> At 04:00 PM 9/28/01 -0400, William Adams wrote:
> A long while ago, Chex did a Doom clone where the weapon was a teleporter or some such and one was rounding up stray serial bits (I got the CD with a box of cereal my wife brought home, but've ever played it
> (moderating this thread, so couldn't post)
> William
Interesting scenery means big fat colorful animals or cartoon characters, not Fog's O Death, bottomless pits, and lava:-)
The ambience should be "lego" not "Marilyn Manson"
My toddler likes to pick up the gamepad and push the buttons while watching my screen saver swirl around (gee, does this mean daddy is on the computer too much?). I'd like to put on some 3D First-Person game so he can get feedback and enjoy making it walk around and jump up and down. Can anyone recommend a FPS and a level or mod that would look interesting to a toddler with NO VIOLENCE and NO MONSTERS in it.
BTW, before you even mention it, Blowing Barney's head off with a shotgun, while satisfying for me, is definitely a no-no for a toddler.
I will try Half-Life in the "reception area" at the beginning of the game. There are a few guards and scientists, interesting walls, and no monsters. But I'd like something more interesting for him.
Here on Earth we have many different races that all look different. Some have all short black hair, some have all long blond hair, some are very short, some are very tall. Some have facial hair, some don't. Some have wide-set round eyes, some have close-set slanted eyes. Add different clothing styles and you have everything from robes and turbans to business suits.
Why is it that given this diversity on our one real example of an inhabited planet, everybody gets all bent trying to explain how Klingon's could have different looks?
Are *all* Klingons from the same racial group?
Is *all* of Vulcan hot desert?
Is *all* of every other minor planet sparse forest with large styrofoam boulders strewn about?
agreed. The theme song is about as exciting and topical as the theme song from "The Greatest American Hero"... 'Believe it or not I'm walking on air...'
But I really liked the opening scenes. The "Right Stuff" historical walkthrough connected Star Trek with our very real present day attempts at space flight. It made me feel like this show could happen in the near future if we just tried hard enough. None of the other Star Treks have evoked that sense of hope since the original series (corny as it was). I think people forget one of the reasons the original became such a phenomina was because at that time anything seemed possible and people thought the show could be a blueprint for a better world. The other series were so far in the future and so removed from the real world they didn't have any of that feeling.
Then you will love this Maxim pictorial where Jolene Blalock shows us some Vulcan anatomy.
Some interesting quotes as well:
Captain Archer: Tell me something about yourself, T'Pol.
T'Pol: "I love when I sort of come to and I'm on the other side of the room, sweaty and breathing heavy, with bottles and ashtrays tipped over everywhere. I'm like, 'What just happened? Oh yeah, I got laid. Gotcha.'"
>I conduct Penetration Testing and Vulnerability assesments for a living.
>All it takes is one bad customer relationship to cause a false accusation...
Part of your standard business practice should be to get a signed authorization to probe a client's systems.
Or in "Penetration Testing" does 'NO' sometimes mean 'YES'?:-)
>Since one cannot see the keys inside the cavities, their character assignments can be reassigned for optimum alphabet distribution in any language
I was so impressed with this "feature" that I used white-out to blank all the labels on my standard QWERTY keyboard. Now I too can reassign my character assignments without confusion!
>If the instructions in the fancy sets blind you to the other ways to use the pieces, just buy the big blue tubs of basic bricks
I bought a big tub of Kentucky Fried Chicken and have built a nifty robot out of the pieces. If you hold them together until the grease congeals they stick together nicely. I put it on my mantle, and it looks great! It's starting to smell pretty bad though:-(
>If you follow the link in this comment's parent, you'll find a picture of a person in the upper left-hand corner of the page.
>Is it a man or a woman?
Um, Hello? "GAY"le Olson?
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> Too bad that's the Empire State Building.
Yeah, you're right, A jet airplane flying into a New York landmark skyscraper has absolutely no similarity to a jet airplane flying into a different New York landmark skyscraper. Sorry for not impressing you.
No wonder you stay an anonymous coward!
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> Nice X-10 troll there, kudos.
Don't blame me, blame Geocities. I put the picture up on Geocities so I wouldn't hit my own server with the Slashdot effect. Geocities detected too much traffic and decided they couldn't handle pushing out a 60K image, so instead they push out a much bigger X-10 advertisement. Um.... can't you read? Didn't it say the site was temporarily halted due to too much traffic?
