I gotta say I was thinking the same thing when I read this. While there's no denying that music is a common topic of discussion when meeting new people, I think to much is being read into it. Like some one above me said, its a safe topic and can read at least a little bit about a person without asking the dangerous questions.
My wife and I have relatively little overlap on the music we 'really' like, and I don't see what the big deal is. Hell, I didn't even notice that until awhile after we were married, and we were together for 3 years before that. Our first conversations some how ended up being about science fiction and the X-men, despite my (then recent) habit of trying to avoid those topics that revealed just how big of a dork I actually was.
I guess if two people were really into music, like that record store guy in High Fidelity was, there could be a bond on that. But most people like music in the same way, not as a form of obsession that they actively think about...but a general part of life experience. Most people like music in the same way most people drive cars. They drive cars, enjoy the cars and even talk about their cars...but they don't all care how they work, watch racing, pimp their cars out or become auto engineers.
Music is just handy because its something college people are all generally somewhat into.
1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
Duh. The English language has evolved into a sentient being which is trying to push its pro-evolution believes on us. Damned liberal languages, screwing with our heads.
Its to bad the terran are still horribly micromanagement intensive compared to the other races.
I thought the landing dropships sounded cool too, but given how poorly armored they are that would make quick drops of units while under fire nearly impossible. You also might get into situations where there wasn't an good spot of land to do a mass dropship landing. As it stands, I still feel like dropships are a pain in the ass to use effectively. Landing looks cool, but probably would have further reduced their usefulness.
The zerg have the best dropships btw...since the double as farms and detectors.
What I've played of GoW I enjoyed, I thought it was a fun shoot 'em up game with a few interesting weapons. But as far as the writing? Its par for the course. The lines are totally cheeseball coming out of the characters, and much of the NPCs motivations don't really make a ton of sense. The main character is a walking video game cliche, overdone to the point of self parody.
I didn't see the ending, but the story "demons/aliens/boogeymen attack earth and must be destroyed" is hardly a new idea. They came out of the ground instead of from space I guess. And the plot device of the main guy being locked up at the beginning of the game makes no sense at all. You lock your badass super soldier up for 4 years because he disobeyed an order, while earth is being overrun? Thats just plain a waste of resources.
I haven't played the other games on the list, so I can't comment on those...but GoW is just more of the same. I'm not even saying its awful, just average.
Even though I side more with Republican when it comes to financial freedom (low taxes) and true support of smaller gov't
I used to as well, until I realized that they weren't doing any of that! Neither party seems to actually want smaller government. One pretends it does, but actions speak louder then words. Now it seems to be a choice of "which party will take away less of the rights I personally value most?"
Wouldn't delaying releases really screw hollywood a lot more? They'd have to spread their marketing budget over a much longer time to keep the buzz generated, otherwise people would say "I want to see that! Oh wait its not out yet..." then forget all about it before actually did come out.
Not to mention the people that it would increase the demand for bootlegs floating around online.
How about this, after they make a film, in order to prevent piracy they burn the master copy before anyone can see it. And shoot all the people involved in the production, so that they can't make another copy. Gotta catch 'em all!
Thats pretty much what EA does. It buys other people's good ideas, then defecates on them.
I prefer the beloved items of bullfrog IP remain buried, their graves undisturbed by EA...they would have just pumped out a couple half assed titles before dumping them anyway.
I agree the format was spread a little thin over that many games...but the design was pretty much perfected with MM2. (MM 1 had no level codes, and was therefore: fucking impossible) I can't blame them much for not messing with a winning format. The games had a lot of things to love that set them apart from other platformers of the time.
Wow, I didn't actually release they were you getting you guys that bad. I guess I can't blame them, but I understand your complaint.
I've often wondered, with all the effort blizzard puts into stopping gold farmers from selling gold...why doesn't blizzard just start selling it themselves and undercut the competition? Sure, it would piss everyone off a bit, but its not like they've eliminated the practice of gold being sold by going the other way.
...in our culture? Myspace is currently being sued because they 'allowed' girls to be raped by allowing humans to communicate over its service. How long after this is released will a class action lawsuit be brought forth against its makers because because the improved bonzai buddy parent replacer failed to prevent Johnny from having cybersex while Mom and Dad went out drinking?
It seems like anything parent related these days is a liability nightmare waiting to happen. If you advertise you make something easier, people will come after you because it didn't replace the task entirely.
