I've been saying since this format war started though that if someone REALLY wants to win, they should just pony up a ton of money to get George Lucas to release the unmolested, Greedo-shoots-first Trilogy in their format. Sweet! Mr. Ballmer's going to love this idea! Mmmmm, I can almost taste that big bonus now...
...but at what speed? Specifically, what speed broadband? Specifically, will there definition keep up with the old or (hopefully soon to be new) definition The wording a bit vague, but it is nice to see atleast one politician doing what I voted them in to do. They might have failed to ring in a National Broadband Act, but a series of statewide acts will eventually accomplish it just as well.
I hope your not starting a buisness selling the pointers, because your competition has a huge head start. You may not have a new buisness, but at least you still have your humor...
As far as I can see, it's an Alien francise RPG and appears to still be in development. Wikipedia also mentions a "Project Georgia" as an apparently separated Sega RPG deal of a new franchise.
I've thought the same thing, incidently thinking about it the day it was announced so it was quite a pleasent suprise to hear the announcement. As far as Bioware itself, yeah I guess Mario RPG style isn't really there thing, but then again they're quasi-real time combat style from KOTOR does seem a little better suited than (imho the superior) turn-based system. Atleast for a game staring Sonic as it's main character, it would.
I think they could pull this off, but they'd have to provide levels/zones/environments suited towards some rather well defined characters. We can't have Sonic fast just because he gets a +3 speed bonus over other characters for every level he earns. The RPG portion would have to run in the paths of abilities (like different jumps, rolls, attacks) rather than stats, levels and weapons (though it might work for some characters.) The environments themselves would have to be a lot more "on-rails" designed than other RPGs, or you again lose the feel playing as Sonic. Personally,I don't think an RPG really seem like it would work with Sonic, atleast not for everybody. A complex, traditional, multi-path RPG does however seem perfectly suited towards a certain villain of 300 IQ in the Sonic Universe...
Are you a tester or a journalist? Otherwise, you haven't played it yet and all you know comes from movies and a few preview gameplays. As far as I've seen none of these indicate that TF2 will be any more or less fast paced fun than TFC. Teamwork's important in TFC, too; your team's not gonna win with just medics and scouts (atleast not against a competent enemy team.)
As for bunny hopping, I've not seen it in the movies nor heard about it in the previews, but that doesn't mean it wont be there. Even if there's no speed bonus, it'll still useful to avoiding shots to the head. Soldier Rocket jumping is still in (we've seen it in the videos even) so how is grenade jumping an exploit and rocket jumping a cherished class tactic? Grenade jumping may even still be in, but limited to the only class with grenades now, the demo man. But the point is we don't know. Maybe it's because I play engineer and the bunny hopping didn't do much against my rocket turret or maybe because it couldn't bypass a fight faster than my teleport pad (which thankfully Valve ignored the complaints of unfairness and left it, along with my only reason to enter the enemy base, in) but I just think calling bunny hopping an exploit is just exaggeration. A cheap tactic, maybe, but not an exploit.
In the future, email shall become a sixth sense, much as we adapted visual (or auditory) senses as channels for communication, email shall inversely become adapted from a communication into a sense. Managed by complex multichannel filtering AI, we will begin to think "Ad for product; company is stupid" and "Incoming work; avoid, avoid."
I've never understood the whole mothership fear thing. All it does is check for updates, it's not like you can remove a purchased game from your account (you can delete local content, ie. the stuff on your computer, but the server side account record still shows that you are entitled to that game) so it's not authenticating your ownership or anything (that's why even 3rd party mod stuff triggers it; it checks for update entries for 'mod z' sees none and continues on.) What with the fear? Is it a fear of something hidden? A fear of loss of control? Or is it some fear/anger I don't understand, like dial-up?
I shall only hope for Sonic if they include a certain villain from the series as well. I'm a fan of games like SNK vs Capcom, Marvel vs Capcom, ect, so I think I'd enjoy this kind of cross-series battle. Sonic and Mario at the Olympics sets the precident, even if it is a lame marketing tie in, so I guess here's hoping.
