That would be observant if it were true. The shortest seasons (23-26) were fourteen episodes long. For the first six years or so, the show ran year-round with only a couple of weeks off here and there, for special occasions. Forty-two weekly episodes in the first season; then thirty-nine; then forty-five. By 1970 there were already over 250 episodes. Heck, Pat Troughton's final story was ten episodes in itself!
Heck, even by the end of season five there were 209 episodes.
What? Did you even read the article? Where does it say anything about Nintendo "dying"? The article is critical of the GameCube pad, for a detailed set of reasons, and at the end makes a comment that Nintendo is perhaps one of the best examples of the problems of current game design, with the Revolution maybe being exactly what they need. How you get an anti-Nintendo slant out of this is totally beyond me.
Perhaps, if you're looking for a detailed history of game controllers. That's not what this is. It's a theoretical piece, to explain where the Revolution controller's coming from, historically and conceptually.
It's already done the worst it can do, by succeeding and giving people the bright idea that it's doing something right, so it should be replicated. And even honored. When it actually kind of sucks, when it comes down to it. This just ain't no way to make a videogame. It's a confused, blobby mess that I see stifling progress and distracting the distractable for a few more years.
Wasted opportunity; they include stereo capability, but limit it to possible future games. If you're rebuilding the hardware from scratch, it shouldn't be hard to pan the existing audio channels subtly across the stereo spectrum. I don't see why compatability would be an issue either, if it's done on the output rather than the input end.
If it's just for the sake of detail accuracy, well. They're already screwing with that. And likewise if they were to implement such a feature, it would be a piece of cake to incorporate a toggle switch. If you want the original mono, it will mix in mono. If you want to take advantage of the new hardware (and why the heck not, really), it'll mix in stereo.
I'd buy one for that feature alone. As it is now -- well. I hate wireless controllers, my NES still works, and I don't understand what they're up to with the new hardware elements.
The replacement AC cord on their site looks great, though.
Maybe you do; I don't have that kind of money. And I'm not that easy to please. If I'm going to spend money on entertainment, it will be for an experience I've never had before. Something to give me new insight. And further, something that's actually designed for the platform in question.
What ports are you talking about? I don't even see them on the DS. I'm not paying attention. What I see are Another Code and Meteos. Even the games that come from an established series will be diffrent, beause of the nature of the DS. Animal Crossing with a stylus, wifi, and a second screen? Hell yes. That's just perfect. And have you seen how gorgeous the new Castlevania is?
The PSP cannot, by nature, offer me an experience I could not find elsewhere.
What the hell kind of movies do you go to, that it costs fifty dollars? It costs five dollars a person where I go. A good meal is ten to fifteen dollars a person. Even that is expensive, when I can just make my own meals.
I had an odd tendency in public school to end up in the principal's office a couple times a week. About 3/4 of the time I was called in there, and later given detention, because I had been attacked in some way.
Eh? Well, let me explain a bit. I've never been really capable of fighting back any more than a wild flailing of limbs and attempted retreat, so, of course, especially considering the uncommonly fragile emotional state in which I tended to be, I was constantly under a barrage of bullying. I was easy and entertaining to pick on.
Most of the time, this just flew past administrators' eyes. They didn't want to see. In a way, this was almost preferable. If I were ever to actually go to a teacher for help, I would be sent off to the principal. Whoever had been tormenting me would be asked his side of the story, which would inevitably be a grandiose, outrageous lie along the lines of my having fallen on the floor and he having attempted to help me, then my acting crazilly in response to this. He would then be excused, to go back to his business. Despite the fact I was the one sobbing, cowering in the corner, I was then given the aforementioned detention and, occasionally, trips to the councellor.
Everything I did came under the highest degree of scrutiny, the teachers apparently thinking me some kind of a troublemaker. If you were to have seen me, you'd understand how ludicrous this is. I was (and mostly remain) a scrawny, pale, timid ghost of a being. I didn't speak out in nearly any way -- I barely spoke at all; there wasn't anyone "safe" to talk to.
Anyway, I couldn't stand that anymore after eighth grade -- I knew high school was only going to be worse because people would have greater ability to inflict damage upon me. After a year of homeschooling, I ended up in a nearby prep school. While the students largely tolerated me and left me alone, with only a few exceptions, about half the teachers (mostly the unimaginative ones with "power") kept a strong bead on me, one or two becoming a bit fearful whenever I challenged in class their incorrect information or poor behaviour -- as if I were going to jump up from my desk and throttle them or something. I swear one dean would have put video surveilance equipment in my room if he had it, despite the fact that any student who was even vaguely familiar with me, personally, would instantly tell that I was of no threat to anyone; that I was probably one of the three "cleanest" kids there.
