Try entering half the hyphens. You'll start with the: Ice Beam, Veria, Short Beam, and I think the suit is on... not sure as it's been a long time.
I remember the Justin Bailey code very well. My brother and I were at a beach with our grandparents and some kid told us about it in the parking lot. All weekend we could talk about nothing else. Funny, you'd start with 255 missles, but if you picked up an upgrade, it would drop to some other number (don't know, 100?).
Usually the screens are scratched to high hell (I can't imagine what people are DOING with the stylus)
I allowed my nieghbor's kid to play with my DS a few months after I got it. I knew by then that the screen was pretty durable, so I wasn't concerned if she was a bit rough. But this kid didn't know what "tapping the screen" ment. This kid maliciously stabbed my screen... as if it were her arch-enemy. She dragged the stylus across the screen like she had to cut a trench in it to get things to move (I think I had her playing Feel the Magic XX/XY). I gave her a few gentle reminders to be gental. I told her that the weight of the pen was enough for it to be recognized. She didn't let up. I took it away and held the power button saying, "Oh, sorry the batteries are dead." She never saw it again.
I imagine many a DS suffers this fate when the owner is young or away. Especially when in the stores. A lot of people know how to treat electronics, and a lot of people don't. This is why a few months after the 360's displays were out the tops of the control sticks were already missing.
Clearly, when you're shipping [cool power supplies, fun games] the year before the launch of a new platform, to expect [cool power supply makers, fun games makers] to then immediately move on to a brand-new architecture and bring out a third iteration of [cool power supplies, fun games] worthy of being one of the greatest [cool power supplies, fun games] in videogame history, it's unreasonable.
Have you even been around the game scene for the last 20 years? Nintendo has always done its own thing. They typically release their systems for the thanksgiving rush window. They're rarely guilty of seeing what the other guys will do before moving. They know their market.
The only real problem any of their systems had was the original NES's reader was too thin and the teeth wouldn't read older carts. Almost everybody experienced this. I suppose you could consider the N64's puny 4MB of vid RAM a flaw too... I know of a couple software gliches in Metriod Prime and Prime 2, but that's not really hardware. That and those gliches were rare. So rare that very few people know about them.
I experienced both. In MP if the game hadn't had proper pre-load time it would occasionally freeze in the elevator scenes (moving between areas). I never experienced that problem in MP2. The glich I experienced in Echoes really sucked because it would render the game unfinishable.
You have discovered COMMUNISM. Do you wish to convert your government now? -Yes, let the revolution begin... -No... I want things to stay the way they are.
3^3 cube would be rudundent... in this case, or it would really mean 3^3^3, which would really be 3^9. But don't cube that again, it starts getting messy.
I would wager that most people would understand that a rubiks cube is 3x3x3, as that is the 'normal' size.
I haven't heard too much about these "particles", so correct me if I'm thinking a little too wild. But if there is something that can 'push' all other particles toward a mass-centre, then a kind of particle or energy couldn't explain it. Mostly becasuse there is no way it could work.
First, matter conservation. Yes, I know about entropy, but these particles would have to exist somewhere and, like parent post said, would change the gravity of whatever they were pushing toward. Second, Newton wouldn't allow it. According to Newton the earth pulls on us just as much as we pull on it. I figure it's just some other kind of field like magentics... or God just messing with us.
This is all too much now... it just seems to me that every time science can't figure something out they just give it a name and it makes it all better. Dark matter, dark energy, gravitrons. I've been able to sleep without fully understanding gravity, I should hope you could too. As long as I understand it well enough to keep my blanket on me (with a little friction), and a roof over my head, I feel fine.
They're probably going to power it with the old emotion engine from the PS2... wait.. I mean the old Cell proc. from the PS3, yeah. I hear that's supposed to win some sort of counsil war? You know, the one where everybody has an eyepatch?
Wow! I remember in 7th grade (1993-1994) I would sit in study hall and argue that the SNES and Mario were superior to Sonic and the Genises. This was a daily event. The arguements were as such:
For SNES are my arguements: Six buttons. Better graphics and sound. Better response from controllers. Light BAZOOKA!!! Mario can spit fire, grow, turn into animals (raccoon, frog, hammer bro), and occationally fly (rocking with the P-Wings). Against Genesis: Standard controller has three puny buttons. No light gun. Sonic can only jump. Sure, he's fast, but he can only jump. Two buttons are completely wasted. Sure, tails could fly, but he was kind of a pansy...