The Protoss Mothership will have not 'equivalent' in that the Terran and Zerg have no super unit that they can only have one of, but they will have counters. This is the kind of difference in races I want to see. A real difference in the build structure, the buildings, and the units means more variety of tactics and more fun. I can forgive the lack of a new race if they really do a good job differening the three normal races. Rather than having similar tech trees, I hope to see a complete dichotomy between the three. The recent Rise of Legends is a pretty good example of this, although there could still be more difference. In RoL, switching between races for the first time usually leaves you completly lost and confused, but once you get past the names and images, they still maintain a similar tech tree between the races, with only a handful of major differences in the building (granted those differences are deep rooted in the different stragies of each race, but there could have been more.)
Starcraft already has a good bit of differentiation between the races, but there could be so much more. I could see each of the three races' buildings and tech trees taking on more characteristics of the races' themselves. Protoss should still be a strong, yet immoble build race, though the flexable teleportation and mobile pylons do serve to balance overall immobility. Terrans could be mobile, but more modular than before, with more CC addon slots and types and perhaps more addons for other buildings. Let the terrans be flexable with enough mobility as before but at the cost of the flexability the abandoned addons would provide. For instance the terrans could have access to different unit types and enhance units in different ways depending on what addons are activated. Perhaps the Reaper would be active with one addon to the barracks, but a different addon allows for medics. The Zerg have some awesome building tricks as it is; I don't know of anyother game (except WCIII) which you lose a harvester to build their buildings. But the Zerg could do more; perhaps encourage the player to expand the creep far and wide by giving an extra larva spawn at each creep colony to enhance the overwhelming force and plague-like gameplay nature of the zerg. The Zerg should be all about expanding, flexability and mobility; overwhelming forces and expanding across the whole of the map in infestation as they go.
A while back, there was info on TF2 that stated PC gamers would get cross-platform battles with the 360 users. I do not know how the online works for the 360, so if this Live is something separatly implemented selectivly in Online support, I would not know. But from my understanding, it would seem that only the gold Xbox 360 users would get to face PC users in TF2. More over, does this mean that we PC users will only have access to 360 users via this Live on PC (and thus through Vista?) Anyone with a better understanding of Live and the cross-platform agreement, that could enlighten me? What a pity if it is true; I was looking foreward to pounding the consolers.
I know this is a joke, but still I'd bet a George Lucas style Terminator would turn out pretty awesome. The francise is coming off of a low note, ie T3, and with nothing but the future war setting left, it would look pretty sweet. All the battle sequences from episode II and III were rather spectacular in my opinion, and a future war Terminator movie done in the same style might be the kind of new direction the francise needs. It's not like there needs to be much character story, everyone's pretty much setup in their relations to the main players, and its not as if a political side story would appear in the middle an extinction war. So, that means, no romance plot, no starchy politics, and a freaking pre-destined on-the-rails plotline (thanks a lot T3.) So what's left to make the movie? SFX, explosions, creative war machines, more explosions, fancy CGI/models, and zetaflops worth of more explosions! A George Lucas style Terminator 4 would rock!
He said they will be for TV, similar to the Clone Wars series, and about 1 hour long each. He's already said he resigned from making [theater] films and Indy 4 will be his last involvement.
Whether the variety of snacks has changed in the last 3 years is not my concern, but rather if the snacks themselves have changed in the last 3 years. You've never had old chewing gum until you've cut your gums on a stick shard.
Of course, we certainly know the working evironment can be too opulent as well. I'm looking at you, Ion Storm
We live in a world where people will trade their password for a bar of chocolate. In many cases, they don't need to trade the chocolate because we also live in a world where people name their passwords after chocolate.
If people would just behave themselves, buy better locks, and gets some guns, we wouldn't need the police. If politicians would act 100% in line with the will of the people and the constitution, we wouldn't need the courts. If...
