Actually, you're completely right. I didn't actually know the issue was with a texture on the game disk at the time of the original post. But, as a comedian, I'm legally required to stand by any argument that involves herart-patterned boxer shorts.
From Romero's blog: "What's the point of this all this? That modders are now screwing up the industry they're supposed to be helping."
Change the old slogan to "John Romero is going to... bitch." He really seems to have missed the entire point of the issue, seeming to place blame on modders in general. Rather surprising, considering where he might be had "Doom" not been moddable and therefore immortal.
In other news: grass is found to be green, water retains qualities of wetness, sky exhibits blue qualities, and your grandmother's rhubarb recipe is not as good as you remember it.
if I decide to wear heart boxers it's nobodies business except my husbands and myself.
That's exactly my point. If hypothetically you did have those drawers in your drawer, I swiped them, and used them to create that photoshop of you, that does not mean you meant for me to create that photoshop. The texture is not part of Oblivion as a viewable item that you can play with, and was not created to ever be usable or viewable on its own. The hack extracts it, and reapplies it to the game in a way the creators didn't mean for it to be used.
The textures were extracted from the character model on the disk, and re-applied as an outside layer by modders. There was never a facility built into Oblivion for showing the characters topless, whereas the code for Hot Coffee was workable albeit hidden from use until modded.
If I photoshop a picture of you so it appears as though you are wearing nothing but a pair of novelty heart-patterned boxer shorts, and then submit that to the world as proof that you are a very silly person who wears embarassing undergarments, it's invalid whether or not I snuck into your house and stole a real pair of your novelty heart-patterned boxer shorts to use in my photoshopping. Whether you do own a pair or whether it's all my sick, twisted artwork, it's still not something you ever intended for public consumption, and not something you should be judged by.
In the case of Hot Coffee, that scenario would have you posing for real pictures in the less-amusing-by-the-minute boxers, with plans to pass them out to the guys at work on Monday to show them what a hottie you are and improve workplace morale. However, you change your mind at the last minute, and hide the photos away somewhere instead. Then, someone with a grudge manages to access the photos without your knowledge or consent, and leaks them to the Internet. It is still not something to judge you by, but in the latter case it was at one point something you had planned to make public.
Disclaimer: The above was not meant to reflect on you specifically, whatever your choice of undergarments.
The one that says "Nintendo today launched a thousand smiles when they finally confirmed that the DS Lite, svelte brother to the bulky, yet handsome DS, will indeed be coming to the States," you mean?
In Hot Coffee, the data was on the disc, from an early concept for a minigame that was ultimately decided against including in the normal game. It was leftover data never meant to be accessible, but hackers found a way to access the nudity/bad polygonal dry-humping that Rockstar had originally created.
This is a far different case - fans created a mod which introduced nudity into a game that never had it on its original media. It'd be like me hacking a Super Mario ROM, adding boobs onto the Mario sprite, and then suing Nintendo for what I created and pasted into their game without their knowledge.
Was there ever any doubt it would be coming to the States? This isn't exactly the PocketStation, after all. There's been a huge demand for the DS Lite here since the start. Lik-Sang and eBayers can barely import them fast enough.
I'm no programmer by a long shot and my ham-fisted code monkeying causes many more bugs than it fixes, but many of my fellow fledgeling webdesigners (all 47 billion of them) will agree that a new site featuring a plugin-ready CMS, a blog, a Gallery script, and maybe an integrated message board is insanely more impressive to a webdesign client than the old HTML+GIFs+JPEGs model of the mid 1990s. And those gadgets can all be had for free! Free, I tell you!! FREEE!!!
This could actually benefit from things like Nintendo's loss of rights to the NES hardware that basically made the unathorized "clone" systems legal. If consoles open up or are legally replaceable with a clone after a generation or so, the games won't be useless anymore. (IANAL and am not closely familiar with what happened in the NES' case, maybe someone could reply with more info.)
All users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
Shouldn't we just take this for granted by now? You never really see a vendor come out with a new version of something that some users are discouraged from upgrading to.
"Here everyone, have some bug fixes and optimizations... but not that one guy, or you people over there, or that lady with the sideburns.."
That ties in with one of the most commom errors by people new to the web typing the web address they want into the search box on their default yahoo/MSN/whatever home page, rather than the address bar. I've seen tons of grannies, housewives, jocks, and other stereotypical net newbies do this, even after corrected they still find it "easier" since it's where the cursor starts out when they fire up the browser. Of course, it usually brings up the site they wanted as the first result, but it still pipes in a ton of advertising and near-miss links they wouldn't have seen otherwise. It must look like a goldmine to the type of people who would try to get rich off misspelled domain names.
FC is coughing up cyber-blood. The rare interesting "news" posts are few and far between, when they do happen they're terribly old news, the "discussion" is all trolls and spam, and Pud's extrememly interesting sister project internalmemos.com went to an all-paid model and stopped updating at roughly the same time. Shame.
I do hope this doesn't come off as insensitive or anything, but for some reason I'd be dubious if faced with an online avatar of someone who claims to have hacked past a US Military firewall - that is, hacked past a US Military Firewall - to do something as bandwidth-sucking and most likely specifically not allowed as playing a damn MMO.
I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this, as I'd love to think that even in a hellish war zone my fellow gamers can get their fix, but it just doesn't seem like something that would actually be allowed to happen all that much. And even if against all odds and logic it somehow did happen, I doubt said gamers would be bragging about their exploits in a damned text chat.
The idea that people who are sitting comfortably at home playing a computer game may be fishing for some sort of street cred or sympathy by falsely claiming to be among those whose lives are being put on the line is completely disgusting on every level.
