You don't realize that's artistic license so you can see the character's faces?
Mass Effect 2 had a bunch of special armors, and people complained that they couldn't turn off the helmets and see their character, especially during cut scenes where suddenly you were Boba Fett all the time.
IMHO, part of a good game experience is immersing yourself in the fantasy and identifying with the characters.
Other than Cole, who is a former pro athlete, the other characters are so encased in body armor I don't think we even know what they look like underneath. And, wow, professional soldiers in some army of the future are buffed out. What an unrealistic idea!
Never got the whole identify with the character thing. I'm a boring person. I want to play a character totally unlike me. I'll often build female characters if it's an option, or other species, like the Kajiit, Argonians and Orcs in the Elder Scrolls series. I'm thinking dark elf babe for my first Skyrim charatcer. Game, take me as far from this shit filled reality as you can. Escapism, you savvy, mate?
Oddly, I go with the standard issue male Shepard in Mass Effect. Not sure why.
But if it's fun, who gives a shit? Is this a game or a Powerpoint presentation at Siggraph?
I recall someone back in the 2D era saying to test your game, replace all the sprites with simple squares and circles. If it's still fun, you're on to something.
Didn't think I really needed to with this audience. OK. Mind melds. Hand weapons with unrealizable energy densities. Same goes for warp drives that can fling a ship across interstellar distances. Humanoid aliens. Q. Mystical particle of the week. Shall I go on?
Except that anyone paying attention knew they'd have to split the streaming into its own paid service. The licensing costs were just too high from the friggen studios. The rate hike was simply spiltting the streaming off from being a free addition into a separate service. The free version was simply unsustainable.
Maybe they should have charged extra for streaming from the start to cushion the blow? I dunno. Many of my fellow Netflix subscribers were an astonishing pack of whiners, though. I was all "Oh well, knew that was coming. Life goes on. I'll keep the streaming for now."
The split to different companies is the truly baffling event for me. Two web sites now? Two bills? Streaming only with what I estimate to be 5% of what's available by disc? What is that I don't even.
Unless this if followed by some vast agreement with all the major studios to stream all the content, I don't get it.
I know. It's complete shitheadedness. I'm a codger now because I'd choose the service with 100% content coverage as opposed to 5%. Forget that fact that I currently stream to my Roku, XBox and iPad. Or I feel pay per view streaming is a rip off. No, we have to go to the old ageist stereotypes.
I think some people would be first in line for the service that beams content right to your brain even if all it had was Lifetime movie rejects and infomercials. And they'd feel all hip and cool as they sorted their ShamWows.
Fuck, we sure do advance and learn as a society, don't we?:-\
DVD is a great option for those who want the huge and comprehensive selection of movies.
Under what conditions would I *not* want that?
I dig streaming to my iPad, but it's not even a major reason I bought the device, and I've gotten more than my money's worth from the Roku box. I watch so few TV shows and movies these days that it might be cost effective for me to just buy the discs and eBay them when done.
They also have 100% selection. Is this the new hipster mode? Moving to the latest delivery system despite the fact that about 5% of the content is there, or you get ripped off with pay per view charges? Honestly, I looked into one service, and not only was it pay per view, but you had to watch it within a certain time period after paying. What the fuck is that shit? People sign up for that? Voluntarily? I'll stick with the physical discs until there's a digital service that has complete content without need for lube.
Not me. Anyone who thought the streaming would be a free add on forever must have been locked in a bunker or something, and ignoring the shenanigans of the content providers. I predicted to friends/coworkers who have Netflix a year ago that streaming would eventually be a separate paid service. I didn't predict separate *companies*, though. Why not just separate divisions?
If I had to keep just one service, it would be a DVD all the way where I can get pretty much anything. I look at my queue, and maybe 5% or less is available on streaming. They were adding a lot for a while there, but then it all stalled out. Is it really time to make this split?
The biggest error here is having two independent web sites. That might make me go DVD only.
What baffles me is the folks dropping the DVD side. Really? I don't get that unless they supplement it with Amazon or Apple TV or some other pay per view service which I consider the true rip offs.
