Try only being able to *play* in a Type I tourney.
I found my old M:tG cards while I was readying for a move not long ago. I started collecting with 1st ed and stopped about the time the Dark came out. I never played with anybody but my friends... and I've got several thousand cards, since two of my friends gave me all theirs when they quit playing.
Anyway, I went down to the local game shop with a deck I constructed to be legal to the best of my recollection (1 of each of a couple moxes, no more than 4 of any one card etc).
I played for about 3 cards worth of play, when I drew and flipped down a Mox Ruby. It was like I killed the baby Jesus. The guy I was playing with (who was maybe 16?) started accusing me of having fake cards and cheating and trying to get me banned from the store.
I put my stuff aside (at this point, kids are digging through the box, probably stealing my cards), walked up to the counter, and bought a sealed starter and two boosters from the current set, shuffled them together and played.... and got my ass handed to me by 16-year-old with a tuned tourney deck, who then started shouting about how he beat the guy with the "type 1 deck".
Whatever. If M:tG is going to be fun, it needs to be friendly to the folks who want to start playing AGAIN, too. I know I'll never try to play with old cards again.
Personally, I'm on a sub-28.8 connection to the internet at home (no broadband options available - not satellite, either). I ran a news server for a while. Quality is too variable.
Pornzilla, mentioned above doesn't address any of my needs, either.
Let's face it: There's not much we need to work on, since Moz and Opera nicely handle pop-ups. But I do think my pr0n browsing experience could be better.
Here's some recent innovations, and a few new ideas:
1. Linky (mozdev.org) - Linky lets me select a bunch of links and open them in tabs. Or just open all the links on a page in tabs. Good lord, why wasn't this in Netscape 2!?! Think of all the time I could've saved myself by not having to middle-click on everything.
2. Image Permissions. I'm on a slow link, and doubleclick does nothing but waste bandwidth. Thank you Mozilla.
3. Plug-in Management: The thing that Opera does right. Turning on flash on a site-by-site basis is a good thing.
4. Profitable web browser: The thing that operasoft manages to do that netscape couldn't, apparently.
5. Pop-up control. I used IE for the first time in quite awhile today. Good gods, how do people stand it? Every other browser seems to be better in this department than IE.
And some things that would make browsing better:
1. A better bookmark system. I think the netscape method (a single file) works better most of the time, but I *really* wish I could have my bookmarks follow me everywhere (yeah, I know that there are sites that do exactly that. None of them seemed appealing last time I looked). I also wish filing could be made easier.
2. Better control over saving files. This is essentially a pr0n thing: I'd love to be able to highlight a bunch of stuff, right-click and choose "save all selected...", but I can't do that. Don't know why.
3. Navigational AI. No, I'm not kidding. I see my students hit a new-to-them web site and then have no clue what to do. A browser "idiot mode" and "idiot tags" would be helpful, as would a browser with enough smarts to say "This looks like the link to product support" or "Click here to view cart". There would be some interesting pattern recognition software needed, but hey, what else are we doing with our 3GHz desktop PCs?
4. A text-reading mode. There are decent screen-reading programs in the world. Reading long pages of text (e.g. tinyurl.com/ypc) is a frickin' chore. My co-workers more or less print every page they have to scroll to see. A better experience for a reader might help somewhat.
5. Better "connection awareness". I'd love it if my browser could look at my transfer rates and choose to throttle back on images or display the odd ALT tag instead of making me wait.
Not the way I do it. Usually if I'm selling locally I just round up my costs to the nearest $10. Whoever buys the machine gets a pretty nice PC that's cheaper than a Dell, and I get to play with new hardware. By rounding up I make just enough profit that my state revenue service doesn't cancel my tax ID. I do usually make decent profit on ebay, however.
95% of ATX cases have replaceable backplates, so when I deal with a deviant motherboard like an Abit NF7-S (not that I'd deal with an Abit-anything, but it's the first thing that came to mind with a weird I/O bracket), I know that 1.) There will be a proper bracket for it in the box with the motherboard and that 2.) replacing that bracket is only marginally more complicated than removing the metal shields behind the unused 5.25" bays on most computer cases.
