I played NFL 2k1 on my Dreamcast and became pretty good at it. I told myself "Hey, I can do that!" and tried to tackle a 6'6" 300lb guy from behind. Let me tell you, that was a mistake.
No, there definitely were six episodes. The shareware version had only the first episode, and 2 through 6 were added if you registered.
FWIW:
Episode 1: Escape from Wolfenstein, you kill Hans Grosse
Episode 2: Operation: Eisenfaust, you kill Dr. Schabbs
Episode 3: Die, Fuhrer, Die!, you kill Hitler
Episode 4: A Dark Secret, you kill Otto Giftmacher
Episode 5: Trail of the Madman, you kill Greta Grosse
Episode 6: Confrontation, you kill General Fettgesicht
The full version is sold at 3dRealms/Apogee's webstore. Fifteen bucks and you can download it immediately.
The writers of our constitution give us the right to pursue happiness even.
No, it doesn't. I challenge you to find the phrase "pursuit of happiness" in the US Constitution. Not there? It's in the Declaration of Independence - and that is NOT the law of the land.
This calls for a boycott. This calls for a public outcry. There is no excuse for sitting by the sidelines and watching the world go by. Everyone who does not actively oppose this move is complicit in human suffering.
There's a lot of shit in the world. People can only actively oppose so much. It'd be nice if I were able to dedicate myself to righting all the wrongs I see in the world, but after years of activism, I've learned that I've got to pick my battles.
Maybe I'm just a little jaded, but I don't see how Yahoo offering pornography rather than just linking to the vendors themselves can possibly compare against religious, racial, and sexual intolerance, genocides, any pretty much anything else that's ugly and wrong in this world.
So what's more morally repugnant? Yahoo finding a new revenue stream, or the Taliban teaching that women are inferior to men?
I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just saying that the accusation of complicity in human suffering is laughable when there are others who are working for more important goals.
There needs to be some sort of law to prevent these criminals from encrypting our personal information. This is why encryption should be outlawed - since clearly, only outlaws use encryption.
My husband doesn't understand me at all.. he's always off writing about anti-Geek conspiracies in the Corporate Republic. Will you.. will you make me feel like a woman again?
Come on. This isn't the New World Order or a sekrit Microsoft plot or a post-Columbine anti-Geek conspiracy that'll get Jon Katz frothing at the mouth. (He'll froth anyway, though. No way around that.) There are more important things to worry about than sensationalizing a minor issue.
Of course, I give this about twenty minutes before I'm called a troll or a moron. If you think that this is the first step to a giant totalitarian goverment that rules this planet via the airwaves and partitions out information in such a way as to force us, the masses, to base our conclusions on erroneous evidence, you're clearly not enjoying life as much as the rest of us.
Of course, SAS isn't doing any domestic US flights but... *sigh*
SAS flies out of Newark, Chicago, and Seattle, and is part of the Star Alliance with United for domestic legs of flight plans. If this succeeds, odds are that United would be the first domestic carrier to put it to use.
[quick plug]
Anyway, take a jaunt to Scandinavia on SAS. The whole freakin' area is wired, and pretty much everyone speaks English (and better than most Americans). My only overseas vacations have been to Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, and I'd club a baby seal for the opportunity to go again.
[/quick plug]
That was Ed Wood's WORST movie! There's no reason to spend untold millions on that when you can get it at Hollywood Video for $.50 on Tuesdays!
Oh, wait..
Yup, I remember those. I 'earned' well over a dozen of those, and proudly displayed them on my jacket. I thought I was the HEIGHT of fashion. I couldn't figure out why the babes didn't flock around me.
Now I have a Linux bumper sticker, I wear clothes from thinkgeek and copyleft, and yet the babes STILL don't flock around me.
This is extremely dangerous. With the low (almost nil) gravity on Eros, an alien lifeform can easily knock down our probe with nothing more than a well-aimed rock. I consider it a serious lapse of judgement in our elected officials to allow NASA to spend billions on such a risky endeavour.
