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Comment Re:Hell of a Thing (Score 1) 236

When you watch people crashing into world trade centers, you expect people to die. When people get down into fighter jets, you know something could happen. When you're watching sports, or taking a part in it, you're not expecting anyone to die. Especially not that sudden. Yeah, it was a horrible crash.

Comment Re:First Address Targeted Advertising, Then We'll (Score 1) 255

Actually, if you have been a registered member for long enough, you get this option anyway.

Yep, and I click the chekbox to enable the ads again to still support the site, and I would think it would be alright with an ad at the bottom or top of every page on wikipedia too.. it's not like it wil be less awful than the one with wales, and I don't see how that would be a worse thing than the companies editing the pages "anonymously" anyway.

Social Networks

The New Reality of Gaming 122

Hugh Pickens writes "Video games used to be about fighting aliens and rescuing princesses, writes Rohin Dharmakumar in Forbes, but the most popular games today have you tilling your farm, hiring waiting staff and devising menus for your restaurant or taking your pets out for walks while maintaining cordial relations with the neighbors. 'Reality, it would seem, is the new escapism.' Video games of the pre-social network era were mostly played by boys or young men but 'now the core audience of social network games are girls and young women,' says Alok Kejriwal, founder and CEO of games2win, an online gaming company. The tipping point in the US came in 2008 when women outnumbered men on the Internet. Combined with millions of parents and grandparents who're new to the Internet, the traditional face of the gamer is changing from that of a 25-year-old male to a band stretching from 16 to 40 years comprising men and women in almost equal numbers, says Sebastien de Halleux, one of the co-founders of Playfish, who predicts that someone is going to create a social game very shortly that pulls in a billion dollars a year. Gaming for this new set of players is less about breathtaking graphics, pulsating sound or edge-of-the-seat action and more about strengthening existing real world relations through frequent casual gaming. 'Think of these games as a sandbox where everybody has the same tools, yet everyone achieves different results,' says de Halleux."

Comment Re:150 in one (Score 1) 458

There is a pretty cool software that emulates electronic circuits which a friend wrote: http://sol.gfxile.net/atanua/ .. not sure if it has been featured here but it definitely should... great to experiment and is getting really evolved, and it's free as in be^M^M pepsi.

Also, I think you could extend the lego playground to use spaghetti and glue to build bridges and see if they support the load of the lego cars perhaps. Simple and easy and don't requite much funds to try out...Paper mache etc could also be a nice treat.. make masks off eachother or something to make it more fun.

Comment Career mode is prio #1 (Score 2, Insightful) 110

The lack of a good career mode in GT3/GT4 is something that is really missing from the series... IMO the career mode was even better in GT3 than GT4... you should start out as a racing rookie and build your career. Learning how to adjust all the settings to your driving style etc. GT3 made that good, but then they just seemed to focus on the racing sim bit in GT4.

I might be mistaken but I felt that GT3 was a more fun game than GT4, but perhaps my expectations just was too high. Which brings us to GT5. It has to perform _really_ great to live up to the expectations after that long of a wait. The PS3 is already dead to me. I waited for GT5, I got bored in the meantime and sold the console.

PlayStation (Games)

Gran Turismo 5 To Be Released November 24th 110

UgLyPuNk writes "After many, many delays, Gran Turismo 5 has finally gotten a solid release date: November 24th. ('Tis the season for vaporware titles to emerge into the real world, it seems.)" Eurogamer posted a preview of the game back in August, saying, "It's been a whirlwind of features and car chatter, beneath which the game still looks fantastic. It may have been in development for the whole of this console generation, but the technical arms race has slowed down and GT5 still looks as good as any other racing game we've seen, and it is, to say the least, comprehensive." Joystiq has a video of the course maker and a collection of screenshots.

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