I've always liked saying this about or to the "Hardcore Gamers": Playing Halo doesn't make you a gamer any more than eating a taco makes you a Mexican.
Usually said to the Halo/Madden/CounterStrike/Final Fantasy people.
This is the reason I can no longer enter a buffet or buffet style restaurant. My parents would bring us into them and tell us to "eat your money's worth" when we were young. I forgive them. You watch balloons walk in and gorge themselves. What finally made me snap was a place called the "Golden Corral" down in Florida. A place that I was told was really good, but not given the name. When we arrived, the combination of bovine-like humans walking in the door and the restaurants name made me wretch. I refused to enter and opted to walk to a nearby bookstore for the hour or two that all my friends were 'dining' (they were not all of them overweight).
I work for a health care system. Every year they offer health screenings for free (cholesterol checks, height/weight...). Well, after the last one I found out that I was 5'8" and clocked in at 200lbs even. Which put me just over obese on paper according to our BMI system. The problem is that I've recently had my lean body mas checked (with the electrodes, not mass-displacement) and found that I'm 10.8% body fat. Probably a bit more as that now, as the check was just before the winter...
I was asked if I'd like a health coach. To help me with my eating or exercise habits. I hadn't found out that it was because of my high BMI until after I met with her (on company time). After explaining that I spend roughly 8 hours a week doing shaolin kung fu, and I bike a total of 14.2 miles to and from work almost every day, I was told that I am not getting enough caloric intake. Strange. But at the same time she was impressed that I looked absolutely nothing like her perception of a 5'8", 200lb man.
I have a small pouch of a stomach and that's about it. And most people don't notice it unless I'm showing off. Which I do from time to time ("feel it kick"). My point is that the BMI can be very flawed. Perhaps America is only fat on paper, but a quick look around tells me otherwise. I scanned my office and see at least60% overweight or obese, and about a sixth of them morbidly so. Every one of these is guilty of being on weight watchers, eating "Lean Pockets", and a few Jenny Craig lunches throughout the day. Yet not losing weight, but increasing their already powerful gravitational field.
America is fat because a lot of us get it all too easy, and if it's not easy, it's not American, apparently. "Just take 'Mataboslim' and sit on your fat ass and watch it melt away!", "Eat whatever you want! Our patented formula of goats.ex and monkey urine will melt those pounds off and prevent your body from holding on to any nutrition whatsoever!"
A little background on me is that I was 240 in high school, and about 38% fat. I lost 70lbs in college when I stopped drinking Pepsi and all other carbonated sugar water. It took two months. My dad thought I was anorexic, but the opposite was the truth. I ate everything I could. And kept it down. It was the extra 1000-1500g of sugar I was no longer consuming.
True they do have something out there for the more casual gamers. The problem is that the casual gamer isn't shown this material. I am a pretty avid gamer. I might see 2 hours of TV a week, save for the occasional baseball game. But online I am able to keep up with most of everything that happens in the gaming world.
The only way that I've heard about any XBLA games is by word of mouth. I haven't seen anything in a periodical showing off new XBLA games. Though there is great potential there, I don't think the MS is banking on their Arcade to push systems. I think it would. I think it would grab a portion of those moms who sit and play PopCap games on their computers all day. Perhaps pushing them over the edge and getting the system for junior.
If it weren't for a lack of free time for 'yet another game system', and cost, I would have a 360. (for the record, I'm very much looking forward to Too Human, Mass Effect, and even the new Turok)
Actually, that poses an interesting question. To me, at least. When does one go from FPS to platformer? Max Payne was clearly a FPS with some very interesting platform aspects like bullet time. But, what would you classify Tomb Raider? Platformer for all the jumping, climbing, and acrobatics? Or FPS for all the shooting? I don't personally play Tomb Raider, but I do wonder where the split is.
