According to Next Generation, Stringer did not confirm a holiday launch. The Variety server seems to be on fire already, so I haven't had a chance to look at what exactly they claim.
You were probably out the day the memo came around. IGN did something rare for modern media and actually cited its references. The one you're probably interested in looking up is the first listed:
Anderson, Craig A. and Bushman, Brad J. "Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggressive Behavior, Aggressive Cognition, Aggressive Affect, Physiological Arousal, and Prosocial Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Scientific Literature." Pscyhological Science. 12.5 (2001): 353-359.
This topic seems to be a hot button for a lot of people. I personally have no problem with studying whether violent videogames can make people violent. I would only make one question of such studies: did the player win or lose? When I play GTA3 and I do well, I feel pretty good. It's when I get killed over and over again on the same mission that I feel like hitting things. I can't blame the violent games, though. I can get pretty mad when trying hard and doing poorly at any game or task.
I think the real news here is that it is only going to be released in Asia to start with. Also, the point is brought up that the PS3 doesn't even have a HDD announced yet. All this is majorly pointing to a tiered release like the 360 had. After all, if us non-Asian countries don't have access to the online action, what would we be doing with the hard drive? And I think I recall reading something about developers or some other group wondering how Sony is planning on fiting everything into its little model box they showed last year. I think the HDD will be an optional add on, something you set up beside your PS3 and plug into it. Was that how it worked with the 360?
Maybe this is part of how Sony will keep itself from going under. Build a $800 console, sell it for $500, make up the difference by taking over the IP of developers. Also, make your console more desireable by promising online titles that you can't get on the X-Box, etc. All they have to do is hope for developers that are crazy or desperate enough to take them up on the offer.
The idea is that education will make them better farmers, teachers, and doctors. Instead of throwing money at an already corrupt government to try and get them to educate the populace, the idea seemed to be to make an affordable educational tool for the people, empowering them.
Unfortuantely, it's now clear that corrupt governments and warlords will be getting their hands on the laptops anyway, so the chances of even half of the laptops reaching children seem pretty small.
As a low-level character on a different server, I'm very disappointed. I had been donating what I could (copper bars, linen bandages, lower-level stuff). I figured it was a community thing and, even though the dungeons will be old news by the time I finally got there, I would at least be helping the world event. But now I find out that, despite helping, I'm not allowed to witness the event? Even if I managed to survive walking the way there? My last linen bandage has been donated.
People in the forums were complaining that lower-levels weren't helping the collection effort. Seems the lower-level people were in the right this time.
Reading the article, I understood that Nintendo is saying that they are not announcing a redesign this week. Given how they keep redesigning the GameBoy, I think a DS redesign is pretty likely, personally. But Nintendo likes to keep us all guessing, so we probably won't find out 'til they're almost done with it.
Porting is why I will be getting a Revolution (most likely). With the weird controller, there will be a lot of games that come out on the Revolution that will not translate well to either of the other systems, I'm thinking. Meanwhile, PS3 and XBox 360 will be sharing titles. I'll just wait and see if there's a list of must-have games and get whichever system has more of them. Costs should have fallen (and supply risen) by that time anyway.
The panel did check the dog. This is an excerpt from the panel's findings as posted on Seoul National University's website http://www.snu.ac.kr/engsnu/
3. Verity of the cloned dog, Snuppy
We also carried out DNA fingerprinting analyses on the cloned dog Snuppy whose generation has been published in Nature in 2005 (Lee BC, Kim MK, Jang G, Oh HJ, Yuda F, et al. 2005. Dogs cloned from adult somatic cells. Nature 436: 641). We obtained somatic tissue from the egg donor, blood samples from Snuppy, from Tie, the dog that provided somatic cells, and from the surrogate mother and engaged three independent test centers for the analyses. Results from analyses of 27 markers that allow distinguishing amongst extremely-inbred animals and of mitochondrial DNA sequencing indicate that Snuppy is a somatic cell clone of Tie.
