I had that, too. I recall that it was much, much easier to play than the arcade version. Probably because the joystick could be used to change direction, rather than having to rely on the 'Reverse' button.
Speaking of old clone companies, I was very surprised to hear recently that Everex is still around and still selling computers. The company I'm working at used to buy all Everex machines back in the early-mid 90s. I loved the feel of the keyboards they used to come with - very like my cherished IBM Type M, but 'smoother' and even nicer to type on.
I'm single too. Whenever I have something with the potential to spoil, I simply use it quickly.
For example, I'll buy a loaf of pumpernickel bread, a pound of ham and half a pound of swiss cheese, and eat a sandwich every day for a week. Since I store it in the refrigerator at work, it doesn't have time to go bad. Pasta sauce, I use half a jar one night (on half a box of pasta), and the other half the next day (or 2 days later) (again, refrigerating both). Same idea with milk.
Works well for me, but then I don't care as much about variety in my diet as many people do.
On a mostly unrelated note, when I was in Japan in 2001 they still had good arcades. Arcades have mostly died in the USA due to home consoles; the only arcades left are full of big machines that have controls that cannot be duplicated on a home system (things like recreations of rafts with paddles, skiing slopes, horses, flight cockpits, race car cockpits, etc) that cost $2.00 to play, last 30 seconds, and basically suck. The only good American arcade I have been to in this decade is the one in Chinatown (Manhattan). If you're ever in NH, try Fun Spot. Huge collection of playable 1980s arcade games. I consider this place to be a holy shrine.
Interesting. I've only started going to concerts in the last few years, and noticed that in the the last one I went to. At times all I could hear was very loud static. The venue was a small one and it seemed to me that they didn't have to be anywhere near as loud as they were. This was Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Queensryche was the band.
The dual tuner setup must be nice. As for me, I pretty much never watch live TV. On the rare occasions that I do, I just pause things for a couple of minutes, to give me time to skip over the crap later on.
I've noticed lately that most of the radio stations I rotate through have commercial breaks at about 18 and 48 minutes past the hour. It's annoying.
For this they deserve to burn in hell, although the magazine has had its ups and downs over the years. I think any publication that tries to do interesting things will fall on its face from time to time, and I'll definitely agree that Dragon did. But, when I read articles like the Core Beliefs: Boccob... it tears me up that they killed that. They claim there will be/is an online version, but it won't be Paizo and my subscription is dead. Yeah... I recently excavated the first Dragon I ever bought, the one with the Anti-Paladin class and "Good Hits and Bad Misses" critical/fumble charts. I don't know how they can just kill something with such history. Seems like... hubris to me.
I didn't either. In fact, even the 3.5 thing I understood. They had serious problems with 3.0 and errata just wasn't cutting it. 3.5 addressed those issues, and although there WERE differences, you could still use your 3.0 books with 3.5 as long as you knew where the major pitfalls were. I agree. Aside from a few things I didn't quite agree with, 3.5 was a good, incremental improvement over 3.0.
It was when Hasbro bought Wizards that they started pushing books that made no sense (why do we need a Complete Arcane *and* a complete Mage), only to then re-publish compendiums of all of the old material from those books because there was too much to read. Toward the end there, I get the impression that they were just bundling up random ideas every 6 months, and binding them in hardcover:-).
I can't see 4.0 being worth it. Everything I've heard reads like they've ripped the soul out of 3.5 and made it much more a cookie-cutter game like the worst elements of original 1st ed. combined with a video game. Yes, I'd like to see level 1 wizards that aren't going to fall over when they see a cockroach, but not at the expense of the creative process of character creation and campaign planning. The whole "everyone will have more defined roles in the party," thing sounds to me like classic video game play, not what I look for in a tabletop game. That was my thought: it's like they're trying to dumb things down to make it appeal to kids who've known only WoW/EQ/etc.
I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'll want to play 4.0, but it will be a few years before I get over this feeling of betrayal (petty though that may be). For now, I'll see what Monte Cook's World of Darkness is like, and if it makes White Wolf games something I'd want to play. I'll take a look at it, thanks.
They killed the RPGA. Meh.
They killed Dungeon Magazine. A pity, because it usually had good stuff. I never subscribed, but I bought an issue now and then.
They killed Dragon Magazine. For this they deserve to burn in hell, although the magazine has had its ups and downs over the years.
They have set an end-of-life on half my bookshelf, the cost of which I don't want to think about. I'm in the same situation: I have pretty much every hardcover book that isn't specific to FR or Eberron, along with a bunch of stuff from other publishers (Mongoose, etc). Not to mention a few of the other d20 system books such as Traveller, Black Company, Star Wars, Mutants & Masterminds...
The day they ended their license to Paizo for the magazines, was the day I canceled over $100 of pre-orders with Amazon for Wizards' products. I have spent thousands of dollars with them over the last decade on card games, tabletop books, etc. I will never buy from them again.
Burn me once, shame on you. Don't expect pre-orders for "Burn Me Again 4.0." Since the early days of 2ed, with its recycled artwork and the increasing obviousness that T$R wasn't willing to pay even minimum wage to proofreaders to look over their stuff before it got to the printers, I've known that T$R was primarily concerned with making money. Aside from the 3.0->3.5 bait & switch, I haven't had much to complain about since WotC took over, though.
I play in 2 D&D groups (both of them containing people whom you know:-)). I suspect one of them will be ok with sticking to 3.5 rules. The other will probably want to move to 4.0, simply because of the announced rules improvements (though I'll wait to judge that until I see the details). The 4.0 rules will have to be spectacularly good for me to pay for them, I think.
