I sometimes ponder blocking them just to increase my own productivity! I mean if employees really want to waste time on Facebook these days, they can do it from their phones anyway..
Well, in my case the only time I've ever actually used my PSP or DS has been while travelling, so it's pretty useless for me. I'm trying to be sensible now and only buy something that I really would actually use more than once a year:) I didn't expect touchscreen phones to make a good gaming platform, but I've been surprised at how much it works just having a d-pad on the screen. With the number of games and emulators out there for smartphones, I don't expect I'll be buying a dedicated mobile games console anytime soon.
Well, I've never seen the 3D effect, but if they're doing true stereoscopic vision, then any part of the interface that is in 3D will have to be rendered twice. That means for a full 3D stereoscopic scene, it will have to render everything in the scene twice. Now this means that the same scene can be kept in memory for both renders, but it will have to be done from two different viewpoints.
This makes me think that if the developers made games with no 3D effect, the graphics could be twice as complex as those of the PSP. Goes against the whole 3D idea, of course, so it would probably just annoy anyone who bought the device for the 3D gimmick, even if the visuals were better than a PSP..
The reason I'm not even considering one is that the battery life sounds atrocious. I don't want a mobile device that I have to charge up every 2-3 hours.
Damn, a few months too late to save my games. At the moment I haven't even restarted stuff like Red Dead Redemption or Oblivion, and I'm done with GT5 for now (with the save file backed up to another drive). I might have a look at a plus account again next time I get into an epic PS3 game.
It's true they were the most functional devices around for a while, I liked my HTC/WinMo combination as the best available choice for a while. I didn't want an iPhone, but I'm sure glad that it forced phone interface developers to get a grip. I now have an Android phone and tablet, they're definitely the nicest combination of interface and functionality right now.
Uh.. if they wanted to do that, they could do. What exactly do you think they'd find so interesting about the average person's web browsing habits? Do they perhaps need credit card details for extra funding? I don't think so.
Well, at least somebody is making an effort to stop all the fucking spam. Slippery slopes are nice and all, but that kind of thing can already be done legally via the courts, the PATRIOT act, etc.. at least what they are doing here is beneficial to the world.
I love racing games and some kids games (the Lego ones for example, though they involve a lot of destruction of course). Children shouldn't be playing games that their parents haven't checked over, so that argument isn't against violent games, it's against poor parenting. My dad saw that we just found a zombie shootin game on the Amiga amusing rather than disturbing and so let us play it. Later on I tried the Resident Evil demo when I was around 13, but I just found it annoying and disturbing rather than entertaining, and decided not to bother with it. I tried Manhunt after a massive media fuss was kicked up, but it was a very dull game. Plenty of gore, no fun.
I think the guys doing this are perfectly aware of the problems they can cause with stolen credit card info. Yes it could be thought of as a game, just as bank robbing is portrayed as a glamorous affair in movies, but they know they're hurting real people, and they don't care. I'd never scam a credit card from a real person, but I take things by force all the time in games, from Chess to Lego Star Wars.
Race driving is basically doing something that would itherwise be illegal, but you're doing it in a controlled environment where it's accepted that you have less risk of hurting anyone. Things like paintballing and computer games are a similar idea. They're a lot of fun even for very 'moral' people. My brother in law is the nicest guy in the world, likewise my sisters hate overly violent or sexual themes in movies, but they all love playing GTA. One of my sisters basically just loved the taxi driving missions like I said.
Yeah that's what I did. Not sure if I'm getting a new number, but don't really need one anyway since the expiry and security code will be different, and if they try to brute force those they're bound to trigger the fraud warning system. My flatmate hasn't even asked for a new card since he keeps a tight watch on his account, and his card provider have been great in the past at refunding him when people scammed his card.. I should probably switch to them sometime!
Well for one thing that article mentions tree seeds rather than more immediate crop seeds.. for another, I'd imagine that it's quite a complex topic that is worth doing plenty of research on, and there will be better analysis equipment available now than there was in the 70s.
