I recently downloaded & tried to install Supreme Commander but I didn't meet minimum system specs. I briefly considered $3k for a new rig, then decided to download a Genesis emulator in a fit of rebellion.
Populous is STILL great. I'm much better now too, I think because I'm more aggressive about pausing to take a look at the map or move to points of interest.
However, I also downloaded the first CRPG I ever played--Drakkhen--and I can't believe how frustratingly bad it is. 50 yards from where you start there's a glowing road of insta-death where you get whomped by a level 73 dragon (you start at level 1, with none of your starting equipment actually equipped).
I remember very well getting out the graph paper and mapping out the whole area, which was really tough since it was 3D-ish. Now I'm wondering why I bothered. Game is ridiculously difficult, and I remember it being about 1/4th the speed (286 days).
Actually I think this was the 2nd CRPG I played. The 1st was Bard's Tale, which I remember playing in CGA on a Compaq portable (40 lbs). Drakkhen was the first I knew of in VGA, which my friend had but I didn't. Bastard.
To clear a few things up (from my knowledge of the teaching experience in California):
Teachers with PhDs and Master's degrees get more salary than those without. There is already differential pay based on degree. Your base pay is based on seniority, and there are additional stipends for degrees.
The skills to teach AP physics are quite different than those required to teach, say, remedial English. Remedial English is much more difficult to teach. Once you realize that your teaching plan really doesn't change much from year to year (other than to keep up with ever-tweaked federal/district requirements), the main teaching skill required is managing the classroom: teaching those that don't understand, handling behavior issues, trying to improve as many students as possible. Assuming the remedial English & AP physics teachers understand their own subjects with equal depth, it's much more difficult in remedial English in comparison.
Also, there's already a market force in that math/science teachers are in much higher demand than English teachers. Even though pay is tied to seniority (and prior education), you will be lucky to get a steady job, or a full-time position, with your degree in liberal studies. But with a math degree, you have your choice of positions.
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I hope when I have kids, we can substitute board games for video games. There's just a lot of cool stuff out there right now, especially due to the German renaissance in board gaming.
I'm going to have to lock the PS4/5 in the closet upstairs or something.
Oh, the horror...my big secret would be revealed : I have a season pass for "That's So Raven" If I understand correctly, TiVo doesn't advertise that -you- have a season pass for TSR; they just know -somebody- does.
So you find some inconsistency in the arguments of people who simultaneously complain: - we should have connected the dots - it's ineffective/illegal/un-American) to add billions of new dots
Just a "me too", but when I felt like ditching MS and trying out OO, I stuck with it for about 6 months. Eventually, Excel won me back. Pivot tables in OO are disgusting (well, were disgusting a couple of years back) and it had serious import/export problems with excel files. Since Excel is the office app I use most, I'm back with MS.
I have so many good memories of that game. I played it through in CGA originally because that's all we had on our PC. We upgraded to an EGA card and I just had to play it all the way through again in its 16-color glory.
The message scroll speed was not very adjustable in my version. There was one spell--only one if I remember--that would hit all groups, not just the front group. Psionic blast or something? Anyway, I hit the tile of 4 groups of 99 azure monks with that baby and it took a full 15 minutes to get through the damage messages.
It's also the first time I cheated. I beleive either the parties or party members were stored individually in the save directory, so I gave all of my gold to one person, copied him, gave it back to the other, copied back, etc...
How would that have stopped Enron, Dynegy, etc., from defrauding the state and the ratepayers? The only thing that stopped the insanity was reinstating price ceilings. These bastards shut down plants just to squeeze us. And it worked. And now our new governor is going to let them get away with it.
What happened in CA had less to do with deregulation than with conspiracy, fraud, and cronyism.
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I live in California. Not once has my primary vote decided a damn thing.
It's like we're calling into American Idol even though we're watching the next day on TiVo.
I recently downloaded & tried to install Supreme Commander but I didn't meet minimum system specs. I briefly considered $3k for a new rig, then decided to download a Genesis emulator in a fit of rebellion.
