Any game with the word 'dirge' in the title, I'm going to be a bit dubious about!
And I never finished FF7 either. Get to part where Barrett has to fight his gun-handed mate alone. Get killed. Slog through five minutes of walking and exposition to get to same point. Fight. Get killed. Repeat 8 or 9 times. Decide life's too short. Never touch game again...
Well, if they're genuine, the Xbox FS is even uglier than a GameCube (but probably five times the size), and the Xbox 2 logo looks like somebody just blew their nose onto a sheet of paper!
Panasonic's DVD recorders that I used in my (not long past) days as a tech reviewer, I rated pretty highly. Yes, they had their annoying quirks, but probably less than the equivalent Pioneer-clone units, and certainly a lot less than the Philips +RW machines. It comes down to format - Panasonic, IIRC, uses DVD-RAM, and as yet none of the three (three!) rival formats have yet established a convincing lead in the market.
The big question is, can they still be snapped up before Broadcast Flag compatibility becomes mandatory?
"Yeah? Yeah? Not so funny now, is it, punks! *gasp, wheeze* Oh man, ah need to sit down and have a beer an' a burrito, catch ma breath..."
Seriously, though, I'm with Best Brains on this one. If you're going to rip off the MST3K format (*cough*BeavisandButthead*cough*), at least do something different with it (*cough*BeavisandButthead*cough* - oh, wait, I didn't need to cough that time). Even the name of this group is taking the piss! 'Mr Sinus Theater 3000'? What, do they call themselves Mick Napoleon, Blackbird R Tobor and Tim Smallmotor?
What should they do if the particular DVD you want replaced is rare and out-of-print?
If it's out of print, then presumably it's no longer profitable for the copyright holder to produce. Then maybe, just maybe, Jack, that would be a good time for it to become public domain. Wouldn't it?
What's that? No? Then fuck off and die, you rapacious old vulture.
...but a 'boxless head'. This is why I love Apple's stuff. No matter how many steps ahead you think, they've already run past and taken all the breadcrumbs!
Kids shouldn't be reading books that promote witchcraft! They should be watching popular, healthy, moral TV shows like Buffy, Angel and Charmed instead!
I'll just say that anyone who takes kids aged 2-6 to a three hour long film in the cinema is either very stupid or a sadomasochist. Kids that age can't sit still silently for that period of time: they'll cry, scream, constantly need to go to the bathroom, etc. This might not bother you but it sure as hell will bother anyone else trying to watch the film. Yet every time I went to watch a LOTR movie, even in the evening, there were parents doing this very thing.
I went to see The Two Towers with a friend from work on a Saturday afternoon. We were sitting in the middle of the cinema, about a third of the way from the front: the prime spot. The cinema wasn't all that crowded.
A family comes in - dad, mum, three small children (aged maybe 1-6). They sat down on the same row as us. The dad then goes and sits at the front, on his own. This should have warned us!
Over the course of the next hour or so, the kids are talking, fidgeting, kicking seats, running up and down the aisle, etc. Eventually, my friend had had enough and moved seats. I was just about able to tune the kids out, so I stayed put.
I didn't realise until I met him after the end of the film that the last straw for him was when the mother started breast-feeding the baby!
Weirdest thing I've *ever* seen in a cinema - a couple came in, sat on the front row, and unwrapped some fish and chips, put the food on plates that they'd brought in with them, and started eating - with cutlery that they'd also brought! (Rustling crisp packets during a film is one thing, but clinking cutlery?) Then, once they'd finished, they got up and left. This was after about 20 minutes. So they'd paid over six pounds each just to sit in a cinema and eat, not even watching the film!
Which is exactly the reason why I bought the Region 1 version of the Indy boxset rather than the UK release.
Very occasionally, the R2 release is the uncut version (Eyes Wide Shut, for instance). But usually the American version is the uncensored one, which is why about a third of my DVD collection is Region 1.
Which explains why there's so much emphasis on devising a stronger region coding system for whatever format the MPAA and studios want to use as their next cash cow...
Another thing from Pat Mills' 'Third World War' sci-fi/satire/Awful Warning comic strip from circa 1989 that's come true, then. Just hope nothing else does - there's already far too much from this ahead-of-its-time anti-corporatism story that's happened already!
I finally thought I should get around to trying The Sims, since it seems half the world's played it and loved it.
I found it utterly tedious and a complete waste of my time. Watch them sleep! Watch them eat! Watch them... walk around! I'm just glad I got it second-hand, as I would have been very pissed off if I'd paid full price for it. I gave it a fair shot to see if it got any better as it went on. It didn't so I haven't touched it since.
I just can't see the appeal. Then again, I can't see the appeal of shows like Big Brother either
No wonder it used to be called 'The Dark Continent'!
It's quite sobering, actually. You look at the US and Japan and Western Europe blazing away, and then realise there are people elsewhere who have literally *nothing*, not even something as 'simple' as electric light.
iceboxes, ice-bags, thermos, water, beverages a large number of coins
1: Make visitors sit in 30-degree-plus temperatures for hours on end.
