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That includes google by the way. The download page doesn't give a download link if you browse to it in Linux Firefox. So much for testing this out in wine I guess...
On a brighter note, Agbi went on to say how wonderful it was that our reporter had won the first true Nigerian national lottery. After his small down payment clears he will soon be the proud recipient of 1 million Nigerian dollars! Congratulations John.
The R4 is the single best thing i've ever got for my DS. I bought it for linux, to play music on and to try my hand at some homebrew. Out of vague interest I 'acquired' another copy of MKDS to try out the games feature. I have not put any games from my fairly substantial collection into the device since! With 10-12 games loaded onto a single unit, it's the most ultimately convenient thing i've bought for a while. The best part is, you can routinely back up your game saves on your PC at home, which means I don't have to care about roughly 100 hours of saved game information being lost on the train. Does someone want to tell me why it takes a bunch of hackers and pirates to make my DS awesome? Why can't Nintendo build something similar into their own product?
Indeed, I dont think I will ever give up my mouse, at best I might sacrifice it to say a tablet and pen, but a touch screen and voice commands just will never be accurate or quick enough.
Interestingly, this is how I feel about using a mouse over a keyboard where a decent CLI exists. 9 times out of 10, it's quicker to just type the command than arse around in various submenus.
Nintendo is brilliant for turning their backs on the gamers that supported them for decades and designing games for grandma.
Well, you clearly weren't one of them were you? Interesting fact: Famicom is short for 'Family Computer,' which FYI has been Nintendo's design philosophy since 1983.
AVG has become more obnoxious recently than it used to be anyway, but I think this is the straw that broke the camels back for me. Can some nice slashdot user suggest a new (free) antivirus for me to use on my windows box?
Indeed. I use google for my e-mail service. Sometimes, I send and receive files in my e-mail. Could Viacom use this ruling to demand the content of all my e-mails?
You'd be surprised how much times have not changed. I think there will always be a big market out there for games that are enjoyable immediately, from the moment you sit down at your computer.
Didn't the centre of the pole used to have the densest ice before we melted it? Bears hunt seals by breaking through the ice to get at breathing holes, which wouldn't be possible if the ice was 50m thick. They're great roamers, and they're increasingly finding it difficult to feed themselves, so i'm sure they would hunt wherever there was food. I'm sure we will see differences in their hunting behaviour if accessible food exists closer to the poles.
You can't just make such a colossal change to their habitat and say it will have no effect based on a snapshot of their behaviour in said habitat *after* the change. Maybe the real reason they don't hunt there is because there's no ice to stand on any more. How do you know?
No offence, but in this case it's more like the wine bottle itself is locked. If the wine and the employee are ever in different places (i.e. i'm playing on my laptop somewhere), the owner of the wine cannot drink it. How is that fair to the owner? Are you asking potential customers to ignore the fact that the shop next door has a free bottle opener, and incidentally gives away free wine? Is the locked bottle going any way towards solving the problem that unlocked bottles are in abundance? It makes no sense to me.
Here's a business suggestion: how about LGP ignores support requests from people without a valid product code? Any further inconvenience will, shockingly, only be experienced by their actual customers. At some point people are going to realise that you can't force other people to pay for something as incorporeal as software any more - whether you agree with it morally is pretty much beside the point.
It's all to do with the habits of the gamer. I personally never bother to play single player campaigns when I have the option to play multiplayer games, and I know a lot of gamers who think the same way. So, for me, the entire point of the product (i.e. playing it on a laptop when i'm away from the internet) becomes moot.
To take an anecdotal example, I bought the Half-Life 2 boxed edition way back, and it came with Counter Strike Source and a few other things. Because CSS was available, I didn't even think to play the single player campaign for a full 4 months, when my internet connection went down. Offline play had some arcane restrictions back then, and in order to start up the single player campaign I had to be connected to the net. Therefore, the product had no playability value for me whatsoever, because it would never be available when I find it convenient to play.
If you don't share my taste in games maybe this is hard to understand, but I have a policy now of habitually cracking everything that goes on my laptop, because anything else is inconvenient for me. If those cracks didn't exist, i'd just buy less single player games.
Well, Windows Vista is insecure, unstable and slow. The Government uses Windows internally, and needs it to be secure, stable and fast (in that order). Apparently, all Microsoft wants it to is force you to upgrade your hardware, which would make a lot of government machines obsolete in about 5 years. Maybe there's an agenda behind keeping an eye on Windows 7 development, who knows.
Call me a cynic, but I just don't think people would care even if something like this was discovered. Our government can now hold us (yes you or me, anyone, get it through your head voters!) indefinitely without charge or accountability and the population accepts this. Windows, meanwhile, can decide whether or not we are even allowed to use the files on our computer, and what we can do with them. Some schemes actively delete stuff from our hard drives. I would have reached the end of my tether with both the OS and the Government years ago, yet Bush got voted in for a second term, and people are still buying Windows Vista even as they discuss how crap it is in comparison to XP. What is the mystical point at which the common man decides that enough is enough? Surely it's been and gone by now?
"Due... to... piracy? That is a pretty bold claim."
