Sorry to dissapoint you, but I've played Halo. Never said I didn't. In fact, I nearly beat it with my friend on co-op. It was fun (i didn't get too involved in the extras and multiplayer), and again, i'm sure it's probably a good game, i just have no interest in it myself. I said I have absolutely no interest in following the adventures of "Master Chief" - meaning I could care less about what happens to his story (i.e. Halo2). Link, on the other hand, I care about. I DO want to follow his next adventure.
I never said I paid $15 simply for a conversation piece. I said I paid $15. This was simply for the system and 4 games. I played it, had some fun with it, was definately worth my $15 (hell, at my blockbuster, renting a single game for 5 days is $8). So 4 games, a really cool-looking system that is absolutely a piece of gaming history, having girls ask me at school "what're those 3-d glasses Ashley told us about?" is DEFINATELY worth $15!
Anyway, again... someone didn't pass 9th grade mathematics (in New York, that's when we learn "logic"). I said:
"A fanboy is someone who blindly loves "their thing" and makes ridiculous attacks at the competition"
Then you saw my love of nintendo as therefore "Proof" that I'm a fanboy... by my own definition!!!
Now, see those 3 little letters in my sentence: A-N-D? See, those 3 letters spell "and," so with it, to be a fanboy, by my criteria, you need BOTH:
a) to blindly love "their thing"
b) makes ridiculous attacks at the competition
See, I didn't do b (again, in fact, I'll quote myself when I said "I'm sure these games are good." Pesky thing, this logic. Can't wait for the next troll!
Honestly, it's a neat little system. Never produced the "headaches" for me. But I admit, it was a bit silly. But then again, Nintendo takes huge (and often expensive) risks, and some work (a portable video game system, perfect and cheap wireless controllers, bongo-drum games, 4-controller ports standard, including both Coax AND composite on the original NES, a touch-pad game system), some don't (R.O.B., virtual boy, super scope 6).
That being said, I bought it with 4 games for $15 on ebay a few years ago, and it's on top of my tv (which is on top of a tv-stand, making it the perfect height for people between 5'5" and 5'11"), and since most people aren't slashdot nerds like us, EVERY single person who comes into my apt first sees the Virtual Boy, plays Tennis on it for a few minutes, and inevitably says that "that's pretty cool!" (Plus, they are completely unaware that the machine ever existed).
So yes, as a novelty/discussion piece, it's wonderful. As a gaming machine, not so much.
someone clearly doesn't know what a fanboy is. In the grandparent post, I said:
"Nothing against PS2 and XBox, but I have absolutely no interest in... [Halo] or Ico. I'm sure these games are good, but I won't be playing them."
A fanboy is someone who blindly loves "their thing" and makes ridiculous attacks at the competition (i.e. "XBox RULES!!! Nintendo is T3H GAY!!11!"). I clearly said I am a nintendo fan, but I said nothing against the other systems, and even said that I'm sure they're good games, but I have no interest in playing them.
Tell me, do you like any of the Star Wars, Matrix or LOTR films? If so (I'm sure you like at least one), have you seen every single movie on imdb's Top 100 list? I'll bet you haven't (I know I haven't). So, if you say "I love The Two Towers, and I'm sure 'Seven Samauri' is good and all, since nearly ever reviewer in history has praised it, but I personally have no interest in martial arts films, so I won't be buying the new special edition DVD version" - does that make you an ignorant LOTR fanboy? Absolutely not.
Show it, don't show it, whatever. I know I'm still getting it, and it'll be the only next-gen system I buy.
I have owned every nintendo system since the NES (haven't picked up a DS yet though), and the video gaming experience from nintendo has never been matched for me by other systems (Genesis might have briefly come close). I grew up on Zelda, Mario and Metroid, and I have loved seeing how these genres and characters have evolved (I swear I have loved 100% of each of these game's evolutions over the last 20+ years - that track record simply can't be beat).
Nothing against PS2 and XBox, but I have absolutely no interest in following the adventures of "Master Chief," or Ico. I'm sure these games are good, but I won't be playing them.
Yes, (sarcasm) more freckles = better gameplay (/sarcasm).
