I think a lot of people missed this interesting quote:
"He went on: 'I have wondered if the small volumes of nuclear waste from power production should be stored in tropical forests and other habitats in need of a reliable guardian against their destruction by greedy developers'."
I wonder what the effects of something like this would be? Sounds like an interesting idea on the surface...
I remember their system being pretty bad, but you know what? We were kids when my friends and I played it every lunch hour and we had fun.
As terrible as the game mechanics are, I still think there's a place for them. I, for one, don't want to see every rpg run the d20 system (as good as that system may be). Variety is good. Whether the market can support variety is another question altogether.
If it brings down the price of games (doubtful) it would be nice.
If the entire history of the Western capitalistic market is any indicator, BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!
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See, you have to separate the love of the art we have from our desirve [sic] to live a decent quality of life....They don't consider their music to be advertising - they may rarely play a gig, they may never want to go on tour, but they may still love making music and want to be able to make a living from it.
So, they want to make a decent living without having to work? Join the club. People who slave away for 8-10 hours every day are so sick and tired of hearing about musicians whine and complain that they can't make millions of dollars off of a few days or weeks worth of work.
You want to make a living making music? Fine. Work for eight hours a day, five days a week like the rest of us. Don't expect any kind of everlasting income from a single recording of music.
Subscription-based video game consumption via digital distribution appears to be one of those paradigmatic shifts that could dramatically and permanently alter which side gets how much in the foreseeable future.
I hate newspeak. I buy games in order to play them. This has worked fine up until now. I can buy a game for $50 and play it for 4 or 5 years. I'm happy with that.
The main problem I see with this push toward "pay us via subscription" is that there's only room for a handful of successful games with the kind of monthly charge they're expecting. $1/month? Fine. $20/month? Homey don't play dat.
I think Miyamoto made the right decision with the American SMB2 game. The modified Doki Doki Panic brought all kinds of great new gameplay features, such as the ability to dig, pick up and run with objects, climb ropes and ladders, play as one of several characters (each with its own traits), etc.
While the Japanese SMB2 had some interesting new features -- wind/weather, bad powerups -- it lacked the whimsy and mystery that SMB2 provided. It was really just more of the same.
That being said, I know of lots of people who would've loved to have "more of the same". I knew people that played SMB1 inside and out and would've definately bought the Japanese version had it been available. I think *both* versions should've been sold here.
The next video player I buy will be one that obeys *me* and not the *disc*. I am so sick and tired of seeing the little icon that means "no, you can't do that" when I'm playing DVDs on my current player. Never, ever, ever again will I buy a machine that disobeys me like that. If I want to skip the FBI warning, I had damn well better be able to do so. There is absolutely no reason I should not be able to skip to the middle of the movie as fast as I can turn the machine on and press the FF button. None whatsoever.
They're not quite doing what we said they should do. Here's what we said they should do:
- Offer television programs as downloadable files (e.g. a nice XviD or something) with no restrictions that can be archived, traded, and/or watched at your leisure.
Here's what they did do:
- Offer televesion programs in a restricted format watchable online only as streaming videos with no opportunity to record or, apparently, skip commercials (or so it would seem from the article).
You, like the TV studios, still apparently don't "get it".
Currently the P2P networks are providing exactly what we want. That's the target the networks need to aim for. Nothing less will succeed to any significant degree.
The networks need to provide the shows (with or without commercials) at varying levels of quality (for higher or lower bandwidth users) for download (preferably as torrents) with no strings attached before they air. That would work. Anything less is like aiming for failure.
They have to take a psychological approach to this one. People like shiny and official. Package the TV shows as something you'll want to collect and archive. That will get people downloading them.
And they need to ignore the fact that there are some people who would strip out the commercials and re-share them. This is unavoidable and proven not to have a significant negative impact (e.g. music, movies).
As for commercials, here's an idea: maybe they'll have to start making commercials with the actors in the show hawking the wares. You could make mini, thirty second skits that advertize big name products like they used to do when TV was in its infancy. It could be presented as a little "slice of life" of the characters in the show. "OMG! Jack Bauer uses Crest! I should, too!"
