not necessarily true. there are still movies that don't take place in a real world that don't have inapropriate product placement, like lord of the rings, and serenity (fruity oaty bars not-withstanding). I don't see why allowing *apropriate* product placement will ruin creative worlds.
they recently stopped providing game informer for free. as such, the discount card now only costs $5 for a year, which, since I didn't care about some lame-o magazine, seems, to me, to be a lot better deal. a $5 card for a 10% discount on used games is an impulse buy: its the change after breaking a $50-spot on a used game. a $10 one with a subscription to a crappy magazine, not so much.
whats so bad about being addicted to games?
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at least she's not out there doing drugs, right? there are many worse things to be hooked on than a game. games are relatively harmless, and she's hooked on ONE game: a free one at that, so she's not wasting any money on her hobby, just time.
whats so wrong with letting her do something that gives her pleasure? why do you feel the need to meddle in other people's leisure-time hobbies? are you jealous that she spends more time with nethack than she does you? I think that you need to ask yourself these questions first.
I think you should be happy that she's found a fun, free (so long as she sticks to nethack), and geeky hobby. most guys would jump at the opportunity to have a game-addicted girlfriend. why aren't you?
I see the link's image shows the fourth button as a 'thumb button' on the side. question: is there another one on the other side for us lefties? we always get the short end of the stick when it comes to gaming mice and flight-sticks!
Uwe Boll needs to stop making game movies, but that said: he *has* made a movie I enjoyed.
I was bored one weekend, watching cable, and too lazy to change the channel, and some little thriller came on called "black woods"... well, I watched it, and ended up enjoying it, as the twist was a very interesting one, and I was shocked when it turned out to have uwe boll's name on it at the end.
spoiler, not that any of you will care enough to actually see it. it was about a guy who was taking a trip to the country for the weekend, and gets kidnapped and subsequently tortured by a bunch of hillbillies. However, it turns out the country-folk tormenting the guy were in his own imagination. they had lived there at one time, but he'd killed their daughter in a drunken traffic accident (after which they'd moved away to get away from their own grief of loss, or something), and thanks to having rich parents, he got off free of consequences. the hilbillies tormenting him were just a psychological manifestation of his guilt and desire to be punished for his carelessness. end spoiler
and, then the credits rolled and I saw uwe boll's name. SHOCK! he'd made something, that, while not exactly cutting edge cinema, wasn't that bad! so obviously, he has an enjoyable movie in him..... he just needs to stop making game movies. I'm more inclined to blame game movies as being god-awful and un-doable now, as opposed to blaming Uwe. admittedly, there have been a couple good game movies, and there are certainly a few other games that *could* turn out to be great flicks if the movie script followed the one in the game as closely as possible: "max payne" I'm looking at you: where was the movie we were promised in the manual?!...) but as a whole, if you want to watch a game for an afternoon, go rent it for your playstation, do NOT see it in a theater.
geez, why not include a spoiler warning there for the folks who haven't seen the movie yet? that said, i'm commenting on it, too, and there may be a few spoilers.
that said, in firefly (and serenity) people *do* get hurt. they *do* get shot and live. they *do* get brutally beaten and mauled and hurt (look at Mal's eye after the fight with the ruptured blood vessels.. just look at his face: it looks like they smeared raw hamburger on it!) remember how the operative tries do to that 'nerve jab' move that makes people fall on his sword, and it doesn't work on Mal, because he lost that nerve cluster in the war? they do have a doctor on the ship, and he isn't just kaylee's love interest: he actually has to patch people up in many episodes of the show, and several times in the movie..
that said, sure, you could blow your characters' legs off, but thats an expensive special effect, especially if you're not getting rid of the character and plan on continuing to use them. also, how much fun can you have if you're crippled? no offense to real-life disabled people, but if you're missing an arm, you're not likely going to go around getting into grapping fistfights. if you have only one leg, you can't run away as quickly and the reavers will eat ya. if your fingers get snapped off, you won't be shooting that gun at the bad guys. so yes, in many fictions, if you are disabled, you're dead, because its going to drastically limit the kind of action you can participate in, and I've yet to see an episode of firefly, or any action drama, where they resolve their issues with the evildoers by sitting down and discussing their feelings.
