I like how the post talks about making search an efficient market, but completely discounts another important market that is already a lot closer to efficient: labour. If you're good enough to write an ungameable search engine, you're going to have substantial job offers from at least Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
Multiplayer pretty much never has a story, and even when it does, how often is it a story worth a damn? I think co-op story mode is the only exception, and most things with co-op tend to separate it from the story mode. "Replay value" is a euphemism for "What you do when the story is done." I either start the story over or start a new one. Once you divest the world from its story, you're only one step removed from self-insertion fanfic.
It's more like, "I don't like coffee, so stop charging me for coffee I don't want, delaying my breakfast until the coffee is ready, and telling me coffee is the drink of the future."
Church devised the Lambda Calculus and was largely ignored. Then Turing devised the Turing Machine. Once everyone accepted the Turing Machine, Turing proved that it was equivalent to the Lambda Calculus. In other words, functional programming wasn't a step in the right direction--procedural programming was a step in the wrong direction!
Face 1: Games are getting uncreative. There are too many Maddens and not enough Shadows of the Colossi. Down with EA!
Face 2: Yay, modchips! Now we don't have to pay for games!
Madden's margins are so fat it can afford to lose 10% of all sales to piracy much more easily than more creative fare that needs those sales to live, especially when it weeds the competition out of the industry. To paraphrase, a rising tide lifts all ships, but a hurricane sinks the small ones first.
Now I feel bad about voting for Tom Nook's inclusion in SSBB.
Wait, you'd get to beat him up! Okay, scratch that, I feel really good about voting for him.
Apparently being a loss leader for the PS3 software format isn't working out. I wonder if people who are into Blu-Ray buy enough movies to make a PS3 a good loss leader for that. Maybe Sony needs to make a $450 Blu-Ray player that they lose money on, but not as much as they lose on the PS3. (Or one that breaks even for them.)
I've tried a CobaltFlux pad, and I wasn't impressed. The thing stopping me from getting this is the housing market in the SF bay area. (I probably wouldn't actually buy the machine direct from Amazon, just so you know.)
I can't believe Drive is 115MB for such a rudimentary game! I mean, the visuals are absolutely primitive! Where is all the space going, the soundtrack?
I do think QR codes are awesome. After all, why give out a pamphlet with a bunch of info printed on it when you can just put up a QR code that goes to a website with that info on it? (Answer: everyone has cell phones but tourists.) I especially like how when you enter Japan, your visa isn't a stamp--it's a sticker, and the sticker has a QR code on it.
A friend of mine once told me, "Coffee with stuff in it is for children." I tried to refute this claim by citing Irish Coffee, but he claimed that this, too, was children's coffee. Eventually I argued that a triple tall latte could not be children's coffee because that coffee's bigger than that child.
SPOILER ALERT!
For those of you who never played it (or its Gamecube rerelease), the Metal Gear was built with the intent of launching nuclear weapons using a railgun, sidestepping the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty requirements calling for the elimination of ICBMs.
I definitely know the feeling. I used to play in campaigns with my roommate as the DM. It was clear that he would rather have been a player than the DM, since he DMed like a player would play: He tried to kill all the enemies. Which was us, his players. Of course this is a recipe for disaster.
In one example, our party chased a group of Drow to a portal to the underdark. Half the group went ahead with the thing we were trying to get form them, leaving the other half to stall/kill us. We beat them up and got a ring which activated the portal. I used it to go through, but there was no sign on the other side of where the Drow had gone, so I tried to go back through the portal to rejoin the party. Nope, the ring was a one-way key to the portal. So I follow the wall for a while until he makes a pit that I have to Alter Self to fly across, and I lose the wall on the other side as his excuse for me wandering up to a Vampire's banquet. He has the vampire level me up to whichever level you need to be to turn into a Vampire instead of a Vampire-Spawn, then turns me into a vampire (who of course is dominated by her sire). I tore up my character sheet rather than let him apply the vampire template to my character and use her as a villain against the rest of the party.
I never played in a campaign with him again--not even one where he was just a player.
I predict that he survives the simulation by sleeping with the simulated female enemy captain. The instructors at the academy close that loophole, and out of shame ask Kirk to kindly tell people he just cheated.
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They don't need Everybody Votes to send your play data to them. They could just include it in a firmware update that does something else.
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Modernize one.I like how the post talks about making search an efficient market, but completely discounts another important market that is already a lot closer to efficient: labour. If you're good enough to write an ungameable search engine, you're going to have substantial job offers from at least Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
No love for SMAP?
