Neither - my point is just that there's likely to be more crap web pages than there are crap books, because it's easier to publish a web page than a book. Of course the flip side of this, as you point out, is that people can have their say more easily. And that's great.
RotJ may have been the worst of the originals (you'll definitely get no argument from me on that - I doubt anything will ever surpass Empire), but IMO it was still far superior to I or II... so please don't lump them together.
Fallout II has very few random encounters, and if they were to be entirely removed they would not be missed.
Are you kidding? The random encounters were one of the best parts of FO2!! The whale from Hitchhikers guide (complete with daisies), the knights searching for the holy handgrenade, the crashed federation shuttle, gozilla's footprint, the tinman, exploding brahmin, the spammer hunters... all priceless! FO2 wouldn't have been the same without 'em.
PS: I realise you're probably only refering to the vanilla encounters where X generic bad guys attack for little to no reason - and yes, I agree, RPGs could do without those... But some random encounters can be good!
WORF: Captain, there are three Romulan warships uncloaking dead ahead. PICARD: On screen. The main viewing screen changes to a pattern of horizontal lines, each only a single pixel wide. PICARD: Data, what's wrong here? DATA: Captain, the main viewscreen does not have sufficient video memory to display an image of this size. May I suggest that you select a lower resolution? PICARD: Very well.... The screen blanks, and then an image appears, with big, blocky square pixels. Three objects appear in the centre, which could be Romulan warbirds, but which actually look more like the aliens in Space Invaders. PICARD: Data, open a hailing channel to the Romulans. DATA: Aye, sir. Data picks up an hourglass from the floor beside him, turns it over, and places it on his head. He punches some buttons on the console and sits motionless for several seconds. A flash of light blossoms from one of the Romulan ships on the viewscreen. WORF: Incoming plasma torpedo, Captain! PICARD: Shields up! DATA: I'm sorry, Captain, but I am still attempting to complete your last instruction. I must ask you to wait until I have finished before you issue your next command. PICARD: What on earth do you mean? Data, this is important! I want those shields up right now. DATA: I'm sorry, Captain, but I am still attempting to complete your last instruction. I must ask you to wait until I have finished before you issue your next command. LAFORGE: Allow me, captain. (to Data) Control-alt-delete, Data. Data removes hourglass from head, and returns it to the floor. DATA: The Romulans are not responding to my hails. Press my nose to cancel and return to Windows. Pull my left ear to close this communications channel which is not responding. You will lose any information sent by the Romulans. LaForge pulls Data's left ear. PICARD: Shields... There is a tremendous explosion. The bridge shakes violently, and all the crew members are thrown to the floor. A shower of sparks erupts from Wesley Crusher's station at the helm, throwing Wesley back away from the console. PICARD:...Up, Data! DATA: Aye, sir. RIKER: All decks, damage report! WORF: Captain, Ensign Crusher is injured. He appears to be unconscious. Data puts hourglass on head and punches some more buttons. He waits a few seconds, then puts the hourglass back on the floor. DATA: Shields are now up, captain. PICARD: And not a moment too soon. Worf, lock all phasers on the lead Romulan ship. WORF: Aye, sir. He punches buttons on the weapons console. PICARD: Mr. Data, take the helm, and prepare for evasive action. DATA: I am sorry, sir, but I do not have the proper device driver installed for that console. PICARD: Well, damn it, install the right one. DATA: Please insert Setup Implant 1 in my right nostril. PICARD: Number One, where do we keep Data's setup implants? RIKER: I left them with Geordi. LAFORGE: (in a surprised voice) What!!? I thought you still had them! PICARD: Data, don't you have device drivers stored in your internal memory? DATA: Not found, sir. Please insert Setup Implant 1 in my right nostril. PICARD: Data, I don't have Setup Implant 1. DATA: Not ready reading right nostril. Abort, Retry, Fail? PICARD: Abort! DATA: Not ready reading right nostril. Abort, Retry, Fail? PICARD: Well, fail, then! DATA: Current nose is no longer valid. Data walks over to the helm, and presses several buttons. The ship lurches, the images of the Romulan warships suddenly shift to one side of the viewscreen, and a high-pitched whining noise is heard coming from somewhere else in the ship. LAFORGE: (alarmed) Data, what the hell are you doing? PICARD: Number One, do we have a customer service number for Data? RIKER: Yes sir, but last time I tried to call them, I got put on hold for two hours before I was able to talk to anyone. And that person wasn't knowledgeable about androids of Data's model. She specialised in
Eh? woudln't that be "forwards compatible"? Doesn't backwards compatible just mean that new versions of the software can still read the older format? So excel 9.1 (or whatever) can still read xls files from excel 5.1.