Then, your shields fail, so you have to get out of the cockpit (let Chewie drive), and go into FPS mode to go back and fix the engines
If there is anything that we learned from the original Star Wars trilogy, it's that this game you speak of would be completely about moving blocks. And we have enough puzzle games as it is, so stop giving Lucas Arts more ideas!
Seriously, though. Just go back and play Shadows of the Empire for the N64. It really was a VERY thorough game when it came to diversity of situations in the Star Wars universe.
I understand that angst about "hacker/cracker". One deals with computers, the other is a white guy. I kid, I kid...
The word 'marriage' has been around since the 12th century AD or so. It was developed within the Church, and has since then up until recently meant the union of a man and woman. It's only in the recent decades that people have tried to instill the word 'marriage' with ambiguity.
The idea of all sorts of partnerships, life arrangements and what have you has been around since a social stratum was built. You know, back in the day when a caveman would hit a cavewoman on the head with a club, and drag her away and keep her all to himself.
You're absolutely right. It was impossible to be scared of a game after Barry says, "Wait a minute.. This place is DANGerous!" with arms flailing. Another great moment was when he hands the girl the "Acid Rounds" for the bazooka, "I found a weapon that's REALLY POWERFUL." I'd have laughed into a comma if Barry started doing the pelvic thrust.
Canon has ment this since about 327AD when the Bible was canonized with all its current texts. Not sure what it would have meant before that, but it's also used in music and composition. There could be a connection there. Perhaps you're thinking of 'cannon'? Any other words have been used by the religious that were 'well-established'?
I really don't know. But even then I haven't seen a game that lets you snipe from a car trunk. I know Halo let's you sit on the Warthog and snipe from the passenger seat, but that hardly allows any tactical advantage. Sounds like he was taking Hide-n-Seek to a new level.. It is the last place I would look for a sniper.
The DC Sniper claimed he learned how to murder people by playing GTA, which is ridiculous. GTA isn't even a FPS.
Ridiculous? I find your conclusion just as or more so. Neither GTA nor a FPS (none that I'm aware of) really show how to hold, fire, care for, and maintain a firearm. But either can easily point out tactical and strategic positions for shooting from a distance.
It's actually pretty easy to get rid of the crossfading. 1. Grab some nice sound editing software (probably just steal it, you know, because you're a pirate). 2. Record tracks and split them up so that you catch the crossfades at both the beginning and end. 3. Once you have two versions of the same song, with different crossfades, use your new software to find and extract only the waves with "double strength". And subtract half of that from your actual songs until all you have is the add, or another song. 4. Now subtract what you have left from the track you want to keep. Voila. 5. ??? 6. Profit!
Okay, so nobody is going to spend this much time on recording smooth jazz, or any other music format, as it would be cheaper to just buy the CD's. That's besides the fact that the file is going to be a bad quality 24, 48, or 96kbs file anyways... I'm only saying that it can, in fact, be done. I've done similar work, not removing crossfades, but taking out background noises from recordings and the like.
Gradius 3 is one of my favorite shooters. I used to be able to beat it in no time taking only two or three hits throughout the whole game on hard mode (no code), but I doubt I could pull that off anymore. By the way, the best shield is Reduce. If they can't hit you, you don't need a better shield, right?
Now, if Sony does win the case, then, perhaps it'll make them look less like evil. But they knew damn well what they were doing with the rootkits, even if they didn't call them rootkits. What will really be funny is if/when Sony loses this case and Media Max comes back and sues them for defamation of character. IANAL so I don't know if MM could do that.
You may sneer at Wii Fit, but that (a typically lame attempt at reaching out to the luddites) is a step toward figuring out what non-"gamers" want in a game.
Sneer? No. Quite the opposite. With all the DDR's, Wii Sports, Wii Play, and perhaps to some extent Guitar Hero all helping people to start sweating a bit, I think the market is more than ready for 'Exercise Games'. We should see some clones coming out pretty soon.
Ultimately I'd prefer seeing families actually playing tennis (you don't have to be good to play), or doing some yoga, but I'm still quite happy with the idea that Ma, Pa, Jr. and Suzie can sit down in front of the TV (or stand), get their heart rate up, and have good clean fun. Another plus is they're probably not so worried about injuries.
