Hmm... wait a minute. I'm Catholic, my Mom's Catholic. In fact, my Mom's side of the family is Irish Catholic. My Dad's Catholic too... German Catholics. Heck, I was an altar boy.
So, um, why am I supposed to be scared of Catholics again? Is it because they are frothing nutcakes who want to summon forth the apocalypse so they'll be Raptured up to Heaven?
But think how wonderful our part of the world will be when the rest of the world has been nuked!
o/~ Oh the weather outside is frightful, but in my fallout shelter it's delightful, and since there's no place to go, let it glow, let it glow, let it glow! o/~
Our closed border is the two-by-four used to wallop the H1-B guy who takes the American job for crummier working conditions (lower wages can fall into that set, but really, it might mean the same salary for much longer hours. More than one way to skin a cat.)
If we need more workers, increase naturalization quotas for countries we want to bring workers in from. Simple, not complex like our bizarre, byzantine alphabet soup immigration laws.
The thing I liked about Kefka, is that in the beginning of the game he didn't start out as the main villain, he started out as chief henchman. The character you can compare him to is Dildandau in Escaflowne. They are both creations of the Empire, and they are both insane. However, they are not in charge! Watching Kefka get more and more evil and powerful until he takes over was kind of fun.
Douglas Adams used to really hate characters like Kefka, villains who were just motivated by sheer destructive evil, but I've always had a soft spot for them. Yes, I know, they are common as diamonds, but I still like them.
This is not to say Kefka is complex, he reminds me of that Hawk character in Black Adder. Black Adder succeeds in assembling the six most evil men in England into his gang, and then Hawk shows up and decides to take over. Black Adder says, "But he just wants to kill everyone!" Which, of course, makes Hawk very popular with the six most evil men in England.
However, I'm not complaining about Final Fantasy VII here, because I really liked the Shinra corporation, Rufus Shinra was cool as all Hell.
Now, Tunnels and Trolls made this their focus for a while. I have a ton of Solitare dungeons for T&T.
Chaosium had their Alone Against series, though I think there were only two, Alone Against the Wendigo and Alone Against the Dark, I have both. Pagan Publishing published a similar solitare scenarion Alone on Halloween which I do not have, and looking at the current price probably never will.
Oh, and there is something called Fighting Fantasy which is apparently British, so I missed out on that.
Still, being an angry loner as a teenager really paid off for me, as you can see....
The real problem with Ebert reviews of videogame movies (and his review of Resident Evil shows this as well) is that he always assumes that movies based on games are actually based on the games they are based on. (Try saying that three times fast!)
Probably, this has a lot to do with his low opinion of games in general. Since most movies based on games are in no way based on the games they are based on. Someone just buys a game's name, makes a movie and sticks the name on it. I wonder what he thought of the movie version of Super Mario Brothers for example.
I'd like to get him and explain this to him. "You know how American International Pictures would name movies after Edgar Allen Poe stories or poems and then use an H. P. Lovecraft story (see Haunted Palace for example) or some historical horror story from England (see Conqueror Worm for example, well actually in that case they just imported the movie and slapped on the name with some edits) for the actual plot? Well that's what video game movies are like."
Well... I think the problem is that wind power might make a drop in the value of Alaskan oil especially if it ever became really viable. He's just thinking of the future.
JACK: Well, your A. Buttle has been confused with T47/215, an A. Tuttle. I mean, it's a joke! Somebody should be shot for that. So B58/732 was pulled in by mistake.
SAM: You got the wrong man.
JACK: (a little heated) I did not get the wrong man. I got the right man. The wrong man was delivered to me as the right man! I accepted him, on trust, as the right man. Was I wrong? Anyway, to add to the confusion, he died on us. Which, had he been the right man, he wouldn't have done.
SAM: You killed him?
JACK: (annoyed) Sam, there are very rigid parameters laid down to avoid that event but Buttle's heart condition did not appear on Tuttle's file. Don't think I'm dismissing this business, Sam. I've lost a week's sleep over it already.
