Let's take a quiz. Which of these countries has "America" in its name, and would therefore be most likely to use "America" and "Americans"?
Dominion of Canada United States of America Estados Unidos Mexicanos Republica de Guatemala Republica de Honduras Republica de El Salvador Republica de Nicaragua Republica de Costa Rica Republica de Panama Republica de Colombia Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela Co-operative Republic of Guyana Republiek Suriname Republica Federativa do Brasil Republica del Ecuador Republica del Peru Republica de Bolivia Republica de Chile Republica del Paraguay Republica Argentina Republica Oriental del Uruguay
I believe that covers everything on the two American continents (French Guiana not being a country). I can go through the island nations in this hemisphere too, if you'd like.
Not that I expect you to even read this, being a troll and all. But still.
I saw this list the other day, and I was impressed. Usually these lists totally suck. "OMG HALO2 BEST GAME EVAR!!!!11", and so on. (This list still inexplicably includes the first Halo, but you can't be perfect, I guess.)
Mainly I was happy to see Star Control 2 so high. Such a wonderful game. "Do not forget to *enjoy the sauce*!"
Kirby is a small, pink, round ball-shaped character with large feet and small arms
originally white (in Kirby's Dream Land.. yes, it was a B&W game, but the color illustrations for the manual and such showed him as white). I think he became pink in his second game.
So there's two sets of people, one on either side of the screen. All wearing headphones, seeing different things, hearing different things, and not speaking?
If this sounds appealing to you, if this is something you think you would want, then seek help. I'm not trying to insult you and I'm not kidding. Seek help. Now.
Translation: "I'm an asshole that talks while other people are watching things. I probably don't mind taking calls in a movie theater either."
Lieberdickhead used gta as his platform to fame which resulted in the establishment of the ESRB.
ESRB: founded in 1994.
GTA: released in 1997.
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If you're a decent human being you'll join me in comdemning this, and vote Republican!"
Has nothing to do with Republicans... a decade ago it was Al (and Tipper) Gore and Joe Lieberman trying to ban Doom. It's just politicians in general trying to get votes.
The example in the article, of a person who plays only GTA3 but plays it all the time, is no more a gamer than someone who saw Star Wars III ten times is a movie buff.
I think "gamer", implying someone who really likes gaming in general, has a requirement of a sense of history. Sometimes people try to put time into it (someone isn't a real gamer unless they've been playing for X years and remember buying ET for their Atari 2600), but I've seen this phenomenon in music... some artists start out with a small dedicated following for many years, and suddenly become very popular. Some people say that you're not a real fan of Band Z unless you knew them before the radio or whatever, but I think that if you become a fan later on, as long as you look beyond the "popular" stuff and realize that, hey, this band has been around for awhile and has more songs than just Overplayed Radio Tune, and seek out the older stuff, then you can become just as much of a fan as someone who has followed them around in bars for ages.
The same thing applies in movies. Unless you're around 90 years old, you can't be a "movie buff" only having watched movies when they first came out. You have to acknowledge the classics.
And, more ontopic, the same thing applies to movies. Even if you don't know where to find the Warp Zone in world 5 of SMB, or where the three (or is it four?) warp whistles are in SMB3, or whatever, you still have to acknowledge them as pioneers. As Tycho said in a Penny Arcade comic awhile ago "I'm sure you've played Final Fantasy X, and that's great, but X isn't just, like, a letter. It means 'ten'."
The author of the article is obviously a gamer. She gave other examples (the boy who only plays GTA3), but I can't get back to the article now to quote them.
I think maybe where this is falling down is that some people are trying to use "gamer" as just "someone who plays games", rather than "someone who is a fan of games". There's a big difference, and I suppose it is a failing of English that there's not really two separate words yet.
Indeed. Online play can be fun a lot of fun if you have a group of gamer friends and can play with people you already know, but I have no interest in playing with random people whose idea of intelligent conversation is calling me a Mexican Jew Lizard.
Ah yes, hybrids. Motto: "Combining the air pollution problems of the internal combustion engine with the solid waste disposal dilemma of nickel-metal hydride batteries."
