But a good story can't save a game with terrible gameplay.
Counterexample: Interactive Fiction (Infocom) games. Of course I don't think their gameplay is "terrible", but it is certainly lackluster for most people when compared with graphical games.
Unless they make the wireless connection visible to the human eye, how will the cute girl know who belongs to "WheresMyDingo iPod Playlist"? Will there be some kind of description field so you can say: "WheresMyDingo iPod Playlist":"Location: Seat E2"?
If you want to get one and your spouse gives you a wary eye, go get it and get Brain Age at the same time. You'll be a hero. But you may wind up arguing who gets to play with it.
Just out of curiosity, could you list all twelve for me? Don't worry about numbering them (unless you have that info readily available), and simple descriptions of the characters would be fine as well.
e.g.
Sharon/Boomer the 'doctor' on Caprica the guy they left behind on the weapons station the guy the president blew out the airlock etc.
Life on Earth is fundamentally the same. All of it. Everywhere. In a very real sense, we all share the same basic blueprint and the same drive to serve as hosts for the reproduction of DNA.
But I'm at work so I'll just leave you with this link and its text.
This is a very good question. there are lots of differences between animal & plant DNA, but what they are depends on at what you are looking. Chemically, plant, human, animal, bacteria, fungi, and even many viruses have identical DNA. DNA is composed of a backbone made from deoxyribose (A sugar) and phosphate. The individual base pairs that encode the genetic information are adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine (AGCT). A base pairs with T, and G base pairs with C, which defines specificity for DNA, and allows one strand to direct the replication of an exact complementary strand, so an organism can make another set of DNA and divide/reproduce. This was elegently demonstrated by Meselson & Stahl, a observation for which they recieved a Nobel Prize, and it agreed perfectly with the Watson & Crick model of DNA.
So, in many ways, structurally, chemically, and in the nature of reproduction/synthesis, plant DNA and animal DNA are very similar, if not identical. So much so, that when we place genes from plants and animals inside of bacteria, they will often follow those instructions and produce a foreign protein instead. This is how human insulin for the treatment of diabetes is produced in a bacteria.
The main difference between plant and animal DNA is in the organization of genes and the size of the total genome, or how many base pairs of DNA the organism has. As a rule, plants tend to have much larger genomes than their animal counterparts, and they have a lerger portion of garbage and intron DNA. Very few genes are present in this DNA, and it tends to contain regions that are spliced out, or perhaps serve a structural role in the shape, packing, and placement of the genome.
In terms of size for example, the human genome contains about 3-4 billion base pairs of DNA, whereas corn or maize, is perhaps a less complex organism contains a similar number of base pairs. Some pine trees and lilly plants contain 10-100 times as much DNA as a human, most of which does not appear to encode any genes.
The manner in which DNA is chemically modified in the cell is different in plants and animals. Although many of the same modifications occur in both plants and animals, such as adding methyl (CH3) groups to the DNA, occurs under different circumstances or for different reasons.
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An avid reader reads *everything*. I am an avid reader, I will read anything by anyone as long as I can understand it (and sometimes even if I can't, e.g. foreign language books).
"Or a Linux network admin telling a Windows network admin that he's not a "real" admin."
I actually agree with that one.
Have you tried George R. R. Martin?
How about the others on my "classics" list? 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is an amazing work.
It depresses me when someone says that they are passionate about reading and then cites Goodkind as their very first example.
Step 4.5: Only buy music from independent label distributors (i.e. CD Baby).
Why does everyone always forget the best place in the world to buy music. You'd think being the best and all that would help them stick in people's minds.
How about some Faulkner, or Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or Dickens, or Fitzgerald, or Melville, or Mo Yan?
Or even some poetry? e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Elliot?
You know, real reading? Goodkind and others have their place, but hardly qualifies one as an 'avid' reader. Otherwise why not say, "Yeah I'm an avid reader, I read TV Guide every week!"
It gets even better milage if you get it with the TDI (diesel) engine. Added bonus: it can run biodiesel!
