Slashdot: Which portable gaming system is the best? Asshole: Get a life, fatass, and stop playing games. Oh yeah, and I have a girlfriend!
Slashdot: New Dreamcast games available! Asshole: Well, you shouldn't be playing videobasketball anyway! Play the real one instead, fatass! Did I mention that I have a girlfriend?
Slashdot: I have a simple question, one which, surprisingly does NOT require innane social commentary... how can I make the growing amount of wires cluttering up my console slightly neater? Asshole: You're so fat and dumb. You've probably never even SEEN a real football before. And I'm so smart and intelligent, I'm gonna mention that I have a girlfriend, and then I'll say how I don't do lame videogame sports but I'd rather play them for REAL! Oh, and instead of playing hockey, I'm going to mention in a reply to one of my own posts that instead of following my own advice/criticisms and going out and playing a sport instead of doing a passive activity, I'm going to take my girlfriend to SEE a hockey game! The calories are just burning away! Yay!
What the hell is it to you if some unfortunate handicapped person wants to enjoy a videogame? First off, you're right. The one-handed videogame playing population is a small demographic. So lucky for your selfish self, the industry at large will not be changing it's games to accomodate the less fortunate. But, thankfully there are manufacturers who are trying to make the fully-functional world accessible to handicapped people (one-handed game controllers, cars you can drive without needing your feet, etc.)
The remarkable success of the NASA Vikings in '76
looks better and better as time goes by.
Don't forget Pathfinder/Carl Sagan Station. That 1997 puppy gave a huge chunk of science, not to mention the (as of yet not-repeated) sucess of the got-it-right-on-the-first-try airbag system...
as far as skeptics go, I always felt the "Hannukah Miracle" was the most believable if someone doesn't believe in that sorta stuff. I mean, how many times in history has a big army been beaten by a smaller army? And the whole oil lasting a week thing, while very difficult, doesn't require a parting-the-seas or flooding-the-world level of supernatural powers.
Those who know this game will swear it's the most fun they've ever had! Those who don't... anyone care to let them in on this?
"Menorah..."
on
USB Menorah
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Just to be precise, the device that is used during Hannukah is not a "Menorah," but rather a "Chanukiah" [Chah-noo-kee-yah, with "Ch" pronounced gutterally]. A "menorah" is the seven-branched candelabra that was around in the ancient temple (and often used today in synagogues as decorations). A "Chanukiah" is a nine-branched candelabra that is used on Hannukah to celebrate the 8-day "hannukah miracle," where legend had it the temple candles burned for 8 days and nights with oil that should have only lasted one night (so therefore a chanukiah has 8 candles plus one candle to hold the shamash, the candle that lights the other 8). Sometimes the nine-candled version is called a "Hannukah Menorah," but just "Menorah" is technically the seven-branched one, not the one used druing the holiday.
No, I'm not someone who goes around correcting people about this. I really don't care either way, but rather just in case anyone was interested...
last thing - to be fair, we were both wrong. You were wrong since I was actually NOT talking about you, but was using your possibly-geniune dislike of Shrek to be a springboard for my idea about people often disliking things because it's "cool" rather than true disdain. I was wrong because I can see how I didn't make it clear enough that point A (your opinion) simply LEAD me to point B (my opnion), but they were not one-in-the-same. take it easy...
wasn't The Black Cauldron supposed to be the movie was so bad that caused Disney to stop making cartoon movies for like 8 years, until The Little Mermaid came out in the early 90s? (note: I never saw it, I just remember hearing that)
you, sir zeus, are the epitome of what has become the cynical entertainment audience. OK, maybe you truly do hate shrek, that's certainly possible. but it seems to be that today, whenever anything is loved by the masses, it quickly becomes cool and "avant garde" to say that that same thing sucks.
Believe me, it's only a matter or time, possibly weeks, before we start to hear the "Lord of the Rings was a hackjob" banter. It's true. When Shrek came out, most everyone I knew seemed to like it, then it became passe to have liked it for some reason. The original Matrix started getting this a few months after it was cannonized as "awesome."