Add in that he was a hero to his country, and you probably have the right picture. It's one thing to expect a lot of yourself; when all the people around you are watching and waiting for the next big thing, the pressure must have been enormous.
Not that I approve of faking scientific results. This has set stem cell research back in two ways. First, it'll be hard for the public and for science in general to get so excited about results seen again. Also, he did manage to clone a dog, but because of his fraud, he will never have this kind of funding and backing again. A leader has left the field. Ethically, science is better off, but you do have to wonder if he can be so easily replaced.
These included roving phone taps and secret warrants for documents from businesses and hospitals, and for records of library books taken out by private citizens. From BBC
They can look at my library records? Oh, man. I only checked out the Brian Herbert books 'cause I was curious. I'm so sorry...please don't throw me in jail...
**possibly a spoiler, but if this scenario wasn't obvious to you before, YOU'RE PLAYING THE WRONG GENRE OF GAME**
That's what I said first time I fought Dhoulmagus. Still haven't beaten him...
FYI to anyone looking for this game's music. The OST is in synth. When they released the US version, they put the orchestrated songs on the game. So if you want the music on your game, look for the symphonic version. I'm hoping I get it for Christmas... BTW, the demo disk had the synth versions, I think. So if anyone noticed a difference, that's it.
Seems like someone finally let the reviewer play the demos that came out a long while back.
"I was a developer for many years before my current role, but I've never been a very good gamer," Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told me. "I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller."
I'm not sure first-person shooters would be the way to go, given comments in other threads about the 360. People who play FPS seem to want HD. I personally can't wait to try out the new controller and console, though. I'm hoping the controller inspires more creativity in game developers.
I wonder what this class counted for? Some kind of sociology or psychology? Or a comp sci elective?
Anyway, they probably had to have an account, or promise to get access to one, when signing up for the class.
I read the one on being in a guild and skimmed the paper on sexism. Is it just me, or are students really bad at writing papers anymore? Not that this was a graduate course, or anything, but the one on guilds was so full of fluff I thought I was reading a Mallowmar.
Not necessarily. If I kept getting calls from DirecTV after being on the list and telling them not to call me, I'd lodge a complaint after every call they made to me. Can't guestimate how many times a single person would complain, though, so I can't rework the numbers. Not that they didn't deserve to get fined.
Even though it's shown that they didn't really drop the price that low (at least, without any strings attached), they still had a bit of a discount at the very start. Wasn't it closer to $330 USD at launch? I believe another article (don't remember where) recently said that that's comparable to the PS2's launch price. I guess 40,000 yen is seen as some sort of magical barrier for what people are willing to buy. Same as I won't buy a Coke/Pepsi for $1.25:)
So, will the DRM be on all BlueRay discs, or just on movies? There was an article (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/10 /1913258&tid=187&tid=10) that mentioned how publishers are frustrated with second-hand sales. Do you think they'll try making game discs for the PS3 that cannot be played on any other PS3? If so, I might have to change my plans for which next generation console to get...
Maybe being able to reach their target market with something "cool" is worth the money Disney will have to put out for the players.
I agree with you on that it would work best as a whole downloadable small game. Maybe like the NeoPets games that so many kids are addicted to. As a child, I would have been very disappointed if I went to McDonalds with my little player and learned that they're no longer distributing the final chunk of the cartoon I'd been collecting. I would salt my own fries with my tears of disillusionment.
But given that I'm seeing "media player" everywhere, I doubt it would have any games on it. Probably, it would just play trailers and music videos, and will fail horribly.
Being a woman, I can tell you that you're totally correct. Having female avatars with skimpy clothing doesn't attract girls. But it doesn't really repel them either. I'm playing Dragon Quest 8 right now; Jessica's...assets...were quite distracting at first, but they're pretty easy to just accept given the good game play and her strong, independent personality. I forgive her because the game is too good (in my opinion) to quit because of it. Some women may look at the images on promotional stuff and get all indignant, but the girls I know who play care more about having fun.
Games that attract girls?