totally off topic, but i'm a lefty. WASD is very counterintuitive when your left hand is on the mouse. me? I use the numpad. replace WASD with 5123, and then i have 4 and 6 for leaning, 0 for jumping, decimal for duck, enter is usually walk, + usually brings up a menu, or scoreboard..... 789/*- I use for other hotkeys, and then I still have the insert-home-pageup=delete-end-pagedown block nearby. sometimes, if thats not even enough, i'll start binding stuff to the arrow keys.and then? a few non-essential functions can go on the keyboard... usually with the action bound to the letter it starts with.
i'm sorry thats not good enough for someone who plays the game with two fingers. question: can he use his feet? (I just glanced at the article) I used to know a girl who had no arms.. she did everything with her feet, and even played neverwinter nights and other games of the sort, using a keyboard and an optical mouse... which were set on the floor under the desk. it was impressive because she was frighteningly good at the games she played... HOWEVER? couldn't play games like quake or unreal worth squat. you know what? she didn't care. she played the games she was good at, that she could play with her feet. if you can't play SWG with two fingers anymore? why not find something else which you *can* play. no, its not fair. its a damn shame that you only have two fingers. don't blame faulty game design for a game made unplayable by your own handicap. also, from what i've heard, (i'm not an MMO fan) it sucks for *everyone*, not just those who have two fingers.
who decides whats inhuman and degrading? don't forget, all of the 'torture' we've been doing so far is just fraternity pranks!
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thats a pretty sexist remark, to be sure, but for sake of women getting a "kick to the nads" card, I'll agree with you. but when I actually get my card, you may want to be a bit more careful about dismissing the abilities of women.:-p
the title of this article includes the phrase "Revolution Smash" and you know what? that has to be the title now. either that, or "Smash Smash Revolution." just don't get it crossed with "Smash Smash Xbox" because that could be costly and potentially retarded.
This comes alongside the less publicised news that Thompson received, at his home address, a tube of vaginal lubricant, courtesy he feels, of Rockstar.
The last thing I want is some chick that I'll never see because she'll always be online or arguing with me about who's turn it is to do something on line or spending all of our time instant messaging each other even though we're six feet apart in the same room.
wow. you sound JUST like a woman complaining that her boyfriend does nothing but play games and doesn't give her enough attention. you sure you're not a woman masquerading as a man so you're treated fairly on the internet?
(with all the gender bending, it gets a bit confusing sometimes.)
and i got called a troll for saying the cost of the system was $500. (the core system is *not* what most people will want to buy (and even if they do, you still have to buy a memory card, since it has no hard drive, so kiss another $30 away for that, and then you have a function system without a game), and yes, you do need to get at least one game, but if you're getting one, why not two, or at least an extra controller so your friend can play too?
the cost of a launch console isn't the price on the box. you have to have a game to use with it.... expect to spend at least $500 (in the states at least) before you have an xbox 360 that you can actually do anything with.
me? i'll stick with last generation until the prices drop to the realm of sanity. i expect that to happen fairly quick. you hardcore people can blow your cash however you like, but the masses won't likely be dropping $500 for a new xbox for little Bobby this x-mas.
indeed. its not sharp, but i'm sure if i swung it at someone, it probably wouldn't feel very nice. i'm pretty sure it weighs more than 3 pounds. I'd assume the historical original object that this was inspired by probably weighed close to this: warriors were muscly back then, before they had machines (or light-sabers!) to do it for them!
its so good because its a fancy sword made of light!
but, going a step further and a tad geekier, consider that the blade itself, which can cut through anything except the beam of another saber, is incredibly light-weight. since light itself has no mass, the only weight of the thing is in the handle, so its incredibly easy to do quick shifts of position. add that to the jedi's ability to sense the world in a unique way, and not only is it a sword, its also a shield against incoming projectile attacks.
