Disgaea is the best game I've played on the PS2 this year, it's not a sequel AND a 2003 release to boot, so it fills all the requirements
It has a wildly hyperactive, original storyline, hundreds of classes, incredible levelling, and lots of elements I've never seen in any other game (such as the Item World, Dark Assembly and the Geo Panels) - as far as small-scale strategy games go, it's quite possibly the best title I've played since X-Com.
Morning Musume is pop? I thought it was a children's show. I mean, "Summer Reggae Rainbow" and "Telephone Ring Ring" CAN'T be popular with people over 10 years old, can they? It's so damn bad, at first I thought they were jokes like that Yatta! thingie...
Their installer and any other software they provide does NOT have to be GPLd. Lindows' installer is not GPLd, among other things. Not sure about Red Hat's. Also, as copyright-holders of the installer's code, they can change the license on newer versions if they wish it. This is a written commitment that they won't exercise this right.
For the record, and I'll take the karma hit gladly, I perfectly agree with you. Peter Jackson is not a good director, as can be easily proven by looking at pretty much any dramatic scene in the movie (especially the ones where elves are present). They are all horribly framed, overlighted in an horrible, cheesy manner, and the music is always way overboard.
And he can't direct actors, either, despite having a few talented ones under his direction. Heck, even Ian McKellen manages to look bad in the third movie. The only actor that doesn't massacre the dramatic scenes he is in is Sean Astin.
The movies are still watchable, mostly thanks to the grandiose sets, great CGI and intense action, but this is NOT award material.
Plus Opera 7 lets you add your own mouse gestures, so you could tie any command - even mutliple successive commands - into one gesture.
Let's say you spend a lot of time helping HTML newbies on message boards. With Opera, you could load the newbie's page, then: view the source, validate the page, open the page in IE and open the page in Moz with a mouse movement. Nifty!
As a little sidenote, anyone else read "Unfortunately, for the total user experience, we'd have to upgrade the whole internet..." and think "How tcan someone who think the WWW is the internet get an article on Slashdot's front page?".
I don't know if that's true, but if you can't sue the government as a whole, at the very least you can sue its consituents. Just sue all the USPTO's employees;)
So the only way to get rewarded of wasting most of your youth is to be able to get some jokes while you waste away more of your life.. woop dee fucking doo!
...
... is what I would say if I wasn't wasting *my* youth on Slashdot;)
I tend to agree. The pathings, AI and speed were waaay down in NWN (well, maybe I should say "I could set them waaay up in BG, but not in NWN"). My henches, familiars and summons kept getting stuck everywhere. My familiar kept using up all its powers in the first encounter (and it was a bat: casting Fear over and over on ennemies which were affected by the first Fear spell ain't exactly useful). You often have to click 2-3 times on a locked door before Tommi actually starts unlocking it. Bleh.
The game also crashes every 3 hours or so on a clean (new install) Win2K with 768MB of RAM and a GeForce2. It took me 3 times to manage to install the game correctly. I don't know if I'm simply unlucky but to me NWN was a nightmare of instability.
I have a lot more issues with the game (you can only have one summon at a time, Create Undead sucks, all the dragons were too easy (I killed most of them without even a fight by casting Finger Of Death), the dwarves in the fire dragon cave are waaay too strong and lots of other nitpicking) but they didn't ruin the game as much for me as the AI and stability isues.
I hear they have a song or somesuch they sing every morning. They spell out Wal-Mart and they make YMCA-esque letter with their arms, something like that. Anyway, the point being that people who can withstand that crap for longer than a week are probably brain damaged, meaning only the lobotomized keep working there. Reverse natural selection.
Excellent point. There's a lot of foreign material that takes years before it's released in the US, if ever.
Even if they are eventually released, if the movie is good, no doubt someone who was fanatic enough to find and download a rare export will see it if it is released in the US.
One does wonder if the sharing of files before they are released in theaters actually causes losses to the studios. I mean, if the movie is good, and you wanted to see the movie enough to download it before it comes out on the big screen, certainly you'll see it once it's officially released? And if you don't, then most probably it's because the movie sucked terribly, and so you would either a) not have seen it or b) have seen it and been fucked out of your money.
Conclusion: the only money they are losing is by screwing consumers who had no way of knowing beforehand that the movie would be bad, and can't get refund. I'm so sorry for Hollywood:(
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Obviously you haven't read the article - I doubt there's even one shred of a fact in there, and if it's the basis for CowboyNeal's comment (who says he hasn't seen the movie), well, it doesn't mean *anything*. I mean, that's a pointlesswasteoftime.com article for God's sake, not exactly a reputable news source. I bet you write back emails flaming TruthMedia reviews, too, eh?
