Fight Club - the commentary track with the author, Chuck Palahniuk, is the most amazing I've ever listened to. You learn SOOOO much about the story that you didn't know -- like the fact that the author knew people who would pee in soup, or the whole apartment-explosion thing was based on a real story. (His friends had linoleum on their kitchen floor and were using gasoline to peel it up. Fridge clicked on, BOOOM sent everyone out into the back yard.) Highly recommended.
Mallrats - the track with Kevin Smith and crew. Jason Lee, Jason Mews, Ben Afleck, Scott Mosher. It's seriously laugh-out-loud funny the WHOLE way through. This page has the commentary available for streaming, apparently. Give 'er a listen.:)
Actually, all of the Kevin Smith stuff is awesome that way.
My personal beef with F.E.A.R. was that it was scary during the opening sequence & the last 20-odd minutes of gameplay. In the middle, there were a few scares here and there, but for the most part the gameplay degraded to "run into room. get pwned. reload. run into room in slow motion. drool at pretty graphics. walk all over enemies. repeat."
A game called "F.E.A.R." should have been scary the WHOLE way through.
The strange thing is that the exact opposite happened to me. My entire life I was very allergic to cats -- eyes watering, nose running. The whole bit. Contact wasn't a requirement either; simply being in the environment was bad enough.
I now live in a house with three cats. I moved in back in February, but I've been spending a great deal of time here over the past two years. My eyes don't water any more. Even if I pet the cats and then rub my eyes, which used to mean certain death.
My mom is VERY allergic to cats... perhaps one can be born with a genetic predisposition towards certain extreme reactions to benign stimuli.
Same reason that you have to mail in your receipt, UPC code, and serial number if you want a rebate: if you don't ask for it, they don't have to give it to you. Therefore, they can continue earning interest on it.
Wait, is THIS the reason why I can't find any TV on iTunes? I was rather excited to, at a minimum, read the details of a Daily Show subscription, but I can't find it anywhere.
God damn, do I hate this bullshit. So close, Apple. SOOOO close. Not available to Canadians, eh? I guess I'll have to go spend a couple of hours configuring a torrent scraper to automatically download the daily show for me every day. Then I'll do it with all the other programming which I'd otherwise be willing to pay for, and you'll never see a single dollar from me.
Even as a Canadian, I'm not afraid of having my worldview challenged. I'd be the first to admit that my knowledge of history (Canadian definitely included) is sketchy at best. Any other titles which you'd recommend?
I just (seriously, like five minutes ago) finished reading Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four for the first time. Towards the beginning of the novel, I felt as though I was seeing many parallels between it and the United States. However, as I got further and further into it, all I could think about was how The Party, Big Brother, thoughtcrime, the Thought Police -- how all of them reminded me of China, and their policing of thought itself.
Think about it for a moment. The Chinese government does everything it can to all but completely re-write history on a number of topics, such as the Tiananmen Square Massacre of students who were speaking out in favour of democracy. The government suppresses freedom of speech across a number of topics they do not approve of, or embarass them politically (Ministry of Truth). (See homosexuality, drugs, democracy, the Dali Llama, free Tibet, etc.) They have "re-education camps" (Ministry of Love), where opinions are brought in line with their worldviews.
Boy, am I glad I'm a Canadian boy, and don't live in China.
Because Firefox is the largest competitor to Opera (aside from Internet Explorer). It's completely reasonable, when comparing two products which are in direct competition with each other, to ask why a major feature that is present in one is not present in the other.
Question: why has Opera managed to incorporate Bittorrent support into their browser, yet the only torrent plugins for Firefox are in a horrendous state of pre-development? WTF is going on here?
All _good_ sequels (movies, games, whatever) share a common axiom: make it exactly the same, but completely different. Aliens. Half-Life 2. Doom II. Spider-Man 2. Godfather, Part II. Tony Hawk Whatever. When a consumer wants a "sequel", they don't want something exactly the same, but they don't want something wildly different either. Success is acheived in finding this balance.
