Not true. We, the consumers get a free painful prostate exam from Apple. Even if you are a woman, you still get it in the keester from Apple. That's worth something, isn't it?
The fact that people are playing for free on a F2P and the number of paying customers is in relatively low numbers SOMEHOW translates to piracy?!
Forgive me if I am wrong, but isn't the whole point of F2P mean I play for free? Should I expect the FBI/MPAA/RIAA to bust down my door soon and scare the shit out of my cats because I am playing DDO/LotRO/Star Trek Online (all F2P) because now I am a pirate playing F2P games without buying any of their shinys?
I rather enjoyed all the wails and crying of the Sony Fanbois.
It's not Sony's fault they had extremely poor security and let all their customers' information be available in unencrypted formats! How dare Anonymous besmirch the Jehovah known as Sony!
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back. GET MAD! I don't want your damn lemons! What the hell am I suppose to do with these?! Demand to see Life's Manager! Make Life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons!!! Do you know who I am?! I'm the guy who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!!!
It is up to the individuals, not the tube, to decide what is fact and what is not. If they chose the tube, and the tube is wrong, then the individual is just as guilty as the tube.
Besides, who gets their news from the TV anymore when there is the internet?
Humm... I did not know that NBC was also in cahoots with G4 since they are also playing American Ninja Warrior on over-the-air transmissions.
First: Most of what Thom Stark is saying is pure "Stuff nobody cares about" and then proceeds to ad hoc insult for G4. Not a good way to make your point or be taken seriously by saying:
G4's marketeers clearly decided that their ADHD-addled core audience of video gamers was unlikely to find a show called "Excellence" compelling enough to warrant paying attention, so they decided to jazz it up by invoking ninjas, instead. Oh, and warriors, too, to make it more appealing to the World of Warcraft fanatics.
Making generalizations or making speculative claims == Fast and easy way to lose any kind of respect or take your POV seriously.
Secondly: Has it ever dawned on Thom Stark that trying to translate a popular TV/Anime/Game/Song/Media/etc. from Japan to English verbatim will cause even those "ADHD-addled core audience of video gamers" to be confused because of the cultural differences? That translating something 100% will confuse those not familiar with the culture 100% of the time?
In other words: A lot of what is said and done in Japan won't make sense here in the US. Vice Versa is true too.
Finally: As stated in the first sentence: This is being aired by NBC on their network. Therefore people aren't going to care for much of what this "review" is about. Much less about being called "ADHD-addled core audience of video gamers". Most that will watch it will be the ones that like shows like American Gladiator or Wipeout. Hardly MMO players or G4 fans.
This country has millions of starving children, many of which will die as I write this or you read this. It has an untold amount of humanitarian aid going in and hardly anything noteworthy being exported (besides 419 Scams and Al Quidea). The country makes Nitro Glycerine look completely stable in comparison. This country has more civil wars than I care to Google about...
...and they are worried about VoIP?!
Did I miss something or is their priorities completely out of left field?
Slashdot Mirror
The one that isn't evil...
...Oh. Wait...
...In 3...2...1...
Oh the humanity!!!
You insensitive clod! I have Diabetes! What the hell am I suppose to do with all that syrup?
Not true. We, the consumers get a free painful prostate exam from Apple. Even if you are a woman, you still get it in the keester from Apple. That's worth something, isn't it?
FIFY NC
The fact that people are playing for free on a F2P and the number of paying customers is in relatively low numbers SOMEHOW translates to piracy?!
Forgive me if I am wrong, but isn't the whole point of F2P mean I play for free? Should I expect the FBI/MPAA/RIAA to bust down my door soon and scare the shit out of my cats because I am playing DDO/LotRO/Star Trek Online (all F2P) because now I am a pirate playing F2P games without buying any of their shinys?
