I agree, immersion is what it's about but I think too many games confuse that with realism. Thats why I like it, it steps back from that and tries to immerse you in WWII from a different angle, namely a cinematic one not unlike what we are use to seeing WWII from.
I applaud Valve's move. It seems a rather humorous artistic take on the modern "realism" period in games today. Taking a WWII shooter, a very common "reality" subject, and applying affects to it in a way that is unrealistic but at the same time much closer to the way its primary audience knows WWII as "real" (we only know the second great war through its grainy footage, and I doubt there are many WWII vets playing DoD.)
I for one love this artistic move by Valve. We have enough realistic games and WWII shooters and this satirical take on modern graphics is a welcome change.
What if he turned out to actually do something worse than roll over and die? What if instead he allows himself to be corrupted, gathers the Triforce of Power and ressurects Ganondorf, paving the way for Ganondorf's conquest free from any hero's influence?
If a hero appears every time darkness is about to rise up again, having that hero become that darkness would definitly put a kink in things, possibly enough to warrant a world flood?
Yes, IQ tests generally match up our expectations and no, imperfections does not nullify the implications of their results. Yes, it is very likly that this gene does affect the IQ test results to some degree.
However, IQ tests are affected by other factors as well. All tests are affected to some degree by unforseen variables, but the IQ test is one in which those variables can have a very strong affect on the results. That is why I do not think that IQ tests should be used as evidence for saying certain genes affect intelligence short of cases in extreme difference (which I do not see 20 points as covering.)
I'll be the first to admit, my original post completly missed the point I was trying to get across. I should have made it more clear that I saw the lack of cultural/gender standard as an example of problematic factors in IQ tests rather than as an invalidation of this study's results.
IQ tests are too unreliable for identifying gene that contribute to intelligence. They are far from standardized for all people/genders and until then its really not possible to definitivly say just how any gene affects intelligence short of extremely major differences, such as those found in cases of genetic disorders. Even then, determining the exact gene (if it even is just one) is very difficult. If only we could agree on a perfect definition of intelligence first, then maybe we could come up with a better way to measure it.
I want my neural-integrated real-time WWII Shooter!
Alright, while games would be great, just think of the possibilities of a truly human-machine integration. Your mind able to drift from place to place running on whatever hardware's free weather its you dual-processor dog, your Supercomputer Blackberry, or your tricked out, modded up home base in your skull.
We'd need to understand the complicated nature of the brain if humanity is to continue to grow. Machines are already a vital part of many human beings' lives on this planet, one day machines may no longer be something separate but a part of us, no different than our nervous system or our skin. Things like this are the first step to really freeing the mind.
1. It doubles as a Universal Remote with automatic setup.
2. You can (easily) interchange the functions of the buttons. ie. A becomes B, ect.
3. Interchangable faceplates
4. Revolution's going fully 4D and all games with be constant, even when your not there. The controller will light up when your missing something good.
I can see it now, your out on the town when your Revolution controller begins flashing the bat signal. You excuse yourself saying: "I must go, the Joker is at it again."
Cold War: The Game! Race against your competition nation as you and up to 20 friends online Cooperate to build enough weapons to force the other side to agree to a treaty on your terms or obliterate the both of you off the face of the Earth (and half of it with you!) Involves hundreds of customizable weapons each with parts that give it distict advantages! Watch out for Saboteurs who might betray your team! Play Cold War today! From Valve co.
Yes, war is a logical outcome just like any other great epidemic and true that nuclear weapons would be a great threat. But it would not come all at once. We will suffer the affects slowly over time, we won't be seeing glaciers parking in Hudson bay suddenly one winter (as glaciers grow during abnormally cool summers and not cold winters, as they do not have a net loss in mass from summer melting.) Rising Oceans (or perhaps receding since the water would be freezing up in Glaciers) wouldn't be much faster but yes it would eventually affect shipping. We'd certainly be doing along more dregging. True, drought and famine are faster than any of them and while we have less warning for them than glaciers or ocean levels we still have more warning than ever in the past history of humanity. These things will move for drastic measures, but we have options. We can turn to GM Crops like the Golden Rice http://www.biotech-info.net/hope.html Food grown to make do with less, packed with vital nutrients in forms of common crops like corn and Soybean and Rice. We will accept the risks the Europeans so fear and success will incur some costs. Escape from our control and cross pollination would be inevetable with a global crisis occuring, and yes it will likely out compete or hybrid with tradition crops but such is the ways of survival. Its not as if the escapees, still very closely related with their base crops, will choke the life from the ecosystem it enters. Nuclear war is a very real possibility as the have-nots seem to take from the haves with what they have over them. I can think of nothing to say that would lessen the danger but utter a silent prayer that those nations technological enough to build these weapons have enough traditional military tech to take what they must without need for nukes. Though I never would for a minute think that these wars would end all of Humanity. Regrouping will be necessary, how far back we fall is up to both the depths of human darkness as much as the weather, but in time man will march his brazen technolgies,so uniquly alien to the natural order, his complex societies, and his dominated creatures, apon the frozen wastes of the north and having survived his own great extinction to again claim dominance over this world! No, this will not be this species' time! An Ice Age will not forever silence man nor would its results do the same. And certainly a MINI Ice Age will not!
