You know, every Chicago School stalwart needs to watch the episode of the Simpsons with the Monorail. Lyle Langley is the epitome of the modern capitalist, sad to say.
In AD 2101 War was beginning Captain: What happen? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb Operator: We get signal Captain: What! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It's you!! CATS: How are you gentlemen!! CATS: All your base are belong to us. CATS: You are on the way to destruction. Captain: What you say? CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time CATS: HA HA HA HA....
If churches had been handing out submission forms during mass, then there would be outrage.
Don't churches in Australia do that? Because here in the U. S. I remember my church handing out postcards to get NYPD Blue taken off the air. We were to mail them in to ABC after signing them.
And that's when I finally decided I had had enough and quit the Church. Best thing that ever happened to me in retrospect...
Now, I'm a person who loves good TV. However, cable has never made sense for me, because I don't watch TV on a schedule. Even back when Firefly was on, if my girlfriend had amorous activities in mind, I would regretfully have to catch up on the missed episode later.
Up until recently, I was combining broadcast TV (I watched a lot of syndicated TV like the Simpsons and various sitcoms) with DVDs and the Internet. Then the government helpfully killed my TV, the digital box I bought (in part with YOUR TAX DOLLARS) never really worked well enough for me to use it. Currently, the only channel my TV picks up is the Nintendo Channel (my Xbox 360 is hooked to a computer monitor).
The only show I really make it a point to catch these days is Breaking Bad which I'm subscribed to through Amazon's Unbox (normally I'd wait for the DVD, but someone at work will spoil the episode for me if I don't watch it the morning after it airs.). By the way, I'm aware of the negatives of Amazon's Unbox service, but it works for my narrow use.
Now, of course, this is not to say I've never mooched off of anyone's cable, as my parents can attest, but since I've been moved out I've never gotten cable or satellite in my home.
Why would I when I can watch just about anything I want to whenever I want to on the Internet? I'm serious, it's rare I can't find somewhere to watch something online nowadays.
That's when large portions of the Church hierarchy, including himself, are guilty of terrible, horrible things. So he thinks back to the "good old days," the Dark Ages, when anyone reporting things the Church didn't like would be tortured into recanting and burned at the stake!
Logic dictates that given their high level of technical development they're an advanced culture. Therefore, peaceful and enlightened. The human race, on the other hand is an aggressively dangerous species. Now I suspect they have more to fear from us than we from them.
It isn't about the money (though thinking about the potentially big payday helps keep you going when things get tough or weird); it is about the chance for that sense of accomplishment.
In other words, like a cult.
Oh, and let's not kid ourselves, Apple isn't a startup. What they are is a failed computer company that managed a successful Blue Ocean strategy by going after markets that the non-failures (who had something to lose) would only tackle in a half-assed way and the small players who did a better job than Apple didn't have their clout or marketing budget.
As to me, I work for money, that's what seperates us from the animals. If I want a sense of accomplishment, I'll make a ship in a bottle.
No, no, Apple is an aging crimelord, who people mistake for an pitiful old man. Sort of like Don Salamanca on Breaking Bad.
Microsoft is more like an active crimelord, who really should be watching out for Don Salamanca, but just thinks he's cute with his bell ringing......that is until the Cousins come along and cut off Microsoft's head.
Hey Steve, I hear Google is coming out with an Android based tablet. Now I know you are proud of this Death Star you've built, but maybe you shouldn't dissolve the Galactic Senate just yet? Are you sure that fear will keep the systems in line?
But than makes no sense, Brainiac's response to Superman's "But why kill?" was "The fewer beings that have the knowledge, the more precious it becomes." I remember that episode:
To paraphrase, "Bioshock isn't likeSystem Shock II, it is System Shock II.... the bad guy might as well be Shodan with a waistcoat and a copy of Atlas Shrugged... PSI powers are now Plasmids, the Hybrids are now Splicers and the wrench is now... well it's still a wrench but a different sort of wrench... everything that was cyberpunk then is steampunk now..."
Last time I checked, these are still around. I was thinking of starting in on, recently.
However, when I went to the Flying Buffalo Website they distracted me with the new Japanese "Lost Worlds" gamebooks (which are sort of like the old Lost Worlds games books, except containing perverted pictures of cartoon girls in place of the rather dull "Man with Sword" or "Skeleton with Shield" I remembered from my childhood.).
Oh, don't go there! I don't want them to sell out of any more and have to order them from Hobby Link Japan again!
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Yes, obviously someone has never been to Japan, where it isn't even OK to sell used video games because of the IP laws.
What would we do with the stuff we steal? Send it back to China to be built in a Chinese factory?
You know, every Chicago School stalwart needs to watch the episode of the Simpsons with the Monorail. Lyle Langley is the epitome of the modern capitalist, sad to say.
What do cell phones have to do with pesticide overuse?
I can think of one, Imperial Administration, "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further. "
In AD 2101
War was beginning
Captain: What happen?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb
Operator: We get signal
Captain: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you!!
CATS: How are you gentlemen!!
CATS: All your base are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say?
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time
CATS: HA HA HA HA....
*rolls dice*
Ok, the nukes hit Cthulhu, but about half the people viewing the scene go mad from viewing it on the monitors
-- 5 minutes pass --
Ok, Cthulhu has reformed, but he is radioactive now....
