But seriously, I've always thought Zelda has always had really inventive and varied puzzles - but you do make JA sound like a lot of fun - I too hate it when action-rpgs go down the button bash route. I'll put it on my "when I get an X-box for a pitance in 2yrs list".
...then I would still be using windows. Isn't that enough reason for me to do the same?
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... mine likes Mariokart double dash: She *knows* the blue sparks.
led me to believe it was coming out *just* after the DS. They couldn't have been doing that on purpose could they? To try and screw over the DS launch?
I was in a Eagle mark 2 (The starting ship) with a 5mw laser if i remember correctly and had foolishly saved just after being attacked by an Imperial cruiser (The beast of a ship from the starting credits) maxed out with shields and plasma accelerators. It took the destruction of my atmospheric shielding, hyperlight engine, scanner, targeting computer and automatic pilot and all my thrusters except the ones for reverse - but I won.
I then managed to pilot to a space station backwards MANUALLY taking about a month of game time for repairs.
I think I pretty much felt every emotion there is that day
I think perma-death would be great. Make it hard enough that your character has about a week or so lifespan before he pops his clogs - it would level the playing field between people who don't have jobs and those that do.
Also you could try all the different characters out without having to pump hours into it to get to the good stuff. Like kind of how I fly through characters in angband. "My Mage is dead? Cool! Now I'll be a beastmaster"
It also would mean theat developers could not make grinding a valid form of "entertainment"
Ok. I'm being a fool. You can't copy images if the pdf won't "let you." Anyone know a work around? I need to pull graphs out of research papers to put into talks.
All this effort and they'll turn out to be randomly generated anyway...
Hmm, in a way I have to agree with that as well. Now that I think about it, I think it doesnt matter what OS that runs your weapons, war will never leave any winners, both sides will lose
Someones been playing a lot of tic-tac-toe!
First off, this is NOT meant as flamebait, but, Microsoft is an AMERICAN company. Why should it give one whit what the EU finds, thinks, or wants?... Maybe the EU needs to be made aware of the fact that not all of the world falls under their sovereignty.... My basic point is that, as an American, why should we give a flying flip what the EU wants?! It's not like they really have any enforcement powers beyond their member's borders...
Normally I believe in a proper argument, critically deconstruct their views, burn their straw men and quote facts to back your corner.
But today I typed "rm *.f" rather than "rm *.o", I'm tired and hung over - so I'll be brief:
In fact it's even worse! "New York City-based Massive Inc" has deals with "eight game publishers, including Ubisoft, Atari, and Vivendi Universal" because "We are sure advertisers will cherish this revolutionary new opportunity to reach the extremely valuable 18-34 demographic...[and] we know that most gamers want in-game advertisement to heighten the sense of realism."
Fuck you massive, the last thing I want is that kind of realism. This will only harm originality. Imagine the execs with this:
Game Designer: I got a great new idea - it's set in a bizzare fantasy world/during the great fire of london/victorian times/Ancient Rome/Space (etc) and...
Exec: Wait! How can we put pepsi/coke/generic generation-x product adverts in that! We'll lose vast amount of revenue!
Game Designer: Hmmm. We could make another game where you drive a generic car around a city at night past bill-boards? We could add a cutting edge musak to it? They'll pay for the exposure these days.
Yeah this is ok if it makes it free - but only then.
This could well be part of the slippery slope of making computer games into tv. With tv you pay for cable and then have to pay for it again in adverts. And don't say they're seperate things because there not. If I have to pay extra a month to get a channel like e4 (UK) then i shouldn't be made to watch adverts. Full stop. At least have two rates of pay - cheap with adverts and expensive without them.
Pretty soon you'll be paying for games and watching adverts while they load - and it won't make them cheaper to buy! Why do you think there touting £60 for a next-gen game? So they can charge them at the same prices as before but with more adverts in. Mark. My. Words.
P.S. This is an off hand prediction based on emotion and guesswork rather than science, logic and stock trends - so back off!
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They totally matter! Points rulez! Later today I'm going to an art gallery with my friend steve but he's such a jerk I told him that Leonardo's Divinci's Last supper was a 9.3 hands down but he said it was only a 9.1! I hate him so much he doesn't know anything and then he said the work of Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments is only a 7 cos he totally copied Nam June Paik when they bothh lived in Düsseldorf in the 60's.
How do you feel the success of windows, with respect to other platforms, would change if it was fundamentally impossible to pirate a copy of Windows & Office? Or - more importantly - any game or utility?
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You can find out more at:
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There is a link to the ESA/PPARC webcast there too.
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tedious movement-puzzle crawls like Zelda
Are you on crack?
But seriously, I've always thought Zelda has always had really inventive and varied puzzles - but you do make JA sound like a lot of fun - I too hate it when action-rpgs go down the button bash route. I'll put it on my "when I get an X-box for a pitance in 2yrs list".
...then I would still be using windows. Isn't that enough reason for me to do the same?
The space below is reserved for all vain /.ers who actually have girlfriends even though they spend their days frantically searching the site for the opportunity to show off:
... mine likes Mariokart double dash: She *knows* the blue sparks.
led me to believe it was coming out *just* after the DS. They couldn't have been doing that on purpose could they? To try and screw over the DS launch?