Bob's arguements for Genesis: Only NEEDS three buttons, but if you really need the others you can get them. Better graphics (he claimed, despite specs and the fact that they just plain weren't better). It's black. Sonic was better (no actual reasons, some were phylosophical... for a 7th grader). Arguements against SNES: Mario sucks. It has purple on the machine.
When Bob wasn't around I'd do homework and watch one of the girls sniff non-toxic Elmer's Glue off her hands. She never made it to high school.
Agreed. Let's consider though, that thier two (arguably) most successfull machines were juggernauts of power for their times. The NES and SNES were superior to almost everything you could get at the time. Of course, this was also back in a time where you NEEDED to have that power. Back then better presentation and the ability to have some sort of AI was necessary and you didn't have a lot to work with. And I don't think the SNES would have lived as long as it did without its Mode 7 graphics... let alone the FX chip. (original Star Fox, how I love thee, let me count the ways...)
They actualy started putting the FX chip into carts that didn't even use much in the way of polygons, just for the extra process power. And since it was cheap and small, they could afford it. Besides the few 3D games that had it, I know they stuck one in Yoshi's Story and a few other games. Genius.
FFT PS1 was/is great. Massive customization, epic battles. That's what I need.
FFT GBA was/is less than great. It's a good tactics game all around, but it doesn't come close to the PS1 version. There's tons of battles and items, but there is almost no customization. The five races can each have a 5-9 classes and there are abilities that they all share in one way or another. For instance, every race has a few classes that can stun/confuse/muddle/disable. Leveling is almost pre-set, but you can get faqs for that stuff on gamefaqs (didn't link because I'm at work, blocked).
My realy big problem with the game, however, is that it is painfully slow. As in every move takes 15-25 seconds and some one is using that time to vigorously rub steel wool filled with silicate sand on a fresh wound. I'm serious. I bought the game and almost threw it across the room during the into match.
The turn speed can be fixed, though. You can turn off the "Judge Point" alocation, as well as exp. allocation. You don't always get JP's, but stopping the exp from popping up every time pulls a good 2sec off each char's turn (JP is another 2 if they would get one). I think there is a few more things you can do to speed it up like the message speeds. But at top speed you're still looking at 8-12sec per char's turn. The enemy AI is worse as it will take 1-3sec deciding what to do.
Then there's those "Judge Points". There's laws in the game that start off annoying, but get downright pissy. You get JP for doing what is good that day and sent to jail for doing what's illegal (often polar opposites, fire bad vs. ice good). If you just lost some JP for doing bad, it would be much more tolerable, but when you do something like accidentally stunning an opp. with a weapon side-effect and your main gets sent to jail (and you lose the game/progress in that battle) it really grates on you.
Those JP's can be used to do the combos on enemies. They've never been useful to me as any time it's more than a two on one gang-up I'm likely to be spread out so the baddie can't get them all with an area effect. I think I've seen one combo.
As you can tell, the time in a game is a big factor for me. The graphics don't even matter as long as it's easy to recognize what's going on. This is why I love Fire Embelem, you can turn off all the animations and a battle goes from 1-1.5 hours to about 15-20 minutes. Don't get me wrong, the graphics are great to look at, but after seeing them a few times I lose interest and I just want to play the game. This is why I can't even play most RPG's these days. Battles take far too much time (FFVIII-FFX2,Skies of Arcadia). Any time I can shorten the battles, I do.
Get yourself a DS or GBA. Advance wars, any of them, are amazing. Fire Embelem is also worth every penny. You'll put 30-50 hours into it and in the end feel it's too short. There's also a Fire Embelem on the Gamecube, but that's a different system and more money. Stay way from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, it's so slow that you'll be too frusterated to play... even after you turn off all the exp. animations and the like. The DS is getting a vesion of Age of Empires.
Other than that, a PS1 will serve up Tactics Ogre. FF Tactics (the original) which is an amazing piece of work still. I have no idea if there's a descent strategy game out for the PS2 yet.
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Good call. A great example of this would be the Neo Geo vs. Neo Geo CD. Same EXACT system except for media. The original Neo Geo carts are about as large as your average chemestry textbook. And not much lighter. They were also expensive as hell when they came out. Some games would cost 200 bucks or more. So Neo Geo produced a CD version. Great idea because everything is much much cheaper. The problem is that it only had a 1-2x drive. Sure, the games were never over 80MB, but that's still a slow read. Some of those fighting games had load times of well over two minutes between matches.
