Working hard to keep me entertained? Which ones were those again? Last time I checked, the large majority of material released today is absolute garbage.
While I'm not a Muslim, I have looked into this issue out of curiosity and found a few interesting similarities between Judeo-Christian and Muslim religious laws. You mean aside from them all following the exact same deity, yet fighting with each other and themselves over whose twisted idea of how to worship him/her/it is correct?
The early Christians had the right idea, meeting in secret in caves. If only we could get the contemporary ones to follow their lead. This is precisely why we need at least one coliseum in every state! Forget football, I want zealot blood! It'd be an absolutely great solution to crime in general, not just religious stupidity. Prison crowding could be avoided and taxes would even go down as the coliseums would bring in profits from all of the tickets sold. I just don't wan to see any starved lions of knights fighting bears. We need to keep the animal cruelty out of it all.
Try using a "no cd crack" instead. They've existed for nearly a decade and I've used them on every single one of my games that try to force you to put (and keep!) the disc in even though it's not accessing anything off of it. Copy protection via a present disc is not only a complete hassle, it's also dangerous. The more you move a disc around (from case to tray and back again), the more likely it is to acquire scratches and become unplayable in the future.
Online distribution (such as Steam) is just as annoying. Why should I have to run an external program that bogs down my CPU and bandwidth just to play a game? I shouldn't. Simple CD Key checks are good enough for online play, and no such protection at all is best for singleplayer. I'm not told to turn off any virtual drives I may have when trying to watch a movie on DVD in my computer. Game developers need to get over themselves.
Agreed. It's been my experience that people running eBay "stores" are generally some of the scummiest around. They love to gouge you on shipping prices if nothing else.
If you want to run a store, rent a building or construct your own frigging website!
Like in Risk? Awe, man! Does that mean we're going to conquer Australia and horde all of our forces there, while using New Zealand as a convenient bottleneck against any attacking army?
Pff! Hookers? If I have learned nothing else from Star Trek, it is that astronauts can get all of the space poontang they want at no charge! Captain Kirk and Commander Riker (pre-beard) are both prime examples of this.
That much hasn't changed. To be fair however, that only counts as a flaw due to my personal preference. If I want hard skill levels, I'll just play an RPG on the computer. I like to do table top because of the drama involved in the characters and story. For that reason, I've always been a fan of Vampire: the Masquerade (and even Vampire: the Requiem nowadays). The character is more important than the character's stats.
It's not often that someone comes along and supports just about everything I could want (and actually be sincere, with a track record to prove it!). I could do without the "earned path to immigration" crap and the small push for gun control, but that's about all democrats at this point. Outside of that however, the guy is great. Sadly, the media did a great job of outright ignoring him. And when not ignoring him, they were taking his comments out of context for the express purpose of making him look like a lune. But hey, that's corporations for you... they don't like him because he doesn't want them to have rights far surpassing that of an average citizen as they currently do.
Who would want to watch it anyway? Americans need to get over their fixation of glaring at sweaty, over paid, steroid pumped guys playing grab-ass with each other.
The guy probably deserved to die a lot more than the tiger did when all of those trigger happy cops came onto the scene. And if you really think otherwise, I suggest you go watch Planet of the Apes, maybe the reversed perspective will work better for you.
That find the Mythbusters annoying? I mean, the blow stuff up and then try to make it sound as if the demonstration had a point. The reality is that they use very little, if any, scientific method in the process. Besides, the one without the baret is just downright obnoxious.
Incidentally, a lot of people will hold up the "easy-to-pirate" angle as the single major contributor to the Dreamcast's demise, but most of the more insightful and interesting post-mortems I've read had attributed it to a combination of the long-running hype of the as-yet-unreleased PS2 ("why buy a Sega when the PS2 will be so much better when it comes out?") and a very fumbled marketing effort on Sega's part. Agreed. Though I think Sega of America was doing a pretty darn good job at marketing overall. Sony took an overtly typical approach to it all however and continuously lied about their product (advertised?) to make it seem better. It was not and still isn't by a long shot. This, coupled with Sony's obvious success in the past generation, deterred what probably would have been many sales for Sega.
That's an interesting tactic. After reading it, I would even tend to agree. For me, a lot of The Fountain was actually reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I don't just mean the sci-fi visual either, but the overarching meaning and perhaps even tone. I only mention this because 2001 still feels ahead of its time in a lot of respects.
Yes! Not only was the Dreamcast undeniably ahead of its time (and easily superior to the competition of that generation), but it also had a great lineup of games and a wonderful homebrew scene. Actually, I still have mine hooked up... right beside my Wii. Now and then I'll pull it out to play one of those older Sega arcade gems (you know, before Sega went third-party and seemingly started to suck).
