No matter how [un]violent or [un]sexual you make a game, there will still be the same number of idiots out there who think it'd be cool to do what's in the game. Also, there will be the same idiots no matter how much time has passed.
People who are disgusted by the idea of a game about mass murder probably won't buy it!...Along with Halo, Ghost Recon, C&C Generals, or any other game where the point is to kill. People who are alright with it will buy it, obviously.
Wouldn't it be nice if some kid who wanted to shoot up his school wasted all his time on this game, instead of doing it in real life?
My high school's ISP blocks most e-mail and social networking sites already. Facebook, MySpace, Gmail (curiously not googlepages yet... only a matter of time, I suppose), Yahoo, Hotmail, all Geocities sites (may actually be a benefit) and the usual pr0n/militia/omg ponies. I was shocked to find that any article on Games @/. is also blocked.
My biggest complaint, however, is when I have to use Tor on a flash drive just to get some sudoku action.
I can't say that the surveillance affects me that much. Most of the important things I say to people, I say in person. They can know I called my mother at such and such a time... just more clutter for them to sort through! If I DO wish to do something illegal, I sure as hell wouldn't talk about it on the phone anyway. Encrypted email is a MAYBE. There is a definite difference by geography and urban/rural environments. I live a few miles out from a town of ~40000 in USA. It's big enough that no one at the local Walmart knows me, yet small enough that there aren't cameras everywhere, excepting private/corporate owned ones or ones inside public schools.
If it gets bad, though, I'm about 1.5 hours from the "longest unprotected border in the world," eh.
As most of the comments so far are of the "how big is YOUR equipment" variety, I'll shoot.
You may be out of luck as far as a jack-of-all-bags. It all depends on how much mobility you want from your mobiles. Can you leave the phone/PDA and its charger close to the wall? Twisty tie the cord on the charger, plugs out for a nice, tight package. Maybe you could invest in retractable cords. If you have the cash, you could set up "modules" of wires. Need a portable wireless point for the laptop/PDA? Strap the router/power cord/cat5 cable together.
My solution has typically been a compartmentalized cardboard box in the back seat of the car. 1/3 of it for network stuff, 1/3 for power, 1/3 for random widgets. Subdivide into network(PDA,laptop) and different power sources, mix, repeat. YMMV.
Oddly enough, those characteristics that you consider "positive" in this situation are precisely those that the Flying Spaghetti Monster decided to bless this new generation of animals with. Verily I say unto you, they HAVE been touched by His Noodly Appendage. Ramen.
B: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? P: Uh... I think so Brain, but where will we find that much caulobacter crescentus, three cars, and a quarter at this time of night?
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at the name "RedBerry." Does the "awakening dragon" suddenly have a sense of humor?? It sounds like something a college kid would make up as a prank and try to sell. There's gotta be some marketing exec in Beijing reading the paper and going "ROFL" over this...
The invention and popularization of the gun led to a decline in swashbuckling skills, did it not? These days, where there are guns (substitute any newer technology,) swords are used more for nostalgic fun or novelty, as hand-drawing may become.
(FSM at work: gunpowder igniting upped global temperature, causing less sword-wielding pirates. Ramen.)
Maybe I'm missing something, but how could the sun have similar composition to the planets, as in the first theory? I think of Earth compared to the sun, which seems to be a pretty big difference. Or is Earth extraordinary for a planet (besides water and life that wanders and wonders)? I doubt that the earth could sustain the same processes as the sun, or vice versa. Any meteorologists in the house?
Automatically discounting what someone says because you "just don't trust them" is silly. No one tells all lies, and no one tells all truth. That's what you have a brain for.
Also: "Thus, in a world where most human beings have IQs below 110-" You DO understand that IQs are measured on a bell curve, right? Most (more than half) of people are below some point above the median, of course, because that's the way a median works.
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I had no idea/.ers were so familiar with King Solomon! Or was that funny for some other reason than the Bible-style dilemma solution? I may be completely lost here...
Five finger discounts are always nice, but I'll assume that you're talking about donated things.;) Example: A friend of mine had a computer that just quit working one day, and gave it to me. The motherboard was shot, but there was some RAM, a CD burner, DVD reader, 80GB HD, and 20GB HD in it. Free upgrades, plus no police or angry storeowners!
