there is Sid Meier's Pirates ! : Live the life ! remake of pirates. its by sid meier and his company, and its a very very good remake of the pirates. it even has some extra stuff like ball dancing and so on. its a very enjoyable game.
however, they stayed true to original in a lot of respects, so you can say that it is indeed a remake of original pirates, not a full fledged expansion on it. (like how fallout 3 ended up being a huge expansion of fallout 2 concept, due to the immense moddability )
(or at least the advent to me) of real time strategy games like Age of Empires and Warcraft I & II
if you think rtses made their appearance with aoe or warcraft i, you are way too young.
rtses were there before dune 2. dune 2 made rts mainstream. you know dune 2 as command & conquer or red alert now. the franchise is basically the same as it was back in 1993 in dune 2 form.
Games swayed way too much to the 'long narrative' side. Every other game is a narrative now. in between the narrative, either a platform game mechanic, a fps mechanic, or a mmo mechanic is squeezed in. yes, there are good games in between these, that work. like swtor. or kotor. but, most do not cut it.
first of all, almost all potential narratives that can be told have been told in almost all of the genres. really, how many times you can save a fantasy medieval land from dragons. or, what kind of different world-shattering dangers can a fantasy medieval world can have. they all started repetition.
what was lost was the sandboxing. ie, games in which you created a narrative, as opposed to your game being a 'trigger flag' in between narratives the developer told. like sid meier's pirates.
these games have infinite replay value. pirates was able to virtually create 16-17th centuries spanish main with all the limitations of commodore 64. and its gameplay and replay value was greater than wow. ( i played 5 years, and i dont remember anything from its story ) i still can fire up pirates (in its sid meier's pirates pc incarnation) and play it without getting bored for hours occasionally, but, to make me replay wow from level 1 again, no amount of money could be enough. well, maybe if you paid REAL good, i would do it.
now we come to the sad part. pirates accomplished SO much depth and replay value with the limitations of 64 kb memory and a tape recorder. imagine how huge it would be, if it was done today, with the excessive power our current gaming setups have. (pc and console - even if pc is stronger, console still could do wonders for a game like a proper pirates remake).
so in that respect, he is right. what the industry has forgotten, has been games that allow YOU to tell the narrative, with infinite replay value.
really. we can do it. we are all tech people, developers, bloggers, administrators, moderators, networkers, this that. we all have participation in communities and we have our own small or big websites. if we start educating people as to what apple is doing, and we advocate for prevention of it, we will make them stop it. or, we will make others stop it. so much that all we need is to talk, advocate, put up banners and informational pages and so on.
dont think we can ?
well, we did it with firefox.
even google used the power of these crowds ( small webmasters and developers and communities ) with adsense/adwords - which propelled them into the predominant status they have today.
so, we can do it. its our internet. our phones. its our digital age. apple and all others should be obliging to us, not us to them. lets make them. setting apple straight in that fashion, would send a message to all the other 'big' ones out there.
muslim brotherhood is the mirror of an organization that is present in my country. dont tell me what it is. its everything islam, sharia is to be, however yet watered down FOR NOW, so that they will be readily accepted by mainstream. once they have the majority in a country, it turns upside down. like it happened in my country. as you can understand, im not american.
Internet was much more free in the early stages, and ads were much more prominent then. By then, this array and wealth of tracking mechanisms and options werent even there. When something came to your site, you assumed that it was a visitor.
the fact that all major companies, which have huge departments dedicated to those statistics, are falling little short of directly selling their ass to china in order to get into that market, should be explanative for you enough.
This also bodes well for political change within China.... a half-billion people with iPhones (or clones) and cars are going to start asking why they don't have more control over their lives at some point.
The Chinese "middle class" surpassed the population of the entire United States or Europe several years ago. Sure, that still leaves roughly a billion poor people, but with nearly a half-billion doing well, they have some serious internal market power. This also bodes well for political change within China.... a half-billion people with iPhones (or clones) and cars are going to start asking why they don't have more control over their lives at some point.
