The last player on the market, and the most relevant to this article is Nintendo. "The last player on the market"?
In what crazy Bizarro-world do you "no live"? Seriously though, I get what you meant there, but your wording could easily be taken another way.
What really kept the Game Gear (I had one too) back, though, was less the battery consumption and weight than it was the fact that with the exception of Defenders of Oasis and Sonic(not a fan myself, but I acknowledge its popularity) there were no good games for it, a problem the Game Boy NEVER suffered from.
I just recently purchased a 2006 Pontiac G6 (the 6cyl model, not the 4), and have found that when driving pure highway, the mileage peaks out around 31 mpg, and overall averages around 27-28. Which is actually even a few points higher than the new results given for this car in TFA.
Though, in fairness, TFA does not specify between 4 and 6 cylinder engines, so we don't know for sure which car they are reporting on there.
What did he say that's supposedly so controversial? He spoke the truth, nothing more.
All but the most diehard fanboys will admit that Halo was never anything truly revolutionary, but rather just a so-so generic sci-fi FPS that just happened to come out for hotly hyped up-and-coming new console. The first game suffered from HORRIBLE interior design and bland gameplay, and the second had a nearly-universally decried terrible ending.
If not for the fact that the Halo series succeeded so well in making the first enjoyable console FPS multiplayer experience since Goldeneye, complete with fairly (compared to some games) balanced multiplay, and the fortunate happenstance of colliding with the excellent idea that was XboxLive!, the games would have been destined to be little more than a footnote in gaming history, rather than the sales juggernaut into which obscenity-screaming 12-year old gamers have turned it.
Personally, I'd rather play Half-Life 2 or its multiplayer components on my PC, but that's just me, and I don't begrudge Halo for the successful niche it has carved for itself.
I hope they're saving the best for later announcements though: some Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Europe... Absolutely. I don't own and haven't really played either of the GH games (other than at a demo), so I apologize if these have been done already, but if there was some Wanted, Dead or Alive or The Final Countdown I'd buy this game in a second.
The general public has basically no need for this sort of information
I actually agree with this statement. Personally, I am a curious person, and I like to look stuff up purely for the sake of looking, but I'm also intelligent enough to understand that in some cases the need for security outweighs "curiousity". Such as the example given in TFA about the US paying to restrict satellite images of Afganistan during the conflict there. If doing this saves the lives of US soldiers, it doesn't bother me that I can't check out military camps in Afganistan from satellite pictures.
If I fire up Google Earth tomorrow and find that the Pentagon, Camp Pendleton, etc... are greyed out, I'm not going to lose sleep over it or decry the "loss of my rights and freedom".
For another example, while the location of Camp David is not exactly completely classified, the US government doesn't go out of its way to advertise, and in fact keeps that info pretty close to the vest. However, if you know where to look, which I do, and zoom in close enough in Google Earth, you'll see that there it is, not just visible, but plainly marked with a POI flag and labeled "Camp David". Personally, I feel this is undermining a reasonable security measure just a little too much.
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In what crazy Bizarro-world do you "no live"? Seriously though, I get what you meant there, but your wording could easily be taken another way.
What really kept the Game Gear (I had one too) back, though, was less the battery consumption and weight than it was the fact that with the exception of Defenders of Oasis and Sonic(not a fan myself, but I acknowledge its popularity) there were no good games for it, a problem the Game Boy NEVER suffered from.
I just recently purchased a 2006 Pontiac G6 (the 6cyl model, not the 4), and have found that when driving pure highway, the mileage peaks out around 31 mpg, and overall averages around 27-28. Which is actually even a few points higher than the new results given for this car in TFA.
Though, in fairness, TFA does not specify between 4 and 6 cylinder engines, so we don't know for sure which car they are reporting on there.
What did he say that's supposedly so controversial? He spoke the truth, nothing more.
All but the most diehard fanboys will admit that Halo was never anything truly revolutionary, but rather just a so-so generic sci-fi FPS that just happened to come out for hotly hyped up-and-coming new console. The first game suffered from HORRIBLE interior design and bland gameplay, and the second had a nearly-universally decried terrible ending.
If not for the fact that the Halo series succeeded so well in making the first enjoyable console FPS multiplayer experience since Goldeneye, complete with fairly (compared to some games) balanced multiplay, and the fortunate happenstance of colliding with the excellent idea that was XboxLive!, the games would have been destined to be little more than a footnote in gaming history, rather than the sales juggernaut into which obscenity-screaming 12-year old gamers have turned it.
Personally, I'd rather play Half-Life 2 or its multiplayer components on my PC, but that's just me, and I don't begrudge Halo for the successful niche it has carved for itself.
I may be wrong, but It's My Life and We Didn't Start the Fire didn't come out in the 80's. Not even close in the case of It's My Life.
And several of those (We Didn't Start the Fire, Wild, Wild West for example) are great songs, but not exactly known for their guitar tracks.
I actually agree with this statement. Personally, I am a curious person, and I like to look stuff up purely for the sake of looking, but I'm also intelligent enough to understand that in some cases the need for security outweighs "curiousity". Such as the example given in TFA about the US paying to restrict satellite images of Afganistan during the conflict there. If doing this saves the lives of US soldiers, it doesn't bother me that I can't check out military camps in Afganistan from satellite pictures.
If I fire up Google Earth tomorrow and find that the Pentagon, Camp Pendleton, etc... are greyed out, I'm not going to lose sleep over it or decry the "loss of my rights and freedom".
For another example, while the location of Camp David is not exactly completely classified, the US government doesn't go out of its way to advertise, and in fact keeps that info pretty close to the vest. However, if you know where to look, which I do, and zoom in close enough in Google Earth, you'll see that there it is, not just visible, but plainly marked with a POI flag and labeled "Camp David". Personally, I feel this is undermining a reasonable security measure just a little too much.
That was always a big complaint of mine, as well. True, 2fort is a well-balanced, straight-forward map, but it gets boring when played CONSTANTLY.
Honestly, my favorite map was a TF original that never (to my knowledge) made it into TFC, called 'bases'