The action isn't exactly John Woo style artistry, but that is because it is treated with a degree of humor, which is befitting of the movie, because it is hilarious.
I haven't played the fourth, but it does sound terrible. 3D for the sake of 3D is really useless, but I honestly think that they could put out a 5th monkey Island in 2D and be very successful, after all this would let more people with older systems play the game and could help lower developement costs. With a game like monkey Island it isnt about evolving the graphics, or the gameplay, it's more important to further the storyline and keep the games humor.
Judging by the number of my friends who either are, or recently were, addicted to Snood, I would say that there is no chance in hell that the puzzle genre is dead.
I don't know about anyone else, but I thought that the Monkey Island series was just great because it was absolutly hilarious.
Also, the first monkey island game came with that crazy pirate face decoder, which anoyed the living daylights out of me because I constantly misplaced it and couldn't play (although it too added to the general hilarity of the game).
Finally, I wonder if anyone else has fond memories of prince of persia, because for the longest time that was the best game available to us poor mac users.
Does this remind anyone else of Ninja Scroll? The animation seems very similar and the scene where they are sparing in the woods is very similar to the scene in ninja scroll with the blind swordsman.
It's precisely the fact that you can use scripting to make some tasks drastically faster that it gets so little respect. For many people you cant get any respect unless you have "paid your dues" and done it the hard way. "Blood sweat and tears"=respect. If a task requires less sacrifice people view it with less respect.
Just because he's a savvy buisnessman as well as a philanthropist does not make him evil. Evil would be sheltering the majority of his funds offshore so that they benifit no one but himself (that is tax evasion). While he may have bankrupted the BC program, does it really matter? Because of his donation, the program almost certainly has more money now than it would have ever recieved otherwise.
Also, all of the large amounts of giving you ever hear about are also cases of conditional giving, the condition being that the giver recieve some sort of recognition for his or her giving, be it having their name mentioned in association with the gift, or having a building named after them. The only giving you can truely be uncritical of is Anonymous giving and in that case we wouldnt even be having this discussion.
Also, Bill Gates' gift of 100 million to fight AIDS in no way comes back to his pocket, so certainly you can't qualify all of his giving as evil, even by your twisted standards.
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If you want the real thing check out this site on pumpkin hurling. And by hurling I mean "shooting out of immense cannons over extremely long distances."
Approximately 37 minutes after liftoff, the rocket deployed the W5 spacecraft to a geosynchronous transfer orbit with a perigee of 539 kilometers above the Earth.
Kind of makes your 37 minute commute to work seem slow, doesn't it?
If you want to see some truely vintage toys google for "Buddy-L Trucks." My Grandfather developed a collection which my mother no has, that dates back to pre WW2, consisting of Buddy L trucks and old train collections. To put it in perspective, afer his death, my grandmother was offered sever hundred thousand dollars for a chunck of the collection by mulotiple museums.
I think the moderator system might need a revamping... I mean honestly who thinks its a good idea to moderate a post without reading it first. Heck, anyone who moderated the parent post is welcome to email me, ive got a bridge for them, real cheap.
Frankly im surprised that he wasn't extradited to the US like others have been recently. It disgusts me that we (the US) think that we have the right to enforce our laws anywhere, at any time. If people dont have the benefits (and sadly I say that with no small degree of sarcasm these days) of being a US citizen or residing in the US, then they should not be subject to OUR laws.
An aside: I tried to post this at about 3:30 or so and the site was so slow that it timed out before my comment could go through, several times. Does anyone know why it was so slow?
while i am certainly no expert on the matter of shooting things into space, there are certainly many other variables one must consider for the cost of shooting you (A PERSON) into space that doesnt concern an inanimate 420kg load. for example, air, you are breathing it, the hunk of metal isnt and it costs money to provide that air. also, liability and insurance issues must be of some concern.
hope this works better than paypal, because they are so unreliable and i have heard so many horror stories that i will never trust my credit information with them. and now were supposed to trust the same dude with whatever cargo is precious enough to be shot into space. please.
i find it interesting that the article chooses to talk about how he has voiced these anti-semetic and anti-american ideas, but then not go to any length to explain why. to his credit he did grow up slightly differently than most people and the pressures he endured are bound to have had some kind of negative effect. i think we should think about this before going off and blasting him.
p.s. this was done entirely without capital letters because everytime i hit shift my computer types an s. does anyone have any idea what the hell is wrong? it has become an extreme pain to punctuate and im seriously considering breaking my POS computer.
