1. Interesting point on Halo Wars, maybe this will be the game that breaks through.
2. Do mice and keyboards really have their place in the living room? You either need to have a special arm chair, balance everything on your lap with maybe a lap table, or be leaning over a coffee table. I just can't see it becoming mainstream enough, but more power to you if you have found a comfortable setup in your own home. I personally have a Linux based media center in my living room that I can control entirely through a remote control, and I love it, but that's kind of off topic.
I recently played FFXII: Revenant Wings on the DS which is a real time strategy game. I honestly didn't think it worked that well, but the game could have used more shortcuts for assigning units to certain buttons and creating groups more effectively. Review here if you're interested.
I really believe the last bastion of PC gaming lies in real time strategy games, a genre that essentially requires at least a mouse. I guess many die hards would say the same about first person shooters, but I am comfortable playing with either a mouse or controller, and ever since Halo came out back in 2001, the FPS scene has been migrating to the consoles at a pretty quick rate. The PC will always have Counterstrike, but when it gets pretty popular console games such as Gears of War a year after their console release, you can tell that times have changed.
But yeah, real time strategy games, I don't think we'll ever a decent port of say Starcraft 2 to the consoles, but I suppose if anyone can pull it off, Blizzard can.
I'm not really sure if PC games losing to consoles is entirely a bad thing, I think people are just fed up with trying to keep their system up to date with hardware, nasty CD protection schemes that kill their drives, and console ports that can play just as well and in the comfort of their living room.
I completely agree. I used to be an avid editor of Wikipedia, until basically all of my created articles were either merged or deleted. I hate being linked to Wikipedia by a website and basically get sent to an entirely different page because that article has been poorly merged with another. The information I'm interested is no longer there or so weak that it's completely pointless.
I don't edit any more because of deletionists, my least favorite response of theirs is "it is a waste of server space." Well, four of us just had a 1000Kb internet argument on this article, that seems like a waste of server space.
If you've never listened to the radio show, I would highly recommend it. The cast is truly stellar and does a terrific job reading the phases. The most interesting thing about the radio series is that the first two phases were produced back in the last 70's and then they brought just about the entire cast back together ~25 years later to do the last three phases.
I loved the radio series so much that I was pumped when I got to see Simon Jones (Arthur Dent in both the radio and TV series) perform in Minneapolis in a play last year.
I didn't believe you at first, it was one of those "I love * how could they ever do something like this!" moments. But then I checked out the article and it was actually pretty hilarious. This is my favorite part (that supports your theory)
The above items come filled with one of the following items:
* Chicken thighs marinated in a spicy chipotle pepper adobo and grilled
* Carnitas (shredded pork) seasoned with thyme, bay leaves, juniper berries, and cracked pepper; seared and then braised; no hot pepper
* Barbacoa (shredded beef) seared and then braised in chipotle pepper adobo with cumin, garlic, and other spices; mildly spicy
* Steak marinated in a spicy chipotle pepper adobo and then grilled; lean, medium-rare, and somewhat spicy
* Vegetarian (guacamole), guacamole is also available as an extra cost option with one of the other four fillings That just seems incredibly detailed for a Wikipedia that lately strikes down anything that goes into so much information.
I read the Wired article originally in the magazine and according to it, his high school senior daughter is doing all his math work for him. I'd be really impressed if just the dad and the daughter wrote every algorithm themselves.
I had two direct interactions with D&D throughout my life, the first was after freshmen year of college over the summer when my best friend from high school wanted to DM a D&D campaign with me and all of our high school friends, who had never played D&D before. I guess he had played a ton of it at school and wanted to introduce us to it so we tried out some anime game. We had two sessions and it went absolutely horrible. We were back playing Super Smash Bros. Melee the next week.
