Right now I'm trying to determine which flavor works best on my near-obsolete G3/333 "Lombard" Powerbook.
From my experience with old Macs, it seems to me that your 333Mhz Powerbook is well beyond obsolete. My friend gave me an old 400Mhz G3 iMac w/ 256MB RAM, and the thing is damn near useless. Navigating in the Finder is unresponsive and laggy. It can't play Divx or Xvid or any modern codes at all. Surfing the web is painfully slow because it takes so god damn long for the page to render (whether it be in Safari or Firefox) that it's like being on dialup. Flash is totally out of the question. Applications take an eternity to load. The only thing it's really good for is an MP3 jukebox, and it's not even very good at that as MP3s will skip if you try to do anything else while playing them in iTunes.
It's funny because I used to have a 400Mhz PII and it did all those things adequitly. I thought PPC processors were supposed to be faster than Intels at the same Mhz rating. So much for that.
That kind of trick works for just about any OS. Security begins with physical security. If you have physical access to the machine, it's pretty much yours.
The Mario puzzles are easy. I've completed all those. It's those Wario puzzles that get me. I've beaten almost all of them after all this time, but there's a few in levels 8, 9 and 10 that I just can't figure out.
I dunno, maybe I just suck at Picross. You don't have to rub it in though:P
See I can't play a game like that. It has to have an objective, or I'll get bored really quickly. Can you really even call it a "game" if you can't win?
I found that LSD and RPGs especially don't go well together. I tried playing Final Fantasy VII on LSD once, but I found that I couldn't because it was very difficult to read. All the text kinda melts or blurs or changes color or jumps out of the screen. Since the game consists of a lot of reading, I didn't get very far.
But I suspect LSD and Katamari Damacy would go very well together.
That's bullshit. Plenty of musicians make music because they like making music. I'm sure many would do it full time as long as they could make enough to get by. The only thing we would lose by putting "salary caps" on musicians would the no talent hacks who are only in it for the money, and that would not be a tragic loss. Availibility would hardly go down, but quality would go way up.
Blame Capcom. Nobody knows how to churn the exact same game out over and over again like Capcom. Eighteen years later they are still pumping out Megaman games, each one nearly intentical to the one before it (I believe we are up to over thirty Megamans, excluding Battle Network). And lets not forget Street Fighter II, which probably spawned ten different editions and spinoffs before Capcom moved up a number in the series. And who can forget Reisdent Evil, while although only technically at number four in the series has no less than eight games all cloned from the original.
Don't be mad at EA. They are just following a trend that Capcom set over a decade ago.
(that said, I love Capcom games, even if they are all the same:)
Right, but the list isn't the "Top 100 most influental" games. It's the Top 100 best games. Over the last 18 years, at least 100 games have come out that are better than Zelda 1. Many were inspired or influenced by Zelda 1, but they were better games. For this reason I don't thik Super Mario Bros. 1 should be on the list either, let alone in the number one spot.
I dunno. I don't think Zelda 1 was that good. At all. I have all the Zelda games and Zelda 1 is the one I play the least. I mean it was certainly a groundbreaking game for its day, but honestly it has been trumped by so many subsequent games that it inspired: All the Zelda sequels, all the Seiken Densetsu ("Mana") series, Alundra, Brave Fencer Musashi, and many others. Zelda 1 pales in comparison to the games that followed in its footsteps. By 2005, there are at least 100 games that are better than the original Zelda. I certainly don't think it deserves a trophy. I don't even think it deserves a pizza.
For anyone who liked Bionic Commando and it's grappling hook swinging action, you need to check out Umihara Kawase, a quirky Japanese SNES game about a young girl out to save humanity from an invasion of Darwinian Nightmare Fish.
The game plays a little differently than Bionic Commando, and has much more sophisticated physics, but the concept is the same. You use an elastic fishing line to grapple onto objects and swing yourself around. Because the line is made of rubber, it's stretchable and bendable, allowing you to pull off some crazy maneuvers, such as swinging your line underneath a platform, then retracting the line to fling yourself up onto the ledge. The learning curve is sharp, but once you learn how to play it is a tremendously fun game. I highly recommand this quirky little game to any fan of Bionic Commando (or video games in general).
If you wanna see what I'm talking about, you should check out this video of the game being played to its full capacity.
Well is already a "religious" FPS. Super Noah's Ark 3D was an unlicensed hack of Wolfenstein 3D for the SNES. Instead of killing Nazis though, you have to put rogue animals to "sleep".
Verizon isn't the only major land carrier in the cell market. Cingular is owned by SBC. Between those two, they probably control 80% of both the cell and land markets.
Actually my first exposure to NGE was on TV. I was channel surfing when I stumbled across the show on KTEH, a PBS station out of San Jose. It was being shown in it true form: subtitled, and completely uncensored (i.e. blood and nippleless boobies all intact). Of course when I tuned in they were already late into the series so jumping in at that point didn't do me any favors, but it piqued my interest enough for me to buy the DVDs.
It's too bad KTEH doesn't show anime anymore. They were the only channel to do it right.
Ahh how I miss the glory days of BBS Door games. I couldn't wait to get home from school, dial up my favorite board, and play a round of Tradewars or Legend of the Red Dragon. I still to this day play LORD. About the only place to play it these days that has an active community is at lord.nuklear.org.
I too like NPR, but I tried using iTunes Podcast search to find Fresh Air and All Things Considered, and nothing came up. The only show I could find is Forum, which is a locally produced show from KQED.
So I looked on NPR's website and found this, which indicates NPR does not Podcast their shows. Yet you say you get the Podcast versions. Do you know something I don't, or were you just saying "Podcast" when you meant their RSS news feeds, some of which contain audio links?
