I think this phenomenon goes beyond video games. If I've been up for a while and then spend a bit too much time at the do-jo my dreams start looking like kung fu movies.
The plots of the dreams are usually just as bland too. It's sometimes as simple as "the bad guys are after me" to "Significant person X is kidnapped and me and significant person Y have to rescue them."
The funny thing is usually I wake up feeling pretty good afterwards. Even though I was swapping fists with my subconscious, it feels strangely empowering.
Here's the question though. Are they releasing true sequels or are they just using user feedback to debug a game and fool you into buying it by changing the levels out?
Actually the "day" is a loose translation. The word they use in the original text is better translated to "a period of time." But day seems work better in the written word.
Thinking hypothetically, what if English had adopted a similar structure. What would the politicians and media do? Sound like? Say?
They would market and hype that "modern engrish is good 'nuff" and put it into obscurity.
Or
Always, always use the first tense.
Although, I do share your passion. It would be cool if we had a society that took so much care in being factual that we had a language syntax around it.
Although, language change starts at home. I imagine by the time today's children are 20 somethings we'll see "w00t" and "31337" on product commercials, Even if it's only in jest.
Have you ever been to an Aldi's? It's an ultra cheap grocery store chain in the US. They don't have baggers and often only have 1 or 2 cashiers on duty. Staff is a minimal. Here's the kicker: I've never seen a discarded Aldi's shopping cart. They are always nicely and neatly put away. Even with no baggers to round them up.
ALWAYS!
Do you know why? In order to get a cart you have to put a quarter into the lock to get them out. When you are done, you can get that quarter back if you put your cart back. Only if you put the cart back.
What does that tell you about humans and their values?
We all now that Iowa is part of a republic that has and will use nuklear weapons. It's only a matter of time before we find in necessary to go in and kick some Iowan butt.
The report says he's been living there for years feeding off of left overs at the dinner table and putting up with comments from fellow family member about how he should finally move out.
When asked why he did it, he simply responded. "I had to drown out the noise of my two sisters upstairs who were playing Britney Spears 24-7."
His lawyer in a press relief thinks that he'll be acquitted on charges of self preservation.
"One wonders why someone that can't afford food would have spent money on a computer on which to play these games."
One winter, I was making $900 a month at my current job. This meant that I could barely pay rent and buy food for myself. I was getting behind in payments on my credit cards and my financial situation was looking pretty dim. So, out of desperation, I got hired on to deliver phone books in my free time. I made $.15 for each phone book I delivered. Which, if you get everything organized, isn't terrible.
Anyways, delivering phone books will take you to all sorts of areas. Because every home needs a phone book. And you get to see all sorts of crazy things too when you are traveling house to house.
This one house I delivered to had a new car out front and a direct dish hanging off the roof. The house was one of these town home sort of deals in a poor area of town. Barely larger than a breadbox. And sitting on the front door of the house was a nice little note from the electric company that simply stated, he was losing power in the next week due to not paying his bill.
The thing that still gets me why the hell he had a damn dish when it was very likely he wasn't going to have the power to use it. And why he didn't save his money on the car to something with a slightly less monthly payment so that he could pay the electric bill. He was the only one in that situation either. I saw too many houses where the person had an extravagance or two when it was clear they weren't surviving.
Was it stupid of them? I'd have to agree. But some part of me during that winter kind of wished I had something nice for a change.
I hate comments like the above because it's clear that they don't understand the life of a person who is poor.
Or we could just make ISP's responsible for disconnecting any customer who has an infected machine connected. When the machine is cleaned, then they could reconnect, not before
While not required, a lot of ISP do this. It makes business sense from their stand point.
Though, it should be noted that the threshold for said cutoff is 10,000 emails in a day or something semi-ridiculous.
You're treading into Floyd history I'm not comfortable with. But, I believe there was only one version of the wall. The record was a two disk set. The CD is of course 2 disks as well. The movie had a few added songs to it (2 I think).
If you've only got 1 Cassette Tape, there is a good chance you are missing the other.
Or albums that go together. "The Wall" is a great example of an album that should not be split up. It was written to be heard in the order the songs appear. As one story.
Pink Floyd wasn't the only band to style a CD like that either.
Maybe his business works like this:
1. Advertise great computer
2. Wait 10 years until said computer exists
3. Deliver
4. Profit!!!
And no, I didn't just post this to do the 1,2,3.. Profit!!. Although, it was fun.
Won't any anti-spam software? If what you are implying is that we won't be able to ever filter them all or always stay ahead of the game, I agree. But if you are implying that we should give up the ghost, I totally disagree.
In the end, I don't think that we can solve the spam problem with a technology solution. I think the solution will have to be a sociological one. Whether it's jail time, fines or execution. But, until something gets done in that area, I'm all about filtering this crap out and making it very hard on spammers to continue.
No kidding... We still have Pentium I's here. And we force the poor bastards to handle Win 2k. We also have a few IBM monitors that used to belong to some terminals.
The poor things won't die.
You won't believe the crap they'll donate to a Not-for-Profit.
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I think this phenomenon goes beyond video games. If I've been up for a while and then spend a bit too much time at the do-jo my dreams start looking like kung fu movies.
The plots of the dreams are usually just as bland too. It's sometimes as simple as "the bad guys are after me" to "Significant person X is kidnapped and me and significant person Y have to rescue them."
The funny thing is usually I wake up feeling pretty good afterwards. Even though I was swapping fists with my subconscious, it feels strangely empowering.
I bet it would only take 1 hit.
Damn! He figured it out.
Here's the question though. Are they releasing true sequels or are they just using user feedback to debug a game and fool you into buying it by changing the levels out?
