One of the hardest games I ever played was Hulk on Commodore 64... You begin the game as Bruce Banner tied to a chair... I never succeeded getting free. It's a text adventure and we tried everything: "get angry", "cut ropes", "break free", "you're a wimp"... and all sorts of insults to get Bruce to turn into Hulk but it never worked...after a couple of hours we stopped trying and never played again.
You should have read the instructions, it's explained there.
The trick is to get your character to feel pain, to start the transformation.
> ovgr yvc
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If we based everything off what the majority of Americans trusted, we would get someone like George Bush for President.
When you've got the first game, a lot of the effort can be reused for the sequel - especially the engine and graphics / sound. You've read reviews of the first title and got feedback, so you know exactly what people liked and what they hated. Even just fixing a few hundred lines of code (say, changing the way the player chooses the active weapon) can make the game dramatically better. And it's probably a good game, if a sequel is considered. You know what you need to do to make it at least as good as the first one, and you probably will.
With a movie, you want the same characters in a different setting, with the same feel and a different plot twist. You want it fresh enough so that viewers aren't bored. You can't let them carry over their saved games from the first title.
Bottom line: sequels make more sense for media that relies far more on technology than on artistic merit.
You think that's bad? There's this new game out there called "Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow". That's not the funny part. The developers *wanted* to call it that.
It is good to see that some people are giving their triangles time off every once in a while in these hard economic times instead of milking every last hour of work out of them.
Somebody please write conversion software so I can batch-convert all my MP3s to this new and exciting format which will offer me as a consumer many exciting new capabilities!
Man, I'd better start saving up for a new Super MP3 player...
It's more my experience that they don't drop to $20 so much as drop off the face of the earth entirely. The $10-$20 racks are full of crap I'd never consider buying at any price.
Final Fantasy X is $20 everywhere. Ikaruga's $20 online at bestbuy.com, and my local Best Buy (for example) has five remaining copies of Ico for $15. These are all arguably the best games in their respective genres.
The discount racks are full of low-quality stuff, but that doesn't mean the odd gem isn't there, just that it's not that easy to find.
P.S. So many console games drop to $20 if you're just willing to wait a year. The sports games are even cheaper if you don't absolutely need this year's updated roster. If you don't want to buy games at $50, just wait a bit.
Richter's counter is that all these people really did opt in, they just don't remember when they did so. If they'd simply provide their e-mail address, Richter could likely tell them at what site and when they made their mistake of signaling that they were opting in
This information (subscribed address, form URL, time and date) should have been legally required to be included as part of the email. Furthermore, unsubscribing should be done once per opt-in (not "once you opt-in once we get to sell your address to as many companies as we like, and you need to unsubscribe from each individually".
Just out of curiosity, do Uzis jam or would one be better off reloading a trusty ol' six-shooter 5 times?
In my experience, the trouble with Uzis is not so much that they don't work when you want them to, but that they sometimes decide to work all by themselves.
It doesn't try to prove anything. It's supposed to be a humor piece (except it's not that funny). This isn't your normal country-bans-games-by-mistake news, just some d00d writing about something he seems to enjoy doing, commenting on why he thinks people enjoy it.
This isn't worth spending any time on. The general population can generate opinions faster than they can be educated. It's really only worth stepping in when they consider doing something harmful with their opinions.
* Resident evil 2 (or is it 3?) formatting a non-VMU memory cards if it finds one (two different types of memory cards, one launched later and not backwards compatible - nice going)
* Games like Skies of Arcadia letting you know hidden items are near by making the VMU beep and the rumble thing rumble - again, both lost on some players.
* Sega explaining they don't need to perform any usability testing since any usability issues (like using the SAME TRIGGER BUTTON to spray paint AND center the camera in Jet Grind Radio) would be caught by their QA.
* Sega announcing games will be pay-to-play, essentially killing the online servers.
* Sega making Alien Front Online offline forever (less than 10 months after the game's launch) by hardcoding an IP address they lost on the client side, and refusing to admit any responsibility since customers can still play the offline training missions. - This would actually make a very winnable class action case (how long do companies have to support an online game if they did not announce a cut-off date before people purchased it - if you want to get a class action victory under your legal belt, lemme now).
I'm not that sorry to see SEGA leave the console market. Admit it - Nintendo was always the funner of the two. I am sorry they were replaced by our favorite monopoly, but that was obvious the moment they signed that windows-CE-libs-for-DC deal. Let's home the market will be able at some point to support a new console (hardware + software) company - but it doesn't seem that likely just yet.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (x) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (x) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks (x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Don't get me wrong, neither were my favorite shows, I wouldn't go out of my way to watch them, but if they were on, and I wasn't watching something else, I would watch them.
You, sir, showcase the alarming arbitrariness of the TiVoless.
I just don't understand this way of reporting news by asking a question. A meaningless question, even.
Does an RPG product based on the works of Tolkien take Tolkien towards RPG? That really depends on how you read the question. It does not raise any technical, legal, moral or ethical question of any kind.
