Hey, man, Yo! Noid was... well, it wasn't that bad... it didn't make much sense, and got boring and repetitive after a while, but... wait, what was my point? Oh yeah, Yo! Noid sucked. Just like the old crappy Tengen NES Road Runner game.
They weren't all great, it's just that we only remember the good ones. I wonder if that's what we'll think about the PS/PS2 in a decade...
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So it's not real. It remains both quite amusing, and representative of what might happen when two (or more) people make something that relies on others to fill in the blanks, like these pictures.
Just because it's not real doesn't make it any less valid.
To be honest, virtually everyone I know actually enjoys the commercials before a movie. It's been my experience the movies will show one generic commercial (like Coke or something) and then show oodles of movie previews. People in love with movies always want to see the trailer for what is coming out so they know what they want to watch 3-9 months out from now.
You misunderstand. When I go to see a movie, and show up on time so I can find good seats for myself and my friends, I sit through the Coke commercial, the Fanta commercial (ugh), 1-2 car commercials, up until recently the "don't pirate movies 'cause I'm a stuntman" commercial, and generally another 1-2 random bad commercials for things like video games or tv shows.
Only after sitting through all that do we get to the only enjoyable part of the pre-movie spiel, the previews. Generally, people don't count previews as commercials, FYI. Commercials are terrible and blatant, while previews help us know what movies we want to skip or possibly see well ahead of time.
Truly a fun game. There are 2 expansions to it, Friends and Foes (which adds Bree and Isengard, along with minions you have to fight, and a new win/loss condition involving them) and Sauron, which gives the role of Sauron to a player, and makes the game far more difficult, seeing as you're playing against intelligence instead of randomness. I give them both a big thumbs up.
But if you can, get the unedited version, it makes more sense (they took out some of the violence and creepy plot stuff after Columbine). I give it 2 thumbs up.
The Matlock Expressway was a way for Sideshow Bob to, in his quest to become mayor, get the elderly vote and to evict the Simpsons from their house. As you can see on the map, it was completed up till the point just before the house, and apparently never completed.
No, if you recall, if he goes to the source, he doesn't destroy it. He disseminates the code within him (or something) back into the matrix, and chooses people for a new Zion. However, if he chooses to save Trinity, Zion is destroyed, and without it as a sort of overflow system, the Matrix inevitably crashes, and the human race goes extinct.
Well, maybe not in the long run, but the 23 people are there just to start Zion, not the whole matrix. Over time, they'll start recruiting others (like how they got Neo), and expand their genetic diversity.
What you have to realize, especially if Zion really is just a second-tier matrix, is that absolutely nothing we've seen in the movie is real. It's all just within the greater simulation, so logic (or our perception of it) can be allowed to take a back seat to "reality"; kind of a "who cares what they thought, they tried everything in their power to stop it, and now we have to deal with the results" thing.
So (just wondering), if we weren't having the conflict now in the Middle East, and it didn't look like it was going to happen, if you were driving to work and were stopped for a significantly annoying amount of time because of protestors sitting in the street and waving around signs saying "Bomb Iraq," would you think "Wow, I'm so glad these people are expressing their views in a very disruptive manner! I'm sure they'll get a lot of attention," or would you think "Dammit, I've got to get to work... stupid protestors"?
Also, it may pay to recognize the existence of hyperbole.
Well, British columnist Tony Parsons has an interesting view of what's going on over here/there, and a distinct view of the differences we're seeing over the pond... article here... I found it to be an interesting read.
However, I don't want them purcahsing alcohol, smokes, or violent video games.
Because, as we all know, video games are just as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco... I mean, if you play too many violent video games, you'll end up with cirrhosis of the... um... or cancer of the... um... or emphy... er...
The thing you gotta realize, though, is that the wizened old grey-haired man is a constant through ancient myths (down to the modern christian representation of a big guy with a beard on a cloud), probably stemming from the common belief of village elders to be the best source of information and wisdom. Therefore, Gandalf isn't really based on the mythologies, but simply carrying on within Tolkien's new mythos.
I've been doing a video game/exercise for almost a year now... many of you know it, Dance Dance Revolution... and it's far funner than just about anything I can imagine done with just an exercise bike.
I was in Ireland a little over 2 years ago with some other students, and we saw said library, and it was truly amazing. Upon further thought, when I first saw the Jedi Library, I knew it reminded me of something, and now I know what. The similarities are definitely more than coincidence.
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Sadly, I just tried that, and succeeded. Do I win a prize?
Hey, man, Yo! Noid was... well, it wasn't that bad... it didn't make much sense, and got boring and repetitive after a while, but... wait, what was my point? Oh yeah, Yo! Noid sucked. Just like the old crappy Tengen NES Road Runner game.
They weren't all great, it's just that we only remember the good ones. I wonder if that's what we'll think about the PS/PS2 in a decade...