Less or no senseless killing. We can get all psychoanalytical and hypothesize if that's due to how women's brains are wired by genetics or if it's because of how we're raised differently, but the fact remains the same.
Also, collecting stuff. Money, followers, seashells, dirtclods, it doesn't matter. I play Diablo 2. What do I do? I shake down others on the LAN for their gems. I play GTA. What do I do? I do taxi runs for money. Collecting stuff is just plain addictive.
I would have to say as a woman that plays games, I will notice a half-naked well-endowed woman as quickly as a man. I'm not angry about it, I'm just, "Oh great. Two more of those."
Let's not pretend that the female form in a game isn't made to be hot. My husband is playing a female character on World of Warcraft, and an equipment change the other day had him blushing. He said, "I don't want her going around looking like that!" The male form is also unrealistic, but it's hardly ever underdressed by default.
It's interesting to me that you bring up Voltaire. It reminded me of something at the heart of the problem with the.xxx domain. I studied this a few years ago, so my memory is a hint foggy in the way of book titles. Way back when, France would try to censor what was being read for the sake of its citizens. Officals would look for books being snuck in that fell under the catagory of "philosophy." This included everything from outright pr0n to the writing of revolutionaries. Quite a few gems from the time seemed to combine explicit acts with clergymen and royals. In essence, anything that might make the higher-ups look bad was banned.
My point being, will the revolutionaries of tomorrow be forced onto.xxx sites, the same as their predecesors were listed with pr0n back in the 16th century?
Or will people still get around it as they did then--sneaking the illicit pages in by embedding them in the middle of bibles and other approved books, er domains?
The New Jersey school district is to pay the child $117,500, right? Um, is that $117,500 of tax money? That's a lot of chicken nuggets and little milk cartons...
NM. Got it now. Not down, just very busy. His e-mail to the guys seems to hint that he'll claim that they made it all up. I certainly hope Gabe and Tycho come back with a libel suit, but maybe they'll see that as lowering themselves to his level...
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According to Next Generation, Stringer did not confirm a holiday launch. The Variety server seems to be on fire already, so I haven't had a chance to look at what exactly they claim.
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You were probably out the day the memo came around.
IGN did something rare for modern media and actually cited its references. The one you're probably interested in looking up is the first listed:
Anderson, Craig A. and Bushman, Brad J. "Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggressive Behavior, Aggressive Cognition, Aggressive Affect, Physiological Arousal, and Prosocial Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Scientific Literature." Pscyhological Science. 12.5 (2001): 353-359.
This topic seems to be a hot button for a lot of people. I personally have no problem with studying whether violent videogames can make people violent. I would only make one question of such studies: did the player win or lose? When I play GTA3 and I do well, I feel pretty good. It's when I get killed over and over again on the same mission that I feel like hitting things. I can't blame the violent games, though. I can get pretty mad when trying hard and doing poorly at any game or task.
I think the real news here is that it is only going to be released in Asia to start with.
Also, the point is brought up that the PS3 doesn't even have a HDD announced yet. All this is majorly pointing to a tiered release like the 360 had. After all, if us non-Asian countries don't have access to the online action, what would we be doing with the hard drive?
And I think I recall reading something about developers or some other group wondering how Sony is planning on fiting everything into its little model box they showed last year. I think the HDD will be an optional add on, something you set up beside your PS3 and plug into it.
Was that how it worked with the 360?
Maybe this is part of how Sony will keep itself from going under.
Build a $800 console, sell it for $500, make up the difference by taking over the IP of developers.
Also, make your console more desireable by promising online titles that you can't get on the X-Box, etc.
All they have to do is hope for developers that are crazy or desperate enough to take them up on the offer.
The idea is that education will make them better farmers, teachers, and doctors. Instead of throwing money at an already corrupt government to try and get them to educate the populace, the idea seemed to be to make an affordable educational tool for the people, empowering them.
Unfortuantely, it's now clear that corrupt governments and warlords will be getting their hands on the laptops anyway, so the chances of even half of the laptops reaching children seem pretty small.
