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Have you noticed that there is no job centre in Albert Square, no social workers in Hollyoaks and no rural payments agency busybodying around Emmerdale?
Yet remarkably these fictional communities manage to sort out the consequences of deprivation and family breakdown with relative ease.
It wasn't always just in the fictional world where problems were sorted out by communities around kitchen tables over cups of tea. My experience growing up in the supposedly society-less Eighties was remarkably similar. My parents were in the middle of a messy divorce and the only income my mother could rely on was child benefit. It was not nearly enough to live on.
Other benefits were drunk away by my alcoholic and absent father. My mother was one of three million unemployed and battling through red tape to access more money. Her struggling financial situation led social services to conclude that, as she clearly did not have enough money to put food on the table, perhaps they should take me into care. This was the point at which my mother realised that if you were taking money from the state they could control your life.
It was also at this point and with great pride that she informed them she had come into a large inheritance and no longer required Income Support. Social services duly vanished. No claims on the state - so no need for social worker visits. We were wealthy and free. Except, there was no miraculous inheritance - my mother had made it up to get the state off our backs. We had just £7 a week to live on.
I remember one day being very hungry. There was no food in the house and no prospect of any coming for days. The doorbell rang. It was our neighbour Bridget. Bridget was an Irish Catholic single mother with four children. She was carrying a large pot of stew. "I've been so stupid," she said in her rich Irish accent, "I've made far too much stew. I don't want to throw it away. You've probably already cooked dinner tonight but if not, would you help me out by finishing this off?"
The next day at 6pm the doorbell rang again. It was Bridget. "Do you know, I've done it again. I made far too much. Would you be able to help me out?" And so it continued until my mother eventually found work.
What a contrast between the actions of the state and the actions of our neighbours. The state apparatus failed us. Their only interest was in interfering in the relationship between a mother and son. They took the view that if you were poor you would struggle to be a good mother. Our neighbour not only took responsibility for those around her, but most of all she did it in a way which was deliberately designed to give dignity to us. She did so when living on the breadline herself. But most of all, she did it without wanting anything in return.
It was also Bridget who kept an eye out for the children who used to play in the car park in front of the estate. When we went out of line, Bridget or one of the other neighbours would come and take us back to our parents for an earful. (Is it even possible to do this now, or would children complain that their human rights had been infringed?)
So when David Cameron talks about the importance of "neighbours understanding that it is their responsibility, not just the council's responsibility, to look out for each other" he is right. But we should go further. The state apparatus of checks, forms, processes and systems will always dehumanise the most vulnerable. It makes them jump through hoops and allows the state to invade their home and family life. The situation has drastically deteriorated under Labour. Gordon Brown's means-tested benefits and tax credit system have taken this intrusion and dehumanisation to a whole new level.
So we should not aspire to some sort of joint project between neighbours and the state. We need a revival of neighbourliness to be at the forefront of the fight against poverty. We have to ask ourselves, can we ever revive the concept of neighbourly behaviour while we have a state apparatus whose very size and mission disempowers communities and monopolises local welfare?
A particularly pernicious example of this is the Chancellor's tax credit system. Its complexity means that families have little certainty as to next week's income or their bills. Last year two million hard-up families got a bill to pay back excess money because the state couldn't get its sums right the first time. Some £1.8 billion paid out by the Treasury in supposed largesse is right now being clawed back from people living on the bread line. Furthermore, nearly a million people got less than they were expecting, missing out on £556 million.
Unfortunately, this is getting worse, not better: 100,000 more people will get a bill to pay back money this year than did last year, and 200,000 more people are not getting what they were promised in the first place. How can people plan their lives properly with such a shambles going on?
Conservatives should look at whether we can completely scrap this tax credit system. Rather than using up reams of paper and spending hours of analysis on thinking up ever more elaborate systems of state interference, we should concentrate our minds on creating more Bridgets. After all, Bridget never came round on Tuesday asking for some of her stew back because she thought she had given us too much on Monday. Bridget never knocked the door and inspected how full the larder was before sharing bread from her table. More Bridgets and fewer Gordons, please.
