Well in my house when it's 2AM and I'm still playing SWG or DAOC my wife yelling up the stairs would wake up our 2 yr old and 4 month old pretty quickly. 'Come Downstairs and start the grill please'
What kind of weird kinky game are you playing that involves a grill at 2AM? : )
Go to Ikea for storage thingies, and to Radio Shak for an audio/video source selector, get the wireless controller for you, and roll up the cords around the controllers you aren't using most of the time, put those in a drawer.
What I do is that I keep the cords plugged in the wall and the tv's source selector, and when I want to use a console, I just get the right power cable (allready plugged in the wall) from behind the couch and the right AV cable from behind the tv, plug it in the console and away I go.
I either keep the consoles I use rarely in a cabinet or drawer and the one I use a lot (the ps2) stading up in a corner next to the TV (takes up less space standing up than lying down).
This, of course, means taking a minute to set up and 2 minutes to put away after use (when needed).
Yeah, but it's hard to masturbate when the object of your affection is covered by so much body armor.
Kinky! But seriously, in the original 8bit game, if you finished it 3 times (keeping the same password legacy) you got to see her without her armor (green hair, brown bathingsuit...she keeps the gun arm), and then you get to play with her like that.
And in the SuperNes version, if you got a good time/gatherhunt rating, she took off (well, it just waved away) the armor and now wore a sexy black underware-swimsuit thing...
But yeah, Lara was the most "jerked-to" character (not speaking from personal experience mind you : )
where the short term memories never get laid down as long term memories... so you can remember what you were doing a few seconds ago, but you have no idea what you were doing an hour ago
Ah HEM, we're talking about Paycheck, not Memento.
Who is this new Piezoelectric transformer aligned with?
Will Megatron get his alligeance and collect enough energon with his help to conquer earth and Cybertron, or will Optimus Prime woo him to the side of good and save us all?;- )
"Of course, even the best of us only use 10% of our brains...looking at that simple fact most people would realize the junk science that's being put forward here..."
Heh. The irony is intentional, correct?
Maybe he means that a lot of us are really, really drunk?;- )
Face it, that "10%" thig is never going away...I just hope we can get people to stop thinking that going outside without a jacket will give you the flu!
I wish women's perversion wouldn't be the deciding factor in videogame character design.
But meh, so long as the game is cool, I can overlook super effeminate main characters. It makes it harder to identify, but I guess keeping some distance from the character slaughtering endless NPCs might not be a bad thing in the long run...
It is quite easy, for us (20|30)-year olds to pass judgement on this man. But consider this:
He is 73
He should be wise enough at that age not to fall for scams like that.
He and his partially disabled wife needed the money
He shouldn't have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on strangers promising him riches unseen then.
He comes from a simpler time, a different era
No, there always have been scammers and con artists, there have always been charlattans and snake-oil salesmen.
Being old is no excuse for stupidity or gullability. Had he been 20/30, he would have fallen for it all the same.
What if, 50 years from now, there's a scam going around , today, you won't in your wildest imagination consider possible? Would you fall for it?
Probably not, I'm carefull about scams, I am also untrusting and cynical. And the nigerian scam was possible 50 years ago, it started with snail mail in the 80's, it could have started with snail mail in the 50's.
Please don't deride this old man, but feel sorry for him. He's ruined, with a disabled wife to take care of.
He ruined himself. He got conned, but they didn't put a gun to his head, they politely asked for money while distracting him with greed, god, and his hatred for government and taxes.
Guess what, his taxes paid for the cop whom he ignored. He should put more trust in his country's legal advice than in claims of foreign treasure.
If anything, us young folks also have to share some of the blame in not spreading the message clearly that such things are scams.
No, the blame lies with himself and his nigerian "friends". It is not our resposibility to beat these idiots with cluesticks.
He probably was scammed many times over in his life, this is just the culmination of his mark career.
Slashdot Mirror
(I have no idea what MS Windows is written in)
Windows is written in the lowest pits of hell!
; )
one redeeming quality that general-purpose computers will likely always struggle with - They will Just Work.
Or, you could buy a Mac...
It always comes back to the Lone Gunmen pilot (oh! pun!) episode doesn't it?
For those who don't remember: Evil government people used a remote controll device to bypass the pilots and steer a 747 into the World Trade Center...
So, they're going to use it to steer away now?
There are no Martians on comets
Or so the Martians would have us believe...
Well in my house when it's 2AM and I'm still playing SWG or DAOC my wife yelling up the stairs would wake up our 2 yr old and 4 month old pretty quickly.
'Come Downstairs and start the grill please'
What kind of weird kinky game are you playing that involves a grill at 2AM? : )
Go to Ikea for storage thingies, and to Radio Shak for an audio/video source selector, get the wireless controller for you, and roll up the cords around the controllers you aren't using most of the time, put those in a drawer.
