There's no real reason, the storyline is borderline nonexistent, it's pathetic to try and pass this game off as decent. Horribly mundane, I would understand if it were a multiplayer-experience only but it's not, it's marketed also towards single-playing gamers and I'm one of those.
To me it's a shame this crap gets made and we still haven't seen Bionic Commando's sequel.
The bashing here is pretty much towards anything overrated and/or underdeveloped, I find it pretty evenly-spread.
The only thing that isn't bashed as much, are Linux-type OSs, yet they do inherit a lot of jokes, not from the faults, but the abstract anatomy of their users.
I remember exporting individual frames of animated GIFs, correct/add something to, or just reverse it, put it back together and use it on another crappy Geocities website.
Oh, and the "Awards"! Apparently clicking links through images was a difficult task back then. I gotta admit, I have a little corner in my heart for the god damned MIDI files.
Even if you are unjustly banned from Facebook, you can come back and re-add all those people, at least the "main" ones, and work your way again to having 350 friends, I'm sure he didn't find them all in 2 days the first time around, and I genuinely doubt he kept in touch each and every single one of them. He can't learn their names and make a second account and look them up?
He wasn't smart enough to ask for phone numbers and/or e-mails after contacting far away relatives?
He can't use services like instant messengers?
How did he survive before Facebook existed, suing telecommunication providers because their service fees were too high, thus prohibiting and/or limiting his access to contact loved ones from afar?
Do you remember those days when Google didn't have the fancy-schmancy auto-complete or instant-search? I do, because I never used them, so this doesn't affect me in the slightest.
If you're gonna search for The Red Dragon torrent, you KNOW you're gonna have to type it out, instead of waiting for Google to finish the phrase for you. So basically you are whining that you're gonna have to type search inquiries, are we really this lazy?
This is why I don't think it'll die as fast as some of us want it to, because just as crappy video games are enhanced by good visuals, mediocre movies are likely to draw masses even after bad reviews if they look good.
To me this is not a revolutionary way of looking at movies, just another tool to enhance what's already present, just like 2-speakers turned into 5, then 8, etc. Better sound doesn't make a good movie good, it helps it, but it doesn't define it.
If it dies out, then that's that, we'll see another attempt in 20 years.
The only people that will actually wait for a religious figure to "approve" anything in order to implement it to their daily life are the people less likely to use the Internet, in this case. All the religious acquaintances I've met/kept in touch with online have used it regardless of this so-called "blessing".
It doesn't matter if you're religious or not, if you're all waiting for someone to tell you "hey, this thing ain't so bad, I used it, so you can use it too!" then you deserve to be mocked.
The suit claims that Taco Bell's meat-like offering is filled with extenders and other non-meat substances listed in the lawsuit like water, "Isolated Oat Product," wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodrextrin, anti-dusting agent, autolyzed yeast extract, modified corn starch and sodium phosphate as well as beef and seasonings. Yum!"
This could be a huge turn for companies that make a living out of the loopholes of the Internet from yesteryear, which can either stop doing their data-mining or change they way they do their data-mining. Quite possibly a more obtrusive way.
OR
This could just be a placebo, so that us semi-geeks (the ones that read these things and are aware of them but aren't really attracted to ACT upon it) can sit back and look at the rest shut up about it for a little while.
Alright it's cute but the novelty wears off fast I bet, I'm guessing it's not the lightest thing to have on your, not very cool, especially when you constantly move around and sweat.
Sure, the non-geeks and drug-induced crowd will find it fascinating, I would too depending on the moment, but it's not that great. Maybe I saw the headline and expected a lot more.
A conversation with a non-geek on the subject of data privacy tends to go like this:
They sell it to credit card companies, advertisers, marketters, and anyone else who wants to sell you some junk:
a) So what? how does that hurt me. I get more targetted advertisments and possibly products that better suit me
They give it to the government:
a) If the government wants to know what I did at that party last week.. I would have happily told them
When we revert into some paranoid disutopia the forces of opression will use your twitter comments to identify you as counter to their objectives and have you dragged from your homes and taken to the acid mines where you'll...
a) oh get a life..
If we want to convince people that privacy is important, we need better scare statements!
Compared to most people here, I'm hardly a "geek" but in my social circle outside the computer, I certainly am considered one.
And my answers would be "So what? I don't have to buy what they advertise to me." / "I doubt the government would be that interested in me, in anything I would part of some shallow stats report about internet usage." and "Oh, get a life".
