You might as well just use a trainer if you are going to engage in that level of metagaming. Either you're a purist who wants to play it through completley the way it was intended, or you are the IDDQD type in which case save yourself the time and trouble and just use a trainer.
Real thieves don't hotwire anyhow. They back up the tow truck and tow the car away, engine imobilizer and all. In broad daylight even. You don't need to start it to chop it into pieces.
If they REALLY wanted to do it they could still "hotwire" the newer cars by bringing a seperate matching key/column computer and splicing it into the car but why bother with this hassle when you can just tow?
RAID 0 offers no significant speed benefit. Any number of online tests bear this out (ex storagereview, anandtech). I can't believe how many gamers go and buy a pair of 10k raptors and put them in RAID 0 thinking they are getting some big boost in speed. Biggest myth in hardware. You might as well rub some snake oil on your hard drive while you are at it.
Not really, she is not a gamer nor will she ever be. She would be the wrong person to try to design a game for because she would never spend a dime on gaming. The only reason she plays lumines is because I own it + the PSP so it's just lying there and it's pretty easy to pick up.
I though of another counter example to your argument though... Do you remember when Street Fighter hit arcades? Holy shit 6 buttons! That's crazy! How can you possibly use 6 buttons??? It was unprecedented. Yet SF2 stands as one of the greatest games ever made. Not only that but the SF2 controls were tight, precise, and just damn *good*. Which brings this discussion full circle, because here is a great example of really good controls that are not necessarily simple.
And driving stick is intimidating to someone who drives an auto normally. Doesn't mean it's rocket science. With a very minor time investment you can pick it up and you're on your way.
Similarly in video games once someone has developed some minor hand-eye coordination skills, they are well on their way to playing any number of games. Sure they won't be able to pop off Zangief's spinning pile driver every time but that is precisely what seperates the skilled gamers from the not-so-skilled.
My gf if about as non-gamer as you can possibly get and she loves lumines on my PSP. The controls are well designed and simple so she was able to pick them up reasonably quickly. But the fact that she can't bust off some complicated special move in another game doesn't mean that game sucks, it means she isn't interested in investing the time into learning more complex controls because she really doesn't care that much for gaming.
There is a big difference between "good controls" and "simple controls". Good controls are intuitive, responsive, and well laid out. Simple controls are what you would find on a pac man machine.
I have no interest in going back to the days of simple controls but I do recognize the importance of good controls. But like I said in my earlier post, good modern games also have good controls. If a small child can learn the controls to a game in minutes, you can't tell me they are too complex for human consumption.
Good games today are also fun, easy to play, with great simple control.
These are the characteristics that separate the good games from the bad games.
I was there in the beginning too but I don't subscribe to the notion that all modern games suck/are pure fluff. Due to the amazing properties of nostalgia you just happen to forget all the crappy old games which were no fun, had bad controls, and were frustrating to play.
IMO, the majority of games past and present range from poor to mediocre but it's those few really good ones that make video gaming such an enjoyable pastime.
No in CSI they always find a rare beetle/leaf which can only be found in one place in the entire world and there is only one person on the planet who came into contact with said beetle/leaf in the past decade.
I never claimed to be an authority on the issue, just speaking what I have experienced myself, stories and information from others.
Like I said...
It is others who started personal attack and insults, because I state things that go against the popular mantras people like to repeat among themselves.
What "popular mantra" would that be? The one that says you are talking out of your ass on this issue? Maybe they are onto something...
I must have hit a nerve, sorry, but it needed to get hit. It doesn't make it any more true to repeat that "weed is harmless" when research and experience have shown the opposite.
You're quite the self-righteous little prick aren't you? Yes you hit a nerve - I don't suffer fools gladly as the saying goes. As such I find your ass spouting to be offensive.
I don't do drugs nor do any of my friends, but I do have considerably more relevant experience in the area than some guy who tried hash a couple times and suddenly is an expert on the subject.