compare that to the longsword of comparable size (when the saber is extended, anyway) that I bought at the renaissance festival, which weighs (probably) 20 pounds, which i can (awkwardly) lift with one hand but couldn't likely swing with any accuracy or force, and you'll understand why people like the concept of lightsabers so much.:-p
....and his posts on the internets....and his reaction to fans (i seem to recall some kind of fiasco a few months ago on a message board... but can't seem to find it at the moment. any help?) and the fact that he percieves himself to be about 83% funnier than he really is..... oh, and my weakest argument of all (but in my mind a completely valid one) he's on G4.
i don't really care that he has bad taste in games, but really, if you're a game critic, you should probably know a bit more about games (as opposed to game music than he seems to know. let him review the music (only on games he hasn't worked on, naturally) and then let a game critic talk about how it plays.
is the only hollywood celebrity who really belongs at a game award show, being that he is a bit of a gamer himself (even plays D&D!), and...... didn't he go and buy up a game studio that oversaw "Escape from Butcher Bay?"
i'd say the only other person on that list who *might* be allowed to be there (but still probably doesn't really need to be) would be Mr. The Rock, what with Doom movie and all..... but do we really need Xzibit and Carmen Electra? do they really belong at a game award show?
based on screenshots i've seen, animal crossing DS will use a software keyboard. however, this will still be much less annoying than the original, since, of course, you'll use the stylus to hunt and peck, rather than d-pad and A-button (as seen in the original gamecube version.)
you're wrong: men and women are equal. however, being equal doesn't mean identical.
Some people are just naturally more inclined toward certain abilities, skills, lifestyles, careers, etc, based on who they are and how they're born. think of it in terms of the asian "yin/yang" symbol: both pieces are the same shape, but in order to interlock, one has to be facing the other direction, one has to be upside down in comparison to the other, and for the sake of making it easily notable that one is different from the other, its a different color. however, both sides of the symbol are equal, just different.
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not necessarily true. there are still movies that don't take place in a real world that don't have inapropriate product placement, like lord of the rings, and serenity (fruity oaty bars not-withstanding). I don't see why allowing *apropriate* product placement will ruin creative worlds.
they recently stopped providing game informer for free. as such, the discount card now only costs $5 for a year, which, since I didn't care about some lame-o magazine, seems, to me, to be a lot better deal. a $5 card for a 10% discount on used games is an impulse buy: its the change after breaking a $50-spot on a used game. a $10 one with a subscription to a crappy magazine, not so much.
at least she's not out there doing drugs, right? there are many worse things to be hooked on than a game. games are relatively harmless, and she's hooked on ONE game: a free one at that, so she's not wasting any money on her hobby, just time.
whats so wrong with letting her do something that gives her pleasure? why do you feel the need to meddle in other people's leisure-time hobbies? are you jealous that she spends more time with nethack than she does you? I think that you need to ask yourself these questions first.
I think you should be happy that she's found a fun, free (so long as she sticks to nethack), and geeky hobby. most guys would jump at the opportunity to have a game-addicted girlfriend. why aren't you?
never-mind: i read the article more carefully. blah. it still seems like bad button placement, though.
I see the link's image shows the fourth button as a 'thumb button' on the side. question: is there another one on the other side for us lefties? we always get the short end of the stick when it comes to gaming mice and flight-sticks!
Uwe Boll needs to stop making game movies, but that said: he *has* made a movie I enjoyed.
I was bored one weekend, watching cable, and too lazy to change the channel, and some little thriller came on called "black woods"... well, I watched it, and ended up enjoying it, as the twist was a very interesting one, and I was shocked when it turned out to have uwe boll's name on it at the end.
spoiler, not that any of you will care enough to actually see it. it was about a guy who was taking a trip to the country for the weekend, and gets kidnapped and subsequently tortured by a bunch of hillbillies. However, it turns out the country-folk tormenting the guy were in his own imagination. they had lived there at one time, but he'd killed their daughter in a drunken traffic accident (after which they'd moved away to get away from their own grief of loss, or something), and thanks to having rich parents, he got off free of consequences. the hilbillies tormenting him were just a psychological manifestation of his guilt and desire to be punished for his carelessness. end spoiler
and, then the credits rolled and I saw uwe boll's name. SHOCK! he'd made something, that, while not exactly cutting edge cinema, wasn't that bad! so obviously, he has an enjoyable movie in him..... he just needs to stop making game movies. I'm more inclined to blame game movies as being god-awful and un-doable now, as opposed to blaming Uwe. admittedly, there have been a couple good game movies, and there are certainly a few other games that *could* turn out to be great flicks if the movie script followed the one in the game as closely as possible: "max payne" I'm looking at you: where was the movie we were promised in the manual?!...) but as a whole, if you want to watch a game for an afternoon, go rent it for your playstation, do NOT see it in a theater.
