I don't know about your Wal-Mart, but the ones I've been to have carded for M-rated games. In fact, I had a friend who worked in electronics at one, and complained about how annoying it was to have mothers of children (13 years old and less in many cases) bitch him out because he couldn't sell Grand Theft Auto to their children. Yes, seriously.
Actually, the worst I've seen posted so far is "I don't like it but they're just consolidating already public available information."
On the "Don't Snitch," I find it fairly appalling that it exists. I fail to see what is bad about helping the police track down criminals. People wearing these shirts should be ashamed.
Sometimes I think humanity is starting to grow up, then someone slaps some sense into me. Yeah, can you believe some people still don't get sarcasm? Crying shame.
Why don't you believe them? Do you have a concrete reason to believe that they are actually spying, rather than simply doing tests? What if they were simply doing tests? How can you tell the difference?
I'm suggesting that perhaps losing weight is not as easy as you're making out it is. Explain why 90% of people who lose weight put that weight plus more on within 5 years. Are you seriously telling me all these people are just fat and lazy and should take some responsibility? You've been watching too many reality tv fat camp shows.
I've never seen fat camp shows, actually. And I don't think its easy, but I think that if you really want to do it then you can, and whining about genetics is just that: whining. I think that if you're fat then you should either accept that you would rather be fat than altering your lifestyle or do it, instead of going on about "oh woe is me I'm genetically predisposed to being fat."
Have you ever considered that perhaps you're overweight because you're pre-disposed to it? That while a massive change of lifestyle may allow you to lose weight, you may not be able to afford to maintain that lifestyle, nor might you like living that life? How about instead of denying it you come to grips with the fact that not everyone at "normal" weight is that way because they've taken responsibility for it.
I am pre-disposed to being overweight. It runs in my family. But it isn't going to take me a "massive" change in lifestyle to fix that. I just have to cut down portions and be a little bit more active. Neither do I assume that anyone who is a normal weight is that way because they've taken responsibility.
Now, while we're talking about denial, let's talk about the whole "I'm fat because of genetics and nothing I can do can fix that." If it was "I'm fat because its too much effort for too little reward," then I can appreciate that. But the fact of the matter is that you will be less attractive to people, and that has certain negative side effects. I'd rather put in the effort.
Lots of thin people do no exercise and eat unhealthily. Have a look in the mirror and accept who and what you are right now. THAT is taking responsibility. If you want to try to make changes go for it, but using words like "own fault" and agreeing with prats that others "whine about genetics" doesn't make you better, or healthier, and certainly doesn't make you more responsible for your own choices. It just makes you a guilt victim who wants to spread the guilt around.
When I was in school, I made straight A's. Everyone always assumed that I went home and spent every waking hour studying. I didn't. I was just naturally very good at the kind of things involved in schoolwork. Does that mean that people who weren't as naturally inclined as me should get a free pass for flunking out?
You're making a huge assumption that I'm somehow condemning fat people. I'm not. I'm saying that ultimately it comes down to a choice. That choice can be effected by genetics: "I have to spend x amount of time because of my genetics to lose weight, and thats not worth it to me." Just don't expect me to shed a tear for you if you make that decision.
Likewise, you seem to assume that I'm under some guilt trip. I'm not. I look in the mirror, and I think "I'd like to improve the way I look." Yeah, I have to work harder than my friends at losing that weight, but its still my responsibility and my choice. And I choose to improve my looks by losing weight.
You're happy with who you are? Cool! Great! Awesome! I support you 100%. What I don't support is people that come whining and expect me to shed a tear, pat them on the back, and tell them "There there, its not your fault," when they made a decision.
But you know, whatever. You can loudly proclaim that I just feel guilty. But I'm not the one who started complaining about their weight.
Oh and don't expect people to bend their tastes and preferences to accommodate your decisions. I don't care how "normal" being fat is, I'm still not going to date a 350 pound girl. Sorry, thats just my preference. Call me shallow if you like, but I also don't expect people to make special exceptions for me just because I have a harder time with keeping my weight down.
