I guess it's possible to resemble Mr. Pitt in certain ways yet still lack the BradPittness that makes him attractive (to a number of people). Brad Pitt is more than the sum of his parts, or something. Anyhow, this probably means that expanding this into a dating/match-making service would be a disaster , which is fine by me because anyone who's looking for somebody based on who *else* they look like deserves what they get. And you'll notice that not everyone with a love life looks like George Clooney;) Good thing, too, now that I think about it.
Well, use a regular mirror, then. This is a joke. Depending on the image and how I crop it, I seem to look like just about everyone, including Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie and the Dalai Lama. Gender-bending gives me better scores, too. Hm.
You're right, we look at the graphics all the time so they'd better not suck. But does that automatically mean they have to require the latest and greatest hardware? Sure, in a game that was trying hard to look "real", I'd likely also want all the realism I can get, and that requires hardware (that I can't afford).
But graphics needn't be realistic to be good. Van Gogh's "Starry Night" or Paul Klee's "Dream City" aren't and weren't meant to be realistic. Does that mean they suck? I don't think so.
Maybe we're at a "Rembrandt" stage of videogame graphics - (most) people seem to want everything to look "real" (i.e. like in the movies). But that's hardly all there is to art. Maybe, once realism has worn itself out, we'll see the videogame art equivalents of Van Gogh, or Klee, or Gauguin, and, eventually, cubism and abstract art as designers grow tired of depicting physical objects at all.
(Not sure I'd welcome all of that, but I must admit I'm getting tired of realism. Realism doesn't guarantee interesting faces on characters or atmospheric scenery or an avatar you want to identify with. I'd rather have those but in a 320*200*32 2D game than perfect realism but nothing worth looking at. Not that you were advocating boring graphics. I guess this post is one big digression!)
I mean, we've had cave paintings (Pac-Man) and elaborate antique frescoes (Pac-Land) and the middle ages with their semi-3D (Pac-Mania)... so who's to say realism's the be-all, end-all? It certainly has its place, but so do other styles.
(My apologies to anyone with a less shaky grip on art history)
Wouldn't even surprise me:)...not after seeing a Russian "Sleepy Hollow" video CDs with one single voice actor droning robotically over the original. Way to destroy an atmosphere... would subtitles have been so bad? At least I would've been able to read (though barely ever actually understand) them...
The websites is low on details, but it mentions a price of EUR 30 -- no idea what that means with regard to production costs, but somehow I don't think there'll be anything particularly cool about this little toy. Apparently similar joystick consoles contained sloppy ports rather than originals, and if they go that route there'll be no need to simulate the original hardware too accurately.
What I find somewhat more interesting is that Tulip's hinting at further Commodore-branded gaming products; though frankly I don't see the need for cheap reduced-functionality clones whose only appeal is that something about them is fashionably "retro".
Considering your eclectic taste in games, there's a chance those 30 games won't include *any* of the rather cerebral games you would prefer. Straight arcade games seem more likely. Is more in tune with the retro schtick anyway - something undemanding and grotesquely pixelated for modern people to simultaneously enjoy and laugh about. (Jaded? Me? Jumping to conclusions?)
Now if this TV stick thingie used 30-in-one cartridges instead... oh, well.
Yeah, I understand my computer is supposed to simultaneously crash, display popups, spy on me, emit noxious fumes, enlarge my breasts and/or penis and chant "join us... join us..." right now, but, oddly enough, it isn't. Does that make me an MS shill/troll/apologist/zealot? Nah, I'm just using my computer. I'm actually trying to decide on my next Linux distro right now, after somehow managing to render the previous five unbootable. Sure, that could be my fault for being but a lowly illiterate Windummy crybaby, but that doesn't change the fact that it happened. Whelp, I'm sorry about the antagonistic tone, but this is what it was like for me. I always liked it as long as it lasted, it's different and less bureaucratic and demeaning than Windows, and each new distro worked better than the ones before it, but something always went awry and I'm just so tired of seeing Linux advertised as some sort of panacea that'll magically make me happy and productive and secure as though the OS had all that much to do with it. I'll "switch" in due time -- when the apps I need (or want) are there, when using Linux won't mean having to run Wine or CrossoverOffice or whatever else half the time because this or that doesn't have an "equivalent". Any other advantages using Linux would have for me are, at this point, either ideological or "recreational tinkering"-related. And I don't mind if you call it "Microcrap Winblows" or "out-dated, inferior". I call it worse things sometimes and haven't really felt the need to defend any computer since my Amiga days. I don't like MS either, I don't like Windows, but still, most of the time I hardly notice it. (I'm primarily typing right now, not enjoying my "Windows eXPerience", blech.)
