due to bizzare circumstances, your posts get rated as a 5. you leave some really bizzare and odd replies, not really worthy of being called a troll.... why do you do this? spare time? boredom? i'm really curious; do you really not have anything better to do with your time?
what an awful troll. sigh. i'll bite (obviously)... moore's law says transistor density will double every 18 months. not speed, not sales, not size of your penis, and obviously not your capability to troll.
If you buy any mac before WWDC, and then whine about not waiting to get a 'new model'..... oh well. SOMEONE will whine about it, I know it. Kinda curious as to what this will do to apple's sales over the next week or so before the introduction of things.
has anyone else seen these? I live in the dallas area, and there's been one in Garland called Nickel Rama for as long as anyone knows, and just recently there was another Nickle arcade put in Plano, called House of Nickles. How they work is it's like a normal arcade, generally with 2nd run to fairly primitive (pac man, early 90's racing games) arcade machines, toss in some skeeball and skill games with tickets, a DDR clone, airhockey, and a real live pinball machine, they all take nickles rather than quarters for credits, so you end up spending about 10 cents (2 credits) for most games. Nickle Rama even has the Ferarri Challenge 355 game (racing game with three screens, clutch, and 6 speed shifter, real classy). There's a $1.95 cover charge for the whole day (tax included, so you get a nickle back, nice.) Also, I think they crank down the difficulty settings (if there are any), as $2 will let you play for about 2 hours. For $7 total, you can spend a good part of the day there. The one in Garland is always packed, and I suspect House of Nickles will be seeing some serious buisness by the end of the summer, even if they are across the street from Game Wyze.
So basically your brain tunes them out, since they're stationary as soon as they come into your field of view, making you tune them out like one might tune out the frames of your glasses, sunglasses, etc.
erm.... does nobody else view the "PS2+" or whatever they call it simply a way to stay "current" with the Xbox in terms of press coverage, and online capability, and for the larger part, trying to hide the fact that the PS3 is a long ways off? methinks they hit a serious hiccup in PS3 technology development and this is to keep the executives happy....Just trying to keep things exciting for the consumer by wrapping the same old hardware in different clothing, while at the same time profiting off of more hardware sales, and lengthening the product cycle?
Gah, now in addition to downloading 100+ MB amature racing (on real race tracks, not street racing crap) videos, I'll be downloading PDF copies of books in excess of 500MB from stanford, etc.
so when is stanford going to put these books up on the gnutella network? i'd be happy to mirror their collection (or as much as i can) of digitized books on my gnutella node.
you must have alot more time to read slashdot than i do, i browse @ +3, with some modifiers to trolls, friends, and foes, which cuts things down to about 20-30 posts per story.
"From all the interviews I've read, this game SCARES THE BEJEZUS outta people"
i got to see the tech demo @ quake con last fall... holy shit! i haven't been that scared by a computer game since quake 1 with the zombie things throwing limbs at me around midnight in the dark when i was in 8th grade (college now).... had to turn off the computer and go take a break in the well-lit kitchen for a while before continuing.
Also: You need to remember that the ratio of quality to crap games was alot better than it is today. I paid, I think $55 for FF "III" (FF6) when I was about 12 or 13 years old, and I'm still getting replay value out of that game.... most games released today, aren't worth the difference between what you paid for them and what gamestop will give you for it.
actually, considering that my PC is a bunch of throwaway parts from friend's systems sitting in a cardboard box on the floor, my power switch is pulling the power cable out of the power supply (because, as the hypocrite/bad designer i am, i put the "real power switch" on the wrong side of the box). i don't use the power switch on my mac, though:)
Don't give up your 5 acres. Ever. In the future, your kids will be the 'lucky ones' to live outside of suburbia. There is simply no way to appreciate Mark Twain and all the "Great American ________ Books" when you grew up in suburbia. Get your kid involved in indian guides, and all of those awesome groups, which cost nothing to be a part of. Those experiences and memories your children will have will be priceless when they are 20, 30 years old. Don't ruin their childhood by moving to suburbia. Have you considered 'offloading' the kids to a friend of the family, even for one day a week? Probably, but it's always looking at all your options a second, or even third time. Daycare is a horrible option, a last resort in my book.
