Well, you're pretty exactly right. Anyone that comes at you like it's Street Fighter is going to get countered three times in a row and die.
That's why fights with good oponents consist primarily of hopping in and out of range, trying to psych each other out and get their oponent to make a mistake so that you have an opportunity to land a punch or two. If you start into a combo, of course, you're going to get countered.
Sure, it changes the dynamic a lot, but... that's why I liked it.
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Hehe. You fail it. And you were trying to get a troll mod.
The rest of the games I either basically agree with them, or never heard of. (And I'm ignoring their confusion between overhyped and overrated.)
DOA3, however... had *excellent* gameplay. They accuse it of rewarding button mashing. My roomie's girlfriend played it a bunch, and pretty consistently beat the hell out of button mashers. I knew more of the combos and special moves, and I pretty consistently beat the hell out of her. My roomie had a better feel for the timing and range and pretty consistently beat the hell out of me. (And anyone else that ever played the game.)
They bitch about the counter system... what? What is the complaint? Is it too weak? Too powerful? Frustrating? What's frustrating about it? They say it's "flawed" but wasn't really improved in 3. Ok. I still don't know what that means.
The main reason I ask isn't because I'm positive that it's the best fighter ever. I ask because I'm so fucking baffled why more fighter game fans don't play it. Is there some flaw I'm missing? What's so much better in other games? Please, fill me in.
I expect that slashdot would implode if SCO sued Verisign for this maneuvre. Do you cheer because one of them will lose? Or groan because one will win?
Cheer, because both of them would be wasting money on a lawsuit.
Cry, if that lawsuit provided precedent for either of their parasitic business models.
They might be comparing it to a WinXP box with a modern BIOS. My roomie's computer shows him his desktop by the time his monitor warms up completely. It feels like ten or fifteen seconds, tops.
That would be easy with or without the MS Windows functionality you describe. It would be trivial to add such a function to a virus on any other well known operating system.
Like the dude said, a virus like that doesn't go anywhere. Klez is getting written for a purpose. They want wide deployment.
The Curious Yellow worm is a much more interesting idea.
ok, now how often do you wipe down your cell phone with a sanitizing pad? exactly. your phone is almost certainly more filthy than your toilet. think about that.
Yeah. But what kind of bacteria. I'd definitely prefer to lick the bottom of my monitor than to lick the bottom of a toilet seat in my office's bathroom.
There might be fewer bacteria there, but they just shot out of someone's anus.
Back during the bubble almost all the comp sci college kids were in it for the money. Government jobs didn't pay enough for them.
Well, they pay enough now.
A friend of mine works "in a library" in Langley, VA. He doesn't touch sensitive information, he doesn't participate in "operations," (doesn't even know who does), and... his job still sounds a hell of a lot more interesting than the VBA coding I'm doing.
I guess this isn't much detail, but he certainly can't tell you any more than I have. Being a spook is a'ight. My friend's job isn't even morally compromising, but I don't know if that's always the case. If I thought I'd fit in in a gov't environment, I might consider applying. They seem to be awfully... sober.
I don't mean this essay in particular, I mean Orson Scott Card.
He's a smart guy, and he has his heart in the right place, and I think he's correct about this issue. However, he seems completely impaired when it comes to seeing both sides of a debate.
Read some of his other essays at random, and I think you'll see what I mean. Once he gets it in his head that some group/thing/whatever is in the right, he'll uniformly agree with all their arguments. Not exactly reasonable (or persuasive) rhetoric.
No, their primary concern (the most discussed issue on the senate floor) was the effect this would have on local political coverage.
Right now, your local NBC affiliate can decide that they're not going to run some reality-TV show tonight, instead they're going to run local political debates. If NBC owned every local station, the local decision making would be removed, and you'd decrease the amount of airtime that each congressperson received for campaigning.
Congress has always been unnerved about the implications of this latest FCC change, but not for the same reasons you and I were. If the FCC comes back with a way for consolidation to occur while preserving the current type/amount of political coverage, I'm sure it would go through without any fight at all.
The public backlash just lets those two pricks try to look like heros.
No, paying them directly does not ignore the fact that they need marketing to be viable. They can hire an advertising agency.
I still think it's braindead, but that's not the reason why:
You're allowed to choose which artists get your $$? Um... I choose me. If you think there should be some barrier of entry to getting on the list of artists that can get $$, then you've outlined a system worse than the current one.
My roomie has a two year old Microsoft wireless (not bluetooth) mouse and keyboard.
They're laggy. That's right. It's not extremely noticeable, but they're severely impaired for precision and speed. Sure, maybe they've been improved, but I'll be using wired mice for a long time.
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Well, you're pretty exactly right. Anyone that comes at you like it's Street Fighter is going to get countered three times in a row and die.
That's why fights with good oponents consist primarily of hopping in and out of range, trying to psych each other out and get their oponent to make a mistake so that you have an opportunity to land a punch or two. If you start into a combo, of course, you're going to get countered.
Sure, it changes the dynamic a lot, but... that's why I liked it.
Hehe. You fail it. And you were trying to get a troll mod.
That makes my day.
So weird how he gets a million flamebait and overrated mods for making same joke that got you a +5 funny.
