Madonna! Madonna madonna madonna madonnamadonna madonna madonna. Madonnamadonnamadonna! Madonna, madonna madonna. Madonna madonna madonna... Madonna madonna; madonna madonna madonna madonna. "Madonna? Madonnamadonna Madonna madonna madonna." (Madonna madonna madonna: madonna madonna.)
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Unlike most of the Soviet Russia jokes that get thrown about carelessly, this one actually works on more levels than one, and in the same way that the original joke did. (Hint: one of the Soviet Union's symbols was a star.)
The trickster transforms societies into something it wasn't originally. So while you may complain about people like him, he is actually making the world into something better.
Unfortunately, he is also making an encyclopeida article (and thus the encyclopedia as a whole) into something worse.
Tricksters create through destruction. It disappoints me that nerdish communities like Slashdot, metafilter, wikipedia et. al. don't have a collective sense of humour.
Surely there could be some more outlet they could find which is more positive than crapping over someone else's hard work?
Towards the bottom of the page, the author says this about a screenshot:
Interesting thing here is the big black blob in the top left, which is the bottom end of a light pole. Why is it floating in the air? Because extruded objects can't currently be drawn correctly unless one end is visible to the observer. The reason for this is remarkably interesting, specific to the weird 2-and-a-half-D rendering system, and pretty much impossible to explain to anyone without a strong background in both 2D and 3D graphics.
*sigh*
oh well, I find it interesting anyway.
It sounds interesting to me... but I don't have a background in both 2D and 3D graphics. Would someone care to explain it?
What's up with the extra 2 keys on the home row between JKL; and Enter? It's impossible to hit their Enter key without moving your right hand off the home row.
That's where characters in alphabets with > 26 letters would go. It's a Russian keyboard, wouldn't it make sense that they'd allow for non-English layouts?
If all keys are visually remappable, then they really need fewer keys. I'm still disappointed at all the junk (arrow cluster, numeric pad) on the right side of the home row
Meanwhile, most of us have no problems with the classic layout, prefering the numeric pad for entering numeric data, and using the arrow keys for directional movement.
Oooh, modpoints for using a bullshit buzzword! Why not just call it what it really is, an MP3?
Battlestar Galactica Episode 201 Commentary
- Listen to Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore's commentary while watching the Battlestar Galactica episode.
It's been known for a long time that glitches and otherwise "wrong" aspects of a game can actually make it more fun. My example: an old CounterStrike map (I think) called "Boat Season," which my friends and I used to play at LANs. The idea behind the map was that the Terrorists and Counterterrorists were on opposite sides of a lake, with "boats" to navigate in between. The first Half-Life's physics engine was laughably terrible, though; the "boats" had the same characteristics as the railway cars in Half-life, and were very cumbersome and handled unrealistically. What would end up happening was that we would play the map by driving the boats around, getting them stuck in various walls or towers throughout the map, getting them stuck to each other in midair (where they'd stay suspended instead of fall down), etc. I think there was an objective somewhere for the Terrorists to bomb, but none of us ever thought about it, we were too busy having fun with all the glitches in that map.
"Of course, there are games, such as 'Halo' or 'Grand Theft Auto,' that are big and expansive. But if you're not interested in spending that time with them, you're not going to play."
But Miyamoto is the one who created The Legend of Zelda, a game which for its time was the biggest, most expansive game out there (which I remember taking a lot of time to beat when I was younger). You would think he'd be excited about having the capability to make larger, more rich in-game worlds. It's pretty apparent from this that Miyamoto's perspective has changed now that he's older; it's unfortunate that he can't recognize that other game developers have the same creative impulses he used to have.
This is sort of like the old game Total Annihilation. The game came with two CDs, one was a "multiplayer disk" that you could give to a friend so the two of you could play against each other.
I also like the attitude of Epic Games; for UT2k3 and 2k4, it will let any number of people with the same CD Key play on a lan-only game, but a unique key is required to play over the internet.
A friend of mine has been using this plugin for months, and prefers to use it in favor of iTunes. It's hardly new though, the earliest release listed on their Sourceforge filelist is from April 2004.
Twenty-four-hour news channels, desperate for even more coverage, will conspire with NASA to alter Earth's orbit, creating a 25-hour day. Fox News's attempt to create a 26th hour will result in volcanic eruptions, and Bill O'Reilly will perish in a lava flow.
"...just as televisions grow larger and more complicated, so will remote controls. In fact, changing channels will soon require people to literally jump from button to button. Trying to change the channel while simultaneously lowering the volume will require two people and will frequently lead to kinky sex.
Here's a question. If those rendered pictures are real, and the Revolution really does have a slot-loading optical disc drive, how will one be able to load Gamecube discs, since Nintendo has stated that Revolution will be backwards-compatible with GCN?
Slashdot Mirror
It was mentioned in a couple comments above.
Works for me. Latest JRE (1.50_05) / Firefox (1.0.7).
Just download Truck Dismount (or Stair Dismount, for that matter) and pretend it's him. OMG murder simulation!
Madonna! Madonna madonna madonna madonnamadonna madonna madonna. Madonnamadonnamadonna! Madonna, madonna madonna. Madonna madonna madonna... Madonna madonna; madonna madonna madonna madonna. "Madonna? Madonnamadonna Madonna madonna madonna." (Madonna madonna madonna: madonna madonna.)
