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  1. Re:Huh? on Yahoo! Answers, A Librarian's Worst Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Never visited a reference desk in your life eh?

    Free research help and answers to almost any question from a reliable (e.g. quotable source), FTW!

  2. Re:No! on $999 For a Complete DNA Scan, Worth it? · · Score: 1

    When planning for the worst, it is helpful to know what you are planning for.

  3. Re:As usual, only CONSOLE games on Twelve Game Music Tracks Worth Keeping · · Score: 1

    Link to listen to the Outlaws theme:

    http://soundtracks.mixnmojo.com/outl.htm

  4. Re:As usual, only CONSOLE games on Twelve Game Music Tracks Worth Keeping · · Score: 1
  5. Re:No! on $999 For a Complete DNA Scan, Worth it? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, for you, information about potential problems leads to worry. Interesting. Would it not help to plan for the worst and live for the best?

  6. Re:Sounds like an extension of 'Achievements' on On the Moral Consequences of Gaming · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Commenting to undo incorrect comment mod, Thanks new /. moderation system!

  7. Re:This scan would make "House" episodes... on New Super Scanner Can Scan Body in Under a Minute · · Score: 2, Informative

    I picked three random episodes from the first and fourth seasons. Both seasons had a mixture of D's to B's in the 'medicine' category. The 'soap opera' category is consistently high (even noted in the first episode review). It seems that the show has always known its true focus is on the character dynamic, not the medicine.

  8. Re:Missing the point on IT's Love-Hate Relationship With Laptops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That seems an excessive reaction to a lack of laptops.

    Wah no laptop => horribly unmotivated? Something tells me that these "laptop motivated" people aren't worth the money.

  9. Re:Careful on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 1

    I would suggest that this lexicon book "drives traffic" to the harry potter books.

    Even if your suggestion is correct, just because something is beneficial doesn't mean that it's legal!

    Also, Rowling has already stated that she'll be releasing an encyclopedia of the HP universe. Can you see how sales of that could be negatively influenced by this lexicon?

  10. Re:Requested Patch for Slashdot on Backing Up Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Hell no! I'm not going to wait until my current body is at death's door before doing a critical backup! I will maintain many incremental backups and a few key complete backups. Every year on my birthday I will go through a complete transfer to a clone body. Don't leave something this important to chance at the last minute!

  11. Re:And not to forget... on US Sees Blockbuster Games Release Week · · Score: 1

    You must have something defective in your XBox360. Mine runs at 1080p.

    Do you have the latest system update? That is, the system update that upped the max resolution from 1080i to 1080p that came out quite a few months ago?

  12. Re:Young earth on Evidence of Historical Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis · · Score: 1

    No no, the universe *has* to be running some variant of Unix. That's why it's so difficult for us processes to analyze the box. If we were on a Windows system then we'd just be able to tear a hole in the sky and look at the code.

  13. Re:The FA is -1 stupid on Why the US Consumer Doesn't Deserve A Decent Robot · · Score: 1

    Right. Just to a cube.

  14. Re:I'm gonna have my own uprising! on Why the US Consumer Doesn't Deserve A Decent Robot · · Score: 1

    and the blackjack!

  15. Re:Short term gain, but long term...? on New Parental Controls Limit Xbox Time · · Score: 1

    If you, a (I assume) adult male want to spend your free time playing Hello Kitty Island Adventure and when your friend comes over to play Tiger Woods and see your time played on the other game.. where does the parenting come in?


    Where does the problem come in?

    "Oh no! My friend saw that I was playing a girls game! Wah!"

    ?
  16. Re:They do the same with a dog.. on Robot Becomes One of the Kids · · Score: 1

    Or with stuffed animal.

  17. Re:Flash vs Orange Version on What Are The Best Free Games Online? · · Score: 1

    The flash version has absolutely none of the hilarious (and, at time, disturbing) dialog and plot that the real game has. The puzzles and game mechanic in Portal are a sidebar to the utter awesomeness of the writing. Everything that makes Portal, Portal is completely lacking in the flash version.

    Also the flash version is buggy as hell. The third time I fell through several floors instead of going through the portal I closed it forever.

  18. Re:Base? on Brains Hard-Wired for Math · · Score: 1

    If we used our fists we could count in base-12. Although showing a fist to the guy you want to buy one sheep from could be misinterpreted. :-/

  19. Re:Rendering Power on Excuse Me, Your Cut Scene is In My Game · · Score: 1

    Crimminy. This is valid for ANY game. The rails are still just as much there for any other game. I submit that Super Mario World has just as much freedom, you just get bored a lot faster.

    If, by freedom, you mean the ability to dive away from the plot into inanity then the ruler has got to be Ultima VII. You could not only completely abandon the quest, but take up and progress in many profitable jobs from blacksmithing, to carting goods and produce, to baking, to piracy.

  20. Re:Rendering Power on Excuse Me, Your Cut Scene is In My Game · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Please, enlighten us to a game that isn't "basically on rails". Many games hide the rails very well, but all games are on them.

  21. Re:F Globalization! on Valve Locking Out Gamers Who Buy Orange Box Internationally · · Score: 1

    So buy it without using steam already!

    That is, for the XBox360. Sure you have to transition from keyboard+mouse to dual analog but after that you get your non-lockable games.

    I made the controller transition from 2001 to 2003 and haven't looked back. Seriously, I can't imagine using the mouse for look anymore. Unless you're playing an FPS where you are some kind of robot no human can make the radical shifts in orientation and direction possible with a mouse and still aim a gun. Especially different for WWII games. I went from being some kind of unstoppable uber-killer who can kill five enemies in five different directions so a regular guy just trying to survive.

  22. Photopia, Blue Chairs on On Provoking Emotions Via Games · · Score: 1

    Yes, they are both text adventures. But they also happen to be two of the most moving stories I have read, played, or watched.

    Photopia

    Blue Chairs

  23. Re:Jesus Christ in a Chicken Basket on NC State Creates Most Powerful Positron Beam Ever · · Score: 1

    Amusing.

    Your first post:

    Honestly, stealing reactor materials from the Pulstar probably wouldn't be that hard.

    Your second post (after show stopping rebuttal of your claims):

    1. I didn't say it would be easy, I said it would be possible.

  24. Re:Zero risk committee thinking on Games All Downhill Since Pong? · · Score: 1

    Nolan is a product of the Golden Age. That's why he's disappointed with today's games. Innovation was the thing back then. A half a dozen mad mavericks could easily turn the world upside down with a really great idea.


    I think you should read up on the development of Portal.
  25. Re:come on on On Provoking Emotions Via Games · · Score: 1

    No Floyd! We can find another way!

    Nooooooo!