/sarcasm
I was in a Eagle mark 2 (The starting ship) with a 5mw laser if i remember correctly and had foolishly saved just after being attacked by an Imperial cruiser (The beast of a ship from the starting credits) maxed out with shields and plasma accelerators. It took the destruction of my atmospheric shielding, hyperlight engine, scanner, targeting computer and automatic pilot and all my thrusters except the ones for reverse - but I won.
I then managed to pilot to a space station backwards MANUALLY taking about a month of game time for repairs.
I think I pretty much felt every emotion there is that day
And next generation games are rumored to be £50 because of "production cost"?!
Maybe if they spent less time inventing languages and more time making fun games they would have that problem!!!!
it is no longer a game - games are ment to be fun!
Thats harsh. This is a civ-clone. Civ is not going to attract anyone who cares about graphics to linux full stop. I'm very excited about this.
I think perma-death would be great. Make it hard enough that your character has about a week or so lifespan before he pops his clogs - it would level the playing field between people who don't have jobs and those that do.
Also you could try all the different characters out without having to pump hours into it to get to the good stuff. Like kind of how I fly through characters in angband. "My Mage is dead? Cool! Now I'll be a beastmaster"
It also would mean theat developers could not make grinding a valid form of "entertainment"
Ok. I'm being a fool. You can't copy images if the pdf won't "let you." Anyone know a work around? I need to pull graphs out of research papers to put into talks.
All this effort and they'll turn out to be randomly generated anyway...
It's shaded out on the menu - god damn it!
Anyone any idea why , or how to get it working? This is the only reason I installed it. Cheers.Hmm, in a way I have to agree with that as well. Now that I think about it, I think it doesnt matter what OS that runs your weapons, war will never leave any winners, both sides will lose Someones been playing a lot of tic-tac-toe!
I think a Phd student in Astrophysics has the right to call himself just that... So my King, whats it like doing a 70 year old chick?
Legacy code my friend... Legacy code...
And I'm not a programmer I'm an Astrophysicist damn it! We can't get enough of the Fortran stuff.
Normally I believe in a proper argument, critically deconstruct their views, burn their straw men and quote facts to back your corner.
But today I typed "rm *.f" rather than "rm *.o", I'm tired and hung over - so I'll be brief:
You're a fucking moron
If longhorn worked like this, and you would never keep your files/programs on your computer slashdot would be a ball of rage and hate.
This idea is horrible
I am fault. Hey ho.
In fact it's even worse! "New York City-based Massive Inc" has deals with "eight game publishers, including Ubisoft, Atari, and Vivendi Universal" because "We are sure advertisers will cherish this revolutionary new opportunity to reach the extremely valuable 18-34 demographic...[and] we know that most gamers want in-game advertisement to heighten the sense of realism."
Fuck you massive, the last thing I want is that kind of realism. This will only harm originality. Imagine the execs with this:
Game Designer: I got a great new idea - it's set in a bizzare fantasy world/during the great fire of london/victorian times/Ancient Rome/Space (etc) and ...
Exec: Wait! How can we put pepsi/coke/generic generation-x product adverts in that! We'll lose vast amount of revenue!
Game Designer: Hmmm. We could make another game where you drive a generic car around a city at night past bill-boards? We could add a cutting edge musak to it? They'll pay for the exposure these days.
Exec: I love it! But we need more titties...
Yeah this is ok if it makes it free - but only then.
This could well be part of the slippery slope of making computer games into tv. With tv you pay for cable and then have to pay for it again in adverts. And don't say they're seperate things because there not. If I have to pay extra a month to get a channel like e4 (UK) then i shouldn't be made to watch adverts. Full stop. At least have two rates of pay - cheap with adverts and expensive without them.
Pretty soon you'll be paying for games and watching adverts while they load - and it won't make them cheaper to buy! Why do you think there touting £60 for a next-gen game? So they can charge them at the same prices as before but with more adverts in. Mark. My. Words.
P.S. This is an off hand prediction based on emotion and guesswork rather than science, logic and stock trends - so back off!
Voyagers 115 earth images encoded on a gold plated record.2 0. And anyone who says but thats gold and not vinyl can go jump.
http://www.everything2.com/?node_id=4990
They totally matter! Points rulez! Later today I'm going to an art gallery with my friend steve but he's such a jerk I told him that Leonardo's Divinci's Last supper was a 9.3 hands down but he said it was only a 9.1! I hate him so much he doesn't know anything and then he said the work of Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments is only a 7 cos he totally copied Nam June Paik when they bothh lived in Düsseldorf in the 60's.
How do you feel the success of windows, with respect to other platforms, would change if it was fundamentally impossible to pirate a copy of Windows & Office? Or - more importantly - any game or utility?
Or to bring back a bad idea: In Titan only the old have probes.
This part is an European Space Agency project. You can find out more at: http://www.pparc.ac.uk/Nw/cassini_huygens.asp There is a link to the ESA/PPARC webcast there too. (PPARC is th British Research Council for Particle Physics and Astronomy.