Deus Ex was not that great. Unless you suffer from OCD. Then I imagine it's heaven... scouring each inch of boring levels to find every chit on the map. The game was mind-numbing at times and mediocre at best. Invisible war was mediocre, but not as irritating as DE. Neither of them were that inventive. Deus Ex's feature list read like System Shocks' and several other better games.
"The only interesting part is that you see people out in the game development sector (Gabe Newell of Valve, for example) excited about the technology. These are the type of people you'd expect to know better."
Noone believes it's all about the sex. Everyone knows it was all about the politics. It started with character assasination (easy to do in our purlie puritan culture) and ended with a mistake - the lie. All Presidents lie. Some lie to protect the interests of the people, some lie to further their own political aims. clinton lied to avoid a BS political coup that distracted the nation's leaders from actually important issues. There are all kinds of lies too. white ones, black ones, some with serious consequences, many without any. It's intellectual dishonesty to say that all Presidential lies are the same, all impeachable. There should have been a litmus test (congress comes to mind) that was reasonable (congress fails test) and ended better than it did.
KTP's The Desert Song is one of my favorite New Wave songs ever. i wish they'd had staying power. Noone even remembers them. Which is kinda cool, cause they don't get played to death on 80's radio or in clubs.
How many racist words do you know that have become less racially charged over time? I'm curious, because "nigger" and "faggot" sure havn't. De-fanging these words as a "back-lash" to overzealous political correctness is intellectual dishonesty.
I know it's convention to believe that Hollywood buggers everything good, but WOTW could be remade. It's a decent story that has only been told well enough in 2 other mediums - radio and books. Just because its been done before doesn't mean a thing can't be done better again. Granted it'd be against the norm, but there are plenty of good solid films out there that have borrowed themes from other classics of film and literature.
How many times do we need to suffer posts ike this one?!?! Laputa ripped off Jules Verne. The steampunk, pulp noir genres have been around for eons. Go get an education in cinema. Start with Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Miyazaki owes him more than you'd care to admit I'm guessing. Besides that it's been done better than Miyazaki. Laputa was pretty, but that's about it.
Totally plausible. Which is why they CLEARLY puroposely drove their multi million dollar extra terrestrial vehicle OVER IT. Did you SEE the tire tracks? There's obvsiously no "slip". they did it on purpose. Why? Answer that.
You havn't actually watched any Michael Moore movies have you. One of his arguments is that America is considerable SAFER than NRAA gun freaks want you to believe. He also argues that NRAA gun freaks themselves are not part of the problem but that FEAR is. Americans are steeped in FEAR which is why we all think we need guns etc.. While I don't disagree with your points it's still sad to see you name dropping like an ignoramous.
...and Actors that mumble through their lines, rarely have the range necessary for the role, rarer still look ANYTHING like what you'd imagine the characters should look like. Even still Firefly had all the problems tv sci-fi has: poor production designs, lame plot contrivances and predictability.
It's a great show. Whendon's writing and the core 'ideas' are it's strongest points. Too bad the cast is so horrible.
The internet. A hotbed of self expression... so long as you're expressing it the way *WE* prefer it be expressed. Get off it. Th guy thought it a fun way to do it, and I can't say it wasn't. Window.open is hardly a "Hot Idea" anyway. He's not selling a product and isn't necessarily interested in W3C compliance. Who the fuck is it really *really* hurting if the guy want's some Js practice/fun/whateverhismotive.
*note that I think translucent plastic looks like crap no matter which fruit it happens to resemble, and same goes for any case mod involving neon lights
Fact is, the hulking, plaid-wearing, sports-hat-doffing lot of you are far more embarassing to us than we could ever be to you. Still you've all lowered the Lady's expectations, so its easy to please, when we show up with well manicured hands and a clean shirt on. I suppose we should thank you for that.
