I should add that I do like the fact that it's not divided into servers the way too many MMO's are. It's sharded (like Second Life) so everyone can play in the same universe.
I really do despise the server model MMO. And if you just *must* design your MMO this way, at least make it easy to move my character to another server (like Guild Wars does) so I can play with my friends without having to create a whole new character every time.
Speaking as a liberal myself, I'm got sick of all the Obama worship a long time ago. Voting for the guy and treating him as some sort of deity are different things, people! At the end of the day he's just another politician. Stop treating him as if he were somehow above criticism. I may agree with him on health care, but God knows many of us on the left have plenty of bones to pick with him too.
With the 20-somethings, they'll get annoyed if you try to engage them in a long phone conversation because they're more comfortable with IM.
I just don't get that. It's so ass-backwards it's ridiculous. It's like calling sending someone an email and getting an irritated reply asking you to send all future correspondence by Western Union Telegram.
The ability to actually visit your friends with YOUR character and be able to move around freely would be a huge improvement. Seriously, the multiplayer in Fable 2 felt like it wasn't even an afterthought--as if it was added on at the very last micro-second before it went gold by a single designer (who was drunk at the time).
You know that friend of yours who has different music tastes than you, who will go on for hours about how his favorite musicians don't lip-sync, how they write their own songs, etc? You know, the guy who everyone rolls their eyes at and avoids at parties (lest he go on a long rant about how crappy pop music is today and how the obscure shit he likes is so superior in every way)? You know that smug douchebag?
Well that's what it's like to listen to a PC snob.
Everyone has SOME form of escape in their lives. Some are just healthier than others. Personally, I think videogames are pretty mild compared to the dangers of SOME forms of escapism.
Personally, I found it to be a dull griefer's paradise. It's fun at first, but seeing the same scenery over and over again and doing the same stuff over and over again gets boring really fast. About the only way to make it any fun is to join a guild. But since you can't really trust anyone in the game, and so many guild activities just involve grinding to build some new ship (which someone in the guild will probably just steal anyway), even this is dubious.
Some people really enjoy this game, but it's definitely not for a general audience (or anyone who likes exploration and variety and hates grinding)
Not every pilot (or even high-ranking commander) had clearance on, or knowledge of, every classified project. The Cold War was an extremely paranoid era (especially in regards to spy, weapon, and aircraft technology).
Actually, those 120 million are living in trailer parks with their PS2's hooked up to a ten-year-old crappy old Sanyo SD set via a composite input. They could give a shit less about the PS3 or blu-ray.
Sorry about the trailer park remark, BTW. Didn't mean to insult your mother.
Four years into this generation is a little late for a comeback. Not saying it's impossible, but it would certainly be unprecedented. Besides, the Xbox 720 will probably be out by Christmas 2010.
It always cracks me up that none of these conspiracy theorists, with all their reams of "secret information" never make the obvious connection that most of these sightings of strange aircraft at night were around secretive air force bases at the height of the Cold War. It takes a unique mindset to jump over the obvious conclusion of this evidence and to go right to "alien visitors from across interstellar space!" I guess it's cooler to think of "Men in Black" as aliens rather than boring old FBI and NSA agents in their ugly-ass generic suits. And why assume the military is covering up mere military secrets when you can go with the much more impressive "They're hiding little green men, dude!"
Well I'm a PC gamer and PC's are the far superior platform, as any real gamer like me knows. Anyone who doesn't use a mouse and keyboard is clearly inferior to me and lacks my intelligence and superior taste in gaming. If you want to know more on the subject, just come to the videogame store where I work sometime. I regularly spend hours there snobbishly berating console game buying customers and informing them of my superiority.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play the pompous villain in an 80's teen flick. Ferrari is the ONLY car to drive, you know.
I guess this also debunks the long-standing idea that Japan and Europe are so far ahead on cell phone development that no U.S. cell phone could possibly compete with their amazingly advanced technology.
I used to write press releases myself in my younger days and often times you're stuck in a very difficult position of having to spin something that's very negative into something that at least doesn't make a bad situation even worse. Let's face it, there are only two reasons that companies ever lay off employees en mass: a budget cut that makes it unavoidable, or an attempt to streamline by removing an entire redundant or poorly-performing area or division. Private sector companies are loathe to admit the former, and so they almost always couch a large layoff as the latter.
They do this because they know that, if they show weakness, their stock will tank and they'll have even MORE layoffs than they've already had. And laying off people is never easy to do. Despite the reputation that corporations have for being heartless, they are nonetheless made up of real human beings--very few of whom take any pleasure in having to throw their employees' lives into chaos (not to mention the real damage it does to the company itself and its projects).
Of course, sometimes the stock still tanks anyway (savvy investors are rarely fulled by mere spin), but to publicly announce "Hey, we're going into the shitter" is still irresponsible. And the only alternative to "We're streamlining" or "We're facing cuts" is "We axed these people capriciously, just because we felt like it." So the choice is pretty clear.
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According the movie Full Metal Jacket, the Marines do not, in fact, want robots.
I should add that I do like the fact that it's not divided into servers the way too many MMO's are. It's sharded (like Second Life) so everyone can play in the same universe.
I really do despise the server model MMO. And if you just *must* design your MMO this way, at least make it easy to move my character to another server (like Guild Wars does) so I can play with my friends without having to create a whole new character every time.
