Lord of the Rings was a book, they didn't make up giant battles so that you could see them. They existed in the story, and they had the ability to show them in the movie. It wasn't using special effects to compensate for a story. Two things were bad about LOTR, they both involved Orlando Bloom skateboarding.
Oh yeah... "Master o/t Universe"?
You wrote a needlessly long essay, but "of the" was just a waste of time?
I think it is possible that all this technology is actually going to make toys shittier. What was great about being a kid is you could have something very simple and make it fun with your imagination... I remember when a towel was a cape, and a plastic sword made me HeMan "I HAVE THE POWER!".
The problem with technology is that it makes it easy to complicate things to a point where you can't take the toy in the direction your imagination wants to go. I used to love action figures that were plain, and could move in all directions, simply because I could use them to do anything... I even had GI Joe Football games.
Seems like technology should be used in CREATING toys, not actually in the toys themselves. I don't need action figures or wrestling buddies with voices and changing facial expressions, what if i want the toy doll to be my hated enemy who I must fight in a steel cage match? Nothing worse than dropping bows from the top rope only to hear some stupid voice say "I am hulk hogan, eat your vitamins!".
Of course kids are losing a lot of the fun toys because of the tendency to pull toys from the market that focus on violence. How else are kids going to get rid of the evil guys? Diplomacy? Bullshit, our government can't even get that to work.
I find going out and socializing while not drunk is not as painful as it seems. The problem is that when you are out, surrounded by people, it is natural to feel a lot of social stress, this stress is actually rooted to instincts that we have developed thousands of years ago when social failure meant an end to your family tree. It was very serious back then.
Now when you go out to the bars, you really still can feel that social stress, and there are several ways to aleviate it, the most popular being alcohol. However, simply fighting that stress and interacting with others does the trick too. It's like jumping off a diving board, once you do it a few times it loses it's not as scary and becomes very natural.
I really think that our society has lost many of it's social skills, and that is somewhat sad to me.
Why the hell do they need virtual reality for this? Why not just have them look at a monitor? Probably to make them seem more important. Apparently virtual reality enhances the fact that somehow there is a transference of brain activity from one room to another containing objects.
Don't we have professional telepaths working for the government somewhere? Where have those rumors gone?
Also there is the possibility that some team will win based on probability alone, if you did this experiment enough times, it will eventually point to telepathy, but it actually just pointed to luck.
What is more is that they have told us what the test is, and it hasn't been run yet. How about I always focus on an object that adheres to a set of rules, which my partner is aware of, though there are decoys you could drastically increase your chances of hitting the jackpot by having a strategy going in.
Also, if these people were telepaths, and not idiots, which they are, they wouldn't give a shit about whether or not other people knew they were telepaths. Could you imagine having the power to send signals to people using your mind, and using that incredible power for some stupid contest. Million dollars my fricken ass, this is officially the stupidest thing I have seen all day.
I can definately see the appeal of something like this, though I am not familiar with EVE.
I think the basic premise is that if you actually are pretty good, you can have a chance to do so on the little screen for people to see. This adds some kind of real life goal to playing the game, as you can become "famous" or "infamous" among the other players in the world.
The problems that has always been experienced with anything like this is that people don't want to watch it, and they would sure as hell rather play. People watch sports on TV because they can't do it, or at least not nearly as well and exciting as pros, if you are interested in the sport of course. But you can play games just as well as other, generally speaking, so the idea of watching someone else do something and get better, when you could either be doing something real life related, or actually getting better in a game yourself is quite the detterent to watching this kind of thing.
I can hardly imagine that in 10 years there are any people who can say that they wished they had watched more live streaming EVE.
Read PC Gamer, They continue to give props to good games with mediocre graphics. I have even seen 90% ratings, which is very high for them, given to a baseball statistical simulation, which featured almost NO graphics....
Not that I could imagine anything more boring than baseball stats, except baseball games on TV.
Hey guys with mod points! Yeah, you, no... not you, him, the one next to you... right got it.
How many posts here are going to be "But dude, scary isn't disturbing! LOL!"
Seems like it's prick waving. Can we just agree that people are disturbed by different things?
I would also pose the argument that if you think deeply on a regular basis, you can actually find that a game will set off a train of thought that can be disturbing. So when you say that something isn't disturbing, you are making the same argument as someone who says something isn't funny. But if someone is laughing at it, they find it funny. At that point, is it funny? It is an unwinable argument, but it has appeared several times in this thread.
