So I can play a starship commander, sans space combat. Because, y'know, a space flight simulator isn't what Trekkies want. Trekkies would much rather be in the starfleet marines.
Fundamentally, the Oscars are about a community of people that, lets face it, do what they do because they love the limeilight and telling stories, giving an awards show that put's them in the limelight, getting rewarded for telling stories.
"You like me . . . You really LIKE Me!" is funny, because there's truth in it. For actors and actresses, this is an incentive. Why *ELSE* would somebody wait tables for ten years doing commercials waiting for their "Big Break"? There's money to be had lots of places. It's an incentive that is useful for the studios et al, but if the actors and directors *didn't* enjoy it on balance, it would have died years ago.
It's not the same incentive to Game programmers. For one thing, those that are on their game - know who they are. Sid Meier, Peter Molyneux for god games. Bioware for D&D, Taldren knows they made the best Star Trek game ever whelped. For purposes of ego inflation, the best names in the gaming industry don't really need an "awards show". Sid knows he can destroy the U.S. Grade point average any day he feels like it - Just whisper the words "I think I'll do Master of Orion IV" and sit back grinning as the IT economy tanks . (Come on Sid - you know you want too).
Nobody waits tables to do game design - it's not that kind of industry, and the same incentives don't work. And the only real reason for this kind of awards show is either an incentive to the programming trams, or an ad campaign for the studios. They're not interested in the former, we're not interested in the latter, and until I see a programmer that looks like Charlize Theron, neither of these things are likely to change.
The proper use of American Cheese singles is on (and only on) an american hotdog or grilled hamburger. For this, properly melted on a still hot hotdog, it is perfect is ways that no foreigner can truly understand.
Sad, but true - I have neices and nephews, I know these things
Yeah - I keep intending to try the sequel, but I want to replay the original first. Just a flat out cool game.
Red storm rising was fun because there was no one winning strategy - my ex-roomie would load up on missiles and launch from over the horizon - me, I drop to just under (or over, as appropriate) the thermocline and drift into the middle, fire four (or more - wolves are fun!) torpedos at once, then take off like a bat out of hell . . . either one had risks.
The one thing I would have loved in Starfleet Command was a little more of the red storm rising long range view on things. I can understand why not - it's not very Starfleet battles, but I think it would have been workable.
Tron2.0 kept me playing for awhile, but I noticed that when I stopped, I didn't have that urge to pick it back up I had with No One Lives Forever (I and II). So Far NOLF are the only two FPS games I've ever played all the way through - best quirky humor in the genre I've seen.
I picked up the sequel to that for the rugrats because of the hype (Just got a PS II for them - I tend towards PC games myself).
God - it's fricking annoying! I hope to god this is a deal where the sequal badly failed from the original because it is just about the worst thing I've ever dealt with. Annoying monologues that go ON and ON, mediocre graphics, a silly premise and game play that might be cool if you weren't *constantly* getting pulled away from the game for another stupid monologue. You want to reach into the game and just scream "Shut the F**K UP!!!! I'm playing here!"
I've said my piece. All better now. No, please, I won't do it again, please don't make me take the pills . . .
Yeah - it looked neat, and moddable, and had all sorts of things going for it, it just
Never - - - quite - - - - - - WORKED!!!!
It still seems like it could be modded into a heck of a game - rip everything out and rebuild on the basic engine. But if I was going to rebuild something to that extent, I'd rebuild it on top of Celestia anyway.
Whew - I played Starflight on the Atari ST - Definitely one of the coolest games ever, although I will concede to being enough of a visual afficianado that it pained me to see what it looked like on the PC when I tried playing it later. I'd love to get an ST Image of it back to run on an emulator.
I also kicked in a vote for the C64 version of Neuromancer, and Red Storm Rising. Star Fleet Command has also stayed on my HD pretty consistently since it came out.
That's nice to know - I keep having to look up stuff I swear I knew in college and thought it was just me.
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Ah - participation in a socialist scheme is *coerced*. As is fundamentally obvious from the Great Wall of Canada which prevents Canadians from escaping to the U.S., and the infamous Swedish Gulags.
It's not as if these countries had elected representatives to make the case before the government that they didn't want universal healthcare and desperately need less taxes going towards education.
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Yeah - Good DM's are rarities. I've been fortunate enough to know some fine DM's/GM's that can do good charcter development without going into a Monty Haul campaign. It's far too easy to give away the store in most RPG's.
Where I can be ignored by attractive women *worldwide*, rather than just being ignored by them locally.
