I'm sure my wife would also love to pwn me in pretty much anything, but she doesn't quite have the experience I do. Besides, we're both too petty and trivially competitive to not let it get to us in competitive games. I realise my statement was sexist, and I apologize to all whom I may have offended, but most girls I've met aren't in the same boat as you. */end sexist generalizations*
I love to play coop console games with my wife. There are some fighting games like smash brothers for gamecube that also work, but you should look into one of the many hack and slash titles for playstation2. Champions of Norrath (and return to arms) is excellent, so are the two baldur's gate titles but CoN really refined the gameplay. Another good one is Koei's Dynasty Warriors. The game mechanics aren't great but it's really fun to decimate an army with your signigicant other. Gladius for ps2 or gamecube is also incredibly fun, if boreing in the first few levels. Tales of Symphonia for gamecube is fun if the experienced player is playing as second player (can't see yourself most of the time). X-Men: Legends (and rise of apocalypse) is also fantastic. Tom Clancy's ghost recon and rainbow six games also offer a pretty fun cooperative aspect but the splitscreen is kinda crumby. Lastly, Rogue Leader for gamecube is good, but your girlfriend would probably need to be higher skill. I have been playing coop games with my wife for years (secret of mana on the snes is f*ing incredible) and it's really made us closer. Competitive titles don't offer the same level of enjoyment at all. You don't want to frag your significant other, you want to frag the NPC that layed a hand on her. Hope this helps.
Clearly a conspiracy. The weird part was, for a moment if you clicked the comments to the windows broken story it took you to an it.slashdot story that just said "Nothing to see here, please move along."
As for the windows thing, I think it was an error. Sounds like some things in the Cringley article posted a while ago, and if I remember correctly those comments made by the Achley (sp?) were from over a year ago concerning a rewrite of longhorn. I think it's safe to say this was an accident and that the story was erroneous in the first place.
Over-zealous/. staff, perhaps?
This little thing is what I use to merge A/V with my computer. Of course, I have a 24 inch monitor, so I don't suffer from having to play ps2 and vhs movies on a tiny little awful computer screen.
As for tivo capabilities, I don't know if there are open source drivers/software for it, but this little thing seems to be all you would need.
This thing, with all it's quirks aside, is a bad ass toy. I've had mine for about 8 hours now and I am thouroughly happy. I was walking outside drunkenly after a christmas party and dropped my player. On concrete. It has marks on the plastic now, but after a reboot the player wokred fine. It took about an hour to upload my 120 or so mp3's onto this device, and the playback is wonderful. It may be pricey, but in my opinion it's worth it. This thing is just damn cool. It was the most cool christmas toy that was seen at my house this year.
This is basically how I see the future of the internet. Everyone has an optical link dummy terminal that puts a (openGL?) gui semitransparently over your normal vision with adjustable opaqueness. There is a link to your ear drum as well so you can listen to whatever completely silently. Voice activation command, retinal controlled mouse, and a tiny roll-up keyboard that you could fit on your belt, etc. The entire planet will be blanketed with wireless 10mbit per/sec eithernet, the antenae is in your skull. All Data is kept on huge comercially owned databases and storage servers from which you buy space as needed. Hardware itself would never be needed, unless obviously somthing new came out for the term. Buildings, cars, etc will be wired with some form of Jini so that everything can be smart. The conection will be free, the space will probably cost. In case you are wondering, there is no way somone could "hack your brain" because it's just a dummy term, you could make it powered off of your body heat. Lastly, Bill Gates will have formed a Galactic Empire and a cirtain source weilding guru will fight him over the fate of the Universe over the moon of Endor.
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I'm sure my wife would also love to pwn me in pretty much anything, but she doesn't quite have the experience I do. Besides, we're both too petty and trivially competitive to not let it get to us in competitive games. I realise my statement was sexist, and I apologize to all whom I may have offended, but most girls I've met aren't in the same boat as you. */end sexist generalizations*
I love to play coop console games with my wife. There are some fighting games like smash brothers for gamecube that also work, but you should look into one of the many hack and slash titles for playstation2. Champions of Norrath (and return to arms) is excellent, so are the two baldur's gate titles but CoN really refined the gameplay. Another good one is Koei's Dynasty Warriors. The game mechanics aren't great but it's really fun to decimate an army with your signigicant other. Gladius for ps2 or gamecube is also incredibly fun, if boreing in the first few levels. Tales of Symphonia for gamecube is fun if the experienced player is playing as second player (can't see yourself most of the time). X-Men: Legends (and rise of apocalypse) is also fantastic. Tom Clancy's ghost recon and rainbow six games also offer a pretty fun cooperative aspect but the splitscreen is kinda crumby. Lastly, Rogue Leader for gamecube is good, but your girlfriend would probably need to be higher skill. I have been playing coop games with my wife for years (secret of mana on the snes is f*ing incredible) and it's really made us closer. Competitive titles don't offer the same level of enjoyment at all. You don't want to frag your significant other, you want to frag the NPC that layed a hand on her. Hope this helps.
Clearly a conspiracy. The weird part was, for a moment if you clicked the comments to the windows broken story it took you to an it.slashdot story that just said "Nothing to see here, please move along." As for the windows thing, I think it was an error. Sounds like some things in the Cringley article posted a while ago, and if I remember correctly those comments made by the Achley (sp?) were from over a year ago concerning a rewrite of longhorn. I think it's safe to say this was an accident and that the story was erroneous in the first place. Over-zealous /. staff, perhaps?
This little thing is what I use to merge A/V with my computer. Of course, I have a 24 inch monitor, so I don't suffer from having to play ps2 and vhs movies on a tiny little awful computer screen.
As for tivo capabilities, I don't know if there are open source drivers/software for it, but this little thing seems to be all you would need.
This thing, with all it's quirks aside, is a bad ass toy. I've had mine for about 8 hours now and I am thouroughly happy. I was walking outside drunkenly after a christmas party and dropped my player. On concrete. It has marks on the plastic now, but after a reboot the player wokred fine. It took about an hour to upload my 120 or so mp3's onto this device, and the playback is wonderful. It may be pricey, but in my opinion it's worth it. This thing is just damn cool. It was the most cool christmas toy that was seen at my house this year.
This is basically how I see the future of the internet. Everyone has an optical link dummy terminal that puts a (openGL?) gui semitransparently over your normal vision with adjustable opaqueness. There is a link to your ear drum as well so you can listen to whatever completely silently. Voice activation command, retinal controlled mouse, and a tiny roll-up keyboard that you could fit on your belt, etc. The entire planet will be blanketed with wireless 10mbit per/sec eithernet, the antenae is in your skull. All Data is kept on huge comercially owned databases and storage servers from which you buy space as needed. Hardware itself would never be needed, unless obviously somthing new came out for the term. Buildings, cars, etc will be wired with some form of Jini so that everything can be smart. The conection will be free, the space will probably cost. In case you are wondering, there is no way somone could "hack your brain" because it's just a dummy term, you could make it powered off of your body heat. Lastly, Bill Gates will have formed a Galactic Empire and a cirtain source weilding guru will fight him over the fate of the Universe over the moon of Endor.
Mr. Adams, is there a God? Are you him? Are you and God old college buddies?