Nothing wrong with your comment, but... kindof interesting.
The rest of the games I either basically agree with them, or never heard of. (And I'm ignoring their confusion between overhyped and overrated.)
DOA3, however... had *excellent* gameplay. They accuse it of rewarding button mashing. My roomie's girlfriend played it a bunch, and pretty consistently beat the hell out of button mashers. I knew more of the combos and special moves, and I pretty consistently beat the hell out of her. My roomie had a better feel for the timing and range and pretty consistently beat the hell out of me. (And anyone else that ever played the game.)
They bitch about the counter system... what? What is the complaint? Is it too weak? Too powerful? Frustrating? What's frustrating about it? They say it's "flawed" but wasn't really improved in 3. Ok. I still don't know what that means.
The main reason I ask isn't because I'm positive that it's the best fighter ever. I ask because I'm so fucking baffled why more fighter game fans don't play it. Is there some flaw I'm missing? What's so much better in other games? Please, fill me in.
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Anakin IS LUKE'S FATHER!
Wait...
I'm a 180 lbs distant relative of a guinea pig.
Four feet and thirtythree inches of silence?
Damn, that'd deep.
I expect that slashdot would implode if SCO sued Verisign for this maneuvre. Do you cheer because one of them will lose? Or groan because one will win?
Cheer, because both of them would be wasting money on a lawsuit.
Cry, if that lawsuit provided precedent for either of their parasitic business models.
No, he said "Personally." He may understand exactly why everyone else wants faster boots.
They might be comparing it to a WinXP box with a modern BIOS. My roomie's computer shows him his desktop by the time his monitor warms up completely. It feels like ten or fifteen seconds, tops.
"...Scientists predict the sun will rise tomorrow."
I live in the east coast, insensitive clod!
Let alone parts of the eastern hemisphere, where the sun may have already risen tomorrow.
That would be easy with or without the MS Windows functionality you describe. It would be trivial to add such a function to a virus on any other well known operating system.
Like the dude said, a virus like that doesn't go anywhere. Klez is getting written for a purpose. They want wide deployment.
The Curious Yellow worm is a much more interesting idea.
The same dude said a while back that G5s weren't going to show up in laptops for some reason or another.
I feel the same way about porn.
Wait...
ok, now how often do you wipe down your cell phone with a sanitizing pad? exactly.
your phone is almost certainly more filthy than your toilet. think about that.
Yeah. But what kind of bacteria. I'd definitely prefer to lick the bottom of my monitor than to lick the bottom of a toilet seat in my office's bathroom.
There might be fewer bacteria there, but they just shot out of someone's anus.
They'd still have to prove that Linux doesn't work like BSD, but rather some other kind of Unix.
All other cash prize winners will choose a charity to receive their prize.
Sweet! I'm coding for Hamas!
Back during the bubble almost all the comp sci college kids were in it for the money. Government jobs didn't pay enough for them.
Well, they pay enough now.
A friend of mine works "in a library" in Langley, VA. He doesn't touch sensitive information, he doesn't participate in "operations," (doesn't even know who does), and... his job still sounds a hell of a lot more interesting than the VBA coding I'm doing.
I guess this isn't much detail, but he certainly can't tell you any more than I have. Being a spook is a'ight. My friend's job isn't even morally compromising, but I don't know if that's always the case. If I thought I'd fit in in a gov't environment, I might consider applying. They seem to be awfully... sober.
I care. This is rad. There's not much to say about it, though.
I didn't mean to imply that anyone here on /. is worth reading instead of him.
I don't mean this essay in particular, I mean Orson Scott Card.
He's a smart guy, and he has his heart in the right place, and I think he's correct about this issue. However, he seems completely impaired when it comes to seeing both sides of a debate.
Read some of his other essays at random, and I think you'll see what I mean. Once he gets it in his head that some group/thing/whatever is in the right, he'll uniformly agree with all their arguments. Not exactly reasonable (or persuasive) rhetoric.
No, their primary concern (the most discussed issue on the senate floor) was the effect this would have on local political coverage.
Right now, your local NBC affiliate can decide that they're not going to run some reality-TV show tonight, instead they're going to run local political debates. If NBC owned every local station, the local decision making would be removed, and you'd decrease the amount of airtime that each congressperson received for campaigning.
Congress has always been unnerved about the implications of this latest FCC change, but not for the same reasons you and I were. If the FCC comes back with a way for consolidation to occur while preserving the current type/amount of political coverage, I'm sure it would go through without any fight at all.
The public backlash just lets those two pricks try to look like heros.
No, paying them directly does not ignore the fact that they need marketing to be viable. They can hire an advertising agency.
I still think it's braindead, but that's not the reason why:
You're allowed to choose which artists get your $$? Um... I choose me. If you think there should be some barrier of entry to getting on the list of artists that can get $$, then you've outlined a system worse than the current one.
No, you aren't the only one.
My roomie has a two year old Microsoft wireless (not bluetooth) mouse and keyboard.
They're laggy. That's right. It's not extremely noticeable, but they're severely impaired for precision and speed. Sure, maybe they've been improved, but I'll be using wired mice for a long time.