I'd agree with you... but I can't find the animated characters in it. There are one or two real people in it, costarring with a bunch of cardboard cut outs. I was actually thinking it should be up for art direction for setting real people in a cartoon world.
Yeah... for overall emotional investment on the NES, there's no beating Metroid. Still... as far as best game goes...
I never played Metroid 2, but think Metroid really took off with Super Metroid(though either it was easier than the first in the series, or I just played it when I was a better gamer:}) For platformers, there are pretty much two kinds of people: those who hold with SMB3, and those who hold with SMW.(No, there are no other "people". Really. Hey, don't look over there, over here.)
My favorite game? The original Zelda, competing closely with the SNES incarnation. I can pretty much go back to either one any time and never lose interest.
The idea of continental drift, if my schooling doesn't fail me, was not invented by a geologist, and was, in fact, called bunk by many of said field. Popular support never makes anything right.
Now, they do have an extraordinary claim, and one that I too don't believe. I don't believe that any encryption is unbreakable, but that doesn't mean it is "snake oil". It could still be really really tough to crack.
Pardon the pun, but space exploration doesn't exist in a vacuum. Our endeavors in space represent(or rather, should represent, out greatest advances in skill and technology. For some, apparently, a failure in it calls into question our skill and technology in war. Besides that, a war effort is an incredible cash sink.
As for competition- I tend to think you're right. Barring phenomenal public support, and we're talking about vocal near unanimity here, national pride is the only current motivation.
NASA could and can always count on the hardcore sci-fi and space geeks for support, but without at least slightly mundanely flashy craft and missions, they'll never pull the all important "average yokel swing votes of confidence." The average yokel recognizes the basic shape of the shuttle, and can kind of ken orbitting the Earth. A station is getting a bit more afield, and any kind of deeper space exploration loses almost all non-geek interest whatsoever.
Though it might kill it, I can't wait for space travel to become profitable.
We know NASA is already working on them... they just need to work on them a bit faster.
Besides, robots are getting smarter all the time, though I don't know if that particular article speaks better for or against the use of robots in dangerous situations.
Metal dents, and when plastic doesn't bounce, it cracks. Even when the price comes down, it's still going to be fun to replace an entire section of the car for a crack.
Unless you're really obscure and happen to remember the cartoon where the short little inventor invented the portable hole(made in various sizes dripped out of an eyedropper).
You may also know him as the inventor of dry water.
Unfortunately, the prototype portable holes were stolen shortly after invention.
Heck with proven writers, let some maverick unprovens in there to smack it around.
Star Trek has never really struck me as getting along well with what most consider to be "good sci-fi". Proven sci-fi writers wouldn't jive with the series. B&B's problem is that their "proven" writers are those "proven" within the series. There doesn't seem to be any kind of accountability for them. Even if/when they stop producing, they'll never get dumped. "They did good once, so they can never be bad, right?"
No, take unprovens. Literate unprovens. Unprovens that love the franchise, and/or grew up on it. People that love it, and aren't too close to see what they love about it, will play to those strengths.
*honk*
Apart from all the "D was destroyed in Generations!", am I the only one who remembers "Time's Arrow"?
Or perhaps I don't remember it right... or maybe playing with time travel there just brings up too many screwy possibilities, but at some point in time Data's head was sitting around in a cave near San Francisco. Heck, I think it was sitting there for about 500 years...
Not so. Characters who are aware of everything, characters greatly superhuman to the norm of the story, are no fun. He is merely aware of more than most others. For example- he isn't aware of Palpatine.
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I think you hit on something when you said too many Americans take the movies as gospel... but it doesn't apply only to Americans. The movies are fictional. If you want to see historical accuracy, watch a documentary.
Movies are for storytelling. Hollywood movies tend to do a good job of that, and that's why they travel so well. Most Americans have enough trouble with the geography of their own country... I wouldn't expect too much ffrom the American masses on telling the difference between reality and fantasy in cinema. This doesn't speak well of the British if they can likewise not see a fictional medium for what it is. Let's not even get into the undereducation of the Arab masses.