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PITTSBURGH - DECEMBER 27: Ike Taylor #24 of the Pittsburgh Steelers sacks Joe Flacco #5 of the Baltimore Ravens on December 27, 2009 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh won the game 23-20. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk reports that a source with knowledge of the situation has informed him that Steelers CB Ike Taylor is expected to be out for at least 2-6 weeks after he suffered a right fibula injury during Sunday's win over the Ravens. Florio's source adds that there's "concern that the injury is significant." This a pretty big loss for Pittsburgh considering their limited depth at cornerback and the fact that Taylor has been as reliable as any player on their roster. Curtis Brown appears to be the next man up for them, but it wouldn't be surprising to see them add other player on Tuesday.
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May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Chile's economy may expand more than 6 percent this year after data for March showed the country is on "a robust growth trend," Finance Minister Felipe Larrain said.
Chileans are feeling the benefits of growth of almost 10 percent in the first quarter, with real salaries rising "significantly," Larrain told reporters today in Santiago.
Chile's economy grew a record 15.2 percent in March from a year earlier, when the country was recovering from an 8.8-magnitude earthquake, the central bank said on its website today. The economy expanded 0.3 percent from the previous month on a seasonally adjusted basis on gains in the manufacturing, retail, transport and aquaculture industries, the bank said.
The peso fell 0.4 percent to 467.92 per U.S. dollar at 10:06 a.m. New York time.
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I frequently drove my daughter to school and one day when she was in fourth grade, just before we arrived at school she told me that if I wanted to hug her and kiss her, I should do it now before arriving at school. Those few, benign words slammed in to me like a howling freight train. I stopped at the stop sign and reached over for a kiss on the cheek and hoped she wouldn't see how hard it had hit me.
I remember calling a friend and doing something that I had not done in twenty years. I cried that day and forever after I was transformed by that event into someone that cried, almost a stranger to myself in this regard.
It was a new destination for me and my daughter. Never a fan of gushy movies, I sat teary eyed as Johnny so famously said; "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." And so I strangely became a fan of the chick flick and I watched with my daughter and her friends the many tear jerking films that I had never seen before or even knew existed.
At one point I found myself needing to gain my composure at a movie theatre while my daughter walked by chuckling. I don't think she understood then, nor did I, just how much fatherhood had changed me; a new destination.
I had to learn to let her suffer her hurts though they probably injured me nearly as much as they did her. I celebrated her triumphs but more and more at a distance; letting go.
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Warriors think they have a healthy Andrew Bogut this season
Aug 30, 2013, 1:02 PM EDT
Last season, Andrew Bogut missed 50 games. The season before that 54. The season before that 17. It's been a long time since we've really seen a healthy Bogut for an extended period.
But we also saw in the playoffs last season what a healthy Bogut means to Golden State — he is their defensive anchor inside, he averaged 7.2 points a game shooting 58 percent, while pulling down 10.9 rebounds a game. His passing skills are a great fit with shooters like Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson.
The Warriors with the addition of Andre Iguodala are a playoff lock in the West, but how far they can go will depend on a healthy Bogut and his presence in the paint. The team thinks he's healthy and are treating him as such, GM Bob Meyer told the Sporting News.
"I think the initial thought is he is healthy, and play him as much as you want," general manager Bob Myers told Sporting News. "If something obviously were to develop, something unforeseen, you have to react to it. At this point, you treat him like he is 100 percent healthy, that is what he is saying, that is what the medical staff is saying, so, you don't treat him any other way. Maybe the question is, do you want to play him 35 minutes? But that is a question for any center. It is not due to anything with his injury. We're approaching it like he is healthy."
Golden State is clearly going to try and keep Bogut's minutes down, something you can tell just by looking at the roster. There is Festus Ezeli, Jermaine O'Neal and Marreese Speights all who can take on minutes at the five and keep Bogut down in the 28 minutes a night range. Which would be about the top end of where I'd want him.
If Bogut is healthy he will upgrade the Warriors pedestrian defense from last season. Do that with Andre Iguodala on the wing helping the perimeter defense, and if this all melds together on the offensive end the Warriors are a very dangerous team come playoff time.
- casualcommenter - Aug 30, 2013 at 1:40 PM
Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala form a very, very good pair of wing defenders.
