Well, for one thing, at the place I used to live, I was miles away from our closest neighbor. Second, I doubt that a free-falling bullet would have enough velocity to hurt anyone, even if the tiny thing managed to hit them.
It's not that the games look like crap. In fact, they're not bad looking for such a small device, but they look as if they run at no more than 5 FPS.
Look at Red Faction in the ad! It looks like a frickin' slideshow! And that's probably after dressing it up considerably for the ad. But you're right, either way, the games look simply embarrassing.
No, but I nearly got my head busted open by a bottle.
One time a few years ago, a buddy and I were walking down the street in front of my house, and a truck drove past. In the bed were a group of hispanics (Not racist, just being detailed.) and one of them hurled a beer bottle at me. The bottle whizzed about an inch in front of my nose and shattered near my friend's feet.
After that, I started carrying a.357 magnum revolver in the front of my pants while walking in front of my house. I never intended to actually shoot at someone, but I figured a shot into the air would get the point across.
You're definitely wrong about the facts, and that should tell everyone reading about your dedication to the truth.
Well, yeah, I might not recall a movie I watched months ago correctly. I'm a broke college student busy studying for 18 hours worth of finals. I have better things to do than do hours of research to write a/. post.
1) Courtney Love was not receiving an award, she was PRESENTING an award and making a speech about freedom of the press at the event.
Oh, wow, that makes it SO much better! Whew, glad she was just presenting the award and emphasizing freedom of the press, despite the fact that she has repeatedly harassed and threatened reporters.
2) The filmmaker RUSHED ONTO THE STAGE after her speech and started asking why she was talking about freedom of the press. Sure, it might have been an ironic choice, but WTF was the filmmaker doing rushing the stage? The moron was ejected, as he should have been.
It may not have been the most sensible of moves on his part, and I tend to agree that the guy who did the flick was an idiot, but I think an organization as idealistic as the ACLU should have had the balls to answer the well-founded charges and not just shut him up.
As a matter of fact, I still think they should explain to their donors why the hell Courtney Love of all people was there.
It's just like if Bill Gates presented an award at a FSF function, someone stood up to complain, and Richard Stallman threw the guy out.
You have been CAUGHT lying, which is typical for the right wing.
No, I have been caught with dispersing information which I believed to be correct, but was not. That would not make me a liar, just poorly organized. On the other hand, oddly enough, you accusing me of being a liar is a rather libelous claim.
And I don't know where you get off accusing me of being right wing. I agree with the ideals of the ACLU, just not how they carry them out. Let's face it, there are liars on each side of the bird.
And anyone who thinks that extremes like "left wing" and "right wing" will ever actually accomplish something useful is a fool.
Anyone who doesn't think the ACLU are a bunch of hypocrites needs to watch "Kurt and Courtney." In one scene, the filmmaker attends an ACLU function where Courtney Love is set to be awarded a free speech award, despite the fact that there is a record of her harassing journalists.
When the filmmaker is allowed a chance to speak to the audience, he brings this up, and is promptly tossed into the street.
I agree with their ideals, but with actions like this, they'll never get a cent from me.
Actually, I believe you are wrong there. The Civil War was not exactly a revolution or even a rebellion, it was all-out succession.
So, when the Union declared war on the Confederacy, it essentially declared a war against a foreign state. It wasn't US citizens revolting, ergo no precedent set.
I hate to burst everyone's bubble here, but I currently own a Powerbook G3 (Lombard). While I love my Mac, the thing is too damn broke to be of much use anymore.
Here's a list of problems:
Crappy power connector that breaks easily, leading to several repairs.
It runs so hot the plastic feet melted off within a month of purchase.
Plastic IR cover broke off.
And to top it all off, the damn hinge is broke, and the screen won't stay up. (A commonly suffered Apple defect that they refuse to acknowledge.)
From my understanding, the durability of the Powerbook has only gone downhill since the move to Titanium and now Aluminum, and the crippling broken hinge defect is still there.
