That all depends. If you want to just go through the plot without any of the extras, yes, you can just breeze through without a guide.
However, if you want to get all the extras, a guide is definitely needed. Take Final Fantasy 7, for instance. If you want the Knights of the Round materia, you have to (if I remember correctly, it's been a looong time):
Catch a chocobo from a certain spot. Race it, getting it to S-Class. Catch another chocobo from another certain spot. Race it, getting it to S-Class. Find the right kind of nut from a certain enemy in a certain spot. Breed them repeatedly until you have a green and blue chocobo, feeding them the nut. Race both of THOSE, getting them to S-Class. Find the right kind of nut from a certain enemy in a certain spot. Breed those until you get a black chocobo, feeding them the nut. Catch ANOTHER chocobo from ANOTHER certain spot. Get ANOTHER kind of nut from ANOTHER certain enemy in ANOTHER certain spot. Raice THAT chocobo until it's S-Class. Breed those until you get a Gold chocobo, feeding them the nut. Figure out what little island to go to to get the materia, and go there with the Chocobo.
If you can figure that out on your own, you have WAY too much time on your hands.
That may be the point. A lot of RPGs start out with you just being relatively normal people - why should you look like a spiky-headed huge-muscled freak when you're supposed to just be a normal kid?
I like the fact that they look like real, normal people. It makes them fit the role a lot better.
Christ , how do people this dumb ever get elected?
A wise man once said, "Think of how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, half of the population is even stupider." This explains how he got elected. Even if he's only of average intelligence, there are still plenty of dumber people who thinks his ideas are brilliant.
We could also adapt that to be relevant to technology: "Think of how technologically clueless the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, half of the population is even MORE clueless." This explains how the idea came about!
Nah, all it has to do is fly around until the competing robots try desperately to catch it and end up falling in a pit or something. They could even tease the other robots by flying down low until they come over, then springing back up. Ha! Fooled you!
I'd even tend to think that it would be in the creator's best interest (with respect to the competition) to make it go over the 2hr length.
I (and a lot of other people I've talked to) usually get "final boss apathy" when playing games. Once I get towards the end of the game, and I know it, I just don't really care anymore and end up not even finishing the game. If I do finish games, it ends up being almost disappointing because, well, it's over...
Compare that "It's over..." disappointment to the "Man, I want to play moooooooore..." feeling from being in the middle of a great game, and it might help them out by having games go past the 2hr length.
Can you imagine a swarm of these things coming to "assimilate" you borg-style (making you half-machine)? They could be carriers to a bunch of nanomachines that actually do the dirty work.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but if we need the internet to tell us when a major disaster or war happens in a certain part of the world something is wrong.
You said the point perfectly - "for PC"! This isn't to learn how to program for a PC, it's to learn how to program for a CONSOLE where your programming options are severely limited.
The bulbs say they last for 3000 hours, and cost a whopping $450 at Office Depot. So after around 3 years (at 3hrs/day), you'll have to pay $450 (although they'll probably cost less by then, and I'm sure there are cheaper places than OD).
It sounds like a lot, but considering that every 5-10 years or so most people end up buying a new TV anyways...
I worked at a grocery store for 7 years, and I can tell you that neither spam nor pork-rinds were hated. You'd be VERY surprised at how often they both went through the line. These weren't people who could only afford spam, either, this was in upper-middle-class suburbia.
I have AIM set to only allow people on my buddy list to contact me. If you're not on it, to you it looks like I'm offline. Not possible to get "spim" this way, unless it's one of my friends sending it.
The only problem comes when someone that's NOT on my buddy list wants to talk to me. Usually it's not a big deal, they can just e-mail me and I'll add them to the list later. It is somewhat inconvenient, but better than getting 10 IMs a day telling me to go to porn sites.
There's a middle ground, which is asking for your authorization before it shows the IM window, but I never found this to help - it was always too tempting just to click the "see message" button to see what they were sending me. So that didn't really help much.
When will people learn that NOBODY CARES about online petitions? They do NOT work! If you want to make a difference, write your congresspeople directly. Even this has a slim chance of working, but at least you have SOME chance at making a difference.
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That all depends. If you want to just go through the plot without any of the extras, yes, you can just breeze through without a guide.
However, if you want to get all the extras, a guide is definitely needed. Take Final Fantasy 7, for instance. If you want the Knights of the Round materia, you have to (if I remember correctly, it's been a looong time):
Catch a chocobo from a certain spot.
Race it, getting it to S-Class.
Catch another chocobo from another certain spot.
Race it, getting it to S-Class.
Find the right kind of nut from a certain enemy in a certain spot.
Breed them repeatedly until you have a green and blue chocobo, feeding them the nut.
