Was the scheme of time to barrel. How long it took to find a barrel / box in the game. It showed exactly when the developer ran out of creative juice and started to put in cliche elements.
Dang! And I just sank $50 for "Divine Divinity" (the name was so ridiculous that I couldn't resist).
And what's the first thing my char sees upon waking up? A barrel and a crate. DOH!!
If a hole doesn't get announced in one of those two packages within a certain period of time (We're just about up for another Bind one I think) I start getting nervous.
Just like a cop with a speeding ticket quota?
Police Chief: "What do you mean none?!"
Traffic Cop: "Honest, chief! There's no more crime on the street anymore. Maybe the criminal/offenders learned their lesson!".
PC's in any form will not be replaced by anything that cannot beat it in gaming quality.
Ah, but that's what consoles are for.
All the keyboard/mice combo vs gamepads discussions are merely controller issues that can be solved without too much hassle once a vendor decides to do so.
The games themselves are the main obstacle. We need better games, not the same gameplay repackaged with new graphics over and over again.
I have a somewhat "legacy free" PC. That is, a PC with no PCI slots (or any kind of expansion slots). Everything is integrated into the mobo and the only means of expansion are two USB 2.0 ports.
Everything was fine and dandy until I decided to turn it into a firewall/gateway and realized that I can't just pop in a second $9.00 PCI nic.
So I ordered a USB ether adapter and hope that Linux will work with it, since I can't find any reference to it on the FreeBSD source.
Not really. Some domain providers never bother to check the info you give them. You could enter a fake address or a phone number in Bolivia and totally get away with it. As long as you pay them, they won't mind.
So in order to release GB software without breaking the law, developers had to get Nintendo's permission to put their logo into their ROM.
Holy crapola! Actually I shouldn't be surprised. Nintendo can go to great length to control what gets and what doesn't get released for their platform. Do the have a restriction like this on the Gamecube? (Almost) all the games I've popped into mine start with the Nintendo logo (I said also because I can't swear to it, but I'm almost positive). Maybe a licensing restriction on the media type?
Do you have any links regarding this? A superficial search on google turns up nothing. Will search more, tho, it's an interesting subject.
Indeed! And by banning hands we will also eliminate a lot of society's ills:
Violence: most violent act are commited with the hands, either by themselves or by manipulating a knife, gun, 2 by 4...
Perversion: They might not help a lot in acts of sexual deviance against others, but they sure help in the worst cases of incest: incest against ourselves. Enough said.
The people behind VB should be tracked down and sent to Cuba!
Cuba is actually a very nice place to be, so long as you don't have to actually *live* there. Warm sandy beaches, warm beautiful women... or so I've been told, I can't actually afford to go there.
God, I hate April Fools... and it's only 9 in the am. What am I supposed to do in the absence of interesting news? Work? My boss might think I'm playing an April Fools on him.
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Ok, but the WORST part about family tech support is when they start telling their friends, neighbors, etc, that they have a son (or daughter) that can help them too...
Oh, man, I feel your pain. Imagine getting a phone call with an unknown caller id that goes: "Hello, you don't know me but my name is XYZ and I'm a friend of ABC (roommie, girlfriend, uncle...) and he told me you could fix my PC so he gave me your *cellphone* number...". Of course, it is kind of implied that I'll do it for free.
I don't answer calls from unknown caller id's anymore. I'm thinking of getting one of those t-shirts from Thinkgeek.
But one of the big advantages of Windows is support.
Where? The only good thing about MS' support is the knowledge base. And ever since google has newsgroup support, I find it just as easy to find answers for my Linux/FreeBSD problems.
Windowsupdate? "apt-get dist-upgrade"
I *do* like Windows, but support is definitely not Microsoft's forte.
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it ironic that on the same page as this "How Hydrogen can Save America" article, there's a GIANT FUCKING AD FOR AN SUV
Jeepers! That would be like finding an ad for Microsoft in Slashdot!!!
It all comes down to money, man (not that there's anything wrong with that.)
When record companies pumped out crap deals to artists they got up and started there own labels on shoe string budgets.
Yes, but is this a fair analogy? The only thing the record companies add to the product is the marketing and other fluff. Can a group of people produce a game keeping with today's expectations in somebody's garage?
I think the movie industry is a better analogy, and even some "indy" studios are actually owned by the big guys (Miramax, anyone?).
Since Microsoft does not support Win95 any longer, I can no longer "update" Win95 to a working "semi-safe", OS.
Uh, it's my understanding that "end of life" means that no new patches are released for the product. But surely the existing patches should be available on some microsoft mirror for download, shouldn't they?
It just so happens that OS X is arguably worlds better still than current Wintel alternatives in terms of flexibility, manageability, interface, etc... thus my preference.
Totally agree here. Unfortunately, I'm still tied to my old Omnibook at work, so it's Win2k for me. I passed on the offer to upgrade to XP, had they forced me (my IT dept) I would have had to spend a while re-tweaking it to my preference.
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Bascially give up potatos, rice, sugar, and beer. Not very hard at at all and it feels nice to be thin again.
Not very hard??? I'd rather give up meat than potato, rice, sugar and beer.
Was the scheme of time to barrel. How long it took to find a barrel / box in the game. It showed exactly when the developer ran out of creative juice and started to put in cliche elements.
Dang! And I just sank $50 for "Divine Divinity" (the name was so ridiculous that I couldn't resist).
And what's the first thing my char sees upon waking up? A barrel and a crate. DOH!!
If a hole doesn't get announced in one of those two packages within a certain period of time (We're just about up for another Bind one I think) I start getting nervous.
Just like a cop with a speeding ticket quota?
Police Chief: "What do you mean none?!"