Oy. I still hate myself, and probably will, to some extent, for the rest of my life; it's too deeply-ingrained to just disappear.
The thing is, given the opportunity, I could draw up a model for a new educational system which would actually function as a place of learning and would put out intelligent, curious, creative, wonder-filled people at the exiting end. It's not a difficult task...
> I can't tell what he gets by default since I > can't tell if the post is raw or if it has been > bumped up a notch or down three notches by the > mods.
True. But he said back in the midst his text, somewhere, that he received 2 points. That's all.
> Actually, almost all of the original people > still REMAIN.
True; only Josh Weinstein, Joel, Trace, and Frank have left entirely (though, as I said a few messages ago, Joel and Frank are returning for a visit in episode 1001).
> For onscreen people, only Kevin Murphy (the > voice of Tom Servo) remains.
He's actually the second servo -- Weinstein, who also played Dr. Lawrence Erhardt, was the original voice.
> But behind the scenes, almost everyone is the > same. The head writer is still Mike Nelson and > most of the writing staff has been there from > the first few seasons.
True. And Jim Mallon is still around, doing his stuff, even though Gypsy has recently changed hands.
> So, while the cast has changed, the humor is > still there and it's just as funny as it ever > was....
I'd have to agree, though I can understand why some people would whine. If Mulder and Scully were yanked off the X-Files and it continued with two other otherwise very capable actors, I know I'd have a fit. But MST3K was never meant to be a serious program.
"Just repeat to yourself `it's just a show -- I should really just relax.'"
> I'd still like them to bring back the Invention > Exchange. That was definitely kool.
Unfortunately, that was uniquely Joel's territory; it was based upon his own patented brand of magic-laced stand up comedy (which is also from where the word "Gizmonic" stems). But who knows what'll happen on the eleventh, eh? Maybe Pearl will even gain a button specifically for Frank to push.
It's more like they've resigned to their fate, since, as you said, the future looks very grim. If they had the opportunity, as stated on Sattelite News, they'd like to continue going. They're simply not keeping their hopes up; they've been through this all before. If it was difficult last time, the show ought to be hell to save this time around.
As stated all around, the best way to support the show is to get everyone possible to watch. Ratings are what the big chiefs with the leather chairs care about -- the quality of the show doesn't matter to them, nor does its loyal following. The new season starts on Saturday, April 11 at 11:00 AM (and April 12 at 11:00 PM).
If you want the show around, watch. Call all of your friends and tell them to watch, as well. Try to convert new followers.
Did I mention the season premeire has Joel and Frank in it?
What is it, I mean, really?
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It's also had several cast changes over the past ten (actually, eleven) years. Now, amusingly, every original cast member has been replaced.
Currently, it airs at 11:00AM/Sat and 11:00PM/Sun Eastern Standard Time on the Sci-Fi channel. It still has one season to go before it's washed away by the high-ranking tides of forced mediocrity.
The thing is, Sci-Fi simply decided not to renew the series. Best Brains have kind of resigned to this fate; they've been through the ordeal once before and don't particularly expect anything to change. However, they apparently do still have an interest in continuing the show; they just now don't have anywhere to put it. If their contract were renewed, they'd keep chugging along until they did get tired of it (and with the rate of cast turnover, the show could conceivably last forever).
Best Brains and Sci-Fi do, however, still have a good relationship; this isn't like the Comedy Central era. So there is some small sliver of hope even if no one else does pick up the show (and as long as people don't start sending pipe bombs -- not a good way to engender sympathy).
And as for the VHS/DVD deal, they've been working on it for the past few years. Go look.
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I guess I should say that, in a sense, 2005 was the shortest season in that it had only thirteen episodes -- though the episodes were twice as long.
If you consider actual screen time, then it's probably not until the mid-'70s that Doctor Who catches up on Stargate.
That would be observant if it were true. The shortest seasons (23-26) were fourteen episodes long. For the first six years or so, the show ran year-round with only a couple of weeks off here and there, for special occasions. Forty-two weekly episodes in the first season; then thirty-nine; then forty-five. By 1970 there were already over 250 episodes. Heck, Pat Troughton's final story was ten episodes in itself!
Heck, even by the end of season five there were 209 episodes.