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Playing Halo doesn't make you a gamer any more than eating a taco makes you a Mexican.
Usually said to the Halo/Madden/CounterStrike/Final Fantasy people.
So does that mean that their either coated in ice or being dug up by MN/Dot?
This is the reason I can no longer enter a buffet or buffet style restaurant. My parents would bring us into them and tell us to "eat your money's worth" when we were young. I forgive them. You watch balloons walk in and gorge themselves. What finally made me snap was a place called the "Golden Corral" down in Florida. A place that I was told was really good, but not given the name. When we arrived, the combination of bovine-like humans walking in the door and the restaurants name made me wretch. I refused to enter and opted to walk to a nearby bookstore for the hour or two that all my friends were 'dining' (they were not all of them overweight).
I was asked if I'd like a health coach. To help me with my eating or exercise habits. I hadn't found out that it was because of my high BMI until after I met with her (on company time). After explaining that I spend roughly 8 hours a week doing shaolin kung fu, and I bike a total of 14.2 miles to and from work almost every day, I was told that I am not getting enough caloric intake. Strange. But at the same time she was impressed that I looked absolutely nothing like her perception of a 5'8", 200lb man.
I have a small pouch of a stomach and that's about it. And most people don't notice it unless I'm showing off. Which I do from time to time ("feel it kick"). My point is that the BMI can be very flawed. Perhaps America is only fat on paper, but a quick look around tells me otherwise. I scanned my office and see at least60% overweight or obese, and about a sixth of them morbidly so. Every one of these is guilty of being on weight watchers, eating "Lean Pockets", and a few Jenny Craig lunches throughout the day. Yet not losing weight, but increasing their already powerful gravitational field.
America is fat because a lot of us get it all too easy, and if it's not easy, it's not American, apparently. "Just take 'Mataboslim' and sit on your fat ass and watch it melt away!", "Eat whatever you want! Our patented formula of goats.ex and monkey urine will melt those pounds off and prevent your body from holding on to any nutrition whatsoever!"
A little background on me is that I was 240 in high school, and about 38% fat. I lost 70lbs in college when I stopped drinking Pepsi and all other carbonated sugar water. It took two months. My dad thought I was anorexic, but the opposite was the truth. I ate everything I could. And kept it down. It was the extra 1000-1500g of sugar I was no longer consuming.
Mike as the CO: I understand you're stuffed with cheese.
Best abdominal workout I'd had in months.
The only way that I've heard about any XBLA games is by word of mouth. I haven't seen anything in a periodical showing off new XBLA games. Though there is great potential there, I don't think the MS is banking on their Arcade to push systems. I think it would. I think it would grab a portion of those moms who sit and play PopCap games on their computers all day. Perhaps pushing them over the edge and getting the system for junior.
If it weren't for a lack of free time for 'yet another game system', and cost, I would have a 360. (for the record, I'm very much looking forward to Too Human, Mass Effect, and even the new Turok)
Operator: I'm sorry. Thing fingers you are dialing with are too fat. To obtain a special 'dialing wand', please mash the keyboard now.
(if that is the content of the link, I'm behind a Websense filter at work)
Actually, that poses an interesting question. To me, at least. When does one go from FPS to platformer? Max Payne was clearly a FPS with some very interesting platform aspects like bullet time. But, what would you classify Tomb Raider? Platformer for all the jumping, climbing, and acrobatics? Or FPS for all the shooting? I don't personally play Tomb Raider, but I do wonder where the split is.
If there is anything that we learned from the original Star Wars trilogy, it's that this game you speak of would be completely about moving blocks. And we have enough puzzle games as it is, so stop giving Lucas Arts more ideas!
Seriously, though. Just go back and play Shadows of the Empire for the N64. It really was a VERY thorough game when it came to diversity of situations in the Star Wars universe.
