"Catch-22: The Videogame- It would have been the best WWII-themed game ever. The best part is that it was to contain no action gameplay (except perhaps drunk driving in Jeeps and other mischief). Had it been completed it would have been part economic simulation and part non-linear, non-goal oriented RPG with lots of hilarious dialogue branches."
Sounds like something Rockstar could do half decently. Why not suggest it to them?
I blame the "midwest" (where I live) for this. It's rather hard to convince cooks that you do in fact want the food prepared like they should with proper spicing, and not bland it down because some pasty white people once complained about how spicy it was.
I think a better quote to illustrate the point would be (this is not exact I think, but I dont have the film handy):
Jefe: We have stuffed many pinatas for your birthday celebration! El Guapo: How many pinatas? Jefe: Many pinatas, many! El Guapo: Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of pinatas? Jefe: Yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora. El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora? El Guapo:...because I would hate it if you were to say I have a plethora of something and you don't even know what a plethora is.
TV sets with only an RF input have been the norm up until less then 10 years ago. Sure you could spend a LOT of money on a high end set with more advanced features, but the average 25" set you could buy at a chain store or sears had just RF.
This is specific to the USA, other countries like Japan or most of Europe were probably ahead of us on these kinds of features being standard.
It's the way you chose to use language. Most of it comes off as directed directly at who you responded to (me), as well as talking down to/treating the other person as if they are ignorant. If you were not directing your comments to me, maybe you should re-read them and consider how the people you are trying to enlighten will read them and rephrase things.
What do you mean with the word shaheb? It is not familiar to me, and I could find nothing on-line except it being used as part of someones name.
I expect you to do nothing, and I don't expect you to care what I think/feel, but you will not open anyones eyes or gain support this way. I do not see the universe as an object that revolves around me. I like sex quit a bit, thats the fun part of being married.
I agree with a lot of the things you posted, as to how colonialists and other groups have treated the world. I was unawares of the details of the NAZI party's dealings with India. I was enlightened by these things. Other things were not news to me.
As for being less confrontational, you are the one who comes out swinging on several fronts, about how my friends must be racists. While it's quite possible someone I know holds an idea like that, they don't seem to share it as I don't chose to associate with backwards rednecks.
If this is how you treat people who are for creating understanding and tolerance, I do not see you getting far with educating people.
May the giant spaghetti monster gift you with a long and full life.
I dislike Kreia in the second one. She even pesters you from a distance about things when you kicked her out of the party for being annoying. They spend way to much time hitting you over the head with how bad it is to help people or be giving of ones self, it makes playing light side a real downer.
Sure life is never perfect, the strong always prey on the weak, blah blah. They just went about it in a rather heavy handed and bothersome manner.
I agree with VG Cats that the best way to play KOTOR2 is to eat a blaster or light saber first chance you get.
I'm finding I like my Gamecube RE titles beter then the PS2 versions. Then again, I have always hated the god damn interface no matter what platform it was on.
A majority of people I saw playing gameboys back in the late 80's early 90's were adults. The adult portable gamer as you call them has existed for well over a decade in large numbers and continues to play what they enjoy, be it GBA, DS, Game Gear, PSP, or Turbo Express.
Did you think no adults played portable games until NGauge?
Please tell me you are not using that horribly inaccurate Wikipedia submission as a basis for things as it has major problems with factual accuracy of it's claims. For instance no corporation created Melfina, the person who opend the case containing either character was not the one who stole them.
"Sino-Anglo "confeceracy" in firefly, the two remaining human superpowers in outlaw star are: some kind of english speaking european type power and some kind of mandarin speaking red-china type power. The main characters of course belong to a third group, outlaw to both."
From what I remember (in Outlaw Star) one group is the Pirates and the other is the government.
"final episode (on dvd) supposedly has a line to the effect of "I have become the ship" uttered by the mysterious "frozen chick""
I cant tell if you are talking about the final of Firefly or Outlaw Star.
Melfina was "part" of the ship from the start, she navigates the ship and could perceive the galactic lay line. This is rather different from River, and if you get into her biology and Rivers powers it's even more drastic a difference. As for what River said, it was her messing with the mind of the bounty hunter, nothing more. she was in his ship using the comm system, at the time she made that statement.
"Secret agents (government? para-government? they obviously work for the real power brokers) chasing after the experiment have mystical 'powers' analogous to the organization in outlaw star chasing after the ship&malfina."
The dudes chasing them with the "mystic powers" (Tao Magic) were the Kei Pirates. They were after the ship and her so they could get the power of the galactic lay line. They did not make the ship or Melfina, but were "helping" the mad scientist who made them for their own ends. I don't quite see the connection to Firefly there, but you seem to. In firefly the company that "hurt" River used it's own super-dudes to hunt them, and a few bounty hunters got involved because the money was good (even Jayne turned on them).
