You sir, have obviously never gone into a room in Castle Wolfenstein (the *original* Castle Wolfenstein) to woefully discover an SS Trooper waiting for you. They would scream some Atari rendered gibberish german and then begin to methodically chase you from room to room until you are dead, or they are dead, you are alive, but your heartrate is still pegging at 200 bpm.
The void you are imagining has been well filled by XBox 360 achievement points. If you are competing with your friends and family on points, It's not enough to finish the game you have to finish it with style (and do a bunch of other crazy or hard things). The best thing is, when you actually do that crazy/insane/hard thing to win the points, everyone sees it! Instant proof that you really did it!
...have the characters more heavily coloured than the background (done very nicely by Spielberg in Schindlers' list with a red child on b&w background)...
...reason that there is famine in african countries are megacorporations that screw the hell outta them through installed puppet dictators, and the roadside gangs and thugs seizing the food aid thats being sent there as a result. NOT MONKEYS OR DROUGHT.
So you argue that their only food supply is food which is given to them? That drought has zero effect on their food supply? Do you have any idea of how farming works? Where do you think your food comes from? A fairy field full of magic?
yay praise for those of you you gun-owning, harley-driving, badass-wannabee excuses of evolution, that post those morondom, those who ever did not see what actualy "badassness" in a real military service while being trained to kill. maybe we should shoot you instead first, to aid mankind's evolution
You also seem to have a slightly off concept of how evolution works. There are no 'wannabee excuses of evolution'. Every single one of us is a last link in a chain of ancestry going back millions of years. Every single one of our direct ancestors if ever given the choice between the death of their line and the death of another's, choose themselves and their descendants. Given the choice between them eating enough to survive and killing the animals stealing their food, the choice is easy.
Of course, to me, it seems that the group has been placed in a situation that requires social evolution, if they are capable of it. The solution is obviously that the men (who the monkeys are afraid of) should work the fields and the women should do whatever the men do.
What, you think physicists just came up with superstring theory because they were bored one day? String theory is an attempt to theorize the *evidence* unaccounted for by other theories on the workings of the universe.
It's called plot. While I'd be the first to agree that we have been burned by video game 'plots' before, I truly believe that the medium does have serious potential for engaging story.
Examples: 'Eternal Darkness', 'Final Fantasy 3', 'Galatea', 'Psychonauts', 'The Longest Journey'
China is a fascist dictatorship? Since when? Who is the dictator? Elections are not a part of a dictatorship!
When was China ever fascist? Ok, you should make a case for Qin Shi Huangdi, but he was uniting a empire after all. China was imperial until the early 1900's, then chaotic and nominally governed by chief warlord Yuan Shikai (but he was more military despot than fascist dictator), then went into the civil war of PRC vs. GMD, then came the Mao years (please don't tell me you think Mao was fascist!), then the modern Chinese capitalist government. Yes, I say capitalist because although they call themselves Communist, they aren't in any way anything but capitalist. China as a culture is so capitalist that it turned communism into capitalism!
I'll let you in on it, I'm not actually confused but pointing out that the show had a huge fanbase before it was cancelled. Lucky for us Family Guy fans, Fox got addicted to putting out everything on DVD and the bean counters noticed what hit the top of the charts.
GP means that since you have a high user id, you must be too young to associate the phrase with MIT instead of UHF. Theory is, an older person would have heard the MIT quote first; a younger person would have heard the UHF quote first. Your reply demonstrates that the GP made a correct assumption.
On another note, etymology is weird to you? Only interested in the here and now eh?
Oh well, since you didn't ask:
To bite the bullet is 1700s military slang, from old medical custom of having the patient bite a bullet during an operation to divert attention from pain and reduce screaming. To bite (one's) tongue "refrain from speaking" is 1593. To bite the dust "die" is 1750. To bite off more than one can chew (c.1880) is U.S. slang, from plug tobacco. - http://dictionary.reference.com/cite.html?qh=BITE& ia=etymon
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Exactly the opposite. Most Joes think that HD-DVD and DVD are one and the same. Now Blu-Ray...that's futuretastic!
All your argument says is that EA shouldn't be charging $60 for 1) games that needs micropayments to unlock all content, 2) games that have only minor differences to prior version.
What about all the new content out there? Crackdown, The Darkness, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, Conan, etc? Aren't they worth it? I, for one, am quite grateful that the video game companies haven't followed inflation and think $60 is great compared to $90 or $100 games!
Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett are back making fun of crappy movies again in a new incarnation called The Film Crew.
Reading comprehension? When one sees "[people] are back "making fun of crappy movies" again in a new incarnation called [newtitle]" isn't it obvious that "[oldtitle] is back" refers to the described concept of "making fun of crappy movies"?
Call of Cthulhu anyone? Kick ass mashup of a bunch of Lovecraft stories? It's the only game besides 'Fatal Frame 2' that fills me with a terrifying sense of impending doom while I play it. Good story too.
Who ever argued Babylon 5 vs. Firefly? Two completely different shows aired at completely different times. It was "Deep Space Nine" vs. "Babylon 5" (both scifi shows about a space station and a Big War) and Cowboy Bebop (or Outlaw Star) vs. Firefly (all three western+scifi series).
All things on blogs are, as a rule, blog entries. This means that we, as readers, assume that: there was no editorial oversight, no fact checking done by someone other than the author, there is personal bias.
Of course, any sane person should assume the same three things about any news source. But the big difference between a real article and a blog entry article is that with a genuine article we can assume that the writer at least writes well enough to earn at least a partial living from writing, and someone is accountable if the article is a complete fabrication which gives it more credence.
So sorry, but calling an entry you wrote on your own blog an 'article' is like calling someone using Lulu a published author. Technically true, but realistically not.
High five digits are a low UID now? I thought *I* was late to the party. When slashdot first introduced user registration I was like, why?, for a couple months.
But still, when someone reads 700 watt hours surely they comprehend that's can be expressed as 100 watts times seven hours, ya? Eh.
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How has the Finder *not* improved significantly with each new OS?
You sir, have obviously never gone into a room in Castle Wolfenstein (the *original* Castle Wolfenstein) to woefully discover an SS Trooper waiting for you. They would scream some Atari rendered gibberish german and then begin to methodically chase you from room to room until you are dead, or they are dead, you are alive, but your heartrate is still pegging at 200 bpm.
The void you are imagining has been well filled by XBox 360 achievement points. If you are competing with your friends and family on points, It's not enough to finish the game you have to finish it with style (and do a bunch of other crazy or hard things). The best thing is, when you actually do that crazy/insane/hard thing to win the points, everyone sees it! Instant proof that you really did it!
As an example, check out the achievement point list for Dead Rising: http://www.achieve360points.com/game/deadrising/
or for Defender: http://www.achieve360points.com/game/defender/
or for Pac-Man: http://www.achieve360points.com/game/pacman/ (hardest: eat four ghosts four times in one stage)
Yes, some achievements you get just by playing the game. But many you really have to struggle and achieve game mastery to accomplish.
...have the characters more heavily coloured than the background (done very nicely by Spielberg in Schindlers' list with a red child on b&w background)...
Good ol' Spielburg, subtle as a sledgehammer.
...reason that there is famine in african countries are megacorporations that screw the hell outta them through installed puppet dictators, and the roadside gangs and thugs seizing the food aid thats being sent there as a result. NOT MONKEYS OR DROUGHT.
So you argue that their only food supply is food which is given to them? That drought has zero effect on their food supply? Do you have any idea of how farming works? Where do you think your food comes from? A fairy field full of magic?
yay praise for those of you you gun-owning, harley-driving, badass-wannabee excuses of evolution, that post those morondom, those who ever did not see what actualy "badassness" in a real military service while being trained to kill. maybe we should shoot you instead first, to aid mankind's evolution
You also seem to have a slightly off concept of how evolution works. There are no 'wannabee excuses of evolution'. Every single one of us is a last link in a chain of ancestry going back millions of years. Every single one of our direct ancestors if ever given the choice between the death of their line and the death of another's, choose themselves and their descendants. Given the choice between them eating enough to survive and killing the animals stealing their food, the choice is easy.
Of course, to me, it seems that the group has been placed in a situation that requires social evolution, if they are capable of it. The solution is obviously that the men (who the monkeys are afraid of) should work the fields and the women should do whatever the men do.
What, you think physicists just came up with superstring theory because they were bored one day? String theory is an attempt to theorize the *evidence* unaccounted for by other theories on the workings of the universe.
It's called plot. While I'd be the first to agree that we have been burned by video game 'plots' before, I truly believe that the medium does have serious potential for engaging story.
Examples: 'Eternal Darkness', 'Final Fantasy 3', 'Galatea', 'Psychonauts', 'The Longest Journey'
China is a fascist dictatorship? Since when? Who is the dictator? Elections are not a part of a dictatorship!
