I think albums would do better without such harshly separated tracks. I much prefer long, seamlessly integrated concepts as opposed to a collection of tunes vying to become the one or two radio singles.
I think that was the first game I ever played that didn't noticeably have levels in the traditional sense. Sure you had different areas of the world, but never any loading. Despite some Tomb Raider-esque puzzles, it was a very well done game overall and the lack of loading helped out tremendously in adding tot he immersion. Most games shouldn't have levels nowadays, no doubt!
Of course, The Legend of Zelda just had one big world. I don't think I'd count the fade-to-black when entering and exiting dungeons as a loading screen.;)
To help decrease usage, we should implement a licensing system to own and operate a PC. You would be put through two or three week long course that explains the basic functionality of the machine, as well as how to protect yourself while online (from viruses, not sexual predators!). Registration fees would mostly go toward the nationalized (though publicly run) servers and broadband-for-all initiative.
Along with Sesame Street and Nova, Pee-Wee was a favorite in my younger days. Eventually the Ninja Turtles came, yes, but they didn't replace any previous favorites. I just recently went back and watched all of Pee-Wee's Playhouse for the first time in over a decade after getting the DVDs from NetFlix. I still find a level of enjoyment in the series. That said however, I really can't see anyone trying to make a similar show and marketing it to children in today's climate. Unfortunately, kids today have extremely dumbed down entertainment instead. Usually these involve seemingly random assortments of scenes with no binding ties. It's done this way because kids are assumed to have short attention spans.
Furthermore, I tend to believe that a lot of it is deliberately done so as to keep today's children in a perpetual state of stupidity. Parents just want to sit kids down in front of the television while they go out and live their own broken lives. Meanwhile, the television is made to keep children from ever becoming a threat later in life. Beat them with mindlessness now and they'll have no want for intelligent entertainment further down the road. People that don't think offer no resistance to the status quo, and those in power like it that way.
It would depend on the rest of the house really. I like watching movies in bed or on a comfortable couch much more than I do sitting in a theater seat... even if it is the Captain's seat. Besides, "top dollar" is really an overblown and inflated idea in the real estate world. Anyway, the place resides in Florida and there's now way in heck I'd ever want to live there. Ohio is humid enough in the summer!
Most people with a sense of humor would welcome it, I suspect. Selling a house is difficult work to begin with, and the real estate market in general has been horrid this year. The real problem usually lies within the buyer. You have a bunch of ignorant people house shopping, though they have no idea what they want or how much they're willing to pay for it. When they see something they like they try to hold up the entire process while they dick around with a bank to get a loan which usually falls through anyway unless it's a generic ranch house or a stuffy condo.
Lower your exoskeletons and surrender your motels. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Maybe he should try making some new music. I don't think rehashing a then-washed up stadium/glam rock band is a great way to continue one's career. This is a group that never had integrity and still allows their faces to be plastered on any piece of merchandise that might conceivably make money. Of course, this strategy only works if they break up and do a reunion show every several years...
Oh, but he has a reality show nowadays, doesn't he? That must mean that his opinion means something to the mass of bumbling morons out there.
I had heard for a while that there was going to be a Ghost Busters 3, though it would be fully CGI. I really hope that this is what became of the rumors. The film would have sucked, no-doubt. A videogame has the chance to at least be decent however. It worked pretty well for Tron 2.0;)
The problem is that one does not always know that here will be "micro transactions" to be made in the future. Say they begin charging a fee for bug fixes after release. You just bought a broken game and have no real recourse. I sure as heck wouldn't pay for a patch in any circumstance, but that would still leave me with a broken game and my money in the developers' pockets. I mean, geeze, I can't even find it in myself to justify paying a subscription fee for an MMO, and I certainly feel sorry for people that pay $20 for a new "Stuff Pack" every three months (between $30 expansion packs) to make their experience with The Sims 2 full.
And not to be disrespectful, but it annoys me to no ends when people shout about "speaking with their wallets". It allows one to maintain personal dignity, but doesn't change anything. We don't live in anything resembling a truly free market and if we did, the general public tends to be a mass of poorly informed consumers that make all of their decisions based off of obviously biased commercials.:P
Is it a dirty practice? Of course. You have all of these console kiddies to thank for it as well. Don't worry, soon you'll have to pay for simple patches too! Plenty of developers (even on the PC) are already starting to deliberately leave content out of games so as to immediately sell it separately after release. Yay capitalism!
Oh gosh. I [i]wish[/i] we had a Socialist candidate make it far enough along the process to vote into office. Wait, you mean that's why we have a two-party system to begin with? You mean it's to keep out ideas that might work for the people? What, you mean voting doesn't matter much anyway, not in a congressional republic at least?
Putting in your two week notice is lame to begin with. Do you think the company would give you two weeks notice before they fired you? Hell no. It's a made-up plea of courtesy.
Do you really think it's worth their while to provide someone service for only three channels? I'd rather see the satellite companies offer an a la carte service, personally. They already have much better service on pretty much every aspect of the playing field. At least as far as television goes.
In a round-about way if you're falsifying grades then you're stealing financial assistance, cheating insurance companies, etc. That's called karma. What goes around, comes round. Insurance companies, you may now cower in fear.