May I ask about the plot points and names you mention? I don't buy the "Mal" nickname being in relation to Melfina, as his first name is Malcolm
I like both shows, there may in fact be some nods to Outlaw Star in Firefly, but everyone asked seems to say that isn't the case and the examples I see most often are singular (chick frozen in box) or vague (bad guys are chasing them, it's the same). I think there are more major differences then major likenesses.
If you blur the details a lot more matches up. I think if you looked you could make a list of things showing how Firefly was based on Cowboy Bebop, or Trigun, maybe even Space Adventure Cobra. Heck both Firefly and Outlaw Star can be compared to Sol Bianca, Brave Star, and countless other cartoon/live action TV series.
MY wife and I would gladly pay for a "TV License" if we could get unmutilated (BBC America sucks for the most part) access to all the fine things produced (tv, radio, pantomime, whatever).
Thats not how the first series turned out. Some episodes were like that, bet I think a majority of them actually were not resolved bythe doctor himself. Someone in the show for one reason or another make a descision that resolves the situation, or the doctor has no ability to resolve the situation and can only hope things work out.
If you want I can give specifics, but as some people probably have not seen it, I will keep things spoiler free.
I never understood things liek this. Even if the demand is small they could make enough money to justify hiring a person, buying a DVD duplicator and recordable media.
Yah, it's not like getting 100K or a million copies pressed printed and boxed, but the peopel who want to buy an obscure show, have money and dont care much about how slick the marketing blurbs are.
My guess is that X is that shitastic BBC America that butchers shows to horn in commercials and gives Americans shit to watch compared to what the BBC offers it's viewers.
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"Catch-22: The Videogame- It would have been the best WWII-themed game ever. The best part is that it was to contain no action gameplay (except perhaps drunk driving in Jeeps and other mischief). Had it been completed it would have been part economic simulation and part non-linear, non-goal oriented RPG with lots of hilarious dialogue branches."
Sounds like something Rockstar could do half decently.
Why not suggest it to them?
I thought the last good one was Dracula X for the PC Engine (not the other version).
Hey, I didn't even eat the mousse.
"r look at the professor who /lost/ weight on an all mcdonalds diet."
My google-fu is weak. I can not find this person. Do you have a link you can share?
I believe they, like Wendys and a few other chains are based in exciting Columbus, Ohio (where I live).
And dont forget the juice of Sappho, a substantially different drug. ;-)
I blame the "midwest" (where I live) for this. It's rather hard to convince cooks that you do in fact want the food prepared like they should with proper spicing, and not bland it down because some pasty white people once complained about how spicy it was.
It is obvious he is just a car enthusiast from over the pond. If he was a car enthusiast from the USA he would have called himself Ford Escort. ;-)
This reminds me a lot of the Tick (issue 2 I think) where he explains he is not invulnrable but neigh invulnrable.
I think a better quote to illustrate the point would be (this is not exact I think, but I dont have the film handy):
...because I would hate it if you were to say I have a plethora of something and you don't even know what a plethora is.
Jefe: We have stuffed many pinatas for your birthday celebration!
El Guapo: How many pinatas?
Jefe: Many pinatas, many!
El Guapo: Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?
Jefe: Yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora.
El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?
El Guapo:
Are you saying Shinto is responsable for the Japanese atrocities of WWII?
Lure of the Temptress (I think) had a sound clip that played when you selected easy, "Make way for the queens garbage!"
TV sets with only an RF input have been the norm up until less then 10 years ago. Sure you could spend a LOT of money on a high end set with more advanced features, but the average 25" set you could buy at a chain store or sears had just RF.
This is specific to the USA, other countries like Japan or most of Europe were probably ahead of us on these kinds of features being standard.
Have you tried various motion sickness remedies?
Things like Dramamine or those bands that apply pressure around a point on the wrist?
I have seen those kind of things work for real motion sickness, but I have no idea if they help with the game related type.
"Why can there not be an equally balanced game, where at the very least both "sides" of a storyline are playable"
I believe "25 to life" will let you do this.
It's the way you chose to use language. Most of it comes off as directed directly at who you responded to (me), as well as talking down to/treating the other person as if they are ignorant. If you were not directing your comments to me, maybe you should re-read them and consider how the people you are trying to enlighten will read them and rephrase things.
What do you mean with the word shaheb? It is not familiar to me, and I could find nothing on-line except it being used as part of someones name.
I expect you to do nothing, and I don't expect you to care what I think/feel, but you will not open anyones eyes or gain support this way. I do not see the universe as an object that revolves around me. I like sex quit a bit, thats the fun part of being married.
