I agree, also how the hell am I going to wipe my own ass after having cut my wiping hand off? Furthermore, if I have to start wiping with leftie, won't that cover my hand with sin if I miss, causing me to have to cut off that hand too?
did it not get slashdotted? As far as I know the definition of a slashdotting (from wikipedia) "Historically, sites that received a mention on Slashdot could get "Slashdotted" if the flood of attention that the link generated overwhelmed their servers.". If it didn't overwhelm the server then it obviously didn't get slashdotted did it?
I too am an electric bassist, and I think you're missing the point. For most people, the learning curve to be relative good at Guitar Hero is at most a handful of hours, but the learning curve to playing a real guitar (well enough to be fun) is around the handful of months mark (and that's with a lot of hard work and dedication) How many people do you know who have mastered the solo to Symphony of Destruction within 12 hours of picking up a guitar for the first time? Also, even if you do pick up a guitar and learn to play, how fun is it going to be if none of your friends can play any instruments? I suppose friends are the key here, if you have any you get some good times out of buying Guitar Hero. If you don't have any, I suppose audacity and low-stripped MP3s could be a suitable replacement.
As far as I know the GUIs aren't supposed to add whizz-bang graphics, I think they're made only to help newbies identify friends, foes, items, and objects. Speaking as a slashdotter who has never had the pleasure of enjoying NetHack simply because I don't have the time nor have taken the effort to memorize each of the ascii chars used, I would probably have an easier time learning with pictures. (bonus points if I can switch between the graphical tiles and the ascii chars on the fly)
while you're probably right, I must say that as a person who has played nearly every first person shooter since ken's labyrinth (not including the crappy PSX/PS2/xbox bond games) I did enjoy goldeneye, halo, and halo 2. I think the real fanboyism in this discussion is the "PC is better than console mentality". Is it really that hard for people to accept that some people like games that they didn't like or vice versa?
weird that of the two of us, I'm the troll. . . Oh well, as a +2 troll I must say I win.
For the record I'm not against ADA at all. My problem is that Target is handicapable, and they provide very reasonable accommodation. The accommodation being that if Blind Person 'A' goes to Target Store 'B', I can guarantee Employee 'C' will provide any and all assistance to 'A' for fear of being fired by Employee Supervisor 'D'. 'D' in this case would more than likely be complying with rules set forth by Regional Manager 'E', who answer's to CEO 'F', who wants his business to stay afloat and doesn't want to pay a hefty fine set forth by Justice of the Supreme Court 'G'.
I don't know where I was going with that, I'm sure I could turn it into a joke about 'A' not even having the chance to be offended by my post since he can't read but that would be awfully mean of me.
I'm sure it really sucks being blind, but to me, as long as Target makes accomodations in some way, that should be enough. I'd make a blind-only site that redirects them to a page containing nothing but a phone number, and let an operator help them out.
I could have an operator reading the website to me?? and here I am using my own eyes like a chump!!
Part of doing business in the community is that you have to be a part of the community. If you can't provide a service for people there is no reason you should be aloud to operate. You don't have nor should you have a right to do business wherever you like.
hold on there sparky, If you can't provide a service for people then you should be allowed to go out of business. No one can say "You're not allowed to do business because someone can't do business with you." It would be more like "Are you crazy??? If you don't do business with this person then you won't have any business, no income, and subsequently you're going to go out of business!".
For example, say I own a PVC tubing company then a customer comes by and says, "Whoa, what are you doing here? I can't use PVC tubes, I can only use aluminum-copper alloy tubes and if you don't offer the services I need I'm going to sue you or have the government shut you down!
