I believe the usual trick with an Uzi is to aim below and left of what you're aiming for, and squeeze off a burst. The muzzle lift will send the weapon up, and the ejecting casings send the weapon to the right. This will, hopefully, cause you to stitch several bullets across your target.
On the other hand, I did appreciate being able to even talk to some random schlub, let alone find their missing whotsit, without Morrigan bitching incessantly about it.
That, without the political overtones, was my first reaction. "Why require the bullied to alter their behaviour, rather than requiring the bully to alter his?"
The problem there is twofold. First, while that may well help the bullied in that school, once he or she moves beyond that school, they *will* encounter, shall we say, untrained bullies. Be it in further education, they will come across new bullies, who aren't full of sensitivity training. While getting a bully to stop being a bully is a goal worthy of attaining in it's own right, it's still a good idea to give the bullied the tools they'll need to get along in the wider world.
Secondly, chances are that even people who don't have a 'bully' reaction to these social cues are going to have a negative reaction. Captain Misfit might not get bullied by his boss, but he just might get passed over for promotion in favour of that guy who looks like he sells used cars, and really reminds you of that actor from Boston Legal and now Human Target. Or of the guy that played Nathan in Heroes. Again, social training would help with this.
There are a *lot* of skills which used to get formal, systematic training, which no longer do. Basic life skills. Home economics, which is not to say cooking and cleaning, though that is a part, but also basic repair, budgeting, all the skills actually required to run a household. Social and etiquette. Interacting with the opposite sex. Some of this training was ejected for good reason, but a lot of it should still be taught, to both genders.
How did Apple get into the pic-- wait. I get it... computer stories beget car analogies, thus car stories beget computer analogies. Nevermind, carry on
Really? I'd have thought the link would be the, oh, I don't know, submission being from the cofounder of Apple.
I went the Paragon route, and still managed to secure Zaheed's loyalty. That's what kind of game this is. I also appreciated that one of the 'paragon' responses was to slug him in the face and call him out.
It's the little inconsistancies. Like they say that the Galaxy has changed over to this new method over the last two years, but then you find a ship that crashed ten years ago, and has been out of contact ever since, and surprise! They drop heatsinks when killed.
Now, if, when out of heatsinks, the weapons reverted to the overheat method (possibly with a much shorter usable time, to reflect that instead of massive heatsinks, they have smaller ejectable ones) it would make sense. But me, I'd *vastly* prefer the ME1 style when going traipsing through the outer edges of the Galaxy.
I felt much the same way, I think. I never understood why people said this wasn't an RPG. Indeed, it's a more pure RPG than most. Simply because it forgoes stats and skills, doesn't mean you're not playing a role.
The Salarian game salesman even lampshades this when he laments the good old days of RPGs, when your character died if you didn't command him to drink water, and when travel from point a to point b took five hours of real time.
Nah, they were on an extra disc in the IRIX distro of 'cool shit that nobody will ever actually use.' Demos and weird little utilities and visualizers and stuff.
I did read what you said. You posit that the movie is a 'what could have happened' if slaves had revolted. Nat Turner and all that.
The problem is, in the movie, the Robots aren't rising up due to a desire for freedom, a desire to rule, or a desire to enact vengeance. They're trying to protect humanity from itself. An example of which, as I pointed out, is that the robots in 'revolt' don't harm any humans who aren't actively resisting. Note the robot who attempts to gently persuade Will's mom to stay indoors where it's safe.
The WHO did a study a while back where they locked a bunch of 'em allergics' into a room. Asked them how they were feeling. Turned on some wi-fi stuff. Asked them how they were feeling. 'Fine.' Turned it off, and told them they were now turning it on. Asked them how they were feeling. 'Headaches, nausea, it's horrible.' Told them they lied. Stunned silence.
Casino Royale with Craig was explicitly a reboot. Although I truly believe they should have also made it explicit that 'James Bond' is, indeed, an identity, which is assumed by a succession of agents.
Have a cameo by Pierce Brosnan, or Sean Connery, or something, as a contact who the current Bond has to get info from. Current-Bond shows up, and says 'the name's Bond' and the cameo goes '..James Bond. Yes, I know.'
Reboot Captain Power, get JMS back on, keep it as awesome as the original, and this time, keep on with the second season (and beyond.)
That show was *not* a kids show. The episode with the plague kid, the episode with Pilot needing to infiltrate a Dread base, the finale....that was some damn fine television.
Sorry, I simply don't see that. I don't recall Black slaves, ethnically-cleansed American Indians, or such like, rising up in order to protect their White overlords from themselves.
I don't recall attempted counter-revolutions by happy Black slaves, outside of terrible minstrel shows and horribly butchered stage versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
No. Now, I for one *hate* the idea that every story ever told is either about race or religion, but this story could, much more convincingly, be cast as a Jesus story.
Now, I haven't seen the new Holmes movie, but I think alot of people don't give the Will Smith version of I, Robot the credit it deserves.