With a healthy Andrew Bogut anchoring the defense inside, the Warriors could have a nice defense, particularly if Stephen Curry and (especially) David Lee improve their defense.
- demasane - Aug 30, 2013 at 3:11 PM
Klay Thompson a good defender? Am i missing something?
- bklyntay - Aug 30, 2013 at 3:29 PM
Yes you are he is a solid to good defender
- thrillhouse763 - Aug 30, 2013 at 2:12 PM
Said no one ever
- itsonlyaspeedbump - Aug 30, 2013 at 2:38 PM
Super exciting to be a Dubs fan right now. Even years back when they beat the Mavs in the first round, I wasnt this hopeful for the upcoming season. This team feels like if everybody is healthy, they'll be a force to be reckoned with at the very least.
- norcalsportsknowledge - Aug 30, 2013 at 2:51 PM
C- Bogut
Pf- Green
Sf- Iggy
Sg- Klay
PG- Bazemore/Douglass
That's one tough defense to close out a game!
- hannsta - Aug 30, 2013 at 3:09 PM
Wouldnt it be great if just for one season there were no injuries?
- money2long - Aug 30, 2013 at 4:47 PM
go to settings..set injuries to NO .
you're welcome
- benjaminmoney - Aug 30, 2013 at 3:32 PM
Although the national sports writers are predicting the dubs as a 6th seed behind Memphis, Houston I actually believe the warriors will finish ahead of both teams including the clips. The dubs will win the Pacific and quite that overrated team in la…are we supposed to be scared of reddick, dudley and byron mullens…psshhh..please…Blake is what he is and cp3 will miss some time in the season like he always does…warriors finish third overall in the west…you can go to Vegas with this info…book it!
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It appears that some Texas Tech fans have a fantastic sense of humor. On National Signing Day, when head coaches wait by the fax machine to receive Letters of Intent from their commitments, some Texas Tech fans decided to send something else to new Cincinnati Head Coach Tommy Tuberville. In case you didn't know, Tuberville allegedly left Texas Tech recruits at dinner at the 50-yard Line Steakhouse and then took the job at Cincinnati the next day. These Red Raider fans thought it would be a great idea to send him a menu from the restaurant, since he apparently never even looked at one. This might be one of the best trolling moments in all of college football history.In case you can't read the fax cover letter, this is what it says:Date: 2-06-2013From: Texas Tech NationTo: Tommy Tuberville and staff.MEMO Was thinking of you. . . We will miss you . . . Here is an intent letter to remember us bySigned XoXXOOxxoo WreckEmTech [SB Nation]
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If you want to find the hottest Steelers bar in Titans territory, look for the guy with the, um, knife. Don't mind him, he's such a cut-up. That's Michael Hanlin, Oakmont native, Steelers follower and the operator of three restaurant-bars in Nashville -- where he's pictured here scaring the bejabbers out of Devon Long, brother to former Titans defensive lineman Rien Long.
"I had 30 Steelers fans who were just here; they partied hard for two hours," Hanlin was saying over his cell Thursday from Nashville, to where Nation members already have begun flocking for Sunday's Steelers-Tennessee contest to determine the No. 1 seed and home-field advantage in the playoffs. "On a Thursday night, I've never had that many people for a Sunday game. It'll be crazy Friday and Saturday."
Hanlin is 110 proof Western Pennsylvania. He grew up worshipping at the Black and Gold altar. He got a degree in psychology and philosophy -- now that must've screwed him up -- at Thiel College. Nine years ago, he followed his older brother to Nashville, met his future business partner that first week and never left. He opened a self-described "hole-in-the-wall window" from which he served roughly 1,000 sammiches a day "back when Joe Nedney did that flop," after Dewayne Washington got called for a roughing-the-kicker penalty and allowed a Nedney rekick to win in overtime these same teams' Divisional Playoff after the 2002 season.
A half-dozen years later, he is part-owner of three establishments around Nashville's Second Avenue area: Decades, an '80s-music bar modeled after the former Oakland haunt The Decade; and the two hotspots for Steelers and sports fans, Piranha's Bar and Grill and the 4-month-old Doc Holliday's Whiskey Saloon where he served as host to the first Nation visiting party of the week. What he serves: Yuengling (Iron is so hard to get in the Deep South) and sammiches fraught with fries and cole slaw, which should sound familiar. Steelers center and former Titans center Justin Hartwig is an old bar pal. Former Titans and Ravens quarterback Steve McNair still pops in and plays shuffleboard.