As a low-level character on a different server, I'm very disappointed. I had been donating what I could (copper bars, linen bandages, lower-level stuff). I figured it was a community thing and, even though the dungeons will be old news by the time I finally got there, I would at least be helping the world event. But now I find out that, despite helping, I'm not allowed to witness the event? Even if I managed to survive walking the way there? My last linen bandage has been donated.
People in the forums were complaining that lower-levels weren't helping the collection effort. Seems the lower-level people were in the right this time.
Reading the article, I understood that Nintendo is saying that they are not announcing a redesign this week.
Given how they keep redesigning the GameBoy, I think a DS redesign is pretty likely, personally. But Nintendo likes to keep us all guessing, so we probably won't find out 'til they're almost done with it.
Porting is why I will be getting a Revolution (most likely).
With the weird controller, there will be a lot of games that come out on the Revolution that will not translate well to either of the other systems, I'm thinking. Meanwhile, PS3 and XBox 360 will be sharing titles. I'll just wait and see if there's a list of must-have games and get whichever system has more of them. Costs should have fallen (and supply risen) by that time anyway.
The panel did check the dog. This is an excerpt from the panel's findings as posted on Seoul National University's website http://www.snu.ac.kr/engsnu/
3. Verity of the cloned dog, Snuppy
We also carried out DNA fingerprinting analyses on the cloned dog Snuppy whose generation has been published in Nature in 2005 (Lee BC, Kim MK, Jang G, Oh HJ, Yuda F, et al. 2005. Dogs cloned from adult somatic cells. Nature 436: 641). We obtained somatic tissue from the egg donor, blood samples from Snuppy, from Tie, the dog that provided somatic cells, and from the surrogate mother and engaged three independent test centers for the analyses. Results from analyses of 27 markers that allow distinguishing amongst extremely-inbred animals and of mitochondrial DNA sequencing indicate that Snuppy is a somatic cell clone of Tie.
Add in that he was a hero to his country, and you probably have the right picture. It's one thing to expect a lot of yourself; when all the people around you are watching and waiting for the next big thing, the pressure must have been enormous.
Not that I approve of faking scientific results. This has set stem cell research back in two ways. First, it'll be hard for the public and for science in general to get so excited about results seen again. Also, he did manage to clone a dog, but because of his fraud, he will never have this kind of funding and backing again. A leader has left the field. Ethically, science is better off, but you do have to wonder if he can be so easily replaced.
These included roving phone taps and secret warrants for documents from businesses and hospitals, and for records of library books taken out by private citizens. From BBC
They can look at my library records? Oh, man. I only checked out the Brian Herbert books 'cause I was curious. I'm so sorry...please don't throw me in jail...
This has nothing to do with the children. It has everything to do with the 2008 Presidential election. 'Nough said.
**possibly a spoiler, but if this scenario wasn't obvious to you before, YOU'RE PLAYING THE WRONG GENRE OF GAME** That's what I said first time I fought Dhoulmagus. Still haven't beaten him...
FYI to anyone looking for this game's music.
The OST is in synth. When they released the US version, they put the orchestrated songs on the game. So if you want the music on your game, look for the symphonic version. I'm hoping I get it for Christmas...
BTW, the demo disk had the synth versions, I think. So if anyone noticed a difference, that's it.
Seems like someone finally let the reviewer play the demos that came out a long while back.
"I was a developer for many years before my current role, but I've never been a very good gamer," Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told me. "I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller."
I'm not sure first-person shooters would be the way to go, given comments in other threads about the 360. People who play FPS seem to want HD. I personally can't wait to try out the new controller and console, though. I'm hoping the controller inspires more creativity in game developers.
I wonder what this class counted for? Some kind of sociology or psychology? Or a comp sci elective? Anyway, they probably had to have an account, or promise to get access to one, when signing up for the class. I read the one on being in a guild and skimmed the paper on sexism. Is it just me, or are students really bad at writing papers anymore? Not that this was a graduate course, or anything, but the one on guilds was so full of fluff I thought I was reading a Mallowmar.