I bought my top of the line video card because I need something to accurately render the billions of polygons in my 16x Anti-Aliased E-Wang at 120 FPS, you insensitive clod! On an entirely unrelated note, I choose not to measure my video card's power in Gigaflops. . .
when you create a user account there should be an international user option. I can't recall how I set it up, all I remember is that you can only buy stuff from their amazon store, not any of the other sellers:(
http://www.amazon.jp/ either learn a little bit of their language or use the english traslate button. That's how I get my J-Rock and J-Ska niche filled. Now if only they'd allow me to buy from the used areas. . . nothing like getting a couple X-Japan albums for a handful of yennies. (yes I know, but where 1 yen is roughly equal to 1/100th of a dollar or a penny it's hard not to. ..)
The problem is that the level of complexity rises with each generation. Of course your NES and SNES are going to work forever because as long as it doesn't get power spiked, the PC boards are going to stay intact. That's the beauty of those solid state systems, no moving parts, no hard drives, no optical drives, no operating systems, etc. Ever since consoles have started using ***-ROM drives, hard drives, operating systems, wireless/IR receivers, multicore processors, complex graphics processing units, heatsinks, and heatsink fans, they'd have to worry about the optical drive motors, fan bearings, heat management, voltage/current regulation, harddrive fragmentation, OS crashes, file corruption, and all kinds of other unforeseeable circumstances.
Now that the game consoles are rapidly becoming dedicated PCs we're always prone to the weird bugs, crashes, and subsequent burns of the average desktop PC. I know some enthusiasts will call me on that saying "Well if you keep your PC properly maintained it won't ever crap out on you", but the thing is, with these consoles there really is no way to keep them maintained. There's accessible registry to clean, or hdd defrag tools.
I do think that warranties are a foolish protection racket, what with EB games employees badgering me for that $3.00 warranty, or that $100 in-store warranty or whatever. But asking for a console that is guaranteed never to fail in any circumstance for 5 years is absolutely unreasonable. On top of that, although I don't have any figures to go by, this seems to be fairly uncommon problem with the 360s, and the Red ring of death could mean any number of errors have occurred, whether it be from problems with the firmware, problems with the OS, problems with the Hdd, problems with the optical drive. I could imagine an even smaller amount of 360s that die are actually dieing for the same reason.
With that said, it is reasonable to ask for a better warranty because of the added complexity. Back in the NES and SNES days, a 90 day warranty was reasonable because generally speaking, if it didn't die in 90 days it would more than likely live for the next 20 years. The real question here is why haven't the manufacturers extended warranties with each console iteration to match the added complexity of the new consoles?
I think this is about how it went down (keep in mind I'm simplifying it) let's say that the overall legal fees would amount to one million dollars. Now let's say the maximum amount that Lik-Sang could have possibly spent on the legal fees is one hundred thousand dollars. There'd be no possible way to cover the other 900 thousand right? Now as a CEO would you rather piss the money away knowing you're going to lose because you can't afford to win, or would you split the money up and dissolve the company?
the red ring of death happened to my xbox360 too but when I called Microsoft they said they extended the warranty by a year or something (I only bought mine like 4 or 5 months ago) which is awesome, because for $50cdn when I bought my console I payed for the 3 year extended warranty from MS and apparently they just appended that extra time onto my existing warranty.
So I guess long story short is: either this guy was too cheap to buy a decently priced warranty, or he had done something to his xbox360 to void the warranty. Seeing how he decided to make a video of cooking an egg on the heatsink I bet he had done the DVDfirmware mod.
I figure that if the 360 mods are as easy as the first xbox mods by the time my warranty ends I'll consider modding it then, but anytime before then is just foolish.
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I think you missed the part where first person shooters get released for computers. Many of your suggestions are good, but they're entirely oriented for a very certain style of FPS and a very certain platform. On top of that, it seems that you're thinking exclusively of the subset of (formerly RARE) EA branded games. I think the only Bond game that EA handled that wasn't complete garbage was Nightfire, and even then that's a huge stretch to call Nightfire good. For the most part EA doesn't publish good games and many of your examples are EA exclusive. How can you say the FPS genre has "struggles with basics of multiplayer FPS games" when there are many, many good multiplayer FPS games. I don't know about anyone else but I certainly don't want to buy an FPS game if it follows your "Good Weapon" scheme, that is the typical weapon set that has been in use since a certain PC game in 1994.
