I haven't bought a game console since N64. I just have a PC, and all I do these days is buy games for $5 off amazon or from steam sales (only if they're pretty much DRM free and not made by a handful of companies I can't stand, like EA) that are a few years old. I've got plenty to keep me busy without needing a new console of any type. Especially since I don't want something that needs another internet connection.
Meant 99.8% but totally pulled a number less than 100% out of my bum to make a point. But yeah, shame on people who think that just because everything CAN be made to be "always online" they don't step back and think SHOULD it be made that way? And in my personal (and professional, actually) opinion, that answer is no.
As a person who writes software, the idea that people want to be "connected" all the time bothers me. I know that I love to 'disconnect', as it were, and play games by myself and such. My internet does not have even 98% uptime; unlike my television and computer.
I would love to know what the industry was offering for the digital rights versus how much they would offer for the physical print rights... And compare those against the prices they'd have set for both editions of the book.
I think the terribly self-serving ego boost they are trying to pull off by pretending that every lede is like a gift from some proverbial god is the biggest laugh of all, honestly.
Especially the part where they're undoubtedly 100% serious about it. Can you imagine? lol
Little did EA know that the biggest "social component" of their always-online game would be everybody bitching about how badly they fucked up and crippled this new SimCity game.
[i]Facebook made its case publicly, agreeing that there were some privacy and civil liberties concerns with the bill, but that on the whole the bill was good.[/i]
I feel a strong irony of the fact that facebook agrees there are "privacy concerns" but agrees with the bill anyway, because that's pretty much the way they feel about user privacy isn't it?
Not quite as ironic as how EA used the trumped up 'social aspect' of the new SimCity as a way to pretend that always-on DRM and no single player was legitimate. Little did they know that the ultimate social aspect of their game would be all the gamers, message boards, news articles and blogs that were bitching about how much EA (and Maxis) royally frakked up a loved franchise.
But EA has been digging this hole for years, so I don't see them doing an about face anytime soon -- whereas Facebook apparently thinks it still needs to save some face.
Their concern is that the American public still has a right to privacy protections -- and they're mostly concerned that they can't figure out an easy way to circumvent that.
BSG: Blood and Chrome was released onto youtube a week at a time. I thought that was pretty good. I feel like getting all 13 episodes in one shot is sort of like Caprica did at the end, just to burn off the episodes. You need some sort of time delay, I think, just to make people want it. A handful of people want to consume the series when it is all out all at once at the end. However, plenty of others enjoy just having a couple of shows to watch a week. But, it should be neat to see it play out.
Re: The death of consoles
I haven't bought a game console since N64. I just have a PC, and all I do these days is buy games for $5 off amazon or from steam sales (only if they're pretty much DRM free and not made by a handful of companies I can't stand, like EA) that are a few years old. I've got plenty to keep me busy without needing a new console of any type. Especially since I don't want something that needs another internet connection.
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Meant 99.8% but totally pulled a number less than 100% out of my bum to make a point. But yeah, shame on people who think that just because everything CAN be made to be "always online" they don't step back and think SHOULD it be made that way? And in my personal (and professional, actually) opinion, that answer is no.
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As a person who writes software, the idea that people want to be "connected" all the time bothers me. I know that I love to 'disconnect', as it were, and play games by myself and such. My internet does not have even 98% uptime; unlike my television and computer.
Re: Big deal
Unfortunately the bots seemed to be programmed WITH random capitalization AND bad engrish.
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I would love to know what the industry was offering for the digital rights versus how much they would offer for the physical print rights... And compare those against the prices they'd have set for both editions of the book.
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Part of me thinks that this terrible business climate was planned intentionally on some level by some legacy bloc.
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I think the terribly self-serving ego boost they are trying to pull off by pretending that every lede is like a gift from some proverbial god is the biggest laugh of all, honestly.
Especially the part where they're undoubtedly 100% serious about it. Can you imagine? lol
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If they ever discontinue google sites, then I will really be sad. I've spent a good deal of time putting content on there.
Re: Mike will follow a lawyer into any rat-hole!
You always end up at same place!
Every fucking time this gets posted it pisses me off. It should read "At the same place". Use your damned prepositions!
/feeding-the-trolls
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Something about sticking your dick in a hornet's nest comes to mind right now...
*munches on popcorn*
To quote Battlestar Galactica...
This has happened before...
and it will happen again...
and again...
and again...
The Irony
Little did EA know that the biggest "social component" of their always-online game would be everybody bitching about how badly they fucked up and crippled this new SimCity game.
Interesting.
[i]Facebook made its case publicly, agreeing that there were some privacy and civil liberties concerns with the bill, but that on the whole the bill was good.[/i]
I feel a strong irony of the fact that facebook agrees there are "privacy concerns" but agrees with the bill anyway, because that's pretty much the way they feel about user privacy isn't it?
Not quite as ironic as how EA used the trumped up 'social aspect' of the new SimCity as a way to pretend that always-on DRM and no single player was legitimate. Little did they know that the ultimate social aspect of their game would be all the gamers, message boards, news articles and blogs that were bitching about how much EA (and Maxis) royally frakked up a loved franchise.
But EA has been digging this hole for years, so I don't see them doing an about face anytime soon -- whereas Facebook apparently thinks it still needs to save some face.
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What they really should have said was:
'We think we do a great job handling software and smartphone patents, in spite of knowing nothing about either of them!'
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Leaders change but the oppression remains the same.
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I honestly could see the Shadowrun style corporate ruled world emerge in the next... 50 years or so.
The concern, still, is what do the privacy protections look like in the bill and (more importantly) what the Senate will come up with on this front.
Their concern is that the American public still has a right to privacy protections -- and they're mostly concerned that they can't figure out an easy way to circumvent that.
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I don't feel so bad for not carrying my cell phone on me all day after reading this, though. I usually put it on the table or leave it in the car.
Battlestar Galactica - Blood & Chrome
BSG: Blood and Chrome was released onto youtube a week at a time. I thought that was pretty good. I feel like getting all 13 episodes in one shot is sort of like Caprica did at the end, just to burn off the episodes. You need some sort of time delay, I think, just to make people want it. A handful of people want to consume the series when it is all out all at once at the end. However, plenty of others enjoy just having a couple of shows to watch a week. But, it should be neat to see it play out.
Re: Re: Safe Crackers
Thank you, I appreciate it.