Reminds me a lot of the sniper sequence in The Hurt Locker, and how silly computer games and roleplaying games are. They sit there for what seems to be hours, watching and waiting, because they have no clue 1) how many sniper teams are out there and 2) if they managed to hurt those they've spotted enough to end their threat. As this video shows, there's no *plink* of experience points once a kill has been established. I found it really hard to go back to playing Fallout 3 and other games after watching the film.

I thought that said Marble Madness. Gah, I played too many video/computer games.

At least for educational purposes I think it's better to play a computer game like The Incredible Machine / Bridgebuilder / Fantastic Contraption for more rapid prototyping and experimentation. Doing it in RL slows it down by a factor of 1000.

I FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT COMPUTER GAMES AND I VOTE!!!

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Advertising for computer game Dead to Rights Retribution.

The sky started falling back when vocal artists complained that the first phonograph records (which would allow reproduction of their voices) would make concerts a thing of the past. So yeah, are concerts extinct now?

I agree, a person should benefit from their work. I think a person can benefit from their work quite adequately even with copying/piracy. One of the more notable was Trent Reznor/NIN with their Ghosts albums, but plenty of bands have used the net, viral advertising or releasing their content for free to interest people to attend concerts and buy merchandise, to great advantage.

I also tend to think that middlemen have been involved far too long and are far more concerned with preserving their money making ability rather than exploring new models which might cut their profits even if allows the muscisian or artist to reach a wider audience. If muscians and artists can connect to their audience directly by doing the extra work themselves, they can cut out the recording industry entirely and take those profits they would have otherwise paid their agents for their own.

Piracy is here and it's here to stay. Copying has not killed the movie, music, cartoon, PC or console computer game industries and it's not likely to anytime soon. Adapt or die.

>> ^westy:

i guess most people that dedocate themselfs to a single sport or often very dull , especaily to want to dedocate so much time and effort to a single and very limited activity.
Its the equivelent of only ever playing 1 computer game for 5 hours every day 5 days a week. ( granted if u enjoy it and its not of harm to other people it dosent realy matter , but at the same time you would hope people would have slighty more diverse intrests)


Porn stars dedocate themselfs to the same activity for hours a day. Are they very dull?

It's his gimmick, don't fall for the trap. I think he actually spends more time making posts purposely look that bad than if he just wrote them normally. >> ^Matthu:

>> ^westy:
Whats bizar is that considering these people do this sport pritty much every day of there lives from the age of 8 that you dont see this sort of thing more often , most tennis / sports people have a compleat lack of imaginatoin.
A good example would be in football , its bizar that you dont have more players like Zeedan who not only play well but make up intresting moves , or drivers like schumacher that create new moves and exploit every possable opertunity.
i guess most people that dedocate themselfs to a single sport or often very dull , especaily to want to dedocate so much time and effort to a single and very limited activity.
Its the equivelent of only ever playing 1 computer game for 5 hours every day 5 days a week. ( granted if u enjoy it and its not of harm to other people it dosent realy matter , but at the same time you would hope people would have slighty more diverse intrests)

What's even more bizarre is that someone who posts as often as you do can't even get a grasp over the most simple literary concepts. Such as the comma. How can you not have noticed that there is no space immediately before the comma, only after. Also, does your browser not have an auto-correct feature? Reading your posts genuinely disgusts me. Seriously, put some effort in.
Furthermore, your point about athletes in professional sports being unimaginative, that's mostly due to them practicing the core skills necessary to compete. They don't practice hitting the ball between their legs because their time is better spent practicing more frequently needed skills.

>> ^westy:

Whats bizar is that considering these people do this sport pritty much every day of there lives from the age of 8 that you dont see this sort of thing more often , most tennis / sports people have a compleat lack of imaginatoin.
A good example would be in football , its bizar that you dont have more players like Zeedan who not only play well but make up intresting moves , or drivers like schumacher that create new moves and exploit every possable opertunity.
i guess most people that dedocate themselfs to a single sport or often very dull , especaily to want to dedocate so much time and effort to a single and very limited activity.
Its the equivelent of only ever playing 1 computer game for 5 hours every day 5 days a week. ( granted if u enjoy it and its not of harm to other people it dosent realy matter , but at the same time you would hope people would have slighty more diverse intrests)


What's even more bizarre is that someone who posts as often as you do can't even get a grasp over the most simple literary concepts. Such as the comma. How can you not have noticed that there is no space immediately before the comma, only after. Also, does your browser not have an auto-correct feature? Reading your posts genuinely disgusts me. Seriously, put some effort in.

Furthermore, your point about athletes in professional sports being unimaginative, that's mostly due to them practicing the core skills necessary to compete. They don't practice hitting the ball between their legs because their time is better spent practicing more frequently needed skills.

Whats bizar is that considering these people do this sport pritty much every day of there lives from the age of 8 that you dont see this sort of thing more often , most tennis / sports people have a compleat lack of imaginatoin.

A good example would be in football , its bizar that you dont have more players like Zeedan who not only play well but make up intresting moves , or drivers like schumacher that create new moves and exploit every possable opertunity.

i guess most people that dedocate themselfs to a single sport or often very dull , especaily to want to dedocate so much time and effort to a single and very limited activity.

Its the equivelent of only ever playing 1 computer game for 5 hours every day 5 days a week. ( granted if u enjoy it and its not of harm to other people it dosent realy matter , but at the same time you would hope people would have slighty more diverse intrests)

>> ^Lurch:

This documentary is already here in one big sift posted by Ant:
http://videosift.com/video/Gameheadz-A-Video-Game-History-TV-Documenta
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It looks like it's gone dead though. I'm getting a message that says to "try again later."
EDIT
Wow... never seen something like this before. I followed gwiz's idea from this Sift Talk post about Google Video embeds:
http://geek.videosift.com/talk/Is-Google-Video-finally-dead
It is the exact same documentary with the exact same script, but it's being narrated by a different person. The content is still identical though. Worthy of a discuss maybe?


Thanks. I fixed the embedding problem for mine.

Weird, both videos started out differently. Do we dupe this or not? I don't care. Maybe keep both. Discovery is USA and the other one is British?

I have managed to post the first 3 parts so far, and I will post the 4th and 5th as soon as my queue open up

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This is just about the finest television documentary concerning the early history of computer games. I've probably watched it a half-dozen times. Strange you'd post part 2 but whatevs!

This is just about the finest television documentary concerning the early history of computer games. I've probably watched it a half-dozen times. Strange you'd post part 2 but whatevs!

Very interesting. You'd think the presentation style would further desensitize the viewer to the scope and magnitude of even a single nuclear detonation, but instead it just creeps the hell out of you. Reminds me of the computer game Defcon 5, if anyone's played it. It gets markedly more disturbing about 4 minutes in.

Send me $6.79 and I'll pretend to sell you a computer game too.