I thought it was a pretty funny idea, though not something that I would likely do in real life. I must say, however, that RC airplanes are just one of those hobbies that I don't get. (I realize that hobbies are a personal expression and vary as does taste or religion, and while I would never begrudge someone their pastime/belief/etc. there are some that I just can't fathom.) Why spend thousands of dollars imitating being a pilot when you can go out and do it for about the same price tag? Certainly a Private Pilot certificate is more expensive, and possibly a larger time commitment (at least intitially) but once you get into the uberRCers, I doubt the margin betwixt the two is all that large. Again, this is just my opinion, but scaleWarshipCombat seems like a much more entertaining use of RC technology. Though I do admit that this is f'king cool.
OK, so this genetically engineered clone is sent by Emporer Palpatine to a future galaxy far, far away to take control of a small planets unsuspecting masses. Unfortunately, without a special kind of chocolate, the munching candidate turnes into his true shape, which vaguely resembles a bipedal wolf. To get the special chocolate, the candidate hires an elite team of theifs to obtain it for him from an ultra-top secret choclate development lab in Casablanca! The plot is uncovered, however, by a group of teenagers working with a talking a great dane. After passing their information to a mismatched team of police detectives, and a trio of crime fighting women the sinister plot is foiled in cacaphony of martial arts and explosions.
Is anyone else tired of the use of "Dream Team?" My first thought was the 1990 (or was it 1992?) US Mens basketball team in lab coats scratching their heads. Or maybe OJ's defense team. It just seems that the phrase "Dream Team" jumped the shark a long time ago and really needs to be retired.
I was thinking how amusing it would be to walk up and down a line of RC pilots constantly saying "Flaps up!" and "Flaps down!" and watching them all try and deal with sudden excesses and losses of lift;-)
I saw that on their site and it certainly looked interesting. Ice House also looked interesting, but the description seemed a tad disjointed. Have you played that one as well?
Our friends actually got two sets, so they were creating absolutely huge landscapes with both players taing a complete army from the box. Very, very fun! 'Specially the Dinosaur chomping;-)
Another great game is Fluxx. If you have not heard about it, its a card game in which the rules are constantly changing. I've played rounds that last close to an hour, and some that lasted less than two minutes.
In the latter category was in which the player who won, wasn't even there! I played a card which basically caused everyone to play all the cards in their hand. One of the guys got up to answer the phone right before it became his turn. We played for him (since he had to play everything anyway;-) and the *&$*#&*&#*($&%**#&$^%*@&$ won.
Missing from the list, but a really fun game, is Heroscape It is a good blend of luck and strategy and can be played by various levels of expertise. I played it with the kids and they loved it. They actually turned OFF Halo 2 to play!
A few years back one of the cities in the Bay Area (I want to say East Palo Alto, but I'm not sure) deployed a system of microphones which would pinpoint the location of a gunshot and then forward that to police.
As I recall it turned out that the company doing this was closely affiliated with one of the local politicos and the system was basically bunk. I don't remember how it all played out, but maybe someone else out there does?
To get your foot in the door. Sometimes companies care about that when you first start. After you have built a resume, the fact that you have a BS is all they care about. Good luck to ya!
I have absolutely zero programming experience, but am setting myself up to start learning. One of the things I want to do is to actually make some of the game ideas I have real. Would this be a good place to start?
One of my favorite Alex Trabek moments was on a celebrity Jeopardy match with Jon Lovitz and two others whom I have since forgotten. The category was something like "The Sea" and the answer was something like "noted for having eight tentacles."
When no one buzzed in Trabek looked at all of them like they were morons, before giving them the answer like he would to a four year old.
Lovitz replied along the lines of, "Sure its easy for you, you get all the answers. Next time you can stand here and I'll read the answer."
This is a great point. I firmly believe that everyone is a geek. Its just the flavor it takes. Think of how many uber macho types paint their bodies and stand in 30 degree weather to support their team. Or snobs who look down on such base fandom, but can tell you what year a wine was made by sniff. So why not a documentery about the "ordinary" geek in all of us?
New Scientist also has an article which figures the civilian death toll to be around 100,000. One of the other undereported items is that while roughly 1,000 US troops have died, four times that amount have been wounded severely enough to be sent home, and over 8,000 total have been wounded thus far.
Out of everything you mentioned, we all know that the Sox winning is the most surprising. That they won under the first total lunar eclipse in World Series history actually helps in justify it. There are only two teams that could, without violating several known physical laws, win the Series during an eclipse. The Sox and the Cubs. Since the Cubs were busy choking on corked ego, we were left with the Sox. Their winning, at least as I figure it, therefore keeps up the natural balance of things.
