Meh, I prefer save points. It ensures that the developers will put in safe areas (nothing sucks more than quicksaving a fifteenth of a second before being shot), and if they're plentiful enough it shouldn't make a difference in time.
I do agree that in RPGs you should be able to save just about anywhere you want outside combat, but it doesn't really make that much sense in other games. As long as there are enough save points that you never have to backtrack more than ten minutes, I'm fine with it (Cave Story is a good example of how to use savepoints well.)
>We live a mere 240,000 miles from a huge source of all kinds of minerals that could easily be mined,
>launched into orbit with mass drivers and brought to earth for manufacturing. Then there's the idea
>of mining the asteroids, or even towing one to Earth orbit for our convenience.
Or you could go a mere 3200 miles in the exact opposite direction.
DUPLICATION is a lot easier with digital forms of media. I mean, holy crap/., this is probably one of the fastest dupes in the same field of interest I've ever seen.
No, they just didn't expect the Wiimotes to survive.
They've made a secret deal with Sony. Sony doesn't compete with them in the console business, Nintendo creates an artificial demand for new televisions. Win-win.
>wonderful help entries, complete with, as appropriate, step-by-step walkthroughs and troubleshooting wizards.
Is sarcasm, right? You can't always tell on/.
If I were the manufacturer, I'd hire a bunch of people to go around to shops and buy X-Boxes at their retail price and then sell them back to Microsoft at the manufacturing price.
>The "100" argument doesn't really work. If a 100 should never be handed out, after all, no game can >be PERFECT, then the highest possible score is a 99? But then, by virtue of 99 being the highest >possible score, it becomes the "new" 100. Proof by mathematical induction... all games should be >rated a big fat ZERO, since no games are perfect.
That doesn't work.
What you're saying is like arguing:
There's this restaurant, but they have a rule that the chef always tastes some of the pie. Typically a little sixteenth slice, so you can't order a whole pie. But wait! That means that the fifteenth sixteenths is the new whole pie, since you can't order any more! That means you can't order any pie!!OMGWTF!!!oneonez
You may not like the police, but when you are assaulted, mugged, or your home is broken into and your stuff stolen or your family terrorized, tell me: who will you call?
Slashdot Mirror
Meh, I prefer save points. It ensures that the developers will put in safe areas (nothing sucks more than quicksaving a fifteenth of a second before being shot), and if they're plentiful enough it shouldn't make a difference in time.
I do agree that in RPGs you should be able to save just about anywhere you want outside combat, but it doesn't really make that much sense in other games. As long as there are enough save points that you never have to backtrack more than ten minutes, I'm fine with it (Cave Story is a good example of how to use savepoints well.)
Throw the gun at him. He'll duck instinctively, which will give you enough time to run off and find some kryptonite.
>We live a mere 240,000 miles from a huge source of all kinds of minerals that could easily be mined, >launched into orbit with mass drivers and brought to earth for manufacturing. Then there's the idea >of mining the asteroids, or even towing one to Earth orbit for our convenience. Or you could go a mere 3200 miles in the exact opposite direction.
The sun is in your hand!
DUPLICATION is a lot easier with digital forms of media. I mean, holy crap /., this is probably one of the fastest dupes in the same field of interest I've ever seen.
If nobody's children now exist, neither will any children in the future?
What's your rationale for caring about these theoretical future children, anyway? Isn't it just your genes causing you to worry about the species?
The root of one minus the sin squared of experience, obviously.
You mean they got the plans off bittorrent?
No, they just didn't expect the Wiimotes to survive.
They've made a secret deal with Sony. Sony doesn't compete with them in the console business, Nintendo creates an artificial demand for new televisions. Win-win.
>Loud music and irregular sleep patterns or no view of the sun so you lose track of time, no.
Sounds like college.
>wonderful help entries, complete with, as appropriate, step-by-step walkthroughs and troubleshooting wizards. Is sarcasm, right? You can't always tell on /.
>It has to be much, much easier to overclock machines when you never have to worry about overheating.
Two words: Global warming.
And it's all their fault.
If I were the manufacturer, I'd hire a bunch of people to go around to shops and buy X-Boxes at their retail price and then sell them back to Microsoft at the manufacturing price.
Moxie tried that. Sugar prices soared, so they switched their advertising budget to buying sugar. You do remember Moxie, don't you?
http://xkcd.com/185/ beat the researches to it.
So, by transitivity, her son is wrong?
>The "100" argument doesn't really work. If a 100 should never be handed out, after all, no game can
>be PERFECT, then the highest possible score is a 99? But then, by virtue of 99 being the highest
>possible score, it becomes the "new" 100. Proof by mathematical induction... all games should be
>rated a big fat ZERO, since no games are perfect.
That doesn't work.
What you're saying is like arguing:
There's this restaurant, but they have a rule that the chef always tastes some of the pie. Typically a little sixteenth slice, so you can't order a whole pie. But wait! That means that the fifteenth sixteenths is the new whole pie, since you can't order any more! That means you can't order any pie!!OMGWTF!!!oneonez
Can you deflect blasters with the Bill of Rights? I don't think so!
Projectile weapons like guns. That's why nobody uses them.
We don't have to pass legislation. We'll just crowdsource it to an angry mob.
Werepterids? Better get some silver bullets.
>I used my savings (which I loathe to not have cash around) to pay the whole thing off out of spite.
Wow, paying them money! What an extreme action! That'll show them they can't profit off you.
Ghostbusters.
My mother's a Neanderthal, you insensitive clod!
Well, it *is* a beta. Shouldn't they know what setup you're using so they can find problems?