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April 28th 2008, 21:19 CEST by Fugazi(werking) So EA is releasing a creature editor for Spore well before the release of the game itself and this editor will have 25% of the functionality of the full game. Or you can pay $10 and get all of the creature tools early. So what do we think-great revenue model or just evil EA gouging customers? Full press release from EA is included below. Redwood City, CA - April 25, 2008 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Maxis today announced that a free downloadable demo, and complete retail version of the Spore™ Creature Creator will be available starting June 17, 2008. The Spore Creature Creator gives Spore fans, and those who are creatively curious, the first hands-on opportunity to design their own species and share it with their friends. All creatures designed with the Spore Creature Creator can be imported into the full retail version of Spore for PC and Mac when it launches on September 5, 2008 in Europe and September 7, 2008 in North America. “We are thrilled to finally be putting the creative tools of Spore into the hands of players around the world,” said Will Wright, chief designer, Maxis. “The amazing creations players design this summer will help populate the game universe we all enter when Spore ships this September, so in a sense, the Spore Creature Creator is the birth of Spore.” The free demo version of the Spore Creature Creator will be available worldwide via download from www.spore.com. The demo lets players shape, paint and play with an unlimited number of creatures, using 25 percent of the creature-making parts from Spore. Gamers can then share these creations with their friends, including seamless uploads to YouTube. The demo will also be included in the The SimCity™ Box, which ships on June 23. A complete retail version of the Spore Creature Creator will also be available in North America for $9.99 and most European territories for €9.99, which gives players access to all the creature-making parts in the game. Spore, the highly anticipated game from the creators of The Sims™, gives players their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe created by other gamers. Spore gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even UFOs. Players can then seamlessly share their creations with the world or explore infinite new galaxies created by other gamers. Consumers can visit www.spore.com to sign up for the Spore newsletter or check out all-new screenshots and video of the game. Members of the media can visit EA’s press site at www.info.ea.com for information about all of EA’s games. Spore Creature Creator retail version is not available in all territories. My first topic submission bitches! I am no longer part of the problem! |
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And now it's 1.5 quarts. Fuck Edy's, fuck Dreyer's. Fuck them in the ass. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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It's a hard life. MP3 Of The Week: It's every damn week with you people!
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Indeed. I have to eat 15% more mini-Snickers per hour just to stay as fat as I am normally am. |
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I have no concept of what anything in a grocery store costs. My wife says its because I've never been poor. |
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Me too. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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"Me neither" would've been more correct I suppose. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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More correcter. MP3 Of The Week: It's every damn week with you people!
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McBain (#1004): I have no concept of what anything in a grocery store costs. My wife says its because I've never been poor. You don't shop for yourself? Even when I'm rolling in the money, I still pay attention, try to stay to a budget, etc. "the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum
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Matt- I do shop for myself, but I just buy the stuff I like and pay almost no attention to what anything costs. I know that I like the taste of this brand over that brand, etc... How much does the loaf of bread or the block of cheese I like cost? I have no idea. |
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I can identify with that. I make enough that I can just write up a grocery list, buy what I need, and not concern myself with how expensive it is. It's the one area where I'm not frugal or budget-mongering at all. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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I'd rather have a price increase instead of getting less for the same cost. That shit I notice, and it pisses me off. For the most part I pay attention to what prices are, but there's not a lot I say, "oh that cost too much." <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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I'd rather have a price increase instead of getting less for the same cost. That shit I notice, You're alone on that. I guarantee that about 99% of consumers have no idea this is happening unless someone points it out. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Jibble (#1012): You're alone on that. I guarantee that about 99% of consumers have no idea this is happening unless someone points it out. Yeah, people don't pay attention to what they eat. America proves that. "the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum
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"Marge, we need more vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream." <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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Breyers, my favorite ice cream, has done the shrink thing twice in the past couple of years. I picked up a carton yesterday and it just looked so small. It was on sale though so I still bought it. |
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I keep reading these articles about how we are all trying to find ways to cut costs in these difficult times. Fucking poor people. Where's the media for the well-off middle class? "The best experiences are generative experiences. The best stories are player stories." - Will Wright
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I belive that's called Fox News bob, only 'well-off middle class' means middle class people that need to worry about the alternative minimum tax. Don't forget garnishes such as: Fish shaped solid waste.
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Also I want a weather report that doesn't say life as we know it sucks because it's 50 degrees and raining, but we will be delivered into perfect bliss over the weekend with our sunny cloudless eighty degree weather. Wankers. "The best experiences are generative experiences. The best stories are player stories." - Will Wright
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In Massachusetts, everything in the grocery store has to have a unit price next to the price of the specific item, specifically so that cost/amount is easy to compare. |
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And I'll repeat it again for the sake of posterity: YOU HAVE MOVED TO THE WRONG CITY. Invention is the Green Goblin of Necessary Lemonade.