Philosophy, religion, I think you mean "fortune cookies", because that pretty much sums up the depth of The Matrix's philosophy. The movies start on some interestings bases, ask some Intro to Philosophy level questions about the nature of reality (The Matrix) and choice/destiny (Reloaded), but it never got inventive beyond the somewhat neat combining of cyberpunk, kung fu action and Freshman Philosophy. The movies always stopped short of actually showing intelligence to show some more high Special FX fight scenes instead
Behind the ear is a Vehicle Control Rig. Datajacks are plugged in front the ear, usually, although subsequent sourcebooks introduced datajacks in cybereyes, fingertips, then later on pretty much anywhere. Behind the ear is still riggerland though, and is quite possibly the best way to identify riggers from those other speed challenged weenies.
Man, now I need to play Shadowrun. Where's the gamemaster when you need him?
Of course I have seen both. And I'm not saying they are the same thing - just that they are very similar. It is VERY obvious that they are both Miyazaki films - there's much more than a passing resemblance between the two.
Both are much more similar to one another than, say, Spirited Away and Laputa, Or Mononoke and My Neighbours the Yamadas, or any other two given Miyazaki movies. They are similar in ideologies, characters and pacing, which is alot more than you can say about Scooby Doo and Ghost In The Shell.
Nausicaa is pretty much Princess Mononoke actually - the story and characters are somewhat similar, and some scenes are exactly the same (the critter charges, for one). While Mononoke has superior animation, Nausicaa has great animation for its time period and is overall superior (IMHO). The ending in particular is much better in Nausicaa
I remember Hotline - in fact, I believe it is still alive, although I haven't connected in a few months. It's still one of the best places to find rare stuff - along with FTP, but finding FTP sites and getting access is much harder than with Hotline.
A few years ago, I was heavily into Anime and could find pretty much any Anime on Hotline within weeks of it coming out - in Japan.
Then a few months ago I went back to it, this time to find Kung Fu movies - finding a good server was a bit harder, but once I got one where I could make a trade, I got myself in business and could download a lot of stuff I never found on any P2P (well, you can find those on eMule and such, but be prepared to wait for 5 months and a half to have it finish downloading - if it even ever starts)
BigRedH sucked donkey ass - but hey, Hotline changed a lot - it's been bought by some company who Open-sourced the protocol and some other components. It appears to have changed a lot since I last checked, so I'm not too sure what's going on
What kind of idiocy is that? Suburb stands for "sub-urban", so urban certainly never meant suburb. Was that supposed to be some kind of humour? (and, for that matter, who is George Carlin?)
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Disgaea is the best game I've played on the PS2 this year, it's not a sequel AND a 2003 release to boot, so it fills all the requirements
It has a wildly hyperactive, original storyline, hundreds of classes, incredible levelling, and lots of elements I've never seen in any other game (such as the Item World, Dark Assembly and the Geo Panels) - as far as small-scale strategy games go, it's quite possibly the best title I've played since X-Com.
Morning Musume is pop? I thought it was a children's show. I mean, "Summer Reggae Rainbow" and "Telephone Ring Ring" CAN'T be popular with people over 10 years old, can they? It's so damn bad, at first I thought they were jokes like that Yatta! thingie...
Their installer and any other software they provide does NOT have to be GPLd. Lindows' installer is not GPLd, among other things. Not sure about Red Hat's. Also, as copyright-holders of the installer's code, they can change the license on newer versions if they wish it. This is a written commitment that they won't exercise this right.
For the record, and I'll take the karma hit gladly, I perfectly agree with you. Peter Jackson is not a good director, as can be easily proven by looking at pretty much any dramatic scene in the movie (especially the ones where elves are present). They are all horribly framed, overlighted in an horrible, cheesy manner, and the music is always way overboard.
And he can't direct actors, either, despite having a few talented ones under his direction. Heck, even Ian McKellen manages to look bad in the third movie. The only actor that doesn't massacre the dramatic scenes he is in is Sean Astin.
The movies are still watchable, mostly thanks to the grandiose sets, great CGI and intense action, but this is NOT award material.
Puppies. Then, the year after that, uberdevices for puppie.
There are some notable exceptions, of course...
Plus Opera 7 lets you add your own mouse gestures, so you could tie any command - even mutliple successive commands - into one gesture.
Let's say you spend a lot of time helping HTML newbies on message boards. With Opera, you could load the newbie's page, then: view the source, validate the page, open the page in IE and open the page in Moz with a mouse movement. Nifty!
As a little sidenote, anyone else read "Unfortunately, for the total user experience, we'd have to upgrade the whole internet..." and think "How tcan someone who think the WWW is the internet get an article on Slashdot's front page?".
I don't know if that's true, but if you can't sue the government as a whole, at the very least you can sue its consituents. Just sue all the USPTO's employees ;)
So the only way to get rewarded of wasting most of your youth is to be able to get some jokes while you waste away more of your life.. woop dee fucking doo!
...
... is what I would say if I wasn't wasting *my* youth on Slashdot ;)
The whole article actually reminded me of Chris Wright's.NIT story arc
I tend to agree. The pathings, AI and speed were waaay down in NWN (well, maybe I should say "I could set them waaay up in BG, but not in NWN"). My henches, familiars and summons kept getting stuck everywhere. My familiar kept using up all its powers in the first encounter (and it was a bat: casting Fear over and over on ennemies which were affected by the first Fear spell ain't exactly useful). You often have to click 2-3 times on a locked door before Tommi actually starts unlocking it. Bleh.
