Live allows additional content. It allows for support. Nothing hes saying cant be done in the present system. Add to that the fact that he neither has a game on Live nor is planning one for live and I have to wonder what exactly is the point of this at all?
Not only are his comments vague they are also counter to the fact that square is already accomplishing what he wants and Final Fantasy XI is already working on live ready for full release.
Maybe hes talking with the other consoles in mind but its very unlikely they would have any problems either. I can only assume that some site picked up on some musings he was making and threw it up online.
'We also don't have doctors refusing to treat patients because they're overweight or because they smoke.'
Nah instead you just refuse anyone who doesnt have cash. Wow that sure sounds way more fair than us...
'We also don't have three to four month waiting lists for bypass surgery, or a large number of other proceedures.'
Nah you just have a phenominal amount of unneccesary surgery leading to countless thousands of deaths. I think ill just hang tight for a few months thanks.
'Maybe the answer isn't more taxes'
True, I believe a lot of money is eaten by beurocracy and inefficiency in the system that could be solved.
'it's going back to the old system of private practice because it works better'
Ive met people who've argued for private practice as an alternative but never someone so arrogant as to believe it works better.
'Yes, that would mean you'd have to pay for health insurance,'
Which a large part of the population cant afford.
'but it probably wouldn't be any more than the taxes you're paying now,'
How do you figure? The medical part of out taxes is no doubt large but do you honestly believe the government would reduce the taxes by exactly that amount? Of course not theyd reduce it by a much smaller percentage then slowly bring it back up so we have a country that not only pays the same taxes but medical insurance as well. Throughout this not one mention of the fact that those who cant pay get terrible to zero help at all. I like to think our country gives a shit about people who are in a rut.
No medical system is perfect. Ours works well enough for me, and certainly no worse than the American one.
'Do game-design degrees have what it takes to inspire new and exciting directions of entertainment?'
Yes the degree I did has modules in design issues throughout.
'This is echoed by a number of long-term jobbing designers I have spoken to, none of whom has a games-related degree.'
Who probably didnt actually have access to a games related degree at the time they were up for university...
'Designers who come from the outside may require a bit more work, but the results should push games to the next level.'
The basis for that? Seriously its like asking some random person to come up with a full building design. It might be all pretty and new but to an actual architect it would probably be completely unworkable. Games designers dont tend to become games designers just by being imaginative. They have background in the subject they know the tools that are available and they know how to use them. This doesnt come from doing English degrees.
I got in to Teesside with only a GNVQ. Its games course is well respected and the lecturers are pretty good. (Fred Charles, Marc Cavassa and Stephen Mead have written some pretty decent stuff in AI and interactive story telling techniques.)
All of it was fairly high level, first principles programming, recent DirectX, OpenGL, AI (Which was tough considering the lecturer barely thought of the Sims as real AI...) All the maths and physics that go with getting stacks of cubes to not ping off everywhere or a nice waterfall. I believe since I left they have two full labs filled with PS2 development kits to boot.
Most people for their final year project wrote decent game demoes for getting in to the industry. My old games design group even started a small company that the university helped till they got picked off in to the industry.
So there are decent courses out there, though I got fairly lucky when I went in as the course has built momentum and reputation its become far more sought after since I was entering.
The X-Box controller has to be by far the most overslagged off piece of electronics ever made. (Number 2... of all controllers ever made... absolute rubbish.) Of the people I new that used it (because the majority of the people slagging it off didnt even have an X-Box.) only a few found it too fat. Just about everyone got used to it within a couple of minutes.
and your right. The worst part of it had nothing to do with its size (which is apparently better for the hands and my brother who has some tendon problems can use it for much longer than any other controller.) it was to do with the buttons. Both with the black and white (which was only really fixed on the 360) and, the bunching up in a diamond shape, colours. It wasnt too bad for a lot of things but I play with my right hand over the top with all fingers on buttons, ala arcade machine play, for some games and it was just made impossible by that arrangement.
The original X-Box controller was no PS1 pad and the S was definately a big improvement but it just wasnt _that_ bad.
Well ignoring your utterly absurd mention of 'child porno' as a part of society, the second article clearly states a rule of the olympics.
'The Olympic Code of Ethics says participants "must not act in a manner likely to bring the reputation of the Olympic Movement into disrepute."'
Now given that spamming is illegal in many countries within the olympics, and because it is all over the internet it can gain vast public interest. Id say this breaks the code entirely and by allowing someone whod be considered a felon in many countries to compete, the Olympics are very much being brought in to disrepute.