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|1 Tablespoon
|Chopped onion
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Minced fresh coriander
|1 Teaspoon (Cilantro)
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|Chopped green onion
|2 Cup (32 tbs) (Including Some Tops)
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Posted 26 July 2012 - 10:16 PM
What are your thoughts on this?
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Posted 26 July 2012 - 10:50 PM
I've always preferred the graphical level of the PS2 and Gamecube, and games with rigid rules and mechanics that you have to learn to abuse xD Custom Robo comes to mind. The levels are tiny and there's hardly any physics beyond the laughable drop straight down when you get blasted out of the air, but the sheer amount of customization and strategy makes it so much fun. Similar can be said of The World Ends With You or Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. But I wouldn't say gaming is going downhill; those games delivered, and I loved every second of them.
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Posted 26 July 2012 - 11:33 PM
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 03:31 AM
It's not just you. The contrast in those modern games is insane - I'm looking at you BF3 - it's difficult to make out anything from the environment. Although, I'm not sure I'm at the point where I get knifed in the face just yet! However you have to give them some credit, in real life you don't see perfectly either, especially when running. So for realistic games, this is progress, in a sense.
Maybe it's just because I'm colorblind, but I can't see a damn thing in all these games with so-called HD graphics.
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 04:18 AM
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 04:22 AM
So yeah, there is something lost in the process, but some innovations make it through, and not necessary via the indie scene. We don't yet have the Christopher Nolan of the games industry, and no it's not Peter Molyneux,or Tim Schafer who is more like a Terry Gilliams character, or John Carmack who is just interested in tech.
Some japanese productions are more adventurous.
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 10:25 AM
On the might unbeatable incredible osome SNES (* 3 reverences*) era, we played the same game for 3 years+ , and yet today we still play them in the emulators.
Today games are discardable, you play just once and even if it takes too long, you find it an issue on the gamedesign.
Id guess the problem is the absurd amount of accessibility due internet, theres just too many games, so they arent very unique (a game will always have at least 3 or more games with the same purpose). So, while on old games youd find "new stuff*" on a game by progressing on levels, today you find "new stuff" by playing another game.
*by "new stuff" I mean the reward game design mechanism to keep the player entertained by presenting him new elements.
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 10:42 AM
Well, obviously you cant expect that technology evolving will make games more fun. Games are fun because of game design, mechanics and story, those are helped by technology, not dependent on it.
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 11:02 AM
Lets not get sucked into 'all old games were masterpieces' becaue they weren't... even something like Super Mario which sucked hours of game play for some people didn't really DO that much. Even when it came to 'new stuff' you got a different tileset, maybe a mild variation on enemies and that was it... the rest was 'run right, jump on things, avoid other things'.
A couple of months ago I played, and finished, Max Payne 3.
It was, without doubt, the best gaming experiance I've had. The game was polished, slick, had a great atmosphere (both audio and visual) and was above all fun. It had a story to tell, it told it and didn't drag it out.
In fact I've probably finished more games in the last couple of years than I ever did during 'the old days' of gaming which, to me, speaks volumes.
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 11:04 AM
The availability of technology in and of itself is a good thing. Aside from a few historical problems (I'm looking at you A-Bomb) the AVAILABILITY of that tech is good.
Now, systematically using this, and setting production goals as being higher tech may be more of an issue.
If you look at older games which you (and I) seem to have a very fond memory of, you'll see that the team size and structure were so limited that the focus was on what game they could do, and let's be honest, it was the far-west of distribution, so aside from a few bigger titles (hey Doom) you could always hope to get some regional success. I may be disfiguring this a bit as I wasn't around (any veteran developed during, say, the Atari era?)
The advanced graphics tech also came with the internet, and worldwide distribution that is unparalleled (digital downloads). This created what some believed impossible: an even more competitive environment.
Whether they have ideals or not, most players respond positively to a good marketing campaign and companies can sell their product much more efficiently than the competition, regardless of the gameplay. The reason for this is that it's hard, through marketing alone, to show how your gameplay is really fun. What you can easily do, however, is show how immersive your universe is by showcasing kickass visuals.
