I use the cards, but generally if I buy something with the card, I'll want them to keep stocking that item. These stores generally consider the number of holders of their cards to represent a percentage of people in a geographical area who don't have the cards.
So, if I have a card, and if I can use it when buying, say, some action figures for my collection, than I will, because then they'll continue stocking the figures. It's not like I'm buying porn and using the card on the purchase.
95% of the people who have these cards aren't using them when buying anything like pr0n or condoms or anything where they would be embarrassed if their mother knew they were buying them. Besides, for items like that, you generally can't get a discount on them using the cards.
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Nahh. More like getting closer to the Cyberpunk 2020 (or whatever frelling year it was) RPG that R. Talsorian games put out. For the world to be getting closer to Shadowrun, we'd be needing Magic...
But, anyway, to bring this lil' thread back on topic, is there anything particularly minable for RPG material from "Paranoia"? (the book, not the RPG)
Walgreens pharmacy did a similar thing. It seemed like suddenly every single corner had a Walgreens on it- everywhere you looked, another frickin Walgreens. Now, craploads of them have gone out of business, and the corner is left with a VERY cheap building. They didn't do themselves, or anyone else any good by over-expanding. (My old neighborhood had an awesome coffee shop that leased a corner building. Eventually, the landlord sold the corner lot, the coffee shop went out of business, and nice shiny new Walgreens was built. 2 years later, it is an empty building, where once my favorite coffee shop, with a fireplace even, stood.)
Well, the rumors of Walgreen's death, then, are greatly exaggerated. Here in Oregon we've already had two new Walgreens open close to me. One in Sherwood, and one in Wilsonville, just a very short walk from my apartment. (Hmm, being a SCS, methinks I should put in an application)
Well, Saddam's sons didn't actually even try to surrender. They actually shot first. So we shot second, and with more volume and with larger rounds...
As for his trial, well, if the majority of the Iraqui people have anything to say about it, Saddam will be killed, preferably slowly and with great pain. The governing council will certainly have to try and give him a fair trial, but, considering it is their intent to try them on every single offence he has committed or ordered committed since he took power, I don't think he stands a chance of getting off so lightly as life in prison. After all, the justice system in most muslem countries is much more different than the justice system in the United States. Including, among other things, capital punishment, in one form or another, for more crimes than you can get capital punishment for in the United States.
If he's found guilty, he'll get the death penalty, no ifs, ands or buts about it.
Well, if the Iraqui people try Saddam, of course he won't get a fair trial. The trial is basically going to come down to: Beheading by sword, firing squad, hanging, or "other" (other being any one of Saddam's sons' favored means of executing someone).
Well, they did have some Hussein family DNA from somewhere. That's what they used (among other things) to confirm Osay and Qusay's (sp?) identities after they were killed. Besides, they also could have just used Osay and Qusay's DNA to confirm Saddam's identity.
The thing is with the Scouring of the Shire is it kills the momentum. When I read those chapters in the book, the story's momentum was winding down from Mordor, and of all the stuff before. If the chapter had eclipsed or supplimented in intensity the stuff before, than that would have been different. IMHO, The Hulk with it's anti-climax involving Bruce Banner's father did that right. It eclipsed, action wise, what happened in San Fransisco. It took a situation where you were of the opinion that nothing could top that in the context of the movie, and topped it.
However, with Return of the King, there is practically no way to eclipse the intensity of the battle for Minas Tirith, and then the scenes in the Cracks of Doom. In those scenes, the stakes can't be any higher, considering that the entirety of Middle Earth lies in the balance. In the Scouring of the Shire, the stakes are, well, The Shire. The chapter mainly serves the purpose of showing how our heroes are changed by what they have experienced. However, with a movie, it's easer to show that than with a book, depending on how good your actors are.
Frankly, the actors who play Merry, Pippin, and Frodo have already shown how much the Ring and the wars for it have changed their characters. The chapter, in essence, becomes redundant.
This information was included in the Newsweek December 1, 2003 issue that had several articles on the Return of the King. (Page 60 in the caption box labeled "Spoilers!).
