This is the sort of thing I was talking about:

http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Microsoft_Reaches_Deal_w...nal_Shows_15785.html

And it's bullshit that they are doing it because of trouble. Microsoft's entire goal since the inception of the XBOX has been to get a pervasive entertainment system into our living rooms. Gaming was always just the Trojan horse.

Simple fact is Mainstream media will always use dirty tactics, its about Marketing, its about Demographics and it'll always be about PROFIT. Welcome to hyper-capitalism. Xbox Live is the new MTV.

Hollywood is no different to microsoft.

Creative Industries all died a long time ago.

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Originally posted by Mr_Cyberpunk:
I'm going to agree with Uber. All this speculation is really pointless. I honestly need to get some work done so that we can start bitching about my work instead.

First, though, let's bitch at you for being so unproductive.

my unproductiveness is due to the fact that I'm waiting on the tools needed to produce something you guys would be interested. Doesn't mean I'm not working on it though, I was story boarding not long ago.

I've been planning things for the most part and yeah i'm aware my annual April Fools joke was non-existent this year, I think its not worth doing because I've been having too many issues with my website atm. I'll be resolving that soon hopefully.

First off the ball however is to design the cast of characters, once they are established its onto sprite and then onto making the levels (aka the backgrounds). Cutscenes will come after that and then the sound, VAs ect ect, lastly the programming though I'll have something done as the project is progressing. The prolouge I've been working on is the main priority - then Chiba city, once those are finished Milestone 1 gets a big tick and its onto the juicy bits of the Shopping Expedition chapter where we get a full dosage of Cyberspace.

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Originally posted by Mr_Cyberpunk:
Simple fact is Mainstream media will always use dirty tactics, its about Marketing, its about Demographics and it'll always be about PROFIT. Welcome to hyper-capitalism. Xbox Live is the new MTV.

Hollywood is no different to microsoft.

Creative Industries all died a long time ago.

It's way different, Microsoft operates on far more sound busniess plans than Hollywood. Hell, they have business plans. Hollywood just jumps into bed with the latest it boy or girl and hopes divination and marketing takes care of the details.

Bill gates is a mastermind, he;s not the richest man in the world for nothing.

About all they have in common is a kind of monopoly on an industry. But Microsoft continues to try and grow while Hollywood continues to harvest its withered bones for the last lick of fresh marrow.

I don't agree Uber and I'm not going to debate that since I'm entirely against anything microsoft does.

EA would have been a better metaphor, since they are the ones buying up all the IP and producing shit to make a quick buck.

Gonga ask: what EA? Him no gno.

EA = Electronic Arts (I think). If I recall correctly, they are best known for producing new, basically identical football video games every year (?), and buying small game studios and pushing out crappy versions/sequels of what may once have been a good idea.

But I don't follow the gaming industry, so I'm not sure.

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Originally posted by Mr_Cyberpunk:
I don't agree Uber and I'm not going to debate that since I'm entirely against anything microsoft does.

That's kind of monolithic, isn't it?

I'm no fan of theirs, but no one is evil all the time.

Microsoft's model is the penultimate Hollywood model.. Bill lifted Walt Disney's "business plan", ie: Jacking an army of temp workers over intellectual property rights, before he even thought to jack his software model from the Xerox 5100.


pure, concentrated evIl.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
Microsoft's model is the penultimate Hollywood model.. Bill lifted Walt Disney's "business plan", ie: Jacking an army of temp workers over intellectual property rights, before he even thought to jack his software model from the Xerox 5100.


pure, concentrated evIl.

Booger with the informed win thats exactly my point.

Colin was totally correct about EA, only that they are trying to establish a monopoly over the industry using what they call the "city state" business plan or as the rest of the industry calls it "ALL YOUR BASE BELONGING TO US!" plan (basically a monopoly).

Bill is my neighbor...

I meant the first sentence :P

This version should be titled Nooooo!!!romancer

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
Microsoft's model is the penultimate Hollywood model.. Bill lifted Walt Disney's "business plan", ie: Jacking an army of temp workers over intellectual property rights, before he even thought to jack his software model from the Xerox 5100.


pure, concentrated evIl.

Both being shady doesn't mean they operate under the same model of shady.

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they are best known for producing new, basically identical football video games every year

Planned obsolescence gives way to bland acquiescence.

Hollywood is able, at the end of most Decembers, to proclaim the previous year its most successful ever. While true, at least on the surface, it masks a long-term problem: People just aren’t going to movies much anymore.

http://markets-hub.com/2008/04/02/are-curtains-be-comin...n-on-movie-theaters/

that bit at the end with Rachel Bilson is interesting since I have no doubts Kahn would see her as Linda Lee. I wouldn't though :P

This Neuromancer still feels like its an MTV movie. *sigh*

Also the article is incorrect in suggesting that Gibson has any control over the casting.

good work kapuchinski - thank you for the laugh
maybe it IS a chick thing, but i think he can pull it off as Case
although i agree that Jumper could have been better