Take pop culture. There's not a SINGLE music group, movie or book that everyone seems to like. 50 years ago, both teeny-boppers, critics and older audiences liked the beatles. Everyone calls the Godfather a masterpiece and everyone who read To Kill a Mockingbird loved it. Today it seems that there are growing people who have to buck the trend and say that Harry Potter sucks, every band associated with "pop" is awful and there are "no good movies/tv shows."
Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that there's something that everyone is supposed to like. I'm just saying that in years past, it seems that there were things that, as a whole, were wholely embrassed by the public, and today it seems that whenever anything becomes popular/cool, it's just as cool to say that you knew all along that it sucked. {\rant}
Seriously! Enough! It was a bad game. But was it the greatest pile of crap in history? No. I saw my friend beat it recently, and it actually wasn't that bad when I got to see someone play who knew what he was doing. Just my $0.02, it's just getting old is all...
I think Morgan is unfairly criticized. I don't see what's wrong with her, personally, and I kind of like her. I never saw "extended play," though (didn't have digital cable back then...)
also... Frames Animated GIFs full-color jpgs as backgrounds so that seeing the text is impossible What's a web page? Is that one of those "cyber" do-hickeys?
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I say Samus Aran, the Metroid main character, is the coolest girl (or possibly girl-or-guy) heroine...
There's always SOMEONE...
Slashdot: Which portable gaming system is the best?
Asshole: Get a life, fatass, and stop playing games. Oh yeah, and I have a girlfriend!
Slashdot: New Dreamcast games available!
Asshole: Well, you shouldn't be playing videobasketball anyway! Play the real one instead, fatass! Did I mention that I have a girlfriend?
Slashdot: I have a simple question, one which, surprisingly does NOT require innane social commentary... how can I make the growing amount of wires cluttering up my console slightly neater?
Asshole: You're so fat and dumb. You've probably never even SEEN a real football before. And I'm so smart and intelligent, I'm gonna mention that I have a girlfriend, and then I'll say how I don't do lame videogame sports but I'd rather play them for REAL! Oh, and instead of playing hockey, I'm going to mention in a reply to one of my own posts that instead of following my own advice/criticisms and going out and playing a sport instead of doing a passive activity, I'm going to take my girlfriend to SEE a hockey game! The calories are just burning away! Yay!
What the hell is it to you if some unfortunate handicapped person wants to enjoy a videogame?
First off, you're right. The one-handed videogame playing population is a small demographic. So lucky for your selfish self, the industry at large will not be changing it's games to accomodate the less fortunate. But, thankfully there are manufacturers who are trying to make the fully-functional world accessible to handicapped people (one-handed game controllers, cars you can drive without needing your feet, etc.)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (a 3-d remake of a classic 2-d series) is so freakin' smooth. It doesn't have a blocky graphic in it...
But I agree - many today do...
AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! a king of the hill basher!!! Get 'em, folks!
The remarkable success of the NASA Vikings in '76 looks better and better as time goes by.
Don't forget Pathfinder/Carl Sagan Station. That 1997 puppy gave a huge chunk of science, not to mention the (as of yet not-repeated) sucess of the got-it-right-on-the-first-try airbag system...
amen, man.
I was also so sick of the standard "Maybe you stupid americans will remember the difference between metric and English units now!" joke, er... "joke."
as far as skeptics go, I always felt the "Hannukah Miracle" was the most believable if someone doesn't believe in that sorta stuff. I mean, how many times in history has a big army been beaten by a smaller army? And the whole oil lasting a week thing, while very difficult, doesn't require a parting-the-seas or flooding-the-world level of supernatural powers.
I can't wait until each and every one of you is deported to Israel!!!!
:)
well, at least we know that this guy supports there being a state of Israel
1,000 Blank Cards! 1,000 Blank Cards! 1,000 Blank Cards!
Those who know this game will swear it's the most fun they've ever had! Those who don't... anyone care to let them in on this?
