Where did I say I believed in the concept of a soul? I'm just calling out bullshit where it is apparent. If you have concrete evidence of real experiments and testing, I'd like to see it.
[blockquote]yes, there have been experiments to detect a soul[/blockquote]
And how exactly would one prove such an experiment to be viable? It sounds just as useless and absurd to me as trying to run an experiment to 'detect the presence of God'. How do you perform a reliable experiment to prove or disprove the presence of something that by definition has no material form and no proof of existence to begin with?
I'm not a rocket scientist, (hell I haven't even taken any physics classes) but in this context, throwing an object 'at the earth' is useless, because the earth is not an endless flat plane. It's starting out at a ridiculously high speed on a trajectory that could be described as perpendicular to the force of gravity, adding a slight acceleration toward the earth at any given time is a slight acceleration AWAY from the earth on the other side of the planet, which inevitably happens due to the combined force of momentum and gravity (or simply, orbiting).
Basically, without some sort of drag, all you're going to do is end up in an orbit slightly different from the ISS itself.
Real casual players don't fret about lag much. As for the hosting player quitting, well... some games handle that just by changing hosts and re-establishing all the connections if possible. Others don't. Depends on the game.
I've bought about 20 XBLA games, and Marble Blast Ultra was the biggest disappointment for me. And even it was not a bad game. The level of anti-microsoft trolling in this article is just absurd.
If by 'games' you mean 'everything from a singular first-person perspective', then I'm inclined to agree with you in most circumstances. But not all genres lend themselves well to storytelling within the gameplay itself -- and some storytelling is dependent upon the character performing a specific action, which doesn't work well in certain cases if the player constantly retains control.
When I buy a game, I intend to buy a fucking GAME and not some developers delusional attempts at playing Hollywood Director. Every second I'm not actively playing is a second I'm annoyed. Loading times I can put up with (to a degree), but cutscenes are just worthless.
My knee-jerk reaction to comments like this is that you should try going outside and playing sports or something -- no loading, no cut-scenes, and the graphics are great.
The point is, cutscenes are not worthless just because you aren't interested in them, and they are not going to go away any time soon. If nothing else, it gives the game some semblance of structure. Taking Halo 3 as an example (just because it's recent) -- if you removed the cutscenes and story entirely, the gameplay is no different -- but feeling some sense of purpose is, for me, critical to the enjoyment of a single-player campaign.
But this is exactly why cut-scenes SHOULD be skippable. People play games for a variety of reasons, and not everyone wants to sit through inordinately long cutscenes just to blow some shit up.
While this is partially true, with the length of the majority of cut-scenes the loading would be completed LONG before the cutscene ends. I would rather sit through a 5 second black screen than a 10 minute cutscene I've already seen.
(Disclaimer: I can't say that I've bought every series I've ever downloaded and watched, but I can say that I've never downloaded a series after it got licensed that I'm aware of. That's just a line I won't cross.)
I'm in the same boat, but more and more the sheer arrogance (percieved or legitimate) of many fansubbers has driven me to stick with just DVDs. Fansubs are few and far between for me these days.
Of interest to me is the ANN article, where it mentions quite specifically Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai. I'm inclined to think it's just Comcast Bullshit, but the shows specifically mentioned don't appear to have a common Japanese producer. If Comcast actually has a US company backing this notice, that means some company may have plans to 'license rescue' Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, as a release of the second season would be effectively useless with Geneon leaving the first season incomplete.
I'm not a theology expert, but how does it make God a liar? The apparent 'age' of the earth isn't real? If the Young Earth creationists who support this view were to be right, it would be not be God lying. Rather, it would be our flawed understanding of creation leading us to believe an untruth -- we are lying to ourselves.
The argument could be made that if any divine entity could create the whole bloody universe, he might be able to make a planet older than it appears to be -- that is, the rocks were 'created' old. This does not violate physical sciences at all.
I still think it's bunk myself, as most here on/. probably do, but you have to consider the perspective.
/b/ is hardly that tame. But get your facts straight:
The term fap does not originate on 4chan, and in fact predates it, nearly twice as old in fact. The term originated in a translation of the manga "Heartbreak Angels", and was popularized in the April 28, 1999 strip of the webcomic Sexy Losers.