I simply said that eventually, a lot of players want to have their football video games look exactly like they do on the TV, only they control it. So, while you may be able to have fun playing Atari's "Xs and Os" football, in order to have that "like I'm watching and controlling real-live football" - then YES, Brent Alexander of the NY Giants DOES have to resemble his real-life self, with a thin little mustache facial hair deal.
There are two possible explanations for you not wanting to see a sports game as the first preview of next-gen systems:
1) You hate sports and/or sports games (a *shocker* on slashdot). Joking aside, this is entirely reasonable. I personally don't much care for RPGs or MMORPGs myself, so I don't get excited when I see those screenshots or 9.7/10 ratings.
2) You simply don't think sports are a good benchmark for system performance.
If it is #2, then I (politely) believe you are entirely mistaken. Put it this way... let's take a beautiful game from this generation: Doom3. The gameplay might have been subpar or perhaps it was too dark or overall not worth the 10 year wait, but it was still pretty. As nice-looking as it was, who the hell knows what a demon from hell looks like? Who knows what a Space Station/whatever is "supposed" to look like?
Sports games, and football in particular, are becoming more-and-more television like. Back in SNES/Genesis days (perhaps before), we first had players looking distinct (real-life black players were black in the game, huge linebackers resembled their true self). In PS1/N64 we started to see realistic looking players. By this generation, Eli Manning really looked like Eli Manning. Players faces were scanned and looked very realistic (I think this might have been done in the PS1/N64 days too).
But... as gorgeous as it still is, the "Holy Grail" (in some people's opinion) is for video game football to eventually look something like controlling actual live-NFL TV type games. I dunno about you, but I could see the wrinkles and individual freckles in that screenshot player's nose. Looks amazing. Perhaps we'll see individual blades of grass on the field, and eventually, crowds with 4,000 uniquely-rendered fans.
Then again, I still find my favorite football game to be Tecmo Bowl on NES and Joe Montana 1 on Genesis. Go figure...
I made "Funny" comments lost 4 points. Seriously, it has made reading comments on Slashdot (the best part of the site: much more fun than the articles/stories themselves) much better. Since I read comments only 1 and up, all the +2,+3,+4 "funny" comments are gone, and I get an occational "+5, Funny" comment modded down to a 1.
When I moderate, I read at -1, and I do see a couple statements that are truly funny (and occationally mod those up), but seriously, SO many comments were labeled "funny" that I just couldn't take it anymore.
There is nothing special about this pianist. These songs can be easily played with a little practice.
Absolutely incorrect. It doesn't simply take "practice," it takes talent. I myself have tried to play three different instruments in my life (piano, saxaphone, and even *laugh* recorder) and I have failed at all three. I absolutely suck. AND... I practiced a lot.
I consider myself well-educated and intelligent, yet I seem to lack the part of the brain that allows you to have the coordination to play musical instruments (and, go figure, i'm one of the fastest/best medical students in my class at tying stitches). And yes, for all three of those instruments, I had professional instruction (I was instructed in piano for about 5 years).
Does this kid have talent? In my opinion, absolutely. Can he do things that I could not do, no matter how hard I tried? In my opinion, absoltely. Does this mean he is the greatest pianist of all time? Probably not. But... like watching the star basketball player of a high school team is pretty exciting, even though there's a world of college, professional and international players way better than him. Being impressive has little to do with doing something better than anyone else (I think it's impressive to run a 7-minute mile, even if i don't think it's all-too-hard).
In closing, lay off the kid (and, next time, saying "Rachmaninoff Concerto, or Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum" makes you look like an arrogant prick, since 97% of people have no idea what that is. Next time, try requesting a flawless Mozart or Beethoven - still extremely difficult, and people will know what you're saying. Talking over people with terms they don't know doesn't sound intelligent).
I watched the first 2 seasons, then I got bored with it (seems a shame, since every time there's an Enterprise thread, people seem to say that Season 4 is great, even so much to say as it's the best trek since TNG).
Anyway, I was wondering if they did ever resolve that whole "Futureman/Temperal Time Cold War" thing.
Who was futureman?
So in the end, what was the whole war about?
Did that crewman on the Enterprise (forget his name, but he was from the 29th century and they sealed off his quarters) have anything to do with it?
As of this post, there are 27 replies in this story. I find it funny how only ONE of the 27 posts (yours) seem to show evidence that they actually read TFA, yet you're the only one marked "Offtopic."