Humans act as fractures of a whole; it's called society. A person does what that person does best and others make up for the failings. This extends to our software as well. When we try to consolidate too much, we get monocultures with which problems being to become transparent to their creators.
I dunno about anyone else, but when I try to fix something, I tend to make it worse or even break more things before I fix the problem. Making another survivable world would teach us a lot about how to fix our own, without making things worse on our own planet first.
Other arguments about global natural disasters, such as asteroid impacts, collapse of the earth's magnetic field, the eventual burnout of our own sun, ect, also provide reasons why the earth is not enough.
In other news, Congress continues to sluggishly review sluggishly review H.R.2060: Internet Radio Equality Act. If you write a senator (or actually, house member) perhaps one should mention support for this.
While your writing, put in a bad word about this one. Colleges don't need to be wasting time and money trying to stop software piracy on campuse. Oh, and maybe this one, too.
Perhaps if some energy tax-credit bill were to be introduced to improve tax credit laws and "Allow[s] a tax credit for the full amount of qualified photovoltaic property expenditures (currently, limited to 30%)" then that might improve people's willingness to buy them, too. (Don't wait, write your congress person today and get this thing out of commitee!)
Calling the Sun a dwarf star is misleading. In terms of stars there are dwarf and giant categories, but for planets there is (now I guess) dwarf planets, planets, and gas giant planets. Our sun, is a dwarf star, but that is also called a main sequence star. Pluto is not exactly your typical planet it would seem.
Then again, I am of the mind that says pluto should be considered a planet, since even our own and those like it are dwarfed by the massive giants by many times more than it would seem we dwarf pluto. If we're going to make these kinds of petty changes like with pluto, we should just reorganize the entire system into a single 'collections of matter' scale, starting with the particles, moving up through comets, planets, gas giants, then onto stars, nebula, galaxies, what-have-yous, up to the universe itself. And we'll give these collectives a unified naming scheme so lame and mundane yet extensable and modular that it would make even Taxonomists cry themselves to sleep.
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Considering it had antiseptic phenols, I would guess it would 'taste' like anti-septic sprays: like a numb tongue.
...such as some seriously retro drumsticks.
Oops, please ignore the second 'Specifically.' I meant to delete it after I reminded myself just what the new definition would be...
...but at what speed? Specifically, what speed broadband? Specifically, will there definition keep up with the old or (hopefully soon to be new) definition The wording a bit vague, but it is nice to see atleast one politician doing what I voted them in to do. They might have failed to ring in a National Broadband Act, but a series of statewide acts will eventually accomplish it just as well.
I hope your not starting a buisness selling the pointers, because your competition has a huge head start. You may not have a new buisness, but at least you still have your humor...
As far as I can see, it's an Alien francise RPG and appears to still be in development. Wikipedia also mentions a "Project Georgia" as an apparently separated Sega RPG deal of a new franchise.
I've thought the same thing, incidently thinking about it the day it was announced so it was quite a pleasent suprise to hear the announcement. As far as Bioware itself, yeah I guess Mario RPG style isn't really there thing, but then again they're quasi-real time combat style from KOTOR does seem a little better suited than (imho the superior) turn-based system. Atleast for a game staring Sonic as it's main character, it would.
I think they could pull this off, but they'd have to provide levels/zones/environments suited towards some rather well defined characters. We can't have Sonic fast just because he gets a +3 speed bonus over other characters for every level he earns. The RPG portion would have to run in the paths of abilities (like different jumps, rolls, attacks) rather than stats, levels and weapons (though it might work for some characters.) The environments themselves would have to be a lot more "on-rails" designed than other RPGs, or you again lose the feel playing as Sonic. Personally,I don't think an RPG really seem like it would work with Sonic, atleast not for everybody. A complex, traditional, multi-path RPG does however seem perfectly suited towards a certain villain of 300 IQ in the Sonic Universe...
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Ok, I'll be quite about TF2's features then. But I'll stick by my statements pertaining to TFC's bunny hopping.
btw, Metastasis 2 was awesome.
