(I'm still wondering how they reacted to Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses.")
They probably wouldn't care, as as far as I can remember, Rushdie's novel generated its controversy over its portrayal of Mohammed (hardly something the Catholic Church would care too much about, especially what with that fresco detailing Mohammed in Hell that those extremists tried to blow up last month)
To some extent, I view a director as a conductor. I would not be very happy if I went to an orchestral performance of a Beethoven symphony and discovered that the conductor took it upon himself to cut out major portions of the work.
I know what you're saying, but this happens all the time. Just an example: George Szell and Otto Klemperer both cut a lot out of their (quite famous and popular) recordings of Bruchner's 8th symphony.... In fact, Klemperer said something along the lines that "Bruchner was getting carried away with himself"!
The fact of the matter is that PJ just couldn't fit everything in. My favourite part of the FOTR (A Conspiracy Unmasked) was cut, and I was disapointed. PJ needed to get the plot moving along, and skimming and cutting his way to Rivendell was the only way he could do it without tacking another hour onto the movie (not that many of us would complain....) At least PJ was respectful of the material, unlike Klemperer was. I think since TTT and ROTK have more meat on 'em, we'll see less cutting in the next movies.
wtf are you talking about? Remember when Kings Quest I was 14 5.25 inch floppies?
I'll assume that you're talking about either the updated VGA version of KQ1 or KQ6, which was about 9 3.5' disks. Office's 30 disks is nothing--OS/2 was _sixtysomething_.
But I digress.
Anyone who remembers the early days of CD-ROM games can't really complain about 4 or 5 disc swapping. Remember Sierra's Phantasmagoria? Seven bloody CDs (for a game that was short as hell)! Its sequel wasn't much better--it took up a "mere" six. Wing Commander 4 was also six, as was Gabriel Knight 2.
Yeah, so anyway, my point is that all those games required in-game swapping, whereas this 4.5gb swap bitchfest is merely dealing with installation. My advice to those who deem it necessary to whine:
Suck it up, buttercup-- God didn't give you 80gig drives to sit half-filled with two-year-old MP3s and cheap pr0n couresy of Gnutella.
A good introduction to Mishima is "The Sound of Waves"-- it's not very Mishima-ish, relatively speaking. (anybody feel free to correct) It's one of the few novels that Mishima wrote where the relationships are not "perverted" in one way or another, and I suppose that (along with the "boy-gets-girl" ending) makes it more accessable to Western readers.
Also, the film "Mishima" also makes for interesting viewing purely in terms of following his life, but perhaps reading the Sea of Firtility novels would be a better method of understanding the man himself.
Just to pick nits, Mishima was in fact bisexual- -, yes, he was gay, but he married and had children, who, as some may recall, strongly objected to the gay bar scene in the autobiographical film "Mishima".
Anybody remember Outpost, Sierra Online's foray into the non-adventure game market a couple of years back? It was the most bug-ridden game since, oh, maybe Daggerfall (which turned out to be a GREAT game, go figure), and probably held that title until last year's Pool of Radiance shipped. Anyway, bug-infested, features listed in the manual but not in the actual game (and vice versa), a clumsy interface, the list goes on and on.
Hell, for some reason my friends rented "Die Hard" and "Die Hard with a Vengence" last week.... You think DoubleTake's bad?
There's just something about watching the main terrorist fall from the roof of the hijacked skyscraper from the point of view of the ground (VERY similar to shots we saw from NYC) or even worse, an explosion on Wall Street, covering everyone in a thick cloud of dust that snaps you out of the "escapist movie" mode and blankets everyone with an uneasy silence....
WTF is "NPC"? Do you mean the progressive conservatives ("PCs") or the New Democrats ("NDP")? Does "NPC" stand for the New Progressive Conservatives?!?!?
-Frobozz
Sort of like wasting CPU cycles
on
HDTV Over IP
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· Score: 1
"You can't play Elite on the mainframe! Think how many processor cycles you've wasted! Look, this isn't an Altair we've got here, buddy, it has the storage capacity of 125 college textbooks...."
As the voice of experience, I can say that there's only one major to get past if you're going to teach old people how do use the web:
Drill it into them that it's not that hard.
In most cases, it's foreign to them, so they'll walk into the room expecting something completely abstract. Well, you're not teaching them TCP/IP debugging or anything, so there's nothing that they wouldn't be able to pick up just by common sense.
-Nathan Taylor
According to the AU FAQ, they will release a linux version if the windoze version is sucessful. I assume that there's no linux version to d/l right now.
sooooo.... since you can't run the game, how's about giving away your access code? j/k 8-)
-Frobozz
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(I'm still wondering how they reacted to Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses.")
They probably wouldn't care, as as far as I can remember, Rushdie's novel generated its controversy over its portrayal of Mohammed (hardly something the Catholic Church would care too much about, especially what with that fresco detailing Mohammed in Hell that those extremists tried to blow up last month)
-Frobozz
To some extent, I view a director as a conductor. I would not be very happy if I went to an orchestral performance of a Beethoven symphony and discovered that the conductor took it upon himself to cut out major portions of the work.
