Oh please. I'm a grade-A long-haired sandal-wearing granola-eating pacifist hippy, and even I don't think you have a leg to stand on here. GTA is not presently, nor ever has been marketed at children. The video you linked to was made and uploaded by Joe Random and has nothing official whatsoever to do with GTA or Lego. I suspect that the uploader of that video is more likely to be sued than endorsed by the respective owners of the properties involved.
What happened to hand eye coordination? As far as I can see it's alive and well and making record profits on the Wii.
What happened to puzzle games? Not sure.. perhaps they've undergone something of a record resurgence of late, with web based 'casual games' for the PC, various offerings on Xbox Live, and the usual 'classic game' compilations for all major consoles, not to mention the DS and titles like Puzzle Quest..
As for dribbling and passing.. I'm not much of one for sports games myself, but unless basketball and football have changed very dramatically since last I checked then I'm pretty sure those are still available in whatever the latest seasonal update to the big sports franchises is (is the FIFA series even still going?). In fact, I hear there's also some kind of crazy high tech virtual reality system where you can go to a store, buy a REAL ball, and pass or dribble it outside with your friends - and it doesn't even need a network connection!
When did we turn our minds off to videogame butchery? You're a bit late getting on this bandwagon my friend. Apparently you totally missed Mortal Kombat, Bloodstorm, Robocop*, Hitman, Carmageddon, all of the previous GTA games, and a million other titles which temporarily escape my mind.
There's a simple solution to this - if you don't like the games, don't play them. And if you're letting underage kids play games like GTA then you're downright irresponsible.
I don't mean to sound all smug and glib about this, even though I know I probably do sound that way. Personally I have a similar issue with movies - I find the torture-porn genre which has become so popular of late (Saw, Hostel, Captivity, etc) to be utterly repulsive on just about every possible level. I can't understand for the life of me why anyone would want to watch movies like that, let alone make them.. but at the same time I wouldn't try and take away other people's right to watch that kind of thing if that's what they're into, so long as they're mentally capable of dealing with it in a mature way (i.e. they're an adult, for one thing)
*Yes, the Robocop game (from the 8/16 bit days) caused a minor storm, in the UK at least. "The movie is 18-rated! How dare you let children play this!", the daily mail readers screamed...
So. It seems like the website Wikipedia Review is THE place to go for all the hot Wikipedia-scandal gossip. So I went to their site, and read a bunch about how the elite Wikipedia cabal are trying to cover up all traces of Wikipedia Review existing...
So then I went to Wikipedia. And typed "Wikipedia Review" into the search box......And was automatically redirected to an article on Criticism of Wikipedia, which links to more Wikipedia hating sites than you would ever care to shake a stick at. (Including Wikipedia Review)
Nothing to see here. Honestly, I might've thought there was, if The Register hadn't shown their blatant anti-Wikipedia bias time and time and time again. I used to like El Reg.. heck, I used to think Wikipedia sucked.. but time has proven Wikipedia to be a far more useful and reliable site than The Register ever was.
If you found this article interesting, you may enjoy articles on "David Icke", "The Feted Inner Core", and "Nasa Never Actually Went To The Moon You Gulliable Noob"
My most insincere apologies for undermining your point of view, but I use Second Life for reasons which do no include sex or money. To me, it's like Lego, but even more fun in many ways. You can build 3D objects, with an extremely limited toolkit where somehow the limitations make it more fun, and then you can give those objects behavior via scripting. Then it gets really fun when you share in those objects with other people you meet there.
Oh noes. What's that you say? There are furry tentacle-rape freaks on SL? Guess what? I don't care. They don't bother me, and I don't bother them. Personally, I've had a lot of fun on SL which has had nothing to do with sex or money... but don't let my little anecdote get in the way of your rant.
Pfft. It's fuzzy liberals like you who are responsible for rampant crime in this country. Sure, let's take criminals waterboarding. While we're at it, we can also send them snowboarding, and go-karting too, all on public money.
A really neat idea to extend it would be to have it continue running, adding each generation at one end every so often, and removing the oldest at the other, so it basically 'scrolls'. That would create a gradually evolving and shifting sculpture.
Anyways, just wanted to say kudos for the idea and awesome implementation:)
Errr... if you cared to actually follow that link you were mocking the parent for posting, you'd have read this in the very first line:
"Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham."
Hmm.. you might want to try some of those wooden knobs. I hear if you glue them to the birds the improvement in sound quality is stunning. You might want to try freezing them first, too.
I'll second Truecrypt! When I was looking to encrypt a few portable harddrives I have, I searched through a LOT of software, and Truecrypt is far and away the best I've found.
