Well, Max Payne was funny, and I don't remember it being particularly repetitive. Seems to me, what video game designers need to do is focus more on the storytelling and less on animating individual strands of hair.
Counteroffer: Show me a website, any website, that archives the airing information of their syndicated programming 2-6 months after the fact and I'll look it up for you. I didn't snap a photo or anything, I said, "huh. Haven't seen this one in a few years," and did my best to enjoy it.
Just because you think the entire country is still psycho-obsessed with 9/11 doesn't make it so.
Those essays are almost a decade old. Things change. Lines like this one:
"Fact: Women love long hair! It's an instant chick magnet. It's better than walking puppies in the park! Wash it and wear it down. Toss it around on your shoulders a lot. When my guy does this, women will just walk up and start touching his hair! Wouldn't you like this to happen to you?"...sound a little ridiculous nowadays, at least to me. Just...be careful, is all. The advice in those essays isn't entirely trustworthy.
You can't play with your music, you can't introduce new elements (or your character) to a movie...
I'm sorry, but that's pretty narrow-minded - if you think music always sounds the same and that therefore you have no reason to listen to it more than once, you either have truly horrific taste in music or you don't pay much attention to it. I've listened to some albums hundreds of times and I keep hearing new things, making new connections, realizing new influences and learning from them. Video games might be more expansive, but they are ultimately finite in scope - a good album breathes and grows depending on the other stuff you listen to, on what you bring to the table. Video games are like stale bubblegum from a supermarket vending machine in comparison.
I could take an axe to my game systems tomorrow and not shed a tear, but the thought of living without music scares the piss outta me.
Pornography and sex are related, and while porn is sexual in nature, sex is not in its nature pornographic.. Unless sex is illegal in India, Microsoft's stance on this is jaw-clenchingly idiotic.
Just add unique bumps/shapes to the edges of the triangles, and you don't have to look while texting either. It would be quite a bit better than rectangular buttons...
On-screen keyboards.
It's right there in the article title.
I'm usually the first person on the "closed SW sucks, screw the man" bandwagon, especially when it comes to the TV networks and media distribution / DRM, but I gotta steer clear of the/. party line on this one.
Hulu is actually pretty awesome - it streams shows on-demand with non-obtrusive ads, ads that are actually much better than the ads on OTA TV these days in that they're a bit (I hate this word, but) edgier and, more importantly, far less repetitive. You can vote on ads you don't like. The content available is from a diverse range of sources from the big 4 US networks and their subsidiaries and affiliates to subtitled (not dubbed) contemporary anime from Funimation and the like. It fixes MOST of the problems I have with traditional TV distribution, and it's legal.
So it requires Flash. BFD. It's a shame, but I understand why - Hulu needs room to breathe and focusing on the linux population when everybody else has Flash isn't good business.
As a corollary: my girlfriend runs Ubuntu 95% of the time but still boots into Windows to play WoW. It's a 30 second inconvenience for her, but it's an acceptable one balanced with what she gets out of it. Dem's tha breaks. It doesn't keep her up at night, and Hulu's content control won't keep me up at night, either, because it is much, MUCH better than paying Comcast an uncomfortably large amount of month for the more annoying alternative.
I once saw a black man complain about being called "African-American"; he was a citizen of the UK whose family had immigrated from Jamaica or Haiti or something. He has no objection to being called "black", but considers himself neither African nor American, and finds that label offensive.
The most wide-spread version of this story that I'm familiar with relates to Kriss Akabusi in 1991.
I've followed both shows, Dollhouse and Terminator, from the beginning, and as much as I adore Joss Whedon and what he does with storytelling, if I had to choose which one to kill and which one to give another season to, I would put a bullet in Dollhouse without so much as a second thought. Dollhouse is unwatchably bad, well-written but acted like it's a series of outtakes from a play put on at a methadone clinic, and Eliza Dushku cannot, is absolutely incapable of, pretending that she's smart. She's a slow-motion train wreck. Terminator on the other hand was gripping and complex and at-times a bit overwrought, but it still managed to suck you in.
