To them, certain type of movies must have at least a PG-13 rating, and they will put in extra sex, violence or wearing to ensure it gets it.
They put that crap in there to appeal to normal people. For the same reason I don't enjoy riding kiddy rides, I don't enjoy watching a cgi fish swim around the ocean. These movies make money because a subset of people enjoy them. There is no conspiracy here.
I like movies like Sin City. Scifi had a movie on one day called JasonX. The movie was actually not as bad as most of the movies on the network. There was gore and violence, but it was done in a funny way. My problem is every 3rd line was censored. People would call each other "air holes".
I find it retarded that if I want to see the movie without these hacks I have to pay a decent sum of money on blockbuster, or premium cable. It is like a tax. I don't expect you to understand. I expect you to stop complaining about content you don't watch.
Yeah I don't mind these crappy B movies much, but if I had to make one recomendation to the makers of these films:
Fire Dean Cain. Fire whichever producer or director wanted Dean Cain in their movie. Fire anyone that producer or director ever hired, because we now know where is tastes run.
With that taken care of, I'm glad to hear scifi is making money off these films. I don't watch them often, but I did enjoy that jason-x film, as well as the one with bruce campbell and xena's sidekick in it (the one with the bug insects).
The ESRB is a response to kneejerk politicians. Furthermore, the formation of the ESRB was like an admission of guilt. It is an officially accountable target for any critic of videogames. It will never matter what they do.
I just got the game for the pc, and every time I play it I have to wonder how many things I would have enjoyed were taken out because of this promise of doom is held over the head of any company that tries to create an AO rated game.
I'm tired of it, I'm an adult and I want to play adult games. End of story.
Seriously though, if we were looking at our own solar system from so far away, what are the chances we'd have seen earth or even mars. Give it some time.
I want to put another theory. There is no marketing behind anime in america. Yes that driving force that can make a 2 dollar rock worth 100+ dollars is almost completely derelict in the anime department.
Every night at 11 pm when I hit the tv guide, I see inuyasha, ghost in the shell, and 2 or 3 shows I've never heard of.
It amazes me that I still haven't the faintest idea what the majority of these shows are even about. Advertisements I've seen on cartoon network are poor at best.
The only way news about the broadcast flag will get on CNN is if the broadcast flag is blond and gets kidnapped or molests some children. Sorry to say.
You are assuming that by becoming robot enabled he goes from a mild 10% profit on 1 house to a 110% profit on two houses. And then splits to maui.
But you are assuming that person A is the only person who can build houses at twice the rate. If every builder were robot enabled, the price would drop. He might only make 10% on each house again, which considering each house took half the investment, means he makes the same profit he did before robots became a factor. Except that there are two houses now, so society in general has gotten twice the benefit from the same amount of labour.
The problem is getting every builder robot enabled.
Scenario one. A guy with a hammer. He hammers nails all day, takes his paycheck and goes home.
Scenario two. A guy overseeing 20 robots with 20 hammers. He directs all day, takes a same sized paycheck goes home to his new home which was built at a 10th the price of the first guy's house because it was built by robots.
This is progress. This is no different than the fact that people aren't sitting out in cotton fields picking at cotton seeds all day anymore thanks to the cotton gin. There will always be some other work available.
I've witnessed an otherwise normal 18 year old man give out his credit card details over the phone and then proceed to exclaim with joy to all in the room that he had just won a free scholarship.
Another classic that hits my old neighborhood in st. louis every now and then. They put a letter on the doors of every house in the neighborhood proclaiming that their house represents a normal suburban dwelling and some movie producer in hollywood would like to do a test shoot to determine if they could use it for a movie. Just send $40 to this address, so we can set up the apointment. I know of 1 neighbor who fell for it, and another neighbor who only barely prevented his wife from falling for it.
One that hit my college recently. Someone had a list of names and addresses of college students. Home addresses that is. So they sent a phone bill for about a hundred bucks to several hundred parents. The parents, being used to getting bills from the college, often just paid the bill out of habit, afraid that if they don't pay promptly, it will cause problems.
You've siphoned millions of dollars off of thousands of people. Those people will react differently, and their actions will in turn affect everyone around them in the end affecting yourself.
Even if the change is small enough to not affect you going back in time at the exact same moment, you will still act differently the next time you go back in time, onward and onward until you aren't able to travel back anymore due to circumstance.
This theory is moronic. Just because a human can't perceive a change doesn't mean there isn't one. And one small change ripples through everything around it. This quantum crap seems more like voodoo science every time I hear about it.
Ok that made me laugh when I realized I was emerging evolution and its 30 dependencies in the background just now.
But seriously, I've had gentoo amd64 up and running with a fully functional mplayer for like 6 months now. I don't know if I could have managed that with any other distro.
