Who said it needs reviving? The best IF games have come out in the last few years! Playable on anything digital that even remotely makes sense: from a computer (any reasonable OS) to an iPhone.
While the movers packed and loaded boxes the next morning, I went to the nearest Best Buy. In about an hour, I had a $99 iPhone 3G, an extra battery pack ($79), and a year's subscription to MobileMe ($99). Another hour or so, and I'd updated the iPhone to the 3.0 firmware, charged the extra battery, and checked that Find My iPhone successfully located the iPhone. I dropped the phone and extra battery into one of the boxes.
Actually, losing weight has little to do with exercise. You exercise to be healthy, you eat fewer calories than you burn to lose weight.
Hacket's Diet. Look it up, follow it, you'll lose (or gain, if you want) weight. It's the meta diet for all diets! With the hacker's diet you learn how your weight is completely arbitrary, you can weigh whatever you want!
Zork: no graphics, immersive writing. Any graphical enhancement would destroy the game.
Donkey Kong: fun platform gaming, crappy graphics. Any graphical enhancement would greatly benefit the game. (e.g. Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country)
Monkey Island: awesome adventure game, ok (for the time) graphics. Any graphical enhancement would deepen the player's connection to the story. (e.g. Monkey Island 2)
Monkey Island 3: pretty great game, cartoonish graphics that served the game. The game appears to be exactly what the designers intended, any graphical enhancement would be shoehorned. (e.g. Monkey Island 4's graphical de-evolution)
So Might and Magic V had, wait for it, bad graphics! You just made the argument that graphics go hand-in-hand with gameplay. You can have great gameplay that is ruined by bad graphics, you can have great graphics that are ruined by bad gameplay, or you can have both.
Now let me explain "good" and "bad" here. "Good" graphics are those that support the immersion of the player within the game. Good graphics complement the gameplay. Good graphics let you slip into the story. Bad graphics remind you that you are just moving pixels.
Good and Bad gameplay and graphics are purely subjective of course. It's possible that someone out there thought that Might and Magic III was a neat game crippled by horrible graphics, and fanatically adores Might and Magic V.
I just played through Full Throttle again last week. The game is still as awesome as the day it arrived in the mail straight from our Lucasarts pre-order.
I'd appreciate the social aspects within the context of the game. The other villains and I would chat it up in our lairs of dark power. Drinking mead, toasting our inevitable triumphs, plotting our strategies.
Sorry, I've been reading Wired since the 90s and I couldn't disagree more. There was a period in the early 00s when Wired went though a period of bad quality, but in the last two-three years they've really recaptured the quality.
If the spammer personally knows that you have psychological issues about your penis size and urges you to commit suicide after months of abuse, then yes. It's exactly the same and deserves harsh, harsh retribution.
This was not protected speech, not in the slightest. This has nothing to do with a nanny-state, this has everything to do with a state in which citizens have the right to live in a society that allows abuse to go unpunished.
Who says that the GPS system won't be tied to the make/model of the car and thus weight the taxation by road wear? A motorcycle shouldn't be taxed for road use the same as a hummer, obviously.
1 to 2 cents per mile actually sounds quite reasonable and a good idea.
That's only $20 or $40 bucks for a 2000 mile trip.
It would serve as a dampening effect for the excessive driving we embrace in the states. Sure gas already costs, but the knowledge that each mile is ticking away money would, I think, be more directly noticeable.
Bonus points would be the funds from this going to transportation projects that provide good alternatives to driving: light rail, good bus network, etc. Then we'd be getting both incentive and alternative at once.
Things like Guantanamo Bay, the Iraq War, this TSA bullshit and countless others simply do not happen in other countries.
You are wrong, mind-numbingly, disturbingly, incomprehensibly wrong. It's as though you just commented in all seriousness that the sun and the moon are the same thing. Not only are you wrong now, but you are wrong in the past and almost certainly the future. You are wrong on so throughly, so completely, that whenever I try to write a cohesive rebuttal my mind falls dizzyingly lurches into a dark chasm where the word "What?" echoes endlessly into the void.
The fact that you have been modded +5 insightful is a thought too painful to bear. I think I need to go lie down.
You think libraries let you plug in Webcams and install drivers and talk and record video on site?
Of course not! Libraries will, if this kind of government participation becomes actually worthwhile, will install their own webcams and set them up for easy use by their patrons. Free of charge, because that's how they roll.
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Yeah, but that's using the repository. Setting up the repository is quite another matter.
Who said it needs reviving? The best IF games have come out in the last few years! Playable on anything digital that even remotely makes sense: from a computer (any reasonable OS) to an iPhone.
I don't think the $5 Alice gets for Gears of War really makes a dent in the purchase of Gears of War 2.
Actually it isn't. If you were to RTFA:
While the movers packed and loaded boxes the next morning, I went to the nearest Best Buy. In about an hour, I had a $99 iPhone 3G, an extra battery pack ($79), and a year's subscription to MobileMe ($99). Another hour or so, and I'd updated the iPhone to the 3.0 firmware, charged the extra battery, and checked that Find My iPhone successfully located the iPhone. I dropped the phone and extra battery into one of the boxes.
Actually, losing weight has little to do with exercise. You exercise to be healthy, you eat fewer calories than you burn to lose weight.