If you reverse Taroon you get "Noorat", Right? Okay, now... tihs is clearly ROT-14 encoded so decoding it you get "Zaadmf" uhuh? stay with me here... Now reversing that gives "Fmdaaz" Yes? Good...
Now... md clearly stands for "Must Die" and F is clearing code for "SCO". (or "Fuckers" if you prefer) Finally I have also uncovered through unrevealed sources at Red Hat that "aaz" is special inhouse code for "(sponsored by IBM)."
So Taroon is actually code for.....:
"SCO must die! (sponsored by IBM)"
DARL WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG!!!11!!!11
...i'm not cray.. i'm not crazy... *sits in corner twitching*
Pfah, as everybody knows those Vegans are way too stringy. And so little meat on their bones... It really takes a master chef to prepare a half decent meal from one of them.
Heh, damn straight. I was laughing my ass off with pearlers like:
"Five years ago, when summer movies were arguably just as bad as they are now..."
and
"No, the executives are not blaming such bombs as The Hulk, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle or Gigli on poor quality, lack of originality, or general failure to entertain. There's absolutely nothing new about that."
Though I think for these executives a foot-in-mouth icon might serve better.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure this one is just a splash screen and a blue screen, used interchangeably.
...Uhhh... So what're they changing...?
Neither - my point is just that there's likely to be more crap web pages than there are crap books, because it's easier to publish a web page than a book. Of course the flip side of this, as you point out, is that people can have their say more easily. And that's great.
*Shrug* It was just an observation.
But it's a lot easier to produce and "distribute" a crap web page than a crap book.
Sounds about right - here's the official FAQ explanation for those interested.
Not to mention the more normal uses, of course :-)))
You mean downloading pr0n, right?
Ack, poor Mike - the parent is not him. He's just some dipshit who copied some poor fella named Mike's post, and didn't even bother remove the name.
Uh...Nice cut and paste. Maybe you should think of something original next time.
RotJ may have been the worst of the originals (you'll definitely get no argument from me on that - I doubt anything will ever surpass Empire), but IMO it was still far superior to I or II... so please don't lump them together.
Yeah, but what sort of woman are they expecting him to snag with that stuff? A $5 hooker maybe?
Sure, cut off a major portion of your income out of spite and watch otherwise profitable movies become money losers. I'm sure the MPAA will do that.
Is that sarcastic or serious? It sounded sarcastic to me at first, but when I think about it the MPAA probably would do something like that....
Nah, that's too easily fixed - everyone would just keep asking "Why don't they just reverse the polarity!?"
My code doesn't tell between good and evil, sorry.
Sheesh, why not dude? Haven't you ever heard of the evil bit?
Nah, they've already got the ultimate E-Bomb...
...It slows networks to a crawl, shuts down countless computers and electronics gadgets, etc....
....It's called Windows *duck*
Are you kidding? The random encounters were one of the best parts of FO2!! The whale from Hitchhikers guide (complete with daisies), the knights searching for the holy handgrenade, the crashed federation shuttle, gozilla's footprint, the tinman, exploding brahmin, the spammer hunters... all priceless! FO2 wouldn't have been the same without 'em.
PS: I realise you're probably only refering to the vanilla encounters where X generic bad guys attack for little to no reason - and yes, I agree, RPGs could do without those... But some random encounters can be good!
If Data (from ST: TNG) ran Windows?
...Up, Data!
WORF: Captain, there are three Romulan warships uncloaking dead ahead.
PICARD: On screen.
The main viewing screen changes to a pattern of horizontal lines, each only a single pixel wide.
PICARD: Data, what's wrong here?
DATA: Captain, the main viewscreen does not have sufficient video memory to display an image of this size. May I suggest that you select a lower resolution?
PICARD: Very well....
The screen blanks, and then an image appears, with big, blocky square pixels. Three objects appear in the centre, which could be Romulan warbirds, but which actually look more like the aliens in Space Invaders.
PICARD: Data, open a hailing channel to the Romulans.
DATA: Aye, sir.
Data picks up an hourglass from the floor beside him, turns it over, and places it on his head. He punches some buttons on the console and sits motionless for several seconds. A flash of light blossoms from one of the Romulan ships on the viewscreen.
WORF: Incoming plasma torpedo, Captain!
PICARD: Shields up!
