Technically, a school admin could decide that he could use IM at school, hence it appeared on school property... which is stupid, but possible/plausible.
Even properly translated Japanese shouldn't really be sought here, because the Japanese have different naming conventions than us anyway. How else does one explain a name like "Final Fantasy" going on past ten titles?
We are talking about worst game NAMES, not worst GAMES.
Though if you're only creative enough to add on the system's name to whatever it is you're making...
Facebook has the limiting factor of (currently) only housing a college-aged demographic, along with the few staff and alumni hip enough to get involved. There are ways to get around this (giving a collegiate email to someone not affiliated, for example), but much like LJ's old friendcodes, you had to know someone well enough first to accomplish that.
Facebook is therefore unlikely to be implicated in anything pedo/hebophilic (although I have seen some stupid pictures put up there), HOWEVER as a social organizing tool it is theoretically possible to be used for in-network terror activity, though by 'terror' I mean "Hey guys, let's go steal the mascot goat and paint him purple!", since it's unlikely that any realistic group we would consider terrorists would be able to all gain access from a foreign network. One or two, perhaps, but not the 6-7 expected for a cell.
I'd honestly have to say that if Facebook were to be monitored the way they're suggesting to do Myspace, Facebook would implode just because there is no rational motive for wanting to track a bunch of collegiate Americans and trying to call it Homeland Security like that.
You beat me to it by about ten seconds!
But yeah, there's no WAY this can be legal... even talking about gambling is illegal now? Does this make Puzzle Pirates (and other games that allow multiplayer wagering) illegal even though no legal tender trades hands?
CS suffers from a stigma in general, but if all the sciences are equal, why is Computer Science always dead last when it comes to female enrollment?
And while I won't say that I've had particular trouble getting INTO a class (aside from needing to get an extra AP verification from a (female) teacher to make sure that I was 'cut out' for CS), in high school I was one of the few (if not only) women in both my AP Calculus and CS courses, but also in the 'honors' course of Java I took in my second semester of college. To say the double-take of 'woah' from realizing such a thing is disconcerting is an understatement. In the end, though, the real difference I've noticed is that boys get the subtle 'push' from extracurricular sources, whereas most girls will be lucky to get their hands on 'Barbie Fashion Designer' instead of Squeak. I happened to be lucky enough to have my father involved in computing and developing his own programs for personal use, with lots of programming books in his personal library, and I'm convinced that this was what gave me the incentive to give CS a shot in the first place (and then I found out I loved it!)
I don't see a (explicit) moral value in having a woman on a computing team, but I do see the business advantage to having one; diversity of previous experience, usability perspectives, general 'polish' of programs, both in coding, testing, and interfacing... not to mention the boost in teamwork provided by a worker who is more inclined to communicate with her teammates, and general multitasking skills. There are just some things that men pay attention to when they're taking orders, and if the gender of the manager/co-worker is enough sway to give the worker more incentive and insight, so much the better.
Women view a task differently than men, see how things are put together differently from men, and communicate differently from men, and these differences are enough to make them useful when putting together software that eventually will be used by more than just men. Any program designed for be used by both genders deserves to be evaluated and developed by both genders; anything else is just asking for trouble down the road.
Okay, given the chance (and a little more notice), I probably would have done something for this.
The imbalance of Women in CS, let alone Women in CS interested in LINUX, should have clued these guys into the idea that few women would be among their soup.
The CS community at large needs to get the word out that 'Mars Needs Women', so to speak. GNOME is nice, but you've got to correct the balance in general before you can get them interested at the fringes!
As it currently is, though, all the 'T' or the 'M' is, is just a distinction. It doesn't go into any level of detail about what the game contains, and if you want this info you have to have one of the sales crew pull the game out for you. Certainly making it easier and allowing parents (or kids) to go ahead and set up a list of ratings preferences is a good start.
Of course, I feel games should only be regulated as much as books (i.e. personal media), and I never heard anyone claim that Harry Potter created any serial killers yet...
Apparently we need to make it clear to parents how to tell when certain games are 'good' and certain ones are 'bad'.
My idea for a solution to this is to have a database that catalogs ALL games based on their rating, and what they're rated for (y'know, 'cartoon violence', 'mild violence', etc.), so Parents can pre-select a series of things they don't want, and then recieve a 'whitelist' of games they know are good.
Of course, there's no real way to tell the vendors at stores "Don't buy this game for my kid", but at minimum, parents buying these games should have to hear that the game contains such-and-such and KNOW WHAT THEY'RE BUYING. The problem is education, and the solution ain't government intervention.
