I can never remember, is this the species of aliens that destroyed the Earth in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or is it one of the Warriors Three in the Thor comic (RIP)?
> For gamers who really appreciated this under-marketed and lovably > quirky title, this is just another low blow.
Truly it's a slap in the face to the minimaxers who are doing things like getting up to 7 PVPS (piñata visits per second), and slogging through hundreds of hours of mind numbing repetitive tedium to gain enough faction to get piñatas of opposing species to mate.
Oh, sure, anyone can use the secret code to enable the gory fragging options, but to enable it using purely legal [b]and intended[/b] in-game mechanics is a whole 'nother ballgame of superior ability! Kneel! Kneel before Zod!
> I [a medical doctor] did 8 years schooling (that I am still paying for) > followed by 7 years of residency and fellowship training in which I made > $50K for 80 hour weeks + overnight in hospital calls and every third > weekend on call. I think I'm due a bit more than average U.S. income, thank-you-very-much.
And this is why socialized medicine is evil -- in a free country, the government is not empowered to tell you how much you should earn. Freedom means much more than just freedom of speech or of religion. What good is free speech if every last detail of your life is proscribed by politicians?
> I was actually discussing the Roman/Chinese question with a genetic anthropologist > over dinner the other night. She's tracking > >... > > of course the hard part is sitting in the region and getting people to give you genetic samples
Is she cute? "Excuse me, sir. Could you give me a genetic sample?" "Uhh, sure, no problem!"
For games, that's not necessarily the case. Indeed, it's rarely the case. There are a number of popular video games the past 10 years that were 17+ only, like Kingpin or that other mafia game ("Mafia"?) In them, the cut scenes (and live action!) have people swearing with full blown 4-letter words, then blowing people away in very gorey action.
The only two "sexy" modern games (not counting the hackable GTA scene) are the beach volleyball and creating a maximally assy with small waist girl in City of Heroes.:)
Wal-mart might very well tell them "you will refund us for every piece of crap we take back and can't re-sell, regardless of reason, or we won't sell your stuff. Licensing agreements? I'm sorry, there's the door."
> The village...dates from about the time Stonehenge was built, 2600 BCE.
Holy crap! People in England were worshipping the wrong false god two thousand years before Moses was even born to tell 'em what the right one was! Heck, this was thousands of years before Yahweh had his girlfriend Ishtar and other gods of his pantheon stripped away!
Not official launches, they don't. And even unofficial ones, I'm sure we've made it quite clear to North Korea or Iran that an unofficial launch from their territory would be just as devastating, requiring a "full retaliatory response", in order to help them focus their attention on preventing terrorists and "rogue elements" from "accidentally" getting ahold of them. We've told as much to Russia and China. "If we're gonna be blown up by stuff from your nation, anyway, well, W.O.P.R. says 'let's do this thing!' "
But all of it is superior to the "hello-miss-do-you-want-to-go-out-on-a-date-with-m e-let's-see-Resident-Evil-II-movie-I-hear-they're- giving-away-special-Magic-The-Gathering-cards" technology used around here for years.
[ ] Don't not install Windows Premium Video Auto-Degradation Service [ ] Don't not uninstall Windows Genuine Disadvantage Uninstaller Live Action Update Service
I wish I had that option. My "repair" disk just starts formatting after you approve it. Which is odd, I thought there would have been a "repair" option.
since otherwise the only option for disaster recovery in the absence of backups would be to wipe a machine, install XP, and then upgrade to Vista. This will certainly make disaster recovery a more irritating experience.'
Irritating? Hardly! I'm an old hand at XP reinstalls, having re-installed it 5 times on my Alienware since purchase 3 years ago, 3 times due to virus infiltration and 2 times due to the system just crashing (and one of those seemed to be virus-related.)
I just hope Microsoft doesn't limit reinstalls to the same hardware to 3 or something stupid like that before presuming you are a thief! They wouldn't do that, would they?
All computer chess games increase the difficulty by making the opponent play smarter.
No chess game ups the difficulty by adding pawns and bishops to the other side (more opponents but rules otherwise stay the same and equal), or giving the knights the ability to jump in L or F or Z patterns, or lets the rooks move on diagonals like queens, (different, "easier" rules for computer) or, worst of all, gimping your side (harder rules for you = doubly lame because not only do you not play by the same rules, but you're a wimp compared to normal mode.)
Warcraft III pursued this latter method, where you units were gimped vs. normal gameplay (e.g. towers outshoot meat wagons normally, but in hard mode, they do not, forcing you to bum rush meatwagons or they'll slowly tear your towers down at no threat to themselves.)
