" I still think there's room for 2D games, but almost no one seems to want to try it."
Have you tried Metroid Fusion & Zero for the GBA? How about Ninja Five-O for the same platform, or any of the Castlevania GBA games? Alien Hominid for the big three? All fantastic games, all 2d sidescrollers.
I do disagree with your comments on 3d gaming, though. Metroid Prime 1 & 2 are *excellent* games that perfectly capture the feel of their 2d bretheren. It's a pity you can't get past the interface; as a PC gamer, I'm amazed that MP1 & 2 are just as playable as any PC FPS with keyboard/mouse.
On the other hand, looking at a rather brutal example, my wife's grandmother was raped when she was 11 or 12. Had she been insteaed killed, my mother-in-law, wife, and children would never have been born. Even though what she went through was terrible, I'm sure she'd agree that it would be worth it to see the smiling faces of her grand and great-grandchildren, especially if the alternative were death. I know that it's somewhat erroneous to try to prove a point with a single example, but IMHO being alive is infinitely better than being dead.
...and like to get updates automagically, try here: Autopatcher. If you don't need to download updates automatically, try here: The Software Patch.
Riiight, like I'm going to let an ActiveX applet from Microsoft scan my system. What do they want next, a retina scan? DNA check? I don't encourage piracy (I *do* own a legit copy of XP), but forcing users to submit to this crap so they can get updates (I know, I know, *not* critical updates, but still) is just wrong. Anyway, use the links above and just say NO! to Microsoft ActiveX scanning.
"Also, the pronunciation doesn't change in Nova by adding a space: the syllables sound exactly the same, so when spoken, space or no space, a Spanish speaker will hear "no va"."
Not exactly true. If "nova" were a Spanish word, the accent would be on the second-last syllable (i.e. NO). So it would be pronounced NOva. The phrase "no va," on the other hand, is pronounced "no VA." In a language where the accent changes meaning, "nova" and "no va" *sound* different and act different. Therefore this example is equivalent with the "notable/no table" example.
*sigh* If you were looking around for a dining room suite, would you refuse to buy one that was called "Notable" because, if you added a space, it would say "No table"?
I've got the cube version, and it's actually a lot of fun. It reminds me a lot of Contra, actually, what with the bloody difficulty level and all. I know what you mean about level 2;) I did find that the cube version was a tad easier than the online flash version, if that's any consolation.
...was my happiest computer moment. One megabyte took 77 minutes to download. My second-happiest moment was after I had bought MegaTraveller 1 for the PC, took it home, and discovered it required a hard drive. My Tandy 1000 (8088, 4MHz, 640k RAM, 2x5.25 LD drives) didn't have a hard drive, so through trial and error I had to put the required files on four floppy disks and insert them at appropriate moments (disk 1 to start up, disk 2 for the first four planet systems, disk 3 when I enter the spaceport, disk 4 for the last four planet systems). Getting around that hard drive problem was absolutely thrilling for me.
As long as you don't mind roleplaying a tank with no social skills whatsoever (because if you don't, it'll be next to impossible to finish the second half of the game), I'm sure you'll love Bloodlines!
"In an interview conducted by Bloomberg Japan, Nintendo confirmed that the Nintendo DS, its newly announced portable dual-screen gaming system, is not being created to take over the Game Boy Advance's market."
Speaking of which, this is the one I sent to Ralph Goodale (my MP). Feel free to plagarise it for your own nefarious uses.
I am writing to you about the proposed bill C-60. In your February 2004 newsletter, you said that you want to free MPs to vote as they choose and not merely the party line. It is with that in mind that I write to you about several concerns I have with this bill.
First of all, the media recording levy that is currently placed on all blank media in Canada is supposed to go to fund the musicians who are supposedly losing money due to Internet music piracy. According to Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, there has been an annual decline of 8.6 percent of record sales from 1999-2004. This information comes from the Canadian Recording Industry Association web site. Over this same time period, the average CD price has dropped by 8.8 percent. While the CRIA attributes falling record sales to piracy, it can just as easily be attributed to the falling record prices.
Also, according to Geist, the blank media levy has generated about $5 million in 2004. According to the CRIAs own numbers, lost sales account for no more than $2 million annually. The fact of the matter is that the levy is more than making up for lost sales; the problem is that the various industry groups that were supposed to distribute this money to artists to make up for piracy have not yet done so.