Except that isn't how it works. iTMS and many other stores don't have a subscription fee, rather you only pay when you download something. Services like Napster To Go and eMusic charge a monthly fee, but you don't have to pay per download.
You're right. Castle in the Sky was boring. I actually fell asleep while watching it. I didn't like Nausicaa or Princess Mononoke that much either. Personally I think The Castle of Cagliostro is Miyazaki's best movie, and that was based on a well established franchise rather than original characters.
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From my experience with old Macs, it seems to me that your 333Mhz Powerbook is well beyond obsolete. My friend gave me an old 400Mhz G3 iMac w/ 256MB RAM, and the thing is damn near useless. Navigating in the Finder is unresponsive and laggy. It can't play Divx or Xvid or any modern codes at all. Surfing the web is painfully slow because it takes so god damn long for the page to render (whether it be in Safari or Firefox) that it's like being on dialup. Flash is totally out of the question. Applications take an eternity to load. The only thing it's really good for is an MP3 jukebox, and it's not even very good at that as MP3s will skip if you try to do anything else while playing them in iTunes.
It's funny because I used to have a 400Mhz PII and it did all those things adequitly. I thought PPC processors were supposed to be faster than Intels at the same Mhz rating. So much for that.
That kind of trick works for just about any OS. Security begins with physical security. If you have physical access to the machine, it's pretty much yours.
I dunno, maybe I just suck at Picross. You don't have to rub it in though :P
See I can't play a game like that. It has to have an objective, or I'll get bored really quickly. Can you really even call it a "game" if you can't win?
Well in Japan, "DS Brain Training for Adults" is apparently a huge seller.
But I suspect LSD and Katamari Damacy would go very well together.
That's bullshit. Plenty of musicians make music because they like making music. I'm sure many would do it full time as long as they could make enough to get by. The only thing we would lose by putting "salary caps" on musicians would the no talent hacks who are only in it for the money, and that would not be a tragic loss. Availibility would hardly go down, but quality would go way up.
Don't be mad at EA. They are just following a trend that Capcom set over a decade ago.
(that said, I love Capcom games, even if they are all the same :)
Here ya go!. A movie that was rated NC-17 for violence rather than sexual content.
They forgot to mention Zombo.com.
I'd say the percentage would be about equal to the number of people who owned a PS1 before owning a PS2.
Right, but the list isn't the "Top 100 most influental" games. It's the Top 100 best games. Over the last 18 years, at least 100 games have come out that are better than Zelda 1. Many were inspired or influenced by Zelda 1, but they were better games. For this reason I don't thik Super Mario Bros. 1 should be on the list either, let alone in the number one spot.
I dunno. I don't think Zelda 1 was that good. At all. I have all the Zelda games and Zelda 1 is the one I play the least. I mean it was certainly a groundbreaking game for its day, but honestly it has been trumped by so many subsequent games that it inspired: All the Zelda sequels, all the Seiken Densetsu ("Mana") series, Alundra, Brave Fencer Musashi, and many others. Zelda 1 pales in comparison to the games that followed in its footsteps. By 2005, there are at least 100 games that are better than the original Zelda. I certainly don't think it deserves a trophy. I don't even think it deserves a pizza.
The game plays a little differently than Bionic Commando, and has much more sophisticated physics, but the concept is the same. You use an elastic fishing line to grapple onto objects and swing yourself around. Because the line is made of rubber, it's stretchable and bendable, allowing you to pull off some crazy maneuvers, such as swinging your line underneath a platform, then retracting the line to fling yourself up onto the ledge. The learning curve is sharp, but once you learn how to play it is a tremendously fun game. I highly recommand this quirky little game to any fan of Bionic Commando (or video games in general).
If you wanna see what I'm talking about, you should check out this video of the game being played to its full capacity.
Well is already a "religious" FPS. Super Noah's Ark 3D was an unlicensed hack of Wolfenstein 3D for the SNES. Instead of killing Nazis though, you have to put rogue animals to "sleep".
Verizon isn't the only major land carrier in the cell market. Cingular is owned by SBC. Between those two, they probably control 80% of both the cell and land markets.
It's too bad KTEH doesn't show anime anymore. They were the only channel to do it right.
Ahh how I miss the glory days of BBS Door games. I couldn't wait to get home from school, dial up my favorite board, and play a round of Tradewars or Legend of the Red Dragon. I still to this day play LORD. About the only place to play it these days that has an active community is at lord.nuklear.org.
So I looked on NPR's website and found this, which indicates NPR does not Podcast their shows. Yet you say you get the Podcast versions. Do you know something I don't, or were you just saying "Podcast" when you meant their RSS news feeds, some of which contain audio links?
Except that isn't how it works. iTMS and many other stores don't have a subscription fee, rather you only pay when you download something. Services like Napster To Go and eMusic charge a monthly fee, but you don't have to pay per download.
I'm using a Sony Playstation Dualshock controller. Really! The PS->USB adapter was the best $5 I ever spent.
You're right. Castle in the Sky was boring. I actually fell asleep while watching it. I didn't like Nausicaa or Princess Mononoke that much either. Personally I think The Castle of Cagliostro is Miyazaki's best movie, and that was based on a well established franchise rather than original characters.
I expected something like this might happen some day, but I'm ready, thanks to this. Bring it on!
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I said you can, I didn't say it was scrupulous
And for what it's worth, just about any game ever made is available on eBay, if you are feeling guilty about downloading roms without owning the game.
Sure you can. (Well maybe not Xenosaga... yet)