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Screw you, McBain. Invention is the Green Goblin of Necessary Lemonade.
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I didn't make any value judgements about the weather. In fact that was my whole point, that weather reports shouldn't make value judgments. Report the weather, don't tell me how to feel about it. "The best experiences are generative experiences. The best stories are player stories." - Will Wright
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I love how even the weather report is oppressive to Bob. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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#1020 by McBain In Massachusetts, everything in the grocery store has to have a unit price next to the price of the specific item, specifically so that cost/amount is easy to compare. With sizes srinking you might not want to rely to heavly on that. It's not uncommon for the tags to not be updated with packageing changes as long as the total price stays the same, and even that ocassionally won't get someone off their asses to print a new label. Don't forget garnishes such as: Fish shaped solid waste.
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The report was completely objective. I don't see your point. Unless you're saying that there are people that actually like 50 degree wet weather; because then I know you're trolling. Invention is the Green Goblin of Necessary Lemonade.
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Ergo (#1026): The report was completely objective. I don't see your point. Unless you're saying that there are people that actually like 50 degree wet weather; because then I know you're trolling. umm...I do. "the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum
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Madness! |
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Matt finds the silver lining, how can that surprise anyone? It's a good quality too. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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I would like some of that, but only because I'm a country boy and we're in the middle of a decade-long drought. |
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I didn't make any value judgements about the weather. In fact that was my whole point, that weather reports shouldn't make value judgments. Report the weather, don't tell me how to feel about it. When I was in school we were taught to never make value judgements about the weather, because a long hot summer may make the city dwellers happy but the farmers are praying for rain. Apparently they don't teach that anymore, because every weather report I see now makes value judgements--good weather, bad weather, nice weekend.... I'm with Bob, I hate what the weather bimbos call "good" and would much rather have 15C and cloudy. Witnesses in the house heard Jones say "why did you pee on me Pooh Bear?" A few moments later, the witness heard the son say "Mama you done stabbed me."
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Are weather reports all sponsored and shit in your respective countries? Around here it's like "news news blah blah and now over to Patricia Takanaka with the weather", and graphics starts swirling around and some company logo fades in with text about Weather proudly brought to you by: K-Fed, the saltshake and whatnot. And then the weather logo intro starts up and swirls about for half an hour until finally some person starts. Explaining. The fucking. Weather!! Jesus Christ it's like a whole show, and they pad it out with interesting little observations and themes and they have fun and good lord at this point I've changed channel a long long time ago*. In comparison I have a button in my browser that I can click on, and instantly I know the weather-forecast for the next five days. Takes 5 seconds and is more informative. * actually I got so tired of all the bullshit with commercials and stuff that I don't even have TV, but before I just dropped the concept entirely I used to move on to other things "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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You gave up TV completely? I only watch about 5 hours a week these days, tops, but I'm not quite at the abandonment stage yet. The protruding upper halves of the letters now appear, in the local language, to read “Go stick your head in a pig”, and are no longer illuminated, except at times of special celebration.
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Why not just go to weather.com to get the weather? Do you need to have it read aloud to you? Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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I don't have cable either. I find that the time I would have wasted in front of the TV is wasted in front of the PC instead. Jibble, I do. But there's no way to exclude the weather stories from my otherwise acceptable RSS news feeds. "The best experiences are generative experiences. The best stories are player stories." - Will Wright
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I haven't watched TV for years now. Any game where competence can be measured by the amount of clicks per minute is not a strategy game.
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Like Bob I waste all the time anyway, playing games and watching series I download and checking news and PC and whatnot. There's certainly nothing saintly about my lack of TV watching, it's not as big a deal as it may sound like because I spend as much time as anyone following various series. My PVR just sort of records everything and is stored off-site, so to speak… I love having to actively get what I want to watch rather than just vegging out in the couch zapping my way through an evening. My personality is absolute shit for that, I guess it's like someone who easily becomes an alcoholic, I tend to easily become a zapoholic. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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Uverse has opened my eyes to the wonder of PVR. Fuck commercials forever in their ass. Without lube. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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#1030 by m0nty I would like some of that, but only because I'm a country boy and we're in the middle of a decade-long drought. At this point should the lack of rainfall be status quo and not considered a drought anymore? <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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I can see how Ergo might not like it (what with his arthritis acting up and all), but 10°C and a light drizzle sounds just fine with me. Dust. Anybody? No? High in fat, low in fat? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust. It's actually very low in fat. You can have as much dust as you like.