And, okay, I would pay to watch Summer Glau eat french toast. But even leaving that aside, I'm really going to miss Terminator. Dollhouse, I'm just waiting to die - just because Firefly was amazing and not given a chance to live doesn't mean that FOX isn't making a mistake here.
What made this monument a monument was that it was a natural curiosity. Remaking it cheapens it.
Remaking it brings in tourist revenue for a site that was so much a part of the area's character that its profile is on thousands of road signs. NH is a small and curious state; losing the mountain man was akin to filling in the Grand Canyon with a backhoe. Not eulogizing it somehow is unthinkable.
There is not really any severe penalty to lie in front of congress.
The penalty for perjury is 5 years in jail per offense. That sounds pretty severe to me. Whether that penalty is handed down or not is a different question.
I have RSS feeds to show me very types of breaking or important news, and while I may search for WoW info a lot each week, I never ever want to see some news story on WoW when I'm searching for someone else.
See, I get sick of my rss feeds because, after a while, it becomes a whole lot of more-of-the-same - RSS gets me information I know I'm going to want like new episodes of shows uploaded to Hulu or updated web comics or, like you, WoW news, but reading the paper (the old way: bought from a newsstand on my way home from work at night) teaches me about things I didn't know I was interested in until I saw it in print. My feeds are reliable and informative and good for keeping me current, but the paper is much for effective for me at getting me outside the daily grind into the new and noteworthy.
You realize that the same sorts of campaigns have been running in major US cities for years, right?
New York's got "If you see something, say something" posters plastered all over its subway cars and buses. A similar campaign exists in Boston, and in New Jersey Transit stations, and (I'm guessing here) in airports country-wide.
England is bad for that stuff, sure, and lousy with CCTV and misinformed police, and and and. But really, it isn't the fact of the thing that gets to me as much as how preposterously heavy-handed their attempts at selling the populace on it are.
Nothing like playing through 20 hours of a game just to discover you forgot to pick up the stick on the beach within the first 5 minutes of the game, and then having to restart the whole thing.
At least this happened in a geographically fortuitous area when it comes to repairing the damage. I hear San Francisco has some of the most experienced pipe specialists in the country
Wait. Was that some sort of gay joke, or some sort of stoner joke? Or I guess some sort of gay stoner joke.
Think logically. The solution isn't to quit throwing out the criminals. The solution is to delete the technicality that creates such heartbreaking situations in the first place: birth citizenship.
I really hope that there's sarcasm in that statement and that it's going over my head - what criteria would you like to place on individuals to call them US citizens if being born within the geographical borders of the country no longer applies? Because if that's true, it isn't who I am that makes me an American, but some nebulous and shifting qualification that I don't want to even think about having to prove someday.
How much you want to bet that said "transformation" is going to include a name change under the hope (hopefully misguided, but you never know) that a fresh DBA will give them something akin to a clean slate now that the tides of public perception have turned against them a bit.
It didn't work for Diebold (or whatever the hell they're called now. See? Fail.) and it probably won't work here, but it doesn't mean they won't try.
Association for the Ethical Treatment of Harmonists, Entertainers and Recordings has a nice, scarily plausible ring to it.
Why is it so important for this person to advertise, in a gaming context, that they are gay / lesbian? What does that that have to do with anything? These people give every other gay man or woman a bad name. Homosexuality makes some people uncomfortable and if there's no really good reason, why persist? There is no good reason what so ever to make it a point to let people know who you like to have sex with on XBox Live. BTW. I'm gay so don't go calling me a homophobe.
I don't know how much time you spend in online gaming circles, but there's a undercurrent of low-level homophobia in pretty much all of them, from the offhand "that's gay" to the more obnoxious "STFU FAG." It's everywhere in social groups populated by teenage American boys compounded by the safety of the network's lack of real-world consequences. It doesn't surprise me that some people with less of a bigoted world view confront the assumption that anti-gay speech is acceptable with a "I'm gay. What's your problem" -type punch to the chest.
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Well, Max Payne was funny, and I don't remember it being particularly repetitive. Seems to me, what video game designers need to do is focus more on the storytelling and less on animating individual strands of hair.
Counteroffer: Show me a website, any website, that archives the airing information of their syndicated programming 2-6 months after the fact and I'll look it up for you. I didn't snap a photo or anything, I said, "huh. Haven't seen this one in a few years," and did my best to enjoy it.
