Someone pay for and mail me one of these and I will document my experience flying across the border from Canada to the US to visit my folks for christmas.
On second thought dont.
I scanned this whole thread waiting for someone to mention Snow Crash. If it wasnt for Snow Crash I would have no interest in Sci-Fi literature.
This will probably be considered a terrible suggestion by most. But, on the fantasy side of things, I would recommend the Prism Pentad by Troy Denning. These are some of my favorite fantasy novels of all time (Id say a tie between this and the Amber Chronicles by Zelazny).
If jack thompson moves to Zimbabwe we should start a pay pal donation to pay a local to tie him up in front of a massive media center with all consoles and PCs and force him to watch every game ever made played from beginning to end. Every single game ever made.
Then technically I should be able to sue Jack Thompson for continuously making his presence known in the media, because anything he says, and just seeing his name in print is offensive to me.
Dear Cobol. Thanks for the memories and all that. We couldnt have done it without you. But, the times they are a moving. And its time you moved on with them. If I had disposal income in the millions. Id hold you the grandest of funerals. For now. I'll have to settle with a pint after work and peeing your name on the alley wall. RIP Cobol.
P.S. Make it two pints so I can pee a heart next to that too
A game where I pick up an assault rifle or something and it has a Coke logo on the side. Im gonna make all those vivid dreams people have about video gamers going nuts for no apparent reason come true. Seriously sick of this. Im paying $$ for the game allready. Not only have they cut down on the length of games, but the overall quality. Apparently graphics are a good substitue for story and play. They dont really make any games that are original anymore. And now after all these god damn shortcuts the game companies are taking they want to advertise to me in game as well? Fuck that noise.
Thought bundling with realplayer was a good idea? Worst media ever invented. The only thing realplayer does well is bombard you with a tsunami of adds and guarantees without a shadow of a doubt your computer WILL RUN SLOWER.
New Flight simulator not compatible with sound. Australia looks to open source community for help. Everyone looks away and ignores them.
More news at 11.
I don't know if I agree with your definition of blame.. By the same logic you can't blame the bankers who ruined the world economy because it was in their best interests to make as much money as they could while they could. It's a slippery slope.
It could also be argued that a banker cannot make good money off a ruined economy.
I agree with you but I would have gone the extra step to say that doing so does not require one to be physically home alone. iPhones and their soon to come cheaper better clones that dont require 2 year contracts will help that. In which case is it internet addiction? Or simply deppression?
Of course what I want to happen is wishful thinking as well. Having a 3rd major operating system available to the world will force Microsoft AND Apple both to clean up their acts. And hopefully, maybe google instead of trying to launch its own home media gaming system will instead bring gaming back to the PC where it belongs.
I bought a copy of Thexder and Leisure Suit Larry 2. Its too bad really. I have a feeling, they will spend money effecting this change, and all they will have to show for it are the bills for all the signs they had to replace. Whatever happened to selling games? I used to buy all my old sierra adventure games there. Three days before PC gaming started becoming actually popular they stopped carrying games. Friggin idiots. Oh well out with the old in with the new. Buhbye Radio Shack.
The words 'music' and 'industry' were never meant to go together. Music should come from the heart, not the wallet. This idea that you can become wealthy by being a musician is a new one and we've suffered for it.
Couldnt have said it better myself. So tired of the non stop stream of no talent hacks being crammed down our throats. I have to buy XM sattelite radio just so I can listen to something other than public radio. Cant friggin STAND IT. Of course the big question is, I wonder how long it will take before they realize its their own damn fault and not the Internets?
Euh, not sure if you are aware of this but even contractors have to have government security clearance checks for jobs, not that they can screen for stupidity - but this can mean a good ole mailing of the fingerprints to the FBI not to mention more depending on the level of security clearance you are going for. What really never ceases to astound me is the number of people out there who think they can torrent and what not from work and not get caught. Worse, is that clearly, many do NOT get caught. And yet these douchebag sys admins with networks looser than a drunk cheerleader on prom night, have higher paying jobs than mine. No justice I tell ya. No justice.
