That thing you read was one of those no-story headline-and-a-picture things on The Onion. The headline was something like "Jonathan Lipnicki confirmed to play Dark Helment in Spaceballs Prequel" and it was accompanied by a headshot of the kid. It stuck in my head because I thought it was hilarious.
(That's the same kid from Jerry Maguire, you might remember.)
My understanding is that MGS:TTS is just a remix of the original MGS (MGS1 plot with MGS2-style enhancements). My college roommate had the original and it looked like he was having fun. I remember much of it, actually (he beat it like 5 times), and I think the voice tracks are still the same even.
I still don't really understand... it looked fun! I passively watched a number of sessions of my roommate playing it! But it sucks so hard!
I guess I'll just have to write off fans like you as a group of people I don't understand, like Creed fans and Star Wars prequel apologists.
Thanks for the tip on MGS for GBC, though. I'll have to look into that one.
Here's some advice: Take "MGS: The Twin Snakes" and sell it back. You'll save yourself endless cinema scenes (more time spent in cinema than gameplay) of terrible voice-acting and plot, and numerous rooms of not really engaging gameplay.
I know someone's going to mod me as troll or flamebait, but I bought this game since everyone raves about the series. I couldn't stand it. I kept playing, thinking that maybe it would get better, but it didn't. After beating Psycho Mantis, I finally came to my senses and quit and sold it. I couldn't even play long enough to get to the second disc! Is the whole series this bad?
I can't figure out why people keep using "USian". It looks and sounds dumb. I understand (and to some degree agree with) the intention, but is that the best word that can be created?
I always thought referring to USA citizens as "United Staters" or simply "Staters" sounds much less dumb. As far as the adjective form, "US" alone works just fine.
I always thought it would be hilarious if it was revealed that that Klingon was the language of some small African or Asian nation. On the other hand, I'd feel sorry for those who'd have to serve the tourists in the few years after this was revealed.
Can you imagine having to be nice to Comic Book Guy, because his spending money is what you make in a year? And he can insult you fluently in your native tongue?
I mean, at least they could licence iTap from Motorola so their happles users wouldn't have to deal with the ShittiestTextEntryEver!
Are you retarded? Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung are in cut-throat competition in the cell-phone market. Motorola's revenue is primarily from cell phones. Why the hell would Motorola license any technology that would help a Nokia cell phone product?
(Disclaimer: I work for Motorola, but this post mostly reflects common sense and absolutely doesn't reflect any official company position or special knowledge.)
Hey ninja -- I'm a software engineer at Motorola. Chicago-area is where the brunt of our cell-phone development is. Where'd you pull Texas from?
(Don't ask me a crapload of questions; I was only hired 6 months ago.)
I work for Motorola, though this post is representative of my opinions and knowledge only. It is not representative of the company in any way.
Motorola has an upcoming Linux line of phones (MotoJuix), and a recently released line of Windows phones (MotoPro). I believe both lines are supported parallelly. Many of our phones run neither, to my knowledge. It looks to me that Motorola has not put too many eggs in any one basket.
I'm a software engineer, but I don't work with OS issues, so I don't know too much. I do know, however, that the parent poster has no idea what he's talking about.
I won't deny that it was fun, but once both players get to a certain point in skill, it becomes a game of catch. After a couple of rentals, me and my brother wouldn't be able to hit each other, because each of use had the timing down so that we could catch whatever the opponent threw.
I think Nokia is overlooking a BIG market for portables... the children, or rather, the parents who buy the stuff for the children. How many parents are gonna get their kids a mobile phone?
"But Dad, it's a game console!"
"Uh, yeah, but so's that one. And it's $200 cheaper, and it has some good games, and you won't break it while changing games."
"But it's a phone too!"
"Are you gonna pay for the 200-minute plan? Oh, I forgot, you're ten. You're getting a GBA. Shut up and play Pokemon Fuschia. That's what all your friends are playing anyway. And what do you need a cell phone for?"
Maybe the N-Gage will sell in big cities and among technophiles, but I don't think it's gonna fly among the Wal-mart crowd.
Unless I missed something, this whole article seems to have completely overlooked fighting games.
Fighting games may not have amazing storylines, but ignoring them seems to be a pretty big oversight. Are they really that non-influential in the big picture?