In all reality, your response is more insipid and insulting than I'd expected when I clicked downstream. Next time you roll your eyes at a well groomed, aesthetically sensitive male just remember... maybe we're not the over-sensitive, shallow ones.
I understand that discussions like this are a grab bag of personal opinions, but you really didn't add anything to the conversation other than "Finding Nemo IMHO Isn't all that great". And yet you get modded to 5. That's only because it's still 'cool' to hate Disney. Truth be told Fiding Nemo was the wittiest, most entertaining animated film in a very long time. You're just another Miyazaki uber-fan that feels the need to wedge him into discussion any chance you get. Another fact: there are many kinds of stories that can be told well with animation. Miyazaki's got his place. So too does pixar's genious story telling.
The Cooler was a horrible movie... still Alec Baldwin was the most entertaining character in the film. I love William H. Macy, but the dialog and the story was soooo weak. I think Bladwin's acting was right on, although he had some of the most cringe-worthy lines.
The Spiderman games out there for the PSX and PS2 are very decent. I'd love to see their gameplay merged with the Prince of Persia's gameplay. The current ones convey alot of the typical power and kineticism well enough, but I'd like to see a more fluid, capable wall crawler.
Actually it's not blatantly anti-gun. Moore doesn't even ever propose that he has "the answers". He even goes so far as to illustrating that Canada has many guns and gun fanatics, but none of the violence. Why is that? He has suggestions (that we live in a culture of fear), but it becomes pretty obvious at the end of the movie that guns themselves are just another scape goat.
You know what. Whatch the damn movie before you go posting like an ignorant jackoff
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I'm not a democrat, but Ted Kennedy jokes STILL aren't funny. They're old and tasteless. And not funny.
I guess one person's "immersive" is another "obsessive".
Deus Ex was not that great. Unless you suffer from OCD. Then I imagine it's heaven... scouring each inch of boring levels to find every chit on the map. The game was mind-numbing at times and mediocre at best. Invisible war was mediocre, but not as irritating as DE. Neither of them were that inventive. Deus Ex's feature list read like System Shocks' and several other better games.
... they want their web designs back.
Minimalist = good. This looks spare and amateurish. Why ruin a good thing?
"The only interesting part is that you see people out in the game development sector (Gabe Newell of Valve, for example) excited about the technology. These are the type of people you'd expect to know better."
Know better than you that is? Likekly.
Noone believes it's all about the sex. Everyone knows it was all about the politics. It started with character assasination (easy to do in our purlie puritan culture) and ended with a mistake - the lie. All Presidents lie. Some lie to protect the interests of the people, some lie to further their own political aims. clinton lied to avoid a BS political coup that distracted the nation's leaders from actually important issues. There are all kinds of lies too. white ones, black ones, some with serious consequences, many without any. It's intellectual dishonesty to say that all Presidential lies are the same, all impeachable. There should have been a litmus test (congress comes to mind) that was reasonable (congress fails test) and ended better than it did.
YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR US! YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR US!
KTP's The Desert Song is one of my favorite New Wave songs ever. i wish they'd had staying power. Noone even remembers them. Which is kinda cool, cause they don't get played to death on 80's radio or in clubs.
How many racist words do you know that have become less racially charged over time? I'm curious, because "nigger" and "faggot" sure havn't. De-fanging these words as a "back-lash" to overzealous political correctness is intellectual dishonesty.
I know it's convention to believe that Hollywood buggers everything good, but WOTW could be remade. It's a decent story that has only been told well enough in 2 other mediums - radio and books. Just because its been done before doesn't mean a thing can't be done better again. Granted it'd be against the norm, but there are plenty of good solid films out there that have borrowed themes from other classics of film and literature.
How many times do we need to suffer posts ike this one?!?! Laputa ripped off Jules Verne. The steampunk, pulp noir genres have been around for eons. Go get an education in cinema. Start with Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Miyazaki owes him more than you'd care to admit I'm guessing. Besides that it's been done better than Miyazaki. Laputa was pretty, but that's about it.
