Tomb Raider: Legends is one of the easiest games I've played recently. I beat it on the hardest difficulty setting in about 20 hours of total playtime, and that was with me exploring around to find all the little artifacts.
Go try out Ninja Gaiden: Black on the XBox and you'll see what hard is.
Define "too easy" in this context. Have you seen uninsightful, uninteresting, uninformative comments modded up only for PS3 bashing? Better meta-moderate then eh?
How many NES or SNES games did you have? My brothers and I had a couple dozen on each system. That's not too tough to recreate with Nintendo's current pricing.
Just think, for the price of an XBox 360 game you can get 12 NES games, 7 SNES games, or 6 N64 games. That seems pretty good to me.
New technology? PS2? The PS2 was released at least a couple years after the DVD mass market started. The PS3 is trying to *start* the Bluray market. Big difference.
Same here. Love games, love gaming, I play some sort of video game (Xbox, Gamecube, DS) every day (mostly DS lately). I haven't bought an XBox 360. I was moderately interested, but while waiting for a system to become available I thought that surely a really "must have" game would have shown up for the system. Well, the systems are available but I haven't seen a single XBox 360 game that I really have to play. "Dead Rising" was almost there, but then I played it for a while in a store and didn't think it was enough to buy a system for. Halo 3 will probably seal the deal though.
But consider the Wii, and I'm heavily anticipating every single game for it. From Wii Sports to Zelda to Excitetruck to Rayman. I want it all and I can't wait to play it.
I'll come clean, I've had more than a couple menial jobs (food industry, retail, loan processor). The kind of jobs where you go in, churn away the hours, and go home burned out by the sheer enormous power of the stupidity of the masses.
I, and most of my male co-workers, would all decompress by playing videogames; usually for hours. If you worked a retail night shift and your job depended on keeping an hour sales average up (at The Sharper Image you have to sell an average of $100/hour each month) you can't be getting tired. Most people would alter their schedules to fit with an evening work time, but also in the world o' retail you get variable shifts. You could work three mornings and four nights one week, five nights and one morning, etc. etc. (Ditto for restaurants, but the shifts were generally more stable.) The solution is caffeine.
By the time that we'd get out of work at 10pm or so we'd still be wired from our last coffee or other caffeine beverage. Some would go clubbing. Most would be too tired to party, to hyper to sleep. The perfect niche for videogaming.
Now that I have a semi-normal job, a wife, a house to maintain, a two hour a day commute, and generally a life I do have less time for video games. But even so I still find time for a little gaming every night, more on the weekends, and prolonged multi-hour session every other weekend or so.
It's not like these dogs are running around and depositing fur everywhere, they really do pretty much just sit there while the harness is on.
I can understand your perception since I've never had any allergies. But I am married to someone with pretty severe allergies and asthma and I can honestly tell you that it doesn't matter if the animal is sitting still, locked in a room separated from the one we're in, or even just an occasional visitor the area: the allergens are still there and can suprisingly quickly make people with allergies surprisingly miserable.
Plus think about the dog! It's supposed to "just sit there" for large portions of the day?
I've never heard anyone agree with another post so vehemently and antagonistically. Let an impartial 3rd party weigh in:
1. The original post did not state or imply open source was the only solution for our voting woes. 2. Your assertion that a paper trail is needed is correct, but only reiterates what the original poster was saying. 3. Your misreading of the original post, apparently thinking because of its analogy to MS and closed-source software that it was saying that open source, is an understandable mistake. 4. You should just accept your misreading and move on?
I am glad to see such emphatic preaching of the paper trail necessity though. Now if only Congress would listen.
If you ever see a Volkswagen with the letters "TDI" on the back, it's a diesel. And those letters are the only difference you'd ever notice if you weren't driving/filling up the car.
My wife and I drive a Volkswagen TDI Wagon and, unless they knew beforehand, our friends/family/neighbors (even passengers) are always surprised to find out it's a diesel.
Various attempts have been made by engineers to overcome the house edge through predicting the mechanical performance of the wheel, most notably by Joseph Jagger, the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo in 1873. These schemes work by determining that the ball is more likely to fall at certain numbers. Claude Shannon, a mathematician and computer scientist best known for his contributions to information theory, built arguably the first wearable computer to do so in 1961.
To try to prevent exploits like this, the casinos monitor the performance of their wheels, and rebalance and realign them regularly to try to keep the result of the spins as random as possible.
More recently Thomas Bass, in his book The Newtonian Casino 1991, has claimed to be able to predict wheel performance in real time. He is also the author of The Eudaemonic Pie, which describes the exploits of a group of computer hackers, who called themselves the Eudaemons, who in the late 1970s used computers in their shoes to win at roulette by predicting where the ball would fall.
In the early 1990s, Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo used a computer to model the tendencies of the roulette wheels at the Casino de Madrid in Madrid, Spain. Betting the most likely numbers, along with members of his family, he was able to win over one million dollars over a period of several years. A court ruled in his favor when the legality of his strategy was challenged by the casino.
In 2004, it was reported that a group in London had used mobile cameraphones to predict the path of the ball, a cheating technique called sector targeting. In December 2004 court adjudged that they didn't cheat because their special laser cameraphone and microchip weren't influencing the ball - they kept all £1.3m.
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Tomb Raider: Legends is one of the easiest games I've played recently. I beat it on the hardest difficulty setting in about 20 hours of total playtime, and that was with me exploring around to find all the little artifacts.
Go try out Ninja Gaiden: Black on the XBox and you'll see what hard is.
So a some superficial impressions are good enough to characterize a huge subset of the population?
Forget the kids, I already worry about the "adults" enough.