Consequences will find you. Perhaps you need to stop being such a tool and think ahead. I never put my real birthday or even my real last name into facebook. I know computers have taught a lot of you to ignore the fine print. But really - if there is fine print its best to know what you are getting into. Think of it as an opportunity to learn about law.
Duke Nukem was nothing but a shooter with funny one liners. I loved it immensly but people need to let the hell go. They were probably going to ruin it anyways. Sometimes you gotta take a gem as is, and understand that it will be one of a kind.
None of that changes the fact that saying it is "daunting" to get into Zelda is extremely silly. Every game stands on its own. Any connections between them are entirely superfluous.
Are you being sarcastic? Last time I checked, aside from any of the gameboy games that I never played, every zelda game, is about, the tri force, gannon, princess zelda, and link. The only exception that I know of to this is Majoras Mask. And it could be argued with the whole shadow world angle, that Twilight Princess is even a remake of the SNES Zelda. They are all the same. What they need to do, is kill zelda link gannon and the tri force, keep the gameplay. And make a NEW story. New characters, new everything. Zelda has been done to death. Mario too. Time to put these old horses to pasture and let them retire in peace.
This is a very important question. The quick answer is simply this. While people with no refined tastes continue to be the mass of the buying power in the market, there is no market in making games for people with more refined tastes. Either you can sit on your known IP and milk it dry (IM LOOKING AT YOU SQUARE ENIX) or you can take a chance and make something new and interesting. But in the end, games are being marketed not to the people that made the market, but to lazy sunday gamers who dont want anything too challenging, they just wanna take part in a story they can eventually finish.
Personally I would have to agree with anyone who said reboot Descent. But when it comes to the discussion of Sierra games, I have to say for me, Quest for Glory would be the series most deserving of a reboot. I would also like to see Shadowrun redone. The SNES game was pretty cool for its day. Now we just need Bethesda to grab the rights and impress us all.
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Someone pay for and mail me one of these and I will document my experience flying across the border from Canada to the US to visit my folks for christmas. On second thought dont.
Because grapefruit is a fruit you bite into?
Mob after work at my place to kill Steve Jobs. Who's in?
I scanned this whole thread waiting for someone to mention Snow Crash. If it wasnt for Snow Crash I would have no interest in Sci-Fi literature. This will probably be considered a terrible suggestion by most. But, on the fantasy side of things, I would recommend the Prism Pentad by Troy Denning. These are some of my favorite fantasy novels of all time (Id say a tie between this and the Amber Chronicles by Zelazny).
If jack thompson moves to Zimbabwe we should start a pay pal donation to pay a local to tie him up in front of a massive media center with all consoles and PCs and force him to watch every game ever made played from beginning to end. Every single game ever made.
Then technically I should be able to sue Jack Thompson for continuously making his presence known in the media, because anything he says, and just seeing his name in print is offensive to me.
Dear Cobol. Thanks for the memories and all that. We couldnt have done it without you. But, the times they are a moving. And its time you moved on with them. If I had disposal income in the millions. Id hold you the grandest of funerals. For now. I'll have to settle with a pint after work and peeing your name on the alley wall. RIP Cobol.
P.S. Make it two pints so I can pee a heart next to that too
A game where I pick up an assault rifle or something and it has a Coke logo on the side. Im gonna make all those vivid dreams people have about video gamers going nuts for no apparent reason come true. Seriously sick of this. Im paying $$ for the game allready. Not only have they cut down on the length of games, but the overall quality. Apparently graphics are a good substitue for story and play. They dont really make any games that are original anymore. And now after all these god damn shortcuts the game companies are taking they want to advertise to me in game as well? Fuck that noise.
Thought bundling with realplayer was a good idea? Worst media ever invented. The only thing realplayer does well is bombard you with a tsunami of adds and guarantees without a shadow of a doubt your computer WILL RUN SLOWER.
This is news?
New Flight simulator not compatible with sound. Australia looks to open source community for help. Everyone looks away and ignores them. More news at 11.
I don't know if I agree with your definition of blame.. By the same logic you can't blame the bankers who ruined the world economy because it was in their best interests to make as much money as they could while they could. It's a slippery slope.
