Anyone remember this game??? I think it was on the Apple ][e, and it rocked! I used to love playing it, esp the part where if you cursed it brought you to a mirrored-room that said "You shouldn't've said that - there are mirrors all around!"
Oh crap, did I miss the memo? We're now supposed to add ebay to the list of websites real nerds must hate? (And by the looks of this article, amazon too?)
The Tintin Cartoons (shown in USA on HBO and nickelodeon) were fantastic! They were abridged, as they were geared more towards children, but they did a great job, and the voices were dead on to what I always imagined they would be. I have complete confidence in Spielberg (yes, I am bucking the slashdot/nerd trend of hating anyone/anything that is critically praied so that I can sound intelligent), but I question whether this needs to be done, since the cartoons themselves were so great...
Wow. Thanks thecrackerman! I was worried for a sec that people who don't visit AICN might not understand what I mean by annoying film geeks who whine and make ENORMOUS protests over such trivial facts. Now I don't have to link them to AICN to show them examples of said activity! And thanks Anon Coward for the Stan Lee-endorsing-organic talk. Geez, some people.
I sometimes wonder what could be accomplished if the same people who spend so much energy debating Spiderman and getting 250,000 signatures to save Farscape could do if they tried to do something to help the real world...
If I understand correctly, wasn't Star Trek the show a huge flop at first? It took years before Paramount realized that some cancelled show from 10 years or so earlier was a huge hit? If so, then no wonder a cartoon released a little after the show was cancelled flopped too.
Although, once again, I could be wrong in my above assumption...
The thing that pisses me off about Harry Knowles is his elitism, which is twofold. First off, he seems like a real nice guy who feels very fortunate about his fame, but some stuff about him just piss me off so much. Harry is a film geek in every stereotypical way possible. This is not a bad thing necessarily, but just pisses me off that he should be SO stereotypical. He loves all the movies a movie geek "should" love (from Night of the Living Dead to the new must-love-if-you're-a-geek films like Pitch Black, Robocop and Princess Monanoke). Occationally, he tries to make himself look good by posting a negative review of some marginally-accepted good film (Like Signs or something) - but coincidentally, he NEVER says something like "I hates Superman, Rocky, Matrix" etc. Just seems so shallow that he loves every movie you're supposed to love and sometimes bashes movies that are too cliche to love. The Newsweek article had him stating his favorite movies. They were all obscure 1930's horror movies that no one knew and just made him sound so intelligent. On Aint-it-cool, whenever some correographer on Hong Kong martial arts movies from the 1960's dies, he cries about how a "Legend has left us" - once again dropping how intelligent he is that he knows the impact that one person had on the entire industry.
Second, WILL HE STOP IT WITH THE NAMEDROPPING??? Honestly, I used to think it was just a matter of jealousy on the aicn users part that they hated when he'd mention Robert Rodriguez as a friend. Now, however, he states in every article almost how some director called him personally, or how scared the industry is of him. Ugh. So annoying.
However, the ultimate reason why I don't visit AICN anymore has nothing to do with Harry at all.
a) His forums are not threaded. When a major forum with 1000 posts comes, it's impossible to have a CONVERSATION (the responses are 100 posts apart)and it's impossible to read any of the posts towards the bottom.
b) The forum posters piss me off more than anything. These people do NOT know how to enjoy something. AICN forums are simply mediums to pick apart every film's most microscopic (and even if non-existing) flaws and state such claims that Spiderman with organic web shooters "robs my childhood" - THOSE are the guys I want to take a bat to (which is why I LOVED the end of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back!(
Geeks don't bother me (hense, I'm on Slashdot), but assholes do.
Wow, it only took three days for this story to reach the frontpage and Live was launched the 15th?
For the record, the title of this article states why it's posted today (the 17th) and not the 15th. This is supposed to be a board of people stating their initial reviews after the first weekend. There have been so many stories about XB Live that few didn't know it'd be launched the 15th.
I would never pay for a service that displays disruptive advertising to its subscribers.
Um... isn't that the model for basic cable? Nickelodeon used to be commercial free (according to last week's Newsweek) but then changed to a commercial channel. No one complained, however, I see your point, and this one may not be a correct analogy. If HBO started having commercials...
I used to play in their games section all the time. Now, if you want to play in the "Ladder" games (where you are ranked) it costs $$$. I don't think that this is mean or vile of them, but I can subscribe to so many cool things for $10/month (or whatever it costs...) that it's just not worth it to me. On the other hand, if they get 5,000 people to buy year-subscriptions, then that's a lot more money than 1,000,000 people paying $0!
Were you fired, or did you quit? If you were fired, then how dare they lay you off and then demand that you help them! If you quit, however, maybe you are still friendly and mighta done this favor? Even so, it is not "rude" to ask for compensation.
Are the ones where it has a REMOVE link, followed by "Acorrding to US Congress Bill IX, title XIV, statute bi, Spam is legal as long as it has a remove link."
I can almost guarentee such a title does not exist...
Maybe I have it wrong, but where is this ice supposed to go while you're drilling down 2 kilometers? I may not be thinking the right way, but here's my train of thought...
1) You drill a hole (say 1 foot diameter)
2) You are not half a mile deep
3)Now that you're "drilling," inside this tiny (diameter) hole, where do these ice-chips go? They don't evaporate, right? Won't the drill eventually become crushed and trapped in it's own hole?
Mod parent up! Those 4 sentences are brilliant advice for NASA. Just because they lost Mars Observer, they have been so reluctant to build anymore "Christmas Tree" spacecraft (like Vger, Pioneer, Galileo, etc). They work great and are very versitile.
