This article actually is kind of dry and boring, but because the game looks like so much fun I think I do care that EA is doing it. As far as I can tell --EA does franchises of popular games year after year. --those franchises haven't been doing extremely well recently --they cost a lot of licencing money --they want more in-house hits
So...I'm really afraid that EA is going to chop up Spore from one giantic orgasmically good experience into several mildly orgasmically good games, to be released one each year or something.
Hence, if EA thinks this is going to save them, it makes me a lot more worried than if EA is only paying Will and his team a lot of money to "go nuts and have fun" like they're supposed to.
I think he mentioned that you won't always be at the top of the food chain because other critters/races/planets/galaxies are downloaded to your game. Maybe that's good, but I'm sure like sim city there will be cheats where you can turn more powerful "stuff" off so that you can play god-mode.
In a game like this I think it'll be fun to be challenged sometimes, and will be fun to play omnipotent god at others. =) I'd be overjoyed if the game lets you adjust and re-adjust how hard it is on a whim.
The main game is the part where you fly around the galixy, spread like weed, and blow shit up.
truly?
Personally since I saw the video early last year I've thought the main chunk of the game will be developing your creature culturally. IE: from when he gave them spears and fire to attacking neighbouring countries etc. I personally thought the stuff before and after are the mini games.
Part of me thinks that EA will release each component one year at a time as separate games (2006: pac-man 2007: guided-evolution [an oxymoron] 2008: critter-civ 2009: space blast [with critter])
Kind of like their sports franchise, ish. Here's hoping i'm not giving EA enough credit.
hmmmmm and from that I infer then, you have a way of checking the IP location of that player, or something? I don't play the game myself, and while what you're saying might be true, I'm just not sure how you found out the person was in fact Chinese, and not some say, korean or idiot north american teen posing to be Chinese.
People who actually want penis patches? I don't know, maybe someone was hoping that if their boyfriend wore one they can stop taking birth control pills. Or someone was hoping that the patch can break their porn watching habit like a nocotine patch. or...i don't know.
Humanity remains hopeful, and that's where we go wrong most of the time.
Personally I prefer the theory that says the real scam is taking money from advertisers who choose to advertise with spam. That they do not in fact make money from click-sales from spam. That sleezy jerks win sometimes, but sleezy idiots don't win.
hehehe brilliant. extra point if intentionally not closing the two s. I've received spam in my work inbox that claims to be from the FBI and CIA that ends with "cya"......it's a sick sad world out there.
Yeah I think so. I remember one time I walked into a Games Workshop just to browse and look at the figurines and play settings they have there, and a "helpful" clerk comes up and says "looking for something for your boyfriend today?". I don't know if it was an insult or a pick up line or just genuinely helpful thing to say, but I took a small bit of offense. I get the same type of "help" in plastic model shops and other "hobby" type places. Makes me wonder if other girls have no hobbies then...?
Oh I'm sorry I didn't realise you were agreeing with the point that cars should not be programmed to read blinking lights. Gotcha. yes boo to the grandparent for thinking that in the first place then.
i for one would not program my automated car to trust what the other drivers are "trying" to tell me, such as honking and blinking and flashing high-beams.
Instead I will trust what they are in fact doing, such as veering to the left/right, slowing down, picking up speed, or driving like they're drunken dicks.
Maybe what you are describing is how you think humans drive when they see someone with a perpetual blink. Think again. Get outside. Go to a country where nobody use blinkers at all. People slow down to let the guy turn right if the guy is already slowing down. And a computer will be a much better judge at changes in velocity and changes in distances between the two cars.
Fist they can get any guy to drop what their doing and help them at a bat of an eyelash.
while i understand where you are coming from on the bigger picture of your post, ironically you sir, have just demonstration gender discrimination
When a male student is asking another male student for help on some class work, we all assume that things are hunky-dory and normal. But when a girl is getting help people immediately assume that she's using her gender to get what she wants. We think that it would be harder for a guy to get help than a girl.
now, I don't know if statistically that is true most of the time, but the fact that we often immediately assume that it's "easier" for girls is precisely the problem. If I'm asking for help I would want to be thought of as having worked just as hard as my male counterparts, and still failing to grasp some idea, then asking a classmate. I don't want to be perceived as being some lazy bimbo who just wants to get through CS school without having to write a line of code.