I propose a Congressional panel to carefully scrutinize NASA's policies in regards to alien surface-to-air defenses, and whether the NEAR probe and others (Cassini! The Saturnians are watching!) are unjust provocations to our extra-terrestrial brethren.
I, for one, would like to welcome our new overlords, and would like to remind them that as a loyal Slashdot reader, I can be instrumental in rounding up the open-source zealots to toil in their salt mines.
...are the same kind of games that were most fun ten years ago.
Interactive fiction, baby! Enough of these gazillions of polygons and anti-aliasing and dithering and graphics never seen this side of Whogivesadamnistan.. I've yet to find a visual game to compete with my imagination from playing some of the recent (read: within the last five years) IF games.
Maybe I'm an elitist, maybe I'm a computer-game luddite, but I say that a good game created with Graham Nelson's Inform compiler beats pretty much any recent game hands-down. Not that it's stopped me from playing Diablo, The Sims, Ultima IX, and pretty much every FPS that's come to market, but I derived far far far more enjoyment from actually _using_ my own imagination to envision a situation rather than having to depend on someone else.
Jeez, now I sound like my parents, telling me to read a book and quit watching TV...
I doubt the/. community could get together $7-10 million to keep Mir in orbit, but Russia would probably accept $5 million and let us 'encourage' it to land in a specific spot.
I mean, Mir crashing down onto Redmond, Washington, just has a strange sort of appeal to it, doesn't it?
We like them boiled, fried, baked, microwaved, stewed, sauteed, drawn and quartered, hanged, guillotined, gassed, electrocuted, and with a nice white wine.
"Are Earthlings white or dark meat?"
"Cincinnati, racial epithets are a violation of FCC regulations."
But the best part will come in Napster's testimony, when Shawn Fanning says, "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
The doctor said I was a common carrier, but that was just because I infected everyone at the office. I guess the upside of this is that I can't be regulated by the FCC.
I'd love to buy one of these, but my main problem is that I'm not exactly able (currently) to drive to the neighborhood Amoco and fill up on hydrogen.
Assuming that's fixed by the time of their proposed commercial rollout in 2004 or so, I'd be more than happy to drive a car that will remind me of the Hindenberg every time I get in.
Yeah, yeah, I know it's not the same, but still. Doesn't hydrogen make you a little nervous?
Either a Linux zealot buys it and devotes fuckedcompany.com to bashing Microsoft, or a Microsoft zealot buys it and devotes the site to bashing SuSE, RedHat, etc, etc, etc.
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I played NFL 2k1 on my Dreamcast and became pretty good at it. I told myself "Hey, I can do that!" and tried to tackle a 6'6" 300lb guy from behind. Let me tell you, that was a mistake.
The game definitely did not turn me into a jock.
But then, SDRAM reminds me of "Samba de Amigo" - and let me tell you, shaking your mouse like a maraca is a -bad- idea.
FWIW:
Episode 1: Escape from Wolfenstein, you kill Hans Grosse
Episode 2: Operation: Eisenfaust, you kill Dr. Schabbs
Episode 3: Die, Fuhrer, Die!, you kill Hitler
Episode 4: A Dark Secret, you kill Otto Giftmacher
Episode 5: Trail of the Madman, you kill Greta Grosse
Episode 6: Confrontation, you kill General Fettgesicht
The full version is sold at 3dRealms/Apogee's webstore. Fifteen bucks and you can download it immediately.
No, it doesn't. I challenge you to find the phrase "pursuit of happiness" in the US Constitution. Not there? It's in the Declaration of Independence - and that is NOT the law of the land.
There's a lot of shit in the world. People can only actively oppose so much. It'd be nice if I were able to dedicate myself to righting all the wrongs I see in the world, but after years of activism, I've learned that I've got to pick my battles.
Maybe I'm just a little jaded, but I don't see how Yahoo offering pornography rather than just linking to the vendors themselves can possibly compare against religious, racial, and sexual intolerance, genocides, any pretty much anything else that's ugly and wrong in this world.
So what's more morally repugnant? Yahoo finding a new revenue stream, or the Taliban teaching that women are inferior to men?