Another thing to love about foxit (aside from 0.5 seconds startup, versus Adobe Reader's 0.5 month startup) is that Foxit can do fit-to-width viewing when in full screen mode, for those tall narrow documents. I wouldn't be surprised if Adobe Reader can do it too actually, but I'm buggered if I've ever figured out how
Thought I should add.. the whole Electric Universe thing is pretty thoroughly deconstructed and debunked on Phil Plait's excellent Bad Astronomy forum here: http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=28596
I've been on Slashdot for a long time, and I've seen a lot of crap. I've had arguments with creationists, alien conspiracy theorists, homeopathy-believers and all other manner of misguided folks in the comments sections of various stories.. but for this kind of psuedoscientific horseshit story to actually get approved and posted by the editors is a whole new level of retardation
Vinyl has a much better feel for DJing. You can push it around with your hands, which is much nicer than using a jog wheel and buttons on a CD player. There's also the feedback of scratch cueing rather than the stutter loop of a cheap CD player. Of course, these days though, you get the like of the Pioneer CDJ style units which recreate the turntable feel with CDs, but they're expensive. You can often pick up a pair of reasonable condition turntables and a crate of vinyl for the cost of a single high end CD player. Even so, CD decks are gaining ground fast - it's pretty rare to go into any decent sized club now and not find a pair of CDJ-1000's sitting next to the SL-1200's.
And then, of course, there's the likes of Traktor and other software based systems to consider, but that's a whole other can of worms entirely...:)
Whatever happened to the "I bought the DVD, I should do what the fuck I want with it"?
You've still got that right, just as you always have! You can use it as a drinks mat, a frisbee, a wall hanging, a-... Ohhh... you meant movie contained on the DVD? Why do you hate freedom?
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>It's about damn time we made a law about people mentioning Godwin's Law.
And it shall be named... Hitler's Law.
Infinite recursion for great justice!
Oh please.
I'm a grade-A long-haired sandal-wearing granola-eating pacifist hippy, and even I don't think you have a leg to stand on here.
GTA is not presently, nor ever has been marketed at children. The video you linked to was made and uploaded by Joe Random and has nothing official whatsoever to do with GTA or Lego. I suspect that the uploader of that video is more likely to be sued than endorsed by the respective owners of the properties involved.
What happened to hand eye coordination? As far as I can see it's alive and well and making record profits on the Wii.
What happened to puzzle games? Not sure.. perhaps they've undergone something of a record resurgence of late, with web based 'casual games' for the PC, various offerings on Xbox Live, and the usual 'classic game' compilations for all major consoles, not to mention the DS and titles like Puzzle Quest..
As for dribbling and passing.. I'm not much of one for sports games myself, but unless basketball and football have changed very dramatically since last I checked then I'm pretty sure those are still available in whatever the latest seasonal update to the big sports franchises is (is the FIFA series even still going?). In fact, I hear there's also some kind of crazy high tech virtual reality system where you can go to a store, buy a REAL ball, and pass or dribble it outside with your friends - and it doesn't even need a network connection!
When did we turn our minds off to videogame butchery? You're a bit late getting on this bandwagon my friend. Apparently you totally missed Mortal Kombat, Bloodstorm, Robocop*, Hitman, Carmageddon, all of the previous GTA games, and a million other titles which temporarily escape my mind.
There's a simple solution to this - if you don't like the games, don't play them. And if you're letting underage kids play games like GTA then you're downright irresponsible.
I don't mean to sound all smug and glib about this, even though I know I probably do sound that way. Personally I have a similar issue with movies - I find the torture-porn genre which has become so popular of late (Saw, Hostel, Captivity, etc) to be utterly repulsive on just about every possible level. I can't understand for the life of me why anyone would want to watch movies like that, let alone make them.. but at the same time I wouldn't try and take away other people's right to watch that kind of thing if that's what they're into, so long as they're mentally capable of dealing with it in a mature way (i.e. they're an adult, for one thing)
*Yes, the Robocop game (from the 8/16 bit days) caused a minor storm, in the UK at least. "The movie is 18-rated! How dare you let children play this!", the daily mail readers screamed...
I propose an amendment to your amendment
Rule #3 - If I do manage to pry it loose I get to keep the nails as well.
So. It seems like the website Wikipedia Review is THE place to go for all the hot Wikipedia-scandal gossip.
...And was automatically redirected to an article on Criticism of Wikipedia, which links to more Wikipedia hating sites than you would ever care to shake a stick at. (Including Wikipedia Review)
So I went to their site, and read a bunch about how the elite Wikipedia cabal are trying to cover up all traces of Wikipedia Review existing...
