You missed the point... I'm saying that a decent cable-provider-provided (hehe wording..) TV guide should exist as an alternative to an internet-based TV guide... it's more convenient anyhow since one can just set a show/series to record upon finding it in the guide.
But I didn't think about MythTV and that it's a PC app in the first place, so I didn't appreciate what the loss of a standalone TV guide means... so there is no TV program listing for MythTV to use now that Zap2It is gone? Bummer
I have an HD cable box at home with built-in DVR that functions like Tivo... yet I haven't even HEARD of Zap2It, let alone needed to use it ever. Warner's digital cable boxes have great TV guides, so as long as cable provides have that, why need another online one?
Well, enacting such violence is QUITE a step beyond playing a game that features it. That's a very important distinction to make!
As for games being M/AO and movies being R, there's a massive double-standard there. PG-13 movies that would be M games, etc. I see shock horror R-rated films that I imagine are at least as imaginative and more realistically sickening than Manhunt 2 could hope to be, and it's rated AO.
Ah yes, if only we could go back to the first decades of U.S. history and all its glory. Does the word "progress" mean anything to you? Medical, social, technological... It's all good and fun to romanticize about the pre-industrial past but to want to go back to it is laughable.
Oh and I guess I'm a slave to our civil servants. Next time a highway repairman puts the whip to me I'll let you know.
Children's violence doesn't really hurt
Unless I chuck a Manhunt 2 box at someone's face, it's probably not going to hurt you a whole lot more than chase and tag ~_^
Until they're about 11 and their sex drives start switching on.
Yeah then *both* become natural.
Children can get involved in violence as easily as adults, or easier, especially if without adult supervision:) I was commenting about how "natural" that tendency is, that's all.
Your user id is rleibman, there I looked at it. And you are totally trolling, only now I know the motivation. And I'm not taking back the noob comment:-P
When you can figure out an economic system where government programs aren't funded by taxes, and government workers don't get paid by taxes, and when it's shown to work better than, say, anarchy, we can come back to this discussion. Until then it's just you bitching meaninglessly, all the while taking for granted every service that taxes pay for. Sure, much revenue from taxes is misused, but much of it *isn't.*
LOL noob if you're gonna troll at least TRY to sound logical. I'm sure some of MY taxes are going towards stuff YOU care about, whether or not I do. It's the way the system works.
Kids play violent games WITH EACH OTHER from early childhood. Cowboys and Indians? Cops and robbers? People aren't naturally pacifist, nor are tendencies towards violence somehow developed after puberty. For children to be interested in violence is FAR more natural than for them to be interested in watching people have sex.
A very good point! I personally would be happy to have some of my taxes go towards a high-tech train system in our city, connecting distant parts of town as well as other cities.
Don't people have to get to work somehow? Many live far away, so we'd need awesome public transportation.
Fast trains to get to other cities would be nice, too. But... that would cost money, money people would rather give to our rich-ass school district that has so much money to burn they actually built a water park with some of it T_T
But a great advantage is that you can mute the "dialog" volume in options and take turns acting out cutscenes. Improv beats Guild Wars in-game voice acting any day:-P
I'm pretty sure people would be about as keen to pirate a game as buy it at a sex shop... seriously, folks that shop at those are in the minority, one would think that some stuff sold there is a tad bit more compelling than Manhunt 2:-P
Banning a game or selling it in sex shops... very similar IMO, and the latter is more likely to set a precedent that could make its way to other countries, since people in general are keen to impress their moral values on others.
Frankly this is the silliest and most nonsensical proposal I've seen in a long time. What they actually need to do is unban it because it's already rated 18 and just friggin put some responsibility on the parents. Go to any Blockbuster and you'll see 1/5 of the movies on the shelves recently are gruesome and sadistic shock horror films like Hostel. Video games aren't being tolerated nearly as much for now, but in time they will be if rather than making insane concessions that would be DIFFICULT to undo (like selling "mature" (an arbitrary and inconsistent rating, mind you) games in sex shops), people actually stand up for games as an art form and hold it to the standard that film is, in every respect.
