Centaur was a major staple at the Alice Lloyd dorm at University of Michigan. Several of us got to be so good that we'd average about three free games a play, so one quarter went a long way (albeit even further with a case of beer...)
We even had our own lingo for the game, such as "fucking the queen" (the hardest thing to do in that game. Anybody who's played it enough probably knows what I'm talking about...)
T2 was cool until the flippers got worn down, and you couldn't execute the major shots anymore.
The debate as to whether to name the English translation of the series as "Oh My Goddess" (to keep the obvious joke intact) or "Ah My Goddess" (to keep in sync with the "English" assigned as the name by it's Japanese creator) was a Holy War on USENET for many months. I think that anime fandom is still polarized on this to this day...
For me, the Belldandy/Keichi interplay was nice, but the cute techie goddess Skuld made me a fanatic, to the point where I created my Skuld Shrine with tons of images, stories, and even a Skuld Image search engine! Be warned, this is only for the diehard...
Here in Japan, everybody is obligated to pay for NHK Public Broadcast Television. That is, if they find you. Seems that there's no real penalty for not paying, so long as you can avoid running into the collectors when they come to the door (or feign such poor knowledge of Japanese that they can't communicate with you and they give up...although lately they come armed with English brochures, so it's just best to not answer the door if you see them) Unfortunately, the charge is now rolled into the cable bill, so I can't even do that anymore.:-(
But at least sometimes they show some cool stuff, like the full unedited letterbox version of The Shawshank Redemption with no commercial interuptions. Hope we get The Matrix soon!
If you ever tried driving in downtown Tokyo, you would realize that not only are the streets resemble a tangled up lump of spaghetti, but that this is a place where, as U2 once said, the streets have no name. Even taxi drivers who've spent over 10 years in the area would still have a problem taking you somewhere based only on an address if they've never been there before. So of course, ANY help that's available to get one through this urban jungle is greatly appreciated!
And if we can also watch remastered Godzilla movies while we're doing it, all the better...
The keitai scene is nuts though. It's not unusual for high school girls to have MULTIPLE portable phones, to keep some assemblance of order with their varying levels of tea-colored hair platform booted dark tanned skin with ghost white makeup wearing friends while loitering in Shibuya or Harajuku. If they only spent half as much time learning English as they do making themselves look stupid, they'd all be fluent bilinguals by now.
It's a tiny handheld machine the size of a Tamagocci, with about the same resolution. You plug it into a normal Playstation, and you can load games into it from a CD. Most of the games are little "extras" that were thrown onto regular Playstation games (such as the Chocobo racing game in Final Fantasy VIII), but there have also been a few CDs sold exclusively as a Pocket Playstation game (most popular right now seems to be a kind of Eliza-type game where you talk and play with a cat)
Re:2+2=anything, if you redefine 2? Not quite
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Actually, even if you redefine two, you still have only one unique element being processed twice in the mathematical equation, meaning that you would always get twice the value of 2, and thus there would be some answers that would be impossible to come up with (such as 1, if you were dealing with only integers) You'd also have to redefine the laws of mathematics to truly make 2 + 2 = anything...
Here in Japan, where we have plumbing far more advanced than anywhere else in the world (most all toilets, including the one in my home, come complete with heated seats and two settings for squirting water up your backside), they have perfected the all-in-one sensor sink. Stick your hands under the soap dispenser, lather, stick your hands under the water dispenser, rinse, raise your hands up and down the enclosed hot-air blower (enclosed so water doesn't spray everywhere) a couple of times, and you are done. Clean, dry hands without having to touch anything!
The act of doing something that gets your name in the dictionary was the theme to an entire episode of the Simpsons several years back. I believe the phrase to pull a homer took on the meaning of "succeeding despite idiocy."
If the Vincennes tragedy wasn't their fault, you would think they would say something about it on the Official Vincennes Web Site. But not a single mention of the incident could be found. So as far as the Navy goes, the less we know about this the better...
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Centaur was a major staple at the Alice Lloyd dorm
at University of Michigan. Several of us got to be so good that we'd average about three free games a play, so one quarter went a long way (albeit even further with a case of beer...)
We even had our own lingo for the game, such as "fucking the queen" (the hardest thing to do in that game. Anybody who's played it enough probably knows what I'm talking about...)
T2 was cool until the flippers got worn down, and you couldn't execute the major shots anymore.
For me, the Belldandy/Keichi interplay was nice, but the cute techie goddess Skuld made me a fanatic, to the point where I created my Skuld Shrine with tons of images, stories, and even a Skuld Image search engine! Be warned, this is only for the diehard...
But at least sometimes they show some cool stuff, like the full unedited letterbox version of The Shawshank Redemption with no commercial interuptions. Hope we get The Matrix soon!
If you ever tried driving in downtown Tokyo, you would realize that not only are the streets resemble a tangled up lump of spaghetti, but that this is a place where, as U2 once said, the streets have no name. Even taxi drivers who've spent over 10 years in the area would still have a problem taking you somewhere based only on an address if they've never been there before. So of course, ANY help that's available to get one through this urban jungle is greatly appreciated!
And if we can also watch remastered Godzilla movies while we're doing it, all the better...
The keitai scene is nuts though. It's not unusual for high school girls to have MULTIPLE portable phones, to keep some assemblance of order with their varying levels of tea-colored hair platform booted dark tanned skin with ghost white makeup wearing friends while loitering in Shibuya or Harajuku. If they only spent half as much time learning English as they do making themselves look stupid, they'd all be fluent bilinguals by now.
It's a tiny handheld machine the size of a Tamagocci, with about the same resolution. You plug it into a normal Playstation, and you can load games into it from a CD. Most of the games are little "extras" that were thrown onto regular Playstation games (such as the Chocobo racing game in Final Fantasy VIII), but there have also been a few CDs sold exclusively as a Pocket Playstation game (most popular right now seems to be a kind of Eliza-type game where you talk and play with a cat)
Actually, even if you redefine two, you still have only one unique element being processed twice in the mathematical equation, meaning that you would always get twice the value of 2, and thus there would be some answers that would be impossible to come up with (such as 1, if you were dealing with only integers) You'd also have to redefine the laws of mathematics to truly make 2 + 2 = anything...
Here in Japan, where we have plumbing far more
advanced than anywhere else in the world (most
all toilets, including the one in my home, come
complete with heated seats and two settings for
squirting water up your backside), they have
perfected the all-in-one sensor sink. Stick your
hands under the soap dispenser, lather, stick your
hands under the water dispenser, rinse, raise your
hands up and down the enclosed hot-air blower (enclosed so water doesn't spray everywhere) a couple of times, and you are done. Clean, dry hands without having to touch anything!
The act of doing something that gets your name in the dictionary was the theme to an entire episode of the Simpsons several years back. I believe the phrase to pull a homer took on the meaning of "succeeding despite idiocy."
The nuclear bomb wasn't a screwup. They meant for that to happen!
If the Vincennes tragedy wasn't their fault, you would think they would say something about it on the Official Vincennes Web Site. But not a single mention of the incident could be found. So as far as the Navy goes, the less we know about this the better...