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For cripes sakes, i know already. You're the 500th person to post that. I KNOW ITS A LIE. I like the message the urban legend has to tell.
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"Ugh, too long slappy too LONG!"
All these reviews are always 20 pages long. Reviews tell us if a book is good or bad, then tell us why, not list off the Entire contents of the book in large detail.
Ok now, about the book. If any industry has an interesting history, it's deffinatly the gaming industry. You could make volumes of books like this man. This is probably an interesting read, but the way this review is written i just got tired half way through.
A long time ago, back in the ninties (i feel old...) There was a special on TV about the effects of violence on kids (be it in comics, games, movies, etc), and if they really could tell reality from the fictional.
The best part was when Todd McFarlane (known best as the creator of Spawn) had a little boy join him on stage at a press conference. He held up a spawn comic in which the cover, which had a rather bloody act being portrayed, to his face and asked him:
-"Does this make you want to kill people?"
-"No."
-"But it looks cool right?"
-"Yeah!"
-"Thank you."
I couldn't stop laughing at the looks on the reporter's faces. This debate has always been a part of our society since the 50s. Get over it people!
Note that all your examples do not ship their product WORLDWIDE. They do not require signifigant manpower and (mostly) do not require anywhere near the amount of capital needed for videogame production.
Bands don't have to deal with increasing production costs, and most of them give away their music free and/or cheap. Local retail chains don't have to worry about costs for national/international shipping and get repeat business from locals who know and trust the business.
Really i could go on for hours here so i'll leave it at that.
Seriously, think about it. The better the grahpics, the more expensive it becomes to produce a game. If the trend of increasing grahpics so rapidly continues, I can honestly see all the "smaller" game devellopers dying off IMO.
It already costs millions to make a decent, good selling, cross-platform game. Can the little guy realy keep up with Ubi-Soft, Vivendi and EA Games when that price doubles? Triples?
The smaller companies will either die off or have to surrender to larger publishers (like the ones listed above). It could be a good thing, but it could also bring an even greater shortage of origionality and risk-taking in the game market, not to mention fewer releases all together. Remember, big production companies don't take risks.
It's not that they blocked these websites really, it's that they went about it the wrong way. There are rules and regulations regarding this sort of thing, and they were not followed.
If they had gotten the permission of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, then you would be correct. Though i suspect that even if they did this the legal way, it would cause bad PR anydangway!
Back in my highschool summer-job days I worked at a place with employee uniforms. We were barred from driking and smoking in or around the building while wearing our uniforms, and if caught could be severely punished and/or fired.
This isn't to say we weren't allowed period, as all we had to do was take off the uniform, and this is a bit less radical than what this ruling states, but it's still a valid example. Employers don't want their business' image to be tarnished by a drunken employee stumbling around in uniform.
I'm more worried about that supposed "10% of the human genome" problem that turns people into hideous demons. We should send in the rock first, preferably with a BFG.
Aparently the concept of "influential" isn't sinking in. There were so many games like zelda 1 because zelda 1 invented an awesome gameplay concept. One that many companies copied and then improved upon, including nintendo itself.
Well you can change the skin on windows xp and they'll think it's a new version of windows, so maybe we can change firefox to an IE skin, give it the blue "E" logo, and hopefully they'll never see the difference since IE7 is a tabbed browser.
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For cripes sakes, i know already. You're the 500th person to post that. I KNOW ITS A LIE. I like the message the urban legend has to tell.
"Ugh, too long slappy too LONG!"
All these reviews are always 20 pages long. Reviews tell us if a book is good or bad, then tell us why, not list off the Entire contents of the book in large detail.
Ok now, about the book. If any industry has an interesting history, it's deffinatly the gaming industry. You could make volumes of books like this man. This is probably an interesting read, but the way this review is written i just got tired half way through.
A long time ago, back in the ninties (i feel old...) There was a special on TV about the effects of violence on kids (be it in comics, games, movies, etc), and if they really could tell reality from the fictional.
The best part was when Todd McFarlane (known best as the creator of Spawn) had a little boy join him on stage at a press conference. He held up a spawn comic in which the cover, which had a rather bloody act being portrayed, to his face and asked him:
-"Does this make you want to kill people?"