Just to be precise, the device that is used during Hannukah is not a "Menorah," but rather a "Chanukiah" [Chah-noo-kee-yah, with "Ch" pronounced gutterally]. A "menorah" is the seven-branched candelabra that was around in the ancient temple (and often used today in synagogues as decorations). A "Chanukiah" is a nine-branched candelabra that is used on Hannukah to celebrate the 8-day "hannukah miracle," where legend had it the temple candles burned for 8 days and nights with oil that should have only lasted one night (so therefore a chanukiah has 8 candles plus one candle to hold the shamash, the candle that lights the other 8). Sometimes the nine-candled version is called a "Hannukah Menorah," but just "Menorah" is technically the seven-branched one, not the one used druing the holiday.
No, I'm not someone who goes around correcting people about this. I really don't care either way, but rather just in case anyone was interested...
wife mods you down... (-1, not getting any for at least 2 months...)
Let me introduce myself. My name is James, and I'm the only person in history who really liked... Hook.
what's this - 2 slashdotters actually saying "oops, my bad" to eachother?!?!? Oh no! Could this mean the end of trolls? =)
sigh... I guess i'm not intelligent enough to figure out who this AC is...
last thing - to be fair, we were both wrong. You were wrong since I was actually NOT talking about you, but was using your possibly-geniune dislike of Shrek to be a springboard for my idea about people often disliking things because it's "cool" rather than true disdain. I was wrong because I can see how I didn't make it clear enough that point A (your opinion) simply LEAD me to point B (my opnion), but they were not one-in-the-same. take it easy...
read the sentence that follows it. Ah nevermind. i'm too intelligent to be sucked into this. reply if you'd like, but i'm done.
out.
i specifically said your opinions about Shrek, zeus, might have been truthfuk . my post was on people in general.
so before you call specific people names ("You sir, are the epitome of an ignorant, defensive whatever"), i'd suggest you take a little time to think.
wasn't The Black Cauldron supposed to be the movie was so bad that caused Disney to stop making cartoon movies for like 8 years, until The Little Mermaid came out in the early 90s? (note: I never saw it, I just remember hearing that)
you, sir zeus, are the epitome of what has become the cynical entertainment audience. OK, maybe you truly do hate shrek, that's certainly possible. but it seems to be that today, whenever anything is loved by the masses, it quickly becomes cool and "avant garde" to say that that same thing sucks.
Believe me, it's only a matter or time, possibly weeks, before we start to hear the "Lord of the Rings was a hackjob" banter. It's true. When Shrek came out, most everyone I knew seemed to like it, then it became passe to have liked it for some reason. The original Matrix started getting this a few months after it was cannonized as "awesome."
Take pop culture. There's not a SINGLE music group, movie or book that everyone seems to like. 50 years ago, both teeny-boppers, critics and older audiences liked the beatles. Everyone calls the Godfather a masterpiece and everyone who read To Kill a Mockingbird loved it. Today it seems that there are growing people who have to buck the trend and say that Harry Potter sucks, every band associated with "pop" is awful and there are "no good movies/tv shows."
Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that there's something that everyone is supposed to like. I'm just saying that in years past, it seems that there were things that, as a whole, were wholely embrassed by the public, and today it seems that whenever anything becomes popular/cool, it's just as cool to say that you knew all along that it sucked. {\rant}
note to mods... making "Profit!!!" comments '+5, funny' only encourages more...
Seriously! Enough! It was a bad game. But was it the greatest pile of crap in history? No. I saw my friend beat it recently, and it actually wasn't that bad when I got to see someone play who knew what he was doing. Just my $0.02, it's just getting old is all...
so a millionaire is necessarily greedy? interesting perspective you have...
I think Morgan is unfairly criticized. I don't see what's wrong with her, personally, and I kind of like her. I never saw "extended play," though (didn't have digital cable back then...)
also...
Frames
Animated GIFs
full-color jpgs as backgrounds so that seeing the text is impossible
What's a web page? Is that one of those "cyber" do-hickeys?