If you're worried about batteries just get a flashlight with a crank or one of those ones you shake to charge. You can also apply some glow in the dark paint so the flashlight glows if and when the power goes out.
Personally, though I hear good things about Dreamfall. I have yet to play it, but can someone confirm that's a highly rated adventure or not.
Dreamfall is a followup to The Longest Journey. A lot of people love it but just as many don't. I've played both and fall into the latter group. It's not a bad game per se, it just loses a lot of the spirit of its predecessor.
I was going to suggest The Longest Journey as well but noticed it had an ESRB rating of M for language (although I don't remember anything specifically wrong with the language used in it).
The Longest Journey uses "fuck" and "shit" a few times, mostly when you meet the black market electronics dealer in Stark. The only reason I wouldn't recommend TLJ, though I usually do, is that some of the puzzles are just infuriating (e.g. combine inflatable duck, clamp and rope to make some kind of key-grabbing contraption) and would probably turn a 10 year old off the genre altogether. That said, if she's not above using a walkthrough TLJ has a fantastic story that straddles the cyberpunk/fantasy themes in a way I've never seen done before or since and you can pick it up on GOG.com for $5.
I completely agree that speculators are driving the price up, though I just made $200 selling bitcoins I got when they were still being handed out 5 at a time so it's hard for me to complain.
Zuckerburg's writing style of 2003 needs to be compared with emails of that era, not today. Furthermore, he could have been off on some random day in 2003 because he had a cold and wasn't thinking. This just isn't that reliable of method of determining authorship.
It is a reliable method of creating doubt though. Once he has doubt on his side, the case becomes a lot more difficult for his opponent.
I've discovered certain advantages to having an extended archive (5+ years). Everyone I've had extended communications with gets their own folder in the archive and I use it as a profile and note store. That information usually isn't necessary but sometimes it's a real lifesaver.
Once, I was involved in a lawsuit where someone was convinced I had agreed to a four-year contract and wanted to sue me for about a million dollars for breaching it; going back three years, I was able to prove that he had sent a contract but that I explicitly refused the sections he said I breached and that he agreed to my amendments. (The lesson I learned too late here is that you're never too young or too clever to have a lawyer witness your contracts). Obviously that doesn't happen every day but that incident sold me on keeping as much email as possible.
Anyone in their 30s and 40s is likely to be gaming less because they generally have these things called families. If they started this family thing early, their kids may be part of the serious gaming generation by now.
You can still be a gamer with kids, it just requires that most of your games have a pause button. As for the games you can't pause, work out a schedule with your significant other where each of you gets a few hours where the other handles all kid-related issues.
They're just aiming for some good press by putting a positive spin on the fact that their DRM was defective to the point of breaking the game for its users.
They also released a DRM-free version from the start. I have this romanticized notion that the DRM was deliberately bad to make a point and that this will push more users to ask for DRM-free games.
I think removing the DRM after a week was a brilliant marketing strategy, everyone's talking about it and it's a small enough window that less people who are on the fence about DRM will pirate it.
I watch a lot of cooking shows, news and documentaries on scientific subjects that interest me (i.e. pretty much anything NASA does). I'm not advocating excessive use here but I would love to hear your thoughts on how my viewing choices make me lazy and/or stupid.
FYI, Alton Brown does a pretty good job explaining the "how stuff works" of cooking. I highly recommend Good Eats.
"Achtung! Alle touristen und non-technischen lookenpeepers! Das machine is nicht fur fingerpoken und mittengrabben. Is easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzen sparken. Das machine is diggen by experten only. Is nicht fur gerwerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen das cottenpicken hands in das pockets. Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights."
CoralCache has a mirror of the original. If you're one of the people who regularly Rs TFA and runs Firefox with Greasemonkey I recommend downloading a script that automatically rewrites/. links to use CC.
You have no right to tell them what is right or wrong to delete.
I'm never good at this--is it irony when someone thinks they have a right to tell people they don't have a right to tell other people to do or not do stuff, or when someone makes it their business to tell someone else, whom presumably they don't know, that something else is none of their business?
That depends on whether you interpret it as a statement of fact or an imperative. Irony would only apply in the latter case.
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I have to say though, that I'm pretty ambivalent on exploding boobs.
If you're worried about batteries just get a flashlight with a crank or one of those ones you shake to charge. You can also apply some glow in the dark paint so the flashlight glows if and when the power goes out.
Personally, though I hear good things about Dreamfall. I have yet to play it, but can someone confirm that's a highly rated adventure or not.
Dreamfall is a followup to The Longest Journey. A lot of people love it but just as many don't. I've played both and fall into the latter group. It's not a bad game per se, it just loses a lot of the spirit of its predecessor.