..........
long story short : dont talk on things you dont know shit about...........
in addition are you aware that what selling pathetically low profit margin products to 1 billion people means ? china did the same to entire world - sold everything, even complex products with shitty profit margins. however, entire manufacturing of the planet is in china now.
"Muslim brotherhood" . this is the organization behind all those 'revolutions' within n. africa and arabia. no exceptions : in libya they got the upper hand and immediately moved to sharia. in egypt, they were the main driving force, but was not the majority, hence they only were able to 'call' for a sharia government. in syria, they are the ones perpetrating the revolution. all of the 'revolutions' involve usage of social media and internet as you can remember - they were prepared for this. they are known to be working in libya for a decade now.
Nato has been an espionage networ that is called echelon for around 2-3 decades, and its now publicly acknowledged. i have a hard time believing that u.s. did not use the non-military information it intercepted through that or other means, for the benefit of its own corporations - the very corporations which back governments into power there by the way.
Its naive to think that way. abusive parties abuse power, public or private. the only difference in between the chinese and what goes on in the west, is probably chinese do not care much to put a storefront up.
China is 1.5 billion people. all of anglosphere and europe AND russia combined, cannot match that market. and its a growing market. not a saturated one.
so you create stuff with people's money, and then just transfer it to private parties to make profit or not make profit - in the end, essentially relinquishing all control of something that was made with PUBLIC money to some PRIVATE entity. therefore, basically letting go of people's control on something made with people's own money.
all of the systems of ottoman empire was directly taken from byzantines. in the earlier cases, convert byzantinians directly ran those mechanisms. however, until around 17th century, ottoman state ran on plunder justified through religion. it was that momentum which was stopped in balkans, when ottomans come up against austrians and the germans - the first established european states using gunpowder at large. even without gunpowder, there was not much to plunder in south-central europe. ottoman empire's first 2 centuries is basically a story of plundering the rich mediterranean, agean and adriatic cities and towns - which were rich because of the mediterranean trade. not only these ran out in 16th century and ottomans were at the door of venetians, but also sea trade went towards the oceans. basically, there was no rich plunder to run a plunder empire.
when the state started faltering in early 16th century, a noticeable tax system and tax rate was established for the first time. and that caused a century of revolts in central anatolia. some revolts went on for decades, unchecked.
trade, manufacturing was undeveloped. because it was basically based on plunder. so despite ottoman empire had that many connected resources together in convenient geography, it was not able to field the economy smaller european powers were able to field with a few colony islands and regions and their small mainland.
i can tell you from experience that it does not work that way. religion breeds more and more regardless of what you do. letting them loose, causes them to breed faster.
you are incorrect. what created and maintained ottoman empire until it ran out of steam, is the same 'pillage for religion' mechanic that has created islam, its initial onslaught. both seljuk empire and ottoman empire following it, were plunder empires. the only reason ottoman empire existed for so long was that they are early firearm adopters. but still, they plundered and occupied balkans with that momentum.
while being mostly correct (majority), you are missing the fact that crusades did not end advance of muslim armies in southern and eastern europe. otherwise there would be no ottoman empire.
best use of public land would be to stuff more people, each one of them occupying some 10 m2 area with their cars to transport their single person, instead of fitting bus lanes in there, which will provide transportation rate of 1 m2 space occupied per person ?
excuse me, but engineering-wise, that would fail you an exam.
nay. even for theory-heavy, you can just give projects, assignments, workshops and have them actually practice what they are going to learn and learn by practice. even in theoretical physics.
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there is Sid Meier's Pirates ! : Live the life ! remake of pirates. its by sid meier and his company, and its a very very good remake of the pirates. it even has some extra stuff like ball dancing and so on. its a very enjoyable game.
however, they stayed true to original in a lot of respects, so you can say that it is indeed a remake of original pirates, not a full fledged expansion on it. (like how fallout 3 ended up being a huge expansion of fallout 2 concept, due to the immense moddability )
(or at least the advent to me) of real time strategy games like Age of Empires and Warcraft I & II
if you think rtses made their appearance with aoe or warcraft i, you are way too young.
rtses were there before dune 2. dune 2 made rts mainstream. you know dune 2 as command & conquer or red alert now. the franchise is basically the same as it was back in 1993 in dune 2 form.