That's a really good point. I'm hearing from various gaming news outlets that some big names are turning away from PC games developing because sales are low "due to piracy". OK cool, so how many people are pirating games? No-one knows, and no-one is publishing any figures either. There's at least one other reason to avoid PC gaming in the title of this article...
That's an interesting opinion, and I can certainly see that you don't find it very fun. But people still play Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64 all the time. I own neither, and I played both very recently at different peoples houses. The way I see it, making a game accessible can only make the game more vibrant in the long term, as new players can become competent enough to have fun very quickly, and can compete with a chance against veterans, even if they won't be able to win the majority of races.
The lesson I really want you to take away from this is subjectivity. I have been playing mario kart since I was in single digits - yet now that i'm in my 20's I still love the game to pieces. Obviously it doesn't 'nuke' long term playability for me, or for a number of friends who I still enjoy playing with to this day.
"Design flaws and low skill ceilings often don't impact the short-term enjoyment of a game, but can make it worthless for long-term play. Mario Kart Wii is a perfect example of this.... There's just no point in getting that extra hundredth of a second every lap when you lose 3-5 seconds to a blue shell."
Not so! It's very tempting to be dismissive of MK Wii because you have been blue shelled out of first so often. But Mario Kart operates on exactly the same principle that all luck moderated games do - they're very accessible, precisely because a new player always has a chance to beat a pro in a single race. In the long run however, every player has the exact same chance of mishap as every other player, and so as the number of games played gets closer to infinity, the relative skill of each player get easier and easier to measure. This is how tournament players will be picked when the game hopefully gets picked up by the pro circuit.
I know that sounds strange, but some of the worlds best games have operated same principle since games began. Check out how many players are regulars at the World Series of Poker, then sit down and play one hand against any regular player:).
"But anyone can see that Final Fantasy whatever is a better game than Super Barbie Movie License Cash-In 93 on the Game Boy. The huge, huge difference makes it plain."
Ahh, I used to think like you. The difference to you and me seems obvious, but will seem less and less obvious the more gamers you meet, and the less notice you take of reviews. Ask 10 5-year old girls to rate each game after half an hours play, and I guarantee that Barbie Horse Adventures will come up trumps.
Obviously, 5-year old girls often don't know much about games, so you could argue they're doing the review using the wrong principles and values. But actually the game is designed for 5-year old girls to enjoy, so I could just as easily say that you're the one writing the 'wrong' review.
No, you need to hand it in for apparently not knowing what Google is for...
Besides, this is the games section. We talk about games here. If you aren't interested enough in games to at least use Google to find out what KOTOR is, there are plenty of other sections out there that might interest you.
300,000 people tuned in to warcraftmovies.com to watch SK gaming down Kil'Jaeden, and that's only from one site. The video is also hosted at sk-gaming.com, x-fire.com, by bittorrent, youtube... I think the potential viewer base for a project like this is there already. Over 200,000 of those WCM views were on the very first day. Half an hour a week, with some snappy commentators? Maybe you could televise that...
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That includes google by the way. The download page doesn't give a download link if you browse to it in Linux Firefox. So much for testing this out in wine I guess...
On a brighter note, Agbi went on to say how wonderful it was that our reporter had won the first true Nigerian national lottery. After his small down payment clears he will soon be the proud recipient of 1 million Nigerian dollars! Congratulations John.
The R4 is the single best thing i've ever got for my DS. I bought it for linux, to play music on and to try my hand at some homebrew. Out of vague interest I 'acquired' another copy of MKDS to try out the games feature. I have not put any games from my fairly substantial collection into the device since! With 10-12 games loaded onto a single unit, it's the most ultimately convenient thing i've bought for a while. The best part is, you can routinely back up your game saves on your PC at home, which means I don't have to care about roughly 100 hours of saved game information being lost on the train. Does someone want to tell me why it takes a bunch of hackers and pirates to make my DS awesome? Why can't Nintendo build something similar into their own product?
Baby? Bathwater?
This is living.
Indeed, I dont think I will ever give up my mouse, at best I might sacrifice it to say a tablet and pen, but a touch screen and voice commands just will never be accurate or quick enough.
Interestingly, this is how I feel about using a mouse over a keyboard where a decent CLI exists. 9 times out of 10, it's quicker to just type the command than arse around in various submenus.
Nintendo is brilliant for turning their backs on the gamers that supported them for decades and designing games for grandma.
Well, you clearly weren't one of them were you? Interesting fact: Famicom is short for 'Family Computer,' which FYI has been Nintendo's design philosophy since 1983.
AVG has become more obnoxious recently than it used to be anyway, but I think this is the straw that broke the camels back for me. Can some nice slashdot user suggest a new (free) antivirus for me to use on my windows box?
Indeed. I use google for my e-mail service. Sometimes, I send and receive files in my e-mail. Could Viacom use this ruling to demand the content of all my e-mails?
If they're going to provide dirt roads, they shouldn't advertise the Autobahn.
From that quote, it appears as if the information exchange will be two-way. Misleading summary?
That's a rather naive viewpoint. I doubt it was even phrased as a question.
