The Fell - Slashdot User

Comment Re:As if (Score 1) 53

by The Fell on Monday September 27, 2010 @04:44AM (#33708998) Attached to: NASA Creates an Alien's Eye View of Solar System

Aliens would not be able to get to Earth in the time that life exists on it. Even if they could, with the technology they would have from being able to develop FTL travel, why would they need pictures? It was a computer that did that, and if you are being sarcastic, you are doing it way too well.

Comment Re:Short but not short enough (Score 1) 34

by The Fell on Sunday June 20, 2010 @05:16AM (#32630752) Attached to: Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Star Being Born

Actually, due to light not reaching us instantly, but actually quite slowly to me, that protostar has probably already finished forming, or is close/halfway done.

Journal Journal: Hello!

Journal by The Fell on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @01:27PM

Hello fellow slashdotters! I am one of the many new people here, so let me develop and get used to the environment please. Thanks.

Comment Yes. (Score 1) 222

by The Fell on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @11:06AM (#32098500) Attached to: Should the Gov't Pay For Injured Man's Wii?

Heh, interesting. I think that they should pay for it, because it is for rehabilitation, he would need it for whatever he needs it for. So yes, they should pay.

Do Gamers Want Simpler Games? 462

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @03:20AM from the i'd-say-no-but-i-used-to-love-frogger dept.

A recent GamePro article sums up a lesson that developers and publishers have been slowly learning over the last few years: gamers don't want as much from games as they say they do. Quoting: "Conventional gaming wisdom thus far has been 'bigger, better, MORE!' It's something affirmed by the vocal minority on forums, and by the vast majority of critics that praise games for ambition and scale. The problem is, in reality its almost completely wrong. ... How do we know this? Because an increasing number of games incorporate telemetry systems that track our every action. They measure the time we play, they watch where we get stuck, and they broadcast our behavior back to the people that make the games so they can tune the experience accordingly. Every studio I've spoken to that does this, to a fault, says that many of the games they've released are far too big and far too hard for most players' behavior. As a general rule, less than five percent of a game's audience plays a title through to completion. I've had several studios tell me that their general observation is that 'more than 90 percent' of a game's audience will play it for 'just four or five hours.'"

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