He has the freedom to spam. They have the freedom to kick him out of the Olympics. It's a little something called, freedom is a double edged sword. Welcome to society.
Theyve point out that you can change how many pages to cache and all that but really isnt it a bit daft anyway. I mean if the browser is going to do RAM intensive things like that how on Earth am I supposed to know exactly where to stop it. In fact how does it know?
E.g. set the cache so it only holds 4 pages or have a system with a small enough amount of RAM that it does that automatically. What if those 4 pages have vast amounts of content youve still got the same problem.
Wouldnt it make a lot more sense and infact potentially seal up other issues if you restricted the RAM space the browser can take up rather than restrict the pages it can cache. Have a little slide bar set it to 100meg and thats all firefox can ever use. Simple and means no one needs to estimate how many pages they can open, no computer will have RAM issues because the browser can just scale itself depending on how much the computer has, and if you have a tonne of memory you could be caching far more than just 8 or even 25 pages and making the whole thing even faster.
Im no web browser developer so maybe im over simplifying this but it just seems like a dodgy design decision to base RAM usage on an unknown quantity of data from an arbitrary number of pages rather than on how much RAM there is to use.
Even before tabbed browsing I would have enough windows open to fill the task bar, it was verging on unmanagable. Now that Ihave tabbed browsing and ill occaisionally explode a set of pages up in to over 50 odd tabs at a time there is simply no reasonable way of having that going on in the start bar.
Heck now im using opera and it auto remembers all the pages I pretty much have 10 to 15 tabs open the moment I load the browser.
Maybe you just use a couple of windows. A lot of people use a heck of a lot more its why tabs are a feature being added to every browser.
Did you actually watch the videos, or read the article at all?
The autonomous character in the top screen was designed as a gimmick its just a bit of graphical fun otherwise that mode is there for its _traditional_ Tetris. From the article 'Normal game of Tetris covering the bottom screen.'
The other two modes were unlike anything ive ever seen in Tetris before. Even with all of Tetris Worlds variants this is brand new stuff.
Tetris is my favorite game of all time and I am really looking forward to getting my hands on this.
To be fair while Nintendo have made good use of control schemes the games, or at least the games best known have become reeeeeaaaly stagnant.
Dont get me wrong perhaps the Gamecube has a load of fantastic original titles but as someone who doesnt own a gamecube and am therefore gaining my opinion off the general marketing. The only games I really know for the past Nintendo systems pretty much consist of Mario, Zelda, Metroid and Donkey Kong.
First game I got with my DS. Mario 64. Most highly rated game on the DS Mario cart.
Id be willing to put money on the Revolution having not only versions of those four games on it but they will be the most well known and probably highly rated.
This isnt a bad thing when you consider reeling in the gamers youve always had. I know for a fact that there are very few really poor Mario games. Some are down right brilliant.
It is a bad thing for what Nintendo are proposing on doing. Taking on new players.
See my mum (as my usual test subject for those outside the industry.) also doesnt know much about Nintendo consoles and what games does she recognise. Mario, Zelda, Metroid and Donkey Kong. She also knows that she doesnt like playing them in there previous incarnations.
So while Nintendo might well come up with a brilliant new controller they may well shoot themselves in the foot with the very thing that is written to use it. As technophobes who are skeptical that this controller is going to make console gaming great for them, the normies (as I like to call my parents, family guy refrence ahoy.) will see the same old titles and thatll be enough for them to never even bother picking it up in the first place.
Then again if they make revolutiondogs theyll definately have the normies interested.
While I am a blatent Dreamcast fanboy I dont think anyone can dispute that the Dreamcast wupped the crap out of the Playstation and the N64. It took the PS2 two years of its life span to start making games that looked better (and in my most assuredly fanboy opinion never made games as fun.) You dont have to believe my hearsay though just look at its specs. Its easily twice as powerful as the PS probably nearing twice that of the N64.
Itd should probably be . . Gen 4: Playstation / N64 Gen 4.5: Dreamcast / (possibly PS2) Gen 5: Xbox / Gamecube / (possibly PS2) Gen 6: Xbox 360 (its out now... aint it?)
Probably need a Gen 4.75 for the PS2 or some such. (The N64 technically wupped the PS however Nintendo dropped the ball by keeping cartridges both the Playstation and the Dreamcast utilised textures to impressive effect. The N64 didnt have the room and nearly any head way it gained in power was utilised in making its limited textures not look crappy. The real kick to the nuts being that if Nintendo had stuck with the CD drive they would probably be in Sony's dominant position today, seeing as the playstation was more or less a result of working with Nintendo to get them the CD drive in the first place.)