2: Force them to buy overpriced official Olympic-brand bottled water or equally overpriced Coke.
3: Confiscate their change.
4: Profit!!!
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And I never finished FF7 either. Get to part where Barrett has to fight his gun-handed mate alone. Get killed. Slog through five minutes of walking and exposition to get to same point. Fight. Get killed. Repeat 8 or 9 times. Decide life's too short. Never touch game again...
Bring on the animated Jeff Wayne version!
My question: "How do you expect to lead the US when you have a surname that makes you sound like a villain from a Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon?"
Well, if they're genuine, the Xbox FS is even uglier than a GameCube (but probably five times the size), and the Xbox 2 logo looks like somebody just blew their nose onto a sheet of paper!
The big question is, can they still be snapped up before Broadcast Flag compatibility becomes mandatory?
Just what the world needs - a constant, loud, repetitive source of annoyance in the vicinity of frickin' postal workers!
All that money and she *still* dumped him? Maybe he should have taken the hint that he had *no* attractive qualities to her right there!
My iMacDV (on which I'm typing this) may not have a fan, but it's *never* been silent. Damn, the whine of the hard drive is annoying!
"Great. We forgot the damn foot pump. Okay, Bob, start blowing..."
Seriously, though, I'm with Best Brains on this one. If you're going to rip off the MST3K format (*cough*BeavisandButthead*cough*), at least do something different with it (*cough*BeavisandButthead*cough* - oh, wait, I didn't need to cough that time). Even the name of this group is taking the piss! 'Mr Sinus Theater 3000'? What, do they call themselves Mick Napoleon, Blackbird R Tobor and Tim Smallmotor?
Does this mean we'll now be seeing the Blu-Ray Screen Of Death?
...more a sort of apres-vis!
If it's out of print, then presumably it's no longer profitable for the copyright holder to produce. Then maybe, just maybe, Jack, that would be a good time for it to become public domain. Wouldn't it?
What's that? No? Then fuck off and die, you rapacious old vulture.
...but a 'boxless head'. This is why I love Apple's stuff. No matter how many steps ahead you think, they've already run past and taken all the breadcrumbs!
(Well, except for that one episode...)
Kids shouldn't be reading books that promote witchcraft! They should be watching popular, healthy, moral TV shows like Buffy, Angel and Charmed instead!
Still waiting for 'Auto Cruise', 'Microwave Jammer' and 'Super Pursuit', though...
I went to see The Two Towers with a friend from work on a Saturday afternoon. We were sitting in the middle of the cinema, about a third of the way from the front: the prime spot. The cinema wasn't all that crowded.
A family comes in - dad, mum, three small children (aged maybe 1-6). They sat down on the same row as us. The dad then goes and sits at the front, on his own. This should have warned us!
Over the course of the next hour or so, the kids are talking, fidgeting, kicking seats, running up and down the aisle, etc. Eventually, my friend had had enough and moved seats. I was just about able to tune the kids out, so I stayed put.
I didn't realise until I met him after the end of the film that the last straw for him was when the mother started breast-feeding the baby!
Weirdest thing I've *ever* seen in a cinema - a couple came in, sat on the front row, and unwrapped some fish and chips, put the food on plates that they'd brought in with them, and started eating - with cutlery that they'd also brought! (Rustling crisp packets during a film is one thing, but clinking cutlery?) Then, once they'd finished, they got up and left. This was after about 20 minutes. So they'd paid over six pounds each just to sit in a cinema and eat, not even watching the film!
Very occasionally, the R2 release is the uncut version (Eyes Wide Shut, for instance). But usually the American version is the uncensored one, which is why about a third of my DVD collection is Region 1.
Which explains why there's so much emphasis on devising a stronger region coding system for whatever format the MPAA and studios want to use as their next cash cow...
Another thing from Pat Mills' 'Third World War' sci-fi/satire/Awful Warning comic strip from circa 1989 that's come true, then. Just hope nothing else does - there's already far too much from this ahead-of-its-time anti-corporatism story that's happened already!
I found it utterly tedious and a complete waste of my time. Watch them sleep! Watch them eat! Watch them... walk around! I'm just glad I got it second-hand, as I would have been very pissed off if I'd paid full price for it. I gave it a fair shot to see if it got any better as it went on. It didn't so I haven't touched it since.
I just can't see the appeal. Then again, I can't see the appeal of shows like Big Brother either
It's quite sobering, actually. You look at the US and Japan and Western Europe blazing away, and then realise there are people elsewhere who have literally *nothing*, not even something as 'simple' as electric light.
iceboxes, ice-bags, thermos, water, beverages
a large number of coins
1: Make visitors sit in 30-degree-plus temperatures for hours on end.
2: Force them to buy overpriced official Olympic-brand bottled water or equally overpriced Coke.
3: Confiscate their change.
4: Profit!!!
My god! Adam Duritz was right all along!
"Pakistan is threatening my border!"