I tried to watch that one as I quite enjoyed the 2D animated shorts by Genndy Tartakovsky, but I found the character designs were incredibly off putting.
I just don't understand where people get that Star Trek and Star Wars are similar in any way.
I just don't understand why anyone cares anymore. The first two SW films were good, but from ROTJ onward, who cares? ST began to lose steam during DS9's run. Maybe the rebooted ST movie series will pan out, and maybe the Old Republic MMO will make SW interesting again. Who knows? I just never got the *obsession* with either franchise. I liked them, still watch an episode of TOS or TNG now and then, but to go on and on about it, debating one made up science over another made up science, I just don't even.
There's a group, LEAP - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, who support legalization. These are guys who have it first hand how the money in the drug trade corrupts *everything*. They've seen cops who wouldn't cheat at a penny ante card game take bribes because the money is just too much.
There was one article on their site a while back about their meeting with a member of Congress. The congressman actually said that he agreed with LEAP, but that he could *never* vote for even decriminalization of pot.
People can grow their own fruits and veggies and spices now, but most don't. I think most would want to just buy packs of joints.
We're pretty far along the path of banning all public smoking anyway. Legal pot would push it the rest of the way especially considering it smells like shit. Honestly, I have friends who used to partake. I never got the attraction to that stuff. Phew!
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Google was accused of cheating a client today.
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The client in question was none other than Microsoft.
Those magnificent bastards!
You don't realize that's artistic license so you can see the character's faces?
Mass Effect 2 had a bunch of special armors, and people complained that they couldn't turn off the helmets and see their character, especially during cut scenes where suddenly you were Boba Fett all the time.
IMHO, part of a good game experience is immersing yourself in the fantasy and identifying with the characters.
Other than Cole, who is a former pro athlete, the other characters are so encased in body armor I don't think we even know what they look like underneath. And, wow, professional soldiers in some army of the future are buffed out. What an unrealistic idea!
Never got the whole identify with the character thing. I'm a boring person. I want to play a character totally unlike me. I'll often build female characters if it's an option, or other species, like the Kajiit, Argonians and Orcs in the Elder Scrolls series. I'm thinking dark elf babe for my first Skyrim charatcer. Game, take me as far from this shit filled reality as you can. Escapism, you savvy, mate?
Oddly, I go with the standard issue male Shepard in Mass Effect. Not sure why.
But if it's fun, who gives a shit? Is this a game or a Powerpoint presentation at Siggraph?
I recall someone back in the 2D era saying to test your game, replace all the sprites with simple squares and circles. If it's still fun, you're on to something.
Here in the US I'd want to load the iPad with as many distractions as possible. Install ALL the Angry Birds!
From the title I thought it was a wall calendar with cool lightning photos.
Didn't think I really needed to with this audience. OK. Mind melds. Hand weapons with unrealizable energy densities. Same goes for warp drives that can fling a ship across interstellar distances. Humanoid aliens. Q. Mystical particle of the week. Shall I go on?
Hence the term "science fantasy" and not just "fantasy".
Wait, so... what are the icebergs in this analogy?
Could you reformulate your point with cars?
Except that anyone paying attention knew they'd have to split the streaming into its own paid service. The licensing costs were just too high from the friggen studios. The rate hike was simply spiltting the streaming off from being a free addition into a separate service. The free version was simply unsustainable.
Maybe they should have charged extra for streaming from the start to cushion the blow? I dunno. Many of my fellow Netflix subscribers were an astonishing pack of whiners, though. I was all "Oh well, knew that was coming. Life goes on. I'll keep the streaming for now."
The split to different companies is the truly baffling event for me. Two web sites now? Two bills? Streaming only with what I estimate to be 5% of what's available by disc? What is that I don't even.
Unless this if followed by some vast agreement with all the major studios to stream all the content, I don't get it.
