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Hmm, you may need to splash out a bit more cash for a wireless router. I'll give you a call

HQ:
Oh No, EA better watch out, their NFS may never stand a chance!

what rock have you been hiding under? NFS has been a flagging series lately.

kosovo:
Gran Turismo has always reset the bar when it comes to sparkling visuals in any given generation, and series creator Kazunori Yamauchi insures us Polyphony will do it again with the fifth entry.

According to a recent NowGamer interview, Yamauchi claims that GT5 doesn't just look great, it actually looks "better than reality." We've already seen just how amazing video game graphics can be after playing through the masterpiece that is Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, but there are always bigger and better things just around the corner in this industry, right? Said Yamauchi:

"'Better than reality' – yeah, that's one way of putting it. In a way, it's kind of a given that it's going to look better than reality. The thing about reality is that the criteria for looking "real" are actually a lot stricter and volatile than you'd expect. The way the sun shines, reflects off something, the way it lights scenery – we seldom have the opportunity to see what we consider "reality" under the best and most aesthetically pleasing conditions."

Yamauchi goes on to say there's a distinct difference between "best conditions" in a video game and reality; he gives us the example of the sun shining down at a perfect angle when the race is on television, but you can recreate that all you want in the game. It's an interesting way to look at it, really. But all we really care about is that entirely overhauled physics engine and the overall intricacy and depth of GT5. , well, we do care about the visuals, but we already know they're going to be sparkling and pretty. Yamauchi and Co. will certainly impress us.

More hype and BS. better than reality? Don't make me laugh. The GT5 prologue didn't even look better than the other competing racing games out there.

I really must come over to Lagos to tame all these pretenders.
Mistiky, i enter lag late october - i will seek you out and make an example of you.

This must not only focus on the poor state of Nigerian roads, but on the careless indifference to safety exhibited by Nigerians.

it was reported that the blaze started when a policeman shot in the air to scare away people scooping up fuel from the wreckage. So my questions are

1. Why would any right thinking person go to a highly combustible area like that, risking his/her life just for a few gallons of fuel?

2. When people saw fuel gushing out, why no move to evacuate the area? Why were there fully loaded passenger buses attempting to pass through that area even with the massive spillage?

If i were in a bus and i saw a pool of fuel up ahead, i'd get down and leave that area ASAP. So much carnage could have been avoided if only people took their personal safety more seriously.

Sagamite:
@ Texazzpete and rethink

It is one thing for one of your own to portray the bad side and traits you demonstrate. It is a completely totally different thing for an outsider (antagonist) to not only potray this but also manufacture ones just to denigrate your type and portray you as irredeemable human thing.

Never, ever try and justify the latter.

As a matter of fact, it's even WORSE when we portray ourselves negatively. We're the ones supposed to know better, not any 'outsider' as you put it.
I've heard these same sentiments from many Nigerians, and in my opinion they are just a feeble excuse to justify our innate cowardice as Nigerians to fix our own personal problems. All we're good at is looking for scapegoats to place the blame of our failures on.

Mbeki:
I think NASA should be more concern on how to get water in the desert regions of the world for the inhabitants; instead of going all the way to the moon to alter the state of existence of matter therein. A lot of people on earth are dying of thirst but all NASA can use taxpayer's money to do is to carry out some senseless research, cos that's what it looks to me. Unless someone can convince me otherwise,

NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and it's an agency of the US government tasked with the US space program and Aerospace research for the United States.
none of its job functions involves finding novel ways to extricate water from desert regions of the world. NASA is not tasked with solving the world's water problems - that's the function of the United Nations for you, dammit!

Why you need convincing is beyond me. But i've tried, nonetheless.

turion:
this is what happens when people dont mind their business

LOL. Is this truly the best you can do?

i'm glad you agree you're a dumbass. How much are you for sale for?

The Sly:
This Bloody Americans. . . . . . . . .My tax money to bomb the moon!
What if something goes wrong?? ?? ??
Why do they think they can manipulate everything? Do they own the moon?

The question is, why would an educated fellow like yourself expect 'anything to go wrong' when a relatively tiny spacecraft impacts on the much more massive moon at only 6000 mph? as NASA has said repeatedly, the only impact should be a crater half the size of a football field.
And that's not nearly enough to do any damage whatseoever.

FYI, it's called research. You come from a country that does little of it, that doesn't mean others shirk from this critical task.

PS: This has NOTHING to do with Politics.

Silly idea. None of you are affiliated with Nairaland in any way, and if Seun chose deliberately to disable even private messages, what chance in hell do you have of getting this done?

Continue with you makeshift YIM solutions and stop dreaming up unrealistic and unachievable stuff.

The Author of that piece is just like John McCain: he just doesn't get it!

PS: 80% of nigerian home videos do a far more effective job of displaying Nigerians in a bad light than the movie District 9. I don't see any yahoos petitioning against them.

@Superego

1. You cannot use the word 'racism' to describe this situation. Both ghanaians and Nigerians belong to the negroid race. The correct word is probably xenophobia.