Ask Jeeves was #3? Isn't there Google, MSN Live Search, and Yahoo? Ask Jeeves was probably #23508 or something. But yes I do remember it because of that funny butler in the commercials. He was awesome and made me want a butler named Jeeves.
LOL are you serious? Sex shops? I think you should also register to vote in sex shops. And also perhaps enlist for the military there while you're at it. It'll be a "one stop shop":rolleyes:
Nevermind that in the US the general policy is 17+ for "mature" games and movies but 18+ for adult-rated content, so that doesn't even make sense outside of the UK.
Why be such a stickler for Spidey's timeline? The movies didn't follow it to begin with. Goblin kidnapped Gwen Stacy, not Mary Jane. And in the comics Spidey got the symbiote during the Secret Wars. So, yeah, how are the reprints relevant again?
I'd say it was Raimi's insistence on making a movie about Sandman, one of the sorriest characters in comics who is a good guy most of the time anyway, that was a bigger problem than including Venom. If Raimi knew anything about Spiderman then the first thing he'd realize is that half of Spidey fans consider Venom to be by far the coolest member of his rogues gallery. Raimi doesn't like Venom and blew him off as a character completely, which is 20% of the reason Spiderman 3 is a travesty. The other 80% are for another day ^_^
Anyway back on topic, I don't think the success or failure of this setup will have anything to do with whether the director is associated with Marvel or who has more input or what. Being a "fan" of a character is not at all a qualification for making a film about him, because most fans, being normal people, are morons.
I don't agree fully, although your POV is logical:-) I've always thought of "fanboys" as simply HARDCORE UBER-FANS regardless of whether they're right, wrong, trolls, etc. Sometimes being a fanboy has nothing to do with liking the "underdog," or the dominant player for that matter. G.I.Joe fanboys collected all the action figures, read the comics, watched the cartoon, drew their favorite GI Joes, argued for Snake Eyes's total domination in every Pirates vs Ninjas debate, etc. Total fanboys. But, nothing "factual" to disseminate, no "underdog" to root for, no saying something "rocks" or something "sucks," no logical reasoning necessary:-)
It's not very clear that our control of our CO2 production will contribute to climate change, which I think is what the less trolly people get concerned about. At the moment, the earth will continue to warm regardless, based on all climate models (because the CO2 that's in the atmosphere already will further contribute, *assuming* it has been contributing for the time being). So, while investing in alternate energy has its upsides regardless, I don't think it should be the only investment we make. We need to prepare for a warmer earth in any case, and that will take a LOT more resources than people realize. Especially those that think their "carbon footprint reducing hybrid" is exactly what everyone needs to do it:-)
Also, the energy alternatives we use -- there aren't many great ones at the moment. Biofuels like ethanol are leading to clear-cutting of forest to make way for oil palms, corn, etc. Furthermore, their emissions are (AFAIK) water vapor, which I would hope gets collected somewhere but if not wouldn't it go into the atmosphere? And water vapor is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Hydrogen has that concern as well...
Mostly, these sorts of energy alternatives are very expensive, and prohibive for poorer countries. I hope that while the US, China (I wish), Japan, and other countries that have the means, do indeed invest in energy that reduces greenhouse gas and pollutant emission, it is not something forced on developing countries whose development is then stifled due to insane cost. They may need that money when making adjustments to the inevitable warming we *will* experience, even if it is reduced by our efforts.
Hmm.. IMO Mario 64 set a standard for 3D platformers that hasn't yet been matched in terms of overall gameplay as well as play control. But not everyone feels that way. One thing for sure is that I haven't been as precisely "in control" of a character in any 3D platformer as I was in Mario 64. Banjo was good in that respect, too, but it was a straight ripoff so it gets way less credit:-)
DKC games were amazing, at least the first two. And the music was sooo good. Maybe the next Banjo game will bring Rare back to the glory days, but at the moment they're sadly long gone.