I live at the library now. Read philosphy, and then write about it, and then discuss what I write with my friends. It eats up a lot of time. A lot. Huzzah for 24 hour university libraries.
yeeeeeah. Halo was, as I understand it, ready to ship for the PC, or at least in late beta testing, when microsoft bought out Bungie, three-ish years ago. The only thing to "port" would be maybe some of the 4 player multiplayer maps that they did post-buyout back to the "PC" version, and update the 'generic pc' graphics engine. Insert more whining about microsoft being a crappy company stifiling innovation. This would have been the next half life three years ago. But instead it's just a warmed-over re-release for the system it was originally intended for. *sigh*
It's probably with those paranoid with baby strollers, wedding dresses with train still attached, long flowing robes, etc, that feel more comfortable on the subway. DFW and colorado airports are putting them into wide use, and is really damn handy. Half way to the tube system in Futurama, I suppose.
my friend downloaded the ROM of this off of kazaa and was playing it on his emulator a couple of days after the first gamespy preview article came out, probably early march.
this is a crazy, crazy game. you banish, or maybe rescue, various people, a disco dancer, other people, and finally wario himself, to an ice cream shop, by succssfully completing 30 or so of these 3 second stages (for example, catch the toast, or "click on the food"), and of course as the article mentioned, there are lots of overly simplified NES games. Each "level" has a 30 second or so boss. The story is truly "japan weird", or at least on par with some of the crazy stuff they've put out. At some point in the story, from what we could figure out, is the toilet on a space ship gets clogged, and you complete mini games to unclog it, and.... i really don't know, it's all in japanese. This is where you 'save' the disco man.It's fun, trying to figure out just what the hell you're supposed to do.... but I can't see this game having much replay value at all once you figure it out.
I think it's the color scheme of games.slashdot.org, which gave you an eplileptic seizure, causing you to forget that this is not the slashdot main page.
i was planning on buying a game cube solely for this game, and the sonic the hedgehog anthology game. looks like FF:CC will end up more like PSO, which isn't really my kind of game. *sigh*
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due to bizzare circumstances, your posts get rated as a 5. you leave some really bizzare and odd replies, not really worthy of being called a troll.... why do you do this? spare time? boredom? i'm really curious; do you really not have anything better to do with your time?
what an awful troll. sigh. i'll bite (obviously)... moore's law says transistor density will double every 18 months. not speed, not sales, not size of your penis, and obviously not your capability to troll.
which would make for some fucked-up mechanical ideas... imagine an engine that runs in the 4th dimension....
If you buy any mac before WWDC, and then whine about not waiting to get a 'new model'..... oh well. SOMEONE will whine about it, I know it. Kinda curious as to what this will do to apple's sales over the next week or so before the introduction of things.
moo?
has anyone else seen these? I live in the dallas area, and there's been one in Garland called Nickel Rama for as long as anyone knows, and just recently there was another Nickle arcade put in Plano, called House of Nickles. How they work is it's like a normal arcade, generally with 2nd run to fairly primitive (pac man, early 90's racing games) arcade machines, toss in some skeeball and skill games with tickets, a DDR clone, airhockey, and a real live pinball machine, they all take nickles rather than quarters for credits, so you end up spending about 10 cents (2 credits) for most games. Nickle Rama even has the Ferarri Challenge 355 game (racing game with three screens, clutch, and 6 speed shifter, real classy). There's a $1.95 cover charge for the whole day (tax included, so you get a nickle back, nice.) Also, I think they crank down the difficulty settings (if there are any), as $2 will let you play for about 2 hours. For $7 total, you can spend a good part of the day there. The one in Garland is always packed, and I suspect House of Nickles will be seeing some serious buisness by the end of the summer, even if they are across the street from Game Wyze.
So basically your brain tunes them out, since they're stationary as soon as they come into your field of view, making you tune them out like one might tune out the frames of your glasses, sunglasses, etc.
erm.... does nobody else view the "PS2+" or whatever they call it simply a way to stay "current" with the Xbox in terms of press coverage, and online capability, and for the larger part, trying to hide the fact that the PS3 is a long ways off? methinks they hit a serious hiccup in PS3 technology development and this is to keep the executives happy....Just trying to keep things exciting for the consumer by wrapping the same old hardware in different clothing, while at the same time profiting off of more hardware sales, and lengthening the product cycle?