Mmkay, I just picked up a DS lite yesterday, and I'm looking at the product bar on the back...
What do you think the odds are that the systems are set up for Europe-region-only in terms of cards and wifi?
Now that people want gameplay again, since graphics capabilities are maxed out to the degree of 'Uncanny Valley', suddenly the producers are crying foul and complaining that they have to think again.
I can think up at least three different games that I would consider revolutionary, 'cept of course that the barrier to entry means I've got to go pitching it to other people rather than developing it myself.
I've not been this hopped up for a console in ages
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After both my brother (PSP) and sister (DS) have apparently succumbed to the mobile craze, I'm ready to take the leap in with 'em with the DS Lite.
I fell in love with this trimmed-down tricked-out console the instant I saw one of my classmates in college playing an imported version, and the only thing holding me back now is the promise of ice blue DS Lites.
While it'll be a shame to have to pass up Ratchet: Size Matters, the point remains that Insomniac does not a console make, especially when the console in question is a $250 brick versus a console that can also default into your home media player.
It also helps that we get 20-60 hours of content for each purchase, compared to the 2-3 hours Hollywood gives us. Throw in a Wiki for the movies every now and then, will you?
That music was perfect for it. Short, and a rather limited scope (I would've gotten a kick out of them doing extra tracks for the Super Agents and Villains), but perfect.
Namco.
Innovative, sure, but more likely to fall under the 'import' scene than indie, even with it's shallow roots and the fact the game basically had to get a write-in to get distributed outside of Japan.
Stepmania does not count because Stepmania is a DDR CLONE.
In order to be indie, it has to at least add something to the game, and I fail to see where Stepmania, aside from porting to the PC and allowing new songs to be created and made, adds anything.
PC, anything and everything goes. Gaia, YoHoHo! Puzzle Pirates, anything PopCap seems to touch . . . Hell, anyone up for running through Exmortis or the Viridian Room, anyone?
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Technically, a school admin could decide that he could use IM at school, hence it appeared on school property... which is stupid, but possible/plausible.
Korea's working on that. -> Cell Phones Prevent Drunken Calls
Even properly translated Japanese shouldn't really be sought here, because the Japanese have different naming conventions than us anyway. How else does one explain a name like "Final Fantasy" going on past ten titles?
Engrish didn't count in their name choices. Made things way too easy if they tried to.
We are talking about worst game NAMES, not worst GAMES. Though if you're only creative enough to add on the system's name to whatever it is you're making...
I preferred the old 7UP Spot game for the Genesis. That one was actually fun.
Facebook has the limiting factor of (currently) only housing a college-aged demographic, along with the few staff and alumni hip enough to get involved. There are ways to get around this (giving a collegiate email to someone not affiliated, for example), but much like LJ's old friendcodes, you had to know someone well enough first to accomplish that.
Facebook is therefore unlikely to be implicated in anything pedo/hebophilic (although I have seen some stupid pictures put up there), HOWEVER as a social organizing tool it is theoretically possible to be used for in-network terror activity, though by 'terror' I mean "Hey guys, let's go steal the mascot goat and paint him purple!", since it's unlikely that any realistic group we would consider terrorists would be able to all gain access from a foreign network. One or two, perhaps, but not the 6-7 expected for a cell.
I'd honestly have to say that if Facebook were to be monitored the way they're suggesting to do Myspace, Facebook would implode just because there is no rational motive for wanting to track a bunch of collegiate Americans and trying to call it Homeland Security like that.
Effective my ass. A quick brute-forcing of the quiz got me past those things (and I was 13, maybe 15 at the time)
The implication of the pot example is that it COULD be used as evidence of posession/consumption. So there's not much point to that.
You beat me to it by about ten seconds! But yeah, there's no WAY this can be legal... even talking about gambling is illegal now? Does this make Puzzle Pirates (and other games that allow multiplayer wagering) illegal even though no legal tender trades hands?