What? Did you even read the article? Where does it say anything about Nintendo "dying"? The article is critical of the GameCube pad, for a detailed set of reasons, and at the end makes a comment that Nintendo is perhaps one of the best examples of the problems of current game design, with the Revolution maybe being exactly what they need. How you get an anti-Nintendo slant out of this is totally beyond me.
Perhaps, if you're looking for a detailed history of game controllers. That's not what this is. It's a theoretical piece, to explain where the Revolution controller's coming from, historically and conceptually.
It's already done the worst it can do, by succeeding and giving people the bright idea that it's doing something right, so it should be replicated. And even honored. When it actually kind of sucks, when it comes down to it. This just ain't no way to make a videogame. It's a confused, blobby mess that I see stifling progress and distracting the distractable for a few more years.
Jeez. Good going at lumping a portable model of a home console alongside the dedicated handheld platforms.
I wouldn't exactly call the Genesis a failure. Or even a competitor to the Gameboy.
That's pretty impressive, considering it was a Saturn game.
Wasted opportunity; they include stereo capability, but limit it to possible future games. If you're rebuilding the hardware from scratch, it shouldn't be hard to pan the existing audio channels subtly across the stereo spectrum. I don't see why compatability would be an issue either, if it's done on the output rather than the input end.
If it's just for the sake of detail accuracy, well. They're already screwing with that. And likewise if they were to implement such a feature, it would be a piece of cake to incorporate a toggle switch. If you want the original mono, it will mix in mono. If you want to take advantage of the new hardware (and why the heck not, really), it'll mix in stereo.
I'd buy one for that feature alone. As it is now -- well. I hate wireless controllers, my NES still works, and I don't understand what they're up to with the new hardware elements.
The replacement AC cord on their site looks great, though.
All of this was pointed out years ago by some places. Funny how time makes the obvious... obvious?
No they aren't.
Maybe you do; I don't have that kind of money. And I'm not that easy to please. If I'm going to spend money on entertainment, it will be for an experience I've never had before. Something to give me new insight. And further, something that's actually designed for the platform in question.
What ports are you talking about? I don't even see them on the DS. I'm not paying attention. What I see are Another Code and Meteos. Even the games that come from an established series will be diffrent, beause of the nature of the DS. Animal Crossing with a stylus, wifi, and a second screen? Hell yes. That's just perfect. And have you seen how gorgeous the new Castlevania is?
The PSP cannot, by nature, offer me an experience I could not find elsewhere.
What the hell kind of movies do you go to, that it costs fifty dollars? It costs five dollars a person where I go. A good meal is ten to fifteen dollars a person. Even that is expensive, when I can just make my own meals.
Point for ajutla!
What I wonder in situations like this is, who would be out to get him? I can't imagine that defensive churls are all that high in demand.
All right, who posted this? I smell a rat.
(Dear God. I remembered my password.)
I had an odd tendency in public school to end up in the principal's office a couple times a week. About 3/4 of the time I was called in there, and later given detention, because I had been attacked in some way.
Eh? Well, let me explain a bit. I've never been really capable of fighting back any more than a wild flailing of limbs and attempted retreat, so, of course, especially considering the uncommonly fragile emotional state in which I tended to be, I was constantly under a barrage of bullying. I was easy and entertaining to pick on.
Most of the time, this just flew past administrators' eyes. They didn't want to see. In a way, this was almost preferable. If I were ever to actually go to a teacher for help, I would be sent off to the principal. Whoever had been tormenting me would be asked his side of the story, which would inevitably be a grandiose, outrageous lie along the lines of my having fallen on the floor and he having attempted to help me, then my acting crazilly in response to this. He would then be excused, to go back to his business. Despite the fact I was the one sobbing, cowering in the corner, I was then given the aforementioned detention and, occasionally, trips to the councellor.
Everything I did came under the highest degree of scrutiny, the teachers apparently thinking me some kind of a troublemaker. If you were to have seen me, you'd understand how ludicrous this is. I was (and mostly remain) a scrawny, pale, timid ghost of a being. I didn't speak out in nearly any way -- I barely spoke at all; there wasn't anyone "safe" to talk to.
Anyway, I couldn't stand that anymore after eighth grade -- I knew high school was only going to be worse because people would have greater ability to inflict damage upon me. After a year of homeschooling, I ended up in a nearby prep school. While the students largely tolerated me and left me alone, with only a few exceptions, about half the teachers (mostly the unimaginative ones with "power") kept a strong bead on me, one or two becoming a bit fearful whenever I challenged in class their incorrect information or poor behaviour -- as if I were going to jump up from my desk and throttle them or something. I swear one dean would have put video surveilance equipment in my room if he had it, despite the fact that any student who was even vaguely familiar with me, personally, would instantly tell that I was of no threat to anyone; that I was probably one of the three "cleanest" kids there.
