- If DRM bothers you, keep downloading pirate copies of whatever media you want. It's fucking EASY in this age of P2P.
- If sweatshops bother you, look for a "made in *insert dictatorship or sweatshop-running state* " sticker and don't buy the damn product. There always are alternatives.
Oh, wait, that would require a minimum amount of EFFORT on your part. Guess it's easier to be a damn holier-than-thou hypocrite.
Has it been five years, already? Is "convergence" a buzzword again? No disrespect meant, but, seriously... As long as we don't see standardized "simple" tech like cell phones, don't hope for standardized HTPCs Joe Sixpack can configure and customize on his own.
Or maybe you were talking abour windows media center edition? It runs MAME, I've heard.
Nothing can be farther from the truth. If you feel touchy about jumping on a dance mat, know that the cheap, ten dollar-kind used on a PS2, last about six good months. For less than fifty bucks, you can get nice foam-protected ones, with a zipper so you can open it and replace the foam if you feel it's getting old. I haven't yet had to replace it, but it's a good contigency measure.
Don't be afraid, jump in;)
Disclaimer : I said PS2 because it's the cheapest solution, along with a PS2-to-USB adapter, to run stepmania and have thousands of songs to choose from, instead of a measly dozen or so on each different disk.
You know what the saddest thing is? Most people will think you're not leading a "normal" life if you don't try and keep up with the joneses. Because not living a 9-to-6 life is considered "not serious". I stepped out of the fucking rat race a few months ago, and I wish I'd done that *years* earlier.
Oh, come on, like Nintendo needs them. Oh, yeah, I forgot, everytime Nintendo is mentioned on/., someone needs to say "ZONK ZONK ZONKED" to sound like a rebel.
How about you? Do you work for Sony? I hear your company's got some baaaaad press, right now...
I mean, c'mon guys. I know the next-gen storage format war is important to movie enthusiasts and people who have huge storage needs, but the rest of us are still happy with our "old" technology, and don't see (or care about) the artifacts or "bad quality" of the image. I mean, there's being interested in bleeding-edge, and then there's being anal about a percent performance increase.
I thought we geeks cared about content, low prices, and squeezing the most life out of any piece of kit, however old it may be. What's the rest of/.'s opinion on this, I'd love to know.
And on the upcoming games front? Personally, I am not interested by either the Xbox 360's or the PS3's offerings, even though I enjoyed the main franchise games on both consoles' predecessors. We have already witnessed how the cheaper, innovative console is more fun in many ways to the expensive, state-of-the-art piece of hardware that "isn't a console". (yes, I am in eternal love with the DS)
You may now post your best "Wii is barely powerful enough to run MARIO PONG : kidz version" flames...:)
The 5200? The Neo-geo? The saturn? Dreamcast, maybe? Remember, all of those were "the most powerful" for maybe a whole three months, sometimes.
As long as videogames were in the "I'll buy one for my kid at christmas" range, those never failed.
Also, the early adopters are those that have been BOMBARDED with the most negative news about Sony, most of which cannot really be excused as a mistake. Rootkit, killing lik-sang, not allowing your console to run used games (though I think that's still a rumor, but will it remain so?), the *embarrassing* "yay let's try to be internet-funny" ads, general ridicule ($599, Ridge Racer, Gran Turismo with paid downloadable content) and the like?
Even the astroturfers have stopped using "Zonked". They now lie in shame, in the darkest recesses of the net. Hoping this will all "wash over".
So no, most learned early adopters are kind of pissed and waiting for the Guillotine to... I mean, the *price* to drop.
I think the usual gripe about these statements are that sonytards and xbots believe this entitles them to argue that the Wii won't have enough processing power to render anything more complicated than pong, which could be wrongly interpreted and actually taken seriously. Because, really, nobody's gonna change anyone else's opinion online, *ever*.
That, or you're a troll / hypocrite / astroturfer.:p
Seconded. Wikipedia had brought a lot of knowledge readily accessible to myself and I'm sure a ton of other folks. It's one of the rare things that make you think "Thank you, Internet."
Or thank you, Humanity. Glad we can do something else than just kill each other and the planet.
