hogarth1 commented on Cali Senator Discusses Interactive Violence, ESRB "Conflict of Interest"

"I think there are these sorts of feedback loops in our media, where certain behaviors are at least "encouraged" by the presence of images and ideas all around us - behaviors that may or not be ultimately good for the society at large (civilization, to be grand about it) - and that the commercial aspects of this media dispersion of provocative images encourages producers to produce more (and more provocative images than using a claw hammer to murder someone I can barely imagine). - Long sentence, meaning, in essence, we are going to hell in a handbasket."

hogarth1 commented on 180-Degree Gaming With The J-Dome

"If you could get a game dev to produce a game image that was pre-distorted with a fisheye effect, this could actually be pretty good."

hogarth1 commented on The Games My Mother Played

"Yep - good times...I was 12."

hogarth1 commented on Gametrailers Blows It with PS3/360 Footage

"@GTshane:I had a look at the Drake's Fortune "comparison" clip."

hogarth1 commented on What Game Makes You Pull Your Hair Out?

"Toughest recent game - Echochrome."

hogarth1 commented on So, Yeah, I Finally Watched A Blu-ray Movie And...

"It's all in the encode/decode."

hogarth1 commented on A 70-year-old's Take on GTA IV

"I'm having an interesting time reading these comments."

hogarth1 commented on Metroid Prime, Now In The Third Dimension

"The images in question are not, in fact, 3D at all.They are simply 2D images with the red-blue filters used to "push" the flat surface back into a plane below the surface of the screen."

hogarth1 commented on Shareholder Sues Take-Two Over EA Bid

"If you, as a company, issue stock, then the purchasers of that stock become part owners of the company - they own a "share" of the company.If someone with a lot of money to spend offers the shareholders a price that is higher than the current share price, and 51% or more of those shareholders agree to sell, the buyer then become the primary shareholder - in effect buying the company. I can see where the shareholders who WANT to sell their shares to EA at EA's price have a case."

hogarth1 commented on EA And Starz Team For Dead Space Movie

"Bear in mind that the actual animation, such as it is, will be done by a company in Asia, and - except for a few layout and CG artists in Burbank - none of the people producing the animation have anything to actually do with the Simpsons, King of the Hill or Wow, Wow Wubsy - whatever THAT is.The question in many of the remaining minds at Film Roman is: who is the audience for this horror/sci-fi piece of *art*?"

hogarth1 commented on Why I Love the Portal Song But Would Never Buy It

"Apologies - deep apologies for the very late comment."

hogarth1 commented on Sega's Toshihiro Nagoshi Eats An Orgasmic Yakuza Dinner

"I miss a world where a person could smoke while they ate dinner - things were more civilized back in the day, before the good-for-you nazis took over America."

hogarth1 commented on Myst Online Dries Up

"Uru never could decide whether it was fish or fowl."

hogarth1 commented on Dying 24-7, Thinking About It 24-7

"I may be the oldest regular reader on this site - I turn 58 this year. Ash, I think I know the feelings you described - I've had the desire many, many times that a particular moment could last forever."

hogarth1 commented on Pick The Best Sign

"#5 FTW"

hogarth1 commented on Bionic Eyes Could Change The Face Of Gaming

"If this device were able to display information that was focus-able onto your retinas, then whatever lens that did that focusing would put everything in the real world out of focus."

hogarth1 commented on We Are Fans Of This Okami...Yes.

"Me wants a Biohazard kimono."

hogarth1 commented on Microsoft: We're Still Committed to HD-DVD

"One reason M$ is backpedaling so fast on the rumor of BD adoption is they probably have a boatload of unsold HD-DVD hardware they want to move."