The first shot was fired by Confederate traitors at Fort Sumter. And those treasonous bastards in the various state legislatures voted for secession, not for anything that had actually been done, but what they thought Lincoln might do. In fact, Lincoln wasn't yet president when they began voting if memory serves me correctly. Yep, seven states had seceded before Lincoln took office.
So all you wannabe Johnny Reb revisionists with your "War of Northern Aggression" crap can go to hell. In my personal opinion Lincoln and Johnson were too soft on you bastards. They should have executed the entire Confederate leadership, military and civilian, including Lee The Traitor and the rest of the family based officer aristocracy.
Well it all starts with Indian Independence, at first they make do with leftover British stuff, but then they want their own, better stuff. But really don't have the capacity to make it. So they ask around. The US stuff costs too much so the they go with mostly Russian stuff that they can afford, and repair themselves. The also let Russian advisors in (just to teach them what they need to know, that was it), which really pisses off the US, enough for the US to become all buddy buddy with Pakistan and supply the Pakistanis with our stuff.
Big mistake. I'd rather the US be more closely aligned with India than Pakistan any day. They're a hell of a lot more trustworthy and reliable than Pakistan is.
The reason why all these PC gamers are saying that an analog stick can't match the mouse is really because they don't have the fine manipulation skills necessary to make good use of the stick. I sometimes say that PC gamers are ham handed. You need to be able to make tiny, accurate and fast movements with your thumb and PC gamers have not had to learn to do that. Yep, it's a learned skill.
I'm not a heavy console FPS player, I"m an RPG/Action RPG player, so I don't have the supreme skills those guys you mention have, so I prefer to use mouse aiming in the console games that support it, but continue to use the analog stick for movement. I cannot tolerate WASD.
Even more important: unlike trannies (no offense intended to any TG folk reading this), we intersexed people do not choose to be in the situation we are in. I
Interesting post you wrote. I'm transgendered, and I, meaning I personally, didn't choose to be trans. Trans is something I am, not that I pay attention to those HBSers who call themselves brain-intersexed that annoy you IS people so much. I didn't choose to be trans, but how I respond to trans and act upon my trans...that is the choice.
I've been touched by IS too, and my genito-urinary system has given me trouble since I was young. Had a nice perineal urethrotomy in late spring to bypass all that. But I don't identify as IS, since, again, I know how IS folk feel about what they see as some transfolk trying to appropriate the IS identity and I had read about transgender stuff before I even knew I was IS. Doctors had never explained my problems to my parents and never ever used the word hypospadias. I was curious when my problems started getting worse a few years back and went back to the hospital and asked for my old records as a kid (when they tried to fix my recurring meatal stenosis and urethral strictures....twice)
Unless they hire the players of the console version of Counter Strike.:-)
Hey, maybe the EVE corps should start playing online console shooters to scout for people to hire. "I hear you are ranked in the top 20 percent of SOCOM players, therefore we at EvilCorp in EVE would like to you to serve on our EvilCorp team in the console EVE game"
I know fixstars has PS3's running LInux 24/7 without problems. Mine is on...a lot, either booted into Linux or GameOS. I can say that PS2's, at least the later revisions of the full size models, are tanks. Had month long uptimes under Linux, easy.
so i'm curious, why are people so averse to the PS3?
The frakkin price!
Even I, a big PS2 fan, who owns the LInux kit for the PS2, who owns a PSP, and who knows about all the features and things a PS3 can do complained about the price. Sure, I think it's worth it, but it was still higher priced than the PS2 was. I only got my PS3 last summer, and I was one of those who tried to get a PS2 at launch. That price was a deterrent for me, for quite a while. For me, the trigger was knowning the CECHE01 MG model was going to be the last model in stores with any PS2 backwards compatibility and having The Orange Box, Oblivion and the Fall of 2008 release of Fallout 3 that did it. Having my PS2 LInux kit show signs of hard drive failure was also a trigger.
And it's an upscaling DVD player. It also plays CD's and SACD's, rips them too, to AAC, MP3 or ATRAC. Plays MP3, AAC, WMA, or ATRAC files on the hard drive or external storage, same goes for pictures and video.
It has a built in web browser. Sure, it's a crappy Netfront, but it gets the job done. If you want something better there's always:
PS2 functionality is crucial for those who want to play FFXI, it requires either a "fat" PS2 (to put the PS2 hard drive in) or a PS3 with backwards compatibility.
