But I already have a computer, why should I buy a console too, when my computer plays games fine?
(This doesn't apply to Nintendo as much, which actually puts out creative games that can't be found elsewhere.)
But mostly the reason I don't own a current console is because I mainly play strategy games. If the wide variety of (real-time and not) strategy games starts to become available on a console, with controls (I've never been able to control much beyond platformers with a gamepad) and visuals (my monitor has much higher resolution than my TV) that don't suck, then I'd consider that instead... but for now, probably not. (Though the Revolution is starting to look very tempting... we'll see when it actually comes out.)
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) is a very interesting series about (among other things) terraforming Mars. Fiction, but very well researched fiction. I highly recommend it.
(Not only is my memory taken up by things like the Nintendo cereal commercial, but apparently it doesn't even remember correctly. Damn this grey matter!)
I think it's less fake-German than a reference to the (Old) English "ox / oxen".
That said, it doesn't bother me nearly as much as "virii", mainly because people using "boxen" are just having fun with the language, whereas people using "virii" are attempting to sound smart and failing miserably. No one thinks "boxen" is really a word.
Haha, when the original post said "Columbus is a test market", I thought of McDonald's pizza too. That was awhile ago.
More on-topic, I've been to the Microcenter in Pepper Pike (Cleveland), and also the one in Fairfax, VA. They were both excellent. I didn't realize it was an obscure chain.
I was trying to remmeber if one of them was "breakfast" instead of "cereal", but I would have put it second ("it's a cereal now/it's for breakfast, wow"), rather than the way you did it.
I wonder how much of my brain is taken up by things like this.:)
Can't he? So even if you got a really great president (I'm not saying Clinton was, before people start flaming) he can never be reelected?
I'm assuming you're not from the US, and therefore don't know some of the.. let's call them "features".. of our government.;)
After FDR was elected to four terms, an amendment was passed making sure that wouldn't happen again. Presidents can only be in office for two terms. (With some leeway if the president comes into office in the middle of a term.)
I think when most people want to major in Computer Science they really just want Computer Programming
Then they should say so. They're not at all the same thing. Sure, if you get a "CS" degree at Bumfuck State U., you're probably not going to get much real computer science, but that just means you don't really have a CS background.
You just don't understand how security works, do you? OSX is *inherently* more secure than Windows. If market share was exactly equal, it would *still* be much much easier to write Windows worms/spyware/bad programs than OSX versions of the same thing.
The only thing that gives it value is that everyone agrees that it is valuable.
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. It seemed to me that that was the same reason gold is valuable (in fact, that's basically the definition of "valuable"), so I wasn't sure why a lot of people are so enamoured with the gold standard.
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They'll start paying more attention when they realise they've brought home Daikatana...
Yeah right like this wouldn't be abused to power oh say... orbital mind control lasers?
:)
Well, we just have to make sure that we stock up on tinfoil to protect ourselves...
But I already have a computer, why should I buy a console too, when my computer plays games fine?
(This doesn't apply to Nintendo as much, which actually puts out creative games that can't be found elsewhere.)
But mostly the reason I don't own a current console is because I mainly play strategy games. If the wide variety of (real-time and not) strategy games starts to become available on a console, with controls (I've never been able to control much beyond platformers with a gamepad) and visuals (my monitor has much higher resolution than my TV) that don't suck, then I'd consider that instead... but for now, probably not. (Though the Revolution is starting to look very tempting... we'll see when it actually comes out.)
Indeed... seeing as the conservatives were the ones who voted against this, Bush judges would have been likely to stop it.
It's a circular causation.
First, take a song that's not ironic.
Call it "Ironic", which means that it now *is* ironic.
But if it *is* ironic, then calling it "Ironic" is no longer ironic. So it's not.
But if it's not ironic, then calling it "Ironic" is...
If you actually enjoy driving games, feel free to stick with your console.
I've still never seen a good strategy game on a console. Let me know when Civ4 is availble for XWhateverstation.
Exactly. The same thing happened to the Daily Show, sadly.
(My favorite Onion article is still "Tenth Circle Added to Rapidly Growing Hell"...)
haha, the ruffians! don't forget the lions and tigers. (no bears, at least until the Megazeux sequel.)
On a semi-related note, I wonder what would happen if they made a ZZT movie? I'd love to see that.
ha. what would that even be about?
heh. I guess they're not for everyone, then.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) is a very interesting series about (among other things) terraforming Mars. Fiction, but very well researched fiction. I highly recommend it.
I will stand corrected, then.
(Not only is my memory taken up by things like the Nintendo cereal commercial, but apparently it doesn't even remember correctly. Damn this grey matter!)
I think it's less fake-German than a reference to the (Old) English "ox / oxen".
That said, it doesn't bother me nearly as much as "virii", mainly because people using "boxen" are just having fun with the language, whereas people using "virii" are attempting to sound smart and failing miserably. No one thinks "boxen" is really a word.
Haha, when the original post said "Columbus is a test market", I thought of McDonald's pizza too. That was awhile ago.
More on-topic, I've been to the Microcenter in Pepper Pike (Cleveland), and also the one in Fairfax, VA. They were both excellent. I didn't realize it was an obscure chain.
I was trying to remmeber if one of them was "breakfast" instead of "cereal", but I would have put it second ("it's a cereal now/it's for breakfast, wow"), rather than the way you did it.
:)
I wonder how much of my brain is taken up by things like this.
First downloadable NES games, now the Mario and Zelda cartoons... next thing we know, the Nintendo cereal will be back.
nin-ten-do
it's a cereal now!
nin-ten-do
it's a cereal, wow!
Can't he? So even if you got a really great president (I'm not saying Clinton was, before people start flaming) he can never be reelected?
;)
I'm assuming you're not from the US, and therefore don't know some of the.. let's call them "features".. of our government.
After FDR was elected to four terms, an amendment was passed making sure that wouldn't happen again. Presidents can only be in office for two terms. (With some leeway if the president comes into office in the middle of a term.)
People keep saying "It's good that people look different, blahblahblah".
Well, smearing shit all over your face would certainly make you different, but it's still stupid.
Same goes for tattoos, etc. You're not 20 anymore. Grow the FUCK up.
..what about the rest of the Holograms?
If you don't mind a little more product placement, I think you could use one of these:
http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html
Protests like this lower the value of all other protests.
That presumes that other protests have value.
Q: How many protesters does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Trick question; protesters can't change anything.
All protests everywhere have the same message: "Hey, look at us!"
I think when most people want to major in Computer Science they really just want Computer Programming
Then they should say so. They're not at all the same thing. Sure, if you get a "CS" degree at Bumfuck State U., you're probably not going to get much real computer science, but that just means you don't really have a CS background.
You just don't understand how security works, do you? OSX is *inherently* more secure than Windows. If market share was exactly equal, it would *still* be much much easier to write Windows worms/spyware/bad programs than OSX versions of the same thing.
The only thing that gives it value is that everyone agrees that it is valuable.
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. It seemed to me that that was the same reason gold is valuable (in fact, that's basically the definition of "valuable"), so I wasn't sure why a lot of people are so enamoured with the gold standard.