You know very little about the creation of the Chunnel.
It was not some "hole dug from England to France." The Chunnel was a 2-tunnel project - one half dug from England, one half dug from France. They had to intersect, and this intersection had to be exact, not "close," but EXACT. Through use of lasers, sattelite technologies and other technologies never before used or thought of, they were within HALF A MILLIMETER of each other in deviation.
At least half a dozen documentaries have been on the discovery channel and the like. You should check it out sometime. I used to think it was just a fancy subway until I learned more about it, but it most certainly is not (here in NYC, we have over a half a dozen subway tunnels that go under the Hudson and East Rivers).
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The Chunnel is one of the greatest engineering achievements of the last half-century. it was a dream for centuries or more to connect Britain to the mainland. And yes... Terrorism was a concern in how they designed it. But... they still made it.
Same will happen with the space elevator. It'll be part of the design. Plus, I'll bet this will likely take place over the barren south pacific or something, and no planes will be allowed in a 100-mile radius of the actual elevator, giving F-14s plenty of time to intercept enemy/rogue airliners...
SEGA Channel was AMAZING. My friend in high school had it, and it was a fantastic product. Sorta like today's Gamefly/Netflix services (but in a way, much better).
You had access to about 30 games a month for like $12 or something in about 8 categories: Sports, Action, Puzzles, Family, etc, and every month, they switched about 60-70% of the games (i.e. ~30% stayed over). PLUS, they were usually a bunch of AAA games with it.
So... it cost $210 million to make and market the film, it took in $450 million from the box office ALONE (not including the millions that selling tv rights brings, DVD/VHS sales, pay-per-view spots), and I'm sure the producers are really crying about this "bomb" - crying all the way to the bank...
I don't mean to be rude (honestly), but your comments sound exactly like Comic Book Guy in that Simpsons episode. He tells Bart how upset he is at an Itchy & Scratchy episode, how they have so let him down, and Bart asks "why are you complaining? They offer you something completely for free! who are YOU to complain?"
Comic Book Guy's answer: "As a viewer, I feel they owe me."
if you don't like the free service google offers, you said it yourself - mapquest already does it apparently. AND... it's 3 fewer letters to type in than maps.google.com. So there's your answer.
I think that instead of trying to subtlely plant a fake April Fool's joke somewhere on the main page, the guys at Slashdot decided to be real toungue-in-cheek and post nothing (or almost nothing) but ridiculously fake/campy stories (SW Christmas Special! Yahoo+Google=YaGoohoo!gle, etc.)
Personally, I don't think there was a possibility of falling for anything today, so I think this idea was the next best idea. Much better than unsucessfully posting one fake story and instantly having the first post prove it as a joke.
and yes, I lost my mod for replying to this post myself, but my friend was modding too, had a point left, and decided to give it to you to "make up for it." (note to editors: he's read the book too, so he did legitimately give it +1 insightful also)
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Sorry to dissapoint you, but I've played Halo. Never said I didn't. In fact, I nearly beat it with my friend on co-op. It was fun (i didn't get too involved in the extras and multiplayer), and again, i'm sure it's probably a good game, i just have no interest in it myself. I said I have absolutely no interest in following the adventures of "Master Chief" - meaning I could care less about what happens to his story (i.e. Halo2). Link, on the other hand, I care about. I DO want to follow his next adventure.
Shot down again!
I never said I paid $15 simply for a conversation piece. I said I paid $15. This was simply for the system and 4 games. I played it, had some fun with it, was definately worth my $15 (hell, at my blockbuster, renting a single game for 5 days is $8). So 4 games, a really cool-looking system that is absolutely a piece of gaming history, having girls ask me at school "what're those 3-d glasses Ashley told us about?" is DEFINATELY worth $15!
Anyway, again... someone didn't pass 9th grade mathematics (in New York, that's when we learn "logic"). I said:
"A fanboy is someone who blindly loves "their thing" and makes ridiculous attacks at the competition"
Then you saw my love of nintendo as therefore "Proof" that I'm a fanboy... by my own definition!!!
Now, see those 3 little letters in my sentence: A-N-D? See, those 3 letters spell "and," so with it, to be a fanboy, by my criteria, you need BOTH:
a) to blindly love "their thing"
b) makes ridiculous attacks at the competition
See, I didn't do b (again, in fact, I'll quote myself when I said "I'm sure these games are good." Pesky thing, this logic. Can't wait for the next troll!