geez, why not include a spoiler warning there for the folks who haven't seen the movie yet? that said, i'm commenting on it, too, and there may be a few spoilers.
that said, in firefly (and serenity) people *do* get hurt. they *do* get shot and live. they *do* get brutally beaten and mauled and hurt (look at Mal's eye after the fight with the ruptured blood vessels.. just look at his face: it looks like they smeared raw hamburger on it!) remember how the operative tries do to that 'nerve jab' move that makes people fall on his sword, and it doesn't work on Mal, because he lost that nerve cluster in the war? they do have a doctor on the ship, and he isn't just kaylee's love interest: he actually has to patch people up in many episodes of the show, and several times in the movie..
that said, sure, you could blow your characters' legs off, but thats an expensive special effect, especially if you're not getting rid of the character and plan on continuing to use them. also, how much fun can you have if you're crippled? no offense to real-life disabled people, but if you're missing an arm, you're not likely going to go around getting into grapping fistfights. if you have only one leg, you can't run away as quickly and the reavers will eat ya. if your fingers get snapped off, you won't be shooting that gun at the bad guys. so yes, in many fictions, if you are disabled, you're dead, because its going to drastically limit the kind of action you can participate in, and I've yet to see an episode of firefly, or any action drama, where they resolve their issues with the evildoers by sitting down and discussing their feelings.
it is, as you said, a dangerous world.
just to clarify, calling it 'fraternity pranks' was sarcasm via hyping what conservatives are saying. i'm as liberal as they come.
totally off topic, but i'm a lefty. WASD is very counterintuitive when your left hand is on the mouse. me? I use the numpad. replace WASD with 5123, and then i have 4 and 6 for leaning, 0 for jumping, decimal for duck, enter is usually walk, + usually brings up a menu, or scoreboard..... 789/*- I use for other hotkeys, and then I still have the insert-home-pageup=delete-end-pagedown block nearby. sometimes, if thats not even enough, i'll start binding stuff to the arrow keys.and then? a few non-essential functions can go on the keyboard... usually with the action bound to the letter it starts with.
i'm sorry thats not good enough for someone who plays the game with two fingers. question: can he use his feet? (I just glanced at the article) I used to know a girl who had no arms.. she did everything with her feet, and even played neverwinter nights and other games of the sort, using a keyboard and an optical mouse... which were set on the floor under the desk. it was impressive because she was frighteningly good at the games she played... HOWEVER? couldn't play games like quake or unreal worth squat. you know what? she didn't care. she played the games she was good at, that she could play with her feet. if you can't play SWG with two fingers anymore? why not find something else which you *can* play.
no, its not fair. its a damn shame that you only have two fingers. don't blame faulty game design for a game made unplayable by your own handicap. also, from what i've heard, (i'm not an MMO fan) it sucks for *everyone*, not just those who have two fingers.
who decides whats inhuman and degrading? don't forget, all of the 'torture' we've been doing so far is just fraternity pranks!
thats a pretty sexist remark, to be sure, but for sake of women getting a "kick to the nads" card, I'll agree with you. but when I actually get my card, you may want to be a bit more careful about dismissing the abilities of women. :-p
the title of this article includes the phrase "Revolution Smash" and you know what? that has to be the title now. either that, or "Smash Smash Revolution." just don't get it crossed with "Smash Smash Xbox" because that could be costly and potentially retarded.
then you'd be a griefer.... which raises very good questions: are real white trash the real-world equivilent of griefers?
from that link:
This comes alongside the less publicised news that Thompson received, at his home address, a tube of vaginal lubricant, courtesy he feels, of Rockstar.
best laugh i had all day. thanks.