How does this control the manythings they claim it can? If it cantuse omni-directional radio signals then Ill stick with touvhscreen remotes... When I can Afford them.
That being said, this looks like a good, inexpensive (Comparatively) option.
As an addendum to my previous post, I do think that the companies are going about this the wrong way, and that it really lies in the hands of the consumers to realize that they are killing a thing that they love.
While a cloning machine might work very well with physical things, such as cars or food, ect. When it comes to intellectual property, if you allow people to clone it for free, your neighbor for example, you are not only hurting the company, you are hurting yourself in the long run. By allowing people to copy that property, you take money from the pockets of the artists who produce it, and if they are unable to support themselves by making their art (music, movies, etc) then they are better off finding another job. Once they quit their jobs as artists you wont have any new art to enjoy, and isnt it funny how much we appreciate new art and we take it for granted that it will be produced?
If you believe I'm being unreasonable, look at Russia. Before it bacame a communist state, it had one of the richest cultures in the world and had many artists which produced beutiful works of art. But once Russia became a communist state, all motivation to produce was taken away and very, very little came out of communist Russia as a result. Is that what you want? This is why it IS COOL that these companies/artists do have an inherent right to exist.
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The action isn't exactly John Woo style artistry, but that is because it is treated with a degree of humor, which is befitting of the movie, because it is hilarious.
I haven't played the fourth, but it does sound terrible. 3D for the sake of 3D is really useless, but I honestly think that they could put out a 5th monkey Island in 2D and be very successful, after all this would let more people with older systems play the game and could help lower developement costs. With a game like monkey Island it isnt about evolving the graphics, or the gameplay, it's more important to further the storyline and keep the games humor.
Judging by the number of my friends who either are, or recently were, addicted to Snood, I would say that there is no chance in hell that the puzzle genre is dead.
I don't know about anyone else, but I thought that the Monkey Island series was just great because it was absolutly hilarious.
Also, the first monkey island game came with that crazy pirate face decoder, which anoyed the living daylights out of me because I constantly misplaced it and couldn't play (although it too added to the general hilarity of the game).
Finally, I wonder if anyone else has fond memories of prince of persia, because for the longest time that was the best game available to us poor mac users.
Does this remind anyone else of Ninja Scroll? The animation seems very similar and the scene where they are sparing in the woods is very similar to the scene in ninja scroll with the blind swordsman.
It's precisely the fact that you can use scripting to make some tasks drastically faster that it gets so little respect. For many people you cant get any respect unless you have "paid your dues" and done it the hard way. "Blood sweat and tears"=respect. If a task requires less sacrifice people view it with less respect.
Of course he won't, most celebrities are to afraid of beeing branded a geek to read slashdot.
Just because he's a savvy buisnessman as well as a philanthropist does not make him evil. Evil would be sheltering the majority of his funds offshore so that they benifit no one but himself (that is tax evasion). While he may have bankrupted the BC program, does it really matter? Because of his donation, the program almost certainly has more money now than it would have ever recieved otherwise.
Also, all of the large amounts of giving you ever hear about are also cases of conditional giving, the condition being that the giver recieve some sort of recognition for his or her giving, be it having their name mentioned in association with the gift, or having a building named after them. The only giving you can truely be uncritical of is Anonymous giving and in that case we wouldnt even be having this discussion.
Also, Bill Gates' gift of 100 million to fight AIDS in no way comes back to his pocket, so certainly you can't qualify all of his giving as evil, even by your twisted standards.
