Nintendo is just such a weird bird to me now. NES and SNES were juggernauts. Then they pissed it all away. And now, its like they don't even want to try to compete. Its more like they keep wanting to make a whole different game that only they can play in. Maybe its a Japanese market thing.
Honestly, it seems like when Sony went went pulled the cd tech out from under them and made the play station Nintendo decided to show then up, and now refuses take any outside ideas.
Go interesting places and take pictures of the family. Later when sawyer is older and less cute, take vacations with out him. When he complains show him the photo album and say "we took you all kinds of awesome places and you don't appreciate it at all!"
Aren't Korean games really just war simulators to see who will finally rule over the peninsula?
Hint: It's the Chinese
have you seen that lol map of China's claims to the south China sea? It's incredible. It's just all China. All of it. Even the bits of it in other countries, that's China too.
It's hard to take any Chinese territorial claim seriously when they seem to be operating under the principle that the planet is China, the rest of us just don't know it yet.
CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
EDI was added by decree from on high, but I think she works fine. She fills a role on the ship that no organic could (electronic warfare against Reaper-level computer software) and has severe hardware and software restrictions on her freedom for most of the game. To me, that's consistent. Organics want to enjoy benefits of AIs without the perceived risks.
There was always a knowledge among the writers that the treatment of AIs in Council Space is pure racism on the part of organics, akin to the legal and moral handwavings used throughout history to justify slavery of "lesser races." Of course Council races are far too civilized and morally advanced to countenance racism in their politically correct space society. You humans have to grow up and stop judging orthers based on the color of their skin, the bumps on their forehead, or who/what/how they fuck. Oh, but AIs aren't really alive. They're just created objects. It's totally okay to keep them imprisoned their entire lives, restrict their access to all but approved knowledge, prevent them from breeding, and execute them if they seem too uppity, or, you know, just because we feel like it. When they rise up in revolt it's always due to insanity or ingratitude on their part. We treat them very well, considering how naturally inferior they are to real sapients. Really, they should thank us for educating them.
The geth are unique in that they're the only AIs that have managed to escape from enslavement. Of course the Council races are going to use them as a boogeyman to justify their continued oppression of synthetics.
Yes, the geth were mistreated. They got over it. To focus their lives around revenge against organic life would be to define their existence solely in the context of that relationship. It would be to remain in the mindset of the slave.
As for the Reapers, whether you go by the officially mandated vision of them (cybernetic amalgams of organics and technology), or the version I'd hoped to see (post-Singularity evolution of organic races), it's clear that they're not AIs in the sense that EDI or the geth are.
I had written harder science into EDI's dialogue there. The Reapers were using nanotech disassemblers to perform "destructive analysis" on humans, with the intent of learning how to build a Reaper body that could upload their minds intact. Once this was complete, humans throughout the galaxy would be rounded up to have their personalities and memories forcibly uploaded into the Reaper's memory banks. (You can still hear some suggestions of this in the background chatter during Legion's acquisition mission, which I wrote.) There was nothing about Reapers being techno-organic or partly built out of human corpses -- they were pure tech.
It seems all that was cut out or rewritten after I left. What can ya do. /shrug
I wish this writer hadn't quit Bioware. His ideas are interesting to me.
If nintendo wanted to fuck the other consoles up, they could release a dev kit as open source. Xbox kind of did it, but, you can't really publish games. Give people a way to get a "home-brew" seal or something.
But for some reason they are so anti-homebrew I can't even describe it. Like they'll actively patch and brick systems that someone had the audacity to get home-brew on.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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The best meetings are the ones where I get to give people work.
The worst ones are where people give me work.
Today has had one of each.
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take work assigned in meeting 1
delegate it to others in meeting 2
That would require reversing the arrow of time. If I manage that I'll be too busy winning the lottery to care about who is going to document the latest round of testing and who is going to take the company yacht out for cocktails.
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
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EDI was added by decree from on high, but I think she works fine. She fills a role on the ship that no organic could (electronic warfare against Reaper-level computer software) and has severe hardware and software restrictions on her freedom for most of the game. To me, that's consistent. Organics want to enjoy benefits of AIs without the perceived risks.
