I can see it now... as soon as you win they seize the servers again (they didn't wipe them) and have you up on the same changes as the previous owners...
...stopped at Civ 3 anyway. The game has been done to death and no rehash of graphics, world geometry or technology trees will change or improve it sufficiently for me to buy the same game over and over again...
Once upon a time manuals were big 40 page wedges that contained background plot, depth and some vital piece if info that made the difference between being to just play the game and being awesome at it...
These instruction books (and books they were) helped fill the mind numbingly boring journey between buying the game and getting home so you can play it, building excitement so by the time you got home you couldn't wait to start playing. The really good ones were so detailed you were still reading them 30 minutes after you got home....
These days you get install instructions which are just 1) put disk in drive 2) press install, not even a single mention of selecting the right graphics settings for your PC or making sure you have enough free base memory or have the right joystick type for the game...
Anyway more often these days I buy a game, get bored reading the instruction flyer who's only purpose is to have something to print the DRM key on, and not even bother to install it.
Next time I am in the game store I see a game that seems promising and think I already have that other game to play... I'll save my money.
What is needed is a class action lawsuit for fraud/contract/mis-selling/false advertising/something (IANAL so have no idea what would work!) that really hits Ubisoft in the wallet... it seems that hitting their cash flow will be the only way to make them sit up and take notice...
Unless you are only ever reading one site (slashdot, never reading TFA?) then you are already sleeping with multiple women...
and can you be sure that they are being faithful?
37% of men and 22% of women admit to having affairs. 70 percent of married women and 54 percent of married men did not know of their spouses' extramarital activity.
Using nothing you leave yourself open to infection from sites you use often but has been compromised and had unwanted 'additions'. Even very well known and trusted sites to fall victim to SQL injection or cross site scripting attacks...
Having no virus scanner is like sleeping with 3 different women every night and not using a condom... one of them is going to have all the nasties and you will end up all swollen and sore with a doctor poking your soft bits and muttering 'who's been a naughty boy then'...
Just a few of the reasons that when I was in a local shop looking at buying a laptop, when the assistant suggested i buy an overpriced and underspec Sony I just giggled and walked out...
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Nah... they will be on holiday then... no real physicist does any research two weeks either side of Christmas as the Relativistic Effects of Santa delivering toys to every child in one night plays havoc with the results...
Chances are that in any other sporting event the equipment manufacturers would be directly sponsoring the best athletes, with both the athlete and the manufacturer getting what they want out of the deal. The IOCs tight control on sponsorship more or less prevents this kind of deal resulting in both the athlete and company losing out.
The only party coming out ahead with the current situation is the IOC.
Given the number of events where the athletes conspicuously hold up their Snowboard/Skis/Other with the manufacturer's logo showing would suggest that these deals still go on but can't be made 'official' or even admitted to so as to not invoke the wrath of the IOC.
I just had another thought... if no one is allowed to use an athletes name during the Olympics everyone better return every copy of any of the many Shawn White snowboarding games....
Fact1: Mickey is a mouse Fact2: To draw his ears you use 2 circles beside each other and a semicircle joining them below. Non Fact: any actual drawing of 2 circles and a semicircle as described in fact2?
Not to mention that Microsoft migrated their various separate search engines (support, msdn, KB, etc... ) onto Bing so if you need any kind of information from the Evil Ones you are using the evil search.
Bing as a name makes me giggle anyway... to most people living in Scotland a 'Bing' is a heap of slag or other waste materials left over from coal mining and is often a toxic hazard to be avoided...
This would possibly also involve more reboots than just the series... I seem to remember all the B5 and Crusade external shots were all created on the Amiga...
Why am I picturing Adam Savage saying something like "Alright, the way I figure it, we've got a 10% chance of hitting the police station, a 50% chance of it blowing up on the launchpad and a 40% chance of getting arrested! Let's do this thing!"
That should be 20% chance of hitting the police station, a 70% chance of it blowing up on the launchpad and a 40% chance of getting arrested!
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I can see it now... as soon as you win they seize the servers again (they didn't wipe them) and have you up on the same changes as the previous owners...
...stopped at Civ 3 anyway. The game has been done to death and no rehash of graphics, world geometry or technology trees will change or improve it sufficiently for me to buy the same game over and over again...
Or YouTube loses custom to the other video sites that work in all browsers...
Once upon a time manuals were big 40 page wedges that contained background plot, depth and some vital piece if info that made the difference between being to just play the game and being awesome at it...
