I think you're highly underestimating the number of us lazy fscks who would avoid hours of physical activity at any cost. But seriously, I play games to relax and unwind, not as exercise, and there's no way I would play that sort of game. Hacking and slashing? Waving your arms to cast a spell? Count me out.
Well, considering two-thirds of the total market is now estimated to be casual gamers, and they tend to like games that involve some exercise, I'm not sure you would be the target market for the next wave of MMORPGs for the next-gen consoles that come out in 2009 and 2010.
I remember when we had to code our own games - and fix the code for our less techy neighbors.
Inflation is proof that there is a creative Flying Spaghetti Monster out there somewhere. It is NOT, however, proof that such a force is intelligent or anything we'd think of as a being.
Actually, inflation is not proof that we're intelligent. The Flying Spaghetti Monster, on the other hand, being omnipresent and invisible, has no need to prove Himself intelligent. Just as His Servants, the Pirates, need not be intelligent, they just need to talk like pirates and cure global warming.
If there is indeed a "theory of everything," it may be so far outside the range of our current intellect that the complete development of the theory could take centuries. If we are willing to throw away anything just because it hasn't made a new prediction within 30 years, we might be dooming ourselves to NEVER figure it out.
Exactly.
The main problem many have with the devotion to string theory is that we have a lot of highly-educated thinkers devoted to a theory that may have neither practical applications nor usable physical methods within their own lifetimes.
Perhaps a wiser choice, as a society, would be to limit those studying string theory to a smaller fraction of physicists, while retasking the rest to more rewarding areas of theoretical physics that might have some use to us as a society.
Whoa, whoa there. Noodles aren't "i.e." strings. Noodles are weak, wimpy string posers unable to carry any significant vibrations which given strings their energetic properties. At least according to string theory. Also, according to string theory pirates cannot exist. So you see string theory is the enemy of the FSM.
Strings are the anti-noodle. As we can not see the true face of the the Spaghetti Monster, being that we are corporeal and not created in His image, so are noodles only a worldly approximation of his unstringiness.
Many say that the Net, with its tubes and ever searching for wood to make pirate signals from, more closely resembles the true noodlieness of the universe. In fact, we find that many of the packets that roam the Net have things not unlike strings inside them, proving that His noodliness is more than strings, but unstrung.
Now, it's time to get at the meat of the matter. And that is where pirates come in. As we all know, pirates love both grog and meat. And rum. Can't have enough rum.
String theory should be discarded. It's a fanciful religion that explains nothing, but creates a lot of stuff that needs explaining.
This is a very true statement.
Most people are unaware that most physicists, at least at the doctoral level, are fairly religious folks. Most, even today, happen to be Roman Catholic, for example.
That string theory, an as yet unproven "grand theory" of physics, is treated as the Word Of God, is one of the more baffling aspects of physics since the early 1990s.
Most sciences demand observable and repeatable proofs, not nested theories using underlying untested theories below them.
We can say, with certainty, that Einstein's theories are true, because they are not only proven, they have been tested and observed in repeatable ways.
Admittedly, there is an active and very loud group which has been theorizing that string theory will - at some point in the future - provide a grand unified theory of physics that is testable.
But there is a large and growing group of Ph.D.s who disagree, and believe that string theory is an evolutionary dead end in theoretical physics.
It is remarkable that now they're trying to push their theories into other spheres, when their core concepts are, as yet, unproven.
[caveat - I know this is controversial, in that many faculty and senior faculty in Physics are string theory proponents, but someone needed to point this out]
The introduction of the Wii morphs the gamespace possibilities, as do all platform consoles.
I foresee a day when WoW is replaced by games where you yourself perform the actions of your character, using Wii-mote and nunchuck, to hack slash and parry your way through the world, or use the Wii-mote as a wand.
When? Probably next gen. So, I would say look for 2009, when the successor to the Wii comes out.
[caveat - I went to SFU at one point so I'm biased...]
