I got my PS3 in 2008, when you could get a deluxe model with an 80GB hard drive, the 4 USB ports, built in card reader and PS2 compatibility bundled with what was then the new Dual Shock 3's, oh...and MGS4, but I didn't care much about that. And Pain... All for 499 or was it 459... anyway, good deal for that model in 2008 when there was more of a game selection.
Ha! I remember 1993 when the bearded engineers playing hex wargames/RPG's/flightsims were complaining about the frat-boys playing DOOM and how action games like DOOM were dumbing down PC gaming. So don't go blaming the console gamers, blame ID and John Romero... the "dumbing down" of PC gaming started with Wolfenstein and all the frat-boy gamers brought to PC gaming because of it.
Really, ID and PC's becoming cheaper changed the demographics of PC gaming greatly. Where once it was your typical upper middle class guy with a tech job playing computer versions of the Avalon Hill/TSR games they played on tabletop, it became guys obsessed with gibs, frags, and easy headshots.
I consider the PC gamers playing RPG's and strategy games to be natural allies against the frat-boy-gamers on both PC's and consoles playing CoD, Battlefield, MoH, Halo, CS, TF2, etc etc.
This generation hasn't been too kind to the genre on home consoles in the first place.
Unless you're a PS3 owner, then you get more. I think it would be more accurate to say that this generation hasn't been to kind to JRPG's, WRPG's have been doing fine.
That's one of the nice things about PSN, buy a PSone classic once, play it on your PS3 AND PSP or Vita. Used to be up to 5 authorized devices...I think it's 3 now because of people abusing the system by sharing PSN account info.
If I want to play CT for the eight bajillionth time (never have got everyone up to Lvl 99), I can pull out the SNES and Chrono Trigger cartridge. Or I can pull out the disk of the Final Fantasy Chronicles version and put it in the PS3 (or pull out the stored PS2). Or I can just play the PSN version of the disk version on my PS3, or PSP.
And yes, it's one of my favorite games (up there with Super Metroid, FFVII, Castlevania SOTN, Fallout 3, PSone Diablo).....I should play it again...though I have seen all the endings.
The UI is murder on new players and even the plugins could use a major upgrade or at least more consistency with colors.
I'm mostly a console gamer so I've not played EVE, but having a PS3 means I've tried Dust514 and CCP simply can't do good UI.
Dust514 UI was murder. Not the actual gameplay UI, but the out of battle UI.
Also the last time I played you couldn't have different settings for vehicle and personal combat. Which sucked if you liked playing with mouse aiming but liked having inverted Y with vehicles.
STO needs voice command capability, that would help. Instead of the player hitting the "Evasive Action" hotbar button, you could say, Kirk/Picard/Janeway style: Helm, Evasive Action.
Instead of manually tweaking power levels, you could say: Power to Shields/Weapons/Aux/Engines.
Sure it would sound silly to those you live with, but it would be Awesome.
You can turn on autofire/target for weapons, that helps.
I must be imagining that Family Video store (which is the largest chain now, ahead of Blockbuster) in my town. I must be imagining that the closest "big town" to my small town has four of them.
If seeing the non-free film Blade Runner is a requirement of keeping a geek card valid, what method do you recommend to see this film without breaking the law, both inside and outside the United States? Redbox carries only new releases.
Look, I know you're obsessed with "Free", but don't let that carry into media. If you want to see Blade Runner, you can:
1. Buy it on Blu-Ray or DVD
2. Buy it Digitally from: iTunes, Vudu, Amazon Instant Video, Sony Entertainment Network (aka PSN), Xbox Marketplace
3. Rent it from the above (and more) services, it's also available for rental on Google Play as well.
4. Watch it on your Cable or Satellite companies VOD services, it's there too.
5. Check to see if a local video store has it.
6. Wait for it to show up on Basic Cable.
7. Check to see if your local library has it to borrow.
8. Borrow it from a friend.
You are way way to literal and such a robot, Tepples.
Now you're going to ask "If I sound like a robot, what are the best practices so that I may become less obviously Aspergers in my writing patterns."
And kill Adwaita, which infects some GTK applications under other DE's. Even if you use your own theme under XFCE there are still hints of Ugly Adwaita here and there.
I've been on Linux for some years and tried multiple desktops, I've tried working with multiple monitors as well but I come back to the KISS model - maximized apps and rapid switching.
Glad I'm not the only one, though I've only been using Linux since 2002. (With usage of KDE1x, FVWM, fluxbox, E16, Gnome2, and XFCE over the years)
I've also used windowshading in the following manner:
1. have one non-maximised window (something like X-chat or IDJC) I want to keep right on top, for easy access but out of the way. Right click > Always on Top.
