Does Halo Look Great?

[Mr. Smash'n Bash]

Yeah, I mean Max is awesome and all, but...

Buy The Killer Blas, its ****ing awesome.

 

[Phaser]

1. What would depend on the context of the conversation? The use of the words "as bad as" in association with something? this is as bad as this is the only logical way the sentence can be formulated.

What are you, dense? No, that's not the only logical way a sentence can be formulated.

See this conversation as an example:

"That film was absolute garbage. Just terrible."

"What are you talking about? It's not as bad as you are criticizing it to be"

It makes perfect grammatical sense. And just so you know, "criticizing" is a synonym for "decrying" as you can very well see in the definition of the word here:

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?search=decry

de·cry (past and past participle de·cried, present participle de·cry·ing, 3rd person present singular de·cries)

transitive verb
Definition: criticize somebody or something: to express strong disapproval of or openly criticize somebody or something

critics decrying lowered standards in education

[Early 17th century. After French décrier "cry down"]

de·cri·al noun

de·cri·er noun

But then again, I checked the post in which I first used the phrase and turns out I never even wrote "as bad as" in the first place. Way to misquote me and drag this needlessly idiotic debate even further, jackass. Next time, I'll keep in mind not to trust you to be concise and honest.

My argument, so to speak, was that you could have formulated your sentence better instead as in "as bad as you ignorantly claiming.." because you already made it abundantly clear that I was condemning something when you mentioned "bad." Sure, the exact degree isn't explicated there, but neither is it explicated with "decry" either. In other words, your entire sentence never contended the "extent" of anything. Edit: I meant that your use of "decry" never clarified the extent of anything. And lol I said that obviously it wasn't a double f***ing negative. My point is that it falls into the same fallacy. You use two words to imply what one word could have already.

Of course I clarified it. I responded by highlighting the fact that they are salvaging some benefit out of it and their financial and strategic reasoning for the decision is good. Let me quote that entire part again -

You said:

My point wasn't that the justification behind the billion dollar fund was bad, it was...well..the simple fact that they spent a billion dollars period. It's not good no matter how you slice it.

Your criticism stated MS simply throwing a billion dollars away when you said "it's not good not matter how you slice it" meaning there is nothing good about. I contended the extent of your negativity when I listed the benefits MS could salvage from this debacle in my direct response to your quote:

The billion dollar warranty program not only is a patch for the botched production job they did on the 360, but it also a corrective investment that will build market goodwill for the company and like I said, a measure that drives share prices up. Such a strong response from Microsoft over the faulty 360s show that the company is not slacking around and that instills confidence in investors. So essentially, the situation is not all bad as you seem to so ignorantly decrying it to be.

Make sense now, skippy?

2. It's 54% of the 60 something percent of all online users. I was wrong about it being closer to 20%, but I could have sworn it was around those numbers a minute ago lol. Anyways, my bad.

Yes, you seem to be f***ing up a lot lately, haven't you, junior?

Avid PC gamers make up about 41% of that install base, so they don't count. And then you have the casual gamers who play poker and ish. So, about 54% play on Live, give or take. That's great.

Where the hell are you pulling those numbers from, you rear end? MS clearly the number of Xbox Live subscribers had reached 7 million in July 2007. And no, that does not count PC gamers, because PC subscribers are listed under a different service on the same network which is called "Games for Windows - Live" that was launched on May 8 2007 whereas Microsoft had already announced that Xbox Live had reached the 6 million users milestone two months earlier on March 6 2007.

As for the number of actual gamers, Bungie announced on the 9th of May that "Halo 2 hits 5 million players!" and had also clarified that "This number refers to the number of unique Live accounts that have played Halo 2 online, not including guests". Oh and just in case you use the ******ed "that includes PC gamers too!" copout, the PC version of Halo 2 hit stores on May 31. You've embarrassed yourself yet again, skippy.

But do you think that will be significant enough for gamers. Especially considering as how the episodic content might very well be like 2 more missions?

For God's sake man, WHY THE F**K DON'T YOU EVER CHECK YOUR FACTS BEFORE POSTING INANE DRIVEL?!

X06: Duo of XBL GTA4 packs confirmed for 360

Rockstar's next-gen crime spree will get two Xbox Live packs, each coming within months of release; games will reportedly be as long as Liberty City Stories spin-off.

