And college kids will bleat all the way through WiFi checkpoints.
Despite Still Being Overhyped, To This Day...
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Star Wars is 30 Years Old
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· Score: 4, Interesting
The films have at least aged rather well. The effects and general cinematography don't feel all that dated. Of course, I tend to think that the sloppy CGI in the "special remastered" version is what looks old. Then again, I'm one to shun CGI in almost any instance, so biases persist.
It's another Colosseum like game, right? Where you don't actually do anything but upload your handheld critters and watch them fight in 3D. I guess XD did kind of have a small RPG storyline, but still nothing to warrent a purchase unless you already had the handheld games. I'd love to see a full featured Pokemon game on the Wii (you could still upload your critters, if you wanted!). Heck maybe even some quasi MMO, along the lines of the Dreamcast's Phantasy Star. *shrugs*
The Wii is capable... Or will be. Right? Mortal Kombat Armageddon committed such things as well (though getting Khameleon as a selectable character is definitely better than playing online, no doubt). Is Nintendo directly holding back online play by not setting up the system or are these third parties just hanging back and watching, waiting for Nintendo to release their own enabled games and set a good template?
A "gaming rig" very well may cost someone a lot more, because those people tend to think that they need a $400 video card. I've never spent more than $500 or $600 on any of the computer's I've built, excluding the monitor and software of course, and they usually play the latest games just fine (even though most of the latest games don't seem to be worth playing recently). They also last for years and when they do begin to age I can upgrade them, something that a lot of store-bought, onboard types don't allow you to do. I assume your rig was only up and running in less time because you were probably hunky dory with the pre-installed junk and didn't bother wiping everything out. The "Compaq" bios screen on my laptop annoys me enough, let alone the junk that came running on the desktop. It's easier to just start fresh and install everything you want than it is to uninstall the trash that you don't need. Now I can understand the support angle from the average user's perspective, even though I'd be terrified to see what those mouth-breathers at Best Buy call technical support. Besides, I was hardly "looking down" on anyone. I understand a lot of people are lazy or just don't realize that they can do it themselves (how many people go buy the components to put together other electronic equipment, right?).Still, I'd hardly call putting a computer together a "learning experience" as it requires next to no skill or knowledge nowadays. Parts are usually pretty well defined as to what they're work with and then outside of that it's just a matter of snapping it together. Heck, a lot of the stuff even comes color-coded today.
If it weren't for the awful texture on the analog stick and the "crab finger" syndrome that you get from the triggers after a night of Crazy Taxi. I was rather found of the Wavebird though, actually. The added weight and filled in areas made it feel a lot more comfortable than the vanilla Gamecube controller. Neither of the two controllers listed have rumble features either. Always a plus!:)
Aside from my very first PC and my laptop, I've built them all. It's cheaper and almost always more bang for your buck. Plus, you don't have to deal with reinstalling the OS once you get it, as it's blank. No craplets, no "DELL" bios loading screen... It's just better. I can understand businesses, because they typically get bulk discounts and don't really care about what's running down in the task bar:P
Just the other day at work I overheard two colleagues talking at lunch. The one was rather agitated because the school was trying to "brainwash" her child by not teaching what her church taught; namely that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth together in the beginning of time. Yeah. She apparently attends the Church of St. Flintstone. Now, did the holocaust happen? More than likely, though it was and is probably a tad exaggerated, just like any defeated enemies' "horrors" will be.
Pff. No one really goes to college to learn. You go so that you can have a nicely filled field on your resume. Don't for one second think that it denotes intelligence or knowledge in any given field, it's simply a mark of time dedication. In America the further in debt you are, the better society will perceive you. That's why you also need that little house int he suburbs and a brand new vehicle.
[quote]They're the ones that allow an unsupervised pre-teen to buy a sex and violence-heavy game like God of War I/II.[/quote]
And a lackluster portrayal of ancient mythology at that! I mean [i]geeze[/i], Titan Quest wasn't even as watered down... Historically speaking.
Text messaging is by far one of the dumbest fads I've seen. As if mobile telephones weren't annoying enough, they have to go and help ruin the English language while they're at it. It's a telephone, use it to speak and hear. If you want to send five letter pseudo abbreviations back and forth, get on AOL Instant Messenger where you belong. Furthermore, for the parents... Boo-hoo! Teens don't need cell phones anyway.
It would have been just as droll regardless. I just didn't want to be mistaken for some homophobic bigot. I know a lot of people on here play MMOs and I didn't want them to think that I might as well.
The cartoon didn't fit the comic, in all fairness. The new cartoon(s) certainly don't even fit the old one in tone. If nothing else, the new film had a rather lackluster art style about it, while three other films had already done it very well as live action (and probably cheaper by today's standards). The original films (or, at least the first two) were of a much darker tone than the cartoon was anyway. *shrugs*
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As if I wasn't already disinterested enough in the Star Wars prequels.
Only in America...
The RIAA only cares about popular "artists", after all...
Nuh-uh! That thing was way wicked sick. It had fire and everything, dude!
It's merely a gateway. I'm looking toward being God Emperor...
Myself.