I don't think my position needs a defence tbh, however I do think your opinion shows that you haven't actually tried the game, rather just read about it. It sounds far worse than it is, as do many movies and TV programs that people demonise without ever watching them. If I told a Christian of a book with violence, rape, incest, etc, they'd say that was horrible and they wouldn't read it, but I'm just talking about the bible:)
PSN caters to many markets btw, from fuzzy wuzzy kids games up to Saints Row (which is like GTA, but worse in terms of morality I'd say). You might as well say that it's ironic that a library burned down just because in some books, buildings are burned by arsonists..
You don't really sound like you've played the game, the way you talk about it makes it sound very serious. You don't actually have to kill innocent bystanders unless you want to, just the same as real life. Many missions call for you killing people, but what do you expect in a game about gangsters? Actually, you don't even have to do the killing missions if you don't want to.. you could just be a taxi driver, paramedic, or firefighter if you really wanted to just be super-good all the time.
no sense of what he is doing or how it may be affecting his moral compas
He's playing a game. When I "cut people apart" in computer games, I don't think of it as actually cutting people apart. When I "kill" other people in multiplayer games, I just think of it as scoring a point, same as taking a piece in chess or hitting a target on a dartboard or something.
Your moral compass may affect your enjoyment of these games, but any game that has the right type of story/gameplay to be able to brainwash you into changing your moral compass should already be rated 18.
think a little bit about why you think the world should mold itself to your desires.
Dear gods, the irony lobe in my brain is fit to burst.. America's whole international policy seems to be to mold the rest of the world to its desires..
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I sometimes ponder blocking them just to increase my own productivity! I mean if employees really want to waste time on Facebook these days, they can do it from their phones anyway..
Well, in my case the only time I've ever actually used my PSP or DS has been while travelling, so it's pretty useless for me. I'm trying to be sensible now and only buy something that I really would actually use more than once a year :) I didn't expect touchscreen phones to make a good gaming platform, but I've been surprised at how much it works just having a d-pad on the screen. With the number of games and emulators out there for smartphones, I don't expect I'll be buying a dedicated mobile games console anytime soon.
For US home users sure. On our business phones at my work here in the UK, there is no cap on any of our O2 phones, including iPhones.
Well, I've never seen the 3D effect, but if they're doing true stereoscopic vision, then any part of the interface that is in 3D will have to be rendered twice. That means for a full 3D stereoscopic scene, it will have to render everything in the scene twice. Now this means that the same scene can be kept in memory for both renders, but it will have to be done from two different viewpoints.
This makes me think that if the developers made games with no 3D effect, the graphics could be twice as complex as those of the PSP. Goes against the whole 3D idea, of course, so it would probably just annoy anyone who bought the device for the 3D gimmick, even if the visuals were better than a PSP..
The reason I'm not even considering one is that the battery life sounds atrocious. I don't want a mobile device that I have to charge up every 2-3 hours.
The point is that you've already let stuff like that happen, yet you still complain about valid uses of power.
Damn, a few months too late to save my games. At the moment I haven't even restarted stuff like Red Dead Redemption or Oblivion, and I'm done with GT5 for now (with the save file backed up to another drive). I might have a look at a plus account again next time I get into an epic PS3 game.
It's true they were the most functional devices around for a while, I liked my HTC/WinMo combination as the best available choice for a while. I didn't want an iPhone, but I'm sure glad that it forced phone interface developers to get a grip. I now have an Android phone and tablet, they're definitely the nicest combination of interface and functionality right now.
Uh.. if they wanted to do that, they could do. What exactly do you think they'd find so interesting about the average person's web browsing habits? Do they perhaps need credit card details for extra funding? I don't think so.
Yeah, idiots with pwned machines are well known for keeping up to date.
OpenOffice? TuxRacer? This analogy is feeling a little laboured.