So I say, let's drop the "stop being a scared sissy! LOL! I shoot hookers! 1337!"
I made dead baby jokes in my AP Physics class, which to this day, I still think is funny as hell... But the girls all thought it was disturbing. Case and point.
Honestly, if you were disturbed by the strippers being shot, I am suprised you weren't disturbed by that whole game.
As a kid playing that game, it totally disturbed me a few times, the hours spent in that strip club. The whole dystopian atmosphere was pretty strange and new to me at the time. Remember the church scene? I don't remember exactly what it was like, if anyone can remind me, that's cool. I think it had some kind of weird noise, a red screen, and someone crucified on an upside-down cross. I mean, as a young boy who had been taught to love Jesus, that was pretty fucked up.
Of course, now I don't think twice about that shit. Just goes to show, disturbing is all a part of perspective.
This article premise "when will games be disturbing" is actually pretty silly. Some people think George Carlin is disturbing, I understand that, but making those people disturbed is really fun to me. Does that mean i'm disturbed? Maybe. I like to think I just have a great sense of humor.
I don't think the guys at 3D realms were that messed up, they were probably just a bunch of guys who were making a game and really weren't thinking about it like that.
Donnie Darko is pretty much the best depressing movie ever. I don't even know what it is about it that makes it so fricken depressing, I think I remember it just being very true. It kind of showed a world that we live in, but from a scewed perspective.
God, that ending, that damn song... THAT GOD DAMN SONG! I am going to listen to it right now, it's on my iPod.
"And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, the dreams in which i'm dying are the best i've ever had"
Don't know how much poker you have been playing lately, but unless you are playing 1/2 cent games, I don't think it's accurate to say that people who play poker online are weaker than those in casinos.
Poker players in casinos are generally far worse than those that are commonly found online, not to mention, you can actually SEE how bad many of them are.
The advantage isn't that you make more money per hand online, it is that you can make a small advantage into a lot of money because you have the ability to play many more hands.
I know i'm kind of nit picking, but your post just stood out to me as not exactly helping any cause. If you want people to be behind gambling, you don't generally say... Gambling is good because you are all idiots and I can take your money, HAHA!
Hell, I don't even like online gambling now, poker players are pricks!:P
I applaud our government for getting tough on these criminal activites.
I know that some of you may think that it is your right to do what you wish with your money. But should we really have rights that could be harmful to some who excercise them? Hopefully this is only the first of recent steps that will lead to the elimination of wasteful and dangerous pass times from this nation.
Understandably, some would argue that there are many more things in this country that are dangerous. And I agree, these in time should be eliminated too.
Ciggarette companies sell heavily taxed items that WILL kill everyone who uses them, given enough time. Drug companies advertise all of there newest concotions on the easily scared. Pornography focuses on the sick and dark nature of humans, while exposing children to the danger of sex. Condom companies sell a product which makes sex with multiple partners seem reasonable and appealing to those who would otherwise, most likely, be spending their time doing things that will help the nation. Sex should be eliminated almost entirely, I have abstained, why can't everyone else? Car companies have ruined the atmosphere. Motorcycles are just crazy. Can you believe that we even let big strong dogs in our houses, without leashes?! How many lives have been claimed by dogs? More than zero, and anything more than zero cannot be tolerated.
Still, there are those that don't see the harm in online gambling. Most people have never tried it. But they will. What is stopping these online gambling sites from coming into your home, and forcibly taking all of your money? Is it a danger that we can really ignore?
Right now there are thousands of online poker professionals who make a living, often a very financially substantial living, playing poker from the comfort of their own home. They should be stopped imediately, so that they can stop making a lot of money for themselves, and start making far less money from the companies in America that have been set up to help America. Americans owe it to the rest of us to stop their search for alternative ways of living and conform to what the reasonable few in Washington have decided is good. Who could disagree with that? Who could disagree with a country by Americans, for Americans?
I believe that someday, we, as people, will come together and weed out everything that is bad and harmful so that we can all live lives filled with the pleasure of knowing that nothing bad will ever happen. Except old age.
Oh god, you guys actually looked at myspace pages? I was just saying it is a good way to profit from providing the technically uninclined a forum to connect with others...
It seems to me that myspace is wildly popular, and that it is also the target of a whole lot of criticism from people who actually know how to use the internet.