Populous is STILL great. I'm much better now too, I think because I'm more aggressive about pausing to take a look at the map or move to points of interest.
However, I also downloaded the first CRPG I ever played--Drakkhen--and I can't believe how frustratingly bad it is. 50 yards from where you start there's a glowing road of insta-death where you get whomped by a level 73 dragon (you start at level 1, with none of your starting equipment actually equipped).
I remember very well getting out the graph paper and mapping out the whole area, which was really tough since it was 3D-ish. Now I'm wondering why I bothered. Game is ridiculously difficult, and I remember it being about 1/4th the speed (286 days).
Actually I think this was the 2nd CRPG I played. The 1st was Bard's Tale, which I remember playing in CGA on a Compaq portable (40 lbs). Drakkhen was the first I knew of in VGA, which my friend had but I didn't. Bastard.
To clear a few things up (from my knowledge of the teaching experience in California):
Teachers with PhDs and Master's degrees get more salary than those without. There is already differential pay based on degree. Your base pay is based on seniority, and there are additional stipends for degrees.
The skills to teach AP physics are quite different than those required to teach, say, remedial English. Remedial English is much more difficult to teach. Once you realize that your teaching plan really doesn't change much from year to year (other than to keep up with ever-tweaked federal/district requirements), the main teaching skill required is managing the classroom: teaching those that don't understand, handling behavior issues, trying to improve as many students as possible. Assuming the remedial English & AP physics teachers understand their own subjects with equal depth, it's much more difficult in remedial English in comparison.
Also, there's already a market force in that math/science teachers are in much higher demand than English teachers. Even though pay is tied to seniority (and prior education), you will be lucky to get a steady job, or a full-time position, with your degree in liberal studies. But with a math degree, you have your choice of positions.
I hope when I have kids, we can substitute board games for video games. There's just a lot of cool stuff out there right now, especially due to the German renaissance in board gaming.
I'm going to have to lock the PS4/5 in the closet upstairs or something.
But you should still be ashamed.
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo - the whole reason I bought a PS1
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Culdcept (the only Monopoly/M:tG hybrid I know of)
Occasionally, after lots of drinking, Hot Shots Golf has been known to make an appearance.
But honestly, lately we've been subjecting our friends to Caylus--but that's a board game, not a video game.
So you find some inconsistency in the arguments of people who simultaneously complain:
- we should have connected the dots
- it's ineffective/illegal/un-American) to add billions of new dots
That's the very 1st tab the our Global Warming Sceptics Bingo sheet.
The truth? It's a myth.
Yes, the media pushed to the front the loudest and whackiest "global cooling" scientists, but they didn't represent the median scientific view.
Just a "me too", but when I felt like ditching MS and trying out OO, I stuck with it for about 6 months. Eventually, Excel won me back. Pivot tables in OO are disgusting (well, were disgusting a couple of years back) and it had serious import/export problems with excel files. Since Excel is the office app I use most, I'm back with MS.
I have so many good memories of that game. I played it through in CGA originally because that's all we had on our PC. We upgraded to an EGA card and I just had to play it all the way through again in its 16-color glory.
The message scroll speed was not very adjustable in my version. There was one spell--only one if I remember--that would hit all groups, not just the front group. Psionic blast or something? Anyway, I hit the tile of 4 groups of 99 azure monks with that baby and it took a full 15 minutes to get through the damage messages.
It's also the first time I cheated. I beleive either the parties or party members were stored individually in the save directory, so I gave all of my gold to one person, copied him, gave it back to the other, copied back, etc...
Ahh, memories.
Hey, just mention Urban Heat Islands and denigrate the IPCC and I can call BINGO!!
...and do you have a brother in the FBI? Freelance crime solving--with math!
How would that have stopped Enron, Dynegy, etc., from defrauding the state and the ratepayers? The only thing that stopped the insanity was reinstating price ceilings. These bastards shut down plants just to squeeze us. And it worked. And now our new governor is going to let them get away with it.
What happened in CA had less to do with deregulation than with conspiracy, fraud, and cronyism.