The original Street Fighter 2 would have to be the earliest influential game in the genre. Do fighting games have any influence in genres beyond their own?
Well, duh, consoles don't often need to be rebought; of course sales can't be maintained at high levels. But I think there might be a bigger picture.
How long was it after these systems came out that people were already wondering about the PS3? It seems like we're always getting ready for the next big thing. The problem I have is that it seems like we're not using our current stuff to it's full potential. The cycle seems to move too fast.
I personally would be in favor of the big three just skipping the next generation and doing their best to work on the generation after that. Wait until we're running out of new ground to break on the GCN/PS2/XBox before we start rolling out new stuff.
As a side benefit, maybe toward the end of the cycle we'll see more better games come out instead of unfun flashy graphics, as by then we won't be as awed by the graphics that the system is capable of. And we also get to save money on that system we won't have to buy.
Unfortunately, the nature of the market means that the next gen systems will come as soon as possible to beat the other guys. Too bad the big three all can't agree to not release systems before some future release date. The could make some big media event of it: Fifth-gen release day! Geeks everywhere salivate in anticipation!
Really, I think the best thing would be for companies agree to such a date privately, and then not talk about next generation systems whatsoever, so that we keep demanding support of the current systems as long as possible instead of anticipating the next big thing. (That would probably be some kind of anti-trust collusion thing, though.) There were some great late era NES and Super NES games, but nobody was paying attention anymore when they came out.
I'm from Muskegon County, just north of Ottawa county. And yes, Ottawa County sucks.
But they're not completely dry, they just have more restrictions. I believe you can't by any packaged liquor on Sundays, and you can't buy beer in a bar on Sundays either (though mixed drinks can still be sold). My friend's wife's family had a liquor store just north of the county line; they made a killing on Sunday, especially when New Year's Eve was on a Sunday. (Poor store burned down a couple months ago, but they're rebuilding!)
I'm pretty sure you can't buy adult magazines on the newstand in Ottawa County either.
I'm not sure if I'd call the area a backwater, but as far as right-wing christian zealots, they rock the house.
<sarcasm>Yeah, use all that free time you have in grad school to work on open source stuff. </sarcasm>
Seriously, this is feasable during a BS, but my experience has been that you don't have a lot of free time when working on a MS or Ph.D, and the last thing you'll feel like doing is spending more time in front of the computer.
(This is based on my MS and my friends who were working on MS or Ph.D. Maybe others had a more leisurely experience, but I don't know anything of it.).
Myself, I'm still reeling that something from Pointless Waste of Time made Slashdot! This site is pure humor, filled with complete bullshit! Some of it is pure hilarity. You need to see their movie reviews-- in the Goofy Movie review the guy talks about a Vietnam battle scene.
I really love PWOT, and I can only assume that it is through editorial oversight (the kind we often see on Slashdot) that this actually made it as "news".
I think I modded it as informative. And this post is going to flush it.
I modded it because it was a rules aspect that I hadn't noticed or heard about yet, and one that doesn't really simplify anything. It is informative with relation to the game system, not with real swords. How many of us know crap about real swords anyway (yourself excluded)?
Maybe some people like it, and some people don't. I haven't played with the new system yet. Regardless, it is informative for those of us who are debating on whether we should be arsed to convert to 3.5 yet.
You're quite mistaken. They are releasing 3.5-versions of the 3 core books, and additionally, they are releasing an update guide for those who have the old books and don't want to buy new ones.
Of course, you don't really have to buy crap. The old rules were great in their own right, and the new ones aren't too much of a change, really.
I'll echo the previous comments that complain about the usually rediculous prices of these "specialty stores." Granted, new stuff is usually on sale to some extent, but if you don't buy it a month after it comes out, it costs $19.99 (unless it's old and/or crap enough that it hits the cheap bin).
Myself, I don't buy new CDs anymore. Used CD stores are where it's at. My music costs $8-10 bucks/disc and I usually find what I'm looking for after 2 or 3 visits.
I don't understand how mall stores can stay in business anyway, when there's usually a Best Buy or K-Mart nearby that will beat their prices by about 4 bucks.
Yep, I remember this one too. I seem to remember more than 6 screens, and I don't remember where the projectors were. Of course, I must have been like 8 at the time, so take that with a grain of salt.
