"Was it worth it to buy a console just so I could play one game? Absolutely. Will I do it again? Twilight Princess is approaching release, and I've been tempted to drop the cash just to buy a Gamecube. I've never been interested in owning one before, but all it takes is one killer app."
Replace 'gamecube' with 'xbox 360', and then have somebody from microsoft read that one more time...
See, i'm not so sure Mortal Kombat had a decent plot. As far as other-worldy invasions go, i'd go with DooM's plot before MK. When i think 'games with a decent plot', things like Metal Gear Solid come to mind.
The problem with the system was not that the ratings were obscure (ages are self-explanitory), the problem was in enforcement. So changing the ratings to a code that people don't know how to interpret and still not enforcing the rating doesn't help the problem.
To us, its spelled out 'Yahweh', or YAH-way for pronunciation. Basically that was the name the Hebrews had for 'God' way back in the day. There's nothing inherently special about the name as in you're not allowed to say it or anything like that. I've seen it also spelled out as 'IXOYE' in greek or something i think.
So you're saying, just because i don't "know people", i must be a useless dreg? How about a college grad one year out of school who wants to move far away from where I am now? I work in IT for the state hospital system, so the only people i deal with are other people in the state hospital, IN THIS STATE. Recruiters coming into colleges are about as useful as posting on monster.com. I don't know ANY of my classmates that found jobs through the school.
I've already had these for a couple years, and they're great. Check out Dillon Precision. They've got a mic and a volume control on the outside of each muff, with a small speaker on the inside of the muff. Just a simple audio compressor (more specifically, a gate). About a hundred bucks.
My college roommate is now an English professor. I'll be danged if he hasn't shown me research papers turned in by COLLEGE FRESHMEN last year that use 'LOL' and 'OMG' in the actual paper. Not to mention papers that have NOT ONE CAPITALIZED LETTER in the whole thing. It was completely mind-numbing to me. Can you imagine turning in a 10-page paper in college that was written like one big IM conversation?
The big deal is because Harrison Ford did it in the new movie 'Firewall'. Just seeing it done made people realize that an iPod is nothing but a hard drive. Sounds stupid, but why else would the story be on here now?
Yes, i know that mentality all too well. (I just graduated in CS last year)
My friends and I jokingly called it the 'Shave with a Rock' mentality. "Electric shaver?! Ha! What are you, a chick? You're not hardcore unless you shave with a rock."
Can you believe some of these guys would even scoff at using XCode of Visual Studio. I halfway expected to see 'GCC h4RDc0R' tattooed across their knuckles or something...
Great point. Apple wouldn't be breaking the news to every software vendor out there that they have to (again) create new binaries for their apps. And don't forget Rosetta. That's not the kind of thing you can whip up spur-of-the-moment.
The actual color is not the problem. The problem is its a static image. Not even so much the static 'black bar', but edge of where the bar meets the moving content. If the whole thing was black all the time, average joe wouldn't probably be able to tell there was a burn-in at all. its just that there's that hard edge.
Then again, have you been in a Guitar Center recently? A lot of self-proclaimed musicians don't know what 'sounds good' either. Its really just a toystore these days, with a lot of crazy gadgets (digital modeling amps, etc) and fewer and fewer real items. Apparently with marketing, you can even make a guitarist think that a $25 9-volt powered distortion pedal is just as good as a $1500 point-to-point soldered analog tube amp.
The problem is that a 64kb stream sounds the same (roughly) as 192kb when you're using $5 wal-mart headphones or the free bundled speakers that came with your $299 after-rebate-special PC.
Mackie HR824s or some Sennheiser cans would still blow those peoples minds. But then again, i've seen people who STILL can't tell the difference...
The reason is that depending on the type of screen you have, those 'black bars' on the left and right can cause burn-in lines.
Yes, i know burn-in is not a huge problem with newer displays, but when 80% of your ungodly amount of TV time is in standard-def viewing, then you still do have a problem.