Bill C-60 does not support the interests of consumers; rather, it allows the record industry to recoup their supposed lost income from Internet piracy. If you look at the numbers, however, they are being fully compensated by this blank media levy. Bill C-60, then, is designed to take more money from the consumers not because of piracy, but because the entire industry is in a slump. For example, in 2004, total revenues for the music industry totalled $562.2 million dollars. Granted, this is a decline from 1999 when they made $690.3 million dollars, but there are several other factors to consider: music DVD sales in 1999 were zero, but generated C$170 million from 2000-2004. Also, the blank media levy earned the CRIA an additional $120 million since 1999.
I vote. My friends vote. I dont know anybody, whether that be fellow students, professors, professionals in the journalism industry, or even family that supports this bill. It is commonly perceived as an attempt by the record industry to blame the customers for their declining profits. Im concerned enough about this bill that I am willing to put my support behind any party that opposes it. I hope you will see this bill for what it really is a ploy to grab more money from your constituents by rich corporations more concerned about their profit margins than producing unique or entertaining music. Thank you for your time.
The language used in Luke 7.36-50 strongly implies that the "woman sinner" is, in fact, a prostitute. This is just one quick for instance. I wasn't referring to MMag at all.
Update your Hitachi hard drive on your IBM notebook, because the updater *requires* a 3.5 drive to extract the update (I know because I tried every single 3.5 emulator known to man, as well as a flash drive that was formatted to 1.44MB. I have an X31 which didn't come with a 3.5 drive). It doesn't matter that floppy drives have only one or two uses; in certain situations, if you don't have one, you're simply toast.
You want to know why you got modded troll? Because you used caps for personal pronouns for God. I kid you not. Every time I use "He" instead of "he" when talking about God, I get modded down to oblivion. Why? I have absolutely no idea. When I'm not posting on/. I use capitalised pronouns, but I've learned that people don't like it here. Go figure.
I'm sorry that somebody decided that your post was a troll, when in fact it's absolutely accurate theology. Hopefully somebody'll be awake on the metamod for that one;)
The entire purpose of turning the other cheek is not an act of passivity, but to shame the person who's attacking you. You have to understand that the Jewish community at the time lived under the heavy hand of the Roman government; if a Roman centurion hit you, you were supposed to "turn your cheek" and let him do it again. The effect would either be for the guy to get enraged and do it, or to think about what he had done and question whether it was really necessary.
"He was so passive that he let himself be killed."
This isn't exactly true. He wasn't so passive that he refused to admit that he was, in fact, God. This was ultimately what led him to be crucified, the charge of blasphemy.
And I wouldn't exactly call him a passive liberal; if anything, he was a social activist that refused to resort to violence. He worked on the Sabbath (big no-no), taught his followers to turn the other cheek/cloak/walk further with a Roman soldier (actively rebelling against authority by willingly giving up goods & temporary liberty), befriended prostitutes and tax collectors (like befriending lepers today), and inspired a schism in the dominant religion.
He was "liberal" in the sense that he fought against the status quo, but I can't see anything in his actions that could be defined as "passive."
"Even a journalist with the best intentions implants his/her viewpoint into a story."
The choice of stories themselves indicate a level of bias; a journalist only reports on what interests them (as long as it's not major news), and even on the bigger stories still takes an angle that interests them. Personal preference = bias at the most fundamental level.
The OP wasn't talking about price comparison; he was saying that no P4 beat out any A64: "For example, any Anandtech P4/eMT64 vs. AMD64 comparison will show that AMD64 is faster at everything except audio & video compression (even with the new A64's that have SSE3)."
Such a polite response from such an ugly attack! I could have sworn that I took the "troll" part out. I'm very sorry about that.
Anyway, taking a look at the page you provided, a 3400+ AMD chip running at 2.4 GHz is faster than a Pentium 660 running at 3.6 GHz. These are real chips that normal people can afford;) My point that raw speed no longer matters, which is why AMD has adopted the "+" numbering scheme for ease of comparison against P4 chips.
A later poster mentioned the Pentium M, which imho is a very, very nice design. I don't like participating in AMD vs Intel holy wars because I think that both have their place - AMD is currently the king of the desktop, and Intel the king of the notebook, bar none. Anyway, sorry for coming across like a jerk; nothing like the internet to bring out the worst in people (esp. proofreading skills);)
Sorry, I mistook your sarcasm for sincerity. I've actually met people who seem to think that Lovecraft was writing holy writ rather than fiction, so forgive me for assuming that you were one of them...
"In case you haven't noticed, Christianity isn't the only religion in the world."
I wasn't aware that Lovecraftianism was a religion, which is what the parent was (humourously) implying. And in case you didn't notice, my first post was about Judaism, *not* Christianity.