That being said, I bought it with 4 games for $15 on ebay a few years ago, and it's on top of my tv (which is on top of a tv-stand, making it the perfect height for people between 5'5" and 5'11"), and since most people aren't slashdot nerds like us, EVERY single person who comes into my apt first sees the Virtual Boy, plays Tennis on it for a few minutes, and inevitably says that "that's pretty cool!" (Plus, they are completely unaware that the machine ever existed).
So yes, as a novelty/discussion piece, it's wonderful. As a gaming machine, not so much.
"Nothing against PS2 and XBox, but I have absolutely no interest in... [Halo] or Ico. I'm sure these games are good, but I won't be playing them."
A fanboy is someone who blindly loves "their thing" and makes ridiculous attacks at the competition (i.e. "XBox RULES!!! Nintendo is T3H GAY!!11!"). I clearly said I am a nintendo fan, but I said nothing against the other systems, and even said that I'm sure they're good games, but I have no interest in playing them.
Tell me, do you like any of the Star Wars, Matrix or LOTR films? If so (I'm sure you like at least one), have you seen every single movie on imdb's Top 100 list? I'll bet you haven't (I know I haven't). So, if you say "I love The Two Towers, and I'm sure 'Seven Samauri' is good and all, since nearly ever reviewer in history has praised it, but I personally have no interest in martial arts films, so I won't be buying the new special edition DVD version" - does that make you an ignorant LOTR fanboy? Absolutely not.
You point is null.
I have owned every nintendo system since the NES (haven't picked up a DS yet though), and the video gaming experience from nintendo has never been matched for me by other systems (Genesis might have briefly come close). I grew up on Zelda, Mario and Metroid, and I have loved seeing how these genres and characters have evolved (I swear I have loved 100% of each of these game's evolutions over the last 20+ years - that track record simply can't be beat).
Nothing against PS2 and XBox, but I have absolutely no interest in following the adventures of "Master Chief," or Ico. I'm sure these games are good, but I won't be playing them.
I simply said that eventually, a lot of players want to have their football video games look exactly like they do on the TV, only they control it. So, while you may be able to have fun playing Atari's "Xs and Os" football, in order to have that "like I'm watching and controlling real-live football" - then YES, Brent Alexander of the NY Giants DOES have to resemble his real-life self, with a thin little mustache facial hair deal.
1) You hate sports and/or sports games (a *shocker* on slashdot). Joking aside, this is entirely reasonable. I personally don't much care for RPGs or MMORPGs myself, so I don't get excited when I see those screenshots or 9.7/10 ratings.
2) You simply don't think sports are a good benchmark for system performance.
If it is #2, then I (politely) believe you are entirely mistaken. Put it this way... let's take a beautiful game from this generation: Doom3. The gameplay might have been subpar or perhaps it was too dark or overall not worth the 10 year wait, but it was still pretty. As nice-looking as it was, who the hell knows what a demon from hell looks like? Who knows what a Space Station/whatever is "supposed" to look like?
Sports games, and football in particular, are becoming more-and-more television like. Back in SNES/Genesis days (perhaps before), we first had players looking distinct (real-life black players were black in the game, huge linebackers resembled their true self). In PS1/N64 we started to see realistic looking players. By this generation, Eli Manning really looked like Eli Manning. Players faces were scanned and looked very realistic (I think this might have been done in the PS1/N64 days too).
But... as gorgeous as it still is, the "Holy Grail" (in some people's opinion) is for video game football to eventually look something like controlling actual live-NFL TV type games. I dunno about you, but I could see the wrinkles and individual freckles in that screenshot player's nose. Looks amazing. Perhaps we'll see individual blades of grass on the field, and eventually, crowds with 4,000 uniquely-rendered fans.
Then again, I still find my favorite football game to be Tecmo Bowl on NES and Joe Montana 1 on Genesis. Go figure...
When I moderate, I read at -1, and I do see a couple statements that are truly funny (and occationally mod those up), but seriously, SO many comments were labeled "funny" that I just couldn't take it anymore.
Absolutely incorrect. It doesn't simply take "practice," it takes talent. I myself have tried to play three different instruments in my life (piano, saxaphone, and even *laugh* recorder) and I have failed at all three. I absolutely suck. AND... I practiced a lot.