"I cannot believe that America is so pro-porn. All the research shows how it leads to violence against women." Links to all this research, please?
"Americans are all sick degenerate perverts." Also, making a generalization about roughly 300 million people is not very nice. It's like saying that all Chinese (or Indian) people wear funny shoes. There are people in every group that wear funny shoes, just as there are "sick degenerate perverts" everywhere, but that doesn't make everyone one of them.
I'd watch myself if I were you.. these people don't exactly have a sense of humor. In fact, saying it publically in my town (via letter to the editor) will get you arrested: http://www.wlio.com/localNews.aspx?NewsID=3246
By now, in this age of medicine[marketing], most common substances and behaviors both increase and decrease your risk for any cancer, depending on who and when you ask, and what report has just come out. It's like the fad diet thing. "Carbs evil! Eat meat! No, eat carbs! Tofu FTW!" Thoughts? Well, I just know that a lot of people tend to end up with cancer at some point or another. Maybe it's new definitions in diagnosis, maybe it's the 1000 or so nuclear tests put on by the US alone, maybe it's the terrorists (gasp!) poisoning the water hole, or maybe it's lifestyles. The important thing is: you are going to die someday, and that's that. Live life aware of it, but not consumed by it.
Hopefully this will be the end of the PS2 controller.
Explaining the parts of a computer to nontechiados:
"...your PS/2 keyboard. Whaa, I can hook up my playstation controller, too?"
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Congratulations, you are the first to invoke Godwin's Law in a discussion about server CPUs.
No matter how [un]violent or [un]sexual you make a game, there will still be the same number of idiots out there who think it'd be cool to do what's in the game.
...Along with Halo, Ghost Recon, C&C Generals, or any other game where the point is to kill.
Also, there will be the same idiots no matter how much time has passed.
People who are disgusted by the idea of a game about mass murder probably won't buy it!
People who are alright with it will buy it, obviously.
Wouldn't it be nice if some kid who wanted to shoot up his school wasted all his time on this game, instead of doing it in real life?
My high school's ISP blocks most e-mail and social networking sites already. Facebook, MySpace, Gmail (curiously not googlepages yet... only a matter of time, I suppose), Yahoo, Hotmail, all Geocities sites (may actually be a benefit) and the usual pr0n/militia/omg ponies. I was shocked to find that any article on Games @ /. is also blocked.
My biggest complaint, however, is when I have to use Tor on a flash drive just to get some sudoku action.
Proud? No. Terribly affected? Not so much.
I can't say that the surveillance affects me that much. Most of the important things I say to people, I say in person. They can know I called my mother at such and such a time... just more clutter for them to sort through! If I DO wish to do something illegal, I sure as hell wouldn't talk about it on the phone anyway. Encrypted email is a MAYBE.
There is a definite difference by geography and urban/rural environments. I live a few miles out from a town of ~40000 in USA. It's big enough that no one at the local Walmart knows me, yet small enough that there aren't cameras everywhere, excepting private/corporate owned ones or ones inside public schools.
If it gets bad, though, I'm about 1.5 hours from the "longest unprotected border in the world," eh.
In other news, a recent trend is appearing amongst FedExers to insert a doggie treat into each package they ship. The cause is unknown.
As most of the comments so far are of the "how big is YOUR equipment" variety, I'll shoot.
You may be out of luck as far as a jack-of-all-bags. It all depends on how much mobility you want from your mobiles. Can you leave the phone/PDA and its charger close to the wall? Twisty tie the cord on the charger, plugs out for a nice, tight package. Maybe you could invest in retractable cords.
If you have the cash, you could set up "modules" of wires. Need a portable wireless point for the laptop/PDA? Strap the router/power cord/cat5 cable together.
My solution has typically been a compartmentalized cardboard box in the back seat of the car. 1/3 of it for network stuff, 1/3 for power, 1/3 for random widgets. Subdivide into network(PDA,laptop) and different power sources, mix, repeat. YMMV.
To be leet.
People with a lot of money (obviously) like to spend it on nice things! If you have the means to afford a quad-SLI rig, your priorities change.
Me, I'll stick to my 64mb Radeon.
Oddly enough, those characteristics that you consider "positive" in this situation are precisely those that the Flying Spaghetti Monster decided to bless this new generation of animals with.
