...now if there were no correlation between race and the likelihood of being in a high enough economic class to afford an online gaming habit, the world's problems would be SOLVED!
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but...aren't you basically telling Mac and Linux users to go fuck themselves?
I mean, you're advocating a monoculture here. You're saying multiplatform software is a bad thing -- at least in the game industry -- and developers should just stick to a single architecture and OS.
An OS which, not to put too fine a point on it, retails for around $200 and doesn't work.
That, incidentally, is what HAPPENS with a monopoly: a poor product for a high price.
Of course, I suppose you could claim that's what we're getting with the console wars anyway. And, having owned two generations of PlayStation hardware that quit working within some two years of purchase, I guess I have to admit you'd have a point.
We'd obviously be much better off with only one platform to game on. Nothing bad EVER came of a monopoly.
I mean, just look at the PC monoculture. It's not like Microsoft's ever done anything to screw consumers.
"Should we make more games like the original Castlevania, or more like the recent 3D ones?" is an absurd and inappropriate comparison. It's a false choice.
"Should we make more games like the recent 3D Castlevanias, or more like the recent 2D Castlevanias?" is a perfectly valid one.
It's completely possible to combine oldschool elements of games with new technology, while not bowing to 8-bit throwbacks like awkward controls and artificial difficulty (eg having to memorize where every Medusa head is going to be before you can successfully make a jump). Recent 2D Castlevanias, as well as New Super Mario Bros., do a great job of mixing classic and modern gaming sensibilities.
Oh, yeah, the NES was a GREAT design.
Please more consoles with contacts that wear out in a few years!
(Actually, I think that's Sony's department now.)
I once worked at the computer store at a local university. We had licensing with Microsoft for low-cost versions of Office, but to sell them we had to get a copy of a student's class schedule.
I had a customer come in once looking for Office who not only didn't know if she had a Mac or a PC, but needed me to tell her what semester it was.
JK: Did Zapp Brannigan change much? Because I saw the first episode he was in and it sounded pretty much like how he sounded later.
BW: Did he change? Um, I don't know, I try to keep it pretty consistent. Phil Hartman was supposed to do that character, and I was imitating Phil Hartman. I knew Phil Hartman; when I came to work with him on some commercials and stuff out here in Hollywood, we both had this real fascination and love for these big, old-time dumb announcers. You know, the guys who have their balls in a wheelbarrow and think that every word is so precious that it's hard to give birth to it, like everything comes out in four syllables instead of one. Guys who think far and away that of everything else in this universe, he loves his voice. So that's what was going on with him. He's modeled after a couple of big dumb announcers I knew.
Science Magazine analyzed a total of 928 peer-reviewed scientific papers on global warming between 1993 and 2003.
Number that challenged the consensus that global warming is real and caused by human activity: zero.
Scientists don't debate whether global warming is occurring, or even that it's caused by humans. Only politicians do.
dotproject's hackish, typo-laden ranting (with, for God's sake, the word "sux" in the headline) is what passes for a rebuttal these days?
Look, I'm all for mocking clueless end-users who reveal their ignorance in the mainstream press. But if I linked that dotproject article in the same sentence as that MSNBC article, I'd be embarrassed.
I have a Cox DVR box -- the infamous Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 -- and it's an epic-level piece of crap. (I've heard that in some locales they offer a much better box.) The interface is barebones, the features are limited and often don't work at all, it frequently fails to record shows I tell it to, and the first one I got died this past week and had to be replaced. I've been planning to switch to TiVo as soon as I can afford it anyway; if Cox is willing to help me do that with the service I already have then that's the best-case outcome for them and for me. The only loser here is Scientific Atlanta, who richly deserves it.
Parish is a great guy, but has terrible taste. Just last week he was singing the praises of the mediocre-at-best Chrono Cross, and he's also on-record bashing Transformers: The Movie.
The one thing from Infinium that I might actually like to get my hands on, and now IT'S becoming vaporware.
Oh, and I should probably throw in a reference to Duke Nukem Forever and some sort of stupid comment about how unsurprising it is that an Infinium product would be delayed, because I'm an unoriginal moron and think I'm clever.
How does this stack up against the $100 laptop, in terms of helping the developing world?
Why should they be mutually exclusive?
Seems perfectly feasible to have a low-powered laptop for use at home and on the go and a higher-powered kiosk for tasks that the laptop isn't up to.
Really just about anything. Any given Final Fantasy game has a human enemy to fight at some point in the game, and they've just about all been rated T. If you count Dracula as a human, Castlevania's out. Ninja Gaiden had numerous human enemies. The original Suikoden (a K-A in its time; K-A was later changed to E) presents several occasions where the player chooses whether a foe lives or dies (though never onscreen).
Hell, if you intentionally knock your opponent into a Spiny in Mario Bros, does that count as killing a human? That would disqualify the release of pretty much every GBA Mario game, since Nintendo packed that game in with all of them as a bonus.
Does anybody have any harder information on the language of the bill? Because it sure sounds like it's way too vague.