Getting back to the topic I believe hes probably talking about the NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube as the four generations.
The difference being best buy advertised at a lower price. You merely 'figured' the X-Box would go down in price. Now maybe its just because im not looking to buy a second X-Box but I would never have assumed MS would lower the price. Hope maybe, but not assume. While I would assume that if a shop has something advertised for a price then that is what I can get.
Not to mention that the X-Box is still sold standalone. If the shop didnt bother to have standalone units thats their fault not Microsofts.
'An alternate reality game is a cross media game that deliberately blurs the line between the in-game and out-of-game experiences, often being used as a marketing tool for a product or service. While games may primarily be centered around online resources, often events that happen inside the game reality will "reach out" into the players' lives in order to bring them together. Elements of the plotline may be provided to the players in almost any form, some of those used have been'
From wikipedia for anyone else who was wondering what the hell this is all about.
'Please enlighten me.' Most bullying is commited in school. Teachers and parents can easily sort this problem out and in the worst cases the police can be called in. Now perhaps that doesnt happen every time but thats not a reason to resort to violence, its a reason to sort out the people who should be dealing with these cases and arnt. Just about every bullying situation ive come across has been sorted out within days of the kid actually telling there parents or some other adult whats going on.
If your talking about bullying of older people or on the streets. Thats not really bullying at all thats full on good old fashioned assault. I think youll find the police deal with that quite nicely. (Having actually been there when one of my friends was beat in the face good and hard then being through the whole process of punishment it wasnt difficult and my friend got compensation while the bully got community service. As far as I am aware the guy hasnt punched anyone since.)
'Doing it in a brutal enough fashion' and 'learn some particularly nasty fighting techniques' doesnt really sound like self defence to me. Sounds more like vengance and the belief that two wrongs make a right. They dont, they just perpetuate the problem.
'Bully bullies others because he enjoys their torment and pain.' If only it were as simple as that.
'since people who have been bullied sometimes go and take their anger out on other, innocent, people,' Well heck you appear to have realised it isnt in your very next sentance. Are you saying that those who have been bullied and become bullies are evil? A little harsh. Yet thats where most bullies come from. Perhaps your trying to say that its some kind of line that once you cross bang your evil. That would be a horribly simplistic and daft view of the situation though.
'It is. If it was not, the bully would be carted to prison or psychiatric ward the first time he tried bullying others' The speed at which someone gets thrown in to jail isnt a sign of an advanced society. Probably quite the opposite. The speed at which bullying is eliminated before it has happened on the other hand is, and dont try claim that throwing bullies in prison will somehow stop it from going on. It clearly hasnt worked like that for any other crime.
'My manager isn't regularly attacking me with the intent of causing me physical harm and pain. Having your argument relay on a ridiculous strawman does make it "less of an argument".' For it to be a strawman the situation I concocted would have had to have been an exagerated or false take on your argument. Saying 'any claim that the ability to win a fight doesn't make you a bigger man than others directly contradicts observed reality' backs up my situation perfectly. Reality is not about beating people up, beating people up does not make you a bigger man. Your sentance was full of crap, my question was perfectly valid.
'Therefore, self-defense is not illegal.' No it is not but then see 'Doing it in a brutal enough fashion' and 'learn some particularly nasty fighting techniques' points I made. If that was meant to imply self defence rather than out and out violence then you need to word your sentances much more carefully.
'after all, the bully isn't being punished by it, otherwise the whole problem of bullying would go away.' In the majority of cases when someone being bullied speaks up the bully doesnt get away with it. If more people spoke up more of the bullying problem will go away. If that doesnt work its a problem with the system not with how much martial arts the person being bullied knows.
'Are you talking about self-defense or going after them later ?' Going after them later actually. Long story about what you can do with a pencil and a scalpel blade. Ive already been over why I misunderstood the difference between them in your post though.
'Yes, they are. A bully bullies because he enjoys causing others pain. That is inhuman. It is also psychotic, and a psychopath only listens to force
'If you're at someone else's house (or lose your hard drive, delete games for more space, or need to replace your system), you can save your profile on a memory card or restore it from Live and all your Arcade games can be redownloaded at no cost.'
Its barely more restrictive than taking the actual disk around to a friends house. The Blu-ray technology would require you to take your entire system round just to demo some game you like or have some multiplayer fun.
Whats more there really is no other way of running the online service. If you could just download the game to every hard drive for every player to play off one person buying it theyd make no money. Itd be like piracy but with absolutely no restrictions stopping even the most non savy console user from getting all his games for free. Sony has non of these excuses.