I always get into MMOs, only to leave two months later when I realize that you can't win and it'll be three years before I even become a force to be reckoned with at the rate I play
You just need to go fishing in Mulgore and catch a 12 pound fish and hold it in your off hand, get a Lucky Stone (they are grey), and a Rabbits Foot.
is the insistence of people who are trying... and failing... to sell us by using:
1. Sound - if I want sound I'll click on your ad.
2. Movies that autoplay - if I want the shared T1 to flood out, I'll click on your ad.
3. Moving images - if I want the image to move I'll click on your ad.
4. Stuff that gets in the way - popups, mouseovers, large giant banners that take up half the screen...
When I got my degree in Business Management (Sales and Marketing), you learned that certain techniques turn off customers.
Solution: Stop turning off customers and we won't adblock you. I don't adblock static images or ads that only play sounds or move or play videos when I click on them.
If you don't get this, go back to school and learn how to sell.
Well, IMHO, it's all about forming a Care Bear guild, doing your Druid quest, and then having a few hundred Alliance level 70s p0wn you six ways to Sunday...
Hmm. I think I might object if I had a 10 yo playing Animal Crossing II with a friend who also owned a copy of Murder By Dagger: Destruction Apocolypse IV....
I think we'll have to wait until we see how it works with the games that we want to play.
Spore for the Wii downloads copies of other players' worlds, so that should work fine, and an online version could allow you to "play" in sandbox galaxies.
My Sims for the Wii should allow you to play in a friend's village while they're there, as will Animal Crossing II, but I always wonder does that mean they can mess with my stuff, put up graffiti, pick my fruit... or does it mean any fruit they pick is regenerated and they can post on my village bulletin board and buy stuff from Nook's shops... which would be fine. Especially if I set up a pizza parlor and they visit it and buy from my Wii Sim...
It really depends on your style of playing. MMORPG... maybe not. Distributed multi-instance games like those... yeah, should be fine.
So long as I get to delete any nastygrams my friends leave...
They're listening to me just fine: If I want online play, I'll play WoW. I have zero interest in online from my console, and I want them to spend that money instead on things I do want.
Hmmm. I also play WoW online, but I think they are listening to me about how to do online.
I like the idea of having to know someone's friend code to be able to talk with them online, and to visit their Animal Crossing II for the Wii village or their My Sims for the Wii village.
One thing I really hate are spammers and shock-jocks and curse monkeys online. If it means that I only play with friends - or at least go to a test area and make sure they are ok before I exchange friend codes with them - I am all for that.
Also bear in mind that UK gallons are much larger than US gallons!
Technically, like every other country in the entire world, including Canada and the UK, they use liters and kilometers. So that's kilometers per liter.
True, comparing global warming emissions on a diesel to a gasoline engine is difficult.
Then you have to measure source for such things as fuel cells (where did they get the hydrogen and oxygen - from coal? net loss) and plug-in hybrids (not everyone has 99 percent green power like the Pacific Northwest does with our hydro and wind based electricity - most US sources are coal-based).
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I think you're highly underestimating the number of us lazy fscks who would avoid hours of physical activity at any cost. But seriously, I play games to relax and unwind, not as exercise, and there's no way I would play that sort of game. Hacking and slashing? Waving your arms to cast a spell? Count me out.
Well, considering two-thirds of the total market is now estimated to be casual gamers, and they tend to like games that involve some exercise, I'm not sure you would be the target market for the next wave of MMORPGs for the next-gen consoles that come out in 2009 and 2010.
I remember when we had to code our own games - and fix the code for our less techy neighbors.
Things change.
Inflation is proof that there is a creative Flying Spaghetti Monster out there somewhere. It is NOT, however, proof that such a force is intelligent or anything we'd think of as a being.
