Yes, it looks like a DVD remote. Which is a good thing for most non-gamers because it is familiar.
This argument is driving me crazy. Are there really people out there who look at a video game controller and say "oh my god, that's so scary, I cannot possibly fathom it! run away!!" Maybe. Are these people capable of playing a video game, even with the simplest of controllers? Doubtful.
Humans are fantastic at mapping thought to motion. Typing, playing musical instruments, walking, dancing, swimming, driving a car: give us feedback for a minute motion, and we learn bloody fast.
I'm fine with using spatial mapping as a controlling scheme, it sounds awesome. But stop pushing it like they're trying to lure all of the retarded monkeys they can possibly find into gaming with the magic non-scary stick.
I'd like to believe society in general would be healthier...
Television. More time away from work would result in more time spent staring at the television. Your pursuit of actual hobbies is an exceptional trait that cannot be projected onto the remainder of society.
Head on over to the local used CD place near campus, spend $100 on recommendations and stuff that looks interesting.
Return home and rip and tag and organize everything nicely onto the dedicated storage machine.
When I'm running low on cash, take my accumulated CD stack to said store and sell back
Eventually repeat at 1
The local brick and mortar gets a cut, and I get an ever-expanding library of music that's correctly tagged, in a format I prefer, and at a good bitrate.
My experiences with downloading ripped media is that it's usually poor-quality. About the only thing useful is fan-subbed anime, and they're not on things like eDonkey
Once I get some money stored up for a new RAID in the TB-range, I'll probably start following the same process with DVDs (unless it's something I end up really liking, in which case I prefer the nice case and cover and quality of the version bought from Amazon, like Firefly for example)
being crap, just the 3D Castlevania's and Contra's
Amen to that. I was insanely excited to hear about the new PS2 Castlevania games... until they turned out to be generic 3D garbage. Why not put all that power into fantastically rendered 2D with a GINORMOUS castle, like Symphony of the Night? Why is this so difficult for them to do??
I'm sure tons of people have considered creating their own Castlevania, highlighting their favorite aspects of gameplay... I know I have. But then most of those people are like me in that they have absolutely no idea of where to start.
box that does all the routing and necessary services, with three NICs: one out-facing, one to wifi, one to the core network. It's a FC1 box running dhcpd and bind, and providing routes to other nets via ipsec and cipe.
box that's got two nics (out-facing and core) running procmail and apache, sshd. Not a lot of local storage, it mounts home directories and apache's document-root via NFS
WRT45G
win2k terminal server, for running a few work applications (Lotus Notes, MS Office, Smart-suite)
Weird FileZerver NAS box that I found on eBay cheap. exports a single NFS image that home directories are synched to nightly
proliant 2500 with disk expansion array. 13 disks in all. Currently powered off, because it only provided around 200GB after RAID and was way too noisey.
FC2 box with two 250GB disks doing nothing but NFS on the core net. Hosts home directories. Synchs user home dirs (not the public media dirs, they're too large) nightly to the NAS box mentioned previously.
HP Procurve 4000m switch
APC 1000kVA UPS, APC 750kVA UPS
Huge Compaq Rack enclosure with all the above stuffed inside (not really "on the network" but worth mentioning!)
FC4t3 desktop
FC3 Inspiron 600m
My wife's iBook
HP lj4m printer with NIC.
Almost all of it is scrounged equipment (the laptops obviously aren't). The rack is a gift from my father-in-law (best Christmas EVER)
There are only three games that I've had weird out-of-gaming thoughts regarding.
Tetris looking at floor tiles, brick buildings, or really just about any jagged blocky shape and immediately start thinking of the best way to fill it with tetris pieces
Dance Dance Revolution sometimes random techno music makes me think of arrows, or (god help me) when I've heard Busy Child somewhere and couldn't help but tap the steps. I've also noticed that many tiled floors are very similar in 3x3 tiles to a DDR pad
Jet Grind Radio sitting in a large theatre, I realized I was plotting how to grind/jump/kick-off my way around the inside of the building with the various rails and balconies, and it was fun
I was pointing out that some of us mocked our own "at home" tragedy rather ruthlessly. You'd indicated that we were callous only because this tragedy was not an "at home" occurance and that 9/11 was held somehow more sacred.
