Well IM sure if you want to do that someone will cater to you.
Oh, sorry you were trying to be a smartass.
Games will have adverts. I don't like it, you don't like it, but I would rather have something innocuous and unobtrusive as opposed to splash screens I have to look at 10 seconds every time I start the game. What is more aggravating, being forced to watch the previews before the movie or the product placements you see in the movie.
A new rating? Maybe a descriptor but not a rating. We already have idiots who are confused by a "mature" or can't be bothered to even look.
The fact is advertising is going to be in games. Unless of course we all just stop buying games... yeah not going to happen. To many people buy sports games from EA for that to happen.
The issue is, advertisers want to put product adds in games, product adds hurt the game unless you have a current day setting, even then its very iffy. The best game ads are innocuous and they promote a brand, not a single product. If I'm walking through a city on an earth that was destroyed in 2014 and see a faded and burnt billboard sitting at and angle half on the ground with an advert for an xbox 1080, I'm not really going to mind, it doesn't look out of place and it fits the time period. If the billboard is clean, bright and shiny.... im gonna be pissed. Who the hell keeps the billboards clean and up to date, don't they have better things to do like scavenging for food?
If I'm traveling between worlds in a space game set in 2231 and I go near a large space station orbiting a heavily populated world (Think Coruscant)and see a coke advert that says "Coke Classic, for that turn of the millennium taste". I wouldn't mind, heck I might even grin a little.
The problem is this, what dev has ever said "you want an advert in out game? Then these are the rules you follow, go talk to your add agency then let us look and we will approve it." If they really want to get that advert near your target audience, then they will do it.
IN game advertising doesn't have to be stupid and forceful. The problem is, that is how it is typically done right now.
Well done in game ads are more effective and less distracting. The next step is for them to lower the price of the games, or give better support/updates/content because of advertising revenue.
Yeah, I know I'm a bit crazy with that last part, it would just be nice to see a bit more benefit trickle down to the consumer.
The nature of public opinion and perception creates an environment that can destroy a well engineered passenger aircraft.
A situation where the wings break would never happen while the plane was actually flying or in a recoverable non flying state.
You test the wing to the theoretical limit of the forces that would occur during a flight, controlled and not so controlled. Then you design the wing for 150% of that or some number like that. Now if it breaks during the normal testing then by all means go back in fix it.
Think of it this way, if any thing on the aircraft was going to break and cause it to crash, the last thing to do so would be the wing.
Nothing good would come of breaking the wing if it does what they claim it does. Also, they do care about passengers, because the continuing safety of the passengers affects their bottom line. If a design flaw in the planes kills passengers, they have to pay for it.
Might I suggest a book for you. Its called airframe. Crichton wrote it.
A bit of wisdom from a Retired Boeing exec who I forgot the name of.
The story was about one of the earlier Boeing's, they had stressed the wing to like 10 times any theoretical force that could be possibly placed on it during a rather publicized testing of its strength. They test folks were all about trying to break it.
During the process of doing this an exec asked them what they were doing. "Breaking the wing" they replied. The exec said No, stop the testing.
Why? the testers asked. Because the headline won't read ,
"Boeing wing breaks at 40 times the stress encountered during possible flight conditions",
Instead it will read
"New wing of new Boeing Jet Breaks".
Please note Its been awhile since I heard that story, but I think the point is pretty clear.
1: Find Quake 3 CD 2: Goto Id Software Website 3: Download Linux Demo 4: install Linux demo 5: Copy all files in the base directory of Quake 3 into the base of the Q3 Linux demo 6: Download newest point release, repeat base copy again. 7: Run game, have fun blow shit up.
Ill give you a hint, the only command line used was on step 4, chmod I think, its been a while.
.... I installed quake 3 On my first day of Linux. Copied the files from the disk, ran the linux stuff for Id. IN all I had to use 3 maybe 4 commands total, and the only web site I went to was Ids site. It was basically the first thing I installed after doing my redhat installation. I never really got into using linux, but its not the quagmire you for believe it to be.
So does that mean we endanger our soldiers even more? His point was that there is stuff that is sensitive and that there are people who want to know this stuff. Some surprisingly mundane shit can go a long way when planning against an opponent.
[insert random "what gives us the right to change something natural comment here"]
Yes, I know humans have made several of those much larger.
On a more serious note, something tells me that the climate on mars would be much easier to simulate for the time being. It would actually be a more controlled environment than the earth could ever be.
Yes, I know humans have made several of those much larger.
On a more serious note, something tells me that the climate on mars would be much easier to simulate for the time being. It would actually be a more controlled environment than the earth could ever be.