Is this really true? The only programs I need admin privileges for (besides admin tools, obviously) are two CD/DVD-related tools. The overwhelming majority of, uhm, non-conforming apps "merely" insist on having write access to their directories; it's annoying and you need to find workarounds if you need per-user settings, but it doesn't mean they need to be run as administrator. It's sort of funny how all the "originally Linux" apps I use are so well-behaved and so much Windows-only freeware isn't. Oh well. Sorry for bringing it up again.
While I would certainly like to see a (good) video game based on any of my favourite books, comics or movies, I'm not so sure an Astrid Lindgren, Isabel Allende or Haruki Murakami video game would actually make any more sense than a Mario Brothers novel (not that games can't be more...cerebral... than that). Maybe "I like it" doesn't mean it'd make a good game. So I'll just nominate "Lexx". It's got... it's got something. Apart from a cheesy heavy metal logo, it's got a lot of things that aren't particularly brilliant or original in and of themselves but don't tend to appear in one and the same show: creepy, absurd, exotic, bizarre, whimsical, moody, silly, dark... There're also lots of things it hasn't got, such as a good reputation, but I can ignore that depressingly well. So many different types of game could be given a Lexx treatment:
Something "vehicle-centric": Fight exponentially growing clouds of Mantrid drones - enjoy the breathtaking view from a balloon suspended between the planets Fire and Water - keep Lyekka from eating Japan...
Action adventures: Escape the frantic to-and-fro of the Heretic-sabotaged "Cluster" - have Poetman show you around ancient Brunnis - visit the Wife Bank...
Strategy: Have Prince and Kai play for your life a la "Battle Chess"...
First Person Fast-Away-Runners: Take a ride on the Narcolounger - meet the crazed inhabitants of K-Town and the Tunnels...
Musical/dancing games: Re-enact Brunnen-G history to the tune of German nursery songs - sing "Row, row, row your boat" with the other trees in Oberon's forest...
Not to mention dating sims: frustrate yourself swooning for the dead guy/any woman who won't try to eat you...
And all of that without the bother of digging for trade-able minerals, shopping for weapon systems and blowing up countless petty space pirates and whatever else tends to make sci-fi games such a hassle sometimes. Nor would anybody care about "continuity", "canon", "plot holes" or whatever else Trek fans get to worry about all the time.
Hunhh... I think I might actually buy that. Scary thought.
Remember the "microscopic space fleet" incident? It's triggered not by something Arthur says but by something his player types. Even the rather sad and serious (and beautiful, and beautifully packaged) Trinity has something like that in the form of a book (IIRC) recording player input. Oddly enough I didn't find that jarring in the least.
But, since when has the help menu actually ever been useful anyway?
It allows completely innocent newbies to access the Microsoft newsgroups where they might run into "MVP"s with psychic powers who'll help with problems like "im on the computer then erro comes up". I have no idea how they do that.
Has anyone ported X/unix window managers to run on win32?
Yes... or at least "kinda", not sure. I only used it once, and only to try out Freeciv, so I have no idea how well it works. But they do have screenshots of Windowmaker and and a few other window managers.
And then there're native shell replacements like Litestep, among others.
I personally think that the file manager shouldn't "bother" to impliment things such as Unix permissions, but to abstract them to "Windows standards", if you will (maybe with an option for Unix permissions?)
Wouldn't that eventually (or potentially) cause more confusion and chaos than sticking to the Unix permissions, which after all are what really matters?
(And what's with this XPde registry editor I saw in the screenshots? I'm puzzled. Isn't that taking things a little too far? Is regedit "user-friendly"? And what does HKEY_CURRENT_USER mean to a Linux system? Or is the power it wields limited to the XPde desktop? In either case, why make it act like a very Windows-specific tool that the intended audience isn't likely to have lots of experience with? I'm quite willing to use Linux more than I do now, but smoke and mirrors might not exactly help me get into it enough to, say, troubleshoot anything on my own. (It's not like I was keeping a pet *nix-geek in a box under my bed.) Ohwell. I guess I'm not the kind of person this is intended to appeal to. Or maybe there's something I'm not getting. Probably both.)
Aside from the complete computer retard, it seems nearly everyone has their own "custom" taskbar setup (...)
Not to mention having quick access to various directories like in this screenshot; then again, few people seem to use that so they won't miss it.
Regarding virtual desktops -- there're probably tons of teensy virtual desktop managers. Microsoft's own "Powertoys" include one. My Geforce included one. This isn't something you can't easily have on Windows; don't know why it's so...optional.
I doubt the Roman Catholic Church (for example) still demands every word in the Bible be taken literally.