-"No."
-"But it looks cool right?"
-"Yeah!"
-"Thank you."
I couldn't stop laughing at the looks on the reporter's faces. This debate has always been a part of our society since the 50s. Get over it people!
-"Who is that mystery man!?"
-"The name is Nye. Bill Nye."
*shudder*
And now for something completely different, full frontal nuditiy.
God bless you monty python.
Mod this "news" -1 flmebait.
Mod the blog it came from -1 troll.
No matter how right or wrong someone's opinion is, posting it as "news" is just silly. How can you post this and not expect a flamewar?
Google doesn't have any obligation to talk to Cnet, and Cnet obviously published an article made to show google in a bad light.
At the same time Google could very well be trying to mask their true intention of not speaking to a newsgroup that "put them down".
I say just take it all with a grain of salt. It's just bad press for Cnet and google at the same time.
My living room denies it.
Note that all your examples do not ship their product WORLDWIDE. They do not require signifigant manpower and (mostly) do not require anywhere near the amount of capital needed for videogame production.
Bands don't have to deal with increasing production costs, and most of them give away their music free and/or cheap. Local retail chains don't have to worry about costs for national/international shipping and get repeat business from locals who know and trust the business.
Really i could go on for hours here so i'll leave it at that.
Straw man, meet mr. torch.
More likely he's owned a nintendo 64 or GCN and heard enough of
"Hey! Hey! Listen! Hey! Listen! Listen! Hey! Listen! Hey! Hey! Listen!"
*twitch*
Seriously, think about it. The better the grahpics, the more expensive it becomes to produce a game. If the trend of increasing grahpics so rapidly continues, I can honestly see all the "smaller" game devellopers dying off IMO.
It already costs millions to make a decent, good selling, cross-platform game. Can the little guy realy keep up with Ubi-Soft, Vivendi and EA Games when that price doubles? Triples?
The smaller companies will either die off or have to surrender to larger publishers (like the ones listed above). It could be a good thing, but it could also bring an even greater shortage of origionality and risk-taking in the game market, not to mention fewer releases all together. Remember, big production companies don't take risks.
-Pharming!? Who the hell makes up these names anyways?
-He's new sir. Guy by the name of "Daffy duck".
-You realize of course, that this means war...
Remember the good old days, when there was a separation between chruch and state?
Yeah, me neither.
It's not that they blocked these websites really, it's that they went about it the wrong way. There are rules and regulations regarding this sort of thing, and they were not followed.
If they had gotten the permission of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, then you would be correct. Though i suspect that even if they did this the legal way, it would cause bad PR anydangway!
I thought Christians believed dogs had no soul to begin with.
Back in my highschool summer-job days I worked at a place with employee uniforms. We were barred from driking and smoking in or around the building while wearing our uniforms, and if caught could be severely punished and/or fired.
This isn't to say we weren't allowed period, as all we had to do was take off the uniform, and this is a bit less radical than what this ruling states, but it's still a valid example. Employers don't want their business' image to be tarnished by a drunken employee stumbling around in uniform.
5fps? That's ok, i get that much on doom3.
That was a pretty useless article if you ask me. Nothing new there and it was all speculation, speculation and more speculation.
Call me when you get some concrete info from sony themselves, instead of this "a freind of a freind said at e3 that they said that..."
I'm more worried about that supposed "10% of the human genome" problem that turns people into hideous demons. We should send in the rock first, preferably with a BFG.
Aparently the concept of "influential" isn't sinking in. There were so many games like zelda 1 because zelda 1 invented an awesome gameplay concept. One that many companies copied and then improved upon, including nintendo itself.
It's a perfectly cromulent word. Perhaps you're loosing your perspecacity? :P
Well you can change the skin on windows xp and they'll think it's a new version of windows, so maybe we can change firefox to an IE skin, give it the blue "E" logo, and hopefully they'll never see the difference since IE7 is a tabbed browser.
Great, maybe they can sell it on ebay for some money for food clothing and medicine.
Nice to see governments thinking of the children. Yeah right...
Next up on the voting block: Bill 235, Giving gold rolexes to homeless people who lack wristwatches.
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