It was also mentioned by Peter Jackson on the audio commentary in the extended edition of "The Fellowship of the Ring".
I don't think it's about just not having blood and big bouncing titties. It's about an inferior version of the game being released in the US.
How is it inferior? Just because there's no bouncing boobs and blood doesn't mean that the gameplay suffers because of the lack thereof. So far, that's the primary gripe I've heard you express, is the lack of breasts, and no blood being shed. If there's more to your arguement, you haven't been particularly expressing that part of the argument.
Good. Call it financian Darwinism. If other companies see their downfall, they'll learn not to make the same mistakes.
Another thing. If the company gets the impression that people didn't buy it just because there weren't bouncing boobs and gushing blood, imagine what the rest of the industry will think. Imagine the next KoF game (assuming another one comes out) being, in apperances, the bastard child of Thrill Kill and Dead or Alive.
Frankly, I think a big deal is being made over nothing. The decision to clean it up is being made in Japan. The real concerns we should be having is not "OMG, Mai's boobies aren't bouncing, and there's no blood!!!!!!111!! Fuck you SNK, Fuck you up your stupid asses!"
Our real concerns should be: Does it play well, does it look good. Blood and boobs does not a good game make. (see BMX XXX, and Thrill Kill).
Many of KoF's competitors are rated T for Teen by the ESRB. Many video game stores have begun to require state-issued identification in order to sell M rated games. I'm guessing Playmore wants to sell to kids who don't have fake IDs.
Thing is, I've got my copy of KoF '99 in my Playstation right now, and it has Mai's Bouncing Boobies, and it still has a Teen rating. So, the still could have kept in at least the bounsing, while still cutting the blood and guns. Though, it also depends, basically, on how they the cut elements (aside from the boobs) appear in the game. If it's in any way essential to the plot (I wouldn't know, I don't have a PS2, so I can't play the game, and I don't have the original KoF 2000 and 2001), then I'd definatly be concerned, and I would object. On the other hand, if the content was not necessary to the plot of the game and if the content in question was related to attacks in the game and could easily be worked around, then I don't have a particular problem with that.
Unfortunatly, considering the finantial shape that SNK is in, that's a pretty bad solution. If no one buys the game, because of their dis-satisfaction with the censorship of the game, instead of putting Mai's bouncing boobies back in, and putting the blood back in, and all that, instead they may simply not put out any more games, because they didn't make enought money to put out another one.
Think about it this way. If the game sells well enough, then they'll probably release the uncensored version as an "Uncut edition", or a "Director's Cut" or something like that.
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More like a loaded derringer then an semi-automatic pistol. Gun only carries one bullet and it's SCO's turn.
That's a "Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance/Diablo" clone in the Fallout setting. Fallout 3 was a RPG in the vein of the first 2 games.
It was announced, and there had been several updates about it at Gamespot.com prior to the game's cancellation.
Well, at least with ISS they still haven't gotten around to using it to experiment on the effects of micro-grav on human copulation...
More like saying, "Help, help, lemmie out of this box! Help, lemmie out of here!" or something like that.
tHe mAsTeR wOuLd NoT aPpRoVe.
So, if I have a card, and if I can use it when buying, say, some action figures for my collection, than I will, because then they'll continue stocking the figures. It's not like I'm buying porn and using the card on the purchase.
95% of the people who have these cards aren't using them when buying anything like pr0n or condoms or anything where they would be embarrassed if their mother knew they were buying them. Besides, for items like that, you generally can't get a discount on them using the cards.
But, anyway, to bring this lil' thread back on topic, is there anything particularly minable for RPG material from "Paranoia"? (the book, not the RPG)
How about, "In the Black".
IIRC, the whole anti-trust suit against Microsoft thing got started during the Clinton Administration, when the DoJ was run by Reno, not Ashcroft.
And if you want some fantasy in your Cyberpunk there's always Shadowrun.
I don't know if R. Talsorian is still publishing their Cyberpunk game though. Anyone know anything about that?