Actually, inflation is not proof that we're intelligent. The Flying Spaghetti Monster, on the other hand, being omnipresent and invisible, has no need to prove Himself intelligent. Just as His Servants, the Pirates, need not be intelligent, they just need to talk like pirates and cure global warming.
If there is indeed a "theory of everything," it may be so far outside the range of our current intellect that the complete development of the theory could take centuries. If we are willing to throw away anything just because it hasn't made a new prediction within 30 years, we might be dooming ourselves to NEVER figure it out.
Exactly.
The main problem many have with the devotion to string theory is that we have a lot of highly-educated thinkers devoted to a theory that may have neither practical applications nor usable physical methods within their own lifetimes.
Perhaps a wiser choice, as a society, would be to limit those studying string theory to a smaller fraction of physicists, while retasking the rest to more rewarding areas of theoretical physics that might have some use to us as a society.
Much promise, but few deliverables.
I predict in ten years we'll hear much more about how string theory will be proven in the future, with measureable repeatable observations.
But never today. Always the future.
Whoa, whoa there. Noodles aren't "i.e." strings. Noodles are weak, wimpy string posers unable to carry any significant vibrations which given strings their energetic properties. At least according to string theory. Also, according to string theory pirates cannot exist. So you see string theory is the enemy of the FSM.
Strings are the anti-noodle. As we can not see the true face of the the Spaghetti Monster, being that we are corporeal and not created in His image, so are noodles only a worldly approximation of his unstringiness.
Many say that the Net, with its tubes and ever searching for wood to make pirate signals from, more closely resembles the true noodlieness of the universe. In fact, we find that many of the packets that roam the Net have things not unlike strings inside them, proving that His noodliness is more than strings, but unstrung.
Now, it's time to get at the meat of the matter. And that is where pirates come in. As we all know, pirates love both grog and meat. And rum. Can't have enough rum.
String theory should be discarded. It's a fanciful religion that explains nothing, but creates a lot of stuff that needs explaining.
This is a very true statement.
Most people are unaware that most physicists, at least at the doctoral level, are fairly religious folks. Most, even today, happen to be Roman Catholic, for example.
That string theory, an as yet unproven "grand theory" of physics, is treated as the Word Of God, is one of the more baffling aspects of physics since the early 1990s.
Most sciences demand observable and repeatable proofs, not nested theories using underlying untested theories below them.
We can say, with certainty, that Einstein's theories are true, because they are not only proven, they have been tested and observed in repeatable ways.
We can not say the same for string theory.
Admittedly, there is an active and very loud group which has been theorizing that string theory will - at some point in the future - provide a grand unified theory of physics that is testable.
But there is a large and growing group of Ph.D.s who disagree, and believe that string theory is an evolutionary dead end in theoretical physics.
It is remarkable that now they're trying to push their theories into other spheres, when their core concepts are, as yet, unproven.
[caveat - I know this is controversial, in that many faculty and senior faculty in Physics are string theory proponents, but someone needed to point this out]
no, my ex who works at MSFT would have heard about it, that's her division.
If I see one more franchise going "MMO" to try to get a bite of the WoW pie, I think I'm going to puke.
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So, I take it you're not buying Animal Crossing II: Rise Of The Tiger then?
It works with My Sims: Third Life as well
wonders why he ran off screaming
You need to play in a country with real broadband like S Korea or Japan - the game availability there is not quite the same.
Gigapop Internet is fairly common outside the backwards US.
The introduction of the Wii morphs the gamespace possibilities, as do all platform consoles.
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I foresee a day when WoW is replaced by games where you yourself perform the actions of your character, using Wii-mote and nunchuck, to hack slash and parry your way through the world, or use the Wii-mote as a wand.
When? Probably next gen. So, I would say look for 2009, when the successor to the Wii comes out.