You must make quite the bible study speaker as you relate the story of your troubled journey from the darkness of a hash induced haze to the everlasting glory once you found jesus. Not a dry eye in the house after you are done spinning that yarn i'm sure.
Just because I'm daring to contradict often-repeated and populistic mantras of young people? The more you repeat it, doesn't make it any more true.
Listen, drugs are bad for you m'kay? I'm not disagreeing with that premise, what I am saying is that you are clueless on this topic and it shows. Leave the anti-drug campaigning to someone with a clue. If you ever tried your little "don't do drugs" speech on a classroom full of teenagers they would laugh you right out of the place. Kids have very effective BS detectors and they can spot a poser a mile away.
That is your words, not mine. You react on what I say and want to make me to look stupid so you don't have to think about the implications, thus you put words in my mouth. It simply goes against your set of beliefs and you react instead of pondering on it and act.
I don't have to try to make you look stupid, you do a fine job of that yourself. Anyone with the tiniest amount of familiarity on the topic can see you are talking out of your ass here. Your conclusion that "drugs are bad for you" is perfectly fine but the rationale you used to arrive at this conclusion is completely flawed.
This is from the people I've heard who have lived on the street as drug-addicted criminals, giving intro-talks to schools etc. True, it's not my own experience (thank god!), but what they said is this: The worst cases you see on the streets is those taking harshis almost every day. Like every day, for years. They become so slugish, can barely walk and think, and suffer worse than the heroin abusers with their bad knees. They might be in the minority and really, really bad abusers of the substance, but they are the ones suffering the most permanent damage. This is what I remember was said and it sounded plausible at the time.
Take a look at this link and take note of the part where it says "did you mean...".
Let me re-iterate that there are far FAR worse drugs than hash that are very common. Hash is a walk in the park on a sunny day compared to something like meth.
Thanks for your thorough medical explanation. So the drug itself is harmless, right? This is what you are implying, even if it's not true. Why do you want to spread a lie? Why not look up on research on THC and think about what you say next time before you correct somebody else's weak medical knowledge?
Reefer MADNESS!!!@#! Brain rot inc!
This is just getting silly. Take a look at what you wrote.. Somehow, what I say makes me "uncool", so I must be a virgin and unexperienced. While those people who say things you agree with are of course "cool". How broad-minded!
I'll tell you what's not cool: speaking from ignorance. Let's see in 2 posts your story has changed from self-experimentation a few times to second hand heresay from homeless addicts. Next post perhaps you will tell me you in fact heard about the dangers of hash on a 60 minutes special.
Real fun is to do what is best and feel good about what you contribute to others, among other things you can come up with. Drugs is not really fun: It is short-time pleasure, and long time problems. While real fun is short-time hardship and long term benefits.
Actually you are wrong... drugs can be incredibly pleasurable and often are. Unfortunately they can also do great damage to your body in the process and subsequently are not worth touching. The risk effectively exceeds the reward.
I also believe in everybody making their own informed choices, war on terror/drugs be damned. People should respect other adults to make their own informed choices, government should stay as much out of private lives as possible and is only making the matters worse. But I will oppose lies and misinformation, no matter how popular they are. These are the real enemies, the viral misinformation and unclear populistic arguments.
If you oppose misinformation then you must have one hell
It's painfully obvious you don't know what you are talking about.
"harshis" is the most dangerous drug on the streets? o.0
Your "experience" in this area is laughable. "harshis" indeed.
"Weed rots the brain" You claim. Makes you CrAzY does it? I don't suppose you are in the movie making business because I think I've seen your earlier work under the name "Reefer Madness".
Weed is certainly bad for the body, but the reasons are far more pedestian than "brain rotting" which sounds like something out of a bad sci-fi flick (as does the rest of your rhetoric btw). It's bad for you in the same way smoking cigarettes is bad for you. You are filling your lungs with filthy smoke and your body is unable to effectively get rid of the contaminants. The delivery system is just plain dirty. It's that simple.
