TheMightyEthan

Probably. I know I've talked about it with people in person before.

It's not pointless, they are two very different styles of game, a distinction needs to be made. But like I said the names are stupid. Anyway, "action RPG" it is for this one then. That answers my question.

But you said "having to enjoy" in reference to things that don't require effort to get into (CoD, etc). Anyway, I've tried plenty of different beers, and while they all taste different there's an underlying "beer" flavor that is there in all of them (often it's more of an aftertaste though), and that flavor is repulsive. Coffee is the same way (though it's obviously not the same as the beer flavor). I dunno, maybe I'm a supertaster. People will tell me "try this, you can't even taste the beer/coffee" but to me that flavor is overpowering.

Yeah, all of that is why I don't think it's a big deal like the article makes it out to be.

I want to clarify my position: I think it's bs to incorporate by reference standards that are not freely available. That said, I think the article makes it sound like it's a WAY bigger deal than it actually is. *Edit* - It also seems like it wouldn't be permissible because it's delegating too much legislative authority to a non-governmental body. Hell, the Kansas Supreme Court struck down a Kansas law that basically said "the Kansas minimum wage is whatever the federal minimum wage is" because it impermissibly delegated the KS legislature's authority to the federal government. It seems like if that won't fly then delegating the rules to a private organization would definitely be unacceptable.

Apply this same logic to movies, videogames, and books, and see what sort of low quality shit you end up having to enjoy. Nothing but Call of Duty, Twilight, and uh... Twilight. "Having to enjoy" implies it's a chore to enjoy it, which is kind of the opposite of enjoying it... Anyway, I don't think that's a good comparison regardless. Learning to like the flavor of beer isn't going to expand me as a person the same way that a challenging piece of media can.

Well they really are two entirely different genres. I agree they could do with better names though.

Well that's kind of exciting. So, I've got a question about this game: I've seen people refer to it as a JRPG, but from what I've seen of the game it seems more like a WRPG that happens to have been developed by a Japanese developer. What's the best way to describe it?

Well they're part of the laws in that the law says "materials used to make bicycle helmets must meet SAE standard blah blah blah" and then the SAE charges a fee for the book. AFAIK municipal building codes are freely available, though I've never actually tried to look.

Like I said on twitter, I think that's kind of making mountains out of mole hills. The regulations it's talking about are technical standards for products, not laws that govern the average citizen's actions.

The lead dev worked on Half-Life 2.

Yeah, I think average consumer's (read: not the kind of people who come to forums like this or read gaming blogs) reaction to EA turning off the servers to an older game that they still play would be going out to buy the sequel.

So I just watched a couple of interviews with the devs. They say calling it steam punk is not accurate, the terms they used were "retro-futuristic industrial" (which just sounds like steam punk to me) and "neo-victorian". Though looking at some of the concept art some of the stuff does look more like high-tech sci-fi than steam punk. Like these things:

How about we say "a minority of gamers".

I maintain that a bad implementation does not mean the core idea is inherently bad, it just means that bad implementation is bad.

My wife likes to play Firefight with me, so I tried to get her to try the Mass Effect multiplayer. She got to the level-up stage of character creation, said "this is too complicated" and quit.

People are always shocked that I don't like beer, and I say "It tastes bad." The respond "it's an acquired taste", to which I reply "Why would I drink something that tastes bad in order to make it eventually taste good, when I can just drink things that taste good to start with?"

I think Tali's emergency induction port was hilarious. Best line in the whole game.

Because alcohol is the best medicine.

If I had just seen those screens with no explanation I probably would have thought they were for Bioshock Infinite.

Lots of drinks have names. Long Island Iced Tea, Bloody Mary, Martini, etc etc...

How is that different from a screwdriver? Screwdriver = vodka + orange juice.

Because a normal person would say "my" and then the pun wouldn't work.

lol, yeah. Though I do agree with the theory behind judicial review: judiciary has to decide how the law applies to the facts, which necessarily means first determining what the law is, higher laws overriding lower laws, the constitution being the highest law of all. It's kind of implied in the whole concept of a judiciary. So just like how if a state law says a city can't do X, and a city does X anyway, and a judge can't enforce the city ordinance because they didn't have the power to make it, a judge also can't enforce a law that the constitution forbade them from making.