You had trouble controlling the camera? Maybe it's just a question of skill with the C-buttons? I never had issues with it, and my brother is able to speed-run the game like a beast so it was no issue for him. I think in general the camera system was thought of as good. It took a console generation IMO to improve it (e.g. Wind Waker)... DKC was for SNES by the way. You probably mean DK64.
Well, Mario 64 wasn't much like Super Mario World but it was FRIGGIN AMAZING, and a "Mario" game at that. I'm simply saying that franchises can take new directions and remain as strong as ever. I have confidence in Bethesda on this project -- they know there is a lot of pressure on them to please old-school Fallout fans as well as expose new players to the series. If it evolves into some sort of Fallout/Elder Scrolls hybrid, that would be quite interesting. I know a lot of Slashdotters for some reason dislike Elder Scrolls despite it being exactly what us friendless, hermit Slashdotters should thrive on, but one of the best RPGs ever mixed with another of the best RPGs ever could actually turn out to be a match made in heaven. You know, Superman-plus-Wonder-Woman-style.
Does the average Slashdot reader fly to space in his free time for $250,000? Man, just worry about educating yourself rather than being personally catered to by every website you visit.
Hehehehe:-) But seriously, take out the blu-ray drive and the PS3 I think gets under $600. Given that it has some serious hardware in there, it has *got* to be more expensive than the iPhone. A few hundred dollars more expensive, I reckon.
Seriously, if they are losing money selling the phone at $500-$600, then someone over there is a total moron. The iPhone is hi-tech and all, but it's no PS3.
If we're talking about servers going down, yeah I'm pretty sure that's not that hard to catch. ArenaNet does this for Guild Wars all the time, it's been virtually problem-free for 25 months. I honestly don't see where this complete lack of confidence comes from considering there are working versions of a similar system out there.
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You missed the point... I'm saying that a decent cable-provider-provided (hehe wording..) TV guide should exist as an alternative to an internet-based TV guide... it's more convenient anyhow since one can just set a show/series to record upon finding it in the guide.
But I didn't think about MythTV and that it's a PC app in the first place, so I didn't appreciate what the loss of a standalone TV guide means... so there is no TV program listing for MythTV to use now that Zap2It is gone? Bummer
I have an HD cable box at home with built-in DVR that functions like Tivo... yet I haven't even HEARD of Zap2It, let alone needed to use it ever. Warner's digital cable boxes have great TV guides, so as long as cable provides have that, why need another online one?
Well, enacting such violence is QUITE a step beyond playing a game that features it. That's a very important distinction to make!
As for games being M/AO and movies being R, there's a massive double-standard there. PG-13 movies that would be M games, etc. I see shock horror R-rated films that I imagine are at least as imaginative and more realistically sickening than Manhunt 2 could hope to be, and it's rated AO.
Ah yes, if only we could go back to the first decades of U.S. history and all its glory. Does the word "progress" mean anything to you? Medical, social, technological... It's all good and fun to romanticize about the pre-industrial past but to want to go back to it is laughable.
Oh and I guess I'm a slave to our civil servants. Next time a highway repairman puts the whip to me I'll let you know.
Children's violence doesn't really hurt
:) I was commenting about how "natural" that tendency is, that's all.
Unless I chuck a Manhunt 2 box at someone's face, it's probably not going to hurt you a whole lot more than chase and tag ~_^
Until they're about 11 and their sex drives start switching on.
Yeah then *both* become natural. Children can get involved in violence as easily as adults, or easier, especially if without adult supervision
Your user id is rleibman, there I looked at it. And you are totally trolling, only now I know the motivation. And I'm not taking back the noob comment :-P
When you can figure out an economic system where government programs aren't funded by taxes, and government workers don't get paid by taxes, and when it's shown to work better than, say, anarchy, we can come back to this discussion. Until then it's just you bitching meaninglessly, all the while taking for granted every service that taxes pay for. Sure, much revenue from taxes is misused, but much of it *isn't.*
LOL noob if you're gonna troll at least TRY to sound logical. I'm sure some of MY taxes are going towards stuff YOU care about, whether or not I do. It's the way the system works.