2. You mention reasons why Nigerians are suddenly unpopular in Ghana, focusing mainly on 'jealousy' as a major reason. Ever care to gauge the effect of hundreds of thousands of Nigerian home videos that depict Naijans as gangsters and voodoo specialists? Why do you think other west african countries blame Nigerians for the influx of ritual killings?

turion:
@texazzpete: u had better not have any pirated software on your PC

this has nothing to do with anything. You're guilty of false advertisement for the reasons i mentioned earlier.
you also naturally failed to mention that it was used first time around. You expect to sell this online to a buyer, yet you did not disclose it was used? That's lame.

Accept the feedback and move on with your sales. While i think it's a poor deal at N60k, you may yet find someone daft enough to take the plunge.

[quote author=Mad_Max link=topic=68514.msg4688229#msg4688229 date=1254948293]I'm sure some self-hating Nigerians must have thrilled to this one. You know the type; clunkerheads who believe we deserve every indignity we get, for no other reason than we're Nigerians. Seen her show for years. ALL Nigerians are corrupt? Too ridiculous for her to say.[/quote]I know it's asking a lot to read all the pages of this topic, but isn't it rather stupid that you didn't even bother to read the posts above yours that states what the non-illiterate ones amongst us already knew: Oprah NEVER said those words!!!

This whole steaming pile of crap started as a user submitted article on an online news site, yet Nigerians carried it as if it was the gospel truth. When we look for reasons why this country is in such a mess, we should note that willingness of many Nigerians to dwell on idle rumours and their subsequent unwillingness to use their brains are also contributory factors.

Ikengawo:
intelligence is in how clearly you can communicate not in how many excessive words you can memorize and misuse.

And where's the intelligence in posting this in the 'Politics' section of Nairaland?

LMAO at all these naive people who think that 'development' and 'employment' will solve the kidnapping issue. There's no nation in the world with no unemployment issues. None whatsoever. Even a massive job creation program will not yield high paying jobs for the millions of unskilled youths roaming the region.
I belong to the school of thought that insists that one of the major problems in Nigeria is that people think the only issue is with our leaders. Corruption exists in every level in Nigeria, and no matter how many solutions you offer, the lure of quick and easy riches will always be a motivation for these miscreants to kidnap people.

A strong deterrence is needed to halt this trend. I'm surprised people are here talking about the 'barbarity' of Death penalty. Why is it so hard to understand the massive trauma associated with Kidnapping? Last week i visited a colleague of mine who was kidnapped and held for up to a week. During this time, he was macheted several times, with an attempt by the kidnappers to sever his Achilles tendons to prevent him from escaping. This man stayed for 5 days in the bush, bleeding untreated while you lot lunched and dined happily.

Kidnapping is an evil crime, and must be given zero tolerance. End of story.

bawomolo:
death penalty for kidnapping?

that sounds barbaric.

why not try to reform them during a prison term. just saying

Reform is hardly possible in Nigerian prisons.

Kobojunkie:
I am not against death penalty as long as we FAIRLY give it to all kidnappers with no exception.

By that logic, we may as well release all the inmates in Nigerian prisons. Not fair to keep 'em locked in when other criminals are roaming the streets, eh?

turion:
@texazzpete: fyi its 8.9 and its used ok asshole

I'll overlook the insult - you've already displayed your stupidity in the past, so no need to refer to it.
60K for a fairly used 1st generation 8.9 inch Aspire One, running a probably pirated OS? Dream on.

lol. Can i open the lines too?

Hayprof - what's your location?
if i get this right, it's the MTN modem but unlocked for all networks?

turion:
Acer Aspire One
120GB hard disk
1GB ram + 2GB ready boost
Intel Atom N270 Processor
Windows 7 Ultimate

= N60,000

Call 08060329626 for enquiries

This is false advertising. You cannot have a legit version of Windows 7 to sell at this time. So why remove a legit Xp installation just to install a cracked RTM Win 7 build?

Your '2GB readyboost' spec may mislead people into thinking it's part of the RAM.

I find it laughable that you failed to include the screen size in your specification list. is it an 8.9 inch model or the newer 10.1 inches model? C'mon, man!

bilymuse:
All the governors are mad. Lets have death penalty for treasury looters too.

the kidnappers are collecting their own national cake just like the governors. I just wish they would concentrate on government officials and politicians

No. You are the mad one for offering tacit support to kidnappers. Something doesn't have to happen directly to you before you can understand. Do you know the emotional trauma to the loved ones of the kidnap victims? Do you know how many have been killed or maimed by their captors? The traumatised babies that will not speak for days, the victims that are rendered paranoid, fearful wrecks - what do you know about them?

Not everything has to be related to 'thieving government officials and politicians' in this miserable country. Kidnapping is a heinous, terrible crime and it must be met with the maximum force to curb this.

I support the death penalty for these people 110%.

Raze:
Most Nokia smartphones out now already have flash in their default browser. It's just Flash in Opera that most Nigerians are interested in

Flash lite is not the same as Flash or Flash Player

Yes, your browser can display flash banners in webpages. Now try going to youtube.com to watch a video with your browser

Enough of this.
Yes we know, we've all seen the video. The next question is WHAT DO WE DO?

