It's not so much about Star Wars specifically. It's more "potentially awesome ideas" in general. I chose SWG because everyone drooled over it like crazy until it turned out to be crap. KOTOR doesn't really fit that description.
My other examples would have been stuff like Superman games where they ruin Superman by limiting his power with bullshit "energy levels". The Sims Online could have been a cultural phenomenon if they'd done it right. Halo 2 had a great backstory to build off, and instead chose to shit all over it.
The point is that great ideas can swing either way.
You are very smelly indeed. Only a particularly smelly person would make a remark like that, a remark that demonstrates a lack of having read the rest of my post which provided context for the quoted remark. Very smelly, very smelly indeed.
Past games != Future games. Mine was an example for a general idea about high-potential gameplay ideas, whereas you're saying that two specific good past games negate the possibility of this future game being bad. Theory shot down.
Ah, shit almighty, I remember that now. How foolish of me. Still, no harm in backing it up in case of a meltdown. Surely there's no harm in making a cache available once a server goes down? I suppose mirrordot is already doing that though... boring!
It's hardly Slashdot's "gruntwork" if it's someone else's content. What's more, if their servers can't handle the load, it's their loss, not Slashdot's.
The only thing that ticks me off about it is that it'd be near trivial to wget all links in an article before it goes live, and mirror them on slashdot.org.
I don't like silly little human-dependant hacks, but I like it even less when obvious technical solutions are ignored.
They'll find a way to ruin this, believe me. For example, it'll take place on a world where lightsaber energy depletes at 1000x the normal rate, and you have to search for generic blue crystals to replenish some bar. Or it'll interpret general controller gestures into predetermined saber motion animations.
Not meaning to sound like the typical Slashbot everything-hater, but it's my experience that the games with the greatest potential prove the most disappointing. Star Wars Galaxies is coincidentally the best example.
That paragraph doesn't imply that Open Source is Linux at all. It asks if Linux's Open Source nature protects it from being abused by companies like Microsoft.
Alas, judging from your score, I fear that your axe has already been successfully grinded.
If you think a post is flamebait, then you shouldn't be responding to it. If it's flamebait, to respond is to be manipulated. If you engage the flamebait while acknowledging what it is, you're basically stating that you've lost.
So by posting a reply like that, you create two possibilities:
I imagine he'd probably have one here in Britain too.
This whole mess is like a picture perfect example of a complex issue. Even with our law being the way it is, it doesn't stop the naughty men from getting guns. It's analogous to DRM only slowing casual piracy without even affectomg the real criminals at all.
It's phrased that way for a reason. You can't just decide to 'read' it a different way. If it says 'until proven', that means UNTIL PROVEN. It's hardly a "subtle" difference between that and what you described. In fact it's more like the exact opposite of the original meaning.
They'll leave out a lot more than that. MGS had too many epic battle scenes to fit them all into a conventional film. Come to think of it, it was basically a compilation of epic battles spaced out with lots of hallway creeping. Damn fun though.
I bet they'd sidestep the entire issue of performance enhancing drugs by dropping a load of the Sniper Wolf stuff completely. Or maybe they'll even have him kill her with rockets, like I did!
One thing I definitely hope they cut is the Psycho Mantis scene. That fight was terrible, and wouldn't make for a very entertaining film sequence. It didn't help that the guy was practically an irrelevant afterthought. What was his place in the story anyway?
Here is where the bullshit comes in. As right as you may be about the correct procedure for cleanup after a major break in, it's kind of irrelevant to these computers.
No unpassworded computers need to be going through that kind of work. They'd have already been secured in the first place.
The problem is that "hacked military computers" sounds bad no matter how inconsequential, and so even this poor idiot who found his way into the low end dregs of the network has to be made an example of.
This is really fucking lame. Worse, this is on the same level as Digg. The linked article is a blog post about a site. The actual content is at canton.elegal.ca. Get your fucking act together and stop linking to irrelevant blogs as if they were the news stories.
I know another way to judge information. A good way to tell if something is worth paying attention to is to look at the typeface. If it's mostly in bold, someone's trying to distract you from something else. For example,
Dismissal of information without research, without an attempt to verify if it is true or false and most importantly, without even bothering to read it is probably the main cause of ignorance today.
Wrong! The main cause of ignorance today is poor/zero education and/or upbringing. Low literacy levels aren't helping either.
Information doesn't mean "Here is a fact. Please accept this fact as I will be building further facts on the basis of your belief in this one". It means "Here is some falsifiable research I have done. From this I infer the following...". The kind of information you are talking about is only "information" in the strict sense of the word: communicated ideas and concepts.
You mean the Bilderberg Group described on http://www.bilderberg.org/? Now there's a candidate for Awful Link of the Day.
If anything the BG is an offensive spectacle of rich people sitting on their asses doing nothing for anyone. It's far from a conspiracy. Don't try to build suspense telling us that "we will hear about them" soon. Bullshit. We already know about them. They're a bunch of Western fatcats getting together to pat each other on the back. Perhaps if they had any OPEC in there, they'd wield some world power. They haven't, and they don't.
You're confusing the US government with the Secret Government. The US government is a big, boring, beaurocratic political entity. The Secret Government is a covert operation of crazy selfish people who maintain a secret hidden cache of awesome magic toys that nobody is allowed to play with, not even old people or ninjas.