Define "too easy" in this context. Have you seen uninsightful, uninteresting, uninformative comments modded up only for PS3 bashing? Better meta-moderate then eh?
How many NES or SNES games did you have? My brothers and I had a couple dozen on each system. That's not too tough to recreate with Nintendo's current pricing.
Just think, for the price of an XBox 360 game you can get 12 NES games, 7 SNES games, or 6 N64 games. That seems pretty good to me.
Just because an illegal act makes them more money in the long run doesn't make any less illegal. You don't get to decide how they share their music.
Oh, gosh. I don't know.
paper
the printing press
and moveable type
gunpowder
the compass
What, pray tell, was the point of that movie? It was mildly amusing at points, but I don't see why it gathered such a rabid fanbase.
No. But Apple also didn't have a string of failed online music stores behind them.
I don't understand how you go from "MS Music Store: Failed", to "Different MS Music Store+Zune: Success" without a significant leap of faith.
Bush has a point? What point?
-- Curious
No such luck: Titanic 2 [trailer]
Here in NC the cost of a PS3 could easily be a month's mortgage payment.
New technology? PS2? The PS2 was released at least a couple years after the DVD mass market started. The PS3 is trying to *start* the Bluray market. Big difference.
I'm 28, does that count?
Of course I feel like a nerd playing it too. One woman on the bus asked me where I got my neat looking PDA.
It may not be "targetting" me. But I'm certainly not a casual gamer and this is my most anticipated system since the SNES.
Same here. Love games, love gaming, I play some sort of video game (Xbox, Gamecube, DS) every day (mostly DS lately). I haven't bought an XBox 360. I was moderately interested, but while waiting for a system to become available I thought that surely a really "must have" game would have shown up for the system. Well, the systems are available but I haven't seen a single XBox 360 game that I really have to play. "Dead Rising" was almost there, but then I played it for a while in a store and didn't think it was enough to buy a system for. Halo 3 will probably seal the deal though.
But consider the Wii, and I'm heavily anticipating every single game for it. From Wii Sports to Zelda to Excitetruck to Rayman. I want it all and I can't wait to play it.
You don't see a WWII "extermination camp simulator" do you?
Whoa, good idea. I see that fitting right into the "Tycoon" style of gaming.
Grammatical error, phrasing doesn't parse: "grip against"
Recommended change, based on "against": "gripe" (alpha)
Logically tenuous: your big grip against the commercials is your assumptions about the people in them
Note: they are protesting the tobacco companies business practices, not the people who smoke
Assumption: a snotty college kid smoking weed and doing shots in a parents-bought-it BMW cut you off in traffic today
I'll come clean, I've had more than a couple menial jobs (food industry, retail, loan processor). The kind of jobs where you go in, churn away the hours, and go home burned out by the sheer enormous power of the stupidity of the masses.
I, and most of my male co-workers, would all decompress by playing videogames; usually for hours. If you worked a retail night shift and your job depended on keeping an hour sales average up (at The Sharper Image you have to sell an average of $100/hour each month) you can't be getting tired. Most people would alter their schedules to fit with an evening work time, but also in the world o' retail you get variable shifts. You could work three mornings and four nights one week, five nights and one morning, etc. etc. (Ditto for restaurants, but the shifts were generally more stable.) The solution is caffeine.
By the time that we'd get out of work at 10pm or so we'd still be wired from our last coffee or other caffeine beverage. Some would go clubbing. Most would be too tired to party, to hyper to sleep. The perfect niche for videogaming.
Now that I have a semi-normal job, a wife, a house to maintain, a two hour a day commute, and generally a life I do have less time for video games. But even so I still find time for a little gaming every night, more on the weekends, and prolonged multi-hour session every other weekend or so.
It's not like these dogs are running around and depositing fur everywhere, they really do pretty much just sit there while the harness is on.
I can understand your perception since I've never had any allergies. But I am married to someone with pretty severe allergies and asthma and I can honestly tell you that it doesn't matter if the animal is sitting still, locked in a room separated from the one we're in, or even just an occasional visitor the area: the allergens are still there and can suprisingly quickly make people with allergies surprisingly miserable.
Plus think about the dog! It's supposed to "just sit there" for large portions of the day?
Dog + office = horrible idea.
I've never heard anyone agree with another post so vehemently and antagonistically. Let an impartial 3rd party weigh in:
1. The original post did not state or imply open source was the only solution for our voting woes.
2. Your assertion that a paper trail is needed is correct, but only reiterates what the original poster was saying.
3. Your misreading of the original post, apparently thinking because of its analogy to MS and closed-source software that it was saying that open source, is an understandable mistake.
4. You should just accept your misreading and move on?
I am glad to see such emphatic preaching of the paper trail necessity though. Now if only Congress would listen.
If you ever see a Volkswagen with the letters "TDI" on the back, it's a diesel. And those letters are the only difference you'd ever notice if you weren't driving/filling up the car.
My wife and I drive a Volkswagen TDI Wagon and, unless they knew beforehand, our friends/family/neighbors (even passengers) are always surprised to find out it's a diesel.
Errors detected:
Fundamental misunderstanding of statistics.
Fundamental flaws in logic.
Suggested action:
Research.
statistics
rhetorical debate
political debate
2004 election results
2004 and 2000 exit poll results compared to respective offical results
pre-2000 exit polls results compared to respective offical results
Amusing note:
Second sentence describes poster.
We just had one, the 2004 election. Or are you saying that Kerry was far left?
That's a good one.
Also read the Eudaemonic Pie
More info from Wikipedia's roulette article (betting strategies and tactics):