The GameCube control is NOT meant for fighting games (at least not far advanced ones)
Maybe it's just me, but I LOVE the GC controller, even for fighting games. Soul Caliber 2 plays like a dream with it (okay...maybe that's not what you meant by far advanced ones). I like how the GC controller is not horribly symmetric, if you know what I mean...not rows of buttons placed neatly one above the other. I always have had problem with consoles putting more than 2 buttons in a single row (my thumb just isn't long enough to reach the third set!!), but the GC puts all of the buttons just in reach, with the most important button the largest, unlike the XBox Controllers (even the S) who's black and clear (or is it white??) buttons I can never reach without some serious grip manipulation (seriously detremental in Halo I might add).
That page has me horribly terrified. Though I am a fairly religious Christian, these people embarass me. There were a couple of times I wanted to reach through my screen and choke the idiots who made it to knock some sense into them.
The network adapter allows you to connect the Dreamcast to your network. It's also sometimes called a broadband adapter. Depending on you choices of games/software, you can do many things. If you use the linux/net bsd port I believe that you can SSH into other machines...do basic *nix stuff. There are some games for the Dreamcast that utilize the network connection (although few and far between). I've never had any experience with connecting one to a wireless network...my guess is it's not all that easy because the Dreamcast came out before wireless was proliferating as much as it is now. You can purchase special DC keyboards and mice that use the controller connectors...I've also found some stuff online that shows how to rewire a ps/2 device to work with it (sorry, lost the link a while ago...but I'm sure you'll find it if you google).
Hope that helps and good Dreamcasting (it's my favorite system out there).
A fun story doesn't HAVE to have a "deep" plot. I venture to question, have you ever read the books? The movies were based on books you know...three of them...three longs books therefore three long movies. Don't get me wrong, I love the Matrix series, it's fun to try and figure everything out, but realize that not every movie HAS to be that way. I like LOTR because it's a fun movie to watch, but at the same time, there are amazing changes inside characters (and maybe that's me being spoiled by reading the novels first). It isn't so much trying to figure out the philosophy of it, but rather trying to figure out the emotion of it.
Yes the ring is evil, throughout the movie/books. The reason that it takes so bloody long is because it's a long bloody way to Mount Doom. I, frankly, would be dissapointed if they could just walk 3/4 of the distance with no conflict, break into Mordor, destroy the ring, and everything would be honky-dory. The conflict is what builds the characters.
Anywho, rather than continueing my rant, I just want to let you know that not all movies have to be the Matrix, just as not all movies have to be LOTR. Each movie is a different creative vision, a difference plot, with a different purpose in mind.
I thought I was the only one (though now that I think about it, it's not exactly original:) ) that called it that. There were times after playing NES/SNES/Dreamcast for 10 hours straight that my thumbs were flat for about a day afterwards. My dad I and I lovingly called it Nintendo thumb...the joys though definatelly outweighed the pains.
when they saw this? It's an anime basically around an elderly person's bed(??) that goes haywire, starts absorbing stuff into itself (like vending machines) and in true anime fashion battles a giant robo.
I'm a Tolkien fanboy...no question about it. I can't help but wonder if this game will damage his creation (Middle-Earth). I don't know how they are going to effectivelly make a MMORPG out of this...there are only a few main characters (maybe around 25 at the most). How can they have a million and a half Aragorns running around in a Middle-Earth. If they start making up their own characters, it will throw the whole basis of the storyline off...especially if they can't touch the Silmarillion. At least the Silmarillion left enough open stories to make a better game...LOTR is such a closed and set in stone story to make a MMORPG of it. I could see an RPG, but a MMORPG won't work. I for one, won't buy it...regardless of my high regards for the original author. I may play a little of it at a friends house or something, but I have no desire to support the tainting.
I actually loved the home alone NES game. You had to run around and pick up/set traps in a house while two goons chase you for 15 minutes until the police get there. I never beat it though...but it will make you paranoid as all getout from all that running...oh yeah...and you can hide behind furnature and the like.
If not, then I'm going to rename my Radiohead mp3s as "Radiohat" -- then I won't have to worry about distributing Radiohead's material.
Not quite...the difference in this case is that Rockstar owns the copyright to the game...not Sony. Rockstar just signed an agreement to only release for the Sony system not to give Sony the claim to Rockstar's stuff. Rockstar could change it to whatever the hell they want...it's just a legal grey area whether they are breaching their contract with Sony.
Manic and depressed states are different from normal emotions such as anger. If somebody is angry they normally can control it, if they want to try. If they can't control it, it becomes a disorder. I suffer from clinical depression, and I don't know how many times I've had somebody tell me...just try to be happy. It doesn't work like that. I want to be happy...I want to not be depressed...and it doesn't work like that. I believe that many disorders are very much so overdiagnosed, but there are those out there with true genuine problems.
