no matter what, i'll always love maxis games because of the creativity and the wide spectrum of directions in which you can make their games take you. even if a lot of the games they put out are pretty limited, they're just plain fun (my rapist/murderer sims 2 character with a graveyard in his back yard does a damned fine job of occupying my time at work), and of course, every game has its limits. i realize that maxis games may be viewed as more limited than most, but if you think about all the work that went into, say, the sims 2...would you want to wait another year and a half for a few extra cities? or would you rather get the game now and download more user- and maxis-created cities later and then maybe make your own? THAT is going to be one of the defining marks of spore, half of the game's elements will be either generated on-the-fly by what you're doing in the game, how you're playing it, or by other players. i certainly hope i'm not the only person who thinks that that is downright fuckin' rad. the procedural generation of sounds, movement, creatures, world elements and skins will offer a chance to make the game radically different every time you start a new spore. now, if, as questioned above, big corporations get in on this game and make pepsi and coke universes...i think it'll be fun to build up my universe and form my own coalition of the willing to go smash the pepsiverse. there might be a chance here to reverse-advertise, so to speak; instead of pepsi telling you that you like pepsi, you can tell pepsi that you've allied with the coca-colaverse and well, unless you receive 100 lbs of coupons for free pepsi, sorry pepsi, but you're gonna hafta fuck off 'cause all your base are belong to me.
i've been doing that to get to copies of software the IT dept. keeps in a locked supercloset since my freshman year. atm cards from bellco, wells fargo, tcf, and u.s. bank open it right on up and helll-ooooo legit-copy-of-3dsmax-installed...and the dept. heads know that people do this.
move along, nothing to see here...except for a wal-mart commercial that looks like a web site. nice try, but now the site is right under myspace on the blocked domains list in my router.
heh, someone stopped on page 6 of volume 3 of an encyclopedia set. what a shame it is that you're so willing to bow in the face of the will of other men.
Iraq is safer than Atlanta and many other US cities now
lemme know the next time an IED hits your minivan when you're driving down the highway. and when a helicopter gets shot out of the sky and lands on your house, gimme a call. or the next time your parents are taken prisoner and killed because of what they believe. THEN i'll agree with you.
i put my computers together and i upgrade everything pretty often, maybe every 6 months or so. if, at the time i purchased all of the parts, dell could've offered me a machine with a 3ghz processor, 4gb of ddr2, 260gb of hdds, 2 dvd-rws, fans out the ass and a 22" flatscreen for a price that was anywhere near to being competitive to the total price of this computer (and i checked, there was an approximate $1800 price difference BEFORE i checked prices including the flatscreens, so no thanks)...i probably would've gone with dell. i realize there're plenty of people who won't be putting their own shit together any time soon, so companies who offer pre-assembled pcs will have a market for quite some time...but if they're concerned about slipping sales, maybe it wouldn't hurt to offer systems for the people who build their own systems (the xps didn't quite cut it...dude). expanding your demographic to cater to a group who WILL pay money for what you may start offering couldn't hurt, nahda-mean?
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N074H4x0r... I'm no Hacker The B3atles Were Hax0rs. They were singing about SQL Injection, and like encryption and stuff... I don't sp34k l337, I refer to my friends by their names,... n074h4x0r.blogspot.com/ - 144k - Cached - Similar pages
i really don't care. sony tried to cram a format up everyones asses without making something like this, themselves. a company that has to rely on other companies to make its product widely usable by consumers? fuck that and fuck sony...he says from a windows machine...
it's nice to think about, but it won't happen soon enough, for me. i mean, think about it, i may be able to choose between a whole 2 broadband companies...some day...
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no matter what, i'll always love maxis games because of the creativity and the wide spectrum of directions in which you can make their games take you. even if a lot of the games they put out are pretty limited, they're just plain fun (my rapist/murderer sims 2 character with a graveyard in his back yard does a damned fine job of occupying my time at work), and of course, every game has its limits. i realize that maxis games may be viewed as more limited than most, but if you think about all the work that went into, say, the sims 2...would you want to wait another year and a half for a few extra cities? or would you rather get the game now and download more user- and maxis-created cities later and then maybe make your own? THAT is going to be one of the defining marks of spore, half of the game's elements will be either generated on-the-fly by what you're doing in the game, how you're playing it, or by other players. i certainly hope i'm not the only person who thinks that that is downright fuckin' rad. the procedural generation of sounds, movement, creatures, world elements and skins will offer a chance to make the game radically different every time you start a new spore. now, if, as questioned above, big corporations get in on this game and make pepsi and coke universes...i think it'll be fun to build up my universe and form my own coalition of the willing to go smash the pepsiverse. there might be a chance here to reverse-advertise, so to speak; instead of pepsi telling you that you like pepsi, you can tell pepsi that you've allied with the coca-colaverse and well, unless you receive 100 lbs of coupons for free pepsi, sorry pepsi, but you're gonna hafta fuck off 'cause all your base are belong to me.
i've been doing that to get to copies of software the IT dept. keeps in a locked supercloset since my freshman year. atm cards from bellco, wells fargo, tcf, and u.s. bank open it right on up and helll-ooooo legit-copy-of-3dsmax-installed...and the dept. heads know that people do this.
move along, nothing to see here...except for a wal-mart commercial that looks like a web site. nice try, but now the site is right under myspace on the blocked domains list in my router.
heh, someone stopped on page 6 of volume 3 of an encyclopedia set. what a shame it is that you're so willing to bow in the face of the will of other men.
lemme know the next time an IED hits your minivan when you're driving down the highway. and when a helicopter gets shot out of the sky and lands on your house, gimme a call. or the next time your parents are taken prisoner and killed because of what they believe. THEN i'll agree with you.
i put my computers together and i upgrade everything pretty often, maybe every 6 months or so. if, at the time i purchased all of the parts, dell could've offered me a machine with a 3ghz processor, 4gb of ddr2, 260gb of hdds, 2 dvd-rws, fans out the ass and a 22" flatscreen for a price that was anywhere near to being competitive to the total price of this computer (and i checked, there was an approximate $1800 price difference BEFORE i checked prices including the flatscreens, so no thanks)...i probably would've gone with dell. i realize there're plenty of people who won't be putting their own shit together any time soon, so companies who offer pre-assembled pcs will have a market for quite some time...but if they're concerned about slipping sales, maybe it wouldn't hurt to offer systems for the people who build their own systems (the xps didn't quite cut it...dude). expanding your demographic to cater to a group who WILL pay money for what you may start offering couldn't hurt, nahda-mean?
http://www.google.com/search?q=l337+hax0rs+hax
too right, some of the results are humorous
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sooo in other words... i must be a "l337" hacker because as a magic 8ball says
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The B3atles Were Hax0rs. They were singing about SQL Injection, and like encryption and stuff
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i really don't care. sony tried to cram a format up everyones asses without making something like this, themselves. a company that has to rely on other companies to make its product widely usable by consumers? fuck that and fuck sony...he says from a windows machine...
One more facet of current technologies I won't take part in, anymore...if this happens. Which is doubtful. Stay out of my house.
ohh, i see, you're lost. poor guy, techdirt is over there ->
happy travels.
it's nice to think about, but it won't happen soon enough, for me. i mean, think about it, i may be able to choose between a whole 2 broadband companies...some day...