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It can happen to enemies too, even giant ones that were pretty fucking scary to begin with. It's like the game is constantly trying to one-up the atrocities that the creators came up with: " Oh, so you wanna blow people up? Here, let me put them back together while you're not looking -- isn't that much better? " Luckily, we live in an age where game companies can easily release patches that fix errors like these ... or try to.
Attention is the allocation of mental resources, visual or cognitive, to visible or conceptual objects. Before consumers can be affected by advertising messages, they first need to be paying attention. As Thales S. Teixeira writes in this paper, the quality of consumer attention has been falling for decades. Consumers have lost interest in the information content of ads because they can access more and better information on‐demand on the Web. In addition, the price of marketers' acquiring high-quality attention has increased by as much as nine‐fold in the past two decades.
And ironically, that's how Jak II distinguishes itself: by combining so many different elements of so many different video games. That's what makes it original, that it does such a wide smorgasbord of things, and succeeds (for the most part) primarily because it's copying the hits. I groaned many times at Jak II's copycat techniques (as well as the corny humor), but I would be lying if I said I was bored playing it. I've played it a lot, and the game is still keeping me entertained. If that's not the purpose of a video game, I don't know what is.
... and other times they're just sitting there in pairs , completely unmovable regardless of what you throw at them. If you look at the floating heads from underneath you can tell that they're completely empty inside, like this is actually just someone's skin that floated off one day, so the logical question here is: What happened to all the flesh and bone that usually goes inside? Chances are we'll never know.
The Sims is intended to turn the most boring thing (real life) into something ... slightly less boring, we guess? But the point is, much like real life, when something goes really wrong, it's terrifying . You can find YouTube videos for everything from Sims with flashing blue shapes for faces , Sims swimming through the floor everywhere they go , disembodied heads fucking (that's not a euphemism, by the way), Sims with distorted limbs and even Sim babies with terrifying deformed heads .
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In just six years, Yelp.com has managed to crowdsource 20 million reviews of restaurants and other services by creating and leveraging an impressive social network of people who enjoy writing reviews. But can a bunch of amateur opinionators working for free really transform the restaurant industry, where heavily marketed chains and highly regarded professional critics have long had a stronghold? To answer this question, HBS professor Michael Luca combined Yelp reviews with revenues for every restaurant that operated in Seattle, WA at any point between 2003 and 2009.
Economists love menus, which can be used to help understand people's choices. For example, do we prefer more choices (larger menu) or fewer (shorter menu)? But the menu itself has to be pre-selected. Research by David Goldreich (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto) and Hanna Halaburda (Harvard Business School) focuses on the menu setter's decisions about what to include, and how large a menu to construct in the context of 401(k) plan choices. Read More
Apparently this is a glitch that can happen when you kill someone, save your game and then come back -- the game thinks the character should look like a mess of body parts, but sometimes it forgets to tell those parts to scatter all over the place and the character (or what's left of it) goes back to its default position. Sometimes they'll even move around and have conversations with you while looking like this.
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Now wait. If this were any other art form, this comment that the game has no original ideas and feels derivative would be a criticism. But video games have always milked the same formulas to create "different" titles. However, ordinarily it's just taking the "adventure game" formula and tweaking it in different ways to create a different adventure game. Never before have I seen a game that copied so many different formulas.
How do consumers evaluate different pricing scenarios? This study looks at different pricing models to see which is more likely to result in positive customer perception. Specifically, the authors look at all-inclusive pricing (e.g., the price of a chair is $85.95 including shipping) versus partitioned pricing (e.g., the price of a chair is $81 and shipping is $4.95). When consumers are presented with a partitioned price, they place an exaggerated weight on their evaluation of each individual component.
Pizza or salad? Consumers use different approaches to buying things they want (pizza) versus items they should buy (salad). In their research on online grocery-buying habits and DVD rentals, Harvard Business School's Katy Milkman and Todd Rogers, along with Professor Max Bazerman, provide insights on the want-should conflict and the implications for managers in areas such as demand forecasting, consumer spending habits, and effective store layout. Read More
In the past, we knew a lot about the seller of a product (through ads, marketing, or reputation) but little about the individual buyer. Times have changed. From the Internet to store loyalty cards, technology has made the marketplace into an interactive exchange where the buyer is no longer anonymous. The future market will likely be one in which personal information is shared and leveraged. Consumers who are willing to share their information will be more attractive to sellers and more sought-after than those who have bad reputations or refuse to participate.
Depositors are overconfident of their chances of recovering demandable deposits in a bank run. In a recent research paper, professor Julio J. Rotemberg reviews various government regulations available to be imposed on financial institutions—minimum capital levels, asset requirements, deposit insurance, and compulsory clawbacks—to understand how much they can help protect investors. Read More