As an experienced gamer (I worked for GameSpy, running 3DActionPlanet, for three years), I can say that Halo 2, while certainly a good game, was far from a _GREAT_ game. The grand-parent poster is right: same shit, different pile. I'm glad that they solved the "every interior base is exactly the same" problem, but the story was iffy, the voice acting so-so, and the gameplay EXCEEDINGLY linear. (I understand that open-ended gameplay is hard to acomplish, but come on... at least TRY to conceal it.)
You want a decent FPS? Forget this console junk and buy a computer. Use a mouse and keyboard. Play Half-Life & Half-Life 2. Once you have some more gaming experience, Halo 2's problems will become that much more apparent.
Let's ignore that fact that banning the sale of games with certain content is blatant government censorship (good or bad). Let's ignore that whole "freedom of speech thing" (even if that refers to only political speech).
Nobody is saying that they can't make these games. The issues is that games with graphic sexual content, violence, or appropriately adult situations are NOT APPROPRIATE FOR KIDS. We're not talking quantum physics here (we could if you want).
Have you ever seen the movie Hellraiser? (Unbelievably graphic horror movie, for the uninitated. More than you can probably imagine.) Would you consider this to be a movie which should be made available to a 14 year old? I know I wouldn't -- and I'm so unbelievably for freedom of speech that it's sick.
If the government wants to fine retailers for selling adult games to children, I say GOOD. People talk about it being the parents' responsibility, but guess what? Parents don't give a fuck. I work at Best Buy, and I've seen mothers purchasing GTA for their 12 and 13 year old children without batting an eyelash.
Parents, unfortunately, are retarded and don't pay ANY attention to the content of games.
Slashdot Mirror
a small, unobtrusive icon that was green and happy for a good page, or red and frowny for a bad.
Assuming you run Firefox, check out the HTML Validator extension, which appears to do exactly what you want.
If only it came standard! =)
HoTMaiL
:P
Fight Club - the commentary track with the author, Chuck Palahniuk, is the most amazing I've ever listened to. You learn SOOOO much about the story that you didn't know -- like the fact that the author knew people who would pee in soup, or the whole apartment-explosion thing was based on a real story. (His friends had linoleum on their kitchen floor and were using gasoline to peel it up. Fridge clicked on, BOOOM sent everyone out into the back yard.) Highly recommended. Mallrats - the track with Kevin Smith and crew. Jason Lee, Jason Mews, Ben Afleck, Scott Mosher. It's seriously laugh-out-loud funny the WHOLE way through. This page has the commentary available for streaming, apparently. Give 'er a listen. :)
Actually, all of the Kevin Smith stuff is awesome that way.
I would like to nominate Veronica Belmont, from CNet.
:P
Daaaaamn, that's all I can say.
It's not good?
My personal beef with F.E.A.R. was that it was scary during the opening sequence & the last 20-odd minutes of gameplay. In the middle, there were a few scares here and there, but for the most part the gameplay degraded to "run into room. get pwned. reload. run into room in slow motion. drool at pretty graphics. walk all over enemies. repeat."
A game called "F.E.A.R." should have been scary the WHOLE way through.
The strange thing is that the exact opposite happened to me. My entire life I was very allergic to cats -- eyes watering, nose running. The whole bit. Contact wasn't a requirement either; simply being in the environment was bad enough.
I now live in a house with three cats. I moved in back in February, but I've been spending a great deal of time here over the past two years. My eyes don't water any more. Even if I pet the cats and then rub my eyes, which used to mean certain death.
My mom is VERY allergic to cats... perhaps one can be born with a genetic predisposition towards certain extreme reactions to benign stimuli.
Why don't you get a job and buy it?
Same reason that you have to mail in your receipt, UPC code, and serial number if you want a rebate: if you don't ask for it, they don't have to give it to you. Therefore, they can continue earning interest on it.
Wait, is THIS the reason why I can't find any TV on iTunes? I was rather excited to, at a minimum, read the details of a Daily Show subscription, but I can't find it anywhere.
God damn, do I hate this bullshit. So close, Apple. SOOOO close. Not available to Canadians, eh? I guess I'll have to go spend a couple of hours configuring a torrent scraper to automatically download the daily show for me every day. Then I'll do it with all the other programming which I'd otherwise be willing to pay for, and you'll never see a single dollar from me.