So basically you're complaining that a live-action movie doesn't exactly follow every detail from a childrens' cartoon about giant space robots, made to sell dolls? Somehow, I don't think you were going to come out impressed even if this did live up to your lofty standards.
You know, I've seen a couple people say this, but for the life of me I can't figure out why. Yeah the new Turtles movie was corny and heavy-handed but, um, so was the cartoon. The movie seemed to fit the cartoon pretty well. Except for the whole April-as-a-ninja thing, which sucked.
No I just recognize that being overweight is my own fault, and if I don't want to be overweight then I have to take some responsibility to change that, instead of whining about genetics.
Is your position that I should simply sit back and accept something that is within my power to change? Even with all the negatives that go with it?
As far as I know, the law doesn't prevent me from discriminating on any grounds when I'm looking for a roommate. I'm perfectly fine with rejecting people for any reason I wish until I find someone I am comfortable living with. I believe that other posters mentioned a shared living exemption.
A landlord, however, is not allowed to discriminate on certain categories, such as race, age, sexuality, or religion.
The whole gist of this case is that landlords were utilizing a site specifically designed for finding roommates (not tenants) to discriminate against possible tenants.
So no, my rights aren't limited by the law. Hell, the judgment just said that roommates.com doesn't get an exemption; they don't even say if they have broken the law yet.
That's what I suspected, just another console fanboy trying to downplay something incredible because it's not on their system.
So basically put, you treating the game like the second comming and going on about the "awesome power of the PS3" doesn't make you a fanboy, but me saying that the game is far more impressive gameplay-wise than graphics-wise makes me a console fanboy?
Someone needs to grow up, but its not me.
I believe, in fact, that I said that the graphics are great, just not "absolutely awesome." I also said its a game I'd like to play, and that the gameplay... the physics and interactions, are far more interesting than the graphics. Its quite baffling to me why you choose to focus on the graphics when thats small potatoes compared to what they're doing with the rest of the game
I've been to many GDCs over the years and I've seen many demos of new games or tech. There has never been a reaction to a game from developers like there was at GDC in all the years I have attended.
Yeah, note I didn't specifically discount the reactions of developers. I've heard lots of good reactions. But none of them have been about the graphics. Thats what I was pointing out.
Feel free to share with us what you think the structure of LBP's engine and specifically lighting model is in broad terms on the system. You clearly know more than most of the gaming world's best developers. Right?
Ok, first of all, care to link to some developers raving about how awesome the graphics in particular are? Second, I don't need to know about the structure of the engine, just the end result. No, I don't know more than actual game developers, but that doesn't make me unqualified to judge the end-results, which is what I can see and play on screen. Just because I don't know anything about oil painting doesn't mean I can't say that I don't care for the scenery in the oil painting.
Hell, if you weren't sucking on Sony's cock so hard, maybe you'd realize that I was actually paying the game some very big complements. But I guess that your reaction, when I didn't hail the game as the second comming, is very telling. I wasn't mistaken when I was calling you a shill. And you throwing a hissy fit about the way I choose to compliment a game doesn't really make you seem any more unbiased.
I would agree with you if this was about landlords, but this is a site for finding roommates. You should be able to choose the type of people you live with. If a woman doesn't want to live with a man because that makes her uncomfortable, that should be her right. Same with a homosexual and a fundamentalist Christian, a man with very fundamentalist parents and a woman, a man and a homosexual man, etc. A person should not be forced to room with another person that makes them uncomfortable, even if those reasons are bigoted. The site gives its users options to help them find roommates that meet this requirement.
No, I'm not joking. I haven't heard any developers talk about how stunned they were about the graphics, and I haven't seen anything that I would classify as "awesome", including the lighting model. I had heard a lot about the gameplay, and I have to wonder why you're focusing on the graphics when its obvious that the gameplay is whats going to bring people to the table.
I didn't think developers would so easily and this early tap into the incredible parallel number crunching power of the PS3.
Ah, Sony shill. Right. Glad to see you're back after the Wii pounding.
Amazing? They're great but not absolutely amazing. Thats ok though, the real muscle seems to be in the physics and customization in that game. You can tell the designers focused more on the gameplay than the graphics, which is what makes me want to play it.