Sir, I'm not attacking you, just merely pointing out that gender stereotypes DO in fact, exist.
My mother never bought me barbies or whatnot because given the choice of books, lego, and playdoh or Princess Blank Barbie Set, the former always wins. It might be because I already have books, lego and playdoh, and knowing that I already like those, having more sounded better. The barbies and stuff caught my eye too, but I think I'm terrified of life-like baby-shits-her-pants dolls, maniquines and such, so it probably was never a fair contest to begin with.
It wasn't until much later when I began school with other girls that I got weird looks for not having Barbies and not knowing pop culture symbols and references. But by then it was too late, and here I am, a rpg-playing, video-gaming, girl programmer...hmmm.
But seriously, are other girls that turn-offed by role playing games? I, for one, think they are cool. If only I had a female elf character piece though. T_T
...And he's likely lto prove himself a liar twice.
Last month, Hwang admitted that some of the human eggs used in his experiments had come from junior researchers in his lab - an ethical lapse he had previously denied
This man's moral actions are debatable, but the fact that he lied about it doesn't help either.
And while I believe that rival cloning firms/research teams are out for blood, if their stuff is so real, why would the good doctor's own team give silly excuses for questions raise on the research topic?
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well Will Wright did demonstrate modelling critters silly-putty style and pulling meat chunks (ribs, limbs etc) off of critters.
..and i'm still interested now.
This article actually is kind of dry and boring, but because the game looks like so much fun I think I do care that EA is doing it. As far as I can tell
--EA does franchises of popular games year after year.
--those franchises haven't been doing extremely well recently
--they cost a lot of licencing money
--they want more in-house hits
So...I'm really afraid that EA is going to chop up Spore from one giantic orgasmically good experience into several mildly orgasmically good games, to be released one each year or something.
Hence, if EA thinks this is going to save them, it makes me a lot more worried than if EA is only paying Will and his team a lot of money to "go nuts and have fun" like they're supposed to.
I think he mentioned that you won't always be at the top of the food chain because other critters/races/planets/galaxies are downloaded to your game. Maybe that's good, but I'm sure like sim city there will be cheats where you can turn more powerful "stuff" off so that you can play god-mode.
In a game like this I think it'll be fun to be challenged sometimes, and will be fun to play omnipotent god at others. =) I'd be overjoyed if the game lets you adjust and re-adjust how hard it is on a whim.
The main game is the part where you fly around the galixy, spread like weed, and blow shit up.
truly?
Personally since I saw the video early last year I've thought the main chunk of the game will be developing your creature culturally. IE: from when he gave them spears and fire to attacking neighbouring countries etc. I personally thought the stuff before and after are the mini games.
Part of me thinks that EA will release each component one year at a time as separate games (2006: pac-man 2007: guided-evolution [an oxymoron] 2008: critter-civ 2009: space blast [with critter])
Kind of like their sports franchise, ish. Here's hoping i'm not giving EA enough credit.
Woah there cowboy. Whoever said anything about the parent or the article being Christian?
Besides, let's attack the message one at a time. Today's topic is "booth babes"; we can talk about violence and Christians tomorrow.
hmmmmm and from that I infer then, you have a way of checking the IP location of that player, or something? I don't play the game myself, and while what you're saying might be true, I'm just not sure how you found out the person was in fact Chinese, and not some say, korean or idiot north american teen posing to be Chinese.
People who actually want penis patches? I don't know, maybe someone was hoping that if their boyfriend wore one they can stop taking birth control pills. Or someone was hoping that the patch can break their porn watching habit like a nocotine patch. or ...i don't know.
Humanity remains hopeful, and that's where we go wrong most of the time.
Personally I prefer the theory that says the real scam is taking money from advertisers who choose to advertise with spam. That they do not in fact make money from click-sales from spam. That sleezy jerks win sometimes, but sleezy idiots don't win.
*sigh* yeah I still have hope in humanity....
