Well, because the C64 games were made by a wide variety of developers instead of one company - the atari packs are atari games, the namco packs are namco games... C64 had a plethora of game companies. EA and Activision were a few of the bigger ones... but where's Broderbund now?
Really? From what I played of WC2 online, 90% of the gameplay involved using hordes of grunts to stomp the enemy into oblivion. For my illicit-LAN-gaming in highschool, it was Doom, Liero, Descent, and a little tank game I'd made in VB for class. That was, until we got 2 computers in the drafting lab and set up BattleZone '98 and Quake 2.
So, how many out there first became gamers thanks to the true father-box of gaming, the Commodore 64?
Ick. I played a lot of Palladium RPGs in my day. They're kinda like Piers Anthony novels - you enjoy them while you're in it, but you get a dirty feeling when you look back on yourself as an adult.
Rifts was a great concept horribly abused by blazingly incompetent writers. Siembeda had the originality of a stump, and Carella was just too much of a dreamer - he had no interest in researching the existing settings. All his books were just "old country X is gone, replaced by alien race Y" and he loved to just ramp up stats. It wasn't too long until the GlitterBoy was just another extra.
The fact was that the "ad hoc" approach to stat/class design was outdated even in the early '90s when Rifts was started. Where other games were filling their main book with the rules for designing equipment and leaving the expansions to be new setting/adventure information with a few stats for content, Rifts books were almost entirely massive catalogues of weapons and mecha.
I have to say I enjoyed GMing my Rifts games, but the whole thing was a clumsy, cobbled-together antiquated mess of childish "ooh, an even bigger sword!"isms. As a GM, it was very hard to keep the game from being a glorified game of Diablo where the heros kill monsters, take their stuff, and sell it for more equipment (I find that occaisionally imprisoning the characters and making them lose their gear once in a while helps).
West End Games' "Torg" takes a different approach to "extradimensional beings invade Earth" that I think was much, much cooler. Less anime-style, more movie-drama.
Oh, and apparently there was a pretty good Rifts game for the NGage.
You mean psychopathic, not psychotic. And anyone who was startled by the findings in the corporation didn't think very hard about the concept of a corporation. A corporation's primary responsability is to shareholders, to make them money. As such, a corporation's primary responsability is to make money. Since nobody is responsible for for making it nice, it has no need to be nice, or even legal, so long as the damage done by being illegal is less than the profit of the illegal act.
That's pretty obvious if you think about the game theory of the situation (and they teach game theory in business school). So of course they're psychopathic.
Idunno, I've read through the whole archives of Sluggy.com, which is a very, very long running daily webcomic. I'd say the internet + screen is a fine format for flipping through a comic book. Of course, the ads are inobtrusive, so it's pretty much just click - read - click - read. The same as turning a page.
Yes, I remember times when artists would go on vacation and print re-runs. Webcomics have archives and give away the reruns for free, so that wouldn't work for them.
Sluggy Freelance (sluggy.com) is the best serial I've ever seen to succeed in both the "1 humorous strip a day" and "continuing story" thing. It's a long, drawn out comedic-sci-fi-soap-opera, but it tends to have at least one punch-line per comic. SomethingPostitive.net does the same.
Compare v. For Better or For Worse, which hasn't had a punchline since the '80s.
I think that's a fantastic record. Any vehicle robust enough to survive such abysmal failures is pretty impressive. Compare v. the space shuttle, which blew up because of one little tile.
Ahh, the weakness of the circumsized ASCII character set. Under windows, the squared character is alt+0178, represented as: (I hope Slash doesn't eat that).
You might've had a point except that all Chricton movies tend to follow the exact same plot anyhow, - new technology goes bad, starts killing people. Whether it's dinosaur cloning, VR, or nanorobots, it's the same plot.
Plus, the monkeys will eat the rubber and plastic off the outside of your car. Apparently they get high on the glue. You can avoid the monkeys by driving around, but most don't since they're the best part of the tour.
'cause we're the only non-scavenger that doesn't kill our wild meat and eat it on the spot. Instead, we keep it in a cramped, diseased environment, kill it, and save it for later. Lots of diseases happen in the meantime. So we cook our food.
So I should respect other people's viewpoints, even if they're totally hypocritical? This is the same as people who obsess over any animal they see, but remain non-vegetarians.
It's not a "viewpoint" - that suggests someone who's actually thought about the manner enough to form an opinion. It's just gut reaction. It's saying "I can't eat bunnies, they're too cute!" - I'm sure the chickens very much wish they were as cute as bunnies. Sucks to be uncute.