Cellphones are WAY overused in today's society. There should be a "No Phone" sign on the door of every establishment right by the ones concerning smoking and guns. Or better yet, replace the "no guns" sign with "no phones"! The only people complaining about not being able to wander around aimlessly while carrying on some insipid "conversation" are yuppies. I can only hope that the stock market goes further down the hill and they all get crushed under the ridiculous mortgages that they had to have for their "holier than thou" SUVs and ranch houses!
So it's a rip off, so don't buy it. That doesn't give you the right to break the law by copying it without permission. Yes, it does. The strong make the laws. Having the right is not the same as being right.
I had been using a super old VHS camera found in a garage for years until I decided to purchase a nice little MiniDV one last summer. Great purchase for the price, though sub par low light performance. I'm finally comfortable with the digital editing programs (I personally like Vegas) and have to struggle to scrounge up wanna-be actors that'll work for peanuts.:P
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I think albums would do better without such harshly separated tracks. I much prefer long, seamlessly integrated concepts as opposed to a collection of tunes vying to become the one or two radio singles.
Of course, The Legend of Zelda just had one big world. I don't think I'd count the fade-to-black when entering and exiting dungeons as a loading screen. ;)
I would like to be able to throw my cake and eat it too!
To help decrease usage, we should implement a licensing system to own and operate a PC. You would be put through two or three week long course that explains the basic functionality of the machine, as well as how to protect yourself while online (from viruses, not sexual predators!). Registration fees would mostly go toward the nationalized (though publicly run) servers and broadband-for-all initiative.
Furthermore, I tend to believe that a lot of it is deliberately done so as to keep today's children in a perpetual state of stupidity. Parents just want to sit kids down in front of the television while they go out and live their own broken lives. Meanwhile, the television is made to keep children from ever becoming a threat later in life. Beat them with mindlessness now and they'll have no want for intelligent entertainment further down the road. People that don't think offer no resistance to the status quo, and those in power like it that way.
It would depend on the rest of the house really. I like watching movies in bed or on a comfortable couch much more than I do sitting in a theater seat... even if it is the Captain's seat. Besides, "top dollar" is really an overblown and inflated idea in the real estate world. Anyway, the place resides in Florida and there's now way in heck I'd ever want to live there. Ohio is humid enough in the summer!
Yay for our debt-based society!
Forums, however, do have their time and place!
You decide...
Lower your exoskeletons and surrender your motels. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Oh, but he has a reality show nowadays, doesn't he? That must mean that his opinion means something to the mass of bumbling morons out there.
Maybe if the rerun has Agent Doggett in it...
I had heard for a while that there was going to be a Ghost Busters 3, though it would be fully CGI. I really hope that this is what became of the rumors. The film would have sucked, no-doubt. A videogame has the chance to at least be decent however. It worked pretty well for Tron 2.0 ;)
And I'll third that. Kucinich 2008!
The problem is that one does not always know that here will be "micro transactions" to be made in the future. Say they begin charging a fee for bug fixes after release. You just bought a broken game and have no real recourse. I sure as heck wouldn't pay for a patch in any circumstance, but that would still leave me with a broken game and my money in the developers' pockets. I mean, geeze, I can't even find it in myself to justify paying a subscription fee for an MMO, and I certainly feel sorry for people that pay $20 for a new "Stuff Pack" every three months (between $30 expansion packs) to make their experience with The Sims 2 full.
And not to be disrespectful, but it annoys me to no ends when people shout about "speaking with their wallets". It allows one to maintain personal dignity, but doesn't change anything. We don't live in anything resembling a truly free market and if we did, the general public tends to be a mass of poorly informed consumers that make all of their decisions based off of obviously biased commercials. :P
Is it a dirty practice? Of course. You have all of these console kiddies to thank for it as well. Don't worry, soon you'll have to pay for simple patches too! Plenty of developers (even on the PC) are already starting to deliberately leave content out of games so as to immediately sell it separately after release. Yay capitalism!
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And I won't be able to remark any more on the issue due to national security!
Oh gosh. I [i]wish[/i] we had a Socialist candidate make it far enough along the process to vote into office. Wait, you mean that's why we have a two-party system to begin with? You mean it's to keep out ideas that might work for the people? What, you mean voting doesn't matter much anyway, not in a congressional republic at least?
Putting in your two week notice is lame to begin with. Do you think the company would give you two weeks notice before they fired you? Hell no. It's a made-up plea of courtesy.
Do you really think it's worth their while to provide someone service for only three channels? I'd rather see the satellite companies offer an a la carte service, personally. They already have much better service on pretty much every aspect of the playing field. At least as far as television goes.
Cellphones are WAY overused in today's society. There should be a "No Phone" sign on the door of every establishment right by the ones concerning smoking and guns. Or better yet, replace the "no guns" sign with "no phones"! The only people complaining about not being able to wander around aimlessly while carrying on some insipid "conversation" are yuppies. I can only hope that the stock market goes further down the hill and they all get crushed under the ridiculous mortgages that they had to have for their "holier than thou" SUVs and ranch houses!
I had been using a super old VHS camera found in a garage for years until I decided to purchase a nice little MiniDV one last summer. Great purchase for the price, though sub par low light performance. I'm finally comfortable with the digital editing programs (I personally like Vegas) and have to struggle to scrounge up wanna-be actors that'll work for peanuts. :P