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Unlike most of the Soviet Russia jokes that get thrown about carelessly, this one actually works on more levels than one, and in the same way that the original joke did. (Hint: one of the Soviet Union's symbols was a star.)
The trickster transforms societies into something it wasn't originally. So while you may complain about people like him, he is actually making the world into something better.
Unfortunately, he is also making an encyclopeida article (and thus the encyclopedia as a whole) into something worse.
Tricksters create through destruction. It disappoints me that nerdish communities like Slashdot, metafilter, wikipedia et. al. don't have a collective sense of humour.
Surely there could be some more outlet they could find which is more positive than crapping over someone else's hard work?
Aren't you supposed to be out f***ing burying people?
I, for one, welcome our drunken Australian hooligan overlords.
Towards the bottom of the page, the author says this about a screenshot:
Interesting thing here is the big black blob in the top left, which is the bottom end of a light pole. Why is it floating in the air? Because extruded objects can't currently be drawn correctly unless one end is visible to the observer. The reason for this is remarkably interesting, specific to the weird 2-and-a-half-D rendering system, and pretty much impossible to explain to anyone without a strong background in both 2D and 3D graphics. *sigh* oh well, I find it interesting anyway.
It sounds interesting to me... but I don't have a background in both 2D and 3D graphics. Would someone care to explain it?
They mentioned Sierra Online in their entry for Tribes.
Human: Unf unf unf unf!
It bothers me that you chose that to represent sexual intercourse.
AMD doesn't have nearly the fabrication capacity that Intel does.
What's up with the extra 2 keys on the home row between JKL; and Enter? It's impossible to hit their Enter key without moving your right hand off the home row.
That's where characters in alphabets with > 26 letters would go. It's a Russian keyboard, wouldn't it make sense that they'd allow for non-English layouts?
If all keys are visually remappable, then they really need fewer keys. I'm still disappointed at all the junk (arrow cluster, numeric pad) on the right side of the home row
Meanwhile, most of us have no problems with the classic layout, prefering the numeric pad for entering numeric data, and using the arrow keys for directional movement.
between me and my mouse.
Sounds like a personal problem.
I haven't seen Men in Black II yet you insensitive clod!!!
Oooh, modpoints for using a bullshit buzzword! Why not just call it what it really is, an MP3?
/ mp3/201/bsg_ep201_FULL.mp3
Battlestar Galactica Episode 201 Commentary
- Listen to Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore's commentary while watching the Battlestar Galactica episode.
http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast
Thank god I don't own a computer!
It's been known for a long time that glitches and otherwise "wrong" aspects of a game can actually make it more fun. My example: an old CounterStrike map (I think) called "Boat Season," which my friends and I used to play at LANs. The idea behind the map was that the Terrorists and Counterterrorists were on opposite sides of a lake, with "boats" to navigate in between. The first Half-Life's physics engine was laughably terrible, though; the "boats" had the same characteristics as the railway cars in Half-life, and were very cumbersome and handled unrealistically. What would end up happening was that we would play the map by driving the boats around, getting them stuck in various walls or towers throughout the map, getting them stuck to each other in midair (where they'd stay suspended instead of fall down), etc. I think there was an objective somewhere for the Terrorists to bomb, but none of us ever thought about it, we were too busy having fun with all the glitches in that map.
After some Googling around, this appears to be a version of that map: http://cs.counter-strike.nl/ShowMap.php?id=7
"Of course, there are games, such as 'Halo' or 'Grand Theft Auto,' that are big and expansive. But if you're not interested in spending that time with them, you're not going to play."
But Miyamoto is the one who created The Legend of Zelda, a game which for its time was the biggest, most expansive game out there (which I remember taking a lot of time to beat when I was younger). You would think he'd be excited about having the capability to make larger, more rich in-game worlds. It's pretty apparent from this that Miyamoto's perspective has changed now that he's older; it's unfortunate that he can't recognize that other game developers have the same creative impulses he used to have.
This is sort of like the old game Total Annihilation. The game came with two CDs, one was a "multiplayer disk" that you could give to a friend so the two of you could play against each other.
I also like the attitude of Epic Games; for UT2k3 and 2k4, it will let any number of people with the same CD Key play on a lan-only game, but a unique key is required to play over the internet.
Silent PC Review has a couple photos.
A friend of mine has been using this plugin for months, and prefers to use it in favor of iTunes. It's hardly new though, the earliest release listed on their Sourceforge filelist is from April 2004.
Well, he was married, so he must have solved that problem. Unfortunately he did not elect to share the proof publicly. :)
Another quote from the article:
Twenty-four-hour news channels, desperate for even more coverage, will conspire with NASA to alter Earth's orbit, creating a 25-hour day. Fox News's attempt to create a 26th hour will result in volcanic eruptions, and Bill O'Reilly will perish in a lava flow.
Something else to look forward to in the future.
"...just as televisions grow larger and more complicated, so will remote controls. In fact, changing channels will soon require people to literally jump from button to button. Trying to change the channel while simultaneously lowering the volume will require two people and will frequently lead to kinky sex.
I look forward to television in the future.
Here's a question. If those rendered pictures are real, and the Revolution really does have a slot-loading optical disc drive, how will one be able to load Gamecube discs, since Nintendo has stated that Revolution will be backwards-compatible with GCN?