This is a medium that has given us everything from Citizen Kane to Howard the Duck(woah... never knew anthropomorphic ducks walked the streets... America must be an odd place), The Thin Man to Miller's Crossing(everyone in the thirties in Chicago and New York were either thugs, bosses, molls, or policemen), Indiana Jones to Foreign Correspondent(not only was a big part of WWII concerned with finding the lost ark, but Nazi spy operations were thwarted by reporters falling in love with the daughters of Nazi agents).
The other problem(besides the confused idea of the nature of the movies) is that very few people seem to be able to glean good information from a fictional source. The main characters in Braveheart were, for the most part, real people. The garb was designed to be accurate, as were the weapons. Braveheart and The Patriot were both based in real historical periods. They have to have that basis strong enough to justify our suspension of disbelief, yet still be entertaining.
There exists such a thing as Artistic License. Learn it.
Bah, time to go into fanboy/fictionjunkie analysis mode...
a) he was still in combat "I need the speed to kick ass" mode, and was switching to "I need to save the loserboys on the floor" mode. That, and he needed to keep an eye out for Dooku.
b) In Empire, he had that entire spiel about size not being a factor in the amount of difficulty it is to move an object. Therefore, all things being equal, with the first aid academy on the floor, he had two objects to move, whereas he only had to move one pillar.
c) to nudge the pillar to a safe distance, he would have to nudge it a long way very quickly. Thick post.
d) John Ford was once asked about Stagecoach why the indians didn't merely shoot the horses during the big chase at the finale. His answer: "That would have ended the movie".
Anyway, first half: slow as frozen molasses,
second half: good enough to (way) more than make up for it. TPM too, actually.
Slashdot Mirror
I know of only two other people who hated that piece of singing cow flop... aren't there any others?
I feel so alone...
I'm so rooting against it...
*honk*
I'd agree with you... but I can't find the animated characters in it. There are one or two real people in it, costarring with a bunch of cardboard cut outs. I was actually thinking it should be up for art direction for setting real people in a cartoon world.
*honk*
Yeah... for overall emotional investment on the NES, there's no beating Metroid. Still... as far as best game goes...
:}) For platformers, there are pretty much two kinds of people: those who hold with SMB3, and those who hold with SMW.(No, there are no other "people". Really. Hey, don't look over there, over here.)
I never played Metroid 2, but think Metroid really took off with Super Metroid(though either it was easier than the first in the series, or I just played it when I was a better gamer
My favorite game? The original Zelda, competing closely with the SNES incarnation. I can pretty much go back to either one any time and never lose interest.
*honk*
Yeah... but are you still willing to say that after listening to this?
*honk*
The idea of continental drift, if my schooling doesn't fail me, was not invented by a geologist, and was, in fact, called bunk by many of said field. Popular support never makes anything right.
Now, they do have an extraordinary claim, and one that I too don't believe. I don't believe that any encryption is unbreakable, but that doesn't mean it is "snake oil". It could still be really really tough to crack.
*honk*
Or maybe Han was just talking through his hat.
The comp-monitor connection isn't new, but the keyboard folding is interesting. Kinda looks like a desktop for weening people off desktops.
It's godawful ugly though.
Pardon the pun, but space exploration doesn't exist in a vacuum. Our endeavors in space represent(or rather, should represent, out greatest advances in skill and technology. For some, apparently, a failure in it calls into question our skill and technology in war. Besides that, a war effort is an incredible cash sink.
As for competition- I tend to think you're right. Barring phenomenal public support, and we're talking about vocal near unanimity here, national pride is the only current motivation.
NASA could and can always count on the hardcore sci-fi and space geeks for support, but without at least slightly mundanely flashy craft and missions, they'll never pull the all important "average yokel swing votes of confidence." The average yokel recognizes the basic shape of the shuttle, and can kind of ken orbitting the Earth. A station is getting a bit more afield, and any kind of deeper space exploration loses almost all non-geek interest whatsoever.
Though it might kill it, I can't wait for space travel to become profitable.
*honk*
In-flight droid repairs.
We know NASA is already working on them... they just need to work on them a bit faster.
Besides, robots are getting smarter all the time, though I don't know if that particular article speaks better for or against the use of robots in dangerous situations.
Harry the Handsome Executive, soldier for hire.