The problem is, there isn't enough pretty stuff for female avatars in Home, especially if you're used to having all sorts of stuff in something like Second Life or the Sims. I've got tons of pretty hair, clothes, shoes, and skin (essentially makeup) for my SL avatar, but the choices in Home are less than inspiring.
Pretty much. It looks amazingly like a graphically souped up SL with fixed content. Why they didn't just get Linden Lab to do a client for the PS3 is beyond me, or get the source and do it themselves
Anyone that bothered to install linux on their ps3 soon got pissed off with how rubbish and unusable is was. Linux on the PS3 was unusable as a desktop and the PS3 is not suitable as a server.
Unusable as a desktop?
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It runs just fine. Did you use one of those other distros that don't really focus on the PS3? Did you try to run a full KDE4 desktop on it or something. There are people that use them as servers and almost everyone that has Linux on one runs a few services like Samba or CUPS.
The PS2 had a mouse and keyboard, but they were never used.
The PS2 has USB ports, any USB keyboard and mouse will work just fine with games that support them. I've probably got a dozen games with keyboard support at least.
The PS3 has mouse and keyboard support, but they're almost never used.
Any game that uses the standard PS3 text entry widget for any reason, supports the keyboard. It's a godsend for naming your spells and items in Oblivion.
It costs money to ship/support things to an English speaking PAL country in the middle of nowhere, far far away from the other English speaking, PAL using country.
You usually don't need to use L1 and L2 simultaneously, don't worry about that. Also if you're using the sticks, the joypad itself often serves as 8 more buttons. You just need to be faster, especially with your thumbs, you need to be able to move your thumbs very very fast and accurately. Don't forget L3 and R3, those are the buttons you get when you press in on the analog sticks.
It takes time to build those skills, remember, you haven't used your thumbs as a game control methodmuch at all. At first, you will suck. Imagine what it was like transitioning from an Atari 2600 style joystick to the NES's D-pad.
In fact, that may be another idea....play some NES games with a SNES pad to get used to using your thumbs and build up your skill in using them, then move on to a SNES pad with it's shoulder buttons, and XABY buttons in diamond position, then move to the Dual Shock with it's two extra shoulder buttons and two analog sticks.
Well, you can always travel for interviews and then move if they offer you a job. There's dev houses scattered all over the country. Find some in Chicago.
I might be doing this wrong, but when I play FPS games on my PS3, I need three thumbs; left for movement thumbstick, right for aiming/view control thumbstick and third thumb to use those four buttons to fire/shoot.
Or can your brain not handle the adjustment to joysticks?
I'm a console gamer and have a console-playing friend who has trouble using the right analog stick. He's been playing console games for years and he still hasn't got the hang of the right stick, let alone using it at the same time as the left stick. I gave him a cheap copy of the original PS3 release of Oblivion, it's without Shivering Isles, but it was only $10. Watching him play it was painful since to move and look around he'd basically move one stick at a time.
I figure there's PC gamers out there who also have trouble adjusting to them since they're not used on using their thumbs for fine manipulation in games.
Consoles work the same - buy them a year after release - cheaper, more games, no problems.
Yep, that's usually a good idea.
I LOVE the SNES, I adore the games. So I emulate them on PC. Still have the thing tucked away somewhere but I gave up last time I tried to plug it in because my TV is a pig to re-tune.
Re-tune? Why would you need to do that, don't you have a composite or S-video cable for your SNES? You aren't hooking the thing up via RF are you?
It's just more convenient than a bunch of obscure, fragile consoles with stupid batteries in the cartridges.
The SNES isn't fragile, but that front loading NES's cartridge socket is. It's possible to replace the batteries, I had the battery in the original Zelda go bad, luckily the cartridge I had, had standard screws and not the later ones. My SNES cartridge batteries seem to still be fine.
Please keep in mind though that all of this is generally found only in college aged people or under. Older gamers tend to only do online multi-player.