While the philosophical "because I can" approach might be interesting, why bother? I'm getting a Wii, but I already have a controller-to-usb adapter so I can play roms on my PC.
I bought Mario and Zelda for the GBA when the whole NES classics line was released - even though it was easier to just use a flashcart, just out of respect, but Nintendo hadn't even thought of adding anything new in them, which, for Mario, was a HUGE disappointment - They'd already released a deluxe edition for the Gameboy Color that allowed a simultaneous-two-player coop mode, while the GBA port had the same old "when I die, it's your turn to play" shit.
I will wait before buying those legal roms to see if they're anything more or better than what I can get for free. Moreso, have you seen the zillions of nes rom hacks? How will the Virtual Console rival with that?
What are you going to pull out next? Five years ago, Nintendo was kiddie game crap, today's new fad is "Wii's hardware is so weak it can't even play PONG, OMG IT WILL FAIL!"
I'm sick and tired of this generation of gamers that associates everything that doesn't contain blood with kiddie crap.
To quote :
"But if Nintendo wants to spend all it's time making the Barbi / My Little Pony crossover game, or Bingo - Large Type Version then how can I be excited about their platform?"
You're either a corporate shill or a fool if you disregard the hundreds of quality games Nintendo has produced, which were not "Barbie horse adventures", an xbox game you can play on the X360, by the way.
While preordering it, I noticed they sell a collection of minigames in a bundle with a wiimote thrown in, don't remember if it also includes a nunchuck. The game wasn't more expensive because of that, and I didn't want to only have Zelda and Wii Sports. I'm based in Europe, so your mileage may vary(tm).
It has come to my attention that your legal attacks against the online retailer lik-sang.com has lead to its closure. I had supported this retailer in the past, and some of their items lead me to purchase more sony products.
Due to your unethical legal attacks on them, I have decided to boycott your company. I have been a gamer for my entire life, so this is no small commitment.
I look forward to the games of your competitors, and hope you fail."
I'm not going to hand out any contact info, you guys are smart enough to google it.
If you want some death star trench, most games from the rogue squadron series feature one. My personal favorite is rogue leader on the gamecube. You can get it for like five bucks used, and that trench is the very first level of the game.
First, that's "Bourgeoiserie", and "Petit-Bourgeois". Second, the context was extremely inappropriate. You can think whatever you want, yes, and you can be a racist asshole all you want, I don't fucking care, you guys are happily a vocal minority.
But I wouldn't show a borat episode to people who are fucking grieving.
This is the console wars all over again. Graphics don't matter! Shut up, you Wii fag, NO U, XBOX360 LOL, JAGGIES GIANT ENEMY CRAB RIIIIDGE RACERRRR, and so on. Only this time it's Intel vs. AMD. Again.
Although I agree with you, I don't notice any performance changes apart from 3d videogames, the possibility of opening a divx file, or back when winamp used 30% of the cpu's resources just for playing a then-elusive MP3 file. We need smarter software and AI.
That fucking microsoft office paper clip doesn't count as an effort toward this, btw.
>Lasers being visible. Lasers being audible. Audible shit in space. And no one has ever heard of Newton's laws.
I'm pretty anal about science in sci-fi movies, but ever since I heard a tie fighter scream and saw the death star blow shit up when I was a kid, I resolved to forget about this specific "error". It's just cooler. It reminds me of a simpsons comic in which three über-geeks get to produce their own sci-fi film, with no sound in space, and other realistic physics, and when the movie debuts, the only spectator still in the theater is the comic book guy... The others left because real science is *boring*.
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Here, I just saved you a few bucks : The Imperial Library
- If DRM bothers you, keep downloading pirate copies of whatever media you want. It's fucking EASY in this age of P2P.
- If sweatshops bother you, look for a "made in *insert dictatorship or sweatshop-running state* " sticker and don't buy the damn product. There always are alternatives.
Oh, wait, that would require a minimum amount of EFFORT on your part. Guess it's easier to be a damn holier-than-thou hypocrite.
I agree, I wish more people had those kind of balls.
Are you that guy whose launch day PS1 and PS2 systems still work?