I've tried five services, and every one of them was remarkable for the absolute lack of response I got from trying to talk to the women that were there. With Pic, without Pic, whatever.
I still kinda like OKcupid.com, but at least it's free. I actually paid two services that did absolutely nothing.
My own reaction is that money solves almost no large problems, but resolves a *lot* of small problems. Indeed, if the problem can be resolved with money, it is almost always a small problem - there are other solutions, but money is an easy one.
And being able to resolve it by tossing some money at it gives you time to deal with all the larger problems that money can't resolve.
YEah, because it's not possible she saw leaking tanks from offsite. I mean that would require advanced equipment. Like, y'know, a zoom lens.
And how dare she nose about for infractions after the city has cleaned one up anyway. Like she doesn't trust the corps to maintain a high standard of accountability when the gov't has quit looking. Why, we only let those tanks leak to *prove* that she was still looking after wefixed the problem. It's harassment I tell you!
Due Process - just like all those people at Gitmo, right?
Please, quit trying to claim a difference in legal procedure is a vast cultural divide. I happen to agree with the U.S. system leaving the burden of proof where it is, but to make this into a "Capitalism vs Socialism" issue?
Get a grip. We're hardly perfect, and at least if she loses the suit and files bankruptcy, she can still get her kids to a doctor.
No - you can spam the world saying I raped babies and I can't successfully sue you without proving that a) There's no evidence to that effect b) My reputation is such that a statement that I rape babies would damage it and c) I can prove that you said so without making certain minimal efforts to substantiate your claims.
My problem always comes in point b. My coverups are masterful, and my enemies far too lazy, but my rep sucks.
Actually, no it doesn't. If the sun were magically eliminated, it would still take 8 minutes for the earth to suddenly break orbit as space relaxed into the form of having no mass at that point. Till then, the earth would keep orbiting .
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So I can play a starship commander, sans space combat. Because, y'know, a space flight simulator isn't what Trekkies want. Trekkies would much rather be in the starfleet marines.
Okey dokey then.
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To escape my Drab, dreary life in a large moving universe in which I can operate independently and explore?
No wait - the inability to simply do that and have fun is why I *don't* do MMORPG's . . .
Dammit, when's Oblivion coming out again?
Fundamentally, the Oscars are about a community of people that, lets face it, do what they do because they love the limeilight and telling stories, giving an awards show that put's them in the limelight, getting rewarded for telling stories.
"You like me . . . You really LIKE Me!" is funny, because there's truth in it. For actors and actresses, this is an incentive. Why *ELSE* would somebody wait tables for ten years doing commercials waiting for their "Big Break"? There's money to be had lots of places. It's an incentive that is useful for the studios et al, but if the actors and directors *didn't* enjoy it on balance, it would have died years ago.
It's not the same incentive to Game programmers. For one thing, those that are on their game - know who they are. Sid Meier, Peter Molyneux for god games. Bioware for D&D, Taldren knows they made the best Star Trek game ever whelped. For purposes of ego inflation, the best names in the gaming industry don't really need an "awards show". Sid knows he can destroy the U.S. Grade point average any day he feels like it - Just whisper the words "I think I'll do Master of Orion IV" and sit back grinning as the IT economy tanks . (Come on Sid - you know you want too).
Nobody waits tables to do game design - it's not that kind of industry, and the same incentives don't work. And the only real reason for this kind of awards show is either an incentive to the programming trams, or an ad campaign for the studios. They're not interested in the former, we're not interested in the latter, and until I see a programmer that looks like Charlize Theron, neither of these things are likely to change.
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The proper use of American Cheese singles is on (and only on) an american hotdog or grilled hamburger. For this, properly melted on a still hot hotdog, it is perfect is ways that no foreigner can truly understand.
Sad, but true - I have neices and nephews, I know these things
There are no lawyers in Heaven. That's the very *MEANING* of heaven.
Well, to be fair, evidently Windows had executable images. Just (Cough Cough) an undocumented feature . . .
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So - when can I expect to see this as a Firefox Extension?
"Warning: This nude of Britinet Spears has been photoshopped"
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Yeah - I keep intending to try the sequel, but I want to replay the original first. Just a flat out cool game.
Red storm rising was fun because there was no one winning strategy - my ex-roomie would load up on missiles and launch from over the horizon - me, I drop to just under (or over, as appropriate) the thermocline and drift into the middle, fire four (or more - wolves are fun!) torpedos at once, then take off like a bat out of hell . . . either one had risks.