The word 'marriage' has been around since the 12th century AD or so. It was developed within the Church, and has since then up until recently meant the union of a man and woman. It's only in the recent decades that people have tried to instill the word 'marriage' with ambiguity.
The idea of all sorts of partnerships, life arrangements and what have you has been around since a social stratum was built. You know, back in the day when a caveman would hit a cavewoman on the head with a club, and drag her away and keep her all to himself.
You're absolutely right. It was impossible to be scared of a game after Barry says, "Wait a minute.. This place is DANGerous!" with arms flailing. Another great moment was when he hands the girl the "Acid Rounds" for the bazooka, "I found a weapon that's REALLY POWERFUL." I'd have laughed into a comma if Barry started doing the pelvic thrust.
Canon has ment this since about 327AD when the Bible was canonized with all its current texts. Not sure what it would have meant before that, but it's also used in music and composition. There could be a connection there. Perhaps you're thinking of 'cannon'? Any other words have been used by the religious that were 'well-established'?
I really don't know. But even then I haven't seen a game that lets you snipe from a car trunk. I know Halo let's you sit on the Warthog and snipe from the passenger seat, but that hardly allows any tactical advantage. Sounds like he was taking Hide-n-Seek to a new level.. It is the last place I would look for a sniper.
The very essence of "Built By the Lowest Bidder" combined with Zulu efficiency.
Ridiculous? I find your conclusion just as or more so. Neither GTA nor a FPS (none that I'm aware of) really show how to hold, fire, care for, and maintain a firearm. But either can easily point out tactical and strategic positions for shooting from a distance.
I don't need a reason to degauss. I degauss because I can. And no one can stop me. Wait a sec- this is an LCD..
It's actually pretty easy to get rid of the crossfading.
1. Grab some nice sound editing software (probably just steal it, you know, because you're a pirate).
2. Record tracks and split them up so that you catch the crossfades at both the beginning and end.
3. Once you have two versions of the same song, with different crossfades, use your new software to find and extract only the waves with "double strength". And subtract half of that from your actual songs until all you have is the add, or another song.
4. Now subtract what you have left from the track you want to keep. Voila.
5. ???
6. Profit!
Okay, so nobody is going to spend this much time on recording smooth jazz, or any other music format, as it would be cheaper to just buy the CD's. That's besides the fact that the file is going to be a bad quality 24, 48, or 96kbs file anyways... I'm only saying that it can, in fact, be done. I've done similar work, not removing crossfades, but taking out background noises from recordings and the like.
Both KotORs had bad frame rates on the XBox anyway. Shouldn't be anything new.
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In game: Pause, Up, Up, Down, Down, L, R, L, R, select, unpause.
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Enjoy.
Gradius 3 is one of my favorite shooters. I used to be able to beat it in no time taking only two or three hits throughout the whole game on hard mode (no code), but I doubt I could pull that off anymore. By the way, the best shield is Reduce. If they can't hit you, you don't need a better shield, right?
Now, if Sony does win the case, then, perhaps it'll make them look less like evil. But they knew damn well what they were doing with the rootkits, even if they didn't call them rootkits. What will really be funny is if/when Sony loses this case and Media Max comes back and sues them for defamation of character. IANAL so I don't know if MM could do that.
Right... Que the "you must be new here" brigade.
Sneer? No. Quite the opposite. With all the DDR's, Wii Sports, Wii Play, and perhaps to some extent Guitar Hero all helping people to start sweating a bit, I think the market is more than ready for 'Exercise Games'. We should see some clones coming out pretty soon.
Ultimately I'd prefer seeing families actually playing tennis (you don't have to be good to play), or doing some yoga, but I'm still quite happy with the idea that Ma, Pa, Jr. and Suzie can sit down in front of the TV (or stand), get their heart rate up, and have good clean fun. Another plus is they're probably not so worried about injuries.
That's pretty much what I understand as well.
That could be quite awkward when doing the drunken dial and Grandma picks up the phone...