Has it been five years, already? Is "convergence" a buzzword again?
No disrespect meant, but, seriously... As long as we don't see standardized "simple" tech like cell phones, don't hope for standardized HTPCs Joe Sixpack can configure and customize on his own.
Or maybe you were talking abour windows media center edition? It runs MAME, I've heard.
Nothing can be farther from the truth.
;)
If you feel touchy about jumping on a dance mat, know that the cheap, ten dollar-kind used on a PS2, last about six good months.
For less than fifty bucks, you can get nice foam-protected ones, with a zipper so you can open it and replace the foam if you feel it's getting old. I haven't yet had to replace it, but it's a good contigency measure.
Don't be afraid, jump in
Disclaimer : I said PS2 because it's the cheapest solution, along with a PS2-to-USB adapter, to run stepmania and have thousands of songs to choose from, instead of a measly dozen or so on each different disk.
You know what the saddest thing is? Most people will think you're not leading a "normal" life if you don't try and keep up with the joneses. Because not living a 9-to-6 life is considered "not serious". I stepped out of the fucking rat race a few months ago, and I wish I'd done that *years* earlier.
Oh, come on, like Nintendo needs them. Oh, yeah, I forgot, everytime Nintendo is mentioned on /., someone needs to say "ZONK ZONK ZONKED" to sound like a rebel.
How about you? Do you work for Sony? I hear your company's got some baaaaad press, right now...
Wii and a 25$ divx player.
/.'s opinion on this, I'd love to know.
:)
I mean, c'mon guys. I know the next-gen storage format war is important to movie enthusiasts and people who have huge storage needs, but the rest of us are still happy with our "old" technology, and don't see (or care about) the artifacts or "bad quality" of the image. I mean, there's being interested in bleeding-edge, and then there's being anal about a percent performance increase.
I thought we geeks cared about content, low prices, and squeezing the most life out of any piece of kit, however old it may be. What's the rest of
And on the upcoming games front? Personally, I am not interested by either the Xbox 360's or the PS3's offerings, even though I enjoyed the main franchise games on both consoles' predecessors. We have already witnessed how the cheaper, innovative console is more fun in many ways to the expensive, state-of-the-art piece of hardware that "isn't a console". (yes, I am in eternal love with the DS)
You may now post your best "Wii is barely powerful enough to run MARIO PONG : kidz version" flames...
The 5200? The Neo-geo? The saturn? Dreamcast, maybe?
Remember, all of those were "the most powerful" for maybe a whole three months, sometimes.
As long as videogames were in the "I'll buy one for my kid at christmas" range, those never failed.
Also, the early adopters are those that have been BOMBARDED with the most negative news about Sony, most of which cannot really be excused as a mistake. Rootkit, killing lik-sang, not allowing your console to run used games (though I think that's still a rumor, but will it remain so?), the *embarrassing* "yay let's try to be internet-funny" ads, general ridicule ($599, Ridge Racer, Gran Turismo with paid downloadable content) and the like?
Even the astroturfers have stopped using "Zonked". They now lie in shame, in the darkest recesses of the net. Hoping this will all "wash over".
So no, most learned early adopters are kind of pissed and waiting for the Guillotine to... I mean, the *price* to drop.
I think the usual gripe about these statements are that sonytards and xbots believe this entitles them to argue that the Wii won't have enough processing power to render anything more complicated than pong, which could be wrongly interpreted and actually taken seriously. Because, really, nobody's gonna change anyone else's opinion online, *ever*.
:p
That, or you're a troll / hypocrite / astroturfer.
Seconded.
Wikipedia had brought a lot of knowledge readily accessible to myself and I'm sure a ton of other folks. It's one of the rare things that make you think "Thank you, Internet."
Or thank you, Humanity. Glad we can do something else than just kill each other and the planet.
You can decide to uncheck the "games" checkbox in yuor personal preferences if you're unhappy about slashdot reporting on FACTS.
My honest opinion on "OMG SLASHDOT IS SO ANTI SONY I HATES IT FOREVAR" posters?
I see roots, I see leaves, I see a plant.