My wife and I have a Jetta Wagon TDI (because you can't get a passat with a manual transmission) and *love* it. 40+ mpg and we burn biodiesel whenever we can. Luckily we live near Piedmont Biofuels. We get an average of ~44 mpg but hit about 50-51 on road trips.
I'm also on the tall side, 6'2". Driving and riding in the driver's passenger is fine, but the back seats are a bit cramped for tall people. The wagon is best suited for two adults, 2-3 kids, and lots of cargo space; or two adults and lots and lots of cargo space.
In CoC the neat game mechanic was that the *character* was going insane. But with Eternal Darkness the game breaks the fourth wall and makes you think that *you* (yes, you the *player*) are going insane. That's why no one can talk about the effects without spoiling them for future players. The trick only works if you don't expect it.
The thing is that you can say that about ANYTHING. Isn't it equally wastefull to go to a bar and drink beer and play pool with your friends? Afterall, what good comes from it, ultimately?
Why stop there? Everything, absolutely everything, you perceive is an interpretation of electrical data by an organ within your skull. From the moment you become conscious to the moment you stop, you are entirely within that shell. All you can really accomplish is to change those electrical impulses.
Vastly different? In your dreams of deluded grandeur my slashdot friend, in your dreams of deluded grandeur.
Oh oh! MY lifetime is the most different and radically changed evAr! Absolutely nothing like it has come along ever before!
Yes our ability to inflict damage has increased, but so has our population. Consider that the death we can cause has grown in proportion with our numbers.
Nature has always been a larger force than the human mind. Volcanos, asteroids, infectious diseases, supervolancos, etc. all could wipe out far more humans than we could ever dream to. We flatter ourselves with the belief that we could do more.
Google is at worst much much much less evil than most companies. That's fine by me.
I don't care about eBay auctions. If eBay doesn't sign on, then I'll use another auction site that does.
I don't understand your last argument. Everything sucks now so it will suck forever? That's kind of what I thought about all webmail services until GMail came along.
Sounds good to me. Just tie that into the car's black box so that only the last five (or whatever) minutes of video are stored and only accessible by non-trivial means.
Hmm, if this could somehow track good driving (stopping fully at every stop sign, before a right turn on red, properly signaling, etc) and reduce your insurance rates for a significant good driving track record (and vice versa) that would be pretty awesome.
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Counterexample: Interactive Fiction (Infocom) games. Of course I don't think their gameplay is "terrible", but it is certainly lackluster for most people when compared with graphical games.
Wow. You could be going two ways with that commment.
Insightful comment on the hidden quality of scifi acting?
Banal association of the assumption of bad scifi acting and poorly written playboy articles?
Unless they make the wireless connection visible to the human eye, how will the cute girl know who belongs to "WheresMyDingo iPod Playlist"? Will there be some kind of description field so you can say: "WheresMyDingo iPod Playlist":"Location: Seat E2"?
Their commitment to profit was stronger.
Yes. Especially if they play Mario vs. Luigi obsessively. The Japanese imports of Tennis no ouji-sama!
If you want to get one and your spouse gives you a wary eye, go get it and get Brain Age at the same time. You'll be a hero. But you may wind up arguing who gets to play with it.
That's why to be truly heroic, you buy two.
Just out of curiosity, could you list all twelve for me? Don't worry about numbering them (unless you have that info readily available), and simple descriptions of the characters would be fine as well.
e.g.
Sharon/Boomer
the 'doctor' on Caprica
the guy they left behind on the weapons station
the guy the president blew out the airlock
etc.
Actually it's just choosing which theme to use for the same set of corporate swine.
In other words: different style, same content.
Even 50 First Dates? That was a pretty good movie.
Yeah I'm a book snob, not a movie snob.
In fact, Asimov has a book in each of the Dewey Decimal System classifications.
Life on Earth is fundamentally the same. All of it. Everywhere. In a very real sense, we all share the same basic blueprint and the same drive to serve as hosts for the reproduction of DNA.
