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You might want to make sure that personalization is even possible within our budget constrictions before putting it up as an option. The costs for it will be higher, possibly much higher because they can’t be ordered in bulk.
From a technical standpoint it’s definately possible but it’s virtually useless because consoles restrict input movement to steady actions. To get an idea of this, I recommend you play the release day version of Halo2PC, it gives the best approximation to what using mouse/keyboard on a console would be like because they didn’t properly port the controls. After 5 minutes you’ll be acting like that angry German kid. Unlike in normal FPS where you can zip around and shoot, in consoles the action has to be smooth and the “zip” action only registers as a small amount of movement.
IMO, there are two reasons why MS hasn’t released the newer Halo games on PC. First and most obvious is because Halo2 Vista flopped hard. Halo2 was a major failure because it wasn’t properly ported and was released months before it was ready, mainly because MS wanted it to be one of the flagship titles in the Games for Windows Live program. Reason numero dos is that MS would like to keep it as an exclusive XBOX360 title, if at all possible.
The general consensus from google is that MS assumes PC sales will be low so in their minds why bother. This overall lack of intelligence is why Microsoft’s Home Entertainment division has yet to turn a profit.
Phonetically Phamous (dice said:
nickname has the move?
If he did, in front of his TV would be the most coveted place for PS3 owners right now.
Nickname said:
can someone give me the tl;dr version of this topic?
td;dr – they caught a US citizen turned terrorists and the ACLU is trying to get him freed
In that case wouldn’t it be easeier to use directional bluetooth? I mean the whole “see the color on the controller” thing was what Nintendo did 4 years ago, I’d expect Sony to at least take it to another level.
Btw, shooters using this will suck. Ask any Wii owner.
NuRayZ said:
The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called a captain’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.
HUGE difference between what you’re implying and what really happened. Had they accepted the non-judicial punishment, a ranking military official would have sentenced them as he saw fit with no oversight, no hearing, and no chance of appeal. Punishment could range from demotion to correctional custody and goes on their service record. If they’re innocent, accepting such an action is stupid. The fact that it was even offered to begin with proves that the government has very little, if any, evidence against them.
Think of it this way. If you were arrested and knew you were innocent would you let the police officer sentence you or would you demand a trial in which they had to prove you were guilty and give you the chance to defend yourself? Yeah, exactly. No brainer.
NuRayZ said:
they requested the court-martial, not obama. If you are going to blame obama, you might as well blame everyone else down the chain of command who allowed this to happen; Seal leaders, commanders, everyone. Also their charges include, failing to safegaurd a detainee and making false statements. As in, beating up a defenseless person (terrorist or not) and then lying about it. It’s a shame their boss didn’t just look the other way; but that means we should blame obama?
In case you didn’t know, all 3 passed polygraph tests in which they were asked whether or not they lied or abused him. One has already been acquitted.
I blame Obama because of the policy shift in how terrorists are to be treated. Obama laid down a drastic change in policy on how we engage and capture terrorists and from the start almost the entire military chain of command has protested it. These guys were to made examples of in front of the world and everyone was afraid of the consequences of stopping it. Had it been buried and discovered later by the media it would have become Obama’s Abu Ghraib and someone who did the morally right thing would have lost their career over it. You know it, I know it, the commanders knew, and so these guys were hung out to dry over it.
NuRayZ said:
If you read the rest of that article, by fox news a trusted news source (lol); you will also notice that in 2004 a similar event happened:
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The military is sensitive to charges of detainee abuse highlighted in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The Navy charged four SEALs with abuse in 2004 in connection with detainee treatment.So Bush is a terrorist lover now too eh?
Yeah see, those were actual abuses in which the prisoner was in US custody the entire time. They also had evidence that the people who were tried were the ones guilty of abusing the prisoners. Very different situation.
NuRayZ said:
that’s not true. There is a difference between torturing someone and just taking his *edited* out with a well placed sniper shot.