The game also crashes every 3 hours or so on a clean (new install) Win2K with 768MB of RAM and a GeForce2. It took me 3 times to manage to install the game correctly. I don't know if I'm simply unlucky but to me NWN was a nightmare of instability.
I have a lot more issues with the game (you can only have one summon at a time, Create Undead sucks, all the dragons were too easy (I killed most of them without even a fight by casting Finger Of Death), the dwarves in the fire dragon cave are waaay too strong and lots of other nitpicking) but they didn't ruin the game as much for me as the AI and stability isues.
I hear they have a song or somesuch they sing every morning. They spell out Wal-Mart and they make YMCA-esque letter with their arms, something like that. Anyway, the point being that people who can withstand that crap for longer than a week are probably brain damaged, meaning only the lobotomized keep working there. Reverse natural selection.
Excellent point. There's a lot of foreign material that takes years before it's released in the US, if ever.
Even if they are eventually released, if the movie is good, no doubt someone who was fanatic enough to find and download a rare export will see it if it is released in the US.
One does wonder if the sharing of files before they are released in theaters actually causes losses to the studios. I mean, if the movie is good, and you wanted to see the movie enough to download it before it comes out on the big screen, certainly you'll see it once it's officially released? And if you don't, then most probably it's because the movie sucked terribly, and so you would either a) not have seen it or b) have seen it and been fucked out of your money.
Conclusion: the only money they are losing is by screwing consumers who had no way of knowing beforehand that the movie would be bad, and can't get refund. I'm so sorry for Hollywood :(
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But those people who are selfless and dedicated wouldnt be selfless if they were paid millions, would they?
Obviously you haven't read the article - I doubt there's even one shred of a fact in there, and if it's the basis for CowboyNeal's comment (who says he hasn't seen the movie), well, it doesn't mean *anything*. I mean, that's a pointlesswasteoftime.com article for God's sake, not exactly a reputable news source. I bet you write back emails flaming TruthMedia reviews, too, eh?
Philosophy, religion, I think you mean "fortune cookies", because that pretty much sums up the depth of The Matrix's philosophy. The movies start on some interestings bases, ask some Intro to Philosophy level questions about the nature of reality (The Matrix) and choice/destiny (Reloaded), but it never got inventive beyond the somewhat neat combining of cyberpunk, kung fu action and Freshman Philosophy. The movies always stopped short of actually showing intelligence to show some more high Special FX fight scenes instead
If you stupid trolls are going to try to "spoil" to Matrix, at least think up something clever to say
Like, THE MATRIX WAS HIS SLED or something.
Behind the ear is a Vehicle Control Rig. Datajacks are plugged in front the ear, usually, although subsequent sourcebooks introduced datajacks in cybereyes, fingertips, then later on pretty much anywhere. Behind the ear is still riggerland though, and is quite possibly the best way to identify riggers from those other speed challenged weenies.
Man, now I need to play Shadowrun. Where's the gamemaster when you need him?
While King Darl is pretty good, a more interesting name would be "The Princess McBride" ;)
Of course I have seen both. And I'm not saying they are the same thing - just that they are very similar. It is VERY obvious that they are both Miyazaki films - there's much more than a passing resemblance between the two.
Both are much more similar to one another than, say, Spirited Away and Laputa, Or Mononoke and My Neighbours the Yamadas, or any other two given Miyazaki movies. They are similar in ideologies, characters and pacing, which is alot more than you can say about Scooby Doo and Ghost In The Shell.
Nausicaa is pretty much Princess Mononoke actually - the story and characters are somewhat similar, and some scenes are exactly the same (the critter charges, for one). While Mononoke has superior animation, Nausicaa has great animation for its time period and is overall superior (IMHO). The ending in particular is much better in Nausicaa
I remember Hotline - in fact, I believe it is still alive, although I haven't connected in a few months. It's still one of the best places to find rare stuff - along with FTP, but finding FTP sites and getting access is much harder than with Hotline.
A few years ago, I was heavily into Anime and could find pretty much any Anime on Hotline within weeks of it coming out - in Japan.
Then a few months ago I went back to it, this time to find Kung Fu movies - finding a good server was a bit harder, but once I got one where I could make a trade, I got myself in business and could download a lot of stuff I never found on any P2P (well, you can find those on eMule and such, but be prepared to wait for 5 months and a half to have it finish downloading - if it even ever starts)
BigRedH sucked donkey ass - but hey, Hotline changed a lot - it's been bought by some company who Open-sourced the protocol and some other components. It appears to have changed a lot since I last checked, so I'm not too sure what's going on
What kind of idiocy is that? Suburb stands for "sub-urban", so urban certainly never meant suburb. Was that supposed to be some kind of humour? (and, for that matter, who is George Carlin?)
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