"But, you're right, there is nothing wrong with doing a Chrisitian video game. The problem is that when you Christians pick and choose what parts of the Bible to emphasize and which to conveniently ignore, you strip out all the parts that might actually make a compelling video game.
Every game designed picks and chooses what to put in their game and what to leave out. I guess you missed my first idea; you know, the RTS with the blood and gore and magic.
"Imagine a video game where you play Peter, for instance. Peter attempts to confront the Romans and one point with a knife. Jesus warns him not to, and he doesn't. If you were going to make that into a video game, Peter would have to have the option to take that advice (as he did in the Bible) or ignore it and attack them anyway (hence defying the Biblical rendition). Otherwise, it's not a video game, it's just a passive movie."
Why do you assume that this specific episode needs to occur just before Christ was arrested? But of course it's easier to criticise ideas than it is to come up with your own, I suppose.
"If you play Jesus and you don't have the option of choosing whether or not to make that sacrifice at the end, then the whole game has just been a lame-ass excercise in mindless tedium leading to a meaningless finale (since it was always a foregone conclusion, a movie where you already know the plot and ending before you even see it).
Did I mention anywhere that there should be a video game based on the life of Jesus, with the player controlling him?
Now, where exactly are you coming from? Have you played a game based on Christianity and were bored or what? Why do you assume that it's impossible to create an interesting game based on the bible, simply because it hasn't been done before? Since you've only leaped upon my very last idea, am I to assume that you at least found my previous two ideas to be semi-interesting?
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Have you tried Metroid Fusion & Zero for the GBA? How about Ninja Five-O for the same platform, or any of the Castlevania GBA games? Alien Hominid for the big three? All fantastic games, all 2d sidescrollers.
I do disagree with your comments on 3d gaming, though. Metroid Prime 1 & 2 are *excellent* games that perfectly capture the feel of their 2d bretheren. It's a pity you can't get past the interface; as a PC gamer, I'm amazed that MP1 & 2 are just as playable as any PC FPS with keyboard/mouse.
On the other hand, looking at a rather brutal example, my wife's grandmother was raped when she was 11 or 12. Had she been insteaed killed, my mother-in-law, wife, and children would never have been born. Even though what she went through was terrible, I'm sure she'd agree that it would be worth it to see the smiling faces of her grand and great-grandchildren, especially if the alternative were death. I know that it's somewhat erroneous to try to prove a point with a single example, but IMHO being alive is infinitely better than being dead.
Riiight, like I'm going to let an ActiveX applet from Microsoft scan my system. What do they want next, a retina scan? DNA check? I don't encourage piracy (I *do* own a legit copy of XP), but forcing users to submit to this crap so they can get updates (I know, I know, *not* critical updates, but still) is just wrong. Anyway, use the links above and just say NO! to Microsoft ActiveX scanning.
Not exactly true. If "nova" were a Spanish word, the accent would be on the second-last syllable (i.e. NO). So it would be pronounced NOva. The phrase "no va," on the other hand, is pronounced "no VA." In a language where the accent changes meaning, "nova" and "no va" *sound* different and act different. Therefore this example is equivalent with the "notable/no table" example.
*sigh* If you were looking around for a dining room suite, would you refuse to buy one that was called "Notable" because, if you added a space, it would say "No table"?
I've got the cube version, and it's actually a lot of fun. It reminds me a lot of Contra, actually, what with the bloody difficulty level and all. I know what you mean about level 2 ;) I did find that the cube version was a tad easier than the online flash version, if that's any consolation.
...was my happiest computer moment. One megabyte took 77 minutes to download. My second-happiest moment was after I had bought MegaTraveller 1 for the PC, took it home, and discovered it required a hard drive. My Tandy 1000 (8088, 4MHz, 640k RAM, 2x5.25 LD drives) didn't have a hard drive, so through trial and error I had to put the required files on four floppy disks and insert them at appropriate moments (disk 1 to start up, disk 2 for the first four planet systems, disk 3 when I enter the spaceport, disk 4 for the last four planet systems). Getting around that hard drive problem was absolutely thrilling for me.
As long as you don't mind roleplaying a tank with no social skills whatsoever (because if you don't, it'll be next to impossible to finish the second half of the game), I'm sure you'll love Bloodlines!
"Game Boy Micro represents the latest evolution in the image of the Game Boy Advance line, but it is not a successor to any current system."
Are you kidding me? Source?
Except the fact that the T40 uses the Pentium M, which is the first item on your list.
The language used in Luke 7.36-50 strongly implies that the "woman sinner" is, in fact, a prostitute. This is just one quick for instance. I wasn't referring to MMag at all.
