Samus: "I've got you now, Mother Brain!" MB: "You're talking to me all wrong... its the wrong tone. Do it again and I'll stab you in the face with a frozen metroid."
I just hope they don't try to make Samus "sexy". The last thing this movie needs is some bubble-brained ditz bouncing around Zebes in a slinky catsuit. What's great about Samus is that she totally whoops butt. And no fricken' Liv Tyler!
This is not true. Many of the government's newer brain-scanning and subliminal suggestion waves are designed to have an impact through traditional tin foil. Aluminum foil, while not as effective overall, is quite effective against these newer control beams. The proper foil hat to prevent mind control and reading is comprised of two layers, one of aluminum and one of tin foil. Just be sure to press the two sheets together very tightly, as there is some evidence that a control beam getting through the first layer might be reflected back by the second, causing a resonance that can build up in the gap between the layers. This resonance can cause massive headaches and occasional head-explody.
File-sharing music has hurt sales. Because now you don't need to drop a bundle of cash on an album before realizing that the cd sucks and never listening to it again.
Yes, you want to be informed as to the advantages and handicaps of your job/subjob combination... but, in the end, simply play whatever you want. If you want a warrior with a White Mage (which is really not useless, a couple of cures or cure2's can help keep the hate on the tank) then go for it. Learn how to utilize your class to the best of your abilities, you might find some hidden surprises in some combos that make them fun and interesting (although, maybe not the absolute best) to play.
Many games, particularly RPG's, already have social commentary. Final Fantasy 7, just as an example, had a huge mega-coporation over-exploiting a natural resource, which threatened to destroy the planet. The problem isn't social commentary, its in the delivery. If it's part of the story and presented well, it will work. If it's too heavy-handed then it will likely fail.
Actually, pk'ing already exists in FFXI... you just need to be tricky about it. Run a huge train of hostile monsters into a group and let it kill you or zone out. This happenes a lot, although its usually it's some poor fool trying to outrun death... but sometimes its on purpose. When its intentional, usually its someone who's farming monsters and wants to get rid of the competition (ie: the people who are low enough of a level to actually get some xp off of these monsters). These people are a real pain... and its very difficult to prove that they did it on purpose.
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"If an alien civilization / being came to visit it us, would it talk to a person, or would it talk to Google via posting websites?"
Actually, this is more or less true. The X-10 ad pop-ups were an invasion that we just barely managed to fight off with penis-enlargement spam.
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And that clown shall one day DESTROY THE UNIVERSE!
I've never seen that work, although I've often been blinded by some idiot zooming up to the lights flashing his highbeams.
I guess I just can't figure out what's so goddamned important that these people can't wait a little bit. Unless they have a pregnant woman in labor in the car, I don't really see the point.
Type-A management. These people see a group of employees working 40-hour weeks and getting all their work done, and to their overheated little minds, it seems inefficient. So they cut staff. If the work is still getting done on time, they cut more. Then, when deadlines start getting missed, they say things along the lines of, "well, the work still needs to be done. We all need to pitch in."
Then you get employees working 50-60 hour weeks to meet the deadlines. Then the boss gets a huge bonus for cutting costs and making the business line more efficient, and then goes on to "improve" another business line.
The only solution is to shoot them all (kidding! I'm just kidding! But not by much)
You're right about Anarchy Online, that's how I started playing. You download it, and you get a free trial to play it. I didn't last for long once I had to pay for it, though.
Nice pics of Mary. She looks like she's been eating lemons. Could it be because it took 30 years to prove her right? I mean, imagine how you might look after thirty years of going "Any minute now. I know I'm right. You'll see. Any minute now, and this will fail..."
We have some macs mixed in with our windows machines. We also have Linux and a few legacy os2 and dos machines. And yes, you can get them to play nice together. For a while, at least. Then you make some little "harmless" change on the network that one os likes and the rest hate, and suddenly your nice and peaceful network is a chaotic mess. And tracking down those problems can be pure hell. Just because it works great on day one doesn't mean it'll still be great on day 100. That's the main reason our IT dept (and I'd guess most IT depts) has been pushing for a single os. It is not because of ignorance, but because of a drive towards simplification.
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"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble-gum..."
"...and I'm all out of ass." *Chews gum*
Samus: "I've got you now, Mother Brain!"
MB: "You're talking to me all wrong... its the wrong tone. Do it again and I'll stab you in the face with a frozen metroid."
I just hope they don't try to make Samus "sexy". The last thing this movie needs is some bubble-brained ditz bouncing around Zebes in a slinky catsuit. What's great about Samus is that she totally whoops butt. And no fricken' Liv Tyler!
Prince Vegeta... a lawyer? Scary... Imagine how long it would take to cross-examine a witness, and the 40+ hour power up before closing arguments...
"It must be tin! Aluminum is powerless!"
