I started learning to make machinima right after this ended, but I'm pretty happy with how it came out anyway. Check it out at http://civil-protection.blogspot.com/
"you and the 14 other people with HDTVs can go buy a $800 PS3 then"
I don't have an HDTV, I don't even have a console, I do all my gaming on my computer. Whenever I see games being played on a regular TV, my first thought is "jesus, this is blurry". Other people are going to think that too once HDTV's gradually roll out. DVD's rolled out gradually as well, something Nintendo also didn't include which made the PS2 and Xbox seem more attractive.
My point is that with all this technology invested in making the graphics look better it seems kind of futile. It's like going from generic motherboard sound to an Audigy 4, yet still using the same $10 headphones you got from Wal-mart.
I find it ludicrous that they're boasting about the improvement in graphics over the gamecube seeing as how they're still going to have regular analog TV output. TV may not look so bad if that's all you've seen for a while, but compared to a monitor or an HDTV image it's a blurfest.
This isn't targeted for the average person, but to some people, they will find it a helpful idea. I've been working for a while coming up with "custom" genres since there will be such a variety in the tone of music in something's that's essentially the same genre. By custom genres, I mean coming up with your own criteria to classify music, such as what kind of imagery it produces in your head. So you can have a mix of industrial, heavy metal, and some other stuff I'm not even sure what it would be called, provided it all sounds like music that would be playing in a club full of vampires, that sort of thing.
It's obviously a very subjective process, but the results can be amazing. My main motivation for this is that as my music collection grows, I find that it'll become impossible for me to listen to all the music I have without a lot of songs turning into archeology digs because I forget about them and only play the stuff I'm familiar with or that is by the same artist. With my genre system, i can simply pick the genre and assign random play, giving all my songs equal representation and not having stuff get lost in the collection. I don't like having to "think" about what music I'm going to play, I like that thought out ahead of time. That being said, I'm still revising the process and I'd be interested in discussing it with people who are interested. If you are, either post here or email me at ross @ outgun . com.
Frankly I hope more of this sort of thing happens, so that videogame companies will be forced to start marketing games for MATURE AUDIENCES, not just a demographic aimed at 13 year olds with extra language violence or sex thrown in to get more sales. I mean so, so many games have the plotline and writing equivalent of a Saturday morning cartoon, but simply have enough gore thrown in to make it mature.
As I understand it, most RFID tags have a very limited range. If it was small enough, I'm wondering if you could have an officer's gun respond only when fired by a person wearing a RFID enabling ring or wristband. I say this because out of the majority of police officers who die each year in the line of duty, most are killed with their own weapons.
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I started learning to make machinima right after this ended, but I'm pretty happy with how it came out anyway. Check it out at http://civil-protection.blogspot.com/
Ah well, it's nothing a complete recall and price increase can't fix...
"you and the 14 other people with HDTVs can go buy a $800 PS3 then" I don't have an HDTV, I don't even have a console, I do all my gaming on my computer. Whenever I see games being played on a regular TV, my first thought is "jesus, this is blurry". Other people are going to think that too once HDTV's gradually roll out. DVD's rolled out gradually as well, something Nintendo also didn't include which made the PS2 and Xbox seem more attractive. My point is that with all this technology invested in making the graphics look better it seems kind of futile. It's like going from generic motherboard sound to an Audigy 4, yet still using the same $10 headphones you got from Wal-mart.
I find it ludicrous that they're boasting about the improvement in graphics over the gamecube seeing as how they're still going to have regular analog TV output. TV may not look so bad if that's all you've seen for a while, but compared to a monitor or an HDTV image it's a blurfest.
This isn't targeted for the average person, but to some people, they will find it a helpful idea. I've been working for a while coming up with "custom" genres since there will be such a variety in the tone of music in something's that's essentially the same genre. By custom genres, I mean coming up with your own criteria to classify music, such as what kind of imagery it produces in your head. So you can have a mix of industrial, heavy metal, and some other stuff I'm not even sure what it would be called, provided it all sounds like music that would be playing in a club full of vampires, that sort of thing. It's obviously a very subjective process, but the results can be amazing. My main motivation for this is that as my music collection grows, I find that it'll become impossible for me to listen to all the music I have without a lot of songs turning into archeology digs because I forget about them and only play the stuff I'm familiar with or that is by the same artist. With my genre system, i can simply pick the genre and assign random play, giving all my songs equal representation and not having stuff get lost in the collection. I don't like having to "think" about what music I'm going to play, I like that thought out ahead of time. That being said, I'm still revising the process and I'd be interested in discussing it with people who are interested. If you are, either post here or email me at ross @ outgun . com.
Frankly I hope more of this sort of thing happens, so that videogame companies will be forced to start marketing games for MATURE AUDIENCES, not just a demographic aimed at 13 year olds with extra language violence or sex thrown in to get more sales. I mean so, so many games have the plotline and writing equivalent of a Saturday morning cartoon, but simply have enough gore thrown in to make it mature.
As I understand it, most RFID tags have a very limited range. If it was small enough, I'm wondering if you could have an officer's gun respond only when fired by a person wearing a RFID enabling ring or wristband. I say this because out of the majority of police officers who die each year in the line of duty, most are killed with their own weapons.