Shooting Grunts is a little pathetic, and I can even feel sorry for the Hunters, since you basically kill them by hitting them in their soft parts. But I definitely don't feel bad about shooting the mindless hordes of the Flood.
Right, thanks for that. I just hope Halo 2 refers back to ilovebees. For instance, one character mentions a rooftop weapons cache in New Mombasa. You can bet that I'm going to be searching rooftops in New Mombasa when I play that level.
It seems somewhat unlikely that any of the human characters will make appearances, but it could happen. A minor character was sent to New Mombasa. Perhaps he'll be a contact or at least an interesting corpse. Plus, there's a semi-rampant ship AI free on earth. I'd love to see a cat-fight between Durga and Cortana.
Yes, it's more than a gimic. It's a stand-alone story, at least in this case. Depending how involved you wanted to get in it, it was also a lot of puzzle solving and detective work. If you went so far as to answer any of the pay phones that were ringing around the country, it was also a fun outdoor activity.
Many people who played ilovebees are also going to get Halo 2, but the game itself was never actually mentioned. You can follow the completed story and just enjoy it for what it is: a fun, free, science-fiction audio play. It stands on its own, but I'm hoping it will be referred to in Halo 2 gameplay.
In general, an "alternate reality game" is tries to be an interactive story that involves sending an receiving messages between players and characters, as if the characters and their situations were part of reality.
I agree that this is someone's wishful thinking. However, pressing and immediate problems can't occupy every cent of our money and second of our time. Psychic teleportation might be pie-in-the-sky but there are lots of things without direct application to the problem of road-side bombs or any other practical problem that are still deserving of research. That's one way progress is made.
The fortune cookie at the bottom of this page read(s): "You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd." How apt.
From the Air Force's point of view, this is probably not as crazy as it sounds to those of us with half a brain. I can imagine some general thinking that if there's even the slightest chance of psychic teleportation being real, $50,000 isn't much to pay for a report looking into it. The same goes for things like anti-gravity. These guys probably figure that what would be a waste would be dismissing it out of hand, especially if their enemies might look into it and get the upper hand.
What I can't figure out is how (short of a headset) I could check my schedule or whatnot while carrying on a conversation. Currently, I have both a PDA and a phone so I can do both at once, more or less.
It used to be that getting a cameraphone meant you were getting a crappy camera and a crappy phone. Now it seems like most cameraphones are better cameras than my camera and better phones than my home phone.
I was excited to think I could get all that without the bother of a camera (it's a no-no at work), but then I found out it actually does have one. When I wondered why that wasn't mentioned in the headline, I realized that most people just assume all phones come with cameras.
It's the "God of the Gaps" problem. God is used to fill in the gaps in knowledge, but as knowledge increases God's gap gets smaller and smaller. He can't even hide behind evolution anymore, as it's possible that the development of complex organic processes on a world like earth is inevitable. Really all God has left is the creation of the Universe, as we're currently unable to test that sort of process. However, even if we never answer that mystery, we have answered (and will answer) so many others that it seems rather unlikely that God's responsible for that one.
If you mean they hold to it doggedly and often take the words of books and authority instead of working it out for themselves, I'd say you're right. A lot of people take a lot of science on faith. However, they don't have to. If they disagree with anything scientific they hear or read, they can go and test it themselves until they're satisfied one way or the other. They don't even need expensive equipment for a lot of the work.
With evolution, it's not always easy to go out and dig up some bones, but anyone who's curious enough can learn about genetics and heredity, and test the principles of biology and zoology on which evolution rests.
Creationists and other people of faith have no choice but to take the word of some book or some person (who's taking someone else's word) that the tenents of a particulat faith are true. If they disagree with something, they have no recourse except to go to (or start) another religion or to give up religion altogehter.
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It's free, it's well done, and it's science fiction theater? What's not to like?
And make work computers a lot more attractive.
Some would say that having a president that only MIGHT go rampant would be an improvement.
Thanks for the sig.
Can I take this as my new sig line?
Yes, that's very interesting but you forgot one important thing: monkeys are allergic to foam discs.
Failure, Mr. Laoping, is hardly original.
If she wants to be really nasty, she can distract it with a flare, then jump behind it and deactivate its IFF. Surprise "hubby"!
Yeah, that greedy Bill Gates should get off his bum and form some kind of Foundation, or something. Sheesh!
