Yep....same here. We had numerous recalls and we were part of the most recent one where when you go around a corner at 45 or so, with less than 1/4 of a tank of gas in, it stalls. So we took it in and they fixed it.
But yeah, all the other recalls, the fact that MY CLUTCH PEDAL BROKE!!! I mean, c'mon...clutch pedals don't break. Ford wouldn't do jack for it.
I really and truly hate this car. I bought it (year 2000 of course) because of all the good press that it got. Just goes to show you that all those auto review journals are in the automaker's back pocket.
This may have actually been a good game. The problem with it was we had the good ol' C64 tape deck. So you'd hit play on the deck, go have dinner, go outside to play a bit, and then come back to the computer to play the game. Seeing as though I was likely between 5-7, I would last about 2 minutes before getting taken out by some spider or that dragon flying in the sky.
I thought it's name was chimera but googing around proved me wrong. I seem to remember though when you started the game a voice would say "Chimera" with a lust for murder in it's computerized voice.
I seem to remember that Forbidden Forest was the only game we had for the tape deck. You can imagine my excitement when we made the move to floppies.
Nevermind that I don't have the money, but I'm weary to buy first editions of anything. The reason for the weariness is because I bought a 2000 Ford Focus (US first edition) and have had about 7 recalls on the car so far. So let 'em work out the kinks on this new technology and in the same time, drop the price a bit. Oh and get it on the Mac (then again, if it comes to Mac, the price will still be high).
I wouldn't think so. I'm no lawyer but, I would think the company shutting down the game would argue that you're paying an access fee at XX amount of dollars per month. Sure your character is at level 50 but all you're paying for is access.
I think for what RE was, the acting was great. The cheesy B'ness of the acting was spot on. It just felt like a cheesy horror film, only scarier (those damn dogs scared the piss out of me...and that thing dropping down from above).
I'm not even going to bother R'ing-TFA. The entertainment industry will always look for a scapegoat. What's next? They'll blame movie theaters for selling extra large sodas. They'll say the moviegoers bladders are too full and when they have to go pee, they miss too much of the movie. Therefore it's unfair that they sai Gili is bad because they missed some of the movie going to the bathroom. Give me a break.
I can hang with some rhythm games (Parrappa for example) but if you throw in a custom controller like this drum controller, I'm lost. I remember playing one of those, for lact of a better term, drum karaoke machines in the Hard Rock Hotel/Casino in Vegas. Man, I sucked. I chose Fight for Your Right to Party by Boys Beastie and I slaughtered it. I swear, little kids with their toy plastic drumsets from the baby isle at Wal-Mart have more rhythm than me.
Maybe it's I have no coordination. I've tried to play Dance Dance Revolution a few times and my dancing skills are sorely lacking. Pretty much I do it for a goof for people to laugh at me. I'm amazed when 12 year olds jump on it and just go to town. I guess a 27 year old on a DDR machine is pretty funny looking anyway.
I think I was around 8 or so when E.T. came out. We didn't have an atari (we had Intellivision) but our friends down the street did. Even then, I wasn't quite sure of the point of the game.
I wonder if there's some marker pointing out where the cartridges are buried?
Nobody should have ported the Star Wars Arcade game. That game was too perfect. Gotta love the cockpit edition.
I'm surprised that ET for the 2600 hasn't been mentioned yet. Jeeze, what a piece of crap that was. Crappy enough for Atari to dump 5 million copies down Mexico way.
Do you mean the network adapter? Well, sure that's extra hardware, but lots of people own it. Some games even require you to have it (see Everquest Online Adventures). And true, according to the article it will also make use of the Hard Drive. I think hard drive sales will be pretty brisk with the release of FFXI over in Japan. I know I'll be getting one when it comes over here.
I'm glad to see quirky games like these make their way over here and I wish more would. Fresh Games brought over Mr. Mosquito and Mad Maestro a while back (wonder if they'll bring Mr. Mosquito 2 over?). I'm not sure how well they did, but they retailed for around 20 bucks. I'm willing to plop down 20 bucks on a quirky Japanese title.
Someone is bound to say, "Get a Japanese PS2." Well, I can't read Japanese so I prefer the conversions.
Until I can get around to building a MAME cab., this is the next best thing.
By the way, if you're looking for more great retro gaming on your PS2, get the Activision Anthology (go to that site and you'll have "The Safety Dance" stuck in your head all day). Plus, I think it's dirt cheap now. Over 45 games, classic commercials. Tons o' fun.
They do have logging and it's auditable. C'mon, don't you guys listen to Market Place? I think they're an underwriter. At least they are an underwriter on something on NPR.