The general anti myspace rhetoric is usually, "we can already have our own web pages", which labels myspace as a somewhat redundant service with advertisements.
What I rarely see about myspace, is what a brilliant idea it is. Not everyone knows how to create a website, but most people have the capacity, and interest to learn how to use myspace. Instead of looking down on myspacers perhaps those of us who know how to use the internet should learn how to cater to those who are not technically savvy. Isn't that the idea of selling technology? Making things that normally wouldn't be accessible to everyone accessible?
Of course, whenever one of my friends asks me if I have created a myspace page yet, I always reply by calling them a worthless tool. Weird eh?
I own a 360, inadvertently the shitty core unit. However, I don't really feel very bad about that anymore because who cares whether I have a HD on a system I never use. While I do commend MS for the effort to bring us something good on their super-system, I still have a super nintendo and a playstation sitting next to my HDTV. I own street fighter and think that I have probably put as much time into that game as I need to... 15 years ago.
It really seems that the very high end hardware has really stunted the kind of games we are getting. To make a game that uses the xBox360 requires a great amount of capital, manufacturers are afraid to dive into a new console with a new idea. So instead of getting a bunch of games for the console that are breaking some ground, we get frogger... I wrote frogger in ARM assembly language for a project in school. Playing frogger on your xBox360 is ok if it is between actual cool games. If it is the only thing you use it for, you probably should have bought an awsome stereo sound system to play your SNES on.
Grab an emulator and a game pad and you can play every game ever made for pretty much every obsolete gaming system.
Slashdot Mirror
Lord of the Rings was a book, they didn't make up giant battles so that you could see them. They existed in the story, and they had the ability to show them in the movie. It wasn't using special effects to compensate for a story. Two things were bad about LOTR, they both involved Orlando Bloom skateboarding.
Oh yeah... "Master o/t Universe"?
You wrote a needlessly long essay, but "of the" was just a waste of time?
I don't get it? I don't see that post anywhere, did they take it down?
Thanks Microsoft! You have saved me the 4 seconds that it takes for me to go to my.yahoo.com and set my home page...
Listen man, it is NOT some whiny boy pining over some mage girl... it is usually a set of mage girls pining over some whiny boy...
You obviously don't play any final fantasy games
I think it is possible that all this technology is actually going to make toys shittier. What was great about being a kid is you could have something very simple and make it fun with your imagination... I remember when a towel was a cape, and a plastic sword made me HeMan "I HAVE THE POWER!".
The problem with technology is that it makes it easy to complicate things to a point where you can't take the toy in the direction your imagination wants to go. I used to love action figures that were plain, and could move in all directions, simply because I could use them to do anything... I even had GI Joe Football games.
Seems like technology should be used in CREATING toys, not actually in the toys themselves. I don't need action figures or wrestling buddies with voices and changing facial expressions, what if i want the toy doll to be my hated enemy who I must fight in a steel cage match? Nothing worse than dropping bows from the top rope only to hear some stupid voice say "I am hulk hogan, eat your vitamins!".
Of course kids are losing a lot of the fun toys because of the tendency to pull toys from the market that focus on violence. How else are kids going to get rid of the evil guys? Diplomacy? Bullshit, our government can't even get that to work.
I find going out and socializing while not drunk is not as painful as it seems. The problem is that when you are out, surrounded by people, it is natural to feel a lot of social stress, this stress is actually rooted to instincts that we have developed thousands of years ago when social failure meant an end to your family tree. It was very serious back then.
Now when you go out to the bars, you really still can feel that social stress, and there are several ways to aleviate it, the most popular being alcohol. However, simply fighting that stress and interacting with others does the trick too. It's like jumping off a diving board, once you do it a few times it loses it's not as scary and becomes very natural.
I really think that our society has lost many of it's social skills, and that is somewhat sad to me.
Why the hell do they need virtual reality for this? Why not just have them look at a monitor? Probably to make them seem more important. Apparently virtual reality enhances the fact that somehow there is a transference of brain activity from one room to another containing objects.
Don't we have professional telepaths working for the government somewhere? Where have those rumors gone?
Also there is the possibility that some team will win based on probability alone, if you did this experiment enough times, it will eventually point to telepathy, but it actually just pointed to luck.
What is more is that they have told us what the test is, and it hasn't been run yet. How about I always focus on an object that adheres to a set of rules, which my partner is aware of, though there are decoys you could drastically increase your chances of hitting the jackpot by having a strategy going in.
