Thanks for the additional info. But that was really just a correction, 25 years ago Reagan was President and Carter had been out of office for a term and a half. I was expanding the timeline for JackieBrown's comment.
Not the point at all. If you consider MoH and Half-Life to be in the same genre, I can see where the problem is, because other than FPS they are not. Sci-fi games can make up their own vocabulary and reuse military jargon as they see fit. Why should I buy a game who's terminology indicates that the multiplayer component is only a training exercise generally played out with MILES gear or paintballs? I may as well get Police Trainer. A game designed, advertised, and sold as either an historical or modern reality based combat FPS really shouldn't try to redefine a term already in use by the military depicted. Or did the "F" in FNG for Call of Duty 4's first mission change to "Frakking" between when I first enlisted (and was the fucking new guy) and now?
The use of "opposing force" or OPFOR changes the muliplayer component from squad based combat to squad based combat training. The designation OPFOR is for a unit simulating the enemy for training purposes. The game may not be ruined, but it is drastically altered by the use of the term "opposing force."
Personally I'm a socialist and support our high taxes in Sweden, but I make sure to never miss out an opportunity to withhold as much taxes I can get away with.. Has more to do with personal greed than with any political ideology.:)
To paraphrase Homer: sure, IN theeoory, in theory socialism works...
Moon died of an overdose of Clomethiazole, which was part of his treatment for alcohol. Joplin from Heroin, but there was also slcohol in her system. Due to a lack of autopsy Morrison's cause of death is unknown, but most accounts have it as being of heroin, also. Bonham is the only one you listed to actually die from alcohol -- specifically by asphixiating on his own vomit, even though he had been placed on his side in hopes of preventing that from happening. Mercury, as an openly gay man who contracted HIV fairly early on in the disease's lifetime, may or may not have contracted it without being the frontman for a rock band. Lennon was still shot by a crazy asshole while walking out his front door.
Your "rock triology" is just an updated version of the "wine, women, and song" hendiatris, expressing three vices. It may as well be "Speeding, nail-biting, and opera."
It killed Kieth Moon, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and John Lennon. O.D., O.D., O.D., Crazy guy.
That's not rock n' roll, just a very bad choice in dosage for perscribed or unperscribed medication. Except Lennon, who made the mistake of walking out his front door.
Yup. Never heard of the people who made Thief or System Shock or Tribes: Vengeance. I guess the write ups in PC Gamer, Computer Gaming World, and Next Generation Magazine in the mid-90s missed the top-quality talent. Must have been busy. Maybe trying to get on that Duke Nukem Forever gravy train.
I bought it: My copy of his story told in the form of a Game. Fixed that for you.
If I wanted direction I'd be watching a movie. If it didn't have direction or semblance of structure it really wouldn't be a game. More to the point if it didn't have those, people would whine and moan about a lack of story, plot, or (god-forbid) direction.
'waffler' and 'flip-flopper', two terms I have no idea why they even exist. I think they're archaic for "one who makes waffles" and "one who wears shoes such as thongs and geta," like cobbler and haberdasher. Normally we would now say Waffle House employee and beach-goer, samurai, or hippie.
He also took away a pretty basic freedom / right from all of his younger customers.
Beg your pardon? There's no right to be sold video games. If he were discriminating on the basis of being part of a protected class (age/race/disability/etc), that would be one thing -- but it's not the case here. Might not be the same right GP was thinking of, but how about privacy for the kid? You know that pesky thing/. is always talking about under headings like YRO. If the GameStop manager can't call up J. Random Memorial High School and asks for Johnny's report card due to privacy issues then he shouldn't be asking John Sr. to vouch for Junior. Just a thought.
Does anyone that plays games understand that if the ESRB wasn't doing what they are doing, including tightening up, that the government would take over in a SECOND? Then you get into a First Amendment issue, which is why nearly all of the ratings systems in the U.S. are voluntary industry-run system. While the TV rating system had input from the FCC it is still industry run. The fear of the Government stepping in is what leads to the: Comic Code Authority, MPAA, TV Parental Guidelines, and ESRB. There is always the threat from Congress "thinking of the children," however a good number of the legislation to ban (censor/regulate content) has been struck down by the courts as unconstitutional.
They may not have pissed in my Cheerios (yet), but there's been a few time that they threatened to wipe their asses with the Constitution.
"Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, 'Dear God! What is that thing,' will echo in your perfect ears."
Based on what Molyneux has said before regarding scars, your interactions with NPCs and (possibly) other players online will be affected. So your ability to complete the game won't be changed, but the manner in which you complete it would.
Thant is, if you believe everything Molyneux is saying. Personally, I have a box of Morton's Kosher on hand.
Of course they are abandoning the hardcore gamers; there is simply so much more money to be had in blasé games and infinite sequels. Yeah like Madden, Final Fantasy, Halo, any WWII shooter, DooM, Quake, UT, etc...
Oh wait, you meant that games "hardcore gamers" play *aren't* blasé, infinite sequels. Sorry, I was confused by your contradictory point.
Since the only mechanism via which MySpace can identify possible sex offenders registered on the site is comparison of items such as name, locale, DOB (for which many public lists, even of sex offenders, only use the month), etc., is this surprising? That someone with the same name, same birth month (which might have been all the matching information they had), and same location, which is pretty much all the information they have, could be seen as a match? Considering that there are probably a lot of people named "John Smith" born in June a name and month match would be highly likely. You glossed over the fact the the DOBs for these two women were two years apart. And a human decided that a 22 - 26 month difference was "close enough."