It's a lot like what you see other companies advertise. They want to give you a feeling of what your brain should think of when shown a brand, not what the brand actually does. Car companies sell you safety, sense of risk, strength, etc. They don't give you the slighest clue about how it actually feels when you drive your car.
It would be easy to point the finger at marketing, and since this is beyond the scope of this thread, let's just say: everyone does it, so why would wouldn't you? Why would you willingly cut your own sales because you're a 'rebel'? That'd be a tough sale to get across to your boss
Lately, indies have been in a rise, because, much like earlier day developers, they come to the table with an idea, not powerful tech, and they build on a budget. They have a niche, specifically simple gameplay mechanics with good production values. If they can kick it off (Minecraft, Grimrock) no one will care that their visual or animation (respectively) are not up to par with industry standards because they've had a blast.
With that said however, I strongly believe that the best and most immersive games still come from the industry, but they're extremely rare. I often cite Skyrim as an example of the best game I've played in a long time. True, its more visually stunning than Oblivion and Morrowind, but that's not why it convinced me more than these two previous titles. The developers at Bethesda have iterated in creative ways to get to this point and I respect the choices they've made to make a TES that's even more fun to play.
So to answer your question simply: I think the main problem is that most companies look up at successful titles, and rather than see it as a product of iterating on gameplay (which is fairly complex, especially if you don't take the time to play these games as a competitor) they see its stunning visual. Because it is extremely hard to determine whether a gameplay is going to work or not with the audience, but easier to know whether something is visually stunning, there's been a loop where companies trying to lessen their financial risks systematically opt for the better visuals. The problem is that this generally leaves very small polish budgets, an aggressive timeline to release or the inability to redesign aspects of the game later in production.
Particularly successful (Blizzard) or dissident (Bethesda) companies have managed to secure sufficient funding to do more polish (and somewhat less visual). You rarely get to see a shooter where the recoil feedback is more important that the lush environment lighting, but it happens.
Gaming isn't going downhill, its just taking shortcuts, but even big companies are noticing how indies are doing it, and if they don't, then, google: game industry 2012 layoffs.
Indies that do it right will grow bigger, just like currently large companies have once been startups. It's just a phase.
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 04:11 PM
Old games focus on game play, today game focus on a) graphics b) monitization (buy gold! pay to get it intantly! buy awesome weapon from RAH!).
But of course, game play is as tricky as mucial notation. Person a uses music notes to make great music b) person b uses music notes, but can be bad. And good games it just like good music (ala We Are Young). We cannot say we are young is good because its note A, then C#, then E, and so on and so forth. It's synergy. Combination of all game play element makes it fun.
Just look at Final Fantasy series. People keep saying FF7 is the best in the series (and I agree). To a point it now in the process of re-releasing. They didn't put remake off the table just yet, just want to see enough profit to justify it. And the only difference between FF7 and FF8 that fan was quite vocal (AFAIK) is that you need to draw magic before casting it. Just to show how fun game play is the sum of it part.
The problem with today games, is that, graphics are being focused on and not the game play. And those purely monitization (and spam all your friend) games are bad, bad, bad.
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 07:33 PM
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 08:50 PM
but do better graphics and faster computing really make recent games more fun to play than old style NES-SNES games?
My personal answer would be yes, in general a good modern day game has more appeal to me than a good old one, and technology is one of the reasons (the other probably being the generally higher production value). Nostalgia aside, of course (I still buy the occasional item from GOG to relive my old favorites). Of course there are plenty crap games with bleeding edge graphics, but an otherwise well-designed, fun game can only be greatly enhanced by a mixture of good art design and solid modern tech.
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Posted 28 July 2012 - 01:38 PM
I remember playing dragon warrior 2 and making an entire back story for Prince Cannock in my head and my hero teaching him stuff while he would catch in levels when fighting. That made grinding interestingly fun just because it was abstract.
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Posted 28 July 2012 - 02:45 PM
This makes it a construct of their mind rather than an abstraction, and its very hard to adapt to that, thus, feel involved.
