I was actually hoping the show would portray a cameo by io9 fan and nerdcore rapper extraordinaire MC Frontalot.
He had a cameo in the comic and has hinted at the fact that he wants a guest spot in the season season.
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He had a cameo in the comic and has hinted at the fact that he wants a guest spot in the season season.
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and this is why I'm not renewing my ESA membership...
Yes yes a million times yes to Neverwhere, the book is just as good as the series if not better.
I slept on this message. I gave it a well thought out meaning and some time for cooler heads to settle down before posting it.
Giz, this message comes off as something I'd expect from a GameFAQs admin forum post with extra drama on the side. "My forum, my rules, like it or leave it."
Which, I'll admit, is completely your right. It is your site, your domain, your work, your research... (as my right to not give you page views, but I digress) But trying to police people's views, of you, of your content, of your comments and pendents, is futile. It's Orwellian and makes you look foolish when aggressive tactics are added to further this lofty goal.
Really, I don't see why do you even care if some random commentator says something against you? You think respected old media journalists run editorials about how their readers are wrong and stupid? (even if they are) They wouldn't dream of it. It's taking the higher ground...
You get tens of thousands of hits per story, hundreds of comments, and a handful of anti-you whispers scares you? It worries you? It bothers you enough to take a strong line action against them? Really? Is control and utter obedience all you want? What ever happened to listening to what your audience constructively? I'm really curious to see Nick Denton himself would think of this.
I come here to read gadget news from the best and the brightest, not forum drama. I'll be on Kotaku and io9 still, but Giz, it's been fun.... Call me when you get less crazy.
Oh and if you don't like this post at all, don't just remove my star. Outright ban me, I'll wear it as a badge of honor.
Giz, this message comes off as something I'd expect from a GameFAQs admin forum post with extra drama on the side. "My forum, my rules, like it or leave it."
Which, I'll admit, is completely your right. It is your site, your domain, your work, your research... (as my right to not give you page views, but I digress) But trying to police people's views, of you, of your content, of your comments and pendents, is futile. It's Orwellian and makes you look foolish when aggressive tactics are added to further this lofty goal.
Really, I don't see why do you even care if some random commentator says something against you? You think respected old media journalists run editorials about how their readers are wrong and stupid? (even if they are) They wouldn't dream of it. It's taking the higher ground...
You get tens of thousands of hits per story, hundreds of comments, and a handful of anti-you whispers scares you? It worries you? It bothers you enough to take a strong line action against them? Really? Is control and utter obedience all you want? What ever happened to listening to what your audience constructively? I'm really curious to see Nick Denton himself would think of this.
I come here to read gadget news from the best and the brightest, not forum drama. I'll be on Kotaku and io9 still, but Giz, it's been fun.... Call me when you get less crazy.
Oh and if you don't like this post at all, don't just remove my star. Outright ban me, I'll wear it as a badge of honor.
Many of the fears we have of a monopoly is lack of consumer rights and price gouging. The problem with this is Steam is not, and will never be a true monopoly. Console gaming is much bigger then PC gaming, and as long as that alternative is there, any power Steam has will be matched upon by this check and balance of competition.
For this reason, Steam can't just go around charging $90 a game even if they had 100% of the PC market share. Because the competition conditions of the entire gaming market (consoles, and even high rate of pirating) would act against it. Hell, the barriers of entry *for the consumers* alone hurt Steam immensely. Unlike console systems which are at most a few hundred dollars, most high end gaming PCs carry a $700 and skyward price tag. While everyone needs computers, in a slumping economy this is a hard sell to buy a premium PC, which will hurt Steam's ability to attract new, initial gamers into the market pool. (indie and budget titles are excluded from this thought process)
If Steam ever did decide to shoot their consumers with monopolistic advantage style tactics, the effects of a true monopoly would never take hold (the you have no alternatives problem). Consumers would simply switch to console alternatives with minimal gameplay differences or pirate the games.
If anything, many of the problems of the once dying PC gaming market, such as the half a billion things that can go wrong with a computer installation, are being solved and streamlined by Steam. Often at a lower price then the console alternative.
TDLR: Steam might become a monopoly for PC gaming, the same way Nintendo had a monopoly for SNES.
For this reason, Steam can't just go around charging $90 a game even if they had 100% of the PC market share. Because the competition conditions of the entire gaming market (consoles, and even high rate of pirating) would act against it. Hell, the barriers of entry *for the consumers* alone hurt Steam immensely. Unlike console systems which are at most a few hundred dollars, most high end gaming PCs carry a $700 and skyward price tag. While everyone needs computers, in a slumping economy this is a hard sell to buy a premium PC, which will hurt Steam's ability to attract new, initial gamers into the market pool. (indie and budget titles are excluded from this thought process)
If Steam ever did decide to shoot their consumers with monopolistic advantage style tactics, the effects of a true monopoly would never take hold (the you have no alternatives problem). Consumers would simply switch to console alternatives with minimal gameplay differences or pirate the games.
If anything, many of the problems of the once dying PC gaming market, such as the half a billion things that can go wrong with a computer installation, are being solved and streamlined by Steam. Often at a lower price then the console alternative.
TDLR: Steam might become a monopoly for PC gaming, the same way Nintendo had a monopoly for SNES.
@ifandbut: Maybe it was me. I had an ad before the video?