Actually, I did read somewhere that there is a larger percentage of lefties in correctional institutes and insane asylums.
Actually the "day" is a loose translation. The word they use in the original text is better translated to "a period of time." But day seems work better in the written word.
Thinking hypothetically, what if English had adopted a similar structure. What would the politicians and media do? Sound like? Say?
They would market and hype that "modern engrish is good 'nuff" and put it into obscurity.
Or
Always, always use the first tense.
Although, I do share your passion. It would be cool if we had a society that took so much care in being factual that we had a language syntax around it.
Although, language change starts at home. I imagine by the time today's children are 20 somethings we'll see "w00t" and "31337" on product commercials, Even if it's only in jest.
I find I play better these days by remembering the pattern in two bit binary or if I stretch a little base 4.
I know this sounds like a bit out there but, it's easier for me to remember 3241 than beep boop bop bleep.
Have you ever been to an Aldi's? It's an ultra cheap grocery store chain in the US. They don't have baggers and often only have 1 or 2 cashiers on duty. Staff is a minimal. Here's the kicker: I've never seen a discarded Aldi's shopping cart. They are always nicely and neatly put away. Even with no baggers to round them up.
ALWAYS!
Do you know why? In order to get a cart you have to put a quarter into the lock to get them out. When you are done, you can get that quarter back if you put your cart back. Only if you put the cart back.
What does that tell you about humans and their values?
Rednecks?!
Damn, did we get the right president!
Offtopic?
We all now that Iowa is part of a republic that has and will use nuklear weapons. It's only a matter of time before we find in necessary to go in and kick some Iowan butt.
Polland. Don't forget Polland.
The report says he's been living there for years feeding off of left overs at the dinner table and putting up with comments from fellow family member about how he should finally move out.
When asked why he did it, he simply responded. "I had to drown out the noise of my two sisters upstairs who were playing Britney Spears 24-7."
His lawyer in a press relief thinks that he'll be acquitted on charges of self preservation.
It's a funny quote in a funny scene.
I believe it's referring to the color shift that happens when objects accelerate very quickly.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/quotes
He's an Asshole sir. Major Asshole.
I'm not sure I don't already know him. :-P
"One wonders why someone that can't afford food would have spent money on a computer on which to play these games."
One winter, I was making $900 a month at my current job. This meant that I could barely pay rent and buy food for myself. I was getting behind in payments on my credit cards and my financial situation was looking pretty dim. So, out of desperation, I got hired on to deliver phone books in my free time. I made $.15 for each phone book I delivered. Which, if you get everything organized, isn't terrible.
Anyways, delivering phone books will take you to all sorts of areas. Because every home needs a phone book. And you get to see all sorts of crazy things too when you are traveling house to house.
This one house I delivered to had a new car out front and a direct dish hanging off the roof. The house was one of these town home sort of deals in a poor area of town. Barely larger than a breadbox. And sitting on the front door of the house was a nice little note from the electric company that simply stated, he was losing power in the next week due to not paying his bill.
The thing that still gets me why the hell he had a damn dish when it was very likely he wasn't going to have the power to use it. And why he didn't save his money on the car to something with a slightly less monthly payment so that he could pay the electric bill. He was the only one in that situation either. I saw too many houses where the person had an extravagance or two when it was clear they weren't surviving.
Was it stupid of them? I'd have to agree. But some part of me during that winter kind of wished I had something nice for a change.
I hate comments like the above because it's clear that they don't understand the life of a person who is poor.
Or we could just make ISP's responsible for disconnecting any customer who has an infected machine connected. When the machine is cleaned, then they could reconnect, not before
While not required, a lot of ISP do this. It makes business sense from their stand point.
Though, it should be noted that the threshold for said cutoff is 10,000 emails in a day or something semi-ridiculous.
huh?
You're treading into Floyd history I'm not comfortable with. But, I believe there was only one version of the wall. The record was a two disk set. The CD is of course 2 disks as well. The movie had a few added songs to it (2 I think).
If you've only got 1 Cassette Tape, there is a good chance you are missing the other.
Or albums that go together. "The Wall" is a great example of an album that should not be split up. It was written to be heard in the order the songs appear. As one story.
Pink Floyd wasn't the only band to style a CD like that either.
Maybe his business works like this: 1. Advertise great computer 2. Wait 10 years until said computer exists 3. Deliver 4. Profit!!! And no, I didn't just post this to do the 1,2,3.. Profit!!. Although, it was fun.
Won't any anti-spam software? If what you are implying is that we won't be able to ever filter them all or always stay ahead of the game, I agree. But if you are implying that we should give up the ghost, I totally disagree.
In the end, I don't think that we can solve the spam problem with a technology solution. I think the solution will have to be a sociological one. Whether it's jail time, fines or execution. But, until something gets done in that area, I'm all about filtering this crap out and making it very hard on spammers to continue.
It's got to be a sort of learned or triggered activity. When I haven't had too many all nighters, I can program when I want to wake up.
I remember when I was a kid, I took a trip to Washington State from the East Coast. I was able to compensate for the time difference immediately.
I also remember setting myself to wake up one minute before the alarm clock went off in the morning. That was always a cool trick.
Although with age, I've been less able to do that. Though I suspect it's my wife's late owl behavior that throws off my sleep schedule.
But, can you learn it? I don't know. I suspect some people can.
No kidding... We still have Pentium I's here. And we force the poor bastards to handle Win 2k. We also have a few IBM monitors that used to belong to some terminals.
The poor things won't die.
You won't believe the crap they'll donate to a Not-for-Profit.