You know, I think you're right. Somehow the name Omnimax sticks out in my mind. That's probably what I saw. (And it may well have been that Chicago theater. It was on some Cub Scout trip that seems to have been jumbled in my memory with all the other ones.)
I remember seeing a movie on a huge roundish screen once when I was younger. It was awesome. It curved to the side and also above, like part of a sphere or something. I thought it was IMAX. I want to say that it was in Detroit somewhere, but I don't remember. It was at some Museum. Anyway, it rocked.
And then I saw "Beauty and the Beast" on IMAX at Chicago's Navy Pier. (Hey, my girlfriend wanted to see it. Lay off.) I was incredibly disappointed. Does the Navy Pier setup just suck, or is that indicative of IMAX in general? It was like a huge normal screen that I was seated too close to. None of that immersive experience I remember from when I was 8.
EarthLink Plus uses a proprietary "Web Accelerator" from Propel Software which reduces the size of Web pages and elements sent to users' browsers.
Okay, this is almost on-topic, but if 70% of pages weren't coded so badly with poor html tools that fill html code with useless extra text, textual parts of the web would load probably 5 times faster anyway.
Christ, the simple proper use of CSS instead of old-school font tags can reduce a page's size considerably. And you're browser will probably render it quicker, too.
Actually, I think html pre-cleaners at the ISP side would be kinda neat (as long as they can be disabled at the user's desire). Hmm... Microsoft could capitalize on FrontPage's shitty html-generation... they could optimize their server software to fix for their crap FP-pages....
Just ignore this post; it's more of a ramble than anything.
You're right. The SRD did come to mind some time after I posted that. Duh on me. The info I mentioned is all out there.
I haven't used PCGen (which you no doubt have figured), so I guess I should shut up. If the dispute is over the names of new non-SRD feats being included in the software, then yes, that's retarded and WotC is just being childish.
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That thing you read was one of those no-story headline-and-a-picture things on The Onion. The headline was something like "Jonathan Lipnicki confirmed to play Dark Helment in Spaceballs Prequel" and it was accompanied by a headshot of the kid. It stuck in my head because I thought it was hilarious.
(That's the same kid from Jerry Maguire, you might remember.)
But yeah, The Onion, so no ground in fact.
My understanding is that MGS:TTS is just a remix of the original MGS (MGS1 plot with MGS2-style enhancements). My college roommate had the original and it looked like he was having fun. I remember much of it, actually (he beat it like 5 times), and I think the voice tracks are still the same even.
I still don't really understand... it looked fun! I passively watched a number of sessions of my roommate playing it! But it sucks so hard! I guess I'll just have to write off fans like you as a group of people I don't understand, like Creed fans and Star Wars prequel apologists.
Thanks for the tip on MGS for GBC, though. I'll have to look into that one.
Here's some advice: Take "MGS: The Twin Snakes" and sell it back. You'll save yourself endless cinema scenes (more time spent in cinema than gameplay) of terrible voice-acting and plot, and numerous rooms of not really engaging gameplay.
I know someone's going to mod me as troll or flamebait, but I bought this game since everyone raves about the series. I couldn't stand it. I kept playing, thinking that maybe it would get better, but it didn't. After beating Psycho Mantis, I finally came to my senses and quit and sold it. I couldn't even play long enough to get to the second disc! Is the whole series this bad?
I loved the NES Metal Gear, by the way.
You could have just said "the US market".
I can't figure out why people keep using "USian". It looks and sounds dumb. I understand (and to some degree agree with) the intention, but is that the best word that can be created?
I always thought referring to USA citizens as "United Staters" or simply "Staters" sounds much less dumb. As far as the adjective form, "US" alone works just fine.
I always thought it would be hilarious if it was revealed that that Klingon was the language of some small African or Asian nation. On the other hand, I'd feel sorry for those who'd have to serve the tourists in the few years after this was revealed.
Can you imagine having to be nice to Comic Book Guy, because his spending money is what you make in a year? And he can insult you fluently in your native tongue?
I mean, at least they could licence iTap from Motorola so their happles users wouldn't have to deal with the ShittiestTextEntryEver!
Are you retarded? Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung are in cut-throat competition in the cell-phone market. Motorola's revenue is primarily from cell phones. Why the hell would Motorola license any technology that would help a Nokia cell phone product?