Yep, us older folks like are online multi-player so we can play when our schedule allows. That's one thing that sucks about Nintendo, some games are designed with "schoolyard/dorm room multiplayer" in mind and aren't so friendly to adult (meaning age-wise) gamers. Pokemon for example, fun little RPG, but the trading and two-player battling aspects aren't as usable for those without a bunch of 10 year old friends playing it. You're couldn't get a Kadabra in the original Pokemon Blue/Red without trading, for example. What I did was find a cheap used second Gameboy to trade with myself, essentially meaning, I had to play the game multiple times if I wanted to catch them all. Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal was worse with that blasted clock, day/night differences and scheduled events that seemed designed for a kid-style schedule. Sure, you can keep futzing with the clock, but that's annoying.
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The first shot was fired by Confederate traitors at Fort Sumter. And those treasonous bastards in the various state legislatures voted for secession, not for anything that had actually been done, but what they thought Lincoln might do. In fact, Lincoln wasn't yet president when they began voting if memory serves me correctly. Yep, seven states had seceded before Lincoln took office.
So all you wannabe Johnny Reb revisionists with your "War of Northern Aggression" crap can go to hell. In my personal opinion Lincoln and Johnson were too soft on you bastards. They should have executed the entire Confederate leadership, military and civilian, including Lee The Traitor and the rest of the family based officer aristocracy.
Well it all starts with Indian Independence, at first they make do with leftover British stuff, but then they want their own, better stuff. But really don't have the capacity to make it. So they ask around. The US stuff costs too much so the they go with mostly Russian stuff that they can afford, and repair themselves. The also let Russian advisors in (just to teach them what they need to know, that was it), which really pisses off the US, enough for the US to become all buddy buddy with Pakistan and supply the Pakistanis with our stuff.
Big mistake. I'd rather the US be more closely aligned with India than Pakistan any day. They're a hell of a lot more trustworthy and reliable than Pakistan is.
The reason why all these PC gamers are saying that an analog stick can't match the mouse is really because they don't have the fine manipulation skills necessary to make good use of the stick. I sometimes say that PC gamers are ham handed. You need to be able to make tiny, accurate and fast movements with your thumb and PC gamers have not had to learn to do that. Yep, it's a learned skill.
I'm not a heavy console FPS player, I"m an RPG/Action RPG player, so I don't have the supreme skills those guys you mention have, so I prefer to use mouse aiming in the console games that support it, but continue to use the analog stick for movement. I cannot tolerate WASD.
They don't? Try plugging in an x45 into a PS2 or PS3 and playing Ace Combat.
Interesting post you wrote. I'm transgendered, and I, meaning I personally, didn't choose to be trans. Trans is something I am, not that I pay attention to those HBSers who call themselves brain-intersexed that annoy you IS people so much. I didn't choose to be trans, but how I respond to trans and act upon my trans...that is the choice.
I've been touched by IS too, and my genito-urinary system has given me trouble since I was young. Had a nice perineal urethrotomy in late spring to bypass all that. But I don't identify as IS, since, again, I know how IS folk feel about what they see as some transfolk trying to appropriate the IS identity and I had read about transgender stuff before I even knew I was IS. Doctors had never explained my problems to my parents and never ever used the word hypospadias. I was curious when my problems started getting worse a few years back and went back to the hospital and asked for my old records as a kid (when they tried to fix my recurring meatal stenosis and urethral strictures....twice)
Unless they hire the players of the console version of Counter Strike. :-)
Hey, maybe the EVE corps should start playing online console shooters to scout for people to hire. "I hear you are ranked in the top 20 percent of SOCOM players, therefore we at EvilCorp in EVE would like to you to serve on our EvilCorp team in the console EVE game"
you never know, remember the early model PS1's and PS2's with their cantankerous disc mechanisms?
I know fixstars has PS3's running LInux 24/7 without problems. Mine is on...a lot, either booted into Linux or GameOS. I can say that PS2's, at least the later revisions of the full size models, are tanks. Had month long uptimes under Linux, easy.
The frakkin price!
Even I, a big PS2 fan, who owns the LInux kit for the PS2, who owns a PSP, and who knows about all the features and things a PS3 can do complained about the price. Sure, I think it's worth it, but it was still higher priced than the PS2 was. I only got my PS3 last summer, and I was one of those who tried to get a PS2 at launch. That price was a deterrent for me, for quite a while. For me, the trigger was knowning the CECHE01 MG model was going to be the last model in stores with any PS2 backwards compatibility and having The Orange Box, Oblivion and the Fall of 2008 release of Fallout 3 that did it. Having my PS2 LInux kit show signs of hard drive failure was also a trigger.