All-of-God's-Creation no longer means "this planet" but "this universe"; instead of "humans" we'll think "sentient species"; heaven can no longer be above the clouds but has to be situated somewhere beyond physical reality, which probably is what "above the clouds" actually meant all along. God has always been transcendental.
Now if extraterrestrials turned up and convincingly claimed to be angelic, that might confuse things a little.
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I guess it's possible to resemble Mr. Pitt in certain ways yet still lack the BradPittness that makes him attractive (to a number of people). Brad Pitt is more than the sum of his parts, or something. Anyhow, this probably means that expanding this into a dating/match-making service would be a disaster , which is fine by me because anyone who's looking for somebody based on who *else* they look like deserves what they get. And you'll notice that not everyone with a love life looks like George Clooney ;) Good thing, too, now that I think about it.
Well, use a regular mirror, then. This is a joke. Depending on the image and how I crop it, I seem to look like just about everyone, including Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie and the Dalai Lama. Gender-bending gives me better scores, too. Hm.
Six books?
I won't claim expert-hood, but each registry key has a permissions dialog much like NTFS. Looks to me like they can indeed be locked down, no?
But graphics needn't be realistic to be good. Van Gogh's "Starry Night" or Paul Klee's "Dream City" aren't and weren't meant to be realistic. Does that mean they suck? I don't think so.
Maybe we're at a "Rembrandt" stage of videogame graphics - (most) people seem to want everything to look "real" (i.e. like in the movies). But that's hardly all there is to art. Maybe, once realism has worn itself out, we'll see the videogame art equivalents of Van Gogh, or Klee, or Gauguin, and, eventually, cubism and abstract art as designers grow tired of depicting physical objects at all.
(Not sure I'd welcome all of that, but I must admit I'm getting tired of realism. Realism doesn't guarantee interesting faces on characters or atmospheric scenery or an avatar you want to identify with. I'd rather have those but in a 320*200*32 2D game than perfect realism but nothing worth looking at. Not that you were advocating boring graphics. I guess this post is one big digression!)
I mean, we've had cave paintings (Pac-Man) and elaborate antique frescoes (Pac-Land) and the middle ages with their semi-3D (Pac-Mania)... so who's to say realism's the be-all, end-all? It certainly has its place, but so do other styles.
(My apologies to anyone with a less shaky grip on art history)
...wouldn't it be simpler if the government simply dissolved the people and elected another?
(stolen from Bertolt Brecht)
Wouldn't even surprise me :) ...not after seeing a Russian "Sleepy Hollow" video CDs with one single voice actor droning robotically over the original. Way to destroy an atmosphere... would subtitles have been so bad? At least I would've been able to read (though barely ever actually understand) them...
What I find somewhat more interesting is that Tulip's hinting at further Commodore-branded gaming products; though frankly I don't see the need for cheap reduced-functionality clones whose only appeal is that something about them is fashionably "retro".
Considering your eclectic taste in games, there's a chance those 30 games won't include *any* of the rather cerebral games you would prefer. Straight arcade games seem more likely. Is more in tune with the retro schtick anyway - something undemanding and grotesquely pixelated for modern people to simultaneously enjoy and laugh about. (Jaded? Me? Jumping to conclusions?)
Now if this TV stick thingie used 30-in-one cartridges instead... oh, well.
Ah. Thanks.
Can somebody tell me why some titles are in boldface whereas the others are double-quoted?
Yeah, I understand my computer is supposed to simultaneously crash, display popups, spy on me, emit noxious fumes, enlarge my breasts and/or penis and chant "join us... join us..." right now, but, oddly enough, it isn't. Does that make me an MS shill/troll/apologist/zealot? Nah, I'm just using my computer. I'm actually trying to decide on my next Linux distro right now, after somehow managing to render the previous five unbootable. Sure, that could be my fault for being but a lowly illiterate Windummy crybaby, but that doesn't change the fact that it happened. Whelp, I'm sorry about the antagonistic tone, but this is what it was like for me. I always liked it as long as it lasted, it's different and less bureaucratic and demeaning than Windows, and each new distro worked better than the ones before it, but something always went awry and I'm just so tired of seeing Linux advertised as some sort of panacea that'll magically make me happy and productive and secure as though the OS had all that much to do with it. I'll "switch" in due time -- when the apps I need (or want) are there, when using Linux won't mean having to run Wine or CrossoverOffice or whatever else half the time because this or that doesn't have an "equivalent". Any other advantages using Linux would have for me are, at this point, either ideological or "recreational tinkering"-related. And I don't mind if you call it "Microcrap Winblows" or "out-dated, inferior". I call it worse things sometimes and haven't really felt the need to defend any computer since my Amiga days. I don't like MS either, I don't like Windows, but still, most of the time I hardly notice it. (I'm primarily typing right now, not enjoying my "Windows eXPerience", blech.)