1) It is still unsolicited e-mail. You may think that there's something I really, really want. You may believe to the core of your being it is something I care about. You may still be wrong. There may well be people in those restricted countries that just don't give a shit. Perhaps all of the web they care about is allowed through the filters. Thus they really don't want to hear from you. That's how I feel about Slashdot sigs. Funny quotes, etc: those were ok. Then more and more people began putting advertising crap there (free iPod,/gmail account anyone?), so I turned off sigs in my preferences.
Then, people started using browser plugins, or just cutting and pasting, to add their crap to every message in a way that turning off sigs won't stop. So, my only recourse here is to mark those people as a Foe. I think some of these people genuinely think they're doing people a service. One in particular had something to do with solar energy, for example.
I don't care how positive your message is, if you attempt to force it on me by bypassing the filters I have in place, you have earned my contempt.
So, to answer TFA's question, No, it is not ok to spam people about your proxies, even if it's to advance the cause of freedom.
I *just* ordered a set of 3.5 books after getting back into the game. I started losing interest in the game around the time they introduced the bard class (I kind of felt they jumped the shark) Odd, the bard class has been in the Players handbook in all the various editions. The only time it wasn't a 'core' class was 1st edition, where it was a horribly complex optional class.
Oh, maybe you're talking about the old 'D&D' rather than 'AD&D', in which case, I withdraw this comment, as I never played Basic Set after the hardcover books started coming out. (although I started D&D with the boxed set)
Fringeworthy broke the body down to multiple charts for each part of the body, then had ways to track exactly what organs, bones, arteries, etc were struck by the penetrating bullet. Fun, gory stuff.
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I had that, too. I recall that it was much, much easier to play than the arcade version. Probably because the joystick could be used to change direction, rather than having to rely on the 'Reverse' button.
Speaking of old clone companies, I was very surprised to hear recently that Everex is still around and still selling computers. The company I'm working at used to buy all Everex machines back in the early-mid 90s. I loved the feel of the keyboards they used to come with - very like my cherished IBM Type M, but 'smoother' and even nicer to type on.
Same here - I'm on Comcast and they don't seem to block port 25 outgoing.
I'm in NH.
Not since I reached puberty.
(Just joking, I love Rush)
Hey, *my* ass government is for the people, by the people!
(No, I don't know what that means; I just thought it sounded funny)
I'm single too. Whenever I have something with the potential to spoil, I simply use it quickly.
For example, I'll buy a loaf of pumpernickel bread, a pound of ham and half a pound of swiss cheese, and eat a sandwich every day for a week. Since I store it in the refrigerator at work, it doesn't have time to go bad. Pasta sauce, I use half a jar one night (on half a box of pasta), and the other half the next day (or 2 days later) (again, refrigerating both). Same idea with milk.
Works well for me, but then I don't care as much about variety in my diet as many people do.
My first thought was command completion in emacs. I vaguely remember having that in the mid-80s.
This isn't on iTunes, but it is only available only on the web:
Sanctuary
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess that 'I' stands for 'Intelligence', not 'Security' :-).
Interesting. I've only started going to concerts in the last few years, and noticed that in the the last one I went to. At times all I could hear was very loud static. The venue was a small one and it seemed to me that they didn't have to be anywhere near as loud as they were. This was Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Queensryche was the band.
The dual tuner setup must be nice. As for me, I pretty much never watch live TV. On the rare occasions that I do, I just pause things for a couple of minutes, to give me time to skip over the crap later on.
I've noticed lately that most of the radio stations I rotate through have commercial breaks at about 18 and 48 minutes past the hour. It's annoying.
Id say so.
Burn me once, shame on you. Don't expect pre-orders for "Burn Me Again 4.0." Since the early days of 2ed, with its recycled artwork and the increasing obviousness that T$R wasn't willing to pay even minimum wage to proofreaders to look over their stuff before it got to the printers, I've known that T$R was primarily concerned with making money. Aside from the 3.0->3.5 bait & switch, I haven't had much to complain about since WotC took over, though.
I play in 2 D&D groups (both of them containing people whom you know
I wonder if it would have lost its flavor on a bedpost over 5,000 years.
Then, people started using browser plugins, or just cutting and pasting, to add their crap to every message in a way that turning off sigs won't stop. So, my only recourse here is to mark those people as a Foe. I think some of these people genuinely think they're doing people a service. One in particular had something to do with solar energy, for example.
I don't care how positive your message is, if you attempt to force it on me by bypassing the filters I have in place, you have earned my contempt.
So, to answer TFA's question, No, it is not ok to spam people about your proxies, even if it's to advance the cause of freedom.
Hello, Samwise.
Had we known this craft pleases you, we could have taught you much.
And the song was "Compact Disk Killed the Cassette Tape Star".
And a hobbit :-).
You've summed up my own feelings on the subject better than I've ever been able to.
Ben, I'll give you $500 for that pair of glasses, right now.
Ah, but what happens when a Sphere of Annihilation hits your Black Globe shield?
Oh, maybe you're talking about the old 'D&D' rather than 'AD&D', in which case, I withdraw this comment, as I never played Basic Set after the hardcover books started coming out. (although I started D&D with the boxed set)
Fringeworthy broke the body down to multiple charts for each part of the body, then had ways to track exactly what organs, bones, arteries, etc were struck by the penetrating bullet. Fun, gory stuff.