Not according to the Geneva Conventions and international common rules of war. I hate to break it to you but terrorists have no rights. At all. When you consider how they treat captured soldiers it becomes impossible for me to feel sorry because how we treat our prisoners is lightyears more humane than how they treat theirs.
NuRayZ said:
Obama would have no problem ordering assassinations on any of those gitmo terrorists, if they were a threat to us; like Anwar.
Right
Obama’s track record with the treatment of terrorists is pretty damning to your argument. I mean he did allow 3 navy seals to be court martialed, even after passing polygraph tests, because the guy who ordered 4 Americans to be butchered and hung from bridges got a busted lip somewhere during his transfer between Iraqi and American custody.
See, here’s the problem with the way liberals push enemy-combatant rights. Whenever there’s a contradiction it shuts your entire system of beliefs down and makes you all look like total hypocrits.
Under the Geneva Conventions, only soldiers fighting under a specific flag have any rights. People like terrorists, who float from country to country and fight by any means they see fit, have no rights under the international rules of war. This is why the Bush Administration tossed them in Gitmo indefinately and used otherwise barred interrogation techniques, because they literally have no rights under our or anyone else’s legal system. Now before you say “the Geneva Conventions wasn’t foward thinking and couldn’t predict this” keep in mind they were forward thinking enough to bar the use of hollowpoint rounds and other, specialty anti-infantry ammo such as frangible and incendiary. Since the terrorists in Gitmo were granted similar rights as citizens by ACLU lawyers, they basically have at least the rights of those captured under the Geneva Contentions. In reality it’s probably closer to the legal rights of full US citizens.
Now, historically US citizens that fought for other nations were tried and convicted as traitors and shot out back behind the courthouse. No one cared because, well, they were traitors. The evidence was typically pretty damning, such as being caught in an enemy uniform while holding a weapon used by the enemy. For example, US citizens of German heritage that returned to Germany before the US entered WW2. Well, eventually they found themselves shooting at US soldiers and tanks and we didn’t think to highly of that. We typically didn’t even care that they were citizens, they were the enemy and that was that.
This guy SHOULD be doubly screwed. Not only did he turn traitor, which revokes all his US citizen rights, but he did so in a way that also prevents him from claiming enemy-combatant rights under international common law. The government shouldn’t even need a trial to put this guy in front of an M1 Abrams and blast him apart but with the groundwork the ACLU and other liberal retards have laid it’s highly unlikely that he’ll get the death penalty. In fact, I’d be surprised if they even jail him for it. I predict he’ll get himself a hotshot lawyer and sue the US government for discrimination and win millions of taxpayer dollars.
Btw, I have zero tolerance for traitors and prefer killing them in unique, exotic, and often overly expensive ways. The M1 is one of the quicker ways on my list, the slowest is lethal dose of radiation without pain meds. Yes, it’s brutal, but so is their crime.
Bloodlust was always starting crap when admins weren’t around. Permabanning him was a long time coming IMO
I lol’d. Hard.
I’m not sure that many would pick the Child class though. It seems a little underpowered and would almost always get raped in a PvP fight.
How? It’s political suicide. Even if you win, you’d lose in the public’s eyes because you’d be labelled bigots and intolerant.
I’ve got to give props to California, they’ve said from the start that churches wouldn’t lose any of the tax benefits for refusing to perform same-sex marriages. It’s smart to head the issue off early but most don’t believe it because New Jersey said the same thing and now revokes tax-exempt status for refusing to perform the ceremonies.
