My two cents: the challenge, the chance to hone an arbitrary skill set and excel at a "pointless" task, is _exactly_ what I pay money for. I think every single game that I love has shared that quality of making you work for success. To me, there's nothing better in gaming that hitting that "zen" zone, whether it's in Soul Calibur, Tetris, Montezuma's Revenge (remember that?), or frigging Gorf.
Maybe _really_ hard games aren't for everyone, as Ninja Gaiden's creator seems to believe. Fine with me. Now that I know NG will kick my ass, I'm gonna go buy it!
What is with this phrase "hearts and minds"? It's everywhere now, as if we're no longer allowed to say things like:
"vying for the loyalty of consumer group x"
"convince the Iraqi people we're not evil"
but now must say "win the hearts and minds of x". And while I'm being modded down, I might as well complain about "sea change", which I swear I never heard in the first 29 years of my life, but which now appears to have entirely replaced "watershed event", "paradigm shift", and "big deal".
Unreal may be better for you, but I have a 1Ghz Celeron and GeForce 2, so I think the choice is clear for me. And does Unreal 2004 have jetpacks? Jetpacks!!!
Yeah, it's a publicity stunt, and it won't make me buy the next Tribes, but I will happily take advantage of the stunt nonetheless.
Lost my Tribes 1 CD several years ago, and Tribes 2 was just never the same (even w/o considering bugs). Tribes 1 has such clean, refined gameplay, and I love the way you can drop into a game and instantly be a contributing member of the team. I'm sure other games must have that, too, but now that I can play Tribes again, I don't care!
So they spend four pages talking about what's in the box (including a picture of the brown cardboard box??) and restating the published specs. Then there are two short paragraphs saying, "wow, looks great, no ghosting, 12ms!!!". I need to get myself a damn review website.
It makes me wonder, what proportion of trumpet music is actually copyrighted? You'd think they could at least post a clip of it playing a Bb scale. I'm skeptical, and expect that perhaps "Music is unavailable in accordance with copyright protection." really means "our robot sounds like crap." But if I'm wrong, I finally get to replace that friggin trumpet player in my band! (At least it's "my" band until the bass-playing robot is unveiled.)
and I do realize it was meant to be funny So even if it's meant to be funny, it still annoys you? Not that it was hilarious, but the fact that you so rarely see all caps on./ added to the humorous effect. To quote Nader, relax, and rejoice!
While I don't doubt that many, many Iraqis are overjoyed at Hussein's capture, I couldn't help but notice that the celebrating Iraqis seemed to be small pockets of about thirty men, jumping up and down for a camera, on otherwise empty streets.
Reminds of a certain statue-toppling event not so long ago.
The skeptic in me also wonders whether Hussein really said, hours after his capture, that Iraqis were "less than human", and generally "made a mockery of Iraq."
Um, did you try in this case? It's not really a review, but for a few paragraphs. It's mainly a pretty excellent article about the films, the cast and crew, and the movie business. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and it brought my excitement up another notch. Darn, now I've gone and wet myself.
The objective is for the wearer to create their own personal 'smell bubble', by delivering a spray of magic wellness molecules to key points of the body in order to activate the smell centre.
"magic wellness molecules"? "key points of the body"? What the hell is this talking about? Did they extract the magical essence of 100 smurfs? Have they finally discovered real mitichlorides (sp?)? Or does it just mean, "When your pits stink, they'll get sprayed with deodorant"?
I respect your desire not to get drawn into fruitless argument, but since you challenge a common conception of creationism, can you provide a hint or two about where one might find the more sophisticated arguments? I get the feeling searching "creationism" on google won't be terribly effective...
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C'mon, guys, that's really embarrassing.
Have you tried asking any of the companies in question? Believe it or not, they may be staffed by humans who can answer your questions.
Crap, I sound like a troll.
To quote strictnein from earlier today:
It's so fucking stupid that I want to rip my nuts off, cook them, and then eat them.
Comcast fires TechTV, spies on our networks, and the RIAA ruins iTunes. Anyone have some spare deadly ninjas? I have a use for them...
My two cents: the challenge, the chance to hone an arbitrary skill set and excel at a "pointless" task, is _exactly_ what I pay money for. I think every single game that I love has shared that quality of making you work for success. To me, there's nothing better in gaming that hitting that "zen" zone, whether it's in Soul Calibur, Tetris, Montezuma's Revenge (remember that?), or frigging Gorf.