Oh, and getting bashed on the head and damaging the brain does cause disorders...though these are physical with emotio-physical side effects.
Anyhow it just shows how unimaginative FreeCraft was.
Creativity really wasn't the goal of the project...rather making a Warcraft-like game for many different operating systems (including BeOS). For any BeOS users out there (yeah, I know...BeOS is dead...but I like it) its about the only way to play something remotely similar to Warcraft. And you don't have to have the original Warcraft graphics. There is a project run out of my home college here that is centered around generating original graphics for it. I guess it really doesn't matter now...Freecraft, as much as I liked it, is dead in the water.
I was reading some of the release notes on WOW and they mentioned using a montly fee service...but who knows how things will actually pan out in the end
Just like short temper is a personality trait, and manic depression is a personality trait.
Um...hate to break it to you...but manic depression is NOT a personality trait. If you've ever spent any significant amount of time with somebody who, unfortunatelly, had it, you would understand. Just because it's not as physical as broken limb doesn't mean it's any less real.
Supposing that *nix and SCO's Unix codebase come from (or at least are inspired by) the same ancestor codebase...isn't there a good change that some of the code is going to be very very similar...maybe even exactly the same?? My next question is whether these MD5 sums are going to show false positives because of this fact? I don't know enough about this history...does anybody have any answers??
I think one of the reasons (besides being he earliest releasal) that the Playstation2 did so hot was the fact that it had backwards compatibility. Well...Nintendo already has that...Sony's won't. That's a major hit against them right there. I think that Sony has been riding their high horse for too long. Oh...and if playing GB means playing a kid's toy...I sure as hell know a bunch of 15-25 year old kids.
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Your healthy lifestyle...as for the rest of us, we'll be chock full of crap in our bodies when we die, but we'll get free music!!
Cheers.
Maybe it's just me, but I LOVE the GC controller, even for fighting games. Soul Caliber 2 plays like a dream with it (okay...maybe that's not what you meant by far advanced ones). I like how the GC controller is not horribly symmetric, if you know what I mean...not rows of buttons placed neatly one above the other. I always have had problem with consoles putting more than 2 buttons in a single row (my thumb just isn't long enough to reach the third set!!), but the GC puts all of the buttons just in reach, with the most important button the largest, unlike the XBox Controllers (even the S) who's black and clear (or is it white??) buttons I can never reach without some serious grip manipulation (seriously detremental in Halo I might add).
Oh...and MORE RPGS!!
Cheers, Chris
That page has me horribly terrified. Though I am a fairly religious Christian, these people embarass me. There were a couple of times I wanted to reach through my screen and choke the idiots who made it to knock some sense into them.
I thank you sir.
Your last statement is so true. Thank you for enlightening my day!
The network adapter allows you to connect the Dreamcast to your network. It's also sometimes called a broadband adapter. Depending on you choices of games/software, you can do many things. If you use the linux/net bsd port I believe that you can SSH into other machines...do basic *nix stuff. There are some games for the Dreamcast that utilize the network connection (although few and far between). I've never had any experience with connecting one to a wireless network...my guess is it's not all that easy because the Dreamcast came out before wireless was proliferating as much as it is now. You can purchase special DC keyboards and mice that use the controller connectors...I've also found some stuff online that shows how to rewire a ps/2 device to work with it (sorry, lost the link a while ago...but I'm sure you'll find it if you google).
Hope that helps and good Dreamcasting (it's my favorite system out there).
Ctrlaltdel has a comic about this concept also (alright, so it's a V-day gift...but the idea still stands.) http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date= 2003-02-14
A fun story doesn't HAVE to have a "deep" plot. I venture to question, have you ever read the books? The movies were based on books you know...three of them...three longs books therefore three long movies. Don't get me wrong, I love the Matrix series, it's fun to try and figure everything out, but realize that not every movie HAS to be that way. I like LOTR because it's a fun movie to watch, but at the same time, there are amazing changes inside characters (and maybe that's me being spoiled by reading the novels first). It isn't so much trying to figure out the philosophy of it, but rather trying to figure out the emotion of it.
Yes the ring is evil, throughout the movie/books. The reason that it takes so bloody long is because it's a long bloody way to Mount Doom. I, frankly, would be dissapointed if they could just walk 3/4 of the distance with no conflict, break into Mordor, destroy the ring, and everything would be honky-dory. The conflict is what builds the characters.
Anywho, rather than continueing my rant, I just want to let you know that not all movies have to be the Matrix, just as not all movies have to be LOTR. Each movie is a different creative vision, a difference plot, with a different purpose in mind.