Hacket's Diet. Look it up, follow it, you'll lose (or gain, if you want) weight. It's the meta diet for all diets! With the hacker's diet you learn how your weight is completely arbitrary, you can weigh whatever you want!
Actually, I think you're missing the point.
Zork: no graphics, immersive writing. Any graphical enhancement would destroy the game.
Donkey Kong: fun platform gaming, crappy graphics. Any graphical enhancement would greatly benefit the game. (e.g. Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country)
Monkey Island: awesome adventure game, ok (for the time) graphics. Any graphical enhancement would deepen the player's connection to the story. (e.g. Monkey Island 2)
Monkey Island 3: pretty great game, cartoonish graphics that served the game. The game appears to be exactly what the designers intended, any graphical enhancement would be shoehorned. (e.g. Monkey Island 4's graphical de-evolution)
So Might and Magic V had, wait for it, bad graphics! You just made the argument that graphics go hand-in-hand with gameplay. You can have great gameplay that is ruined by bad graphics, you can have great graphics that are ruined by bad gameplay, or you can have both.
Now let me explain "good" and "bad" here. "Good" graphics are those that support the immersion of the player within the game. Good graphics complement the gameplay. Good graphics let you slip into the story. Bad graphics remind you that you are just moving pixels.
Good and Bad gameplay and graphics are purely subjective of course. It's possible that someone out there thought that Might and Magic III was a neat game crippled by horrible graphics, and fanatically adores Might and Magic V.
I really should make a website akin to letmegooglethatforyou.
http://www29.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2+tablespoons+of+mercury+to+lbs
0.882 lbs.
Let's take a look, shall we?
Hg density: 13.534 g/cm^3
2 tablespoons is 29.57 cm^3
2 tablespoons of Hg: 29.57 cm^3 * 13.534 g/cm^3 .882 lbs
Result: 400.2 g ~=
I just played through Full Throttle again last week. The game is still as awesome as the day it arrived in the mail straight from our Lucasarts pre-order.
But nothing, nothing, beats Grim Fandango.
I'd appreciate the social aspects within the context of the game. The other villains and I would chat it up in our lairs of dark power. Drinking mead, toasting our inevitable triumphs, plotting our strategies.
Sorry, I've been reading Wired since the 90s and I couldn't disagree more. There was a period in the early 00s when Wired went though a period of bad quality, but in the last two-three years they've really recaptured the quality.
Spot on sir. Simply spot on. I could not have argued it better, or even as well, myself.
You do know that we have these people called "judges" who review cases on an individual basis and determine a ruling right?
If the spammer personally knows that you have psychological issues about your penis size and urges you to commit suicide after months of abuse, then yes. It's exactly the same and deserves harsh, harsh retribution.
This was not protected speech, not in the slightest. This has nothing to do with a nanny-state, this has everything to do with a state in which citizens have the right to live in a society that allows abuse to go unpunished.
Who says that the GPS system won't be tied to the make/model of the car and thus weight the taxation by road wear? A motorcycle shouldn't be taxed for road use the same as a hummer, obviously.
Games are designed as entertainment. Entertainment is not realistic.
Exactly! I came here to make that same comment after I read his dire prediction for GTA6. For goodness sake, if it isn't fun then it's not a game.
1 to 2 cents per mile actually sounds quite reasonable and a good idea.
That's only $20 or $40 bucks for a 2000 mile trip.
It would serve as a dampening effect for the excessive driving we embrace in the states. Sure gas already costs, but the knowledge that each mile is ticking away money would, I think, be more directly noticeable.
Bonus points would be the funds from this going to transportation projects that provide good alternatives to driving: light rail, good bus network, etc. Then we'd be getting both incentive and alternative at once.
Hi. I'm not a historian, but I studied to be one.
Things like Guantanamo Bay, the Iraq War, this TSA bullshit and countless others simply do not happen in other countries.
You are wrong, mind-numbingly, disturbingly, incomprehensibly wrong. It's as though you just commented in all seriousness that the sun and the moon are the same thing. Not only are you wrong now, but you are wrong in the past and almost certainly the future. You are wrong on so throughly, so completely, that whenever I try to write a cohesive rebuttal my mind falls dizzyingly lurches into a dark chasm where the word "What?" echoes endlessly into the void.
The fact that you have been modded +5 insightful is a thought too painful to bear. I think I need to go lie down.
You think libraries let you plug in Webcams and install drivers and talk and record video on site?
Of course not! Libraries will, if this kind of government participation becomes actually worthwhile, will install their own webcams and set them up for easy use by their patrons. Free of charge, because that's how they roll.
That just a description of how hard the problem is, not an argument that we shouldn't do it.
we still have *millions* of years to perfect space travel. If we delay manned missions to other planets/moons for half a century, it won't matter.
You don't know that for a fact. It's probable to be sure, but not definite. Why not strive toward the goal of survival to the best of our ability?
That chart lists no citations, so I can't take it seriously.
I know four people, including myself, but anecdotal evidence is worth less than nothing.
Instapaper. Seriously.
++ if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Good lord, you are reading quite a bit into this. Are you honestly admitting that you've never heard of cheat codes before?
The only difference here is that Nintendo isn't pretending to hide the cheat codes.