Kids play violent games WITH EACH OTHER from early childhood. Cowboys and Indians? Cops and robbers? People aren't naturally pacifist, nor are tendencies towards violence somehow developed after puberty. For children to be interested in violence is FAR more natural than for them to be interested in watching people have sex.
So, yeah, it IS more suitable.
A very good point! I personally would be happy to have some of my taxes go towards a high-tech train system in our city, connecting distant parts of town as well as other cities.
Don't people have to get to work somehow? Many live far away, so we'd need awesome public transportation.
Fast trains to get to other cities would be nice, too. But... that would cost money, money people would rather give to our rich-ass school district that has so much money to burn they actually built a water park with some of it T_T
But a great advantage is that you can mute the "dialog" volume in options and take turns acting out cutscenes. Improv beats Guild Wars in-game voice acting any day :-P
I'm pretty sure people would be about as keen to pirate a game as buy it at a sex shop... seriously, folks that shop at those are in the minority, one would think that some stuff sold there is a tad bit more compelling than Manhunt 2 :-P
Banning a game or selling it in sex shops... very similar IMO, and the latter is more likely to set a precedent that could make its way to other countries, since people in general are keen to impress their moral values on others.
Frankly this is the silliest and most nonsensical proposal I've seen in a long time. What they actually need to do is unban it because it's already rated 18 and just friggin put some responsibility on the parents. Go to any Blockbuster and you'll see 1/5 of the movies on the shelves recently are gruesome and sadistic shock horror films like Hostel. Video games aren't being tolerated nearly as much for now, but in time they will be if rather than making insane concessions that would be DIFFICULT to undo (like selling "mature" (an arbitrary and inconsistent rating, mind you) games in sex shops), people actually stand up for games as an art form and hold it to the standard that film is, in every respect.
Ask Jeeves was #3? Isn't there Google, MSN Live Search, and Yahoo? Ask Jeeves was probably #23508 or something. But yes I do remember it because of that funny butler in the commercials. He was awesome and made me want a butler named Jeeves.
LOL are you serious? Sex shops? I think you should also register to vote in sex shops. And also perhaps enlist for the military there while you're at it. It'll be a "one stop shop" :rolleyes:
Nevermind that in the US the general policy is 17+ for "mature" games and movies but 18+ for adult-rated content, so that doesn't even make sense outside of the UK.
Why be such a stickler for Spidey's timeline? The movies didn't follow it to begin with. Goblin kidnapped Gwen Stacy, not Mary Jane. And in the comics Spidey got the symbiote during the Secret Wars. So, yeah, how are the reprints relevant again?
I'd say it was Raimi's insistence on making a movie about Sandman, one of the sorriest characters in comics who is a good guy most of the time anyway, that was a bigger problem than including Venom. If Raimi knew anything about Spiderman then the first thing he'd realize is that half of Spidey fans consider Venom to be by far the coolest member of his rogues gallery. Raimi doesn't like Venom and blew him off as a character completely, which is 20% of the reason Spiderman 3 is a travesty. The other 80% are for another day ^_^
Anyway back on topic, I don't think the success or failure of this setup will have anything to do with whether the director is associated with Marvel or who has more input or what. Being a "fan" of a character is not at all a qualification for making a film about him, because most fans, being normal people, are morons.
