Why single out PG-13... _all_ MPAA ratings are jsut advisory notations with no legal basis.
It is not illegal for a youngster to go to an R movie. It is not illegal for theatres (or anyone else) to show R movies to youngsters.
I think only in the last 10 years have theatres started to really enforce the age restrictions. But these are internal policies, not law.
Additionally, I believe there's no law prohibiting youngsters from seeing NC-17 movies based on rating alone. If the NC-17 movie contains pornography, of course, then that would be punishable under other laws.
You know, I knew it was gonna be here somewhere. I just opened the page and searched for "overl".
But your delivery sucks, so no 'funny' mods for you.
Re:gamecube version?
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I suspect it's the reason why Nintendo wisely decided to opt for the unusual control mechanism in Metroid Prime
I suspect the reason is that Metroid Prime is not that kind of game. It's about exploration and discovery, not about showing off your mad skillz by fragging all the other guys in the frat house.
$20 for a controller that only works with 1 or 2 games is over-priced. 'nuff said,
No, not "'nuff said". You sound like you think you have the definative gamer opinion. Surprise, dude, you don't. Maybe you can't afford them on your allowance, but somebody must be buying them, because they keep making them.
The right control stick would work just fine, you idiot. Have you ever even used one?
And what over-priced controller trick are you talking about? Whenever Nintendo has released a specialized controller in the past, the controller+game combo price has not been more than $20 beyond that of a standard high-end game, and I don't think any have even been that much, except maybe the SNES SuperScope.
I've heard of it, but I've never read it, and I don't think I've every known anyone (profs, other grads, my current coworkers, etc.), that reads it. For background, I got my BS in 2001 and MS in 2003, both in Computer Science, and I was a research assistant for awhile. I think I'm pretty well-rounded and don't see any grand deficiencies in my skills, other than my relative youth.
I'm guessing that, for programmers who've come up in recent years, it's more common to read websites (not to mention, websites are free).
Screw'em both - GameCrazy rules!
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Honestly, I never really could tell the difference between EB and GameStop. I don't know what niche GS and EB fill! You can find all that new crap at BB or Walmart. But if there's a good stock of used stuff, especially old school, I'll return often.
Like GameCrazy - I love that place. They have old school games! And the employees are familiar with them! (At least, at the one near me!)
I recently grabbed my bro's Genesis and got a replacement SNES from eBay... there's just something really appealing about the classics. Maybe it's because I'm old. I also got a NES and 2600.
Copyright should lapse if the product is not available at a reasonable price for 5 years or so.
That's just stupid. Businesses can't afford to keep rereleasing the same stuff if there's no longer a great demand for it. At the very least, warehousing is expensive.
Look at Disney's home video scheme. Every 10 years, they pull something out of "the vault" and sell it for awhile. Are you saying they shouldn't be able to do this? The law should force them to continually make and stock copies of everything they ever produced?
(And no, the copyright extension debate is not applicable to this argument. Don't even bring it up.)
That was the first thing that came to mind when I got to that page: "It's Supercade, idiots!" How can you do enough research to get screenshots but not get the title right?
Damn, my greater-than sign got interpreted as an html opener. That's why the middle paragraph is arfed.
Should say: When MS loses money on a unit, that means (price is greater than prod_cost). (Paragraph break here.)
I think our tastes are quite different for your comment to influence my opinion. I had to look up James Marsters because I don't know who he is, and I see he is a Buffy actor, which leads me to think you're a Buffy fan (which I should expect in this story's threads).
Buffy has too big a fanbase for me to dismiss as crap, so I just accept that it is not my style. It's just too cheesy to me.
No offense to you, of course, we just have different tastes.
No. As another poster said, they don't build these things to order. They produce big production runs and distribute and warehouse them until supplies get low. Then they build another run. It's an economy of scale.
When you produce a run, you lose (units*prod_cost). Every sale reduces this by (price). When MS loses money on a unit, that means (price
I stand by my original conclusion: buying an XBox and no software to spite MS is dumber than not buying it in the first place.
But if you want to use it for a cheap server and it's the best device for your needs, go ahead, that is perfectly logical and rational.
I'm a fan of the comic Hellblazer that it's based on. Whether his performance was good or not (haven't seen it, but most accounts I've heard, good or bad, say he was the weakest link in the cast), he is perhaps the most un-Constantine-like actor they could have chosen. It's not that he's not British and not blond and doesn't look like Sting. That's not what I'm talking about.