15 second ad for a 30 second video..... Whoa.. what did she just. Holy Crap why is this not being made!
@ArmyofJuan: added!
Had some fun with you with under-content filled 'The Agency' Fahey, lets slay some stuff in this too. I'm in.
@Irving94: .... Bravo.
@Graviton1066: a fair point, but what happens when that 12 year old loses his job, and is his family's sole source of income? When Nike stopped using 12 year olds, there was a rise in thievery and prostitution resulting from the 12 year old being out of his job.
It's not nearly as black or white ethical issue as it seems.
It's not nearly as black or white ethical issue as it seems.
What you need to do now is bring back some of that goodwill to your NBA series.
Right now, gamers haven't touched NBA Jam in years. The series in it's later years started to become a joke and little more then a cash cow.
NBA Elite is likely canceled, and is going to be the butt of jokes for a long time. Especially when 2012 comes around.
EA, your image in handling the basketball games is on the rocks... and badly be repaired.
Take a hint from past hits like Katamari which retailed originally for $20 and spawned a whole bunch of sequels and money down the road.
Remember NFL 2k5? The $20 dollar gem that forced you to get exclusivity rights for the NFL series? Yeah, Basketball's not going to let you do that this time...
In a struggling economy, gamers have to make hard choices, but a high quality title that's a flash back to our 'good old console days' would do well on the digital marketplace. Right on the shelf with so many other 16-bit era titles we find there.
Especially if it's cheap to the bone (20 bucks?) where it wount take a dent in our wallet like a 60 dollar title would.
A successful release might even stave off a lot of us from buying your rival 2k's NBA game for a year. Saving you many of your lost DieHard fans, and maybe even earning you a few more.
Come back next year, when people are still raving about last year's awesome NBA Jame game, bundle it with Elite 2012's rerelease, and start again.
But at 60 bucks for a game we were expecting to be a marketplace download? Not a chance.
Right now, gamers haven't touched NBA Jam in years. The series in it's later years started to become a joke and little more then a cash cow.
NBA Elite is likely canceled, and is going to be the butt of jokes for a long time. Especially when 2012 comes around.
EA, your image in handling the basketball games is on the rocks... and badly be repaired.
Take a hint from past hits like Katamari which retailed originally for $20 and spawned a whole bunch of sequels and money down the road.
Remember NFL 2k5? The $20 dollar gem that forced you to get exclusivity rights for the NFL series? Yeah, Basketball's not going to let you do that this time...
In a struggling economy, gamers have to make hard choices, but a high quality title that's a flash back to our 'good old console days' would do well on the digital marketplace. Right on the shelf with so many other 16-bit era titles we find there.
Especially if it's cheap to the bone (20 bucks?) where it wount take a dent in our wallet like a 60 dollar title would.
A successful release might even stave off a lot of us from buying your rival 2k's NBA game for a year. Saving you many of your lost DieHard fans, and maybe even earning you a few more.
Come back next year, when people are still raving about last year's awesome NBA Jame game, bundle it with Elite 2012's rerelease, and start again.
But at 60 bucks for a game we were expecting to be a marketplace download? Not a chance.
@RogueA: Hi Rogue, It's Hymir. How are you! I keep seeing your posts about him on facebook. i know you love him. :P
I have 3 of his CDs but missed him at PAX East. Gonna really try to find him in at month's end
I have 3 of his CDs but missed him at PAX East. Gonna really try to find him in at month's end
kinda dorky, but that's his thing. So I'd call it a success.
Really, I'm gonna try to check him out when he comes to Boston. He's talented and is trying something new and fresh. How can you knock that
Really, I'm gonna try to check him out when he comes to Boston. He's talented and is trying something new and fresh. How can you knock that
@ChewyChavezIII: Where is that from? o.O
@TheGreatRaja: The Xbox cards do stack i believe up to 2 years as well.
@JabbaB: If you're gonna troll on Kotaku, atleast make it original fanboy. Acronyming LAG to Lagging is pretty lame.
@HatchC2: It looks amazing. and I'm stunned it's not getting as much press as it should be.
"...give the player full, unconditional control over how their party AI acts. Do not make us unlock it, do not make us level up to earn it; just do it. We paid you the money already, you don't need to keep stringing us along in frustration."
This.
Nothing was more Frustrating in Dragon Age then running out of conditional slots and being told I had to give up character progress/development in order to issue more triggers.
Reguardless, the Perk system to Fallout was perfect. I would spend hours before a LAN just making characters for a FO:T Multiplayer battle. From 'tank' dogs to stealthy Assassins, it was great.
Any time where I will spend more time in character creation then I will playing the actual game in my initial session with it, I don't see this as a failure by the developer, I see this as joy. I am fleshing out someone new in my mental image. I am creating a bit of life.
This.
Nothing was more Frustrating in Dragon Age then running out of conditional slots and being told I had to give up character progress/development in order to issue more triggers.
Reguardless, the Perk system to Fallout was perfect. I would spend hours before a LAN just making characters for a FO:T Multiplayer battle. From 'tank' dogs to stealthy Assassins, it was great.
Any time where I will spend more time in character creation then I will playing the actual game in my initial session with it, I don't see this as a failure by the developer, I see this as joy. I am fleshing out someone new in my mental image. I am creating a bit of life.