DATA: I'm sorry, Captain, but I am still attempting to complete your last instruction. I must ask you to wait until I have finished before you issue your next command.
PICARD: What on earth do you mean? Data, this is important! I want those shields up right now.
DATA: I'm sorry, Captain, but I am still attempting to complete your last instruction. I must ask you to wait until I have finished before you issue your next command.
LAFORGE: Allow me, captain. (to Data) Control-alt-delete, Data.
Data removes hourglass from head, and returns it to the floor.
DATA: The Romulans are not responding to my hails. Press my nose to cancel and return to Windows. Pull my left ear to close this communications channel which is not responding. You will lose any information sent by the Romulans.
LaForge pulls Data's left ear.
PICARD: Shields...
There is a tremendous explosion. The bridge shakes violently, and all the crew members are thrown to the floor. A shower of sparks erupts from Wesley Crusher's station at the helm, throwing Wesley back away from the console.
PICARD:
DATA: Aye, sir.
RIKER: All decks, damage report!
WORF: Captain, Ensign Crusher is injured. He appears to be unconscious.
Data puts hourglass on head and punches some more buttons. He waits a few seconds, then puts the hourglass back on the floor.
DATA: Shields are now up, captain.
PICARD: And not a moment too soon. Worf, lock all phasers on the lead Romulan ship.
WORF: Aye, sir.
He punches buttons on the weapons console.
PICARD: Mr. Data, take the helm, and prepare for evasive action.
DATA: I am sorry, sir, but I do not have the proper device driver installed for that console.
PICARD: Well, damn it, install the right one.
DATA: Please insert Setup Implant 1 in my right nostril.
PICARD: Number One, where do we keep Data's setup implants?
RIKER: I left them with Geordi.
LAFORGE: (in a surprised voice) What!!? I thought you still had them!
PICARD: Data, don't you have device drivers stored in your internal memory?
DATA: Not found, sir. Please insert Setup Implant 1 in my right nostril.
PICARD: Data, I don't have Setup Implant 1.
DATA: Not ready reading right nostril. Abort, Retry, Fail?
PICARD: Abort!
DATA: Not ready reading right nostril. Abort, Retry, Fail?
PICARD: Well, fail, then!
DATA: Current nose is no longer valid.
Data walks over to the helm, and presses several buttons. The ship lurches, the images of the Romulan warships suddenly shift to one side of the viewscreen, and a high-pitched whining noise is heard coming from somewhere else in the ship.
LAFORGE: (alarmed) Data, what the hell are you doing?
PICARD: Number One, do we have a customer service number for Data?
RIKER: Yes sir, but last time I tried to call them, I got put on hold for two hours before I was able to talk to anyone. And that person wasn't knowledgeable about androids of Data's model. She specialised in
For all of you who aren't sure just go here, scroll to the bottom of the page and find out! :)
"Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!"
What I'd really like to know is just how "unintended" some of these consequences were... *shrug*
Eh? woudln't that be "forwards compatible"? Doesn't backwards compatible just mean that new versions of the software can still read the older format? So excel 9.1 (or whatever) can still read xls files from excel 5.1.
Taroon.. Hmmm... Taroon.. Aha!!!11
...i'm not cray.. i'm not crazy... *sits in corner twitching*
If you reverse Taroon you get "Noorat", Right?
Okay, now... tihs is clearly ROT-14 encoded so decoding it you get "Zaadmf" uhuh? stay with me here... Now reversing that gives "Fmdaaz" Yes? Good...
Now... md clearly stands for "Must Die" and F is clearing code for "SCO". (or "Fuckers" if you prefer) Finally I have also uncovered through unrevealed sources at Red Hat that "aaz" is special inhouse code for "(sponsored by IBM)."
So Taroon is actually code for.....:
"SCO must die! (sponsored by IBM)"
DARL WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG!!!11!!!11
Pfah, as everybody knows those Vegans are way too stringy. And so little meat on their bones... It really takes a master chef to prepare a half decent meal from one of them.
Yup! I got mine right here! It's approved by Dennis Hope (the owner of the moon) and all! Wooo!
Heh, damn straight. I was laughing my ass off with pearlers like:
"Five years ago, when summer movies were arguably just as bad as they are now..."
and
"No, the executives are not blaming such bombs as The Hulk, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle or Gigli on poor quality, lack of originality, or general failure to entertain. There's absolutely nothing new about that."
Though I think for these executives a foot-in-mouth icon might serve better.
Hey, that's probably a lot easier than getting rid of bad movies. :)