You ever hear a virgin bragging about some sexual escapade they had and it's painfully obvious to everyone but them that they are just making it up and they have absolutely no relevant experience? Well that's what you sound like.
I was going to crack a woman driver joke too then I realized in all likelyhood she has more driving/flying ability in her baby finger than I ever will have... =(
I think initially they were worried they would not be able to produce enough PSPs to meet demand. After all they "soft launched" in north america due to uncertainty about how well it would be received.
Looking at how many titles have come out since launch and at the extremely immature state of the PSP firmware(nice "user-friendly" filesystem you got there sony), this thing was not ready for release anywhere. This is a device that is capable of some very impressive things but limped out of the gates with some pretty sorry software/firmware support.
For the record I actually imported my jap PSP back in january through lik sang but don't tell anyone... I don't want the sony enforcers showing up on my doorstep to beat me up.
I have a rusty abacus at home that I use for my banking. My wife wanted one too after she saw me flying through my interest calculations but I told her "we don't waste money on newfangled technology" and bought her a pile of shiny beads to do her counting with instead.
Ignoring the game itself, it's a pretty amazing logistical feat they have pulled off, all within a pretty short amount of time.
They got caught flatfooted initially but I thought they did a pretty good job recovering from their early mistakes. Now with their massive global subscriber base they have turned into the real juggernaught in the MMO industry.
Now if only they would get off their asses and release Starcraft 2 already.;)
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Damn there goes another one!
Speak for yourself igor! /turns back to face reflection
Mirror mirror, on the wall...
You might as well just use a trainer if you are going to engage in that level of metagaming. Either you're a purist who wants to play it through completley the way it was intended, or you are the IDDQD type in which case save yourself the time and trouble and just use a trainer.
Real thieves don't hotwire anyhow. They back up the tow truck and tow the car away, engine imobilizer and all. In broad daylight even. You don't need to start it to chop it into pieces.
If they REALLY wanted to do it they could still "hotwire" the newer cars by bringing a seperate matching key/column computer and splicing it into the car but why bother with this hassle when you can just tow?
Yes that's right, it was an article promoting child immunization.... oh wait no it wasn't.
Fucking douchebag.
RAID 0 offers no significant speed benefit. Any number of online tests bear this out (ex storagereview, anandtech). I can't believe how many gamers go and buy a pair of 10k raptors and put them in RAID 0 thinking they are getting some big boost in speed. Biggest myth in hardware. You might as well rub some snake oil on your hard drive while you are at it.
Same thing applies with hardware raid. It's simply not significanltly faster for real world applications.
Not really, she is not a gamer nor will she ever be. She would be the wrong person to try to design a game for because she would never spend a dime on gaming. The only reason she plays lumines is because I own it + the PSP so it's just lying there and it's pretty easy to pick up.
I though of another counter example to your argument though... Do you remember when Street Fighter hit arcades? Holy shit 6 buttons! That's crazy! How can you possibly use 6 buttons??? It was unprecedented. Yet SF2 stands as one of the greatest games ever made. Not only that but the SF2 controls were tight, precise, and just damn *good*. Which brings this discussion full circle, because here is a great example of really good controls that are not necessarily simple.
And driving stick is intimidating to someone who drives an auto normally. Doesn't mean it's rocket science. With a very minor time investment you can pick it up and you're on your way.
Similarly in video games once someone has developed some minor hand-eye coordination skills, they are well on their way to playing any number of games. Sure they won't be able to pop off Zangief's spinning pile driver every time but that is precisely what seperates the skilled gamers from the not-so-skilled.
My gf if about as non-gamer as you can possibly get and she loves lumines on my PSP. The controls are well designed and simple so she was able to pick them up reasonably quickly. But the fact that she can't bust off some complicated special move in another game doesn't mean that game sucks, it means she isn't interested in investing the time into learning more complex controls because she really doesn't care that much for gaming.