You probably couldn't do all commercials on a network like that, but maybe for certain downloadable shows you could. People would want to watch and re-watch that because it is entertaining.
That said, the problem - since the beginning - with Evolution is that fanatics have tried to use it as evidence that there is no God.
This definately bears repeating. This abuse of science shares equal (if not more) blame with the religious ignorance of others as the actual the root of the entire problem today.
"Humans are humans and dogs are dogs because jebus said so."
Yeah, that's real mature. "We disagree with those poopoo-heads!"
If the anti-ID crowd could stop the petty and immature arguments, then maybe the pro-ID crowd could be enlightened. Unfortunately, it's behavior such as this that helps ensure that will never happen. Bravo.
Honestly, who didn't see this coming? PSP UMD had all the earmarks of a failure waiting to happen: overpriced, proprietary, underpowered (battery-wise), tiny screen.
Here's what could've made the PSP *the* device to own: the ability to burn your own UMDs with photos or videos or whatever without the need for any proprietary hardware or software. A disc-based, portable image/video sharing device -- properly marketed and with proper competition from other companies -- could have created a new "must have" device that would be almost as ubiquitous as cell phones.
This mega-corps are gonna have to stop thinking about what they want (expensive, proprietary, restricted devices) and start thinking about what consumers want (afforable, open, and easy-to-use devices), or else I will continue to write angry rants!
Wouldn't that be a kicker, eh? I'm so engrossed in playing this online game known as "real life" that I don't even realize the real me is sitting in a dark basement in some other universe playing on a computer. Boy am I gonna get a surprise when I die.
The main problem, though would be the fact that, after I died in this life, I'd have to go back to my "real" life, which must be a lot worse than this one since I spend all my waking hours playing this one. Man, that's gonna suck.
It's too bad Nintendo was (is?) all Nazi about emulators a few years back. It's that very same crowd that's going to fall all over the Revolution. Unfortunately, they've created a lot of ill will in those who would soon become their target demographic because of their behavior. Hopefully their sales won't suffer too much because of their anti-emulation attitude, because I'd really like to see the Revolution succeed.
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"He went on: 'I have wondered if the small volumes of nuclear waste from power production should be stored in tropical forests and other habitats in need of a reliable guardian against their destruction by greedy developers'."
I wonder what the effects of something like this would be? Sounds like an interesting idea on the surface...
As terrible as the game mechanics are, I still think there's a place for them. I, for one, don't want to see every rpg run the d20 system (as good as that system may be). Variety is good. Whether the market can support variety is another question altogether.
If the entire history of the Western capitalistic market is any indicator, BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!
So, they want to make a decent living without having to work? Join the club. People who slave away for 8-10 hours every day are so sick and tired of hearing about musicians whine and complain that they can't make millions of dollars off of a few days or weeks worth of work.
You want to make a living making music? Fine. Work for eight hours a day, five days a week like the rest of us. Don't expect any kind of everlasting income from a single recording of music.
I hate newspeak. I buy games in order to play them. This has worked fine up until now. I can buy a game for $50 and play it for 4 or 5 years. I'm happy with that.
The main problem I see with this push toward "pay us via subscription" is that there's only room for a handful of successful games with the kind of monthly charge they're expecting. $1/month? Fine. $20/month? Homey don't play dat.
While the Japanese SMB2 had some interesting new features -- wind/weather, bad powerups -- it lacked the whimsy and mystery that SMB2 provided. It was really just more of the same.
That being said, I know of lots of people who would've loved to have "more of the same". I knew people that played SMB1 inside and out and would've definately bought the Japanese version had it been available. I think *both* versions should've been sold here.
Yeah, morons! Here's the full text to the Brian Peppers link so you can save some of your precious energy by not having to click the link:
Not Found The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Idiots.