This strategy is the lamest of all, and indicates embarassingly poor design on the part of the Warcraft III people. (And if you're looking for a squad-based RTS, I would suggest the infinitely superior Sacrifice.)
I had Mac Othello on a Mac Plus (that's how long ago it was) and I played it vs. the Othello that came with the old Windows (pre-Win 95). With both on expert, the Mac one whipped the Windows one (I would have to make the moves the computer made manually on the other computer's open game.)
So I set the Mac to easy, and let the Windows dominate until it was far beyond hopeless, something like 3 chips left for the Mac side with the Windows side very bloated. Then I jammed the Mac one up to expert, and it actually managed to pull out a win.
I read somewhere that scientists estimate a black hole dropped into the Earth would have to be on the order of a centimeter or larger before it would grow faster than it would evaporate away.
And that much would probably require a few full-sized mountains to create, if not more. A few dozen atoms' worth of mass ain't gonna cut it.
> The implants are 2-millimeter-wide chips surgically implanted in the back of eye. > The article makes clear that the implants don't allow the cats to see -- what > they get [are] impulses of light.
Man, and I thought tying a bell to it's tail would make the cat run around crazy! These guys are serious.
I wonder if this counts the 5 times I've reinstalled Windows XP on my 3+ year old Alienware because of viruses. If they only allow a limited number of reinstalls, I guess I'm "not genuine" by this point. >:-(
On the positive side, my wife's laptop is only up to its 3rd reinstall.
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I can never remember, is this the species of aliens that destroyed the Earth in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or is it one of the Warriors Three in the Thor comic (RIP)?
Damn, you are a big-assed bunch of incompetents! You should have giant L's tatooed on your foreheads. :)
Cheats? Too hard? No such things!
Quake on Nightmare? Please, duplicated a 36 second final run on the lava god.
BG solo on hardest? Spare me, my dog did that.
Icewind Dale II on "Heart of Fury" made you cry? Try doing it with two level 1 chars from scratch, no imported goodies or money.
All 120 levels of original Lemmings, no peeking at solutions >:(
SW: KoToR I and II? Bah, get back to me when you can 1-shot the undead guy in the second battle with him at the end.
Duke Nukem on the hardest non-respawning setting, including starting final battle with nothing more than a half-full chaingun? "Game over!"
Warcraft III on hardest, including getting the bonus item way up top on that idiotic timed mission in the first Act? Chimpanzees could do it.
You guys didn't think the bards wrote their songs telling the tales of your 14m3@$$3d adventures, did you?
> For gamers who really appreciated this under-marketed and lovably
> quirky title, this is just another low blow.
Truly it's a slap in the face to the minimaxers who are doing things like getting up to 7 PVPS (piñata visits per second), and slogging through hundreds of hours of mind numbing repetitive tedium to gain enough faction to get piñatas of opposing species to mate.
Oh, sure, anyone can use the secret code to enable the gory fragging options, but to enable it using purely legal [b]and intended[/b] in-game mechanics is a whole 'nother ballgame of superior ability! Kneel! Kneel before Zod!
> I [a medical doctor] did 8 years schooling (that I am still paying for)
> followed by 7 years of residency and fellowship training in which I made
> $50K for 80 hour weeks + overnight in hospital calls and every third
> weekend on call. I think I'm due a bit more than average U.S. income, thank-you-very-much.
And this is why socialized medicine is evil -- in a free country, the government is not empowered to tell you how much you should earn. Freedom means much more than just freedom of speech or of religion. What good is free speech if every last detail of your life is proscribed by politicians?
> I was actually discussing the Roman/Chinese question with a genetic anthropologist ...
> over dinner the other night. She's tracking
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> of course the hard part is sitting in the region and getting people to give you genetic samples
Is she cute? "Excuse me, sir. Could you give me a genetic sample?" "Uhh, sure, no problem!"
For games, that's not necessarily the case. Indeed, it's rarely the case. There are a number of popular video games the past 10 years that were 17+ only, like Kingpin or that other mafia game ("Mafia"?) In them, the cut scenes (and live action!) have people swearing with full blown 4-letter words, then blowing people away in very gorey action.
:)
The only two "sexy" modern games (not counting the hackable GTA scene) are the beach volleyball and creating a maximally assy with small waist girl in City of Heroes.
Wal-mart might very well tell them "you will refund us for every piece of crap we take back and can't re-sell, regardless of reason, or we won't sell your stuff. Licensing agreements? I'm sorry, there's the door."