During college, specifically during my sophomore year, all of my college friends on my dorm floor would play D&D, well, except without me and my other friend. These were guys that we played video games with every night, went to the movies with, went to football games together; but for whatever reason, every Saturday they would lock themselves in a room and play D&D without us. Honestly my friend and I didn't have any experience, but we both wanted to play. It kinda ticked me off so we made a point to be obnoxious outside their door while they played, ah well.
Even though my stories might make me sound angry towards D&D, I have nothing against it and would like to do it someday. Alas, all my friends I'd be interested in playing with from college are spread across the country now.
I can't say that I agree with all the character positioning, but of course I'm not one of the writers so what do I know? Supposedly there's an entertainment weekly site that explains all of their reasons for placing certain characters where, but I couldn't get their site to work.
I believe it is relevant because the guy is a regular Slashdotter (one of us - five digit uid so he's been around a long time too), and he had direct interaction with the United States Judicial System in a Copyright case, something we see on Slashdot all the time when it comes to the RIAA or MPAA. I became aware of this guy's case only recently from this article which is pretty relevant to me because of my day job.
Anyways, we've had some great discussion on copyright, theft vs. infringement, etc. and since reading his original essay, has forced me to think closely about my personal stand on/against copyright. Yes, the guy may be showing off a bit, but 20,000 dollars for two years of hard work is not really something to brag about. This is more of the case showing that US copyright laws can work in the favor of the "little guy," Slashdot's favorite thing to get behind.
A lot of people don't realize that Blu-Ray is more than just Sony, there are three levels of membership in the Blu-Ray Association. Currently there are 18 board members (top level), 65 contributers, and over 200 members. Sony is the obvious front company for the association because of their reliance on the technology for the PlayStation 3, but there are a lot of groups that have a big stake in the project too.
Maybe Sony did pay Warner the big bucks for the commitment, but I'd be surprised if they're the only ones making deals like this.
I used to buy carbon paper when I was younger and copy art from magazines and video game strategy guides. That was so much fun. My Chrono Trigger strategy guide is basically destroyed because of that.
Then I moved up to *ahem* copying "other" magazines.
I've always considered those thumbsticks. When I hear joystick I look back fondly at the days of Tie Fighter or Falcon 3.0 where you grasped the joystick with your entire hand and it had multiple buttons built in on it and on the base. I really felt like I was controlling the aircraft when using a joystick. Nowadays when using thumbsticks I usually have to configure the game to inverse the Y-axis, something that seems so obvious to me since I grew up using joysticks but it must not be that common anymore.
I agree with you on extension installation and management. I have an additional complaint on updating them. When you click update, and then updates download and install, why do I have to hit another button (Continue) to get Firefox to load? It just seems like it should start loading immediately after done updating and not wait for me again to respond.
Sorry, but I do not adhere to that notion. I believe in Creation but do not believe in Intelligent Design. I am able to see connections between macro-evolution and my theistic evolution beliefs and thus the theories Intelligent Design provides are not necessary to "fill in the gaps", so to say.
You say I fell for Discovery Institute's trick, but it seems you are under the impression that anyone who believes that God is the Creator must also believe that He scattered dinosaurs fossils around and that the Earth is 6,000 years old.
The first release period was announced to be January to March of 2008.
The game was originally shown at the Game Developers Conference in early 2005, but other than "we hope to get the game out soon" there was nothing solid until what was stated above.
And September 7th was the day the Serbian government approved the decision to require teaching both evolution and creationism in school. I'm sure that was completely random, but it is kind of interesting (and not to start a flame war) since Spore is built on both the principles of evolution and creationism, though admittedly, less creationism and more intelligent design.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, last time Mike Rowe was on Slashdot he was getting sued by Microsoft!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/19/133233&tid=109
Now that's a dirty job.
1. Interesting point on Halo Wars, maybe this will be the game that breaks through.
2. Do mice and keyboards really have their place in the living room? You either need to have a special arm chair, balance everything on your lap with maybe a lap table, or be leaning over a coffee table. I just can't see it becoming mainstream enough, but more power to you if you have found a comfortable setup in your own home. I personally have a Linux based media center in my living room that I can control entirely through a remote control, and I love it, but that's kind of off topic.