Games swayed way too much to the 'long narrative' side. Every other game is a narrative now. in between the narrative, either a platform game mechanic, a fps mechanic, or a mmo mechanic is squeezed in. yes, there are good games in between these, that work. like swtor. or kotor. but, most do not cut it.
first of all, almost all potential narratives that can be told have been told in almost all of the genres. really, how many times you can save a fantasy medieval land from dragons. or, what kind of different world-shattering dangers can a fantasy medieval world can have. they all started repetition.
what was lost was the sandboxing. ie, games in which you created a narrative, as opposed to your game being a 'trigger flag' in between narratives the developer told. like sid meier's pirates.
these games have infinite replay value. pirates was able to virtually create 16-17th centuries spanish main with all the limitations of commodore 64. and its gameplay and replay value was greater than wow. ( i played 5 years, and i dont remember anything from its story ) i still can fire up pirates (in its sid meier's pirates pc incarnation) and play it without getting bored for hours occasionally, but, to make me replay wow from level 1 again, no amount of money could be enough. well, maybe if you paid REAL good, i would do it.
now we come to the sad part. pirates accomplished SO much depth and replay value with the limitations of 64 kb memory and a tape recorder. imagine how huge it would be, if it was done today, with the excessive power our current gaming setups have. (pc and console - even if pc is stronger, console still could do wonders for a game like a proper pirates remake).
so in that respect, he is right. what the industry has forgotten, has been games that allow YOU to tell the narrative, with infinite replay value.
really. we can do it. we are all tech people, developers, bloggers, administrators, moderators, networkers, this that. we all have participation in communities and we have our own small or big websites. if we start educating people as to what apple is doing, and we advocate for prevention of it, we will make them stop it. or, we will make others stop it. so much that all we need is to talk, advocate, put up banners and informational pages and so on.
dont think we can ?
well, we did it with firefox.
even google used the power of these crowds ( small webmasters and developers and communities ) with adsense/adwords - which propelled them into the predominant status they have today.
so, we can do it. its our internet. our phones. its our digital age. apple and all others should be obliging to us, not us to them. lets make them. setting apple straight in that fashion, would send a message to all the other 'big' ones out there.
.......... dude. just, let it go, alright ? there's no point in that anymore. be rational.
i heard that a right leaning government was re-elected in canada, but i did not think that they were outright to the scale of 'fascist'.
wow.
holy shitmoses ...
that's some device gymnast's use. you can see it in olympics. you hold those and do stuff.
muslim brotherhood is the mirror of an organization that is present in my country. dont tell me what it is. its everything islam, sharia is to be, however yet watered down FOR NOW, so that they will be readily accepted by mainstream. once they have the majority in a country, it turns upside down. like it happened in my country. as you can understand, im not american.
Internet was much more free in the early stages, and ads were much more prominent then. By then, this array and wealth of tracking mechanisms and options werent even there. When something came to your site, you assumed that it was a visitor.
the fact that all major companies, which have huge departments dedicated to those statistics, are falling little short of directly selling their ass to china in order to get into that market, should be explanative for you enough.
This also bodes well for political change within China.... a half-billion people with iPhones (or clones) and cars are going to start asking why they don't have more control over their lives at some point.
like how the people in u.s. has, isnt it.
from another poster :
The Chinese "middle class" surpassed the population of the entire United States or Europe several years ago. Sure, that still leaves roughly a billion poor people, but with nearly a half-billion doing well, they have some serious internal market power. This also bodes well for political change within China.... a half-billion people with iPhones (or clones) and cars are going to start asking why they don't have more control over their lives at some point.