SAM: I'm sure you have
JACK: There are some real bastards in this department who don't mind breaking a few eggs to make an omelette, but thank God there are the new boys like me who want to maintain decent civilized standards of terrorist eradication. We've got the upper hand for the moment, but they're waiting for us to slip up, and a little slip- up like this is just the chance they're looking for.
Sometimes, when I'm playing Sega Genesis Shadowrun I just spend hours in front of the same rundown building, hacking networks and selling the stuff I find. It never gets boring. (Well, for me, anyway.)
(Closest thing I've found to the Genesis Shadowrun in a modern PC-RPG is Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines but it is too linear.)
That's a really bad use of the offtopic mod that was used with the parent post. How is it off topic to note that what's happening with G4 is part of a general trend against narrowcasting?
Well, hopefully it will be fixed in metamoderation.
They could put on some of the live action shows based on Anime...
Well, OK, most of those are inappropriate for television (as were the Anime they were based on). I'm guessing there must be some out there besides La Blue Girl, though...
First they start showing live action movies like Dumb and Dumber.
Now they are doing a two week trial of.... shudder... Saved by the Bell during their Adult Swim Block: Adult Swim 'Saved by the Bell' (note creepy Saved by the Bell homo-erotic image used to advertise the show...)
I wonder how long before they change it to the 'C'-Network or something to de-emphasize cartoons..
Well, at least I have one more season of Venture Brothers to look forward too until they pull the plug....
It's sad though... I saw so many shows I would have missed out on because of Cartoon Network, like the great series Paranoia Agent... I'll just have to pay more attention to the Internet from now on...
Well, I just read something in that Shadowrun Wikiarticle that sucks:
Video games for the Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and in Japan only, the Sega Mega-CD have been created with entirely different story lines, although they all take place within the same Shadowrun universe.
Damn you Sega, Damn you!!! Thanks for the "wonderful" games like Night Trap, INXS, and Double Switch but can we get Shadowrun CD? Of course not... bastards!!!
I think it was about five months ago that Press editor Alex Zaitchik whispered to me in the office hallway that Thomas Friedman had a new book coming out. All he knew about it was the title, but that was enough; he approached me with the chilled demeanor of a British spy who has just discovered that Hitler was secretly buying up the world's manganese supply. Who knew what it meant--but one had to assume the worst
"It's going to be called 'The Flattening,'" he whispered. Then he stood there, eyebrows raised, staring at me, waiting to see the effect of the news when it landed. I said nothing.
It turned out Alex had bad information; the book that ultimately came out would be called 'The World Is Flat.' It didn't matter. Either version suggested the same horrifying possibility. Thomas Friedman in possession of 500 pages of ruminations on the metaphorical theme of flatness would be a very dangerous thing indeed. It would be like letting a chimpanzee loose in the NORAD control room; even the best-case scenario is an image that could keep you awake well into your 50s.
-- Flathead by Matt Taibbi
Slashdot Mirror
'twas ever thus......
Indeed it was....
What color is the sky on your world?
The Catholics are coming for us!!
Run for the hills!!
Hmm... wait a minute. I'm Catholic, my Mom's Catholic. In fact, my Mom's side of the family is Irish Catholic. My Dad's Catholic too... German Catholics. Heck, I was an altar boy.
So, um, why am I supposed to be scared of Catholics again? Is it because they are frothing nutcakes who want to summon forth the apocalypse so they'll be Raptured up to Heaven?
Oh, wait, those are Protestants....
o/~ Oh the weather outside is frightful, but in my fallout shelter it's delightful, and since there's no place to go, let it glow, let it glow, let it glow! o/~
Seriously, the man is crazy.
We don't have open borders.
Our closed border is the two-by-four used to wallop the H1-B guy who takes the American job for crummier working conditions (lower wages can fall into that set, but really, it might mean the same salary for much longer hours. More than one way to skin a cat.)
If we need more workers, increase naturalization quotas for countries we want to bring workers in from. Simple, not complex like our bizarre, byzantine alphabet soup immigration laws.
If they could offshore these jobs they are advertising for, they already would have. H1-Bs are only for jobs they can't offshore for some reason.
