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So do you have that now, slashdot admins? Anything that doesn't interest user mmaddox is heretofore deemed irrelevant and non-newsworthy. I hope you got that down, or you may receive more scathing, edgy comments from him!!! And no one wants that!
I've yet to see convincing proof that "slashdot admins" actually exist.
On a given rainy weekend in my house, you'll likely see me sending out email, blogging, and other things I like to do online in my free time, my brother playing runescape and chatting with his friends, my sister looking up new recipes to try out for her exams at culinary school, and even my mother reading dozens of fanfics for her favorite TV shows....
And if Verizon comes up with a decent IPTV offering, I'll drop Comcast in favor of it in no time flat.
Why are you spending money on cable when you are still living with your mother?
MS is using a sales tactic that has been used by other companies in the past. I have been in sales and marketing for nearly 20 years and have seen this many times.
It's strange, then, that you never saw the "enter" key.
No games supporting multiple threads? PGR3 uses all 3 cores. So do almost every other launch game.
I don't think he was trying to flamebait. The single threaded launch games story was all over the gaming news sites.
One example. According to that link it was an incorrect rumor, but again, it was everywhere.
Poor launch lineup? Compared to what?
This is bad logic. Getting punched in the nose is better than getting kicked in the nuts, but neither one could be construed as good. The launch lineup is pretty crappy. The fact that there have been crappier ones is irrelevant.
Pitiful pricing structure? Then why are they being sold out?
Because they decided to do a global launch instead of a regional launch.
I am 29 years old and only own the GameCube console, along with about 20 games. I don't own any other consoles, portable or not, and don't play games on the PC. Your anecdotal evidence is proven wrong.
And yours, obviously, is the gold standard for anecdotal evidence.
Nintendo has made it clear that the Revolution targets a different market than the PS3 or 360. It has a radically different controller and isn't focused on performance.
That's because it sounds better than "we're losing 3rd party developers and mindshare to the point that we've gone from controlling 80% of the market to being dead last, behind a newcomer to the industry that many people make fun of...so here, look at this remote control and try not to think about our underpowered console."
Non-gamers will know about the Revolution for the same way they knew about it in the 70s. Print ads, TV commercials, billboards, word-of-mouth, and such. They may not be going into GameStop, but they're probably going into Best Buy. They can see it on display there. They can see it as they're shopping next Christmas in the mall and walk by one of the many game stores.
And they will walk by it, just like they've been doing since the 70's.
so i ask you, what's wrong with preferring games that are more mature, in the general sense, but not mature, in the ratings sense? you're allowed not to feel the same way, and i'd respect your opinion if you didn't.
There is nothing wrong with preferring whatever games you prefer. The trend, though, seems to be to create arbitrary classifications and distinctions. Look at any one of the "true gamer" vs "hardcore gamer" vs "actual hardcore gamer" threads. Look at any of the threads about what constitutes mature.
Look, you classified mature as "more developed / less childish / more grown up," at the same time you decried that a game intended for adults wasn't necessarily "mature." What you have done is taken the games you enjoy and created a definition of "mature" that encompasses them, while excluding games you don't like which are just as "mature."
"violence and sex were cool in high school, but now that i'm 25 they seem like childish marketing ploys."
This one statement from your previous post sums it up. You have changed your definition of mature to match your current likes.
Perhaps you think games like Mario Sunshine and Mario Strikers are for children without realizing that they're two of the best games on any platform in many years.
Dude, have you actually played games on any other platforms in recent years?
Maybe Nintendo creates these "cartoonish and childlike" games internally, but there are other games that are not made by Nintendo.
Well, there were, until Nintendo did their best to chase away all of their 3rd party developers. This is Nintendo's real problem.
So what does Nintendo have left? As an example, Mario Sunshine was mediocre. In the same time frame, there were three excellent Jak & Daxter games and several excellent Ratchet & Clank games on the PS2. This is pretty much the case for all of their recent efforts.
Even with the small volume of games Nintendo puts out, they have more than their share of stinkers. The recent Mario sports games have all pretty much sucked. Mario Party, sucks. Dance Dance Mario Revolution: sucks. The few ports they still manage to get are generally crippled versions due to the lack of internet connectivity.
I hope they improve their lot, but jumping up and down shouting about innovation while failing to produce entertainment...it's not going to work.
Why is Nintendo never considered a player in any of these interviews.
If you were to invite Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft to play a game of basketball, Nintendo would show up with a football, proclaim basketball to be old and boring, and then spend the entire game pathetically trying to dribble the football.