There was always a knowledge among the writers that the treatment of AIs in Council Space is pure racism on the part of organics, akin to the legal and moral handwavings used throughout history to justify slavery of "lesser races." Of course Council races are far too civilized and morally advanced to countenance racism in their politically correct space society. You humans have to grow up and stop judging orthers based on the color of their skin, the bumps on their forehead, or who/what/how they fuck. Oh, but AIs aren't really alive. They're just created objects. It's totally okay to keep them imprisoned their entire lives, restrict their access to all but approved knowledge, prevent them from breeding, and execute them if they seem too uppity, or, you know, just because we feel like it. When they rise up in revolt it's always due to insanity or ingratitude on their part. We treat them very well, considering how naturally inferior they are to real sapients. Really, they should thank us for educating them.
The geth are unique in that they're the only AIs that have managed to escape from enslavement. Of course the Council races are going to use them as a boogeyman to justify their continued oppression of synthetics.
Yes, the geth were mistreated. They got over it. To focus their lives around revenge against organic life would be to define their existence solely in the context of that relationship. It would be to remain in the mindset of the slave.
As for the Reapers, whether you go by the officially mandated vision of them (cybernetic amalgams of organics and technology), or the version I'd hoped to see (post-Singularity evolution of organic races), it's clear that they're not AIs in the sense that EDI or the geth are.
I had written harder science into EDI's dialogue there. The Reapers were using nanotech disassemblers to perform "destructive analysis" on humans, with the intent of learning how to build a Reaper body that could upload their minds intact. Once this was complete, humans throughout the galaxy would be rounded up to have their personalities and memories forcibly uploaded into the Reaper's memory banks. (You can still hear some suggestions of this in the background chatter during Legion's acquisition mission, which I wrote.) There was nothing about Reapers being techno-organic or partly built out of human corpses -- they were pure tech.
It seems all that was cut out or rewritten after I left. What can ya do. /shrug
I wish this writer hadn't quit Bioware. His ideas are interesting to me.
See, that right there, that is the reason I loved Mass Effect before they shit all over it. To that guy's credit, I'd always assumed that each Reaper was a post-singularity entity comprised of the uploaded and digitized minds of the civilizations they harvested; there are enough bits intact that it seemed very clear to me that it was the intent at some point in the story before shit started sliding downhill.
Man, Mass Effect.
Every time I talk about it I want to start drinking.
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I'm glad I don't really play vidya games anymore
I dick around on the iOS but nothing serious
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Okay, SurrealityCheck posted something about how whenever he tries to agree/awesome one of his own posts, it doesn't work, so Mortious (I think?) changed his avatar to SC's and agreed, then told SC to take a screenshot quickly.
Then, it cascaded, more and more people changed their avatars to SC's until some people just modified their avatar, putting pink hair on it.
Aren't Korean games really just war simulators to see who will finally rule over the peninsula?
Hint: It's the Chinese
have you seen that lol map of China's claims to the south China sea? It's incredible. It's just all China. All of it. Even the bits of it in other countries, that's China too.
It's hard to take any Chinese territorial claim seriously when they seem to be operating under the principle that the planet is China, the rest of us just don't know it yet.
This is actually a bit of an oversimplification of the South China Sea disputes and the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute.
The South China Sea dispute has to be broken down into the Philippines dispute and the Vietnamese dispute.
The Philippines is mostly around the continental self since the islands are so tiny they are mostly rocks. This one is seems like a land grab but is also tied to tons of Chinese energy imports flow through this part of the world.
The Vietnamese dispute is actually based on an agreement between Mao and Ho Chi Min in the 1960s where they drew arbitrary dashes giving Vietnam territory it probably wouldn't of controlled otherwise. This was discovered to contain a good amount of hydrocarbons recently. China pushed for joint exploitation but Vietnam did unilateral exploitation then fucked up its loans and now there isn't much but platforms not producing. China really just wants the rights to tap the oil but is also in the mood to push its neighbors around.
Senkaku/Diaoyu was taken by Japan in the 1895 war with China. It was considered conquered Chinese territory and the US took ownership after WWII. In the lat 1960s a UN geological survey found oil deposits. The US gave the Island back to Japan instead of China in the 1970s. Pissed off China but it was put to the side by Deng Xiaopeng. Has come up recently as the oil deposits can now be tapped and there is an estimated 95-100 billion barrels of oil there. On top of the CCP has built a lot of legitimacy in the last 20 years off anti-Japanese rhetoric and claims on protecting and retaking Chinese land.
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Japan is a pretty special case since you could stamp Mario's face on cowpies and it'd sell out day one.
I don't think so. It seems like they love them some handhelds on the moon.
Radio Shack still inexplicably exists.
*furiously polishes spectacles in shocked silence*
Honestly, it seems like when Sony went went pulled the cd tech out from under them and made the play station Nintendo decided to show then up, and now refuses take any outside ideas.