Marketing is all about this kind of stuff, fake individuals that are invented to love whatever crap you're pedaling. There was a pretty hilarious 'sony fan' blog that was posted recently. The Simpsons I remember had an episode that touched on this with the dog character they added to Itchy and Scratchy. Usually the marketing department fails at meshing cool and product placement, resulting in a transparent poser character that may as well have been a traditional ad. Even the viral marketing campaigns usually produce individuals who are quite fake because of their bizarre over enthusiasm.
The trouble with this though is its akin to paying one of the guys at websters to change a dictionary entry for you. People don't expect those to have any signifigant bias.
I'll just call up the other companies offering competing broadband service in my area...oh wait a minute there are none! I, like much of the country, have a choice of (1) broadband ISP, because of the local monopoly the government decided to give cable companies coupled with the disinterest of verizon in doing anything besides taking the government subsidies and then not expanding their network like they promised. If I lived in just the right place, I might have two. A lot of people in rural areas still can't even get one. Its not a matter of price, its a matter of plain old lack of availability.
The trouble with letting the free market fix things in this case, is that there isn't a free market for broadband. Competition has been stopped at the starting gates, and even if you opened the market up at this point the companies are pretty entrenched. NN isn't really a fix for the horrible situation, its more like a bandaid for one potentially nasty wound. And if there's one thing the cable and phone companies seem to have set a precident for these days, its that given the opportunity, they WILL screw you over.
Am I the only one that thinks that any Wii game that can be ported successfully from the Wii to one of the other consoles probably is either going to be a crappy Wii game or so horribly bad and unplayable on the other consoles they shouldn't have bothered? If they really take advantage of the Wii control scheme (as they should, since thats virtually all it has going for it) then that game it going to require a major reworking on the other consoles.
If there's any threat to the wii not doing well, its developers building titles that only 'sort of' take advantage of the wii's controller so they can make it a cross platform title. I know there already are plenty, but are any of them really all that good? (This is an honest question, I don't have a wii)
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I gotta say I was thinking the same thing when I read this. While there's no denying that music is a common topic of discussion when meeting new people, I think to much is being read into it. Like some one above me said, its a safe topic and can read at least a little bit about a person without asking the dangerous questions.
My wife and I have relatively little overlap on the music we 'really' like, and I don't see what the big deal is. Hell, I didn't even notice that until awhile after we were married, and we were together for 3 years before that. Our first conversations some how ended up being about science fiction and the X-men, despite my (then recent) habit of trying to avoid those topics that revealed just how big of a dork I actually was.
I guess if two people were really into music, like that record store guy in High Fidelity was, there could be a bond on that. But most people like music in the same way, not as a form of obsession that they actively think about...but a general part of life experience. Most people like music in the same way most people drive cars. They drive cars, enjoy the cars and even talk about their cars...but they don't all care how they work, watch racing, pimp their cars out or become auto engineers.
Music is just handy because its something college people are all generally somewhat into.
1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
Duh. The English language has evolved into a sentient being which is trying to push its pro-evolution believes on us. Damned liberal languages, screwing with our heads.
Its to bad the terran are still horribly micromanagement intensive compared to the other races.
I thought the landing dropships sounded cool too, but given how poorly armored they are that would make quick drops of units while under fire nearly impossible. You also might get into situations where there wasn't an good spot of land to do a mass dropship landing. As it stands, I still feel like dropships are a pain in the ass to use effectively. Landing looks cool, but probably would have further reduced their usefulness.
The zerg have the best dropships btw...since the double as farms and detectors.
Isn't the video game story the direct male equivalent of the trashy romance novel? Garbage writing that plays directly on our basal need for fantasy.
Oh wait, the direct equivalent in that case would be porno writing.
What I've played of GoW I enjoyed, I thought it was a fun shoot 'em up game with a few interesting weapons. But as far as the writing? Its par for the course. The lines are totally cheeseball coming out of the characters, and much of the NPCs motivations don't really make a ton of sense. The main character is a walking video game cliche, overdone to the point of self parody.
I didn't see the ending, but the story "demons/aliens/boogeymen attack earth and must be destroyed" is hardly a new idea. They came out of the ground instead of from space I guess. And the plot device of the main guy being locked up at the beginning of the game makes no sense at all. You lock your badass super soldier up for 4 years because he disobeyed an order, while earth is being overrun? Thats just plain a waste of resources.
I haven't played the other games on the list, so I can't comment on those...but GoW is just more of the same. I'm not even saying its awful, just average.
I think the idea is, if I'm trying to burn off my Christmas gut anyway...the bike I'm pedaling to do so might as well be connected to a generator.
Even though I side more with Republican when it comes to financial freedom (low taxes) and true support of smaller gov't
I used to as well, until I realized that they weren't doing any of that! Neither party seems to actually want smaller government. One pretends it does, but actions speak louder then words. Now it seems to be a choice of "which party will take away less of the rights I personally value most?"