First, it's very much in keeping with the stories of the I, Robot book in two ways. First, it's an exploration of how the three laws might actually wind up working out. Second, it's a detective story. The original stories were all a robot acting, seemingly, against the laws, and somebody needing to figure out why. And usually, it wound up being that the humans simply wern't understanding how the rules worked in a given situation.
Second, the movie really does explore some interesting ideas. Will's character being bitter that a robot followed the rules, resulting in the death of a child. A robot reasoning that in order to keep humanity safe, humanity has to be controlled. Note that the 'evil' robots never ever raise a hand to any human who isn't actively resisting, for example. Or with Sonny, the idea that a genius or a revoluationary is somebody able to break free of the thinking of their contemporaries. Or, when he's going to be reformatted, the idea of 'what is sentience? What is life?' If Sonny walks, acts, and quacks like a duck, is he a duck? If he walks, acts, and thinks like a human, or even appears to, does he have the same basic worth or status as a human? The 'Can you compose a symphony?' 'No, detective. Can you?' line was beautiful.
I'm not saying it's a masterpiece for the ages or anything, but it's a perfectly good film, raises (or restates) some interesting issues, and isn't completely un-Asimovish.
The PSP CPU was locked down, and slowly unlocked over time. This is as opposed to later versions of the PSP having double the RAM, but half was reserved for caching.
There was a SHITSTORM when Titanic came out on DVD because it was the first major dual layer release and tons of players couldn't deal with it.
There was also a big do when the T2 special edition first came out. Some were DVD-18, some were two DVD-9 discs. Arguments ranged from the problems some players had with DVD-18 discs to preferring the two disc version, as then you had art on the DVDs.
Nah, you didn't sit around till after the credits to read the epilogue. 'After the Corporate workers returned to Earth, with their tales (and videos, and other documented evidence) of a violent Native uprising, complete with gruesome photos of soldiers impaled with spears, arrows in throats, and one heartbreaking picture of a solider holding his buddy's bleeding corpse, which went into the history books with the photo of the flag on Suribachi, the naked Vietnamese child running from the napalmed village, and other such photos, a full military expedition was mounted. Six years later, the ships arrived back at Pandora, and after half an hour of precise kinetic bombardment, the Na'vi were no longer an issue, and Unobtanium output doubled.'
...so rather than calling the midwife back and saying 'The baby's coming NOW, talk me through this like an Air Traffic Controller in a 70s disaster movie!' I decided to google.
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He should have used Rock Band. It already has light display codes built in to each song, and the protocols have been documented by the modding community.
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I believe the usual trick with an Uzi is to aim below and left of what you're aiming for, and squeeze off a burst. The muzzle lift will send the weapon up, and the ejecting casings send the weapon to the right. This will, hopefully, cause you to stitch several bullets across your target.
On the other hand, I did appreciate being able to even talk to some random schlub, let alone find their missing whotsit, without Morrigan bitching incessantly about it.
That, without the political overtones, was my first reaction. "Why require the bullied to alter their behaviour, rather than requiring the bully to alter his?"
The problem there is twofold. First, while that may well help the bullied in that school, once he or she moves beyond that school, they *will* encounter, shall we say, untrained bullies. Be it in further education, they will come across new bullies, who aren't full of sensitivity training. While getting a bully to stop being a bully is a goal worthy of attaining in it's own right, it's still a good idea to give the bullied the tools they'll need to get along in the wider world.
Secondly, chances are that even people who don't have a 'bully' reaction to these social cues are going to have a negative reaction. Captain Misfit might not get bullied by his boss, but he just might get passed over for promotion in favour of that guy who looks like he sells used cars, and really reminds you of that actor from Boston Legal and now Human Target. Or of the guy that played Nathan in Heroes. Again, social training would help with this.
There are a *lot* of skills which used to get formal, systematic training, which no longer do. Basic life skills. Home economics, which is not to say cooking and cleaning, though that is a part, but also basic repair, budgeting, all the skills actually required to run a household. Social and etiquette. Interacting with the opposite sex. Some of this training was ejected for good reason, but a lot of it should still be taught, to both genders.
Really? I'd have thought the link would be the, oh, I don't know, submission being from the cofounder of Apple.
I went the Paragon route, and still managed to secure Zaheed's loyalty. That's what kind of game this is. I also appreciated that one of the 'paragon' responses was to slug him in the face and call him out.
It's the little inconsistancies. Like they say that the Galaxy has changed over to this new method over the last two years, but then you find a ship that crashed ten years ago, and has been out of contact ever since, and surprise! They drop heatsinks when killed.
Now, if, when out of heatsinks, the weapons reverted to the overheat method (possibly with a much shorter usable time, to reflect that instead of massive heatsinks, they have smaller ejectable ones) it would make sense. But me, I'd *vastly* prefer the ME1 style when going traipsing through the outer edges of the Galaxy.
I felt much the same way, I think. I never understood why people said this wasn't an RPG. Indeed, it's a more pure RPG than most. Simply because it forgoes stats and skills, doesn't mean you're not playing a role.
The Salarian game salesman even lampshades this when he laments the good old days of RPGs, when your character died if you didn't command him to drink water, and when travel from point a to point b took five hours of real time.