The greatest movie. Ever made. Ever.
But the great news is that nothing bad will ever happen to BP because of their lies, negligent homicide and ecocide, ever.
Well, I would think it was great news if I were a BP exec, anyway.
Don't churches in Australia do that? Because here in the U. S. I remember my church handing out postcards to get NYPD Blue taken off the air. We were to mail them in to ABC after signing them.
And that's when I finally decided I had had enough and quit the Church. Best thing that ever happened to me in retrospect...
But... imagine how horrible Australia will be when people there are legally allowed to play Bioshock. I think the living will envy the dead!
Also, Yahtzee's reviews will start being slightly more up to date, and nobody wants that!
Should be "tails you lose," obviously...
Apparently, "heads I win, tales you lose" is almost as popular a game in Australia as knifey-spoony.
September 24th, 1889:
Jubei: I think that playing card company, Nintendo, will be out of business in 5 years.
Ukyo: You're on, but if that doesn't happen, you owe me dinner!
Nintendo, winning dinners for people for over 120 years.
Hypertext: New and Exciting.
Now, I'm a person who loves good TV. However, cable has never made sense for me, because I don't watch TV on a schedule. Even back when Firefly was on, if my girlfriend had amorous activities in mind, I would regretfully have to catch up on the missed episode later.
Up until recently, I was combining broadcast TV (I watched a lot of syndicated TV like the Simpsons and various sitcoms) with DVDs and the Internet. Then the government helpfully killed my TV, the digital box I bought (in part with YOUR TAX DOLLARS) never really worked well enough for me to use it. Currently, the only channel my TV picks up is the Nintendo Channel (my Xbox 360 is hooked to a computer monitor).
The only show I really make it a point to catch these days is Breaking Bad which I'm subscribed to through Amazon's Unbox (normally I'd wait for the DVD, but someone at work will spoil the episode for me if I don't watch it the morning after it airs.). By the way, I'm aware of the negatives of Amazon's Unbox service, but it works for my narrow use.
Now, of course, this is not to say I've never mooched off of anyone's cable, as my parents can attest, but since I've been moved out I've never gotten cable or satellite in my home.
Why would I when I can watch just about anything I want to whenever I want to on the Internet? I'm serious, it's rare I can't find somewhere to watch something online nowadays.
Here's the cure for that (slightly spoilery if you haven't seen Breaking Bad Season One):
Breaking Bad: Acid Bath
(Note: I'm not trying to imply that you should be dissolving your non-geek friends in acid here.)
He's pulling the old Pope-a-Dope!
That's when large portions of the Church hierarchy, including himself, are guilty of terrible, horrible things. So he thinks back to the "good old days," the Dark Ages, when anyone reporting things the Church didn't like would be tortured into recanting and burned at the stake!
Poor Pope, he's feeling nostalgic.
-- Professor Donald Kessler, Mars Attacks!
-- Martians
In other words, like a cult.
Oh, and let's not kid ourselves, Apple isn't a startup. What they are is a failed computer company that managed a successful Blue Ocean strategy by going after markets that the non-failures (who had something to lose) would only tackle in a half-assed way and the small players who did a better job than Apple didn't have their clout or marketing budget.
As to me, I work for money, that's what seperates us from the animals. If I want a sense of accomplishment, I'll make a ship in a bottle.
No, no, Apple is an aging crimelord, who people mistake for an pitiful old man. Sort of like Don Salamanca on Breaking Bad.
Microsoft is more like an active crimelord, who really should be watching out for Don Salamanca, but just thinks he's cute with his bell ringing... ...that is until the Cousins come along and cut off Microsoft's head.
Yeah, yeah, I know... "inconceivable!"
Hey Steve, I hear Google is coming out with an Android based tablet. Now I know you are proud of this Death Star you've built, but maybe you shouldn't dissolve the Galactic Senate just yet? Are you sure that fear will keep the systems in line?
But than makes no sense, Brainiac's response to Superman's "But why kill?" was "The fewer beings that have the knowledge, the more precious it becomes." I remember that episode:
See what I mean?
So, logically, any student who became educated in Brainiac's school would be immediately murdered!
Remember, don't turn your public education over to supervillains!
Yahtzee did a tutorial video on this which he cleverly disguised as a review of the game Bioshock:
Zero Punctuation: Bioshock
To paraphrase, "Bioshock isn't like System Shock II, it is System Shock II.... the bad guy might as well be Shodan with a waistcoat and a copy of Atlas Shrugged... PSI powers are now Plasmids, the Hybrids are now Splicers and the wrench is now... well it's still a wrench but a different sort of wrench... everything that was cyberpunk then is steampunk now..."
Last time I checked, these are still around. I was thinking of starting in on, recently.
However, when I went to the Flying Buffalo Website they distracted me with the new Japanese "Lost Worlds" gamebooks (which are sort of like the old Lost Worlds games books, except containing perverted pictures of cartoon girls in place of the rather dull "Man with Sword" or "Skeleton with Shield" I remembered from my childhood.).
Oh, don't go there! I don't want them to sell out of any more and have to order them from Hobby Link Japan again!