If you refuse to eat something because the idea is "icky" - but refuse to re-evaluate your existing habits based on that logic, then you're just being unthinking and prejudicial.
Well, burgers are different from steaks. Steaks can be cooked medium, because diseases tend to reside on the outside of the meat. Burgers, on the other hand, have had the outsides jumbled into the interior. Plus, because of longer shipping distances due to factory farming, meat is often less fresh than it used to be. As such, diseases have more time to fester.
So really, making a medium-rare burger is a lot more risk than you may think. Personally, I think if you want something like that, I'd go for a steak.
Actually, considering that I don't think genetic engineering actually happens, the reaction of the franken-food crowd would be strange. After all, an artificial-meat slab could be based on cells of all-natural cows. My understanding is that they use a natural cell to grow the protein layers.
So it's not really fraken-food... not the modern GMO definition, at least.
If I knew it was safe, I'd be first in line to eat this. The sooner humans get off of factory-farmed meat, the better.
Remember that eating meat is, at a certain level, recreational. Vegetarians live just fine. Any way to make this more reasonable is a good thing.
Naturalists be damned - people who want the ethical, clean, simple life can go join the Mennonites. Humans have high standards of living, and are hive animals now. We no longer want the natural world to encroach upon us, so we shouldn't encroach upon it.
Plus, if this can be used for animal feed, it means that one can keep carnivores alive without having to kill other animals. Vegetarians can now keep cats without being hypocrites.
The worry is that a bunch of politically-averse ISPs are going to start dropping packets sent to/from.xxx websites the same way that they drop objectionable websites from their hostings without any review process.
A law against kiddie-porn could easily be used to justify this "Well, Jeb says we have to block all kiddie porn access that may travel through our system. Let's just block all porno and be done with it."
Enough soccer moms complain and the easier option becomes attractive.
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Get it right:
Suzie's about to lose her anal virginity. After that happens, her ass will be very loose.
Well, because the C64 games were made by a wide variety of developers instead of one company - the atari packs are atari games, the namco packs are namco games... C64 had a plethora of game companies. EA and Activision were a few of the bigger ones... but where's Broderbund now?
Really? From what I played of WC2 online, 90% of the gameplay involved using hordes of grunts to stomp the enemy into oblivion. For my illicit-LAN-gaming in highschool, it was Doom, Liero, Descent, and a little tank game I'd made in VB for class. That was, until we got 2 computers in the drafting lab and set up BattleZone '98 and Quake 2.
So, how many out there first became gamers thanks to the true father-box of gaming, the Commodore 64?
Ick. I played a lot of Palladium RPGs in my day. They're kinda like Piers Anthony novels - you enjoy them while you're in it, but you get a dirty feeling when you look back on yourself as an adult.
Rifts was a great concept horribly abused by blazingly incompetent writers. Siembeda had the originality of a stump, and Carella was just too much of a dreamer - he had no interest in researching the existing settings. All his books were just "old country X is gone, replaced by alien race Y" and he loved to just ramp up stats. It wasn't too long until the GlitterBoy was just another extra.
The fact was that the "ad hoc" approach to stat/class design was outdated even in the early '90s when Rifts was started. Where other games were filling their main book with the rules for designing equipment and leaving the expansions to be new setting/adventure information with a few stats for content, Rifts books were almost entirely massive catalogues of weapons and mecha.
I have to say I enjoyed GMing my Rifts games, but the whole thing was a clumsy, cobbled-together antiquated mess of childish "ooh, an even bigger sword!"isms. As a GM, it was very hard to keep the game from being a glorified game of Diablo where the heros kill monsters, take their stuff, and sell it for more equipment (I find that occaisionally imprisoning the characters and making them lose their gear once in a while helps).
West End Games' "Torg" takes a different approach to "extradimensional beings invade Earth" that I think was much, much cooler. Less anime-style, more movie-drama.
Oh, and apparently there was a pretty good Rifts game for the NGage.
But who cares. RoboRally is back! Hallelujah!
And yet *nix users continue to insist that command-line tools and bizarro naming conventions are a good thing.
To me, this is an example of catastrophically bad platform design.
Simple solution: end unlimited liability. Investors become required to practice "due dilligence" in choosing what organisations to fund.
You mean psychopathic, not psychotic. And anyone who was startled by the findings in the corporation didn't think very hard about the concept of a corporation. A corporation's primary responsability is to shareholders, to make them money. As such, a corporation's primary responsability is to make money. Since nobody is responsible for for making it nice, it has no need to be nice, or even legal, so long as the damage done by being illegal is less than the profit of the illegal act.