See homophobia -- true but ironic,
They finish at Clansman Pothead --
(Re) It swam the mangrove.
On Barth, many coney
And fall its fearful zippy
On break, he steamboat:
"I just found out about her." -- megalomania mantic --
(Re) n I dono bedside effectiveness
And now it's a "new age" poem!!
I don't get it. hmmm someone clue me in on the funny. Do they spell words, or pictures...what? =P
you poor, sad soul.
Now go back to google and just search for pr0n like a normal person.
hehehe brilliant. extra point if intentionally not closing the two s. I've received spam in my work inbox that claims to be from the FBI and CIA that ends with "cya"......it's a sick sad world out there.
Yeah I think so. I remember one time I walked into a Games Workshop just to browse and look at the figurines and play settings they have there, and a "helpful" clerk comes up and says "looking for something for your boyfriend today?". I don't know if it was an insult or a pick up line or just genuinely helpful thing to say, but I took a small bit of offense. I get the same type of "help" in plastic model shops and other "hobby" type places. Makes me wonder if other girls have no hobbies then...?
LOL +1 morbid funny to this man.
Oh I'm sorry I didn't realise you were agreeing with the point that cars should not be programmed to read blinking lights. Gotcha. yes boo to the grandparent for thinking that in the first place then.
i for one would not program my automated car to trust what the other drivers are "trying" to tell me, such as honking and blinking and flashing high-beams.
Instead I will trust what they are in fact doing, such as veering to the left/right, slowing down, picking up speed, or driving like they're drunken dicks.
Maybe what you are describing is how you think humans drive when they see someone with a perpetual blink. Think again. Get outside. Go to a country where nobody use blinkers at all. People slow down to let the guy turn right if the guy is already slowing down. And a computer will be a much better judge at changes in velocity and changes in distances between the two cars.
Fist they can get any guy to drop what their doing and help them at a bat of an eyelash.
while i understand where you are coming from on the bigger picture of your post, ironically you sir, have just demonstration gender discrimination
When a male student is asking another male student for help on some class work, we all assume that things are hunky-dory and normal. But when a girl is getting help people immediately assume that she's using her gender to get what she wants. We think that it would be harder for a guy to get help than a girl.
now, I don't know if statistically that is true most of the time, but the fact that we often immediately assume that it's "easier" for girls is precisely the problem. If I'm asking for help I would want to be thought of as having worked just as hard as my male counterparts, and still failing to grasp some idea, then asking a classmate. I don't want to be perceived as being some lazy bimbo who just wants to get through CS school without having to write a line of code.
Sir, I'm not attacking you, just merely pointing out that gender stereotypes DO in fact, exist.
I agree with you.
My mother never bought me barbies or whatnot because given the choice of books, lego, and playdoh or Princess Blank Barbie Set, the former always wins. It might be because I already have books, lego and playdoh, and knowing that I already like those, having more sounded better. The barbies and stuff caught my eye too, but I think I'm terrified of life-like baby-shits-her-pants dolls, maniquines and such, so it probably was never a fair contest to begin with.
It wasn't until much later when I began school with other girls that I got weird looks for not having Barbies and not knowing pop culture symbols and references. But by then it was too late, and here I am, a rpg-playing, video-gaming, girl programmer...hmmm.
You have just rolled a 1
8D better luck next time?
But seriously, are other girls that turn-offed by role playing games? I, for one, think they are cool. If only I had a female elf character piece though. T_T
I'm sure he was just poking fun at the fact that Google can't even spell a simple word like "googol" right =)
and here you're assuming the grandparent is male. =)
Last month, Hwang admitted that some of the human eggs used in his experiments had come from junior researchers in his lab - an ethical lapse he had previously denied
This man's moral actions are debatable, but the fact that he lied about it doesn't help either.And while I believe that rival cloning firms/research teams are out for blood, if their stuff is so real, why would the good doctor's own team give silly excuses for questions raise on the research topic?
as someone else has posted, this link is better
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8461Goatee? But I thought Flexo was the good one =D
....uranus isn't a genitelia is it? output device...no?
That wasn't the Buffy I was thinking of...
especially with a camera called the "Voyeur Probe".
Oh, wait...
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