Oh no, ISPs might have to deliver the service they advertise? Its a tough life for them I suppose.
...to open up an auction site that caters specifically to these types of transactions.
Wouldn't delaying releases really screw hollywood a lot more? They'd have to spread their marketing budget over a much longer time to keep the buzz generated, otherwise people would say "I want to see that! Oh wait its not out yet..." then forget all about it before actually did come out.
Not to mention the people that it would increase the demand for bootlegs floating around online.
How about this, after they make a film, in order to prevent piracy they burn the master copy before anyone can see it. And shoot all the people involved in the production, so that they can't make another copy. Gotta catch 'em all!
Blank media? Can't you just download it all to a super cheap hard drive?
So...I'm confused...do you mean WoW is coming out for the PS3?
SP2 - "Its the new SP1!"
I can beta test Microsoft's software for them and all I have to do is potentially hose my production servers? Sign me up! Sign me up yesterday!
If everyone has combo players...why wouldn't I, as a content production guy, just press it onto whichever format was cheapest to make?
Thats pretty much what EA does. It buys other people's good ideas, then defecates on them.
I prefer the beloved items of bullfrog IP remain buried, their graves undisturbed by EA...they would have just pumped out a couple half assed titles before dumping them anyway.
I agree the format was spread a little thin over that many games...but the design was pretty much perfected with MM2. (MM 1 had no level codes, and was therefore: fucking impossible) I can't blame them much for not messing with a winning format. The games had a lot of things to love that set them apart from other platformers of the time.
I wonder if it would possible to piggyback onto openDNS's system with some sort of browser plug in, detect their redirect and kill it.
...is did the submitter get his $100 back from that woman?
Same deal with my parents. The copy came with the PC.
Wow, I didn't actually release they were you getting you guys that bad. I guess I can't blame them, but I understand your complaint.
I've often wondered, with all the effort blizzard puts into stopping gold farmers from selling gold...why doesn't blizzard just start selling it themselves and undercut the competition? Sure, it would piss everyone off a bit, but its not like they've eliminated the practice of gold being sold by going the other way.
...in our culture? Myspace is currently being sued because they 'allowed' girls to be raped by allowing humans to communicate over its service. How long after this is released will a class action lawsuit be brought forth against its makers because because the improved bonzai buddy parent replacer failed to prevent Johnny from having cybersex while Mom and Dad went out drinking?
It seems like anything parent related these days is a liability nightmare waiting to happen. If you advertise you make something easier, people will come after you because it didn't replace the task entirely.
Marketing is all about this kind of stuff, fake individuals that are invented to love whatever crap you're pedaling. There was a pretty hilarious 'sony fan' blog that was posted recently. The Simpsons I remember had an episode that touched on this with the dog character they added to Itchy and Scratchy. Usually the marketing department fails at meshing cool and product placement, resulting in a transparent poser character that may as well have been a traditional ad. Even the viral marketing campaigns usually produce individuals who are quite fake because of their bizarre over enthusiasm.
The trouble with this though is its akin to paying one of the guys at websters to change a dictionary entry for you. People don't expect those to have any signifigant bias.
I'll just call up the other companies offering competing broadband service in my area...oh wait a minute there are none! I, like much of the country, have a choice of (1) broadband ISP, because of the local monopoly the government decided to give cable companies coupled with the disinterest of verizon in doing anything besides taking the government subsidies and then not expanding their network like they promised. If I lived in just the right place, I might have two. A lot of people in rural areas still can't even get one. Its not a matter of price, its a matter of plain old lack of availability.
The trouble with letting the free market fix things in this case, is that there isn't a free market for broadband. Competition has been stopped at the starting gates, and even if you opened the market up at this point the companies are pretty entrenched. NN isn't really a fix for the horrible situation, its more like a bandaid for one potentially nasty wound. And if there's one thing the cable and phone companies seem to have set a precident for these days, its that given the opportunity, they WILL screw you over.
Am I the only one that thinks that any Wii game that can be ported successfully from the Wii to one of the other consoles probably is either going to be a crappy Wii game or so horribly bad and unplayable on the other consoles they shouldn't have bothered? If they really take advantage of the Wii control scheme (as they should, since thats virtually all it has going for it) then that game it going to require a major reworking on the other consoles.
If there's any threat to the wii not doing well, its developers building titles that only 'sort of' take advantage of the wii's controller so they can make it a cross platform title. I know there already are plenty, but are any of them really all that good? (This is an honest question, I don't have a wii)