Maybe _really_ hard games aren't for everyone, as Ninja Gaiden's creator seems to believe. Fine with me. Now that I know NG will kick my ass, I'm gonna go buy it!
What is with this phrase "hearts and minds"? It's everywhere now, as if we're no longer allowed to say things like:
"vying for the loyalty of consumer group x"
"convince the Iraqi people we're not evil"
but now must say "win the hearts and minds of x". And while I'm being modded down, I might as well complain about "sea change", which I swear I never heard in the first 29 years of my life, but which now appears to have entirely replaced "watershed event", "paradigm shift", and "big deal".
Unreal may be better for you, but I have a 1Ghz Celeron and GeForce 2, so I think the choice is clear for me. And does Unreal 2004 have jetpacks? Jetpacks!!!
Yeah, it's a publicity stunt, and it won't make me buy the next Tribes, but I will happily take advantage of the stunt nonetheless.
Crappy crap, download from fileplanet failed its own CRC check. And I can't even get mad, because it's free!
Ok, I can be a little mad.
Lost my Tribes 1 CD several years ago, and Tribes 2 was just never the same (even w/o considering bugs). Tribes 1 has such clean, refined gameplay, and I love the way you can drop into a game and instantly be a contributing member of the team. I'm sure other games must have that, too, but now that I can play Tribes again, I don't care!
So they spend four pages talking about what's in the box (including a picture of the brown cardboard box??) and restating the published specs. Then there are two short paragraphs saying, "wow, looks great, no ghosting, 12ms!!!". I need to get myself a damn review website.
Fine, mod me down, I just felt like complaining.
It makes me wonder, what proportion of trumpet music is actually copyrighted? You'd think they could at least post a clip of it playing a Bb scale. I'm skeptical, and expect that perhaps "Music is unavailable in accordance with copyright protection." really means "our robot sounds like crap." But if I'm wrong, I finally get to replace that friggin trumpet player in my band! (At least it's "my" band until the bass-playing robot is unveiled.)
and I do realize it was meant to be funny ./ added to the humorous effect. To quote Nader, relax, and rejoice!
So even if it's meant to be funny, it still annoys you? Not that it was hilarious, but the fact that you so rarely see all caps on
While I don't doubt that many, many Iraqis are overjoyed at Hussein's capture, I couldn't help but notice that the celebrating Iraqis seemed to be small pockets of about thirty men, jumping up and down for a camera, on otherwise empty streets.
Reminds of a certain statue-toppling event not so long ago.
The skeptic in me also wonders whether Hussein really said, hours after his capture, that Iraqis were "less than human", and generally "made a mockery of Iraq."
Thoughts?
Um, did you try in this case? It's not really a review, but for a few paragraphs. It's mainly a pretty excellent article about the films, the cast and crew, and the movie business. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and it brought my excitement up another notch. Darn, now I've gone and wet myself.
That's just like the time that I...oh, wait better post that as AC.
I guess I forgot to turn my little spelling correction into a joke so I wouldn't be modded down.
I didn't RTFA, but I think that's the word you wanted.
Don't you mean chemtrails?!
Oh, I guess you actually mean contrails. Darn.
Before any SW fanatics try their force grip on me, I'll correct my own spelling. "Midi-chlorians."
The objective is for the wearer to create their own personal 'smell bubble', by delivering a spray of magic wellness molecules to key points of the body in order to activate the smell centre. "magic wellness molecules"? "key points of the body"? What the hell is this talking about? Did they extract the magical essence of 100 smurfs? Have they finally discovered real mitichlorides (sp?)? Or does it just mean, "When your pits stink, they'll get sprayed with deodorant"?
I respect your desire not to get drawn into fruitless argument, but since you challenge a common conception of creationism, can you provide a hint or two about where one might find the more sophisticated arguments? I get the feeling searching "creationism" on google won't be terribly effective...
Mod up the parent. It's a good link!
And 4 seconds later I'm downloading at 1Mbps. I like bittorrent!
Well, if that's true, they should have a few days (while their server recovers) to fix it.
Yes, that's what the Canadians think, anyway.
Congress hides some of Pentagon's spying project in other agencies
They're probably right, of course.
So what is it? I want to be clever, too!