[caveat - I went to SFU at one point so I'm biased
Then I take it you are a mage or hunter. :-)
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No, usually I'm a res pally, or a druid carrying a 12 pound fish
I always get into MMOs, only to leave two months later when I realize that you can't win and it'll be three years before I even become a force to be reckoned with at the rate I play
You just need to go fishing in Mulgore and catch a 12 pound fish and hold it in your off hand, get a Lucky Stone (they are grey), and a Rabbits Foot.
Then you'll find it easy.
is the insistence of people who are trying ... and failing ... to sell us by using:
...
1. Sound - if I want sound I'll click on your ad.
2. Movies that autoplay - if I want the shared T1 to flood out, I'll click on your ad.
3. Moving images - if I want the image to move I'll click on your ad.
4. Stuff that gets in the way - popups, mouseovers, large giant banners that take up half the screen
When I got my degree in Business Management (Sales and Marketing), you learned that certain techniques turn off customers.
Solution: Stop turning off customers and we won't adblock you. I don't adblock static images or ads that only play sounds or move or play videos when I click on them.
If you don't get this, go back to school and learn how to sell.
And they're not, technically, on the world.
Think of the pics from space - that's what the public cares about.
LEEROY JEEENKIINS!!!!
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Seriously, that is what WoW is really like.
Personally, I love to join a group and tank like an aggro monster truck, as my party dies behind me
when TV shows were all about bowling and drinking, two more important things than playing WoW ...
Well, IMHO, it's all about forming a Care Bear guild, doing your Druid quest, and then having a few hundred Alliance level 70s p0wn you six ways to Sunday ...
I see you don't know what kids today tend to play.
I know a lot of local kids who have access to such games.
Not everyone else's family is like yours.
I think a Golden Friend Code might be fun - but something that parental supervision might be useful for.
I for one would not allow my son's friend since he was in grade 5 - who was home-schooled and used to hack games - to be such a friend.
Why per game?
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Hmm. I think I might object if I had a 10 yo playing Animal Crossing II with a friend who also owned a copy of Murder By Dagger: Destruction Apocolypse IV
I might not mind the first, but mind the second.
Each person is different.
I think we'll have to wait until we see how it works with the games that we want to play.
... or does it mean any fruit they pick is regenerated and they can post on my village bulletin board and buy stuff from Nook's shops ... which would be fine. Especially if I set up a pizza parlor and they visit it and buy from my Wii Sim ...
... maybe not. Distributed multi-instance games like those ... yeah, should be fine.
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Spore for the Wii downloads copies of other players' worlds, so that should work fine, and an online version could allow you to "play" in sandbox galaxies.
My Sims for the Wii should allow you to play in a friend's village while they're there, as will Animal Crossing II, but I always wonder does that mean they can mess with my stuff, put up graffiti, pick my fruit
It really depends on your style of playing. MMORPG
So long as I get to delete any nastygrams my friends leave
Not listening to you, maybe.
They're listening to me just fine: If I want online play, I'll play WoW. I have zero interest in online from my console, and I want them to spend that money instead on things I do want.
Hmmm. I also play WoW online, but I think they are listening to me about how to do online.
I like the idea of having to know someone's friend code to be able to talk with them online, and to visit their Animal Crossing II for the Wii village or their My Sims for the Wii village.
One thing I really hate are spammers and shock-jocks and curse monkeys online. If it means that I only play with friends - or at least go to a test area and make sure they are ok before I exchange friend codes with them - I am all for that.
Also bear in mind that UK gallons are much larger than US gallons!
Technically, like every other country in the entire world, including Canada and the UK, they use liters and kilometers. So that's kilometers per liter.
WoW won't allow screen names like Foamymustdie ...
(hey, we all have our battles to pick, and you can still be BillGluser if you want)
True, comparing global warming emissions on a diesel to a gasoline engine is difficult.
Then you have to measure source for such things as fuel cells (where did they get the hydrogen and oxygen - from coal? net loss) and plug-in hybrids (not everyone has 99 percent green power like the Pacific Northwest does with our hydro and wind based electricity - most US sources are coal-based).