If you want the real thing check out this site on pumpkin hurling. And by hurling I mean "shooting out of immense cannons over extremely long distances."
Approximately 37 minutes after liftoff, the rocket deployed the W5 spacecraft to a geosynchronous transfer orbit with a perigee of 539 kilometers above the Earth.
Kind of makes your 37 minute commute to work seem slow, doesn't it?
If you want to see some truely vintage toys google for "Buddy-L Trucks." My Grandfather developed a collection which my mother no has, that dates back to pre WW2, consisting of Buddy L trucks and old train collections. To put it in perspective, afer his death, my grandmother was offered sever hundred thousand dollars for a chunck of the collection by mulotiple museums.
The found that the growth of karma whores on /. has been drastically increased by the number of idiotic moderators.
I guess this could be a study in and of itself... how are you moderated when you insult the moderators.
-1(offtopic)=-1(cant take a joke)... (flushing sound) oh well, there goes my karma.
I think the moderator system might need a revamping... I mean honestly who thinks its a good idea to moderate a post without reading it first. Heck, anyone who moderated the parent post is welcome to email me, ive got a bridge for them, real cheap.
Frankly im surprised that he wasn't extradited to the US like others have been recently. It disgusts me that we (the US) think that we have the right to enforce our laws anywhere, at any time. If people dont have the benefits (and sadly I say that with no small degree of sarcasm these days) of being a US citizen or residing in the US, then they should not be subject to OUR laws.
An aside: I tried to post this at about 3:30 or so and the site was so slow that it timed out before my comment could go through, several times. Does anyone know why it was so slow?
Perhaps this is part of the "inter-industry conspiracy." And the alpha doesn't even have analog outputs... what will they kill next?
Come on, get it right.
earth... imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
I can derelict my own balls thank you very much.
come on people, how can it have taken this long for this to come out. im disapointed.
Rockets... imagine a beowolf cluster of those.
while i am certainly no expert on the matter of shooting things into space, there are certainly many other variables one must consider for the cost of shooting you (A PERSON) into space that doesnt concern an inanimate 420kg load. for example, air, you are breathing it, the hunk of metal isnt and it costs money to provide that air. also, liability and insurance issues must be of some concern.
hope this works better than paypal, because they are so unreliable and i have heard so many horror stories that i will never trust my credit information with them. and now were supposed to trust the same dude with whatever cargo is precious enough to be shot into space. please.
i find it interesting that the article chooses to talk about how he has voiced these anti-semetic and anti-american ideas, but then not go to any length to explain why. to his credit he did grow up slightly differently than most people and the pressures he endured are bound to have had some kind of negative effect. i think we should think about this before going off and blasting him.
p.s. this was done entirely without capital letters because everytime i hit shift my computer types an s. does anyone have any idea what the hell is wrong? it has become an extreme pain to punctuate and im seriously considering breaking my POS computer.
How does this control the manythings they claim it can? If it cantuse omni-directional radio signals then Ill stick with touvhscreen remotes... When I can Afford them.
That being said, this looks like a good, inexpensive (Comparatively) option.
As an addendum to my previous post, I do think that the companies are going about this the wrong way, and that it really lies in the hands of the consumers to realize that they are killing a thing that they love.
While a cloning machine might work very well with physical things, such as cars or food, ect. When it comes to intellectual property, if you allow people to clone it for free, your neighbor for example, you are not only hurting the company, you are hurting yourself in the long run. By allowing people to copy that property, you take money from the pockets of the artists who produce it, and if they are unable to support themselves by making their art (music, movies, etc) then they are better off finding another job. Once they quit their jobs as artists you wont have any new art to enjoy, and isnt it funny how much we appreciate new art and we take it for granted that it will be produced? If you believe I'm being unreasonable, look at Russia. Before it bacame a communist state, it had one of the richest cultures in the world and had many artists which produced beutiful works of art. But once Russia became a communist state, all motivation to produce was taken away and very, very little came out of communist Russia as a result. Is that what you want? This is why it IS COOL that these companies/artists do have an inherent right to exist.