Nah... Quake was a *real* innovation over previous games... true 3D and all. I would say Wolf3d -> Doom -> Quake, and everything since then is just prettier Quake.
Oh please. Halo is one of the best examples for the lack of creativity in FPS games. The only people who actually enjoyed Halo were those who never played FPSs before on the PC (mainly because they were too young before), and thought what they were playing was innovative because it didn't suck quite as bad as previous console FPSs.
If a shop owner leaves the back door to his shop open all night, and a teenager breaks in and steals something... yes, the teenager is ultimately responsible, and should suffer some punishment, but the shop owner is a dumb shit too, and shouldn't get all bent out of shape about getting robbed.
Now replace "leaves the back door open" with "runs Windows on a server", etc.
I have no sympathy for people whining about eleventy billion dollars in damages. Especially since even if you feel you have to run Windows on your server, there was a damn patch for the vulnerability long before the worm came out.
"So, Mr. School Admin, why is it that you're going with this service that won't work on 90% of the students' music players, and can't even be burnt to CD?"
"Well, Dell is a, uh, leading provider of technology to education, but mostly we've just always enjoyed big sacks full of money."
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Virgina is a state and a commonwealth.
As opposed to Puerto Rico, which is a commonwealth but not a state.
Let's take a quiz. Which of these countries has "America" in its name, and would therefore be most likely to use "America" and "Americans"?
Dominion of Canada
United States of America
Estados Unidos Mexicanos
Republica de Guatemala
Republica de Honduras
Republica de El Salvador
Republica de Nicaragua
Republica de Costa Rica
Republica de Panama
Republica de Colombia
Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Republiek Suriname
Republica Federativa do Brasil
Republica del Ecuador
Republica del Peru
Republica de Bolivia
Republica de Chile
Republica del Paraguay
Republica Argentina
Republica Oriental del Uruguay
I believe that covers everything on the two American continents (French Guiana not being a country). I can go through the island nations in this hemisphere too, if you'd like.
Not that I expect you to even read this, being a troll and all. But still.
Even with the benefit of the doubt that you're referring to both continents, the Japanese would still be surprised to hear you call them "Americans".
Anyone who's ever performed cunnilingus while kneeling on a hardwood floor can attest to the validity of this representation.
Cue the 'but this is slashdot' jokes.
actually, I think the cosmic rays come from the stars, too, and there are a lot more of them.
So go during the day, and you'll only have to deal with the sun, and not the stars.
I saw this list the other day, and I was impressed. Usually these lists totally suck. "OMG HALO2 BEST GAME EVAR!!!!11", and so on. (This list still inexplicably includes the first Halo, but you can't be perfect, I guess.)
Mainly I was happy to see Star Control 2 so high. Such a wonderful game. "Do not forget to *enjoy the sauce*!"
Kirby is a small, pink, round ball-shaped character with large feet and small arms
originally white (in Kirby's Dream Land.. yes, it was a B&W game, but the color illustrations for the manual and such showed him as white). I think he became pink in his second game.
...rap still sucks, whatever the topic of the lyrics.
Though I admit that MC Hawking was pretty amusing for a (short) while.
ah, RSR. One of my favorites, still. Sid Meier was a genius.
RSR can be found at Home of the Underdogs, and works under DOSBox, by the way. (At least this was true about a year ago.)
uhhh... that's been around many years, long before it showed up on bash. in fact, there's not much original on bash at all.
still usually amusing though.
So there's two sets of people, one on either side of the screen. All wearing headphones, seeing different things, hearing different things, and not speaking?
If this sounds appealing to you, if this is something you think you would want, then seek help. I'm not trying to insult you and I'm not kidding. Seek help. Now.
Translation: "I'm an asshole that talks while other people are watching things. I probably don't mind taking calls in a movie theater either."
Lieberdickhead used gta as his platform to fame which resulted in the establishment of the ESRB.
ESRB: founded in 1994.
GTA: released in 1997.
