Parent is spot on. I end up playing a game for at most a month before getting bored with it. Max Payne 2 lasted about a week. I played Asheron's Call for roughly 2 years. I only played other games that looked *real* good.
MMORPG payment schemes have always been more than reasonable in my mind. Do a breakdown of cost per hour. I spend about twice as much taking a girl to see a movie + getting us both a drink.
Left my Fanboat when i thought I couldn't get it through one part of the map. Ended up having to be clever to avoid choppers (which on Hard = total rape) as I scrambled for cover.
When I got to the section where you had concrete tubes filled with radioactive sludge and a chopper overhead I thought "damn, this game is next to impossible"
Decided to load a save and see if I could squeeze my boat through the passage I had an issue with... No problems.
This whole cd release thing has got to go. Modern releases should all be DVD. A DVD-rom will run all of $20 or so. If you can shell out $50 for a video game then I don't think another $20 will hurt that much.
The primary reason I preloaded is because I didn't want to screw with swapping cds when the time came.
PSP is priced at $200, not $350. Unfortunately at the moment memory sticks are still overpriced for the 512mb and 1gb models. Hopefully a price drop will put the 1gbs around $100 but currently they are a significant chunk of change depending on your vendor.
I think the PSP will shine when Blu-Ray recorders hit current dvd-r prices. Then you'll be looking at buying mini Blu-Ray discs which offer roughly 1.7gb of storage I believe.
It figures they would pull some garbage like this. First they claim that having their source stolen causes massive delays in getting a working product.
Now it's looking like they are making CS craptastic.
Meh. There's a reason why I don't care that this game is getting released. Maybe I'll play it after it's out for a year.
loan? for a wedding? The Bride's parents are supposed to foot the bill... and even if that isn't the sitiation I'd just assume do it somewhere free... cost of weddding = $500 for food and a couple bottles of booze. Invite the few people that mean the most to you.
All Done.
$7k in debt for a wedding... that's just plain silly.
Lockpicking and an interest in computers seem to go hand in hand. A number of the people in my college are seen practicing picking locks during boring lectures.
One guy picked the lock on a projector and cabled another person to the projector cart
Toshiba and NEC are newcomers to the Blu Ray Consortium.
The original members were: Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson Multimedia.
Basically all they did was pick which side of the fence to be on. They had very little to do with the establishment of the format or initial development.
Neal Stephenson is one of the most brilliant writers I have had the pleasure of reading. The Diamond Age is becoming more and more possible as our technology advances. The advances in nanotechnology are leading towards being able to link different elements on the atomic level. If you haven't read any of Stephenson's books, go buy them now. Cryptonomicon is his latest and it deals with cryptography and crypto analysis. All of his work as proved very thought provoking for me.
- Khaotix
Brevis ipsa vita est sed malis fit longior - Publilus Syrus
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Parent is spot on. I end up playing a game for at most a month before getting bored with it. Max Payne 2 lasted about a week. I played Asheron's Call for roughly 2 years. I only played other games that looked *real* good.
MMORPG payment schemes have always been more than reasonable in my mind. Do a breakdown of cost per hour. I spend about twice as much taking a girl to see a movie + getting us both a drink.
Left my Fanboat when i thought I couldn't get it through one part of the map. Ended up having to be clever to avoid choppers (which on Hard = total rape) as I scrambled for cover.
... No problems.
When I got to the section where you had concrete tubes filled with radioactive sludge and a chopper overhead I thought "damn, this game is next to impossible"
Decided to load a save and see if I could squeeze my boat through the passage I had an issue with
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/ ny ud.info
see the links pointing to
http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=3&q=http:/
?
It's a legit link to google and all but it's a redirect from there.
I want my girlfriend to be James Spader's ex-secretary.
Well.
To a degree.
P.S.
Yay!
Stargate is the only sci-fi show I watch now that Star Trek junk.
This whole cd release thing has got to go. Modern releases should all be DVD. A DVD-rom will run all of $20 or so. If you can shell out $50 for a video game then I don't think another $20 will hurt that much.
The primary reason I preloaded is because I didn't want to screw with swapping cds when the time came.
PSP is priced at $200, not $350. Unfortunately at the moment memory sticks are still overpriced for the 512mb and 1gb models. Hopefully a price drop will put the 1gbs around $100 but currently they are a significant chunk of change depending on your vendor.
I think the PSP will shine when Blu-Ray recorders hit current dvd-r prices. Then you'll be looking at buying mini Blu-Ray discs which offer roughly 1.7gb of storage I believe.
I imagine a blu-ray recorder will solve this problem.
I dunno ... I think it could be quite amusing to hear a guy with the master chief level of huah saying "BON JAR! COMER SAY VAH MAGGOT!"
I'm being optimistic.
It weighs just over a pound. It's thinner than an issue of Wired.
Personally my ultra-portable versitile media player of choice is the Sony X505 laptop.
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So hot.
Haven't any of you heard of the beer Moonshot? I've seen it around for a couple of months now.. php
http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002337
I drank it once. I had to do a shot of overproof rum to get the horrible taste out of my mouth.
It figures they would pull some garbage like this. First they claim that having their source stolen causes massive delays in getting a working product.
Now it's looking like they are making CS craptastic.
Meh. There's a reason why I don't care that this game is getting released. Maybe I'll play it after it's out for a year.
I remember hearing they planned on using a caddy. how silly.
loan? for a wedding? The Bride's parents are supposed to foot the bill ... and even if that isn't the sitiation I'd just assume do it somewhere free ... cost of weddding = $500 for food and a couple bottles of booze. Invite the few people that mean the most to you.
... that's just plain silly.
All Done.
$7k in debt for a wedding
I swear if one more person posts something illustrating that they think bandwidth means internet connections I'll explo... *poof*
Lockpicking and an interest in computers seem to go hand in hand. A number of the people in my college are seen practicing picking locks during boring lectures.
One guy picked the lock on a projector and cabled another person to the projector cart
indeed. I should have looked through the text that I pasted before posting it *smirk*
Came from a misinformed site.
nice catch.
Toshiba and NEC are newcomers to the Blu Ray Consortium.
The original members were:
Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson Multimedia.
Basically all they did was pick which side of the fence to be on. They had very little to do with the establishment of the format or initial development.
Refresh my memory on that one? I kind of remember ...
Neal Stephenson is one of the most brilliant writers I have had the pleasure of reading. The Diamond Age is becoming more and more possible as our technology advances. The advances in nanotechnology are leading towards being able to link different elements on the atomic level. If you haven't read any of Stephenson's books, go buy them now. Cryptonomicon is his latest and it deals with cryptography and crypto analysis. All of his work as proved very thought provoking for me. - Khaotix Brevis ipsa vita est sed malis fit longior - Publilus Syrus