Are you a tester or a journalist? Otherwise, you haven't played it yet and all you know comes from movies and a few preview gameplays. As far as I've seen none of these indicate that TF2 will be any more or less fast paced fun than TFC. Teamwork's important in TFC, too; your team's not gonna win with just medics and scouts (atleast not against a competent enemy team.)
As for bunny hopping, I've not seen it in the movies nor heard about it in the previews, but that doesn't mean it wont be there. Even if there's no speed bonus, it'll still useful to avoiding shots to the head. Soldier Rocket jumping is still in (we've seen it in the videos even) so how is grenade jumping an exploit and rocket jumping a cherished class tactic? Grenade jumping may even still be in, but limited to the only class with grenades now, the demo man. But the point is we don't know. Maybe it's because I play engineer and the bunny hopping didn't do much against my rocket turret or maybe because it couldn't bypass a fight faster than my teleport pad (which thankfully Valve ignored the complaints of unfairness and left it, along with my only reason to enter the enemy base, in) but I just think calling bunny hopping an exploit is just exaggeration. A cheap tactic, maybe, but not an exploit.
In the future, email shall become a sixth sense, much as we adapted visual (or auditory) senses as channels for communication, email shall inversely become adapted from a communication into a sense. Managed by complex multichannel filtering AI, we will begin to think "Ad for product; company is stupid" and "Incoming work; avoid, avoid."
I've never understood the whole mothership fear thing. All it does is check for updates, it's not like you can remove a purchased game from your account (you can delete local content, ie. the stuff on your computer, but the server side account record still shows that you are entitled to that game) so it's not authenticating your ownership or anything (that's why even 3rd party mod stuff triggers it; it checks for update entries for 'mod z' sees none and continues on.) What with the fear? Is it a fear of something hidden? A fear of loss of control? Or is it some fear/anger I don't understand, like dial-up?
Steam will be distributing ATI drivers soon. (see "How would you sum up the current state of the Steam business?" question)
The rest of the two part interview is quite interesting as well.
I shall only hope for Sonic if they include a certain villain from the series as well. I'm a fan of games like SNK vs Capcom, Marvel vs Capcom, ect, so I think I'd enjoy this kind of cross-series battle. Sonic and Mario at the Olympics sets the precident, even if it is a lame marketing tie in, so I guess here's hoping.
The Protoss Mothership will have not 'equivalent' in that the Terran and Zerg have no super unit that they can only have one of, but they will have counters. This is the kind of difference in races I want to see. A real difference in the build structure, the buildings, and the units means more variety of tactics and more fun. I can forgive the lack of a new race if they really do a good job differening the three normal races. Rather than having similar tech trees, I hope to see a complete dichotomy between the three. The recent Rise of Legends is a pretty good example of this, although there could still be more difference. In RoL, switching between races for the first time usually leaves you completly lost and confused, but once you get past the names and images, they still maintain a similar tech tree between the races, with only a handful of major differences in the building (granted those differences are deep rooted in the different stragies of each race, but there could have been more.)
Starcraft already has a good bit of differentiation between the races, but there could be so much more. I could see each of the three races' buildings and tech trees taking on more characteristics of the races' themselves. Protoss should still be a strong, yet immoble build race, though the flexable teleportation and mobile pylons do serve to balance overall immobility. Terrans could be mobile, but more modular than before, with more CC addon slots and types and perhaps more addons for other buildings. Let the terrans be flexable with enough mobility as before but at the cost of the flexability the abandoned addons would provide. For instance the terrans could have access to different unit types and enhance units in different ways depending on what addons are activated. Perhaps the Reaper would be active with one addon to the barracks, but a different addon allows for medics. The Zerg have some awesome building tricks as it is; I don't know of anyother game (except WCIII) which you lose a harvester to build their buildings. But the Zerg could do more; perhaps encourage the player to expand the creep far and wide by giving an extra larva spawn at each creep colony to enhance the overwhelming force and plague-like gameplay nature of the zerg. The Zerg should be all about expanding, flexability and mobility; overwhelming forces and expanding across the whole of the map in infestation as they go.