Well, at least somebody is making an effort to stop all the fucking spam. Slippery slopes are nice and all, but that kind of thing can already be done legally via the courts, the PATRIOT act, etc.. at least what they are doing here is beneficial to the world.
I love racing games and some kids games (the Lego ones for example, though they involve a lot of destruction of course). Children shouldn't be playing games that their parents haven't checked over, so that argument isn't against violent games, it's against poor parenting. My dad saw that we just found a zombie shootin game on the Amiga amusing rather than disturbing and so let us play it. Later on I tried the Resident Evil demo when I was around 13, but I just found it annoying and disturbing rather than entertaining, and decided not to bother with it. I tried Manhunt after a massive media fuss was kicked up, but it was a very dull game. Plenty of gore, no fun.
I think the guys doing this are perfectly aware of the problems they can cause with stolen credit card info. Yes it could be thought of as a game, just as bank robbing is portrayed as a glamorous affair in movies, but they know they're hurting real people, and they don't care. I'd never scam a credit card from a real person, but I take things by force all the time in games, from Chess to Lego Star Wars.
Race driving is basically doing something that would itherwise be illegal, but you're doing it in a controlled environment where it's accepted that you have less risk of hurting anyone. Things like paintballing and computer games are a similar idea. They're a lot of fun even for very 'moral' people. My brother in law is the nicest guy in the world, likewise my sisters hate overly violent or sexual themes in movies, but they all love playing GTA. One of my sisters basically just loved the taxi driving missions like I said.
Yeah that's what I did. Not sure if I'm getting a new number, but don't really need one anyway since the expiry and security code will be different, and if they try to brute force those they're bound to trigger the fraud warning system. My flatmate hasn't even asked for a new card since he keeps a tight watch on his account, and his card provider have been great in the past at refunding him when people scammed his card.. I should probably switch to them sometime!
Well for one thing that article mentions tree seeds rather than more immediate crop seeds.. for another, I'd imagine that it's quite a complex topic that is worth doing plenty of research on, and there will be better analysis equipment available now than there was in the 70s.
I don't think my position needs a defence tbh, however I do think your opinion shows that you haven't actually tried the game, rather just read about it. It sounds far worse than it is, as do many movies and TV programs that people demonise without ever watching them. If I told a Christian of a book with violence, rape, incest, etc, they'd say that was horrible and they wouldn't read it, but I'm just talking about the bible :)
PSN caters to many markets btw, from fuzzy wuzzy kids games up to Saints Row (which is like GTA, but worse in terms of morality I'd say). You might as well say that it's ironic that a library burned down just because in some books, buildings are burned by arsonists..
You don't really sound like you've played the game, the way you talk about it makes it sound very serious. You don't actually have to kill innocent bystanders unless you want to, just the same as real life. Many missions call for you killing people, but what do you expect in a game about gangsters? Actually, you don't even have to do the killing missions if you don't want to.. you could just be a taxi driver, paramedic, or firefighter if you really wanted to just be super-good all the time.
no sense of what he is doing or how it may be affecting his moral compas
He's playing a game. When I "cut people apart" in computer games, I don't think of it as actually cutting people apart. When I "kill" other people in multiplayer games, I just think of it as scoring a point, same as taking a piece in chess or hitting a target on a dartboard or something.
Your moral compass may affect your enjoyment of these games, but any game that has the right type of story/gameplay to be able to brainwash you into changing your moral compass should already be rated 18.
He was talking out of his ass. You only need to provide card info to buy stuff from the store or get a PSN Plus account. Standard accounts are free.
Sad face :/ I guess I should cancel my credit card too.
Because it's just glass, not transpartent Aluminum (which has been around for quite a while now too).
think a little bit about why you think the world should mold itself to your desires.
Dear gods, the irony lobe in my brain is fit to burst.. America's whole international policy seems to be to mold the rest of the world to its desires..
This space chicken tastes just like squid!
You'd think "dailypoopblog" would be enough of a giveaway.