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...this must be the "how many different ways can people misspell 'Nielsen'?" thread.
...now if there were no correlation between race and the likelihood of being in a high enough economic class to afford an online gaming habit, the world's problems would be SOLVED!
Uranus is Greek too.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but...aren't you basically telling Mac and Linux users to go fuck themselves?
I mean, you're advocating a monoculture here. You're saying multiplatform software is a bad thing -- at least in the game industry -- and developers should just stick to a single architecture and OS.
An OS which, not to put too fine a point on it, retails for around $200 and doesn't work.
That, incidentally, is what HAPPENS with a monopoly: a poor product for a high price.
Of course, I suppose you could claim that's what we're getting with the console wars anyway. And, having owned two generations of PlayStation hardware that quit working within some two years of purchase, I guess I have to admit you'd have a point.
We'd obviously be much better off with only one platform to game on. Nothing bad EVER came of a monopoly. I mean, just look at the PC monoculture. It's not like Microsoft's ever done anything to screw consumers.
Yes, because the N64 was such a great console.
"Should we make more games like the original Castlevania, or more like the recent 3D ones?" is an absurd and inappropriate comparison. It's a false choice. "Should we make more games like the recent 3D Castlevanias, or more like the recent 2D Castlevanias?" is a perfectly valid one. It's completely possible to combine oldschool elements of games with new technology, while not bowing to 8-bit throwbacks like awkward controls and artificial difficulty (eg having to memorize where every Medusa head is going to be before you can successfully make a jump). Recent 2D Castlevanias, as well as New Super Mario Bros., do a great job of mixing classic and modern gaming sensibilities.
Oh, yeah, the NES was a GREAT design. Please more consoles with contacts that wear out in a few years! (Actually, I think that's Sony's department now.)
If memory serves, this technique worked really well for Netscape.
I'm guessing he probably pays for cable.
I once worked at the computer store at a local university. We had licensing with Microsoft for low-cost versions of Office, but to sell them we had to get a copy of a student's class schedule.
I had a customer come in once looking for Office who not only didn't know if she had a Mac or a PC, but needed me to tell her what semester it was.
Well, I think there are clearly elements of both. I've always described Zapp as "Billy West doing Phil Hartman doing Bill Shatner".
...tend to consist of randomly thrown-together English words as it is.
Via TV Squad:
Somebody go correct the Wikipedia entry.Sega was NEVER a real contender, except for a very brief period in the early 1990's, and even then was only #1 in the US.
Science Magazine analyzed a total of 928 peer-reviewed scientific papers on global warming between 1993 and 2003. Number that challenged the consensus that global warming is real and caused by human activity: zero. Scientists don't debate whether global warming is occurring, or even that it's caused by humans. Only politicians do.
So let me get this straight.
dotproject's hackish, typo-laden ranting (with, for God's sake, the word "sux" in the headline) is what passes for a rebuttal these days?
Look, I'm all for mocking clueless end-users who reveal their ignorance in the mainstream press. But if I linked that dotproject article in the same sentence as that MSNBC article, I'd be embarrassed.
I have a Cox DVR box -- the infamous Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 -- and it's an epic-level piece of crap. (I've heard that in some locales they offer a much better box.) The interface is barebones, the features are limited and often don't work at all, it frequently fails to record shows I tell it to, and the first one I got died this past week and had to be replaced. I've been planning to switch to TiVo as soon as I can afford it anyway; if Cox is willing to help me do that with the service I already have then that's the best-case outcome for them and for me. The only loser here is Scientific Atlanta, who richly deserves it.
Because the best way to demonstrate the strength of your ratings system is to REPEATEDLY CHANGE RATINGS AFTER ASSIGNING THEM.
Parish is a great guy, but has terrible taste. Just last week he was singing the praises of the mediocre-at-best Chrono Cross, and he's also on-record bashing Transformers: The Movie.
The one thing from Infinium that I might actually like to get my hands on, and now IT'S becoming vaporware. Oh, and I should probably throw in a reference to Duke Nukem Forever and some sort of stupid comment about how unsurprising it is that an Infinium product would be delayed, because I'm an unoriginal moron and think I'm clever.
I didn't know Bryan Singer's middle name was SingerBryan.
...So wait...an article from the Wall Street Journal Op/Ed page is complaining that people should be more objective and less biased?
Really just about anything. Any given Final Fantasy game has a human enemy to fight at some point in the game, and they've just about all been rated T. If you count Dracula as a human, Castlevania's out. Ninja Gaiden had numerous human enemies. The original Suikoden (a K-A in its time; K-A was later changed to E) presents several occasions where the player chooses whether a foe lives or dies (though never onscreen). Hell, if you intentionally knock your opponent into a Spiny in Mario Bros, does that count as killing a human? That would disqualify the release of pretty much every GBA Mario game, since Nintendo packed that game in with all of them as a bonus. Does anybody have any harder information on the language of the bill? Because it sure sounds like it's way too vague.