Speaking as a liberal myself, I'm got sick of all the Obama worship a long time ago. Voting for the guy and treating him as some sort of deity are different things, people! At the end of the day he's just another politician. Stop treating him as if he were somehow above criticism. I may agree with him on health care, but God knows many of us on the left have plenty of bones to pick with him too.
With the 20-somethings, they'll get annoyed if you try to engage them in a long phone conversation because they're more comfortable with IM.
I just don't get that. It's so ass-backwards it's ridiculous. It's like calling sending someone an email and getting an irritated reply asking you to send all future correspondence by Western Union Telegram.
The ability to actually visit your friends with YOUR character and be able to move around freely would be a huge improvement. Seriously, the multiplayer in Fable 2 felt like it wasn't even an afterthought--as if it was added on at the very last micro-second before it went gold by a single designer (who was drunk at the time).
You know that friend of yours who has different music tastes than you, who will go on for hours about how his favorite musicians don't lip-sync, how they write their own songs, etc? You know, the guy who everyone rolls their eyes at and avoids at parties (lest he go on a long rant about how crappy pop music is today and how the obscure shit he likes is so superior in every way)? You know that smug douchebag?
Well that's what it's like to listen to a PC snob.
Everyone has SOME form of escape in their lives. Some are just healthier than others. Personally, I think videogames are pretty mild compared to the dangers of SOME forms of escapism.
Again, thanks for setting me straight on how superior your tastes in gaming are compared to us uneducated, unwashed masses.
Personally, I found it to be a dull griefer's paradise. It's fun at first, but seeing the same scenery over and over again and doing the same stuff over and over again gets boring really fast. About the only way to make it any fun is to join a guild. But since you can't really trust anyone in the game, and so many guild activities just involve grinding to build some new ship (which someone in the guild will probably just steal anyway), even this is dubious.
Some people really enjoy this game, but it's definitely not for a general audience (or anyone who likes exploration and variety and hates grinding)
I guess I was mistaken when I thought I enjoyed playing Halo. Thanks for setting me straight.
Thank god for spill check.
Actually, recent DNA testing in many old criminal cases has shown EXACTLY how unreliable eyewitness accounts can be.
You could just as easily reverse that silly logic and ask "How are these 'aliens' that people see today NOT angels?"
Not every pilot (or even high-ranking commander) had clearance on, or knowledge of, every classified project. The Cold War was an extremely paranoid era (especially in regards to spy, weapon, and aircraft technology).
Actually, those 120 million are living in trailer parks with their PS2's hooked up to a ten-year-old crappy old Sanyo SD set via a composite input. They could give a shit less about the PS3 or blu-ray.
Sorry about the trailer park remark, BTW. Didn't mean to insult your mother.
Four years into this generation is a little late for a comeback. Not saying it's impossible, but it would certainly be unprecedented. Besides, the Xbox 720 will probably be out by Christmas 2010.
It always cracks me up that none of these conspiracy theorists, with all their reams of "secret information" never make the obvious connection that most of these sightings of strange aircraft at night were around secretive air force bases at the height of the Cold War. It takes a unique mindset to jump over the obvious conclusion of this evidence and to go right to "alien visitors from across interstellar space!" I guess it's cooler to think of "Men in Black" as aliens rather than boring old FBI and NSA agents in their ugly-ass generic suits. And why assume the military is covering up mere military secrets when you can go with the much more impressive "They're hiding little green men, dude!"
Once again, there are remarkably few sightings of the Virgin Mary in areas with no Catholics.
And Ferrari is the ONLY car to drive, you know.
Well I'm a PC gamer and PC's are the far superior platform, as any real gamer like me knows. Anyone who doesn't use a mouse and keyboard is clearly inferior to me and lacks my intelligence and superior taste in gaming. If you want to know more on the subject, just come to the videogame store where I work sometime. I regularly spend hours there snobbishly berating console game buying customers and informing them of my superiority.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play the pompous villain in an 80's teen flick. Ferrari is the ONLY car to drive, you know.
I guess this also debunks the long-standing idea that Japan and Europe are so far ahead on cell phone development that no U.S. cell phone could possibly compete with their amazingly advanced technology.
He sounds like the UK equivalent of Dick Cheney.
Sounds like the name of a Harry Potter villain.
Of course. Coke is te ultimate "stimulus package."
I used to write press releases myself in my younger days and often times you're stuck in a very difficult position of having to spin something that's very negative into something that at least doesn't make a bad situation even worse. Let's face it, there are only two reasons that companies ever lay off employees en mass: a budget cut that makes it unavoidable, or an attempt to streamline by removing an entire redundant or poorly-performing area or division. Private sector companies are loathe to admit the former, and so they almost always couch a large layoff as the latter.
They do this because they know that, if they show weakness, their stock will tank and they'll have even MORE layoffs than they've already had. And laying off people is never easy to do. Despite the reputation that corporations have for being heartless, they are nonetheless made up of real human beings--very few of whom take any pleasure in having to throw their employees' lives into chaos (not to mention the real damage it does to the company itself and its projects).
Of course, sometimes the stock still tanks anyway (savvy investors are rarely fulled by mere spin), but to publicly announce "Hey, we're going into the shitter" is still irresponsible. And the only alternative to "We're streamlining" or "We're facing cuts" is "We axed these people capriciously, just because we felt like it." So the choice is pretty clear.