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Video Game Industry Thread: Master Chief -- script delivery boy
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It's interesting that alot of their costs look fixed. Would seem to speak to smaller kickstarter projects being less viable.
The biggest thing there though is the cost of prizes. Kickstarters are gonna have to think about that in the future. Giving out a prize, you are gonna have to subtract the cost of giving the thing out from the donation amount to get the real value of that person's donation. Might lead to some rearranging of contribution levels.
History Weenie On: No, Adolf Hitler did not create modern doctrine. He was a political leader, not a military one. The development of modern maneuver warfare during the late 1920's and 30's was performed by a variety of British, Russian, American, and German officers who all shamelessly took ideas from each other.
History Weenie Off.
I don't think it's the fact that it was history, but the fact that the video was all "Hitler is awesome."
...I'm assuming. Damn Kotaku and their lack of context. At any rate, the uploader named himself "Ghostofthereich," if that's any indication.
By the way, did my avatar just blank out for everyone else? I just changed it, and it seemed to be up for maybe five minutes. Did this happen to anyone else?
Assuming the same usernames, the Youtube channels for those two users have absolutely nothing to do with HISTORY YAY!
http://www.youtube.com/user/GhostOfTheReich?ob=0&feature=results_main
http://www.youtube.com/user/laliludo?gl=CO&hl=es-419
The second gentleman is definitely the same user as the offending video is number #7 in his uploaded videos.
Anyone on Elite want to link the other video?
I write news there. It is fun.
The absolute rarest Mega Drive commercially sold, only 1000 of these were produced and sold exclusively in North America. This mega drive has a special connection for a heart rate monitor:
A few exercising programs were released with it, along with an ULTRA rare full-sized exercise bike.
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I write news there. It is fun.
I <3 you for these posts.
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There was actually one of those exercise bikes in one of the big gyms at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma, at least back in 2002 or so. I got to ride on it once, and it was kind of interesting, if a little embarrassing.
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Why do I get the feeling that if you don't already own one of these, you're currently looking to get hold of it?
Deleted your save game if you didn't jump off the bike in time.
Naw, but I wish I had the money for this:
SegaSonic Cosmo Fighter. I know a guy selling one for $2500 right now. They're super rare, especially in the shell. But I don't have the money for it at the time.
Minds like Tukachevsky (of the USSR) had much more to do with modern military doctrine, especially the notion of "deep operations", which he pretty much invented and were emulated by other countries.
Now you know.
After Stalin killed him.
Ding ding ding. But ideas are harder to kill--and there were serious problems with Tukachevsky's theories (then again, he was made a Marshal at 30, and no one's perfect) which were refined by the next cycle of officers.
The purges also destroyed fascist sympathies in the Red Army that may have provided a potential fifth column insurgency that would have ended with the genocide of the Slavs and Western Asians, but...I can't think of a gaming metaphor for that, so forget it.
So, Valve splits one fifth of the continental gaming struggle with Sega, while the other four-fifths go to whoever is unlucky enough to be the Soviet Union?
Bummer. Does sound about right though.
But Tukachevsky took many of his ideas from Basil Lidell Hart, among others. And the air component of maneuver warfare/deep strike doctrine came from Billy Mitchell.
Sounds about right to me. The point was he had far more to do in doctrine development than Hitler--it doesn't surprise me that a theoretics officer in his thirties promoted to the highest military rank in his huge-ass country would borrow from everyone he could find.
And I'm pretty sure B. H. Hart extensively studied Napoleon and Sun Tzu in turn. I heard in passing that Mitchell studied the later, but I'm NOT a military historian and that could have just been a broad statement.
EDIT: My original quote isn't clear that I was referencing Hitler himself. My bad.
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And finally we bring this tangent back to games/gaming industry.
The asshole from King of Kong has a hand in the development of warfare as we know it.
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/apple-game-console-rumored-for-2012-launch-6371858
Certainly interesting, but if Valve is just now hiring guys to work on wacky control schemes, I seriously doubt such a product would be ready for 2012.
Also: I want this product to exist simply because the cognitive dissonance stereotypical game nerds have toward loving Valve and hating Apple will cause heads to explode.
I was excited about this until I got to the second bolded part. An Apple/Valve console? Yes, please! Some new TV with built-in waggle controls? No thanks. Haven't TV manufacturers been taking a beating lately?
TVs are pretty much the largest cause of their 6.4 billion loss, yep. Probably because everyone's already upgraded. And unless this thing manages to be super-dirt cheap, I can't see it truly catching on. (Apple's involved, it won't be cheap.)
This is the oddest pairing up ever. I mean, both companies obviously do their respective businesses damn well, but coming together for a project is weird. The way I see it, Apple is would be handling the hardware while Valve will be handling the software. This could just be bad news though. Microsoft beat everyone to the punch with regard to a control scheme that involves actual body motion capture. Apple would have to take it to the next level (recognition of individual fingers, depth perception, that sort of thing) for it to work. Otherwise this could just flop like Sony's attempt to emulate the Wii control scheme.
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I think this sums up this relationship.
http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/323
http://www.grimrock.net/2012/04/13/launch-week-update/
In a way I'm just posting this because it's the usual "yay a PC dev doing well!" news I absolutely adore, but there's probably something to discuss about Almost Human's success and what they did right that I'll leave to those who have been following the game. I wouldn't exactly expect a old school dungeon crawler to be popular enough to recoup costs within a week, but there it is.
Clearly, we have stepped into the Twilight Zone
"Be who you are and say what you feel, as those that matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter."
-Dr Seuss.
and all of a sudden everyone will want one.
My desktop has been sitting behind my HDTV for years now. Luckily the center is nice and hides it perfectly.
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Something way easier to shop than the app store? Because holy fuck is the app store a beast.
Apple gains credibility for gaming simply by association. Yes, yes. The iPad and iPhone has stellar sales and are doing great stuff, but public perception is still that the software is happening on its own, that this is not part of Apple's design. By involving Valve, Apple will gain the blessing and perception of building a machine expressly intended for gaming among its functions.
...That is, if that's what Apple is up to.
Nintendo's been saying their next big competitor is Apple for a while now.
Somehow I wouldn't see Nintendo naming names like that unless they had some dirt somewhere.
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Keeping with the theme:
EA Backs Off On Bans, Allows Access To Offline Content
Not that people who use hacks to gain an advantage deserve much sympathy.