I recently played FFXII: Revenant Wings on the DS which is a real time strategy game. I honestly didn't think it worked that well, but the game could have used more shortcuts for assigning units to certain buttons and creating groups more effectively. Review here if you're interested.
I really believe the last bastion of PC gaming lies in real time strategy games, a genre that essentially requires at least a mouse. I guess many die hards would say the same about first person shooters, but I am comfortable playing with either a mouse or controller, and ever since Halo came out back in 2001, the FPS scene has been migrating to the consoles at a pretty quick rate. The PC will always have Counterstrike, but when it gets pretty popular console games such as Gears of War a year after their console release, you can tell that times have changed.
But yeah, real time strategy games, I don't think we'll ever a decent port of say Starcraft 2 to the consoles, but I suppose if anyone can pull it off, Blizzard can.
I'm not really sure if PC games losing to consoles is entirely a bad thing, I think people are just fed up with trying to keep their system up to date with hardware, nasty CD protection schemes that kill their drives, and console ports that can play just as well and in the comfort of their living room.
I completely agree. I used to be an avid editor of Wikipedia, until basically all of my created articles were either merged or deleted. I hate being linked to Wikipedia by a website and basically get sent to an entirely different page because that article has been poorly merged with another. The information I'm interested is no longer there or so weak that it's completely pointless.
I don't edit any more because of deletionists, my least favorite response of theirs is "it is a waste of server space." Well, four of us just had a 1000Kb internet argument on this article, that seems like a waste of server space.
If you've never listened to the radio show, I would highly recommend it. The cast is truly stellar and does a terrific job reading the phases. The most interesting thing about the radio series is that the first two phases were produced back in the last 70's and then they brought just about the entire cast back together ~25 years later to do the last three phases.
I loved the radio series so much that I was pumped when I got to see Simon Jones (Arthur Dent in both the radio and TV series) perform in Minneapolis in a play last year.
Mexico just looks big because it is at the equator, just look at how Greenland gets ripped off on most maps.
* Chicken thighs marinated in a spicy chipotle pepper adobo and grilled
* Carnitas (shredded pork) seasoned with thyme, bay leaves, juniper berries, and cracked pepper; seared and then braised; no hot pepper
* Barbacoa (shredded beef) seared and then braised in chipotle pepper adobo with cumin, garlic, and other spices; mildly spicy
* Steak marinated in a spicy chipotle pepper adobo and then grilled; lean, medium-rare, and somewhat spicy
* Vegetarian (guacamole), guacamole is also available as an extra cost option with one of the other four fillings That just seems incredibly detailed for a Wikipedia that lately strikes down anything that goes into so much information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipotle_Mexican_Grill
There was that one time I was the cameraman shooting a "video" and I got "shot at". Certainly didn't call that the Cheney effect then.
I read the Wired article originally in the magazine and according to it, his high school senior daughter is doing all his math work for him. I'd be really impressed if just the dad and the daughter wrote every algorithm themselves.
I had two direct interactions with D&D throughout my life, the first was after freshmen year of college over the summer when my best friend from high school wanted to DM a D&D campaign with me and all of our high school friends, who had never played D&D before. I guess he had played a ton of it at school and wanted to introduce us to it so we tried out some anime game. We had two sessions and it went absolutely horrible. We were back playing Super Smash Bros. Melee the next week.
During college, specifically during my sophomore year, all of my college friends on my dorm floor would play D&D, well, except without me and my other friend. These were guys that we played video games with every night, went to the movies with, went to football games together; but for whatever reason, every Saturday they would lock themselves in a room and play D&D without us. Honestly my friend and I didn't have any experience, but we both wanted to play. It kinda ticked me off so we made a point to be obnoxious outside their door while they played, ah well.