When was China ever fascist? Ok, you should make a case for Qin Shi Huangdi, but he was uniting a empire after all. China was imperial until the early 1900's, then chaotic and nominally governed by chief warlord Yuan Shikai (but he was more military despot than fascist dictator), then went into the civil war of PRC vs. GMD, then came the Mao years (please don't tell me you think Mao was fascist!), then the modern Chinese capitalist government. Yes, I say capitalist because although they call themselves Communist, they aren't in any way anything but capitalist. China as a culture is so capitalist that it turned communism into capitalism!
anyone who analyses the literature will hate neuromancer and most other cyberpunk as well.
Incorrect. My wife has a masters in English and she informs me that Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash' is part of what they call 'the literary canon'.
I'll let you in on it, I'm not actually confused but pointing out that the show had a huge fanbase before it was cancelled. Lucky for us Family Guy fans, Fox got addicted to putting out everything on DVD and the bean counters noticed what hit the top of the charts.
GP means that since you have a high user id, you must be too young to associate the phrase with MIT instead of UHF. Theory is, an older person would have heard the MIT quote first; a younger person would have heard the UHF quote first. Your reply demonstrates that the GP made a correct assumption.
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On another note, etymology is weird to you? Only interested in the here and now eh?
Oh well, since you didn't ask:
To bite the bullet is 1700s military slang, from old medical custom of having the patient bite a bullet during an operation to divert attention from pain and reduce screaming. To bite (one's) tongue "refrain from speaking" is 1593. To bite the dust "die" is 1750. To bite off more than one can chew (c.1880) is U.S. slang, from plug tobacco. - http://dictionary.reference.com/cite.html?qh=BITE
Exactly the opposite. Most Joes think that HD-DVD and DVD are one and the same. Now Blu-Ray...that's futuretastic!
It sucks because I went with HD-DVD.
Then who bought the DVDs and watched it on Cartoon Network?
Nah, the GP must mean the United States and China
Just because you haven't played them, doesn't mean they don't exist you insensitive clod! Just off the top of my head:
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Eternal Darkness - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Darkness:_Sa
Indigo Prophecy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(video_ga
Still Life - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_Life_(video_ga
Dreamfall - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamfall
So call it 'Tech Support' day or whatever instead of limiting the name of the day to a subset of the job!
And when Street Fighter II came out on the SNES it was (at Toys r' Us) $75 dollars.
All your argument says is that EA shouldn't be charging $60 for 1) games that needs micropayments to unlock all content, 2) games that have only minor differences to prior version.
What about all the new content out there? Crackdown, The Darkness, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, Conan, etc? Aren't they worth it? I, for one, am quite grateful that the video game companies haven't followed inflation and think $60 is great compared to $90 or $100 games!
So you've really already seen every movie in the rifftrax catalog? Even 'Crossroads' and 'Glitter'?
Reading comprehension? When one sees "[people] are back "making fun of crappy movies" again in a new incarnation called [newtitle]" isn't it obvious that "[oldtitle] is back" refers to the described concept of "making fun of crappy movies"?
If you don't possess the skills, you can be part of the crowd of people who admire. Don't you see that there is a role for everyone?
Call of Cthulhu anyone? Kick ass mashup of a bunch of Lovecraft stories? It's the only game besides 'Fatal Frame 2' that fills me with a terrifying sense of impending doom while I play it. Good story too.
Who ever argued Babylon 5 vs. Firefly? Two completely different shows aired at completely different times. It was "Deep Space Nine" vs. "Babylon 5" (both scifi shows about a space station and a Big War) and Cowboy Bebop (or Outlaw Star) vs. Firefly (all three western+scifi series).
All things on blogs are, as a rule, blog entries. This means that we, as readers, assume that: there was no editorial oversight, no fact checking done by someone other than the author, there is personal bias.
Of course, any sane person should assume the same three things about any news source. But the big difference between a real article and a blog entry article is that with a genuine article we can assume that the writer at least writes well enough to earn at least a partial living from writing, and someone is accountable if the article is a complete fabrication which gives it more credence.
So sorry, but calling an entry you wrote on your own blog an 'article' is like calling someone using Lulu a published author. Technically true, but realistically not.
High five digits are a low UID now? I thought *I* was late to the party. When slashdot first introduced user registration I was like, why?, for a couple months.
But still, when someone reads 700 watt hours surely they comprehend that's can be expressed as 100 watts times seven hours, ya? Eh.