Just because you think the entire country is still psycho-obsessed with 9/11 doesn't make it so.
Buried? I saw it on TV, real OTA TV, a month or two ago.
Those essays are almost a decade old. Things change. Lines like this one:
"Fact: Women love long hair! It's an instant chick magnet. It's better than walking puppies in the park! Wash it and wear it down. Toss it around on your shoulders a lot. When my guy does this, women will just walk up and start touching his hair! Wouldn't you like this to happen to you?" ...sound a little ridiculous nowadays, at least to me. Just...be careful, is all. The advice in those essays isn't entirely trustworthy.
'I invoke the ghost of Lilly Tomlin: "We don't care, we don't have to. We're the phone company."'
It's Lily, not Lilly, and she's very much alive. Still funny, too.
You can't play with your music, you can't introduce new elements (or your character) to a movie...
I'm sorry, but that's pretty narrow-minded - if you think music always sounds the same and that therefore you have no reason to listen to it more than once, you either have truly horrific taste in music or you don't pay much attention to it. I've listened to some albums hundreds of times and I keep hearing new things, making new connections, realizing new influences and learning from them. Video games might be more expansive, but they are ultimately finite in scope - a good album breathes and grows depending on the other stuff you listen to, on what you bring to the table. Video games are like stale bubblegum from a supermarket vending machine in comparison.
I could take an axe to my game systems tomorrow and not shed a tear, but the thought of living without music scares the piss outta me.
Pornography and sex are related, and while porn is sexual in nature, sex is not in its nature pornographic.. Unless sex is illegal in India, Microsoft's stance on this is jaw-clenchingly idiotic.
On-screen keyboards. It's right there in the article title.
Ha.
Groove + Google = Grovel.
I'm usually the first person on the "closed SW sucks, screw the man" bandwagon, especially when it comes to the TV networks and media distribution / DRM, but I gotta steer clear of the /. party line on this one.
Hulu is actually pretty awesome - it streams shows on-demand with non-obtrusive ads, ads that are actually much better than the ads on OTA TV these days in that they're a bit (I hate this word, but) edgier and, more importantly, far less repetitive. You can vote on ads you don't like. The content available is from a diverse range of sources from the big 4 US networks and their subsidiaries and affiliates to subtitled (not dubbed) contemporary anime from Funimation and the like. It fixes MOST of the problems I have with traditional TV distribution, and it's legal.
So it requires Flash. BFD. It's a shame, but I understand why - Hulu needs room to breathe and focusing on the linux population when everybody else has Flash isn't good business.
As a corollary: my girlfriend runs Ubuntu 95% of the time but still boots into Windows to play WoW. It's a 30 second inconvenience for her, but it's an acceptable one balanced with what she gets out of it. Dem's tha breaks. It doesn't keep her up at night, and Hulu's content control won't keep me up at night, either, because it is much, MUCH better than paying Comcast an uncomfortably large amount of month for the more annoying alternative.
I once saw a black man complain about being called "African-American"; he was a citizen of the UK whose family had immigrated from Jamaica or Haiti or something. He has no objection to being called "black", but considers himself neither African nor American, and finds that label offensive.
The most wide-spread version of this story that I'm familiar with relates to Kriss Akabusi in 1991.
I could legitimately see this as being the beginning of the end for the RIAA, and I've never thought that before.
iuniverse didn't put Simon and Schuster out of business; I don't see this service being much of a ding on the RIAA's radar.
I've followed both shows, Dollhouse and Terminator, from the beginning, and as much as I adore Joss Whedon and what he does with storytelling, if I had to choose which one to kill and which one to give another season to, I would put a bullet in Dollhouse without so much as a second thought. Dollhouse is unwatchably bad, well-written but acted like it's a series of outtakes from a play put on at a methadone clinic, and Eliza Dushku cannot, is absolutely incapable of, pretending that she's smart. She's a slow-motion train wreck. Terminator on the other hand was gripping and complex and at-times a bit overwrought, but it still managed to suck you in.