El Reg? If the title is wrong how are we to trust the content?
Why say that in the earnings conference? Sounds like a quick excuse
Hmmm, I can't make it past 9. I guess I'll just have to give up on my dream of becoming the Comic Book Guy.
It's sad though that you could take pretty much any of those posts and extract 3 quick karma points out of it easily. That must be why I've decided to stop displaying the karma/moderation system completely.
it has long borne the brunt of complaints from mass e-mailers over the problem
Does this mean mailing list owners or something? I associate "mass e-mailer" with "spammer", so my first instinct was "You may continue to cry". So are there other mass e-mailers? Does it mean the likes of Amazon? If so they too may continue to cry. I don't need to know about This week's hot deals on Electronics & Photo at Amazon.co.uk.
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My other examples would have been stuff like Superman games where they ruin Superman by limiting his power with bullshit "energy levels". The Sims Online could have been a cultural phenomenon if they'd done it right. Halo 2 had a great backstory to build off, and instead chose to shit all over it.
The point is that great ideas can swing either way.
You are very smelly indeed. Only a particularly smelly person would make a remark like that, a remark that demonstrates a lack of having read the rest of my post which provided context for the quoted remark. Very smelly, very smelly indeed.
Past games != Future games. Mine was an example for a general idea about high-potential gameplay ideas, whereas you're saying that two specific good past games negate the possibility of this future game being bad. Theory shot down.
Ah, shit almighty, I remember that now. How foolish of me. Still, no harm in backing it up in case of a meltdown. Surely there's no harm in making a cache available once a server goes down? I suppose mirrordot is already doing that though... boring!
The only thing that ticks me off about it is that it'd be near trivial to wget all links in an article before it goes live, and mirror them on slashdot.org.
I don't like silly little human-dependant hacks, but I like it even less when obvious technical solutions are ignored.
Not meaning to sound like the typical Slashbot everything-hater, but it's my experience that the games with the greatest potential prove the most disappointing. Star Wars Galaxies is coincidentally the best example.
Alas, judging from your score, I fear that your axe has already been successfully grinded.
A decent electromagnet on windy day will do the trick.
So by posting a reply like that, you create two possibilities:
This whole mess is like a picture perfect example of a complex issue. Even with our law being the way it is, it doesn't stop the naughty men from getting guns. It's analogous to DRM only slowing casual piracy without even affectomg the real criminals at all.
It's phrased that way for a reason. You can't just decide to 'read' it a different way. If it says 'until proven', that means UNTIL PROVEN. It's hardly a "subtle" difference between that and what you described. In fact it's more like the exact opposite of the original meaning.
In Capitalist America, one's worth as a human is apparently defined by their money management skills.
It's quite possible that until then there had been no specific term for it. It would have been easy to get by using other names like 'platformer'.
I bet they'd sidestep the entire issue of performance enhancing drugs by dropping a load of the Sniper Wolf stuff completely. Or maybe they'll even have him kill her with rockets, like I did!
One thing I definitely hope they cut is the Psycho Mantis scene. That fight was terrible, and wouldn't make for a very entertaining film sequence. It didn't help that the guy was practically an irrelevant afterthought. What was his place in the story anyway?
No unpassworded computers need to be going through that kind of work. They'd have already been secured in the first place.
The problem is that "hacked military computers" sounds bad no matter how inconsequential, and so even this poor idiot who found his way into the low end dregs of the network has to be made an example of.
I think you mean "with advertising support".
This is really fucking lame. Worse, this is on the same level as Digg. The linked article is a blog post about a site. The actual content is at canton.elegal.ca. Get your fucking act together and stop linking to irrelevant blogs as if they were the news stories.
It was about time someone did something like this. We needed something like this!
Information doesn't mean "Here is a fact. Please accept this fact as I will be building further facts on the basis of your belief in this one". It means "Here is some falsifiable research I have done. From this I infer the following...". The kind of information you are talking about is only "information" in the strict sense of the word: communicated ideas and concepts.
If anything the BG is an offensive spectacle of rich people sitting on their asses doing nothing for anyone. It's far from a conspiracy. Don't try to build suspense telling us that "we will hear about them" soon. Bullshit. We already know about them. They're a bunch of Western fatcats getting together to pat each other on the back. Perhaps if they had any OPEC in there, they'd wield some world power. They haven't, and they don't.
You're confusing the US government with the Secret Government. The US government is a big, boring, beaurocratic political entity. The Secret Government is a covert operation of crazy selfish people who maintain a secret hidden cache of awesome magic toys that nobody is allowed to play with, not even old people or ninjas.
- Google is really rich and can buy more shit
- The register is written by fags
- One piece of software != crisis
- Unfair quoting = untrustworthy source
- Google will learn to ID the software and block it
- Subterranean means not big enough to be a risk
- Grubby Games is a gay name
- El Reg? If the title is wrong how are we to trust the content?
- Why say that in the earnings conference? Sounds like a quick excuse
Hmmm, I can't make it past 9. I guess I'll just have to give up on my dream of becoming the Comic Book Guy.It's sad though that you could take pretty much any of those posts and extract 3 quick karma points out of it easily. That must be why I've decided to stop displaying the karma/moderation system completely.