Yes, I am also curious about this. I am a programmer, and while I'd like to try dvorak, I need to know that I'll be able to switch between the two occasionally, when I need to.
I've actually found similar results at my local stores. The gamestop will always have someone who is very knowledgeable about games. Often arguing about sports or rpgs when I walk in. Walmart, they don't know anything. Best buy, well I never buy there, but I imagine they are no better than walmart.
On the whole gamestop has better prices and same selection so I always go there.
It irritates me that some very good games have been changed to be more analog stick friendly. Because they tank on the consoles when not designed that way. Why can't they just put two stinking keyboard/mouse inputs into the xbox.
I've often thought about the privacy vs the accuracy debate and I'm increasingly becoming convinced that privacy in voting can no longer work in such a technologically advance country, and that the reasoning behind privacy in voting is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
It only takes a 5% voter fraud to completely change the political landscape. Probably less if targetted in the right locations. I would happily declare my vote publicly to ensure that it is counted correctly if need be. I'm sure I'm not alone either.
Maybe they have higher aspirations for the cell than video games. If people start developing on the ps3's, they might be in a better position to market it as a real chip.
Yeah I made the mistake of turning on Howard Stern this morning on the way to work, just as he broke for a commercial. 20 minutes later I was at work and the same commercial break was going. Thank god for mythtv.
If I read even one review that says a game is splattered with ads, I will NOT buy it unless it is at a bargain basement price to make up for it, and probably not even then.
I just picked this up at the gamestop for 20 bucks. It looks like butt on my pc and plays even worse. I'm not sure what the deal is. I'm going to keep at it as I have yet to read or hear a bad review about it. Maybe I need to update my ati drivers or something.
This line of inquiry freaks me out. Video games have historically been really innovative. To pretend that having patents thrown about would improve the innovation is laughable at best.
In terms of video game years, patents last a very very long time. Even a single granted patent to a single scrupulous lawyer could potentially stunt the entire industry for nearly 2 decades.
I wish there were something I could do to prevent these patents, emailing my congressman gets a fat lot of nothing done.
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To them, certain type of movies must have at least a PG-13 rating, and they will put in extra sex, violence or wearing to ensure it gets it.
They put that crap in there to appeal to normal people. For the same reason I don't enjoy riding kiddy rides, I don't enjoy watching a cgi fish swim around the ocean. These movies make money because a subset of people enjoy them. There is no conspiracy here.
I like movies like Sin City. Scifi had a movie on one day called JasonX. The movie was actually not as bad as most of the movies on the network. There was gore and violence, but it was done in a funny way. My problem is every 3rd line was censored. People would call each other "air holes".
I find it retarded that if I want to see the movie without these hacks I have to pay a decent sum of money on blockbuster, or premium cable. It is like a tax. I don't expect you to understand. I expect you to stop complaining about content you don't watch.
Yeah I don't mind these crappy B movies much, but if I had to make one recomendation to the makers of these films:
Fire Dean Cain. Fire whichever producer or director wanted Dean Cain in their movie. Fire anyone that producer or director ever hired, because we now know where is tastes run.
With that taken care of, I'm glad to hear scifi is making money off these films. I don't watch them often, but I did enjoy that jason-x film, as well as the one with bruce campbell and xena's sidekick in it (the one with the bug insects).
The ESRB is a response to kneejerk politicians. Furthermore, the formation of the ESRB was like an admission of guilt. It is an officially accountable target for any critic of videogames. It will never matter what they do.
I just got the game for the pc, and every time I play it I have to wonder how many things I would have enjoyed were taken out because of this promise of doom is held over the head of any company that tries to create an AO rated game.
I'm tired of it, I'm an adult and I want to play adult games. End of story.
gamefaqs mods rip posts out at the drop of a hat for stupid reasons. You are better off reading their stuff and commenting elsewhere.
Seriously though, if we were looking at our own solar system from so far away, what are the chances we'd have seen earth or even mars. Give it some time.
Open proxies+marketing company+shady business practices=spam company.
I feel sorry for the guy, but I would have never, ever in a million years accepted such a job if I knew what they were up to.
I want to put another theory. There is no marketing behind anime in america. Yes that driving force that can make a 2 dollar rock worth 100+ dollars is almost completely derelict in the anime department.
Every night at 11 pm when I hit the tv guide, I see inuyasha, ghost in the shell, and 2 or 3 shows I've never heard of.
It amazes me that I still haven't the faintest idea what the majority of these shows are even about. Advertisements I've seen on cartoon network are poor at best.
Wow that is really eye opening. I always thought hollywood corruption was just another myth, but these guys are scamming people for billions a year.
The only way news about the broadcast flag will get on CNN is if the broadcast flag is blond and gets kidnapped or molests some children. Sorry to say.