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i think that's BBC
Gah, now in addition to downloading 100+ MB amature racing (on real race tracks, not street racing crap) videos, I'll be downloading PDF copies of books in excess of 500MB from stanford, etc.
so when is stanford going to put these books up on the gnutella network? i'd be happy to mirror their collection (or as much as i can) of digitized books on my gnutella node.
"I browse at +1. ACs need not reply."
you must have alot more time to read slashdot than i do, i browse @ +3, with some modifiers to trolls, friends, and foes, which cuts things down to about 20-30 posts per story.
"From all the interviews I've read, this game SCARES THE BEJEZUS outta people"
i got to see the tech demo @ quake con last fall... holy shit! i haven't been that scared by a computer game since quake 1 with the zombie things throwing limbs at me around midnight in the dark when i was in 8th grade (college now).... had to turn off the computer and go take a break in the well-lit kitchen for a while before continuing.
Also: You need to remember that the ratio of quality to crap games was alot better than it is today. I paid, I think $55 for FF "III" (FF6) when I was about 12 or 13 years old, and I'm still getting replay value out of that game.... most games released today, aren't worth the difference between what you paid for them and what gamestop will give you for it.
actually, considering that my PC is a bunch of throwaway parts from friend's systems sitting in a cardboard box on the floor, my power switch is pulling the power cable out of the power supply (because, as the hypocrite/bad designer i am, i put the "real power switch" on the wrong side of the box). i don't use the power switch on my mac, though :)
did they put the 'main' power switch on the front finally? talk about a human usability design disaster....
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-1, Flamebait, and then some more text to bypass the lamness filter.
heh. Funny, although 'insightful' might be a good option.
Don't give up your 5 acres. Ever. In the future, your kids will be the 'lucky ones' to live outside of suburbia. There is simply no way to appreciate Mark Twain and all the "Great American ________ Books" when you grew up in suburbia. Get your kid involved in indian guides, and all of those awesome groups, which cost nothing to be a part of. Those experiences and memories your children will have will be priceless when they are 20, 30 years old. Don't ruin their childhood by moving to suburbia. Have you considered 'offloading' the kids to a friend of the family, even for one day a week? Probably, but it's always looking at all your options a second, or even third time. Daycare is a horrible option, a last resort in my book.
Lol. So wish I had mod points right now.
I live at the library now. Read philosphy, and then write about it, and then discuss what I write with my friends. It eats up a lot of time. A lot. Huzzah for 24 hour university libraries.
Oh, and post on slashdot. (duh)
"to do a definitive PC version of Halo"
yeeeeeah. Halo was, as I understand it, ready to ship for the PC, or at least in late beta testing, when microsoft bought out Bungie, three-ish years ago. The only thing to "port" would be maybe some of the 4 player multiplayer maps that they did post-buyout back to the "PC" version, and update the 'generic pc' graphics engine. Insert more whining about microsoft being a crappy company stifiling innovation. This would have been the next half life three years ago. But instead it's just a warmed-over re-release for the system it was originally intended for. *sigh*
It's probably with those paranoid with baby strollers, wedding dresses with train still attached, long flowing robes, etc, that feel more comfortable on the subway. DFW and colorado airports are putting them into wide use, and is really damn handy. Half way to the tube system in Futurama, I suppose.
my friend downloaded the ROM of this off of kazaa and was playing it on his emulator a couple of days after the first gamespy preview article came out, probably early march.
this is a crazy, crazy game. you banish, or maybe rescue, various people, a disco dancer, other people, and finally wario himself, to an ice cream shop, by succssfully completing 30 or so of these 3 second stages (for example, catch the toast, or "click on the food"), and of course as the article mentioned, there are lots of overly simplified NES games. Each "level" has a 30 second or so boss. The story is truly "japan weird", or at least on par with some of the crazy stuff they've put out. At some point in the story, from what we could figure out, is the toilet on a space ship gets clogged, and you complete mini games to unclog it, and.... i really don't know, it's all in japanese. This is where you 'save' the disco man.It's fun, trying to figure out just what the hell you're supposed to do.... but I can't see this game having much replay value at all once you figure it out.
haha, very well balanced. useful info, and then three lines of crap to get modded into oblivion. brilliant.
I think it's the color scheme of games.slashdot.org, which gave you an eplileptic seizure, causing you to forget that this is not the slashdot main page.
i was planning on buying a game cube solely for this game, and the sonic the hedgehog anthology game. looks like FF:CC will end up more like PSO, which isn't really my kind of game. *sigh*