Metal dents, and when plastic doesn't bounce, it cracks. Even when the price comes down, it's still going to be fun to replace an entire section of the car for a crack.
Maybe she was looking for something hot and steamy on the computer, but had to resort to drastic measures.
I can't speak to the steamy part though though...
Unless you're really obscure and happen to remember the cartoon where the short little inventor invented the portable hole(made in various sizes dripped out of an eyedropper).
You may also know him as the inventor of dry water.
Unfortunately, the prototype portable holes were stolen shortly after invention.
*honk*
Heck with proven writers, let some maverick unprovens in there to smack it around. Star Trek has never really struck me as getting along well with what most consider to be "good sci-fi". Proven sci-fi writers wouldn't jive with the series. B&B's problem is that their "proven" writers are those "proven" within the series. There doesn't seem to be any kind of accountability for them. Even if/when they stop producing, they'll never get dumped. "They did good once, so they can never be bad, right?" No, take unprovens. Literate unprovens. Unprovens that love the franchise, and/or grew up on it. People that love it, and aren't too close to see what they love about it, will play to those strengths. *honk*
Apart from all the "D was destroyed in Generations!", am I the only one who remembers "Time's Arrow"?
Or perhaps I don't remember it right... or maybe playing with time travel there just brings up too many screwy possibilities, but at some point in time Data's head was sitting around in a cave near San Francisco. Heck, I think it was sitting there for about 500 years...
*honk*
Welcome to Checkuary.
*honk*
it's not the coffee, it's the bunk."
(relavency links)
*honk*
The World Wildlife Federation knows not what they doomed themselves too...
Still, World Wildlife Entertainment ain't such a bad name...
*honk*
Not so. Characters who are aware of everything, characters greatly superhuman to the norm of the story, are no fun. He is merely aware of more than most others. For example- he isn't aware of Palpatine.
I think you hit on something when you said too many Americans take the movies as gospel... but it doesn't apply only to Americans. The movies are fictional. If you want to see historical accuracy, watch a documentary.
Movies are for storytelling. Hollywood movies tend to do a good job of that, and that's why they travel so well. Most Americans have enough trouble with the geography of their own country... I wouldn't expect too much ffrom the American masses on telling the difference between reality and fantasy in cinema. This doesn't speak well of the British if they can likewise not see a fictional medium for what it is. Let's not even get into the undereducation of the Arab masses.
This is a medium that has given us everything from Citizen Kane to Howard the Duck(woah... never knew anthropomorphic ducks walked the streets... America must be an odd place), The Thin Man to Miller's Crossing(everyone in the thirties in Chicago and New York were either thugs, bosses, molls, or policemen), Indiana Jones to Foreign Correspondent(not only was a big part of WWII concerned with finding the lost ark, but Nazi spy operations were thwarted by reporters falling in love with the daughters of Nazi agents).
The other problem(besides the confused idea of the nature of the movies) is that very few people seem to be able to glean good information from a fictional source. The main characters in Braveheart were, for the most part, real people. The garb was designed to be accurate, as were the weapons. Braveheart and The Patriot were both based in real historical periods. They have to have that basis strong enough to justify our suspension of disbelief, yet still be entertaining.
There exists such a thing as Artistic License. Learn it.
Heh, at least I don't feel alone now...
Bah, time to go into fanboy/fictionjunkie analysis mode...
a) he was still in combat "I need the speed to kick ass" mode, and was switching to "I need to save the loserboys on the floor" mode. That, and he needed to keep an eye out for Dooku.
b) In Empire, he had that entire spiel about size not being a factor in the amount of difficulty it is to move an object. Therefore, all things being equal, with the first aid academy on the floor, he had two objects to move, whereas he only had to move one pillar.
c) to nudge the pillar to a safe distance, he would have to nudge it a long way very quickly. Thick post.
d) John Ford was once asked about Stagecoach why the indians didn't merely shoot the horses during the big chase at the finale. His answer: "That would have ended the movie".
Anyway, first half: slow as frozen molasses, second half: good enough to (way) more than make up for it. TPM too, actually.
*honk*
Cappy Red
Yeah... but only if you take the left turn at the subspace eddies... Cool deal, though... I want one.