CS suffers from a stigma in general, but if all the sciences are equal, why is Computer Science always dead last when it comes to female enrollment? And while I won't say that I've had particular trouble getting INTO a class (aside from needing to get an extra AP verification from a (female) teacher to make sure that I was 'cut out' for CS), in high school I was one of the few (if not only) women in both my AP Calculus and CS courses, but also in the 'honors' course of Java I took in my second semester of college. To say the double-take of 'woah' from realizing such a thing is disconcerting is an understatement. In the end, though, the real difference I've noticed is that boys get the subtle 'push' from extracurricular sources, whereas most girls will be lucky to get their hands on 'Barbie Fashion Designer' instead of Squeak. I happened to be lucky enough to have my father involved in computing and developing his own programs for personal use, with lots of programming books in his personal library, and I'm convinced that this was what gave me the incentive to give CS a shot in the first place (and then I found out I loved it!) I don't see a (explicit) moral value in having a woman on a computing team, but I do see the business advantage to having one; diversity of previous experience, usability perspectives, general 'polish' of programs, both in coding, testing, and interfacing... not to mention the boost in teamwork provided by a worker who is more inclined to communicate with her teammates, and general multitasking skills. There are just some things that men pay attention to when they're taking orders, and if the gender of the manager/co-worker is enough sway to give the worker more incentive and insight, so much the better. Women view a task differently than men, see how things are put together differently from men, and communicate differently from men, and these differences are enough to make them useful when putting together software that eventually will be used by more than just men. Any program designed for be used by both genders deserves to be evaluated and developed by both genders; anything else is just asking for trouble down the road.
Okay, given the chance (and a little more notice), I probably would have done something for this.
The imbalance of Women in CS, let alone Women in CS interested in LINUX, should have clued these guys into the idea that few women would be among their soup.
The CS community at large needs to get the word out that 'Mars Needs Women', so to speak. GNOME is nice, but you've got to correct the balance in general before you can get them interested at the fringes!
As it currently is, though, all the 'T' or the 'M' is, is just a distinction. It doesn't go into any level of detail about what the game contains, and if you want this info you have to have one of the sales crew pull the game out for you. Certainly making it easier and allowing parents (or kids) to go ahead and set up a list of ratings preferences is a good start.
Of course, I feel games should only be regulated as much as books (i.e. personal media), and I never heard anyone claim that Harry Potter created any serial killers yet...
Apparently we need to make it clear to parents how to tell when certain games are 'good' and certain ones are 'bad'. My idea for a solution to this is to have a database that catalogs ALL games based on their rating, and what they're rated for (y'know, 'cartoon violence', 'mild violence', etc.), so Parents can pre-select a series of things they don't want, and then recieve a 'whitelist' of games they know are good. Of course, there's no real way to tell the vendors at stores "Don't buy this game for my kid", but at minimum, parents buying these games should have to hear that the game contains such-and-such and KNOW WHAT THEY'RE BUYING. The problem is education, and the solution ain't government intervention.
Mmkay, I just picked up a DS lite yesterday, and I'm looking at the product bar on the back... What do you think the odds are that the systems are set up for Europe-region-only in terms of cards and wifi?
Black is currently a Europe-exclusive color. Says so right on Wikipedia.
Now that people want gameplay again, since graphics capabilities are maxed out to the degree of 'Uncanny Valley', suddenly the producers are crying foul and complaining that they have to think again.
I can think up at least three different games that I would consider revolutionary, 'cept of course that the barrier to entry means I've got to go pitching it to other people rather than developing it myself.
After both my brother (PSP) and sister (DS) have apparently succumbed to the mobile craze, I'm ready to take the leap in with 'em with the DS Lite.
I fell in love with this trimmed-down tricked-out console the instant I saw one of my classmates in college playing an imported version, and the only thing holding me back now is the promise of ice blue DS Lites.
While it'll be a shame to have to pass up Ratchet: Size Matters, the point remains that Insomniac does not a console make, especially when the console in question is a $250 brick versus a console that can also default into your home media player.
I'm talking for a one-time-price game. An MMORPG is more like a hooker you keep going back to :-p
It also helps that we get 20-60 hours of content for each purchase, compared to the 2-3 hours Hollywood gives us. Throw in a Wiki for the movies every now and then, will you?
That music was perfect for it. Short, and a rather limited scope (I would've gotten a kick out of them doing extra tracks for the Super Agents and Villains), but perfect.
Namco. Innovative, sure, but more likely to fall under the 'import' scene than indie, even with it's shallow roots and the fact the game basically had to get a write-in to get distributed outside of Japan.
Stepmania does not count because Stepmania is a DDR CLONE. In order to be indie, it has to at least add something to the game, and I fail to see where Stepmania, aside from porting to the PC and allowing new songs to be created and made, adds anything.
No Hit Indie Games ON A CONSOLE.
PC, anything and everything goes. Gaia, YoHoHo! Puzzle Pirates, anything PopCap seems to touch . . . Hell, anyone up for running through Exmortis or the Viridian Room, anyone?
If it was obvious, then why is it on Slashdot?