Race both of THOSE, getting them to S-Class.
Find the right kind of nut from a certain enemy in a certain spot.
Breed those until you get a black chocobo, feeding them the nut.
Catch ANOTHER chocobo from ANOTHER certain spot.
Get ANOTHER kind of nut from ANOTHER certain enemy in ANOTHER certain spot.
Raice THAT chocobo until it's S-Class.
Breed those until you get a Gold chocobo, feeding them the nut.
Figure out what little island to go to to get the materia, and go there with the Chocobo.
If you can figure that out on your own, you have WAY too much time on your hands.
That may be the point. A lot of RPGs start out with you just being relatively normal people - why should you look like a spiky-headed huge-muscled freak when you're supposed to just be a normal kid?
I like the fact that they look like real, normal people. It makes them fit the role a lot better.
Christ , how do people this dumb ever get elected?
A wise man once said, "Think of how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, half of the population is even stupider." This explains how he got elected. Even if he's only of average intelligence, there are still plenty of dumber people who thinks his ideas are brilliant.
We could also adapt that to be relevant to technology: "Think of how technologically clueless the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, half of the population is even MORE clueless." This explains how the idea came about!
Construction workers are notorious for "cat-calling" at women.
128K? Wow, what a luxury. I'm still running on 64K.
Oh, so that's what that is? I never imagined that the construction workers I hear doing that all the time were so historically knowledgeable.
Nah, all it has to do is fly around until the competing robots try desperately to catch it and end up falling in a pit or something. They could even tease the other robots by flying down low until they come over, then springing back up. Ha! Fooled you!
I'd even tend to think that it would be in the creator's best interest (with respect to the competition) to make it go over the 2hr length.
I (and a lot of other people I've talked to) usually get "final boss apathy" when playing games. Once I get towards the end of the game, and I know it, I just don't really care anymore and end up not even finishing the game. If I do finish games, it ends up being almost disappointing because, well, it's over...
Compare that "It's over..." disappointment to the "Man, I want to play moooooooore..." feeling from being in the middle of a great game, and it might help them out by having games go past the 2hr length.
Can you imagine a swarm of these things coming to "assimilate" you borg-style (making you half-machine)? They could be carriers to a bunch of nanomachines that actually do the dirty work.
Freaky.
If everyone votes to recall him, would it be a Total Recall?
"Perfect" assuming the bullies don't know who did it. I can't imagine things going well for the nerds otherwise!
It's the golden rule. He who has the gold, makes the rules.
Thank you, Jafar.
Er, on new versions of Windows, it DOES reboot by default. You have to change a setting in order for it to NOT reboot when it bluescreens.
That's nothing. My grandmother maps the internet during the commercials while watching Wheel of Fortune.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but if we need the internet to tell us when a major disaster or war happens in a certain part of the world something is wrong.
You said the point perfectly - "for PC"! This isn't to learn how to program for a PC, it's to learn how to program for a CONSOLE where your programming options are severely limited.
At least this will take care of the "You can't sell that on ebay, we OWN it!" restriction that MMORPG companies seem to have.
"Nope, it's MY IP now!"
I shall call him... "Mini-me".
Job? Jaw? I don't think they were talking about employment...
The bulbs say they last for 3000 hours, and cost a whopping $450 at Office Depot. So after around 3 years (at 3hrs/day), you'll have to pay $450 (although they'll probably cost less by then, and I'm sure there are cheaper places than OD).
It sounds like a lot, but considering that every 5-10 years or so most people end up buying a new TV anyways...
I worked at a grocery store for 7 years, and I can tell you that neither spam nor pork-rinds were hated. You'd be VERY surprised at how often they both went through the line. These weren't people who could only afford spam, either, this was in upper-middle-class suburbia.
I have AIM set to only allow people on my buddy list to contact me. If you're not on it, to you it looks like I'm offline. Not possible to get "spim" this way, unless it's one of my friends sending it.
The only problem comes when someone that's NOT on my buddy list wants to talk to me. Usually it's not a big deal, they can just e-mail me and I'll add them to the list later. It is somewhat inconvenient, but better than getting 10 IMs a day telling me to go to porn sites.
There's a middle ground, which is asking for your authorization before it shows the IM window, but I never found this to help - it was always too tempting just to click the "see message" button to see what they were sending me. So that didn't really help much.
Or mount the computer on an rc car and drive it around.
You should do this and get one of those incredibly fast gas-powered ones so you can get some hot hot doppler shift action going.
You got some programming effort, it's called Everquest.
When will people learn that NOBODY CARES about online petitions? They do NOT work! If you want to make a difference, write your congresspeople directly. Even this has a slim chance of working, but at least you have SOME chance at making a difference.