I actually just called AOL (slow morning at work) and they said that it is possible for 2 different people to have the same name for AOL and AIM. I guess that makes sense actually because there's so many AIM users and so many AOL users.
For some reason, I constantly get messages from this eric guy who, I believe, has the same AOL username as my AOLIM username. Anybody else had problems like this?
Fail Safe was a great movie and the story behind it getting made is just as great as the movie itself. The book Fail Safe came out around the same time Dr. Strange love, the book, came out. There was a bunch of controversy about the authors ripping each other off. Same thing arose when Kubrick wanted to make Strangelove and Lumet Fail Safe. Oringinally, Strangelove was to be a serious flick. Kubrick was upset that Fail Safe was in production at (or around) the same time Strangelove was to. So he turned it into a satire.
Fail Safe is kind of a more serious look at nuclear warfare. I didn't get a chance to see the 2000 CBS live version featuring Mr. Clooney. I wish they sold the DVD here in the US. They do for UK and Germany.
I thought we were all boycotting Amazon due to their patenting everything but the kitchen sink (Bezos: "Note to self, patent the kitchen sink."). But I guess Amazon is like Wal-mart, everyone hates it, yet everyone shops there anyway.
All this talk about arcades being dead. How old are we all here...I think the average/. reader is beyond the average age of an arcade player these days. My old ass can't play those damn Dance Dance games. I look like a flailing monkey playing these things. And every Saturday when I drive by my local Putt Putt, it's jammed. So I think it's safe to say arcades have change, but they're not dead...yet.
Oh and I remember Playstations in arcades back in the psone heyday. It had a few games and was time controlled. Lame, but gave those w/out a psone a chance to play. And yes, I know this isn't the same thing as just sticking an xbox in an arcade cab.
One skilled in the art would appreciate that the discussion system may be used in conjunction with a non-commercial environment and with a network other than the WWW or even with a system that is not based on a network. Also, one skilled in the art would appreciate that the term "item" refers to anything (e.g., book, news story, musical score, electronic product, scientific theory) for which a user wants to share information about with other users or to elicit comments from other users.
Ok, at first I thought, they've patent discussions relating to store items. I'm no patent lawyer (I hardly know what I'm talking about half the time) but the above quote seems to cover ANY discussion system. So since were discussing an "item" (the patent itself), does that mean/. is going to have to pay a licensing fee? If I code my own blog now and discuss ideas, thoughts, items, theory, whatever, am I going to have to pay up to amazon?
And check out the amazon homepage. OT, but they're touting their high customer service ACSI score. And no I don't think this patent will bring this score down.
Actually, that should read any page with MSIE under osx doesn't render right. I'd say 3 out of 5 pages I browse under IE has spotty page rendering. I have to resize the window to get the screen to redraw and display properly.
And I'm using g4/400mhz, osx 10.2.1, MSIE 5.2.2. More and more Chimera is becoming my browser of choice...
I thought this only happened with computer hardware. You go out and buy something, the next day it's either cheaper or a newer/faster/better product comes out. I just got my GBA for xmas. Damn.
Excellent. I will now always register for sites, magazine subscriptions with this Omar The Goat moniker and I encourage everyone to do the same. Thanks for the idea 4of12.
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Yep....same here. We had numerous recalls and we were part of the most recent one where when you go around a corner at 45 or so, with less than 1/4 of a tank of gas in, it stalls. So we took it in and they fixed it. But yeah, all the other recalls, the fact that MY CLUTCH PEDAL BROKE!!! I mean, c'mon...clutch pedals don't break. Ford wouldn't do jack for it. I really and truly hate this car. I bought it (year 2000 of course) because of all the good press that it got. Just goes to show you that all those auto review journals are in the automaker's back pocket.
This may have actually been a good game. The problem with it was we had the good ol' C64 tape deck. So you'd hit play on the deck, go have dinner, go outside to play a bit, and then come back to the computer to play the game. Seeing as though I was likely between 5-7, I would last about 2 minutes before getting taken out by some spider or that dragon flying in the sky. I thought it's name was chimera but googing around proved me wrong. I seem to remember though when you started the game a voice would say "Chimera" with a lust for murder in it's computerized voice. I seem to remember that Forbidden Forest was the only game we had for the tape deck. You can imagine my excitement when we made the move to floppies.
Nevermind that I don't have the money, but I'm weary to buy first editions of anything. The reason for the weariness is because I bought a 2000 Ford Focus (US first edition) and have had about 7 recalls on the car so far. So let 'em work out the kinks on this new technology and in the same time, drop the price a bit. Oh and get it on the Mac (then again, if it comes to Mac, the price will still be high).