So the fact that gold farming ruins in game economies and can make it impossible for newer players who won't buy gold to keep up with in game inflation. I'm not going to waste my time with one of the hundreds of unequal comparisons, but I must ask you this, is someone else earning money by damaging the quality of a service paid for by others ever acceptable?
Yeah, quantum entanglement. Good stuff. Didn't want to mention that because I figured I would have several hundred people attacking me saying I used it wrong or misstated it or just don't have a clue. Thats what happened the last time at least. Always wondered how a communications network would work with it though.
You mean a bunch of Inuits, yeah I guess it is sorta odd that we let old cultures hunt a dwindling population of animals. But hey gotta maintain that good indigenous culture.
[save game] River depth 3 feet 1: Ford the River? 2: Seal boat and cross the river? 3: Wait? Ford the River!!
Your wagon turned over You lost 3 Oxen You lost 1200lbs of food You lost 500 bullets You broke a wheel You broke an axle You broke a yoke Your wagon caught fire and exploded Max drowned and died... we never found the body Johnny died in the wagon fire Betty was crushed by the panicking ox Bill drowned Jeff caught Cholera and died in under 30 seconds, a new record! Jeff came back as a Zombie and killed everyone else, game over... wtf?
[load saved game] river is 3 ft deep 1: Ford the River? 2: Seal boat and cross the river? 3: Wait? wait
river is 7 ft deep 1: Ford the River? 2: Seal boat and cross the river? 3: Wait? seal boat and cross river......... The wagon sank, everyone DIED... Mother Fucker..
[load save game]
river is 3ft deep 1: Ford the River? 2: Seal boat and cross the river? 3: Wait? wait
The river is 19 feet deep, is flooding, full of debris, on fire, and has piranhas in it. 1: Ford the River? 2: Seal boat and cross the river? 3: Wait?... you ford the river.
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News for NERDS! I think this fits the bill rather well, considering he is one of the oldest comic characters I can think of.
Well IM sure if you want to do that someone will cater to you.
Oh, sorry you were trying to be a smartass.
Games will have adverts. I don't like it, you don't like it, but I would rather have something innocuous and unobtrusive as opposed to splash screens I have to look at 10 seconds every time I start the game. What is more aggravating, being forced to watch the previews before the movie or the product placements you see in the movie.
A new rating? Maybe a descriptor but not a rating. We already have idiots who are confused by a "mature" or can't be bothered to even look.
The fact is advertising is going to be in games. Unless of course we all just stop buying games... yeah not going to happen. To many people buy sports games from EA for that to happen.
The issue is, advertisers want to put product adds in games, product adds hurt the game unless you have a current day setting, even then its very iffy. The best game ads are innocuous and they promote a brand, not a single product. If I'm walking through a city on an earth that was destroyed in 2014 and see a faded and burnt billboard sitting at and angle half on the ground with an advert for an xbox 1080, I'm not really going to mind, it doesn't look out of place and it fits the time period. If the billboard is clean, bright and shiny.... im gonna be pissed. Who the hell keeps the billboards clean and up to date, don't they have better things to do like scavenging for food?
If I'm traveling between worlds in a space game set in 2231 and I go near a large space station orbiting a heavily populated world (Think Coruscant)and see a coke advert that says "Coke Classic, for that turn of the millennium taste". I wouldn't mind, heck I might even grin a little.
The problem is this, what dev has ever said "you want an advert in out game? Then these are the rules you follow, go talk to your add agency then let us look and we will approve it." If they really want to get that advert near your target audience, then they will do it.
IN game advertising doesn't have to be stupid and forceful. The problem is, that is how it is typically done right now.
Then they need one for movies with product references and blatant plugs.
Well done in game ads are more effective and less distracting. The next step is for them to lower the price of the games, or give better support/updates/content because of advertising revenue.
Yeah, I know I'm a bit crazy with that last part, it would just be nice to see a bit more benefit trickle down to the consumer.
..No.
The nature of public opinion and perception creates an environment that can destroy a well engineered passenger aircraft.
A situation where the wings break would never happen while the plane was actually flying or in a recoverable non flying state.
You test the wing to the theoretical limit of the forces that would occur during a flight, controlled and not so controlled. Then you design the wing for 150% of that or some number like that. Now if it breaks during the normal testing then by all means go back in fix it.
Think of it this way, if any thing on the aircraft was going to break and cause it to crash, the last thing to do so would be the wing.
Nothing good would come of breaking the wing if it does what they claim it does. Also, they do care about passengers, because the continuing safety of the passengers affects their bottom line. If a design flaw in the planes kills passengers, they have to pay for it.