Also, if these people were telepaths, and not idiots, which they are, they wouldn't give a shit about whether or not other people knew they were telepaths. Could you imagine having the power to send signals to people using your mind, and using that incredible power for some stupid contest. Million dollars my fricken ass, this is officially the stupidest thing I have seen all day.
Who Cares?!
I can definately see the appeal of something like this, though I am not familiar with EVE.
I think the basic premise is that if you actually are pretty good, you can have a chance to do so on the little screen for people to see. This adds some kind of real life goal to playing the game, as you can become "famous" or "infamous" among the other players in the world.
The problems that has always been experienced with anything like this is that people don't want to watch it, and they would sure as hell rather play. People watch sports on TV because they can't do it, or at least not nearly as well and exciting as pros, if you are interested in the sport of course. But you can play games just as well as other, generally speaking, so the idea of watching someone else do something and get better, when you could either be doing something real life related, or actually getting better in a game yourself is quite the detterent to watching this kind of thing.
I can hardly imagine that in 10 years there are any people who can say that they wished they had watched more live streaming EVE.
"Those people are not going to be allowed to take food off our plate"
Dear god! Hide your dinner plates, or google will take to stealing the food from your childrens figurtive mouths...
This article missed his less publicized quote "Google is trying to rape our women, and eat our children, FREEEEEEEDOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!"
Read PC Gamer, They continue to give props to good games with mediocre graphics. I have even seen 90% ratings, which is very high for them, given to a baseball statistical simulation, which featured almost NO graphics....
Not that I could imagine anything more boring than baseball stats, except baseball games on TV.
Hey guys with mod points! Yeah, you, no... not you, him, the one next to you... right got it.
How many posts here are going to be "But dude, scary isn't disturbing! LOL!"
Seems like it's prick waving. Can we just agree that people are disturbed by different things?
I would also pose the argument that if you think deeply on a regular basis, you can actually find that a game will set off a train of thought that can be disturbing. So when you say that something isn't disturbing, you are making the same argument as someone who says something isn't funny. But if someone is laughing at it, they find it funny. At that point, is it funny? It is an unwinable argument, but it has appeared several times in this thread.
So I say, let's drop the "stop being a scared sissy! LOL! I shoot hookers! 1337!"
I made dead baby jokes in my AP Physics class, which to this day, I still think is funny as hell... But the girls all thought it was disturbing. Case and point.
Honestly, if you were disturbed by the strippers being shot, I am suprised you weren't disturbed by that whole game.
As a kid playing that game, it totally disturbed me a few times, the hours spent in that strip club. The whole dystopian atmosphere was pretty strange and new to me at the time. Remember the church scene? I don't remember exactly what it was like, if anyone can remind me, that's cool. I think it had some kind of weird noise, a red screen, and someone crucified on an upside-down cross. I mean, as a young boy who had been taught to love Jesus, that was pretty fucked up.
Of course, now I don't think twice about that shit. Just goes to show, disturbing is all a part of perspective.
This article premise "when will games be disturbing" is actually pretty silly. Some people think George Carlin is disturbing, I understand that, but making those people disturbed is really fun to me. Does that mean i'm disturbed? Maybe. I like to think I just have a great sense of humor.
I don't think the guys at 3D realms were that messed up, they were probably just a bunch of guys who were making a game and really weren't thinking about it like that.
"Dude, look at this?!"
"What's up?"
"You can see their tits, pretty hot eh?"
"cool man, what about when you shoot them"
Pow!
"Kick ass!"
"Let's go hit women and eat babies"
"Hell yeah!"
Donnie Darko is pretty much the best depressing movie ever. I don't even know what it is about it that makes it so fricken depressing, I think I remember it just being very true. It kind of showed a world that we live in, but from a scewed perspective.
God, that ending, that damn song... THAT GOD DAMN SONG! I am going to listen to it right now, it's on my iPod.
"And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, the dreams in which i'm dying are the best i've ever had"
THAT GOD DAMN SONG!
Minor Technical Issues is no eye catcher :)
Don't know how much poker you have been playing lately, but unless you are playing 1/2 cent games, I don't think it's accurate to say that people who play poker online are weaker than those in casinos.
:P
Poker players in casinos are generally far worse than those that are commonly found online, not to mention, you can actually SEE how bad many of them are.
