I guess I suck for spending 7 hours on level 41-42 then. of course, I play a Paladin:
1: find mob
2: attack,
3: judgement of the crusader
4: seal of command4
5: read slashdot comments for 30 seconds
6: goto 1
Here's a game I discovered this summer: Doukutsu Monogatari. Very fun, similar in style, graphics, sound and gameplay to good old NES platform shooters like Metroid. While most of the game isn't really tremendously hard, it was challenging, and the final boss (which you won't meet if you choose a particular ending) is very, very difficult. Still haven't beaten it myself.
Whoops, you're right. Must have read it wrong. My apologies. 250000 sounds very unlikely, considering only 650000 people actually lived there at the time...
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Dresden only had a fraction of the dead (most say 35,000, some claim more than 100,000 at maximum) of either Hiroshima (240,000), Nagasaki (75,000), or the often-forgotten fire bombings of Tokyo (over 100,000). Many nationalist Japanese actually see this comparison as an example of how the westerners were more reluctant to take the lives of other westerners than Japanese.
Dude, that sounds like the fps on my 2003 iBook (800 MHz G4, 32 MB VRAM). Granted, I have many of the settings turned to minimum, but it still runs surprisingly well considering it doesn't even meet the minimum requirements.
Streets have low speed limits because people live there. Do you have any idea how much less time to react you have, and how much longer time it takes for you to brake, if a kid jumps out from in front of a parked van 70 metres ahead of you, when you're driving 10 km/h faster than you should have? The speed limits are set based on other considerations than what the road is physically capable of. Damn, no wonder so many people die in car accidents in the USA when you have attitudes like yours.
And don't forget FFII, which abolished XP in favor of a system where skills improved with usage. Probably sounded like an interesting and realistic system on paper, but in reality you ended up power-leveling your characters by having them attack each other to raise attack and defense, and casting on each other to improve attack spells. All the while, the Heal spell would quickly get so powerful you used way too much mana every time you used it.
But if you travel across 12 time zones, waking up at 8 AM local time will be very confusing anyway! And if you travel from northern Scandinavia to New Zealand on June 22nd, you'll be very confused about how the sun is acting.
Well, they can just use IR or BT to transfer it, can't they? If the other party doesn't have that, using a scroll wheel to enter numbers 0-9 and letters a-z with toggles for A-Z and punctuation is not impossible. Has everyone forgotten how text input on game consoles work? In fact, an acquaintance of mine has a tiny Nokia phone with no keyboard and just a scroll wheel, and she's even texting happily and stuff. Not a problem.
No real benefit? Well, someone willing to exploit this could just hand over all the equipment from all the characters in each of the 50 accounts to characters they own in each of the games and sell all the equipment on eBay. Could be enough to turn a profit.
Well, take www.simcity4.com. It won't let you in if you identify as Opera, but if you identify as Mozilla or IE it works 100% fine.
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View it in a monospace font, count columns per row and then count rows? Heck, I think you'd find a text editor back then that'd tell you the row and column number your cursor was at. No need to do it the difficult (and stupid) way.
The Pirates of the Caribbean game is fun... Of course, nowhere as entertaining as Pirates!, what with the unresponsive controls and all... Too bad they censored "Arr", "arrr", "arrr", "arg", "arrg" and all other pirate words I could think of. Really dumbed down chat! Stops abuse, though, I guess, which is a good thing...
Strange. When I bought WoW, it came with a small product catalog, and by the Starcraft: Ghost ad it says: "Coming Soon: to Next Generation Consoles". Hm.
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I guess I suck for spending 7 hours on level 41-42 then. of course, I play a Paladin: 1: find mob 2: attack, 3: judgement of the crusader 4: seal of command4 5: read slashdot comments for 30 seconds 6: goto 1
70 hours? That's the average time to get from level 59 to level 60 in WoW. (just a guess though... but don't be surprised)
Here's a game I discovered this summer: Doukutsu Monogatari. Very fun, similar in style, graphics, sound and gameplay to good old NES platform shooters like Metroid. While most of the game isn't really tremendously hard, it was challenging, and the final boss (which you won't meet if you choose a particular ending) is very, very difficult. Still haven't beaten it myself.