This is not true. Many of the government's newer brain-scanning and subliminal suggestion waves are designed to have an impact through traditional tin foil. Aluminum foil, while not as effective overall, is quite effective against these newer control beams.
The proper foil hat to prevent mind control and reading is comprised of two layers, one of aluminum and one of tin foil. Just be sure to press the two sheets together very tightly, as there is some evidence that a control beam getting through the first layer might be reflected back by the second, causing a resonance that can build up in the gap between the layers. This resonance can cause massive headaches and occasional head-explody.
File-sharing music has hurt sales. Because now you don't need to drop a bundle of cash on an album before realizing that the cd sucks and never listening to it again.
FFXI allows both, on the same servers.
One minor quibble RE: point #8...
Yes, you want to be informed as to the advantages and handicaps of your job/subjob combination... but, in the end, simply play whatever you want. If you want a warrior with a White Mage (which is really not useless, a couple of cures or cure2's can help keep the hate on the tank) then go for it. Learn how to utilize your class to the best of your abilities, you might find some hidden surprises in some combos that make them fun and interesting (although, maybe not the absolute best) to play.
Whoops, that we are (d'oh!).
And, if they haven't visited the 21st century yet, just wait... they will if Enterprise has a long enough run.
No, it could still be the Enterprise during one of the many times they wound up in the 20th century.
Many games, particularly RPG's, already have social commentary. Final Fantasy 7, just as an example, had a huge mega-coporation over-exploiting a natural resource, which threatened to destroy the planet. The problem isn't social commentary, its in the delivery. If it's part of the story and presented well, it will work. If it's too heavy-handed then it will likely fail.
I remember the days when you could give out your email address on the web (like on your own website!) and you would only get meaningful email
Yeah, that was a good week.
Actually, pk'ing already exists in FFXI... you just need to be tricky about it. Run a huge train of hostile monsters into a group and let it kill you or zone out. This happenes a lot, although its usually it's some poor fool trying to outrun death... but sometimes its on purpose. When its intentional, usually its someone who's farming monsters and wants to get rid of the competition (ie: the people who are low enough of a level to actually get some xp off of these monsters). These people are a real pain... and its very difficult to prove that they did it on purpose.
"If an alien civilization / being came to visit it us, would it talk to a person, or would it talk to Google via posting websites?"
Actually, this is more or less true. The X-10 ad pop-ups were an invasion that we just barely managed to fight off with penis-enlargement spam.
And that clown shall one day DESTROY THE UNIVERSE!
(this is why i fear clowns...)
"Chinese robots will be crappy, cheap and will dominate the market."
Only until the Koreans enter the market.
I was sent home for wearing a shirt that said "Feel free to Jack me". I thought I was just being friendly...
"At the same time, no one says that it's silly to spend $1000+ on a PC to play games, when you can do the same thing with a $199 PlayStation 2"
Are you kidding? I see that all the time! On slashdot, even.
Besides, who only spends a grand on a gaming machine?
I've never seen that work, although I've often been blinded by some idiot zooming up to the lights flashing his highbeams.
I guess I just can't figure out what's so goddamned important that these people can't wait a little bit. Unless they have a pregnant woman in labor in the car, I don't really see the point.
That would be great, if it weren't for the lack of benefits. Most places give either no bennies, or extremely limited bennies to part-timers.
Type-A management. These people see a group of employees working 40-hour weeks and getting all their work done, and to their overheated little minds, it seems inefficient.
So they cut staff. If the work is still getting done on time, they cut more. Then, when deadlines start getting missed, they say things along the lines of, "well, the work still needs to be done. We all need to pitch in."
Then you get employees working 50-60 hour weeks to meet the deadlines. Then the boss gets a huge bonus for cutting costs and making the business line more efficient, and then goes on to "improve" another business line.
The only solution is to shoot them all (kidding! I'm just kidding! But not by much)
"fsk me in the arse"
I'd like to opt out of that, if you don't mind.
You're right about Anarchy Online, that's how I started playing. You download it, and you get a free trial to play it. I didn't last for long once I had to pay for it, though.
" Do they get free penis enlargment pills?"
If a woman wants to see a penis get bigger, all she needs is her natural, um... "talents".
Nice pics of Mary. She looks like she's been eating lemons. Could it be because it took 30 years to prove her right? I mean, imagine how you might look after thirty years of going "Any minute now. I know I'm right. You'll see. Any minute now, and this will fail..."
We have some macs mixed in with our windows machines. We also have Linux and a few legacy os2 and dos machines. And yes, you can get them to play nice together. For a while, at least. Then you make some little "harmless" change on the network that one os likes and the rest hate, and suddenly your nice and peaceful network is a chaotic mess. And tracking down those problems can be pure hell.
Just because it works great on day one doesn't mean it'll still be great on day 100.
That's the main reason our IT dept (and I'd guess most IT depts) has been pushing for a single os. It is not because of ignorance, but because of a drive towards simplification.