1) drop it, causing the car to do something completely unintentional
2) shift position (I often change from sitting up/lying down multiple times during a gaming session)
3) have trouble initially calibrating it (anyone who's ever played a space combat sim knows about "shopping cart wheel syndrome")
4) damage it (it may prove to be useless if you can't turn off the motion-sensor)
5) try to play in motion (isn't a big selling point of GB that you can play in the car/on a plane?)
I was in ROTC in college for a semester. You'd be surprised how tiring an otherwise easy motion can be when repeated. The best example I can think of is "cherry-pickers." You stand feet-apart, arms held up at shoulder-height. Lock your four fingers together and clap them against your thumbs while keeping your arms up. It's real easy at first but gets very difficult as time goes on.
We're used to button-pressing because alot of other devices require the same movement. We've adapted. Suddenly throwing in a new, repetetive movement that you like enough to perform for hours on end might just be interesting.
If Nintendo creates a really interesting video game that little Bobby exerts himself on, drops a few unnecessary pounds and increases his cardio-vascular system, how is this a bad thing?
Because Billy, Tommy, and Frankie might not take to it. Nintendo's whole opinion on the matter seems to be "If you like it so far, just wait and see what else we can do!. If not, fuck you."
We've actually done studies in this country that show people will sometimes resign themselves to a so-so tv show if the remote control is missing rather than get up and change channels until they find something better. This is not a viable business strategy.
You got that right. The controller is completely central to gameplay, and it has undergone essentially zero changes since the PS1
Sometimes things are just plain fine for awile and don't really need any adjusting. The bicycle has had the same design for at least the last 50 years. Would you be willing to try one from a company that decided to be "innovative" and rotate the handlebars 180 degrees?
I have to use Itunes because I haven't found anything better to copy stuff to my ipod, but it really is the 5th horse of the apocalypse.
Whenever it's doing anything... loading up, copying, or playing, my system flat out stops all other processing. Like the Pakleds in Star Trek, my computer simply "will not go."
Yeah, but like idiot me who didn't read the whole summary, the idea of an "original copy" is going to resonate very strongly with the casual gamer who hasn't been paying attention.
Still, that wouldn't have prevented this. As mentioned many other times already, the mod involves pasting a barechested male texture over the female body size. I'm sure the same thing could be done with any of the Resident Evil or Dynasty Warrior titles. Are they all to be relabelled "mature" now?
AOL isn't the only company to face charges that it improperly blocks legitimate messages. But, as the world's largest ISP for years, it has long borne the brunt of complaints from mass e-mailers over the problem.
Well, then. You can simply pay a fee if you want to continue that Lord of the Rings Mailing List! (http://www.out-law.com/page-6611)
pull all of the current stock of the game to relabel
Congratulations. Short of airdropping copies of the game over each major american city, there is no other possible action that would ensure people previously fence-sitting on the original version of the game will go through considerable effort to obtain a "real" copy.
Because that's one more layer being rendered. For every character on-screen. Every single frame.
The first rule of MMORPG is to conserve processing power. That means the code that gets used most often (combat and player body) needs to be as clean as possible.
Now see, I'm pretty sure google doesn't take unassigned words and randomly attach companies to them -- because the companies would (rightly) get pissed off for precisely this reason.
So, what ass in marketing actually decided purchasing these types of search terms was a good idea. Wasn't the original text for ebay's ad was "Get great prices on..." which raised all hell when you looked up "african slaves." I seem to recall the verbage changing soon after.
Sure, it'd be an unprecedented travesty of justice for google to start censoring searches in the US. But a fat rebate-style check to all 300 million americans would sort of take the sting away:)
Or what? They'll arrest them? Superheroes are used to fighting other super-beings. If pissed off, how many puny humans could they kill before getting taken down?
This could turn out to be made of Win and Good after all.
The idea that under 18s should be banned from public parks would immediately be seen for the stupid overprotective reactionism that it is.
Um, really? What shining ray of hope do you live in that still thinks so? My local park closes at 8pm year-round. Kids (who else uses a park?) can and have been charged with tresspassing. Granted, it's usually in addition to other charges involving drugs, alcohol, or vandalism.
Heck, they might decide it's not really worth the trouble and just find some older kids to drink and smoke weed with. Like the other 154% of teenagers.
Does pressing F5 to bypass autoexec.bat and config.sys still work? That's how I got around all my dad's attempts to lock down the family computer.
In all seriousness, the kids that this article is about are likely vastly more capable of (de)programming a firewall then their parents. Hence the need for the latter to seek a legal solution to their problems instead of a technological one.
Clever, but the courts don't like hearing that. See, there's 2 parts of every crime:
mens rea = intent
actus reus = action
When a college kid gets caught hooking up with a highschool girl who snuck into his fraternity party, he gets charged for the action of statutory rape -- regardless of what he thought at the time.
When old men show up at the house of a "teenager" for sex when it was really a cop on the other computer, they're charged with the intent to commit statutory rape.
The system is supposed to function so that BOTH parts need to be commited for you to be guilty of a crime. But as you can see, it doesn't work that way.
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Except when you:
1) drop it, causing the car to do something completely unintentional
2) shift position (I often change from sitting up/lying down multiple times during a gaming session)
3) have trouble initially calibrating it (anyone who's ever played a space combat sim knows about "shopping cart wheel syndrome")
4) damage it (it may prove to be useless if you can't turn off the motion-sensor) 5) try to play in motion (isn't a big selling point of GB that you can play in the car/on a plane?)
I was in ROTC in college for a semester. You'd be surprised how tiring an otherwise easy motion can be when repeated. The best example I can think of is "cherry-pickers." You stand feet-apart, arms held up at shoulder-height. Lock your four fingers together and clap them against your thumbs while keeping your arms up. It's real easy at first but gets very difficult as time goes on.
