Everyone relies on the double-click nowadays. Why don't we get the guy that invented the mouse, and patent the double-click? Then we could sue Micorosoft for like a centillion unlicensed double-clicks.
Honestly, I don't think Gollum had the best acting in the movie, much less in all of the movies for last year.
Sakis should, be eligible considering the historical characters that won. I mean, he plays a crippled, mentally deficient, flawed character. That's like Oscar gold right there.
Maybe when someone delivers a good performance with a digital character, they can get nominated. Granted, the movie was good. But I don't honestly think Legolas or Aragorn or anyone else's portrayal stands out in any respect. LOTR is more of a triumph of a complete movie, not 2 or 3 exceptional performances.
It was 81 cents initially and the majority stock holder for Square objected, saying that since Enix outsourced their development Square had more costs, but also more assets, and the calculations were weighing just the titles far too heavily. Then they reconvened, I believe changed the rate of the purchase to 85 cents, and that sealed the deal.
And Sammy is leading the way. If you've been in an arcade in Japan recently, the machines that are the most packed are Sammy machines.
Guilty Gear XX is always busy with men and women both waiting for their turn at the controls.
Initial D, ver. 2 is in arcades in Japan, and the head to head cabinets are ALWAYS occupied.
Guys in Japan started getting clever with the concepts. One of the early thrills in arcades was getting the high score, and seeing your name dominate over everyone. Until the jerks started resetting the machine every night and wiping 'em.
With Initial D, you can buy a card for 100 yen. You pop the card in every time you play, and gain points. The points upgrade your car, you get new parts, and are able to compete with higher level opponents, and progress in the arcade machine's storyline. Basically...it's like playing a console game in the arcade...and you take your save card with you wherever you go.
Soul Calibur II has a mode called Conquest. You join up on a side, and battle other players to try and gain control of 100% of the map.
You build your character up by winning and using certain styles of fighting, and your chracter's AI is based off of how you fight. If you throw a lot, your character will throw a lot when other people have to fight against it. If you have certain attack combos you use prevalently, so will your character when you are away from the machine.
It gets highly addictive, and it locks you into playing at that machine, making sure you can progress and build up your character. When I was there, one guy on the other side had plunked, by calculations off of his win/loss record, nearly $330 (US) into the game. I was ranked 10th for my faction on that machine...I'd only popped $35 in. But it hooks you. The arcades are back.
Try Guilty Gear, Initial D, Art Truck Battle, etc. etc.
I don't know how a pseudo-responsible news agency like the NY Times can do mountains of research to find out what video games the Beltway Sniper was probably playing, and zero to find out stuff like this. It make it sound like Sega gets bought out by a non-player and that you'll see Sonic Pachinko games.
Getting RID of it a la carte is what interests me most. Man, I remember back when they used to have music on that channel. Now if I could only reprogram the damn digital tuner so it only goes to channels I have purchased, and flipping through stuff is going to me so much faster now. I think I'd have like 20 channels tops...get rid of all the damn Spanish stations I don't watch, no more Home Shopping, or weepy women's TV...it'd be heaven.
It's been happening for a loooooong time. I got told about it when I was at work, they complained that they had online conversations that some of us were having and told us that if we didn't stop leaking information, we'd get canned.
$45-$60. F*cking insane. This is why there was such a rush to go out and buy the PS2s that weren't region locked. They could go import their movies from the US for half the price.
Hahaha! Key Disks! I had totally forgotten those. That's exactly what these things are! As a footnote, I can guarantee that these games that they've "new SecuROMed" have already been cracked. Knock yourself out game publishers. You're just as lame as the CD people.
That was pretty much the line that sealed the deal for me too. Once I read that, I knew I could be confident that this guy had a pretty good grasp of the technology.
Considering Nate Newton was caught red handed TWICE within a month trying to smuggle nearly 400 POUNDS total of marijuana into the country, and is sentenced to three months LESS than you are?
You didn't use or sell drugs...I fail to see where the implausibility of finding someone like this lies.
Hell, nearly every programmer I hang out with fits these requirements. The ones I know that don't fit are the ones who are more than likely to go, "Wait, you've got a gun...and you're threatening my life? F*ck that, here are the exploitable security flaws in our system!"
I also don't know who couldn't carry an M-16 through their little course. If you're under 6 feet, don't work out, and are in the range of 250+ pounds...don't try to be a cop or and FBI agent...sorry...them's the breaks.
I always thought Ender's Game was kinda utopian...I mean that whole thing with Bean rising to power because of insightful things he had written on that book's version of the Internet...
Now if that isn't some rose-colored fairy tale world, I don't know what is...that's even less likely than a Presidential candidate trying to actively campaign for the Slashdot vote.
Geez...this goes even older school than that. A friend of a friend wrote a driver to accept mouse input from his Nintendo Power Glove...for Windows 3.1.
That makes much more sense to me than trying to grip a mouse with 2 fingers and try and click mouse buttons with 2 others. On top of that, seeing as how mouse usage is the primary use the mouse hand for most computer users, I don't think they're going to be able to hold them aloft for very long.
