Obviously you missed Sony's E3 press conference where they demoed their new Wiimote knockoff. A fanboy like you should keep up with that stuff. Sony may have to yank your Official Sony Kiss-ass Club membership if you don't.
Computer have a very difficult time in understanding the concept of "trivial" unless you could specify it in very concrete terms. And coming up with a version of that that couldn't be gamed would be very difficult. That's why so many MMORPG's keep it simple. Everyone WANTS to get rid of the grind, but in practice it's very difficult not to have it or something like it. Even Eve, with its skills based system, is a grindfest.
He overestimated lasers and underestimated the anger of the crowd at a metal festival who didn't appreciate his use of a laser pointer to highlight the singers' crotches for several hours.
Exactly what world are you posting from? In the one I live in Sony is in a distant 3rd place in every country but Japan and will be again this Christmas (the 4th in a row for them). Nintendo and MS are the clear winners this generation by almost any sane standard. Even if Sony were to begin to catch up, what kind of Pyrrhic victory will it be if they only did it as MS and Nintendo prepare to release their next generation consoles (which will likely be coming up around 2011)?
It's a wash for MS (if you're comparing them to Sony). Sony is jumping on the exact same bandwagon. They're both just racing to see who can get to the cliff first. Nintendo has made a lot of money by milking the motion control fad, and when it passes they can at least move on intact and with a nice wad of cash.
Sony is actually the one with the MOST to lose on this fad right now. They're not only trying to jump on the motion control bandwagon, but they're also still in third place with even the regular controllers. So not only do they have the embarrassment of placing third after dominating the console market for two generations (coming up on 4 Christmases now), but they're also heading down the wrong path even after trying a course correction. They just seem to be making one wrong move after another.
In all seriousness, I just tried it out and, despite its claims to the contrary, it does still "jumps" around when you try to advance the time slider and the full-screen pop-up interface, while improved over some awful early versions, is still annoying (it pops up at any mouse movement, not just when the mouse is at the bottom of the screen). I'll stick to the FAR superior GOM thank you very much. If only GOM had a Linux version, it would be the perfect media player (with the best and most feature-filled user interface I've ever seen).
As a gamer, let me say that the Wii controllers (and now Sony and MS motion controllers) SOUNDED cool. But, at the end of the day, I realized the essential flaw in them:
DARE cracked me up. The essential message was "Kids, if you ever smoke a joint, you're going to end up dying in the gutter." Especially funny now, considering that our last three U.S. Presidents were all avowed "druggies" (by DARE's standards). Maybe they should create a new "Kids, if you don't toke, you'll never get to be President" campaign.
I actually saw a real-world analogy to that when I lived in Hawaii. On the North Shore, the surfers had gotten together and formed a gang of sorts that basically "controlled" all the good waves. If a newbie came in and tried to surf one of the big waves, they would swoop in and knock him off his board or fuck with him in some way. Basically took the fun out of it for everyone but their select group.
Why they only let Darin Morgan only write a few episodes is beyond me. He was the best writer they had. He also wrote the poignant "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," and the hilarious "Humbug," and War of the Coprophages." The last scene from Humbug, with Jim Rose's critique of Mulder's perfection, still cracks me up. He was the only X-files writer who could do straight comedy, drama, and satire with equal aplomb.
Don't worry, our noble unions men are already preparing to give him the standard scab treatment. Once they get the brick to through his plane's window, they'll teach him!
Ironic, sense Mr. Business Genius just had all his HDnet programming cut from Time Warner cable, supposedly because he was complaining that they were putting him on a pay tier instead of the free one. Sad day too, HDNet and HDnet Movies were the only decent channels on that pay tier (well worth the $6 a month extra).
Yeah, I guess that explains why they went with AT&T instead of a provider that can actually keep maintain my calls for more than 5 minutes at a time without dropping them.
There is probably even a guy proposing they just dust off the old set and fake it again. It's win-win. It would save money and give Michael Bay something to do besides making crappy summer action movies.
Quoted from the linked article: "I'm writing this because, after twenty years of playing, I finally completed the game." I think that pretty much confirms the parent's assertion that "only obsessives play Nethack."
Actually, IIRC, many of the old games that used to allow it did it like this:
4. Allow you to keep your level 30, super badass character and scale up the games with new (much tougher) enemies, new spells/skills to acquire, etc. This is similar to #1, but to allow newbie to come in, it allows a new player to create a new character who is the equivalent of a level 30 badass from the first game.
That way, whether you're a veteran who wants to keep his old character or a newbie to the franchise, you can both get to enjoy it.
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Obviously you missed Sony's E3 press conference where they demoed their new Wiimote knockoff. A fanboy like you should keep up with that stuff. Sony may have to yank your Official Sony Kiss-ass Club membership if you don't.