I consider myself well-educated and intelligent, yet I seem to lack the part of the brain that allows you to have the coordination to play musical instruments (and, go figure, i'm one of the fastest/best medical students in my class at tying stitches). And yes, for all three of those instruments, I had professional instruction (I was instructed in piano for about 5 years).
Does this kid have talent? In my opinion, absolutely. Can he do things that I could not do, no matter how hard I tried? In my opinion, absoltely. Does this mean he is the greatest pianist of all time? Probably not. But... like watching the star basketball player of a high school team is pretty exciting, even though there's a world of college, professional and international players way better than him. Being impressive has little to do with doing something better than anyone else (I think it's impressive to run a 7-minute mile, even if i don't think it's all-too-hard).
In closing, lay off the kid (and, next time, saying "Rachmaninoff Concerto, or Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum" makes you look like an arrogant prick, since 97% of people have no idea what that is. Next time, try requesting a flawless Mozart or Beethoven - still extremely difficult, and people will know what you're saying. Talking over people with terms they don't know doesn't sound intelligent).
thanks. i appreciated that summary.
Anyway, I was wondering if they did ever resolve that whole "Futureman/Temperal Time Cold War" thing.
Who was futureman?
So in the end, what was the whole war about?
Did that crewman on the Enterprise (forget his name, but he was from the 29th century and they sealed off his quarters) have anything to do with it?
Did you like how it resolved?
As of this post, there are 27 replies in this story. I find it funny how only ONE of the 27 posts (yours) seem to show evidence that they actually read TFA, yet you're the only one marked "Offtopic."
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Reverse direction!
My friends and I always looked forward to fridays, cuz we could see The Legend of Zelda episodes that day!
It was not some "hole dug from England to France." The Chunnel was a 2-tunnel project - one half dug from England, one half dug from France. They had to intersect, and this intersection had to be exact, not "close," but EXACT. Through use of lasers, sattelite technologies and other technologies never before used or thought of, they were within HALF A MILLIMETER of each other in deviation.
At least half a dozen documentaries have been on the discovery channel and the like. You should check it out sometime. I used to think it was just a fancy subway until I learned more about it, but it most certainly is not (here in NYC, we have over a half a dozen subway tunnels that go under the Hudson and East Rivers).
Same will happen with the space elevator. It'll be part of the design. Plus, I'll bet this will likely take place over the barren south pacific or something, and no planes will be allowed in a 100-mile radius of the actual elevator, giving F-14s plenty of time to intercept enemy/rogue airliners...
but if you buy a "fake" GBA game for $10, isn't that basically buying a $10 GBA flash card which one can then erase and add your own roms/games?
You had access to about 30 games a month for like $12 or something in about 8 categories: Sports, Action, Puzzles, Family, etc, and every month, they switched about 60-70% of the games (i.e. ~30% stayed over). PLUS, they were usually a bunch of AAA games with it.
(It should provide adequate substinance for the marathon...)
From boxofficemojo.com this is the breakdown:
Pearl Harbor:
Production Budget: $140 million
Est. Marketing Costs: $70 million
Domestic gross: $198,542,554 (44.2%)
+ Overseas gross: $250,678,391 (55.8%)
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= Worldwide gross: $449,220,945
So... it cost $210 million to make and market the film, it took in $450 million from the box office ALONE (not including the millions that selling tv rights brings, DVD/VHS sales, pay-per-view spots), and I'm sure the producers are really crying about this "bomb" - crying all the way to the bank...
No one said Comic Book Guy had no right to complain, either. Just saying sometimes it looks slightly silly (in my opinion).
Comic Book Guy's answer: "As a viewer, I feel they owe me."
if you don't like the free service google offers, you said it yourself - mapquest already does it apparently. AND... it's 3 fewer letters to type in than maps.google.com. So there's your answer.
Personally, I don't think there was a possibility of falling for anything today, so I think this idea was the next best idea. Much better than unsucessfully posting one fake story and instantly having the first post prove it as a joke.
and yes, I lost my mod for replying to this post myself, but my friend was modding too, had a point left, and decided to give it to you to "make up for it." (note to editors: he's read the book too, so he did legitimately give it +1 insightful also)