Many of the computer tech references were puns like Baudway (referring to Mainframe's Broadway like street). Other times they used things in a manner close to what they were (usually a literal interpretation of the words) and at least the techno babble was internally consistent IMO.
The Power Glove was a 3rd party product. Nintendoo did not make it and at worst marketed it via the crappy movie that displaced "The Wizard of Speed and Time" in movie theaters.
TRON 2.0 you spend 99.9% of it in an environment that is not even remotely realistic to the insides of computers/technology. Game was quite fun. I would love a TRON game for the Wii and I think the graphics would be no problem. The only problem I see is that you would get tired from throwing the disc in an FPS style game. Lookig at the movie, they didnt use them constantly so an FPS IMO isnt the fight formula for a TRON game.
All sci-fi FPS games (this covers a majority of FPS titles, the next set being WWII FPS) are completely unrealistic in almost way. WWII/modern combat FPS games try to be sort of realistic but usually (due to limitations) can at best be close to graphically realistic.
No FPS ever has been "real" as in "just like reality". What is your definition of real when you say FPS games need "more realism"?
I was under the impression the Wiimote has both buttons and accelero-thingies.
As for playing a game without standing, thats what chairs are for. You can play all the games standing or sitting. Yes you can still wave your arms around, but you can figure out how to just do it with your wrist as well.
DeVry Columbus worked like this (I doubt anything significant has changed):
DeVry gets students by sending out hired salesmen who will lie to you about everything (and know nothing about technology or DeVry). They specifically target poor people, color does not matter, just that once they are stranded in an unfamiliar place with no money or place to go easily they are easy pickings.
I know some people who made it through the CS program they run and they are good coders and make good money. The problem is the system DeVry set up is designed to screw the majority as long as they can have a Teddy Ruxpin or IT guy for a big solid waste company TV commercial every couple of years.
I know people who had to stop, either because they just couldn't get enough work to pay the scam any longer (2 jobs and DeVry "housing" with lots of student aid still couldn't pay the piper), or they got tired of dealing with the incompetent teachers (Columbus has/had a couple really bad ones), the reality after sales (finding out all the lies) or the fact that when you have something to deal with and you need to talk to Administration level people, the staff under them (I assume on orders from them) will do everything they can to prevent any contact between students and non teacher faculty.
Not everyone who leaves DeVry is a washout who couldn't make it past the second trimester or lacks the ambition or skill to make it. I know someone who had a chance to go to MIT (I have seen the documents) but because they were poor and the DeVry sales guy showed up and talked to the parents, she ended up going there. She had to stop (7th tri as I remember of the 4 year EEET program) because there was no way to make/borrow enough money to pay tuition and live. Now she is a housewife and all those technical skills/talent I saw are not being used. She started life graduating a technical high school with top marks and advanced classes passed (hence the chance to go to MIT). The "DeVry experiance" killed that person and she has never been the same.
I was in my 5th tri. of EEET and I just could not borrow enough (and my parents couldn't take out PEL loans due to student loans of their own) to keep paying DeVry it's ever increasing tuition/book/etc fees, even working a job and having no life outside of work and school.
DeVry is a meat grinder designed to suck students dry and discard them after getting as much student aid as they can.
You can be just as successful in life without going to DeVry. I remember them bragging you could earn a whole 25K per year if you graduated from them. With no degree I worked my way into a technical job that paid as much in half the time it would take to graduate. Over a decade later I have learned many skills/platforms/subjects on my own and have brought my income to levels I never even dreamed of as a DeVry student (upper 70K range, after all this is Ohio, so not easy to hit the 85K national average). The company I have worked for these past 11 years took a chance on a guy who wanted to learn and I think we have managed to do well together. I don't think a bit of paper would have helped greatly, but it might (and doubt it would have been worth the cost) have sped up pay raises a little bit.
Many years ago, when the internet was young, I remember reading a site that dubunked the "reality" of Faces of Death. Sure on almost every tape, some of the things (mostly historical/war/documentary) are true and can be verified, but most footage was found to have been faked.
From Wikipedia's highlights:
* Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals.
* If crime is depicted it shall be as a sordid and unpleasant activity.
* Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates a desire for emulation.
* In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds.
* Scenes of excessive violence shall be prohibited. Scenes of brutal torture, excessive and unnecessary knife and gunplay, physical agony, gory and gruesome crime shall be eliminated.
* No comic magazine shall use the word horror or terror in its title.
* All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted.
* All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated.
* Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly, nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader.
* Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited.
* Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings are forbidden.
* Nudity in any form is prohibited, as is indecent or undue exposure.
* Suggestive and salacious illustration or suggestive posture is unacceptable.
* Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.
* Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed. Violent love scenes as well as sexual abnormalities are unacceptable.
* Seduction and rape shall never be shown or suggested.
* Sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden.
* Nudity with meretricious purpose and salacious postures shall not be permitted in the advertising of any product; clothed figures shall never be presented in such a way as to be offensive or contrary to good taste or morals.
"All three of them have a strictly no-AO policy, however."
and that is the stupidest thing I have ever seen as a money making decision. I havent checked the 360 or PS3 but the Wii has parental locking available, problem solved IMO.
Back in the day, everyone was calling it the Playstation or PSX. This continued until (and even after) the redesign called the PSone.
I know it's ancidotal and a smaller sample group then you can pay for, but I never heard Joe Random gamer, any friends (on or off line) or anyone else for that matter start calling the first Playstation the PSone until the redesign. Maybe I lived a sheltered life, but no one I knew was using that term for street cred, it was the first name they heard for it (that was shorter then Playstation) and it tended to stick.
There was a run of games published here in the US by Eidos like Mr. Mosquito, Metropolis Mania, r-type final, and that one where you are directing an orchestra that all (there were more titles) came out for $20 and had a special branding "Fresh Games".
The website was playfresh.com. Looking ar archive.org shows they were publishing in Europe as well.
The Turbo Duo (AFAIK PC Engine) was brough stateside. I think I bought my from Electronics Boutique in '92 pr '93. The one we didnt get I thin was called the PC-FX (xbox360 reminds me of it in look).
Of the 12 models of Cylo^H^H^H^HPS2 every one I heve ever cracked open to fix (usually laser related issue)had only one fan at the rear of the unit. So the slim PS2 is passive only?
Slashdot Mirror
"Do NOT try to bring back old characters in a "new" reincarnation that makes them nothing like their old selves."
So you saw Transformaers and are glad Megatron took out Jazz before he got a third line of dialog?
Many of the computer tech references were puns like Baudway (referring to Mainframe's Broadway like street).
Other times they used things in a manner close to what they were (usually a literal interpretation of the words) and at least the techno babble was internally consistent IMO.
Yah, but you would still be thinking of Wilma, besides she would never leave Fred.
His voice was wonderful and he used it with such skill. Without that, the character of Megabyte would not have been as good IMO.
Thats too predictable, I'm figureing the money is on Hack and Slash slash materials being popular on slashdot.
I don't think we can get any more slash into this topic.
Have you ever tried to do any of those things while holding a real pistol/rifle?
I agree with you on the number of buttons/buttons being in reach issue.
"With football, what are you supposed to do, pretend it's a football?"
Yes. Just like you pretend it's a bowling ball.
The Power Glove was a 3rd party product. Nintendoo did not make it and at worst marketed it via the crappy movie that displaced "The Wizard of Speed and Time" in movie theaters.
TRON 2.0 you spend 99.9% of it in an environment that is not even remotely realistic to the insides of computers/technology. Game was quite fun. I would love a TRON game for the Wii and I think the graphics would be no problem. The only problem I see is that you would get tired from throwing the disc in an FPS style game. Lookig at the movie, they didnt use them constantly so an FPS IMO isnt the fight formula for a TRON game.
All sci-fi FPS games (this covers a majority of FPS titles, the next set being WWII FPS) are completely unrealistic in almost way. WWII/modern combat FPS games try to be sort of realistic but usually (due to limitations) can at best be close to graphically realistic.
No FPS ever has been "real" as in "just like reality". What is your definition of real when you say FPS games need "more realism"?
I was under the impression the Wiimote has both buttons and accelero-thingies.
As for playing a game without standing, thats what chairs are for. You can play all the games standing or sitting. Yes you can still wave your arms around, but you can figure out how to just do it with your wrist as well.
I've seem some pretty bad ass Miis
DeVry Columbus worked like this (I doubt anything significant has changed):
DeVry gets students by sending out hired salesmen who will lie to you about everything (and know nothing about technology or DeVry). They specifically target poor people, color does not matter, just that once they are stranded in an unfamiliar place with no money or place to go easily they are easy pickings.
I know some people who made it through the CS program they run and they are good coders and make good money. The problem is the system DeVry set up is designed to screw the majority as long as they can have a Teddy Ruxpin or IT guy for a big solid waste company TV commercial every couple of years.
I know people who had to stop, either because they just couldn't get enough work to pay the scam any longer (2 jobs and DeVry "housing" with lots of student aid still couldn't pay the piper), or they got tired of dealing with the incompetent teachers (Columbus has/had a couple really bad ones), the reality after sales (finding out all the lies) or the fact that when you have something to deal with and you need to talk to Administration level people, the staff under them (I assume on orders from them) will do everything they can to prevent any contact between students and non teacher faculty.