Oh, and The Fountain! How did I miss that one? That was, actually, one of the better films I've seen in quite a while. Darren Aronofsky continues to impress me with his efforts. I just wish I could persuade more people to watch it. Pan's Labyrinth came out about that time as well, which I also can't persuade anyone to borrow because they "don't want to think". One because of subtitles and the other because of content. People watch films to turn on, tune off, and drop out.
Of course, I'd suggest the LSD before most films. At least something profound might happen then.;)
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Working hard to keep me entertained? Which ones were those again? Last time I checked, the large majority of material released today is absolute garbage.
I can't wait for Nintendo to make a low-cost slim version of the Wii as well. I'm tired of that overpriced, behemoth of a console!
That said, could I just draw Muhammad kissing another man?
Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament 2004 both removes there disc checks in a patch, shortly after release even.
Try using a "no cd crack" instead. They've existed for nearly a decade and I've used them on every single one of my games that try to force you to put (and keep!) the disc in even though it's not accessing anything off of it. Copy protection via a present disc is not only a complete hassle, it's also dangerous. The more you move a disc around (from case to tray and back again), the more likely it is to acquire scratches and become unplayable in the future.
Online distribution (such as Steam) is just as annoying. Why should I have to run an external program that bogs down my CPU and bandwidth just to play a game? I shouldn't. Simple CD Key checks are good enough for online play, and no such protection at all is best for singleplayer. I'm not told to turn off any virtual drives I may have when trying to watch a movie on DVD in my computer. Game developers need to get over themselves.
If you want to run a store, rent a building or construct your own frigging website!
Like in Risk? Awe, man! Does that mean we're going to conquer Australia and horde all of our forces there, while using New Zealand as a convenient bottleneck against any attacking army?
Pff! Hookers? If I have learned nothing else from Star Trek, it is that astronauts can get all of the space poontang they want at no charge! Captain Kirk and Commander Riker (pre-beard) are both prime examples of this.
That much hasn't changed. To be fair however, that only counts as a flaw due to my personal preference. If I want hard skill levels, I'll just play an RPG on the computer. I like to do table top because of the drama involved in the characters and story. For that reason, I've always been a fan of Vampire: the Masquerade (and even Vampire: the Requiem nowadays). The character is more important than the character's stats.
It's not often that someone comes along and supports just about everything I could want (and actually be sincere, with a track record to prove it!). I could do without the "earned path to immigration" crap and the small push for gun control, but that's about all democrats at this point. Outside of that however, the guy is great. Sadly, the media did a great job of outright ignoring him. And when not ignoring him, they were taking his comments out of context for the express purpose of making him look like a lune. But hey, that's corporations for you... they don't like him because he doesn't want them to have rights far surpassing that of an average citizen as they currently do.
I saw "best presidential candidate" and "republican" in the same sentence and just couldn't help but laugh...
Damn it, I just used the last of my mod points earlier today! You sir, would have received a +Insightful for sure.
Even on Slashdot, I can't escape mention of that ridiculous institution that is professional sports.
Just another reason why not having a mobile telephone is better.
Who would want to watch it anyway? Americans need to get over their fixation of glaring at sweaty, over paid, steroid pumped guys playing grab-ass with each other.
*shudders*
The guy probably deserved to die a lot more than the tiger did when all of those trigger happy cops came onto the scene. And if you really think otherwise, I suggest you go watch Planet of the Apes, maybe the reversed perspective will work better for you.
That find the Mythbusters annoying? I mean, the blow stuff up and then try to make it sound as if the demonstration had a point. The reality is that they use very little, if any, scientific method in the process. Besides, the one without the baret is just downright obnoxious.
That's an interesting tactic. After reading it, I would even tend to agree. For me, a lot of The Fountain was actually reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I don't just mean the sci-fi visual either, but the overarching meaning and perhaps even tone. I only mention this because 2001 still feels ahead of its time in a lot of respects.
When I do go nowadays, I tend to go on Mondays. Late morning/early afternoon. At best, there are perhaps five other people in the theater then. ;)
Yes! Not only was the Dreamcast undeniably ahead of its time (and easily superior to the competition of that generation), but it also had a great lineup of games and a wonderful homebrew scene. Actually, I still have mine hooked up... right beside my Wii. Now and then I'll pull it out to play one of those older Sega arcade gems (you know, before Sega went third-party and seemingly started to suck).
Of course, I'd suggest the LSD before most films. At least something profound might happen then. ;)