It's that Keanu constantly has an innocent, stunned quality that is the antithesis of the character. Keanu shines (comparatively) when his character is thrown into something he's not ready for and knows nothing about and is supposed to portray that. Unfortunately, John Constantine is not one of those characters. If John is thrown into something, he acts cocky and comes up with a half-cocked plan that will somehow risk or cost the life of someone who trusts him. If Keanu did a good job, I'd say that the screenplay disrespected the source material.
For some creepy shit, pick up the Hellblazer: Son of Man collection by Garth Ennis.
I think it would be neat if Stan would give a monster chunk of that money to the CBLDF.
I mean, Stan already gets $1 mil/year from Marvel. The guy's richer than hell. He could make a big donation and drum up a lot of press, and CBLDF could probably use the publicity.
Check out their site. If you like the First Amendment, you'll like this organization.
And if this doesn't outrage you, nothing will. Freedom lost that one.
I think it would be neat if Stan would give a monster chunk of that money to the CBLDF.
I mean, Stan already gets $1 mil/year from Marvel. The guy's richer than hell. He could make a big donation and drum up a lot of press, and CBLDF could probably use the publicity.
Check out their site. If you like the First Amendment, you'll like this organization.
And if this doesn't outrage you, nothing will. Freedom lost that one.
How about Alien Hominid? That game oozes style, though it's rather short. I've beaten it on Hard and I'm still playing it. Armies of ridiculous FBI and KGB agent enemies, crazy guns, hilarious huge bosses, cartoony gore and a smiling alien that my girlfriend thinks is cute.
It's hand-drawn graphics, but not cell-shaded. It doesn't push any technical limits. It doesn't need to.
The 3rd guy, Adam Botbyl, used to live on the street behind mine. He's a couple years younger than me; my little brother knew him better than I did. (This article names him)
This was probably 10 years ago (him and my brother would have been in 5th or 6th grade), but one interesting bit of trivia is that he was the butt of jokes by the other kids. A bunch of the neighbor kids were into collecting basketball cards. Some of the crueler ones would put common cards back into the pack and glue the top together, and they'd sell or trade them to Adam.
As I heard about this through my brother, it was portrayed that Adam was hella gullible. One pack had a card from the wrong brand in it (e.g. a Topps card in an Upper Deck pack); the other kids told him that it must be some error and might be more valuable. Whether the kid actually believed it or just went along to avert more bullshit is a question for him.
Stories like this were pretty common, and I wonder what that does to a kid, having no good friends around.
Now, I'm not saying that's an excuse; he's a total stupidass for what he did.
The GBA has a number of titles that can be link-played with only one cartridge. Usually, you can only play mini-games or other small features this way.
For instance, in my Kirby & the Amazing Mirror game (which rocks by the way), there are 3 mini-games that can be played up to 4 player with only one cart.
You can also play the main game with 4 players, but for that each player needs a cart, which makes sense, as each player can explore the whole game world simultaneously. The slave GBAs would need to load pretty much the whole game world off of the master, or at least a sub-world at a time.
I can't think of any other games that can link without more carts, but I know I've read about some in the past. I believe some of the Mario ones, and perhaps the Zelda one.
I bought Metal Gear Solid for the GameCube. The cinema scenes were painful! "Call me Otacon. It's short for Otaku Convention!" Are you kidding me? Two hours worth of that?
I only got as far as beating Psycho Mantis. The game play just didn't grab me, but I might have stuck it out for longer, but I just couldn't stand the cinema scenes and corny dialog! I sold it back to the game store soon after.
For the life of me, I just don't understand the appeal of this franchise. (Though I own and really enjoyed the original NES game. I played through it last summer!)
The games available at release and soon after do not look very interesting.
Bullspit they don't! Mahjong Fight Club? I have no idea what this game could be about, but it sure sounds interesting to me! (I acknowledge that interesting does not necessarily equal fun.)
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Why single out PG-13... _all_ MPAA ratings are jsut advisory notations with no legal basis.
It is not illegal for a youngster to go to an R movie. It is not illegal for theatres (or anyone else) to show R movies to youngsters.
I think only in the last 10 years have theatres started to really enforce the age restrictions. But these are internal policies, not law.