That doesn't sound statistically possible./ There are a limited number of Secret Service agents.
It depends on how you look at it. What I was trying to say is that Secret Service Agents knock on doors quite often talking to folks about threats against the Pres. I wan't trying to say that every threat gets a visit;-)
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I thought it was a pretty funny idea, though not something that I would likely do in real life. I must say, however, that RC airplanes are just one of those hobbies that I don't get. (I realize that hobbies are a personal expression and vary as does taste or religion, and while I would never begrudge someone their pastime/belief/etc. there are some that I just can't fathom.) Why spend thousands of dollars imitating being a pilot when you can go out and do it for about the same price tag? Certainly a Private Pilot certificate is more expensive, and possibly a larger time commitment (at least intitially) but once you get into the uberRCers, I doubt the margin betwixt the two is all that large. Again, this is just my opinion, but scale Warship Combat seems like a much more entertaining use of RC technology. Though I do admit that this is f'king cool.
How about Gigli? I know that nothing was done creatively with that one!
OK, so this genetically engineered clone is sent by Emporer Palpatine to a future galaxy far, far away to take control of a small planets unsuspecting masses. Unfortunately, without a special kind of chocolate, the munching candidate turnes into his true shape, which vaguely resembles a bipedal wolf. To get the special chocolate, the candidate hires an elite team of theifs to obtain it for him from an ultra-top secret choclate development lab in Casablanca! The plot is uncovered, however, by a group of teenagers working with a talking a great dane. After passing their information to a mismatched team of police detectives, and a trio of crime fighting women the sinister plot is foiled in cacaphony of martial arts and explosions.
Does sitting on the lawn count? Its certainly more weed than grass...
If only I had mod points, if only. That was really, really funny.
Is anyone else tired of the use of "Dream Team?" My first thought was the 1990 (or was it 1992?) US Mens basketball team in lab coats scratching their heads. Or maybe OJ's defense team. It just seems that the phrase "Dream Team" jumped the shark a long time ago and really needs to be retired.
I was thinking how amusing it would be to walk up and down a line of RC pilots constantly saying "Flaps up!" and "Flaps down!" and watching them all try and deal with sudden excesses and losses of lift;-)
You sure did. In this particular context the correct spelling is C-O-M-P-O-S-T-I-N-G.
I saw that on their site and it certainly looked interesting. Ice House also looked interesting, but the description seemed a tad disjointed. Have you played that one as well?
Our friends actually got two sets, so they were creating absolutely huge landscapes with both players taing a complete army from the box. Very, very fun! 'Specially the Dinosaur chomping;-)
In the latter category was in which the player who won, wasn't even there! I played a card which basically caused everyone to play all the cards in their hand. One of the guys got up to answer the phone right before it became his turn. We played for him (since he had to play everything anyway;-) and the *&$*#&*&#*($&%**#&$^%*@&$ won.
Missing from the list, but a really fun game, is Heroscape It is a good blend of luck and strategy and can be played by various levels of expertise. I played it with the kids and they loved it. They actually turned OFF Halo 2 to play!
As I recall it turned out that the company doing this was closely affiliated with one of the local politicos and the system was basically bunk. I don't remember how it all played out, but maybe someone else out there does?
To get your foot in the door. Sometimes companies care about that when you first start. After you have built a resume, the fact that you have a BS is all they care about. Good luck to ya!
I have absolutely zero programming experience, but am setting myself up to start learning. One of the things I want to do is to actually make some of the game ideas I have real. Would this be a good place to start?
So yeah. Guess you had to be there...
Don't you mean, "First Vote!"
This is a great point. I firmly believe that everyone is a geek. Its just the flavor it takes. Think of how many uber macho types paint their bodies and stand in 30 degree weather to support their team. Or snobs who look down on such base fandom, but can tell you what year a wine was made by sniff. So why not a documentery about the "ordinary" geek in all of us?
I don't know, but they keep asking for you in Missouri.
Since the first thing they'd do is fall in love with the agents and plot against you I can understand the decision to leave them out.
Ohm my god that was revolting pun.
Funny, I was just thinking that these would be the perfect accompaniment to Synthahol in 10 Forward;-)
New Scientist also has an article which figures the civilian death toll to be around 100,000. One of the other undereported items is that while roughly 1,000 US troops have died, four times that amount have been wounded severely enough to be sent home, and over 8,000 total have been wounded thus far.
Now if the Yankees had won we'd been hosed.
It depends on how you look at it. What I was trying to say is that Secret Service Agents knock on doors quite often talking to folks about threats against the Pres. I wan't trying to say that every threat gets a visit;-)