We're used to button-pressing because alot of other devices require the same movement. We've adapted. Suddenly throwing in a new, repetetive movement that you like enough to perform for hours on end might just be interesting.
If Nintendo creates a really interesting video game that little Bobby exerts himself on, drops a few unnecessary pounds and increases his cardio-vascular system, how is this a bad thing?
Because Billy, Tommy, and Frankie might not take to it. Nintendo's whole opinion on the matter seems to be "If you like it so far, just wait and see what else we can do!. If not, fuck you."
We've actually done studies in this country that show people will sometimes resign themselves to a so-so tv show if the remote control is missing rather than get up and change channels until they find something better. This is not a viable business strategy.
You got that right. The controller is completely central to gameplay, and it has undergone essentially zero changes since the PS1
Sometimes things are just plain fine for awile and don't really need any adjusting. The bicycle has had the same design for at least the last 50 years. Would you be willing to try one from a company that decided to be "innovative" and rotate the handlebars 180 degrees?
I have to use Itunes because I haven't found anything better to copy stuff to my ipod, but it really is the 5th horse of the apocalypse.
... loading up, copying, or playing, my system flat out stops all other processing. Like the Pakleds in Star Trek, my computer simply "will not go."
Whenever it's doing
anything
That is made of Fail and More Fail.
I like stories :)
Yeah, but like idiot me who didn't read the whole summary, the idea of an "original copy" is going to resonate very strongly with the casual gamer who hasn't been paying attention.
Yay, it's friday!
Um, yeah. What the hell was I thinking? :)
Still, that wouldn't have prevented this. As mentioned many other times already, the mod involves pasting a barechested male texture over the female body size. I'm sure the same thing could be done with any of the Resident Evil or Dynasty Warrior titles. Are they all to be relabelled "mature" now?
AOL isn't the only company to face charges that it improperly blocks legitimate messages. But, as the world's largest ISP for years, it has long borne the brunt of complaints from mass e-mailers over the problem.
Well, then. You can simply pay a fee if you want to continue that Lord of the Rings Mailing List! (http://www.out-law.com/page-6611)
where does the matter/energy come from that creates the next Big Bang?
Obviously, after it reaches the edge of the universe, it creeps back along the bottom to start from the center again.
pull all of the current stock of the game to relabel
Congratulations. Short of airdropping copies of the game over each major american city, there is no other possible action that would ensure people previously fence-sitting on the original version of the game will go through considerable effort to obtain a "real" copy.
To be fair, they could put Mario in a permanent goomba shoe for modesty, and I'd totally buy it.
I am the cutest invincible shoe rider ever! Mario! Mario! He's in the ULTRA green SHOOEEE!
I'm pretty sure a few mainstream comics have had butts. Maybe dark, shadowy, terminator-style "artistic" butts, but it's a start.
Because that's one more layer being rendered. For every character on-screen. Every single frame.
The first rule of MMORPG is to conserve processing power. That means the code that gets used most often (combat and player body) needs to be as clean as possible.
Now see, I'm pretty sure google doesn't take unassigned words and randomly attach companies to them -- because the companies would (rightly) get pissed off for precisely this reason.
So, what ass in marketing actually decided purchasing these types of search terms was a good idea. Wasn't the original text for ebay's ad was "Get great prices on..." which raised all hell when you looked up "african slaves." I seem to recall the verbage changing soon after.
The public, of course. Right?
:)
Sure, it'd be an unprecedented travesty of justice for google to start censoring searches in the US. But a fat rebate-style check to all 300 million americans would sort of take the sting away
Reminds me of this:
ANAKIN: We need a system where the politicians sit down and
discuss the problem, agree what's in the best interests of
all the people, and then do it.
PADMÉ: That is exactly what we do. The trouble is that
people don't always agree. In fact, they hardly ever do.
ANAKIN: Then they should be made to.
Nice Mac you got there. Would be a shame if anything were to... you know... "happen" to it. Just sayin'...
In other words, if you want to get at Superman, you go after Lois Lane.
That's just going to piss him off even more. Remember the Green Lantern? Killing his wife worked out reeaal well.
Hmm, interesting turn. Sounds kinda like the Alex Ross series Kingdom Come, and I really liked that.
Superheroes are ordered to register as human WMDs
Or what? They'll arrest them? Superheroes are used to fighting other super-beings. If pissed off, how many puny humans could they kill before getting taken down?
This could turn out to be made of Win and Good after all.
The idea that under 18s should be banned from public parks would immediately be seen for the stupid overprotective reactionism that it is.
Um, really? What shining ray of hope do you live in that still thinks so? My local park closes at 8pm year-round. Kids (who else uses a park?) can and have been charged with tresspassing. Granted, it's usually in addition to other charges involving drugs, alcohol, or vandalism.
Heck, they might decide it's not really worth the trouble and just find some older kids to drink and smoke weed with. Like the other 154% of teenagers.
Does pressing F5 to bypass autoexec.bat and config.sys still work? That's how I got around all my dad's attempts to lock down the family computer.
In all seriousness, the kids that this article is about are likely vastly more capable of (de)programming a firewall then their parents. Hence the need for the latter to seek a legal solution to their problems instead of a technological one.
Clever, but the courts don't like hearing that. See, there's 2 parts of every crime:
mens rea = intent
actus reus = action
When a college kid gets caught hooking up with a highschool girl who snuck into his fraternity party, he gets charged for the action of statutory rape -- regardless of what he thought at the time.
When old men show up at the house of a "teenager" for sex when it was really a cop on the other computer, they're charged with the intent to commit statutory rape.
The system is supposed to function so that BOTH parts need to be commited for you to be guilty of a crime. But as you can see, it doesn't work that way.