(Disclaimer: I work for Motorola, but this post mostly reflects common sense and absolutely doesn't reflect any official company position or special knowledge.)
[...]that is, that Infinium has done nothing in Texas[...]
Well, the crux of this thing is that they appear to have done nothing anywhere else either. (Except blow cash.)
"...its article discussing the continuing fortunes of PC 'game console' manufacturer Infinium..."
I think you put the quotes in the wrong place. It should be:
"... PC game console 'manufacturer' Infinium..."
That makes much more sense.
Hey ninja -- I'm a software engineer at Motorola. Chicago-area is where the brunt of our cell-phone development is. Where'd you pull Texas from? (Don't ask me a crapload of questions; I was only hired 6 months ago.)
I work for Motorola, though this post is representative of my opinions and knowledge only. It is not representative of the company in any way.
Motorola has an upcoming Linux line of phones (MotoJuix), and a recently released line of Windows phones (MotoPro). I believe both lines are supported parallelly. Many of our phones run neither, to my knowledge. It looks to me that Motorola has not put too many eggs in any one basket.
I'm a software engineer, but I don't work with OS issues, so I don't know too much. I do know, however, that the parent poster has no idea what he's talking about.
(Is parallelly a word?)
I won't deny that it was fun, but once both players get to a certain point in skill, it becomes a game of catch. After a couple of rentals, me and my brother wouldn't be able to hit each other, because each of use had the timing down so that we could catch whatever the opponent threw.
I think Nokia is overlooking a BIG market for portables... the children, or rather, the parents who buy the stuff for the children. How many parents are gonna get their kids a mobile phone?
"But Dad, it's a game console!"
"Uh, yeah, but so's that one. And it's $200 cheaper, and it has some good games, and you won't break it while changing games."
"But it's a phone too!"
"Are you gonna pay for the 200-minute plan? Oh, I forgot, you're ten. You're getting a GBA. Shut up and play Pokemon Fuschia. That's what all your friends are playing anyway. And what do you need a cell phone for?"
Maybe the N-Gage will sell in big cities and among technophiles, but I don't think it's gonna fly among the Wal-mart crowd.
Unless I missed something, this whole article seems to have completely overlooked fighting games.
Fighting games may not have amazing storylines, but ignoring them seems to be a pretty big oversight. Are they really that non-influential in the big picture?
The original Street Fighter 2 would have to be the earliest influential game in the genre. Do fighting games have any influence in genres beyond their own?
Well, duh, consoles don't often need to be rebought; of course sales can't be maintained at high levels. But I think there might be a bigger picture.
How long was it after these systems came out that people were already wondering about the PS3? It seems like we're always getting ready for the next big thing. The problem I have is that it seems like we're not using our current stuff to it's full potential. The cycle seems to move too fast.
I personally would be in favor of the big three just skipping the next generation and doing their best to work on the generation after that. Wait until we're running out of new ground to break on the GCN/PS2/XBox before we start rolling out new stuff.
As a side benefit, maybe toward the end of the cycle we'll see more better games come out instead of unfun flashy graphics, as by then we won't be as awed by the graphics that the system is capable of. And we also get to save money on that system we won't have to buy.
Unfortunately, the nature of the market means that the next gen systems will come as soon as possible to beat the other guys. Too bad the big three all can't agree to not release systems before some future release date. The could make some big media event of it: Fifth-gen release day! Geeks everywhere salivate in anticipation!
Really, I think the best thing would be for companies agree to such a date privately, and then not talk about next generation systems whatsoever, so that we keep demanding support of the current systems as long as possible instead of anticipating the next big thing. (That would probably be some kind of anti-trust collusion thing, though.) There were some great late era NES and Super NES games, but nobody was paying attention anymore when they came out.
I know many won't agree with me. Please reply.
I'm from Muskegon County, just north of Ottawa county. And yes, Ottawa County sucks.
But they're not completely dry, they just have more restrictions. I believe you can't by any packaged liquor on Sundays, and you can't buy beer in a bar on Sundays either (though mixed drinks can still be sold). My friend's wife's family had a liquor store just north of the county line; they made a killing on Sunday, especially when New Year's Eve was on a Sunday. (Poor store burned down a couple months ago, but they're rebuilding!)
I'm pretty sure you can't buy adult magazines on the newstand in Ottawa County either.