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Yeah, pretty cool, huh? If they ever start flying internationally, I'm SO never driving my ass down to LAX again.
The "shortest possible route" thing is what I'm interested in. Unfortunately, they're in Texas, an area not known for supporting new ways of thinking.
Yeah, exactly. There *isn't* a "Mice and Men" equivalent in the trailer world. Whatever any high school kid throws out there to showcase Men in Black II is going to be about 95% as good as what is taking this guy the unecessary amount of time it takes to make his.
I'll continue the template: "A hero will ________".
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how this can POSSIBLY that hard, artistic, or time-consuming when all they end up doing is either telling you everything about the film or nothing at all except the title...which is of course, subject to change.
Nowadays, you get stuff like the Terminator 3 "trailer" or the Solaris "trailer" which make you turn to whoever's sitting next to you and go, "Well, that was fucking informative. That movie's out, when? Next year? Better mark that down in my calendar."
Honestly, I learned all the skills necessary to put every trailer I've ever seen together back in High School using Adobe Premiere and a Power PC. It's no different today. The reason it takes this guy so long to make anything is the same reason it takes 6 months to design a webpage. All the idiots up in marketing will hum and haw while the designer and artists tear their hair out creating 15 different designs, only to decide in the end they just want it to look like MSN or Yahoo.
Boo fricking hoo, Mr. Trailer Creator. Join the club.
Dude...porn ALONE makes for well over half of the stuff on P2P. I don't have any idea of how much of it is "illegal", but you never hear the Porn Industry whining about how people are "getting off" scot free.
But seriously...look for any popular song by title out there with the filtering off...you're guaranteed to find porn in the search.
Have you thought of what your first words back to Earth will be? Also, what will you be bringing with you for the flight? Not so much as things for the flight, but more in the way of personal momentos.
I have respect for someone who goes into this knowing they might end up not coming back alive, but realizes that it must be done to further innovation. Good luck to you.
Actually...Atari games have been popping up for a while now. The first I remember seeing recently was that horrible waste of time Splashdown for the PS2.
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Everyone relies on the double-click nowadays. Why don't we get the guy that invented the mouse, and patent the double-click? Then we could sue Micorosoft for like a centillion unlicensed double-clicks.
Yeah, I know. Chris Elliott's character on "Get a Life" built one in his bathtub a wayyyy long time ago.
Honestly, I don't think Gollum had the best acting in the movie, much less in all of the movies for last year.
Sakis should, be eligible considering the historical characters that won. I mean, he plays a crippled, mentally deficient, flawed character. That's like Oscar gold right there.
Maybe when someone delivers a good performance with a digital character, they can get nominated. Granted, the movie was good. But I don't honestly think Legolas or Aragorn or anyone else's portrayal stands out in any respect. LOTR is more of a triumph of a complete movie, not 2 or 3 exceptional performances.
Seriously, how long before Taco Bell puts that sign out in the ocean again, so everyone gets free tacos if the asteroid or Planet X hits it?
It was 81 cents initially and the majority stock holder for Square objected, saying that since Enix outsourced their development Square had more costs, but also more assets, and the calculations were weighing just the titles far too heavily. Then they reconvened, I believe changed the rate of the purchase to 85 cents, and that sealed the deal.
And Sammy is leading the way. If you've been in an arcade in Japan recently, the machines that are the most packed are Sammy machines.
Guilty Gear XX is always busy with men and women both waiting for their turn at the controls.
Initial D, ver. 2 is in arcades in Japan, and the head to head cabinets are ALWAYS occupied.
Guys in Japan started getting clever with the concepts. One of the early thrills in arcades was getting the high score, and seeing your name dominate over everyone. Until the jerks started resetting the machine every night and wiping 'em.
With Initial D, you can buy a card for 100 yen. You pop the card in every time you play, and gain points. The points upgrade your car, you get new parts, and are able to compete with higher level opponents, and progress in the arcade machine's storyline. Basically...it's like playing a console game in the arcade...and you take your save card with you wherever you go.
Soul Calibur II has a mode called Conquest. You join up on a side, and battle other players to try and gain control of 100% of the map.
You build your character up by winning and using certain styles of fighting, and your chracter's AI is based off of how you fight. If you throw a lot, your character will throw a lot when other people have to fight against it. If you have certain attack combos you use prevalently, so will your character when you are away from the machine.
It gets highly addictive, and it locks you into playing at that machine, making sure you can progress and build up your character. When I was there, one guy on the other side had plunked, by calculations off of his win/loss record, nearly $330 (US) into the game. I was ranked 10th for my faction on that machine...I'd only popped $35 in. But it hooks you. The arcades are back.
Try Guilty Gear, Initial D, Art Truck Battle, etc. etc.
I don't know how a pseudo-responsible news agency like the NY Times can do mountains of research to find out what video games the Beltway Sniper was probably playing, and zero to find out stuff like this. It make it sound like Sega gets bought out by a non-player and that you'll see Sonic Pachinko games.
