Because perhaps the primary purpose of our federal "law enforcement" agencies isn't protection of the civilians, but protection of the leaders and political structure?
I don't mean to make 911 seem insignificant here by any means, but think about this: The thousands that died in the attacks were only a tiny percentage of the US population, but the threat to our leaders stability was enormous.
So no, the FBI could care less about your money that was stolen (Even though you could be quite impoverished and needed that money to eat that week), but threaten their system, and they bring out the big guns.
Let's see, Doom with 3D rendering, dark, horrific atmosphere, and a slower pace? Yeah, we've seen it, it was called Doom 64. I thought it was a decent game, but many didn't like it because it was so different.
I love ID as a company, but I don't think the new Doom deserves all the empty hype and massive system upgrades.
Besides, what made ID, Doom and Quake popular in the first place was mindless, bloody, fast paced carnage. That's what ID needs to focus on, IMHO.
Sex is bad, evil and wrong! Abstinence is the only way. Unless you're married, then you may fuck once a month through a hole in a sheet for procreation purposes only. If you're unmarried and still insist on sinning, you should wear a thick piece of plastic over your genitalia and sign a "pre-sin" contract. Aww, sweet romance.
Drinking
Nooo, don't drink! It kills you! It destroys lives! Dear lord, don't drink!
There's a huge campaign on my campus right now to get students to stop drinking outright, because a few idiots insist on chugging until they have to go to the hospital, and they'll do their damnedest to drive themselves.
Food
Every kind of food kills you! Hamburgers are the devil! So are grapes! Bread is poison! We're all getting too fat!
Listen, until recently, it was a sign of prosperity to be fat. Be grateful you aren't some starving Ethopian you spoiled pricks.
Drugs
Okay, I'll admit, there are a lot of horrible drugs out there (I've never known anyone that could try cocaine without developing some kind of problem from it.) But in the US, we're ridiculous about it. I know people that spend more time in jail for possessing weed than they would for assault.
Homosexuality
Yes, because God forbid we permit people to love each other.
Porn
Because in this country, it's perfectly okay to show children a movie where the supposed messiah is being beaten to a bloody death for two hours. But heaven forbid we allow children to see a life-giving breast. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: America loves violence and death, and hates anything to do with life.
Language
No, you can't say anything to offend anyone! That wouldn't be right! Because true and free expression makes baby Jesus cry.
Smoking
Aah, my favorite. You know, it's funny. Supposedly non-smokers are vastly healthier than smokers, but when exposed to cigarette smoke, they cough and hack their heads off, while the smokers are perfectly fine.
Rock and Roll
Effectively dead. Everything I hear anymore is either country or rap. Thanks RIAA!
So what's the point of my flamebait infested post? The fact is that we have it a little too easy in the Western world. We live longer than we ever have, we're healthier, we're richer, and what do we do? We get bored. We start nitpicking the small stuff. We whine and bitch about the most inane things. It's time to appreciate what we have, stop bitching and be more tolerant of one another. We all sin, we all have some kind of disgusting habit. We must accept this.
We must also accept that no one lives forever and that no one knows what's on the other side of the darkness. We need to live and enjoy our lives. I'm not saying we should be completely irresponsible, but it's time for us to pull the politically-correct butt-plug from our collective asses.
Besides, what's the point of living if we can't enjoy our lives? If the whiners had their way, the only thing we could legally do is sit in a small white room, perfectly quiet and still. Every day we would eat nothing but a single stick of celery and drink a cup of purified water. Think I'm being ridiculous? That's where our spoiled asses are headed. But of course Western civilization will collapse before that happens.
And please note that I am completely non-partisan. I condemn both the left and right in this post.
Instead of just keeping the consoles locked up near the televisions, why not lock them up behind the main counter? That way, the clerk on duty always has an eye on them, and it will make game swapping a lot easier. Just buy some REALLY long a/v cables, and tuck them under the carpet.
Exactly like Windows. Yeah, that's a great strategy, it's been working for Apple for years. (I know, I know, their market share is incredibly low, but they're profitable and the mainstream uses and usually respects their products.)
I think one of the problems with the current Linux desktop is that they try too hard to copy Windows. First, it makes Linux appear as a cheap Windows knock-off. Second, all the annoyances of the Windows interface are there and then some.