Not necessarily. If I kept getting calls from DirecTV after being on the list and telling them not to call me, I'd lodge a complaint after every call they made to me. Can't guestimate how many times a single person would complain, though, so I can't rework the numbers.
Not that they didn't deserve to get fined.
Even though it's shown that they didn't really drop the price that low (at least, without any strings attached), they still had a bit of a discount at the very start. Wasn't it closer to $330 USD at launch? I believe another article (don't remember where) recently said that that's comparable to the PS2's launch price. I guess 40,000 yen is seen as some sort of magical barrier for what people are willing to buy. Same as I won't buy a Coke/Pepsi for $1.25 :)
So, will the DRM be on all BlueRay discs, or just on movies? There was an article (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/10 /1913258&tid=187&tid=10) that mentioned how publishers are frustrated with second-hand sales. Do you think they'll try making game discs for the PS3 that cannot be played on any other PS3? If so, I might have to change my plans for which next generation console to get...
Maybe being able to reach their target market with something "cool" is worth the money Disney will have to put out for the players.
I agree with you on that it would work best as a whole downloadable small game. Maybe like the NeoPets games that so many kids are addicted to. As a child, I would have been very disappointed if I went to McDonalds with my little player and learned that they're no longer distributing the final chunk of the cartoon I'd been collecting. I would salt my own fries with my tears of disillusionment.
But given that I'm seeing "media player" everywhere, I doubt it would have any games on it. Probably, it would just play trailers and music videos, and will fail horribly.
Being a woman, I can tell you that you're totally correct. Having female avatars with skimpy clothing doesn't attract girls. But it doesn't really repel them either. I'm playing Dragon Quest 8 right now; Jessica's...assets...were quite distracting at first, but they're pretty easy to just accept given the good game play and her strong, independent personality. I forgive her because the game is too good (in my opinion) to quit because of it. Some women may look at the images on promotional stuff and get all indignant, but the girls I know who play care more about having fun. Games that attract girls? Less or no senseless killing. We can get all psychoanalytical and hypothesize if that's due to how women's brains are wired by genetics or if it's because of how we're raised differently, but the fact remains the same. Also, collecting stuff. Money, followers, seashells, dirtclods, it doesn't matter. I play Diablo 2. What do I do? I shake down others on the LAN for their gems. I play GTA. What do I do? I do taxi runs for money. Collecting stuff is just plain addictive.
I would have to say as a woman that plays games, I will notice a half-naked well-endowed woman as quickly as a man. I'm not angry about it, I'm just, "Oh great. Two more of those."
Let's not pretend that the female form in a game isn't made to be hot. My husband is playing a female character on World of Warcraft, and an equipment change the other day had him blushing. He said, "I don't want her going around looking like that!" The male form is also unrealistic, but it's hardly ever underdressed by default.
It's interesting to me that you bring up Voltaire. It reminded me of something at the heart of the problem with the .xxx domain.
.xxx sites, the same as their predecesors were listed with pr0n back in the 16th century?
I studied this a few years ago, so my memory is a hint foggy in the way of book titles. Way back when, France would try to censor what was being read for the sake of its citizens. Officals would look for books being snuck in that fell under the catagory of "philosophy." This included everything from outright pr0n to the writing of revolutionaries. Quite a few gems from the time seemed to combine explicit acts with clergymen and royals. In essence, anything that might make the higher-ups look bad was banned.
My point being, will the revolutionaries of tomorrow be forced onto
Or will people still get around it as they did then--sneaking the illicit pages in by embedding them in the middle of bibles and other approved books, er domains?
The New Jersey school district is to pay the child $117,500, right? Um, is that $117,500 of tax money? That's a lot of chicken nuggets and little milk cartons...
NM. Got it now. Not down, just very busy. His e-mail to the guys seems to hint that he'll claim that they made it all up. I certainly hope Gabe and Tycho come back with a libel suit, but maybe they'll see that as lowering themselves to his level...