By Tim Surette, GameSpot Posted Sep 27, 2006 11:11 am PT

When Grand Theft Auto IV was announced for the Xbox 360 at E3 2006, gamers weren't too surprised. What was surprising, however, was the fact that the game was going to get some downloadable content for the game and that Sony's timed-exclusives on the game were history.

At Microsoft's X06 event currently taking place in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft's corporate vice president of marketing Peter Moore gave gamers the latest on what's in store for the game on Xbox Live Marketplace. He announced that Rockstar Games is working on two downloadable packs for the game--to be made available within months of the game's release.

"We're not talking about an extra car or character here," Moore said when describing the "epic" episodic packs. He then joked about Rockstar keeping even him in the dark about the content packs, but emphasized that the packs would be lengthy.
A press release issued during the conference said only that the packs would add "hours of entirely new gameplay" to GTA4. No additional details on the downloadable packs were released, but industry sources have said they will be along the lines of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories in terms of length.

And here's another:

http://www.xbox.com/en-gb/community/news/x06/gta4

"GTA IV will take the form of two distinct episodes, both downloadable from Xbox Live and each a minimum of 10 hours long."

"Each a minumum of 10 hours long" - that's longer than the entire single player campaigns of some games like Lost Planet, Ghost Recon 2 or even Gears of War. And considering the sandbox nature of GTA, the downloadable content could easily be a LOT more longer than that.

Moreover, due to price, the PS3/XBOX 360 communities don't really overlap as much as they once did. So, if you have a 360, you'll get it regardless and the same with PS3. My point is...the DLC isn't really relevant for..well...anyone, so it seemed as though Microsoft was "reaching" when they thought that that would attract new consumers to not only the game, but to their system itself. GTAIV is a system seller, but if you like Xbox, you'll get the one on Xbox and if you like PS3, you'll get that one regardless of two measly episodic missions.

I don't know what it is that you're smoking but clearly judging from the content available for both systems, the 360 is clearly the definitive version. Anyone who has both consoles will obviously get the 360 version. And those who have neither console but are waiting to buy one to play GTAIV will get the 360 version. It's that simple.

Woah, I though a minute ago we tacitly agreed that insults were bad.

But they are also warranted because of your incessant ignorance, misquoting and complete failure to check your facts before making idiotic claims. Not to mention your willingness to keep your head buried in the sand still claiming "MS is desperate, how can they make that 50 million back?" even though your own link clearly stated how they are going to accomplish that plus profit.

Oh and those phoney "percentages" of Xbox Live you posted? There is nothing more disgraceful than such despicable dishonesty in a discussion.

Anyways, with Crysis, the video card alone might cost $600 and up. Since I'm not sure if Alan Wake is requiring something over a Nvidia 7800GTX/ATI X1800XT (SM 3.0) or DX10 equivalent, I can't comment on that. But in terms of CPU costs, what I'm saying is you can combat that with selling your s**t. like, a 2.7 GHZ process costs about $540 retail, which is around what you need for Crysis. An AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPu is $320 dollars retail. That's more than enough for Crysis. Core 2 Quad Q6600, which is a top of the line, is around $851. But that's top of the line. And, like I said, you only need a tri or maybe even a dual. With all the s**t that you can sell...the costs aren't so bad. But no..I'm probably not going to get Alan Wake because I'm still waiting for Max Payne 3. I loved those games.

First of all, where Crysis lists a dual core processor in the recommended system requirements, the comments by Remedy about how Alan Wake will not run on any single core processor clearly establishes that Alan Wake will require a dual core as a minimum requirement, meaning that Alan Wake's recommended CPU requirements will be obviously higher than that of Crysis. This is also reinforced by the fact the Crysis is hitting stores a lot sooner than Alan Wake (Sep, 2007) whereas Alan Wake has yet to have a proper release date beyond "sometime in 2008". Judging by how late Alan Wake will be coming out, it will not only eat more processing power, but is also very much likely to demand beefier graphics card and perhaps greater RAM as well.

So in a nutshell, the upgrades for Alan Wake is at least going to cost you as much as Crysis would and could also easily end up being more.

 

[Phaser]

Buy The Killer Blas, its ****ing awesome.

It's also more than 150 bucks for definitive Criterion Collection edition.

 

[블라스]

Buy The Killer Blas, its ****ing awesome.

My dear Kit, I've had The Killer on DVD for YEARS. I'm just waiting for a Dragon Dynasty DVD release like the one for Hardboiled

 

[블라스]

It's also more than 150 bucks for definitive Criterion Collection edition.