Totally plausible. Which is why they CLEARLY puroposely drove their multi million dollar extra terrestrial vehicle OVER IT. Did you SEE the tire tracks? There's obvsiously no "slip". they did it on purpose. Why? Answer that.
You havn't actually watched any Michael Moore movies have you. One of his arguments is that America is considerable SAFER than NRAA gun freaks want you to believe. He also argues that NRAA gun freaks themselves are not part of the problem but that FEAR is. Americans are steeped in FEAR which is why we all think we need guns etc.. While I don't disagree with your points it's still sad to see you name dropping like an ignoramous.
Not sure why this is flamebait. It's true. Moderators need to reply in kind, not simply kneejerk.
:) Thanks for the laugh. That was very witty.
...and Actors that mumble through their lines, rarely have the range necessary for the role, rarer still look ANYTHING like what you'd imagine the characters should look like. Even still Firefly had all the problems tv sci-fi has: poor production designs, lame plot contrivances and predictability.
It's a great show. Whendon's writing and the core 'ideas' are it's strongest points. Too bad the cast is so horrible.
The internet. A hotbed of self expression... so long as you're expressing it the way *WE* prefer it be expressed. Get off it. Th guy thought it a fun way to do it, and I can't say it wasn't. Window.open is hardly a "Hot Idea" anyway. He's not selling a product and isn't necessarily interested in W3C compliance. Who the fuck is it really *really* hurting if the guy want's some Js practice/fun/whateverhismotive.
*note that I think translucent plastic looks like crap no matter which fruit it happens to resemble, and same goes for any case mod involving neon lights
agreed...
*ahem* It occured to me that 'doffing' might mean "to remove". I meant "wearing"... or some equally witty synonym.
Fact is, the hulking, plaid-wearing, sports-hat-doffing lot of you are far more embarassing to us than we could ever be to you. Still you've all lowered the Lady's expectations, so its easy to please, when we show up with well manicured hands and a clean shirt on. I suppose we should thank you for that.
In all reality, your response is more insipid and insulting than I'd expected when I clicked downstream. Next time you roll your eyes at a well groomed, aesthetically sensitive male just remember... maybe we're not the over-sensitive, shallow ones.
I understand that discussions like this are a grab bag of personal opinions, but you really didn't add anything to the conversation other than "Finding Nemo IMHO Isn't all that great". And yet you get modded to 5. That's only because it's still 'cool' to hate Disney. Truth be told Fiding Nemo was the wittiest, most entertaining animated film in a very long time. You're just another Miyazaki uber-fan that feels the need to wedge him into discussion any chance you get. Another fact: there are many kinds of stories that can be told well with animation. Miyazaki's got his place. So too does pixar's genious story telling.
The Cooler was a horrible movie... still Alec Baldwin was the most entertaining character in the film. I love William H. Macy, but the dialog and the story was soooo weak. I think Bladwin's acting was right on, although he had some of the most cringe-worthy lines.
The Spiderman games out there for the PSX and PS2 are very decent. I'd love to see their gameplay merged with the Prince of Persia's gameplay. The current ones convey alot of the typical power and kineticism well enough, but I'd like to see a more fluid, capable wall crawler.
>Can we get the moderators to add a "doesn't know shit" category?
Only if they also add a "pendantic asshole" category as well.
Actually it's not blatantly anti-gun. Moore doesn't even ever propose that he has "the answers". He even goes so far as to illustrating that Canada has many guns and gun fanatics, but none of the violence. Why is that? He has suggestions (that we live in a culture of fear), but it becomes pretty obvious at the end of the movie that guns themselves are just another scape goat.
You know what. Whatch the damn movie before you go posting like an ignorant jackoff
feh.
Check out Minikon. Handsdown the best band out there for vg-like music
Also: Super Madrigal Bros (chamber music meets vg)
Also: The Advantage (surf guitar rock nintendo cover band from SF.)