And "as destructive as alcoholism and drug addiction," too! Not only that, "they are rushing to treat it" and with what? The Twelve step program and demeaning names like CrackBerry for your devices! Oh, the wonders of modern diagnosis. When the ecnomics of choice leads a person to favor a particular fulfillment of a want or need due to its ease of accessability or extreme level of fullfilment. And the culprit behind it all? Interaction! Yes, the sweet nectar of interaction between other people or people substitues is to blame. When socitey learns that trying to get the fat 30 year old bum out of his parents basement is not to try and treat an 'addiction' as basic as this but to integrating the interaction and its medium to permiate through the whole of itself, drop me an email.
This is quite true, if we forget about it being a Mini Ice Age and instead talk about a harsher case long term Ice Age, Our Modern Technological Civilizations would nearly undoubtedly collapse into a new Dark Ages. Relics of technology and our civilizations would survive and eventually give us a leg up from Dark Ages ver. 2.0 into Renaissance revis. 6. It's not as if we're talking Snowball earth here, and there are even today cultures that maintain hunter gathering lives largly separate from modern society and even in areas that wouldn't feel nearly the harsh effects say New York, NY or Finland, or even Riga, Latvia. As for the Megacity drones like myself, well its about time we had a good lesson in the ascention of fit entities...
Although your point is well taken that humans are part of earth as well, I do think it would take more than a little ice age to end us. We managed to survive in Ice Age eras before, we can atleast by duplicating that success even if it may cost us the temporary 'hibernation' of high technology society. We'd make it through and eventually rebuild and do it all overagain. With modern technology, I think we'll do rather well. If we can keep men in space for years at a time, inhabit Antartica for periods, I don't think we'll see the last of the Homo genus dieing off from a little ice age any time soon.
I suppose that is one way to look at it, but really isn't that what propells some of the greatest game today? What would Half-Life or it sequel be without its mod community and company provided SDKs and Editors? Who would still be playing HL today if not for Counter-Strike? (why not see for yourself http://www.steampowered.com/status/game_stats.html) Really, this is the kind of reason I love HL2, WoW, and others. The sense of creating something your own that would be very difficult otherwise, whether it is your own unqiue (to a point) Warlock a Texture to call your own, or a great Deathmatch level to share with your friends. Spore has a long way to go before we'll know if it truely worthy of admiration, as it is now described it seems an evolution of the mod scene. A game created to allow nearly unlimited creative design for all users in an easy interface, and the ability to automatically share these creations with all the Spore community. If nothing else, the prospect of how it's written to dynamically create content and reducing the need for massive content development teams.
We will build a Giant Mirror in space to reflect back some of the sun light, reducing the heat that's reaches earth to be trapped! Do I get Al Gore's sapphires now?
Just another example of how badly we need a new direction in games than our current "Next Gen" approach. I for one nominate Will Wright and his amazing Spore concept/game. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/595/595975p1.html Yeah I know, gamespy. But its the best coverage of the inital Spore unvailing from GDC 2k5 I could find.
Well, I refuse to join a guild in Wow, the closest thing to a rank was First Sargent for a week, and the most exposure I've got is one intresting rating from a slashdot post. Guess I'd better become a game developer...
Seriously, If anyone could access deep histories and ratings from previous social encounter from thousands of daily interactions it would be the end of society. No one would ever trust anyone again. That or there would be such an over flow of opinions, objective or not, that we would simply make our decisions off nigh baseless accusations, acclamations, and generalities, much like today.
On the plus side background checks for bank loans, job applications, and government inspection will really fly!
Slashdot Mirror
I agree, immersion is what it's about but I think too many games confuse that with realism. Thats why I like it, it steps back from that and tries to immerse you in WWII from a different angle, namely a cinematic one not unlike what we are use to seeing WWII from.
I applaud Valve's move. It seems a rather humorous artistic take on the modern "realism" period in games today. Taking a WWII shooter, a very common "reality" subject, and applying affects to it in a way that is unrealistic but at the same time much closer to the way its primary audience knows WWII as "real" (we only know the second great war through its grainy footage, and I doubt there are many WWII vets playing DoD.)