Computer have a very difficult time in understanding the concept of "trivial" unless you could specify it in very concrete terms. And coming up with a version of that that couldn't be gamed would be very difficult. That's why so many MMORPG's keep it simple. Everyone WANTS to get rid of the grind, but in practice it's very difficult not to have it or something like it. Even Eve, with its skills based system, is a grindfest.
He overestimated lasers and underestimated the anger of the crowd at a metal festival who didn't appreciate his use of a laser pointer to highlight the singers' crotches for several hours.
Exactly what world are you posting from? In the one I live in Sony is in a distant 3rd place in every country but Japan and will be again this Christmas (the 4th in a row for them). Nintendo and MS are the clear winners this generation by almost any sane standard. Even if Sony were to begin to catch up, what kind of Pyrrhic victory will it be if they only did it as MS and Nintendo prepare to release their next generation consoles (which will likely be coming up around 2011)?
It's a wash for MS (if you're comparing them to Sony). Sony is jumping on the exact same bandwagon. They're both just racing to see who can get to the cliff first. Nintendo has made a lot of money by milking the motion control fad, and when it passes they can at least move on intact and with a nice wad of cash.
Sony is actually the one with the MOST to lose on this fad right now. They're not only trying to jump on the motion control bandwagon, but they're also still in third place with even the regular controllers. So not only do they have the embarrassment of placing third after dominating the console market for two generations (coming up on 4 Christmases now), but they're also heading down the wrong path even after trying a course correction. They just seem to be making one wrong move after another.
In all seriousness, I just tried it out and, despite its claims to the contrary, it does still "jumps" around when you try to advance the time slider and the full-screen pop-up interface, while improved over some awful early versions, is still annoying (it pops up at any mouse movement, not just when the mouse is at the bottom of the screen). I'll stick to the FAR superior GOM thank you very much. If only GOM had a Linux version, it would be the perfect media player (with the best and most feature-filled user interface I've ever seen).
As a gamer, let me say that the Wii controllers (and now Sony and MS motion controllers) SOUNDED cool. But, at the end of the day, I realized the essential flaw in them:
I'm a lazy-ass.
It's just like my dear old dad used to say: "Son, lasers can make *anything* better."
DARE cracked me up. The essential message was "Kids, if you ever smoke a joint, you're going to end up dying in the gutter." Especially funny now, considering that our last three U.S. Presidents were all avowed "druggies" (by DARE's standards). Maybe they should create a new "Kids, if you don't toke, you'll never get to be President" campaign.
I actually saw a real-world analogy to that when I lived in Hawaii. On the North Shore, the surfers had gotten together and formed a gang of sorts that basically "controlled" all the good waves. If a newbie came in and tried to surf one of the big waves, they would swoop in and knock him off his board or fuck with him in some way. Basically took the fun out of it for everyone but their select group.
For his next reasearch study, he's going to run through the middle of Mecca insulting Muhammad. The results will be published posthumously.
Why they only let Darin Morgan only write a few episodes is beyond me. He was the best writer they had. He also wrote the poignant "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," and the hilarious "Humbug," and War of the Coprophages." The last scene from Humbug, with Jim Rose's critique of Mulder's perfection, still cracks me up. He was the only X-files writer who could do straight comedy, drama, and satire with equal aplomb.
I loved that game. Wish they would port some of these over to consoles too.
Well, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.
The overcrowding, intense pressure to conform, the legacy of the 90's real estate bust, and now this? Well, at least they have a lot of robots.
Don't worry, our noble unions men are already preparing to give him the standard scab treatment. Once they get the brick to through his plane's window, they'll teach him!
Ironic, sense Mr. Business Genius just had all his HDnet programming cut from Time Warner cable, supposedly because he was complaining that they were putting him on a pay tier instead of the free one. Sad day too, HDNet and HDnet Movies were the only decent channels on that pay tier (well worth the $6 a month extra).
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Yeah, I guess that explains why they went with AT&T instead of a provider that can actually keep maintain my calls for more than 5 minutes at a time without dropping them.
No, it's just that poorly educated rednecks are typically associated with *both* low mathematical ability and irrationality.
There is probably even a guy proposing they just dust off the old set and fake it again. It's win-win. It would save money and give Michael Bay something to do besides making crappy summer action movies.
Considering that they got about $13 billion of our taxpayer money as part of the AIG bailout, I'd say that software belongs in part to us too.
Quoted from the linked article: "I'm writing this because, after twenty years of playing, I finally completed the game." I think that pretty much confirms the parent's assertion that "only obsessives play Nethack."
Actually, IIRC, many of the old games that used to allow it did it like this:
4. Allow you to keep your level 30, super badass character and scale up the games with new (much tougher) enemies, new spells/skills to acquire, etc. This is similar to #1, but to allow newbie to come in, it allows a new player to create a new character who is the equivalent of a level 30 badass from the first game.
That way, whether you're a veteran who wants to keep his old character or a newbie to the franchise, you can both get to enjoy it.
This July, we're going to BLOW YOU UP!