(btw, No Casinni was approved way before MO was lost).
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Anyone remember this game??? I think it was on the Apple ][e, and it rocked! I used to love playing it, esp the part where if you cursed it brought you to a mirrored-room that said "You shouldn't've said that - there are mirrors all around!"
Oh crap, did I miss the memo? We're now supposed to add ebay to the list of websites real nerds must hate? (And by the looks of this article, amazon too?)
The Tintin Cartoons (shown in USA on HBO and nickelodeon) were fantastic! They were abridged, as they were geared more towards children, but they did a great job, and the voices were dead on to what I always imagined they would be. I have complete confidence in Spielberg (yes, I am bucking the slashdot/nerd trend of hating anyone/anything that is critically praied so that I can sound intelligent), but I question whether this needs to be done, since the cartoons themselves were so great...
Wow. Thanks thecrackerman! I was worried for a sec that people who don't visit AICN might not understand what I mean by annoying film geeks who whine and make ENORMOUS protests over such trivial facts. Now I don't have to link them to AICN to show them examples of said activity! And thanks Anon Coward for the Stan Lee-endorsing-organic talk. Geez, some people.
I sometimes wonder what could be accomplished if the same people who spend so much energy debating Spiderman and getting 250,000 signatures to save Farscape could do if they tried to do something to help the real world...
my bad - that's why I prefaced it with "if I understand correctly." Guess I'm not up on my ST facts... damn.
Although, once again, I could be wrong in my above assumption...
Second, WILL HE STOP IT WITH THE NAMEDROPPING??? Honestly, I used to think it was just a matter of jealousy on the aicn users part that they hated when he'd mention Robert Rodriguez as a friend. Now, however, he states in every article almost how some director called him personally, or how scared the industry is of him. Ugh. So annoying.
However, the ultimate reason why I don't visit AICN anymore has nothing to do with Harry at all.
a) His forums are not threaded. When a major forum with 1000 posts comes, it's impossible to have a CONVERSATION (the responses are 100 posts apart)and it's impossible to read any of the posts towards the bottom.
b) The forum posters piss me off more than anything. These people do NOT know how to enjoy something. AICN forums are simply mediums to pick apart every film's most microscopic (and even if non-existing) flaws and state such claims that Spiderman with organic web shooters "robs my childhood" - THOSE are the guys I want to take a bat to (which is why I LOVED the end of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back!(
Geeks don't bother me (hense, I'm on Slashdot), but assholes do.
For the record, the title of this article states why it's posted today (the 17th) and not the 15th. This is supposed to be a board of people stating their initial reviews after the first weekend. There have been so many stories about XB Live that few didn't know it'd be launched the 15th.
Um... isn't that the model for basic cable? Nickelodeon used to be commercial free (according to last week's Newsweek) but then changed to a commercial channel. No one complained, however, I see your point, and this one may not be a correct analogy. If HBO started having commercials...
Actually, I signed up for mine about four or five years ago, so I have SIX megabytes of e-mail space (as was the offer back then). YES!
I used to play in their games section all the time. Now, if you want to play in the "Ladder" games (where you are ranked) it costs $$$. I don't think that this is mean or vile of them, but I can subscribe to so many cool things for $10/month (or whatever it costs...) that it's just not worth it to me. On the other hand, if they get 5,000 people to buy year-subscriptions, then that's a lot more money than 1,000,000 people paying $0!
Were you fired, or did you quit? If you were fired, then how dare they lay you off and then demand that you help them! If you quit, however, maybe you are still friendly and mighta done this favor? Even so, it is not "rude" to ask for compensation.
I can almost guarentee such a title does not exist...
"Ooh... they have the internet on computers now!"
Intel Celerons, for example, are contually made and are always behind the Pentium line of processors.
Although technically you could always say "Intel has just announced the fastest Celeron ever!"
Maybe I have it wrong, but where is this ice supposed to go while you're drilling down 2 kilometers? I may not be thinking the right way, but here's my train of thought...
1) You drill a hole (say 1 foot diameter)
2) You are not half a mile deep
3)Now that you're "drilling," inside this tiny (diameter) hole, where do these ice-chips go? They don't evaporate, right? Won't the drill eventually become crushed and trapped in it's own hole?
I sense that this billion dollar (or whatever) investment will become another use-a-permanent-marker-to-get-around-lock sorta embarrasment.
EVERYONE had their own "home remidies" for tweeting their NES games...
:-)
My friend's was to blow it twice then hit it
Other friend blew w/spray-spit (again, worked everytime)
Another would always press power+reset 11 times.
I came to the conclusion that all NES's had their own personal modifications
Um... the original gameboy had 4 batteries, and I don't remember any of us fourth graders having tired arms at the end.
Besides, computer geeks all have "strong right arms," right?
Mod parent up! Those 4 sentences are brilliant advice for NASA. Just because they lost Mars Observer, they have been so reluctant to build anymore "Christmas Tree" spacecraft (like Vger, Pioneer, Galileo, etc). They work great and are very versitile.
(btw, No Casinni was approved way before MO was lost).
Don't forget:
91% - Unfunny comments labeled +5, Funny
Oh wait... that's every postboard
Sorry if this is redundant,
But will these Dell PDAs be Palm OS-based or Windows CE-based?
Seriously, I may be wrong, but itsn't Russel's charachter ON THE SHOW??? Wouldn't that be two identical people then?
British TV is not as worried as US TV with form and pays more attention to substance
Wow. There's SO much substance in drill such as Big Brother. Thanks for giving us THAT one!
Mod parent up! This was a well-thought-out reply to a troll!