I guess what I'm saying is tech is great as long as it makes sense. This drive better read damn fast or I'll be pissed. I'll be first in line if it's price is 500 or less, but I'm allowed to complain about some things.
Okay, normaly I wouldn't be worried about the prices of new tech dropping. But even if we've got six months for this thing to hit market, this could be kinda scary.
Think about it. Even if Pioneer is just price gouging for the fun of it, 1800 is one hell of a gouge. I imagine that the controllers and most of the hardware is the same as a standard DVD player (well, more precise, perhaps). But a new kind of lens and obviously a way to produce a "blu-ray" to read with could be pretty pricey right now.
On the other hand, if Pioneer is making oh, $300 bucks on each, that's still a 1500 buck drive. Prices are not likely to drop much more than 30-40%, and Sony isn't likely to lose 500 bucks on the drive alone. Let's face it. Sony may have deep pockets, but even MS isn't stupid enough to gamble like that.
The way I see it, Pioneer better be super-gouging that price. (maybe it writes, I didn't catch anything about that). Sony and MS have both had major drive problems with exhisting tech, so this looks bad for the consumer. Real bad. And I've been drooling over the idea of a PS3 for a long time now.
You totally forgot time for the commute. You should probably subtract that from sleeping. I'm assuming that if you work 8 hours a day that you might have a 'real' job.
'Real' can be a relative term. You can decide what it's relative to.
I've got mod points and all I see is a bloody war between MS fanboys and people who are genuinely reading the posts and understanding there meanings. I'm of the latter dispostion, but I'm not using them because the problems seem to get fixed as fast as I can check what they've been modded. That, and I'm not too concerned about it seeing the redundency of the grandparent post in the rest of the posts.
Umm... The PS2 was just as, if not more problematic as the Xbox or the 360. The PS1 wasn't that great either, they went through three different models of the original form, before going with the smaller PSOne. I'm not a fanboy either way (well, I've always trusted Nintendo, never had the money for the Virtual Boy, glad in retrospect).
I plan on buying the PS3 the day it comes out. I want to be a guinnea pig just like the rest of us. I didn't get the original PlayStation untill my brother gave me one on the PS2 release day. I don't even own a PS2. I want the PS3.
I NEED RPGs. Nintendo isn't delivering. I don't know how the Rev will do with providing them. I don't care, I'm buying that too. Soooo many PS2 games... So little time, but I don't want to get a PS2 now, not with it's bigger stronger brother on the way.
Hmm.. If my girlfriend is around long enough for the PS3 or Rev release... that will likely be the end of it.
Good call. A while back (a year or two after 9/11) there was a big call for new security in all the airports. I'd been working security at the time and figured a government contract would be better than what I was doing.
I went to apply and ended up testing in. The tests had you looking at a bunch of items and trying to memorize what they looked like. Knives, guns, explosives, and various junk. Then you would look at scans of bags and try to ID not only if there was an object from the list, but what object it was. There was tons of stuff you had to look through, too. Clothes, shoes, everything that people take with them. I did very well on all the tests except for the guns. I don't know jack about guns, so, even if I saw one, I couldn't ID which one it was, and I couldn't find any of them...
Didn't get the job... just thought I'd throw that in there so my fellow/.ers would feel all the more safer.
How do you organize a 40 person raid on an imaginary dungeon?
They're called "Protests."
Just find a bunch of people who don't agree with a different bunch of people that have their own building. Sure, no swords, but that's all we're going to get in a day and age where we can't log out to avoid the consequences...
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The sony rootkit was all over the news for about a week after we started hearing about it on /., thanks.
I remember the Justin Bailey code very well. My brother and I were at a beach with our grandparents and some kid told us about it in the parking lot. All weekend we could talk about nothing else. Funny, you'd start with 255 missles, but if you picked up an upgrade, it would drop to some other number (don't know, 100?).
icarus fights
medusa angels
Last level, all upgrades. Have fun!
I allowed my nieghbor's kid to play with my DS a few months after I got it. I knew by then that the screen was pretty durable, so I wasn't concerned if she was a bit rough. But this kid didn't know what "tapping the screen" ment. This kid maliciously stabbed my screen... as if it were her arch-enemy. She dragged the stylus across the screen like she had to cut a trench in it to get things to move (I think I had her playing Feel the Magic XX/XY). I gave her a few gentle reminders to be gental. I told her that the weight of the pen was enough for it to be recognized. She didn't let up. I took it away and held the power button saying, "Oh, sorry the batteries are dead." She never saw it again.