Desktop Linux desperately needs some creative interface people who can concoct a fairly original, simple, streamlined, attractive, and usable GUI. Look at Mac OS X for instance. Many geeks are migrating away from Windows and Linux in favor of Apple's new OS due to the power, simplicity, and beauty of Mac OS X.
I believe desktop Linux would make more progress if it say Mac OS X as its main competition and not Windows. If Linux could be developed into an OS X alternative for x86, it could gain ground fast. Next, campaign HARD for games support and we could have a serious Windows-killer on our hands.
How is the parent a troll? For the love of (insert name of preferred deity here), everything this guy has said in this thread makes sense and should probably be modded up.
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Yeah, but geez, what's with getting so mad over some AC's stupid joke? "Hey, that anonymous person over the internet threatened to screw my daughter! I'm gonna kick his ass!" Besides, I don't think your daughter would wanna fool around with a pimply, overweight Slashdot geek anyway.
And on a side note, I feel sorry for your daughter when she actually finds somebody she would like to make love to (If she hasn't already). What are you going to do, stalk her and her boy(?)friend with a sniper rifle, waiting for the pants to drop? How about her wedding night?
I think the most productive thing you could do is to teach her about birth control, and rape and STD prevention. Oh, and don't feed the trolls.
Not trying to troll or flame here, just popping in my $0.2.
Especially since a FPS doesn't necessarily have to be a descendent of Doom. Anyone ever hear of Ultima Underworld? Technically, it was a FPS because you walked around in first person view, and sometimes you did have to kill stuff. But it was primarily an RPG. And a damn good one at that.
Although I will agree that the FPS genre has been more that a little overdone.
I've found a pretty good solution for playing those games on a console.
You'll need:
1. USB Keyboard 2. USB Trackball 3. A board of some sort big enough for 1 and 2. (Portable desks, marketed at laptop owners usually work for this, and they have nice padding on the bottom!) 4. Velcro 5. A PS2 and/or X-Box. (Duh.)
Stick the softer velcro on top of the board. Stick the hard half of the velcro on the bottom of your keyboard and trackball. Now, you can rest the keyboard and trackball on your lap easily. Works for regular mice too, but you need a big enough surface to move it around.
This may be old hat, but I've never heard of anyone else doing it.
Oh, and as far as looking "out of place," I don't see how a keyboard and mouse look any more out of place than regular controllers.
Those are all very valid points. Additionally, there is a huge gap between hardware requirements for most working purposes (Word Processing, Spreadsheet, E-mail, Web, etc.) and for gaming purposes.
I can buy a PC for most things for around $200. Why the heck should I put hundreds of dollars more into a system just to play games that could more reliably be played with a $99 Gamecube?
For those not in the know, Brain Dead (aka "Dead Alive") is one of LoTR director Peter Jackson's early works. It is quite possibly the most wonderfully disgusting movies ever made, involving zombies being hacked up by a push-mower, nasty blemishes being squirted into soup, etc.
I highly recommend it to any horror fans out there. I equally recommend "Bad Taste," which is every bit as disgusting (Peter Jackson's head is split open for half the movie, characters drinking vomit, etc.) IIRC, this is Jackson's first film.
I recently purchased a new iBook G4 with 10.3 preinstalled. Playing around with expose and my Logitech two button+scrollwhell mouse, I tried setting the right mouse button to show all windows.
I was so pleased with the results, I have left it that way, just using ctrl-left click for right clicking. It provides the fastest window navigation of any window environment I have ever used. (Windows, Mac 9/X, various Linux environments)
Expose really makes me wonder how much longer Apple will stick with the one-button/no-button mouse. Sure, the idea of a buttonless mouse is neat, but having total window access at the touch of your fingers and scrolling capability greatly outweighs the novelty of a "simple" mouse.
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Because perhaps the primary purpose of our federal "law enforcement" agencies isn't protection of the civilians, but protection of the leaders and political structure?
I don't mean to make 911 seem insignificant here by any means, but think about this: The thousands that died in the attacks were only a tiny percentage of the US population, but the threat to our leaders stability was enormous.
So no, the FBI could care less about your money that was stolen (Even though you could be quite impoverished and needed that money to eat that week), but threaten their system, and they bring out the big guns.