My parents would have a hard time with pac man so I don't see what that really proves. They don't have the hand-eye coordination for it.
But I could take any random 5 year old and plop them in front of a modern FPS and they would take to it like a duck to water.
There is a big difference between "good controls" and "simple controls". Good controls are intuitive, responsive, and well laid out. Simple controls are what you would find on a pac man machine.
I have no interest in going back to the days of simple controls but I do recognize the importance of good controls. But like I said in my earlier post, good modern games also have good controls. If a small child can learn the controls to a game in minutes, you can't tell me they are too complex for human consumption.
Good games today are also fun, easy to play, with great simple control.
These are the characteristics that separate the good games from the bad games.
I was there in the beginning too but I don't subscribe to the notion that all modern games suck/are pure fluff. Due to the amazing properties of nostalgia you just happen to forget all the crappy old games which were no fun, had bad controls, and were frustrating to play.
IMO, the majority of games past and present range from poor to mediocre but it's those few really good ones that make video gaming such an enjoyable pastime.
No in CSI they always find a rare beetle/leaf which can only be found in one place in the entire world and there is only one person on the planet who came into contact with said beetle/leaf in the past decade.
Nevermind the ibook, you just described an average weeknights worth of entertainment for me.
I never claimed to be an authority on the issue, just speaking what I have experienced myself, stories and information from others.
Like I said...
It is others who started personal attack and insults, because I state things that go against the popular mantras people like to repeat among themselves.
What "popular mantra" would that be? The one that says you are talking out of your ass on this issue? Maybe they are onto something...
I must have hit a nerve, sorry, but it needed to get hit. It doesn't make it any more true to repeat that "weed is harmless" when research and experience have shown the opposite.
You're quite the self-righteous little prick aren't you? Yes you hit a nerve - I don't suffer fools gladly as the saying goes. As such I find your ass spouting to be offensive.
I don't do drugs nor do any of my friends, but I do have considerably more relevant experience in the area than some guy who tried hash a couple times and suddenly is an expert on the subject.
You must make quite the bible study speaker as you relate the story of your troubled journey from the darkness of a hash induced haze to the everlasting glory once you found jesus. Not a dry eye in the house after you are done spinning that yarn i'm sure.
Just because I'm daring to contradict often-repeated and populistic mantras of young people? The more you repeat it, doesn't make it any more true.
Listen, drugs are bad for you m'kay? I'm not disagreeing with that premise, what I am saying is that you are clueless on this topic and it shows. Leave the anti-drug campaigning to someone with a clue. If you ever tried your little "don't do drugs" speech on a classroom full of teenagers they would laugh you right out of the place. Kids have very effective BS detectors and they can spot a poser a mile away.
That is your words, not mine. You react on what I say and want to make me to look stupid so you don't have to think about the implications, thus you put words in my mouth. It simply goes against your set of beliefs and you react instead of pondering on it and act.
I don't have to try to make you look stupid, you do a fine job of that yourself. Anyone with the tiniest amount of familiarity on the topic can see you are talking out of your ass here. Your conclusion that "drugs are bad for you" is perfectly fine but the rationale you used to arrive at this conclusion is completely flawed.
This is from the people I've heard who have lived on the street as drug-addicted criminals, giving intro-talks to schools etc. True, it's not my own experience (thank god!), but what they said is this: The worst cases you see on the streets is those taking harshis almost every day. Like every day, for years. They become so slugish, can barely walk and think, and suffer worse than the heroin abusers with their bad knees. They might be in the minority and really, really bad abusers of the substance, but they are the ones suffering the most permanent damage. This is what I remember was said and it sounded plausible at the time.
Take a look at this link and take note of the part where it says "did you mean...".
Let me re-iterate that there are far FAR worse drugs than hash that are very common. Hash is a walk in the park on a sunny day compared to something like meth.
Thanks for your thorough medical explanation. So the drug itself is harmless, right? This is what you are implying, even if it's not true. Why do you want to spread a lie? Why not look up on research on THC and think about what you say next time before you correct somebody else's weak medical knowledge?