Hardboiled Dragon Dynasty 2-disc DVD will be out next week with the following features...

Extras:
- Audio commentary by Hong Kong cinema expert Bey Logan.
- A Baptism of Fire featurette
- John Woo: Partner in Crime featurette
- Terence Chang: Art Imitates Life featurette
- Mad Dog Bites Again featurette
- Location guide
- Hong Kong theatrical trailer
- U.S. promotional trailer

I'm sure they're plannong a similar release for The Killer for next year

 

[Phaser]

Hardboiled Dragon Dynasty 2-disc DVD will be out next week with the following features...

Extras:
- Audio commentary by Hong Kong cinema expert Bey Logan.
- A Baptism of Fire featurette
- John Woo: Partner in Crime featurette
- Terence Chang: Art Imitates Life featurette
- Mad Dog Bites Again featurette
- Location guide
- Hong Kong theatrical trailer
- U.S. promotional trailer

I'm sure they're plannong a similar release for The Killer for next year

Excellent.

 

[Electro UK]

I love it when Phaser says skippy up:

 

[WhatsHisFace]

It's more insulting than saying "you mother ****er!"

 

[Electro UK]

More plesant on the ears too

 

[Mr. Smash'n Bash]

My dear Kit, I've had The Killer on DVD for YEARS. I'm just waiting for a Dragon Dynasty DVD release like the one for Hardboiled

Well get Hot Fuzz then on the 31st.

 

[Mr. Smash'n Bash]

It's also more than 150 bucks for definitive Criterion Collection edition.

You pay for what you get!

 

[블라스]

Well get Hot Fuzz then on the 31st.

The R1 Hot Fuzz? Hell no

R1 Extras:

Deleted Scenes With Filmmaker Commentary – For fans who just can’t get enough Hot Fuzz, more than 20 minutes of deleted scenes with exclusive filmmaker commentary!
Outtakes
The Fuzzball Rally: US Tour Piece – Follow Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright on their nationwide U.S. press tour.
The Man Who Would Be Fuzz – Simon Pegg and Nick Frost hit their marks as Sean Connery and Michael Caine playing out a scene from the movie.
Fuzz-O-Meter – Fuzz fanatics can access a special trivia track during the film for a running recount of little-known facts about the film and its stars.
Audio Commentary With Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
Hot Funk - Montage of clips using the “clean” dialogue from the TV and airline version of the film.
Danny’s Notebook: The Other Side
Storyboards
Theatrical Trailerr
Easter Egg Video Clip

R2 Extras:

DISC ONE
*The Film
Audio commentary by director/co-writer Edgar Wright and actor/co-writer Simon Pegg
Audio commentary with "The Sandford Police Department" (featuring actors Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Olivia Coleman, Kevin Eldon, Rafe Spall, and Jim Broadbent)
Audio commentary with "The Sanford Villagers" (featuring actors Edward Woodward, Timothy Dalton, Kenneth Cranham, and Paul Freeman)
Audio commentary with real police officers and advisors Nick and Andy
Extras:
"Fuzz-O-Meter" trivia track
"The Man Who Would Be Fuzz" -featurette
Outtakes
4 theatrical trailers
"Hot Funk" TV-version (no swearing)

DISC TWO
Deleted and extended scenes (with optional audio commentary by director/co-writer Edgar Wright)
"Making Of" -documentary (30 min)
13 "Video Blogs"-featurettes (originally shown on the web)
Featurettes:
-Art Department
-Friends & Family
-Cranks, Cranes & Controlled Chaos
-Here Comes the Fuzz
-Return to Sandford
-Edgar & Simon’s Flip Chart
-Simon Muggs
-Sergeant Fisher’s Perfect Sunday
Poster and photo galleries
"Plot Holes & Comparisons":
-Crush the Messenger
-The Notebook
-The Big Bang
-Special Effects: before and After
-First Ka-Boom
-The Aftermath
-Grisly Fete
-Shear Horror
-Farmageddon
-Flying Astra
-Inspired Demise
-Final Ka-Boom
"Dead Wright" -short film (with optional audio commentary by director Edgar Wright OR with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost - 40 min)
"Am-Blam: Making Dead Wright" -featurette


I'll just buy a multiregion player and get the R2 version, stupid american dvd makers

 

[XtromaniaK]

my ego is pretty big but i try not to use my ego to compensate for other things that i lack.


i've already said the reason i'm dropping this argument. regardless of what you chose to believe, i do have better stuff to do than to argue about a video game that's still more than a year away with someone who would probably claim to know the secrets of the universe if someone challenged him.