Ah, yeah, thanks for the clarification. I wasn't including XI (MMORPG) and non-numbered games in my thinking, but I haven't played FF II or III, so wasn't completely certain. In any case, since VI, the system hasn't replicated, though some contained a lot of similarities.
And of course, Materia is still a broken system.
FFXII, since you haven't played it, utilizes a grid system that is somewhat reminiscent of FFX's sphere grid. It still has more differences than similarities though, IMO.
The Final Fantasy series has never rehashed the same ability system that I can recall -- I might be wrong. In any case, the Materia system was hampered by it's own flexibility, and I really hated it. It was too flexible and so far off balance that it wasn't even funny -- it made what was initially an easy game even easier. Killer materia combinations were found even by casual gamers, and the hardcore tweakers? Well, as a result we know that a level 7 Tifa can solo Emerald Weapon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4gVcNMlsto
Revisiting the Materia system might be interesting, but I'd rather not see it if it'll be that unbalancing.
I haven't had a chance to play Halo 3 yet, so I can't say anything about the game as a whole, but I'm glad to see they're more concerned with a steady frame-rate than killer visuals. I'd rather play a game at 320x240 with acceptable FPS (which I did back in the days of the original Unreal when I didn't have an accelerator) than play at 1024x768 at 20. Anything under 30 FPS irritates me to no end.
You're spot on. Potential sexual harassment really is a major issue that is often ignored. I've played many different games in many different ways. I play characters of both genders, with a slight bias toward females, if only because the inter-personal interactions are so much more interesting. (Read: People talk to you more, even if the reasoning is shallow in many cases)
I have played characters as female, intentionally giving the impression that I'm female in real life (a blatant deception, generally, most people who I tell later that I'm actually a guy tell me that they never would have guessed, so I assume that I 'act like a female' fairly convincingly), and female characters where I insist on being a male IRL. Both methods have lead to a great deal of harassment, though in noticably different ways. However, instances where I'm playing a female character and skirt the issue of real life gender entirely have lead to a noticably lower level of harassment.
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Some of us believe the love is an action, not an emotion. As such, we don't necessarily believe such things are impossible to achieve.
Somehow, I don't think being the only user in the swarm is going to benefit your download speeds.
Where did I say I believed in the concept of a soul? I'm just calling out bullshit where it is apparent. If you have concrete evidence of real experiments and testing, I'd like to see it.
[blockquote]yes, there have been experiments to detect a soul[/blockquote]
And how exactly would one prove such an experiment to be viable? It sounds just as useless and absurd to me as trying to run an experiment to 'detect the presence of God'. How do you perform a reliable experiment to prove or disprove the presence of something that by definition has no material form and no proof of existence to begin with?
You, sir, sound like an anti-religious fool.
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I'm not a rocket scientist, (hell I haven't even taken any physics classes) but in this context, throwing an object 'at the earth' is useless, because the earth is not an endless flat plane. It's starting out at a ridiculously high speed on a trajectory that could be described as perpendicular to the force of gravity, adding a slight acceleration toward the earth at any given time is a slight acceleration AWAY from the earth on the other side of the planet, which inevitably happens due to the combined force of momentum and gravity (or simply, orbiting).
Basically, without some sort of drag, all you're going to do is end up in an orbit slightly different from the ISS itself.
Sharks with Laser Beams. For disrupting torpedos. Dr. Evil's going underwater with his next base, mark my words.
Real casual players don't fret about lag much. As for the hosting player quitting, well ... some games handle that just by changing hosts and re-establishing all the connections if possible. Others don't. Depends on the game.
I've bought about 20 XBLA games, and Marble Blast Ultra was the biggest disappointment for me. And even it was not a bad game. The level of anti-microsoft trolling in this article is just absurd.
If by 'games' you mean 'everything from a singular first-person perspective', then I'm inclined to agree with you in most circumstances. But not all genres lend themselves well to storytelling within the gameplay itself -- and some storytelling is dependent upon the character performing a specific action, which doesn't work well in certain cases if the player constantly retains control.
My knee-jerk reaction to comments like this is that you should try going outside and playing sports or something -- no loading, no cut-scenes, and the graphics are great.