Nah, they were on an extra disc in the IRIX distro of 'cool shit that nobody will ever actually use.' Demos and weird little utilities and visualizers and stuff.
The Heavy Gear and Interstate '76 redbook tracks were also awesome.
I did read what you said. You posit that the movie is a 'what could have happened' if slaves had revolted. Nat Turner and all that.
The problem is, in the movie, the Robots aren't rising up due to a desire for freedom, a desire to rule, or a desire to enact vengeance. They're trying to protect humanity from itself. An example of which, as I pointed out, is that the robots in 'revolt' don't harm any humans who aren't actively resisting. Note the robot who attempts to gently persuade Will's mom to stay indoors where it's safe.
We also would have accepted 'UUCP'.
That's exactly how it worked, only instead of 'drink' it was 'analze.'
In this case, the plantiff claims he has direct, immediate, noticable physical reactions. Fine, lets test *his assertion.*
I agree, a blanket 'loser pays' is a bad idea. But requring emprical testing to prove an assertion is just basic.
The WHO did a study a while back where they locked a bunch of 'em allergics' into a room. Asked them how they were feeling. Turned on some wi-fi stuff. Asked them how they were feeling. 'Fine.' Turned it off, and told them they were now turning it on. Asked them how they were feeling. 'Headaches, nausea, it's horrible.' Told them they lied. Stunned silence.
The movie was take it or leave it; that said, Bryce Dallas Howard forgives all.
ALL.
Casino Royale with Craig was explicitly a reboot. Although I truly believe they should have also made it explicit that 'James Bond' is, indeed, an identity, which is assumed by a succession of agents.
Have a cameo by Pierce Brosnan, or Sean Connery, or something, as a contact who the current Bond has to get info from. Current-Bond shows up, and says 'the name's Bond' and the cameo goes '..James Bond. Yes, I know.'
Reboot Captain Power, get JMS back on, keep it as awesome as the original, and this time, keep on with the second season (and beyond.) That show was *not* a kids show. The episode with the plague kid, the episode with Pilot needing to infiltrate a Dread base, the finale....that was some damn fine television.
Sorry, I simply don't see that. I don't recall Black slaves, ethnically-cleansed American Indians, or such like, rising up in order to protect their White overlords from themselves.
I don't recall attempted counter-revolutions by happy Black slaves, outside of terrible minstrel shows and horribly butchered stage versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
No. Now, I for one *hate* the idea that every story ever told is either about race or religion, but this story could, much more convincingly, be cast as a Jesus story.
So long as it doesn't have it's own version of 'error: lpt1 on fire!,' we're good.
Now, I haven't seen the new Holmes movie, but I think alot of people don't give the Will Smith version of I, Robot the credit it deserves.
First, it's very much in keeping with the stories of the I, Robot book in two ways. First, it's an exploration of how the three laws might actually wind up working out. Second, it's a detective story. The original stories were all a robot acting, seemingly, against the laws, and somebody needing to figure out why. And usually, it wound up being that the humans simply wern't understanding how the rules worked in a given situation.
Second, the movie really does explore some interesting ideas. Will's character being bitter that a robot followed the rules, resulting in the death of a child. A robot reasoning that in order to keep humanity safe, humanity has to be controlled. Note that the 'evil' robots never ever raise a hand to any human who isn't actively resisting, for example. Or with Sonny, the idea that a genius or a revoluationary is somebody able to break free of the thinking of their contemporaries. Or, when he's going to be reformatted, the idea of 'what is sentience? What is life?' If Sonny walks, acts, and quacks like a duck, is he a duck? If he walks, acts, and thinks like a human, or even appears to, does he have the same basic worth or status as a human? The 'Can you compose a symphony?' 'No, detective. Can you?' line was beautiful.
I'm not saying it's a masterpiece for the ages or anything, but it's a perfectly good film, raises (or restates) some interesting issues, and isn't completely un-Asimovish.
The PSP CPU was locked down, and slowly unlocked over time. This is as opposed to later versions of the PSP having double the RAM, but half was reserved for caching.
There was also a big do when the T2 special edition first came out. Some were DVD-18, some were two DVD-9 discs. Arguments ranged from the problems some players had with DVD-18 discs to preferring the two disc version, as then you had art on the DVDs.
CAV versus vs CLV might be more apropos here.
Nah, you didn't sit around till after the credits to read the epilogue. 'After the Corporate workers returned to Earth, with their tales (and videos, and other documented evidence) of a violent Native uprising, complete with gruesome photos of soldiers impaled with spears, arrows in throats, and one heartbreaking picture of a solider holding his buddy's bleeding corpse, which went into the history books with the photo of the flag on Suribachi, the naked Vietnamese child running from the napalmed village, and other such photos, a full military expedition was mounted. Six years later, the ships arrived back at Pandora, and after half an hour of precise kinetic bombardment, the Na'vi were no longer an issue, and Unobtanium output doubled.'
He should have used Rock Band. It already has light display codes built in to each song, and the protocols have been documented by the modding community.