I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just saying that the accusation of complicity in human suffering is laughable when there are others who are working for more important goals.
There needs to be some sort of law to prevent these criminals from encrypting our personal information. This is why encryption should be outlawed - since clearly, only outlaws use encryption.
I'm glad we have freedom of speech so we can speel wurds n e way we want.
(Yeah, yeah, I'm a bad man.)
It's not adultery if we don't want it to be ...
Or, if that's too contrived..
hi jon a/s/l r u h0t hehehehehehe
Anti-Linux university attitudes?
Come on. This isn't the New World Order or a sekrit Microsoft plot or a post-Columbine anti-Geek conspiracy that'll get Jon Katz frothing at the mouth. (He'll froth anyway, though. No way around that.) There are more important things to worry about than sensationalizing a minor issue.
Of course, I give this about twenty minutes before I'm called a troll or a moron. If you think that this is the first step to a giant totalitarian goverment that rules this planet via the airwaves and partitions out information in such a way as to force us, the masses, to base our conclusions on erroneous evidence, you're clearly not enjoying life as much as the rest of us.
Drake's Equation.
SAS flies out of Newark, Chicago, and Seattle, and is part of the Star Alliance with United for domestic legs of flight plans. If this succeeds, odds are that United would be the first domestic carrier to put it to use.
[quick plug]
Anyway, take a jaunt to Scandinavia on SAS. The whole freakin' area is wired, and pretty much everyone speaks English (and better than most Americans). My only overseas vacations have been to Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, and I'd club a baby seal for the opportunity to go again.
[/quick plug]
That was Ed Wood's WORST movie! There's no reason to spend untold millions on that when you can get it at Hollywood Video for $.50 on Tuesdays! Oh, wait..
Now I have a Linux bumper sticker, I wear clothes from thinkgeek and copyleft, and yet the babes STILL don't flock around me.
What could it be?
I propose a Congressional panel to carefully scrutinize NASA's policies in regards to alien surface-to-air defenses, and whether the NEAR probe and others (Cassini! The Saturnians are watching!) are unjust provocations to our extra-terrestrial brethren.
I, for one, would like to welcome our new overlords, and would like to remind them that as a loyal Slashdot reader, I can be instrumental in rounding up the open-source zealots to toil in their salt mines.
They should have just left the stairs out instead- force 'em to rocket-jump to the second floor.
Interactive fiction, baby! Enough of these gazillions of polygons and anti-aliasing and dithering and graphics never seen this side of Whogivesadamnistan .. I've yet to find a visual game to compete with my imagination from playing some of the recent (read: within the last five years) IF games.
Maybe I'm an elitist, maybe I'm a computer-game luddite, but I say that a good game created with Graham Nelson's Inform compiler beats pretty much any recent game hands-down. Not that it's stopped me from playing Diablo, The Sims, Ultima IX, and pretty much every FPS that's come to market, but I derived far far far more enjoyment from actually _using_ my own imagination to envision a situation rather than having to depend on someone else.
Jeez, now I sound like my parents, telling me to read a book and quit watching TV...
I mean, Mir crashing down onto Redmond, Washington, just has a strange sort of appeal to it, doesn't it?
Maybe we could hold a bake sale.
"Are Earthlings white or dark meat?" "Cincinnati, racial epithets are a violation of FCC regulations."
But the best part will come in Napster's testimony, when Shawn Fanning says, "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
Typhoid Mary, eat your heart out.
Assuming that's fixed by the time of their proposed commercial rollout in 2004 or so, I'd be more than happy to drive a car that will remind me of the Hindenberg every time I get in.
Yeah, yeah, I know it's not the same, but still. Doesn't hydrogen make you a little nervous?
Silver lining to every cloud, I guess.
I should see if there are federal funds to help people like me.
You imposter! Where's the real Jon Katz? What have you done with him!?
Either a Linux zealot buys it and devotes fuckedcompany.com to bashing Microsoft, or a Microsoft zealot buys it and devotes the site to bashing SuSE, RedHat, etc, etc, etc.