Traffic Cop: "Honest, chief! There's no more crime on the street anymore. Maybe the criminal/offenders learned their lesson!".
which will allow them to circle a battlefield continuously for periods ranging from several days up to a couple of weeks.
* cue-in "Johnny Comes Marching Home" music *
Maj. Kong: "Goldie, how many times have I told you guys that I don't want no horsing around on the airplane?"
PC's in any form will not be replaced by anything that cannot beat it in gaming quality.
Ah, but that's what consoles are for.
All the keyboard/mice combo vs gamepads discussions are merely controller issues that can be solved without too much hassle once a vendor decides to do so.
The games themselves are the main obstacle. We need better games, not the same gameplay repackaged with new graphics over and over again.
I have a somewhat "legacy free" PC. That is, a PC with no PCI slots (or any kind of expansion slots). Everything is integrated into the mobo and the only means of expansion are two USB 2.0 ports.
Everything was fine and dandy until I decided to turn it into a firewall/gateway and realized that I can't just pop in a second $9.00 PCI nic.
So I ordered a USB ether adapter and hope that Linux will work with it, since I can't find any reference to it on the FreeBSD source.
Not really. Some domain providers never bother to check the info you give them. You could enter a fake address or a phone number in Bolivia and totally get away with it. As long as you pay them, they won't mind.
living out the movie Leaving Las Vegas
Elizabeth Shue *and* booze... my favorite cause of death.
So in order to release GB software without breaking the law, developers had to get Nintendo's permission to put their logo into their ROM.
Holy crapola! Actually I shouldn't be surprised. Nintendo can go to great length to control what gets and what doesn't get released for their platform. Do the have a restriction like this on the Gamecube? (Almost) all the games I've popped into mine start with the Nintendo logo (I said also because I can't swear to it, but I'm almost positive). Maybe a licensing restriction on the media type?
Do you have any links regarding this? A superficial search on google turns up nothing. Will search more, tho, it's an interesting subject.
Hands should be made illegal.
... and too many other to mention...
Indeed! And by banning hands we will also eliminate a lot of society's ills:
Violence: most violent act are commited with the hands, either by themselves or by manipulating a knife, gun, 2 by 4...
Perversion: They might not help a lot in acts of sexual deviance against others, but they sure help in the worst cases of incest: incest against ourselves. Enough said.
Discourtesy: No more birds to be flipped!
The people behind VB should be tracked down and sent to Cuba!
Cuba is actually a very nice place to be, so long as you don't have to actually *live* there. Warm sandy beaches, warm beautiful women... or so I've been told, I can't actually afford to go there.
The sad part is, this is not an April Fools.
George Foreman! Pshah! Jimmy Dean Sausages. Now that's a winner.
Not to mention a wiener.
*ducks*
God, I hate April Fools... and it's only 9 in the am. What am I supposed to do in the absence of interesting news? Work? My boss might think I'm playing an April Fools on him.
Ok, but the WORST part about family tech support is when they start telling their friends, neighbors, etc, that they have a son (or daughter) that can help them too...
Oh, man, I feel your pain. Imagine getting a phone call with an unknown caller id that goes: "Hello, you don't know me but my name is XYZ and I'm a friend of ABC (roommie, girlfriend, uncle...) and he told me you could fix my PC so he gave me your *cellphone* number...". Of course, it is kind of implied that I'll do it for free.
I don't answer calls from unknown caller id's anymore. I'm thinking of getting one of those t-shirts from Thinkgeek.
Keep going and soon you'll have an empty route table. Do you drop just the IP or the class C or the entire netblock?
Unless it is an all out attack, I just report it to the netblock owner. Most of the time (almost always) the report goes ignored and unanswered.
But one of the big advantages of Windows is support.
Where? The only good thing about MS' support is the knowledge base. And ever since google has newsgroup support, I find it just as easy to find answers for my Linux/FreeBSD problems.
Windowsupdate? "apt-get dist-upgrade"
I *do* like Windows, but support is definitely not Microsoft's forte.
If you lose your hippocampus you only lose the ability to store new memories
Hmmm... Remember Sammy Jenkis?
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it ironic that on the same page as this "How Hydrogen can Save America" article, there's a GIANT FUCKING AD FOR AN SUV
Jeepers! That would be like finding an ad for Microsoft in Slashdot!!!
It all comes down to money, man (not that there's anything wrong with that.)
When record companies pumped out crap deals to artists they got up and started there own labels on shoe string budgets.
Yes, but is this a fair analogy? The only thing the record companies add to the product is the marketing and other fluff. Can a group of people produce a game keeping with today's expectations in somebody's garage?
I think the movie industry is a better analogy, and even some "indy" studios are actually owned by the big guys (Miramax, anyone?).
Since Microsoft does not support Win95 any longer, I can no longer "update" Win95 to a working "semi-safe", OS.
Uh, it's my understanding that "end of life" means that no new patches are released for the product. But surely the existing patches should be available on some microsoft mirror for download, shouldn't they?
It just so happens that OS X is arguably worlds better still than current Wintel alternatives in terms of flexibility, manageability, interface, etc... thus my preference.
Totally agree here. Unfortunately, I'm still tied to my old Omnibook at work, so it's Win2k for me. I passed on the offer to upgrade to XP, had they forced me (my IT dept) I would have had to spend a while re-tweaking it to my preference.
You mean they actually *found* aliens?
I mean could a 700km round body in space support an atmosphere?
Certainly. You can even have volcanic activity and vegetation.
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Aaargh! Damn you, making me laugh out loud while I furtively try to read slashdot in the office!
Mods: +5 KFunny.
Have they stopped producing the ps1 yet?
I've seen a unit labeled PSOne on stores. It seems to be a PS1 with an LCD screen. Touted as a semi-portable gaming device.