I know. It's complete shitheadedness. I'm a codger now because I'd choose the service with 100% content coverage as opposed to 5%. Forget that fact that I currently stream to my Roku, XBox and iPad. Or I feel pay per view streaming is a rip off. No, we have to go to the old ageist stereotypes.
I think some people would be first in line for the service that beams content right to your brain even if all it had was Lifetime movie rejects and infomercials. And they'd feel all hip and cool as they sorted their ShamWows.
Fuck, we sure do advance and learn as a society, don't we? :-\
DVD is a great option for those who want the huge and comprehensive selection of movies.
Under what conditions would I *not* want that?
I dig streaming to my iPad, but it's not even a major reason I bought the device, and I've gotten more than my money's worth from the Roku box. I watch so few TV shows and movies these days that it might be cost effective for me to just buy the discs and eBay them when done.
Or "We're The One With The Complete Content Selection".
Honestly, this head long drive to streaming only makes no sense when so little content can be streamed.
Only 5% of my queue is streamable, Reed!
That would actually be a better name.
Why am I not amazed that someone could turn this into a political referendum?
Now who gets to shovel this mess up and dump it into the Obama tax plan thread?
Discs are so 5 years ago.
They also have 100% selection. Is this the new hipster mode? Moving to the latest delivery system despite the fact that about 5% of the content is there, or you get ripped off with pay per view charges? Honestly, I looked into one service, and not only was it pay per view, but you had to watch it within a certain time period after paying. What the fuck is that shit? People sign up for that? Voluntarily? I'll stick with the physical discs until there's a digital service that has complete content without need for lube.
Can you imagine Coca-Cola changing their name?
Is Netflix the new New Coke?
I'd call Quikster Coca Cola Classic, then.
Not me. Anyone who thought the streaming would be a free add on forever must have been locked in a bunker or something, and ignoring the shenanigans of the content providers. I predicted to friends/coworkers who have Netflix a year ago that streaming would eventually be a separate paid service. I didn't predict separate *companies*, though. Why not just separate divisions?
If I had to keep just one service, it would be a DVD all the way where I can get pretty much anything. I look at my queue, and maybe 5% or less is available on streaming. They were adding a lot for a while there, but then it all stalled out. Is it really time to make this split?
The biggest error here is having two independent web sites. That might make me go DVD only.
What baffles me is the folks dropping the DVD side. Really? I don't get that unless they supplement it with Amazon or Apple TV or some other pay per view service which I consider the true rip offs.
I tried to watch that one as I quite enjoyed the 2D animated shorts by Genndy Tartakovsky, but I found the character designs were incredibly off putting.
Star Trek was science fiction. Star wars was science fantasy. If you don't know the difference you have to pay more attention.
No, they are both science fantasy.
I just don't understand where people get that Star Trek and Star Wars are similar in any way.
I just don't understand why anyone cares anymore. The first two SW films were good, but from ROTJ onward, who cares? ST began to lose steam during DS9's run. Maybe the rebooted ST movie series will pan out, and maybe the Old Republic MMO will make SW interesting again. Who knows? I just never got the *obsession* with either franchise. I liked them, still watch an episode of TOS or TNG now and then, but to go on and on about it, debating one made up science over another made up science, I just don't even.
There's a group, LEAP - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, who support legalization. These are guys who have it first hand how the money in the drug trade corrupts *everything*. They've seen cops who wouldn't cheat at a penny ante card game take bribes because the money is just too much.
There was one article on their site a while back about their meeting with a member of Congress. The congressman actually said that he agreed with LEAP, but that he could *never* vote for even decriminalization of pot.
http://www.leap.cc/
An informative site, but depressing if you read too many of the the stores. Endless lives and families just destroyed because of this asinine "war."
You could increase penalties for DUI.
People can grow their own fruits and veggies and spices now, but most don't. I think most would want to just buy packs of joints.
We're pretty far along the path of banning all public smoking anyway. Legal pot would push it the rest of the way especially considering it smells like shit. Honestly, I have friends who used to partake. I never got the attraction to that stuff. Phew!
It's hard to find oil and drill it.
You can grow pot in your garden.