Additionally, I believe there's no law prohibiting youngsters from seeing NC-17 movies based on rating alone. If the NC-17 movie contains pornography, of course, then that would be punishable under other laws.
(IANAL, of course)
You know, I knew it was gonna be here somewhere. I just opened the page and searched for "overl".
But your delivery sucks, so no 'funny' mods for you.
I suspect it's the reason why Nintendo wisely decided to opt for the unusual control mechanism in Metroid Prime
I suspect the reason is that Metroid Prime is not that kind of game. It's about exploration and discovery, not about showing off your mad skillz by fragging all the other guys in the frat house.
$20 for a controller that only works with 1 or 2 games is over-priced. 'nuff said,
No, not "'nuff said". You sound like you think you have the definative gamer opinion. Surprise, dude, you don't. Maybe you can't afford them on your allowance, but somebody must be buying them, because they keep making them.
And stop posting as AC.
The right control stick would work just fine, you idiot. Have you ever even used one?
And what over-priced controller trick are you talking about? Whenever Nintendo has released a specialized controller in the past, the controller+game combo price has not been more than $20 beyond that of a standard high-end game, and I don't think any have even been that much, except maybe the SNES SuperScope.
I've heard of it, but I've never read it, and I don't think I've every known anyone (profs, other grads, my current coworkers, etc.), that reads it. For background, I got my BS in 2001 and MS in 2003, both in Computer Science, and I was a research assistant for awhile. I think I'm pretty well-rounded and don't see any grand deficiencies in my skills, other than my relative youth.
I'm guessing that, for programmers who've come up in recent years, it's more common to read websites (not to mention, websites are free).
Honestly, I never really could tell the difference between EB and GameStop. I don't know what niche GS and EB fill! You can find all that new crap at BB or Walmart. But if there's a good stock of used stuff, especially old school, I'll return often.
Like GameCrazy - I love that place. They have old school games! And the employees are familiar with them! (At least, at the one near me!)
I recently grabbed my bro's Genesis and got a replacement SNES from eBay... there's just something really appealing about the classics. Maybe it's because I'm old. I also got a NES and 2600.
Copyright should lapse if the product is not available at a reasonable price for 5 years or so.
That's just stupid. Businesses can't afford to keep rereleasing the same stuff if there's no longer a great demand for it. At the very least, warehousing is expensive.
Look at Disney's home video scheme. Every 10 years, they pull something out of "the vault" and sell it for awhile. Are you saying they shouldn't be able to do this? The law should force them to continually make and stock copies of everything they ever produced?
(And no, the copyright extension debate is not applicable to this argument. Don't even bring it up.)
That was the first thing that came to mind when I got to that page: "It's Supercade, idiots!" How can you do enough research to get screenshots but not get the title right?
Damn, my greater-than sign got interpreted as an html opener. That's why the middle paragraph is arfed. Should say: When MS loses money on a unit, that means (price is greater than prod_cost). (Paragraph break here.)
I think our tastes are quite different for your comment to influence my opinion. I had to look up James Marsters because I don't know who he is, and I see he is a Buffy actor, which leads me to think you're a Buffy fan (which I should expect in this story's threads). Buffy has too big a fanbase for me to dismiss as crap, so I just accept that it is not my style. It's just too cheesy to me.
No offense to you, of course, we just have different tastes.
No. As another poster said, they don't build these things to order. They produce big production runs and distribute and warehouse them until supplies get low. Then they build another run. It's an economy of scale.
When you produce a run, you lose (units*prod_cost). Every sale reduces this by (price). When MS loses money on a unit, that means (price I stand by my original conclusion: buying an XBox and no software to spite MS is dumber than not buying it in the first place.
But if you want to use it for a cheap server and it's the best device for your needs, go ahead, that is perfectly logical and rational.
I'm a fan of the comic Hellblazer that it's based on. Whether his performance was good or not (haven't seen it, but most accounts I've heard, good or bad, say he was the weakest link in the cast), he is perhaps the most un-Constantine-like actor they could have chosen. It's not that he's not British and not blond and doesn't look like Sting. That's not what I'm talking about.
It's that Keanu constantly has an innocent, stunned quality that is the antithesis of the character. Keanu shines (comparatively) when his character is thrown into something he's not ready for and knows nothing about and is supposed to portray that. Unfortunately, John Constantine is not one of those characters. If John is thrown into something, he acts cocky and comes up with a half-cocked plan that will somehow risk or cost the life of someone who trusts him. If Keanu did a good job, I'd say that the screenplay disrespected the source material.