And, okay, I would pay to watch Summer Glau eat french toast. But even leaving that aside, I'm really going to miss Terminator. Dollhouse, I'm just waiting to die - just because Firefly was amazing and not given a chance to live doesn't mean that FOX isn't making a mistake here.
What made this monument a monument was that it was a natural curiosity. Remaking it cheapens it.
Remaking it brings in tourist revenue for a site that was so much a part of the area's character that its profile is on thousands of road signs. NH is a small and curious state; losing the mountain man was akin to filling in the Grand Canyon with a backhoe. Not eulogizing it somehow is unthinkable.
There is not really any severe penalty to lie in front of congress.
The penalty for perjury is 5 years in jail per offense. That sounds pretty severe to me. Whether that penalty is handed down or not is a different question.
I have RSS feeds to show me very types of breaking or important news, and while I may search for WoW info a lot each week, I never ever want to see some news story on WoW when I'm searching for someone else.
See, I get sick of my rss feeds because, after a while, it becomes a whole lot of more-of-the-same - RSS gets me information I know I'm going to want like new episodes of shows uploaded to Hulu or updated web comics or, like you, WoW news, but reading the paper (the old way: bought from a newsstand on my way home from work at night) teaches me about things I didn't know I was interested in until I saw it in print. My feeds are reliable and informative and good for keeping me current, but the paper is much for effective for me at getting me outside the daily grind into the new and noteworthy.
You realize that the same sorts of campaigns have been running in major US cities for years, right?
New York's got "If you see something, say something" posters plastered all over its subway cars and buses. A similar campaign exists in Boston, and in New Jersey Transit stations, and (I'm guessing here) in airports country-wide.
England is bad for that stuff, sure, and lousy with CCTV and misinformed police, and and and. But really, it isn't the fact of the thing that gets to me as much as how preposterously heavy-handed their attempts at selling the populace on it are.
Nothing like playing through 20 hours of a game just to discover you forgot to pick up the stick on the beach within the first 5 minutes of the game, and then having to restart the whole thing.
It wasn't a stick, it was a pie.
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haha. AWESOME. Made my night.
At least this happened in a geographically fortuitous area when it comes to repairing the damage. I hear San Francisco has some of the most experienced pipe specialists in the country
Wait. Was that some sort of gay joke, or some sort of stoner joke? Or I guess some sort of gay stoner joke.
Whoa. That hippie's starting to kick in.
I really hope that there's sarcasm in that statement and that it's going over my head - what criteria would you like to place on individuals to call them US citizens if being born within the geographical borders of the country no longer applies? Because if that's true, it isn't who I am that makes me an American, but some nebulous and shifting qualification that I don't want to even think about having to prove someday.
I mean, did we bail on Dr. Who because it was not Star Wars?
Absolutely not, considering Doctor Who predates Star Wars by over a decade. Star Wars was not the beginning of all things science fiction.
New York just lost it's biggest rock station, which switched to be yet another top-40 "pop" broadcaster.
Move to Boston. It's what all the cool kids are doing.
How much you want to bet that said "transformation" is going to include a name change under the hope (hopefully misguided, but you never know) that a fresh DBA will give them something akin to a clean slate now that the tides of public perception have turned against them a bit.
It didn't work for Diebold (or whatever the hell they're called now. See? Fail.) and it probably won't work here, but it doesn't mean they won't try.
Association for the Ethical Treatment of Harmonists, Entertainers and Recordings has a nice, scarily plausible ring to it.
Why is it so important for this person to advertise, in a gaming context, that they are gay / lesbian? What does that that have to do with anything? These people give every other gay man or woman a bad name. Homosexuality makes some people uncomfortable and if there's no really good reason, why persist? There is no good reason what so ever to make it a point to let people know who you like to have sex with on XBox Live. BTW. I'm gay so don't go calling me a homophobe.
I don't know how much time you spend in online gaming circles, but there's a undercurrent of low-level homophobia in pretty much all of them, from the offhand "that's gay" to the more obnoxious "STFU FAG." It's everywhere in social groups populated by teenage American boys compounded by the safety of the network's lack of real-world consequences. It doesn't surprise me that some people with less of a bigoted world view confront the assumption that anti-gay speech is acceptable with a "I'm gay. What's your problem" -type punch to the chest.