The Wii and PSP haven't received any firmware updates for at least a year now, though. While the PSP frequently got an update, the Wii received fewer of them, especially during the later years.
Whenever I read things like "id like to by a new car," I cringe inside, imagine some grunting ape who happened across a keyboard, and move on without thinking about the attempted message. If that was the intended effect, then "buy all means," have at it, folks!
That's sig-worthy material. Thanks!
...Crap, it's too long for Slashdot. But I can still use it elsewhere!
French is my maternal language. I can't bear to read French language message boards because of the total lack of proper grammand and spelling. It's simply atrocious. It was already like that five years ago, so I find it hard to believe that it ever was different.
To me, the real issue is people who don't give a shit and claim that "this isn't grade school" when you point out that their message's formatting is atrocious. They won't even admit that it makes them look bad. There's no way to reason with them.
I'm especially sensitive to what I perceive to be "syntax errors", which is both a boon and a curse. It's a boon when I read fan fiction submissions to the website I help maintain, but it's a curse when I'm reading people's comments. I noticed an error in your comment, for instance:
We don't consider computers to be very smart, their tools that require very specific input.
This review has obviously been written by a Final Fantasy fanboy. There are even several paragraphs where he's being an apologist for Square Enix, even going so far as to call the scorn Final Fantasy XIII received "undeserved". Come on.
Gameplay issues aside, Final Fantasy XIII was a failure. They pumped so much money and manhours into the thing. The sales weren't bad, but they were well below expectations and didn't offset the investment.
Final Fantasy XIV was an even bigger failure.
Why do you think Final Fantasy XIII-2 saw the light of day? Because they could reuse assets made during Final Fantasy XIII's development, saving money. One wonders if the game helped, though. It has been out for only about half a year and it's already being dumped at 20 euro or less in stores.
Yes, Nintendo didn't have a good year. But they have been turning a profit for decades before that. The comparison is hardly appropriate.
Anyway, while I find Theatrhythm Final Fantasy to be a cute game, it definitely isn't worth the purchase of a 3DS in my opinion. Nor do I think it's worth 40 bucks. It's too derivative and doesn't have enough meat on its bones.
The truth is, I remain on FB because it's extremely popular with the teenagers (which I have three). I damn sure can't just let them use the thing without educating them about the risks and consequences (and checking / fixing privacy settings every fucking week).
That would be fine, except that the only way to win with Facebook is not to play. You don't allow and engage in harmful activity (like, for example, drugs) just to not be a dick, right?
It's actually relatively easy to argue that C++ is an abomination. It's not unexpected either: it's an old language, and an OOP shim hacked on top of a well-designed mid-level language. (snip) C++ had only Smalltalk to learn from, really, and was trying to be C with Classes.
Replace C++ with Objective-C and this paragraph is still correct. Objective-C is older than you think (1980).
Meanwhile C++ has become its own language while Objective-C is still a crude hack on top of C.
I can't see why fundies can't grasp this simple application of logic - but I guess if you lack the smarts/logical think to realise god doesn't exist, then you'll lack the smarts to understand other basic fundamentals.
Except that not believing in God isn't a simple application of logic. Congratulations for making out all believers to be idiots, asshat.
The article doesn't mention that the 3DS XL won't have a cradle or AC adaptor included. The original 3DS did come with both of those. While the 3DS AC adaptor is compatble, customers who didn't buy the 3DS won't have any means to charge the 3DS XL's battery. This is probably a move to reap profits from sales of separate AC adaptors.
This 'oversight' reminds me of the time when Nintendo 'forgot' the headphone jack on their Game Boy Advance SP. You had to buy a separate cable that plugged into the power jack if you wanted to use headphones with the system, which also meant that you couldn't play it with headphones on while it was connected a power outlet.
The same issue is true with the Wii, when it launched, HD screens were not that widespread yet, but nowadays, they are and boy do the Wii graphics look bad. Some of the games are good but the graphics really hurt your eyes if they are played on a larger screen.
Nice hyperbole, there.
Unless you're a HD fanboy, there's nothing wrong with the Wii's graphics. Of course, if you play them on a crappy LCD HDTV that's bad at upscaling, the image will look like it's smeared with vaseline, but that's not the Wii's fault.
I'm not surprised. That's essentially the same as saying "you can't communicate with your friends". In the 1990s, you may as well have banned him from using the telephone.
Maybe they could find some other way to communicate. Like, uh, e-mail? There's the telephone still, too.
I urge you to reconsider your decision
Considering the evils of Facebook, I strongly disagree that he should. With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play.