I have to agree. All "bad genetics" means is you have to try harder than other people. I've known people who could wolf down anything and still be thin as a rail (and in fact, known some people who wolfed down everything to *try* to gain weight). But if you're fat, then its not because of genetics, its because you're eating too damn much and not expending enough energy.
I'm overweight. I don't make excuses. Its because I eat too much and sit on my ass all day. My genetics don't help, but I'm going to be thin eventually because I'm putting in the effort.
If you replace "Crystal Chronicles" in this comic with the word "Halo" then you'll get, basically, your post. I hope you realize how ridiculous you sound.
I think its a bit foolish to simply assume that nothing in all of FOSS is covered by Microsoft's patents. After all, its pretty hard to write any sort of non-trivial software these days that is non-infringing.
Windows Forms, ADO.Net, and ASP.Net all have patents involved, according to the Mono team. ADO.Net is basically the standard framework in.Net for communicating with SQL servers, and ASP.Net is their web-frontend framework, so basically they have patents covering key strategic areas in.Net. Thus, the Mono project is vulnerable. They'd have to purge those parts of.Net from their re-implementation and find workarounds (although they already have GTK to step in for Windows Forms).
Of course, there's the Novell-Microsoft patent deal.
I'd be willing to bet a sizable amount of cash that "email" involves features in Outlook. Outlook is a source of considerable lock-in for a lot of companies.
I really doubt that they'll go into any more detail. They're using this as a scare tactic, and if they give *actual* details, that means that FOSS companies can develop strategies for dealing with it instead of paying fees to Microsoft. Basically, it would throw a monkey wrench into their whole plan, as you pointed out.
Its really sad to see this happen. A lot of people predicted something like this, but I was really hoping (naively) it wouldn't happen. I could see projects like Mono being hit really hard, which is a shame because I actually like Mono.
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I don't know about your Wal-Mart, but the ones I've been to have carded for M-rated games. In fact, I had a friend who worked in electronics at one, and complained about how annoying it was to have mothers of children (13 years old and less in many cases) bitch him out because he couldn't sell Grand Theft Auto to their children. Yes, seriously.
Actually, the worst I've seen posted so far is "I don't like it but they're just consolidating already public available information."
On the "Don't Snitch," I find it fairly appalling that it exists. I fail to see what is bad about helping the police track down criminals. People wearing these shirts should be ashamed.
Why don't you believe them? Do you have a concrete reason to believe that they are actually spying, rather than simply doing tests? What if they were simply doing tests? How can you tell the difference?
Well the war in Iraq and Michael Bay films are disasters, so I guess the comparison isn't quite so ridiculous.
I've never seen fat camp shows, actually. And I don't think its easy, but I think that if you really want to do it then you can, and whining about genetics is just that: whining. I think that if you're fat then you should either accept that you would rather be fat than altering your lifestyle or do it, instead of going on about "oh woe is me I'm genetically predisposed to being fat."
Have you ever considered that perhaps you're overweight because you're pre-disposed to it? That while a massive change of lifestyle may allow you to lose weight, you may not be able to afford to maintain that lifestyle, nor might you like living that life? How about instead of denying it you come to grips with the fact that not everyone at "normal" weight is that way because they've taken responsibility for it.I am pre-disposed to being overweight. It runs in my family. But it isn't going to take me a "massive" change in lifestyle to fix that. I just have to cut down portions and be a little bit more active. Neither do I assume that anyone who is a normal weight is that way because they've taken responsibility.
Now, while we're talking about denial, let's talk about the whole "I'm fat because of genetics and nothing I can do can fix that." If it was "I'm fat because its too much effort for too little reward," then I can appreciate that. But the fact of the matter is that you will be less attractive to people, and that has certain negative side effects. I'd rather put in the effort.