Really? Because I find it easy enough to immerse myself in games still and feel involved; I'd hesitate to say more so than in the past but certainly going back and playing a few games from the past (such as Deus Ex) I couldn't get into them as the quality of the graphics, compared to modern games, was just so poor to be jaring and keeps me from dropping in.
The point is there are no definitative statements which can be made here; everything depends on the person, the game, heck in their mood when they play.
(I've had games I've tried to play which one day I've disliked and then returned to a few months later and couldn't put down).
I dare say if you could provide some kinda of normalised scoring of games over the years (taken at the time of release) you'd probably find that in general the proportion of 'good' to 'bad' games at the very least remains the same - now, there might well be more in numerical terms than Back In The Day but that's by the by.
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 12:55 AM
This makes it a construct of their mind rather than an abstraction, and its very hard to adapt to that, thus, feel involved.
Really? Because I find it easy enough to immerse myself in games still and feel involved; I'd hesitate to say more so than in the past but certainly going back and playing a few games from the past (such as Deus Ex) I couldn't get into them as the quality of the graphics, compared to modern games, was just so poor to be jaring and keeps me from dropping in.
The point is there are no definitative statements which can be made here; everything depends on the person, the game, heck in their mood when they play.
(I've had games I've tried to play which one day I've disliked and then returned to a few months later and couldn't put down).
I dare say if you could provide some kinda of normalised scoring of games over the years (taken at the time of release) you'd probably find that in general the proportion of 'good' to 'bad' games at the very least remains the same - now, there might well be more in numerical terms than Back In The Day but that's by the by.
Games today use generally better game design(no more NES LOGIC), and there are lots of very good recently made games. I just feel like the biggest desire nowadays is about who has the most technologically advanced game, regardless of the game being fun or immersion, while the technology already out there can already create amazing gameplay and immersion.
Along the lines of abstraction, i've always thought it was more about what the story left out, and not graphical or sound details. Final fantasy ix has quite detailed pre-rendered backgrounds, but still is very abstract because it doesn't explain a lot of story elements(a lot of people hated that about it, but I thought it made it much more fun to fill in the holes yourself).
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 11:07 AM
They are too different, and "fun" is too vague to really compare all of them with such a blanket. It was really difficult to explore Drama in a meaningful way on SNES/NES (not impossible). You could come up with "fun" games sure, but the breadth and depth we can reach with newer technology allows us to more fully explore and realize our ideas.
How much does more advanced technology really add to a game? I know minecraft and other innovative game designs could never run on older gaming consoles, but do better graphics and faster computing really make recent games more fun to play than old style NES-SNES games?
A lot of newer technology is actually about making games easier to make. Look at Unity, CryEngine, and UE3/4. They're about making high quality games quickly/easily, not just about making high quality games.
To me, it just makes games harder to make and play because of the higher production cost and tougher system requirements.
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 01:13 AM
these games with so-called HD graphics
It's so funny if they seriously use that term now.
I was already gaming at resolutions higher than todays "HD" in 1999. UT. On a CRT.
Anyway, games must be fast and snappy for me. I do play games like Skyrim and so on now and then, but then I really dedicate time for it (and need to close everything and specifically boot to Windows etc...).
If I just need a quick break, I fire up something like Doom II. Nothing beats that one for monster shooting fun (and Doom I does not have the double shotgun).
Edited by Lode, 30 July 2012 - 01:26 AM.
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 02:08 AM
I agree, I sometimes fire up UT1999 in the evening for a couple games, with the fast-paced music banging out the speakers it makes for some mind-blowing fun. Compare this to a modern FPS like BF3, where I need to open up battlelog, let "origin" start, pick a server through the web server browser, have the map load for five minutes, disconnect three times or more, just to join at the end of the round... ugh. Skyrim is actually not bad in this respect, as it only takes ~30 seconds to start it, for me anyway (and I haven't checked with my new SSD yet).
If I just need a quick break, I fire up something like Doom II. Nothing beats that one for monster shooting fun (and Doom I does not have the double shotgun).