If one doesn't learn because one has no interests other than looking good for the opposite sex, their ignorance is their fault and we can laugh at them.
Of course nobody's paying anybody. Seriously, what would make you think that? If there were paid stories, don't you think we would make that blatantly obvious?
Ummm...no. That's the entire point of running paid links disguised as articles.
Apparently this person submits a lot of stories that our editors think our readers want to read. That's all there is to it. Our editors review Beatles-Beatles submissions with the same skepticism (probably more) as any other.
Review them with the same skepticism...and then post them approximately 1 million times more frequently.
Something doesn't add up.
I normally don't bother responding to paranoid threads like this because there is so much paranoia and no way for us to respond to it all.
And also because that would involve actually reading or caring about the site. It's obvious that's not the case.
And then you can call me crazy again, but I must ask why we care which clients these "communities" allow or not (since they are underground/illegal, and not really helping the linux/open-source movement, but rather cast a negative light bittorrent).
You might want to sit down for this.
I know this is going to sound shocking, but a large number of people don't give a rat's ass about open source or linux. In fact, most don't know what it is. They do, however, like downloading movies for free.
My computer lets me do things that earn money. With money, I buy FOOD and MEDICINE, not just now, but whenever I need them. Maybe other people can do the same, then they will not be hungry and sick. If those people are not hungry and sick, we will stop having to send aid money to their countries. If we don't have to keep ending donations to their countries, we will be able to spend the money on large clue-by-fours to sort out people who don't understand that a sustainable income is always better than charity.
Your worldview is simplistic and retarded.
Try working on your computer while you are malnourished and suffering from dysentery.
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So do you have that now, slashdot admins? Anything that doesn't interest user mmaddox is heretofore deemed irrelevant and non-newsworthy. I hope you got that down, or you may receive more scathing, edgy comments from him!!! And no one wants that!
I've yet to see convincing proof that "slashdot admins" actually exist.
On a given rainy weekend in my house, you'll likely see me sending out email, blogging, and other things I like to do online in my free time, my brother playing runescape and chatting with his friends, my sister looking up new recipes to try out for her exams at culinary school, and even my mother reading dozens of fanfics for her favorite TV shows. ...
And if Verizon comes up with a decent IPTV offering, I'll drop Comcast in favor of it in no time flat.
Why are you spending money on cable when you are still living with your mother?
You're right, that makes perfect sense.
IF you are a freakish loser.
MS is using a sales tactic that has been used by other companies in the past. I have been in sales and marketing for nearly 20 years and have seen this many times.
It's strange, then, that you never saw the "enter" key.
No games supporting multiple threads? PGR3 uses all 3 cores. So do almost every other launch game.
I don't think he was trying to flamebait. The single threaded launch games story was all over the gaming news sites.
One example. According to that link it was an incorrect rumor, but again, it was everywhere.
Poor launch lineup? Compared to what?
This is bad logic. Getting punched in the nose is better than getting kicked in the nuts, but neither one could be construed as good. The launch lineup is pretty crappy. The fact that there have been crappier ones is irrelevant.
Pitiful pricing structure? Then why are they being sold out?
Because they decided to do a global launch instead of a regional launch.
Zoooom!
I am 29 years old and only own the GameCube console, along with about 20 games. I don't own any other consoles, portable or not, and don't play games on the PC. Your anecdotal evidence is proven wrong.
And yours, obviously, is the gold standard for anecdotal evidence.
Nintendo has made it clear that the Revolution targets a different market than the PS3 or 360. It has a radically different controller and isn't focused on performance.
That's because it sounds better than "we're losing 3rd party developers and mindshare to the point that we've gone from controlling 80% of the market to being dead last, behind a newcomer to the industry that many people make fun of...so here, look at this remote control and try not to think about our underpowered console."
Non-gamers will know about the Revolution for the same way they knew about it in the 70s. Print ads, TV commercials, billboards, word-of-mouth, and such. They may not be going into GameStop, but they're probably going into Best Buy. They can see it on display there. They can see it as they're shopping next Christmas in the mall and walk by one of the many game stores.
And they will walk by it, just like they've been doing since the 70's.
so i ask you, what's wrong with preferring games that are more mature, in the general sense, but not mature, in the ratings sense? you're allowed not to feel the same way, and i'd respect your opinion if you didn't.
There is nothing wrong with preferring whatever games you prefer. The trend, though, seems to be to create arbitrary classifications and distinctions. Look at any one of the "true gamer" vs "hardcore gamer" vs "actual hardcore gamer" threads. Look at any of the threads about what constitutes mature.