The advantage isn't that you make more money per hand online, it is that you can make a small advantage into a lot of money because you have the ability to play many more hands.
I know i'm kind of nit picking, but your post just stood out to me as not exactly helping any cause. If you want people to be behind gambling, you don't generally say... Gambling is good because you are all idiots and I can take your money, HAHA!
Hell, I don't even like online gambling now, poker players are pricks!
I applaud our government for getting tough on these criminal activites.
I know that some of you may think that it is your right to do what you wish with your money. But should we really have rights that could be harmful to some who excercise them? Hopefully this is only the first of recent steps that will lead to the elimination of wasteful and dangerous pass times from this nation.
Understandably, some would argue that there are many more things in this country that are dangerous. And I agree, these in time should be eliminated too.
Ciggarette companies sell heavily taxed items that WILL kill everyone who uses them, given enough time. Drug companies advertise all of there newest concotions on the easily scared. Pornography focuses on the sick and dark nature of humans, while exposing children to the danger of sex. Condom companies sell a product which makes sex with multiple partners seem reasonable and appealing to those who would otherwise, most likely, be spending their time doing things that will help the nation. Sex should be eliminated almost entirely, I have abstained, why can't everyone else? Car companies have ruined the atmosphere. Motorcycles are just crazy. Can you believe that we even let big strong dogs in our houses, without leashes?! How many lives have been claimed by dogs? More than zero, and anything more than zero cannot be tolerated.
Still, there are those that don't see the harm in online gambling. Most people have never tried it. But they will. What is stopping these online gambling sites from coming into your home, and forcibly taking all of your money? Is it a danger that we can really ignore?
Right now there are thousands of online poker professionals who make a living, often a very financially substantial living, playing poker from the comfort of their own home. They should be stopped imediately, so that they can stop making a lot of money for themselves, and start making far less money from the companies in America that have been set up to help America. Americans owe it to the rest of us to stop their search for alternative ways of living and conform to what the reasonable few in Washington have decided is good. Who could disagree with that? Who could disagree with a country by Americans, for Americans?
I believe that someday, we, as people, will come together and weed out everything that is bad and harmful so that we can all live lives filled with the pleasure of knowing that nothing bad will ever happen. Except old age.
Warren Buffet came up around 500 million dollars short on his record setting monetary donation, he will, however, forgive him.
I think that "blwh" is my new favorite onomonopia (I have no clue if that is spelled right), it's like "blah", but more disgusted.
Current Mood: blwh
Oh god, you guys actually looked at myspace pages? I was just saying it is a good way to profit from providing the technically uninclined a forum to connect with others...
A good drug dealer doesn't do drugs.
Instead of blogging on myspace, I will use this project, to blog about myspace... on slashdot...
It seems to me that myspace is wildly popular, and that it is also the target of a whole lot of criticism from people who actually know how to use the internet.
The general anti myspace rhetoric is usually, "we can already have our own web pages", which labels myspace as a somewhat redundant service with advertisements.
What I rarely see about myspace, is what a brilliant idea it is. Not everyone knows how to create a website, but most people have the capacity, and interest to learn how to use myspace. Instead of looking down on myspacers perhaps those of us who know how to use the internet should learn how to cater to those who are not technically savvy. Isn't that the idea of selling technology? Making things that normally wouldn't be accessible to everyone accessible?
Of course, whenever one of my friends asks me if I have created a myspace page yet, I always reply by calling them a worthless tool. Weird eh?
I own a 360, inadvertently the shitty core unit. However, I don't really feel very bad about that anymore because who cares whether I have a HD on a system I never use. While I do commend MS for the effort to bring us something good on their super-system, I still have a super nintendo and a playstation sitting next to my HDTV. I own street fighter and think that I have probably put as much time into that game as I need to... 15 years ago.
It really seems that the very high end hardware has really stunted the kind of games we are getting. To make a game that uses the xBox360 requires a great amount of capital, manufacturers are afraid to dive into a new console with a new idea. So instead of getting a bunch of games for the console that are breaking some ground, we get frogger... I wrote frogger in ARM assembly language for a project in school. Playing frogger on your xBox360 is ok if it is between actual cool games. If it is the only thing you use it for, you probably should have bought an awsome stereo sound system to play your SNES on.
Grab an emulator and a game pad and you can play every game ever made for pretty much every obsolete gaming system.
I love gaming, however, I am not impressed.
When I was asked for my username, password, and sexual orientation...