Hooray marketing!
http://www.peek-a-booty.org/
Even as a Canadian, I'm not afraid of having my worldview challenged. I'd be the first to admit that my knowledge of history (Canadian definitely included) is sketchy at best. Any other titles which you'd recommend?
I just (seriously, like five minutes ago) finished reading Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four for the first time. Towards the beginning of the novel, I felt as though I was seeing many parallels between it and the United States. However, as I got further and further into it, all I could think about was how The Party, Big Brother, thoughtcrime, the Thought Police -- how all of them reminded me of China, and their policing of thought itself.
Think about it for a moment. The Chinese government does everything it can to all but completely re-write history on a number of topics, such as the Tiananmen Square Massacre of students who were speaking out in favour of democracy. The government suppresses freedom of speech across a number of topics they do not approve of, or embarass them politically (Ministry of Truth). (See homosexuality, drugs, democracy, the Dali Llama, free Tibet, etc.) They have "re-education camps" (Ministry of Love), where opinions are brought in line with their worldviews.
Boy, am I glad I'm a Canadian boy, and don't live in China.
Because Firefox is the largest competitor to Opera (aside from Internet Explorer). It's completely reasonable, when comparing two products which are in direct competition with each other, to ask why a major feature that is present in one is not present in the other.
:P
It's called "critical thinking".
Question: why has Opera managed to incorporate Bittorrent support into their browser, yet the only torrent plugins for Firefox are in a horrendous state of pre-development? WTF is going on here?
The Moon belongs to America.
All _good_ sequels (movies, games, whatever) share a common axiom: make it exactly the same, but completely different. Aliens. Half-Life 2. Doom II. Spider-Man 2. Godfather, Part II. Tony Hawk Whatever. When a consumer wants a "sequel", they don't want something exactly the same, but they don't want something wildly different either. Success is acheived in finding this balance. As an experienced gamer (I worked for GameSpy, running 3DActionPlanet, for three years), I can say that Halo 2, while certainly a good game, was far from a _GREAT_ game. The grand-parent poster is right: same shit, different pile. I'm glad that they solved the "every interior base is exactly the same" problem, but the story was iffy, the voice acting so-so, and the gameplay EXCEEDINGLY linear. (I understand that open-ended gameplay is hard to acomplish, but come on... at least TRY to conceal it.) You want a decent FPS? Forget this console junk and buy a computer. Use a mouse and keyboard. Play Half-Life & Half-Life 2. Once you have some more gaming experience, Halo 2's problems will become that much more apparent.
Hahahahaha. The US Air Force is going to patrol cyberspace. Bwhhahahahahaha!
I can't even find the words.
After all, I can go to my local library and get the DVDs/CDs for zero dollars.
So why don't you? If all this content is legitimately available through your local library, why are we having this discussion in the first place?
Canada's CTV News has made their complete daily broadcast available on the web for well over a year.
I was asked to review this title for the Winnipeg Free Press.
Link to scanned copy of review.
Let's ignore that fact that banning the sale of games with certain content is blatant government censorship (good or bad). Let's ignore that whole "freedom of speech thing" (even if that refers to only political speech).
Nobody is saying that they can't make these games. The issues is that games with graphic sexual content, violence, or appropriately adult situations are NOT APPROPRIATE FOR KIDS. We're not talking quantum physics here (we could if you want).
Have you ever seen the movie Hellraiser? (Unbelievably graphic horror movie, for the uninitated. More than you can probably imagine.) Would you consider this to be a movie which should be made available to a 14 year old? I know I wouldn't -- and I'm so unbelievably for freedom of speech that it's sick.
If the government wants to fine retailers for selling adult games to children, I say GOOD. People talk about it being the parents' responsibility, but guess what? Parents don't give a fuck. I work at Best Buy, and I've seen mothers purchasing GTA for their 12 and 13 year old children without batting an eyelash.
Parents, unfortunately, are retarded and don't pay ANY attention to the content of games.
Seriously. The article was caught, according to Wikipedia's timestamps, within 7 hours:
;-)
14:26, 12 August 2005
21:25, 12 August 2005 - "The factual accuracy of this article is disputed."
Isn't this EXACTLY how Wikipedia was designed to operate?
It's interesting to start at the original entry and then progress through the various versions. You can really see the Wiki editorial process at work.
Here here!