I don't know how much those things are going for on Ebay...you can get 'em in Japan for under $50.
Getting RID of it a la carte is what interests me most. Man, I remember back when they used to have music on that channel. Now if I could only reprogram the damn digital tuner so it only goes to channels I have purchased, and flipping through stuff is going to me so much faster now. I think I'd have like 20 channels tops...get rid of all the damn Spanish stations I don't watch, no more Home Shopping, or weepy women's TV...it'd be heaven.
It's been happening for a loooooong time. I got told about it when I was at work, they complained that they had online conversations that some of us were having and told us that if we didn't stop leaking information, we'd get canned.
$45-$60. F*cking insane. This is why there was such a rush to go out and buy the PS2s that weren't region locked. They could go import their movies from the US for half the price.
In Japan, the cost for me to go to see a movie is 1800 yen. About $16.50...to see a movie...at matinee hours.
The theater experience is not, but it ain't that nice. Gimme DVD any day.
Hahaha! Key Disks! I had totally forgotten those. That's exactly what these things are! As a footnote, I can guarantee that these games that they've "new SecuROMed" have already been cracked. Knock yourself out game publishers. You're just as lame as the CD people.
That was pretty much the line that sealed the deal for me too. Once I read that, I knew I could be confident that this guy had a pretty good grasp of the technology.
Dude, I'm SO getting a bunch of people started on downloading as many songs as possible. I only hope this hurts Celine Dion, too.
Since when can a guy who comes up with the lyric, "It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes!" be considered an artist?
Considering Nate Newton was caught red handed TWICE within a month trying to smuggle nearly 400 POUNDS total of marijuana into the country, and is sentenced to three months LESS than you are?
You didn't use or sell drugs...I fail to see where the implausibility of finding someone like this lies.
Hell, nearly every programmer I hang out with fits these requirements. The ones I know that don't fit are the ones who are more than likely to go, "Wait, you've got a gun...and you're threatening my life? F*ck that, here are the exploitable security flaws in our system!"
I also don't know who couldn't carry an M-16 through their little course. If you're under 6 feet, don't work out, and are in the range of 250+ pounds...don't try to be a cop or and FBI agent...sorry...them's the breaks.
I always thought Ender's Game was kinda utopian...I mean that whole thing with Bean rising to power because of insightful things he had written on that book's version of the Internet...
Now if that isn't some rose-colored fairy tale world, I don't know what is...that's even less likely than a Presidential candidate trying to actively campaign for the Slashdot vote.
Geez...this goes even older school than that. A friend of a friend wrote a driver to accept mouse input from his Nintendo Power Glove...for Windows 3.1.
That makes much more sense to me than trying to grip a mouse with 2 fingers and try and click mouse buttons with 2 others. On top of that, seeing as how mouse usage is the primary use the mouse hand for most computer users, I don't think they're going to be able to hold them aloft for very long.
Yeah, pretty cool, huh? If they ever start flying internationally, I'm SO never driving my ass down to LAX again.
The "shortest possible route" thing is what I'm interested in. Unfortunately, they're in Texas, an area not known for supporting new ways of thinking.
Yeah, exactly. There *isn't* a "Mice and Men" equivalent in the trailer world. Whatever any high school kid throws out there to showcase Men in Black II is going to be about 95% as good as what is taking this guy the unecessary amount of time it takes to make his.
I'll continue the template: "A hero will ________".
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how this can POSSIBLY that hard, artistic, or time-consuming when all they end up doing is either telling you everything about the film or nothing at all except the title...which is of course, subject to change.
Nowadays, you get stuff like the Terminator 3 "trailer" or the Solaris "trailer" which make you turn to whoever's sitting next to you and go, "Well, that was fucking informative. That movie's out, when? Next year? Better mark that down in my calendar."
Honestly, I learned all the skills necessary to put every trailer I've ever seen together back in High School using Adobe Premiere and a Power PC. It's no different today. The reason it takes this guy so long to make anything is the same reason it takes 6 months to design a webpage. All the idiots up in marketing will hum and haw while the designer and artists tear their hair out creating 15 different designs, only to decide in the end they just want it to look like MSN or Yahoo.
Boo fricking hoo, Mr. Trailer Creator. Join the club.
Dude...porn ALONE makes for well over half of the stuff on P2P. I don't have any idea of how much of it is "illegal", but you never hear the Porn Industry whining about how people are "getting off" scot free.
But seriously...look for any popular song by title out there with the filtering off...you're guaranteed to find porn in the search.
Have you thought of what your first words back to Earth will be? Also, what will you be bringing with you for the flight? Not so much as things for the flight, but more in the way of personal momentos.
I have respect for someone who goes into this knowing they might end up not coming back alive, but realizes that it must be done to further innovation. Good luck to you.
Actually...Atari games have been popping up for a while now. The first I remember seeing recently was that horrible waste of time Splashdown for the PS2.