Might I suggest a book for you. Its called airframe. Crichton wrote it.
A bit of wisdom from a Retired Boeing exec who I forgot the name of.
The story was about one of the earlier Boeing's, they had stressed the wing to like 10 times any theoretical force that could be possibly placed on it during a rather publicized testing of its strength. They test folks were all about trying to break it.
During the process of doing this an exec asked them what they were doing. "Breaking the wing" they replied.
The exec said No, stop the testing.
Why? the testers asked.
Because the headline won't read ,
"Boeing wing breaks at 40 times the stress encountered during possible flight conditions",
Instead it will read
"New wing of new Boeing Jet Breaks".
Please note Its been awhile since I heard that story, but I think the point is pretty clear.
1: Find Quake 3 CD
2: Goto Id Software Website
3: Download Linux Demo
4: install Linux demo
5: Copy all files in the base directory of Quake 3 into the base of the Q3 Linux demo
6: Download newest point release, repeat base copy again.
7: Run game, have fun blow shit up.
Ill give you a hint, the only command line used was on step 4, chmod I think, its been a while.
Do you get it now?
....
I installed quake 3 On my first day of Linux. Copied the files from the disk, ran the linux stuff for Id. IN all I had to use 3 maybe 4 commands total, and the only web site I went to was Ids site. It was basically the first thing I installed after doing my redhat installation. I never really got into using linux, but its not the quagmire you for believe it to be.
So does that mean we endanger our soldiers even more? His point was that there is stuff that is sensitive and that there are people who want to know this stuff. Some surprisingly mundane shit can go a long way when planning against an opponent.
That be dangerous thinking, you best get back to your work.
[insert random "what gives us the right to change something natural comment here"]
Yes, I know humans have made several of those much larger.
On a more serious note, something tells me that the climate on mars would be much easier to simulate for the time being. It would actually be a more controlled environment than the earth could ever be.
My stupid post was messed up.
Yes, I know humans have made several of those much larger. On a more serious note, something tells me that the climate on mars would be much easier to simulate for the time being. It would actually be a more controlled environment than the earth could ever be.
Ahh yes, so as long as it fits your definition of social justice it okay.
Its fine to take from people, even if they have no ability to change the current situation, as long as there is some social disparity.
Thats going to take society really fucking far.
So the fact that gold farming ruins in game economies and can make it impossible for newer players who won't buy gold to keep up with in game inflation. I'm not going to waste my time with one of the hundreds of unequal comparisons, but I must ask you this, is someone else earning money by damaging the quality of a service paid for by others ever acceptable?
Yes, if it breaks they are pretty good about getting a new one too you. Atleast in my experience.
Yeah, quantum entanglement. Good stuff. Didn't want to mention that because I figured I would have several hundred people attacking me saying I used it wrong or misstated it or just don't have a clue. Thats what happened the last time at least. Always wondered how a communications network would work with it though.
Assuming we don't find something else that can break that barrier. Who says we will always be using radio waves ?
it also means all your mods can break when they push out a new patch.
Please note... that was intended as sarcasm.... I think I failed rather miserably.. damnit.
You mean a bunch of Inuits, yeah I guess it is sorta odd that we let old cultures hunt a dwindling population of animals. But hey gotta maintain that good indigenous culture.
Because company image can have significant impact on company profits?
[save game]
.. wtf?
... ......
... you ford the river.
River depth 3 feet
1: Ford the River?
2: Seal boat and cross the river?
3: Wait?
Ford the River!!
Your wagon turned over
You lost 3 Oxen
You lost 1200lbs of food
You lost 500 bullets
You broke a wheel
You broke an axle
You broke a yoke
Your wagon caught fire and exploded
Max drowned and died... we never found the body
Johnny died in the wagon fire
Betty was crushed by the panicking ox
Bill drowned
Jeff caught Cholera and died in under 30 seconds, a new record!
Jeff came back as a Zombie and killed everyone else, game over.
[load saved game]
river is 3 ft deep
1: Ford the River?
2: Seal boat and cross the river?
3: Wait?
wait
river is 7 ft deep
1: Ford the River?
2: Seal boat and cross the river?
3: Wait?
seal boat and cross river
The wagon sank, everyone DIED...
Mother Fucker..
[load save game]
river is 3ft deep
1: Ford the River?
2: Seal boat and cross the river?
3: Wait?
wait
The river is 19 feet deep, is flooding, full of debris, on fire, and has piranhas in it.
1: Ford the River?
2: Seal boat and cross the river?
3: Wait?
Everyone makes it across safely.
WTF?
YES THATS IT! I have a copy at home somewhere... now I must play...
Dem rabbits were good eating.