If you're a decent human being you'll join me in comdemning this, and vote Republican!"
Has nothing to do with Republicans... a decade ago it was Al (and Tipper) Gore and Joe Lieberman trying to ban Doom. It's just politicians in general trying to get votes.
And, more ontopic, the same thing applies to movies.
dammit. "Games". *sigh*
I even previewed.
The example in the article, of a person who plays only GTA3 but plays it all the time, is no more a gamer than someone who saw Star Wars III ten times is a movie buff.
I think "gamer", implying someone who really likes gaming in general, has a requirement of a sense of history. Sometimes people try to put time into it (someone isn't a real gamer unless they've been playing for X years and remember buying ET for their Atari 2600), but I've seen this phenomenon in music... some artists start out with a small dedicated following for many years, and suddenly become very popular. Some people say that you're not a real fan of Band Z unless you knew them before the radio or whatever, but I think that if you become a fan later on, as long as you look beyond the "popular" stuff and realize that, hey, this band has been around for awhile and has more songs than just Overplayed Radio Tune, and seek out the older stuff, then you can become just as much of a fan as someone who has followed them around in bars for ages.
The same thing applies in movies. Unless you're around 90 years old, you can't be a "movie buff" only having watched movies when they first came out. You have to acknowledge the classics.
And, more ontopic, the same thing applies to movies. Even if you don't know where to find the Warp Zone in world 5 of SMB, or where the three (or is it four?) warp whistles are in SMB3, or whatever, you still have to acknowledge them as pioneers. As Tycho said in a Penny Arcade comic awhile ago "I'm sure you've played Final Fantasy X, and that's great, but X isn't just, like, a letter. It means 'ten'."
The author of the article is obviously a gamer. She gave other examples (the boy who only plays GTA3), but I can't get back to the article now to quote them.
I think maybe where this is falling down is that some people are trying to use "gamer" as just "someone who plays games", rather than "someone who is a fan of games". There's a big difference, and I suppose it is a failing of English that there's not really two separate words yet.
Indeed. Online play can be fun a lot of fun if you have a group of gamer friends and can play with people you already know, but I have no interest in playing with random people whose idea of intelligent conversation is calling me a Mexican Jew Lizard.
use Gator!
Ah yes, hybrids. Motto: "Combining the air pollution problems of the internal combustion engine with the solid waste disposal dilemma of nickel-metal hydride batteries."
Half Life was more than prettier Quake. It was prettier Quake with Screenwriting
Hm.. good point. Also the CS/multiplayer bit.
Okay, maybe saying things haven't changed since Quake is a bit of an exaggeration then. Still, nothing new has been done very recently.
Nah... Quake was a *real* innovation over previous games... true 3D and all. I would say Wolf3d -> Doom -> Quake, and everything since then is just prettier Quake.
Oh please. Halo is one of the best examples for the lack of creativity in FPS games. The only people who actually enjoyed Halo were those who never played FPSs before on the PC (mainly because they were too young before), and thought what they were playing was innovative because it didn't suck quite as bad as previous console FPSs.
If a shop owner leaves the back door to his shop open all night, and a teenager breaks in and steals something... yes, the teenager is ultimately responsible, and should suffer some punishment, but the shop owner is a dumb shit too, and shouldn't get all bent out of shape about getting robbed.
Now replace "leaves the back door open" with "runs Windows on a server", etc.
I have no sympathy for people whining about eleventy billion dollars in damages. Especially since even if you feel you have to run Windows on your server, there was a damn patch for the vulnerability long before the worm came out.
"So, Mr. School Admin, why is it that you're going with this service that won't work on 90% of the students' music players, and can't even be burnt to CD?"
- 23 )
"Well, Dell is a, uh, leading provider of technology to education, but mostly we've just always enjoyed big sacks full of money."
(should probably credit: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2000-10
whose DNA most closely matched that of a Neanderthal could be identified and nominated to the Supreme Court.
I'm trying to make a lawyer joke here, but it's not working. Just pretend I made one and mod me up funny.
Just 4 and a half? You must not have been paying attention for very long...