Posting this article takes slashdot toward news ending with question marks?
It's time to ditch Acclaim and find another video game publisher... of course, you wouldn't want to be associated with such a company anyway.
You may also want to have a chat with, say, Tony Hawk, about being involved in the game production. I mean, you wouldn't want to slap your name on just any old merch, now would you?
Now, when do we finally get a Super Olsen Sisters Advance?
(Not actually knowing that much about the twins, I'm wondering if there's any difference between them that can be translated to gameplay. Like, one of them can jump higher, but the other can bash bricks with her head or something).
The difference is the bible does not, unlike games today, contain wonton violence, rape, widespread destruction, abuse of minorities and killing of our fellow humans without also carrying A POSITIVE MESSAGE.
Context, people.
Could you please provide a positive context for these?
"Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." (I Samuel 15:2-3)
"Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." (Numbers 31:16-18)
"And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain." (Deuteronomy 2:34)
"And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them." (Ezekiel 4:12-13)
"Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up." (Hosea 13:16)
"A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord: and there is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed. A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued." (Eccles. 26:14-15)
"For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness. Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach." (Eccles. 42:13-14)
A team worked to optimize the path, and using an emulator created a new video which is 26:56, four and a half minutes faster. The video is 14% faster, and is the first Zelda run to be under a half hour. Furthermore, it achieved a sub-27 minute time...
This has to be the most redundant sentence ever, and it also contains a lot of unneeded words. Nice going.
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One of the hardest games I ever played was Hulk on Commodore 64... You begin the game as Bruce Banner tied to a chair... I never succeeded getting free. It's a text adventure and we tried everything: "get angry", "cut ropes", "break free", "you're a wimp"... and all sorts of insults to get Bruce to turn into Hulk but it never worked...after a couple of hours we stopped trying and never played again.
You should have read the instructions, it's explained there.
The trick is to get your character to feel pain, to start the transformation.
> ovgr yvc
(in rot13)
If we based everything off what the majority of Americans trusted, we would get someone like George Bush for President.
No, we would get someone like Gore.
Not only is this article a dupe and also a dupe, according to popular site slashdot, CDs may be phased out in less than 5 years.
As a hapless trekkie, I am outraged. We won't buy this set on principle.
The episodes should obviously have been packaged by stardate.
I've been using that same old password from one of my favorite movies.
Of course, I use the variant spelling.
When you've got the first game, a lot of the effort can be reused for the sequel - especially the engine and graphics / sound. You've read reviews of the first title and got feedback, so you know exactly what people liked and what they hated. Even just fixing a few hundred lines of code (say, changing the way the player chooses the active weapon) can make the game dramatically better. And it's probably a good game, if a sequel is considered. You know what you need to do to make it at least as good as the first one, and you probably will.
With a movie, you want the same characters in a different setting, with the same feel and a different plot twist. You want it fresh enough so that viewers aren't bored. You can't let them carry over their saved games from the first title.
Bottom line: sequels make more sense for media that relies far more on technology than on artistic merit.
You think that's bad? There's this new game out there called "Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow". That's not the funny part. The developers *wanted* to call it that.
It's not so bad. I remember the very same Insert Credit posting a link to Kanosshu 2 -Triangle Vacation.
It is good to see that some people are giving their triangles time off every once in a while in these hard economic times instead of milking every last hour of work out of them.
Somebody please write conversion software so I can batch-convert all my MP3s to this new and exciting format which will offer me as a consumer many exciting new capabilities!
Man, I'd better start saving up for a new Super MP3 player...
It's more my experience that they don't drop to $20 so much as drop off the face of the earth entirely. The $10-$20 racks are full of crap I'd never consider buying at any price.
Final Fantasy X is $20 everywhere. Ikaruga's $20 online at bestbuy.com, and my local Best Buy (for example) has five remaining copies of Ico for $15. These are all arguably the best games in their respective genres.
The discount racks are full of low-quality stuff, but that doesn't mean the odd gem isn't there, just that it's not that easy to find.
Try looking at free games. You'd be surprised how many there are. Of course most aren't worth playing, but that still leaves quite a bit.
Here's a few places to get started:
Remakes.org - remakes of many many classic games.
Freeware World Team - many categories including games.
Freestle freeware - small but good.
fullgames
world of free games
Feel free to suggest more / better resources.
P.S. So many console games drop to $20 if you're just willing to wait a year. The sports games are even cheaper if you don't absolutely need this year's updated roster. If you don't want to buy games at $50, just wait a bit.
Richter's counter is that all these people really did opt in, they just don't remember when they did so. If they'd simply provide their e-mail address, Richter could likely tell them at what site and when they made their mistake of signaling that they were opting in
This information (subscribed address, form URL, time and date) should have been legally required to be included as part of the email. Furthermore, unsubscribing should be done once per opt-in (not "once you opt-in once we get to sell your address to as many companies as we like, and you need to unsubscribe from each individually".