Update your Hitachi hard drive on your IBM notebook, because the updater *requires* a 3.5 drive to extract the update (I know because I tried every single 3.5 emulator known to man, as well as a flash drive that was formatted to 1.44MB. I have an X31 which didn't come with a 3.5 drive). It doesn't matter that floppy drives have only one or two uses; in certain situations, if you don't have one, you're simply toast.
I'm sorry that somebody decided that your post was a troll, when in fact it's absolutely accurate theology. Hopefully somebody'll be awake on the metamod for that one ;)
The entire purpose of turning the other cheek is not an act of passivity, but to shame the person who's attacking you. You have to understand that the Jewish community at the time lived under the heavy hand of the Roman government; if a Roman centurion hit you, you were supposed to "turn your cheek" and let him do it again. The effect would either be for the guy to get enraged and do it, or to think about what he had done and question whether it was really necessary.
This isn't exactly true. He wasn't so passive that he refused to admit that he was, in fact, God. This was ultimately what led him to be crucified, the charge of blasphemy.
And I wouldn't exactly call him a passive liberal; if anything, he was a social activist that refused to resort to violence. He worked on the Sabbath (big no-no), taught his followers to turn the other cheek/cloak/walk further with a Roman soldier (actively rebelling against authority by willingly giving up goods & temporary liberty), befriended prostitutes and tax collectors (like befriending lepers today), and inspired a schism in the dominant religion.
He was "liberal" in the sense that he fought against the status quo, but I can't see anything in his actions that could be defined as "passive."
The choice of stories themselves indicate a level of bias; a journalist only reports on what interests them (as long as it's not major news), and even on the bigger stories still takes an angle that interests them. Personal preference = bias at the most fundamental level.
As for the troll bit: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155465&cid=130 36767
Anyway, taking a look at the page you provided, a 3400+ AMD chip running at 2.4 GHz is faster than a Pentium 660 running at 3.6 GHz. These are real chips that normal people can afford ;) My point that raw speed no longer matters, which is why AMD has adopted the "+" numbering scheme for ease of comparison against P4 chips.
A later poster mentioned the Pentium M, which imho is a very, very nice design. I don't like participating in AMD vs Intel holy wars because I think that both have their place - AMD is currently the king of the desktop, and Intel the king of the notebook, bar none. Anyway, sorry for coming across like a jerk; nothing like the internet to bring out the worst in people (esp. proofreading skills) ;)
Funny... people were saying this about Apple when the iPod was announced, and look how popular it is now.
So what's this about "any" P4 vs A64 tests that show that P4s are superior in audio & video compression?
Bloody hell, that's a sweet rom! That page has links to other lumines clones as well. Thanks very much!
Sorry, I mistook your sarcasm for sincerity. I've actually met people who seem to think that Lovecraft was writing holy writ rather than fiction, so forgive me for assuming that you were one of them...
I wasn't aware that Lovecraftianism was a religion, which is what the parent was (humourously) implying. And in case you didn't notice, my first post was about Judaism, *not* Christianity.
"But, you're right, there is nothing wrong with doing a Chrisitian video game. The problem is that when you Christians pick and choose what parts of the Bible to emphasize and which to conveniently ignore, you strip out all the parts that might actually make a compelling video game.
Every game designed picks and chooses what to put in their game and what to leave out. I guess you missed my first idea; you know, the RTS with the blood and gore and magic.
"Imagine a video game where you play Peter, for instance. Peter attempts to confront the Romans and one point with a knife. Jesus warns him not to, and he doesn't. If you were going to make that into a video game, Peter would have to have the option to take that advice (as he did in the Bible) or ignore it and attack them anyway (hence defying the Biblical rendition). Otherwise, it's not a video game, it's just a passive movie."
Why do you assume that this specific episode needs to occur just before Christ was arrested? But of course it's easier to criticise ideas than it is to come up with your own, I suppose.
"If you play Jesus and you don't have the option of choosing whether or not to make that sacrifice at the end, then the whole game has just been a lame-ass excercise in mindless tedium leading to a meaningless finale (since it was always a foregone conclusion, a movie where you already know the plot and ending before you even see it).
Did I mention anywhere that there should be a video game based on the life of Jesus, with the player controlling him?
Now, where exactly are you coming from? Have you played a game based on Christianity and were bored or what? Why do you assume that it's impossible to create an interesting game based on the bible, simply because it hasn't been done before? Since you've only leaped upon my very last idea, am I to assume that you at least found my previous two ideas to be semi-interesting?