Does this remind anyone else of forcing someone to eat their own excrement? They don't want to eat it, and when they're done, they won't have anything to show for it.
To quote Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, "[W]e're gonna make 'em eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat."
"I believe that Runescape presents the best MMO economy simply because nothing is ever bound to the user and prices for supplies are generally not set. In other games the best gear, best armor or whatever cannot be resold and typically also cannot be bought (WoW, UO, etc)."
However, due to the nature of the general population of RuneScape (younger players, around 10-12ish [note: not all-inclusive]), the entire game's economy and social scene is largely unsound. The more experienced players dominate the game through large numbers of design flaws (i.e. you need an anvil to craft, but there was one anvil in the freaking world last time I played). In other words, the economy is a prime example of capitalism--but the bad side of capitalism, the type that built the inner cities.
So while it's true that RuneScape has a largely laissez-faire economic system with a vertical production chain, I feel it is far from the best economy. The system puts prices on even decent items high above those attainable for newer players; even if this represents the real world, the sociopolitical (i.e. guilds, players, stratification of classes) and game dynamics hardly allows one to rise up in the game without serious grinding.
I'm not going to provide a game with the 'best' economy as such a thing is obviously in the eye of the beholder. The most realistic is a completely different classification but, being no economist although I do find this subject interesting, I have no right to make it.
I don't think this bill has any chance of passing. It's clearly censorship at it's blatantest and a lot of bill that pass the House get killed in the Senate; if it does pass my guess is a Supreme Court decision will eventually strike it down. Almost wish that does happen, just to shut Jacko up.
I don't have a huge problem with the content. Jack Thompson will, but I won't. Desensitization, I believe it's called. It can't be any worse than the latest horror game; people just think it's more offensive because it relates to history. Well, a whole lot more people died in WWII and we still see (almost literally) hundreds of games about that. This is not going to convince more people to buy AKs and shoot up their school. This is going to be a bad game.
I mean, come on. Super Columbine Massacre? What is this, a 80's Nintendo marketining gimmick?
P.S. Love your sig: "Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz And motherf*ckers lost their minds" RATM ftw.
Oh, of course. I see what you mean: Apple can't be evil, can it? No, no, Microsoft has a monopoly on that, too.
From the article: "...requesting a link to this image [pictured above] be removed..." -- Apple wants the link to the image that shows the location of the thermal grease to be removed. The link. That's cause for removal, why? They don't claim it's their own image, they probably give credit. Seems like Fair Use to me... or, is Apple just convinced of their inviolate nature?
When we're looking at a PC game that has custom skins for players, the difference between company-made nude mods and player-made nude mods is only time.
"I distinctly remember when "Dreamcast" was released that everyone thought it was a terrible, touchy-feely name. And when the iPod came out, we all thought Apple was smoking the eCrack. Even the PlayStation was a pretty dumb sounding name, and was proof that Sony's SNES CD was never going to amount to anything. For that matter, the Super NES sounded incredibly bad to US ears."
However, none of those rhymed with a slang term for male genitalia.
Which this does. I mean, really. You're playing with your Wii. Playing. Wee. Get it? Masturbation! Ho ho!
Oh, and they could name it 'Free Money Machine' and I still wouldn't buy it. One, I'm two poor. Two, I resent Nintendo for reasons relating to my distraught childhood.
With physics such an integral part of today's killer games, I think this is a logical expansion... think of the possibilities, people--if HL2 can do what it did with a single processor, think what it could have accomplished with a separated processor for physics.
My only concern is, of course, logistics. How expensive is this? Will games risk developing into it with the risk of it becoming obsolete? How hard is it to develop for? Etc, etc. And can I jam one into my current computer without buying (yet another) mobo?
In my opinion, it's not his fault that what happened to him did. However, a lawsuit is perhaps going too far... but then again, maybe not. But I would have aimed at a lesser, more like 50-100k, settlement.
And then I would have taken that money, got plastic surgery, lyposuction, a name change, and move to the middle of freaking nowhere (with high-speed internet).
4/1 must be the most boring day on Slashdot. All there is is fake news, which means the parallel universe that mirrors our own is having a lot of interesting things happen, but we aren't. The day the world stood still? 4/1.
I find it funny how the terms 'gay' and 'straight' are part of the tags for every single 4/1 post. Why?
I love how the comments on that page, after you posted this link, go from a discussion about bottled water made on a capitalized, first-name basis... to 'you're suing google?'? And then it degenerated from there, with general swearing to the degree that I don't think the mods there know how to delete posts.
