Re:Older Gamers are Better Gamers
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And older gamers are about 90% less likely to message "ROFL U R GAY" to everyone in the game the moment they get a frag. The benefits speak for themselves.
Does that mean we can finally sue the videogaming industry for stress related injuries such as carpal tunnel, nerve damage, and of course epileptic seizures?
Well, first off, watch it outside the mindframe of a jaded anime fan, and remember when this came out. 1988. What did we (outside of Japan)have as the epitome of anime at the time?
Macross (Robotech for those less versed): Semi okay anime, but still stock and standard for the time.
Gundam: Once again, stock and standard.
As far as "true" masterpieces in anime go, the best things released were Ninja Scroll, Wings of Honneamise (actually a damnned kewl flick, from the makers of FLCL and Evangelion), and of course for the umpteen bazillionth time, Vampire Hunter D.
So as far as mainstream examples go, in 1988, anime was a pretty dismal market in the US. Almost no real exposure or basis for comparison to measure Akira by.
Therefore, by 1988's standards, Akira rocked. Same way that in 1976, Star Wars kicked ass, because there were no prior examples to measure it by. However, with current tech in special effects and all, anyone could make a comparable film that could kick it's ass just as easily, for substantially less than it originally cost, in comparative dollars.
If I recall correctly, they've been using sunflowers in New Jersey to clean up superfund sites. Could there be a way, therefore, to use such plants for nuclear waste/contamination areas, for later harvest and recycling/reclamation/disposal? After all, certain instances of radioactive waste includes metallic compounds.
I had exactly the same problem with a Voicestream retailer. Bought a prepaid digital cel phone so I could maintain an account for enough time to qualify credit wise for a regular monthly account. Brought the phone in to the store retailer to get service started, and was approved, except in this case, they wanted me to take the "free" phone, which was the exact same model, because they had to "sell" a phone with every new account. Even though all it would have only required a swapped smartcard chip.
How about Charlie's Angels or Mission: Impossible (1&2)?
And of course, technically the animated Hobbit and Return of the King were television specials, before Bakshi's raping of LOTR came out...
Oh, and (DUH!) Star Trek's even numbered movies!
And for the UberGeeks: Transformers: The Movie! The last movie where Orson Wells played a bloated, planet sized eating machine devouring all in his path, and in death as a bloated, planet sized eating machine devouring all in his path...
After all, those with legal copies of CDs released over the last 10 years or so, should be entitled to a cut of that money, correct? After all, they WERE the ones who were ripped off to begin with... So how does one with about 50+ CDs get their cut? I could reallllllly use the money...
It's MUCH better than Lindows, doesn't have any "strategic" product placements, and doesn't sell as a PC from Walmart...
http://www.lycoris.com
And it's free to download, without a ridiculous "pay to update" scheme (mine ran just fine under VMWare, without having to set up any prepaid accounts)... Or, if you're so inclined, you can buy it on CD at retailers/online retail... Even without any customer support for the downloaded version... There's also a fairly large community available for Lycoris, who'll give advice on several platforms, physical or virtual (in fact, that's how I learned how to make it work within VMWare)...
I tell you, it's good enough to make me want to go down to Walmart, buy one of their $199 computers, format the HD and install Lycoris... And I'm a Windows user...
And showing how uninformed and clueless the CEO in question is, and the subsequent endless ribbing he'll get in the future regarding this, not to mention unwanted publicity, will be bonus perks...
Any links to PETA (being that they are known contributers to the ELF- Earth Liberation Front) are also illegal, as the ELF is a known terrorist organization?
"If Apple make an OS X that runs on any Intel hardware, Linux on the desktop is dead.
Apple hardware sales will suffer, but they will more than make up for it in OS X sales.
Go Darwin!"
Ummm, there's just ONE teensy detail you're missing... Microsoft is a shareholder in Apple... Apple additionally needs/needed a lot of Microsoft applications to remain competative (MS Office for Mac, et al)... Microsoft still produces software for Macintosh systems to this date, therein lies the flaw in your reasoning.
Therefore Darwin "killing" Linux=good? Seems that Microsoft would profit tremendously, recieving even more market share, since (a) MS wouldn't be caught dead trying to develop for Linux, and (b) similarly, Linux users wouldn't purchase/install MS products on Linux, even under threat of torture and death...
Except in this case, the XP driven automation malfunctions, crushing you between footrest and chair back, resulting in the good ol' "Blue Face Of Death"...