MS has made some mess ups in its time Live and the way Live works is not one of them.
'Yes, namely you. Which is why must change: otherwise, you'll keep getting bullied.'
Yes and there are ways and means of doing that without resorting to exactly what the bully is doing.
'Fighting back (succesfully) solves the problem of getting bullied.'
No it just shifts the problem around a bit so you are now the bully.
'Doing it in a brutal enough fashion might also discourage the bullies from picking a new target out of fear of getting the crap beaten out of them again,'
Youve just switched places. Youd be here encouraging the now bullied bully to fight back. Gee escalation of the problem that helps...
'neutralizing that particular source of evil permanently.'
Source of evil... oh the melodrama.
'Getting beaten up daily is a pretty inconvertible proof that you're less than whoever is beating you up'
So basically if you can beat someone up your better than them? Sure if this was a society of neanderthals hitting each other with sticks. Being strong is not an indication of worth I would have thought youd notice that while typing comments on one of the most famous geek sites ever.
'any claim that the ability to win a fight doesn't make you a bigger man than others directly contradicts observed reality and will thus be rejected as bullshit.'
Trying to shoot down a logical argument before its been made doesnt make it any less of an argument. I tell you what when next going in to work try beating up your manager. See if that gets you a promotion. Id laugh my arse off if I could observe that reality.
'After all, it might be illegal for others to beat you up, but that won't stop them; beating them up, however, does.'
Illegal for someone to beat another person up means exactly what it says they are breaking the law doing it, you are breaking the law doing it back and contrary to mathematics two wrongs do not make a right. Ive been in more trouble for getting my own back than any bully who started on me and no the problem did not go away.
Bullies arnt some inhuman issue to be solved with violence, they often arnt even that bad people. Hell some of my friends used to be bullies, one of my friends used to be a bully to me. Nearly every time bullying is happening there is history and reasons behind it, typically caused by the bully being bullied. Which unless im mistaken is exactly what your proposing in your post.
Perhaps ive read it wrong and your just violent for the fun of it, but you sound like someone who got beat down one too many times and is now angry and bitter about the whole thing.
I mean perhaps im missing something but the majority seems to have a very favorable view of the MMO thing. It briefly talks about some issues with extremists, and thats true, there are wacko's out there who take it too far.
The first article was a little more unbalanced seemed to be all doom and gloom. Its psychological stuff is something that has bounced back and forth and there is currently no indication that games are any worse than TV and such. It seems to claim they are for a fact. Though ultimately its conclusion was that about an hour of gaming a day for children is enough. I dont really see the problem with that either.
My post in summary. If you ban talking about sexual orientation to stop any offense then you have no right to complain that your particular sexual orientation should be allowed to get around this ban. Just because you are GLBT does not give you superior rights over everyone else.
How the hell does that translate to me giving a damn about 'others' responsibility to make sure your feelings don't get hurt'?
In fact how does that warrent a troll modding? It was the swearing wasnt it. The swearing always pisses someone off.
When the hell are these rights activists going to get it through there moronic skulls that freedom or in this case the lack of it is a two way street!
'There is nothing insulting about identifying oneself as gay, lesbian or transgender'
No, no, NO, there is nothing insulting about it to _YOU_, that doesnt give you the right to make it not insulting to everyone in the world. If I was a bigot and wanted to be insulted by it then I fucking will be, their crappy organisation can go screw itself before it tells me how to think.
Blizzard rules are simple they ban the talking of sexual orientation if it insults someone. So if someone gets insulted by the fact that there is GLBT groups those groups can be banned. If someone is insulted that there are Heterosexual groups those groups can be banned. What the hell makes the GLBT community somehow more important than everyone else? Nothing.
God I wish Blizzard would enforce the ban all the more and take this on full force. They won't though, they'll back down like a good little company as the positive discrimination clowns further erode the rights they claim to protect.
This whole thing is so utterly gay. *waits for Lambda to sue him for using the word 'gay' in a derogatory way.*
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I dont understand what hes asking for.
Live allows additional content. It allows for support. Nothing hes saying cant be done in the present system. Add to that the fact that he neither has a game on Live nor is planning one for live and I have to wonder what exactly is the point of this at all?
Not only are his comments vague they are also counter to the fact that square is already accomplishing what he wants and Final Fantasy XI is already working on live ready for full release.
Maybe hes talking with the other consoles in mind but its very unlikely they would have any problems either. I can only assume that some site picked up on some musings he was making and threw it up online.
