for the first time, or at all, BECAUSE of games? I know I did. I know that they taught me lots of things - especially even just programming very rudimentary games on the apple deuce in 7th and 8th grade. That gave me a huge appreciation for computers, what they can do, and what a good product looks like. My text based zork type games were very easy to write, however the pixelized boxing game (that I was creating with the wrong process) took many many lines of code and required mass critical thinking.

And I can relate this to what was supposed to be a huge blockbuster, although I don't know if their programmers are just new, inexperienced, or just don't know what a good game is - or, they were told to dumb it down as the company wanted an incoming stream of income like they had with their graphical chat room (WoW).

instant gratification generation, and the people that have never heard an analog modem. I'm not even 35 and if I feel this cynical, I cannot imagine how some of my seniors reading this must feel (even in re: to the way my generation views tech)

speak for a monopoly.

they have to move on to the next venture. Although it'd be hard to imagine them lowering the bar anymore than they've set it.

And rule number... 5? of politics is that you always vote with the majority or else you'll look bad. A more interesting note would be figuring out when sheeple were getting elected into the house and senate.

I hope so... I know it won't happen in the US.... Which actually says a lot. As Americans we are used to getting what we paid for. If something sucks, we're entitled to our money back.

Its happened every election since 2000 (and maybe more - I didn't pay attention before then)

and I don't even own a smartphone... Just make an extremely goofy face that you'd never have in a picture.

problem solved.

Good to know Carmack didn't disappear with his riches to some virtual island he created by writing 3 lines of code.

On the serious side, if anyone should be at the helm in changing the way gaming is done, its Carmack. Unless he was on some crazy drugs when he thought up how to do real 3D with quake.. then we might need to all chip in and get him some new "inspiration." :)

giving me reasons to think both the dummycrats and retardlicans are on the same side.

ps - we aren't allow on their side.

Gotta love politicking. "The art of postponing a decision until its no longer relevant." -that new WW2 movie about the black fighter pilots.

Where I work, I see that people further down the chain are being trained to do this, and to not answer questions with any sort of real answer. Its quite depressing to see us advance in the wrong direction.

politics and logic have no place together in our time. Except for the insanely rich... and those who have no morals and will kiss butt rather than work hard to achieve success. Oh wait - that's politics.

that just released a huge title? The third in the trilogy that's been in work for 12 years? I'm sure if I had no morals, I would have no problem hiring someone to DDoS the site that would be distributing the software a lot of people have been looking for so they would just go out and buy it. Or, more likely, steal out of their mom's purse. Which is the more likely thing that this would cause.

just one of many scenarios. Its fun to think of alternatives.

Seems to me its just more attempts to polarize the masses...

Here's what you'd want one group saying...

"I've got to watch 20 seconds of this crap because those computer "hackers" are messing everything up!!! Rabble rabble rabble!!!"

And the other group is saying "Ummm... Do you know what "hacker" means? This isn't about pirating, its about xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

It doesn't matter what you fill in the xxx's with - the people on the other side of the argument are usually the irrationals who don't usually side with understanding or logic and aren't going to listen.

There's not much else I can say but this...

The lack of attention to the rise in obesity since america got hooked on corn syrup is astounding to me. Sure some of us are less active, but bring in the ease of use of the internet, and the 500 channels of nothing to watch on TV, and you get an excellent equation for a fat country.