Minecraft. For a little blocky game it sure is addictive.
Minecraft. For a little blocky game it sure is addictive.
Playing my own head game. Over 20 million US men have a prescription for Viagra (their commercials even brag about that as fact). Let's say roughly half our population is male, that means ~150 million males. But we do have more women than men, so now it's more like ~ 125 million men. Perhaps half of them are over age 18 (since we have a very large elderly population) so that's ~60 million men who could even have ED, let alone need Viagra.
Wheee, roughly 1/3 of adult American men are taking an erectile enhancement medication?
Hey, it's not really "my" game! Next up---Levitra!
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What the heck?Originally Posted by GGT
Firstly, yes your population is about 300mn, just over 307mn.
Next yes you do have slightly more women than men - but slightly more! You have 0.97 males/female which equates to 151mn.
Yes you have a large elderly population ... so WTF makes you think 50% of your population would be children?I don't have an 18+ figure but 0-14 is 20% of your population. Even being generous then, 0-17 can be no more than 25%
Meaning your adult, male population is at least ... 113mn - but quite probably more. So that makes 1/6 not 1/3.
And that's without taking into account that some of those 20mn subscriptions will be for women too.
YES
YES
YES
I'm getting a job just so I can buy this game.
I enjoy blank walls.
Never heard of it
Only mine one I know is the classic Minsweeper
PCGamer did a blurp on it in their latest issue.
What started out as a sandbox mining game has blossomed since the developer decided to ask for money. Early adopters get access to the alpha build and such treats as item crafting, monsters and a day and night cycle, added in weekly updates. While the free version is still available and fun at mincraft.net, the full game is turning into something special, just out of view of the public eye.
I just wish he'd build a faster mode of transportation so we wouldn't have to use the boat or cart exploits. Here's the method I'm using now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzBYC7n4g_E
Combine that with an AutoHotKey script that repeatedly right clicks and weeeeeeeeeeeee!
Freecell - I like the fact that unlike Solitaire its possible for you to win the game, so long as you play it well.
Star Wars Rebellion.
Still a great little game, and it'll see me through the weeks until Civ V. Small issue is the 3d space battle engine which doesn't work in Vista. Long shot question: is anyone familiar with the game, the problem and *fingers crossed* a solution?
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
If only 125 million Americans were male, then the male to female ratio would have been around 0.7:1.0.It's 0.97:1. We have about 150 million men. The median age for men is 35.5, which means 50% of those 150 million men are over 35.5.
Hope is the denial of reality
But Solitaire is a purer depiction of real life. You can play the game well, and still lose.
. . .
Gee, many thanks to Rand and Loki for entering the Viagra game! Walking down the street, for every man you see, X will be taking Viagra. 1/3, 1/6, 1/10. Fiddle with the stats any way you like, there's a lot of men taking an erectile enhancement medication.
Anyone want to play this game?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39060280
Do bookies run sheets on the Wall Street gang vs pensioners or retail investors?
Am about to download my first ever game exclusively from a game store rather than purchasing it on DVD.
Once it's downloaded, is there any way to burn it then to DVD to have my own copy?
I...I think that depends on the store and the format they ship it in
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I'm not even sure why I want to burn it to DVD. Just slightly old-fashioned or something.
And paranoid about HD failure, but I guess once you've paid for it, it must be downloadable again, with a code or similar?
~
EDIT: heh, just checked, Game store is selling it £10 cheaper than Steam.
Steam rips non-US people off pretty shamelessly, but then again, US people have to live in the US, so I think we come out on top in the end
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Since this place rolls up the streets after midnight, and I can't sleep, it's time to play the Cable Roulette Game again! It goes like this: flip the channels around and see what's on. Land on a commercial advert and denote the category. Keep flipping until you find a show or movie and denote the category. Then try to find the similarities in categories. It's kinda creepy, actually.
#1 Improve yourself (because you smell, have bad hair, bad skin, and need to lose weight)
#1 (a) Movies about transformation, mostly chick flicks about kissing toads or finding the prince who sees your inner princess.
#1 (b) Ads for acne wash, face cream, Axe, shampoos, erectile dysfunction meds, diet food in the mail, diet food in the store, exercise tools and DVDs
#2 Save the World (because it's always armageddon, but you can make a difference)
#2 (a) Fantasy movies with awesome heroism, guns and tanks or space ships, James Bond on steroids.
#2 (b) Ads to adopt a child in a third world, sponsor a child. Adopt a pet, send a donation. Adopt conservation, don't watch QVC. Join the Army/Air Force, Be All You Can Be.