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now if only you included a PS3 into the price. . .
foolish me, I didn't know about the wii episode.
I agree, also how the hell am I going to wipe my own ass after having cut my wiping hand off? Furthermore, if I have to start wiping with leftie, won't that cover my hand with sin if I miss, causing me to have to cut off that hand too?
did it not get slashdotted? As far as I know the definition of a slashdotting (from wikipedia) "Historically, sites that received a mention on Slashdot could get "Slashdotted" if the flood of attention that the link generated overwhelmed their servers.". If it didn't overwhelm the server then it obviously didn't get slashdotted did it?
No, he's waiting for the Okama Gamesphere. . .
I too am an electric bassist, and I think you're missing the point. For most people, the learning curve to be relative good at Guitar Hero is at most a handful of hours, but the learning curve to playing a real guitar (well enough to be fun) is around the handful of months mark (and that's with a lot of hard work and dedication) How many people do you know who have mastered the solo to Symphony of Destruction within 12 hours of picking up a guitar for the first time? Also, even if you do pick up a guitar and learn to play, how fun is it going to be if none of your friends can play any instruments? I suppose friends are the key here, if you have any you get some good times out of buying Guitar Hero. If you don't have any, I suppose audacity and low-stripped MP3s could be a suitable replacement.
As far as I know the GUIs aren't supposed to add whizz-bang graphics, I think they're made only to help newbies identify friends, foes, items, and objects. Speaking as a slashdotter who has never had the pleasure of enjoying NetHack simply because I don't have the time nor have taken the effort to memorize each of the ascii chars used, I would probably have an easier time learning with pictures. (bonus points if I can switch between the graphical tiles and the ascii chars on the fly)
only a single .45??? you'd think for 6 ps3's they'd settle for nothing less than a Browning M2.
while you're probably right, I must say that as a person who has played nearly every first person shooter since ken's labyrinth (not including the crappy PSX/PS2/xbox bond games) I did enjoy goldeneye, halo, and halo 2. I think the real fanboyism in this discussion is the "PC is better than console mentality". Is it really that hard for people to accept that some people like games that they didn't like or vice versa?
weird that of the two of us, I'm the troll. . . Oh well, as a +2 troll I must say I win.
For the record I'm not against ADA at all. My problem is that Target is handicapable, and they provide very reasonable accommodation. The accommodation being that if Blind Person 'A' goes to Target Store 'B', I can guarantee Employee 'C' will provide any and all assistance to 'A' for fear of being fired by Employee Supervisor 'D'. 'D' in this case would more than likely be complying with rules set forth by Regional Manager 'E', who answer's to CEO 'F', who wants his business to stay afloat and doesn't want to pay a hefty fine set forth by Justice of the Supreme Court 'G'.
I don't know where I was going with that, I'm sure I could turn it into a joke about 'A' not even having the chance to be offended by my post since he can't read but that would be awfully mean of me.
some kids like RPGs?
For example, say I own a PVC tubing company then a customer comes by and says, "Whoa, what are you doing here? I can't use PVC tubes, I can only use aluminum-copper alloy tubes and if you don't offer the services I need I'm going to sue you or have the government shut you down!
I bought my top of the line video card because I need something to accurately render the billions of polygons in my 16x Anti-Aliased E-Wang at 120 FPS, you insensitive clod! On an entirely unrelated note, I choose not to measure my video card's power in Gigaflops. . .
when you create a user account there should be an international user option. I can't recall how I set it up, all I remember is that you can only buy stuff from their amazon store, not any of the other sellers :(
http://www.amazon.jp/ either learn a little bit of their language or use the english traslate button. That's how I get my J-Rock and J-Ska niche filled. Now if only they'd allow me to buy from the used areas. . . nothing like getting a couple X-Japan albums for a handful of yennies. (yes I know, but where 1 yen is roughly equal to 1/100th of a dollar or a penny it's hard not to. . .)
four if using some lube?
maybe not, but at least you can crush the competition. . .