I imagine many a DS suffers this fate when the owner is young or away. Especially when in the stores. A lot of people know how to treat electronics, and a lot of people don't. This is why a few months after the 360's displays were out the tops of the control sticks were already missing.
Clearly, when you're shipping [cool power supplies, fun games] the year before the launch of a new platform, to expect [cool power supply makers, fun games makers] to then immediately move on to a brand-new architecture and bring out a third iteration of [cool power supplies, fun games] worthy of being one of the greatest [cool power supplies, fun games] in videogame history, it's unreasonable.
The only real problem any of their systems had was the original NES's reader was too thin and the teeth wouldn't read older carts. Almost everybody experienced this. I suppose you could consider the N64's puny 4MB of vid RAM a flaw too... I know of a couple software gliches in Metriod Prime and Prime 2, but that's not really hardware. That and those gliches were rare. So rare that very few people know about them.
I experienced both. In MP if the game hadn't had proper pre-load time it would occasionally freeze in the elevator scenes (moving between areas). I never experienced that problem in MP2. The glich I experienced in Echoes really sucked because it would render the game unfinishable.
You have discovered COMMUNISM. Do you wish to convert your government now?
-Yes, let the revolution begin...
-No... I want things to stay the way they are.
Oh shit. I almost fell off my chair at work on this one! Thanks... halarious
I would wager that most people would understand that a rubiks cube is 3x3x3, as that is the 'normal' size.
First, matter conservation. Yes, I know about entropy, but these particles would have to exist somewhere and, like parent post said, would change the gravity of whatever they were pushing toward. Second, Newton wouldn't allow it. According to Newton the earth pulls on us just as much as we pull on it. I figure it's just some other kind of field like magentics... or God just messing with us.
This is all too much now... it just seems to me that every time science can't figure something out they just give it a name and it makes it all better. Dark matter, dark energy, gravitrons. I've been able to sleep without fully understanding gravity, I should hope you could too. As long as I understand it well enough to keep my blanket on me (with a little friction), and a roof over my head, I feel fine.
They're probably going to power it with the old emotion engine from the PS2... wait.. I mean the old Cell proc. from the PS3, yeah. I hear that's supposed to win some sort of counsil war? You know, the one where everybody has an eyepatch?
Oregon Trail
Number Munchers
I needed nothing else... (stares off dreamely)
For SNES are my arguements:
Six buttons. Better graphics and sound. Better response from controllers. Light BAZOOKA!!!
Mario can spit fire, grow, turn into animals (raccoon, frog, hammer bro), and occationally fly (rocking with the P-Wings).
Against Genesis:
Standard controller has three puny buttons. No light gun. Sonic can only jump. Sure, he's fast, but he can only jump. Two buttons are completely wasted. Sure, tails could fly, but he was kind of a pansy...
Bob's arguements for Genesis:
Only NEEDS three buttons, but if you really need the others you can get them. Better graphics (he claimed, despite specs and the fact that they just plain weren't better). It's black. Sonic was better (no actual reasons, some were phylosophical... for a 7th grader).
Arguements against SNES:
Mario sucks. It has purple on the machine.
When Bob wasn't around I'd do homework and watch one of the girls sniff non-toxic Elmer's Glue off her hands. She never made it to high school.
They actualy started putting the FX chip into carts that didn't even use much in the way of polygons, just for the extra process power. And since it was cheap and small, they could afford it. Besides the few 3D games that had it, I know they stuck one in Yoshi's Story and a few other games. Genius.
FFT GBA was/is less than great. It's a good tactics game all around, but it doesn't come close to the PS1 version. There's tons of battles and items, but there is almost no customization. The five races can each have a 5-9 classes and there are abilities that they all share in one way or another. For instance, every race has a few classes that can stun/confuse/muddle/disable. Leveling is almost pre-set, but you can get faqs for that stuff on gamefaqs (didn't link because I'm at work, blocked).
My realy big problem with the game, however, is that it is painfully slow. As in every move takes 15-25 seconds and some one is using that time to vigorously rub steel wool filled with silicate sand on a fresh wound. I'm serious. I bought the game and almost threw it across the room during the into match.
