How many parents even care about their kids these days? I mean really care? Yeah, they'll buy them clothes and drive them to soccer practice and whatnot, but they dont know shit about their kids' lives.
Hell, people dont even descipline their kids anymore. When I was a kid, my parents signed a waver to allow teachers to spank me in school when I was being a shit. When I was being a shit at home, I got spanked, too. Good luck doing either today, you'll have a damn kid sueing his parents or the neighbors calling the police.
It doesnt "take a village", it takes parents doing their job to raise a kid. If parents give two shits about their kids, they will place restrictions on what they can do, and monitor their compliance. "Oh, Johnny will just play GTA at Billy's house." Well crap, call Billy's mom or dad and tell them that you dont allow your child to play that stuff and that if they see it they need to send Johnny home and give me a ring on the phone.
My point: Parents have been neutered over the years and the will to care has been beaten out of those who actually cared in the first place. Parents, do your job despite that.
Mind that Windows cannot play DVDs out of the box -you need a codec that is not supplied with Windows.
Granted, you can purchase third-party software easily enough for Windows... I dont think there is any legal way to watch you DVDs in Linux (though I still do so without remorse).
Next on Slashdot: The Guy Who Designed the Xbox Controller
"Microsoft is all about innovation, so we made the memory card first and then built the controller around it..."
"...wanted to make the logo in the middle a button to launch Word..."
Really, did you ever truly believe that MS embraced the hobbyist with the original xbox?
This tactic not only provides them with more money, but it has a neat side-effect where it creates another hurdle for hobbyists and pirates to have to jump over (or perhaps its the other way around).
They do not want anyone hacking their console for any reason.
I have heard the $2Billion number many times too, but I am wondering the same thing as you.
Perhaps in the case of the gaming industry, $2Billion refers to how much money they spend making games. Spouting "$2Billion" everywhere is certainly a lot more attractive than talk of Midway, Atari, and other companies that invented video games dieing slow and horrible deaths and then clawing their way out of the grave only to die again...
Yeah, there are Blu-Ray players out already. In Japan, of course, but they are consumer goods that one can purchase on the street. They are damn expensive, but that doesnt matter.
So, what about this news that Blu-Ray will require a permanent connection to Sony Headquarters? The current players have no such bullshit in them...
I think that this would be a GREAT test for the GPL. Who better than SCO -the company that openly tried to destroy Linux -to test the GPL in court against.
That would put the Fear of God in companies violating the license. A large company tries some crazy shit and ends up getting utterly devastated by the end while finally solidifying the legal validity of the GPL.
Who knows if anyone will even see this post... late at night, late at posting... oh well.
Well that is certainly true, but as you pointed out, some things shouldnt change.
Zelda 3d games control the same, Mario 3d games control the same. Those are things that probably couldnt really be improved -the games were quite different from their predecessors, though.
Mario had the water pack that changed the way one plays a Mario game, and Wind Waker had the new graphics (albeit not a change in gameplay, but the way even some Zelda fans reacted you would think they turned zelda into a GTA-clone).
Sequels are fine.
Sequels that are marginally different from their predecessor suck *COUGH EA*.
But then again, when you try to make a sequel that isnt a mirror image of its predecessor, people stop chanting how they want innovation just long enough to bash the game *COUGH Mario Sunshine, Zelda Wind Waker, etc*.
Not to say that everyone who plays an MMORPG is addicted, but I have seen people get kicked out of college because they stopped going to classes in favor of EQ.
Those who arent addicted still get trapped -the need to level up and stay caught up with everyone else makes it more time-consuming than any other kind of game.
Perhaps in those six minutes, everyone who reads Slashdot during the day stopped refreshing every two minutes and did some work (all Slashdot reading is done on company time).
Well, everyone except you, me, and the first poster at least...
Cut me some slack, it was FOUR YEARS AGO, and it certainly felt like a long time before SSB:M came out. Frankly, the only reason I purchased it was because nothing else was coming out soon.
Wait, no it doesnt.
The PS2 had a bunch of crap right out of the gate. The leader of the pack was a mediocre snowboarding game that was propelled to stardom by the fact that it was one of the very few games worth owning at the time.