Reefer MADNESS!!!@#! Brain rot inc!
This is just getting silly. Take a look at what you wrote.. Somehow, what I say makes me "uncool", so I must be a virgin and unexperienced. While those people who say things you agree with are of course "cool". How broad-minded!
I'll tell you what's not cool: speaking from ignorance. Let's see in 2 posts your story has changed from self-experimentation a few times to second hand heresay from homeless addicts. Next post perhaps you will tell me you in fact heard about the dangers of hash on a 60 minutes special.
Real fun is to do what is best and feel good about what you contribute to others, among other things you can come up with. Drugs is not really fun: It is short-time pleasure, and long time problems. While real fun is short-time hardship and long term benefits.
Actually you are wrong... drugs can be incredibly pleasurable and often are. Unfortunately they can also do great damage to your body in the process and subsequently are not worth touching. The risk effectively exceeds the reward.
I also believe in everybody making their own informed choices, war on terror/drugs be damned. People should respect other adults to make their own informed choices, government should stay as much out of private lives as possible and is only making the matters worse. But I will oppose lies and misinformation, no matter how popular they are. These are the real enemies, the viral misinformation and unclear populistic arguments.
If you oppose misinformation then you must have one hell
It's painfully obvious you don't know what you are talking about.
"harshis" is the most dangerous drug on the streets? o.0
Your "experience" in this area is laughable. "harshis" indeed.
"Weed rots the brain" You claim. Makes you CrAzY does it? I don't suppose you are in the movie making business because I think I've seen your earlier work under the name "Reefer Madness".
Weed is certainly bad for the body, but the reasons are far more pedestian than "brain rotting" which sounds like something out of a bad sci-fi flick (as does the rest of your rhetoric btw). It's bad for you in the same way smoking cigarettes is bad for you. You are filling your lungs with filthy smoke and your body is unable to effectively get rid of the contaminants. The delivery system is just plain dirty. It's that simple.
You ever hear a virgin bragging about some sexual escapade they had and it's painfully obvious to everyone but them that they are just making it up and they have absolutely no relevant experience? Well that's what you sound like.
Quick everyone, to the pitchforks and torches! The enemy is among us!
. o 0 (good comment, displays a level of rationality not often seen on slashdot)
I've never used DD-WRT or HyperWRT but I've been running sveasoft for over a year now and loving it. Any idea how those match up to sveasoft?
I was going to crack a woman driver joke too then I realized in all likelyhood she has more driving/flying ability in her baby finger than I ever will have... =(
I think initially they were worried they would not be able to produce enough PSPs to meet demand. After all they "soft launched" in north america due to uncertainty about how well it would be received.
Looking at how many titles have come out since launch and at the extremely immature state of the PSP firmware(nice "user-friendly" filesystem you got there sony), this thing was not ready for release anywhere. This is a device that is capable of some very impressive things but limped out of the gates with some pretty sorry software/firmware support.
For the record I actually imported my jap PSP back in january through lik sang but don't tell anyone... I don't want the sony enforcers showing up on my doorstep to beat me up.
You get a bonus multiplier of 10x if you have Kevin Bacon in your friends list? :x
I have a rusty abacus at home that I use for my banking. My wife wanted one too after she saw me flying through my interest calculations but I told her "we don't waste money on newfangled technology" and bought her a pile of shiny beads to do her counting with instead.
Ignoring the game itself, it's a pretty amazing logistical feat they have pulled off, all within a pretty short amount of time.
;)
They got caught flatfooted initially but I thought they did a pretty good job recovering from their early mistakes. Now with their massive global subscriber base they have turned into the real juggernaught in the MMO industry.
Now if only they would get off their asses and release Starcraft 2 already.
Which who command would that be? The one that was on your system originally or the "new and improved" version I just put on there?
BTW nice pr0n collection, your space lego photo series in particular is very kinky.