As for my threshold...
Do you draw your threshold based upon the severity of the tragedy, or the tasteless nature of the commentary? I'd say that an offhand comment that there are no tsunamis on an enclosed beach in a converted zeppelin hangar was far less irreverent than animated games depicting planes crashing into buildings. Or to another extreme, GWAR's acts with a zombie Laci Peterson and child. You seem to indicate that it is purely head-count which graduates your ability to absorb tragedy. I would posit that even the holocaust would fit well within that range for someone with a high threshold. Yours is somewhere around 100K? 90K is still fine then? I'm going to say that's actually a low threshold, because as you angrily pointed out, many people other than you are still flippant.
It's not bad to be sensitive to other peoples' plights! But on a sliding scale of outrageous comments, this just doesn't rank, and hence claiming to be the incensitive-guy-gone-caring-individual over this particular utterance just doesn't make sense.
How's that for a rambling reply?
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it was months before anyone felt comfortable enough to to discuss anything but the horror
Really? I seem to remember a couple of shockwave games where you shoot planes before they have a chance to fly into sky scrapers, and a whole slew of tasteless (but amusing to the desensitized) animations, visuals, and games.
I have a pretty high threshold, but that makes me ill
I think you have overestimated your threshold
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Just try not to swear too much during your interview:)
Had something similar in the local mall by me, as well. They would only take cash at the stand. If you wanted to use credit card, you had to go to a neighboring stand (apparently run by the same people) which was selling unrelated junk. Sketchy, but the ROMs all apppear about right. *whistles*
User Friendly is one of the most asinine and un-funny strips I've run across that has a large online viewer-base. Not only is the art garbage, but the jokes just aren't there. 'Enfeh', 'wibble'... it's just not amusing.
These things (or rather, an application of ther technology) would make amazing emergency lighting in offices or homes. Heck, even in non-emergency situations. Perhaps a walkway with peizo-electric flagstones to power the lights along its path?
I wonder how much power could be obtained from the highways and biways of America? All those cars racing over millions of little generators all day long should produce a pretty goo amount of electricity, I'd imagine. It would almost make up for the ridiculous cost of burning all those fossil fuels in the first place.
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Where are mod points when you need them?
Your reply nailed everything pretty much right on. I can only hope that it will make its way upwards in moderation so that more people will see it.
Yes, it looks like a DVD remote. Which is a good thing for most non-gamers because it is familiar.
This argument is driving me crazy. Are there really people out there who look at a video game controller and say "oh my god, that's so scary, I cannot possibly fathom it! run away!!" Maybe. Are these people capable of playing a video game, even with the simplest of controllers? Doubtful.
Humans are fantastic at mapping thought to motion. Typing, playing musical instruments, walking, dancing, swimming, driving a car: give us feedback for a minute motion, and we learn bloody fast.
I'm fine with using spatial mapping as a controlling scheme, it sounds awesome. But stop pushing it like they're trying to lure all of the retarded monkeys they can possibly find into gaming with the magic non-scary stick.
I'd like to believe society in general would be healthier...
Television. More time away from work would result in more time spent staring at the television. Your pursuit of actual hobbies is an exceptional trait that cannot be projected onto the remainder of society.
That's my pessimistic viewpoint :)
That's almost the same thing I do with used CDs!
The local brick and mortar gets a cut, and I get an ever-expanding library of music that's correctly tagged, in a format I prefer, and at a good bitrate.
My experiences with downloading ripped media is that it's usually poor-quality. About the only thing useful is fan-subbed anime, and they're not on things like eDonkey
Once I get some money stored up for a new RAID in the TB-range, I'll probably start following the same process with DVDs (unless it's something I end up really liking, in which case I prefer the nice case and cover and quality of the version bought from Amazon, like Firefly for example)
Amen to that. I was insanely excited to hear about the new PS2 Castlevania games... until they turned out to be generic 3D garbage. Why not put all that power into fantastically rendered 2D with a GINORMOUS castle, like Symphony of the Night? Why is this so difficult for them to do??