Such as the PS2?
My hotmail account was upgraded. Haven't regularly used it in 5 years though.
Eh... who knows? I've seen clone Famicoms at reputable retailers in Japan, anyway.
Whoops, you're right. Must have read it wrong. My apologies. 250000 sounds very unlikely, considering only 650000 people actually lived there at the time...
1.35GHz frontside
bus/processor
512K L2 cache/processor
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
Expandable to 8GB SDRAM
250GB Serial ATA
16x SuperDrive (double-layer)
Three PCI-X Slots
ATI Radeon 9650
256MB DDR video memory
Choose from the latest graphics card options from both ATI and NVIDIA, including the advanced ATI Radeon X850 XT and the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT. All cards include dual display support and ship with a DVI to VGA adapter. Special note on the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT DDL: the larger size of this advanced graphics card reduces the number of available PCI or PCI-X slots from three to two on the Power Mac G5.
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Dresden only had a fraction of the dead (most say 35,000, some claim more than 100,000 at maximum) of either Hiroshima (240,000), Nagasaki (75,000), or the often-forgotten fire bombings of Tokyo (over 100,000). Many nationalist Japanese actually see this comparison as an example of how the westerners were more reluctant to take the lives of other westerners than Japanese.
Dude, that sounds like the fps on my 2003 iBook (800 MHz G4, 32 MB VRAM). Granted, I have many of the settings turned to minimum, but it still runs surprisingly well considering it doesn't even meet the minimum requirements.
Streets have low speed limits because people live there. Do you have any idea how much less time to react you have, and how much longer time it takes for you to brake, if a kid jumps out from in front of a parked van 70 metres ahead of you, when you're driving 10 km/h faster than you should have? The speed limits are set based on other considerations than what the road is physically capable of. Damn, no wonder so many people die in car accidents in the USA when you have attitudes like yours.
And don't forget FFII, which abolished XP in favor of a system where skills improved with usage. Probably sounded like an interesting and realistic system on paper, but in reality you ended up power-leveling your characters by having them attack each other to raise attack and defense, and casting on each other to improve attack spells. All the while, the Heal spell would quickly get so powerful you used way too much mana every time you used it.
Wasted areas? Where do you put your arms when you're typing?
But if you travel across 12 time zones, waking up at 8 AM local time will be very confusing anyway! And if you travel from northern Scandinavia to New Zealand on June 22nd, you'll be very confused about how the sun is acting.
Japan? Yes, yes it does.
This annoys me. No one ever said that.
Well, they can just use IR or BT to transfer it, can't they? If the other party doesn't have that, using a scroll wheel to enter numbers 0-9 and letters a-z with toggles for A-Z and punctuation is not impossible. Has everyone forgotten how text input on game consoles work? In fact, an acquaintance of mine has a tiny Nokia phone with no keyboard and just a scroll wheel, and she's even texting happily and stuff. Not a problem.
Tror faktisk det er dansk...
No real benefit? Well, someone willing to exploit this could just hand over all the equipment from all the characters in each of the 50 accounts to characters they own in each of the games and sell all the equipment on eBay. Could be enough to turn a profit.
Not to mention this is a new market of people who are used to and willing to spend money on software. Will easily sell lots.
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View it in a monospace font, count columns per row and then count rows? Heck, I think you'd find a text editor back then that'd tell you the row and column number your cursor was at. No need to do it the difficult (and stupid) way.
The Pirates of the Caribbean game is fun... Of course, nowhere as entertaining as Pirates!, what with the unresponsive controls and all... Too bad they censored "Arr", "arrr", "arrr", "arg", "arrg" and all other pirate words I could think of. Really dumbed down chat! Stops abuse, though, I guess, which is a good thing...
In Norway we have pretty much the same commentary each year too. Mostly about how everyone sucks and how we want Sweden to lose extra much. :)
Strange. When I bought WoW, it came with a small product catalog, and by the Starcraft: Ghost ad it says: "Coming Soon: to Next Generation Consoles". Hm.