'Have social medicine, but don't outlaw private practice'
Thats what ours is. You can have the best health care in the world if you have the money. Its just we also set the bar high for the bottom level.
'When will the English take back their country?'
Too right. The yanks have made a right mess of the US! We should have taken America back long ago.
Im joking, im joking. Seriously though getting aid from the French. That was low.
'We don't have socialized medicine in the USA.'
I hope that works out for you.
'We also don't have doctors refusing to treat patients because they're overweight or because they smoke.'
Nah instead you just refuse anyone who doesnt have cash. Wow that sure sounds way more fair than us...
'We also don't have three to four month waiting lists for bypass surgery, or a large number of other proceedures.'
Nah you just have a phenominal amount of unneccesary surgery leading to countless thousands of deaths. I think ill just hang tight for a few months thanks.
'Maybe the answer isn't more taxes'
True, I believe a lot of money is eaten by beurocracy and inefficiency in the system that could be solved.
'it's going back to the old system of private practice because it works better'
Ive met people who've argued for private practice as an alternative but never someone so arrogant as to believe it works better.
'Yes, that would mean you'd have to pay for health insurance,'
Which a large part of the population cant afford.
'but it probably wouldn't be any more than the taxes you're paying now,'
How do you figure? The medical part of out taxes is no doubt large but do you honestly believe the government would reduce the taxes by exactly that amount? Of course not theyd reduce it by a much smaller percentage then slowly bring it back up so we have a country that not only pays the same taxes but medical insurance as well.
Throughout this not one mention of the fact that those who cant pay get terrible to zero help at all. I like to think our country gives a shit about people who are in a rut.
No medical system is perfect. Ours works well enough for me, and certainly no worse than the American one.
'Do game-design degrees have what it takes to inspire new and exciting directions of entertainment?'
Yes the degree I did has modules in design issues throughout.
'This is echoed by a number of long-term jobbing designers I have spoken to, none of whom has a games-related degree.'
Who probably didnt actually have access to a games related degree at the time they were up for university...
'Designers who come from the outside may require a bit more work, but the results should push games to the next level.'
The basis for that? Seriously its like asking some random person to come up with a full building design. It might be all pretty and new but to an actual architect it would probably be completely unworkable. Games designers dont tend to become games designers just by being imaginative. They have background in the subject they know the tools that are available and they know how to use them. This doesnt come from doing English degrees.
I got in to Teesside with only a GNVQ. Its games course is well respected and the lecturers are pretty good. (Fred Charles, Marc Cavassa and Stephen Mead have written some pretty decent stuff in AI and interactive story telling techniques.)
All of it was fairly high level, first principles programming, recent DirectX, OpenGL, AI (Which was tough considering the lecturer barely thought of the Sims as real AI...) All the maths and physics that go with getting stacks of cubes to not ping off everywhere or a nice waterfall. I believe since I left they have two full labs filled with PS2 development kits to boot.
Most people for their final year project wrote decent game demoes for getting in to the industry. My old games design group even started a small company that the university helped till they got picked off in to the industry.
So there are decent courses out there, though I got fairly lucky when I went in as the course has built momentum and reputation its become far more sought after since I was entering.
The X-Box controller has to be by far the most overslagged off piece of electronics ever made. (Number 2... of all controllers ever made... absolute rubbish.) Of the people I new that used it (because the majority of the people slagging it off didnt even have an X-Box.) only a few found it too fat. Just about everyone got used to it within a couple of minutes.
and your right. The worst part of it had nothing to do with its size (which is apparently better for the hands and my brother who has some tendon problems can use it for much longer than any other controller.) it was to do with the buttons. Both with the black and white (which was only really fixed on the 360) and, the bunching up in a diamond shape, colours. It wasnt too bad for a lot of things but I play with my right hand over the top with all fingers on buttons, ala arcade machine play, for some games and it was just made impossible by that arrangement.
The original X-Box controller was no PS1 pad and the S was definately a big improvement but it just wasnt _that_ bad.
Well ignoring your utterly absurd mention of 'child porno' as a part of society, the second article clearly states a rule of the olympics.
'The Olympic Code of Ethics says participants "must not act in a manner likely to bring the reputation of the Olympic Movement into disrepute."'
Now given that spamming is illegal in many countries within the olympics, and because it is all over the internet it can gain vast public interest. Id say this breaks the code entirely and by allowing someone whod be considered a felon in many countries to compete, the Olympics are very much being brought in to disrepute.
He has the freedom to spam. They have the freedom to kick him out of the Olympics. It's a little something called, freedom is a double edged sword. Welcome to society.