The last thing I want is some chick that I'll never see because she'll always be online or arguing with me about who's turn it is to do something on line or spending all of our time instant messaging each other even though we're six feet apart in the same room.
wow. you sound JUST like a woman complaining that her boyfriend does nothing but play games and doesn't give her enough attention. you sure you're not a woman masquerading as a man so you're treated fairly on the internet?
(with all the gender bending, it gets a bit confusing sometimes.)
and i got called a troll for saying the cost of the system was $500. (the core system is *not* what most people will want to buy (and even if they do, you still have to buy a memory card, since it has no hard drive, so kiss another $30 away for that, and then you have a function system without a game), and yes, you do need to get at least one game, but if you're getting one, why not two, or at least an extra controller so your friend can play too?
the cost of a launch console isn't the price on the box. you have to have a game to use with it.... expect to spend at least $500 (in the states at least) before you have an xbox 360 that you can actually do anything with.
me? i'll stick with last generation until the prices drop to the realm of sanity. i expect that to happen fairly quick. you hardcore people can blow your cash however you like, but the masses won't likely be dropping $500 for a new xbox for little Bobby this x-mas.
indeed. its not sharp, but i'm sure if i swung it at someone, it probably wouldn't feel very nice. i'm pretty sure it weighs more than 3 pounds. I'd assume the historical original object that this was inspired by probably weighed close to this: warriors were muscly back then, before they had machines (or light-sabers!) to do it for them!
its so good because its a fancy sword made of light!
:-p
but, going a step further and a tad geekier, consider that the blade itself, which can cut through anything except the beam of another saber, is incredibly light-weight. since light itself has no mass, the only weight of the thing is in the handle, so its incredibly easy to do quick shifts of position. add that to the jedi's ability to sense the world in a unique way, and not only is it a sword, its also a shield against incoming projectile attacks.
compare that to the longsword of comparable size (when the saber is extended, anyway) that I bought at the renaissance festival, which weighs (probably) 20 pounds, which i can (awkwardly) lift with one hand but couldn't likely swing with any accuracy or force, and you'll understand why people like the concept of lightsabers so much.
....and his posts on the internets. ...and his reaction to fans (i seem to recall some kind of fiasco a few months ago on a message board... but can't seem to find it at the moment. any help?) and the fact that he percieves himself to be about 83% funnier than he really is..... oh, and my weakest argument of all (but in my mind a completely valid one) he's on G4.
i don't really care that he has bad taste in games, but really, if you're a game critic, you should probably know a bit more about games (as opposed to game music than he seems to know. let him review the music (only on games he hasn't worked on, naturally) and then let a game critic talk about how it plays.
who doesn't?
he may be a decent musician, but he doesn't know shit about video games. and he's still a tool.
(i liked his work in the original earthworm jim. but if it weren't in a video game, it wouldn't work at all.)
oh yeah, he was. heh. my bad. but I honestly doubt either of them will be there to talk about chronicles of riddick.
is the only hollywood celebrity who really belongs at a game award show, being that he is a bit of a gamer himself (even plays D&D!), and...... didn't he go and buy up a game studio that oversaw "Escape from Butcher Bay?"
i'd say the only other person on that list who *might* be allowed to be there (but still probably doesn't really need to be) would be Mr. The Rock, what with Doom movie and all..... but do we really need Xzibit and Carmen Electra? do they really belong at a game award show?
Vin diesel is actually a great guy. he's a gamer, and a movie star... his arms are as big around as my torso.... and Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, Vin Diesel once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. What's not to like?
based on screenshots i've seen, animal crossing DS will use a software keyboard. however, this will still be much less annoying than the original, since, of course, you'll use the stylus to hunt and peck, rather than d-pad and A-button (as seen in the original gamecube version.)
you're wrong: men and women are equal. however, being equal doesn't mean identical.
Some people are just naturally more inclined toward certain abilities, skills, lifestyles, careers, etc, based on who they are and how they're born. think of it in terms of the asian "yin/yang" symbol: both pieces are the same shape, but in order to interlock, one has to be facing the other direction, one has to be upside down in comparison to the other, and for the sake of making it easily notable that one is different from the other, its a different color. however, both sides of the symbol are equal, just different.