Not everyone who leaves DeVry is a washout who couldn't make it past the second trimester or lacks the ambition or skill to make it. I know someone who had a chance to go to MIT (I have seen the documents) but because they were poor and the DeVry sales guy showed up and talked to the parents, she ended up going there. She had to stop (7th tri as I remember of the 4 year EEET program) because there was no way to make/borrow enough money to pay tuition and live. Now she is a housewife and all those technical skills/talent I saw are not being used. She started life graduating a technical high school with top marks and advanced classes passed (hence the chance to go to MIT). The "DeVry experiance" killed that person and she has never been the same.
I was in my 5th tri. of EEET and I just could not borrow enough (and my parents couldn't take out PEL loans due to student loans of their own) to keep paying DeVry it's ever increasing tuition/book/etc fees, even working a job and having no life outside of work and school.
DeVry is a meat grinder designed to suck students dry and discard them after getting as much student aid as they can.
You can be just as successful in life without going to DeVry. I remember them bragging you could earn a whole 25K per year if you graduated from them. With no degree I worked my way into a technical job that paid as much in half the time it would take to graduate. Over a decade later I have learned many skills/platforms/subjects on my own and have brought my income to levels I never even dreamed of as a DeVry student (upper 70K range, after all this is Ohio, so not easy to hit the 85K national average). The company I have worked for these past 11 years took a chance on a guy who wanted to learn and I think we have managed to do well together. I don't think a bit of paper would have helped greatly, but it might (and doubt it would have been worth the cost) have sped up pay raises a little bit.
To quote the PJs.
"Hold on now, not all of us graduated from DeVry."
At my company, the last Devry (Columbus) intern we took) was stealing equipment and trying to sell it.
On the other hand I know of at least 2 Devry (Columbus) CS graduates I would trust to write software that my life depends on.
The school is a scam and students are the victims.
Many years ago, when the internet was young, I remember reading a site that dubunked the "reality" of Faces of Death. Sure on almost every tape, some of the things (mostly historical/war/documentary) are true and can be verified, but most footage was found to have been faked.
Don't forget the good ol' Comics Code Authority.
From Wikipedia's highlights:
* Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals.
* If crime is depicted it shall be as a sordid and unpleasant activity.
* Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates a desire for emulation.
* In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds.
* Scenes of excessive violence shall be prohibited. Scenes of brutal torture, excessive and unnecessary knife and gunplay, physical agony, gory and gruesome crime shall be eliminated.
* No comic magazine shall use the word horror or terror in its title.
* All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted.
* All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated.
* Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly, nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader.
* Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited.
* Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings are forbidden.
* Nudity in any form is prohibited, as is indecent or undue exposure.
* Suggestive and salacious illustration or suggestive posture is unacceptable.
* Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.
* Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed. Violent love scenes as well as sexual abnormalities are unacceptable.
* Seduction and rape shall never be shown or suggested.
* Sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden.
* Nudity with meretricious purpose and salacious postures shall not be permitted in the advertising of any product; clothed figures shall never be presented in such a way as to be offensive or contrary to good taste or morals.
No warewolves, vampires, or zombies?
"All three of them have a strictly no-AO policy, however."
and that is the stupidest thing I have ever seen as a money making decision.
I havent checked the 360 or PS3 but the Wii has parental locking available, problem solved IMO.
I dunno, a contemporary "This Island Earth", where instead of "Interocitor" they say "Cisco" IMO would be just as funny.
Back in the day, everyone was calling it the Playstation or PSX. This continued until (and even after) the redesign called the PSone.
I know it's ancidotal and a smaller sample group then you can pay for, but I never heard Joe Random gamer, any friends (on or off line) or anyone else for that matter start calling the first Playstation the PSone until the redesign. Maybe I lived a sheltered life, but no one I knew was using that term for street cred, it was the first name they heard for it (that was shorter then Playstation) and it tended to stick.
At least 9 if you count the PS2 game (I think it was tales of the forsaken lands).
The limited turn based action per day and stuff screams BBS door but kids these days only know MMORPG.
There was a run of games published here in the US by Eidos like Mr. Mosquito, Metropolis Mania, r-type final, and that one where you are directing an orchestra that all (there were more titles) came out for $20 and had a special branding "Fresh Games".
The website was playfresh.com.
Looking ar archive.org shows they were publishing in Europe as well.
The Turbo Duo (AFAIK PC Engine) was brough stateside. I think I bought my from Electronics Boutique in '92 pr '93.
The one we didnt get I thin was called the PC-FX (xbox360 reminds me of it in look).
My fault for getting a bit behind on /.
At least I'm up to the 6th now.
Of the 12 models of Cylo^H^H^H^HPS2 every one I heve ever cracked open to fix (usually laser related issue)had only one fan at the rear of the unit. So the slim PS2 is passive only?
"So, since we're a year behind here nobody in the united states have seen any of the third series."
I have.
The Dominators kill Davros.