Just giving some food for thought.
Let's see, Doom with 3D rendering, dark, horrific atmosphere, and a slower pace? Yeah, we've seen it, it was called Doom 64. I thought it was a decent game, but many didn't like it because it was so different.
I love ID as a company, but I don't think the new Doom deserves all the empty hype and massive system upgrades.
Besides, what made ID, Doom and Quake popular in the first place was mindless, bloody, fast paced carnage. That's what ID needs to focus on, IMHO.
Uncle Jesse from Full House. He's not one to fuck with.
Suicide terrorist kitties?
Al-Kitty?
Yes, that was corny, and no, I couldn't resist.
Which really is reality, in that the only reality we have is that which we ourselves perceive.
Have a happy 4/20 fellas.
1) They actually print blow job instructions nowadays?
2) Tooth space? Sounds like someone's girlfriend needs braces.
3) ???
4) Profit!
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
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Sorry to tell you this, but MTV has never been anything but commercials. The videos are the record company's way of selling you their albums.
Sex is bad, evil and wrong! Abstinence is the only way. Unless you're married, then you may fuck once a month through a hole in a sheet for procreation purposes only. If you're unmarried and still insist on sinning, you should wear a thick piece of plastic over your genitalia and sign a "pre-sin" contract. Aww, sweet romance.
Nooo, don't drink! It kills you! It destroys lives! Dear lord, don't drink!
There's a huge campaign on my campus right now to get students to stop drinking outright, because a few idiots insist on chugging until they have to go to the hospital, and they'll do their damnedest to drive themselves.
Every kind of food kills you! Hamburgers are the devil! So are grapes! Bread is poison! We're all getting too fat!
Listen, until recently, it was a sign of prosperity to be fat. Be grateful you aren't some starving Ethopian you spoiled pricks.
Okay, I'll admit, there are a lot of horrible drugs out there (I've never known anyone that could try cocaine without developing some kind of problem from it.) But in the US, we're ridiculous about it. I know people that spend more time in jail for possessing weed than they would for assault.
Yes, because God forbid we permit people to love each other.
Because in this country, it's perfectly okay to show children a movie where the supposed messiah is being beaten to a bloody death for two hours. But heaven forbid we allow children to see a life-giving breast. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: America loves violence and death, and hates anything to do with life.
No, you can't say anything to offend anyone! That wouldn't be right! Because true and free expression makes baby Jesus cry.
Aah, my favorite. You know, it's funny. Supposedly non-smokers are vastly healthier than smokers, but when exposed to cigarette smoke, they cough and hack their heads off, while the smokers are perfectly fine.
Effectively dead. Everything I hear anymore is either country or rap. Thanks RIAA!
So what's the point of my flamebait infested post? The fact is that we have it a little too easy in the Western world. We live longer than we ever have, we're healthier, we're richer, and what do we do? We get bored. We start nitpicking the small stuff. We whine and bitch about the most inane things. It's time to appreciate what we have, stop bitching and be more tolerant of one another. We all sin, we all have some kind of disgusting habit. We must accept this.
We must also accept that no one lives forever and that no one knows what's on the other side of the darkness. We need to live and enjoy our lives. I'm not saying we should be completely irresponsible, but it's time for us to pull the politically-correct butt-plug from our collective asses.
Besides, what's the point of living if we can't enjoy our lives? If the whiners had their way, the only thing we could legally do is sit in a small white room, perfectly quiet and still. Every day we would eat nothing but a single stick of celery and drink a cup of purified water. Think I'm being ridiculous? That's where our spoiled asses are headed. But of course Western civilization will collapse before that happens.
And please note that I am completely non-partisan. I condemn both the left and right in this post.
Well ConceptJunkie, the future's been here for a while. Both of the Red Faction titles use a system called "geo-mod" which does just what you specify.
Sure dogs can fly. It's rather easy. All they have to do is fall and miss the ground!
Instead of just keeping the consoles locked up near the televisions, why not lock them up behind the main counter? That way, the clerk on duty always has an eye on them, and it will make game swapping a lot easier. Just buy some REALLY long a/v cables, and tuck them under the carpet.
Exactly like Windows. Yeah, that's a great strategy, it's been working for Apple for years. (I know, I know, their market share is incredibly low, but they're profitable and the mainstream uses and usually respects their products.)