The idea of having to to be connected at all times to a server to basically "have a computer" is ridiculous to me, Because of privacy? No. Because I'd have to pay a monthly fee to USE a computer (because, y'know the whole no-internet-no-files-hence-no-computer thing)? Hell yes.
I know an internet-less computer is hardly the way to go about in this day and age, but at least I have the option that if I don't have Internet access, I can at least have all my files right where I want them and still work with them.
I don't get it, aren't video games in Japan a lot more open-minded? It's always in the U.S. that we're stuck with the same type of titles, most of the interesting, oddball, creative games come from Japan (Okami, Katamari, etc.)
My thoughts exactly. I sense some obsessive-compulsive behaviour if there's an exuberant need of being constantly reminded and/or organized for things you like to do. These joys are supposed to come out naturally, not plan when to "drink water" or "draw a cartoon".
I mess with my photos when I can and when I feel up to it, I read webcomics and slashdot-esque sites when I'm in front of my computer and feel there's no hurry to get back up, same thing with gaming, photoshopping, music searching, etc etc.
It comes naturally. At least that's how I perceive it's SUPPOSED to be.
It will always be in Beta-Testing grounds until a natural disaster happens and it either fails or gives some indication that they're on the right track.
Is SEGA allowed to go batshit insane and demand all these people to cease from manufacturing/distrubuting unofficial products?
If so, that'd be sad, because it'd likely be a matter of time.
On the other hand, the system officially "died" almost a decade ago, they should feel honored that there are die-hard fans not willing to let their last hardware product go to waste.
Metallica comes to mind, as well as U2,
It's baffling how much overpaid rockstars whine. I'm sure they relied on pirating their own music to gain ground when they first started, it's not like it REALLY hurts them. People that appreciate their music and hard work, reward them by buying the albums anyway. So why the hostility? Only a minority download the albums carelessly without giving a crap, and if they had to pay for 'em, they wouldn't have either.
Touring requires a lot of revenue to pay all the people that make it come true, besides the musicians, but I'm sure that at *at least* $50 a pop they more than make up for their paychecks.
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There's no real reason, the storyline is borderline nonexistent, it's pathetic to try and pass this game off as decent. Horribly mundane, I would understand if it were a multiplayer-experience only but it's not, it's marketed also towards single-playing gamers and I'm one of those.
To me it's a shame this crap gets made and we still haven't seen Bionic Commando's sequel.
The bashing here is pretty much towards anything overrated and/or underdeveloped, I find it pretty evenly-spread.
The only thing that isn't bashed as much, are Linux-type OSs, yet they do inherit a lot of jokes, not from the faults, but the abstract anatomy of their users.
You'd need over 4GB of ram to run that stuff!
I remember exporting individual frames of animated GIFs, correct/add something to, or just reverse it, put it back together and use it on another crappy Geocities website.
Oh, and the "Awards"! Apparently clicking links through images was a difficult task back then. I gotta admit, I have a little corner in my heart for the god damned MIDI files.
Probably some others.
You mean He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
You mean Candlejack? That isn't hacker rela
This is about as relevant to my driving skills as it is to my jumping-on-turtles skills in real life.
Even if you are unjustly banned from Facebook, you can come back and re-add all those people, at least the "main" ones, and work your way again to having 350 friends, I'm sure he didn't find them all in 2 days the first time around, and I genuinely doubt he kept in touch each and every single one of them. He can't learn their names and make a second account and look them up?
He wasn't smart enough to ask for phone numbers and/or e-mails after contacting far away relatives?
He can't use services like instant messengers?
How did he survive before Facebook existed, suing telecommunication providers because their service fees were too high, thus prohibiting and/or limiting his access to contact loved ones from afar?
Is all this still Facebook's fault?
Do you remember those days when Google didn't have the fancy-schmancy auto-complete or instant-search? I do, because I never used them, so this doesn't affect me in the slightest.
If you're gonna search for The Red Dragon torrent, you KNOW you're gonna have to type it out, instead of waiting for Google to finish the phrase for you. So basically you are whining that you're gonna have to type search inquiries, are we really this lazy?
This is why I don't think it'll die as fast as some of us want it to, because just as crappy video games are enhanced by good visuals, mediocre movies are likely to draw masses even after bad reviews if they look good.
To me this is not a revolutionary way of looking at movies, just another tool to enhance what's already present, just like 2-speakers turned into 5, then 8, etc. Better sound doesn't make a good movie good, it helps it, but it doesn't define it.
If it dies out, then that's that, we'll see another attempt in 20 years.
The only people that will actually wait for a religious figure to "approve" anything in order to implement it to their daily life are the people less likely to use the Internet, in this case. All the religious acquaintances I've met/kept in touch with online have used it regardless of this so-called "blessing".