I don't agree fully, although your POV is logical :-) I've always thought of "fanboys" as simply HARDCORE UBER-FANS regardless of whether they're right, wrong, trolls, etc. Sometimes being a fanboy has nothing to do with liking the "underdog," or the dominant player for that matter. G.I.Joe fanboys collected all the action figures, read the comics, watched the cartoon, drew their favorite GI Joes, argued for Snake Eyes's total domination in every Pirates vs Ninjas debate, etc. Total fanboys. But, nothing "factual" to disseminate, no "underdog" to root for, no saying something "rocks" or something "sucks," no logical reasoning necessary :-)
It's not very clear that our control of our CO2 production will contribute to climate change, which I think is what the less trolly people get concerned about. At the moment, the earth will continue to warm regardless, based on all climate models (because the CO2 that's in the atmosphere already will further contribute, *assuming* it has been contributing for the time being). So, while investing in alternate energy has its upsides regardless, I don't think it should be the only investment we make. We need to prepare for a warmer earth in any case, and that will take a LOT more resources than people realize. Especially those that think their "carbon footprint reducing hybrid" is exactly what everyone needs to do it :-)
Also, the energy alternatives we use -- there aren't many great ones at the moment. Biofuels like ethanol are leading to clear-cutting of forest to make way for oil palms, corn, etc. Furthermore, their emissions are (AFAIK) water vapor, which I would hope gets collected somewhere but if not wouldn't it go into the atmosphere? And water vapor is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Hydrogen has that concern as well...
Mostly, these sorts of energy alternatives are very expensive, and prohibive for poorer countries. I hope that while the US, China (I wish), Japan, and other countries that have the means, do indeed invest in energy that reduces greenhouse gas and pollutant emission, it is not something forced on developing countries whose development is then stifled due to insane cost. They may need that money when making adjustments to the inevitable warming we *will* experience, even if it is reduced by our efforts.
Hmm.. IMO Mario 64 set a standard for 3D platformers that hasn't yet been matched in terms of overall gameplay as well as play control. But not everyone feels that way. One thing for sure is that I haven't been as precisely "in control" of a character in any 3D platformer as I was in Mario 64. Banjo was good in that respect, too, but it was a straight ripoff so it gets way less credit :-)
DKC games were amazing, at least the first two. And the music was sooo good. Maybe the next Banjo game will bring Rare back to the glory days, but at the moment they're sadly long gone.
You had trouble controlling the camera? Maybe it's just a question of skill with the C-buttons? I never had issues with it, and my brother is able to speed-run the game like a beast so it was no issue for him. I think in general the camera system was thought of as good. It took a console generation IMO to improve it (e.g. Wind Waker)...
DKC was for SNES by the way. You probably mean DK64.
Well, Mario 64 wasn't much like Super Mario World but it was FRIGGIN AMAZING, and a "Mario" game at that. I'm simply saying that franchises can take new directions and remain as strong as ever. I have confidence in Bethesda on this project -- they know there is a lot of pressure on them to please old-school Fallout fans as well as expose new players to the series. If it evolves into some sort of Fallout/Elder Scrolls hybrid, that would be quite interesting. I know a lot of Slashdotters for some reason dislike Elder Scrolls despite it being exactly what us friendless, hermit Slashdotters should thrive on, but one of the best RPGs ever mixed with another of the best RPGs ever could actually turn out to be a match made in heaven. You know, Superman-plus-Wonder-Woman-style.
Does the average Slashdot reader fly to space in his free time for $250,000? Man, just worry about educating yourself rather than being personally catered to by every website you visit.
Hehehehe :-) But seriously, take out the blu-ray drive and the PS3 I think gets under $600. Given that it has some serious hardware in there, it has *got* to be more expensive than the iPhone. A few hundred dollars more expensive, I reckon.
Seriously, if they are losing money selling the phone at $500-$600, then someone over there is a total moron. The iPhone is hi-tech and all, but it's no PS3.
If we're talking about servers going down, yeah I'm pretty sure that's not that hard to catch. ArenaNet does this for Guild Wars all the time, it's been virtually problem-free for 25 months. I honestly don't see where this complete lack of confidence comes from considering there are working versions of a similar system out there.