You'd be surprised how much times have not changed. I think there will always be a big market out there for games that are enjoyable immediately, from the moment you sit down at your computer.
Didn't the centre of the pole used to have the densest ice before we melted it? Bears hunt seals by breaking through the ice to get at breathing holes, which wouldn't be possible if the ice was 50m thick. They're great roamers, and they're increasingly finding it difficult to feed themselves, so i'm sure they would hunt wherever there was food. I'm sure we will see differences in their hunting behaviour if accessible food exists closer to the poles.
You can't just make such a colossal change to their habitat and say it will have no effect based on a snapshot of their behaviour in said habitat *after* the change. Maybe the real reason they don't hunt there is because there's no ice to stand on any more. How do you know?
But how can we define each? Someone call Harvard, important research is afoot!
Here's a business suggestion: how about LGP ignores support requests from people without a valid product code? Any further inconvenience will, shockingly, only be experienced by their actual customers. At some point people are going to realise that you can't force other people to pay for something as incorporeal as software any more - whether you agree with it morally is pretty much beside the point.
To take an anecdotal example, I bought the Half-Life 2 boxed edition way back, and it came with Counter Strike Source and a few other things. Because CSS was available, I didn't even think to play the single player campaign for a full 4 months, when my internet connection went down. Offline play had some arcane restrictions back then, and in order to start up the single player campaign I had to be connected to the net. Therefore, the product had no playability value for me whatsoever, because it would never be available when I find it convenient to play.
If you don't share my taste in games maybe this is hard to understand, but I have a policy now of habitually cracking everything that goes on my laptop, because anything else is inconvenient for me. If those cracks didn't exist, i'd just buy less single player games.
Well, Windows Vista is insecure, unstable and slow. The Government uses Windows internally, and needs it to be secure, stable and fast (in that order). Apparently, all Microsoft wants it to is force you to upgrade your hardware, which would make a lot of government machines obsolete in about 5 years. Maybe there's an agenda behind keeping an eye on Windows 7 development, who knows.
Call me a cynic, but I just don't think people would care even if something like this was discovered. Our government can now hold us (yes you or me, anyone, get it through your head voters!) indefinitely without charge or accountability and the population accepts this. Windows, meanwhile, can decide whether or not we are even allowed to use the files on our computer, and what we can do with them. Some schemes actively delete stuff from our hard drives. I would have reached the end of my tether with both the OS and the Government years ago, yet Bush got voted in for a second term, and people are still buying Windows Vista even as they discuss how crap it is in comparison to XP. What is the mystical point at which the common man decides that enough is enough? Surely it's been and gone by now?
Isn't that true of this time period? If I can play a decent rendition of Wild World on my acoustic guitar, doesn't that make me a musician?
That's a really good point. I'm hearing from various gaming news outlets that some big names are turning away from PC games developing because sales are low "due to piracy". OK cool, so how many people are pirating games? No-one knows, and no-one is publishing any figures either. There's at least one other reason to avoid PC gaming in the title of this article...
The lesson I really want you to take away from this is subjectivity. I have been playing mario kart since I was in single digits - yet now that i'm in my 20's I still love the game to pieces. Obviously it doesn't 'nuke' long term playability for me, or for a number of friends who I still enjoy playing with to this day.
Not so! It's very tempting to be dismissive of MK Wii because you have been blue shelled out of first so often. But Mario Kart operates on exactly the same principle that all luck moderated games do - they're very accessible, precisely because a new player always has a chance to beat a pro in a single race. In the long run however, every player has the exact same chance of mishap as every other player, and so as the number of games played gets closer to infinity, the relative skill of each player get easier and easier to measure. This is how tournament players will be picked when the game hopefully gets picked up by the pro circuit.
I know that sounds strange, but some of the worlds best games have operated same principle since games began. Check out how many players are regulars at the World Series of Poker, then sit down and play one hand against any regular player :).
"But anyone can see that Final Fantasy whatever is a better game than Super Barbie Movie License Cash-In 93 on the Game Boy. The huge, huge difference makes it plain."
Ahh, I used to think like you. The difference to you and me seems obvious, but will seem less and less obvious the more gamers you meet, and the less notice you take of reviews. Ask 10 5-year old girls to rate each game after half an hours play, and I guarantee that Barbie Horse Adventures will come up trumps.
Obviously, 5-year old girls often don't know much about games, so you could argue they're doing the review using the wrong principles and values. But actually the game is designed for 5-year old girls to enjoy, so I could just as easily say that you're the one writing the 'wrong' review.
Besides, this is the games section. We talk about games here. If you aren't interested enough in games to at least use Google to find out what KOTOR is, there are plenty of other sections out there that might interest you.
+5 insightful? Please.
The end boss maybe?
300,000 people tuned in to warcraftmovies.com to watch SK gaming down Kil'Jaeden, and that's only from one site. The video is also hosted at sk-gaming.com, x-fire.com, by bittorrent, youtube... I think the potential viewer base for a project like this is there already. Over 200,000 of those WCM views were on the very first day. Half an hour a week, with some snappy commentators? Maybe you could televise that...