It doesn't matter if you're religious or not, if you're all waiting for someone to tell you "hey, this thing ain't so bad, I used it, so you can use it too!" then you deserve to be mocked.
The suit claims that Taco Bell's meat-like offering is filled with extenders and other non-meat substances listed in the lawsuit like water, "Isolated Oat Product," wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodrextrin, anti-dusting agent, autolyzed yeast extract, modified corn starch and sodium phosphate as well as beef and seasonings. Yum!"
I can't imagine how this awesome will be with simultaneously-connected rotating Kinects.
This could be a huge turn for companies that make a living out of the loopholes of the Internet from yesteryear, which can either stop doing their data-mining or change they way they do their data-mining. Quite possibly a more obtrusive way.
OR
This could just be a placebo, so that us semi-geeks (the ones that read these things and are aware of them but aren't really attracted to ACT upon it) can sit back and look at the rest shut up about it for a little while.
Alright it's cute but the novelty wears off fast I bet, I'm guessing it's not the lightest thing to have on your, not very cool, especially when you constantly move around and sweat. Sure, the non-geeks and drug-induced crowd will find it fascinating, I would too depending on the moment, but it's not that great. Maybe I saw the headline and expected a lot more.
A conversation with a non-geek on the subject of data privacy tends to go like this:
They sell it to credit card companies, advertisers, marketters, and anyone else who wants to sell you some junk: a) So what? how does that hurt me. I get more targetted advertisments and possibly products that better suit me
They give it to the government: a) If the government wants to know what I did at that party last week.. I would have happily told them
When we revert into some paranoid disutopia the forces of opression will use your twitter comments to identify you as counter to their objectives and have you dragged from your homes and taken to the acid mines where you'll ...
a) oh get a life..
If we want to convince people that privacy is important, we need better scare statements!
Compared to most people here, I'm hardly a "geek" but in my social circle outside the computer, I certainly am considered one.
And my answers would be "So what? I don't have to buy what they advertise to me." / "I doubt the government would be that interested in me, in anything I would part of some shallow stats report about internet usage." and "Oh, get a life".
The idea of having to to be connected at all times to a server to basically "have a computer" is ridiculous to me, Because of privacy? No. Because I'd have to pay a monthly fee to USE a computer (because, y'know the whole no-internet-no-files-hence-no-computer thing)? Hell yes.
I know an internet-less computer is hardly the way to go about in this day and age, but at least I have the option that if I don't have Internet access, I can at least have all my files right where I want them and still work with them.
I don't get it, aren't video games in Japan a lot more open-minded? It's always in the U.S. that we're stuck with the same type of titles, most of the interesting, oddball, creative games come from Japan (Okami, Katamari, etc.)
Obviously someone that dumb shouldn't have had that much money. He deserved losing it.
When bees were asked about this study, they just cheered that they're making the news again after so long.
Help us, R2, you're our only hope.
ThinkPad!
...again
My thoughts exactly. I sense some obsessive-compulsive behaviour if there's an exuberant need of being constantly reminded and/or organized for things you like to do. These joys are supposed to come out naturally, not plan when to "drink water" or "draw a cartoon". I mess with my photos when I can and when I feel up to it, I read webcomics and slashdot-esque sites when I'm in front of my computer and feel there's no hurry to get back up, same thing with gaming, photoshopping, music searching, etc etc. It comes naturally. At least that's how I perceive it's SUPPOSED to be.
It will always be in Beta-Testing grounds until a natural disaster happens and it either fails or gives some indication that they're on the right track.
Is SEGA allowed to go batshit insane and demand all these people to cease from manufacturing/distrubuting unofficial products? If so, that'd be sad, because it'd likely be a matter of time. On the other hand, the system officially "died" almost a decade ago, they should feel honored that there are die-hard fans not willing to let their last hardware product go to waste.
Sounds like its time to find a new social media website.
Suddenly even Myspace sounds like a real option for the first time since puberty, Two weeks ago.
Metallica comes to mind, as well as U2, It's baffling how much overpaid rockstars whine. I'm sure they relied on pirating their own music to gain ground when they first started, it's not like it REALLY hurts them. People that appreciate their music and hard work, reward them by buying the albums anyway. So why the hostility? Only a minority download the albums carelessly without giving a crap, and if they had to pay for 'em, they wouldn't have either. Touring requires a lot of revenue to pay all the people that make it come true, besides the musicians, but I'm sure that at *at least* $50 a pop they more than make up for their paychecks.