Is this really true? The only programs I need admin privileges for (besides admin tools, obviously) are two CD/DVD-related tools. The overwhelming majority of, uhm, non-conforming apps "merely" insist on having write access to their directories; it's annoying and you need to find workarounds if you need per-user settings, but it doesn't mean they need to be run as administrator. It's sort of funny how all the "originally Linux" apps I use are so well-behaved and so much Windows-only freeware isn't. Oh well. Sorry for bringing it up again.
Wanna come visit and help me with step 4? All the others I can handle just fine.
Something "vehicle-centric": Fight exponentially growing clouds of Mantrid drones - enjoy the breathtaking view from a balloon suspended between the planets Fire and Water - keep Lyekka from eating Japan...
Action adventures: Escape the frantic to-and-fro of the Heretic-sabotaged "Cluster" - have Poetman show you around ancient Brunnis - visit the Wife Bank...
Strategy: Have Prince and Kai play for your life a la "Battle Chess"...
First Person Fast-Away-Runners: Take a ride on the Narcolounger - meet the crazed inhabitants of K-Town and the Tunnels...
Musical/dancing games: Re-enact Brunnen-G history to the tune of German nursery songs - sing "Row, row, row your boat" with the other trees in Oberon's forest...
Not to mention dating sims: frustrate yourself swooning for the dead guy/any woman who won't try to eat you...
And all of that without the bother of digging for trade-able minerals, shopping for weapon systems and blowing up countless petty space pirates and whatever else tends to make sci-fi games such a hassle sometimes. Nor would anybody care about "continuity", "canon", "plot holes" or whatever else Trek fans get to worry about all the time.
Hunhh... I think I might actually buy that. Scary thought.
Remember the "microscopic space fleet" incident? It's triggered not by something Arthur says but by something his player types. Even the rather sad and serious (and beautiful, and beautifully packaged) Trinity has something like that in the form of a book (IIRC) recording player input. Oddly enough I didn't find that jarring in the least.
It allows completely innocent newbies to access the Microsoft newsgroups where they might run into "MVP"s with psychic powers who'll help with problems like "im on the computer then erro comes up". I have no idea how they do that.
That was a joke... wasn't it?
T-Online, a big German ISP (*.dip.t-dialin.net); you might be blocking lots of German users, but I should be studying anyway :)
Spaceballs, Galaxy Quest, 3, 4, 5, Willow?
The Ewok Adventure
Ewoks: Battle For Endor
Star Wars Holiday Special
My IP address is "banned"? *whimper*
Yes... or at least "kinda", not sure. I only used it once, and only to try out Freeciv, so I have no idea how well it works. But they do have screenshots of Windowmaker and and a few other window managers.
And then there're native shell replacements like Litestep, among others.
Wouldn't that eventually (or potentially) cause more confusion and chaos than sticking to the Unix permissions, which after all are what really matters?
(And what's with this XPde registry editor I saw in the screenshots? I'm puzzled. Isn't that taking things a little too far? Is regedit "user-friendly"? And what does HKEY_CURRENT_USER mean to a Linux system? Or is the power it wields limited to the XPde desktop? In either case, why make it act like a very Windows-specific tool that the intended audience isn't likely to have lots of experience with? I'm quite willing to use Linux more than I do now, but smoke and mirrors might not exactly help me get into it enough to, say, troubleshoot anything on my own. (It's not like I was keeping a pet *nix-geek in a box under my bed.) Ohwell. I guess I'm not the kind of person this is intended to appeal to. Or maybe there's something I'm not getting. Probably both.)
Aside from the complete computer retard, it seems nearly everyone has their own "custom" taskbar setup (...)
Not to mention having quick access to various directories like in this screenshot; then again, few people seem to use that so they won't miss it.
Regarding virtual desktops -- there're probably tons of teensy virtual desktop managers. Microsoft's own "Powertoys" include one. My Geforce included one. This isn't something you can't easily have on Windows; don't know why it's so ...optional.
I doubt the Roman Catholic Church (for example) still demands every word in the Bible be taken literally.
All-of-God's-Creation no longer means "this planet" but "this universe"; instead of "humans" we'll think "sentient species"; heaven can no longer be above the clouds but has to be situated somewhere beyond physical reality, which probably is what "above the clouds" actually meant all along. God has always been transcendental.
Now if extraterrestrials turned up and convincingly claimed to be angelic, that might confuse things a little.