A while back, there was info on TF2 that stated PC gamers would get cross-platform battles with the 360 users. I do not know how the online works for the 360, so if this Live is something separatly implemented selectivly in Online support, I would not know. But from my understanding, it would seem that only the gold Xbox 360 users would get to face PC users in TF2. More over, does this mean that we PC users will only have access to 360 users via this Live on PC (and thus through Vista?) Anyone with a better understanding of Live and the cross-platform agreement, that could enlighten me? What a pity if it is true; I was looking foreward to pounding the consolers.
I know this is a joke, but still I'd bet a George Lucas style Terminator would turn out pretty awesome. The francise is coming off of a low note, ie T3, and with nothing but the future war setting left, it would look pretty sweet. All the battle sequences from episode II and III were rather spectacular in my opinion, and a future war Terminator movie done in the same style might be the kind of new direction the francise needs. It's not like there needs to be much character story, everyone's pretty much setup in their relations to the main players, and its not as if a political side story would appear in the middle an extinction war. So, that means, no romance plot, no starchy politics, and a freaking pre-destined on-the-rails plotline (thanks a lot T3.) So what's left to make the movie? SFX, explosions, creative war machines, more explosions, fancy CGI/models, and zetaflops worth of more explosions! A George Lucas style Terminator 4 would rock!
He said they will be for TV, similar to the Clone Wars series, and about 1 hour long each. He's already said he resigned from making [theater] films and Indy 4 will be his last involvement.
Whether the variety of snacks has changed in the last 3 years is not my concern, but rather if the snacks themselves have changed in the last 3 years. You've never had old chewing gum until you've cut your gums on a stick shard.
Of course, we certainly know the working evironment can be too opulent as well. I'm looking at you, Ion Storm
If people would just behave themselves, buy better locks, and gets some guns, we wouldn't need the police. If politicians would act 100% in line with the will of the people and the constitution, we wouldn't need the courts. If...
Humans act as fractures of a whole; it's called society. A person does what that person does best and others make up for the failings. This extends to our software as well. When we try to consolidate too much, we get monocultures with which problems being to become transparent to their creators.
I dunno about anyone else, but when I try to fix something, I tend to make it worse or even break more things before I fix the problem. Making another survivable world would teach us a lot about how to fix our own, without making things worse on our own planet first.
Other arguments about global natural disasters, such as asteroid impacts, collapse of the earth's magnetic field, the eventual burnout of our own sun, ect, also provide reasons why the earth is not enough.
Coln. Mustard in the kitchen with the revolver.
In other news, Congress continues to sluggishly review sluggishly review H.R.2060: Internet Radio Equality Act. If you write a senator (or actually, house member) perhaps one should mention support for this.
While your writing, put in a bad word about this one. Colleges don't need to be wasting time and money trying to stop software piracy on campuse. Oh, and maybe this one, too.
Perhaps if some energy tax-credit bill were to be introduced to improve tax credit laws and "Allow[s] a tax credit for the full amount of qualified photovoltaic property expenditures (currently, limited to 30%)" then that might improve people's willingness to buy them, too. (Don't wait, write your congress person today and get this thing out of commitee!)
Calling the Sun a dwarf star is misleading. In terms of stars there are dwarf and giant categories, but for planets there is (now I guess) dwarf planets, planets, and gas giant planets. Our sun, is a dwarf star, but that is also called a main sequence star. Pluto is not exactly your typical planet it would seem.
Then again, I am of the mind that says pluto should be considered a planet, since even our own and those like it are dwarfed by the massive giants by many times more than it would seem we dwarf pluto. If we're going to make these kinds of petty changes like with pluto, we should just reorganize the entire system into a single 'collections of matter' scale, starting with the particles, moving up through comets, planets, gas giants, then onto stars, nebula, galaxies, what-have-yous, up to the universe itself. And we'll give these collectives a unified naming scheme so lame and mundane yet extensable and modular that it would make even Taxonomists cry themselves to sleep.