Theyve point out that you can change how many pages to cache and all that but really isnt it a bit daft anyway. I mean if the browser is going to do RAM intensive things like that how on Earth am I supposed to know exactly where to stop it. In fact how does it know?
E.g. set the cache so it only holds 4 pages or have a system with a small enough amount of RAM that it does that automatically. What if those 4 pages have vast amounts of content youve still got the same problem.
Wouldnt it make a lot more sense and infact potentially seal up other issues if you restricted the RAM space the browser can take up rather than restrict the pages it can cache. Have a little slide bar set it to 100meg and thats all firefox can ever use. Simple and means no one needs to estimate how many pages they can open, no computer will have RAM issues because the browser can just scale itself depending on how much the computer has, and if you have a tonne of memory you could be caching far more than just 8 or even 25 pages and making the whole thing even faster.
Im no web browser developer so maybe im over simplifying this but it just seems like a dodgy design decision to base RAM usage on an unknown quantity of data from an arbitrary number of pages rather than on how much RAM there is to use.
Even before tabbed browsing I would have enough windows open to fill the task bar, it was verging on unmanagable. Now that Ihave tabbed browsing and ill occaisionally explode a set of pages up in to over 50 odd tabs at a time there is simply no reasonable way of having that going on in the start bar.
Heck now im using opera and it auto remembers all the pages I pretty much have 10 to 15 tabs open the moment I load the browser.
Maybe you just use a couple of windows. A lot of people use a heck of a lot more its why tabs are a feature being added to every browser.
Did you actually watch the videos, or read the article at all?
The autonomous character in the top screen was designed as a gimmick its just a bit of graphical fun otherwise that mode is there for its _traditional_ Tetris. From the article 'Normal game of Tetris covering the bottom screen.'
The other two modes were unlike anything ive ever seen in Tetris before. Even with all of Tetris Worlds variants this is brand new stuff.
Tetris is my favorite game of all time and I am really looking forward to getting my hands on this.
To be fair while Nintendo have made good use of control schemes the games, or at least the games best known have become reeeeeaaaly stagnant.
Dont get me wrong perhaps the Gamecube has a load of fantastic original titles but as someone who doesnt own a gamecube and am therefore gaining my opinion off the general marketing. The only games I really know for the past Nintendo systems pretty much consist of Mario, Zelda, Metroid and Donkey Kong.
First game I got with my DS. Mario 64. Most highly rated game on the DS Mario cart.
Id be willing to put money on the Revolution having not only versions of those four games on it but they will be the most well known and probably highly rated.
This isnt a bad thing when you consider reeling in the gamers youve always had. I know for a fact that there are very few really poor Mario games. Some are down right brilliant.
It is a bad thing for what Nintendo are proposing on doing. Taking on new players.
See my mum (as my usual test subject for those outside the industry.) also doesnt know much about Nintendo consoles and what games does she recognise. Mario, Zelda, Metroid and Donkey Kong. She also knows that she doesnt like playing them in there previous incarnations.
So while Nintendo might well come up with a brilliant new controller they may well shoot themselves in the foot with the very thing that is written to use it. As technophobes who are skeptical that this controller is going to make console gaming great for them, the normies (as I like to call my parents, family guy refrence ahoy.) will see the same old titles and thatll be enough for them to never even bother picking it up in the first place.
Then again if they make revolutiondogs theyll definately have the normies interested.
My pac-men always turn out horribly disfigured. I think all those pills are having an effect on Pacmans offspring.
Sure shits the ghosts up though.
While I am a blatent Dreamcast fanboy I dont think anyone can dispute that the Dreamcast wupped the crap out of the Playstation and the N64. It took the PS2 two years of its life span to start making games that looked better (and in my most assuredly fanboy opinion never made games as fun.) You dont have to believe my hearsay though just look at its specs. Its easily twice as powerful as the PS probably nearing twice that of the N64.
Itd should probably be
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Gen 4: Playstation / N64
Gen 4.5: Dreamcast / (possibly PS2)
Gen 5: Xbox / Gamecube / (possibly PS2)
Gen 6: Xbox 360 (its out now... aint it?)
Probably need a Gen 4.75 for the PS2 or some such. (The N64 technically wupped the PS however Nintendo dropped the ball by keeping cartridges both the Playstation and the Dreamcast utilised textures to impressive effect. The N64 didnt have the room and nearly any head way it gained in power was utilised in making its limited textures not look crappy. The real kick to the nuts being that if Nintendo had stuck with the CD drive they would probably be in Sony's dominant position today, seeing as the playstation was more or less a result of working with Nintendo to get them the CD drive in the first place.)