The next video player I buy will be one that obeys *me* and not the *disc*. I am so sick and tired of seeing the little icon that means "no, you can't do that" when I'm playing DVDs on my current player. Never, ever, ever again will I buy a machine that disobeys me like that. If I want to skip the FBI warning, I had damn well better be able to do so. There is absolutely no reason I should not be able to skip to the middle of the movie as fast as I can turn the machine on and press the FF button. None whatsoever.
Isn't that where the hot chick is?
Just "panties on the head", eh?
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
More photos
Beatings, electric shocks, dog maulings, physical and psychological abuse.
Or, maybe you like to refer to them by their more "patriotic" name: "Freedom tickles"?
No. Does it have something to do with enlarging a thumbnail image of breasts?
Just click on it instead, buddy. Chances are it goes to a full size picture.
- Offer television programs as downloadable files (e.g. a nice XviD or something) with no restrictions that can be archived, traded, and/or watched at your leisure.
Here's what they did do:
- Offer televesion programs in a restricted format watchable online only as streaming videos with no opportunity to record or, apparently, skip commercials (or so it would seem from the article).
You, like the TV studios, still apparently don't "get it".
Currently the P2P networks are providing exactly what we want. That's the target the networks need to aim for. Nothing less will succeed to any significant degree.
The networks need to provide the shows (with or without commercials) at varying levels of quality (for higher or lower bandwidth users) for download (preferably as torrents) with no strings attached before they air. That would work. Anything less is like aiming for failure.
They have to take a psychological approach to this one. People like shiny and official. Package the TV shows as something you'll want to collect and archive. That will get people downloading them.
And they need to ignore the fact that there are some people who would strip out the commercials and re-share them. This is unavoidable and proven not to have a significant negative impact (e.g. music, movies).
As for commercials, here's an idea: maybe they'll have to start making commercials with the actors in the show hawking the wares. You could make mini, thirty second skits that advertize big name products like they used to do when TV was in its infancy. It could be presented as a little "slice of life" of the characters in the show. "OMG! Jack Bauer uses Crest! I should, too!"
You probably couldn't do all commercials on a network like that, but maybe for certain downloadable shows you could. People would want to watch and re-watch that because it is entertaining.
It'll probably take the Allied forces capturing D.C. and ending WWIII.
This definately bears repeating. This abuse of science shares equal (if not more) blame with the religious ignorance of others as the actual the root of the entire problem today.
Yeah, that's real mature. "We disagree with those poopoo-heads!"
If the anti-ID crowd could stop the petty and immature arguments, then maybe the pro-ID crowd could be enlightened. Unfortunately, it's behavior such as this that helps ensure that will never happen. Bravo.
Don't you meant eecosystem?
Here's a tip: read the moderating guidelines, ya bozos.
Ah, April 1: The one day of the year that the internet becomes completely useless.
Here's what could've made the PSP *the* device to own: the ability to burn your own UMDs with photos or videos or whatever without the need for any proprietary hardware or software. A disc-based, portable image/video sharing device -- properly marketed and with proper competition from other companies -- could have created a new "must have" device that would be almost as ubiquitous as cell phones.
This mega-corps are gonna have to stop thinking about what they want (expensive, proprietary, restricted devices) and start thinking about what consumers want (afforable, open, and easy-to-use devices), or else I will continue to write angry rants!
How appropriate that you posted as an anonymous coward.
The main problem, though would be the fact that, after I died in this life, I'd have to go back to my "real" life, which must be a lot worse than this one since I spend all my waking hours playing this one. Man, that's gonna suck.
It's too bad Nintendo was (is?) all Nazi about emulators a few years back. It's that very same crowd that's going to fall all over the Revolution. Unfortunately, they've created a lot of ill will in those who would soon become their target demographic because of their behavior. Hopefully their sales won't suffer too much because of their anti-emulation attitude, because I'd really like to see the Revolution succeed.
I don't think comparing images from games from 20 years ago with images from pre-rendered videos of today really counts as a proper comparison.
The Slashdot community does not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation.
And that would conflict with Lucas' concept of "continuity" how?...