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No wonder the Internet is constantly cranky, yet lovable.
They'll add it in with green-screen later.
By lighting cigarettes for people, they've already broken the first law of robotics.
Actually, you're completely right. I didn't actually know the issue was with a texture on the game disk at the time of the original post. But, as a comedian, I'm legally required to stand by any argument that involves herart-patterned boxer shorts.
Thanks to my damn spam blocker, I've missed out on hundreds of opportunities to accept millions of dollars from Nigerian royalty.
Change the old slogan to "John Romero is going to... bitch." He really seems to have missed the entire point of the issue, seeming to place blame on modders in general. Rather surprising, considering where he might be had "Doom" not been moddable and therefore immortal.
In other news: grass is found to be green, water retains qualities of wetness, sky exhibits blue qualities, and your grandmother's rhubarb recipe is not as good as you remember it.
Any chance of getting the actual artists' recordings together, or will these be the standard studio-band covers one finds in such things?
That's exactly my point. If hypothetically you did have those drawers in your drawer, I swiped them, and used them to create that photoshop of you, that does not mean you meant for me to create that photoshop. The texture is not part of Oblivion as a viewable item that you can play with, and was not created to ever be usable or viewable on its own. The hack extracts it, and reapplies it to the game in a way the creators didn't mean for it to be used.
I'm Tim Thorpe, and so is my wife!
Anyone else get to this line and laugh uncontrollably for five minutes straight?
If I photoshop a picture of you so it appears as though you are wearing nothing but a pair of novelty heart-patterned boxer shorts, and then submit that to the world as proof that you are a very silly person who wears embarassing undergarments, it's invalid whether or not I snuck into your house and stole a real pair of your novelty heart-patterned boxer shorts to use in my photoshopping. Whether you do own a pair or whether it's all my sick, twisted artwork, it's still not something you ever intended for public consumption, and not something you should be judged by.
In the case of Hot Coffee, that scenario would have you posing for real pictures in the less-amusing-by-the-minute boxers, with plans to pass them out to the guys at work on Monday to show them what a hottie you are and improve workplace morale. However, you change your mind at the last minute, and hide the photos away somewhere instead. Then, someone with a grudge manages to access the photos without your knowledge or consent, and leaks them to the Internet. It is still not something to judge you by, but in the latter case it was at one point something you had planned to make public.
Disclaimer: The above was not meant to reflect on you specifically, whatever your choice of undergarments.
Those of you who were too young or asleep during the Reagan years, read up on the Strategic Defense Initiative (aka "Star Wars.") Here we go again.
Yes, I did.
This is a far different case - fans created a mod which introduced nudity into a game that never had it on its original media. It'd be like me hacking a Super Mario ROM, adding boobs onto the Mario sprite, and then suing Nintendo for what I created and pasted into their game without their knowledge.
Was there ever any doubt it would be coming to the States? This isn't exactly the PocketStation, after all. There's been a huge demand for the DS Lite here since the start. Lik-Sang and eBayers can barely import them fast enough.
I'm no programmer by a long shot and my ham-fisted code monkeying causes many more bugs than it fixes, but many of my fellow fledgeling webdesigners (all 47 billion of them) will agree that a new site featuring a plugin-ready CMS, a blog, a Gallery script, and maybe an integrated message board is insanely more impressive to a webdesign client than the old HTML+GIFs+JPEGs model of the mid 1990s. And those gadgets can all be had for free! Free, I tell you!! FREEE!!!
This could actually benefit from things like Nintendo's loss of rights to the NES hardware that basically made the unathorized "clone" systems legal. If consoles open up or are legally replaceable with a clone after a generation or so, the games won't be useless anymore. (IANAL and am not closely familiar with what happened in the NES' case, maybe someone could reply with more info.)
Shouldn't we just take this for granted by now? You never really see a vendor come out with a new version of something that some users are discouraged from upgrading to.
"Here everyone, have some bug fixes and optimizations... but not that one guy, or you people over there, or that lady with the sideburns.."
That ties in with one of the most commom errors by people new to the web typing the web address they want into the search box on their default yahoo/MSN/whatever home page, rather than the address bar. I've seen tons of grannies, housewives, jocks, and other stereotypical net newbies do this, even after corrected they still find it "easier" since it's where the cursor starts out when they fire up the browser. Of course, it usually brings up the site they wanted as the first result, but it still pipes in a ton of advertising and near-miss links they wouldn't have seen otherwise. It must look like a goldmine to the type of people who would try to get rich off misspelled domain names.
FC is coughing up cyber-blood. The rare interesting "news" posts are few and far between, when they do happen they're terribly old news, the "discussion" is all trolls and spam, and Pud's extrememly interesting sister project internalmemos.com went to an all-paid model and stopped updating at roughly the same time. Shame.
Probably not the most PC thing to say about a tale of government data protection failure, but that really warms my heart. Thanks!
Very good, sir. And may I suggest adding our special marinara, or perhaps a nice yogurt sauce?
I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this, as I'd love to think that even in a hellish war zone my fellow gamers can get their fix, but it just doesn't seem like something that would actually be allowed to happen all that much. And even if against all odds and logic it somehow did happen, I doubt said gamers would be bragging about their exploits in a damned text chat.
The idea that people who are sitting comfortably at home playing a computer game may be fishing for some sort of street cred or sympathy by falsely claiming to be among those whose lives are being put on the line is completely disgusting on every level.
You obviously haven't yet heard about Bungie's upcoming "Army of Four," with NES Satellite capability.