I'd love to get a new Powerbook, or at least use my current one, but until Apple issues a recall, or at least improves the design of current models, I'll be damned if I own another Apple or laptop.
What about Metal Gear Solid 2? Near the end of the game, your character gains a Ninja sword that you control with an analog stick, instead of just mashing buttons.
I too have been looking for an accurate sword-control system for a while. Perhaps if instead of an "attack" button, you control the sword swing with a 2D or 3D mouse?
If nothing else, it would at least make an interesting technical demo.
Why the hell is this modded up? The guy just posted code that just might wipe out some poor, unsuspecting newbie's music collection.
Oh, the hillarity! Great way to convert people to Linux, have them destroy their music collection.
BTW, this doesn't even work. It will play the first file sent to the queue, and the rest pass simultaneously, like Taco Bell through a Perl coder. Anyone know how to get this code to work so that it actually queues the music files, and isn't just an archaic frontend to mplayer?
I start with gamefaqs, which usually has pretty good user reviews. NOTHING. Just posting to the message boards, but no reviews to speak of.
Then I check out Amazon. Only a few reviews, but by people that OBVIOUSLY haven't played the game, since they pretty much just copy and paste the Amazon information.
It's REALLY freaky. I've never seen a game where it's been out for days, but no reviews at all. Hell, when MGS2 came out, there were actual reviews on gamefaqs the same day!
The pros I can understand, since they have to be far more professional and throrough, and of course, E3, but the lack of actual user reviews is plain damn spooky?
Hmm, maybe the Agents came for the potential reviewers.;-)
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Well, for one thing, at the place I used to live, I was miles away from our closest neighbor. Second, I doubt that a free-falling bullet would have enough velocity to hurt anyone, even if the tiny thing managed to hit them.
With Mac OS X, I guess Apple and BSD can die together!
It's not that the games look like crap. In fact, they're not bad looking for such a small device, but they look as if they run at no more than 5 FPS.
Look at Red Faction in the ad! It looks like a frickin' slideshow! And that's probably after dressing it up considerably for the ad. But you're right, either way, the games look simply embarrassing.
One time a few years ago, a buddy and I were walking down the street in front of my house, and a truck drove past. In the bed were a group of hispanics (Not racist, just being detailed.) and one of them hurled a beer bottle at me. The bottle whizzed about an inch in front of my nose and shattered near my friend's feet.
After that, I started carrying a .357 magnum revolver in the front of my pants while walking in front of my house. I never intended to actually shoot at someone, but I figured a shot into the air would get the point across.
Well, yeah, I might not recall a movie I watched months ago correctly. I'm a broke college student busy studying for 18 hours worth of finals. I have better things to do than do hours of research to write a /. post.
1) Courtney Love was not receiving an award, she was PRESENTING an award and making a speech about freedom of the press at the event.
Oh, wow, that makes it SO much better! Whew, glad she was just presenting the award and emphasizing freedom of the press, despite the fact that she has repeatedly harassed and threatened reporters.
2) The filmmaker RUSHED ONTO THE STAGE after her speech and started asking why she was talking about freedom of the press. Sure, it might have been an ironic choice, but WTF was the filmmaker doing rushing the stage? The moron was ejected, as he should have been.
It may not have been the most sensible of moves on his part, and I tend to agree that the guy who did the flick was an idiot, but I think an organization as idealistic as the ACLU should have had the balls to answer the well-founded charges and not just shut him up.
As a matter of fact, I still think they should explain to their donors why the hell Courtney Love of all people was there.
It's just like if Bill Gates presented an award at a FSF function, someone stood up to complain, and Richard Stallman threw the guy out.
You have been CAUGHT lying, which is typical for the right wing.
No, I have been caught with dispersing information which I believed to be correct, but was not. That would not make me a liar, just poorly organized. On the other hand, oddly enough, you accusing me of being a liar is a rather libelous claim.