..........
long story short : dont talk on things you dont know shit about. ..........
in addition are you aware that what selling pathetically low profit margin products to 1 billion people means ? china did the same to entire world - sold everything, even complex products with shitty profit margins. however, entire manufacturing of the planet is in china now.
"Muslim brotherhood" . this is the organization behind all those 'revolutions' within n. africa and arabia. no exceptions : in libya they got the upper hand and immediately moved to sharia. in egypt, they were the main driving force, but was not the majority, hence they only were able to 'call' for a sharia government. in syria, they are the ones perpetrating the revolution. all of the 'revolutions' involve usage of social media and internet as you can remember - they were prepared for this. they are known to be working in libya for a decade now.
Nato has been an espionage networ that is called echelon for around 2-3 decades, and its now publicly acknowledged. i have a hard time believing that u.s. did not use the non-military information it intercepted through that or other means, for the benefit of its own corporations - the very corporations which back governments into power there by the way.
Its naive to think that way. abusive parties abuse power, public or private. the only difference in between the chinese and what goes on in the west, is probably chinese do not care much to put a storefront up.
China is 1.5 billion people. all of anglosphere and europe AND russia combined, cannot match that market. and its a growing market. not a saturated one.
so you create stuff with people's money, and then just transfer it to private parties to make profit or not make profit - in the end, essentially relinquishing all control of something that was made with PUBLIC money to some PRIVATE entity. therefore, basically letting go of people's control on something made with people's own money.
Aaah capitalism.
all of the systems of ottoman empire was directly taken from byzantines. in the earlier cases, convert byzantinians directly ran those mechanisms. however, until around 17th century, ottoman state ran on plunder justified through religion. it was that momentum which was stopped in balkans, when ottomans come up against austrians and the germans - the first established european states using gunpowder at large. even without gunpowder, there was not much to plunder in south-central europe. ottoman empire's first 2 centuries is basically a story of plundering the rich mediterranean, agean and adriatic cities and towns - which were rich because of the mediterranean trade. not only these ran out in 16th century and ottomans were at the door of venetians, but also sea trade went towards the oceans. basically, there was no rich plunder to run a plunder empire.
when the state started faltering in early 16th century, a noticeable tax system and tax rate was established for the first time. and that caused a century of revolts in central anatolia. some revolts went on for decades, unchecked.
trade, manufacturing was undeveloped. because it was basically based on plunder. so despite ottoman empire had that many connected resources together in convenient geography, it was not able to field the economy smaller european powers were able to field with a few colony islands and regions and their small mainland.
i can tell you from experience that it does not work that way. religion breeds more and more regardless of what you do. letting them loose, causes them to breed faster.
All top brass move with impunity everywhere and they always have a sidekick or two in tow
you seem to be speaking from experience.
you are incorrect. what created and maintained ottoman empire until it ran out of steam, is the same 'pillage for religion' mechanic that has created islam, its initial onslaught. both seljuk empire and ottoman empire following it, were plunder empires. the only reason ottoman empire existed for so long was that they are early firearm adopters. but still, they plundered and occupied balkans with that momentum.
one breeds the other dude. the more 'bible thumper type mild' christians you have, the more radical nutjobs you will have.
its same with islam. there are around 1 billion muslims in the world, the more 'mild' muslims, the more 'saudis'.
while being mostly correct (majority), you are missing the fact that crusades did not end advance of muslim armies in southern and eastern europe. otherwise there would be no ottoman empire.
youre still living in middle ages. that guy's 'extremism' was something that most of the world got over 200 years ago.
best use of public land would be to stuff more people, each one of them occupying some 10 m2 area with their cars to transport their single person, instead of fitting bus lanes in there, which will provide transportation rate of 1 m2 space occupied per person ?
excuse me, but engineering-wise, that would fail you an exam.
nay. even for theory-heavy, you can just give projects, assignments, workshops and have them actually practice what they are going to learn and learn by practice. even in theoretical physics.