No, I just would probably claim I know more about this than you do. I haven't been shown any information from your side that puts anything I say into question. It's easily to baselessly claim extraordinary things about someone else when you find yourself on the losing end of an argument. Though, I'd like to ask you to try to refrain from that from now on. It'd be best for everyone.

I really don't have that big of an ego. I only act like that when I'm arguing something and I know for damn sure that I am right about it. Nothing personal against you. Glad to see the argument's over, though.

 

[Electro UK]

The R1 Hot Fuzz? Hell no

Just Simon Pegg and Nick Frost showing the love to "their people" t:

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Hot Fuzz and 300 release on the 31st. That'll be a great DVD night!

 

[Devil May Cry]

Oh God.

Persistent little f***er, aren't you?

Alright, kid, you win.

And since the whole "decry" thing was at the forefront of the argument, let me just say that I have never met anyone who has ever used it so to mean "criticize." The Old French term decrier meant to disparage, depreciate, derogate, belittle, minimize, or downgrade. By the way, encarta is the last place you ever want to look for definitions. I can't believe people still go there and s**t. Some of the texts are just plain innaccurate, and I really don't know anyone in academia who still consults it as a viable source of information. Check Webster, the FreeOnline Dictionary, or some sort of Thesaraus.

"What are you talking about? It's not as bad as you are criticizing it to be"

Did you not read my posts? That's what I suggested you say.

As to the whole I'm a fanboy...Microsoft is the s**t crap....lol whatever, man. This s**t has gone on for two days and I need to get back to my current metaphysical existence.

Edit: reread your post. "all" bad really still doesn't give you a case as to why the existence of bad already incorporates decry into its implication. "It's not all bad as you are claiming it to be" "it's not as bad as you are claiming it to be" Using "all bad" is actually worse than "as bad" because you don't even establish the comparative aspect of what you are saying. So, you're not measuring the "extent" of anything.

You see...there's still the corrolation between the implications of the word bad and claim, so the neutral word "claim" has to be remain neutral. But whatever.

Anyways, my numbers about PC gamers came here. And I was agreeing with you, so it seemed odd that you would contest me. I was looking at the scope of all gamers and wanted to see the percentages of people that not only went online, but went online where. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13820

The exact percentage of Xbox users I got from gamespot, which you can find your damn self.

Alright, peace.

 

[Phaser]

Oh God.

Persistent little f***er, aren't you?

Again, you are the one running with your tail between your legs acting like a spineless wrench after your incessant brainfarts had been consistently disproved. The fact that you have completely failed to respond in any way whatsoever to entire posts of mine (that does not include the many number of my arguments that you totally ignored) and in spite of all that, still persist in posting in this thread (Lord knows for whatever reason) blatantly highlights who is the "persistent little f***er" here. And just in case your comprehension powers fail you yet again, I'll give you a hint junior: it ain't me.

Alright, kid, you win.

Says the 20 year old jackass who at one point assumed I was twice his age. LOL, whatever you say, skippy.

And since the whole "decry" thing was at the forefront of the argument, let me just say that I have never met anyone who has ever used it so to mean "criticize." The Old French term decrier meant to disparage, depreciate, derogate, belittle, minimize, or downgrade. By the way, encarta is the last place you ever want to look for definitions. I can't believe people still go there and s**t. Some of the texts are just plain innaccurate, and I really don't know anyone in academia who still consults it as a viable source of information. Check Webster, the FreeOnline Dictionary, or some sort of Thesaraus.

OK, then,

Cambridge Dictionaries Online
decry Show phonetics
verb [T] FORMAL
to criticize something as bad, worthless or unnecessary; to condemn:
She decried the appalling state of the British film industry.

Oxford University Press English Dictionary
decry /d

kra

/ verb (de•cries, de•cry•ing, de•cried, de•cried) [vn] ~ sb/sth (as sth) (formal) to strongly criticize sb/sth, especially publicly

condemn: The measures were decried as useless. [also vn]

I suppose Cambridge and Oxford aren't trustworthy either, eh?

"What are you talking about? It's not as bad as you are criticizing it to be"

Did you not read my posts? That's what I suggested you say.

