I'm not saying it isn't a good game, or even that it isn't visually unique compared to what's gone before, but the gameplay itself sounds and looks exactly like LittleBigPlanet.
I also read the sentence about it having "no contemporaries" as being more about the game than the artistic style, I guess I read that part wrong. But I still think the style could be copied pretty easy in LBP (which was also pretty chilling/creepy at times, though probably not in the same way).
If you had played LBP and done any significant level building in it I suspect you'd actually realise what I meant. The level editor is so comprehensive that people have created side scrolling shoot'em'ups and Tetris clones inside it for crying out loud. No doubt there will be Limbo tribute levels available soon enough.
Version 0.2 has been out for at least a month by the looks of their forum, and version numbers are a very imprecise way of telling how useful the software is for your needs, or even how stable it is. What's wrong with being an "early adopter" if it's the only working and free solution to your problem?
I wasn't debating whether Linux users have sex, I was pointing out that the original comment was about being good at "doing sex", not about the possibility of having sex. Just because someone is having sex doesn't mean they're good at it. There are plenty of lazy fat people out there.
Of course it was rather poorly worded so the intention could have been either way.
I said failed at relationships, not at having sex. It really doesn't take much to get laid either considering the number of drunken sluts you can meet on an average night out, if that's your thing.
By that time download speeds and services should be such that that we just download everything directly. Some people already do this via iTunes and the like.
The only thing I'd be unsure about is areas which are rich enough to have luxuries like TVs and media centres, but have a really crappy internet infrastructure. Will the studios keep making discs for them if they're already getting a decent revenue stream from their digital services? These places are likely to have started off as fairly impoverished though, so they will probably already be used to pirating their movies.
I think I'd pay up to £30-£40 a month to be able to steam any movie I wanted anytime in HD. Maybe even £50 if the service included stuff like obscure anime TV series'.
You completely misread this guy's last 2 comments because you're so dead set on finding a way to hate Sony wherever you can. Relax, and try reading what comments actually say rather than what you want them to say.
He then said that the PS3 (a Sony device) has upgradable firmware and you then say why can't Sony make their devices upgradable. He does say that some other blu-ray players aren't upgradable - but these are almost definitely ones from other manufacturers, not Sony, considering they are the ones driving the spec and the whole idea of being able to upgrade the firmware on your player to get more features (the cynical would point out that some of these features would be new types of DRM, and they're not wrong).
The game itself doesn't look that spooky. The music is a little spooky but that's about it.
Kind of silly to say it has no contemporaries either when the gameplay looks exactly like LBP, only the graphics are slightly different. You could actually simulate the graphical style in LBP though, by switching the colour filter on the level, locking the camera view, only using black for the platforms, completely blackening the main character with an explosion at the start, etc..
More like your whole team loses. But these guys obviously don't care about that, they only care about maximising their kills to deaths ratio or whatever.
Camping/sniping on an attacking team may be valid in some scenarios, especially if you're good, but it does suck if someone is doing it at an inappropriate time. I admit I probably have done that myself because certain unlocks in games require X amount of sniper headshots or whatever etc.:/ but I prefer to be useful to my team.
Heh. I had a weird conversation on MSN a couple of months ago. Someone messaged me out of the blue and I thought it was an awful lot like the spam messages I get in my email. I said something about thinking they're just a spam bot, and they responded with something like "haha no I hate spam too" or something. I thought they were real until I said something else or they sent a link and I realised I was indeed just getting canned responses.
It's not stealing. It's not even breaking copyright if there is no local law against it. If you think that the laws in China provide such an unfair competitive advantage, why not move to China to take advantage of the system?
I really doubt that free software, music and movies are the reason that production costs in China are lower. That type of thing would give an advantage to certain types of small engineering firms certainly because they'd save tens of thousands of dollar on software (though they'd also be ineligible to get official support for said software), but for most businesses software licensing is a pretty minor expense.
Camping is a perfectly sensible tactic if you're defending. Anyone who complains about that is just bitter that they might actually have to use tactics to win.
Camping to me is only really a problem when someone on an attacking team is ignoring the main objective and just going for kills. If you just want to score kills, go play a deathmatch game, morons.
Well, I was until recently, mostly for religious reasons which obviously affected my initial personal opinions on the matter. I don't see why it should be irritating, it's not like it's getting in the way of what you want to do, if anything it means more women for you to sleaze on. I actually wish I hadn't had sex or gone out with her now too. She turned out to be pretty, but amazingly dull.