Getting back to the topic I believe hes probably talking about the NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube as the four generations.
Thats the one. I just checked the 30 second sample of it on Amazon.
Thanks for the responses.
The difference being best buy advertised at a lower price. You merely 'figured' the X-Box would go down in price. Now maybe its just because im not looking to buy a second X-Box but I would never have assumed MS would lower the price. Hope maybe, but not assume. While I would assume that if a shop has something advertised for a price then that is what I can get.
Not to mention that the X-Box is still sold standalone. If the shop didnt bother to have standalone units thats their fault not Microsofts.
'An alternate reality game is a cross media game that deliberately blurs the line between the in-game and out-of-game experiences, often being used as a marketing tool for a product or service. While games may primarily be centered around online resources, often events that happen inside the game reality will "reach out" into the players' lives in order to bring them together. Elements of the plotline may be provided to the players in almost any form, some of those used have been'
From wikipedia for anyone else who was wondering what the hell this is all about.
Off topic. what was the music? Im hoping it wasnt made for the video seems like some decent ambience.
On topic. Puts my DS to shame.
'Please enlighten me.'
Most bullying is commited in school. Teachers and parents can easily sort this problem out and in the worst cases the police can be called in. Now perhaps that doesnt happen every time but thats not a reason to resort to violence, its a reason to sort out the people who should be dealing with these cases and arnt. Just about every bullying situation ive come across has been sorted out within days of the kid actually telling there parents or some other adult whats going on.
If your talking about bullying of older people or on the streets. Thats not really bullying at all thats full on good old fashioned assault. I think youll find the police deal with that quite nicely. (Having actually been there when one of my friends was beat in the face good and hard then being through the whole process of punishment it wasnt difficult and my friend got compensation while the bully got community service. As far as I am aware the guy hasnt punched anyone since.)
'Doing it in a brutal enough fashion' and 'learn some particularly nasty fighting techniques' doesnt really sound like self defence to me. Sounds more like vengance and the belief that two wrongs make a right. They dont, they just perpetuate the problem.
'Bully bullies others because he enjoys their torment and pain.'
If only it were as simple as that.
'since people who have been bullied sometimes go and take their anger out on other, innocent, people,'
Well heck you appear to have realised it isnt in your very next sentance. Are you saying that those who have been bullied and become bullies are evil? A little harsh. Yet thats where most bullies come from. Perhaps your trying to say that its some kind of line that once you cross bang your evil. That would be a horribly simplistic and daft view of the situation though.
'It is. If it was not, the bully would be carted to prison or psychiatric ward the first time he tried bullying others'
The speed at which someone gets thrown in to jail isnt a sign of an advanced society. Probably quite the opposite. The speed at which bullying is eliminated before it has happened on the other hand is, and dont try claim that throwing bullies in prison will somehow stop it from going on. It clearly hasnt worked like that for any other crime.
'My manager isn't regularly attacking me with the intent of causing me physical harm and pain. Having your argument relay on a ridiculous strawman does make it "less of an argument".'
For it to be a strawman the situation I concocted would have had to have been an exagerated or false take on your argument. Saying 'any claim that the ability to win a fight doesn't make you a bigger man than others directly contradicts observed reality' backs up my situation perfectly. Reality is not about beating people up, beating people up does not make you a bigger man. Your sentance was full of crap, my question was perfectly valid.
'Therefore, self-defense is not illegal.'
No it is not but then see 'Doing it in a brutal enough fashion' and 'learn some particularly nasty fighting techniques' points I made. If that was meant to imply self defence rather than out and out violence then you need to word your sentances much more carefully.
'after all, the bully isn't being punished by it, otherwise the whole problem of bullying would go away.'
In the majority of cases when someone being bullied speaks up the bully doesnt get away with it. If more people spoke up more of the bullying problem will go away. If that doesnt work its a problem with the system not with how much martial arts the person being bullied knows.
'Are you talking about self-defense or going after them later ?'
Going after them later actually. Long story about what you can do with a pencil and a scalpel blade. Ive already been over why I misunderstood the difference between them in your post though.
'Yes, they are. A bully bullies because he enjoys causing others pain. That is inhuman. It is also psychotic, and a psychopath only listens to force
Youve answered your own question.
'I wonder why that ire doesn't extend to MS?'
because
'If you're at someone else's house (or lose your hard drive, delete games for more space, or need to replace your system), you can save your profile on a memory card or restore it from Live and all your Arcade games can be redownloaded at no cost.'