That's pretty obvious if you think about the game theory of the situation (and they teach game theory in business school). So of course they're psychopathic.
Idunno, I've read through the whole archives of Sluggy.com, which is a very, very long running daily webcomic. I'd say the internet + screen is a fine format for flipping through a comic book. Of course, the ads are inobtrusive, so it's pretty much just click - read - click - read. The same as turning a page.
Yes, I remember times when artists would go on vacation and print re-runs. Webcomics have archives and give away the reruns for free, so that wouldn't work for them.
Sluggy Freelance (sluggy.com) is the best serial I've ever seen to succeed in both the "1 humorous strip a day" and "continuing story" thing. It's a long, drawn out comedic-sci-fi-soap-opera, but it tends to have at least one punch-line per comic. SomethingPostitive.net does the same.
Compare v. For Better or For Worse, which hasn't had a punchline since the '80s.
I think that's a fantastic record. Any vehicle robust enough to survive such abysmal failures is pretty impressive. Compare v. the space shuttle, which blew up because of one little tile.
Ahh, the weakness of the circumsized ASCII character set. Under windows, the squared character is alt+0178, represented as: (I hope Slash doesn't eat that).
You might've had a point except that all Chricton movies tend to follow the exact same plot anyhow, - new technology goes bad, starts killing people. Whether it's dinosaur cloning, VR, or nanorobots, it's the same plot.
Native home? You know he's a Connecticut yankee, right?
Plus, the monkeys will eat the rubber and plastic off the outside of your car. Apparently they get high on the glue. You can avoid the monkeys by driving around, but most don't since they're the best part of the tour.
iirc, you've got chandler and joey backwards in that dialogue.
In that case, that's your cue to moon the mirror every time you go to a dressing room.
'cause we're the only non-scavenger that doesn't kill our wild meat and eat it on the spot. Instead, we keep it in a cramped, diseased environment, kill it, and save it for later. Lots of diseases happen in the meantime. So we cook our food.
So I should respect other people's viewpoints, even if they're totally hypocritical? This is the same as people who obsess over any animal they see, but remain non-vegetarians.
It's not a "viewpoint" - that suggests someone who's actually thought about the manner enough to form an opinion. It's just gut reaction. It's saying "I can't eat bunnies, they're too cute!" - I'm sure the chickens very much wish they were as cute as bunnies. Sucks to be uncute.
If you refuse to eat something because the idea is "icky" - but refuse to re-evaluate your existing habits based on that logic, then you're just being unthinking and prejudicial.
So no, I don't respect that sort of viewpoint.
They've already been profiting from trying to cure it - do you know how much charitable cash goes to AIDS research?
Sean Connery Agrees.
"I'll take The Rapists for $400!"
"That's 'therapists'"
Well, burgers are different from steaks. Steaks can be cooked medium, because diseases tend to reside on the outside of the meat. Burgers, on the other hand, have had the outsides jumbled into the interior. Plus, because of longer shipping distances due to factory farming, meat is often less fresh than it used to be. As such, diseases have more time to fester.
So really, making a medium-rare burger is a lot more risk than you may think. Personally, I think if you want something like that, I'd go for a steak.
Amen. Anybody who objects to this should either be on an organic, freerange diet, or else is a vegetarian (vegan, even?). Otherwise, STFU hypocrites.
Actually, considering that I don't think genetic engineering actually happens, the reaction of the franken-food crowd would be strange. After all, an artificial-meat slab could be based on cells of all-natural cows. My understanding is that they use a natural cell to grow the protein layers.
So it's not really fraken-food... not the modern GMO definition, at least.
If I knew it was safe, I'd be first in line to eat this. The sooner humans get off of factory-farmed meat, the better.
Remember that eating meat is, at a certain level, recreational. Vegetarians live just fine. Any way to make this more reasonable is a good thing.
Naturalists be damned - people who want the ethical, clean, simple life can go join the Mennonites. Humans have high standards of living, and are hive animals now. We no longer want the natural world to encroach upon us, so we shouldn't encroach upon it.
Plus, if this can be used for animal feed, it means that one can keep carnivores alive without having to kill other animals. Vegetarians can now keep cats without being hypocrites.
The worry is that a bunch of politically-averse ISPs are going to start dropping packets sent to/from .xxx websites the same way that they drop objectionable websites from their hostings without any review process.
A law against kiddie-porn could easily be used to justify this "Well, Jeb says we have to block all kiddie porn access that may travel through our system. Let's just block all porno and be done with it."
Enough soccer moms complain and the easier option becomes attractive.