I was clearly joking about the gay thing, and I really don't care what games other people want to play. I only know I would find pretty much all of these Facebook games boring after trying Mafia Wars and immediately seeing it as just another form of chain mail, with extra ads.
"I've done pretty well"
To me doing pretty well would be being emotionally mature/secure enough to stay in a relationship for life, and to find an equally mature partner who is worth being with for life. Frequency of sex or sexual partners is an awful metric for judging your success at relationships in my book. I doubt I'll ever find someone who I can be happy with for life unless I can get over my perfectionist attitude (there's only perhaps 3 women I know right now who I think I'd be able to have a serious relationship with), but neither do I feel like I need to have lots of casual sex to make up for it.. one of my bodybuilding friends has had ~20 sexual partners already this year, which I just find kind of sad rather than impressive. He is genuinely looking for longer term partners too at least, but I guess he just has a crazy libido.
That depends on your definition of "prudent". I wasn't aware that it had any ethical significance.
Personally I probably would pay a little over the odds to buy from a company that I knew treated its workers well, but it's only recently that I've started making enough money to be able to make that kind of choice. Many other people still have to be careful with every one of their pennies, especially when it comes to buying luxury items like a computer.
As a geek however I used to make sure my computer had good quality components even when I didn't have that much money, but your average person is just going to want to get the cheapest thing they can find that is able to browse youtube and play "The Sims" or whatever it is casual gamers play on PC these days.
So it's our fault for being prudent with our spending? I guess we should all pay over the odds for our electronics to make sure that all these international businesses aren't feeling the pinch too much in their profit margins! Let's buy from someone like Apple who we know are making a hefty profit on their products! Oh wait, Apple do their manufacturing in China too.. hmm.
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I'm not saying it isn't a good game, or even that it isn't visually unique compared to what's gone before, but the gameplay itself sounds and looks exactly like LittleBigPlanet.
I also read the sentence about it having "no contemporaries" as being more about the game than the artistic style, I guess I read that part wrong. But I still think the style could be copied pretty easy in LBP (which was also pretty chilling/creepy at times, though probably not in the same way).
If you had played LBP and done any significant level building in it I suspect you'd actually realise what I meant. The level editor is so comprehensive that people have created side scrolling shoot'em'ups and Tetris clones inside it for crying out loud. No doubt there will be Limbo tribute levels available soon enough.
Version 0.2 has been out for at least a month by the looks of their forum, and version numbers are a very imprecise way of telling how useful the software is for your needs, or even how stable it is. What's wrong with being an "early adopter" if it's the only working and free solution to your problem?
I wasn't debating whether Linux users have sex, I was pointing out that the original comment was about being good at "doing sex", not about the possibility of having sex. Just because someone is having sex doesn't mean they're good at it. There are plenty of lazy fat people out there.
Of course it was rather poorly worded so the intention could have been either way.
I said failed at relationships, not at having sex. It really doesn't take much to get laid either considering the number of drunken sluts you can meet on an average night out, if that's your thing.
Wait, it was a joke? I thought it rather insightful!
Just because you got to the destination doesn't mean you're a good driver*.
*this was originally a sandwich analogy, but then I remembered my audience.
By that time download speeds and services should be such that that we just download everything directly. Some people already do this via iTunes and the like.
The only thing I'd be unsure about is areas which are rich enough to have luxuries like TVs and media centres, but have a really crappy internet infrastructure. Will the studios keep making discs for them if they're already getting a decent revenue stream from their digital services? These places are likely to have started off as fairly impoverished though, so they will probably already be used to pirating their movies.
I think I'd pay up to £30-£40 a month to be able to steam any movie I wanted anytime in HD. Maybe even £50 if the service included stuff like obscure anime TV series'.
You completely misread this guy's last 2 comments because you're so dead set on finding a way to hate Sony wherever you can. Relax, and try reading what comments actually say rather than what you want them to say.
He then said that the PS3 (a Sony device) has upgradable firmware and you then say why can't Sony make their devices upgradable. He does say that some other blu-ray players aren't upgradable - but these are almost definitely ones from other manufacturers, not Sony, considering they are the ones driving the spec and the whole idea of being able to upgrade the firmware on your player to get more features (the cynical would point out that some of these features would be new types of DRM, and they're not wrong).
The game itself doesn't look that spooky. The music is a little spooky but that's about it.
Kind of silly to say it has no contemporaries either when the gameplay looks exactly like LBP, only the graphics are slightly different. You could actually simulate the graphical style in LBP though, by switching the colour filter on the level, locking the camera view, only using black for the platforms, completely blackening the main character with an explosion at the start, etc..