I've written pretty negative reviews on newegg. I spend about $3000 a month there and handle lots of PC hardware (it's my hobby: I build PCs and sell 'em).
Anyway, yes, I've written negative reviews. The worst thing that's happened to anything I wrote is that an editor seems to have removed phrases like "crap" and "needs to be beaten down with a stack of 75GXPs" (that whole phrase, BTW, was replaced with Xs).
As far as cases go, I'm partial to Compucase. I like the HEC PSUs, lack of crappy drive rails and the good airflow. They're roomy, too.
xtian is a perfectly handy way to describe you people, "x" being a short-hand symbol for your messiah's name. It has been since the days of the romans. This is also where the handy abbreviation "xmas" comes from.
For the rest, perhaps some time with comparative mythology textbooks - maybe even a bible as literature class - would do you some good.
In theory, an Angel, a servant of god, should be willing to suffer the predations of mankind at its worst. You'd think the grace of an omnipotent being would count for something, and angels, by definition, are recipients of grace. In opposition, rape is one of the most horrific crimes humans can commit, and a man who offers his daughters to rapists is very possibly the lowest form of life on earth.
The sons of Lot, by the way, founded tribes that later become speed-bumps for Israelites on the way to Palestine. god sure has it in for his chosen people, what with all the "Let's save one horrid man so his human-sacrificing descendents can make incursions into Israel to fill up on unholy-ritual-fodder" stuff.
xtians say that only god can judge. Good thing I'm not an xtian.
While I'm at it, I'm pretty sure Job is an old Testament book, and therefore Job predates Jesus. Prefacing a point on Job's personal faith with a statement about xtian theology seems kind of pointless, given that he wasn't a xtian.
I think the Necronomicon is a more deserving holy book for gaming purposes, but hey, as long as we're talking about xtians, what's up with the schizophrenic higher power?
The god of the jews is an asshole. The god of the xtians is a pansy.
Every mainstream religion, even the loony culty ones, teaches "Don't Steal, don't lie, don't murder, do unto others et al" It's basically the litmus test for widespread acceptance (Scientology fails here; scientologists are expressly encouraged to lie to and steal from former members). Anyway, where the fuck to xtians get off for saying "But we tell people not to lie and murder!" Big deal! So does everybody else. Even serious Satanists (serious as in "this is really my religion" not serious as in "I'm trying to scare the hell out of my parents") go along with the whole no murder thing.
I'll admit it. Some religious organizations do good. But it ain't like jeebus has a monopoly on it. Shit. The local motorcycle gang manages to cough up $25,000 every xmas for the tykes - no strings attached, and local churches are all spouting off about wanting government support for faith-based charity (read as: We want more money so we can build a bigger jail for god).
For that matter, remember that jeebus sat down with the whores and the lepers. I know xtian conservatives like to hang out with republicans, but considering the protestant emphasis on good works, why aren't charities in the US overflowing with volunteers? We had a fucking staffing problem at my local American Cancer Society Relay this year, and that doesn't even involve helping recovering addicts, homeless teens or "unclean" people.
I'm not attacking you, Mr. AC, but hypocritical doesn't even begin to cover the pieces of shit who build huge churches, worship for an hour like that means a goddamn thing and then villify the people in their own communities who genuinely need their help. Putting kids in front of a "christian" game is just one more way to transfer that "us and them" attitude that makes dealing with the adult output of that sheltered lifestyle that much harder.
Nope, I'm not sick of my fundie coworkers at all. Not a bit. No siree.
France has a historic interest in the Congo. US troops are probably just as needed in Liberia, an African nation that is historically close to the US.
I think the US doesn't have troops in Africa because of the Somolia fiasco. And of course the fact that it's a lot easier to sell "humanitarian intervention" when a country has stuff that we want.
I ordered discs that I never received. I loved their "Wait another four days and we'll send you another" crap.