To the average Best Buy shopper, the brightest screen in the lineup wins. Doesn't matter if the red tones are blown out, doesn't matter about artifacting.
Just turn the brightness control down a few notches on a particular TV in the lineup, and watch the Best Buy sales numbers change.
Same thing with audio equipment. Room-shaking bass and razorblade sharp piercing highs sell gear. Doesn't matter if its a balanced sound, or if there's any separation between the elements in the mix. More bass? check. Killer sharp highs? check. Go to the checkout counter.
"the ones that don't care about trendy and hip, the ones that care about value. AKA the majority of the populace."
I don't think so. You're talking about small gadget-ey consumer electronics devices. Trendy and hip IS the name of the game. The majority of the populace does want the cooler device, totally explaining the massive iPod sales.
But what about humans on this planet that don't own an iPod? Easy. They don't care. They don't want or need a digital music player. Not everybody has an iPod, but the vast majority of people who even care about having a music player do.
Not quite sure about that. In single player and 4 player deathmatches, the framerates were pretty smooth in goldeneye. I rented perfect dark and turned it off after about 15 minutes. Just couldn't watch it.
That's funny, this is the exact game i was thinking of. I had the expansion, and it did help, but it mainly just increased the resolution a bit. The framerate didn't really change.
I don't think 'unstable' is the word, but more 'unsupported' or 'untested'.
SuSE Linux had generic x86 in mind from the beginning. People always have tried to get drivers out there for whatever hardware people might be running. In contrast, OSX has only supported apple-approved hardware as long as we've known it. Just where do you think all of this hardware support will just magically appear from?
Come to think of it, i haven't seen a SuSE box yet that detects all of the hardware perfectly right away (wireless cards anyone?).
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"Was it worth it to buy a console just so I could play one game? Absolutely. Will I do it again? Twilight Princess is approaching release, and I've been tempted to drop the cash just to buy a Gamecube. I've never been interested in owning one before, but all it takes is one killer app."
Replace 'gamecube' with 'xbox 360', and then have somebody from microsoft read that one more time...
See, i'm not so sure Mortal Kombat had a decent plot. As far as other-worldy invasions go, i'd go with DooM's plot before MK. When i think 'games with a decent plot', things like Metal Gear Solid come to mind.
Agreed.
The problem with the system was not that the ratings were obscure (ages are self-explanitory), the problem was in enforcement. So changing the ratings to a code that people don't know how to interpret and still not enforcing the rating doesn't help the problem.
To us, its spelled out 'Yahweh', or YAH-way for pronunciation. Basically that was the name the Hebrews had for 'God' way back in the day. There's nothing inherently special about the name as in you're not allowed to say it or anything like that. I've seen it also spelled out as 'IXOYE' in greek or something i think.
So you're saying, just because i don't "know people", i must be a useless dreg? How about a college grad one year out of school who wants to move far away from where I am now? I work in IT for the state hospital system, so the only people i deal with are other people in the state hospital, IN THIS STATE. Recruiters coming into colleges are about as useful as posting on monster.com. I don't know ANY of my classmates that found jobs through the school.
I've already had these for a couple years, and they're great. Check out Dillon Precision. They've got a mic and a volume control on the outside of each muff, with a small speaker on the inside of the muff. Just a simple audio compressor (more specifically, a gate). About a hundred bucks.
My college roommate is now an English professor. I'll be danged if he hasn't shown me research papers turned in by COLLEGE FRESHMEN last year that use 'LOL' and 'OMG' in the actual paper. Not to mention papers that have NOT ONE CAPITALIZED LETTER in the whole thing. It was completely mind-numbing to me. Can you imagine turning in a 10-page paper in college that was written like one big IM conversation?
What's the big deal that an iPod can do it?
The big deal is because Harrison Ford did it in the new movie 'Firewall'. Just seeing it done made people realize that an iPod is nothing but a hard drive. Sounds stupid, but why else would the story be on here now?
Best points made so far. MOD PARENT UP!