You're saying that all of the pre-apocalypse ads were destroyed? That there wouldn't be faded and torn 'Coca-Cola' billboards, lying as monuments to a great civilization?
No, you, sir, are wrong. AA is in the future. Hence, ads from today would fit right into that post-apocalyptic future.
Morrowind was (is), in a way, the best game I've ever played. Its graphics were occasionally on the lame side, its fighting ridiculous and its AI borderline retarded, but all these things paled in comparison of... of... of what Morrowind...is.
It's hard to explain. Perhaps it was just the idea that you lived in a world where you could almost literally do anything... assassinate random people and run from the guards, become a vampire and live outside of society, steal everything that's not nailed down (and some stuff that was), create spells that could kill an entire town (ever tried setting that radius to the max of a fire spell?), or sell things you stole off people you killed to mudcrabs living on islands. And then build a wall around the island out of books.
I'm looking foward to Oblivion. I kept that sentence short because if I were to actually express my anticipation of it in words, I'd have to either invent adjectives and adverbs or just combine existing ones... in either case, it wouldn't be pretty.
GTA has nothing on Morrowind. In GTA, the people you kill come back. In Morrowind, at one point I exterminated every single person in Balmora... unfortunately it got kind of boring after that, so I loaded an old save. But that's not the point. The point is, Morrowind rocked and Oblivion is like Morrowind on crack.
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Does this remind anyone else of forcing someone to eat their own excrement? They don't want to eat it, and when they're done, they won't have anything to show for it.
To quote Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, "[W]e're gonna make 'em eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat."
"I believe that Runescape presents the best MMO economy simply because nothing is ever bound to the user and prices for supplies are generally not set. In other games the best gear, best armor or whatever cannot be resold and typically also cannot be bought (WoW, UO, etc)."
However, due to the nature of the general population of RuneScape (younger players, around 10-12ish [note: not all-inclusive]), the entire game's economy and social scene is largely unsound. The more experienced players dominate the game through large numbers of design flaws (i.e. you need an anvil to craft, but there was one anvil in the freaking world last time I played). In other words, the economy is a prime example of capitalism--but the bad side of capitalism, the type that built the inner cities.
So while it's true that RuneScape has a largely laissez-faire economic system with a vertical production chain, I feel it is far from the best economy. The system puts prices on even decent items high above those attainable for newer players; even if this represents the real world, the sociopolitical (i.e. guilds, players, stratification of classes) and game dynamics hardly allows one to rise up in the game without serious grinding.
I'm not going to provide a game with the 'best' economy as such a thing is obviously in the eye of the beholder. The most realistic is a completely different classification but, being no economist although I do find this subject interesting, I have no right to make it.
Mmm... tastes like censorship!
I don't think this bill has any chance of passing. It's clearly censorship at it's blatantest and a lot of bill that pass the House get killed in the Senate; if it does pass my guess is a Supreme Court decision will eventually strike it down. Almost wish that does happen, just to shut Jacko up.
Sure, non-violence may be a good thing and all, but... wedgies instead of bullets?
Boom, GROINSHOT!
But... but... the parents can't be milked--I mean, sued in a court of law--for as much money (and free publicity, McCarthy-style)!
Outsourcing is bad.
Particularly outsourcing your marketing department.
Particularly outsourcing your marketing department to Hell.
Maybe they should readjust their numbers.
Like, why 50%? We don't need that much. They could cut it down to, say, 38.3% Innovation, 90% profit whoring.
Note: The discrepancy in the numbers is best explain by the same math that convinces EA they make a profit.
I don't have a huge problem with the content. Jack Thompson will, but I won't. Desensitization, I believe it's called. It can't be any worse than the latest horror game; people just think it's more offensive because it relates to history. Well, a whole lot more people died in WWII and we still see (almost literally) hundreds of games about that. This is not going to convince more people to buy AKs and shoot up their school. This is going to be a bad game.
I mean, come on. Super Columbine Massacre? What is this, a 80's Nintendo marketining gimmick?
P.S. Love your sig: "Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz And motherf*ckers lost their minds" RATM ftw.
A popular game?
Complete control over all aspects of the creatures?
Textures that could possibly be construed as flesh-colored?
I think we have a Hot Chromosome scandal coming up. Jack Thompson, get your subpoenas ready.
For coherence in the future, they should switch to scientific notation now so people don't get confused.
Not Final Fantasy XIII.
Final Fantasy 1.3x10^1!
It's bound to be more efficient in the long run.
Oh, of course. I see what you mean: Apple can't be evil, can it? No, no, Microsoft has a monopoly on that, too.