My mailman broke Netflix discs while putting them in my mailbox (they fit, but only if I didn't have any other mail).
I'd send them back, and they'd say they didn't get them. I was on the 8 DVDs out at a time plan for awhile. Living in the midwest, there was a 4 - 5 day turnaround time from the post office, so with the ability to have 8 movies out, every time Netflix said they didn't get a title, I'd end up only "renting" maybe six movies in that month.
I got a lot of unplayable discs, too.
Re: "adult" titles, you do realize that adult movies are a huge profit center for almost every video retailer that stocks them, right?
Netflix used to have some adult-ish titles a couple years ago. Then they just... vanished off the rental lists. I wrote in and asked about it. Got no response.
I originally signed up for the service to get a couple of titles my video store didn't have (Brazil, some concert films). I had a few titles on my rental list that started "Playboy's...", but after not looking for a month or so, I couldn't even find the category any more.
In my mind, if you're gonna carry very-soft adult materials like playboy videos (basically just naked girls prancing around. Nothing more provokative than a nipple), then do it. Don't change your mind. The local cable operators carry more "offensive" on the scrambled stations all day long, and they didn't stop carrying mainstream movies with more provokative content.
They changed their mind. I don't know why. But after that, I thought perhaps they COULD change their minds again, and suddenly head down the Blockbuster path of "extra special no-naked-people" versions of movies. Boo Hiss.
I've used a couple of rental services since then, but after a better video store finally opened locally, I had almost no need of netflix service.
Now I just use wantedlist.com, which is an adult-only service, and don't worry what the hell netflix might do.
Given the low quality of everything else Sony makes, from their laptops to their ES-lineup of audio equipment, I find your statements exceedingly hard to believe.
Now, maybe this experience isn't similar, but a few months ago I knocked Sony DV camcorder (no, I don't know the model) off an 3'-high end table and onto a carpetted floor, along with some other electronics stuff - a crappy HP digital camera, a discman and an iPaq while helping my brother move.
Guess which piece of equipment didn't survive the fall?
Understand that my interest is in Classical music, so I can't really debate the merits of most game music in the same way that a fan of (insert pop musician here) can but...
(Also, I won't touch console games, so I can't talk about those, either).
Quake, the first one, was absolutely perfect. The soundtrack was really even more evil than the game, for crissakes. I wish someone would do a REAL Cthulhupunk game to do that score justice.
Descent, the first one, was magnificent. It was all MIDI, but hearing it on a GUS or an AWE32 with enough samples loaded in, it just blew me away. At that point not everyone had sound hardware, but the guy doing Descent was doing stereo effects and working AMAZINGLY well with wavetable hardware.
My personal all-time favorite: Mechwarrior 2. I worked a job with the wife of one of the lead programmers. When she saw that I was listening to MW2 in a discman, she got ahold of the composer and got me a real CD of just the audio tracks. There are a couple of autographs on it too. I can't read them.
Interstate 76, made at about the same time as MW2, is also pretty cool. They got a good simulation of a mid-70s funk on that disc, and I'm pretty sure it's original music for the game.
In contrast, I had the opportunity to play GTA:VC a while ago. I found myself stealing cars so I could listen to the commercials on the radio - the in-game (licensed) music wasn't all that interesting - nor was the game, truth be told, but the commercials were hysterical.
I've never heard a game with a simulation of classical music I would consider interesting or appealing. Odd thing, that. I imagine jazz fans must have similar frustrations.
I tried and tried to play RW2000. Maybe it's 'cause I had an XT, but I could never get very far in any one game. Eventually, you run out of food or gas, and then the game is basically over.
So if you get a bad start, pffft. Gone. Once I dimly recall finding some scientists or something and I DID finally get good at the fighting, but that game turned into move, scavenge then starve.
Is there some reason I should have fonder memories than that?
Wash your mouth out for saying that. AoW is in no way "close" to the greatest game ever made.
Frankly, if MoM could get an updated AI and some of the unit restrictions lifted (1000 in-game units?), it wouldn't need to be re-made at all.