Anyway, I just checked and the site is back.
Could someone with more bandwidth please mirror it? It's only one page...
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There should be a "panic button" like they have in banks to send a signal to the ground that there has been a hijacking.
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This isn't supposed to be flamebait, but I'm sure I'll get slammed for it. I'm not going to be an anonymous coward over this, so please respond with thought not blind bigotry.
The people who did this are barbaric animals with no regard for life.
Having said that, perhaps the U.S. should think twice about supporting and funding Israel's occupation and methodical elimination of the Palestinian homeland. It's no surprise that the Middle East region all refers to Israel as the 51st state of the USA. I wish influential American Jews would do more to push for moderation in Israel and for US separation from the issue.
Just recently the UN discussions used some 'heated' words to describe Israel's policies (racist, etc) and both Israel and the US walked out of the talks. Why is condemnation of Israeli policy an insult to the US? The US and Israel are rightfully seen as a political unit. Why are my tax dollars paying for this?
Now I'm sure public opinion will swing even more strongly against any Arab viewpoints, making any peace unlikely.
For the record I am neither Arabic nor Jewish. Just a citizen of the USA that has become more and more disheartened to see a nation of people that know terrible oppression firsthand now dishing it out.
>My only problem is that I don't exactly agree with games-playing - I think that there are so many other ways to spend your time that sitting in front of a computer screen is all rather sad
Yeah, I agree! I must read several thousand Slashdot comments every day from people who I think spend too much time playing computer games. Stop wasting your valuable time people! Start working on your Slashdot karma!
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> At 04:00 PM 9/28/01 -0400, William Adams wrote:
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> A long while ago, Chex did a Doom clone where the weapon was a teleporter or some such and one was rounding up stray serial bits (I got the CD with a box of cereal my wife brought home, but've ever played it
> (moderating this thread, so couldn't post)
> William
Thanks!
A quick trip to Google reveals this: http://www.theunderdogs.org/game.php?name=Chex+Qu
I'm downloading it right now.
> Fog O Death, bottomless pit, or the lava
:-)
You don't have a toddler, do you?
Interesting scenery means big fat colorful animals or cartoon characters, not Fog's O Death, bottomless pits, and lava
The ambience should be "lego" not "Marilyn Manson"
Bill Gates earned $666,000 last year?
Devil: Ok, Bill, you did a great job this year. We are going to give you a raise to the standard 'Evil' salary of $666K.
Don't you guys read Steven King?
He did an expose on helper monkeys going bad.
After the warrantee runs out they turn evil and do bad things to you.
> I have been using a 6ft fiberglass pole as a remote for years now
Poke... poke...
*bang*
Damn! I've got to mount that DVD player more firmly!
*crash*
Damn! There goes another TV screen!
*skewer*
Damn! There goes another cat!
I'm serious.
My toddler likes to pick up the gamepad and push the buttons while watching my screen saver swirl around (gee, does this mean daddy is on the computer too much?). I'd like to put on some 3D First-Person game so he can get feedback and enjoy making it walk around and jump up and down. Can anyone recommend a FPS and a level or mod that would look interesting to a toddler with NO VIOLENCE and NO MONSTERS in it.
BTW, before you even mention it, Blowing Barney's head off with a shotgun, while satisfying for me, is definitely a no-no for a toddler.
I will try Half-Life in the "reception area" at the beginning of the game. There are a few guards and scientists, interesting walls, and no monsters. But I'd like something more interesting for him.
I don't think they have the engineering resources to figure out how to install a bigger hard drive and an ethernet card.
Hmmmph. Now I know the secret to Karma. Forget posting useful information... I'll just keep up the sex jokes.
> 52 hours of porn is what I need.
Actually, from what I hear, 30 seconds of porn is what you need.
>appearance of the Klingons
Here on Earth we have many different races that all look different. Some have all short black hair, some have all long blond hair, some are very short, some are very tall. Some have facial hair, some don't. Some have wide-set round eyes, some have close-set slanted eyes. Add different clothing styles and you have everything from robes and turbans to business suits.
Why is it that given this diversity on our one real example of an inhabited planet, everybody gets all bent trying to explain how Klingon's could have different looks?
Are *all* Klingons from the same racial group?
Is *all* of Vulcan hot desert?
Is *all* of every other minor planet sparse forest with large styrofoam boulders strewn about?