Yes, i know that mentality all too well. (I just graduated in CS last year)
My friends and I jokingly called it the 'Shave with a Rock' mentality. "Electric shaver?! Ha! What are you, a chick? You're not hardcore unless you shave with a rock."
Can you believe some of these guys would even scoff at using XCode of Visual Studio. I halfway expected to see 'GCC h4RDc0R' tattooed across their knuckles or something...
Great point. Apple wouldn't be breaking the news to every software vendor out there that they have to (again) create new binaries for their apps. And don't forget Rosetta. That's not the kind of thing you can whip up spur-of-the-moment.
The actual color is not the problem. The problem is its a static image. Not even so much the static 'black bar', but edge of where the bar meets the moving content. If the whole thing was black all the time, average joe wouldn't probably be able to tell there was a burn-in at all. its just that there's that hard edge.
(i'm assuming you're also a musician, like me)
Then again, have you been in a Guitar Center recently? A lot of self-proclaimed musicians don't know what 'sounds good' either. Its really just a toystore these days, with a lot of crazy gadgets (digital modeling amps, etc) and fewer and fewer real items. Apparently with marketing, you can even make a guitarist think that a $25 9-volt powered distortion pedal is just as good as a $1500 point-to-point soldered analog tube amp.
Granted, that wasn't the case in this test, but it happens a ton on the actual retail front.
The problem is that a 64kb stream sounds the same (roughly) as 192kb when you're using $5 wal-mart headphones or the free bundled speakers that came with your $299 after-rebate-special PC.
Mackie HR824s or some Sennheiser cans would still blow those peoples minds. But then again, i've seen people who STILL can't tell the difference...
The reason is that depending on the type of screen you have, those 'black bars' on the left and right can cause burn-in lines.
Yes, i know burn-in is not a huge problem with newer displays, but when 80% of your ungodly amount of TV time is in standard-def viewing, then you still do have a problem.
To the average Best Buy shopper, the brightest screen in the lineup wins. Doesn't matter if the red tones are blown out, doesn't matter about artifacting.
Just turn the brightness control down a few notches on a particular TV in the lineup, and watch the Best Buy sales numbers change.
Same thing with audio equipment. Room-shaking bass and razorblade sharp piercing highs sell gear. Doesn't matter if its a balanced sound, or if there's any separation between the elements in the mix. More bass? check. Killer sharp highs? check. Go to the checkout counter.
"the ones that don't care about trendy and hip, the ones that care about value. AKA the majority of the populace."
I don't think so. You're talking about small gadget-ey consumer electronics devices. Trendy and hip IS the name of the game. The majority of the populace does want the cooler device, totally explaining the massive iPod sales.
But what about humans on this planet that don't own an iPod? Easy. They don't care. They don't want or need a digital music player. Not everybody has an iPod, but the vast majority of people who even care about having a music player do.
Not quite sure about that. In single player and 4 player deathmatches, the framerates were pretty smooth in goldeneye. I rented perfect dark and turned it off after about 15 minutes. Just couldn't watch it.
That's funny, this is the exact game i was thinking of. I had the expansion, and it did help, but it mainly just increased the resolution a bit. The framerate didn't really change.
And even then, thats still the kid hurting themself. "DS's don't whack children. Children with DS's whack children." ;0)
"Sony wants to let people thing that it's going to cost $500 so people will think it's a bargain when it comes out at $349."
I think you've got something here.
I don't think 'unstable' is the word, but more 'unsupported' or 'untested'.
SuSE Linux had generic x86 in mind from the beginning. People always have tried to get drivers out there for whatever hardware people might be running. In contrast, OSX has only supported apple-approved hardware as long as we've known it. Just where do you think all of this hardware support will just magically appear from?
Come to think of it, i haven't seen a SuSE box yet that detects all of the hardware perfectly right away (wireless cards anyone?).
Useless trolling.
"why crack OSX when you can run Windows on your mac?" Why would you reverse the conversation for any reason other than trolling?
I'm surprised to see X-Com left of of a turn-based gamer's list. Honestly, its the only turn-based game i was ever addicted to.