And college kids will bleat all the way through WiFi checkpoints.
The films have at least aged rather well. The effects and general cinematography don't feel all that dated. Of course, I tend to think that the sloppy CGI in the "special remastered" version is what looks old. Then again, I'm one to shun CGI in almost any instance, so biases persist.
It's another Colosseum like game, right? Where you don't actually do anything but upload your handheld critters and watch them fight in 3D. I guess XD did kind of have a small RPG storyline, but still nothing to warrent a purchase unless you already had the handheld games. I'd love to see a full featured Pokemon game on the Wii (you could still upload your critters, if you wanted!). Heck maybe even some quasi MMO, along the lines of the Dreamcast's Phantasy Star. *shrugs*
The Wii is capable... Or will be. Right? Mortal Kombat Armageddon committed such things as well (though getting Khameleon as a selectable character is definitely better than playing online, no doubt). Is Nintendo directly holding back online play by not setting up the system or are these third parties just hanging back and watching, waiting for Nintendo to release their own enabled games and set a good template?
A "gaming rig" very well may cost someone a lot more, because those people tend to think that they need a $400 video card. I've never spent more than $500 or $600 on any of the computer's I've built, excluding the monitor and software of course, and they usually play the latest games just fine (even though most of the latest games don't seem to be worth playing recently). They also last for years and when they do begin to age I can upgrade them, something that a lot of store-bought, onboard types don't allow you to do. I assume your rig was only up and running in less time because you were probably hunky dory with the pre-installed junk and didn't bother wiping everything out. The "Compaq" bios screen on my laptop annoys me enough, let alone the junk that came running on the desktop. It's easier to just start fresh and install everything you want than it is to uninstall the trash that you don't need. Now I can understand the support angle from the average user's perspective, even though I'd be terrified to see what those mouth-breathers at Best Buy call technical support. Besides, I was hardly "looking down" on anyone. I understand a lot of people are lazy or just don't realize that they can do it themselves (how many people go buy the components to put together other electronic equipment, right?).Still, I'd hardly call putting a computer together a "learning experience" as it requires next to no skill or knowledge nowadays. Parts are usually pretty well defined as to what they're work with and then outside of that it's just a matter of snapping it together. Heck, a lot of the stuff even comes color-coded today.
...Save for Weezer and KISS. It's definitely shaping up to be better than the 80's version *vomits a bit in her own mouth*
For NetFlix's sake, if nothing else... :P
Hallelujah! Go tell it on a mountain, brother!
If it weren't for the awful texture on the analog stick and the "crab finger" syndrome that you get from the triggers after a night of Crazy Taxi. I was rather found of the Wavebird though, actually. The added weight and filled in areas made it feel a lot more comfortable than the vanilla Gamecube controller. Neither of the two controllers listed have rumble features either. Always a plus! :)
Aside from my very first PC and my laptop, I've built them all. It's cheaper and almost always more bang for your buck. Plus, you don't have to deal with reinstalling the OS once you get it, as it's blank. No craplets, no "DELL" bios loading screen... It's just better. I can understand businesses, because they typically get bulk discounts and don't really care about what's running down in the task bar :P
Just the other day at work I overheard two colleagues talking at lunch. The one was rather agitated because the school was trying to "brainwash" her child by not teaching what her church taught; namely that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth together in the beginning of time. Yeah. She apparently attends the Church of St. Flintstone. Now, did the holocaust happen? More than likely, though it was and is probably a tad exaggerated, just like any defeated enemies' "horrors" will be.
Pff. No one really goes to college to learn. You go so that you can have a nicely filled field on your resume. Don't for one second think that it denotes intelligence or knowledge in any given field, it's simply a mark of time dedication. In America the further in debt you are, the better society will perceive you. That's why you also need that little house int he suburbs and a brand new vehicle.
Awe, I made myself look stupid by messing up the brackets and tags :(
[quote]They're the ones that allow an unsupervised pre-teen to buy a sex and violence-heavy game like God of War I/II.[/quote] And a lackluster portrayal of ancient mythology at that! I mean [i]geeze[/i], Titan Quest wasn't even as watered down... Historically speaking.
As bad as the sequels were, the Matrix still beats anything Jerry Bruckheimer touches.
Text messaging is by far one of the dumbest fads I've seen. As if mobile telephones weren't annoying enough, they have to go and help ruin the English language while they're at it. It's a telephone, use it to speak and hear. If you want to send five letter pseudo abbreviations back and forth, get on AOL Instant Messenger where you belong. Furthermore, for the parents... Boo-hoo! Teens don't need cell phones anyway.
Damn, now if only I had a soul and it weren't just some silly made up part of my bowels...
It would have been just as droll regardless. I just didn't want to be mistaken for some homophobic bigot. I know a lot of people on here play MMOs and I didn't want them to think that I might as well.
The cartoon didn't fit the comic, in all fairness. The new cartoon(s) certainly don't even fit the old one in tone. If nothing else, the new film had a rather lackluster art style about it, while three other films had already done it very well as live action (and probably cheaper by today's standards). The original films (or, at least the first two) were of a much darker tone than the cartoon was anyway. *shrugs*