> The theme song has to go
agreed. The theme song is about as exciting and topical as the theme song from "The Greatest American Hero"... 'Believe it or not I'm walking on air...'
But I really liked the opening scenes. The "Right Stuff" historical walkthrough connected Star Trek with our very real present day attempts at space flight. It made me feel like this show could happen in the near future if we just tried hard enough. None of the other Star Treks have evoked that sense of hope since the original series (corny as it was). I think people forget one of the reasons the original became such a phenomina was because at that time anything seemed possible and people thought the show could be a blueprint for a better world. The other series were so far in the future and so removed from the real world they didn't have any of that feeling.
Then you will love this Maxim pictorial where Jolene Blalock shows us some Vulcan anatomy.
Some interesting quotes as well:
Captain Archer: Tell me something about yourself, T'Pol.
T'Pol: "I love when I sort of come to and I'm on the other side of the room, sweaty and breathing heavy, with bottles and ashtrays tipped over everywhere. I'm like, 'What just happened? Oh yeah, I got laid. Gotcha.'"
>I conduct Penetration Testing and Vulnerability assesments for a living.
:-)
>All it takes is one bad customer relationship to cause a false accusation...
Part of your standard business practice should be to get a signed authorization to probe a client's systems.
Or in "Penetration Testing" does 'NO' sometimes mean 'YES'?
>Since one cannot see the keys inside the cavities, their character assignments can be reassigned for optimum alphabet distribution in any language
I was so impressed with this "feature" that I used white-out to blank all the labels on my standard QWERTY keyboard. Now I too can reassign my character assignments without confusion!
>a giant rubber-powered airplane that is supposed to fly a person some day.
Welcome to Condom-Air!
I can just see the reaction in the Midwest Bible-Belt as giant phalluses fly overhead...
>what mess it would be if the rubber [...] broke
Of course, that's how you make NEW airplanes!
>If the instructions in the fancy sets blind you to the other ways to use the pieces, just buy the big blue tubs of basic bricks
:-(
I bought a big tub of Kentucky Fried Chicken and have built a nifty robot out of the pieces. If you hold them together until the grease congeals they stick together nicely. I put it on my mantle, and it looks great! It's starting to smell pretty bad though
>Is it a man or a woman?
Um, Hello? "GAY"le Olson?
> Too bad that's the Empire State Building.
Yeah, you're right, A jet airplane flying into a New York landmark skyscraper has absolutely no similarity to a jet airplane flying into a different New York landmark skyscraper. Sorry for not impressing you.
No wonder you stay an anonymous coward!
> Nice X-10 troll there, kudos.
Don't blame me, blame Geocities. I put the picture up on Geocities so I wouldn't hit my own server with the Slashdot effect. Geocities detected too much traffic and decided they couldn't handle pushing out a 60K image, so instead they push out a much bigger X-10 advertisement. Um.... can't you read? Didn't it say the site was temporarily halted due to too much traffic?
Anyway, I just checked and the site is back.
Could someone with more bandwidth please mirror it? It's only one page...
It was also prophesied in this Marchon advertisement
This showed up in my mailbox the morning of the disaster...
Eerie cooincidence? Evidence of Marchon Eyewear's terrorist connections? Psychic advertisers?
Don't get mad at Marchon's apparent bad taste. This ad was obviously planned, printed, and mailed before the tragedy at the World Trade Center.
There should be a "panic button" like they have in banks to send a signal to the ground that there has been a hijacking.
The people who did this are barbaric animals with no regard for life.
Having said that, perhaps the U.S. should think twice about supporting and funding Israel's occupation and methodical elimination of the Palestinian homeland. It's no surprise that the Middle East region all refers to Israel as the 51st state of the USA. I wish influential American Jews would do more to push for moderation in Israel and for US separation from the issue.
Just recently the UN discussions used some 'heated' words to describe Israel's policies (racist, etc) and both Israel and the US walked out of the talks. Why is condemnation of Israeli policy an insult to the US? The US and Israel are rightfully seen as a political unit. Why are my tax dollars paying for this?
Now I'm sure public opinion will swing even more strongly against any Arab viewpoints, making any peace unlikely.
For the record I am neither Arabic nor Jewish. Just a citizen of the USA that has become more and more disheartened to see a nation of people that know terrible oppression firsthand now dishing it out.
Yeah, I agree! I must read several thousand Slashdot comments every day from people who I think spend too much time playing computer games. Stop wasting your valuable time people! Start working on your Slashdot karma!