It could also be argued that a banker cannot make good money off a ruined economy.
Considering the responses Ive seen I must disagree. There have been some very sensible answers to his question without the need for asking a lawyer.
Unknown author does bad job of copying beloved author. We never saw it coming. No really.
More news at 11.
I agree with you but I would have gone the extra step to say that doing so does not require one to be physically home alone. iPhones and their soon to come cheaper better clones that dont require 2 year contracts will help that. In which case is it internet addiction? Or simply deppression?
Of course what I want to happen is wishful thinking as well. Having a 3rd major operating system available to the world will force Microsoft AND Apple both to clean up their acts. And hopefully, maybe google instead of trying to launch its own home media gaming system will instead bring gaming back to the PC where it belongs.
I bought a copy of Thexder and Leisure Suit Larry 2. Its too bad really. I have a feeling, they will spend money effecting this change, and all they will have to show for it are the bills for all the signs they had to replace. Whatever happened to selling games? I used to buy all my old sierra adventure games there. Three days before PC gaming started becoming actually popular they stopped carrying games. Friggin idiots. Oh well out with the old in with the new. Buhbye Radio Shack.
The words 'music' and 'industry' were never meant to go together. Music should come from the heart, not the wallet. This idea that you can become wealthy by being a musician is a new one and we've suffered for it.
Couldnt have said it better myself. So tired of the non stop stream of no talent hacks being crammed down our throats. I have to buy XM sattelite radio just so I can listen to something other than public radio. Cant friggin STAND IT. Of course the big question is, I wonder how long it will take before they realize its their own damn fault and not the Internets?
Euh, not sure if you are aware of this but even contractors have to have government security clearance checks for jobs, not that they can screen for stupidity - but this can mean a good ole mailing of the fingerprints to the FBI not to mention more depending on the level of security clearance you are going for. What really never ceases to astound me is the number of people out there who think they can torrent and what not from work and not get caught. Worse, is that clearly, many do NOT get caught. And yet these douchebag sys admins with networks looser than a drunk cheerleader on prom night, have higher paying jobs than mine. No justice I tell ya. No justice.
...to be a skilled driver. All you need to do is pay attention.
Consequences will find you. Perhaps you need to stop being such a tool and think ahead. I never put my real birthday or even my real last name into facebook. I know computers have taught a lot of you to ignore the fine print. But really - if there is fine print its best to know what you are getting into. Think of it as an opportunity to learn about law.
Duke Nukem was nothing but a shooter with funny one liners. I loved it immensly but people need to let the hell go. They were probably going to ruin it anyways. Sometimes you gotta take a gem as is, and understand that it will be one of a kind.
None of that changes the fact that saying it is "daunting" to get into Zelda is extremely silly. Every game stands on its own. Any connections between them are entirely superfluous.
Are you being sarcastic? Last time I checked, aside from any of the gameboy games that I never played, every zelda game, is about, the tri force, gannon, princess zelda, and link. The only exception that I know of to this is Majoras Mask. And it could be argued with the whole shadow world angle, that Twilight Princess is even a remake of the SNES Zelda. They are all the same. What they need to do, is kill zelda link gannon and the tri force, keep the gameplay. And make a NEW story. New characters, new everything. Zelda has been done to death. Mario too. Time to put these old horses to pasture and let them retire in peace.
Hells ya. Shadowrun has not been done any justice since the SNES.
This is a very important question. The quick answer is simply this. While people with no refined tastes continue to be the mass of the buying power in the market, there is no market in making games for people with more refined tastes. Either you can sit on your known IP and milk it dry (IM LOOKING AT YOU SQUARE ENIX) or you can take a chance and make something new and interesting. But in the end, games are being marketed not to the people that made the market, but to lazy sunday gamers who dont want anything too challenging, they just wanna take part in a story they can eventually finish.
Personally I would have to agree with anyone who said reboot Descent. But when it comes to the discussion of Sierra games, I have to say for me, Quest for Glory would be the series most deserving of a reboot. I would also like to see Shadowrun redone. The SNES game was pretty cool for its day. Now we just need Bethesda to grab the rights and impress us all.