Comment Re:Undue Credit to Kurzweil (Score 1) 598
You might be able to argue that he's a charlatan now but in my mind he's Thomas Edison turned Nostradamus.
Hey, now -- careful there. Isn't that Tesla's gambit?
You might be able to argue that he's a charlatan now but in my mind he's Thomas Edison turned Nostradamus.
Hey, now -- careful there. Isn't that Tesla's gambit?
Actually, this will make the games more like simulators for killing people. Hell, I played a (crappy) sniper game for an hour and then walked out of the arcade onto a catwalk above a food court... and couldn't help picking out targets. Mentally, of course.
In this case anyone playing will learn that you can't reload just by firing off-screen, and that real guns are loud, kick, eject shells... and they'll get used to it. I'm not saying that it will turn an ordinary person into a killer, but there is an argument to be made, and it does get stronger in this case.
Hey, that's cool.
As a designer who's used Flash since v4, I agree. Plus, the reason Flash is so prevalent is because of its incredibly high installed base -- and that's not going to go away overnight.
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.