I've had no problem playing that gmae constantly for, oh, eight years. I didn't even get to truly challenging games until maybe a year ago Impossible Klackon Nature wizard etc.
True joy is Slingers with a 14 missle attack taking down demi-gods and Sky Drakes with one hit. What's AoM got? Trolls? Jackal-things? Meh. Boring. Zombie Mastery. Now THERE'S a reason to love a game.
I got a subscription to playboy when I was 14 (I had cool parents, one of whom was a DI in the Navy), so I may be a little bit out on a limb here, but I'd say that probably murder, theft, rape, lying, voting republican, necromancy - but I repeat myself - apartheid/segregation, driving without insurance or a proper license and very possibly smoking (since it can harm others) are all worse than porn.
I dunno. Might be one way to discourage little Brittany from getting that pony she's been wanting.
As a collector of pr0n, I'll trade you two "shaved curious cheerleaders", a "hidden shower cams" and a complete set of "World's largest gangbang" messages for that one.:)
Being from the midwestern US, having been raised in a town with a population under 100, and actually attended a marriage of second cousins, I'm not without qualification to make the following statement:
"Digital piracy has become a real menace," - Jack Valenti (see, I RTFA!)
I'd say SARS is a real menace. Or AIDS. Or rednecks in the white house. How many people has my piratred copy of Matrix 2 killed? Injured even?
OK, there was the Russian. But I didn't know he was standing there when threw the CD.
Clearly ones and zeroes are dangerous things. We shouldn't be teaching these things in school. Think of the children! Won't someone think of the children!
Oh, the humanity.
Jack Valenti must not have a very good grip on reality if he thinks my vain effort to figure out if Carrie-Anne Moss shows either of her no-doubt perfect nipples in that one scene is in any way dangerous to civilization as we know it. Fucktard.
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That's a mighty impressive score if you're playing the Windows version of Solitaire. I think the best I've done is a shade over 10,000.
Try only being able to *play* in a Type I tourney.
... and got my ass handed to me by 16-year-old with a tuned tourney deck, who then started shouting about how he beat the guy with the "type 1 deck".
I found my old M:tG cards while I was readying for a move not long ago. I started collecting with 1st ed and stopped about the time the Dark came out. I never played with anybody but my friends... and I've got several thousand cards, since two of my friends gave me all theirs when they quit playing.
Anyway, I went down to the local game shop with a deck I constructed to be legal to the best of my recollection (1 of each of a couple moxes, no more than 4 of any one card etc).
I played for about 3 cards worth of play, when I drew and flipped down a Mox Ruby. It was like I killed the baby Jesus. The guy I was playing with (who was maybe 16?) started accusing me of having fake cards and cheating and trying to get me banned from the store.
I put my stuff aside (at this point, kids are digging through the box, probably stealing my cards), walked up to the counter, and bought a sealed starter and two boosters from the current set, shuffled them together and played.
Whatever. If M:tG is going to be fun, it needs to be friendly to the folks who want to start playing AGAIN, too. I know I'll never try to play with old cards again.
Personally, I'm on a sub-28.8 connection to the internet at home (no broadband options available - not satellite, either). I ran a news server for a while. Quality is too variable.
Pornzilla, mentioned above doesn't address any of my needs, either.
Let's face it: There's not much we need to work on, since Moz and Opera nicely handle pop-ups. But I do think my pr0n browsing experience could be better.
Here's some recent innovations, and a few new ideas:
1. Linky (mozdev.org) - Linky lets me select a bunch of links and open them in tabs. Or just open all the links on a page in tabs. Good lord, why wasn't this in Netscape 2!?! Think of all the time I could've saved myself by not having to middle-click on everything.
2. Image Permissions. I'm on a slow link, and doubleclick does nothing but waste bandwidth. Thank you Mozilla.
3. Plug-in Management: The thing that Opera does right. Turning on flash on a site-by-site basis is a good thing.
4. Profitable web browser: The thing that operasoft manages to do that netscape couldn't, apparently.
5. Pop-up control. I used IE for the first time in quite awhile today. Good gods, how do people stand it? Every other browser seems to be better in this department than IE.