I think you're making up information that isn't there... Most families that have kids have TVs sitting in their garage or attics, or the parents have a set in their bedroom along with the one in the living room, some put their older sets into the kids room with a cheap VCR so they can keep them occupied with Barney when they're toddlers(or to free up the other TV from being hijacked for video gaming)... The US has a TREMENDOUS number of TVs, not counting businesses such as bars, hotels, stores, barber shops, et al, who all rely on TV sets for business... Mega chain hotels like Ramada and Hilton would be first to switch, since they can easily afford it, and they would dump quite a bit of televisions from their hotel rooms... Consider that there's hundreds of thousands of major hotels in the world, and several dozen thousand major hotels in the US, each of which have well over 200 rooms, and you're talking an additional 4-5 million sets that will be dumped in mass renovations...
And these are NOT digital ready sets... In the US, 80% or more of the sets are not digital capable, they're standard 4:3 ratio monitors/recievers... Up until a few years ago, the concept of a retail, I repeat, RETAIL "digital ready" TV meant that you could connect a digital tuner to the coaxial... Other options include TVs with a SVGA port (basically a SVGA to internal composite adapter), composite and S-Video inputs...
It was between channel 13 and 2, and not only that, but it made this funny "chunk" sound when you turned the dial! Of course, when cable TV came around, it didn't render these types of TVs obsolete either, just required they turn it to 2 or 3 (on the east coast, for someodd reason, 3/4 for the west coast) to tune in the cable box that didn't cost significantly more than the cable bill to rent (roughly $1-2, if it didn't come with the service by default)... And it used to have a dial too, but then switched to buttons, before getting a digital tuner installed, at the same time that "cable ready" TVs that had simply a coax hookup came out(without the seperate connections for VHF and UHF)... And lest we forget the remote controls, those huge, almost electric shaver sized things, that controlled the TV with a loud click (hence the term the older folks use for remote controls, "The clicker", despite not doing such nowadays)...
One thing I miss though, was playing "remote control garrott" with anyone unfortunate enough to be walking by when controlling my VCR with it's wired buttons...
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And older gamers are about 90% less likely to message "ROFL U R GAY" to everyone in the game the moment they get a frag. The benefits speak for themselves.
Does that mean we can finally sue the videogaming industry for stress related injuries such as carpal tunnel, nerve damage, and of course epileptic seizures?
"I loved akira for its representation of a degenerated (realistic?) society"
I can't even watch the riot scene from the opening of Akira without thinking "Welcome to the Seattle WTO protests!" nowadays.
I would only see the westenized Akira if it featured Jay and Silent Bob.
Actually... That would rock.
Well, first off, watch it outside the mindframe of a jaded anime fan, and remember when this came out. 1988. What did we (outside of Japan)have as the epitome of anime at the time?
Macross (Robotech for those less versed): Semi okay anime, but still stock and standard for the time.
Gundam: Once again, stock and standard.
As far as "true" masterpieces in anime go, the best things released were Ninja Scroll, Wings of Honneamise (actually a damnned kewl flick, from the makers of FLCL and Evangelion), and of course for the umpteen bazillionth time, Vampire Hunter D.
So as far as mainstream examples go, in 1988, anime was a pretty dismal market in the US. Almost no real exposure or basis for comparison to measure Akira by.
Therefore, by 1988's standards, Akira rocked. Same way that in 1976, Star Wars kicked ass, because there were no prior examples to measure it by. However, with current tech in special effects and all, anyone could make a comparable film that could kick it's ass just as easily, for substantially less than it originally cost, in comparative dollars.
"Hmm...I wonder what the warchalking symbol for a honeypot really would look like?"
A picture of Pooh with a honeypot on his head, "Oh bother."?
TIIIMBOTTTT! Livin' a lie, livin' a lie, TIMMMBOTT!!!
If I recall correctly, they've been using sunflowers in New Jersey to clean up superfund sites. Could there be a way, therefore, to use such plants for nuclear waste/contamination areas, for later harvest and recycling/reclamation/disposal? After all, certain instances of radioactive waste includes metallic compounds.
I had exactly the same problem with a Voicestream retailer. Bought a prepaid digital cel phone so I could maintain an account for enough time to qualify credit wise for a regular monthly account. Brought the phone in to the store retailer to get service started, and was approved, except in this case, they wanted me to take the "free" phone, which was the exact same model, because they had to "sell" a phone with every new account. Even though all it would have only required a swapped smartcard chip.
Didn't the term for small planets used to be "planetoid"? Just above an asteroid, or just below a planet, seems to be the appropriate terminology...
Simpson! Homer Simpson!
He's the greatest guy in history!
From the! Town of Sprinfield!
He's about to hit a chestnut tree!
*ScReEeCRASH!!!!*
How about Charlie's Angels or Mission: Impossible (1&2)?
And of course, technically the animated Hobbit and Return of the King were television specials, before Bakshi's raping of LOTR came out...
Oh, and (DUH!) Star Trek's even numbered movies!