2. Then use mousewheel to windowshade it as needed.
I meant that "Who would ever think to look there" sarcastically since those are easy to find. I always get messed up because vbulletin uses braces and Slashdot uses greater-than/less-than so my "sarcasm" tags disappeared.
You know that would be a good idea to put a link to localhost:631 (or whatever printer configuration utility there is) on the desktop, Fedora doesn't do it though. On XFCE printer administration is "hidden" in Applications Menu>Administration>Print Settings.
IIRC in Gnome2 it was Gnome Menu>System>Printer Settings.
Who would ever think to look there.
Of course in many modern Linux distro's you don't have to actually set up your printer because it's done automagically when you plug it in. In my case, since my printer has the minimum RAM, using hp's PJL works better than plain postscript so I did have to go into the tool and change it.
Most Linux users access their printers from either a notification area icon or something like:
Application Menu>Administration>Print Settings
or even:
system-config-printer
in a terminal.
Gives you a nice GUI....even the cups page on port 631 is all GUI based. Heck, even on the Playstation 2 Linux kit you didn't need to edit printer configurations manually, you brought up the old style redhat printtool and that was on a Red Hat 6.1 based distro.
Right, but guess what, you can only read one physical book at one specific moment. The act of switching between physical books is the same as switching between electronic books.
Do you have to have multiple CD players as well? Or do you simply open the thing up and switch disks.
Do you have to have a single computer or game console for every game you play? One for WoW, another for LoL, another for Minecraft. Or do you have ONE computer that you switch between different games as you will.
The prohibition is against self-aware AI and advanced expert-system computers, not against word processing and game playing machines at least as far as I could tell.
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I got my PS3 in 2008, when you could get a deluxe model with an 80GB hard drive, the 4 USB ports, built in card reader and PS2 compatibility bundled with what was then the new Dual Shock 3's, oh...and MGS4, but I didn't care much about that. And Pain... All for 499 or was it 459... anyway, good deal for that model in 2008 when there was more of a game selection.
Ha! I remember 1993 when the bearded engineers playing hex wargames/RPG's/flightsims were complaining about the frat-boys playing DOOM and how action games like DOOM were dumbing down PC gaming. So don't go blaming the console gamers, blame ID and John Romero... the "dumbing down" of PC gaming started with Wolfenstein and all the frat-boy gamers brought to PC gaming because of it.
Really, ID and PC's becoming cheaper changed the demographics of PC gaming greatly. Where once it was your typical upper middle class guy with a tech job playing computer versions of the Avalon Hill/TSR games they played on tabletop, it became guys obsessed with gibs, frags, and easy headshots.
I consider the PC gamers playing RPG's and strategy games to be natural allies against the frat-boy-gamers on both PC's and consoles playing CoD, Battlefield, MoH, Halo, CS, TF2, etc etc.
This generation hasn't been too kind to the genre on home consoles in the first place.
Unless you're a PS3 owner, then you get more. I think it would be more accurate to say that this generation hasn't been to kind to JRPG's, WRPG's have been doing fine.
That's one of the nice things about PSN, buy a PSone classic once, play it on your PS3 AND PSP or Vita. Used to be up to 5 authorized devices...I think it's 3 now because of people abusing the system by sharing PSN account info.
If I want to play CT for the eight bajillionth time (never have got everyone up to Lvl 99), I can pull out the SNES and Chrono Trigger cartridge. Or I can pull out the disk of the Final Fantasy Chronicles version and put it in the PS3 (or pull out the stored PS2). Or I can just play the PSN version of the disk version on my PS3, or PSP.
And yes, it's one of my favorite games (up there with Super Metroid, FFVII, Castlevania SOTN, Fallout 3, PSone Diablo).....I should play it again...though I have seen all the endings.
5 player? How about SEVEN, the PS3 supports 7 controllers at a time.
The UI is murder on new players and even the plugins could use a major upgrade or at least more consistency with colors.
I'm mostly a console gamer so I've not played EVE, but having a PS3 means I've tried Dust514 and CCP simply can't do good UI.
Dust514 UI was murder. Not the actual gameplay UI, but the out of battle UI.
Also the last time I played you couldn't have different settings for vehicle and personal combat. Which sucked if you liked playing with mouse aiming but liked having inverted Y with vehicles.
you have to turn off the auto-login feature, THEN you can play your single player game without logging in.
