Thanks. I was confused by the moderation as well. I was under the impression that we were able to "Ask Wil Wheaton Anything". And, within that broader context, I thought my question had some additional relevance since, you know, it involved the show that Mr. Wheaton was a cast member of. In fact, if I remember correctly, Mr. Wheaton himself was pictured on the Cheerios box.
Oh well. I guess this is why we have Meta-moderation.
I remember back when TNG first came out, Cheerios ran a promotion on the back of the cereal box that let you enter a drawing to be a guest star on the show. At the time I was 8 years old, and winning that contest was pretty much the goal of my life. Since losing the contest, my dreams have been shattered and I shake uncontrollably whenever I see a Cheerios box.
My question: Do you remember who won the contest? Was he/she cool? Did he/she actually make it into an episode?
The good: The gadget is designed to aid players of fighting and boxing games who typically have to hit several buttons in sequence on a joypad to perform a combination or special move that could knock out or maim an onscreen opponent. Sounds good to me.
The bad:
There's no resistence to speak of. It's difficult to get psyched about fighting something that is stationary and completely unresponsive (in RL) to being kicked. There has to be a better physical response to compliment the game on the TV.
The ugly:
What's this machine going to look like after the neighborhood kids stop by and start taking turns on someone-elses-cool-new-toy?
I will gladly pay for information that is unique and unavailable elsewhere (as long as the price fits my budget).
Offer me something I can't get anywhere else and that I'm interested in, and I'll drop a coin in the hat. It's happened before.
The article references an early 80s space-based war game called Trillion Credit Squadron. Sounds very cool. Unfortunately, it predates me.
I used to love playing VGA Planets when I was a junior high schooler as well as text-based war games. Anyone know of any currently running games on the Internet that involve space, intergalactic combat, ship building, etc, etc?
I love articles like this, because I've been sifting through tracert results for three hours trying to figure out why customers in Texas can't access a network application hosted in Singapore.
I'd love to call back my boss and say, "Problem's not the routers, bucko. It's the OS."
Unfortunately I bought a Sony TiVo unit after the 30-second skips were eliminated from the remote. Can anyone direct me to a good HOW-TO on reintroducing this function to my disadvantaged unit?
A quick read of the article reveals the Slashdot "bug" to be of little concern, but...
Why not address the issue when posting the story? Kudos for going with the submission that mentioned Slashdot, but don't you think your readers would expect some response?
That's a pretty MS thing to do, in my book.
Let me put this into the only terms that the suits at Napster can understand...
Where's your VALUE ADDED PROPOSITION?
No value = cut out of the equation. That's why those billions of transfers are down to 300+ million.
Napster is about as relevent as Def Leppard.
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What's new about this is that an entire course is being dedicated to them.
Oh well. I guess this is why we have Meta-moderation.
My question: Do you remember who won the contest? Was he/she cool? Did he/she actually make it into an episode?
Brilliant question. You should be on 60 Minutes.
The gadget is designed to aid players of fighting and boxing games who typically have to hit several buttons in sequence on a joypad to perform a combination or special move that could knock out or maim an onscreen opponent. Sounds good to me.
The bad:
There's no resistence to speak of. It's difficult to get psyched about fighting something that is stationary and completely unresponsive (in RL) to being kicked. There has to be a better physical response to compliment the game on the TV.
The ugly:
What's this machine going to look like after the neighborhood kids stop by and start taking turns on someone-elses-cool-new-toy?
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I'm sure it wouldn't be too much effort to cause a soft Trek "beep" with each keypress.
The next best thing to saying, "Computer... lights."
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Dammit! So THAT'S the problem!
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I used to love playing VGA Planets when I was a junior high schooler as well as text-based war games. Anyone know of any currently running games on the Internet that involve space, intergalactic combat, ship building, etc, etc?
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I'd love to call back my boss and say, "Problem's not the routers, bucko. It's the OS."
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That's not meant as a serious knock on Ogg, btw. Just an observation.
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