The "victims" obviously aren't paying attention or being careful enough, and they get to win the round/game/whatever if the camper is being a wuss
Heh, this is true, unless you also happen to use Outlook, in which case you see a smiley
More like your whole team loses. But these guys obviously don't care about that, they only care about maximising their kills to deaths ratio or whatever.
Camping/sniping on an attacking team may be valid in some scenarios, especially if you're good, but it does suck if someone is doing it at an inappropriate time. I admit I probably have done that myself because certain unlocks in games require X amount of sniper headshots or whatever etc. :/ but I prefer to be useful to my team.
I doubt Microsoft would even care to make something this useless
You mean something like.. Clippy?
Not to mention emotes.
"Awww, sad smiley? WARNING! Sad smiley is sad."
Heh. I had a weird conversation on MSN a couple of months ago. Someone messaged me out of the blue and I thought it was an awful lot like the spam messages I get in my email. I said something about thinking they're just a spam bot, and they responded with something like "haha no I hate spam too" or something. I thought they were real until I said something else or they sent a link and I realised I was indeed just getting canned responses.
It's not stealing. It's not even breaking copyright if there is no local law against it. If you think that the laws in China provide such an unfair competitive advantage, why not move to China to take advantage of the system?
I really doubt that free software, music and movies are the reason that production costs in China are lower. That type of thing would give an advantage to certain types of small engineering firms certainly because they'd save tens of thousands of dollar on software (though they'd also be ineligible to get official support for said software), but for most businesses software licensing is a pretty minor expense.
Don't know about you, but I just use an adblocker.
Camping is a perfectly sensible tactic if you're defending. Anyone who complains about that is just bitter that they might actually have to use tactics to win.
Camping to me is only really a problem when someone on an attacking team is ignoring the main objective and just going for kills. If you just want to score kills, go play a deathmatch game, morons.
Well, I was until recently, mostly for religious reasons which obviously affected my initial personal opinions on the matter. I don't see why it should be irritating, it's not like it's getting in the way of what you want to do, if anything it means more women for you to sleaze on. I actually wish I hadn't had sex or gone out with her now too. She turned out to be pretty, but amazingly dull.
I was clearly joking about the gay thing, and I really don't care what games other people want to play. I only know I would find pretty much all of these Facebook games boring after trying Mafia Wars and immediately seeing it as just another form of chain mail, with extra ads.
"I've done pretty well"
To me doing pretty well would be being emotionally mature/secure enough to stay in a relationship for life, and to find an equally mature partner who is worth being with for life. Frequency of sex or sexual partners is an awful metric for judging your success at relationships in my book. I doubt I'll ever find someone who I can be happy with for life unless I can get over my perfectionist attitude (there's only perhaps 3 women I know right now who I think I'd be able to have a serious relationship with), but neither do I feel like I need to have lots of casual sex to make up for it.. one of my bodybuilding friends has had ~20 sexual partners already this year, which I just find kind of sad rather than impressive. He is genuinely looking for longer term partners too at least, but I guess he just has a crazy libido.
Highly conclusive evidence. Evidently all of my family and friends haven't realised they're gay yet. Apart from my lil bro*.
*And by "lil bro", I mean my penis.. no wait, I meant my actual little brother. But I thought I'd make that joke before anyone else did.
I'll tell the 40 or so women I've slept with and my two ex-wives what you said.
So you confirm that you fail regularly in your attempts at relationships with women? Interesting ;)
Try a donut with rainbow sprinkles (or double rainbow sprinkles, all the way!). iPhone loses on pretty.
That depends on your definition of "prudent". I wasn't aware that it had any ethical significance.
Personally I probably would pay a little over the odds to buy from a company that I knew treated its workers well, but it's only recently that I've started making enough money to be able to make that kind of choice. Many other people still have to be careful with every one of their pennies, especially when it comes to buying luxury items like a computer.
As a geek however I used to make sure my computer had good quality components even when I didn't have that much money, but your average person is just going to want to get the cheapest thing they can find that is able to browse youtube and play "The Sims" or whatever it is casual gamers play on PC these days.
So it's our fault for being prudent with our spending? I guess we should all pay over the odds for our electronics to make sure that all these international businesses aren't feeling the pinch too much in their profit margins! Let's buy from someone like Apple who we know are making a hefty profit on their products! Oh wait, Apple do their manufacturing in China too.. hmm.