I agree with a lot of the things you posted, as to how colonialists and other groups have treated the world. I was unawares of the details of the NAZI party's dealings with India. I was enlightened by these things. Other things were not news to me.
As for being less confrontational, you are the one who comes out swinging on several fronts, about how my friends must be racists. While it's quite possible someone I know holds an idea like that, they don't seem to share it as I don't chose to associate with backwards rednecks.
If this is how you treat people who are for creating understanding and tolerance, I do not see you getting far with educating people.
May the giant spaghetti monster gift you with a long and full life.
I dislike Kreia in the second one. She even pesters you from a distance about things when you kicked her out of the party for being annoying. They spend way to much time hitting you over the head with how bad it is to help people or be giving of ones self, it makes playing light side a real downer.
Sure life is never perfect, the strong always prey on the weak, blah blah. They just went about it in a rather heavy handed and bothersome manner.
I agree with VG Cats that the best way to play KOTOR2 is to eat a blaster or light saber first chance you get.
I'm finding I like my Gamecube RE titles beter then the PS2 versions. Then again, I have always hated the god damn interface no matter what platform it was on.
A majority of people I saw playing gameboys back in the late 80's early 90's were adults. The adult portable gamer as you call them has existed for well over a decade in large numbers and continues to play what they enjoy, be it GBA, DS, Game Gear, PSP, or Turbo Express.
Did you think no adults played portable games until NGauge?
Please tell me you are not using that horribly inaccurate Wikipedia submission as a basis for things as it has major problems with factual accuracy of it's claims. For instance no corporation created Melfina, the person who opend the case containing either character was not the one who stole them.
"Sino-Anglo "confeceracy" in firefly, the two remaining human superpowers in outlaw star are: some kind of english speaking european type power and some kind of mandarin speaking red-china type power. The main characters of course belong to a third group, outlaw to both."
From what I remember (in Outlaw Star) one group is the Pirates and the other is the government.
"final episode (on dvd) supposedly has a line to the effect of "I have become the ship" uttered by the mysterious "frozen chick""
I cant tell if you are talking about the final of Firefly or Outlaw Star.
Melfina was "part" of the ship from the start, she navigates the ship and could perceive the galactic lay line. This is rather different from River, and if you get into her biology and Rivers powers it's even more drastic a difference. As for what River said, it was her messing with the mind of the bounty hunter, nothing more. she was in his ship using the comm system, at the time she made that statement.
"Secret agents (government? para-government? they obviously work for the real power brokers) chasing after the experiment have mystical 'powers' analogous to the organization in outlaw star chasing after the ship&malfina."
The dudes chasing them with the "mystic powers" (Tao Magic) were the Kei Pirates. They were after the ship and her so they could get the power of the galactic lay line. They did not make the ship or Melfina, but were "helping" the mad scientist who made them for their own ends. I don't quite see the connection to Firefly there, but you seem to. In firefly the company that "hurt" River used it's own super-dudes to hunt them, and a few bounty hunters got involved because the money was good (even Jayne turned on them).
May I ask about the plot points and names you mention? I don't buy the "Mal" nickname being in relation to Melfina, as his first name is Malcolm
I like both shows, there may in fact be some nods to Outlaw Star in Firefly, but everyone asked seems to say that isn't the case and the examples I see most often are singular (chick frozen in box) or vague (bad guys are chasing them, it's the same). I think there are more major differences then major likenesses.
If you blur the details a lot more matches up. I think if you looked you could make a list of things showing how Firefly was based on Cowboy Bebop, or Trigun, maybe even Space Adventure Cobra. Heck both Firefly and Outlaw Star can be compared to Sol Bianca, Brave Star, and countless other cartoon/live action TV series.
Next you're goung to tell me there are not cat detector vans, and that my cat license is invalid.
MY wife and I would gladly pay for a "TV License" if we could get unmutilated (BBC America sucks for the most part) access to all the fine things produced (tv, radio, pantomime, whatever).
Thats not how the first series turned out. Some episodes were like that, bet I think a majority of them actually were not resolved bythe doctor himself. Someone in the show for one reason or another make a descision that resolves the situation, or the doctor has no ability to resolve the situation and can only hope things work out.
If you want I can give specifics, but as some people probably have not seen it, I will keep things spoiler free.
I never understood things liek this. Even if the demand is small they could make enough money to justify hiring a person, buying a DVD duplicator and recordable media.
Yah, it's not like getting 100K or a million copies pressed printed and boxed, but the peopel who want to buy an obscure show, have money and dont care much about how slick the marketing blurbs are.
My guess is that X is that shitastic BBC America that butchers shows to horn in commercials and gives Americans shit to watch compared to what the BBC offers it's viewers.