Yeah, the xbox had Halo at launch, but that didnt matter either. They could have released it at any time and still garnered the same results (a lot of sold hardware).
The Gamecube had one outstanding game (Rogue Leader) at launch, and then THREE MONTHS OF NOTHING until Super Smash Bros Melee, and the console continues to be #2 worldwide.
Two crappy launches (in regards to titles) and those are beating out a wildly successful launch in the long run.
Now, if the consoles launch at the same time it matters... Or at least one would think so. The cube's poor launch was within days of the xbox's great one (again, in regards to games only), and they are in a dead heat now.
So I guess my point is: "Analyst" speculation is less than worthless, and history reveals that supposedly obvious things make no sense at all.
Quit posting what amounts to random guessing about the ps3 and 360. We dont see a story every time a new fake Revolution controller pic hits the net, so why do we still get this crap?
They like a different kind of mayonaise (kind of like American mayonaise but with soy sauce and worsteshire (sp) sauce mixed in) on their Okonomiyaki -kind of a pan-fried pizza with various goodies on top (left-overs work well).
It is pretty different from an actual pizza, but the general idea is the same.
The gaming industry is becoming more like the Hollywood slashdot regularly craps over (remakes and remakes of remakes), but slashdot LIKES it for games.
Okay.
Really though, a FFVII remake will suck. It will have voices that "hardcore" FF fans will dislike, plot tweaks that everyone will whine about, and different visuals all around that people will complain arent true to the original game.
You play FFVII on the PS1, and I'll play FFVI on the SNES.
Remakes are stupid square-enix, give us a new, good FF. Or heaven forbid, give a real shit about a non-FF franchise!!
Cue the "Intel is evil" and "AMD deserved to be the sponsor" comments.
Why did Intel get picked? Probably because they offered more money.
"It always boils down to money, dammit. America is terrible! Down with Intel! All praise AMD!"
Remember that it is a SPONSORSHIP. The product doesnt really matter, its the money that makes "sponsor" more than just a weird sound that comes out of your mouth.
I also enjoy video game music, but usually in a "different" form. A lot of people (myself included) are quite smitten with the SPC chip inside the Super Nintendo/SFC. I dont know why, but the music created with it, however limited, is something that people find attractive. I would take an SPC over a symphonic rendition of a song. Perhaps it is nostalgia...
Some of my favorite soundtracks (in no order):
Sonic 1, 2, 3, S&K
Megaman X(1)
Super Mario 64
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy 3U/6J
Super Mario RPG
Castlevania: SotN
Kirby Super Stars
With the DS and GBA both continuing to outsell the PSP across the regions, I dont think Nintendo is worrying too much.
Not to say the PSP is going to fall into oblivion like the Game Gear, Lynx, NGPC, Wonderswan, GP32, etc... (Sony will not let it), but Nintendo has taken on better hardware for years and released products when they saw fit (when the market was saturated).
When the GBA stops selling, then Nintendo will give us a new one.
Yes, Sega was in deep financial doo-do for both, but that doesnt matter. Being the first is totally irrelevant to a hype machine (Sony) and franchise loyalty (Nintendo).
Though if the 360 has any kind of Halo at launch; even a Halo text adventure by Infocom (like it matters, people will think it's innovation), then they have a good chance at getting nearly their entire original Xbox customer base back.
Yes, because AMD is good and Intel was created out of the hearts of newborns -everybody knows already, this is Slashdot.
Until AMD has some skeletons (if there are any) pop out of their closet, people can continue to believe that AMD is nothing but under the oppressive heel of Intel's too-mighty boot.
My CPU tally:
Intel: 3
AMD: 2 (current main computer included)
Theyre CPUs, I buy whichever is the fastest at the time of purchase. If/When Intel slingshots past AMD in performance again (it will continue to go back and forth for a long time), you can feel warm inside while using an inferior product.
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How many parents even care about their kids these days? I mean really care? Yeah, they'll buy them clothes and drive them to soccer practice and whatnot, but they dont know shit about their kids' lives.
Hell, people dont even descipline their kids anymore. When I was a kid, my parents signed a waver to allow teachers to spank me in school when I was being a shit. When I was being a shit at home, I got spanked, too. Good luck doing either today, you'll have a damn kid sueing his parents or the neighbors calling the police.