I'm sure tons of people have considered creating their own Castlevania, highlighting their favorite aspects of gameplay... I know I have. But then most of those people are like me in that they have absolutely no idea of where to start.
It's probably what she considers fair market value for the photos :)
Less than eleven years ago I had a 165MB hard drive and was king of the world.
Almost all of it is scrounged equipment (the laptops obviously aren't). The rack is a gift from my father-in-law (best Christmas EVER)
Th parent link is just a stub that references the real movie file. Here's the link you'll actually want for a direct download of the movie:b let/hp_gobletoffire_m480.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/harry_potter_go
You know what Stuart? I like you. You're not like the other people, here in the trailer park.
Try to hold more than one idea for a "bad thing" in your head at a time.
I know it's hard to keep track of all the names for the things you dislike, but it's really for the best if you'd try.
That's what you have Hellsing for
Don't forget The 13th Warrior in 1999.
There are only three games that I've had weird out-of-gaming thoughts regarding.
looking at floor tiles, brick buildings, or really just about any jagged blocky shape and immediately start thinking of the best way to fill it with tetris pieces
sometimes random techno music makes me think of arrows, or (god help me) when I've heard Busy Child somewhere and couldn't help but tap the steps. I've also noticed that many tiled floors are very similar in 3x3 tiles to a DDR pad
sitting in a large theatre, I realized I was plotting how to grind/jump/kick-off my way around the inside of the building with the various rails and balconies, and it was fun
Luckily, I don't play FPS games
I was pointing out that some of us mocked our own "at home" tragedy rather ruthlessly. You'd indicated that we were callous only because this tragedy was not an "at home" occurance and that 9/11 was held somehow more sacred.
As for my threshold...
Do you draw your threshold based upon the severity of the tragedy, or the tasteless nature of the commentary? I'd say that an offhand comment that there are no tsunamis on an enclosed beach in a converted zeppelin hangar was far less irreverent than animated games depicting planes crashing into buildings. Or to another extreme, GWAR's acts with a zombie Laci Peterson and child. You seem to indicate that it is purely head-count which graduates your ability to absorb tragedy. I would posit that even the holocaust would fit well within that range for someone with a high threshold. Yours is somewhere around 100K? 90K is still fine then? I'm going to say that's actually a low threshold, because as you angrily pointed out, many people other than you are still flippant.
It's not bad to be sensitive to other peoples' plights! But on a sliding scale of outrageous comments, this just doesn't rank, and hence claiming to be the incensitive-guy-gone-caring-individual over this particular utterance just doesn't make sense.
How's that for a rambling reply?
it was months before anyone felt comfortable enough to to discuss anything but the horror
Really? I seem to remember a couple of shockwave games where you shoot planes before they have a chance to fly into sky scrapers, and a whole slew of tasteless (but amusing to the desensitized) animations, visuals, and games.
I have a pretty high threshold, but that makes me ill
I think you have overestimated your threshold
Just try not to swear too much during your interview :)
Had something similar in the local mall by me, as well. They would only take cash at the stand. If you wanted to use credit card, you had to go to a neighboring stand (apparently run by the same people) which was selling unrelated junk. Sketchy, but the ROMs all apppear about right. *whistles*
"SEDAGIVE"??
*ahem* Now that's science!
How about Evil Dead 1&2, The Musical. It's not currently in production, but it'll be back, I'm sure of it.
User Friendly is one of the most asinine and un-funny strips I've run across that has a large online viewer-base. Not only is the art garbage, but the jokes just aren't there. 'Enfeh', 'wibble'... it's just not amusing.
downtown raleigh? Just wondering.
These things (or rather, an application of ther technology) would make amazing emergency lighting in offices or homes. Heck, even in non-emergency situations. Perhaps a walkway with peizo-electric flagstones to power the lights along its path?
I wonder how much power could be obtained from the highways and biways of America? All those cars racing over millions of little generators all day long should produce a pretty goo amount of electricity, I'd imagine. It would almost make up for the ridiculous cost of burning all those fossil fuels in the first place.
Shotgun! Fuck.