Well, the rumors of Walgreen's death, then, are greatly exaggerated. Here in Oregon we've already had two new Walgreens open close to me. One in Sherwood, and one in Wilsonville, just a very short walk from my apartment. (Hmm, being a SCS, methinks I should put in an application)
I've also seen the "T" stand for "tactics".
Then if you can find out where she lives, could you egg her house for us? Oh, and TP her car and key the /. symbol on the side. Thanks ^_^
As for his trial, well, if the majority of the Iraqui people have anything to say about it, Saddam will be killed, preferably slowly and with great pain. The governing council will certainly have to try and give him a fair trial, but, considering it is their intent to try them on every single offence he has committed or ordered committed since he took power, I don't think he stands a chance of getting off so lightly as life in prison. After all, the justice system in most muslem countries is much more different than the justice system in the United States. Including, among other things, capital punishment, in one form or another, for more crimes than you can get capital punishment for in the United States.
If he's found guilty, he'll get the death penalty, no ifs, ands or buts about it.
Well, if the Iraqui people try Saddam, of course he won't get a fair trial. The trial is basically going to come down to: Beheading by sword, firing squad, hanging, or "other" (other being any one of Saddam's sons' favored means of executing someone).
Welll..... they've still got Osama to capture or kill.
Well, they did have some Hussein family DNA from somewhere. That's what they used (among other things) to confirm Osay and Qusay's (sp?) identities after they were killed. Besides, they also could have just used Osay and Qusay's DNA to confirm Saddam's identity.
However, with Return of the King, there is practically no way to eclipse the intensity of the battle for Minas Tirith, and then the scenes in the Cracks of Doom. In those scenes, the stakes can't be any higher, considering that the entirety of Middle Earth lies in the balance. In the Scouring of the Shire, the stakes are, well, The Shire. The chapter mainly serves the purpose of showing how our heroes are changed by what they have experienced. However, with a movie, it's easer to show that than with a book, depending on how good your actors are.
Frankly, the actors who play Merry, Pippin, and Frodo have already shown how much the Ring and the wars for it have changed their characters. The chapter, in essence, becomes redundant.
You forgot a couple: "Soylent Green is People!" and Bruce Willis's character in the Sixth Sense is really dead.
It was also mentioned by Peter Jackson on the audio commentary in the extended edition of "The Fellowship of the Ring".
How is it inferior? Just because there's no bouncing boobs and blood doesn't mean that the gameplay suffers because of the lack thereof. So far, that's the primary gripe I've heard you express, is the lack of breasts, and no blood being shed. If there's more to your arguement, you haven't been particularly expressing that part of the argument.
Another thing. If the company gets the impression that people didn't buy it just because there weren't bouncing boobs and gushing blood, imagine what the rest of the industry will think. Imagine the next KoF game (assuming another one comes out) being, in apperances, the bastard child of Thrill Kill and Dead or Alive.
Frankly, I think a big deal is being made over nothing. The decision to clean it up is being made in Japan. The real concerns we should be having is not "OMG, Mai's boobies aren't bouncing, and there's no blood!!!!!!111!! Fuck you SNK, Fuck you up your stupid asses!"
Our real concerns should be: Does it play well, does it look good. Blood and boobs does not a good game make. (see BMX XXX, and Thrill Kill).
Thing is, I've got my copy of KoF '99 in my Playstation right now, and it has Mai's Bouncing Boobies, and it still has a Teen rating. So, the still could have kept in at least the bounsing, while still cutting the blood and guns. Though, it also depends, basically, on how they the cut elements (aside from the boobs) appear in the game. If it's in any way essential to the plot (I wouldn't know, I don't have a PS2, so I can't play the game, and I don't have the original KoF 2000 and 2001), then I'd definatly be concerned, and I would object. On the other hand, if the content was not necessary to the plot of the game and if the content in question was related to attacks in the game and could easily be worked around, then I don't have a particular problem with that.
Think about it this way. If the game sells well enough, then they'll probably release the uncensored version as an "Uncut edition", or a "Director's Cut" or something like that.