The point is, cutscenes are not worthless just because you aren't interested in them, and they are not going to go away any time soon. If nothing else, it gives the game some semblance of structure. Taking Halo 3 as an example (just because it's recent) -- if you removed the cutscenes and story entirely, the gameplay is no different -- but feeling some sense of purpose is, for me, critical to the enjoyment of a single-player campaign.
But this is exactly why cut-scenes SHOULD be skippable. People play games for a variety of reasons, and not everyone wants to sit through inordinately long cutscenes just to blow some shit up.
While this is partially true, with the length of the majority of cut-scenes the loading would be completed LONG before the cutscene ends. I would rather sit through a 5 second black screen than a 10 minute cutscene I've already seen.
Comments like this make me wish there was a -5,Do Your Fucking Research modifier.
While not all games support 1080p output, the console itself is fully capable of it.
I'm in the same boat, but more and more the sheer arrogance (percieved or legitimate) of many fansubbers has driven me to stick with just DVDs. Fansubs are few and far between for me these days.
Of interest to me is the ANN article, where it mentions quite specifically Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai. I'm inclined to think it's just Comcast Bullshit, but the shows specifically mentioned don't appear to have a common Japanese producer. If Comcast actually has a US company backing this notice, that means some company may have plans to 'license rescue' Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, as a release of the second season would be effectively useless with Geneon leaving the first season incomplete.
Art.
I'm not a theology expert, but how does it make God a liar? The apparent 'age' of the earth isn't real? If the Young Earth creationists who support this view were to be right, it would be not be God lying. Rather, it would be our flawed understanding of creation leading us to believe an untruth -- we are lying to ourselves.
The argument could be made that if any divine entity could create the whole bloody universe, he might be able to make a planet older than it appears to be -- that is, the rocks were 'created' old. This does not violate physical sciences at all.
/. probably do, but you have to consider the perspective.
I still think it's bunk myself, as most here on
I think this is likely to be a disaster, unless EA learns to keep their fingers out of the pie.
Except that it hasn't shipped on time, since it hasn't shipped.
/b/ is hardly that tame. But get your facts straight:
The term fap does not originate on 4chan, and in fact predates it, nearly twice as old in fact. The term originated in a translation of the manga "Heartbreak Angels", and was popularized in the April 28, 1999 strip of the webcomic Sexy Losers.
Ah, yeah, thanks for the clarification. I wasn't including XI (MMORPG) and non-numbered games in my thinking, but I haven't played FF II or III, so wasn't completely certain. In any case, since VI, the system hasn't replicated, though some contained a lot of similarities.
And of course, Materia is still a broken system.
FFXII, since you haven't played it, utilizes a grid system that is somewhat reminiscent of FFX's sphere grid. It still has more differences than similarities though, IMO.
The Final Fantasy series has never rehashed the same ability system that I can recall -- I might be wrong. In any case, the Materia system was hampered by it's own flexibility, and I really hated it. It was too flexible and so far off balance that it wasn't even funny -- it made what was initially an easy game even easier. Killer materia combinations were found even by casual gamers, and the hardcore tweakers? Well, as a result we know that a level 7 Tifa can solo Emerald Weapon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4gVcNMlsto
Revisiting the Materia system might be interesting, but I'd rather not see it if it'll be that unbalancing.
I haven't had a chance to play Halo 3 yet, so I can't say anything about the game as a whole, but I'm glad to see they're more concerned with a steady frame-rate than killer visuals. I'd rather play a game at 320x240 with acceptable FPS (which I did back in the days of the original Unreal when I didn't have an accelerator) than play at 1024x768 at 20. Anything under 30 FPS irritates me to no end.
Someone mod this up.
You're spot on. Potential sexual harassment really is a major issue that is often ignored. I've played many different games in many different ways. I play characters of both genders, with a slight bias toward females, if only because the inter-personal interactions are so much more interesting. (Read: People talk to you more, even if the reasoning is shallow in many cases)
I have played characters as female, intentionally giving the impression that I'm female in real life (a blatant deception, generally, most people who I tell later that I'm actually a guy tell me that they never would have guessed, so I assume that I 'act like a female' fairly convincingly), and female characters where I insist on being a male IRL. Both methods have lead to a great deal of harassment, though in noticably different ways. However, instances where I'm playing a female character and skirt the issue of real life gender entirely have lead to a noticably lower level of harassment.
And half of slashdot will label it as a dupe ... nothing new here.