What I do is that I keep the cords plugged in the wall and the tv's source selector, and when I want to use a console, I just get the right power cable (allready plugged in the wall) from behind the couch and the right AV cable from behind the tv, plug it in the console and away I go.
I either keep the consoles I use rarely in a cabinet or drawer and the one I use a lot (the ps2) stading up in a corner next to the TV (takes up less space standing up than lying down).
This, of course, means taking a minute to set up and 2 minutes to put away after use (when needed).
Yeah, but it's hard to masturbate when the object of your affection is covered by so much body armor.
Kinky!
But seriously, in the original 8bit game, if you finished it 3 times (keeping the same password legacy) you got to see her without her armor (green hair, brown bathingsuit...she keeps the gun arm), and then you get to play with her like that.
And in the SuperNes version, if you got a good time/gatherhunt rating, she took off (well, it just waved away) the armor and now wore a sexy black underware-swimsuit thing...
But yeah, Lara was the most "jerked-to" character (not speaking from personal experience mind you : )
where the short term memories never get laid down as long term memories... so you can remember what you were doing a few seconds ago, but you have no idea what you were doing an hour ago
Ah HEM, we're talking about Paycheck, not Memento.
Someone actually did invent this, but he tried the technique on himself...
welcome are new FBI overlords.
New?
I've run into a similar problem with no backpack rules in theaters. I drive a motorcycle and have a backpack for storage needs.
I find that complaining loudly while making broad sweeping motion with my helmet usually gets them to shut it about the backpack...
Oh for crying out loud, like we don't have ENOUGH jargon to parse through!
So, that makes Linux an OS OS then?
SOS! I'm drowning in acronyms!
I am a fan of mega huge projects, such as the mag lev in Japan/Europe, the multination fusion reactor project, etc
I want them to build a mag lev fusion reactor!
They allready have the magnets, I want to see that baby fly!
They could have it move from country to country: make it really multinational...
Just stick the goatse.cx guy as the background on your laptop...after seeing that a couple times, these security bozos will learn not to ask.
DONT!
These people are in charge of cavity searches, it might give them... ideas.
Now I can go out in public without wearing anything underneath it. I can;t wait till New Years!
That's when your parole ends?
Another year I smoked a bunch of hams and turkeys
Dude, that's some serious drug problem...you should see a doctor!
Owning a house is owning something that's worth something, even if[...]
I'll huff and i'll puff and I'll put you in debt!
autobiography of christian golfer Bernhard Langer
Must be hard, being the only christian in a buddhist-only sport like golf...
Waitaminute
I once got a Kenny G CD for xmas...consider yourself lucky!
Beyond Dark Castle had a christmas tree and stolkings around the fireplace when you went in the game on dec 25.
Who is this new Piezoelectric transformer aligned with?
;- )
Will Megatron get his alligeance and collect enough energon with his help to conquer earth and Cybertron, or will Optimus Prime woo him to the side of good and save us all?
few of the so-called "environmentalists" [...] are touting nuclear power.
Three
Miles
Island
Its been a while, but it still brings fear to the heart of some who hear these words.
Heh. The irony is intentional, correct?
Maybe he means that a lot of us are really, really drunk?
Face it, that "10%" thig is never going away...I just hope we can get people to stop thinking that going outside without a jacket will give you the flu!
Women have many tastes
I wish women's perversion wouldn't be the deciding factor in videogame character design.
But meh, so long as the game is cool, I can overlook super effeminate main characters. It makes it harder to identify, but I guess keeping some distance from the character slaughtering endless NPCs might not be a bad thing in the long run...
It is quite easy, for us (20|30)-year olds to pass judgement on this man. But consider this:
He is 73
He should be wise enough at that age not to fall for scams like that.
He and his partially disabled wife needed the money
He shouldn't have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on strangers promising him riches unseen then.
He comes from a simpler time, a different era
No, there always have been scammers and con artists, there have always been charlattans and snake-oil salesmen.
Being old is no excuse for stupidity or gullability.
Had he been 20/30, he would have fallen for it all the same.
What if, 50 years from now, there's a scam going around , today, you won't in your wildest imagination consider possible? Would you fall for it?
Probably not, I'm carefull about scams, I am also untrusting and cynical. And the nigerian scam was possible 50 years ago, it started with snail mail in the 80's, it could have started with snail mail in the 50's.
Please don't deride this old man, but feel sorry for him. He's ruined, with a disabled wife to take care of.
He ruined himself. He got conned, but they didn't put a gun to his head, they politely asked for money while distracting him with greed, god, and his hatred for government and taxes.
Guess what, his taxes paid for the cop whom he ignored. He should put more trust in his country's legal advice than in claims of foreign treasure.
If anything, us young folks also have to share some of the blame in not spreading the message clearly that such things are scams.
No, the blame lies with himself and his nigerian "friends". It is not our resposibility to beat these idiots with cluesticks.
He probably was scammed many times over in his life, this is just the culmination of his mark career.