Especially where MS has been very vocal about what Vista will be like, whereas Jobs hasn't said anything. Perhaps he's copying Vista features?
I mean, some of his statements are getting pretty crazy, like borderline Sony insanity!
did anyone else misread the title as "Transgendered Technologies and Mac"?