There are a few works of this nature in the Interactive Fiction competition archives. Try Blowjob Drifter, but be warned: it actually has some difficult guess the verb puzzles. I recommend a walkthrough over reading the author's mind.
Gamers seem to be caught up with trivial aspects of games. Graphics, console wars & and status seeking has torn apart the community. Did Shakespeare bitch and moan about his lack of fonts? Did Plato refuse to write on shitty papyrus based paper? Did Mozart refuse to write music because he didn't have the right instruments yet--or a mixer for that matter? Did Fritz Lang stop making motion pictures because he didn't have color film and light meters?
You seem to be forgetting the community of gamers who are most focused on story. Interactive Fiction.
With the release of Inform 7 we have the tools for even greater works to be collaboratively made.
You shut the DS. Any DS game (not Advance games though) automatically pauses and will remain in a standby state for up to a week on a full battery. Although whenever I'm far along in Tetris and my waiting time is up I prefer to just shut it off and start over later. Even more likely is that I'd be playing something easily stoppable while waiting a short time for something, like the touch puzzles on Tetris DS, or Sudoku, or a Mario mini-game, etc.
Another thing to look into, is what you are eating. Most of the food in this country is either void of nutrients or has additives or pollutants in it or comes from unhealthy, uncared for animals.
Indeed:
A corn diet can also give a cow acidosis. Unlike that in our own highly acidic stomachs, the normal pH of a rumen is neutral. Corn makes it unnaturally acidic, however, causing a kind of bovine heartburn, which in some cases can kill the animal but usually just makes it sick. Acidotic animals go off their feed, pant and salivate excessively, paw at their bellies and eat dirt. The condition can lead to diarrhea, ulcers, bloat, liver disease and a general weakening of the immune system that leaves the animal vulnerable to everything from pneumonia to feedlot polio.
Cows rarely live on feedlot diets for more than six months, which might be about as much as their digestive systems can tolerate. ''I don't know how long you could feed this ration before you'd see problems,'' Metzen said; another vet said that a sustained feedlot diet would eventually ''blow out their livers'' and kill them. As the acids eat away at the rumen wall, bacteria enter the bloodstream and collect in the liver. More than 13 percent of feedlot cattle are found at slaughter to have abscessed livers.
What keeps a feedlot animal healthy -- or healthy enough -- are antibiotics. Rumensin inhibits gas production in the rumen, helping to prevent bloat; tylosin reduces the incidence of liver infection. Most of the antibiotics sold in America end up in animal feed -- a practice that, it is now generally acknowledged, leads directly to the evolution of new antibiotic-resistant ''superbugs.'' In the debate over the use of antibiotics in agriculture, a distinction is usually made between clinical and nonclinical uses. Public-health advocates don't object to treating sick animals with antibiotics; they just don't want to see the drugs lose their efficacy because factory farms are feeding them to healthy animals to promote growth. But the use of antibiotics in feedlot cattle confounds this distinction. Here the drugs are plainly being used to treat sick animals, yet the animals probably wouldn't be sick if not for what we feed them.
The largest content torrent that I've seen had about 750 leechers on it.
The *typical* large torrent has bout 120 seeders to 120 leechers. This is usually anime or a 1st run television show that was just shown.
OMG, you are not going to high traffic torrent sites. No, I won't mention site names since I'm almost positive that you're trolling for recommendations.
Shows with under 1000 seeders and/or leechers are *small*. A first run tv show will download in an hour or two, if it's very popular with the torrenting crowd (shows like Robot Chicken, Daily Show, Battlestar Galactica) it will download even faster.
Any torrent with just 1 or 2 seeders is something *very* specific that few people watch: Dark Skies, Supernanny, obscure 80s tv shows like The Mysterious Cities of Gold, etc.
My grandmother wouldn't setup her own Internet. And the Verizon CD does jack squat, unless you think she'll be running her own cables or setting up wifi. This was about setting up a computer, not an internet connection.
But anyway:
Java works fine in Linux. Shockwave works fine in Linux.
Why would I send wmv videos? Well there's always mplayer.
What would she actually love about Linux? She sure would love the 80 kabillion versions of solitare and the easy to use web browser and the easy to use mail and the knowledge that no matter what she does, she *can't* break the computer.
Of course I have to admit that I took the even less headaches route and gave her OS X on an iMac. Sure it costs and there are fewer apps and I had to actually pay money (!) to get a decent solitare game for her; but it's just so damn pretty. She took one look at the screen and just started gushing about how she never thought that a computer could be beautiful.
It's pretty clear that you really haven't used Linux lately. My grandmother could install Linux now. With a quality distribution you really do just pop in the DVD, reboot, and you are dropped into a working, functional environment that fully supports your graphics card (unlike any ugly Windows install at 640x480). You click ok a few times to accept defaults and then reboot.
After the reboot you're dropped straight into a slick gui. Tons of apps are accessible straight from the Gnome, KDE, or even "Start" menu depending on what gui screenshot you picked at the install.
Even cooler? Many distros include an "Add/Remove" programs app that *actually works*. If you want to add some software you are presented with a list of categories, so just browse to the type of app and then the specific program you want to install and it's downloaded and installed straight from the Internet. So easy!