And some things that would make browsing better:
1. A better bookmark system. I think the netscape method (a single file) works better most of the time, but I *really* wish I could have my bookmarks follow me everywhere (yeah, I know that there are sites that do exactly that. None of them seemed appealing last time I looked). I also wish filing could be made easier.
2. Better control over saving files. This is essentially a pr0n thing: I'd love to be able to highlight a bunch of stuff, right-click and choose "save all selected...", but I can't do that. Don't know why.
3. Navigational AI. No, I'm not kidding. I see my students hit a new-to-them web site and then have no clue what to do. A browser "idiot mode" and "idiot tags" would be helpful, as would a browser with enough smarts to say "This looks like the link to product support" or "Click here to view cart". There would be some interesting pattern recognition software needed, but hey, what else are we doing with our 3GHz desktop PCs?
4. A text-reading mode. There are decent screen-reading programs in the world. Reading long pages of text (e.g. tinyurl.com/ypc) is a frickin' chore. My co-workers more or less print every page they have to scroll to see. A better experience for a reader might help somewhat.
5. Better "connection awareness". I'd love it if my browser could look at my transfer rates and choose to throttle back on images or display the odd ALT tag instead of making me wait.
Not the way I do it. Usually if I'm selling locally I just round up my costs to the nearest $10. Whoever buys the machine gets a pretty nice PC that's cheaper than a Dell, and I get to play with new hardware. By rounding up I make just enough profit that my state revenue service doesn't cancel my tax ID.
I do usually make decent profit on ebay, however.
95% of ATX cases have replaceable backplates, so when I deal with a deviant motherboard like an Abit NF7-S (not that I'd deal with an Abit-anything, but it's the first thing that came to mind with a weird I/O bracket), I know that 1.) There will be a proper bracket for it in the box with the motherboard and that 2.) replacing that bracket is only marginally more complicated than removing the metal shields behind the unused 5.25" bays on most computer cases.
I've written pretty negative reviews on newegg. I spend about $3000 a month there and handle lots of PC hardware (it's my hobby: I build PCs and sell 'em).
Anyway, yes, I've written negative reviews. The worst thing that's happened to anything I wrote is that an editor seems to have removed phrases like "crap" and "needs to be beaten down with a stack of 75GXPs" (that whole phrase, BTW, was replaced with Xs).
As far as cases go, I'm partial to Compucase. I like the HEC PSUs, lack of crappy drive rails and the good airflow. They're roomy, too.
xtian is a perfectly handy way to describe you people, "x" being a short-hand symbol for your messiah's name. It has been since the days of the romans. This is also where the handy abbreviation "xmas" comes from.
For the rest, perhaps some time with comparative mythology textbooks - maybe even a bible as literature class - would do you some good.
In theory, an Angel, a servant of god, should be willing to suffer the predations of mankind at its worst. You'd think the grace of an omnipotent being would count for something, and angels, by definition, are recipients of grace.
In opposition, rape is one of the most horrific crimes humans can commit, and a man who offers his daughters to rapists is very possibly the lowest form of life on earth.
The sons of Lot, by the way, founded tribes that later become speed-bumps for Israelites on the way to Palestine. god sure has it in for his chosen people, what with all the "Let's save one horrid man so his human-sacrificing descendents can make incursions into Israel to fill up on unholy-ritual-fodder" stuff.
xtians say that only god can judge. Good thing I'm not an xtian.
While I'm at it, I'm pretty sure Job is an old Testament book, and therefore Job predates Jesus. Prefacing a point on Job's personal faith with a statement about xtian theology seems kind of pointless, given that he wasn't a xtian.
Non-AC account, too. With "Excellent" karma, even.
What can I say? I was inspired.
Thanks for the compliment.
I think the Necronomicon is a more deserving holy book for gaming purposes, but hey, as long as we're talking about xtians, what's up with the schizophrenic higher power?
The god of the jews is an asshole. The god of the xtians is a pansy.