While the philosophical "because I can" approach might be interesting, why bother? I'm getting a Wii, but I already have a controller-to-usb adapter so I can play roms on my PC.
I bought Mario and Zelda for the GBA when the whole NES classics line was released - even though it was easier to just use a flashcart, just out of respect, but Nintendo hadn't even thought of adding anything new in them, which, for Mario, was a HUGE disappointment - They'd already released a deluxe edition for the Gameboy Color that allowed a simultaneous-two-player coop mode, while the GBA port had the same old "when I die, it's your turn to play" shit.
I will wait before buying those legal roms to see if they're anything more or better than what I can get for free. Moreso, have you seen the zillions of nes rom hacks? How will the Virtual Console rival with that?
What are you going to pull out next? Five years ago, Nintendo was kiddie game crap, today's new fad is "Wii's hardware is so weak it can't even play PONG, OMG IT WILL FAIL!"
I'm sick and tired of this generation of gamers that associates everything that doesn't contain blood with kiddie crap.
To quote :
"But if Nintendo wants to spend all it's time making the Barbi / My Little Pony crossover game, or Bingo - Large Type Version then how can I be excited about their platform?"
You're either a corporate shill or a fool if you disregard the hundreds of quality games Nintendo has produced, which were not "Barbie horse adventures", an xbox game you can play on the X360, by the way.
Just to point out, this was modded "Insightful" because sarcasm is a clever way to comment on things. Although a "funny" mod might help.
Good one, parent, by the way. (I hope it *is* sarcasm!)
While preordering it, I noticed they sell a collection of minigames in a bundle with a wiimote thrown in, don't remember if it also includes a nunchuck. The game wasn't more expensive because of that, and I didn't want to only have Zelda and Wii Sports. I'm based in Europe, so your mileage may vary(tm).
A-Fucking-Men, brother.
I remember Nintendo being evil, but I'd rather have them in top position than either Microsoft or Sony.
"Hello sony,
It has come to my attention that your legal attacks against the online retailer lik-sang.com has lead to its closure. I had supported this retailer in the past, and some of their items lead me to purchase more sony products.
Due to your unethical legal attacks on them, I have decided to boycott your company. I have been a gamer for my entire life, so this is no small commitment.
I look forward to the games of your competitors, and hope you fail."
I'm not going to hand out any contact info, you guys are smart enough to google it.
If you want some death star trench, most games from the rogue squadron series feature one. My personal favorite is rogue leader on the gamecube. You can get it for like five bucks used, and that trench is the very first level of the game.
First, that's "Bourgeoiserie", and "Petit-Bourgeois".
Second, the context was extremely inappropriate. You can think whatever you want, yes, and you can be a racist asshole all you want, I don't fucking care, you guys are happily a vocal minority.
But I wouldn't show a borat episode to people who are fucking grieving.
Why did they mod you troll? Where's the insult, where's the lack of reasoning or arguments? This in no way is a troll post!
I wish I could mod you up. Or meta-moderate you as "non-troll".
This is the console wars all over again.
Graphics don't matter! Shut up, you Wii fag, NO U, XBOX360 LOL, JAGGIES GIANT ENEMY CRAB RIIIIDGE RACERRRR, and so on.
Only this time it's Intel vs. AMD. Again.
Although I agree with you, I don't notice any performance changes apart from 3d videogames, the possibility of opening a divx file, or back when winamp used 30% of the cpu's resources just for playing a then-elusive MP3 file. We need smarter software and AI.
That fucking microsoft office paper clip doesn't count as an effort toward this, btw.
What's outdated about wanting to make a profit NOW, instead of "when third parties start shelling the cash" ;)
>Lasers being visible. Lasers being audible. Audible shit in space. And no one has ever heard of Newton's laws.
I'm pretty anal about science in sci-fi movies, but ever since I heard a tie fighter scream and saw the death star blow shit up when I was a kid, I resolved to forget about this specific "error". It's just cooler.
It reminds me of a simpsons comic in which three über-geeks get to produce their own sci-fi film, with no sound in space, and other realistic physics, and when the movie debuts, the only spectator still in the theater is the comic book guy... The others left because real science is *boring*.