Its barely more restrictive than taking the actual disk around to a friends house. The Blu-ray technology would require you to take your entire system round just to demo some game you like or have some multiplayer fun.
Whats more there really is no other way of running the online service. If you could just download the game to every hard drive for every player to play off one person buying it theyd make no money. Itd be like piracy but with absolutely no restrictions stopping even the most non savy console user from getting all his games for free. Sony has non of these excuses.
MS has made some mess ups in its time Live and the way Live works is not one of them.
'Yes, namely you. Which is why must change: otherwise, you'll keep getting bullied.'
Yes and there are ways and means of doing that without resorting to exactly what the bully is doing.
'Fighting back (succesfully) solves the problem of getting bullied.'
No it just shifts the problem around a bit so you are now the bully.
'Doing it in a brutal enough fashion might also discourage the bullies from picking a new target out of fear of getting the crap beaten out of them again,'
Youve just switched places. Youd be here encouraging the now bullied bully to fight back. Gee escalation of the problem that helps...
'neutralizing that particular source of evil permanently.'
Source of evil... oh the melodrama.
'Getting beaten up daily is a pretty inconvertible proof that you're less than whoever is beating you up'
So basically if you can beat someone up your better than them?
Sure if this was a society of neanderthals hitting each other with sticks. Being strong is not an indication of worth I would have thought youd notice that while typing comments on one of the most famous geek sites ever.
'any claim that the ability to win a fight doesn't make you a bigger man than others directly contradicts observed reality and will thus be rejected as bullshit.'
Trying to shoot down a logical argument before its been made doesnt make it any less of an argument. I tell you what when next going in to work try beating up your manager. See if that gets you a promotion. Id laugh my arse off if I could observe that reality.
'After all, it might be illegal for others to beat you up, but that won't stop them; beating them up, however, does.'
Illegal for someone to beat another person up means exactly what it says they are breaking the law doing it, you are breaking the law doing it back and contrary to mathematics two wrongs do not make a right. Ive been in more trouble for getting my own back than any bully who started on me and no the problem did not go away.
Bullies arnt some inhuman issue to be solved with violence, they often arnt even that bad people. Hell some of my friends used to be bullies, one of my friends used to be a bully to me. Nearly every time bullying is happening there is history and reasons behind it, typically caused by the bully being bullied. Which unless im mistaken is exactly what your proposing in your post.
Perhaps ive read it wrong and your just violent for the fun of it, but you sound like someone who got beat down one too many times and is now angry and bitter about the whole thing.
I dont see what was bad about the second article.
I mean perhaps im missing something but the majority seems to have a very favorable view of the MMO thing. It briefly talks about some issues with extremists, and thats true, there are wacko's out there who take it too far.
The first article was a little more unbalanced seemed to be all doom and gloom. Its psychological stuff is something that has bounced back and forth and there is currently no indication that games are any worse than TV and such. It seems to claim they are for a fact. Though ultimately its conclusion was that about an hour of gaming a day for children is enough. I dont really see the problem with that either.
Oh gee im sorry. Let me just look it up.
'To give offense; offend'
Wow it looks like the word has multiple definitions the one I used not being the one you quote. What a wacky language we use.
I guess that makes me real uninformed...
How so?
My post in summary.
If you ban talking about sexual orientation to stop any offense then you have no right to complain that your particular sexual orientation should be allowed to get around this ban. Just because you are GLBT does not give you superior rights over everyone else.
How the hell does that translate to me giving a damn about 'others' responsibility to make sure your feelings don't get hurt'?
In fact how does that warrent a troll modding? It was the swearing wasnt it. The swearing always pisses someone off.
When the hell are these rights activists going to get it through there moronic skulls that freedom or in this case the lack of it is a two way street!
'There is nothing insulting about identifying oneself as gay, lesbian or transgender'
No, no, NO, there is nothing insulting about it to _YOU_, that doesnt give you the right to make it not insulting to everyone in the world. If I was a bigot and wanted to be insulted by it then I fucking will be, their crappy organisation can go screw itself before it tells me how to think.
Blizzard rules are simple they ban the talking of sexual orientation if it insults someone. So if someone gets insulted by the fact that there is GLBT groups those groups can be banned. If someone is insulted that there are Heterosexual groups those groups can be banned. What the hell makes the GLBT community somehow more important than everyone else? Nothing.
God I wish Blizzard would enforce the ban all the more and take this on full force. They won't though, they'll back down like a good little company as the positive discrimination clowns further erode the rights they claim to protect.
This whole thing is so utterly gay.
*waits for Lambda to sue him for using the word 'gay' in a derogatory way.*