Every mainstream religion, even the loony culty ones, teaches "Don't Steal, don't lie, don't murder, do unto others et al" It's basically the litmus test for widespread acceptance (Scientology fails here; scientologists are expressly encouraged to lie to and steal from former members). Anyway, where the fuck to xtians get off for saying "But we tell people not to lie and murder!" Big deal! So does everybody else. Even serious Satanists (serious as in "this is really my religion" not serious as in "I'm trying to scare the hell out of my parents") go along with the whole no murder thing.
I'll admit it. Some religious organizations do good. But it ain't like jeebus has a monopoly on it. Shit. The local motorcycle gang manages to cough up $25,000 every xmas for the tykes - no strings attached, and local churches are all spouting off about wanting government support for faith-based charity (read as: We want more money so we can build a bigger jail for god).
For that matter, remember that jeebus sat down with the whores and the lepers. I know xtian conservatives like to hang out with republicans, but considering the protestant emphasis on good works, why aren't charities in the US overflowing with volunteers? We had a fucking staffing problem at my local American Cancer Society Relay this year, and that doesn't even involve helping recovering addicts, homeless teens or "unclean" people.
I'm not attacking you, Mr. AC, but hypocritical doesn't even begin to cover the pieces of shit who build huge churches, worship for an hour like that means a goddamn thing and then villify the people in their own communities who genuinely need their help. Putting kids in front of a "christian" game is just one more way to transfer that "us and them" attitude that makes dealing with the adult output of that sheltered lifestyle that much harder.
Nope, I'm not sick of my fundie coworkers at all. Not a bit. No siree.
France has a historic interest in the Congo.
US troops are probably just as needed in Liberia, an African nation that is historically close to the US.
I think the US doesn't have troops in Africa because of the Somolia fiasco. And of course the fact that it's a lot easier to sell "humanitarian intervention" when a country has stuff that we want.
I ordered discs that I never received. I loved their "Wait another four days and we'll send you another" crap.
My mailman broke Netflix discs while putting them in my mailbox (they fit, but only if I didn't have any other mail).
I'd send them back, and they'd say they didn't get them. I was on the 8 DVDs out at a time plan for awhile. Living in the midwest, there was a 4 - 5 day turnaround time from the post office, so with the ability to have 8 movies out, every time Netflix said they didn't get a title, I'd end up only "renting" maybe six movies in that month.
I got a lot of unplayable discs, too.
Re: "adult" titles, you do realize that adult movies are a huge profit center for almost every video retailer that stocks them, right?
Netflix used to have some adult-ish titles a couple years ago. Then they just... vanished off the rental lists. I wrote in and asked about it. Got no response.
I originally signed up for the service to get a couple of titles my video store didn't have (Brazil, some concert films). I had a few titles on my rental list that started "Playboy's...", but after not looking for a month or so, I couldn't even find the category any more.
In my mind, if you're gonna carry very-soft adult materials like playboy videos (basically just naked girls prancing around. Nothing more provokative than a nipple), then do it. Don't change your mind. The local cable operators carry more "offensive" on the scrambled stations all day long, and they didn't stop carrying mainstream movies with more provokative content.
They changed their mind. I don't know why. But after that, I thought perhaps they COULD change their minds again, and suddenly head down the Blockbuster path of "extra special no-naked-people" versions of movies. Boo Hiss.
I've used a couple of rental services since then, but after a better video store finally opened locally, I had almost no need of netflix service.
Now I just use wantedlist.com, which is an adult-only service, and don't worry what the hell netflix might do.
Given the low quality of everything else Sony makes, from their laptops to their ES-lineup of audio equipment, I find your statements exceedingly hard to believe.
Now, maybe this experience isn't similar, but a few months ago I knocked Sony DV camcorder (no, I don't know the model) off an 3'-high end table and onto a carpetted floor, along with some other electronics stuff - a crappy HP digital camera, a discman and an iPaq while helping my brother move.
Guess which piece of equipment didn't survive the fall?