The turn speed can be fixed, though. You can turn off the "Judge Point" alocation, as well as exp. allocation. You don't always get JP's, but stopping the exp from popping up every time pulls a good 2sec off each char's turn (JP is another 2 if they would get one). I think there is a few more things you can do to speed it up like the message speeds. But at top speed you're still looking at 8-12sec per char's turn. The enemy AI is worse as it will take 1-3sec deciding what to do.
Then there's those "Judge Points". There's laws in the game that start off annoying, but get downright pissy. You get JP for doing what is good that day and sent to jail for doing what's illegal (often polar opposites, fire bad vs. ice good). If you just lost some JP for doing bad, it would be much more tolerable, but when you do something like accidentally stunning an opp. with a weapon side-effect and your main gets sent to jail (and you lose the game/progress in that battle) it really grates on you.
Those JP's can be used to do the combos on enemies. They've never been useful to me as any time it's more than a two on one gang-up I'm likely to be spread out so the baddie can't get them all with an area effect. I think I've seen one combo.
As you can tell, the time in a game is a big factor for me. The graphics don't even matter as long as it's easy to recognize what's going on. This is why I love Fire Embelem, you can turn off all the animations and a battle goes from 1-1.5 hours to about 15-20 minutes. Don't get me wrong, the graphics are great to look at, but after seeing them a few times I lose interest and I just want to play the game. This is why I can't even play most RPG's these days. Battles take far too much time (FFVIII-FFX2,Skies of Arcadia). Any time I can shorten the battles, I do.
The DS is getting a vesion of Age of Empires.
Other than that, a PS1 will serve up Tactics Ogre. FF Tactics (the original) which is an amazing piece of work still. I have no idea if there's a descent strategy game out for the PS2 yet.
I guess what I'm saying is tech is great as long as it makes sense. This drive better read damn fast or I'll be pissed. I'll be first in line if it's price is 500 or less, but I'm allowed to complain about some things.
Think about it. Even if Pioneer is just price gouging for the fun of it, 1800 is one hell of a gouge. I imagine that the controllers and most of the hardware is the same as a standard DVD player (well, more precise, perhaps). But a new kind of lens and obviously a way to produce a "blu-ray" to read with could be pretty pricey right now.
On the other hand, if Pioneer is making oh, $300 bucks on each, that's still a 1500 buck drive. Prices are not likely to drop much more than 30-40%, and Sony isn't likely to lose 500 bucks on the drive alone. Let's face it. Sony may have deep pockets, but even MS isn't stupid enough to gamble like that.
The way I see it, Pioneer better be super-gouging that price. (maybe it writes, I didn't catch anything about that). Sony and MS have both had major drive problems with exhisting tech, so this looks bad for the consumer. Real bad. And I've been drooling over the idea of a PS3 for a long time now.
Don't forget about the steaming pile of pooh Super Mario Bros.
'Real' can be a relative term. You can decide what it's relative to.
You may save your kids, but you're gonna burrrrnnn...
In all seriousness, I cheer you on, sir.
I've got mod points and all I see is a bloody war between MS fanboys and people who are genuinely reading the posts and understanding there meanings. I'm of the latter dispostion, but I'm not using them because the problems seem to get fixed as fast as I can check what they've been modded. That, and I'm not too concerned about it seeing the redundency of the grandparent post in the rest of the posts.
I plan on buying the PS3 the day it comes out. I want to be a guinnea pig just like the rest of us. I didn't get the original PlayStation untill my brother gave me one on the PS2 release day. I don't even own a PS2. I want the PS3.
I NEED RPGs. Nintendo isn't delivering. I don't know how the Rev will do with providing them. I don't care, I'm buying that too. Soooo many PS2 games... So little time, but I don't want to get a PS2 now, not with it's bigger stronger brother on the way.
Hmm.. If my girlfriend is around long enough for the PS3 or Rev release... that will likely be the end of it.
I went to apply and ended up testing in. The tests had you looking at a bunch of items and trying to memorize what they looked like. Knives, guns, explosives, and various junk. Then you would look at scans of bags and try to ID not only if there was an object from the list, but what object it was. There was tons of stuff you had to look through, too. Clothes, shoes, everything that people take with them. I did very well on all the tests except for the guns. I don't know jack about guns, so, even if I saw one, I couldn't ID which one it was, and I couldn't find any of them...
Didn't get the job... just thought I'd throw that in there so my fellow /.ers would feel all the more safer.
They're called "Protests."
Just find a bunch of people who don't agree with a different bunch of people that have their own building. Sure, no swords, but that's all we're going to get in a day and age where we can't log out to avoid the consequences...