You know, I'm 32 and a general gamer. And, while I love Mr. Mosquito and Katamari Damacy, I would not go so far as to say the the Gamecube has nothing to offer us. Yes, I do like the traditional Nintendo franchises, I loved Eternal Darkeness, Ikargura was excellent, and the Star Wars Rogue Squadron series is a must-have in any SW fan's book. And, frankly, most of the third-party games (like Def Jam: Fight for NY) just look better on the GC than they do on the PS2 (IMHO).
But, if it just doesn't float your boat, that's cool and I can appreciate that. But don't lump all of us general gamers into the same group.;)
You sound like every other older generation that looked at a younger generation and said: "What's gone wrong? What is this jazz? Frank Sinatra? Elvis Presley? The Beatles?"
You sound old.
I'm sorry, but any issue you can find with kids nowadays you can find a corelation in a previous generation. There were teenage pregnancies amongst the puritans, there were massive changes in children's entertainment in every generation once the Industrial Revolution came about... we might be behind some of our peers when it comes to the performance of the nation's children, but we are far beyond where children before have been.
No, she's pandering for votes. That's all it is. She's pandering to the people who consider themselves "value voters" and helped push Bush over the top last year.
Well, it's not uncommon to leave completed, but unused, code in a game. There's multiplayer code in both GTA III and Vice City, that was also found and used by a third party mod (Multi Theft Auto). There's code left in all of the time in various games because the publisher wants to get it out to the store.
They didn't leave it in for publicity. They left it in because part of that code is probably tied to something else, and they decided to take the easy way out and not bother with it.
What? Are you saying that there aren't nuclear physicists who read/.? I know for a fact that there are.
Now, whether this is a "Your Rights Online" piece or not is debatable, and I think you and I would fall on the same side in that argument. However, the posting is about a reporter who observed, firsthand, what the "technology" of the 1940s had wrought. Sounds like an interesting read to me. And I'm not even a nuclear physicist.
Broaden your mind. There are still nerds in the sciences, and they might actually outnumber the actual nerds who are in the IT field (the mercenaries who are out to make a buck as quickly as possible do not count as nerds). Nerds are not only about "technology" (which, as Joanna Russ has pointed out, is a bullshit term, anyhow).
You also seem to forget that gamers scream for analog controls on the most modern of game system controllers because digital is too exact and too precise. Analog gives a certain amount of careful, incremental control that digital controllers can't.
It's the same argument in photography: Digital is too precise. There is truth to the concept of "too much of a good thing."
And, yes, I still prefer vinyl for my audio, but that's only when I listen at home. Otherwise, I do own an iPod (and vinyl is still a bitch to transfer to an MP3).
So, yes, you could get a Dawson's Creek or Smallville vibe going with Luke, his (girl)friend Camie, his "antagonist" Fixer, and their older friend Biggs (he could take off to the academy at the end of season one or two).
The only issue with that being the series is that there would be no Force powers, no lightsabers, no Artoo or Threepio, etc. But it would be a new twist.
Well, looking on eBay, if the iPod is dead then a $9 (assuming you can buy a shuffle as part of this deal) to $45 discount isn't a bad idea. If you are a student or work for an educational institution, your discount, coupled with the trade-in, would bring the price of a 60GB iPod down by $75 or so...
However, if the iPod is still working - sell it on eBay! Do a search of completed auctions for the original 5GB iPod and you'll find them still going for $130 or so. Dead iPods, on the other hand, are going for like $40 or $50 - basically what you would get if you bought a new iPod with the trade-in.
So, it's a good deal - if the iPod is dead (or if the bottom falls out of eBay's iPod sales any time soon).
Leo Laporte puts "This Week in Tech" (TWiT) out in multiple formats: MP3, OGG, and bookmarkable AAC (via BitTorrent). Chris Pirillo puts his show out in MP3 and WMA.
Most folks, I'm sure, put their podcasts out as MP3 so they only have to host one file, not 2 or 3.
FC is popcorn philosophy that "guys" seem to enjoy because they think Tyler really is saying something when he just isn't (the book is actually much stronger in dismantling Tyler's lack of an id). End all and be all. Fincher likes to declare how we've become a materialistic society but, considering his roots in commericials and music videos (which are just commericials, too), I have a hard time buying that argument from him.
Secondly, I never defended the prequels, did I? There is not one point where I defended them. I said that it was Lucas's perogative to do with the material as he pleases, not that the material was good.
Read what's written, son, not what you want to see.
These three movies amount to just one big wasted opportunity.
Not really. Want to know why? Lucas made them the way he wanted to. He has said as much in recent interviews (check out this past week's Entertainment Weekly). This was what he wanted to do with them. You didn't like them. He did. He was the one with the story and the money to get the movies made and he made them how he wanted to. You have an opinion about how he did it. But, if he's satisfied with the final product, then it really doesn't matter what you have to say about it, does it?
And, by the way, want to know my opinion about the movie your handle's namesake is from? It was trash and a waste of good celluloid. Again: it's an opinion, and I choose to not watch Fight Club again because of it. Pretty simple, all things considered.;)
Why do driod have to talk amongst each other? They are ROBOTS, couldn't they, you know, wifi it or soemthing?
Because it's a movie and you'd be bitching about having to read subtitles if the droids didn't talk.