It's good to be the king.
Please provide links to web sites you cannot access within the United States.
:(
Please provide info about how the US monitors their citizens without due process of law, i.e. warrants for searches. Oh, wait. Nevermind!
> This would apply to the US seeking information about posters to AlQueida webistes...
Trying to track down those plotting to blow up your buildings and kill your citizens does indeed count as a legitimate law enforcement purpose.
> Bosworth On Why AJAX Failed, Then Succeeded
Oh what the hell does "Lois Lean" know, anyway? >:-(
> The village...dates from about the time Stonehenge was built, 2600 BCE.
Holy crap! People in England were worshipping the wrong false god two thousand years before Moses was even born to tell 'em what the right one was! Heck, this was thousands of years before Yahweh had his girlfriend Ishtar and other gods of his pantheon stripped away!
Not official launches, they don't. And even unofficial ones, I'm sure we've made it quite clear to North Korea or Iran that an unofficial launch from their territory would be just as devastating, requiring a "full retaliatory response", in order to help them focus their attention on preventing terrorists and "rogue elements" from "accidentally" getting ahold of them. We've told as much to Russia and China. "If we're gonna be blown up by stuff from your nation, anyway, well, W.O.P.R. says 'let's do this thing!' "
But all of it is superior to the "hello-miss-do-you-want-to-go-out-on-a-date-with-m e-let's-see-Resident-Evil-II-movie-I-hear-they're- giving-away-special-Magic-The-Gathering-cards" technology used around here for years.
> He went on to say that the Soviet Union and the hostility that it
> had towards the United States no longer existed
What a slap in the face to Putin, eh, in spite of his best efforts!
This includes, and especially applies to things the government does not want you to say.
Just what we need, an installer like this:
[ ] Don't not install Windows Premium Video Auto-Degradation Service
[ ] Don't not uninstall Windows Genuine Disadvantage Uninstaller Live Action Update Service
etc.
I wish I had that option. My "repair" disk just starts formatting after you approve it. Which is odd, I thought there would have been a "repair" option.
I just hope Microsoft doesn't limit reinstalls to the same hardware to 3 or something stupid like that before presuming you are a thief! They wouldn't do that, would they?
All computer chess games increase the difficulty by making the opponent play smarter.
No chess game ups the difficulty by adding pawns and bishops to the other side (more opponents but rules otherwise stay the same and equal), or giving the knights the ability to jump in L or F or Z patterns, or lets the rooks move on diagonals like queens, (different, "easier" rules for computer) or, worst of all, gimping your side (harder rules for you = doubly lame because not only do you not play by the same rules, but you're a wimp compared to normal mode.)
Warcraft III pursued this latter method, where you units were gimped vs. normal gameplay (e.g. towers outshoot meat wagons normally, but in hard mode, they do not, forcing you to bum rush meatwagons or they'll slowly tear your towers down at no threat to themselves.)
This strategy is the lamest of all, and indicates embarassingly poor design on the part of the Warcraft III people. (And if you're looking for a squad-based RTS, I would suggest the infinitely superior Sacrifice.)
I had Mac Othello on a Mac Plus (that's how long ago it was) and I played it vs. the Othello that came with the old Windows (pre-Win 95). With both on expert, the Mac one whipped the Windows one (I would have to make the moves the computer made manually on the other computer's open game.)
So I set the Mac to easy, and let the Windows dominate until it was far beyond hopeless, something like 3 chips left for the Mac side with the Windows side very bloated. Then I jammed the Mac one up to expert, and it actually managed to pull out a win.
"The Computer Is A Cheating Bastard v. 3.2"
I read somewhere that scientists estimate a black hole dropped into the Earth would have to be on the order of a centimeter or larger before it would grow faster than it would evaporate away.
And that much would probably require a few full-sized mountains to create, if not more. A few dozen atoms' worth of mass ain't gonna cut it.
> The implants are 2-millimeter-wide chips surgically implanted in the back of eye.
> The article makes clear that the implants don't allow the cats to see -- what
> they get [are] impulses of light.
Man, and I thought tying a bell to it's tail would make the cat run around crazy! These guys are serious.
I wonder if this counts the 5 times I've reinstalled Windows XP on my 3+ year old Alienware because of viruses. If they only allow a limited number of reinstalls, I guess I'm "not genuine" by this point. >:-(
On the positive side, my wife's laptop is only up to its 3rd reinstall.
The Borg queen is mating with the moties. Nothing to see here. Move along, move along...