Lots of thin people do no exercise and eat unhealthily. Have a look in the mirror and accept who and what you are right now. THAT is taking responsibility. If you want to try to make changes go for it, but using words like "own fault" and agreeing with prats that others "whine about genetics" doesn't make you better, or healthier, and certainly doesn't make you more responsible for your own choices. It just makes you a guilt victim who wants to spread the guilt around.When I was in school, I made straight A's. Everyone always assumed that I went home and spent every waking hour studying. I didn't. I was just naturally very good at the kind of things involved in schoolwork. Does that mean that people who weren't as naturally inclined as me should get a free pass for flunking out?
You're making a huge assumption that I'm somehow condemning fat people. I'm not. I'm saying that ultimately it comes down to a choice. That choice can be effected by genetics: "I have to spend x amount of time because of my genetics to lose weight, and thats not worth it to me." Just don't expect me to shed a tear for you if you make that decision.
Likewise, you seem to assume that I'm under some guilt trip. I'm not. I look in the mirror, and I think "I'd like to improve the way I look." Yeah, I have to work harder than my friends at losing that weight, but its still my responsibility and my choice. And I choose to improve my looks by losing weight.
You're happy with who you are? Cool! Great! Awesome! I support you 100%. What I don't support is people that come whining and expect me to shed a tear, pat them on the back, and tell them "There there, its not your fault," when they made a decision.
But you know, whatever. You can loudly proclaim that I just feel guilty. But I'm not the one who started complaining about their weight.
Oh and don't expect people to bend their tastes and preferences to accommodate your decisions. I don't care how "normal" being fat is, I'm still not going to date a 350 pound girl. Sorry, thats just my preference. Call me shallow if you like, but I also don't expect people to make special exceptions for me just because I have a harder time with keeping my weight down.
So basically you're complaining that a live-action movie doesn't exactly follow every detail from a childrens' cartoon about giant space robots, made to sell dolls? Somehow, I don't think you were going to come out impressed even if this did live up to your lofty standards.
America doesn't have a monopoly on bad and tasteless entertainment.
You know, I've seen a couple people say this, but for the life of me I can't figure out why. Yeah the new Turtles movie was corny and heavy-handed but, um, so was the cartoon. The movie seemed to fit the cartoon pretty well. Except for the whole April-as-a-ninja thing, which sucked.
No I just recognize that being overweight is my own fault, and if I don't want to be overweight then I have to take some responsibility to change that, instead of whining about genetics.
Is your position that I should simply sit back and accept something that is within my power to change? Even with all the negatives that go with it?
As far as I know, the law doesn't prevent me from discriminating on any grounds when I'm looking for a roommate. I'm perfectly fine with rejecting people for any reason I wish until I find someone I am comfortable living with. I believe that other posters mentioned a shared living exemption.
A landlord, however, is not allowed to discriminate on certain categories, such as race, age, sexuality, or religion.
The whole gist of this case is that landlords were utilizing a site specifically designed for finding roommates (not tenants) to discriminate against possible tenants.
So no, my rights aren't limited by the law. Hell, the judgment just said that roommates.com doesn't get an exemption; they don't even say if they have broken the law yet.
Oh and I do live alone, thanks.
So basically put, you treating the game like the second comming and going on about the "awesome power of the PS3" doesn't make you a fanboy, but me saying that the game is far more impressive gameplay-wise than graphics-wise makes me a console fanboy?
I've been to many GDCs over the years and I've seen many demos of new games or tech. There has never been a reaction to a game from developers like there was at GDC in all the years I have attended.Someone needs to grow up, but its not me.
I believe, in fact, that I said that the graphics are great, just not "absolutely awesome." I also said its a game I'd like to play, and that the gameplay... the physics and interactions, are far more interesting than the graphics. Its quite baffling to me why you choose to focus on the graphics when thats small potatoes compared to what they're doing with the rest of the game
Yeah, note I didn't specifically discount the reactions of developers. I've heard lots of good reactions. But none of them have been about the graphics. Thats what I was pointing out.
Feel free to share with us what you think the structure of LBP's engine and specifically lighting model is in broad terms on the system. You clearly know more than most of the gaming world's best developers. Right?Ok, first of all, care to link to some developers raving about how awesome the graphics in particular are? Second, I don't need to know about the structure of the engine, just the end result. No, I don't know more than actual game developers, but that doesn't make me unqualified to judge the end-results, which is what I can see and play on screen. Just because I don't know anything about oil painting doesn't mean I can't say that I don't care for the scenery in the oil painting.