At least the "zombies" were quick, well armed, somewhat intelligent, fought your enemies, and went to pieces in spectacular ways.
Shooting Grunts is a little pathetic, and I can even feel sorry for the Hunters, since you basically kill them by hitting them in their soft parts. But I definitely don't feel bad about shooting the mindless hordes of the Flood.
Right, thanks for that. I just hope Halo 2 refers back to ilovebees. For instance, one character mentions a rooftop weapons cache in New Mombasa. You can bet that I'm going to be searching rooftops in New Mombasa when I play that level.
It seems somewhat unlikely that any of the human characters will make appearances, but it could happen. A minor character was sent to New Mombasa. Perhaps he'll be a contact or at least an interesting corpse. Plus, there's a semi-rampant ship AI free on earth. I'd love to see a cat-fight between Durga and Cortana.
Do you check this often?
Yes, it's more than a gimic. It's a stand-alone story, at least in this case. Depending how involved you wanted to get in it, it was also a lot of puzzle solving and detective work. If you went so far as to answer any of the pay phones that were ringing around the country, it was also a fun outdoor activity.
Many people who played ilovebees are also going to get Halo 2, but the game itself was never actually mentioned. You can follow the completed story and just enjoy it for what it is: a fun, free, science-fiction audio play. It stands on its own, but I'm hoping it will be referred to in Halo 2 gameplay.
In general, an "alternate reality game" is tries to be an interactive story that involves sending an receiving messages between players and characters, as if the characters and their situations were part of reality.
The character of Rani sounded eerily like one of my ex-girlfriends. I was profoundly relieved to learn it wasn't her. It just wouldn't have been fair.
I agree that this is someone's wishful thinking. However, pressing and immediate problems can't occupy every cent of our money and second of our time. Psychic teleportation might be pie-in-the-sky but there are lots of things without direct application to the problem of road-side bombs or any other practical problem that are still deserving of research. That's one way progress is made.
The fortune cookie at the bottom of this page read(s): "You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd." How apt.
From the Air Force's point of view, this is probably not as crazy as it sounds to those of us with half a brain. I can imagine some general thinking that if there's even the slightest chance of psychic teleportation being real, $50,000 isn't much to pay for a report looking into it. The same goes for things like anti-gravity. These guys probably figure that what would be a waste would be dismissing it out of hand, especially if their enemies might look into it and get the upper hand.
What I can't figure out is how (short of a headset) I could check my schedule or whatnot while carrying on a conversation. Currently, I have both a PDA and a phone so I can do both at once, more or less.
It used to be that getting a cameraphone meant you were getting a crappy camera and a crappy phone. Now it seems like most cameraphones are better cameras than my camera and better phones than my home phone.
I was excited to think I could get all that without the bother of a camera (it's a no-no at work), but then I found out it actually does have one. When I wondered why that wasn't mentioned in the headline, I realized that most people just assume all phones come with cameras.
Happy to oblige.
Here you go, then:
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In the grim future of Hello Kitty there is only war.
It's the "God of the Gaps" problem. God is used to fill in the gaps in knowledge, but as knowledge increases God's gap gets smaller and smaller. He can't even hide behind evolution anymore, as it's possible that the development of complex organic processes on a world like earth is inevitable. Really all God has left is the creation of the Universe, as we're currently unable to test that sort of process. However, even if we never answer that mystery, we have answered (and will answer) so many others that it seems rather unlikely that God's responsible for that one.
If you mean they hold to it doggedly and often take the words of books and authority instead of working it out for themselves, I'd say you're right. A lot of people take a lot of science on faith. However, they don't have to. If they disagree with anything scientific they hear or read, they can go and test it themselves until they're satisfied one way or the other. They don't even need expensive equipment for a lot of the work.
With evolution, it's not always easy to go out and dig up some bones, but anyone who's curious enough can learn about genetics and heredity, and test the principles of biology and zoology on which evolution rests.
Creationists and other people of faith have no choice but to take the word of some book or some person (who's taking someone else's word) that the tenents of a particulat faith are true. If they disagree with something, they have no recourse except to go to (or start) another religion or to give up religion altogehter.
"Hey, Kathleen, that's a nice, bright jack-o-lantern you've got there."
"That's not a jack-o-lantern, that's my server."
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