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Comment Re:First, make a good video game (Score 1) 523

I just played the PS3 demo of Dante's Inferno, available on PSN and releasing Feb 9th 2010... awesome demo... I highly recommend checking it out if you like button mashers like God of War.

I think religious overtones in the game scripts would and do work well so long as the story is compelling. More often than not the conflict between good and evil is what drives a game's story and religion is certainly filled with lots of that. So the opportunity is there to find great stories to use as an influence... I just don't want to be preached to.

Comment Question for those in the "know" (Score 1) 541

IANA-Particle Physicist || Theoretical Astrophysicist.

I am however fascinated by space and the science (albeit the layman's view) behind our understanding of it. One thing I have read about is the expansion energy that seems to be pushing the universe apart. If this energy can be found and quantified how plausible is it to create a negative effect, or localized contraction of space, to facilitate a new type of travel?

I don't claim to understand the amount of energy needed but seeing as this energy is dark and pretty much everywhere maybe we don't need black hole-esque power to achieve warping space.

Comment Re:Reality (Score 1) 120

The biggest problem I see is that Guitar Hero is not designed to be played with a real guitar, and the colored buttons do NOT correspond to real string/fret positions, or to real chords.

It goes farther than that. Anyone who plays guitar and has spent some time with GH (any version) knows that the timing of when to play in the games doesn't correspond to the actual timing of the song music. There are quite a few songs in GH that I can play on a real guitar (picture Randy Marsh playing Carry on my wayward son) that I know aren't even close to the strum timing for GH.

Comment Re:m$ (Score 1) 575

This doesn't surprise me... anything utilizing the technology (if you want to call it that) of Silverlight is bound to be a disaster. Netflix should definitely act appropriately if they're receiving this many complaints or else it will do more harm than good.

The problem isn't the technology, Silverlight plays media very well and if the CONTENT is encoded properly in very high quality. No, the problem here is Netflix and there choice to provide poor content and even poorer customer service.

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