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Interesting? I'm not sure, the thesis seems pretty questionable. Sure in some cases gender may seem obvious, but there's no way this would work as well as they suggest... it's going to be wrong quite a bit, I'm sure.
... but not enough to get me to actually play only one game at a time, though. I'm still playing SF Rush (N64) and Batman (NES), like I was a few days ago? I'm so close to the end of Batman... at the final boss...
And as for Rush, for some reason, when I played the first one again a few days ago, something clicked and suddenly I thought "wow, this is one of the best racing games ever made!" I mean, I'd always said that Rush 2049 was the amazing one, and Rush 1 was a distant second... but putting more time into it now makes me maybe question that. Sure it's incredibly frustrating (the whole enemy car pack stays one second apart in a tiny clump, meaning if you make one too many tiny mistakes, it's straight to last place for you!), but it's so, so great... (oh, and I only use the Extreme cars, of course. :))
But anyway, Ico... um, I'm still in the first level, but it is good. Some decent puzzles so far. And that great art, of course... very odd default controls, though. Jump on triangle, drop on X? Those make so much more sense switched... same goes for the shoulder buttons. 'call' to L1, look to R1. Why put both on one side? Stupid. But at least it lets you redefine the controls, unlike far too many games! :)
Quote:For Nintendo, 'Beer' is Too Strong for Wii Owners
July 7, 2008 at 18:08 PDT – Source: Las Vegas Sun
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Contrasting previous statements about not screening WiiWare content, Nintendo elicited changes in JV Games' upcoming title, including a name change from Frat Party Games – Beer Pong to Frat Party Game
According to the co-founders of JV Games, Nintendo asked them to change the name and some of the content of their upcoming WiiWare title because of one word: "beer." Their game, originally titled Frat Party Games – Beer Pong, was renamed to the more family friendly Frat Party Games – Pong Toss.
This conflicts with some of Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime's statements last year about how "Nintendo will not do any screening of ideas" on WiiWare. JV Games co-founder Vince Valenti recalls how they "had a little discussion with Nintendo and there were some angry parties." The two founders were shocked by Nintendo's reaction. As Valenti puts it, his company's use of the word "beer" was "just like you would hear in any movie or on TV." Co-founder Jag Jaeger said they "wanted to focus on the sport of beer pong, not the alcohol that’s associated with it."
The sport in question is a college drinking game staple and consists of a table with pyramids of cups laid out on each end. These cups are filled with beer and the goal of the game is to throw a ping pong ball into your opponent's cups until they are all gone. Whenever a cup is hit, the opponent has to drink the beer in the cup.
Frat Party Games – Pong Toss still includes almost everything that was in the original build of the game, including using the Wii Remote's motion sensing capabilities to throw the balls, and a crowd that "still says authentic college-ish things like 'Loser,' 'What was that?' and 'I’ve got the munchies.'" The only changes are in the name, the now-empty red plastic cups, and in the new throw power meter, now transformed into a bullet that merely resembles the glass of beer it's replaced.
JV Games hopes to have Frat Party Games – Pong Toss out for WiiWare sometime in July.
Neal Ronaghan, Staff News Writer
Very, very disappointing, Nintendo. Sure, it's a game I'd never dream of buying, but the principle is the thing, and you've just proven that your "our only restriction is no AO titles" rule has more caveats than we knew before. Disappointing.
I feel bad for this guy, Its clear that some enemies of his in the media business have set him up to be publicly humiliated.
Is it anyones business if a man in his 60's has a private sex life? Even if it includes sadomasochist fetishes involving Nazi themed prison guard babes whipping his ass .
The guy shouldn't be punished because his Dad was a Fascist!
According to this, if you do enough comparisons you don't need science any more, or something like that. I'm not really sure how that works. Corrolating facts in new ways is important and it'll speed up the process alot, and further allow a lot of new realizations across multiple disciplines, however that's an "after science" thing. The initial data is still the keystone and gathering that is still the most important thing. No matter how fast we process, it's worthless without the data. It's the old programming maxim, garbage in, garbage out (REALLY old if you check my signature). Speed of analyzing data will certainly increase and that's great. However, we still need to make observations to add data to our pool. We also still need to test new hypothesis for verification. Corrolating data really fast is great and aside from giving us new insights at a rate that very well could change the world, it'll also give rise to new questions faster than ever before, but it will not, by itself, provide answers to those questions. We'll still need to form new testable experiments and gather new data. That's never really going to change.
Wired gets stupid sometimes...
Oh, but there is one last bit of confusion. If you are dealing with frickin' petabytes, you are dealing with numbers so huge that you will find all sorts of crazy patterns which, at smaller scales, really would be meaningful. You'll find coins flipping heads 100000 times in a row at that scale, but that's to be expected. What's needed aside from proper data gathering (the science) is also proper understanding of probability and number theory and good models. One needs good math to know what is a meaningful result at that scale.
This is a big deal, As it will put personal privacy into jeopardy. I do not like the idea of big brother spying on us.
I am not trying to promote or defend piracy, For me that would be uploading a entire movie not just a snippet.
What Viacom wants to do is the internet Equivalent of a random strip search, Just to see what videos you've watched.
Allot of vloggers put up tv documentaries on YT , For the sake of educating and informing the public about important issues, I feel a exception must be made for them, Their content is not just for entertainment purposes, As it can be used by students in school work and even by Teachers and the messages of those documentaries must be shared for the public betterment.
I would hate for my favorite channel 20thcenturywar to be shutdown.I never learned so much about the world wars !
I suppose I just didn't think they were being aired regularly. I'm too sheltered that way.
Aside from the blatant lies spread here, I can't help but note another part of flawed racist thinking there. In the "the west seems to have forgotten blah blah blah jews killed people a century ago" lie in particular, ignoring the completely unbacked claim they are making, they seem to imply that descendents of people who do some evil thing are somehow responsible for it. Inherited guilt is an evil and completely senseless philosophy. Look what it did to Bane! He broke Batman's back because of it!