Let's be proactive for once. We need cogent suggestion on steps we can take to bring these men to justice.

We live in a cowardly country, where educated people would rather demand apologies from Sony and write online petitions against district 9, yet show great reluctance to bring monsters like these to book.

ROSSIKE:
Interestingly, a Zimbabwean minister was asked this same question a few years ago and his response was: "How will we know how to run the farms when they were seized from our possession a hundred years ago? How will we learn how to run the farms when they are in the possession of thieves who stole the land and retained the knowledge of its exploitation? Now that we have repossessed our land, we will LEARN how to run it, even if it takes us a thousand years!!"

It's like somebody stealing your car, rendering you immobile, and then twenty years later, your son goes to reclaim the car from the thief, and the  thief says, ''hey, why take the car? You can't drive!!''. The victim's son says ''don't worry. I will learn. How could I have learnt when you stole the car in the first place? Hand me back my father's car, and I will learn to drive it, however long it takles!''.

Hogwash!
There are more than three schools of Agriculture in Zimbabwe in existence now for several decades. What happened to giving the farmlands out to people who actually KNOW how to farm, and not ex-millitamen who have never lifted a hoe in anger?

It's one thing to insist that there should be equitable land re-distribution. It's another to be so maniacally careless about what becomes of the land, and the food output from the reclaimed land.
You keep talking about 'Zimbabweans'. Save for Mugabe and his cronies, the vast majority of Zimbabweans just want food, water and security - and that's something Mugabe isn't giving them.

In a way, citing the Zimbabwe issue as a 'triumph over neo-colonialism' serves up a sterling example of human selfishness. All you lot care about is making points and fiery speeches. You DO need to care more for the suffering millions in Zimbabwe who live hollow-eyed and sunken-bellied, a victim of the gross stupidity and selfishness of their leader.

PS: How much foreign aid to Africa have principal pan-africanists like Ghadaffi rendered?

^^^^
As i said, after these Nigerians lose their money, they'll forever be wiser for the experience.
One critical look at the website, one read of the story and i already knew this guy was taking you all for a ride. This whole saga exposes a critical intelligence gap in logical reasoning in many Nigerians.

PS: Please correct the misleading title of this post. Currently as you've said, Uncharted 2 remains third in that list with ONLY 7 reviews in. When more reviews come in, you'll see it drop below.

kosovo:
@ritchboy   u re such a slowpoke, when u devote all resources, time and funds, to the development of a game on one console, you will acheive almost double results rather than when you devote such to different platform, because you must make the two versions look similar, inrespective of the power they posses.
  as far as i am concern, no multiplat game can compare to exclusive games like
Killzone 2
unchanted 2
Gran torismo 5
Heavy rain.
  ALL IN FULL HD.

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is FAR superior to Killzone 2. And it's multiplatform
2. As you pointed out in your own post, GTA IV is rated higher than uncharted. And it's multiplatform
3. Heavy rain and GT5 aren't out yet, there's no basis for including them in this comparison table

Exclusiveness does not indicate quality. PS3 Launch title LAIR was exclusive. Ratchet and Clank is an exclusive that pales in comparison to Super Mario Galaxy. Do you really want me to list all the Sony exclusives that have tanked?

Stop being a PS3 troll and focus on gaming in general. I buy far more games for my PS3 than my 360, that doesnt mean i do not appreciate games on any system that comes my way.

Seun:
This seems to be a very old rumor. See P Square In Accommodation Mess.

Not really, it isn't.
They may have had an accommodation issue from way back as reported in the link, but what the poster is referring to in this topic is the latest fracas involving the landlord being bundled out of his own house on camera. And as i stated earlier, this was shown on AIT last week.

I saw this on AIT last week. They didn't beat him but they shut him out of the apartment like someone said.
Apparently from what the landlord said on AIT news, they had knocked out a wall separating two rooms in order to make a sound studio in the house - and they did this without informing the landlord. Hence his ire.

Yesterday on the radio, i heard a statement credited to Psquare's management insisting that the Landlord was 'merely using Psquares fame to score cheap popularity'

Ouch  

kosovo:
@texazzpete  m sorry, but i didn't really enjoy such games,
  that's it

That's because you're too young to appreciate such games!

You don't need realistic visuals to convey a story. That's why the story and characters in games such as Zelda 64: Ocarina of Time and Final Fantasy 7 are even better than those in modern games like MGS 4 and Devil May Cry etc.
People cared when Aeris got killed in FF7. You think anyone felt any empathy when Sniper Wolf, Vulcan Raven, Solidus or Liquid Snake croaked?

kosovo:
Games have really evolved, looking back at the days of Atari and the popular Mario or Sonic era, where games were actually mediocre, it could easily be regarded as a waste of time,

How can you say games in the 80's and 90's were 'mediocre' simply because they lack all the CGI and fancy effects in the world?

It isn't just about the graphics, it's all about the gameplay. Amazing games like Super Mario World or the early Sonic series are what you're calling mediocre? Not to mention the final fantasy series 1-4?