#3
I got stuck on #3. Roll the dice. Is it about escapism in humor with cartoons or reality shows, with funny adverts for car insurance, or would that be ironic schadenfreude? Like watching the Roadrunner and the Coyote with Acme mistakes, followed by ads for the Aflac duck, the Geico gecko, or the Allstate mayhem man? The Three Stooges doesn't come on until 5am here.....
Wow, I forgot the tear jerker movies! Women who are abused or get cancer (the Lifetime kind of thing), followed by the ads for Tae Kwan Do or Cancer Centers of America! Families who lose their dad to a stroke or heart attack and have to overcome, followed by ads for Lipitor or eating Cheerios! It's all very subtle, you wouldn't pick up on it if it wasn't a Game....
Another edit!It's come to my attention that this Game is more about time zones and time slots. For some reason the Ad Men (M)ad Men on M(ad)ison Ave think everyone watching cable at this time needs penis enhancement, better teeth (Snap on Smiles, white strips or denture fixatives), hair plugs, antacids, a better mattress, arthritis creams, diet foods, internet match-making, or phone sex. With Cheerios or Mac and Cheese thrown in for good measure, plus some ads for dog treats that look like bacon!
edit 3,000: also the ads from attorneys for class action medical injury law suits (mesothelioma, tardive dyskonesia, PID, infertility, DEATH), anything from asbestos to Reglan to Yaz/Yasmin
This Game would be hard to turn into a board player thing......
Last edited by GGT; 09-09-2010 at 09:17 AM.
Has anyone played Paradox Plaza's Elven Legacy? I keep being tempted to get it when I go to Game
There's a demo out that I've tried before. I wasn't really that impressed. Paradox isn't the developer for that game, it's just the publisher.
Downloaded, and installed.I...I think that depends on the store and the format they ship it in
Came down in the format of one Setup.exe type file ~1.1MB, and 3 large .bin files ~2GB each.
Will go onto a DVD no worries.
I know Impluse, Steam, GOG, and Direct2Drive, Big Fish Games, all allow unlimited downloads.
I almost want to say Atari's Digital River is the only one douche enough to only allow one download / download window (that I've seen).
The problem is Steam at least is a total rip-off. I've never seen Steam offer a game I want for less than I can get it in a store or online physically.
Take that Eleven Legacy I'm considering getting, Elven Legacy Collection (game + 3 expansion packs) is £19.99 in-store at Game, £17.99 at Play.com and £16.99 at Amazon.co.uk, but Elven Legacy (game, no expansions) is £25 on Steam. WTF? That's the same with any I've seen.
Steam pretty much just replaces the $ with either € or £ on their price-tags
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Hence the existance of the 1€!=1$ group.
And to think that they even told people in the beginning: "We expect prices to come down since we don't have to deal with physical media!"
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Its more than that. Aussie's pay almost double the price. Most groups that follow Steam sales have to grid out the prices because its far more complicated than a simple symbol switch.
That being said, I love how Steam is able to more actively adjust the price of a game based on demand. Something that retails for $60, you can find on Steam for $25-$30 during a weekend sale a few months down the road. Developers, espicially the indies, commonly drop their prices way below B&M in order to drive up interest in a game. I think my steam account is "worth" just under a grand, but I'm willing to bet I've spent around $100 on it over the past 4-5 years. Their weekend and holiday sales give me such a backlog of games, I never catch up before the next sale begins.
Only place that compares in quality to the prices I'm willing to pay is Target's clearance racks.
OMG, a new game falls in price when it's no longer new. What a concept
You would think, but B&M stores are horrible at this. Especially with games that come out on multiple platforms. They won't stock a computer game thats selling for $15-$20 if the 360/PS3 version is still at $60.OMG, a new game falls in price when it's no longer new. What a concept
Best PC folks get is the hope that the game goes platinum or best seller on a console so the price can drop for the other platforms.
Take Just Cause 2 for example. Walmart is selling it for $40 - $50 based on platform, but Steam had it on sale a few weeks ago for under $25.
B&M stores have to show all their products have value. Braid, World of Goo, Trine, Torchlight, they all commonly get listed for $20 at places like Target and Walmart. Because their $10 games are all complete shit, or AoM old. Yet you can find all those games on digital distribution sites for $5 and $10.
Its why consoles like the Wii cost $250 at launch. Nintendo wanted a sub $200 price point, but the stores pushed back because it would undermine the other products, so Nintendo caved on the price, but threw in a "free" game collection.
Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 09-09-2010 at 02:16 PM.
No idea what B&M stands for, but any real shop here does exactly what you're saying - except consistently cheaper than Steam.
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