You don't "point" in the GC version. You press the "target lock" button and it automatically jumps to the spot you're supposed to shoot at.
But there's also a free-form pointing mode that you enter by holding the R trigger, which you need to look around better and sometimes to even see a lock-on spot in the air or on a large target.
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The problem with bringing up the Xbox 360 is that because it's from Microsoft, it's basically a PC. :P
The Wii and PSP haven't received any firmware updates for at least a year now, though. While the PSP frequently got an update, the Wii received fewer of them, especially during the later years.
That's sig-worthy material. Thanks!
...Crap, it's too long for Slashdot. But I can still use it elsewhere!
French is my maternal language. I can't bear to read French language message boards because of the total lack of proper grammand and spelling. It's simply atrocious. It was already like that five years ago, so I find it hard to believe that it ever was different.
To me, the real issue is people who don't give a shit and claim that "this isn't grade school" when you point out that their message's formatting is atrocious. They won't even admit that it makes them look bad. There's no way to reason with them.
I'm especially sensitive to what I perceive to be "syntax errors", which is both a boon and a curse. It's a boon when I read fan fiction submissions to the website I help maintain, but it's a curse when I'm reading people's comments. I noticed an error in your comment, for instance:
"their" -> "they're"
This review has obviously been written by a Final Fantasy fanboy. There are even several paragraphs where he's being an apologist for Square Enix, even going so far as to call the scorn Final Fantasy XIII received "undeserved". Come on.
Gameplay issues aside, Final Fantasy XIII was a failure. They pumped so much money and manhours into the thing. The sales weren't bad, but they were well below expectations and didn't offset the investment.
Final Fantasy XIV was an even bigger failure.
Why do you think Final Fantasy XIII-2 saw the light of day? Because they could reuse assets made during Final Fantasy XIII's development, saving money. One wonders if the game helped, though. It has been out for only about half a year and it's already being dumped at 20 euro or less in stores.
Yes, Nintendo didn't have a good year. But they have been turning a profit for decades before that. The comparison is hardly appropriate.
Anyway, while I find Theatrhythm Final Fantasy to be a cute game, it definitely isn't worth the purchase of a 3DS in my opinion. Nor do I think it's worth 40 bucks. It's too derivative and doesn't have enough meat on its bones.
Fixed that for you.
One would hope that people don't turn off their brain while reading or typing a message. Unfortunately, this seems to be common.
I see two spelling errors in your message.
What happened to "Less is more."?
That would be fine, except that the only way to win with Facebook is not to play. You don't allow and engage in harmful activity (like, for example, drugs) just to not be a dick, right?
Replace C++ with Objective-C and this paragraph is still correct. Objective-C is older than you think (1980).
Meanwhile C++ has become its own language while Objective-C is still a crude hack on top of C.
13 year olds don't spell that well.
Except that not believing in God isn't a simple application of logic. Congratulations for making out all believers to be idiots, asshat.
I don't find Objective C to be nice at all. It's a very ugly hack and I despised working with it.
Did you also have professors that taught you to abuse the apostrophe?
Progressive scan helps, but if the LCD monitor's upscaler is bad, you will get a bad image, no matter how good your cables are.
By the way, I think you meant component, not composite.
The article doesn't mention that the 3DS XL won't have a cradle or AC adaptor included. The original 3DS did come with both of those. While the 3DS AC adaptor is compatble, customers who didn't buy the 3DS won't have any means to charge the 3DS XL's battery. This is probably a move to reap profits from sales of separate AC adaptors.
This 'oversight' reminds me of the time when Nintendo 'forgot' the headphone jack on their Game Boy Advance SP. You had to buy a separate cable that plugged into the power jack if you wanted to use headphones with the system, which also meant that you couldn't play it with headphones on while it was connected a power outlet.
Nice hyperbole, there.
Unless you're a HD fanboy, there's nothing wrong with the Wii's graphics. Of course, if you play them on a crappy LCD HDTV that's bad at upscaling, the image will look like it's smeared with vaseline, but that's not the Wii's fault.
I had to laugh while reading this parody. Thank you!
Maybe they could find some other way to communicate. Like, uh, e-mail? There's the telephone still, too.
Considering the evils of Facebook, I strongly disagree that he should. With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play.
Why do you need an extension for managing cookie policy exceptions? There is already a manager in Mozilla web browsers to manage those.
Mojave.
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Why?
It's yet to become a can of worms for me so I don't get what the can of worms would be if it's not what I mentioned.
But there's also a free-form pointing mode that you enter by holding the R trigger, which you need to look around better and sometimes to even see a lock-on spot in the air or on a large target.