He means editors as in slashdot editors. As in plural slashdot editors who should review these story submissions before sending them to the front page.
Eh? Are you saying it wasn't a console because of its capabilities?
Is the XBox a console? After all, it can run Metal Slug 3 without any slowdown (a problem that hindered the arcade and Neo Geo releases).
You should head over and fix Wikipedia's article on Neo Geo, it's listed as a console there. In fact, this whole console vs. arcade recreator "debate" isn't even being discussed!
While it's hard to sell a game that doesn't look pretty it looks like it's going to be pretty easy to sell a decent looking, completely innovative game.
That's what Nintendo is betting on with the Wii. Gamecube quality (or slightly better) graphics, extremely innovative gameplay.
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Ditto for Papa Johns. All new corporate employees must spend some time (a week, iirc) working in an actual store.
sometimes the "bad choice" would not turn ugly for a few more pages and then you were just going to have to start over
That's what bookmarks are for.
There are a few works of this nature in the Interactive Fiction competition archives. Try Blowjob Drifter, but be warned: it actually has some difficult guess the verb puzzles. I recommend a walkthrough over reading the author's mind.
Buy a new TV just to make things look prettier? No thanks.
Because it sucks when things look prettier.
With the release of Inform 7 we have the tools for even greater works to be collaboratively made.
Without flash, how do you watch Homestar Runner?
You shut the DS. Any DS game (not Advance games though) automatically pauses and will remain in a standby state for up to a week on a full battery. Although whenever I'm far along in Tetris and my waiting time is up I prefer to just shut it off and start over later. Even more likely is that I'd be playing something easily stoppable while waiting a short time for something, like the touch puzzles on Tetris DS, or Sudoku, or a Mario mini-game, etc.
That's the new configuration process.
I like the name MacBook. What's wrong with "MacBook" or "MacBook Pro"?
Yeah, but you'd have to be able to pick which screen goes to the tv or else Kirby or Nintendogs wouldn't be very much fun to watch at all.
Another post that reads like ad copy. Sure I know that forum plants have been around for years, but I don't remember them being so blatent.
You can't just run a theme selecting program and click on a screenshot you like?
Exactly! The story submitter or editor should have done a quick google search and inluded relevant information in the story summary.
How about Texas A&M?
NOAA?
Your post reads like ad copy. No music site is that great.
Except CD BABY.
OMG, you are not going to high traffic torrent sites. No, I won't mention site names since I'm almost positive that you're trolling for recommendations.
Shows with under 1000 seeders and/or leechers are *small*. A first run tv show will download in an hour or two, if it's very popular with the torrenting crowd (shows like Robot Chicken, Daily Show, Battlestar Galactica) it will download even faster.
Any torrent with just 1 or 2 seeders is something *very* specific that few people watch: Dark Skies, Supernanny, obscure 80s tv shows like The Mysterious Cities of Gold, etc.
My grandmother wouldn't setup her own Internet. And the Verizon CD does jack squat, unless you think she'll be running her own cables or setting up wifi. This was about setting up a computer, not an internet connection.
But anyway:
Java works fine in Linux. Shockwave works fine in Linux.
Why would I send wmv videos? Well there's always mplayer.
What would she actually love about Linux? She sure would love the 80 kabillion versions of solitare and the easy to use web browser and the easy to use mail and the knowledge that no matter what she does, she *can't* break the computer.
Of course I have to admit that I took the even less headaches route and gave her OS X on an iMac. Sure it costs and there are fewer apps and I had to actually pay money (!) to get a decent solitare game for her; but it's just so damn pretty. She took one look at the screen and just started gushing about how she never thought that a computer could be beautiful.
It's pretty clear that you really haven't used Linux lately. My grandmother could install Linux now. With a quality distribution you really do just pop in the DVD, reboot, and you are dropped into a working, functional environment that fully supports your graphics card (unlike any ugly Windows install at 640x480). You click ok a few times to accept defaults and then reboot.
After the reboot you're dropped straight into a slick gui. Tons of apps are accessible straight from the Gnome, KDE, or even "Start" menu depending on what gui screenshot you picked at the install.
Even cooler? Many distros include an "Add/Remove" programs app that *actually works*. If you want to add some software you are presented with a list of categories, so just browse to the type of app and then the specific program you want to install and it's downloaded and installed straight from the Internet. So easy!
He means editors as in slashdot editors. As in plural slashdot editors who should review these story submissions before sending them to the front page.
There's a new Dr. Who series going on you know.
Eh? Are you saying it wasn't a console because of its capabilities?
Is the XBox a console? After all, it can run Metal Slug 3 without any slowdown (a problem that hindered the arcade and Neo Geo releases).
You should head over and fix Wikipedia's article on Neo Geo, it's listed as a console there. In fact, this whole console vs. arcade recreator "debate" isn't even being discussed!
I thought it upsetting that someone with a cool n' old school name like Frobozz would be shilling for "SONY".
Then I noticed that it was Frobozz0, and felt much better.
Obviously the game will have breaks. Do you think that they'll just throw sword fight after sword fight like a fighting game? ...
That would be *awesome*! The Wii will make fighting games much more epic because when you get to the big boss you will actually be _tired_.