From the article: "...requesting a link to this image [pictured above] be removed..." -- Apple wants the link to the image that shows the location of the thermal grease to be removed. The link. That's cause for removal, why? They don't claim it's their own image, they probably give credit. Seems like Fair Use to me... or, is Apple just convinced of their inviolate nature?
I can't resist this, crude as it may be:
It is now your turn.
Your ejaculation hits Kara101 for 32 damage.
Kara101 has died.
Experience gained: 50 points.
When we're looking at a PC game that has custom skins for players, the difference between company-made nude mods and player-made nude mods is only time.
That is, the player-made ones come out first.
"I distinctly remember when "Dreamcast" was released that everyone thought it was a terrible, touchy-feely name. And when the iPod came out, we all thought Apple was smoking the eCrack. Even the PlayStation was a pretty dumb sounding name, and was proof that Sony's SNES CD was never going to amount to anything. For that matter, the Super NES sounded incredibly bad to US ears."
However, none of those rhymed with a slang term for male genitalia.
Which this does. I mean, really. You're playing with your Wii. Playing. Wee. Get it? Masturbation! Ho ho!
Oh, and they could name it 'Free Money Machine' and I still wouldn't buy it. One, I'm two poor. Two, I resent Nintendo for reasons relating to my distraught childhood.
With physics such an integral part of today's killer games, I think this is a logical expansion... think of the possibilities, people--if HL2 can do what it did with a single processor, think what it could have accomplished with a separated processor for physics.
My only concern is, of course, logistics. How expensive is this? Will games risk developing into it with the risk of it becoming obsolete? How hard is it to develop for? Etc, etc. And can I jam one into my current computer without buying (yet another) mobo?
What not to name a system with a dildo-shaped controller:
Something that rhymes with 'wee'.
Their focus groups must not have any American males, really.
Put a tax on, oh, say, food? That would generate more revenue than a tax on games.
Or better yet, pornography.
"Hey kids! Your new playground is sponsored by taxes from hotaction.com! They've even put up a few promotional posters to encourage you!"
Works both ways!
Honestly, if Microsoft released a plan to end world hunger, it'd still get bashed on Slashdot.
In my opinion, it's not his fault that what happened to him did. However, a lawsuit is perhaps going too far... but then again, maybe not. But I would have aimed at a lesser, more like 50-100k, settlement.
And then I would have taken that money, got plastic surgery, lyposuction, a name change, and move to the middle of freaking nowhere (with high-speed internet).
4/1 must be the most boring day on Slashdot. All there is is fake news, which means the parallel universe that mirrors our own is having a lot of interesting things happen, but we aren't. The day the world stood still? 4/1.
I find it funny how the terms 'gay' and 'straight' are part of the tags for every single 4/1 post. Why?
Blizzard isn't suing anyone. The small company is suing Blizzard.
I love how the comments on that page, after you posted this link, go from a discussion about bottled water made on a capitalized, first-name basis... to 'you're suing google?'? And then it degenerated from there, with general swearing to the degree that I don't think the mods there know how to delete posts.
You're saying that all of the pre-apocalypse ads were destroyed? That there wouldn't be faded and torn 'Coca-Cola' billboards, lying as monuments to a great civilization?
No, you, sir, are wrong. AA is in the future. Hence, ads from today would fit right into that post-apocalyptic future.
In a game like Auto Assault, ads could be counted as the immersion experience.
But it'd be more immersive if it didn't cost to see them.
Morrowind was (is), in a way, the best game I've ever played. Its graphics were occasionally on the lame side, its fighting ridiculous and its AI borderline retarded, but all these things paled in comparison of... of... of what Morrowind ...is.
It's hard to explain. Perhaps it was just the idea that you lived in a world where you could almost literally do anything... assassinate random people and run from the guards, become a vampire and live outside of society, steal everything that's not nailed down (and some stuff that was), create spells that could kill an entire town (ever tried setting that radius to the max of a fire spell?), or sell things you stole off people you killed to mudcrabs living on islands. And then build a wall around the island out of books.
I'm looking foward to Oblivion. I kept that sentence short because if I were to actually express my anticipation of it in words, I'd have to either invent adjectives and adverbs or just combine existing ones... in either case, it wouldn't be pretty.
GTA has nothing on Morrowind. In GTA, the people you kill come back. In Morrowind, at one point I exterminated every single person in Balmora... unfortunately it got kind of boring after that, so I loaded an old save. But that's not the point. The point is, Morrowind rocked and Oblivion is like Morrowind on crack.