I thought I was the only one (though now that I think about it, it's not exactly original :) ) that called it that. There were times after playing NES/SNES/Dreamcast for 10 hours straight that my thumbs were flat for about a day afterwards. My dad I and I lovingly called it Nintendo thumb...the joys though definatelly outweighed the pains.
when they saw this? It's an anime basically around an elderly person's bed(??) that goes haywire, starts absorbing stuff into itself (like vending machines) and in true anime fashion battles a giant robo.
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Here's a link to animefu's info:
http://www.animefu.com/index.pl?lastnode_id=42&no
I'm a Tolkien fanboy...no question about it. I can't help but wonder if this game will damage his creation (Middle-Earth). I don't know how they are going to effectivelly make a MMORPG out of this...there are only a few main characters (maybe around 25 at the most). How can they have a million and a half Aragorns running around in a Middle-Earth. If they start making up their own characters, it will throw the whole basis of the storyline off...especially if they can't touch the Silmarillion. At least the Silmarillion left enough open stories to make a better game...LOTR is such a closed and set in stone story to make a MMORPG of it. I could see an RPG, but a MMORPG won't work. I for one, won't buy it...regardless of my high regards for the original author. I may play a little of it at a friends house or something, but I have no desire to support the tainting.
I actually loved the home alone NES game. You had to run around and pick up/set traps in a house while two goons chase you for 15 minutes until the police get there. I never beat it though...but it will make you paranoid as all getout from all that running...oh yeah...and you can hide behind furnature and the like.
If not, then I'm going to rename my Radiohead mp3s as "Radiohat" -- then I won't have to worry about distributing Radiohead's material.
Not quite...the difference in this case is that Rockstar owns the copyright to the game...not Sony. Rockstar just signed an agreement to only release for the Sony system not to give Sony the claim to Rockstar's stuff. Rockstar could change it to whatever the hell they want...it's just a legal grey area whether they are breaching their contract with Sony.
Manic and depressed states are different from normal emotions such as anger. If somebody is angry they normally can control it, if they want to try. If they can't control it, it becomes a disorder. I suffer from clinical depression, and I don't know how many times I've had somebody tell me...just try to be happy. It doesn't work like that. I want to be happy...I want to not be depressed...and it doesn't work like that. I believe that many disorders are very much so overdiagnosed, but there are those out there with true genuine problems.
Oh, and getting bashed on the head and damaging the brain does cause disorders...though these are physical with emotio-physical side effects.
Here's another example too: comics and novels. Novels are long and time consuming, both to produce and to user. Comics a shorter and faster.
In otherwords...make a wormhole?
You must have never seen the episode where Goku tries to get his drivers license.
I agree with you on all points except one...
so it would probably help if the M-rated games had additional content information like TV ratings often do
If you look on the rating label on the back of game there is more of an explanation of the rating. It will say things like animated violence or nudity
those who cannot tolerate other cultures and the damn dirty Dutch!" -Austin Powers Father I didn't say it...don't blame me
Anyhow it just shows how unimaginative FreeCraft was.
Creativity really wasn't the goal of the project...rather making a Warcraft-like game for many different operating systems (including BeOS). For any BeOS users out there (yeah, I know...BeOS is dead...but I like it) its about the only way to play something remotely similar to Warcraft. And you don't have to have the original Warcraft graphics. There is a project run out of my home college here that is centered around generating original graphics for it. I guess it really doesn't matter now...Freecraft, as much as I liked it, is dead in the water.
I was reading some of the release notes on WOW and they mentioned using a montly fee service...but who knows how things will actually pan out in the end
Trillian can be configured to complete this very task. It'll record and save all IM's sent and recieved.
Just like short temper is a personality trait, and manic depression is a personality trait.
Um...hate to break it to you...but manic depression is NOT a personality trait. If you've ever spent any significant amount of time with somebody who, unfortunatelly, had it, you would understand. Just because it's not as physical as broken limb doesn't mean it's any less real.
Supposing that *nix and SCO's Unix codebase come from (or at least are inspired by) the same ancestor codebase...isn't there a good change that some of the code is going to be very very similar...maybe even exactly the same?? My next question is whether these MD5 sums are going to show false positives because of this fact? I don't know enough about this history...does anybody have any answers??
I think one of the reasons (besides being he earliest releasal) that the Playstation2 did so hot was the fact that it had backwards compatibility. Well...Nintendo already has that...Sony's won't. That's a major hit against them right there. I think that Sony has been riding their high horse for too long. Oh...and if playing GB means playing a kid's toy...I sure as hell know a bunch of 15-25 year old kids.