Oy. I still hate myself, and probably will, to some extent, for the rest of my life; it's too deeply-ingrained to just disappear.
The thing is, given the opportunity, I could draw up a model for a new educational system which would actually function as a place of learning and would put out intelligent, curious, creative, wonder-filled people at the exiting end. It's not a difficult task...
Sigh.
Kind of reminds me of a rorschach test.
Somehow failing that, surely symbolic-based psychology studies would have something to say about all of this.
"I like the square!"
"Well, that says something about you. Conformist."
"Braaah!"
"Nurse -- help -- hey! H -- Geddim offame!"
Ahem. Sorry. Where was I?
Yup.
Nothing else needs to be said.
Just "Yup."
Okay, fine -- I'll add my own summary: It's the general theory which matters; not the details. The details can be fixed later, if desired.
Dwindling into superfluous inanity,
> I can't tell what he gets by default since I
> can't tell if the post is raw or if it has been
> bumped up a notch or down three notches by the
> mods.
True. But he said back in the midst his text, somewhere, that he received 2 points. That's all.
It's times like this I wish I had a ten-foot cube of Neilson boxes.
Thank you. Listen here, folks.
Say it again, only louder.
> Actually, almost all of the original people
> still REMAIN.
True; only Josh Weinstein, Joel, Trace, and Frank have left entirely (though, as I said a few messages ago, Joel and Frank are returning for a visit in episode 1001).
> For onscreen people, only Kevin Murphy (the
> voice of Tom Servo) remains.
He's actually the second servo -- Weinstein, who also played Dr. Lawrence Erhardt, was the original voice.
> But behind the scenes, almost everyone is the
> same. The head writer is still Mike Nelson and
> most of the writing staff has been there from
> the first few seasons.
True. And Jim Mallon is still around, doing his stuff, even though Gypsy has recently changed hands.
> So, while the cast has changed, the humor is
> still there and it's just as funny as it ever
> was....
I'd have to agree, though I can understand why some people would whine. If Mulder and Scully were yanked off the X-Files and it continued with two other otherwise very capable actors, I know I'd have a fit. But MST3K was never meant to be a serious program.
"Just repeat to yourself `it's just a show -- I should really just relax.'"
> I'd still like them to bring back the Invention
> Exchange. That was definitely kool.
Unfortunately, that was uniquely Joel's territory; it was based upon his own patented brand of magic-laced stand up comedy (which is also from where the word "Gizmonic" stems). But who knows what'll happen on the eleventh, eh? Maybe Pearl will even gain a button specifically for Frank to push.
It's more like they've resigned to their fate, since, as you said, the future looks very grim. If they had the opportunity, as stated on Sattelite News, they'd like to continue going. They're simply not keeping their hopes up; they've been through this all before. If it was difficult last time, the show ought to be hell to save this time around.
As stated all around, the best way to support the show is to get everyone possible to watch. Ratings are what the big chiefs with the leather chairs care about -- the quality of the show doesn't matter to them, nor does its loyal following. The new season starts on Saturday, April 11 at 11:00 AM (and April 12 at 11:00 PM).
If you want the show around, watch. Call all of your friends and tell them to watch, as well. Try to convert new followers.
Did I mention the season premeire has Joel and Frank in it?
It's also had several cast changes over the past ten (actually, eleven) years. Now, amusingly, every original cast member has been replaced.
Currently, it airs at 11:00AM/Sat and 11:00PM/Sun Eastern Standard Time on the Sci-Fi channel. It still has one season to go before it's washed away by the high-ranking tides of forced mediocrity.
The thing is, Sci-Fi simply decided not to renew the series. Best Brains have kind of resigned to this fate; they've been through the ordeal once before and don't particularly expect anything to change. However, they apparently do still have an interest in continuing the show; they just now don't have anywhere to put it. If their contract were renewed, they'd keep chugging along until they did get tired of it (and with the rate of cast turnover, the show could conceivably last forever).
Best Brains and Sci-Fi do, however, still have a good relationship; this isn't like the Comedy Central era. So there is some small sliver of hope even if no one else does pick up the show (and as long as people don't start sending pipe bombs -- not a good way to engender sympathy).
And as for the VHS/DVD deal, they've been working on it for the past few years. Go look.
If you notice, he gets a 2 by default, just because he's him. Seems fair, as it's his site.