Understand that my interest is in Classical music, so I can't really debate the merits of most game music in the same way that a fan of (insert pop musician here) can but...
(Also, I won't touch console games, so I can't talk about those, either).
Quake, the first one, was absolutely perfect. The soundtrack was really even more evil than the game, for crissakes. I wish someone would do a REAL Cthulhupunk game to do that score justice.
Descent, the first one, was magnificent. It was all MIDI, but hearing it on a GUS or an AWE32 with enough samples loaded in, it just blew me away. At that point not everyone had sound hardware, but the guy doing Descent was doing stereo effects and working AMAZINGLY well with wavetable hardware.
My personal all-time favorite: Mechwarrior 2. I worked a job with the wife of one of the lead programmers. When she saw that I was listening to MW2 in a discman, she got ahold of the composer and got me a real CD of just the audio tracks. There are a couple of autographs on it too. I can't read them.
Interstate 76, made at about the same time as MW2, is also pretty cool. They got a good simulation of a mid-70s funk on that disc, and I'm pretty sure it's original music for the game.
In contrast, I had the opportunity to play GTA:VC a while ago. I found myself stealing cars so I could listen to the commercials on the radio - the in-game (licensed) music wasn't all that interesting - nor was the game, truth be told, but the commercials were hysterical.
I've never heard a game with a simulation of classical music I would consider interesting or appealing. Odd thing, that. I imagine jazz fans must have similar frustrations.
I tried and tried to play RW2000. Maybe it's 'cause I had an XT, but I could never get very far in any one game. Eventually, you run out of food or gas, and then the game is basically over.
So if you get a bad start, pffft. Gone. Once I dimly recall finding some scientists or something and I DID finally get good at the fighting, but that game turned into move, scavenge then starve.
Is there some reason I should have fonder memories than that?
Wash your mouth out for saying that. AoW is in no way "close" to the greatest game ever made.
Frankly, if MoM could get an updated AI and some of the unit restrictions lifted (1000 in-game units?), it wouldn't need to be re-made at all.
I've had no problem playing that gmae constantly for, oh, eight years. I didn't even get to truly challenging games until maybe a year ago Impossible Klackon Nature wizard etc.
True joy is Slingers with a 14 missle attack taking down demi-gods and Sky Drakes with one hit. What's AoM got? Trolls? Jackal-things? Meh. Boring. Zombie Mastery. Now THERE'S a reason to love a game.
Glad you said it, man, 'cause I was going to.
+1 True.
Everyone needs a hobby.
I got a subscription to playboy when I was 14 (I had cool parents, one of whom was a DI in the Navy), so I may be a little bit out on a limb here, but I'd say that probably murder, theft, rape, lying, voting republican, necromancy - but I repeat myself - apartheid/segregation, driving without insurance or a proper license and very possibly smoking (since it can harm others) are all worse than porn.
I dunno. Might be one way to discourage little Brittany from getting that pony she's been wanting.
:)
As a collector of pr0n, I'll trade you two "shaved curious cheerleaders", a "hidden shower cams" and a complete set of "World's largest gangbang" messages for that one.
Only works for older PCB revisions of the card. If you can't get one of the older models, the 9600 is probably a better choice.
Being from the midwestern US, having been raised in a town with a population under 100, and actually attended a marriage of second cousins, I'm not without qualification to make the following statement:
Clinton was more of a hillbilly than a redneck.
"Digital piracy has become a real menace," - Jack Valenti (see, I RTFA!)
I'd say SARS is a real menace. Or AIDS. Or rednecks in the white house. How many people has my piratred copy of Matrix 2 killed? Injured even?
OK, there was the Russian. But I didn't know he was standing there when threw the CD.
Clearly ones and zeroes are dangerous things. We shouldn't be teaching these things in school. Think of the children! Won't someone think of the children!
Oh, the humanity.
Jack Valenti must not have a very good grip on reality if he thinks my vain effort to figure out if Carrie-Anne Moss shows either of her no-doubt perfect nipples in that one scene is in any way dangerous to civilization as we know it. Fucktard.