It doesnt "take a village", it takes parents doing their job to raise a kid. If parents give two shits about their kids, they will place restrictions on what they can do, and monitor their compliance. "Oh, Johnny will just play GTA at Billy's house." Well crap, call Billy's mom or dad and tell them that you dont allow your child to play that stuff and that if they see it they need to send Johnny home and give me a ring on the phone.
My point: Parents have been neutered over the years and the will to care has been beaten out of those who actually cared in the first place. Parents, do your job despite that.
Funny? =[
I golfed a mouse that was loose in our office with my Model M.
I think the new keyboard looks like complete crap.
I will never let go of my 1982 IBM Model M in favor of some 2005 ball of plastic that weighs less than animals I have killed with the Model M.
Mind that Windows cannot play DVDs out of the box -you need a codec that is not supplied with Windows.
Granted, you can purchase third-party software easily enough for Windows... I dont think there is any legal way to watch you DVDs in Linux (though I still do so without remorse).
Next on Slashdot: The Guy Who Designed the Xbox Controller
"Microsoft is all about innovation, so we made the memory card first and then built the controller around it..."
"...wanted to make the logo in the middle a button to launch Word..."
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Really, did you ever truly believe that MS embraced the hobbyist with the original xbox?
This tactic not only provides them with more money, but it has a neat side-effect where it creates another hurdle for hobbyists and pirates to have to jump over (or perhaps its the other way around).
They do not want anyone hacking their console for any reason.
I have heard the $2Billion number many times too, but I am wondering the same thing as you.
Perhaps in the case of the gaming industry, $2Billion refers to how much money they spend making games. Spouting "$2Billion" everywhere is certainly a lot more attractive than talk of Midway, Atari, and other companies that invented video games dieing slow and horrible deaths and then clawing their way out of the grave only to die again...
Yeah, there are Blu-Ray players out already. In Japan, of course, but they are consumer goods that one can purchase on the street. They are damn expensive, but that doesnt matter.
So, what about this news that Blu-Ray will require a permanent connection to Sony Headquarters? The current players have no such bullshit in them...
I think that this would be a GREAT test for the GPL. Who better than SCO -the company that openly tried to destroy Linux -to test the GPL in court against.
That would put the Fear of God in companies violating the license. A large company tries some crazy shit and ends up getting utterly devastated by the end while finally solidifying the legal validity of the GPL.
Who knows if anyone will even see this post... late at night, late at posting... oh well.
Well that is certainly true, but as you pointed out, some things shouldnt change.
Zelda 3d games control the same, Mario 3d games control the same. Those are things that probably couldnt really be improved -the games were quite different from their predecessors, though.
Mario had the water pack that changed the way one plays a Mario game, and Wind Waker had the new graphics (albeit not a change in gameplay, but the way even some Zelda fans reacted you would think they turned zelda into a GTA-clone).
Sequels are fine.
Sequels that are marginally different from their predecessor suck *COUGH EA*.
But then again, when you try to make a sequel that isnt a mirror image of its predecessor, people stop chanting how they want innovation just long enough to bash the game *COUGH Mario Sunshine, Zelda Wind Waker, etc*.
Or perhaps most slashdotters use Windows at their workplace, where the majority of Slashdot-surfing takes place.
Exactly.
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Not to say that everyone who plays an MMORPG is addicted, but I have seen people get kicked out of college because they stopped going to classes in favor of EQ.
Those who arent addicted still get trapped -the need to level up and stay caught up with everyone else makes it more time-consuming than any other kind of game.
Perhaps in those six minutes, everyone who reads Slashdot during the day stopped refreshing every two minutes and did some work (all Slashdot reading is done on company time).
Well, everyone except you, me, and the first poster at least...
Cut me some slack, it was FOUR YEARS AGO, and it certainly felt like a long time before SSB:M came out. Frankly, the only reason I purchased it was because nothing else was coming out soon.
Nonetheless, I stand corrected.
Yes, because the launch library matters.
Wait, no it doesnt.
The PS2 had a bunch of crap right out of the gate. The leader of the pack was a mediocre snowboarding game that was propelled to stardom by the fact that it was one of the very few games worth owning at the time.