I think one of the problems with the current Linux desktop is that they try too hard to copy Windows. First, it makes Linux appear as a cheap Windows knock-off. Second, all the annoyances of the Windows interface are there and then some.
Desktop Linux desperately needs some creative interface people who can concoct a fairly original, simple, streamlined, attractive, and usable GUI. Look at Mac OS X for instance. Many geeks are migrating away from Windows and Linux in favor of Apple's new OS due to the power, simplicity, and beauty of Mac OS X.
I believe desktop Linux would make more progress if it say Mac OS X as its main competition and not Windows. If Linux could be developed into an OS X alternative for x86, it could gain ground fast. Next, campaign HARD for games support and we could have a serious Windows-killer on our hands.
But the difference is with Linux, if you don't want that stuff in the kernel, it can be removed relatively easily.
Your ideas intrigue me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
Not Google, but damn close.
How is the parent a troll? For the love of (insert name of preferred deity here), everything this guy has said in this thread makes sense and should probably be modded up.
Yeah, but geez, what's with getting so mad over some AC's stupid joke? "Hey, that anonymous person over the internet threatened to screw my daughter! I'm gonna kick his ass!" Besides, I don't think your daughter would wanna fool around with a pimply, overweight Slashdot geek anyway.
And on a side note, I feel sorry for your daughter when she actually finds somebody she would like to make love to (If she hasn't already). What are you going to do, stalk her and her boy(?)friend with a sniper rifle, waiting for the pants to drop? How about her wedding night?
I think the most productive thing you could do is to teach her about birth control, and rape and STD prevention. Oh, and don't feed the trolls.
Not trying to troll or flame here, just popping in my $0.2.
Oh, and happy birthday Perl!
Especially since a FPS doesn't necessarily have to be a descendent of Doom. Anyone ever hear of Ultima Underworld? Technically, it was a FPS because you walked around in first person view, and sometimes you did have to kill stuff. But it was primarily an RPG. And a damn good one at that.
Although I will agree that the FPS genre has been more that a little overdone.
I've found a pretty good solution for playing those games on a console.
You'll need:
1. USB Keyboard
2. USB Trackball
3. A board of some sort big enough for 1 and 2. (Portable desks, marketed at laptop owners usually work for this, and they have nice padding on the bottom!)
4. Velcro
5. A PS2 and/or X-Box. (Duh.)
Stick the softer velcro on top of the board. Stick the hard half of the velcro on the bottom of your keyboard and trackball. Now, you can rest the keyboard and trackball on your lap easily. Works for regular mice too, but you need a big enough surface to move it around.
This may be old hat, but I've never heard of anyone else doing it.
Oh, and as far as looking "out of place," I don't see how a keyboard and mouse look any more out of place than regular controllers.
Those are all very valid points. Additionally, there is a huge gap between hardware requirements for most working purposes (Word Processing, Spreadsheet, E-mail, Web, etc.) and for gaming purposes.
I can buy a PC for most things for around $200. Why the heck should I put hundreds of dollars more into a system just to play games that could more reliably be played with a $99 Gamecube?
I highly recommend it to any horror fans out there. I equally recommend "Bad Taste," which is every bit as disgusting (Peter Jackson's head is split open for half the movie, characters drinking vomit, etc.) IIRC, this is Jackson's first film.
Obligatory IMDB links here and here.
I recently purchased a new iBook G4 with 10.3 preinstalled. Playing around with expose and my Logitech two button+scrollwhell mouse, I tried setting the right mouse button to show all windows.
I was so pleased with the results, I have left it that way, just using ctrl-left click for right clicking. It provides the fastest window navigation of any window environment I have ever used. (Windows, Mac 9/X, various Linux environments)
Expose really makes me wonder how much longer Apple will stick with the one-button/no-button mouse. Sure, the idea of a buttonless mouse is neat, but having total window access at the touch of your fingers and scrolling capability greatly outweighs the novelty of a "simple" mouse.
No, the real difference is that we don't throw fecal matter at each other.
Hmm, come to think of it, Darl McBride must be a chimpanzee.
Well, if you consider an Army Ranger to be an animalistic savage, then I guess you're right.
So now we know the story of the goat.cx guy!