The movie was fun. If you want great acting or great writing, then stay away from Star Wars and go see Crash. My opinion: they both succeed at what they were made to do.
Star Wars is the only decent thing that Lucas has driven.
Ummm... American Graffitti is actually a much better film than Star Wars is (and this is coming from an unabashed SW fanatic). Then what about Indiana Jones? Schrader's Mishima? Kurosawa's Kagemusha and Dreams (he helped Spielberg secure financing for that one and isn't credited)? Granted he didn't direct them, but he was vital to all of them getting made.
Let's not forget non-movie things that have come from Lucas: Industrial Light & Magic, THX audio, Pixar (Jobs bought it from Lucasfilm), Lucasarts and the Lucas Education Foundation. And, finally, he's a single father of three kids...
Call him greedy all you want, but when you take as narrow of a view as that you are not be fair in any way, shape, or form.
He was a huge man: when he was in a house it rattled and you always knew he was there. He did the same to the Earth. It doesn't rattle anymore now that he's gone.
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But, if it just doesn't float your boat, that's cool and I can appreciate that. But don't lump all of us general gamers into the same group. ;)
You sound old.
I'm sorry, but any issue you can find with kids nowadays you can find a corelation in a previous generation. There were teenage pregnancies amongst the puritans, there were massive changes in children's entertainment in every generation once the Industrial Revolution came about... we might be behind some of our peers when it comes to the performance of the nation's children, but we are far beyond where children before have been.
No, she's pandering for votes. That's all it is. She's pandering to the people who consider themselves "value voters" and helped push Bush over the top last year.
They didn't leave it in for publicity. They left it in because part of that code is probably tied to something else, and they decided to take the easy way out and not bother with it.
Now, whether this is a "Your Rights Online" piece or not is debatable, and I think you and I would fall on the same side in that argument. However, the posting is about a reporter who observed, firsthand, what the "technology" of the 1940s had wrought. Sounds like an interesting read to me. And I'm not even a nuclear physicist.
Broaden your mind. There are still nerds in the sciences, and they might actually outnumber the actual nerds who are in the IT field (the mercenaries who are out to make a buck as quickly as possible do not count as nerds). Nerds are not only about "technology" (which, as Joanna Russ has pointed out, is a bullshit term, anyhow).
It's the same argument in photography: Digital is too precise. There is truth to the concept of "too much of a good thing."
And, yes, I still prefer vinyl for my audio, but that's only when I listen at home. Otherwise, I do own an iPod (and vinyl is still a bitch to transfer to an MP3).
So, yes, you could get a Dawson's Creek or Smallville vibe going with Luke, his (girl)friend Camie, his "antagonist" Fixer, and their older friend Biggs (he could take off to the academy at the end of season one or two).
The only issue with that being the series is that there would be no Force powers, no lightsabers, no Artoo or Threepio, etc. But it would be a new twist.
However, if the iPod is still working - sell it on eBay! Do a search of completed auctions for the original 5GB iPod and you'll find them still going for $130 or so. Dead iPods, on the other hand, are going for like $40 or $50 - basically what you would get if you bought a new iPod with the trade-in.
So, it's a good deal - if the iPod is dead (or if the bottom falls out of eBay's iPod sales any time soon).
It wasn't the sled... it was his childhood. The sled's a metaphor for his childhood.
Most folks, I'm sure, put their podcasts out as MP3 so they only have to host one file, not 2 or 3.
Secondly, I never defended the prequels, did I? There is not one point where I defended them. I said that it was Lucas's perogative to do with the material as he pleases, not that the material was good.
Read what's written, son, not what you want to see.
Not really. Want to know why? Lucas made them the way he wanted to. He has said as much in recent interviews (check out this past week's Entertainment Weekly). This was what he wanted to do with them. You didn't like them. He did. He was the one with the story and the money to get the movies made and he made them how he wanted to. You have an opinion about how he did it. But, if he's satisfied with the final product, then it really doesn't matter what you have to say about it, does it?
And, by the way, want to know my opinion about the movie your handle's namesake is from? It was trash and a waste of good celluloid. Again: it's an opinion, and I choose to not watch Fight Club again because of it. Pretty simple, all things considered. ;)
Because it's a movie and you'd be bitching about having to read subtitles if the droids didn't talk.
The movie was fun. If you want great acting or great writing, then stay away from Star Wars and go see Crash. My opinion: they both succeed at what they were made to do.
Ummm... American Graffitti is actually a much better film than Star Wars is (and this is coming from an unabashed SW fanatic). Then what about Indiana Jones? Schrader's Mishima? Kurosawa's Kagemusha and Dreams (he helped Spielberg secure financing for that one and isn't credited)? Granted he didn't direct them, but he was vital to all of them getting made.
Let's not forget non-movie things that have come from Lucas: Industrial Light & Magic, THX audio, Pixar (Jobs bought it from Lucasfilm), Lucasarts and the Lucas Education Foundation. And, finally, he's a single father of three kids...
Call him greedy all you want, but when you take as narrow of a view as that you are not be fair in any way, shape, or form.
He was a huge man: when he was in a house it rattled and you always knew he was there. He did the same to the Earth. It doesn't rattle anymore now that he's gone.
Amen to that.