I know what you're saying, but this happens all the time. Just an example: George Szell and Otto Klemperer both cut a lot out of their (quite famous and popular) recordings of Bruchner's 8th symphony.... In fact, Klemperer said something along the lines that "Bruchner was getting carried away with himself"!
The fact of the matter is that PJ just couldn't fit everything in. My favourite part of the FOTR (A Conspiracy Unmasked) was cut, and I was disapointed. PJ needed to get the plot moving along, and skimming and cutting his way to Rivendell was the only way he could do it without tacking another hour onto the movie (not that many of us would complain....) At least PJ was respectful of the material, unlike Klemperer was. I think since TTT and ROTK have more meat on 'em, we'll see less cutting in the next movies.
-Frobozz
wtf are you talking about? Remember when Kings Quest I was 14 5.25 inch floppies?
I'll assume that you're talking about either the updated VGA version of KQ1 or KQ6, which was about 9 3.5' disks. Office's 30 disks is nothing--OS/2 was _sixtysomething_.
But I digress.
Anyone who remembers the early days of CD-ROM games can't really complain about 4 or 5 disc swapping. Remember Sierra's Phantasmagoria? Seven bloody CDs (for a game that was short as hell)! Its sequel wasn't much better--it took up a "mere" six. Wing Commander 4 was also six, as was Gabriel Knight 2.
Yeah, so anyway, my point is that all those games required in-game swapping, whereas this 4.5gb swap bitchfest is merely dealing with installation. My advice to those who deem it necessary to whine:
Suck it up, buttercup-- God didn't give you 80gig drives to sit half-filled with two-year-old MP3s and cheap pr0n couresy of Gnutella.
-Frobozz
A good introduction to Mishima is "The Sound of Waves"-- it's not very Mishima-ish, relatively speaking. (anybody feel free to correct) It's one of the few novels that Mishima wrote where the relationships are not "perverted" in one way or another, and I suppose that (along with the "boy-gets-girl" ending) makes it more accessable to Western readers.
Also, the film "Mishima" also makes for interesting viewing purely in terms of following his life, but perhaps reading the Sea of Firtility novels would be a better method of understanding the man himself.
Just to pick nits, Mishima was in fact bisexual- -, yes, he was gay, but he married and had children, who, as some may recall, strongly objected to the gay bar scene in the autobiographical film "Mishima".
-Frobozz
I was expecticing some bizare comic version where you conquer STDsss
A Command and Conquer game where you control microbes? No, that'd be called Divide and Conquer.
-Frobozz
Anybody remember Outpost, Sierra Online's foray into the non-adventure game market a couple of years back? It was the most bug-ridden game since, oh, maybe Daggerfall (which turned out to be a GREAT game, go figure), and probably held that title until last year's Pool of Radiance shipped. Anyway, bug-infested, features listed in the manual but not in the actual game (and vice versa), a clumsy interface, the list goes on and on.
PC Gamer gave it a 93% review in their
September 1994 issue. PC Gamer then proceeded to spend the next half decade apologizing for the rating, even in their review of Outpost 2.
The moral of the story? People can get away with pretty much saying whatever they please, as long as it serves SOMEBODY.
-Frobozz
Hell, for some reason my friends rented "Die Hard" and "Die Hard with a Vengence" last week.... You think DoubleTake's bad?
There's just something about watching the main terrorist fall from the roof of the hijacked skyscraper from the point of view of the ground (VERY similar to shots we saw from NYC) or even worse, an explosion on Wall Street, covering everyone in a thick cloud of dust that snaps you out of the "escapist movie" mode and blankets everyone with an uneasy silence....
-Frobozz
WTF is "NPC"? Do you mean the progressive conservatives ("PCs") or the New Democrats ("NDP")? Does "NPC" stand for the New Progressive Conservatives?!?!?
-Frobozz
"You can't play Elite on the mainframe! Think how many processor cycles you've wasted! Look, this isn't an Altair we've got here, buddy, it has the storage capacity of 125 college textbooks...."
...is that those x10 popups completely bugger up Opera - it doesn't "pop-up" and the banner gets put in the original window. -Frobozz
You mean you don't cuddle with your linux box at naptime already? -Frobozz
As the voice of experience, I can say that there's only one major to get past if you're going to teach old people how do use the web: Drill it into them that it's not that hard. In most cases, it's foreign to them, so they'll walk into the room expecting something completely abstract. Well, you're not teaching them TCP/IP debugging or anything, so there's nothing that they wouldn't be able to pick up just by common sense. -Nathan Taylor
According to the AU FAQ, they will release a linux version if the windoze version is sucessful. I assume that there's no linux version to d/l right now. sooooo.... since you can't run the game, how's about giving away your access code? j/k 8-) -Frobozz