But I'm at work so I'll just leave you with this link and its text.
Re: What is the difference between an animals DNA and a plants DNA?
Small here. But it's better to be stumped by the small decisions in life than the huge ones, eh?
Avid: Ardently desirous, extremely eager, greedy.
An avid reader reads *everything*. I am an avid reader, I will read anything by anyone as long as I can understand it (and sometimes even if I can't, e.g. foreign language books).
"Or a Linux network admin telling a Windows network admin that he's not a "real" admin."
I actually agree with that one.
Have you tried George R. R. Martin?
How about the others on my "classics" list? 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is an amazing work.
It depresses me when someone says that they are passionate about reading and then cites Goodkind as their very first example.
Why yes! I am a book snob, why do you ask?
Step 4.5: Only buy music from independent label distributors (i.e. CD Baby).
Why does everyone always forget the best place in the world to buy music. You'd think being the best and all that would help them stick in people's minds.
How about some Faulkner, or Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or Dickens, or Fitzgerald, or Melville, or Mo Yan?
Or even some poetry? e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Elliot?
You know, real reading? Goodkind and others have their place, but hardly qualifies one as an 'avid' reader. Otherwise why not say, "Yeah I'm an avid reader, I read TV Guide every week!"
Why yes! I am a book snob, why do you ask?
It gets even better milage if you get it with the TDI (diesel) engine. Added bonus: it can run biodiesel!
My wife and I have a Jetta Wagon TDI (because you can't get a passat with a manual transmission) and *love* it. 40+ mpg and we burn biodiesel whenever we can. Luckily we live near Piedmont Biofuels. We get an average of ~44 mpg but hit about 50-51 on road trips.
I'm also on the tall side, 6'2". Driving and riding in the driver's passenger is fine, but the back seats are a bit cramped for tall people. The wagon is best suited for two adults, 2-3 kids, and lots of cargo space; or two adults and lots and lots of cargo space.
Call of Cthulhu was also on XBox.
In CoC the neat game mechanic was that the *character* was going insane. But with Eternal Darkness the game breaks the fourth wall and makes you think that *you* (yes, you the *player*) are going insane. That's why no one can talk about the effects without spoiling them for future players. The trick only works if you don't expect it.
Fun!
Vastly different? In your dreams of deluded grandeur my slashdot friend, in your dreams of deluded grandeur.
Oh oh! MY lifetime is the most different and radically changed evAr! Absolutely nothing like it has come along ever before!
Yes our ability to inflict damage has increased, but so has our population. Consider that the death we can cause has grown in proportion with our numbers.
Nature has always been a larger force than the human mind. Volcanos, asteroids, infectious diseases, supervolancos, etc. all could wipe out far more humans than we could ever dream to. We flatter ourselves with the belief that we could do more.
Umm...yeah, there are always more places to see. You can live your entire life in one town and not see all of it, so why travel anywhere?
You probably haven't even seen all there is to see in your [school|university|office building|local library].
It's just a reversal of the magic word, "Xyzzy" with some something a little extra thrown in.
Yes. An unmitigated disaster. But on the plus side it will sell more units than the 3D0, Neo-Geo, and Jaguar combined.
Google is at worst much much much less evil than most companies. That's fine by me.
I don't care about eBay auctions. If eBay doesn't sign on, then I'll use another auction site that does.
I don't understand your last argument. Everything sucks now so it will suck forever? That's kind of what I thought about all webmail services until GMail came along.
Sounds good to me. Just tie that into the car's black box so that only the last five (or whatever) minutes of video are stored and only accessible by non-trivial means.
Hmm, if this could somehow track good driving (stopping fully at every stop sign, before a right turn on red, properly signaling, etc) and reduce your insurance rates for a significant good driving track record (and vice versa) that would be pretty awesome.
Been there. Played the multiplayer. Played the one shot one kill. Got more and more bored. Beginning to end: bored. Went back to Smash Bros. Had fun.
Total time in Goldeneye? Maybe 5 hours.
Smash brothers? Lots.