So it's not real. It remains both quite amusing, and representative of what might happen when two (or more) people make something that relies on others to fill in the blanks, like these pictures.
Just because it's not real doesn't make it any less valid.
To be honest, virtually everyone I know actually enjoys the commercials before a movie. It's been my experience the movies will show one generic commercial (like Coke or something) and then show oodles of movie previews. People in love with movies always want to see the trailer for what is coming out so they know what they want to watch 3-9 months out from now.
You misunderstand. When I go to see a movie, and show up on time so I can find good seats for myself and my friends, I sit through the Coke commercial, the Fanta commercial (ugh), 1-2 car commercials, up until recently the "don't pirate movies 'cause I'm a stuntman" commercial, and generally another 1-2 random bad commercials for things like video games or tv shows.
Only after sitting through all that do we get to the only enjoyable part of the pre-movie spiel, the previews. Generally, people don't count previews as commercials, FYI. Commercials are terrible and blatant, while previews help us know what movies we want to skip or possibly see well ahead of time.
Always been a fan of this one:
What do you get if you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber?
Nothing! You can't cross a vector and a scaler.
In that case, don't show her Angel Sanctuary. Remember, kids, incest bad!
You gotta love the Devil Bunny games.
Devil Bunny Hates the Earth: you are taffy machines trying to get yourselves gummed up with squirrels.
Devil Bunny Needs a Ham: you are sous chefs trying to climb a building.
Probably the most surreal games I've ever played.
Truly a fun game. There are 2 expansions to it, Friends and Foes (which adds Bree and Isengard, along with minions you have to fight, and a new win/loss condition involving them) and Sauron, which gives the role of Sauron to a player, and makes the game far more difficult, seeing as you're playing against intelligence instead of randomness. I give them both a big thumbs up.
Nope, I remember, in MK1 for the SNES he'd do it, unless you were up against Sonya, when he'd just do the split.
But if you can, get the unedited version, it makes more sense (they took out some of the violence and creepy plot stuff after Columbine). I give it 2 thumbs up.
The Matlock Expressway was a way for Sideshow Bob to, in his quest to become mayor, get the elderly vote and to evict the Simpsons from their house. As you can see on the map, it was completed up till the point just before the house, and apparently never completed.
No, if you recall, if he goes to the source, he doesn't destroy it. He disseminates the code within him (or something) back into the matrix, and chooses people for a new Zion. However, if he chooses to save Trinity, Zion is destroyed, and without it as a sort of overflow system, the Matrix inevitably crashes, and the human race goes extinct.
Well, maybe not in the long run, but the 23 people are there just to start Zion, not the whole matrix. Over time, they'll start recruiting others (like how they got Neo), and expand their genetic diversity.
What you have to realize, especially if Zion really is just a second-tier matrix, is that absolutely nothing we've seen in the movie is real. It's all just within the greater simulation, so logic (or our perception of it) can be allowed to take a back seat to "reality"; kind of a "who cares what they thought, they tried everything in their power to stop it, and now we have to deal with the results" thing.
So (just wondering), if we weren't having the conflict now in the Middle East, and it didn't look like it was going to happen, if you were driving to work and were stopped for a significantly annoying amount of time because of protestors sitting in the street and waving around signs saying "Bomb Iraq," would you think "Wow, I'm so glad these people are expressing their views in a very disruptive manner! I'm sure they'll get a lot of attention," or would you think "Dammit, I've got to get to work... stupid protestors"?
Also, it may pay to recognize the existence of hyperbole.
Well, British columnist Tony Parsons has an interesting view of what's going on over here/there, and a distinct view of the differences we're seeing over the pond... article here... I found it to be an interesting read.
However, I don't want them purcahsing alcohol, smokes, or violent video games.
Because, as we all know, video games are just as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco... I mean, if you play too many violent video games, you'll end up with cirrhosis of the... um... or cancer of the... um... or emphy... er...
The thing you gotta realize, though, is that the wizened old grey-haired man is a constant through ancient myths (down to the modern christian representation of a big guy with a beard on a cloud), probably stemming from the common belief of village elders to be the best source of information and wisdom. Therefore, Gandalf isn't really based on the mythologies, but simply carrying on within Tolkien's new mythos.
Man, for a second there I read "Banana to be Sentenced", and wondered what exactly it did to be featured on /.
I've been doing a video game/exercise for almost a year now... many of you know it, Dance Dance Revolution... and it's far funner than just about anything I can imagine done with just an exercise bike.
Music building?!? Wow, that takes work.
Pink, yes... but tasty... no.
It's called dividing (or multiplying) by zero. Math's funny like that.
I was in Ireland a little over 2 years ago with some other students, and we saw said library, and it was truly amazing. Upon further thought, when I first saw the Jedi Library, I knew it reminded me of something, and now I know what. The similarities are definitely more than coincidence.
Actually, I thought the first rule of comics was "Uncle Ben must stay dead", or something to that effect...