Even though my stories might make me sound angry towards D&D, I have nothing against it and would like to do it someday. Alas, all my friends I'd be interested in playing with from college are spread across the country now.
I can't say that I agree with all the character positioning, but of course I'm not one of the writers so what do I know? Supposedly there's an entertainment weekly site that explains all of their reasons for placing certain characters where, but I couldn't get their site to work.
Choose a curly brace style and stick with it! Oh, this is UI styling we're talking about...
Try this HCI web comic, I don't think it is updated anymore but there's lots of great archives:
http://www.ok-cancel.com/
Dude, he wasn't talking about Wi-Fi Protected Access, he was talking about Windows Product Activation!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Product_Activation
They should really sign up for the Do Not Call List.
I believe it is relevant because the guy is a regular Slashdotter (one of us - five digit uid so he's been around a long time too), and he had direct interaction with the United States Judicial System in a Copyright case, something we see on Slashdot all the time when it comes to the RIAA or MPAA. I became aware of this guy's case only recently from this article which is pretty relevant to me because of my day job.
Anyways, we've had some great discussion on copyright, theft vs. infringement, etc. and since reading his original essay, has forced me to think closely about my personal stand on/against copyright. Yes, the guy may be showing off a bit, but 20,000 dollars for two years of hard work is not really something to brag about. This is more of the case showing that US copyright laws can work in the favor of the "little guy," Slashdot's favorite thing to get behind.
A lot of people don't realize that Blu-Ray is more than just Sony, there are three levels of membership in the Blu-Ray Association. Currently there are 18 board members (top level), 65 contributers, and over 200 members. Sony is the obvious front company for the association because of their reliance on the technology for the PlayStation 3, but there are a lot of groups that have a big stake in the project too.
Maybe Sony did pay Warner the big bucks for the commitment, but I'd be surprised if they're the only ones making deals like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association
At least you get a keyboard with the Optimus.
Sorry, lame and played out, couldn't resist.
I used to buy carbon paper when I was younger and copy art from magazines and video game strategy guides. That was so much fun. My Chrono Trigger strategy guide is basically destroyed because of that.
Then I moved up to *ahem* copying "other" magazines.
Maybe he's over 35 and those "female friends" are actually men.
Disclaimer, this "joke" only makes sense if you read the summary... so whoosh.
I've always considered those thumbsticks. When I hear joystick I look back fondly at the days of Tie Fighter or Falcon 3.0 where you grasped the joystick with your entire hand and it had multiple buttons built in on it and on the base. I really felt like I was controlling the aircraft when using a joystick. Nowadays when using thumbsticks I usually have to configure the game to inverse the Y-axis, something that seems so obvious to me since I grew up using joysticks but it must not be that common anymore.
I agree with you on extension installation and management. I have an additional complaint on updating them. When you click update, and then updates download and install, why do I have to hit another button (Continue) to get Firefox to load? It just seems like it should start loading immediately after done updating and not wait for me again to respond.
Sorry, but I do not adhere to that notion. I believe in Creation but do not believe in Intelligent Design. I am able to see connections between macro-evolution and my theistic evolution beliefs and thus the theories Intelligent Design provides are not necessary to "fill in the gaps", so to say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic_evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic_evolution#Relationship_to_intelligent_design
You say I fell for Discovery Institute's trick, but it seems you are under the impression that anyone who believes that God is the Creator must also believe that He scattered dinosaurs fossils around and that the Earth is 6,000 years old.
Ah, the game has been delayed less than a year (if Sept. 7 is the true date).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Spore#Release_date_delays
The first release period was announced to be January to March of 2008.
The game was originally shown at the Game Developers Conference in early 2005, but other than "we hope to get the game out soon" there was nothing solid until what was stated above.
And September 7th was the day the Serbian government approved the decision to require teaching both evolution and creationism in school. I'm sure that was completely random, but it is kind of interesting (and not to start a flame war) since Spore is built on both the principles of evolution and creationism, though admittedly, less creationism and more intelligent design.