Quick caveat, I have the older CECHE01 model.
And it's an upscaling DVD player. It also plays CD's and SACD's, rips them too, to AAC, MP3 or ATRAC. Plays MP3, AAC, WMA, or ATRAC files on the hard drive or external storage, same goes for pictures and video.
It has a built in web browser. Sure, it's a crappy Netfront, but it gets the job done. If you want something better there's always:
Linux. NetHack on your TV.
It runs PS2 and PS1 games, upscales them too.
PS2 functionality is crucial for those who want to play FFXI, it requires either a "fat" PS2 (to put the PS2 hard drive in) or a PS3 with backwards compatibility.
The problem is, there isn't enough pretty stuff for female avatars in Home, especially if you're used to having all sorts of stuff in something like Second Life or the Sims. I've got tons of pretty hair, clothes, shoes, and skin (essentially makeup) for my SL avatar, but the choices in Home are less than inspiring.
Pretty much. It looks amazingly like a graphically souped up SL with fixed content. Why they didn't just get Linden Lab to do a client for the PS3 is beyond me, or get the source and do it themselves
Unusable as a desktop?
It runs just fine. Did you use one of those other distros that don't really focus on the PS3? Did you try to run a full KDE4 desktop on it or something. There are people that use them as servers and almost everyone that has Linux on one runs a few services like Samba or CUPS.
Linux on the PS2 wasn't announced till AFTER the console launched, so there was no pre-release Linux hype.
They're probably streaming HULU via PlayOn or another media server on their PC.
Remote play works just fine with actual PS1 discs too, done it myself quite a few times.
It costs money to ship/support things to an English speaking PAL country in the middle of nowhere, far far away from the other English speaking, PAL using country.
You usually don't need to use L1 and L2 simultaneously, don't worry about that. Also if you're using the sticks, the joypad itself often serves as 8 more buttons. You just need to be faster, especially with your thumbs, you need to be able to move your thumbs very very fast and accurately. Don't forget L3 and R3, those are the buttons you get when you press in on the analog sticks.
It takes time to build those skills, remember, you haven't used your thumbs as a game control methodmuch at all. At first, you will suck. Imagine what it was like transitioning from an Atari 2600 style joystick to the NES's D-pad.
In fact, that may be another idea....play some NES games with a SNES pad to get used to using your thumbs and build up your skill in using them, then move on to a SNES pad with it's shoulder buttons, and XABY buttons in diamond position, then move to the Dual Shock with it's two extra shoulder buttons and two analog sticks.
Well, you can always travel for interviews and then move if they offer you a job. There's dev houses scattered all over the country. Find some in Chicago.
Fire controls should be on the shoulder buttons.
I'm a console gamer and have a console-playing friend who has trouble using the right analog stick. He's been playing console games for years and he still hasn't got the hang of the right stick, let alone using it at the same time as the left stick. I gave him a cheap copy of the original PS3 release of Oblivion, it's without Shivering Isles, but it was only $10. Watching him play it was painful since to move and look around he'd basically move one stick at a time.
I figure there's PC gamers out there who also have trouble adjusting to them since they're not used on using their thumbs for fine manipulation in games.
Yep, that's usually a good idea.
Re-tune? Why would you need to do that, don't you have a composite or S-video cable for your SNES? You aren't hooking the thing up via RF are you?
The SNES isn't fragile, but that front loading NES's cartridge socket is. It's possible to replace the batteries, I had the battery in the original Zelda go bad, luckily the cartridge I had, had standard screws and not the later ones. My SNES cartridge batteries seem to still be fine.
Yep, us older folks like are online multi-player so we can play when our schedule allows. That's one thing that sucks about Nintendo, some games are designed with "schoolyard/dorm room multiplayer" in mind and aren't so friendly to adult (meaning age-wise) gamers. Pokemon for example, fun little RPG, but the trading and two-player battling aspects aren't as usable for those without a bunch of 10 year old friends playing it. You're couldn't get a Kadabra in the original Pokemon Blue/Red without trading, for example. What I did was find a cheap used second Gameboy to trade with myself, essentially meaning, I had to play the game multiple times if I wanted to catch them all. Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal was worse with that blasted clock, day/night differences and scheduled events that seemed designed for a kid-style schedule. Sure, you can keep futzing with the clock, but that's annoying.