Verily I say unto you, they HAVE been touched by His Noodly Appendage. Ramen.
What's the community's consensus on Slashtroturfing?
B: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P: Uh... I think so Brain, but where will we find that much caulobacter crescentus, three cars, and a quarter at this time of night?
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at the name "RedBerry." Does the "awakening dragon" suddenly have a sense of humor??
It sounds like something a college kid would make up as a prank and try to sell.
There's gotta be some marketing exec in Beijing reading the paper and going "ROFL" over this...
The invention and popularization of the gun led to a decline in swashbuckling skills, did it not?
These days, where there are guns (substitute any newer technology,) swords are used more for nostalgic fun or novelty, as hand-drawing may become.
(FSM at work: gunpowder igniting upped global temperature, causing less sword-wielding pirates. Ramen.)
Oy! Thanks, that makes a lot more sense than the summary. I thought for a minute they were about to declare the borg our new overlords.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how could the sun have similar composition to the planets, as in the first theory? I think of Earth compared to the sun, which seems to be a pretty big difference. Or is Earth extraordinary for a planet (besides water and life that wanders and wonders)?
I doubt that the earth could sustain the same processes as the sun, or vice versa.
Any meteorologists in the house?
I have a word for you, good sir:
Truthiness.
Automatically discounting what someone says because you "just don't trust them" is silly. No one tells all lies, and no one tells all truth. That's what you have a brain for.
Also:
"Thus, in a world where most human beings have IQs below 110-"
You DO understand that IQs are measured on a bell curve, right? Most (more than half) of people are below some point above the median, of course, because that's the way a median works.
I had no idea /.ers were so familiar with King Solomon!
Or was that funny for some other reason than the Bible-style dilemma solution?
I may be completely lost here...
If that's not a joke, let me be the first to point out the irony in the last line:
"Stop idiocity and hipocrecy"
idiocity? hipocrecy?
You're being an idiot with your spelling, and being a hypocrite by being an idiot. GG.
Troll? Please! It was a reference to Monty Python, for cuteness sake!h eusageoffuck1051372.html
Usage of the Word Fuck:
http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/m/montypython9364/t
18(you can lie on myspace, why not /.?)/yes please/*bluephone's home town*
*SIGH* I am SOOOO looking forward to meeting you! We're liek ment4 eachother!!!!oneone1! OMG!
PS: Anyone else in the US think those online predator public service announcements are hilarious?
Increased bandwidth doesn't matter.... APRIL FOOL'S!
I'm on cable, so, since it's obviously the same as a 9600 baud modem, this should be posted by April 1.
Five finger discounts are always nice, but I'll assume that you're talking about donated things. ;)
Example: A friend of mine had a computer that just quit working one day, and gave it to me. The motherboard was shot, but there was some RAM, a CD burner, DVD reader, 80GB HD, and 20GB HD in it.
Free upgrades, plus no police or angry storeowners!
"I cannot believe that America is so pro-porn. All the research shows how it leads to violence against women."
Links to all this research, please?
"Americans are all sick degenerate perverts."
Also, making a generalization about roughly 300 million people is not very nice. It's like saying that all Chinese (or Indian) people wear funny shoes. There are people in every group that wear funny shoes, just as there are "sick degenerate perverts" everywhere, but that doesn't make everyone one of them.
I'd watch myself if I were you.. these people don't exactly have a sense of humor.
In fact, saying it publically in my town (via letter to the editor) will get you arrested:
http://www.wlio.com/localNews.aspx?NewsID=3246
By now, in this age of medicine[marketing], most common substances and behaviors both increase and decrease your risk for any cancer, depending on who and when you ask, and what report has just come out.
It's like the fad diet thing. "Carbs evil! Eat meat! No, eat carbs! Tofu FTW!"
Thoughts? Well, I just know that a lot of people tend to end up with cancer at some point or another. Maybe it's new definitions in diagnosis, maybe it's the 1000 or so nuclear tests put on by the US alone, maybe it's the terrorists (gasp!) poisoning the water hole, or maybe it's lifestyles.
The important thing is: you are going to die someday, and that's that. Live life aware of it, but not consumed by it.
Hopefully this will be the end of the PS2 controller. Explaining the parts of a computer to nontechiados: "...your PS/2 keyboard. Whaa, I can hook up my playstation controller, too?"