The problem is that the level of complexity rises with each generation. Of course your NES and SNES are going to work forever because as long as it doesn't get power spiked, the PC boards are going to stay intact. That's the beauty of those solid state systems, no moving parts, no hard drives, no optical drives, no operating systems, etc. Ever since consoles have started using ***-ROM drives, hard drives, operating systems, wireless/IR receivers, multicore processors, complex graphics processing units, heatsinks, and heatsink fans, they'd have to worry about the optical drive motors, fan bearings, heat management, voltage/current regulation, harddrive fragmentation, OS crashes, file corruption, and all kinds of other unforeseeable circumstances.
Now that the game consoles are rapidly becoming dedicated PCs we're always prone to the weird bugs, crashes, and subsequent burns of the average desktop PC. I know some enthusiasts will call me on that saying "Well if you keep your PC properly maintained it won't ever crap out on you", but the thing is, with these consoles there really is no way to keep them maintained. There's accessible registry to clean, or hdd defrag tools.
I do think that warranties are a foolish protection racket, what with EB games employees badgering me for that $3.00 warranty, or that $100 in-store warranty or whatever. But asking for a console that is guaranteed never to fail in any circumstance for 5 years is absolutely unreasonable. On top of that, although I don't have any figures to go by, this seems to be fairly uncommon problem with the 360s, and the Red ring of death could mean any number of errors have occurred, whether it be from problems with the firmware, problems with the OS, problems with the Hdd, problems with the optical drive. I could imagine an even smaller amount of 360s that die are actually dieing for the same reason.
With that said, it is reasonable to ask for a better warranty because of the added complexity. Back in the NES and SNES days, a 90 day warranty was reasonable because generally speaking, if it didn't die in 90 days it would more than likely live for the next 20 years. The real question here is why haven't the manufacturers extended warranties with each console iteration to match the added complexity of the new consoles?
I think this is about how it went down (keep in mind I'm simplifying it) let's say that the overall legal fees would amount to one million dollars. Now let's say the maximum amount that Lik-Sang could have possibly spent on the legal fees is one hundred thousand dollars. There'd be no possible way to cover the other 900 thousand right? Now as a CEO would you rather piss the money away knowing you're going to lose because you can't afford to win, or would you split the money up and dissolve the company?
the red ring of death happened to my xbox360 too but when I called Microsoft they said they extended the warranty by a year or something (I only bought mine like 4 or 5 months ago) which is awesome, because for $50cdn when I bought my console I payed for the 3 year extended warranty from MS and apparently they just appended that extra time onto my existing warranty.
So I guess long story short is: either this guy was too cheap to buy a decently priced warranty, or he had done something to his xbox360 to void the warranty. Seeing how he decided to make a video of cooking an egg on the heatsink I bet he had done the DVDfirmware mod.
I figure that if the 360 mods are as easy as the first xbox mods by the time my warranty ends I'll consider modding it then, but anytime before then is just foolish.
I think you missed the part where first person shooters get released for computers. Many of your suggestions are good, but they're entirely oriented for a very certain style of FPS and a very certain platform. On top of that, it seems that you're thinking exclusively of the subset of (formerly RARE) EA branded games. I think the only Bond game that EA handled that wasn't complete garbage was Nightfire, and even then that's a huge stretch to call Nightfire good. For the most part EA doesn't publish good games and many of your examples are EA exclusive. How can you say the FPS genre has "struggles with basics of multiplayer FPS games" when there are many, many good multiplayer FPS games. I don't know about anyone else but I certainly don't want to buy an FPS game if it follows your "Good Weapon" scheme, that is the typical weapon set that has been in use since a certain PC game in 1994.
I thought MCPCs were simply powerful enough to play/record video files from TV/DVD/etc
Nintendo definitely hates 2d games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_ds