Doesn't anabolic steroids do the same thing? Like Beavis and Butt-head once said:
Butt-head: They [Steroids] make you all big and strong, but they like, shrink your 'nads.Huh huh huh
Beavis: Woah! What's the point?!
Why can't my PS3 w/ BT keyboard fire up a terminal, ssh, vnc, firefox/chrome, vlc, thunderbird, skype, rythmbox/etc, etc etc etc?
Because Sony said so. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Honestly, did you think Sony wanted you to do all that when they removed the install other OS option?
I rather enjoyed all the wails and crying of the Sony Fanbois.
It's not Sony's fault they had extremely poor security and let all their customers' information be available in unencrypted formats! How dare Anonymous besmirch the Jehovah known as Sony!
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back. GET MAD! I don't want your damn lemons! What the hell am I suppose to do with these?! Demand to see Life's Manager! Make Life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons!!! Do you know who I am?! I'm the guy who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!!!
Couldn't happen to a nicer company!
Now thanks to this, the dictionary has a new addition: Suckerberg.
Game Over.
You failed LOL
TL;DR
Tinfoil a little too tight on the head today?
It is up to the individuals, not the tube, to decide what is fact and what is not. If they chose the tube, and the tube is wrong, then the individual is just as guilty as the tube.
Besides, who gets their news from the TV anymore when there is the internet?
"Law" and "Suit". That'll put an end to it... or you, them, and your company.
I am sure that the majority of these screens will be covered in something other than food particles...
HINT: It is biological in nature.
Jack Thompson blaming video games in 3...2...1...
Defeat Terrorists... One Troll At A Time!
I'd rather wait for the game to drop in price a few months later than pay for the full priced game...
Oh wait. I can't afford the full price game right now. So my plan is the only way I can get games.
Besides I got two problems with the Battlefield series:
1) EA and it's penchant to mess up good titles.
2) The Battlefield series in general. Never cared for those games.
First: Most of what Thom Stark is saying is pure "Stuff nobody cares about" and then proceeds to ad hoc insult for G4. Not a good way to make your point or be taken seriously by saying:
G4's marketeers clearly decided that their ADHD-addled core audience of video gamers was unlikely to find a show called "Excellence" compelling enough to warrant paying attention, so they decided to jazz it up by invoking ninjas, instead. Oh, and warriors, too, to make it more appealing to the World of Warcraft fanatics.
Making generalizations or making speculative claims == Fast and easy way to lose any kind of respect or take your POV seriously.
Secondly: Has it ever dawned on Thom Stark that trying to translate a popular TV/Anime/Game/Song/Media/etc. from Japan to English verbatim will cause even those "ADHD-addled core audience of video gamers" to be confused because of the cultural differences? That translating something 100% will confuse those not familiar with the culture 100% of the time?
In other words: A lot of what is said and done in Japan won't make sense here in the US. Vice Versa is true too.
Finally: As stated in the first sentence: This is being aired by NBC on their network. Therefore people aren't going to care for much of what this "review" is about. Much less about being called "ADHD-addled core audience of video gamers". Most that will watch it will be the ones that like shows like American Gladiator or Wipeout. Hardly MMO players or G4 fans.
You have to watch it. If you accidently drop it or throw it at somebody/something, it will split open the ground and drag everything to Hell.
The name alone should be enough to keep people from making him a role model of anything... Unless you need a role model for underhanded scumbaggery.
This country has millions of starving children, many of which will die as I write this or you read this. It has an untold amount of humanitarian aid going in and hardly anything noteworthy being exported (besides 419 Scams and Al Quidea). The country makes Nitro Glycerine look completely stable in comparison. This country has more civil wars than I care to Google about...
...and they are worried about VoIP?!
Did I miss something or is their priorities completely out of left field?
Also, how on earth did he have so much global warming? That can really only be the effect of poor decisions or poorly waged nuclear war.
Or the gamer had the GOP and Global Warming deniers get into power too many times...
Two words came to mind when I read that:
Jack Thompson.