Seems lots of people across the pond love to quote 1984 and make references to Big Brother about nearly every single political story about the United States.
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Are you kidding me? A guy from their country wrote 1984 over 50 years ago. They have cameras on nearly every street corner. If anything I think they are qualified to "make references to Big Brother".
Why was this modded insightful? I think you missed the point. The original poster was saying that the British ridiculing the Americans about Orwellian laws here in the U.S. is like the pot calling the kettle black: the laws in the U.K. seem to violate privacy much more than the U.S. laws do.
So yes, the English are qualified to make references to Big Brother. But people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Names have everything to do with how popular a format becomes. "Betamax" or "VHS"?
Actually, that war was won by the pron industry (in part). They went with VHS, because the tapes offered more storage (2,4,6 hours verus 1 hour on Betamax). This is in spite of the fact that Betamax was arguably superior, and eventually did offer tapes with longer recording times.
So really, sex has everything to do with how popular a format becomes.
G4 is the first (and hopefully the last) channel that refused to actually show raw, uncut footage of the thing that it was geared around. Imagine a football channel that never showed a whole football game, but simply highlights and nothing else.
Thank god someone finally said it!
I disagree with one thing you said, however. I don't think they should show the first 3 hours of a new game, because many people prefer to play those things and discover stuff on their own. Also, networks would have a hell of a time convincing game publishers to agree to that. It would cut out a lot of the incentive of buying the game.
I think they should show experts running through games that are 1+ years old. That way it's not new, and there would be less of a chance of spoiling anything. Also, it could revitalize interest in an older game.
Game previews should stop being 30 second clips with no information. Right now there's no benefit to watching previews on G4 over downloading the videos myself -- unless I'm eating and am too lazy to move my mouse around. I'd love for a game preview to be 5-10 minutes of an expert playing through a game -- or maybe even a novice. Again, game publishers might have a problem with this, because it's in their interest not to show too much of a game. Just hype it and let consumers take a leap of faith and buy it for themselves.
I'd love to see a game dedicated to boss fights. It could run through a bunch of bosses for various games, and show different ways to beat them. It could be similar to Cinematech, only substantive enough to hold my interest. (Mine in particular, because as long as I'm wishing for stuff... =)
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Why was this modded insightful? I think you missed the point. The original poster was saying that the British ridiculing the Americans about Orwellian laws here in the U.S. is like the pot calling the kettle black: the laws in the U.K. seem to violate privacy much more than the U.S. laws do.
So yes, the English are qualified to make references to Big Brother. But people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
So really, sex has everything to do with how popular a format becomes.
Thank god someone finally said it!
I disagree with one thing you said, however. I don't think they should show the first 3 hours of a new game, because many people prefer to play those things and discover stuff on their own. Also, networks would have a hell of a time convincing game publishers to agree to that. It would cut out a lot of the incentive of buying the game.
I think they should show experts running through games that are 1+ years old. That way it's not new, and there would be less of a chance of spoiling anything. Also, it could revitalize interest in an older game.
Game previews should stop being 30 second clips with no information. Right now there's no benefit to watching previews on G4 over downloading the videos myself -- unless I'm eating and am too lazy to move my mouse around. I'd love for a game preview to be 5-10 minutes of an expert playing through a game -- or maybe even a novice. Again, game publishers might have a problem with this, because it's in their interest not to show too much of a game. Just hype it and let consumers take a leap of faith and buy it for themselves.
I'd love to see a game dedicated to boss fights. It could run through a bunch of bosses for various games, and show different ways to beat them. It could be similar to Cinematech, only substantive enough to hold my interest. (Mine in particular, because as long as I'm wishing for stuff... =)