It’s easier to prevent legislation than it is to reverse it which is why religious groups in California are fighting so hard. The first couple same-sex states really screwed it for the rest by pushing their beliefs and ways on others and suing for intolerance and discrimination when they met any form of honest and legitimate resistance. Had they just gone for unions with the same benefits and left it at that they’d have won nationwide recognition years ago but they just had to call it marriage and they just had to poke the religious-sector with a stick after winning and because of that they’ll probably never win nationally. You can’t royally *edited* off the largest groups of tax-exempt organizations in the country and honestly expect to still win <_>
Lemm said:
I really think that the government messed up by defining a marriage. That is a religious term. I think if they defined a mate, committed relationship or some other term other than marriage the whole same-sex marriage problem would go away and a lot less people would complain.
They’d still find some reason to complain, people like that always do. For example, in states where same-sex marriages are allowed, many churches have been threatened to have their tax-exempt status revoked if they didn’t perform the ceremonies. This is essentially suing someone because they don’t believe the way you do and sadly they often win.
If the state mandates that something is no longer a religious-oriented ceremony then they shouldn’t then be allowed to demand that it be performed in a church under penalty of massive fines.
The kids don’t know jack. If you ever have a problem with the network or just want to escallate your problem to get a reply from someone who knows wtf a computer is, ask for Andy. Don’t tell them I told you to though.
I mean that’s all well and good but you can’t count on it. PC’s were counting on the 24 people that voted for TF2 to actually play and only 8 showed up. It’s easy to say they would have, could have, or should have, but when they’re signing up for the MTG tournament and find out that they have to sit out the Halo and Blazblue tournaments they may very well start singing a different tune. If it flops you’re only out ~$15 in prizes, which isn’t bad at all so as far as risk-taking the consequences of failure are pretty light.
What I would do is to try to find a local card store to sponsor your tournament. There’s at least one in Sylva and bound to be more in Asheville. Get with them ASAP and try to work something out with them. Not only can they advertise for us and send a high number of non-students to the event to compete but they can also sponsor the prize, which could end up being way more than what the club would have bought otherwise. If you can get a local or regional shop excited about it there’s no limit to how big you could grow this.
Did you talk to an actual “adult” or one of the student workers? Judging by the weasely, cop-out reply you got it sounds like you talked to the guy who runs that desk.
Well I can’t speak for the execs but I can’t imagine saying no to a sponsor over something like homepage advertising.
Short of sexual favors, we should do anything possible to get and keep sponsors. If the sponsors want sexual congress with someone, Derrick/Raven is more than happy to trek down and take one for the team
a waffle said:
Im not talking about permanently placed ads on the home page, i’m more referring to the the Latest news section where we announce our own LANs and such and possibly announce it the forums as well for extra exposure.
That’s what I was talking about. Any exec can add something to the news section of the homepage by posting in a certain section of the forums.
That section isn’t hidden, idk where you guys got that idea.
Sponsor adverts cycle on the main page. Also, any exec can create an announcement on the main page that X has sponsored our events.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to get into permanently placed ads on the homepage. No one does that anymore.
a waffle said:
One thing I can think of offering the LAN centers guaranteed advertising is if we announced their tournaments on the website in some manner. For example either on the main page or creating an new tab specifically for tournament sections etc…
We have a sponsors tab on the main page…
The original complaints were that the grand room would have lighting issues and be too loud. If those are no longer complaints <_ then there no reason to get a room.>
If the complaint is that getting to play in 2-3 tournaments at once would be too chaotic then why does it matter what room you’re in? Anytime someone plays in more than 1 tournament at a time they ALWAYS hold either or both up. That’s just how it is. If that’s a debilitating problem for MTG players then either explain in advance that they can’t participate in other tournaments or hold it another day.
On that note, until you can get more than 8 people I don’t think the club should be shelling out cash for advertising and prizes. Not that I don’t like the game (I used to love it) but until you can prove it’s profitable the club shouldn’t be spending cash on it. In the meantime, pick a room, print your own fliers for it, and have fun. On gameday just take up a pool and order some pizza. PCs did this for a freeplay LAN in one of the Belk labs and it was a lot of fun.
Keep in mind though that regardless of when or where you do it, we can get any non-premium room for free.