And I don't know where you get off accusing me of being right wing. I agree with the ideals of the ACLU, just not how they carry them out. Let's face it, there are liars on each side of the bird.
And anyone who thinks that extremes like "left wing" and "right wing" will ever actually accomplish something useful is a fool.
Just my $.03.
Mod this up.
Anyone who doesn't think the ACLU are a bunch of hypocrites needs to watch "Kurt and Courtney." In one scene, the filmmaker attends an ACLU function where Courtney Love is set to be awarded a free speech award, despite the fact that there is a record of her harassing journalists.
When the filmmaker is allowed a chance to speak to the audience, he brings this up, and is promptly tossed into the street.
I agree with their ideals, but with actions like this, they'll never get a cent from me.
Does this mean that we'll see a Big Mouth Billy Bass movie soon?
Um, why do you have blood in your underwear?
Actually, I believe you are wrong there. The Civil War was not exactly a revolution or even a rebellion, it was all-out succession.
So, when the Union declared war on the Confederacy, it essentially declared a war against a foreign state. It wasn't US citizens revolting, ergo no precedent set.
Um, K-PAX (The film) was adapted from the book by Gene Brewer.
I mean really, come one, what's next? Are they going to ally with the mafia and start extorting the money personally?
I hate to burst everyone's bubble here, but I currently own a Powerbook G3 (Lombard). While I love my Mac, the thing is too damn broke to be of much use anymore.
Here's a list of problems:
From my understanding, the durability of the Powerbook has only gone downhill since the move to Titanium and now Aluminum, and the crippling broken hinge defect is still there.
I'd love to get a new Powerbook, or at least use my current one, but until Apple issues a recall, or at least improves the design of current models, I'll be damned if I own another Apple or laptop.
I don't know, but I hope it's not the same thing as "bukkake" or I will never touch a Game Boy again.
Um, the Jaguar wasn't ill-fated?
Ya know, this is all starting to sound like a stereotypical episode of "Scooby Doo."
"You're not really the Goat.cx monster, you're Mr. Lagherty, owner of the amusement park!"
So, that's where all this "raver" crap came from!
Of course everyone knows "Super Mario Bros." is nothing but a bad drug trip.
Incorrect. Paper Mario was technically the sequel to Mario RPG. I would imagine this would count as the sequel to Paper Mario.
What about Metal Gear Solid 2? Near the end of the game, your character gains a Ninja sword that you control with an analog stick, instead of just mashing buttons.
I too have been looking for an accurate sword-control system for a while. Perhaps if instead of an "attack" button, you control the sword swing with a 2D or 3D mouse?
If nothing else, it would at least make an interesting technical demo.
Shouldn't the quotation marks be around restaurant instead?
Why the hell is this modded up? The guy just posted code that just might wipe out some poor, unsuspecting newbie's music collection.
Oh, the hillarity! Great way to convert people to Linux, have them destroy their music collection.
BTW, this doesn't even work. It will play the first file sent to the queue, and the rest pass simultaneously, like Taco Bell through a Perl coder. Anyone know how to get this code to work so that it actually queues the music files, and isn't just an archaic frontend to mplayer?
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I start with gamefaqs, which usually has pretty good user reviews. NOTHING. Just posting to the message boards, but no reviews to speak of.
Then I check out Amazon. Only a few reviews, but by people that OBVIOUSLY haven't played the game, since they pretty much just copy and paste the Amazon information.
It's REALLY freaky. I've never seen a game where it's been out for days, but no reviews at all. Hell, when MGS2 came out, there were actual reviews on gamefaqs the same day!
The pros I can understand, since they have to be far more professional and throrough, and of course, E3, but the lack of actual user reviews is plain damn spooky?
Hmm, maybe the Agents came for the potential reviewers. ;-)
Or at least have enough for a move to the U.K.
Yeah, I highly doubt Microsoft would steal anyone's ideas, because of all the resulting negative PR.
Wait, never mind.