And for the UberGeeks: Transformers: The Movie! The last movie where Orson Wells played a bloated, planet sized eating machine devouring all in his path, and in death as a bloated, planet sized eating machine devouring all in his path...
And George Wendt as Homer! Woo!
Anyone saying "Worst /. article ever!" will automatically get a -1 Troll. You've been warned.
Dude, everyone knows the moment you cut the umbilical cord, you're three months obsolete!
After all, those with legal copies of CDs released over the last 10 years or so, should be entitled to a cut of that money, correct? After all, they WERE the ones who were ripped off to begin with... So how does one with about 50+ CDs get their cut? I could reallllllly use the money...
It's MUCH better than Lindows, doesn't have any "strategic" product placements, and doesn't sell as a PC from Walmart...
http://www.lycoris.com
And it's free to download, without a ridiculous "pay to update" scheme (mine ran just fine under VMWare, without having to set up any prepaid accounts)... Or, if you're so inclined, you can buy it on CD at retailers/online retail... Even without any customer support for the downloaded version... There's also a fairly large community available for Lycoris, who'll give advice on several platforms, physical or virtual (in fact, that's how I learned how to make it work within VMWare)...
I tell you, it's good enough to make me want to go down to Walmart, buy one of their $199 computers, format the HD and install Lycoris... And I'm a Windows user...
And showing how uninformed and clueless the CEO in question is, and the subsequent endless ribbing he'll get in the future regarding this, not to mention unwanted publicity, will be bonus perks...
"And not a table in site!"
And they call it a cafe! That's it, I'm NOT tipping the waiter!
Any links to PETA (being that they are known contributers to the ELF- Earth Liberation Front) are also illegal, as the ELF is a known terrorist organization?
"If Apple make an OS X that runs on any Intel hardware, Linux on the desktop is dead.
Apple hardware sales will suffer, but they will more than make up for it in OS X sales.
Go Darwin!"
Ummm, there's just ONE teensy detail you're missing... Microsoft is a shareholder in Apple... Apple additionally needs/needed a lot of Microsoft applications to remain competative (MS Office for Mac, et al)... Microsoft still produces software for Macintosh systems to this date, therein lies the flaw in your reasoning.
Therefore Darwin "killing" Linux=good? Seems that Microsoft would profit tremendously, recieving even more market share, since (a) MS wouldn't be caught dead trying to develop for Linux, and (b) similarly, Linux users wouldn't purchase/install MS products on Linux, even under threat of torture and death...
Except in this case, the XP driven automation malfunctions, crushing you between footrest and chair back, resulting in the good ol' "Blue Face Of Death"...
Good for them, they certainly don't bother to point it out, whereas NBC and PBS advertise it heavily, which is probably why I missed it...
I think you're making up information that isn't there... Most families that have kids have TVs sitting in their garage or attics, or the parents have a set in their bedroom along with the one in the living room, some put their older sets into the kids room with a cheap VCR so they can keep them occupied with Barney when they're toddlers(or to free up the other TV from being hijacked for video gaming)... The US has a TREMENDOUS number of TVs, not counting businesses such as bars, hotels, stores, barber shops, et al, who all rely on TV sets for business... Mega chain hotels like Ramada and Hilton would be first to switch, since they can easily afford it, and they would dump quite a bit of televisions from their hotel rooms... Consider that there's hundreds of thousands of major hotels in the world, and several dozen thousand major hotels in the US, each of which have well over 200 rooms, and you're talking an additional 4-5 million sets that will be dumped in mass renovations...
And these are NOT digital ready sets... In the US, 80% or more of the sets are not digital capable, they're standard 4:3 ratio monitors/recievers... Up until a few years ago, the concept of a retail, I repeat, RETAIL "digital ready" TV meant that you could connect a digital tuner to the coaxial... Other options include TVs with a SVGA port (basically a SVGA to internal composite adapter), composite and S-Video inputs...
It was between channel 13 and 2, and not only that, but it made this funny "chunk" sound when you turned the dial! Of course, when cable TV came around, it didn't render these types of TVs obsolete either, just required they turn it to 2 or 3 (on the east coast, for someodd reason, 3/4 for the west coast) to tune in the cable box that didn't cost significantly more than the cable bill to rent (roughly $1-2, if it didn't come with the service by default)... And it used to have a dial too, but then switched to buttons, before getting a digital tuner installed, at the same time that "cable ready" TVs that had simply a coax hookup came out(without the seperate connections for VHF and UHF)... And lest we forget the remote controls, those huge, almost electric shaver sized things, that controlled the TV with a loud click (hence the term the older folks use for remote controls, "The clicker", despite not doing such nowadays)...
One thing I miss though, was playing "remote control garrott" with anyone unfortunate enough to be walking by when controlling my VCR with it's wired buttons...