STO needs voice command capability, that would help. Instead of the player hitting the "Evasive Action" hotbar button, you could say, Kirk/Picard/Janeway style: Helm, Evasive Action.
Instead of manually tweaking power levels, you could say: Power to Shields/Weapons/Aux/Engines.
Sure it would sound silly to those you live with, but it would be Awesome.
You can turn on autofire/target for weapons, that helps.
Because they get new releases before Netflix and have things Netflix doesn't? And rent games, sell pizza, offer recommendations.
1991 called it wants it's meme back.
I must be imagining that Family Video store (which is the largest chain now, ahead of Blockbuster) in my town. I must be imagining that the closest "big town" to my small town has four of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Video
If seeing the non-free film Blade Runner is a requirement of keeping a geek card valid, what method do you recommend to see this film without breaking the law, both inside and outside the United States? Redbox carries only new releases.
Look, I know you're obsessed with "Free", but don't let that carry into media. If you want to see Blade Runner, you can:
1. Buy it on Blu-Ray or DVD
2. Buy it Digitally from: iTunes, Vudu, Amazon Instant Video, Sony Entertainment Network (aka PSN), Xbox Marketplace
3. Rent it from the above (and more) services, it's also available for rental on Google Play as well.
4. Watch it on your Cable or Satellite companies VOD services, it's there too.
5. Check to see if a local video store has it.
6. Wait for it to show up on Basic Cable.
7. Check to see if your local library has it to borrow.
8. Borrow it from a friend.
You are way way to literal and such a robot, Tepples.
Now you're going to ask "If I sound like a robot, what are the best practices so that I may become less obviously Aspergers in my writing patterns."
And kill Adwaita, which infects some GTK applications under other DE's. Even if you use your own theme under XFCE there are still hints of Ugly Adwaita here and there.
ADWAAAAIIIIIITTTTAAAAAA!
Thank you Anonymous Coward for giving me a good laugh today, the moment I saw that I heard Christopher Judge in my head saying it.
Yes, people it is Indeed funny if you've ever watched SG-1 even a little bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYnzZ2rczSo
I've been on Linux for some years and tried multiple desktops, I've tried working with multiple monitors as well but I come back to the KISS model - maximized apps and rapid switching.
Glad I'm not the only one, though I've only been using Linux since 2002. (With usage of KDE1x, FVWM, fluxbox, E16, Gnome2, and XFCE over the years)
I've also used windowshading in the following manner:
1. have one non-maximised window (something like X-chat or IDJC) I want to keep right on top, for easy access but out of the way. Right click > Always on Top.
2. Then use mousewheel to windowshade it as needed.
I meant that "Who would ever think to look there" sarcastically since those are easy to find. I always get messed up because vbulletin uses braces and Slashdot uses greater-than/less-than so my "sarcasm" tags disappeared.
You know that would be a good idea to put a link to localhost:631 (or whatever printer configuration utility there is) on the desktop, Fedora doesn't do it though. On XFCE printer administration is "hidden" in Applications Menu>Administration>Print Settings.
IIRC in Gnome2 it was Gnome Menu>System>Printer Settings.
Who would ever think to look there.
Of course in many modern Linux distro's you don't have to actually set up your printer because it's done automagically when you plug it in. In my case, since my printer has the minimum RAM, using hp's PJL works better than plain postscript so I did have to go into the tool and change it.
Most Linux users access their printers from either a notification area icon or something like:
Application Menu>Administration>Print Settings
or even:
system-config-printer
in a terminal.
Gives you a nice GUI....even the cups page on port 631 is all GUI based. Heck, even on the Playstation 2 Linux kit you didn't need to edit printer configurations manually, you brought up the old style redhat printtool and that was on a Red Hat 6.1 based distro.
Right, but guess what, you can only read one physical book at one specific moment. The act of switching between physical books is the same as switching between electronic books.
Do you have to have multiple CD players as well? Or do you simply open the thing up and switch disks.
Do you have to have a single computer or game console for every game you play? One for WoW, another for LoL, another for Minecraft. Or do you have ONE computer that you switch between different games as you will.
E-Reader's including the Kindle app, have bookmarks, so yes, you can switch between books.
You mean the People's Front of Judea!
Splitter!
The prohibition is against self-aware AI and advanced expert-system computers, not against word processing and game playing machines at least as far as I could tell.
Or the other tablet/e-reader magazine solutions.
Why make it harder for yourself and try to roll your own when there already exists a solution.
3 letter TLD's for the Tolkien fans under the sky.
XXX for the porn lords in their halls of gold.
Just had to do it.
Does it have built in storage? If so, how much?