Yeah, the xbox had Halo at launch, but that didnt matter either. They could have released it at any time and still garnered the same results (a lot of sold hardware).
The Gamecube had one outstanding game (Rogue Leader) at launch, and then THREE MONTHS OF NOTHING until Super Smash Bros Melee, and the console continues to be #2 worldwide.
Two crappy launches (in regards to titles) and those are beating out a wildly successful launch in the long run.
Now, if the consoles launch at the same time it matters... Or at least one would think so. The cube's poor launch was within days of the xbox's great one (again, in regards to games only), and they are in a dead heat now.
So I guess my point is: "Analyst" speculation is less than worthless, and history reveals that supposedly obvious things make no sense at all.
Quit posting what amounts to random guessing about the ps3 and 360. We dont see a story every time a new fake Revolution controller pic hits the net, so why do we still get this crap?
They like a different kind of mayonaise (kind of like American mayonaise but with soy sauce and worsteshire (sp) sauce mixed in) on their Okonomiyaki -kind of a pan-fried pizza with various goodies on top (left-overs work well). It is pretty different from an actual pizza, but the general idea is the same.
The gaming industry is becoming more like the Hollywood slashdot regularly craps over (remakes and remakes of remakes), but slashdot LIKES it for games.
Okay.
Really though, a FFVII remake will suck. It will have voices that "hardcore" FF fans will dislike, plot tweaks that everyone will whine about, and different visuals all around that people will complain arent true to the original game.
You play FFVII on the PS1, and I'll play FFVI on the SNES.
Remakes are stupid square-enix, give us a new, good FF. Or heaven forbid, give a real shit about a non-FF franchise!!
Cue the "Intel is evil" and "AMD deserved to be the sponsor" comments.
Why did Intel get picked? Probably because they offered more money.
"It always boils down to money, dammit. America is terrible! Down with Intel! All praise AMD!"
Remember that it is a SPONSORSHIP. The product doesnt really matter, its the money that makes "sponsor" more than just a weird sound that comes out of your mouth.
I also enjoy video game music, but usually in a "different" form. A lot of people (myself included) are quite smitten with the SPC chip inside the Super Nintendo/SFC. I dont know why, but the music created with it, however limited, is something that people find attractive. I would take an SPC over a symphonic rendition of a song. Perhaps it is nostalgia...
Some of my favorite soundtracks (in no order):
Sonic 1, 2, 3, S&K
Megaman X(1)
Super Mario 64
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy 3U/6J
Super Mario RPG
Castlevania: SotN
Kirby Super Stars
With the DS and GBA both continuing to outsell the PSP across the regions, I dont think Nintendo is worrying too much.
Not to say the PSP is going to fall into oblivion like the Game Gear, Lynx, NGPC, Wonderswan, GP32, etc... (Sony will not let it), but Nintendo has taken on better hardware for years and released products when they saw fit (when the market was saturated).
When the GBA stops selling, then Nintendo will give us a new one.
Yes, of course they do.
Rushed First out: Saturn
First out: Dreamcast
Yes, Sega was in deep financial doo-do for both, but that doesnt matter. Being the first is totally irrelevant to a hype machine (Sony) and franchise loyalty (Nintendo).
Though if the 360 has any kind of Halo at launch; even a Halo text adventure by Infocom (like it matters, people will think it's innovation), then they have a good chance at getting nearly their entire original Xbox customer base back.
Yes, because AMD is good and Intel was created out of the hearts of newborns -everybody knows already, this is Slashdot.
Until AMD has some skeletons (if there are any) pop out of their closet, people can continue to believe that AMD is nothing but under the oppressive heel of Intel's too-mighty boot.
My CPU tally:
Intel: 3
AMD: 2 (current main computer included)
Theyre CPUs, I buy whichever is the fastest at the time of purchase. If/When Intel slingshots past AMD in performance again (it will continue to go back and forth for a long time), you can feel warm inside while using an inferior product.
If your ideology prevents you from purchasing a product, perhaps you shouldnt pine for that product.
"Halo... Has the best musical score for any video game I'v ever played."
POSSIBLE CORRECTION BASED ON EVIDENCE GIVEN:
"Halo... is the first video game I've ever played."