However useful an iPod add-on is, there's no way I'm getting an iPod until Apple fixes their online store's engraving widget. There's no reason the U.S. store should be restricted from using accented and international characters when international versions of the store can have them. If I want to make ascii art in a two line engraving, I need access to some of the stuff from JIS. (If you think this is petty, consider that the version of the store for French-speaking Canadians doesn't allow the use of accented characters.) Of course, as long as Apple refuses to provide a complaint e-mail address that's read by a human, the issue will probably remain.
I actually thought it was Detective Conan for a moment, but I guess a mystery-solving MMORPG wouldn't be any good. Then again, since when does a bad premise stop an MMO from getting made?
If the result of the Wii is that in the subsequent generation people consider motion-sensitive 3D-positioned controls to be both as fundamental and mundane as analog joysticks are today, then I don't think you could call it anything but a smashing success.
Especially because Nintendo owns the patent on it.
The BBC version of this story was entitled, "Game Industry faces Serial Killer." (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5168320.stm ) For the life of me, I thought Jack Thompson had gone on a killing spree. They also had a story, "Brain Sensor allows mind-control," which was referring to controlling things with your mind, not controlling someone else's mind.
First they came for the murderers and I said nothing because I wasn't a murderer.
Then they came for the rapists and I said nothing because I wasn't a rapist.
Then they came for the filesharers and there was nobody left to rape or murder them.
Obviously it was the police department 's misjudgement of the serious of the matter. Otherwise they would either have got a subpoena (if it was actually important) or not bothered (if it wasn't).
I always thought it was great having Guitar Freaks and Drummania linked together in the arcade. Of course, for a few versions there was also Keyboardmania, which was brutally hard. (22 keys + 2-way effect wheel is a lot harder than three button guitar or 6pc drum kit.)
But they'd probably sell their original DS to a place that sells used ones (since such stores were offering a lot for them, although with the DS lite being out the offer price has probably decreased a little), and someone else probably bought that DS used, meaning that the sale of the DS lite unit did increase the installed base.
Give me a Namco RPG any day. Or something new from the team behind Skies of Arcadia. Hell, if you must stick to Squenix, why not compare to Chrono Trigger? You can tell FF6 didn't have any replay value because I lent my copy to someone, finally got it back after a year, my save (near the end, but still unbeaten) had been deleted, and I felt no urge to start over. I played a little FF7, but I realized I was playing to see FMVs which weren't very good and stopped. Didn't even get as far as Aeris dying. Good thing I was just borrowing the Playstation.
...you wish you had named everyone the same as the villain (Kefka, Sephiroth, or what have you) to make the conversations more interesting. (C'mon Sephiroth, we have to go rescue Sephiroth from Sephiroth! et al.)
I went to University in Ontario, where the drinking age is 19. (Much to the dismay of one of my friends from Quebec, where the drinking age is 18, since he went from being able to drink back to it being illegal for a few months.) The only alcohol I consumed during my 5 years (including about 2 years of internships with no summers off) was a small chocolate cup of Bailey's at a friends bachelor party, and I thought it would be better without the alcohol in it. I guess I'm not the only one who realized I'd still need my liver after I graduated. (Admittedly the only alcohol I've consumed since then is a small amount of champaigne each time our project reached a milestone.)
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It's not about the engraving, it's the principle of the thing. Would you shop from a store with a sign in front that said 'no foreigners'?
However useful an iPod add-on is, there's no way I'm getting an iPod until Apple fixes their online store's engraving widget. There's no reason the U.S. store should be restricted from using accented and international characters when international versions of the store can have them. If I want to make ascii art in a two line engraving, I need access to some of the stuff from JIS. (If you think this is petty, consider that the version of the store for French-speaking Canadians doesn't allow the use of accented characters.) Of course, as long as Apple refuses to provide a complaint e-mail address that's read by a human, the issue will probably remain.
Naw, he'll just issue a signing statement.
I actually thought it was Detective Conan for a moment, but I guess a mystery-solving MMORPG wouldn't be any good. Then again, since when does a bad premise stop an MMO from getting made?
Don't forget Wrecking Crew, where Mario and Luigi take hammers to a building. It had a level editor!
Can't wait, can you? http://myspace.com/JohnTucker
Guitar Hero is a clone of Guitar Freaks, which Konami released to arcades about six years ago.
The BBC version of this story was entitled, "Game Industry faces Serial Killer." (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5168320.stm ) For the life of me, I thought Jack Thompson had gone on a killing spree. They also had a story, "Brain Sensor allows mind-control," which was referring to controlling things with your mind, not controlling someone else's mind.
Somehow "D" is not as awe-inspiring as Niv-Mizzet or Smaug stalking you in 3D. YMMV.
VGCats got there first. http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=192
Someone's got Cormen/Leiserson/Rivest/Stein's Introduction to Algorithms on the brain.
So what you're saying is to read his FAQ so you don't ask a doop question?
First they came for the murderers and I said nothing because I wasn't a murderer. Then they came for the rapists and I said nothing because I wasn't a rapist. Then they came for the filesharers and there was nobody left to rape or murder them.
Is that 99% literacy rate for any language, or English?
Obviously it was the police department 's misjudgement of the serious of the matter. Otherwise they would either have got a subpoena (if it was actually important) or not bothered (if it wasn't).
I always thought it was great having Guitar Freaks and Drummania linked together in the arcade. Of course, for a few versions there was also Keyboardmania, which was brutally hard. (22 keys + 2-way effect wheel is a lot harder than three button guitar or 6pc drum kit.)
But they'd probably sell their original DS to a place that sells used ones (since such stores were offering a lot for them, although with the DS lite being out the offer price has probably decreased a little), and someone else probably bought that DS used, meaning that the sale of the DS lite unit did increase the installed base.
Same thing happens to Japanese text. It happened to a post of mine where I was trying to explain that you can say Wii in Japanese using archaic kana.
Optimized for what pipeline length? The wrong one for the competition's processor?
Give me a Namco RPG any day. Or something new from the team behind Skies of Arcadia. Hell, if you must stick to Squenix, why not compare to Chrono Trigger? You can tell FF6 didn't have any replay value because I lent my copy to someone, finally got it back after a year, my save (near the end, but still unbeaten) had been deleted, and I felt no urge to start over. I played a little FF7, but I realized I was playing to see FMVs which weren't very good and stopped. Didn't even get as far as Aeris dying. Good thing I was just borrowing the Playstation.
...you wish you had named everyone the same as the villain (Kefka, Sephiroth, or what have you) to make the conversations more interesting. (C'mon Sephiroth, we have to go rescue Sephiroth from Sephiroth! et al.)
Ruby?
I went to University in Ontario, where the drinking age is 19. (Much to the dismay of one of my friends from Quebec, where the drinking age is 18, since he went from being able to drink back to it being illegal for a few months.) The only alcohol I consumed during my 5 years (including about 2 years of internships with no summers off) was a small chocolate cup of Bailey's at a friends bachelor party, and I thought it would be better without the alcohol in it. I guess I'm not the only one who realized I'd still need my liver after I graduated. (Admittedly the only alcohol I've consumed since then is a small amount of champaigne each time our project reached a milestone.)
Can we coin such a phrase a "Yahoo Serious Festival"?