Hell, if you weren't sucking on Sony's cock so hard, maybe you'd realize that I was actually paying the game some very big complements. But I guess that your reaction, when I didn't hail the game as the second comming, is very telling. I wasn't mistaken when I was calling you a shill. And you throwing a hissy fit about the way I choose to compliment a game doesn't really make you seem any more unbiased.
I would agree with you if this was about landlords, but this is a site for finding roommates. You should be able to choose the type of people you live with. If a woman doesn't want to live with a man because that makes her uncomfortable, that should be her right. Same with a homosexual and a fundamentalist Christian, a man with very fundamentalist parents and a woman, a man and a homosexual man, etc. A person should not be forced to room with another person that makes them uncomfortable, even if those reasons are bigoted. The site gives its users options to help them find roommates that meet this requirement.
Well at least thats better than not reading the comments one is responding to:
The judge says it is, but I want to hear from somebody who's used the site.I didn't think developers would so easily and this early tap into the incredible parallel number crunching power of the PS3.
Ah, Sony shill. Right. Glad to see you're back after the Wii pounding.
Amazing? They're great but not absolutely amazing. Thats ok though, the real muscle seems to be in the physics and customization in that game. You can tell the designers focused more on the gameplay than the graphics, which is what makes me want to play it.
I have to agree. All "bad genetics" means is you have to try harder than other people. I've known people who could wolf down anything and still be thin as a rail (and in fact, known some people who wolfed down everything to *try* to gain weight). But if you're fat, then its not because of genetics, its because you're eating too damn much and not expending enough energy.
I'm overweight. I don't make excuses. Its because I eat too much and sit on my ass all day. My genetics don't help, but I'm going to be thin eventually because I'm putting in the effort.
If you replace "Crystal Chronicles" in this comic with the word "Halo" then you'll get, basically, your post. I hope you realize how ridiculous you sound.
I think its a bit foolish to simply assume that nothing in all of FOSS is covered by Microsoft's patents. After all, its pretty hard to write any sort of non-trivial software these days that is non-infringing.
It depends on how you define "open." Like "free," its a wonderfully overloaded term, and its very easy to use that to your advantage.
Windows Forms, ADO.Net, and ASP.Net all have patents involved, according to the Mono team. ADO.Net is basically the standard framework in .Net for communicating with SQL servers, and ASP.Net is their web-frontend framework, so basically they have patents covering key strategic areas in .Net. Thus, the Mono project is vulnerable. They'd have to purge those parts of .Net from their re-implementation and find workarounds (although they already have GTK to step in for Windows Forms).
Of course, there's the Novell-Microsoft patent deal.
I'd be willing to bet a sizable amount of cash that "email" involves features in Outlook. Outlook is a source of considerable lock-in for a lot of companies.
I don't really like to jump in the "OMG M$ SUX" bandwagon, but this is pretty telling.
Free Linux software violates 42 patents.Competes with Windows
Graphical user interfaces, the way menus and windows look on the screen, breach 65.Similar interfaces make it easier to switch to FOSS products.
E-mail programs step on 15Outlook
and other programs touch 68 other patents the company said.This probably covers stuff like IIS and .Net
Microsoft also said Open Office, an open-source program supported in part by Sun Microsystems Inc., infringes on 45 patents.Microsoft Office
I think that covers all of Microsoft's cash-cows doesn't it? Very telling.
I really doubt that they'll go into any more detail. They're using this as a scare tactic, and if they give *actual* details, that means that FOSS companies can develop strategies for dealing with it instead of paying fees to Microsoft. Basically, it would throw a monkey wrench into their whole plan, as you pointed out.
Its really sad to see this happen. A lot of people predicted something like this, but I was really hoping (naively) it wouldn't happen. I could see projects like Mono being hit really hard, which is a shame because I actually like Mono.
Metroid is very much a game for the American audiences. It doesn't have very much appeal in Japan. 120k units makes sense.