Look, you classified mature as "more developed / less childish / more grown up," at the same time you decried that a game intended for adults wasn't necessarily "mature." What you have done is taken the games you enjoy and created a definition of "mature" that encompasses them, while excluding games you don't like which are just as "mature."
"violence and sex were cool in high school, but now that i'm 25 they seem like childish marketing ploys."
This one statement from your previous post sums it up. You have changed your definition of mature to match your current likes.
It's silly.
but you know what i mean. there are different definitions of 'mature'. unfortunately it seems they get used interchangeably.
Sure, but only one of them is applicable in this context.
"Suitable or intended for adults: mature subject matter."
Link.
Anything is else is just an effort to make "mature" mean "games that I like."
agreed. and on the other side of the coin, why does violence/sex = mature?
I'm going to climb out on a limb here and say "because they aren't suitable for children."
Maybe I'm just crazy.
Perhaps you think games like Mario Sunshine and Mario Strikers are for children without realizing that they're two of the best games on any platform in many years.
Dude, have you actually played games on any other platforms in recent years?
Maybe Nintendo creates these "cartoonish and childlike" games internally, but there are other games that are not made by Nintendo.
Well, there were, until Nintendo did their best to chase away all of their 3rd party developers. This is Nintendo's real problem.
So what does Nintendo have left? As an example, Mario Sunshine was mediocre. In the same time frame, there were three excellent Jak & Daxter games and several excellent Ratchet & Clank games on the PS2. This is pretty much the case for all of their recent efforts.
Even with the small volume of games Nintendo puts out, they have more than their share of stinkers. The recent Mario sports games have all pretty much sucked. Mario Party, sucks. Dance Dance Mario Revolution: sucks. The few ports they still manage to get are generally crippled versions due to the lack of internet connectivity.
I hope they improve their lot, but jumping up and down shouting about innovation while failing to produce entertainment...it's not going to work.
Why is Nintendo never considered a player in any of these interviews.
If you were to invite Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft to play a game of basketball, Nintendo would show up with a football, proclaim basketball to be old and boring, and then spend the entire game pathetically trying to dribble the football.
That is why they don't get invited.
And not to be outdone, Zonk adds a gratuitous misspelling in the department.
;-D
Nicely played, all of you! Guiness will surely be knocking on your doors soon!
YM Guinness.
HTH.
HAND.
Luckily with the rise of the giant franchise stores, every city will soon look exactly the same.
If one doesn't learn because one has no interests other than looking good for the opposite sex, their ignorance is their fault and we can laugh at them.
Yes, because getting laid sucks!
Boooooo!
BOOOOOOOO!
Of course nobody's paying anybody. Seriously, what would make you think that? If there were paid stories, don't you think we would make that blatantly obvious?
Ummm...no. That's the entire point of running paid links disguised as articles.
Apparently this person submits a lot of stories that our editors think our readers want to read. That's all there is to it. Our editors review Beatles-Beatles submissions with the same skepticism (probably more) as any other.
Review them with the same skepticism...and then post them approximately 1 million times more frequently.
Something doesn't add up.
I normally don't bother responding to paranoid threads like this because there is so much paranoia and no way for us to respond to it all.
And also because that would involve actually reading or caring about the site. It's obvious that's not the case.
And then you can call me crazy again, but I must ask why we care which clients these "communities" allow or not (since they are underground/illegal, and not really helping the linux/open-source movement, but rather cast a negative light bittorrent).
You might want to sit down for this.
I know this is going to sound shocking, but a large number of people don't give a rat's ass about open source or linux. In fact, most don't know what it is. They do, however, like downloading movies for free.
My computer lets me do things that earn money. With money, I buy FOOD and MEDICINE, not just now, but whenever I need them. Maybe other people can do the same, then they will not be hungry and sick. If those people are not hungry and sick, we will stop having to send aid money to their countries. If we don't have to keep ending donations to their countries, we will be able to spend the money on large clue-by-fours to sort out people who don't understand that a sustainable income is always better than charity.
Your worldview is simplistic and retarded.
Try working on your computer while you are malnourished and suffering from dysentery.
Let me know how much money you make!
I think that it isn't totally impossible for her to have a hard on. It depends on how you define gender.
Yes, and the sky is purple with flashing plaid spots, depending on how you define "purple" and "flashing plaid spots."
Mario Party!
He wants to play a game, not cry.
and kill two birds with massive penetration
That's disgusting! This is a family site!
Hot actresses just look that much hotter in HD. You can see each strand of hair and the threads on their clothes.
Wow, you're a creepy dude. Really, really creepy.