A metric could be designed to estimate just how quickly one can jump into the game. Perhaps a DTI (desktop-to-immersion) measure:
Minesweeper: DTI 2 seconds
UT1999: DTI 15 seconds
Skyrim: DTI 30 seconds
GTA IV: DTI 3 minutes
BF3: DTI 8 minutes
etc... of course this doesn't take into account boot time if you have to switch operating systems (but for light games there's always virtualization alternatives)
I've definitely noticed a trend where games seem to take longer and longer to start up, but this is most likely the result of laziness and poor optimization that an actual technical limitation. After all, on my computer, Just Cause 2 has - I kid you not - a 6 second DTI and is not exactly an obsolete game. I wish more attention was devoted to simple things like that, because it really makes a difference. How would "casual players" feel if Angry Birds took five minutes to load on their iPhones?? Very good point Lode.
Edited by Bacterius, 30 July 2012 - 02:15 AM.
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Stage West offers weekly classes for ages 7 to 18. Topics range from Beginning Theatre to Advanced Acting Technique.
During the fall of 2014, Stage West continued its nearly decade long relationship with Bass Performance Hall's prestigious Children's Education Program. Since 2007, Stage West has annually taken an abridged classic to the Bass Hall stage where thousands of middle and high school students, free of charge, are bused in to engage in the theatrical experience.
Through generous grant funding and individual donations, Stage West is able to offer outreach programs that impact K-12 area school students.
2014/2015 programs include The Filmmaking Project at Stripling Middle School in the FWISD and The Environmental Awareness Project.
Award-winning, Fort Worth-based playwright, Rob Bosquez, Jr.'s original play tells the tale of a little girl who finds herself racing all around the world when she and her new kite get caught-up in a tornado.
The winning plays from the Neighborhood Play Contest are cast using kids and young adults from the North Central Texas area, and then professionally produced using seasoned designers, directors and actors. Come see the results May 11, 12, & 13, 2015!
We accept plays and monologues written by K-12 students!!! Stage West invites all North Central Texas students to share their story for a chance to have their work selected to be brought to life on stage during the next Festival of the Kid!


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MONTPELIER, Vt. - The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles is looking for a motorcycle driver doing a wheelie near exit 13 on I-89 on Tuesday during the evening rush hour.
A press release says DMV Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Inspector Captain Jake Elovrita attempted to stop the driver, but the operator sped away.
The motorcycle driver continued traveling north, cutting back and forth in front of other vehicles. Captain Elvorita stopped following the driver over concerns of public safety.
Captain Elovirta said they are getting some information including a license plate number.
So far this year, Vermont has had 51 vehicle fatality deaths. Seven of those deaths were from motorcycle crashes.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles - Enforcement and Safety Division at (802)-828-2078 during business hours.
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Since the new forum is not very user-friendly yet and searches can still be very frustrating, I'd like to know if there's an official forum thread where to post DAZ store issues instead of problems with their products. Yes, I could find several threads where people were complaining about the current situation here at the new store. However, I decided to start an own thread for the issue I experienced today:
There seems to be a major bug while browsing and displaying product details. For almost every single product the description shows a totally wrong requirement which seems to be generated randomly. For example, for the "DAZ Studio 4.5 SDK Release Candidate 2" "the Girl Ultra Catsuit" is needed as a requirement. Hah? Another example: For a planned purchase of "Majoliqua V4" you also have to own "Tropical Cave". Few minutes later, it happened to me that for every selected product the same requirement appeared: "Basicwear for V4 Unimesh". Not even a refresh by pressing F5 could resolve that issue. Really annoying!
But there are even some pricing issues in the new store which I don't really understand. For example, the "Content Creator Kit upgrade" costs 99 bucks whereas the full product is free of charge. On which policy or market strategy is all that based? Really strange decisions and behaviours here at the moment. Even some bundles exactly cost the same as their contained single products! If there are no advanced search functions in the near future, I guess I'll come back in a month or so, until all those shortcomings and errors have been corrected by the DAZ team.
Btw.: Not even the spell checking engine of this forum knows the term "DAZ". That really makes me think…


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Ambridge graduate is finalist in Dr. Oz weight-loss challenge
Sharona Sankar-King needs online votes for 'Transformation Nation'UPDATED 6:57 PM EDT May 10, 2012
Sharona Sankar-King is just days away from finding out if she will win the "Transformation Nation: Million Dollar You" challenge on "The Dr. Oz Show."
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