So then I went to Wikipedia. And typed "Wikipedia Review" into the search box...
Nothing to see here. Honestly, I might've thought there was, if The Register hadn't shown their blatant anti-Wikipedia bias time and time and time again. I used to like El Reg.. heck, I used to think Wikipedia sucked.. but time has proven Wikipedia to be a far more useful and reliable site than The Register ever was.
If you found this article interesting, you may enjoy articles on "David Icke", "The Feted Inner Core", and "Nasa Never Actually Went To The Moon You Gulliable Noob"
Yeah, before someone points it out, I typoed "not" for "no".. when will Slashdot get with the 1990's and add an 'edit' button?
My most insincere apologies for undermining your point of view, but I use Second Life for reasons which do no include sex or money. To me, it's like Lego, but even more fun in many ways. You can build 3D objects, with an extremely limited toolkit where somehow the limitations make it more fun, and then you can give those objects behavior via scripting. Then it gets really fun when you share in those objects with other people you meet there.
Oh noes. What's that you say? There are furry tentacle-rape freaks on SL? Guess what? I don't care. They don't bother me, and I don't bother them. Personally, I've had a lot of fun on SL which has had nothing to do with sex or money... but don't let my little anecdote get in the way of your rant.
Err, oops. The above would've made more sense if I'd actually replied to the correct post (MillionthMonkey's), instead of the parent.
Pfft. It's fuzzy liberals like you who are responsible for rampant crime in this country.
Sure, let's take criminals waterboarding. While we're at it, we can also send them snowboarding, and go-karting too, all on public money.
</tongue firmly in cheek>
That is *extremely* awesome!
:)
A really neat idea to extend it would be to have it continue running, adding each generation at one end every so often, and removing the oldest at the other, so it basically 'scrolls'. That would create a gradually evolving and shifting sculpture.
Anyways, just wanted to say kudos for the idea and awesome implementation
Bullshit. It's also funny on tv, in books, on the radio, and in Canada.
But if you die in Canada you die in REAL LIFE!
"Occam", I'd presume as all other things being equal (they're both correct), that's the simpler one to spell/type :)
Errr... if you cared to actually follow that link you were mocking the parent for posting, you'd have read this in the very first line:
"Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham."
Hmm.. you might want to try some of those wooden knobs. I hear if you glue them to the birds the improvement in sound quality is stunning. You might want to try freezing them first, too.
I'll second Truecrypt!
When I was looking to encrypt a few portable harddrives I have, I searched through a LOT of software, and Truecrypt is far and away the best I've found.
Another thing to love about foxit (aside from 0.5 seconds startup, versus Adobe Reader's 0.5 month startup) is that Foxit can do fit-to-width viewing when in full screen mode, for those tall narrow documents.
I wouldn't be surprised if Adobe Reader can do it too actually, but I'm buggered if I've ever figured out how
I once had a near death experience using a spatula, you insensitive clod!
Thought I should add.. the whole Electric Universe thing is pretty thoroughly deconstructed and debunked on Phil Plait's excellent Bad Astronomy forum here:
http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=28596
Did I miss something? It's not April 1st, right?
I've been on Slashdot for a long time, and I've seen a lot of crap. I've had arguments with creationists, alien conspiracy theorists, homeopathy-believers and all other manner of misguided folks in the comments sections of various stories.. but for this kind of psuedoscientific horseshit story to actually get approved and posted by the editors is a whole new level of retardation
why do dj's still prefer vinyl?
:)
Vinyl has a much better feel for DJing. You can push it around with your hands, which is much nicer than using a jog wheel and buttons on a CD player. There's also the feedback of scratch cueing rather than the stutter loop of a cheap CD player.
Of course, these days though, you get the like of the Pioneer CDJ style units which recreate the turntable feel with CDs, but they're expensive. You can often pick up a pair of reasonable condition turntables and a crate of vinyl for the cost of a single high end CD player. Even so, CD decks are gaining ground fast - it's pretty rare to go into any decent sized club now and not find a pair of CDJ-1000's sitting next to the SL-1200's.
And then, of course, there's the likes of Traktor and other software based systems to consider, but that's a whole other can of worms entirely...
Whatever happened to the "I bought the DVD, I should do what the fuck I want with it"?
You've still got that right, just as you always have!
You can use it as a drinks mat, a frisbee, a wall hanging, a-...
Ohhh... you meant movie contained on the DVD?
Why do you hate freedom?
I went to t'e skool to get an edUcas'on.
Was t' school in Yorkshire by any chance, lad?
What? You've never heard of Hans Solo?
Obviously you've never seen Star Whores Episode 1: The Panty Menace...
That would be Microsoft Bob