The one thing I would have loved in Starfleet Command was a little more of the red storm rising long range view on things. I can understand why not - it's not very Starfleet battles, but I think it would have been workable.
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Tron2.0 kept me playing for awhile, but I noticed that when I stopped, I didn't have that urge to pick it back up I had with No One Lives Forever (I and II). So Far NOLF are the only two FPS games I've ever played all the way through - best quirky humor in the genre I've seen.
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I picked up the sequel to that for the rugrats because of the hype (Just got a PS II for them - I tend towards PC games myself).
God - it's fricking annoying! I hope to god this is a deal where the sequal badly failed from the original because it is just about the worst thing I've ever dealt with. Annoying monologues that go ON and ON, mediocre graphics, a silly premise and game play that might be cool if you weren't *constantly* getting pulled away from the game for another stupid monologue. You want to reach into the game and just scream "Shut the F**K UP!!!! I'm playing here!"
I've said my piece. All better now. No, please, I won't do it again, please don't make me take the pills . . .
Yeah - it looked neat, and moddable, and had all sorts of things going for it, it just
Never
- - - quite
- - - - - - WORKED!!!!
It still seems like it could be modded into a heck of a game - rip everything out and rebuild on the basic engine. But if I was going to rebuild something to that extent, I'd rebuild it on top of Celestia anyway.
Pug
Whew - I played Starflight on the Atari ST - Definitely one of the coolest games ever, although I will concede to being enough of a visual afficianado that it pained me to see what it looked like on the PC when I tried playing it later. I'd love to get an ST Image of it back to run on an emulator.
I also kicked in a vote for the C64 version of Neuromancer, and Red Storm Rising. Star Fleet Command has also stayed on my HD pretty consistently since it came out.
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That's nice to know - I keep having to look up stuff I swear I knew in college and thought it was just me.
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Ah - participation in a socialist scheme is *coerced*. As is fundamentally obvious from the Great Wall of Canada which prevents Canadians from escaping to the U.S., and the infamous Swedish Gulags.
It's not as if these countries had elected representatives to make the case before the government that they didn't want universal healthcare and desperately need less taxes going towards education.
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Sorry - other people. Not, well . . . you.
We have standards to uphold here.
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Yeah - Good DM's are rarities. I've been fortunate enough to know some fine DM's/GM's that can do good charcter development without going into a Monty Haul campaign. It's far too easy to give away the store in most RPG's.
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Nothing is more stale than network sitcoms.
Where I can be ignored by attractive women *worldwide*, rather than just being ignored by them locally.
I've tried five services, and every one of them was remarkable for the absolute lack of response I got from trying to talk to the women that were there. With Pic, without Pic, whatever.
I still kinda like OKcupid.com, but at least it's free. I actually paid two services that did absolutely nothing.
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My own reaction is that money solves almost no large problems, but resolves a *lot* of small problems. Indeed, if the problem can be resolved with money, it is almost always a small problem - there are other solutions, but money is an easy one.
And being able to resolve it by tossing some money at it gives you time to deal with all the larger problems that money can't resolve.
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Yeah, but we got better songs out of it.
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YEah, because it's not possible she saw leaking tanks from offsite. I mean that would require advanced equipment. Like, y'know, a zoom lens.
And how dare she nose about for infractions after the city has cleaned one up anyway. Like she doesn't trust the corps to maintain a high standard of accountability when the gov't has quit looking. Why, we only let those tanks leak to *prove* that she was still looking after wefixed the problem. It's harassment I tell you!
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Due Process - just like all those people at Gitmo, right?
Please, quit trying to claim a difference in legal procedure is a vast cultural divide. I happen to agree with the U.S. system leaving the burden of proof where it is, but to make this into a "Capitalism vs Socialism" issue?
Get a grip. We're hardly perfect, and at least if she loses the suit and files bankruptcy, she can still get her kids to a doctor.
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No - you can spam the world saying I raped babies and I can't successfully sue you without proving that
a) There's no evidence to that effect
b) My reputation is such that a statement that I rape babies would damage it and
c) I can prove that you said so without making certain minimal efforts to substantiate your claims.
My problem always comes in point b. My coverups are masterful, and my enemies far too lazy, but my rep sucks.
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If you hadn't looked, that cat might still be alive!
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Actually, no it doesn't. If the sun were magically eliminated, it would still take 8 minutes for the earth to suddenly break orbit as space relaxed into the form of having no mass at that point. Till then, the earth would keep orbiting .
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