You are assuming that by becoming robot enabled he goes from a mild 10% profit on 1 house to a 110% profit on two houses. And then splits to maui.
But you are assuming that person A is the only person who can build houses at twice the rate. If every builder were robot enabled, the price would drop. He might only make 10% on each house again, which considering each house took half the investment, means he makes the same profit he did before robots became a factor. Except that there are two houses now, so society in general has gotten twice the benefit from the same amount of labour.
The problem is getting every builder robot enabled.
Scenario one. A guy with a hammer. He hammers nails all day, takes his paycheck and goes home.
Scenario two. A guy overseeing 20 robots with 20 hammers. He directs all day, takes a same sized paycheck goes home to his new home which was built at a 10th the price of the first guy's house because it was built by robots.
This is progress. This is no different than the fact that people aren't sitting out in cotton fields picking at cotton seeds all day anymore thanks to the cotton gin. There will always be some other work available.
I've witnessed an otherwise normal 18 year old man give out his credit card details over the phone and then proceed to exclaim with joy to all in the room that he had just won a free scholarship.
Another classic that hits my old neighborhood in st. louis every now and then. They put a letter on the doors of every house in the neighborhood proclaiming that their house represents a normal suburban dwelling and some movie producer in hollywood would like to do a test shoot to determine if they could use it for a movie. Just send $40 to this address, so we can set up the apointment. I know of 1 neighbor who fell for it, and another neighbor who only barely prevented his wife from falling for it.
One that hit my college recently. Someone had a list of names and addresses of college students. Home addresses that is. So they sent a phone bill for about a hundred bucks to several hundred parents. The parents, being used to getting bills from the college, often just paid the bill out of habit, afraid that if they don't pay promptly, it will cause problems.
There is no shortage of suckers in america.
You've siphoned millions of dollars off of thousands of people. Those people will react differently, and their actions will in turn affect everyone around them in the end affecting yourself.
Even if the change is small enough to not affect you going back in time at the exact same moment, you will still act differently the next time you go back in time, onward and onward until you aren't able to travel back anymore due to circumstance.
This theory is moronic. Just because a human can't perceive a change doesn't mean there isn't one. And one small change ripples through everything around it. This quantum crap seems more like voodoo science every time I hear about it.
I hereby challenge your nerd status.
Ok that made me laugh when I realized I was emerging evolution and its 30 dependencies in the background just now.
But seriously, I've had gentoo amd64 up and running with a fully functional mplayer for like 6 months now. I don't know if I could have managed that with any other distro.
Yes, I am also curious about this. I am a programmer, and while I'd like to try dvorak, I need to know that I'll be able to switch between the two occasionally, when I need to.
I've actually found similar results at my local stores. The gamestop will always have someone who is very knowledgeable about games. Often arguing about sports or rpgs when I walk in. Walmart, they don't know anything. Best buy, well I never buy there, but I imagine they are no better than walmart.
On the whole gamestop has better prices and same selection so I always go there.
It irritates me that some very good games have been changed to be more analog stick friendly. Because they tank on the consoles when not designed that way. Why can't they just put two stinking keyboard/mouse inputs into the xbox.
I've often thought about the privacy vs the accuracy debate and I'm increasingly becoming convinced that privacy in voting can no longer work in such a technologically advance country, and that the reasoning behind privacy in voting is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
It only takes a 5% voter fraud to completely change the political landscape. Probably less if targetted in the right locations. I would happily declare my vote publicly to ensure that it is counted correctly if need be. I'm sure I'm not alone either.
Maybe they have higher aspirations for the cell than video games. If people start developing on the ps3's, they might be in a better position to market it as a real chip.
Yeah I made the mistake of turning on Howard Stern this morning on the way to work, just as he broke for a commercial. 20 minutes later I was at work and the same commercial break was going. Thank god for mythtv. If I read even one review that says a game is splattered with ads, I will NOT buy it unless it is at a bargain basement price to make up for it, and probably not even then.
ug, this shoulda been on the front page.
I just picked this up at the gamestop for 20 bucks. It looks like butt on my pc and plays even worse. I'm not sure what the deal is. I'm going to keep at it as I have yet to read or hear a bad review about it. Maybe I need to update my ati drivers or something.
This line of inquiry freaks me out. Video games have historically been really innovative. To pretend that having patents thrown about would improve the innovation is laughable at best.
In terms of video game years, patents last a very very long time. Even a single granted patent to a single scrupulous lawyer could potentially stunt the entire industry for nearly 2 decades.
I wish there were something I could do to prevent these patents, emailing my congressman gets a fat lot of nothing done.
I'm no scientist, but why not instead of counting 1-127 heads and 128-255 tails, instead count odd number of 1's head, even number of 1's tail.
You may be able to find patterns in the original noise, but to find patterns in the oddness of bits in noise seems extremely unlikely to me.