And I refused because my sentence made perfect sense. It was just that you were too dumb and too goddamn illiterate to understand.

As to the whole I'm a fanboy...Microsoft is the s**t crap....lol whatever, man. This s**t has gone on for two days and I need to get back to my current metaphysical existence.

Pity it took you this long to realize it.

Edit: reread your post. "all" bad really still doesn't give you a case as to why the existence of bad already incorporates decry into its implication. "It's not all bad as you are claiming it to be" "it's not as bad as you are claiming it to be" Using "all bad" is actually worse than "as bad" because you don't even establish the comparative aspect of what you are saying. So, you're not measuring the "extent" of anything.

I've already established the comparative aspect when I said it was in relation to your negativity on MS spending a billion dollars on the warranty program. For crying out loud this is probably the fourth or fifth time I am repeating this, but nooooooo...with your thickheaded mentality and outright refusal to accept that the word "decry" can also be used to mean "criticize" (hopefully Oxford, Cambridge and Encarta can collectively knock some sense into this time) or the fact that my sentence makes complete grammatical sense (I even dared you to check it with an editorial software and show me if any errors at all come up, but you limped away from that challenge as well). Instead, you, with your laughably poor understanding of the technicalities of the English language, come up with made-up, senseless explanations as to how you thought my sentence was inappropriate. It's downright pitiful, really.

You see...there's still the corrolation between the implications of the word bad and claim, so the neutral word "claim" has to be remain neutral. But whatever.

No, the word "claim" is more of a generally applicable word, whereas I used a more specific verb with the word "decry". And the implications of the word "bad" was that it was used as an adjective in relation to the verb in my sentence, so again, it makes perfect grammatical sense.

Anyways, my numbers about PC gamers came here. And I was agreeing with you, so it seemed odd that you would contest me. I was looking at the scope of all gamers and wanted to see the percentages of people that not only went online, but went online where. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13820

All it says is that Xbox Live has the highest number of online gamers at 54%, which is more or less affirming the 5 million gamers statistic on Halo 2. So why in heaven's name would bring it into discussion when it wasn't a point of argument to begin with? Just because you want to agree with me? That sounds awfully apologetic.

The exact percentage of Xbox users I got from gamespot, which you can find your damn self.

You made the asinine claim, so the burden of proof as well rests solely upon you.

 

[Phaser]

It's more insulting than saying "you mother ****er!"

That is why everyone gets so riled up whenever I use that word?

I'll make sure to use it more often in real-life too then.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

You're from the middle east, aren't you? I had this friend in college from Pakistan who had amazing insults. He said something like "My penis and your mothers vagina in the same place at the same time" and something that was like "Son of a thousand *****es" only it managed to include the insinuation that God looked down on you more than any other person on earth.

Then when he saw white kids dressing like thugs he would say "We are fifteen minutes from this Nation's Capital. This is not Eight-Mile. Like the Eminem movie... I should give that guy a call actually.

 

[Jerry!]

Max Payne 2 didn't sell as well as the first, but it sold respectably for a PC game. However, Remedy isn't the publisher of Max Payne (3D Realms owns the rights and Take 2 publishes) so Max Payne 3 falling flat would just make Remedy look bad, not bankrupt them.

...it was a joke.

 

[Phaser]

You're from the middle east, aren't you?

Actually I am an Indian. I only live here in Saudi Arabia.

 

[WeeZiTe]

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[WhatsHisFace]

Actually I am an Indian. I only live here in Saudi Arabia.

Probably shouldn't have told you he's from Pakistan then... I don't think you two would get along so well.

What's with the whole India vs. Pakistan thing anyway? I asked him, and he said "It's like how you guys don't like Canada". But he seemed to have an actual hatred of Indians, not just joking around.

 

[XtromaniaK]

Probably shouldn't have told you he's from Pakistan then... I don't think you two would get along so well.

What's with the whole India vs. Pakistan thing anyway? I asked him, and he said "It's like how you guys don't like Canada". But he seemed to have an actual hatred of Indians, not just joking around.

We hate Canadians? I didn't know that. We give them ****, but it's more a brotherly push and push back sort of thing than an actual all-out blood feud.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

We hate Canadians? I didn't know that. We give them ****, but it's more a brotherly push and push back sort of thing than an actual all-out blood feud.

I think you misread my post. Pay careful attention to my word-choice and look at the words "joking around" toward the end.