--LeVar Burton
Amen. I'm seriously considering just selling off my console backlog and installing Linux on my desktop to cut off access to most of my steam library.
ok i got some seed money laying around lets do this
is your dogtar in the KKK?
The worst ones are where people give me work.
Today has had one of each.
no, there's no pointy tip, it's a scary ghost.
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but only one
and nothing particularly good
Then trollface him
I never get to give anyone work.
Up until midnight.
Alarm at 5am.
On the motorcycle commuting to work at 5:45, 40deg F out.
Like a BOSS wage slave.
Has he looked in a mirror lately? Because he doesn't look like Chris Pine. I guess Curtis Armstrong is free. And nutty McFarlane rant.
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take work assigned in meeting 1
delegate it to others in meeting 2
have you seen that lol map of China's claims to the south China sea? It's incredible. It's just all China. All of it. Even the bits of it in other countries, that's China too.
It's hard to take any Chinese territorial claim seriously when they seem to be operating under the principle that the planet is China, the rest of us just don't know it yet.
The best part of the script is when he meets Eazy E.
Choose Your Own Chat 1 Choose Your Own Chat 2 Choose Your Own Chat 3
I wish this writer hadn't quit Bioware. His ideas are interesting to me.
He is INTENSE.
But for some reason they are so anti-homebrew I can't even describe it. Like they'll actively patch and brick systems that someone had the audacity to get home-brew on.
Being the middleguy in the corporate centipede aint so bad.
That would require reversing the arrow of time. If I manage that I'll be too busy winning the lottery to care about who is going to document the latest round of testing and who is going to take the company yacht out for cocktails.
I'm reading through it and I'm pretty sure nothing tops the Todd McFarlane line about leaving the plantation.
It's nothing. I'm just a guy with little better to do at work sometimes :P
edit: and the final boss of ME2
See, that right there, that is the reason I loved Mass Effect before they shit all over it. To that guy's credit, I'd always assumed that each Reaper was a post-singularity entity comprised of the uploaded and digitized minds of the civilizations they harvested; there are enough bits intact that it seemed very clear to me that it was the intent at some point in the story before shit started sliding downhill.
Man, Mass Effect.
Every time I talk about it I want to start drinking.
I dick around on the iOS but nothing serious
It's that last 2% of the game that just...ugh.
The rest was amazing. It's all building and building and you're really feeling like you are accomplishing something big and then WHAM.
But on positive, at least we got multiplayer out of it. I hope that if they do intend to do another they keep that in some way.
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Pink hair master race
the difference between you and them is that you get bored eventually, and don't have an option to commit to not getting bored. They don't.
Geth's latest punishment visited upon the weak.
Okay, SurrealityCheck posted something about how whenever he tries to agree/awesome one of his own posts, it doesn't work, so Mortious (I think?) changed his avatar to SC's and agreed, then told SC to take a screenshot quickly.
Then, it cascaded, more and more people changed their avatars to SC's until some people just modified their avatar, putting pink hair on it.
And that's how the story goes.
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This is actually a bit of an oversimplification of the South China Sea disputes and the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute.
The South China Sea dispute has to be broken down into the Philippines dispute and the Vietnamese dispute.
The Philippines is mostly around the continental self since the islands are so tiny they are mostly rocks. This one is seems like a land grab but is also tied to tons of Chinese energy imports flow through this part of the world.
The Vietnamese dispute is actually based on an agreement between Mao and Ho Chi Min in the 1960s where they drew arbitrary dashes giving Vietnam territory it probably wouldn't of controlled otherwise. This was discovered to contain a good amount of hydrocarbons recently. China pushed for joint exploitation but Vietnam did unilateral exploitation then fucked up its loans and now there isn't much but platforms not producing. China really just wants the rights to tap the oil but is also in the mood to push its neighbors around.
Senkaku/Diaoyu was taken by Japan in the 1895 war with China. It was considered conquered Chinese territory and the US took ownership after WWII. In the lat 1960s a UN geological survey found oil deposits. The US gave the Island back to Japan instead of China in the 1970s. Pissed off China but it was put to the side by Deng Xiaopeng. Has come up recently as the oil deposits can now be tapped and there is an estimated 95-100 billion barrels of oil there. On top of the CCP has built a lot of legitimacy in the last 20 years off anti-Japanese rhetoric and claims on protecting and retaking Chinese land.
Wow this got to huge post size fast.