Just out of curiosity, do Uzis jam or would one be better off reloading a trusty ol' six-shooter 5 times?
In my experience, the trouble with Uzis is not so much that they don't work when you want them to, but that they sometimes decide to work all by themselves.
(Also see: True Lies)
This one column isn't really likely to change anybody's mind.
And by calling the factions "pro-game" and "anti-game" instead of "pro-art" and "anti-art" you're already doing your faction a disservice.
It doesn't try to prove anything. It's supposed to be a humor piece (except it's not that funny). This isn't your normal country-bans-games-by-mistake news, just some d00d writing about something he seems to enjoy doing, commenting on why he thinks people enjoy it.
This isn't worth spending any time on. The general population can generate opinions faster than they can be educated. It's really only worth stepping in when they consider doing something harmful with their opinions.
Damn I hated numbering each line of code!
And when you had to add something and have uneven spacing of line numbers... Oh it just drives the type A personality in me nuts!
Some of the BASIC dialects I used back in the day had a RENUM command to do that automagically.
shouldn't it be CANT-SPAM?
No... it's "can" as in "put spam in cans, where it can't hurt people unless they choose to free it themselves".
Kind of makes ou feel bad for Hormel foods, though.
* Resident evil 2 (or is it 3?) formatting a non-VMU memory cards if it finds one (two different types of memory cards, one launched later and not backwards compatible - nice going)
* Games like Skies of Arcadia letting you know hidden items are near by making the VMU beep and the rumble thing rumble - again, both lost on some players.
* Sega explaining they don't need to perform any usability testing since any usability issues (like using the SAME TRIGGER BUTTON to spray paint AND center the camera in Jet Grind Radio) would be caught by their QA.
* Sega announcing games will be pay-to-play, essentially killing the online servers.
* Sega making Alien Front Online offline forever (less than 10 months after the game's launch) by hardcoding an IP address they lost on the client side, and refusing to admit any responsibility since customers can still play the offline training missions. - This would actually make a very winnable class action case (how long do companies have to support an online game if they did not announce a cut-off date before people purchased it - if you want to get a class action victory under your legal belt, lemme now).
I'm not that sorry to see SEGA leave the console market. Admit it - Nintendo was always the funner of the two. I am sorry they were replaced by our favorite monopoly, but that was obvious the moment they signed that windows-CE-libs-for-DC deal. Let's home the market will be able at some point to support a new console (hardware + software) company - but it doesn't seem that likely just yet.
Your post advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(x) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
(x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
What's a hypocracy? A country run by hypocrites? ("hypocrats?") That seems not inappropriate...
Actually, it does seem eerily appropriate for the country, just not the article.
Don't get me wrong, neither were my favorite shows, I wouldn't go out of my way to watch them, but if they were on, and I wasn't watching something else, I would watch them.
You, sir, showcase the alarming arbitrariness of the TiVoless.
I just don't understand this way of reporting news by asking a question. A meaningless question, even.
Does an RPG product based on the works of Tolkien take Tolkien towards RPG? That really depends on how you read the question. It does not raise any technical, legal, moral or ethical question of any kind.
Posting this article takes slashdot toward news ending with question marks?
It's time to ditch Acclaim and find another video game publisher... of course, you wouldn't want to be associated with such a company anyway.
You may also want to have a chat with, say, Tony Hawk, about being involved in the game production. I mean, you wouldn't want to slap your name on just any old merch, now would you?
Now, when do we finally get a Super Olsen Sisters Advance?
(Not actually knowing that much about the twins, I'm wondering if there's any difference between them that can be translated to gameplay. Like, one of them can jump higher, but the other can bash bricks with her head or something).
The difference is the bible does not, unlike games today, contain wonton violence, rape, widespread destruction, abuse of minorities and killing of our fellow humans without also carrying A POSITIVE MESSAGE.
Context, people.
Could you please provide a positive context for these?
"Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." (I Samuel 15:2-3)
"Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." (Numbers 31:16-18)
"And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain." (Deuteronomy 2:34)
"And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them." (Ezekiel 4:12-13)
"Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up." (Hosea 13:16)
"A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord: and there is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed. A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued." (Eccles. 26:14-15)
"For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness. Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach." (Eccles. 42:13-14)
CHK@XTn8vik~xxqsIJzLcDFUlPQqrw4NAwI,griuDFoqruNU09 1-2Qj8Ew/DeDRMS.cs
(Watch out for the space inserted by the slashdot code, remove it)
Why do you need to post it as text? Isn't there a freenet URI/URL/whatever scheme?
(I'm not that familiar with freenet; but aren't all P2P apps that don't allow you to post a link to a file kinda lame?)
A team worked to optimize the path, and using an emulator created a new video which is 26:56, four and a half minutes faster. The video is 14% faster, and is the first Zelda run to be under a half hour. Furthermore, it achieved a sub-27 minute time...
This has to be the most redundant sentence ever, and it also contains a lot of unneeded words. Nice going.