I wouldn't think so. I'm no lawyer but, I would think the company shutting down the game would argue that you're paying an access fee at XX amount of dollars per month. Sure your character is at level 50 but all you're paying for is access.
I think for what RE was, the acting was great. The cheesy B'ness of the acting was spot on. It just felt like a cheesy horror film, only scarier (those damn dogs scared the piss out of me...and that thing dropping down from above).
I'm not even going to bother R'ing-TFA. The entertainment industry will always look for a scapegoat. What's next? They'll blame movie theaters for selling extra large sodas. They'll say the moviegoers bladders are too full and when they have to go pee, they miss too much of the movie. Therefore it's unfair that they sai Gili is bad because they missed some of the movie going to the bathroom. Give me a break.
Maybe it's I have no coordination. I've tried to play Dance Dance Revolution a few times and my dancing skills are sorely lacking. Pretty much I do it for a goof for people to laugh at me. I'm amazed when 12 year olds jump on it and just go to town. I guess a 27 year old on a DDR machine is pretty funny looking anyway.
I think I was around 8 or so when E.T. came out. We didn't have an atari (we had Intellivision) but our friends down the street did. Even then, I wasn't quite sure of the point of the game. I wonder if there's some marker pointing out where the cartridges are buried? Nobody should have ported the Star Wars Arcade game. That game was too perfect. Gotta love the cockpit edition.
Forgot the Nuevo in front of Mexico there.
I'm surprised that ET for the 2600 hasn't been mentioned yet. Jeeze, what a piece of crap that was. Crappy enough for Atari to dump 5 million copies down Mexico way.
Do you mean the network adapter? Well, sure that's extra hardware, but lots of people own it. Some games even require you to have it (see Everquest Online Adventures). And true, according to the article it will also make use of the Hard Drive. I think hard drive sales will be pretty brisk with the release of FFXI over in Japan. I know I'll be getting one when it comes over here.
Someone is bound to say, "Get a Japanese PS2." Well, I can't read Japanese so I prefer the conversions.
By the way, if you're looking for more great retro gaming on your PS2, get the Activision Anthology (go to that site and you'll have "The Safety Dance" stuck in your head all day). Plus, I think it's dirt cheap now. Over 45 games, classic commercials. Tons o' fun.
Also, according to this page:
I'm actually surprised that most companies do not use corporate IM services. I guess it's only a matter of time.I actually just called AOL (slow morning at work) and they said that it is possible for 2 different people to have the same name for AOL and AIM. I guess that makes sense actually because there's so many AIM users and so many AOL users.
For some reason, I constantly get messages from this eric guy who, I believe, has the same AOL username as my AOLIM username. Anybody else had problems like this?
Has anybody played with the Smartland combat vehicles? Here's a retailer that has 'em for 16 bucks. Are they any good?
Fail Safe is kind of a more serious look at nuclear warfare. I didn't get a chance to see the 2000 CBS live version featuring Mr. Clooney. I wish they sold the DVD here in the US. They do for UK and Germany.
I thought we were all boycotting Amazon due to their patenting everything but the kitchen sink (Bezos: "Note to self, patent the kitchen sink."). But I guess Amazon is like Wal-mart, everyone hates it, yet everyone shops there anyway.
Oh and I remember Playstations in arcades back in the psone heyday. It had a few games and was time controlled. Lame, but gave those w/out a psone a chance to play. And yes, I know this isn't the same thing as just sticking an xbox in an arcade cab.
And check out the amazon homepage. OT, but they're touting their high customer service ACSI score. And no I don't think this patent will bring this score down.
At first I thought, what is Taco doing? Using 'tho' for though? Just seemed like bad grammar (and no, I'm not a grammar nazi. Hell, i'm the reason they invented grammar and spell checks). Then I checked. Accoriding to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Ed., it's a variation on how to spell though. To me, tho just looks stupid.
Actually, that should read any page with MSIE under osx doesn't render right. I'd say 3 out of 5 pages I browse under IE has spotty page rendering. I have to resize the window to get the screen to redraw and display properly. And I'm using g4/400mhz, osx 10.2.1, MSIE 5.2.2. More and more Chimera is becoming my browser of choice...
I thought this only happened with computer hardware. You go out and buy something, the next day it's either cheaper or a newer/faster/better product comes out. I just got my GBA for xmas. Damn.
Excellent. I will now always register for sites, magazine subscriptions with this Omar The Goat moniker and I encourage everyone to do the same. Thanks for the idea 4of12.