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25°C (holy shit how do you do that ° thing anawkwr?) and a cloudless sun out tomorrow, that makes me darn I'm happy! It'll rain in a few days so I take the sunshine when it presents itself. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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Alt-5, but I'm not sure it would work on your codepage. Dust. Anybody? No? High in fat, low in fat? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust. It's actually very low in fat. You can have as much dust as you like.
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Wall-E was awesome. REALLY awesome. Probably my new favorite Pixar film, though I think Nemo had a better story. They just did everything so well, and Wall-E is so lovable it borders on ridiculous. The scene with the fire extinguisher was just beautiful and so much fun. And I'm shocked at how much the animators and sound FX folks were able to make robots emote (like they did for fish under the same director for Finding Nemo). I really only have 3 nitpicks: Oh, SPOILERS! 1. The mixing of live action with animation bugged me, especially the Fred Willard character. Maybe it wouldn't have been as bad if it weren't Fred Willard, but he's such a recognizable actor it exacerbated the incongruence. I'm guessing that they really wanted to use the Hello Dolly footage, and figured they should have all on screen humans be live action. I think they were wrong. 2. I'm not sure why EVE had such a trigger finger. She's a survey robot, not a combat one. I'm guessing it's because they needed her to have a gun for plot reasons. Seems like an example of the tail wagging the dog. 3. This one is really minor, but I can't help wonder why EVE didn't scan the cockroach and go bananas over finding life there instead of with the plant. I'm guessing that a cockroach isn't as good a symbol of hope and life as a budding plant, but again: tail wagging the dog. Otherwise, it's a near perfect movie. Go see it. blog | photoblog | PlanetCrap Flickr group
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1. I love Fred Willard, so I didn't have an issue with it. Besides, they showed how people "devolved" over 700 years, so it wasn't that jarring. 2. Nothing to say. 3. She specifically was looking for plant life. The directive said nothing about other forms. |
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#1043 by Jamie 2. I'm not sure why EVE had such a trigger finger. She's a survey robot, not a combat one. I'm guessing it's because they needed her to have a gun for plot reasons. Seems like an example of the tail wagging the dog. I assume sometimes you have to do surveys in bad neighborhoods. Galactically speaking. Personally I really loved the bit with the wrecked ships, where she just blasts the crap out of them out of frustration. 3. This one is really minor, but I can't help wonder why EVE didn't scan the cockroach and go bananas over finding life there instead of with the plant. I'm guessing that a cockroach isn't as good a symbol of hope and life as a budding plant, but again: tail wagging the dog. Because they were smart enough to know the vast difference between conditions that could sustain humans and agriculture, vs the conditions that could sustain a cockroach. :p "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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I can't read anything in here on account of spoilers. So I went to look when I can actually get to watch the damn movie, and… hm, not on the front page. Lessee.. search.. yes an article there. Okay. Augu.. what the fuck! August 29th?! What the friggin' crap is going on here! "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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Oh, damn, no I know what's going on, I bet it's because it has to be dubbed first (big children movies get that treatment, oh joy). So the movie won't come out until it's been made worse by Danish voices, at which point I can pay to see the original version that they could be showing right now. Alright then. Where's the .torrent? "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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don't torrent it. Jeez, why would you watch a telesync? 1) I don't get this bitch at all, I've heard it before. I thought it was just fine. I also heard people saying that things suck when the humans show up, I don't agree with that either. 2) Who knows what mutants roam a distant earth? I'd be trigger happy too. 3) What hugin said. It even states in the movie they were looking specifically for examples that photosynthesis was working again. As far as I know, cockroaches don't do this. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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Yeah, Hugin I'll buy your explanation for the cockroach (heck, "vegetation" is right there in her name after all), but arming her with such a powerful weapon still seems odd. I got the impression that they only surveyed Earth, not any other planets. "Project Recolonization," after all. Though I guess it wouldn't take much imagination to make the leap that they would be looking for ANY planet that works. But I'd hate to be an indigenous species on the planet where an EVE does show up, though. One little twitch and she just starts blasting. blog | photoblog | PlanetCrap Flickr group
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CheesyPoof (#1039): #1030 by m0nty I would like some of that, but only because I'm a country boy and we're in the middle of a decade-long drought. At this point should the lack of rainfall be status quo and not considered a drought anymore? Not necessarily. There have been longer droughts happen before and the rainfall came back. However, it certainly doesn't look good that there is still a large amount of rain being generated from weather over the Antarctic ice cap, from the looks of it, but an increasing majority of it falls on the Southern Ocean and never reaches land. I suspect using PNOOMA methodology that the smaller the Antarctican ice cap gets, the less rain that southern Australia will get. |
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