You also ignore that the register sex offender was registered in Utah and that the woman whose page was taken down lived in Colorado and Florida previously, but not in Utah. so your same place argument falls too.
Did you RTFA before spouting off? Oh wait/., I forgot where i was.
Back at university they only offered certain classes every other term, Database Management being one of them. The semester I could actually take it they chose to teach using Powerbuilder. It was the way of the future or some crap. Needless to say they only used it that semester. I couldn't sell the book and have it to this day, 8+ years later, as a reminder to get the building blocks first and then specialize.
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If Ewoks could be an effective part of taking down the shield generators on the forest moon of Endor, imagine what Tribbles would have done.
As much as it pains me to say it, in a battle between two old guys in easy chairs on the command decks of their respective flagships, the UFP wins.
Thanks for the additional info. But that was really just a correction, 25 years ago Reagan was President and Carter had been out of office for a term and a half. I was expanding the timeline for JackieBrown's comment.
Try the last 35 years.
Not the point at all. If you consider MoH and Half-Life to be in the same genre, I can see where the problem is, because other than FPS they are not. Sci-fi games can make up their own vocabulary and reuse military jargon as they see fit. Why should I buy a game who's terminology indicates that the multiplayer component is only a training exercise generally played out with MILES gear or paintballs? I may as well get Police Trainer.
A game designed, advertised, and sold as either an historical or modern reality based combat FPS really shouldn't try to redefine a term already in use by the military depicted. Or did the "F" in FNG for Call of Duty 4's first mission change to "Frakking" between when I first enlisted (and was the fucking new guy) and now?
The use of "opposing force" or OPFOR changes the muliplayer component from squad based combat to squad based combat training. The designation OPFOR is for a unit simulating the enemy for training purposes. The game may not be ruined, but it is drastically altered by the use of the term "opposing force."
Of course it can, sir. It's like a second language to it.
Actually, for years they had Muhammad in the opening of the show. Low res, I know, but he's to the right of Kenny and the sign near the alien.
All he would need to do is cover his house with chicken wire, paint and stucco
That's crazy talk. A building covered in chicken wire, stucco, and paint would never fit in with the rest of the houses in Santa Fe.
Personally I'm a socialist and support our high taxes in Sweden, but I make sure to never miss out an opportunity to withhold as much taxes I can get away with.. Has more to do with personal greed than with any political ideology. :)
To paraphrase Homer: ...
sure, IN theeoory, in theory socialism works
time is cyclical
Nope. Straight line.
Moon died of an overdose of Clomethiazole, which was part of his treatment for alcohol. Joplin from Heroin, but there was also slcohol in her system. Due to a lack of autopsy Morrison's cause of death is unknown, but most accounts have it as being of heroin, also.
Bonham is the only one you listed to actually die from alcohol -- specifically by asphixiating on his own vomit, even though he had been placed on his side in hopes of preventing that from happening. Mercury, as an openly gay man who contracted HIV fairly early on in the disease's lifetime, may or may not have contracted it without being the frontman for a rock band. Lennon was still shot by a crazy asshole while walking out his front door.
Your "rock triology" is just an updated version of the "wine, women, and song" hendiatris, expressing three vices. It may as well be "Speeding, nail-biting, and opera."
That's not rock n' roll, just a very bad choice in dosage for perscribed or unperscribed medication. Except Lennon, who made the mistake of walking out his front door.
Yup. Never heard of the people who made Thief or System Shock or Tribes: Vengeance. I guess the write ups in PC Gamer, Computer Gaming World, and Next Generation Magazine in the mid-90s missed the top-quality talent. Must have been busy. Maybe trying to get on that Duke Nukem Forever gravy train.
No stairway? Denied!
Beg your pardon? There's no right to be sold video games. If he were discriminating on the basis of being part of a protected class (age/race/disability/etc), that would be one thing -- but it's not the case here. Might not be the same right GP was thinking of, but how about privacy for the kid? You know that pesky thing
They may not have pissed in my Cheerios (yet), but there's been a few time that they threatened to wipe their asses with the Constitution.
"Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, 'Dear God! What is that thing,' will echo in your perfect ears."
Based on what Molyneux has said before regarding scars, your interactions with NPCs and (possibly) other players online will be affected. So your ability to complete the game won't be changed, but the manner in which you complete it would.
Thant is, if you believe everything Molyneux is saying. Personally, I have a box of Morton's Kosher on hand.
Oh wait, you meant that games "hardcore gamers" play *aren't* blasé, infinite sequels. Sorry, I was confused by your contradictory point.
You can go north of the north pole, by entering the sphere. Standing on the north pole with a horizontal compass makes it spin, a vertical or dip compass would point straight down. Going in a straight line down into the earth would be moving north of the pole.
But now I'm just splitting hairs.
You also ignore that the register sex offender was registered in Utah and that the woman whose page was taken down lived in Colorado and Florida previously, but not in Utah. so your same place argument falls too.
Did you RTFA before spouting off? Oh wait
Back at university they only offered certain classes every other term, Database Management being one of them. The semester I could actually take it they chose to teach using Powerbuilder. It was the way of the future or some crap. Needless to say they only used it that semester. I couldn't sell the book and have it to this day, 8+ years later, as a reminder to get the building blocks first and then specialize.
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