For some creepy shit, pick up the Hellblazer: Son of Man collection by Garth Ennis.
After they cast Keanu as Constantine, expecting the unexpected is right.
Maybe expecting the idiotic is more like it. Blasphemy is what that was.
Duh. They take a bigger loss on every console not sold.
Think, idiots.
If you want a short poor attempt injecting some NGJ into a review, try Zonk's review of Burnout 3.
At the time, I thought the paragraph about the crash was a cringe-worthy attempt at NGJ. After re-reading it, I still do.
I was thinking of a different song...
"It's a great big universe
and we're all really puny
we're just tiny little specks
about the size of Mickey Rooney..."
Classic, second only to their countries-of-the-world song.
Huh, never heard of that one. Yes, that would be just as good.
I think it would be neat if Stan would give a monster chunk of that money to the CBLDF.
I mean, Stan already gets $1 mil/year from Marvel. The guy's richer than hell. He could make a big donation and drum up a lot of press, and CBLDF could probably use the publicity.
Check out their site. If you like the First Amendment, you'll like this organization.
And if this doesn't outrage you, nothing will. Freedom lost that one.
I think it would be neat if Stan would give a monster chunk of that money to the CBLDF.
I mean, Stan already gets $1 mil/year from Marvel. The guy's richer than hell. He could make a big donation and drum up a lot of press, and CBLDF could probably use the publicity.
Check out their site. If you like the First Amendment, you'll like this organization.
And if this doesn't outrage you, nothing will. Freedom lost that one.
How about Alien Hominid? That game oozes style, though it's rather short. I've beaten it on Hard and I'm still playing it. Armies of ridiculous FBI and KGB agent enemies, crazy guns, hilarious huge bosses, cartoony gore and a smiling alien that my girlfriend thinks is cute.
It's hand-drawn graphics, but not cell-shaded. It doesn't push any technical limits. It doesn't need to.
You can't go wrong.
After following your Google image link, I know who wants to play a game with an actual hedgehog...
My girlfriend! Even I have to admit those pictures are cute. She would love it!
The 3rd guy, Adam Botbyl, used to live on the street behind mine. He's a couple years younger than me; my little brother knew him better than I did. (This article names him)
This was probably 10 years ago (him and my brother would have been in 5th or 6th grade), but one interesting bit of trivia is that he was the butt of jokes by the other kids. A bunch of the neighbor kids were into collecting basketball cards. Some of the crueler ones would put common cards back into the pack and glue the top together, and they'd sell or trade them to Adam.
As I heard about this through my brother, it was portrayed that Adam was hella gullible. One pack had a card from the wrong brand in it (e.g. a Topps card in an Upper Deck pack); the other kids told him that it must be some error and might be more valuable. Whether the kid actually believed it or just went along to avert more bullshit is a question for him.
Stories like this were pretty common, and I wonder what that does to a kid, having no good friends around.
Now, I'm not saying that's an excuse; he's a total stupidass for what he did.
The GBA has a number of titles that can be link-played with only one cartridge. Usually, you can only play mini-games or other small features this way.
For instance, in my Kirby & the Amazing Mirror game (which rocks by the way), there are 3 mini-games that can be played up to 4 player with only one cart.
You can also play the main game with 4 players, but for that each player needs a cart, which makes sense, as each player can explore the whole game world simultaneously. The slave GBAs would need to load pretty much the whole game world off of the master, or at least a sub-world at a time.
I can't think of any other games that can link without more carts, but I know I've read about some in the past. I believe some of the Mario ones, and perhaps the Zelda one.
-Grant
I bought Metal Gear Solid for the GameCube. The cinema scenes were painful! "Call me Otacon. It's short for Otaku Convention!" Are you kidding me? Two hours worth of that?
I only got as far as beating Psycho Mantis. The game play just didn't grab me, but I might have stuck it out for longer, but I just couldn't stand the cinema scenes and corny dialog! I sold it back to the game store soon after.
For the life of me, I just don't understand the appeal of this franchise. (Though I own and really enjoyed the original NES game. I played through it last summer!)
The games available at release and soon after do not look very interesting.
Bullspit they don't! Mahjong Fight Club? I have no idea what this game could be about, but it sure sounds interesting to me! (I acknowledge that interesting does not necessarily equal fun.)