I'm not sure if I'd call the area a backwater, but as far as right-wing christian zealots, they rock the house.
<sarcasm>Yeah, use all that free time you have in grad school to work on open source stuff.
</sarcasm>
Seriously, this is feasable during a BS, but my experience has been that you don't have a lot of free time when working on a MS or Ph.D, and the last thing you'll feel like doing is spending more time in front of the computer.
(This is based on my MS and my friends who were working on MS or Ph.D. Maybe others had a more leisurely experience, but I don't know anything of it.).
Myself, I'm still reeling that something from Pointless Waste of Time made Slashdot! This site is pure humor, filled with complete bullshit! Some of it is pure hilarity. You need to see their movie reviews-- in the Goofy Movie review the guy talks about a Vietnam battle scene.
I really love PWOT, and I can only assume that it is through editorial oversight (the kind we often see on Slashdot) that this actually made it as "news".
I think I modded it as informative. And this post is going to flush it.
I modded it because it was a rules aspect that I hadn't noticed or heard about yet, and one that doesn't really simplify anything. It is informative with relation to the game system, not with real swords. How many of us know crap about real swords anyway (yourself excluded)?
Maybe some people like it, and some people don't. I haven't played with the new system yet. Regardless, it is informative for those of us who are debating on whether we should be arsed to convert to 3.5 yet.
-Grant
You're quite mistaken. They are releasing 3.5-versions of the 3 core books, and additionally, they are releasing an update guide for those who have the old books and don't want to buy new ones.
Of course, you don't really have to buy crap. The old rules were great in their own right, and the new ones aren't too much of a change, really.
-Grant
I'll echo the previous comments that complain about the usually rediculous prices of these "specialty stores." Granted, new stuff is usually on sale to some extent, but if you don't buy it a month after it comes out, it costs $19.99 (unless it's old and/or crap enough that it hits the cheap bin).
Myself, I don't buy new CDs anymore. Used CD stores are where it's at. My music costs $8-10 bucks/disc and I usually find what I'm looking for after 2 or 3 visits.
I don't understand how mall stores can stay in business anyway, when there's usually a Best Buy or K-Mart nearby that will beat their prices by about 4 bucks.
Serves 'em right.
Yep, I remember this one too. I seem to remember more than 6 screens, and I don't remember where the projectors were. Of course, I must have been like 8 at the time, so take that with a grain of salt.
-Grant
You know, I think you're right. Somehow the name Omnimax sticks out in my mind. That's probably what I saw. (And it may well have been that Chicago theater. It was on some Cub Scout trip that seems to have been jumbled in my memory with all the other ones.)
-Grant
I remember seeing a movie on a huge roundish screen once when I was younger. It was awesome. It curved to the side and also above, like part of a sphere or something. I thought it was IMAX. I want to say that it was in Detroit somewhere, but I don't remember. It was at some Museum. Anyway, it rocked.
And then I saw "Beauty and the Beast" on IMAX at Chicago's Navy Pier. (Hey, my girlfriend wanted to see it. Lay off.) I was incredibly disappointed. Does the Navy Pier setup just suck, or is that indicative of IMAX in general? It was like a huge normal screen that I was seated too close to. None of that immersive experience I remember from when I was 8.
Is that all IMAX really is? Do I just suck?
-Grant
EarthLink Plus uses a proprietary "Web Accelerator" from Propel Software which reduces the size of Web pages and elements sent to users' browsers.
Okay, this is almost on-topic, but if 70% of pages weren't coded so badly with poor html tools that fill html code with useless extra text, textual parts of the web would load probably 5 times faster anyway.
Christ, the simple proper use of CSS instead of old-school font tags can reduce a page's size considerably. And you're browser will probably render it quicker, too.
Actually, I think html pre-cleaners at the ISP side would be kinda neat (as long as they can be disabled at the user's desire). Hmm... Microsoft could capitalize on FrontPage's shitty html-generation... they could optimize their server software to fix for their crap FP-pages....
Just ignore this post; it's more of a ramble than anything.
You're right. The SRD did come to mind some time after I posted that. Duh on me. The info I mentioned is all out there.
I haven't used PCGen (which you no doubt have figured), so I guess I should shut up. If the dispute is over the names of new non-SRD feats being included in the software, then yes, that's retarded and WotC is just being childish.
-Grant