I for one love this artistic move by Valve. We have enough realistic games and WWII shooters and this satirical take on modern graphics is a welcome change.
Well done, Valve! Keep up the great work!
What if he turned out to actually do something worse than roll over and die? What if instead he allows himself to be corrupted, gathers the Triforce of Power and ressurects Ganondorf, paving the way for Ganondorf's conquest free from any hero's influence?
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If a hero appears every time darkness is about to rise up again, having that hero become that darkness would definitly put a kink in things, possibly enough to warrant a world flood?
I'll let you chew on those thoughts with a side of concept art to go with it... http://www.zhq2.com/coppermine/cpg132/displayimag
This will help provide some much needed incentive for companies to invest in space beyond satellites and the dreams of a few nutty billionairs. We need more SpaceShip1 s and genuenly American pioneers like this guy...http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/e 08989c49db84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
Yes, IQ tests generally match up our expectations and no, imperfections does not nullify the implications of their results. Yes, it is very likly that this gene does affect the IQ test results to some degree.
However, IQ tests are affected by other factors as well. All tests are affected to some degree by unforseen variables, but the IQ test is one in which those variables can have a very strong affect on the results. That is why I do not think that IQ tests should be used as evidence for saying certain genes affect intelligence short of cases in extreme difference (which I do not see 20 points as covering.)
I'll be the first to admit, my original post completly missed the point I was trying to get across. I should have made it more clear that I saw the lack of cultural/gender standard as an example of problematic factors in IQ tests rather than as an invalidation of this study's results.
IQ tests are too unreliable for identifying gene that contribute to intelligence. They are far from standardized for all people/genders and until then its really not possible to definitivly say just how any gene affects intelligence short of extremely major differences, such as those found in cases of genetic disorders. Even then, determining the exact gene (if it even is just one) is very difficult. If only we could agree on a perfect definition of intelligence first, then maybe we could come up with a better way to measure it.
I want my neural-integrated real-time WWII Shooter!
Alright, while games would be great, just think of the possibilities of a truly human-machine integration. Your mind able to drift from place to place running on whatever hardware's free weather its you dual-processor dog, your Supercomputer Blackberry, or your tricked out, modded up home base in your skull.
We'd need to understand the complicated nature of the brain if humanity is to continue to grow. Machines are already a vital part of many human beings' lives on this planet, one day machines may no longer be something separate but a part of us, no different than our nervous system or our skin. Things like this are the first step to really freeing the mind.
1. It doubles as a Universal Remote with automatic setup.
2. You can (easily) interchange the functions of the buttons. ie. A becomes B, ect.
3. Interchangable faceplates
4. Revolution's going fully 4D and all games with be constant, even when your not there. The controller will light up when your missing something good.
I can see it now, your out on the town when your Revolution controller begins flashing the bat signal. You excuse yourself saying: "I must go, the Joker is at it again."
...Or like the Dreamcast had.
Cold War: The Game! Race against your competition nation as you and up to 20 friends online Cooperate to build enough weapons to force the other side to agree to a treaty on your terms or obliterate the both of you off the face of the Earth (and half of it with you!) Involves hundreds of customizable weapons each with parts that give it distict advantages! Watch out for Saboteurs who might betray your team! Play Cold War today! From Valve co.
Because the objective is to make money while playing your XBox 360.
Bonus points if you burn down the courthouse during a demonstration!
Sell it for a dollar and include a dollar rebate and call it Frenchware instead of Freeware
Two Words: Napoleon Bonaparte.
http://www.nailbiter.net/gman/video/fewgoodgmen.mo v
I wonder if this would be compared to that painting of the Virgin Mary made with feces a few years back?
Personally, I think this is art and that was crap.
Yes, war is a logical outcome just like any other great epidemic and true that nuclear weapons would be a great threat. But it would not come all at once. We will suffer the affects slowly over time, we won't be seeing glaciers parking in Hudson bay suddenly one winter (as glaciers grow during abnormally cool summers and not cold winters, as they do not have a net loss in mass from summer melting.) Rising Oceans (or perhaps receding since the water would be freezing up in Glaciers) wouldn't be much faster but yes it would eventually affect shipping. We'd certainly be doing along more dregging. True, drought and famine are faster than any of them and while we have less warning for them than glaciers or ocean levels we still have more warning than ever in the past history of humanity. These things will move for drastic measures, but we have options. We can turn to GM Crops like the Golden Rice http://www.biotech-info.net/hope.html Food grown to make do with less, packed with vital nutrients in forms of common crops like corn and Soybean and Rice. We will accept the risks the Europeans so fear and success will incur some costs. Escape from our control and cross pollination would be inevetable with a global crisis occuring, and yes it will likely out compete or hybrid with tradition crops but such is the ways of survival. Its not as if the escapees, still very closely related with their base crops, will choke the life from the ecosystem it enters. Nuclear war is a very real possibility as the have-nots seem to take from the haves with what they have over them. I can think of nothing to say that would lessen the danger but utter a silent prayer that those nations technological enough to build these weapons have enough traditional military tech to take what they must without need for nukes. Though I never would for a minute think that these wars would end all of Humanity. Regrouping will be necessary, how far back we fall is up to both the depths of human darkness as much as the weather, but in time man will march his brazen technolgies,so uniquly alien to the natural order, his complex societies, and his dominated creatures, apon the frozen wastes of the north and having survived his own great extinction to again claim dominance over this world! No, this will not be this species' time! An Ice Age will not forever silence man nor would its results do the same. And certainly a MINI Ice Age will not!