Douglas Adams used to really hate characters like Kefka, villains who were just motivated by sheer destructive evil, but I've always had a soft spot for them. Yes, I know, they are common as diamonds, but I still like them.
This is not to say Kefka is complex, he reminds me of that Hawk character in Black Adder. Black Adder succeeds in assembling the six most evil men in England into his gang, and then Hawk shows up and decides to take over. Black Adder says, "But he just wants to kill everyone!" Which, of course, makes Hawk very popular with the six most evil men in England.
However, I'm not complaining about Final Fantasy VII here, because I really liked the Shinra corporation, Rufus Shinra was cool as all Hell.
I liked Sorcerer's Solitare the best. Dargon's Dungeon wasn't bad either. Actually, I liked pretty much all of them, but then I'm easy to please.
> Set browse threshold to -1
It is dark, you are likely to be eaten by a Troll.
Now, Tunnels and Trolls made this their focus for a while. I have a ton of Solitare dungeons for T&T.
Chaosium had their Alone Against series, though I think there were only two, Alone Against the Wendigo and Alone Against the Dark, I have both. Pagan Publishing published a similar solitare scenarion Alone on Halloween which I do not have, and looking at the current price probably never will.
Oh, and there is something called Fighting Fantasy which is apparently British, so I missed out on that.
Still, being an angry loner as a teenager really paid off for me, as you can see....
Probably, this has a lot to do with his low opinion of games in general. Since most movies based on games are in no way based on the games they are based on. Someone just buys a game's name, makes a movie and sticks the name on it. I wonder what he thought of the movie version of Super Mario Brothers for example.
I'd like to get him and explain this to him. "You know how American International Pictures would name movies after Edgar Allen Poe stories or poems and then use an H. P. Lovecraft story (see Haunted Palace for example) or some historical horror story from England (see Conqueror Worm for example, well actually in that case they just imported the movie and slapped on the name with some edits) for the actual plot? Well that's what video game movies are like."
Well... I think the problem is that wind power might make a drop in the value of Alaskan oil especially if it ever became really viable. He's just thinking of the future.
SAM: You got the wrong man.
JACK: (a little heated) I did not get the wrong man. I got the right man. The wrong man was delivered to me as the right man! I accepted him, on trust, as the right man. Was I wrong? Anyway, to add to the confusion, he died on us. Which, had he been the right man, he wouldn't have done.
SAM: You killed him?
JACK: (annoyed) Sam, there are very rigid parameters laid down to avoid that event but Buttle's heart condition did not appear on Tuttle's file. Don't think I'm dismissing this business, Sam. I've lost a week's sleep over it already.
SAM: I'm sure you have
JACK: There are some real bastards in this department who don't mind breaking a few eggs to make an omelette, but thank God there are the new boys like me who want to maintain decent civilized standards of terrorist eradication. We've got the upper hand for the moment, but they're waiting for us to slip up, and a little slip- up like this is just the chance they're looking for.
--- Brazil
(Closest thing I've found to the Genesis Shadowrun in a modern PC-RPG is Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines but it is too linear.)
Well, hopefully it will be fixed in metamoderation.
Well, OK, most of those are inappropriate for television (as were the Anime they were based on). I'm guessing there must be some out there besides La Blue Girl, though...
Now they are doing a two week trial of.... shudder... Saved by the Bell during their Adult Swim Block: Adult Swim 'Saved by the Bell' (note creepy Saved by the Bell homo-erotic image used to advertise the show...)
I wonder how long before they change it to the 'C'-Network or something to de-emphasize cartoons..
Well, at least I have one more season of Venture Brothers to look forward too until they pull the plug....
It's sad though... I saw so many shows I would have missed out on because of Cartoon Network, like the great series Paranoia Agent... I'll just have to pay more attention to the Internet from now on...
People are always picking on Voodoo until Baron Saturday takes them to school...
So, basically, you are just inventing your own definition for art then. Humpty Dumpty would be pleased.
I think that's just intended as Flamebait, or else the comment author was raped by a Dreamcast fanboy at some point.
Are you with the Bolar Federation?
Didn't the try to do that with Goldeneye: Rogue Agent? That was one of the more disappointing titles to come out...