Multiplayer pretty much never has a story, and even when it does, how often is it a story worth a damn? I think co-op story mode is the only exception, and most things with co-op tend to separate it from the story mode. "Replay value" is a euphemism for "What you do when the story is done." I either start the story over or start a new one. Once you divest the world from its story, you're only one step removed from self-insertion fanfic.
It's more like, "I don't like coffee, so stop charging me for coffee I don't want, delaying my breakfast until the coffee is ready, and telling me coffee is the drink of the future."
Church devised the Lambda Calculus and was largely ignored. Then Turing devised the Turing Machine. Once everyone accepted the Turing Machine, Turing proved that it was equivalent to the Lambda Calculus. In other words, functional programming wasn't a step in the right direction--procedural programming was a step in the wrong direction!
Face 1: Games are getting uncreative. There are too many Maddens and not enough Shadows of the Colossi. Down with EA!
Face 2: Yay, modchips! Now we don't have to pay for games!
Madden's margins are so fat it can afford to lose 10% of all sales to piracy much more easily than more creative fare that needs those sales to live, especially when it weeds the competition out of the industry. To paraphrase, a rising tide lifts all ships, but a hurricane sinks the small ones first.
Now I feel bad about voting for Tom Nook's inclusion in SSBB.
Wait, you'd get to beat him up! Okay, scratch that, I feel really good about voting for him.
Apparently being a loss leader for the PS3 software format isn't working out. I wonder if people who are into Blu-Ray buy enough movies to make a PS3 a good loss leader for that. Maybe Sony needs to make a $450 Blu-Ray player that they lose money on, but not as much as they lose on the PS3. (Or one that breaks even for them.)
I've tried a CobaltFlux pad, and I wasn't impressed. The thing stopping me from getting this is the housing market in the SF bay area. (I probably wouldn't actually buy the machine direct from Amazon, just so you know.)
It's a shame home DDR can never be as good as the arcade, but I appreciate the gesture. (No pun intended.)
I can't believe Drive is 115MB for such a rudimentary game! I mean, the visuals are absolutely primitive! Where is all the space going, the soundtrack?
In Canada, violence is harmful and sex not so much! It's backwards land!
Coins may be more expensive to make, but they last something like 20 times as long.
Well, if your computer has no compiled code on it, then it's vacuously true to say that you have all the source code too.
I do think QR codes are awesome. After all, why give out a pamphlet with a bunch of info printed on it when you can just put up a QR code that goes to a website with that info on it? (Answer: everyone has cell phones but tourists.) I especially like how when you enter Japan, your visa isn't a stamp--it's a sticker, and the sticker has a QR code on it.
A friend of mine once told me, "Coffee with stuff in it is for children." I tried to refute this claim by citing Irish Coffee, but he claimed that this, too, was children's coffee. Eventually I argued that a triple tall latte could not be children's coffee because that coffee's bigger than that child.
SPOILER ALERT!
For those of you who never played it (or its Gamecube rerelease), the Metal Gear was built with the intent of launching nuclear weapons using a railgun, sidestepping the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty requirements calling for the elimination of ICBMs.
I definitely know the feeling. I used to play in campaigns with my roommate as the DM. It was clear that he would rather have been a player than the DM, since he DMed like a player would play: He tried to kill all the enemies. Which was us, his players. Of course this is a recipe for disaster.
In one example, our party chased a group of Drow to a portal to the underdark. Half the group went ahead with the thing we were trying to get form them, leaving the other half to stall/kill us. We beat them up and got a ring which activated the portal. I used it to go through, but there was no sign on the other side of where the Drow had gone, so I tried to go back through the portal to rejoin the party. Nope, the ring was a one-way key to the portal. So I follow the wall for a while until he makes a pit that I have to Alter Self to fly across, and I lose the wall on the other side as his excuse for me wandering up to a Vampire's banquet. He has the vampire level me up to whichever level you need to be to turn into a Vampire instead of a Vampire-Spawn, then turns me into a vampire (who of course is dominated by her sire). I tore up my character sheet rather than let him apply the vampire template to my character and use her as a villain against the rest of the party.
I never played in a campaign with him again--not even one where he was just a player.
I predict that he survives the simulation by sleeping with the simulated female enemy captain. The instructors at the academy close that loophole, and out of shame ask Kirk to kindly tell people he just cheated.
I was going to say sharks (and it probably would have been a good place for that), but I can't beat a Futurama reference.