And "as destructive as alcoholism and drug addiction," too! Not only that, "they are rushing to treat it" and with what? The Twelve step program and demeaning names like CrackBerry for your devices! Oh, the wonders of modern diagnosis. When the ecnomics of choice leads a person to favor a particular fulfillment of a want or need due to its ease of accessability or extreme level of fullfilment. And the culprit behind it all? Interaction! Yes, the sweet nectar of interaction between other people or people substitues is to blame. When socitey learns that trying to get the fat 30 year old bum out of his parents basement is not to try and treat an 'addiction' as basic as this but to integrating the interaction and its medium to permiate through the whole of itself, drop me an email.
This is quite true, if we forget about it being a Mini Ice Age and instead talk about a harsher case long term Ice Age, Our Modern Technological Civilizations would nearly undoubtedly collapse into a new Dark Ages. Relics of technology and our civilizations would survive and eventually give us a leg up from Dark Ages ver. 2.0 into Renaissance revis. 6. It's not as if we're talking Snowball earth here, and there are even today cultures that maintain hunter gathering lives largly separate from modern society and even in areas that wouldn't feel nearly the harsh effects say New York, NY or Finland, or even Riga, Latvia. As for the Megacity drones like myself, well its about time we had a good lesson in the ascention of fit entities...
Quite humorous that you should say that, It's the second listed in PopSci's "How Earth-Scale Engineering can Save the Planet." http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/3afd8ca 927d05010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html Note: list starts on page two. There are a number of facinating ideas here as well.
Although your point is well taken that humans are part of earth as well, I do think it would take more than a little ice age to end us. We managed to survive in Ice Age eras before, we can atleast by duplicating that success even if it may cost us the temporary 'hibernation' of high technology society. We'd make it through and eventually rebuild and do it all overagain. With modern technology, I think we'll do rather well. If we can keep men in space for years at a time, inhabit Antartica for periods, I don't think we'll see the last of the Homo genus dieing off from a little ice age any time soon.
I suppose that is one way to look at it, but really isn't that what propells some of the greatest game today? What would Half-Life or it sequel be without its mod community and company provided SDKs and Editors? Who would still be playing HL today if not for Counter-Strike? (why not see for yourself http://www.steampowered.com/status/game_stats.html ) Really, this is the kind of reason I love HL2, WoW, and others. The sense of creating something your own that would be very difficult otherwise, whether it is your own unqiue (to a point) Warlock a Texture to call your own, or a great Deathmatch level to share with your friends. Spore has a long way to go before we'll know if it truely worthy of admiration, as it is now described it seems an evolution of the mod scene. A game created to allow nearly unlimited creative design for all users in an easy interface, and the ability to automatically share these creations with all the Spore community. If nothing else, the prospect of how it's written to dynamically create content and reducing the need for massive content development teams.
We will build a Giant Mirror in space to reflect back some of the sun light, reducing the heat that's reaches earth to be trapped! Do I get Al Gore's sapphires now?
Just another example of how badly we need a new direction in games than our current "Next Gen" approach. I for one nominate Will Wright and his amazing Spore concept/game. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/595/595975p1.html Yeah I know, gamespy. But its the best coverage of the inital Spore unvailing from GDC 2k5 I could find.
Well, I refuse to join a guild in Wow, the closest thing to a rank was First Sargent for a week, and the most exposure I've got is one intresting rating from a slashdot post. Guess I'd better become a game developer... Seriously, If anyone could access deep histories and ratings from previous social encounter from thousands of daily interactions it would be the end of society. No one would ever trust anyone again. That or there would be such an over flow of opinions, objective or not, that we would simply make our decisions off nigh baseless accusations, acclamations, and generalities, much like today. On the plus side background checks for bank loans, job applications, and government inspection will really fly!
It's not you, it's my Nerve Growth Factor! We can still be friends, right?
Is it coming out to CD soon?