I was going to suggest The Longest Journey as well but noticed it had an ESRB rating of M for language (although I don't remember anything specifically wrong with the language used in it).
The Longest Journey uses "fuck" and "shit" a few times, mostly when you meet the black market electronics dealer in Stark. The only reason I wouldn't recommend TLJ, though I usually do, is that some of the puzzles are just infuriating (e.g. combine inflatable duck, clamp and rope to make some kind of key-grabbing contraption) and would probably turn a 10 year old off the genre altogether. That said, if she's not above using a walkthrough TLJ has a fantastic story that straddles the cyberpunk/fantasy themes in a way I've never seen done before or since and you can pick it up on GOG.com for $5.
I completely agree that speculators are driving the price up, though I just made $200 selling bitcoins I got when they were still being handed out 5 at a time so it's hard for me to complain.
Enough people that they keep making it.
Zuckerburg's writing style of 2003 needs to be compared with emails of that era, not today. Furthermore, he could have been off on some random day in 2003 because he had a cold and wasn't thinking. This just isn't that reliable of method of determining authorship.
It is a reliable method of creating doubt though. Once he has doubt on his side, the case becomes a lot more difficult for his opponent.
The fact that it was possible is of political interest, isn't it?
I've discovered certain advantages to having an extended archive (5+ years). Everyone I've had extended communications with gets their own folder in the archive and I use it as a profile and note store. That information usually isn't necessary but sometimes it's a real lifesaver.
Once, I was involved in a lawsuit where someone was convinced I had agreed to a four-year contract and wanted to sue me for about a million dollars for breaching it; going back three years, I was able to prove that he had sent a contract but that I explicitly refused the sections he said I breached and that he agreed to my amendments. (The lesson I learned too late here is that you're never too young or too clever to have a lawyer witness your contracts). Obviously that doesn't happen every day but that incident sold me on keeping as much email as possible.
That pretty much sums up my reaction. This is literally sickening, in many ways.
My guess is "Read The Manual, Fucking Pussy".
Computers are stupid that way, only working with what you give them....
Anyone in their 30s and 40s is likely to be gaming less because they generally have these things called families. If they started this family thing early, their kids may be part of the serious gaming generation by now.
You can still be a gamer with kids, it just requires that most of your games have a pause button. As for the games you can't pause, work out a schedule with your significant other where each of you gets a few hours where the other handles all kid-related issues.
Probably because it was glowing.
They're just aiming for some good press by putting a positive spin on the fact that their DRM was defective to the point of breaking the game for its users.
They also released a DRM-free version from the start. I have this romanticized notion that the DRM was deliberately bad to make a point and that this will push more users to ask for DRM-free games.
I think removing the DRM after a week was a brilliant marketing strategy, everyone's talking about it and it's a small enough window that less people who are on the fence about DRM will pirate it.
TV is for the lazy and the stupid.
I watch a lot of cooking shows, news and documentaries on scientific subjects that interest me (i.e. pretty much anything NASA does). I'm not advocating excessive use here but I would love to hear your thoughts on how my viewing choices make me lazy and/or stupid.
FYI, Alton Brown does a pretty good job explaining the "how stuff works" of cooking. I highly recommend Good Eats.
Don't knock it, I've been getting fantastic deals on used flat screens thanks to those people.
(My old TV developed this shrill whine that drove everyone insane so it needed to be replaced anyway)
Yeah yeah, the information is for the "viewer". Just be sure to read the fine print.
'The viewer of your data, hereafer refered to as the "viewer"...' Huh, no kidding.
Absolutely! Here's a fine (and famous) example:
"Achtung! Alle touristen und non-technischen lookenpeepers! Das machine is nicht fur fingerpoken und mittengrabben. Is easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzen sparken. Das machine is diggen by experten only. Is nicht fur gerwerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen das cottenpicken hands in das pockets. Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights."
CoralCache has a mirror of the original. If you're one of the people who regularly Rs TFA and runs Firefox with Greasemonkey I recommend downloading a script that automatically rewrites /. links to use CC.
You have no right to tell them what is right or wrong to delete.
I'm never good at this--is it irony when someone thinks they have a right to tell people they don't have a right to tell other people to do or not do stuff, or when someone makes it their business to tell someone else, whom presumably they don't know, that something else is none of their business?
That depends on whether you interpret it as a statement of fact or an imperative. Irony would only apply in the latter case.
That reminds me of HHGTTG: "Presidents don't have power, their purpose is to draw attention away from it."
If God is on Slashdot that explains why he hasn't gotten anything done in the last few billion years or so.
Sounds more like a smart stripper to me.