These instruction books (and books they were) helped fill the mind numbingly boring journey between buying the game and getting home so you can play it, building excitement so by the time you got home you couldn't wait to start playing. The really good ones were so detailed you were still reading them 30 minutes after you got home....
These days you get install instructions which are just 1) put disk in drive 2) press install, not even a single mention of selecting the right graphics settings for your PC or making sure you have enough free base memory or have the right joystick type for the game...
Anyway more often these days I buy a game, get bored reading the instruction flyer who's only purpose is to have something to print the DRM key on, and not even bother to install it.
Next time I am in the game store I see a game that seems promising and think I already have that other game to play... I'll save my money.
What is needed is a class action lawsuit for fraud/contract/mis-selling/false advertising/something (IANAL so have no idea what would work!) that really hits Ubisoft in the wallet... it seems that hitting their cash flow will be the only way to make them sit up and take notice...
If you find Eve boring you are doing it wrong.
Unless you are only ever reading one site (slashdot, never reading TFA?) then you are already sleeping with multiple women...
and can you be sure that they are being faithful?
OK... maybe taking the analogy too far ;)
Using nothing you leave yourself open to infection from sites you use often but has been compromised and had unwanted 'additions'. Even very well known and trusted sites to fall victim to SQL injection or cross site scripting attacks...
Having no virus scanner is like sleeping with 3 different women every night and not using a condom... one of them is going to have all the nasties and you will end up all swollen and sore with a doctor poking your soft bits and muttering 'who's been a naughty boy then'...
Just a few of the reasons that when I was in a local shop looking at buying a laptop, when the assistant suggested i buy an overpriced and underspec Sony I just giggled and walked out...
Nah... they will be on holiday then... no real physicist does any research two weeks either side of Christmas as the Relativistic Effects of Santa delivering toys to every child in one night plays havoc with the results...
No... they make dog sniffing and scratching noises a little while after the search... thanks for that one Microsoft.
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Chances are that in any other sporting event the equipment manufacturers would be directly sponsoring the best athletes, with both the athlete and the manufacturer getting what they want out of the deal. The IOCs tight control on sponsorship more or less prevents this kind of deal resulting in both the athlete and company losing out.
The only party coming out ahead with the current situation is the IOC.
Given the number of events where the athletes conspicuously hold up their Snowboard/Skis/Other with the manufacturer's logo showing would suggest that these deals still go on but can't be made 'official' or even admitted to so as to not invoke the wrath of the IOC.
I just had another thought... if no one is allowed to use an athletes name during the Olympics everyone better return every copy of any of the many Shawn White snowboarding games....
yup
Fact1: Mickey is a mouse
Fact2: To draw his ears you use 2 circles beside each other and a semicircle joining them below.
Non Fact: any actual drawing of 2 circles and a semicircle as described in fact2?
next time the project won't just look like a bomb
Even if it is one...
http://pop.corn/
http://on.the.cob.corn/
http://flakes.corn/
http://jokes.corn/
and in related sites...
http://idaho.potato/
Not to mention that Microsoft migrated their various separate search engines (support, msdn, KB, etc... ) onto Bing so if you need any kind of information from the Evil Ones you are using the evil search.
Bing as a name makes me giggle anyway... to most people living in Scotland a 'Bing' is a heap of slag or other waste materials left over from coal mining and is often a toxic hazard to be avoided...
Replying to my own post...
This would possibly also involve more reboots than just the series... I seem to remember all the B5 and Crusade external shots were all created on the Amiga...
I hope someone still has the files stored away...
++ this.
From what I remember the Crusade story arc seemed like it was going to be even better than B5.
Then the execs started making changes...
By quitting and getting a life... ... well trying to get a life at least
Why am I picturing Adam Savage saying something like "Alright, the way I figure it, we've got a 10% chance of hitting the police station, a 50% chance of it blowing up on the launchpad and a 40% chance of getting arrested! Let's do this thing!"
That should be 20% chance of hitting the police station, a 70% chance of it blowing up on the launchpad and a 40% chance of getting arrested!
It is part of a PR stunt to boost his own popularity. Unfortunately it was already destined to die before it was born.
For 3D to work you really need to keep the camera steady. Steady cameras isn't porn's strong point...
to name a few...
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Superman Returns
My Bloody Valentine 3D
Beowulf (show this in two screens at once and you have a cluster...)
And I've seen most of these at Cineworld here in the UK who have been running 3D films at almost all of their cinemas for a couple of years...
It's like listening to complaints about MS Paint; that people are going to ruin their camera shots with its horrible tools.
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